Obviously the Jews that turned in the pro-Israelis are self-hating Nazi scum!
Actually, I liked this passage the most:
Crawford also traveled to North Carolina in October to solicit money for the weapon from a ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, who informed the FBI.
You've got to be a special kind of insane for the KKK to immediately rat you out to the FBI.
That suggests there could be some "moderate terrorist". Anyone encountered that weird kind of terrorist?
Why yes, as a matter of fact, I was moderately terrorized once....
When I decided that my team needed better mouses and keyboards since I myself was noticing some hand strain, I put an order in to our system. Management approved the purchase and it was all fine. IT then blocked it saying that they supply our standard equipment from Dell and we shouldn't be ordering IT equipment separately
Sounds like IT is 100% right on this one. When you needed computer-related gear, why didn't you talk to IT at the start? Why are you doing separate purchases of equipment? There's a million and one good reasons that IT purchases should be going through IT.
It amazes me when people do this. You don't see individual departments hiring electricians to install more outlets or lighting when Bill in Accounting decides they need it. You don't see individual departments that are running out of space putting in purchase requests to hire contractors to build an extension onto the office, or renting out another office building across the street. WTF does everyone think it's perfectly okay to just up and order a bunch of iPads for everyone in their department, without bringing IT into the mix?
Have you factored in that EVs are coal powered
For the N-th time... YES. Go do your own damn research, instead of bitching and IMPLYING wrong info.
They do it for exactly the same reason they put japanese americans in internment camps during WWII - it is easy for them to do and they don't give a damn about the impact on the innocent and effectiveness is something to be worried about later.
To be fair, Obama didn't win the Nobel prize for ending wars. He won the prize for not being Bush.
To be fair, the genetic engineering techniques pioneered by Monsanto have enabled us to correct that.
Yeah, you'd need something the size of a "truck" to carry around that much shielding.
Unlike the suitcase and backpack the previous poster postulated.
The problem with the truck is that it is going to be a lot further away from your target, which means lots of juice. You park a truck with a constantly running diesel generator outside of someone's house, people are going to notice pretty quick.
You've also upped your costs to the point where you are going to need funding from people who are probably going to report you...
I'm pretty sure the government doesn't care about your purchase history of... an inflatable love goat and a 55 gallon drum of lube. Nice. Your file still says "Mostly Harmless."
Until that day comes that they DO care. Like say, you end up a prominent civil rights leader.
Ever wonder how much of the Occupy movement was derailed by quiet government pressure on key people?
Did you read the link I posted?
The CIA is one of Amazon's biggest customers.
After what they did to the CEO of Qwest for refusing to cooperate I doubt Bezos is going to put those big contracts and his personal freedom at risk.
This is actually an amazingly brilliant plot,
Except for the fact that directing the x-rays is pretty damn hard so every time you radiate the target, you radiate yourself. The amount of shielding required to prevent that makes portability significantly less practical.
Hopefully many of the mosques in America that encounter radical and/or terrorism sympathetic persons will rise to the occasion and do the same when they hear something actionable,
The FBI wasn't spying on mosques to eavesdrop on people agonizing over temptation to eat bacon
Yeah, that's totally why american muslims distrust the FBI.
Man, they sure are dummies to think the FBI was spying on them because of pork!
getting the software to play nice with such a setup is not currently viable
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It has been viable for over a decade. Plenty of groups have done it:
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html
And Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/
See the Wiki for more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration
Most interesting is Fedora 17 automatically enabling it when appropriate hardware is connected, which should mean RHEL7/CentOS7 will, too.
your $50 tablet is actually a fully-fledged computing device.
Yes, but as a "thick-client" it's a brutally low-end and very limited device. As a thin client, it's a high-end workstation, with huge amounts of memory, unlimited storage, etc.
And if a big market ever developed for thin-clients, you can bet these same tablet manufacturers would come out with even cheaper, stripped-down devices that are only good enough to be used as a thin-client. At what price point would you say it's a good idea? $25? $15? $10?
Yet more "terrorists" who couldn't shoot their own foot if they tried. From the article:
Dr. Fred Mettler, the U.S. representative on the United Nations' Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, was unfamiliar with the specifics of Crawford's plans but said it's unlikely such a device could work. Radiation can be narrowly beamed, as it is in some cancer treatments, but the accelerators require huge amounts of electricity, are not easily portable and any target would have to remain still for a long time.
"I don't know of any of these that you can use like a gun to aim at someone on the street," Mettler said.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard
