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Per federal law, all able bodied males, 18-45 are a member of the irregular militia. Apply that logic to bound firearm ownership and the "male" and age requirements both disappear for discrimination... then we're all a member of a militia anyhow. Like we should be, anyhow.

Sure we do. We need those things, so we seek them. Others do, too, so they try to seek them. We wind up wanting the same thing. To protect what we need, we defend it. To defend it, we need a way to fight. While we could use our fists, fists, rocks, and firearms aren't a far cry from each...

Nothing is ever "needed" until it is. Seatbelts and airbags are a reasonable metaphor.

That'd be legal and is an allocated CTAF. Current CTAF freqs: 122.7 122.72 122.8 122.97 123.0 123.05 123.07

122.705 isn't an aero freq in the US :) That one wouldn't even be with 7.33mhz spacing.

Airports open and close. It's a moving targets and changing freqs introduces a safety challenge.

Absolutely. I mean states like Oregon that honor nearly no other state licenses is just spitting in the face of full faith and credit. I similarly avoid states that won't honor my permit, or at least allow some kind of protection. The one I ran in to most with my TX CHL/LTC was Illinois, but...

To steal the analogies from earlier in the thread: You may as well say the same of everything else that has been adapted and abused to cause mass casualties, from trucks and pressure cookers, to everyday fertilizer. If you consider shooting inanimate objects to be massive damage, do you...

I got asked this on my private oral... It's pretty obvious if you think about it, fortunately, if you think about the relationship between center of lift and center of gravity.

There are good and bad stories with all of them.

They have a use -- letting people with the desire to send a lot of lead downrange the ability to do so quickly. It does not make the firearm an automatic by law, it just enables a shooter to actuate the trigger on a semiautomatic faster. That doesn't mean it was "designed to do massive...

Did you happen to have the spare with you, or did you have to make a quick run somewhere to get one?

Nobody should ever consider any one technology to be 100% secure. Defense in depth is a must-have regardless. While there have been lots of TLS issues with OpenSSL and the Debian PRNG issue of a few years back, we just have to roll with it and fix it as we find these issues. TLS1.2+PFS makes...

As far as I know, all liability issues have been settled without the need to go to court. Whether or not insurance was footing the bill was irrelevant to me, as would be the admission of guilt so long as we were made whole. A huge example is why we still use Symantec for our TLS certs -- they...

Our legal team refuses to ok contracts with those kinds of stipulations. Procurement of software can be a bit of a pain for us lol. There is some software we've purchased where a VAR actually ate the liability to make the sale when the publisher wouldn't.

Wasn't she let go a few weeks ago (Mauldin)?

Open source doesn't mean no warranty. My employer is incredibly risk averse but still loves open source software when possible. As such, we only use open source software that we can purchase support for -- and that support contract has to hold them liable for the product. There is already...

The CISO (chief information security officer) is typically the one holding the baton, whoever that has been defined as.

It depends on how you define oversight. If your folks and your auditors are able to attest to SSAE16 compliance, or you can get somebody to sign SOC type 2, or whatever else you're looking for, I'm not sure leadership is really at fault. The CxO isn't to go validate these things, and we all...

Executives can only know or retain so much -- they're only human. Leading doesn't mean being intimately involved in the actions of every one of your subordinates. We'd be bitching if the issue was them micromanaging, too. Sometimes leading is letting folks do their job while you steer the ship.