So, when "things get tough" UK doesn't do what is best for Britons? India for Indians? China for Chinese? Russia for Russians? France for French (for god's sake!!!!) Oh, come on!
"Air Track T2142 ID Hostile. Missile Inbound! Kill Track T2142 with Birds! Engage! -- What? Damn it! I can't!...Sir...Damn it!...I'm still waiting on the hourglass!"
Absolutely true! Never used the CD. Just plugged and played (Ubuntu), after configuring the WLAN the first time, entering the WPA password, etc., all that you always have to do regardless of OS.
I agree with the advice that Dell should just ship her a WIN machine, period. Look, in my house we (me, my wife and each of my 5 kids) use Linux (Ubuntu) (4), MAC OS X2 (2), and one Win machine, and oh-by-the-way, we use Verizon DSL with a wireless LAN. It is true that the Verizon CD implements scripts to set up on Win and OS X, but you don't need it. I never used it, I just configured the network on my own. That said, The first time I needed Verizon help desk, I explained to the tech that I was on a Linux machine and he very politely said -- "Oh, we're trained for Windows but maybe we can talk through it." So, we just continued the dialog by talking basics of what needed to be accomplished and I would translate that into the *nix equivalent out loud and we worked it out. By the way, I got through grad school entirely using Linux. In my first semester I had a computer forensics course/lab, and I decided to try to switch, since so many basic (and free) tools were Linux anyway. I went through the same issues with the University's help desk as I had to work out connecting to and using the University's labs and collaboration applications tools. I came to find out that the main servers were actually Unix and Linux, with mainly the student facing Web applications tuned for Windows (IE, activex, javascript 5, etc.) Their basic strategy was to tune customer support to economically address what the majority of customers were using. Makes sense. I never griped, since it was my choice and challenge. I just taught myself the workarounds (for example Ubuntu's version of Firefox never did work properly with the University's collaboration site, but I did find that Epiphany worked just dandy, as did Opera (with a few quirks). OpenOffice.org always fit the bill, and in only a few cases I had to fiddle with Wine to install the occasional required Win app. (such as ERAssistant). Long story short, just give her Windows, Dell...
Not so fast. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_One, which says that the new Marine One Presidential Helo replacement is the the VH-71 Kestrel, a derivative of the AgustaWestland EH101, a UK/IT product.
No doubt. I see "bricks" from all walks of life and social strata. Of course, some people are very sharp in some areas and "bricks" in others. The key is to be sharp at what you do. Conversely, a key conceit that many otherwise successful people share with the rest of the human race is that knowledge, skills and abilities in areas that contribute to their success make them conversant in areas about which they actually know very little...
Oh. So, upper management must be necessarily really really smart. Law enforcement people are, of course, always really really dumb. That's good thinking. I encourage that prejudice in at lot of cases, because it actually works to the advantage of the public, and LE types who routinely bust the really really smart people who think that way.
I'd just like to propose the possibility that the law enforcement officers in questions may have been thoroughly "educated" in TSA regulations and guidelines implementing applicable law. Could it be that the marketing people who were ignorant?
So...a kill code send directly to a broadband chip for a system built off-shore in government controlled factories of a potential adversary country? Oh, OK, the overt channel for the kill code is protocol "protected" and, ooooh, encrypted. I don't mean to sound paranoid, but an I the only one who sees this as at least a potential Trojan system? I sure hope our government would be astute enough to keep these things away from any mission critical shopping lists.
Does anyone else see the irony of uttering stereotypes about people who hail from particular regions, nations, races, etc.? Isn't bigotry, in a way, unsophisticated?
Militaries, globally, have always used, and continue to use, commercial telecommunications facilities, e.g., leased lines, public lines and switches, undersea cables, microwave relays, satellite facilities, and the airwaves themselves. Protection measures have always been applied ranging from contractual SLAs, COMSEC/TRANSEC measures where appropriate and effective, to even physical security of selected facilities. How does TFA imply anything unique or conceptually novel? If we assume that telecommunications facilities and assets are critical infrastructure, not a stretch in my mind, in the same way as, for example, dams, power stations, ports and other such otherwise public assets, have we not traditionally applied protective measures when called for? As an historical example, during WWII, many government, including the US, netted, patrolled, and even **mined** approaches to seaports. By the way, I am not advocating draconian control of the public Internet, or anything else for that matter. I'm just trying to contribute to the debate by pointing out a perspective, a potential argument, in fact, that may be advantageous to a broader understanding of both the problem and solution space.
Of course the internet is used as a military asset. So are carrots, roads, the sky, and, for that matter dirt. The military pioneered the use of human messengers, semaphore, the telegraph (wired, then "wireless"), telephone, radio telecommunications, and bent-pipe ---now increasingly IP enabled-- satellite. Militaries have always made use of telecommunications. The internet is just another medium on the continuum. Sorry if that makes your puppy cry.
Ah, but in politics, as well as governance, there's but a fine line between "Vision" and hallucination, which which we tend to comprehend mainly in retrospect...
One of the things that drove our household completely away from Windows is that as three of my daughters one-by-one traipsed through their college years, every few months (sometimes weeks or days) I'd have to fix their oft' gunked, crippled, or pwnd computers. The first and most common problem I'd have to confront would be the tons of adware slowing their system to a crawl, which at some point killed or subverted the antivirus software (evidently the preferred collegiate attack vector). Then, about the second really bad incident, one usually involving the appearance of a mysterious new admin account with theirs eerily downgraded. My epiphany at some point was that the registry is actually a giant Petri dish for malware spores. Anyway, once so totally pwnd, the only sure-fire cure would be to reload Windows from their OEM disks. About the second or third time this occurred, MS would reject the **always legal** reinstall as not "genuine." As my last raw nerve snapped at the insanity of it all, my solution would ultimately be to slick their drives and install Linux. This would carry them safely through their Junior and Senior years. However, when it came time to for them replace their computers following graduation, they all ended up buying Macs. Problem solved either way.
That's because an effective and affordable professional military is always necessary, but never sufficient, to defend a nation. Missing in the "butter versus bullets" debate is that "versus" is the wrong sign for that particular equation. It should read something like "bullets in needed proportion to secure ability to produce, protect, and secure fair trade for butter" (leaving somebody better at math to figure out the sign).
The Obama team may be exercising due diligence in looking across the board for cost savings. I hope that this is the case, and that they are not focusing on cutting investment in space exploration. That would be egregiously short sighted. I would recommend looking strongly at assessing the real mission needs for high cost "bleeding-edge" defense programs such as the Future Combat System (FCS), F-22, and F-35, in favor of re-capitalizing with incremental improvements to exiting proven systems. Attacking inefficiencies is the a better first approach over cutting back on science as well as basic research investments in our future.
Oh, I have an idea; howabout using open standards to implement web sites and services, and then browser builders can implement the standards for maximum interopreability -- nah, that's crzy talk!
Wow. What interesting excursions. Actually an effective replacement for lead in soldering may be extremely good news (if really effective), since removing lead from solder now results, among other things, in a condition called "tin whiskers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy) which reduces the reliability and service life of electronic circuits. However, there does appear to be a nexus with this technology and space systems, which needs to operate reliably throughout its lifespan (upwards of ~15 years) in most cases without an option of economic repair.
The principle that I believe applies is that one should be compensated for the time and effort expended on behalf of the employer. This is essentially an opportunity cost of time otherwise not spent in on some other effort of the employee's choosing and to his or her own benefit. Boot time is certainly time spent on behalf of the employer, and so should be compensated. That said, why in the world anyone would agree to work for such an employer as referred to in the article is beyond me. Surely if you are performing work using a computer in the first place, you are not so unskilled that you have no other choices. Such practices are demeaning, and exploitative, and if employees put up with it, shame on them. In the U.S., at least, there are always choices.
I disagree. People who commit crimes of predation are fundamentally flawed on a number of levels. Why shouldn't the FBI, or any law enforcement charged with protecting the public from predators, exploit character weakness as long as they stay within the law? I've never bought the idea that "sting" tactics that lure criminals into thinking that they see a soft target are somehow unethical. You attack me and I'm entitled to defend myself by any ethical construct -- in this case through my society's law enforcement and judicial system. This is intended to do one of two things; either it deters the predator from casually hurting others by introducing a hazard of potential negative outcome; or, failing that, it removes them for some time as a threat, in essence isolating the wolf from the playground. Bad hackers who hurt other people they don't even know by breaking their things or stealing things not theirs are mean. Mean people suck. What's the problem?
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So, when "things get tough" UK doesn't do what is best for Britons? India for Indians? China for Chinese? Russia for Russians? France for French (for god's sake!!!!) Oh, come on!
"Air Track T2142 ID Hostile. Missile Inbound! Kill Track T2142 with Birds! Engage! -- What? Damn it! I can't!...Sir...Damn it!...I'm still waiting on the hourglass!"
Absolutely true! Never used the CD. Just plugged and played (Ubuntu), after configuring the WLAN the first time, entering the WPA password, etc., all that you always have to do regardless of OS.
I agree with the advice that Dell should just ship her a WIN machine, period. Look, in my house we (me, my wife and each of my 5 kids) use Linux (Ubuntu) (4), MAC OS X2 (2), and one Win machine, and oh-by-the-way, we use Verizon DSL with a wireless LAN. It is true that the Verizon CD implements scripts to set up on Win and OS X, but you don't need it. I never used it, I just configured the network on my own. That said, The first time I needed Verizon help desk, I explained to the tech that I was on a Linux machine and he very politely said -- "Oh, we're trained for Windows but maybe we can talk through it." So, we just continued the dialog by talking basics of what needed to be accomplished and I would translate that into the *nix equivalent out loud and we worked it out. By the way, I got through grad school entirely using Linux. In my first semester I had a computer forensics course/lab, and I decided to try to switch, since so many basic (and free) tools were Linux anyway. I went through the same issues with the University's help desk as I had to work out connecting to and using the University's labs and collaboration applications tools. I came to find out that the main servers were actually Unix and Linux, with mainly the student facing Web applications tuned for Windows (IE, activex, javascript 5, etc.) Their basic strategy was to tune customer support to economically address what the majority of customers were using. Makes sense. I never griped, since it was my choice and challenge. I just taught myself the workarounds (for example Ubuntu's version of Firefox never did work properly with the University's collaboration site, but I did find that Epiphany worked just dandy, as did Opera (with a few quirks). OpenOffice.org always fit the bill, and in only a few cases I had to fiddle with Wine to install the occasional required Win app. (such as ERAssistant). Long story short, just give her Windows, Dell...
Not so fast. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_One, which says that the new Marine One Presidential Helo replacement is the the VH-71 Kestrel, a derivative of the AgustaWestland EH101, a UK/IT product.
No doubt. I see "bricks" from all walks of life and social strata. Of course, some people are very sharp in some areas and "bricks" in others. The key is to be sharp at what you do. Conversely, a key conceit that many otherwise successful people share with the rest of the human race is that knowledge, skills and abilities in areas that contribute to their success make them conversant in areas about which they actually know very little...
Oh. So, upper management must be necessarily really really smart. Law enforcement people are, of course, always really really dumb. That's good thinking. I encourage that prejudice in at lot of cases, because it actually works to the advantage of the public, and LE types who routinely bust the really really smart people who think that way.
I'd just like to propose the possibility that the law enforcement officers in questions may have been thoroughly "educated" in TSA regulations and guidelines implementing applicable law. Could it be that the marketing people who were ignorant?
Yup. That's why you generally use a higher freq during the day and a lower freq at night...
So...a kill code send directly to a broadband chip for a system built off-shore in government controlled factories of a potential adversary country? Oh, OK, the overt channel for the kill code is protocol "protected" and, ooooh, encrypted. I don't mean to sound paranoid, but an I the only one who sees this as at least a potential Trojan system? I sure hope our government would be astute enough to keep these things away from any mission critical shopping lists.
Does anyone else see the irony of uttering stereotypes about people who hail from particular regions, nations, races, etc.? Isn't bigotry, in a way, unsophisticated?
Militaries, globally, have always used, and continue to use, commercial telecommunications facilities, e.g., leased lines, public lines and switches, undersea cables, microwave relays, satellite facilities, and the airwaves themselves. Protection measures have always been applied ranging from contractual SLAs, COMSEC/TRANSEC measures where appropriate and effective, to even physical security of selected facilities. How does TFA imply anything unique or conceptually novel? If we assume that telecommunications facilities and assets are critical infrastructure, not a stretch in my mind, in the same way as, for example, dams, power stations, ports and other such otherwise public assets, have we not traditionally applied protective measures when called for? As an historical example, during WWII, many government, including the US, netted, patrolled, and even **mined** approaches to seaports. By the way, I am not advocating draconian control of the public Internet, or anything else for that matter. I'm just trying to contribute to the debate by pointing out a perspective, a potential argument, in fact, that may be advantageous to a broader understanding of both the problem and solution space.
Of course the internet is used as a military asset. So are carrots, roads, the sky, and, for that matter dirt. The military pioneered the use of human messengers, semaphore, the telegraph (wired, then "wireless"), telephone, radio telecommunications, and bent-pipe ---now increasingly IP enabled-- satellite. Militaries have always made use of telecommunications. The internet is just another medium on the continuum. Sorry if that makes your puppy cry.
I think you meant "mammaries." But, mammaries are indeed becoming increasingly important to our modern military. That's progress.
Can it be gyroscopically stabilized, so that palsied hands won't break aim?
Ah, but in politics, as well as governance, there's but a fine line between "Vision" and hallucination, which which we tend to comprehend mainly in retrospect...
One of the things that drove our household completely away from Windows is that as three of my daughters one-by-one traipsed through their college years, every few months (sometimes weeks or days) I'd have to fix their oft' gunked, crippled, or pwnd computers. The first and most common problem I'd have to confront would be the tons of adware slowing their system to a crawl, which at some point killed or subverted the antivirus software (evidently the preferred collegiate attack vector). Then, about the second really bad incident, one usually involving the appearance of a mysterious new admin account with theirs eerily downgraded. My epiphany at some point was that the registry is actually a giant Petri dish for malware spores. Anyway, once so totally pwnd, the only sure-fire cure would be to reload Windows from their OEM disks. About the second or third time this occurred, MS would reject the **always legal** reinstall as not "genuine." As my last raw nerve snapped at the insanity of it all, my solution would ultimately be to slick their drives and install Linux. This would carry them safely through their Junior and Senior years. However, when it came time to for them replace their computers following graduation, they all ended up buying Macs. Problem solved either way.
That's because an effective and affordable professional military is always necessary, but never sufficient, to defend a nation. Missing in the "butter versus bullets" debate is that "versus" is the wrong sign for that particular equation. It should read something like "bullets in needed proportion to secure ability to produce, protect, and secure fair trade for butter" (leaving somebody better at math to figure out the sign).
No! We call ourselves quasi-pseudo-post-incremental-neo-economic libertarian logistical confabulators for anti-social justice..and veggie vampires...per se...
I agree with you. So we should do it as efficiently and as effectively as possible.
The Obama team may be exercising due diligence in looking across the board for cost savings. I hope that this is the case, and that they are not focusing on cutting investment in space exploration. That would be egregiously short sighted. I would recommend looking strongly at assessing the real mission needs for high cost "bleeding-edge" defense programs such as the Future Combat System (FCS), F-22, and F-35, in favor of re-capitalizing with incremental improvements to exiting proven systems. Attacking inefficiencies is the a better first approach over cutting back on science as well as basic research investments in our future.
Oh, I have an idea; howabout using open standards to implement web sites and services, and then browser builders can implement the standards for maximum interopreability -- nah, that's crzy talk!
Wow. What interesting excursions. Actually an effective replacement for lead in soldering may be extremely good news (if really effective), since removing lead from solder now results, among other things, in a condition called "tin whiskers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy) which reduces the reliability and service life of electronic circuits. However, there does appear to be a nexus with this technology and space systems, which needs to operate reliably throughout its lifespan (upwards of ~15 years) in most cases without an option of economic repair.
The principle that I believe applies is that one should be compensated for the time and effort expended on behalf of the employer. This is essentially an opportunity cost of time otherwise not spent in on some other effort of the employee's choosing and to his or her own benefit. Boot time is certainly time spent on behalf of the employer, and so should be compensated. That said, why in the world anyone would agree to work for such an employer as referred to in the article is beyond me. Surely if you are performing work using a computer in the first place, you are not so unskilled that you have no other choices. Such practices are demeaning, and exploitative, and if employees put up with it, shame on them. In the U.S., at least, there are always choices.
I disagree. People who commit crimes of predation are fundamentally flawed on a number of levels. Why shouldn't the FBI, or any law enforcement charged with protecting the public from predators, exploit character weakness as long as they stay within the law? I've never bought the idea that "sting" tactics that lure criminals into thinking that they see a soft target are somehow unethical. You attack me and I'm entitled to defend myself by any ethical construct -- in this case through my society's law enforcement and judicial system. This is intended to do one of two things; either it deters the predator from casually hurting others by introducing a hazard of potential negative outcome; or, failing that, it removes them for some time as a threat, in essence isolating the wolf from the playground. Bad hackers who hurt other people they don't even know by breaking their things or stealing things not theirs are mean. Mean people suck. What's the problem?