Men get killed in war.

One is dead, the other will heal (regardless of what the SJW brigade says, wounds from assaults do normally heal.)

Also, men are routinely raped by invading Armies AND killed. They haven't in recent centuries, but that is not the rule as far as war. Just look at the actions of the Red Army against the Germans in the fall of Berlin, which did include male/male rape.

Who is exactly on the worst end?

Women who serve in a military are volunteers, in all cases, throughout all of western civilization. To get out of this responsibility, all they have to do is lay on their back and get knocked up and they get out of their duty to their country scott free. They can even stay in the military, soaking up resources and pay, and have no responsibility for combat or danger. In war, men go, women stay home. That is a fact, try to equivocate or deny it just makes you pathetically naive on how the real world works or a dishonest actor in the debate and deliberately arguing from falsehood to get your way at worst.

That policy is there to prevent people from actually being able to actively look for work. So far, in my experience, except for fairly rarified fields, employers don't even look to hire people that far out. By requiring people to give 3 months notice or never work for them again, basically the only way you'll ever work for them is if you are lay off and then tried to be re-hired at a later time. -rs

Seriously: water, power, and other critical utility infrastructure providers are not a low density/low volume market. There are large enough economies of scale such that there should really be no discussion here. There should be a separate physical network for these industries.

Air gap the network, heck, develop and mandate totally new hardware interconnects to ensure some moronic PHM or more likely brain dead network admin isn't physically capable of connecting COTS hardware to SCADA hardware.

There is absolutely no reason for any of this stuff to be directly accessible to the public internet, the utility provider can very well have some data diode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network/ to provide metering information on the public internet side, but there absolutely should be no bidirectional links between the command and control network and the public internet

There would be no astronomically expensive software validation necessary if these industries were mandated to require Hardware level compartmentalization, which funnily enough a custom hardware solution would be orders of magnitude cheaper and deployable now rather than some pie in the sky (never going to happen) software based solution that the "Tube" worshiping ludites in Washington think can actually be created

-RS

Would people quit using this as an example of doubt? Show a real, honest to God, in the wild example of a widely used backdoor inserting compiler, or just STFU about it because while it might be possible it isn't in anyway practical or plausible enough to mention. If it was so easy to write a general use backdooring compiler, then it'd be actually seen, not fantasized about. -rs

Yeah, what were those idiots from the Manhattan Project thinking? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee

Uh, how about you and your company try the novel idea of TRAINING people how to do their job, instead of expecting them to do your job for you by training themselves. If companies would quit expecting their employees to walk in already trained on their specific skill needs and actually get down to taking 1-2 months of training their employees, they might actually solve the problem of not having enough skilled candidates. Use their major and them having a degree as a screening criteria for work-ethic and overall ability to accomplish tasks put to them under a deadline, but don't expect them to be tailor made to suit your field. -rs

Yup, they all got demolished for the Neil Armstrong Engineering Building right next to the Physics building. -rsagris BSc. Math '07

It isn't Security Through Obscurity. When Obscurity is added as part of an overall Security Architecture it is Security In Depth. For Obscurity to be a proper security enhancer, you have to have a fundamentally secure foundation onto which you add Obscurity to outside attackers. For example, I would wager it'd be very difficult to even begin to conduct cryptoanalysis aagainst an unpublished/undocumented NSA designed crypto-system over trying to crypto-analyze a documented crypto-system. I am presuming that the system itself is secure by design, as it was designed by the NSA (the largest single employer of mathematicians in the world, devoted to cryptography to boot.) So, if we are going to discuss adding depth to secure systems by overlaying more obscurity could we stop rehashing how obscurity isn't security. Anyone who knows anything about this topic knows that, Obscurity by itself does not provide a robustly secure system, it fails once the obscurity is peirced.

Restricted is only used by other NATO countries but is not actually used as an official classification by the US. The closest we have, but it isn't directly equivalent, is FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO).

The article I read said that dietary supplement Vitamin D is not the kind that is absorbed by the body very well. And that sun exposure produced Vitamin D is produced in ridiculous quantities by the skin when compared to dietary ingenstion (for even natural Vitamin D foods like the grandparent listed) The Doctor was saying that even taking into account a proper diet, you still were not properly reaching what a healthy level of sun exposure would natural have circulating through the body.