I didn't realize he had gone after the families of the bad cops. I agree that that is not just wrong, but pretty sick.

Not in America it isn't sick -- certainly not according to Obama administration's explanation for why it killed Al Alwaki's innocent 16yo Colorado born son: "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well being of their children."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/robert-gibbs-anwar-al-awlaki_n_2012438.html

So, if it is the position of the President of the United States, that the sins of the father are the sins of the children, how could it be sick for Dorner to believe the same thing? If it is sick for Dorner to believe as Obama does, is Obama sick?

Absolutely correct. But for the authoritarians this is the perfect opportunity --- who is going to object to throwing these drones into catching Dorner? At the end of this there will official statements about how helpful the drones were and that will be that essentially. Public support will swell even if the ultimate intended use isn't good or reasonable.

  The real problem America faces, is not that authoritarians are grabbing power, it is that Americans want them to. Democrats and republicans only disagree on who should wield that power. Obama and GWB are perfect examples of this tribalism. Identical policies yet pure hatred by the opposing tribe. In the end it will lead to dictatorship, it has no where else to go and Americans for the most part crave that so long as their tribe wins. That's where the next civil war will come from. Not from civil libertarians fighting for freedom, but between the DNC and the GOP as they struggle to decide which party will be the last one to hold the dictatorship before the electoral rotation of seats ends.

To put this into a stupid slashdot car analogy, what this guy is saying is that he drives a left hand drive stick shift at work, may even have a left hand drive stick shift at work for testing, and when he gets home, he uses a left hand drive stick shift too so that his work life is easier.

Now, if he drove an automatic at work but a stick at home, he mind find himself accidentally slamming on the brakes when coming to a stop (muscle memory clutch foot coupled with an oddly wide brake pedal (that's breaks and petals if you want to troll a spelling nazi)). Or, if he drove a right hand drive MG at home, he might end up making a crazy turn into oncoming traffic at work with their left hand drive cars.

No kidding.

Alternative entertainment: http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-reveals-ample-fed-access-fbi-opens-criminal-investigation-7000011073/

There's one gas station in my area that also sells ethanol free gas and its price is basically the same as everywhere else (except for the really sketchy stations that sell gas super cheap, probably from rusty tanks). It's the only place I fill up. If I find myself running low and its inconvenient to go there, I'll pump one or two gallons at a different station, but I won't fill up. This could be a good means of marketing for gas stations to differentiate themselves. Never in my life before have I been a regular patron of any particular station -- I'd just fillup at what was near me when I needed gas. Now that there's just one station that sells the good stuff though, they get 95% of my business.

According to wikipedia, this dish was started in 1991 and and became operational in 2000. While I'll grant that wifi wasn't ubiquitous in the early part of that time frame, it was much more prevalent toward the end. Plus there were other kinds of radio technologies gaining common currency in that time frame (cell phones for example). It's a little disingenuous to hark back an additional thirty years in support of your argument, because this dish hadn't been built then.

Anyway, it seems to me it would have been reasonable to build this is a place less likely to be affected by consumer tech than on the east coast. Was it a pork project? What other sites were considered? There really isn't much info on these aspects.

That isn't "would be subject to this shit" that's IS subject to this shit and have been for years. The second article in TFS is from 2008 -- half a decade ago. Why is it taking so long for people to wake up to what is going on?

Just click the second link in TFS. Nice diagram with the stats.

Considering the lifelong state of my penmanship, I'd have CTS from the constant vibration of the pen. I don't even attempt cursive and my printing looks like a third grader's. Somehow, I just never got good at that.

You may have a problem with true random number generation if you let a computer pick for you.

You could try diceware instead -- it's pretty unlikely you'll end up with dice that have some kind of vulnerability built into them that will compromise your password picks. Plus it costs a tiny fraction of a true random number generation card.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

I guess you didn't read my post. What was decided in the civil war subsequent Supreme Court cases, was that secession required bilateral agreement between the Feds and the seceding state. A constitutional amendment clearly outlining a path for unilateral secession would make that history moot.

Perhaps these or something like them would do the trick?
http://www.usfireworks.biz/category/mortars.htm