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Which Government Agencies are *nix-Friendly?
payneLess asks: "I have noticed since the Sept. 11 attacks, there is renewed emphasis on beefing up the nation's military, law enforcement and intelligence-gathering capabilities. Presumably, some of the dollars to accomplish this will go to improving their information systems and recruiting quality IT people, which with the slow economy might present some rewarding opportunities. Since I know many .gov and .mil geeks read Slashdot, my question is, besides NASA, are there any agencies that doing cool things with Linux or BSD? Aside from the NSA's security-enhanced Linux project and DARPA throwing a bunch of cash at NAI Labs to develop Trusted BSD, is anybody actually using *nix on a wide scale for day-to-day tasks? One of the reasons I left DoD a few years ago for the private sector was because nobody seemed interested in thinking outside the box and everyone was perfectly content letting the vendors and contractors ram Microsoft, Solaris, and other proprietary stuff down their throats, nor was there any institutional interest in changing over to open source."
1st post Jerk AssHead
And the judges award:
3.0!
3.5!
3.2!
3.6!
oooooohhh, he has to be disappointed with those scores. A definite setback for the troll team.
Jim, he did so well in the trials. What happened here?
Well Pat, he gave it a good shot, but you could tell his heart really wasn't in it. His performance looked tired. We will have to look at some future performances to see if he can recover from this setback. Unfortunately, the judges often look for originality, and I didn't see anything here that we haven't seen before.
Thanks, Jim. We now take you to synchronized trolling with TrollMastah. TrollMastah?
I don't know, but I've heard rumors, that the government uses Linux on your momma.
Congratulations, you have won my ebay auction!!!
I can't believe how stupid some of you are!
.gov and .mil is running on it's servers/firewalls/etc - please keep it to yourself in the name of national security.
If you have any knowledge of what the
Please think before you type!!!!
By saying so-and-so.mil is running Solaris or NT, and they're using Cisco xxxx firewalls - you're giving terrorist hacking groups (and malicious script kidz) small clues to help them attack our government and millitary!!!
PLEASE think!!!
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Disagree strongly. As a citizen in a country with a (theoretically) representative government, who uses my tax dollars to wage war, I deserve full and complete disclosure of all information leading the aforementioned governement to take any military action. The fact that the US president can declare war without consent from the American people (via plebiscite or something else) is extremely dangerous.
No, I'm not anti-military - I prefer a measured a pproach, ratified by the American people.
And no, the American President is not more qualified than I am to make this decsion.
Full and complete disclosure of everything, then let us (that's US) make the choice.
Damn secretive fruitcake! Sorry 'bout the OT post.
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
It's x86 machine code for:
MOV AX,4C00 (note little endian)
INT 21
or, in terms of the old DOS days, exit(0). The fear comes in when you see it, know what it means and realize just how full your brain is of stuff you are never likely to use again...
Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means
In other news, the NSA has put out a binary kernel module that increases security, but due to a NDA, the source cannot be given out.
In light of the Sept.11 attacks, all Linux distributions on the planet are required to run the module. Running without the module will require Product Activation or the filesystem will dd if=/dev/urandom of=(filesystem)
Have a nice day.
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