What law did she violate?
Who had access to classified information without the proper clearance?
Remember, there was no law regarding who should be in control of email servers or accounts, and there was no evidence that any information was compromised, and there has been 3 years for any such information to come to light.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If you have evidence that she exposed/displayed/disseminated/broadcast classified information, you should have given it to the FBI. They have no such evidence, so there were no actions to take. Also, precedence set by the Bush administration was that you could use insecure mail servers and delete 20+ million emails and there will be zero repercussions.

I bet the number of things set on fire by traditional smoking materials is greater still.

In fact, a significant percentage of your house and car fires were started with a cigarette, cigar, pipe, joint, match or spilled lighter fluid.

Something more like professional engineering certifications. Think structural or civil engineers.

Seems a reasonable explanation.

Any idea why the small gravel-appearing rock is undisturbed in all directions around the donut rock?

I'd expect some gravel to be disturbed in the direction of donut travel.

we have the "biggest and greatest" technology companies, right?

Target is a low-price, high-value retail store, not a technology company. In other words, a low cost provider of stuff for people's homes.

I believe they have as many, if not more, IT personnel in their India data centers as they have at their headquarters.

An exemplar of a US technology company they are not, no matter how much they spend on IT.

I'm certain Target was observing "best practices" as written about in trade rags, and probably had numerous security, PCI, and HIPPA audits from outside "experts" on a routine basis.

That will probably satisfy the card processing industry and insurers. Clearly it satisfied the director and C-level executives.

OTOH, they are pretty clueless about how to secure an IT infrastructure. Practices likely followed typical industry norms: minimum length passwords containing upper/lower case, a number and a special character that expire every 30 days, a change control process, a policy to review all 3TB of daily log files for anomalies, division of responsibilities, encrypting all sensitive data, and related meaningless drivel meeting the letter of standards such as PCI compliance.

In the end, you can't fix clueless.

Way to go Coward. Nice post. Intelligence agencies paying this non-government agency to do their dirty work has "ZERO" to do with US intelligence agencies.

Bush's original apointee to head the Department of Homeland Security is on the board of the company that produces the scanners. He says this has nothing to do with them going into airports.

Profit should not be part of the equation. Electricity is a necessity in modern society.

Instead of profit mongers designing, building, running, and maintaining nuclear facilities, it should be a government agency, similar to NASA, in control.

Profit, cost cutting, year-over-year "metrics", and performance-based measures guarantee an environment of deteriorating safety and increased risks. Combined with an anti-regulation mentality and you have a recipe for eventual disaster(s).

Nuclear energy is a "mission critical" activity based on the nature/need of the product and the potential downsides, and NASA is the only model agency I know that has a respectable record of safety.

Better yet, I think the way to go is have the government developing massive solar and wind farms. Make electricity so cheap that coal, oil, and nuclear energy producers can not possibly compete.

The only downside would be the hit terrorists would take. No more money going to hostile countries. No more oil profits funding of terrorist groups. No more nuclear facility targets. No more raw material for nuclear weapons. No more recruitment help from governments invading over misguided fears of weapons of mass destruction.

There is a lot less terror when a solar panel or wind turbine is blown up compared to a nuclear reactor, nuclear waste storage facility, oil refinery, petroleum storage facility, or natural gas pipeline.

Just look at Iraq. We made it a veritable eden.

I bet they'll greet us dancing in the streets.
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My copy of CS5 uses the my 5670's GPU, and it took a while to get used to. You never see a progress bar, even when processing my wifes 20+ megapixel camera. Scary fast.

Republicans are on a tear to eliminate social programs.

Lordy, this program is all about social (media) programs. Cut it, cut it, cut it.

Bachmann, you are a self-described cutter. Cut it. Come on, cut, cut, cut.

Maybe once we see Glen Beck crying about this on Fox the patriot citizenry will kill this outrageous social program.
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Its the rest of the States that are happy to make special allowances for Texas and a couple of other states' succession.

By eliminating the weakest members, the nation as a whole becomes stronger. Much, much stronger.

You cannot legislate intelligence. Apparently, you can legislate the reverse.

So one result of "intelligent design" is stupidity? It doesn't say much for the designer.

Unfortunately, our fine brothers in Texas aren't exactly stellar exemplars of evolution, either.

The US government spent the 7 years following 9/11 keeping people terrified. If you read that as the government doing the terrorist's job, you possess properly working higher brain function.

In fact, the US reaction went way beyond anything "the enemy" could have hoped for.

The alleged mastermind said directly that the attack was intended to bring financial harm to the US. The US responded with trillions of dollars of wartime debt. As a token of appreciation, the US threw in recruitment benefits that will help terrorist organizations for decades. While they were at it, the US government stomped all over rights of the its citizens. Heck, why not? As if that wasn't enough, they also work very hard at keeping the terror of 9/11 alive, playing with "threat levels" whenever the people don't seem terrified enough.

The truly astounding thing is how much money they are continually throwing at things that do not improve security at all.

This will not play well with the /. crowd, but these high tech electronic gizmos don't work. People have made it through screening with handguns. And as people have said since the get-go, people don't even need to get past the security check to terrorize at airports (presumably all terrorist targets are air travel centric).

Maybe gizmos act as a deterrent, "Ooh, surely their superior technology form an impenetrable barrier, lets just give up trying" but I doubt it.

Many people have been arguing for more effective, lower tech solutions that actually will work. Dogs and pigs can detect an enormous range of aromas, don't need to see a nearly undressed image of your body, don't need to physically touch your naughty bits, and don't expose you to radiation.

If the government goal was effective security, wouldn't they use the very inexpensive and very effective dogs rather than the machines that cost millions and are not effective?

What would be more intimidating, a refrigerator-sized machine or a pack of hungry looking German Shepherds sniffing at your pant leg?