Just because a black market enables the trade of things which should be illegal doesn't mean it doesn't enable the trade of things which should not be.

There could be nothing like Wikileaks without a black market.

So the transponder doesn't use aircraft power to increase the strength of the response?

Yourself and Concerned Onlooker seem to be under the impression that we want the program to continue, but with volunteers. That is not the case. We want to do wheelies and drill into random rocks because it is fun. Why should you or anyone else care that it will destroy the rover? It will die immediately upon being defunded anyways. What good is a perfectly working rover going to be if there is nobody to control it? It is better to let people play with it.

I think your viewpoint is a bit skewed here. The rover will "die" immediately upon being defunded. If "the internet" can have fun with it for a few days and then it dies, who cares?

In other words, the suggestion is not to continue doing "worthy" science with it. The suggestion is to let people "play" with it. If good science arises, then fine. If not, nothing more was lost regardless.

all these software engineers that work for nsa/gov , do they have any fucking morals? do they really believe they are securing the world from the evil guys? are they kept at gunpoint? are they just plain stupid?

Imagine a fraternity house filled with hundreds of "bro-grammers" looking to impress their peers and outsiders, alongside more socially inept nerds with a superiority complex and a grudge against society for its refusal to pay homage to their obviously superior intellects. The herd is managed by a cadre of MBA/careerist sociopaths with a lust for profit, exploitation and power. The entire operation has been given essentially unlimited budgets, unprecedented resources, and unrestricted access to private industry and the backbone of the net, and finally has been mandated to gather all it can, on whoever it can, by whatever means necessary by an ascendancy whose interests are explicitly opposed to the general public good.

Things have worked out about as well as you'd imagine. The fraternity house has engaged in naked, shameless and destructive criminal behaviour; in effect the NSA has become the largest hacker/cyber-crime organization on the globe. The Rule of Law now has no meaning on the network, or for computers, and society itself has been pushed into a literal sci-fi dystopia of surveillance and state security excess.

And were it not for one single fraternity member who found the courage to turn back and listen to his conscience, we would be spiraling into an even darker scenario at this very moment. Whether we eventually meet this fate is still uncertain.

The NSA is an out of control cyber-criminal gang. It is a matter of time before insiders at the NSA make contact with the criminals who run the banking industry, and at that point western society will probably be ripped apart in an orgy of computer-aided looting, sabotage, fraud, and political suppression. This is what happens when you let the hyenas run the zoo.

Whoah there buddy. On an iPhone, you have a 15 minute window rather than a 30 minute window of opportunity. I am not so sure it would not have happened there too. I _just_ read in another comment that the latest update to IOS allows you to disable even the 15 minute thing but I have not actually seen that feature myself yet.

To be honest, I am disturbed. My iPad has had all of its communications cut off for 2 months or more now and yet it *still* knew there was an update. It creeps me out too much to use it.

Yeah. I prefer iTunes since it is twice as secure. It is set to to only 15 minutes with NO warning of this at all.

Jesus fucking H. Christ. What the fuck dude? Yes, there are fucking trolls on Slashdot. OOOOO. That is big news. But wait, that is NOT what you said, you said the entire fucking community is against what Google has done.

Fuck off with your generalizations and your bad attitude. Jackass.

Hm. I disagree. It is true that you will not be aware of the entire range of audio, but there still will be a noticeable difference. For example, the cymbals will likely have a different quality.

In other words, you may not be appreciating the full range of audio while driving, but the portions you are able to pay attention to will still be affected by the overall quality.

this implies a hijacking.

Honestly trying to help you hear*

Peaking your curiosity is spelled like piquing your curiosity. Spelled different but pronounced the same which is why the * appears above. :)

he thinks upto 180% is reasonable

Personally, the moment you talk about 'in-flight' refueling, I'm thinking what you need to do is make a strong hybrid - battery assist, but also with an engine, most likely diesel*, perhaps even a turbine like what's in the M1(updated and smaller, of course).

This gives you monster power when you need it, and increased efficiency which also increases the range. Between the armor and the battery weight, many things that would normally stop a vehicle won't stop the presidential one.

*less likely to explode if attacked by something like an IED, RPG, and such.

Again, this should all be covered by the company that wins the bid. If they don't like it, they shouldn't bid on the contract.

>because most of the requirements are out of date,

Contractor's fault. If the requirements are impossible, tell the customer and don't bid.

>were written by somone who had no idea what they were asking for

Same as above.

>or are missing critical pieces of functionality or details.

Same as above.

>Then you find out you need to integrate with a 35 year old Wang mainframe that runs some weird esoteric algorithm that no one alive understands.

If that's in the contract you signed, you need to do it. If it isn't in the contract, don't do it, or re-bid for that portion.

This would all be much simpler if both parties simply adhered to the terms of the contract. If the terms are unrealistic or impossible, don't bid.

No, it was a different flight, but it probably crash landed on the same island.