It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the malware is, there is nothing to hack. Nuclear safety and controls don’t have anything resembling what you would call software. There is no way to ‘hack’ electrical relays, unless you physically go into the plant and inject false signals directly into the control equipment. But…

Title still too inflamatory. How about “Lol, someone thinks hackers are targeting nuclear power plants, doesn’t understand how hacking works.”

The Iranians had an ‘air gap’ between the wide open internet and their own internal network. Once you get some super-spy (or traitor) to get the malware into the internal network, game over.

Houston isn’t America’s fourth largest city; it is America’s first largest suburb.

Lol $150k

Darn that league, supressing player freedom. It is almost as if the players should unionize and do something about it. Oh, wait....

You are missing the elephant in the room: TV Money. Without a salary cap, the owners of the rich teams (Lakers, Knicks, Bulls, Celtics) will never agree to split TV money with the hicks from Indianapolis, OKC, and Orlando. Most of the TV money is being generated by fans of the big franchises; the big owners will…

As a person who likes to buy and sell houses every 3-5 years, I like Zillow, and would prefer to see the realtors raking in the state-mandated 6% jump off the cliff...

No one on the bridge is no unusual for big merchants. However, that applies in the middle of the ocean...it is pretty unusual for the bridge to be unmanned within 12 miles of land in a busy waterway.

In addition to using both active radars, the ship should have also been tracking AIS. AIS is an invaluable tool for tracking the surface picture, and one of the big advantages of the Navy’s new(-ish) digital navigation system is that you can overlay AIS tracks on your Nav plot. Between AIS, radar, the starboard…

One of those things is not like the others. Almost a millenia not like the others...

Agree with your premise, but the math is wrong. If 100 people died in the past 10 years where 10 * 1000 people ascended, that means that 10000/100 = 0.1 = 1% mortality rate. Still worse than anything you can do this side of bear wrestling.

That e-mail also describes word for word the US Navy, just replace ‘Signal’ with ‘shipyard.’

This will not work. To summarize your options:

Actually, Bill Simmons _was_ a digital innovator. He was one of the first independent sports bloggers, and he was one of the first to use the fan’s perspective. The old Boston Sports Guy website was very innovative at the time (circa 1999 is when I first saw it).

This is the correct response. Battleships never existed as single mega-ships. They were designed according to WWI battle rules with Jutland in mind. At Jutland, the English brought 37 capital ships against 21 for Germany. Each fleet had plenty of reducnancy for when a ship got one-shot, as several British…

Boston baked bean are just navy beans with bacon and molasses.

This list is racist. Where are the pinto beans? Did you build a wall around your rankings to keep them out?

I hate to break it to you, but if you are going to a union shop, you don’t get to negotiate your salary; you either take it or leave it. The NBA is a union shop, if you want to play there you either take the offer or leave it. If you don’t like the offer you can go play in Turkey or China or something.

No, those are all accounted for. Just google images of “Wrecked Hind Afghanistan” and you’ll see where they went.