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nah.. the dolphins are the ones doing the interviewing it looks like :-)

The USNS Zeus (ARC-7) is the Navy's cable laying and repair ship. The cable is laid mostly on the surface of the bottom, but at vulnerable points and at both ends (near shore) is its ploughed in to the mud/sand on the bottom. When a cut or fault occurs, the location of the fault is determined with a TDR or O-TDR, the same way it works with a land based cable. They know the cable length to the fault and have a survey map of where the cable was layed. It is physicaly located with side-scanning sonar and robotic submersibles, then hooked and brought on deck for repair (each end in case of a break). Once repairs are complete, the cable is unceremoniously shoved over the side, or re-ploughed depending on the location and mission of the cable.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Why Albion pissed me off so much.

My name is Charles Booher.

I downloaded Xupiter. Xupiter claimed that it is a Microsoft Product (a crime I have also committed with some of my software projects), but Albion Medical and VigRX made my life a living hell while I was trying to put together

http://www.cafeshops.com/usnoastronomy

and

http://www.cafeshops.com/genomicbiology

I am unemployed software engineer who was trying to extend and enhance the really wonderful science that the US Federal government supports at such web sites as http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

I have always been afraid of doctors, hospitals, and the like and I had to endure two more cancer years in 1993 and 1996. I was treated at Stanford University Hospital and El Camino Hospital and I cannot say enough good things about the doctors and people who work at these places.

I have always had a fear of people wearing medical clothing. This fear goes back to my earliest childhood. Since getting cancer the first time in 1987 this fear has turned into a problem.

Imagine if you are a woman who has had a double mastectomy who is receiving intolerable amount of ads for fraudulent pills that enlarge breasts.

My computer was taken over by Albion Medical, VigRX, and xupiter for about three months. I needed my old email to support software that I used to offer as free downloads to people who wanted it. I was constantly bombarded with pictures of doctors and people wearing medical clothing and if I am not prepared for it.

Albion medical was popping up continuing spasm on my computer screen that showed pictures of doctors. Even when I see doctors on TV or in a movie theater I sometimes need to leave the room.

Albion Medical and VigRX sell nothing but fraudulent products, and Doug MacKay is a pathological liar.

I admit that I may have committed a criminal act. I am 100% certain that the US court system will fairly hear my case. If I am guilty of a crime then I will make restitution and do whatever I can to restore and make restitution for the damages I have done to the US government.

Off-topic, I know, but you can actually get some of the code via declassified documents...

From that page...

NAMES OF COUNTRIES
AFRICA...ZHIN-NI................BLACKIES
CHINA....CEH-YEHS-BESI..........BRAIDED HAIR
ITALY....DOH-HA-CHI-YALI-TCHI...STUTTER
JAPAN....BEH-NA-ALI-TSOSIE......SLANT EYE

Amazing how Native Americans were so politically incorrect then, no? (-;

"I'm all for the preservation of culture and language, but, c'mon -- the Navajos were valuable but it's not like they were a crucial part of the war effort, like radar."

Others disagree.

From Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet:

"Praise for their skill, speed and accuracy accrued throughout the war. At Iwo Jima, Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, declared, "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." Connor had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle. Those six sent and received over 800 messages, all without error." (emphasis added)

Considering how important Iwo Jima was to winning the war in the Pacific, I think it's safe to say that without the Navajo code talkers, the war would've dragged on much longer, with a questionable outcome.

Well, let's start with the almost complete destruction of Battleship Row and go from there. Let's try the fact that we never attacked Japan before Pearl Harbor, no state of war was announced, no nothing. Fortunately, the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, was away at the time of the attack.

Let's also keep in mind that General Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command killed more people with firestorms than the nuclear weapons. Here's a quick timeline of firebombing in Europe, A good picture describing firebombing, Wiki of how Tokyo was firebombed, and the wonderful bomber that made this all possible.

I can't find the link now, but do you know why those cities were picked? Because they had manufacturing facilities. Heard of Mitsubishi? They built planes, and engines, and bombs. They had factories in/near those cities. Those were also military targets, as much so as Pearl Harbor. Or do you not know that a lot of civilians lived in Pearl Harbor as well?

Well, let's start with the almost complete destruction of Battleship Row and go from there. Let's try the fact that we never attacked Japan before Pearl Harbor, no state of war was announced, no nothing. Fortunately, the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, was away at the time of the attack.

Let's also keep in mind that General Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command killed more people with firestorms than the nuclear weapons. Here's a quick timeline of firebombing in Europe, A good picture describing firebombing, Wiki of how Tokyo was firebombed, and the wonderful bomber that made this all possible.

I can't find the link now, but do you know why those cities were picked? Because they had manufacturing facilities. Heard of Mitsubishi? They built planes, and engines, and bombs. They had factories in/near those cities. Those were also military targets, as much so as Pearl Harbor. Or do you not know that a lot of civilians lived in Pearl Harbor as well?

Central Authentication/Access Control
This is done with OpenLDAP (unix clients), Samba3 (for Windows clients). Enforcing settings has not been integrated yet (but they could be enforced - at least with KDE - via config files which could be distributed via the package management system). Updates should not be pushed via AD IMHO. apt-get, urpmi, yum etc can do this well enough (only thing is setting this up initially is not automatic).

Also, just an addendum about Samba. It outperforms the corresponding Windows alternative.

The benifit of them, however, is that diesel-electric subs are quite a bit more silent than their nuclear counterparts

Yeah, until you need to recharge your batteries, everybody in the north atlantic hears you, and a P-3C comes along and sinks your ass.

these puppies on board...

Exactly! Next is the Navy, the Army and the Air Force. Do you really think think SCO has enough money to take on the military???? What with a Tomahawk missile costing over half a million dollars to 1.5 million each...

Here is a better calculator with the option to find times for the rest of the world as well as other eclipses.

You can get international locations (using longitude/latitude/timezone) on the Lunar Eclipse Computer

This site gives you predictions for any location. good Luck

"FCC controls RF, nobody controls light (IR)"

WRONG! I control light. And I plan to blot out the light from the Moon on Saturday. Just try and stop me.

It was certainly more destructive - no trace was found of at least one locomotive caught in the blast.

Check out the one that happened on July 14th, 2000:
here

I find it interesting that we first choose to go to the moon, and then discover the oceans of or own planet.

Per the US military, the estimated size of the marxist groups is only 500. Not much of a real threat.I suspect that you will find far more than that in Israel who are defined as Communist or Marxists.
In response to the right-left thing, I have noticed that freedom fighters are simply the ones fighting on our side and suicide bombers are always on the other side. Right now, many Iraqis and Al Qaeda are calling themselves "freedom fighters" and refering to us as "targets".

The point is that there are now others looking at the use of passive radar. It appears to be viable (Roke Manor has been doing defence related electronics back through the second world war with emphasis on radar and comms) and it is very interesting. Particularly as not only reflection can be used but the RF opacity of the target - generally if something is stealth, it absorbs radar.

HARM type missles chase down radiating radar transmitters and destroy them. If every RF source can be a potential RADAR emitter then it means that all cell transmitters, TV and VHF radio transmitters would need to be destroyed - a very large number and blurring the line between civillian and military targets. Note that the Serbs rigged microwave ovens (essentially just with disabled door interlocks) as decoys against HARMs.

Sounds good and all, but my skeptical side is about to come out again. Are we really going to go with the cheap $1.00 solution? I'm guessing NASA (or some other agency) will spend about $2.5 million on testing to make sure all the components of the brush are safe, will withstand radiation in space, won't react with the glue or the tiles, etc. Then all of a sudden we're up to $200 brushes (which are really exactly the same as the painter's brushes)

• A. A brush which may or may not be in a condition to use when you need it and that may or may not perform as advertised or as desired.
• B. A brush whose characteristics are known and are guaranteed to work as advertised.

Hi Dave,

My wife was stationed in Germany (Heidleberg) with the U.S. Army, and I visited her there. I met several British soldiers, including special forces, and man, those are blokes with whom I would not want to mess. Not that I would mess with them, anyway :) As an American, I am so proud to have the British as our ally, and I know that through thick and thin, you guys have our backs. Thanks.

As for the detainees, though, I'm curious, what's your justification for treating them as prisoners of war? I read through the Geneva convention's words on that issue, and I really don't think they qualify. I don't know about the moral issues, but legally, I think the U.S. is in the right here.

In WWII, eight German soldiers infiltrated the U.S. to commit acts of sabotage. They were captured, tried for espionage before a military tribunal, and found guilty. Six were executed, and two served long prison sentences. As they were engaged in clandestine acts of espionage and sabotage, they were not covered under the Geneva convention, and were not Prisoners of War, so it was perfectly legal to try and execute them. How is the current situation with Al Qaeda different?

Try copying and pasting between those windows, Mr. Slippery.

I've been copying and pasting between windows using the X Window System since about 1989.

All those millions of user research and feedback Apple and Microsoft have done is all bollocks. The human brain doesn't appreciate visual cues.

Sure it does. That doesn't mean realistic cues are better. Take for example this U.S. Navy study which found that non-pictoral symbols resulted in better performance when using tactical displays.

I don't know how much of Apple and MS's work is real HCI research ("this is useful and will improve performance"), and how much is marketing research ("this is shiny and will improve sales"), the equivalent of racing stripes, fake spoilers, and chome trim on automobiles. I suspect the latter weighs heavily.

Now if that's your idea of pretty (I think Aqua gaudy myself), fine, everyone should be able to have the desktop they want. But don't pretend that not fitting your aethestic preferences is a flaw or weakness in the leading open desktops.

Forgive me for wanting a hard drive icon to look like a hard drive, because you think some random designers said so.

I'm not sure how to parse this...random designers want me to forgive you? Random designers want (or don't want) an icon to look like a piece of hardware that the average user (who never opens the case) wouldn't recognize?

Look at the OS X and Win XP hard drive icons and tell me that a naiive user would say "obviously that's a hard drive".

...a 4 line perl script and a Navy Navajo Dictionary should be sufficent for decryption. I lost that script to a dead zip disk 2 years ago and have been too lazy to rewrite it.

Although I don't have an accurate method of reliably measuring the time it takes to start the program, I'd say its about twice as fast as StarOffice 6.

Maybe one of these would help. Difficult to operate, I know.

This is true. That is why the Navy has created a new officer designation, IP Officer. These are the officers that will "own" the network and hopefully be able to give better direction to its useage, security, and management.

Post #2 in my series of "Canadian myth de-bunking"...

(probably something to do with a zillion square miles of land and about a dozen ships in our military fleet)

According to:

http://www.navy.dnd.ca/mspa_fleet/fleet_home_e.asp

...there are 34 ships in the Canadian Naval Fleet. There are a dozen ships in each of the Halifax and Kingston classes alone. That count also includes 4 submarines.

Now, according to:

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/.www/stat us.html

...the US Navy has 297 deployable ships. Considering the US has roughly 10 times Canada's population, the ships-per-capita probably works out to be close to even. The US only has 12 deployable submarines (according to the above website) -- only 3 times as many as Canada, with 1/10th the population (and tax base) has.

Yaz.

Another I wouldn't want

here
Looks like the first registered case of illiterate 'geek scrawl', too.

Sending carriers out for the Apollo missions was more about bravado and showing off then practicality.

The Apollo (and Mercury, and Gemini) capsules were lifted from the water by heavy-lift H3-C "Sea King" helicopters. With an overall length of more than 70 feet, the Sea King requires an aircraft carrier to land on. It's simply not possible to fly a helicopter of that size off of a smaller vessel, and a helicopter of that size is required to lift the capsule from the water.

Could you be more ignorant?

Sorry. Hit "Submit" instead of "Preview". Fixed links (now *with* preview): Grace Hopper and Google

It was one Grace Hopper/A> who actually coined the term. One hell of an impressive Bio, to say the least, and there's a lot more on Google

I was thinking that this wasn't correct. It's been a long time since I've seen the demonstration of Doppler effect, but I thought the "boom" was when you "broke" the barrier -- the point when you are traveling at exactly the speed of sound, and all the sound waves created pile up to create one large sound wave. Then, if you went faster than the speed of sound, the boom happens as you pass the speed, after which you are flying faster than the speed of sound which doesn't have a boom, but leaves a sound trail far behind your position.

However, I found this link http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos/doppler/doppler .html which details up your explanation quite nicely! Plus, it pointed to this totally cool picture!

You don't need to throw it out, it just needs a nose job. Witness:

• before
• after

Honk, honk!

You only want to throw the thing out when maintaining it costs more than developing and buying a new one. While it might be hard to modify the concord's swiveling nose this way, it's worth looking into.

The next modification needed is to the law, so that flights that don't make too much noise can fly over the contenetal US. If you can get from New York to California supersonically, people will want to do it and will pay for the above mentioned development and building.

Picture of an LCAC here including a short .mov of one in action.

For it's role it beats the shit out of any helicopter (fast enough to do the job more fuel efficient, heavier loads,) and and cargo plane (no need for a JATO unit, can't run a C5 off a carrier).

First point correct, second point misses the mark. The C-5 (and the C-17 and C-141) are entirely different classes of aircraft than the V-22. The V-22 is designed more to set troops into action like a conventional helicopter such as the Black Hawk does, though I believe it's possible to parachute from them. The other three are primarily cargo aircraft with secondary airborne capacity. Their ranges also beat out the Osprey's.

There have also been plans for a gunship version of the V22, with a massive rotary cannon and the ability to fly very slow it's even going to make the A-10 look a bit lightweight

That's also going to require putting a lot of armor onto an Osprey, and I don't know if it can handle that. Your performance statistics seem to be off of the real mark, judging by the Navy's version of things. With a max speed of only 275mph, and what looks to be a fairly small difference between the empty and various max-takeoff weights, I don't see this becoming a challenge to the A-10 anytime soon, since that plane not only carries the GAU-8/A (with its weight of 281kg plus a kilo for every round), but also up to 7250kg of payload underneath it. I've seen pictures of them with a bevy of Mavericks slung underneath, and it's a menacing sight.

Getting back to the original story topic, though, I can't see yet how this idea would translate into a usable large aircraft as the submitter is hoping. The forces are significantly higher at the wingtip than at the root which is going to stress the wings in an increasing fashion the longer they are, not to mention the material fatigue from a material that is constantly changing directions. I can see this used as they envision now, with small drones or perhaps as a new ultralight, but I can't see how the increased lift would be generated efficiently for a replacement to even a small troop transport like the Osprey.

Two points, just to keep things straight:
1) The USS Yorktown (CG 48) is not a destroyer, she is a cruiser.

2) There's no such thing as a "nuclear powered destroyer." The Navy has nuke subs, carriers, and two cruisers (the Texas and the Virginia), but all destroyers are powered by gas turbines (basically, the same engines found on large aircraft).

The basic argument, like the article makes for first responders, is that the military band for communications is being encroached upon by civilian use. Having fewer frequencies directly impacts the military's ability to conduct training operations and exercises.

The Navy (Department of Defense) has a page which educates visitors and range spectrum users on how to defend against civilian encroachment of DoD frequency spectrum.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum Training Chart shows military uses of certain frequencies and the competing civilian use.

The basic argument, like the article makes for first responders, is that the military band for communications is being encroached upon by civilian use. Having fewer frequencies directly impacts the military's ability to conduct training operations and exercises.

The Navy (Department of Defense) has a page which educates visitors and range spectrum users on how to defend against civilian encroachment of DoD frequency spectrum.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum Training Chart shows military uses of certain frequencies and the competing civilian use.

Yea and most of them gave it up and went on to other interests the only use for TNC's these days is APRS
I haven't got that kind of interest these days. There are better modes of digital communications.

Actually we never annexed Guantanamo Bay from Cuba. The U.S. Naval base there was obtained (and paid for) through a lease agreement with Cuba in 1903, and updated to perpetual lease status in a treaty in 1934. It can only be nullified if both countries agree, or if the U.S. vacates the area.

These days, it is a source of great irritation to Castro's government that Cuba ever signed such an agreement with the U.S. That's why our Marines down there are always at a high state of readiness.

http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/gazette/History_64-82/H ISCHP3.HTM

I work for the DoD and I can tell you that this push is serious. We use significat bandwith to run encrypted channels between sites, and the navy is pushing to do away with subnetting in general. The head of this initiative is NMCI, who will be responsible for all military IT in the upcoming years. With a centralized IT division, I personally think the IPV6 switch will be quick and well-funded.

Actually, there are 365.2422 days in a year.

For those of you who may have forgotten, leap years are in place to make up for this extra portion of a day by giving us an extra day every 4 years except centurial years non-divisible by 400. Therefore, no further calculation actually is needed, so:

(60,000,000/75)/365.2422 = 2190.3274 years

Your job doesn't get offshored, you get offshored.

Sounds like you're talking about mobile ad-hoc networking. With some judicious configuration of routing (TORA/AODV/ODMRP/etc) protocols and a good firewall you can do all this today over 802.11x links.

A good portion of the software currently runs on Linux as that is what the research/development folks are using to build prototype systems.

NRL

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There is geeky history , other geeks,fun tours, funner tours and of course 100k college students 7/13ths of whom are female.

And if you want to stay, make sure to stop buy one of the millions of awesome high tech firms in the area.

Perhaps, but does your river Servern have a Naval Academy for the largest navy in the world on it? Were any cities on your river ever national capitals for the most powerful nation in the world? And is it ever referred to as the sailing capital of the world?

Kapton Wiring - The Silent Meanace

TWA warning

I'm sorry, I just can't agree with the folks who argue that Indian software engineers with doctorate degrees making minimum wage working on outdated equipment in code sweatshops will somehow put me out of a job. I'll do it by fiddling with my 401k, IM-ing, kazooming, and playing Civ-III all day long.

If you really value job stability there's a few groups out there that will take you.