Perhaps reading the comments above yours where the usage of the word "disappear" is explained in this context (with links to boot) would help you grasp why it was done. Reading prior to commenting is always nice.
Additionally Slashdot is not simply geared for one nation or another's sensitivities to individual words (and connotations in this case) so while it might be upsetting beyond all measure to you to compare the disappearance of Google results to a local usage of the word with different conotations it is also irrelevant to Slashdot as a whole.
If they were to ensure that every noun or verb in a Slashdot article couldn't possibly offend anyone anywhere they would never publish a thing. Feel free to submit your own articles with better words if you think that you have them.
Otherwise perhaps you should avoid Slashdot's "Sensationalist, hatchet journalism" altogether and simple go elsewhere? It is still a free internet (at least outside of Argentina, China, and Iran).
"Next" indeed sir.
Because the Army already has a command like this.
The Navy also has one.
There is another smaller version at the Pentagon.
DHS is also setting up a mirror to the Army command. See the issue yet?
The problem here ends up being manpower and budgetting. with all these cybersecurity organizations being set-up there simply aren't enough people with the right skills and *the right clearances* who are willing to move where the Army/Air Force/DHS/Navy need them to be at the rate that these orgs can afford to pay.
How much does a senior security guy make? Now how much does he make after being cleared for TS/SCI with a lifestyle polygraph? (hint: it ain't cheap and there are few who even *want* to take the lifestyle poly)
I wonder how those who talk about "gagging" here would actually want copyright laws to work? Abandon them alltogether and let anyone publish whatever they like? Well that is pretty much how most of Slashdot tends to feel about copyrights. They would rather they just didn't apply.
Frankly all of the uniformed services are terribly lacking in areas of tech expertise both in the area of intelligence services and signal (including networking and CS in general). 99% of all truly technical work in those areas is done by the "contractor corps" and not by the various uniformed servicemembers themselves. I was forced to learn more in my first month as a contractor than I was in a decade spent wearing the tree suit.
It is very difficult to have high standards for training when the service don't wan't any member to be allowed to fail. Instead we just lower the bar some more and hire another contractor. this isn't a good thing and hopefully someone sane will eventually reverse the trend.
Another part of this exercise was that the perimeter defense TLA was artificially taken out of the equation prior to the start of the exercise ths limiting the relism rather a lot (although that perimeter wouldn't have stopped the rootkit callback anyways).
Can't produce them faster? This doesn't ring true for companies interested in profit. It *does* make sense if demand slightly outpaces supply and expecially when you limit supply intentionally to increase hype. See also : Wii.
True but even the Prius is upscale in demographic. Until electric are priced around the range of a Geo Metro they probably won't attain market dominance over internal combustion.
This particular design is simply a publicity stunt design. It doesn't have anything at all to do with the car they intend to produce for the consumer beyond the fact that both are cars and electrically powered.
As I stated before this isn't so much an article as it is advertising.
You are correct. Problem is that in 1917 the "proles" weren't making $2375 1917 dollars. They were making a few hundred.
Doing CPI, GDP, or per capita back that far is pretty difficult but there was no way this vehicle was even close to the proletarian price range. the article just used it to be cute without regard to the facts.
I think this gets posted to every/. article that even tangentially refers to electric vehicles.
Conspiracies are interesting but in the end the Prius sort of proved that while there is a chunk of the relatively affluent who will buy electric cars the consumer gestalt as a whole was never waiting with baited breath only to have their hopes dashed by Big Oil or any other conspiracy faves.
"Back in 1917, a Detroit Electric cost anywhere from $1,775 to $2,375--in other words, fit for the proletarian or plutocrat."
This was my Father's era and he was a "prole". Working as a logger he earned somewhere around $200-300/year. The earliest data for per capita income I could find was 1929 here:
So how does a car that cost 3-4 years salary qualify as being "fit for the proletariotarian"?
In today's terms that car would cost ~$120,000!
Aside from a announcing a publicity stunt by a company cashing in on a green fad in visible and public low-carbonism (believe me the replica cars will *not* be for the proles!) this article is shamefully low on any actual news or facts.
So the AP has a story about how bad blogs are for the news after being fact-checked into tthe dirt for the last few years with bizarre buzzword filtering, fauxtography scandals, and outright paying terrorists for "news".
I am shocked... *shocked* that their coverage of blogs runs negative.
I second your opinion that of the services the Air Force does have the best enlisted techs (but the skills are still sadly lacking even there). Full disclosure, I was never in the Air Force, but rather the Army.
Additionally anonymous poster, line breaks are your friends.
A lot of the questioners and commenter's seem to believe that the serious work of Network Security, technical counter espionage, and general "cyber" defense are done by folks in blue or green uniforms. This is simply not the case. Contractors and government civilian employees do the vast majority of this work.
It doesn't matter that the Air Force isn't changing its standards to recruit more "hackers" into the enlisted or officer ranks because the work is overwhelmingly being done by civilian contractors/GS/DOD civilians.
Just because the recruiting commercials talk about the high quality of military technical training doesn't make it true. Most of NETCOM's military folks wouldn't know a NOOP_SLED or SQL injection attack from a Carl's Jr. 6-dollar burger.
It isn't that they are unintelligent mind you; it is simply that the training is inadequate, their time is divided amongst too many tasks to stay on top of technical fields, and the culture of the military isn't very conducive to performance oriented tech tasks.
After all when a CERT geek is underperforming you can motivate them with the threat of job loss or outright fire their dead ass... the military just doesn't work like that.
Incompetence is rampant because it isn't grounds for termination. Ergo : contractor corps.
Relying on the Diggbats will just result on more ancient non-stories like this popping up over and over again. The digg kids love anything that might explain why Ron Paul isn't winning the primaries. Come to think of it, the RP crowd here should adore this article.
Are there vaccines or medical products that are permanent? Are you serious here? Maybe just googling for vaccines would help you out here. Had polio recently? Whooping cough? Rubella? Hepatitus? Is having a shot once a decade "too often" since it is only "temporary"? Geez sorry medical breakthroughs that are equivalent to miracles aren't convenient enough for you.
There is a difference between calling the TV station to tell them that their broadcast went down and going off in screedy profanity laced diatribe's about their "customer servicce". Even with the TV example the TV is not obligated to do a damn thing for you. They will take care of the problem because it is in their best interests not because they have some contract with you.
There is no use trying to give facts to fanbois. All they hear is someone failing to echo that "PS3 roxxors OMG" and they just start foaming at the mouth.
Reading through the message threads for this I see a whole lot of people who are complaining vociferously about the "customer service" they aren't getting from a service that is provided to them for free.
Fact is, you are *not* a customer until you pay for something. Don't gripe about the free ice cream not being to your liking and don't use free mail services for anything critical. Or maybe even just backup anything you might like to keep.
Will we ever be able to implementthese sorts of services as business tols? Sure, and we will pay for that service too (which will include backups and other assurances).
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps reading the comments above yours where the usage of the word "disappear" is explained in this context (with links to boot) would help you grasp why it was done. Reading prior to commenting is always nice. Additionally Slashdot is not simply geared for one nation or another's sensitivities to individual words (and connotations in this case) so while it might be upsetting beyond all measure to you to compare the disappearance of Google results to a local usage of the word with different conotations it is also irrelevant to Slashdot as a whole. If they were to ensure that every noun or verb in a Slashdot article couldn't possibly offend anyone anywhere they would never publish a thing. Feel free to submit your own articles with better words if you think that you have them. Otherwise perhaps you should avoid Slashdot's "Sensationalist, hatchet journalism" altogether and simple go elsewhere? It is still a free internet (at least outside of Argentina, China, and Iran). "Next" indeed sir.
Because the Army already has a command like this. The Navy also has one. There is another smaller version at the Pentagon. DHS is also setting up a mirror to the Army command. See the issue yet? The problem here ends up being manpower and budgetting. with all these cybersecurity organizations being set-up there simply aren't enough people with the right skills and *the right clearances* who are willing to move where the Army/Air Force/DHS/Navy need them to be at the rate that these orgs can afford to pay. How much does a senior security guy make? Now how much does he make after being cleared for TS/SCI with a lifestyle polygraph? (hint: it ain't cheap and there are few who even *want* to take the lifestyle poly)
I downloaded the game on XBLA and am thoroughly impressed. This is the quality level thaat XBLA needs more of!
Frankly all of the uniformed services are terribly lacking in areas of tech expertise both in the area of intelligence services and signal (including networking and CS in general). 99% of all truly technical work in those areas is done by the "contractor corps" and not by the various uniformed servicemembers themselves. I was forced to learn more in my first month as a contractor than I was in a decade spent wearing the tree suit.
It is very difficult to have high standards for training when the service don't wan't any member to be allowed to fail. Instead we just lower the bar some more and hire another contractor. this isn't a good thing and hopefully someone sane will eventually reverse the trend.
Another part of this exercise was that the perimeter defense TLA was artificially taken out of the equation prior to the start of the exercise ths limiting the relism rather a lot (although that perimeter wouldn't have stopped the rootkit callback anyways).
They do this. They're called CERTS and one of the many functions that the CERTs perform for the military is pen testing.
Unintentional, but I will take the extra funny anyway.
Inconsistency is our watchword. Also incompetance.
Can't produce them faster? This doesn't ring true for companies interested in profit. It *does* make sense if demand slightly outpaces supply and expecially when you limit supply intentionally to increase hype. See also : Wii.
True but even the Prius is upscale in demographic. Until electric are priced around the range of a Geo Metro they probably won't attain market dominance over internal combustion.
This particular design is simply a publicity stunt design. It doesn't have anything at all to do with the car they intend to produce for the consumer beyond the fact that both are cars and electrically powered.
As I stated before this isn't so much an article as it is advertising.You are correct. Problem is that in 1917 the "proles" weren't making $2375 1917 dollars. They were making a few hundred.
Doing CPI, GDP, or per capita back that far is pretty difficult but there was no way this vehicle was even close to the proletarian price range. the article just used it to be cute without regard to the facts.
I think this gets posted to every /. article that even tangentially refers to electric vehicles.
Conspiracies are interesting but in the end the Prius sort of proved that while there is a chunk of the relatively affluent who will buy electric cars the consumer gestalt as a whole was never waiting with baited breath only to have their hopes dashed by Big Oil or any other conspiracy faves.
That horse would have to be a remarkably efficient feeder or a massive chunk of the planet would have to be given over for grazing/fodder growth.
That said I love The Book of the New Sun because any author daring enough to make a Torturer the protagonist gets my dollar.
This was my Father's era and he was a "prole". Working as a logger he earned somewhere around $200-300/year. The earliest data for per capita income I could find was 1929 here:
http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/HS-33.pdf/but even then it was ~$700/year.
So how does a car that cost 3-4 years salary qualify as being "fit for the proletariotarian"?
In today's terms that car would cost ~$120,000!
Aside from a announcing a publicity stunt by a company cashing in on a green fad in visible and public low-carbonism (believe me the replica cars will *not* be for the proles!) this article is shamefully low on any actual news or facts.
Just a bit of hype.
So the AP has a story about how bad blogs are for the news after being fact-checked into tthe dirt for the last few years with bizarre buzzword filtering, fauxtography scandals, and outright paying terrorists for "news".
I am shocked... *shocked* that their coverage of blogs runs negative.
I second your opinion that of the services the Air Force does have the best enlisted techs (but the skills are still sadly lacking even there). Full disclosure, I was never in the Air Force, but rather the Army.
Additionally anonymous poster, line breaks are your friends.A lot of the questioners and commenter's seem to believe that the serious work of Network Security, technical counter espionage, and general "cyber" defense are done by folks in blue or green uniforms. This is simply not the case. Contractors and government civilian employees do the vast majority of this work.
It doesn't matter that the Air Force isn't changing its standards to recruit more "hackers" into the enlisted or officer ranks because the work is overwhelmingly being done by civilian contractors/GS/DOD civilians.
Just because the recruiting commercials talk about the high quality of military technical training doesn't make it true. Most of NETCOM's military folks wouldn't know a NOOP_SLED or SQL injection attack from a Carl's Jr. 6-dollar burger.
It isn't that they are unintelligent mind you; it is simply that the training is inadequate, their time is divided amongst too many tasks to stay on top of technical fields, and the culture of the military isn't very conducive to performance oriented tech tasks.
After all when a CERT geek is underperforming you can motivate them with the threat of job loss or outright fire their dead ass... the military just doesn't work like that.
Incompetence is rampant because it isn't grounds for termination. Ergo : contractor corps.Relying on the Diggbats will just result on more ancient non-stories like this popping up over and over again. The digg kids love anything that might explain why Ron Paul isn't winning the primaries. Come to think of it, the RP crowd here should adore this article.
Global warming had to be the cause, not the fact that this was *an ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields!*
Apple is no Enron. Sometimes they really didn't do it.
Are there vaccines or medical products that are permanent? Are you serious here? Maybe just googling for vaccines would help you out here. Had polio recently? Whooping cough? Rubella? Hepatitus? Is having a shot once a decade "too often" since it is only "temporary"? Geez sorry medical breakthroughs that are equivalent to miracles aren't convenient enough for you.
There is a difference between calling the TV station to tell them that their broadcast went down and going off in screedy profanity laced diatribe's about their "customer servicce". Even with the TV example the TV is not obligated to do a damn thing for you. They will take care of the problem because it is in their best interests not because they have some contract with you.
There is no use trying to give facts to fanbois. All they hear is someone failing to echo that "PS3 roxxors OMG" and they just start foaming at the mouth.
Reading through the message threads for this I see a whole lot of people who are complaining vociferously about the "customer service" they aren't getting from a service that is provided to them for free. Fact is, you are *not* a customer until you pay for something. Don't gripe about the free ice cream not being to your liking and don't use free mail services for anything critical. Or maybe even just backup anything you might like to keep. Will we ever be able to implementthese sorts of services as business tols? Sure, and we will pay for that service too (which will include backups and other assurances).