In fact, they got their hands on all the ingredients they'd need to produce a radioactive dirty bomb.

The association I work for stared doing this with some of our regional chapters. For example, what used to be called the Alaska chapter might now be the Second Lieutenant Soandso A. Whatshisface Chapter. The five minutes of feel-goodedness is then followed by years of "And where is that chapter located?"

Naming things after Soldier KIA is basically a given. Once suggested, you can't say no to it without coming off as a total douche.

Needs more helmet photoshop.

Because in Germany, privacy is considered serious business by the government, unlike in America.

There's a human advantage.

Will it still make my cursor disappear on my other monitors when playing in full screen mode? 'Cause that shit is irritating.

What about my Windows Phone?

Considering that "your constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure" only applies here, then yes, just here. Fool.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out, your constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure should mean that police cannot simply rummage through your files without a warrant except when (a) you consent to the search or (b) give them probable cause that there's incriminating evidence in…

It's a picture of the city, not a picture of what the city might look like in the future. The author played the 'futuristic' angle. The photographer just took a picture of the city (and jacked up the saturation a bit).

Ok, well unless he's in charge of building lighting in NYC, I don't think there's much he can do about it.

Needs more varied, colored lighting to get the real futuristic look.

My hangup isn't the speed of the ordnance, but the speed of the aircraft (spacecraft?) at release. Guess it all depends on the altitude. I assume the AW article has a lot more information than the BSG fangasm in this post, but I haven't been able to load the page yet.

Safe to assume it wouldn't be able to deploy ordnance at Mach 6, which would mean it'd have to slow down, which in turn would make it vulnerable.

There's a scene in Continuum where one of the future dudes uses a wrist-computer-thing that pops up a holographic interface that he manipulates with the fingers of that hand. I always thought that was basically the way any sort of "smart watch" would have to work to be truly useful and practical.

Worth every trillion would be marginally more accurate, if you take into account the cost of the program over the life of the aircraft.

Isn't the F-35 something like 10:1 in terms of maintenance hours to flight hours?

That was the F-22, not the F-35, and yes, that was (reportedly) resolved. The issue was a defective pressure valve IIRC.