Which means the net impact of this on the union members is them being out of a job, and the impact on the CEO effectively nothing. So what exactly did the union accomplish here aside from screwing themselves?

Pffft... and just where do you think you'll find a null-modem adapter?

Um, what? You do know that the whole gunslinger cowboy myth is just that, a myth, right? Actual shootouts were INCREDIBLY rare, despite lots of people being armed. Funny how that works, it's almost like people are less likely to start violent confrontations when the odds aren't heavily stacked in their favor.

Damn, I've been out-pedanted! Time to hand in my geek card.

So are you saying we have no need for things like x/x or x^0? After all, for any x those = 1 and there's no need to have multiple representations....
Or maybe math is just a bit more complicated than you'd prefer and having multiple ways of representing something is sometimes helpful? Nah, couldn't be.

Seriously, why are we wasting our time with charlatans like Rossi? The best thing we can do is ignore him and hope he and his ilk go away. Every bit of news coverage lends him undeserved credibility.

Ok, yes, you're correct in that the P-code isn't strictly military, but my point still remains - s/military/P-code and s/civilian/CA and my post holds up.

It's almost certain that this drone DOES have an inertial navigation system - the problem is, how do you know when to use it? The way they usually work is that the navigation system computes two solutions: a hybrid GPS/INS solution to use most of the time, and a backup inertial-only solution. The inertial-only solution doesn't get used by the flight computers unless GPS is out entirely or there's some other very obvious problem. If you spoofed a GPS signal with real coordinates and slowly guided it away, how could the nav system see there's something wrong?

Very. The military GPS signals are encrypted with some pretty large keys that are changed every 24 hours IIRC. However, the nav systems will probably fall back to using the civilian GPS if the military signal is unavailable for some reason. My guess is that you could drown out all the real GPS signals with noise, then feed the target some spoofed civilian signals to get it to go where you want.

Considering that those were U.S. planes used in 9/11, I don't think LWATCDR is the stupid sounding one here...

Arg, gotta post twice because I wasn't logged in the first time...

Norman Borlaug, credited with saving over one BILLION lives through increasing food supplies, was a biologist. Tell me, how many lives has poetry saved?

Oh really? Apparently no one told these guys

We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers,
We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers,
Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum, drink rum,
Drink rum, and come along with us,
For we don't give a damn for any damn man,
Who don't give a damn for us.

Yes, but can your new, quiet, comfortable keyboard be used to beat a man to death? Didn't think so.