Ironically, the lowest quality humans also behave that way, and on a much more regular basis.

The Wikipedia article on the case you're referring to indicates there has been some congressional action on the matter, or attempted action at least. I wouldn't count on this congress actually managing to get real legislation done, though...

Really? "China" didn't even occur to you? Or are you under the delusion that the third country to send men into space isn't "technologically impressive"? From a military technology and manufacturing perspective, it's far more impressive than any of the countries you named. And they even call themselves "Communists" (a bit of untrue propaganda that just happens to work well both for themselves domestically and those who want to demonize them abroad) -- if you were a western military looking for a scary enemy, you couldn't wish for a better one...

Well, that and a bedpan installed in your driver's seat.

Yeah, because THAT'S what's keeping him from being elected. It's not that a good percentage of the country has bought into the line that he's a communist traitor who has put American lives at risk, handed over secret documents to the "enemy", and was acting out of a desire to harm the United States. None of those things are true, mind, but that's not stopping people from demanding we send SEAL Team 6 into Russia.

The anger directed toward this man was so quick to start, so widespread, and so homogenous in tone and intent that it makes me suspect an NSA influence operation using internet sockpuppet accounts, and the already completely dominated mainstream cable channels (I won't use the word "news" to describe what they are). We actually know the government does this, we even knew before the Snowden documents, so it's not that much of a stretch in my mind. But on the other hand, I know quite a few living, breathing, people who really are that intellectually retarded. They're vociferously and sincerely calling for blood. He wouldn't live to see his name on the ballot if he comes back here. Our government has spoken: he's a traitor aiding foreign powers. We kill people for that.

"Be quick, be quiet, and be on time." Clearly a man from a bygone era...

I wasn't proved wrong and I showed you why. If you had any experience in the industry you would know that people make mistakes all the time and nobody is above doing so, nor is it true that being a compiler developer makes you infallible. In this case whoever wrote the blog is mistaken and I told you why. The fact that dereferencing a null pointer is undefined cannot and must not mean that if someone dereferences a pointer it constitutes proof that the pointer is not null. Now off you go little troll ...

They might as well. If they don't do it through official channels, it'll be on Wikileaks shortly anyway.

I think I had a perfectly accurate plastic model of the F-117A, purchased from the model department of a toy store, a few years before it was officially acknowledged. At some point, you just have to live with the fact that some things can't really be kept secret, not matter how much you might want to.

It's a matter of priorities. We can't build a website, but we sure as heck can build a warplane. We have a lot more experience at that, too...

Soon.

Only enemy spy satellites, presumably. This is surprisingly easy information to figure out. Launching things into space isn't exactly subtle (everyone for hundreds of miles around knows every time anyone launches anything into space), orbital mechanics are well understood and easy to work out, and satellites, like aircraft, are kinda out in the open with nothing to hide behind, and quite easy to track, even by amateurs with backyard telescopes (and there are quite a few enthusiasts who do precisely that). Anyone with the capability of shooting down one of our satellites already has a complete and accurate list of them.

You can get that even with human operators.

I worked on a mine that was being established in a very flat and remote part of Australia - not saying where, to protect the guilty. We had a number of Caterpillar 793s (dump trucks with about 2,600hp engines and 350 tonne loaded weight), including two set up as water carts with sprayers and water cannon for consolidating haul roads and dust suppression. Wile we were in construction phase, they were being used for siteworks, and to build the runway we'd eventually fly in and out of.

One night at about 1am, I had to go out to a water bore pump close to the partly-built airstrip, and saw the two 350 tonne water trucks well away from the runway, bouncing through the bush with their water cannons firing full-power pulses into the scrub. I stopped them and started asking some very pointed questions.

It turned out they'd seen a rabbit hop across the runway, and being very bored, had decided to try to shoot it with their water cannons. It then became competitive, and they ended up in a sort of tag match with the confused and very damp rabbit....

"Did you consider that the call can actually be more important than "your meeting"? Personally, I assume that if during "my" meeting someone texts or answers a call, then there is a reason for that. And I believe that because I respect the people I am having the meeting with, as they -I assume in good faith- respect me, and they would not divert their attention elsewhere, if it was not for a reason."

No. I didn't consider that. You know why? Because they fucking stayed in the meeting. If the call is more important than the meeting they can get the fuck out of the meeting. Oh, yeah ... I almost forgot: You're an idiot.

Um, no. You don't get instant, real-time intelligence from satellites because they're in orbit, not because they can be shot down. You either have to wait until the next time the satellite will pass over the target in its current orbit, which could be days away, or you have to alter the inclination of the orbit so it'll pass over the target on its next orbit, which requires huge amounts of delta-V, more than most satellites have the fuel to do regularly.

Those and micro-loans for small businesses in the third world.