1. The article is about Britain, not America.
2. The US is not a direct democracy, but it is still a democracy.

Not just who's first, but how many?

Silver lining? Perhaps some cool anti-UAV tech will trickle down to us civilians.

Certainly.

Unless it was an innocent mistake or a sinister scouting mission against defenses. In either of these cases, commotion would be quite the opposite of the reaction you'd be shooting for.

Tardigrades FTW.

And keep in mind, Mr. Musk is not some schmuck like the Amazon guy who has a Space Vanity Project. SpaceX has launched real rockets into real space with real payloads. Musk and SpaceX are here to stay.

And don't forget those "cool" masks...

Apperently, almost 100% of those now using the name are glorified skript kiddies.

Comparing Edward Snowden to Kim Philby is absurd. Philby was a murderous traitor. Snowden is a patriot.

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Perl is mostly legacy code. Small scripts for random tasks. It is maintained, but new stuff is done in Python.

For example they have already forgotten about their pledge to take down ISIS interweb sites...

Sometimes I think they are just a bunch of publicity whores, but I haven't yet figured out what it is they get out of making announcments, doing it 1/4 assed, and quickily forgetting what they were doning and moving on to the next great headline grabber...

That's not really the way DoD rocket launches work. It's certainly not how Boeing and ULA work.

Nope, not half a day. In California it is a full year of formal training, or two years as an apprentice barber. If you go the apprentice route, there is NO requirement for training on basic sanitation methods. Most other states have similar requirements.

Indeed, spying is generally good. When leaders are ignorant of their enemy's capability, they tend to overreact. A century ago, the world bumbled into a world war because of secret treaties, and severe misjudgements about the intentions and constraints on others. Better spying may have prevented that. The cold war was also a result of each side escalating out of precautions driven by ignorance. Looking back, the Soviet Union was never as strong as we feared, and was motivated more by paranoia than by aggressiveness.

Voluntary mutual transparency would be the best solution, but spying is still better than secrecy.

Like what? Send over a few "tough guys"? Sabotage at SpaceX? ULA is going to have to "re-factor" their cash cow to be more competitive, or they will continue lose out on choice US government work; the public eye is on this stuff now, the politicians will have to answer for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone high up in the USAF food chain is retireing soon and looking for a job... Boeing obviously didn't pay them off enough to keep exclusivity on their overpriced program.