Why does it sound like that Space X is using Kerbal Space Program as a simulator and to test ideas?

I absolutely agree, Boring day to day launches should be done by companies like Space X and the private market. NASA should focus on new designs and space exploration and not launching more communications satellites.

Tesla is not mass production, Its a small scale specialty car. Call me when they roll 28,000 of them off the assembly line in a year.

We dont have the ability to build more Saturn V rockets. Honestly as a species, we are lucky more than we are smart. We need a modern day Von Braun, and we need the morons at nasa to find all the designs information for all the rockets to date and share them with everyone so we can build upon the past instead of having to rev invent it all because of some dim witted republicans that think the plans will hell the terrorists.

No problem at that point because Zombie truck will simply try to eat other trucks. It will make things a lot easier.

Absolutely, Diesel truck pulling a digester will be perfect. You kill zombies and stuff their bodies in the digester that turns them into a bio fuel.

An AR-15? for what shooting squirrels? Real men shoot an AR-10 and AR-30 for their rifles.

Compared to a Jeep decked out for the same thing. Problem is Chevy is built for roads, Jeep is built for dirt and rocks.

They might as well built a Chevy Volt zombie edition.

Very true, but it goes beyond that. This:

...is the worst piece of misinformation in Stallman's essay that is continuously repeated on Slashdot and elsewhere. Free software is controlled by the people who write it and to a (much) lesser degree by the people who are willing to read and edit the source code before compiling it and installing it. If you're Richard Stallman, congratulations! The "user" does turn out to control the software. But for 99% of the world, that's just not true, and the only value in "free software" is that you're trading trust in a faceless company with trust in a bunch of programmers who you don't know either. Opinions will vary on which of those entities is more trustworthy under various conditions.

Who says the general public doesn't care about it?

Polling shows that even back in July the US public knew the NSA was lying and disapprove of what's happening by 2:1.

But what can be done? "Outrage" doesn't achieve anything. It became abundantly clear the moment senior members of the military were caught lying and nothing was done, that what the public think doesn't matter. So why should the public make a fuss? Waste of energy.

CNN and the likes are just reflecting the fact that the general story is by now well known and not news. The NSA lies and is totally out of control. It does everything the most paranoid people ever imagined, and more. OK. Got it. Next story.

But make no mistake. The right people are still paying attention. Behind the scenes there's a lot going on in a lot of places. All kinds of people who previously would not have included government agencies in their threat models are now starting to do so. Change will take years, perhaps decades, and enormous amounts of technical talent is going to be wasted fighting the US government by trying to blind it with more effective encryption. Success is by no means guaranteed. But without a doubt those members of the general public who have the ability to take part in that are still paying attention.

Yes actually.

Currently most casinos have 1080P 120fps broadcast quality security cameras on the tables. They can see the slightest thing and zoom in to check the sex on the fly that just landed.

They also have cameras UNDER the table edge watching you if you try to hand off something to someone sitting next to you.

Right here.

He got himself caught by being greedy. If he would LOSE often he would have gotten away with it.

Phone makers took YEARS to just get the clue of usb. It will be 2025 before we see usb3 on phones as a norm.

"End-to-end cryptography won't stop "them" from seeing with whom you communicate, how often, where, and when."

It can if you have a clue how to. For example, Stenography in a photo. if EVERY SINGLE photo you post on facebook has a 2048 byte sample of /dev/random shoved inside of it, they will never know that the photo of the shaved cat actually holds a 2048 byte encrypted message in it.

It's called hiding in the noise floor, you just need to raise the noise floor.

plus with the proliferation of Social media I dont have to send Ralph my message. I just post it to twitter, facebook, etc... they cant tell WHO I sent it to because my WHO is the world, and Ralph has to just have an IQ above that of a salad bar to figure out how to look for my message.

You dont need end to end trust chain.

You need your endpoints trusted and treat the rest as hostile, like you should have always been doing if you had any real interest in security. The NSA revelation's are that your endpoints are compromised.

If I have secure endpoints, the technology is out there to easily transmit data in a way that in uncrackable in any useable amount of time. There are a lot of FUD claims that came out of the Snowden release flurry floating about that just do not add up. YES if the encryption system is compromised it's cracked, but not all of them are.

Plus they dont NEED to crack your communication if they own your endpoints, and I am certain that is their current operation as it makes sense.

So secure your endpoints and stop worrying.