So, the idea is to derive requirements from actually analyzing users' business processes and information needs, and then design applications towards satisfying those? Wow. Who'd ever thunk...
Re "others claim The Early Bird was nothing more than a propaganda machine, by culling articles that painted DoD in a favorable light":
Anyone who actually read the Earlybird over the years would know that this statement is patently untrue, as the service would routinely would feature articles that were unfavorable. I always thought that the reason would have to be so that readers would be afforded visibility on the range of relevant signals in the air, including the good, the bad and ugly.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.---------
Sadly too many Americans have lost sight of the central idea that in our form of government, as articulated and defined in our founding documents, the people are conceived to self-govern through our representatives. First, we need to stop reflexively referring to our representatives as "leaders," as it inflates their already immense egos. Instead, we need to constantly remind them that they are first and foremost the peoples' representatives, and not our rulers. Unelected bureaucrats also need to be reined in, through our representatives, and reminded that they are simply appointed instruments or agents facilitating the execution of our laws. Those who forget their place, in all strata of government, need to be brought to account, either administratively, judicially, and/or at the polls, depending on the nature and severity of the breach of public trust. There needs to be a wake-up call, and citizens need to get off their dead posteriors to keep a steady strain on their representatives at all levels. ------
"It is not so much that power corrupts, but that it irresistibly attracts the highly corruptible." - Frank Herbert (Author, including "Dune" series)
On the last real Enterprise (CVN-65) flight deck, ordnance personnel wore red jerseys, aircraft maintenance wore green, fuelers purple, and crash and safety white, etc. The idea is to allow the Air Boss to ID who's where and whom at an instant to run the deck. Also Forrestall class aircraft carrier Combat Direction Centers (Enterprise was designed on a modified Forrstall blueprint) were laid out in a more or less similar horseshoe shape with the Tactical Action Officer (TAO) chair elevated in the middle looking across from the status displays, which the series bridge layout reminded me of, kind of. I'm sure that's where Roddenberry got the idea of colored uniforms to designate branch (ops blue and engineering red). Anyway, art often imitates life, and visa versa. For a command center, the Forrestall/Enterprise layout was, in my experience, far superior to Nimitz class layout for maintaining situational awareness. Ergonomics count, as we learn, forget and relearn, over and over and over.
Mostly the opposite. Too much data is more likely to obscure needed information, and much more likely to not add anything over jut enough data. Anyone who has operated in a command/information center knows that for optimal performance you want just enough of the right information flowing to the right people and no more.
Yepper, abso-freaking-lutely! The immutable iron triangle of cost, schedule and performance will drive outcomes every single time, and the permutations work in every direction all at once. Performance expectations (and lack of/unstable definition thereof) drive costs. Costs drive performance and schedule. Schedule (and contraction/protraction/instability therein) drives costs and performance. Unstable costs (changing budgets, delivery orders, etc.) drive everything. Everything drives cost. Costs drive everything. Over-ambition resulting from too little understanding will drive the PM to make bad assumptions and make bad decisions translated into contracts that result in outcomes they didn't expect and are only lucky if the contractor accidentally makes makes enough right decisions for the knucklehead. There was an excellent Dilbert cartoon a while back that started with "I need to know your requirements before I start to design your software," and the punchline went went something like: "can you design it to tell me my requirements?"
Just common sense, eh? Rules-of-thumb as pointers to guide good judgement are often wonderful and ever so useful, but deference to observed truth, grounded insight and informed judgment can be better, especially for people with serviceably functioning minds. Down with fanaticism in all its forms.
If you're in computer and network security (aka "cybersecurity," or "Information Assurance."), I would be weary if your online presence revealed too much, and would not be a bit concerned if it were lacking entirely. A prolific and revealing social media presence would indicate to me low awareness and/or judgment regarding vulnerability to social engineering, at the very least...and I'm a hiring manager.
Why? Seriously why is this an "emergency"? What are we supposed to do about this "emergency"? What is our "emergency" response? What about the Antarctic ice surplus? Should we send some tugs down with big axes, break off a few chunks and haul them up to the arctic? This is equine excrement. Really, Hansen.
Of course, I get it. America bad. Americans stupid. I'm smart! Much better than dumb American. My guess is that you're either a bigoted (from my perspective) foreigner, or a self-rightous American liberal. Either way, up yours.
Since a court orders what a court decides to order, the question might be better worded: "in your opinion, should a court be empowered to order deletion of an online account, and under what justified conditions?" Another question might be, under what statute or case law precedent is a court justified in ordering deletion of an online account." The saying, "there's no such thing as a stupid question" belies an underlying reality that some question are useless at best, or counterproductive, at worse, as initially conceived because they may be predicated on false or misapplied premises. This may be one of those questions.
Libre Office Calc. You can make it as pretty or as ugly as you like, but either way, the functionality is limited mainly by your imagination combined with your level of expertise and/or willingness to invest the time to customize to your needs.
So, you equate **not** liking political spin, in other words, **bias**, with propaganda? I find that logic less than satisfactory. Political spin is, by definition, biased, and a therefore a close cousin of propaganda.
Well, you'd be right if North was actually up. However, it's settled science that West is actually up given that the sun and planets rotate top to bottom down the solar system's vertical plane.
But more seriously, am I the only one sick and f r e a k i n g tired of erstwhile do-gooders running around trying to enforce their superior judgements on everybody else? Even if I may agree with some of their good ideas, I don't want them to be coercively enforced on everyone unless there is a legitimate criminal, or real public safety aspect to them (and by real public safety I mean leading to imminent danger, not "may contribute to poor eating habits in some people"). Sheesh! This kind of crap makes my blood boil.
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So, the idea is to derive requirements from actually analyzing users' business processes and information needs, and then design applications towards satisfying those? Wow. Who'd ever thunk...
Re "others claim The Early Bird was nothing more than a propaganda machine, by culling articles that painted DoD in a favorable light": Anyone who actually read the Earlybird over the years would know that this statement is patently untrue, as the service would routinely would feature articles that were unfavorable. I always thought that the reason would have to be so that readers would be afforded visibility on the range of relevant signals in the air, including the good, the bad and ugly.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.--------- Sadly too many Americans have lost sight of the central idea that in our form of government, as articulated and defined in our founding documents, the people are conceived to self-govern through our representatives. First, we need to stop reflexively referring to our representatives as "leaders," as it inflates their already immense egos. Instead, we need to constantly remind them that they are first and foremost the peoples' representatives, and not our rulers. Unelected bureaucrats also need to be reined in, through our representatives, and reminded that they are simply appointed instruments or agents facilitating the execution of our laws. Those who forget their place, in all strata of government, need to be brought to account, either administratively, judicially, and/or at the polls, depending on the nature and severity of the breach of public trust. There needs to be a wake-up call, and citizens need to get off their dead posteriors to keep a steady strain on their representatives at all levels. ------ "It is not so much that power corrupts, but that it irresistibly attracts the highly corruptible." - Frank Herbert (Author, including "Dune" series)
On the last real Enterprise (CVN-65) flight deck, ordnance personnel wore red jerseys, aircraft maintenance wore green, fuelers purple, and crash and safety white, etc. The idea is to allow the Air Boss to ID who's where and whom at an instant to run the deck. Also Forrestall class aircraft carrier Combat Direction Centers (Enterprise was designed on a modified Forrstall blueprint) were laid out in a more or less similar horseshoe shape with the Tactical Action Officer (TAO) chair elevated in the middle looking across from the status displays, which the series bridge layout reminded me of, kind of. I'm sure that's where Roddenberry got the idea of colored uniforms to designate branch (ops blue and engineering red). Anyway, art often imitates life, and visa versa. For a command center, the Forrestall/Enterprise layout was, in my experience, far superior to Nimitz class layout for maintaining situational awareness. Ergonomics count, as we learn, forget and relearn, over and over and over.
Mostly the opposite. Too much data is more likely to obscure needed information, and much more likely to not add anything over jut enough data. Anyone who has operated in a command/information center knows that for optimal performance you want just enough of the right information flowing to the right people and no more.
Just got and used mod points a couple of days ago. Damn. Well said anyway.
What remains unaddressed is whether there was legal probable cause to detain and interrogate. Makes a huge difference.
Yepper, abso-freaking-lutely! The immutable iron triangle of cost, schedule and performance will drive outcomes every single time, and the permutations work in every direction all at once. Performance expectations (and lack of/unstable definition thereof) drive costs. Costs drive performance and schedule. Schedule (and contraction/protraction/instability therein) drives costs and performance. Unstable costs (changing budgets, delivery orders, etc.) drive everything. Everything drives cost. Costs drive everything. Over-ambition resulting from too little understanding will drive the PM to make bad assumptions and make bad decisions translated into contracts that result in outcomes they didn't expect and are only lucky if the contractor accidentally makes makes enough right decisions for the knucklehead. There was an excellent Dilbert cartoon a while back that started with "I need to know your requirements before I start to design your software," and the punchline went went something like: "can you design it to tell me my requirements?"
Just common sense, eh? Rules-of-thumb as pointers to guide good judgement are often wonderful and ever so useful, but deference to observed truth, grounded insight and informed judgment can be better, especially for people with serviceably functioning minds. Down with fanaticism in all its forms.
If you're in computer and network security (aka "cybersecurity," or "Information Assurance."), I would be weary if your online presence revealed too much, and would not be a bit concerned if it were lacking entirely. A prolific and revealing social media presence would indicate to me low awareness and/or judgment regarding vulnerability to social engineering, at the very least...and I'm a hiring manager.
I truly wish I had mod points right now.
A little sunshine may serve to wake up some of the "Critical Infrastructure" and SCADA numbskulls.
I have to admit that I'm irritated that as a US taxpayer my pocket was picked to redistribute $250 million to a company now owned by China.
Worry not. Antarctic ice is at an all-time high.
Why? Seriously why is this an "emergency"? What are we supposed to do about this "emergency"? What is our "emergency" response? What about the Antarctic ice surplus? Should we send some tugs down with big axes, break off a few chunks and haul them up to the arctic? This is equine excrement. Really, Hansen.
Of course, I get it. America bad. Americans stupid. I'm smart! Much better than dumb American. My guess is that you're either a bigoted (from my perspective) foreigner, or a self-rightous American liberal. Either way, up yours.
Since a court orders what a court decides to order, the question might be better worded: "in your opinion, should a court be empowered to order deletion of an online account, and under what justified conditions?" Another question might be, under what statute or case law precedent is a court justified in ordering deletion of an online account." The saying, "there's no such thing as a stupid question" belies an underlying reality that some question are useless at best, or counterproductive, at worse, as initially conceived because they may be predicated on false or misapplied premises. This may be one of those questions.
Jay! ...Go AMD!
Just think of what they could have done duct tape!
Libre Office Calc. You can make it as pretty or as ugly as you like, but either way, the functionality is limited mainly by your imagination combined with your level of expertise and/or willingness to invest the time to customize to your needs.
So, you equate **not** liking political spin, in other words, **bias**, with propaganda? I find that logic less than satisfactory. Political spin is, by definition, biased, and a therefore a close cousin of propaganda.
The U.S. federal government mindset is shifting inexorably from its intended role of democratic representatives to that of rulers. So sad to see.
Well, you'd be right if North was actually up. However, it's settled science that West is actually up given that the sun and planets rotate top to bottom down the solar system's vertical plane.
But more seriously, am I the only one sick and f r e a k i n g tired of erstwhile do-gooders running around trying to enforce their superior judgements on everybody else? Even if I may agree with some of their good ideas, I don't want them to be coercively enforced on everyone unless there is a legitimate criminal, or real public safety aspect to them (and by real public safety I mean leading to imminent danger, not "may contribute to poor eating habits in some people"). Sheesh! This kind of crap makes my blood boil.
Ummmm...earthquakes?