Close air support is done with drone swarms

Pls ppl. Govt officials are lawyers. Lawyers know what a "server" is? Seriously?

That page boy/girl that you may harrass for sex and drinks is the political server.

Load Accumulator (lda)
Add an integer (add)
Store Accumulator (sta)

Most CS graduates have no idea what this is, and that's the problem with CS.

Do not EVER burn bridges. You may have decided you would rather live under a bridge than go back. But forever is a long time and all things do change in time.

It is always the management. And always about $. Their personal pocket $. If no more $ for them they move on. Always.

Nobody is talking about the fact that these government agencies, contractors, and individuals can easily do a silent Snowden and sell their secrets to the highest corporate bidder, giving inside access to the juicy contracts, and ways to destroy competition. The commercial aspects of the government AND CONTRACTORS seeing all eye is much worse than the governmental prosecution fears. Those on the inside have the gold and make the rules. Our President his staff, the entire useless congress and their staffs have no clue what the NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS is saying to them.... They have NO imagination and live in fear bowing to the Generals to "protect" us. Ben Franklin should have talked louder..

Joe six pack is being watched.

No I don't have anything to hide. So what! Damn snoops have no business in my business. I'm trying the new Japanese University experiment VPN. Works pretty good, so far. And anything private goes on over something NOT called YAHOO, GOOGLE, MICROSUCKS, etc.

Have you hear of management by exception? That "meta-data"? Those supercomputers work continuously building patterns for each person, each device. Then when your pattern changes, voila, the evil roving eye swings your way. The FBI is a domestic shill for the NSA so as to allow monitoring of citizens that is expressly forbidden by law (or was). And they have a file on every citizen and not in the USA and likely most of the planet. Mess with them. Move your IP to Japan, Korea, Mexico. Move lots. And post as a coward.

The smart people know that you never suggest something unless you are prepared to do the work yourself. Its called volunteering your time for free. So smart people just work around it until a new "smarter" guy comes along and suggests and gets nominated to do the work. Do not EVER volunteer.

Yes, a few weeks at Paris Island is what's needed..

Agreed, mechanical pencil.

Agree. What's missing from this debate is science AKA the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
All things degrade over time and at differing rates.
The big decay amplifier is heat.
So focus on heat and you find the power supply #1, the actual transmitter #2.
heat X time = degradation

Things known to degrade at a high rate, capacitors, other analog devices.
Digital devices degrade but with only two states it typically takes longer for the states to become non-deterministic and the new devices with very low voltages have less room for error.

A gentleman above provided an elegant solution. Measure the output of the power supply and if lagging get a new one.
Problem fixed.

There is a huge problem in the knowledge set of slashdot being software people who have no clue of the underlying structures and perticularly reliability and safety disciplines.

Hmmm,

Not sure of the physics here but if it can store that much energy and energy always finds its way (eventually) to heat don't we have a fantastic heat engine source? Drive your heat engine car coast to coast no refueling?

Size Matters

Yes I would travel on it and in many cases I would prefer that to air travel.
To work the rail needs a mixture of Express and Roundabout. There must also be a car/train on the major routes as in the Amtrak train to Florida where you take the car with you on a flat bed.