Umm... I think the idiom involving that gesture involves a posture other than standing, and possibly also nonzero angular momentum.

Ignorance.

By your logic:

- One should never share one's M&Ms, because what makes you think the other person won't take the whole bag?
- One should never bathe, because what makes you think you won't fall in and drown?
- One should never, ever receive fellatio, because what makes you think she won't swallow you whole?

And if it were a sphere of neutronium only 60m diameter, I suspect it wouldn't remain neutronium for very long either.

My first guess is that if such an object somehow blinked into existence, it would instantly become a rapidly expanding sphere of plasma and gamma rays.

This has otherwise been known as "Boot Camp" or "Basic Training" for generations of soldiers.

So put one underneath every one of those trough urinals in football stadiums and hockey rinks. Use the power generated to run the stadium lights, recharge electric cars, or hydrolyze water to create fuel for more portable fuel cells.

FTFS:
Unless the default settings were altered during deployment, impacted systems are using a known key

You missed an important bit there. It's very probably stored on an EPROM or SD Card, requiring physical access to the DASDECs. Some of my employer's products are used in the same market (local TV stations) and that's a pretty common method of configuring equipment for a particular customer.

Hard-coded, as in: Yes it's code, but there's no external interface protocol which permits changing the keys. In order to alter it, you have to remove the unit from the rack, take the cover off, and then you can upload a new config file. More recent products use external USB ports, but I bet these DASDECs are older than that...

Aye. Heartily seconded. See my sig.

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