'Trump choose the idiots that dropped the ball.'

The Defense Manpower Data Center is an element of the US military. So the question is whether the leadership is political or civil service, and, more significantly, why should the leadership be responsible for a security flaw by the staff. Is it really Trump's fault if a programmer doesn't block this?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F327%2F

And the fact that there are people who will claim this is why politics is so obnoxious these days. Yes, some things are as a result of decisions by the elected. But far more often it's because some low level guy made the wrong call. We had this game in the UK recently when our air traffic control system crashed. Blame the top guy? Why? Some programmer got it wrong, as did the testing regime. It's fun to score political points. DON'T - unless you can actually demonstrate a reason to do so.

Is anyone really surprised if the chatbots trot out the misinformation that is available on the internet?

The nuclear powers have been far more forthcoming that I thought. Watched 'Hunt for Red October' recently ;)

I knew it was out there, but didn't know it's name.

Fission power is being sold to the public as the solution to the baseline power supply problem. The real costs are not being addressed however; the unknown costs include the waste problem, but also the clean up of the sites of closed stations. There's also an explicit insurance policy offered by governments against a Chernobyl type event; the private owners of such a station would not be expected to pay the full cost of such an event.

Sadly once an industry gets its claws into the economy to the extent that nukes have, it generates enormous political power which the rest of us are unable to face down. Compare and contrast the automobile industry...

Before a council meeting...

Should have the desired effect!

Shouldn't be an issue to have that data available to a remote enquiry without giving any wider access

The UK sees a steady flow of people such as medics and police officers sacked for this

I was going to ask whether this sort of research is worth funding, and then read the post about protons being a super mobile sea in which the Oxygen is a stable lattice. That's just the sort of crazy discovery that leads to breakthrough in the long term.

Now all we've got to do is explain the hexagon and decagon on Saturn. Over exposure to '2001' at a young age makes it hard to avoid jumping to a certain conclusion...

The fact that most of the Left seems to end up giving such kids a bonus over the children of a low paid White worker reveals the problem absolutely. Add in the fact that Harvard discriminated against Asian kids because otherwise they'd be massively over represented, and the absurdity / scandal becomes obvious. There is a good case for giving kids who receive free school meals a few extra points on SATS, but that should probably be the absolute limit to what the system should allow.

Road A is blocked. Road B is the only alternative. So of course it will divert the cars onto road B. The degree of detailed understanding of the roads required to avoid this may be possible in the long term, but at the moment it's always going to happen.