Not ignoring, just not willing to call them "many" when they are in fact, so few. If not a single one was arrested, the net difference would be noise. More people have died in car crashes, this year, more than 10 times over, than in the largest terrorist attack EVER on US soil.

Given that these attacks could generally be pulled off by anyone who wants to do it, the only real possible conclusion is that.... the number of people so inclined is so close to zero as to make no real odds, and the rest is just a bit of noise in an otherwise flat signal.

The very fact you have to go to documents that span a decade or more just to get their numbers up proves my point far more than I expect you will realize.

He has taken every single one of GWB's radical policies, and cemented them as the new normal.

Which is why I find it infuriatingly ironic when I see these ignorant bumper stickers railing against the "hope and change" campaign. There was no change, and now, even less hope.

"Serial rapist upset at having his identity revealed, and activities detailed in the press; dejected that the President won't come and visit him and tell him he's doing a great job."

> The main reason I could come up with is explaining what cannot be explained and thus control
> what cannot be controlled.

I doubt its that simple. A human mind is a very odd place to live, maybe you have noticed. All these sensors and interpretation of them, its messy business. We see faces even in places we know there is no reason to. Why would we ever see a face in a cloud, or even a picture on a page? Much of the visual information is wrong, the size, the distance, the color, the lack of depth.....but something in there says "face....right there". Shit, all it takes is a couple of circles and a line.

What percentage of the population hear voices? Most of us actually, the occasional auditory hallucination is pretty normal. However, we know this, we have science to explain it, we have studied the phenomena, we stand upon giants.

If we didn't; then how do you explain hearing a voice in the woods? How do you explain seeing a vision? Feelings like deja vu? If you have a mystical mindset, the world can be a very mystical place with a lot of room for interpretation....and for a person who has experienced such events....well... according to what he experienced and remembers, they actually happened. They ARE his experience.

I think these common events, ones which we have learned to ignore and dismiss as irrelevant abberations in our senses, that likely contributed to the rise of religions. I mean, in a world where you have no better explanation, maybe that voice in the woods was the elves, or the spirit of the woods?

Business school. "J-School" is Journalism School. I guess you could do that any one-word "school" at a university, but those are the only two I heard used regularly.

> The only reason nobody's shooting random people or blowing stuff up all over the place is because
> nobody wants it badly enough. If they did, well, look at what happened in Boston...

Exactly. Hell I was just hearing on NPR about a refugee camp where "home made rifles" were found. How hard is it to get a tank of propane or a sack of flour? How hard is it to get gasoline, sulfuric acid, or nitrate containing soil? Point is, if people want weapons they can and will make them, no matter what you try to do to stop them.

anybody who is in touch with the world enough to be able to read, do math, and generally solve problems and make plans can put together his own weapons of some sort, including bombs. There are plenty of examples of people who did it (many of whom were not even terrorists and didn't hurt anyone; if not most, since there are more teenagers living in the sticks with fuck all to do than there are terrorists)

So where does that leave us? If most teenagers who really set their mind to it could come up with a way to blow shit up, why is it shit isn't blowing up for the most part? Why do we not have bedlam?

There really is only that one answer.

Based on what I have seen of WoW players, it seems to be able to suck hours from them whether they find is satisfying or not, so it might actually both decrease satisfaction and increase retention; possibly sapping from them even the motivation to look for a new job.

While at the same time, making it impossible for them to complain because nobody will sympathise. I await them to start sueing the NSA for the metal stress of the situation leaving them incapable of doing anything but playing video games, could even be a disability.

While contemplating the Glory of God, it does make you wonder if any of anti-surveillance messages we sprinkle with little phrases, get their attention like ricin grains in letters to Obama?

Do these messages produce little red flags that make someone have to read them? Does the volume of hatred for their intrusion not blow up like semtex packages at the sears tower? Does it not infect them like a small pox release in the New York subway system?

Does it ever make them think? Why do I spy on grandma?

True, but you still have to download it and decrypt it. Do that on a machine that can't be trusted and you may be hosed. Hell, look at the capabilities of a system like foxacid, and the very request you make to download your key file could be the same one that infects the local machine.

At least a device like this is only as vulnerable as typing, and exposes only the one password being used at a time, the master password is always protected as its only entered on the device.

Gees dude, don't cheap out. Most big screen smart TVs can quite easily handle that and now and you can use a tablet as the remote. So 65" of 4K vision (easy to see and read) with a tablet as the remote and for data input. Forget Apple, it is far better to align that tablet with the brand of TV so Android is far more likely to provide the complete solution.

The big problem with selling zero day exploits is, they are only effective if they remain secret and of course the seller of the exploit is a threat to the secrecy of that exploit. Already sold it once, what stops them from selling again and again and again. So when it comes to buying those exploits organised crime is likely to consider it worthwhile to ensure the silence of the seller and save themselves some money instead. When it comes to buying exploits the more likely source is leaks in intelligence services, you know those douche bag agencies that keep security vulnerabilities secret so that they can exploit them and those leaving their own countries and citizens vulnerable (real fucking bright). If you are corrupt enough to do that, then you are most certainly corrupt enough to sell them to organised crime (a repeat source you would pay and wouldn't silence).

Joe is not an idiot, he runs raid. When his hard disk drive dies, he uses the other one until he grabs the spare hot swap one from the cupboard and inserts it in his server. Joe also has a UPS for power control. Basically Joe has found that servers really are pretty cheap now days and managing them is quite easy especially if he supplements that internal management with some external remote management from a reliable local source. HDisks are so cheap the best backup is another newer HDisk than the one you are currently using. Servers are so cheap, why put it all in one box when you can run two backing each other up. If they can run up huge profits by running servers, Joe can obviously save those profits by managing them himself. Reality is servers are a whole lot easier to manage now than they ever have been, toss in a little localised expert remote management for peak management times and you are done.

Of course it will only work if the US military industrial complex can convince other countries it will work and get them to join the game by countering the supposed threat with public displays of military technology which of course will be used to justify yet further development of more expensive military technology. Face it although diplomacy done properly prevents war, it sucks ass because there just ain't no profit in it. So exactly who is the US planning to start a war with next that justifies this first strike technology (nothing defensive about it at all).

I hope you can also see the problem. Sure the best (those with honesty, integrity and loyalty to their country and fellow citizens and fortunately the brightest) but that will basically leave behind the sick perverts, psychopaths and the politically corrupt. Those are the ass hats that took the NSA down that route and they will be the only ones left. Now that is going to be a huge problem and pretty much the exact same problem that manifested at the CIA, where the best left leaving behind the corrupt who then privatised and contracted out intelligence services as retirement plans for themselves, billions blown on make believe for profit misinformation.

This directly fuelled a war with misinformation, where billions of dollars was siphoned off to ex-CIA now private contractors and major military industrial complex corporations. It is easy to guess what they new CIA will become, a blatant corporate intelligence service. With out honest people, it will become as bad as you can imagine.