He may have known they could be sensitive gear, but anyone with any familiarity with technology at all knows that it advances fast. These parts were in storage for 10 years+, when the depot said to sell them he may have assumed they said that because they were outdated and no longer needed. The depot would have asked what the parts were, a serial number, part number, item name, something! If they didn't ask what it was he specifically had, then they are at fault.
I've seen ebay ads for high end crypto gear. Technically unclassified itself, but it was built to fill hardware crypto keys, the crypto being quite classified when paired with the hardware it went to. With a couple connections in the right places, someone could use that to fill a STU-III(secure telephone) with current crypto
This is not off topic. Redundant perhaps, but definitely not off topic. Moderation is steadily getting worse here... perhaps the karma level needed to be a moderator should be increased a bit... You can't moderate effectively if you don't know what a good post is, and until you've built up positive karma, how have you shown that you know good posts from bad and thus deserve moderator access?
SUV's safer???? Maybe, possibly you are less likely to be injured in the event of an accident. But their more difficult handling compared to a passenger car, and their greatly increased chances of rollover type accidents, I'd say you are more likely to get hurt simply due to the greater chance of an acccident.
One vehicle, that gets into 10 accidents at an 80 percent injury rate, is safer than one with a 50% injury rate but has 20 accidents.
Note, those numbers were plugged in for clarity of explanation only. They are not accurate except in the most general less/more sense.
The fact is, SUVs get in more accidents and tend to be more severe accidents, and regardless of how much safer they are in a fender bender, people die quite easily in them. The one auto accident I've ever been involved in(as a passenger) was in an SUV. My father survived ONLY because of his seat belt. WE rolled over THREE TIMES. All that happened was our tire blew out, and that flipped us. Out of the tens of thousands of times I've been in vehicles of all sorts, thats the only time I've ever been inside a vehicle during an accident.
This comes after struggling with my fiancees case for half an hour this morning just to get enough space to install more RAM, and then just getting off the phone a few minutes ago trying to help her troubleshoot a boot problem that the case had to come off twice for us to fix.
ACtually, the US does use mines, though rarely. The border between north and south korea is covered in mines, as is the area around Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Those two locations are why the US did not sign the mine ban treaty.
"Now matter how many pretty fancy toys you have, your best freinds in combat are your feet and your weapon. If you doubt that, just walk around for ten hours or so without sitting down."
Done it. It sucks.
"ICB (infantry combat boots) are the most comfortable boots I ever wore. Now if only someone in the civilian world would make them with a steel/safety toe."
I agree. When I left Iwakuni, I had gotten mine the day before my flight. I figured, why not wear them home and break them in conveniently? 36 hours straight I had those things on and not a problem.
The Marine Corps already fields UAVs. It is likely that these goodies will be fielded to reconnasaince units and the already existing UAV squadrons.
Don't worry too much, the Marine Corps is updating the full spectrum of combat gear, from the socks Marines wear(not joking) to their ambhibious armored vehicles and their fighters.
Since General Charles Krulak kick started the heavy modernization a few years ago, the Marine Corps has been holding to the concept of "Equip the man, not man the equipment". The Marine Corps philosophy is that all the weapons and equipment they use exists for one reason and one reason alone- Get the infantry into a position where they can do their thing and blow apart anything that faces them.
Been using RC3 for about an hour... First thing in its favor is JAVA SUCCESFULLY INSTALLED! I couldn't get it to on 0.9.9 no matter what I did. It installed on RC3 without a hitch and so far things seem stable, fast, everything I expected from an improved version of 0.9.9. Mozilla is clearly the top browser on Linux. Konqueror... well... simply sucks for web browsing... Great for browsing your hard drive and useful when going through local HTML docs and on the web, but for strict web browsing, Mozilla is tops on Linux. Great job, finally Netscapes source code opening is showing something.
At least these ads don't shove in your face... yes its annoying, but its far less so than pop ups that interfere with your browsing.
Stupid patent, yes, its too obvious. If they had to go and hack a 50000000 line C program or code in straight binary to pull this off that would be one thing... but it just seems too obvious to patent if it could be done in javascript. Odds are someone had played with such a thing almost as soon as java script was released.
Of course, patents only go to those who find a way to make something profitable. Not like the good old days where inventors had dozens or hundereds of useless patents that were actually innovative, like the automatic doughnut dunker.
I used to accept the military using Windows for ease of training up system administrators to replace those killed in SCUD strikes or whatnot, and to draw on the large talent pool relative to UNIX...
BUT, if this assertion is even partially correct, then the military needs to look seriously at alternatives. If national security is even slightly at risk from opening window information(accounting for the greater ease of fixing problems more opennness would create) then there is something seriously wrong.
Iwould recommend Mandrake Linux to the US Military in light of this. Sure, its bloated to all hell especially in the non expert install mode. But its more secure and stable than windows, and critical bugs that could affect national security are found and fixed very quickly, and it allows the military to fix bugs itself if it wants to!
Some of you may prefer Slackware or debian or what have you, but to get the power of linux in a military ienvironment you need ease of retraining, Mandrake is the easiest so for the military it makes the most tactical sense.
What I'd like to see is a percentage of seats filled. Say a movie fills all of its 10,000 seats, I'd say it does better than another movie filling 12,000 of its 20,000 seats.
I agree completely. Raw dollar amounts mean nothing... what matters is how many seats out of the total available were filled, and how long the movie kept filling those seats for.
Look at AT&T as well. I've never had problems with them. Even on Camp Pendleton CA which is descrobed as a black hole for cell service, AT&T reliably works.
Of course, AT&T handling all the barracks telephone services may get them an advantage with the military allowing them to set up towers on the bases, and close them entirely to other providers...
Yes this is flamebait but why in fucking hell was this modded down?!?!?! And redundant???? I was answering someones question, I don't see any other responses and I haven't seen a single post that mentioned any ideas on a galactic north south line. Fucking stupid.
The Republic, for ease of navigation, has probably set up a north south line in space... Since relative positions of systems don't change much, they probably set a line between the galactic center and Coruscants star as north/south.
As for Yoda, he rocked. He showed that for all his mentoring role even to the Council, when needed he can jump into action and command troops in battle where long contemplation gets people killed. Absolute split second decisiveness, and unbelievable ability with the Force.
Still, I like Shmi Skywalkers death scene better. Holding on for one last chance to see her son, and then Anakins explosive rage.
>If you're talking about fetts head not falling out when it was lightsabred off...
>... Lightsabers seem to vapourise the chopped "limb" (in this case a head - yeah yeah I know your head isnt a limb)
>completly in line with the SW physics as I understand it.
Also, if the helmet has a chinstrap or some such device(as all modern civilian and military helmets do), such a device unless specifically removed by the lightsaber stroke would continue to function even after the wearer is decapitated.
"If you fall a long ways, try to land on a vehicle, they won't hurt you, no matter how fast you're falling."
If said vehicle is descending slightly slower than you are, you'll barely feel the impact.
"If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph."
Jedi telikinetic powers controling the speed the object is falling at.
"Asteroids have atmospheres"
No they don't, and not sure which scene you are referring to. IF its the noises in space, those are for artistic effect enhancing the visuals rather than a representation of what actually happens. If its something else, I can't think of what you might be referring to...
And actually, all that is stopping an asteroid from having an atmosphere is mass. An asteroid with the mass of Earth but the size of say, the moon, likely could have an atmosphere.
"If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it."
Entirely possible, especially if you make an effort through diet, makeup, and dress to appear not to age. And Amidala did look slightly older to me(of course, the actress is slightly older)
Images and text stored together... search functions... over phone lines(expand to other networking technologies if you wish)... on video monitors.. etc...
Can anyone say X??? What they describe was entirely possible with X even in the 80s... and some of Xerox's GUI stuff back in the 70's was probably capable of such things. Late 60's ARPANET stuff could probably accomplish such tasks.
Just because I use a refrigirator in an interesting way does not mean I can patent my refrigirator. The only thing that makes their ecommerce patents different from X in the 80s is that they use it for advertising, X used the same exact techniques for computational tasks. A brand new technique can make a valid patent, but a new use for an old one does not.
Good points, but why lump in those geeks that know the risks, and choose to accept them. I'm a satisfied user of several of Yahoos services, and I know I'm going to get unnecesary ads and spams. I made a concious decision that the inconvenience and privacy sacrifice was worth the benefits of yahoo groups, the profile service to contact people of similar interests, the instant messenger(which I personally believe is the best single network IM client around, great balance between features and simplicity) and other things...
Granted, many people can't be bothered to care. But there are some who know the risks and make an informed decision that they are worth the benefits. When will people realize this????
Not something that allows lawsuits for any problems. But a law that said something like:
"If the provider of the program gave a guarantee that the program would function as intended, on the customers particular system configuration, and the customer operated the program according to instructions given by the provider, then a lawsuit for any damages resulting from use of the program may be filed."
That could be useful and not stall closed or open source development at all. It would allow recourse for people who have recieved absolute guarantees that a program would work in a mission critical situation, but also protect developers against frivolous lawsuits. Anything more specific would not provide benefits to harmed consumers, anything more general would stall development. Though, current truth in advertising laws probably allow for lawsuits in such circumstances already.
I've never dealt with HPs tech support personally, but ehres a story about my moms PC.
My mom has an HP Pavillion sitting on her desk. For its day the little "look at me" sticker on the front was pretty impressive- most notably the quite fast at the time 366Mhz processor.
Now, they had problems with the PC. A few calls to HP finally got a tech out here to get it fixed. Tech came, found it was the CPU, and replaced it.
Now that I'm home, I notice when I use that PC that the POST reports a 300Mhz CPU. Damn tech after being a pain in the ass to get out here to fix the PC that was still under warranty, put the wrong CPU in the system. If I had been home when that happened, I would have badgered HP until they fixed it.
The Mormon Church keeps genealogical information because they feel baptism is necesary for final redemption. They believe that if someone is not baptized prior to death, someone can stand in for them, but they need information as to who is around. They also make this information free to anyone to research family history. The information they collect is only from freely available public sources and from members. It is freely available to the public to research their family line. They let anyone into their family history centers to do genealogical research, an admitted satanist, an exommunicated church member, all can go so long as they are polite and don't push their religious views, and the mormons return the favor and don't push theirs.
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He may have known they could be sensitive gear, but anyone with any familiarity with technology at all knows that it advances fast. These parts were in storage for 10 years+, when the depot said to sell them he may have assumed they said that because they were outdated and no longer needed. The depot would have asked what the parts were, a serial number, part number, item name, something! If they didn't ask what it was he specifically had, then they are at fault.
I've seen ebay ads for high end crypto gear. Technically unclassified itself, but it was built to fill hardware crypto keys, the crypto being quite classified when paired with the hardware it went to. With a couple connections in the right places, someone could use that to fill a STU-III(secure telephone) with current crypto
This is not off topic. Redundant perhaps, but definitely not off topic. Moderation is steadily getting worse here... perhaps the karma level needed to be a moderator should be increased a bit... You can't moderate effectively if you don't know what a good post is, and until you've built up positive karma, how have you shown that you know good posts from bad and thus deserve moderator access?
SUV's safer???? Maybe, possibly you are less likely to be injured in the event of an accident. But their more difficult handling compared to a passenger car, and their greatly increased chances of rollover type accidents, I'd say you are more likely to get hurt simply due to the greater chance of an acccident.
One vehicle, that gets into 10 accidents at an 80 percent injury rate, is safer than one with a 50% injury rate but has 20 accidents.
Note, those numbers were plugged in for clarity of explanation only. They are not accurate except in the most general less/more sense.
The fact is, SUVs get in more accidents and tend to be more severe accidents, and regardless of how much safer they are in a fender bender, people die quite easily in them. The one auto accident I've ever been involved in(as a passenger) was in an SUV. My father survived ONLY because of his seat belt. WE rolled over THREE TIMES. All that happened was our tire blew out, and that flipped us. Out of the tens of thousands of times I've been in vehicles of all sorts, thats the only time I've ever been inside a vehicle during an accident.
This comes after struggling with my fiancees case
for half an hour this morning just to get enough
space to install more RAM, and then just getting
off the phone a few minutes ago trying to help her
troubleshoot a boot problem that the case had to
come off twice for us to fix.
ACtually, the US does use mines, though rarely. The border between north and south korea is covered in mines, as is the area around Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Those two locations are why the US did not sign the mine ban treaty.
"Now matter how many pretty fancy toys you have, your best freinds in combat are your feet and your weapon. If you doubt that, just walk around for ten hours or so without sitting down."
Done it. It sucks.
"ICB (infantry combat boots) are the most comfortable boots I ever wore. Now if only someone in the civilian world would make them with a steel/safety toe."
I agree. When I left Iwakuni, I had gotten mine the day before my flight. I figured, why not wear them home and break them in conveniently? 36 hours straight I had those things on and not a problem.
"Semper fi."
Semper Fi
The Marine Corps already fields UAVs. It is likely that these goodies will be fielded to reconnasaince units and the already existing UAV squadrons.
Don't worry too much, the Marine Corps is updating the full spectrum of combat gear, from the socks Marines wear(not joking) to their ambhibious armored vehicles and their fighters.
Since General Charles Krulak kick started the heavy modernization a few years ago, the Marine Corps has been holding to the concept of "Equip the man, not man the equipment". The Marine Corps philosophy is that all the weapons and equipment they use exists for one reason and one reason alone- Get the infantry into a position where they can do their thing and blow apart anything that faces them.
Been using RC3 for about an hour... First thing in its favor is JAVA SUCCESFULLY INSTALLED! I couldn't get it to on 0.9.9 no matter what I did. It installed on RC3 without a hitch and so far things seem stable, fast, everything I expected from an improved version of 0.9.9. Mozilla is clearly the top browser on Linux. Konqueror... well... simply sucks for web browsing... Great for browsing your hard drive and useful when going through local HTML docs and on the web, but for strict web browsing, Mozilla is tops on Linux. Great job, finally Netscapes source code opening is showing something.
At least these ads don't shove in your face... yes its annoying, but its far less so than pop ups that interfere with your browsing.
Stupid patent, yes, its too obvious. If they had to go and hack a 50000000 line C program or code in straight binary to pull this off that would be one thing... but it just seems too obvious to patent if it could be done in javascript. Odds are someone had played with such a thing almost as soon as java script was released.
Of course, patents only go to those who find a way to make something profitable. Not like the good old days where inventors had dozens or hundereds of useless patents that were actually innovative, like the automatic doughnut dunker.
I used to accept the military using Windows for ease of training up system administrators to replace those killed in SCUD strikes or whatnot, and to draw on the large talent pool relative to UNIX...
BUT, if this assertion is even partially correct, then the military needs to look seriously at alternatives. If national security is even slightly at risk from opening window information(accounting for the greater ease of fixing problems more opennness would create) then there is something seriously wrong.
Iwould recommend Mandrake Linux to the US Military in light of this. Sure, its bloated to all hell especially in the non expert install mode. But its more secure and stable than windows, and critical bugs that could affect national security are found and fixed very quickly, and it allows the military to fix bugs itself if it wants to!
Some of you may prefer Slackware or debian or what have you, but to get the power of linux in a military ienvironment you need ease of retraining, Mandrake is the easiest so for the military it makes the most tactical sense.
What I'd like to see is a percentage of seats filled. Say a movie fills all of its 10,000 seats, I'd say it does better than another movie filling 12,000 of its 20,000 seats.
I agree completely. Raw dollar amounts mean nothing... what matters is how many seats out of the total available were filled, and how long the movie kept filling those seats for.
Look at AT&T as well. I've never had problems with them. Even on Camp Pendleton CA which is descrobed as a black hole for cell service, AT&T reliably works.
Of course, AT&T handling all the barracks telephone services may get them an advantage with the military allowing them to set up towers on the bases, and close them entirely to other providers...
Yes this is flamebait but why in fucking hell was this modded down?!?!?! And redundant???? I was answering someones question, I don't see any other responses and I haven't seen a single post that mentioned any ideas on a galactic north south line. Fucking stupid.
The Republic, for ease of navigation, has probably set up a north south line in space... Since relative positions of systems don't change much, they probably set a line between the galactic center and Coruscants star as north/south.
As for Yoda, he rocked. He showed that for all his mentoring role even to the Council, when needed he can jump into action and command troops in battle where long contemplation gets people killed. Absolute split second decisiveness, and unbelievable ability with the Force.
Still, I like Shmi Skywalkers death scene better. Holding on for one last chance to see her son, and then Anakins explosive rage.
> Gravity does not apply to heads in helmets
...
>If you're talking about fetts head not falling out when it was lightsabred off
>... Lightsabers seem to vapourise the chopped "limb" (in this case a head - yeah yeah I know your head isnt a limb)
>completly in line with the SW physics as I understand it.
Also, if the helmet has a chinstrap or some such device(as all modern civilian and military helmets do), such a device unless specifically removed by the lightsaber stroke would continue to function even after the wearer is decapitated.
"If you fall a long ways, try to land on a vehicle, they won't hurt you, no matter how fast you're falling."
If said vehicle is descending slightly slower than you are, you'll barely feel the impact.
"If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph."
Jedi telikinetic powers controling the speed the object is falling at.
"Asteroids have atmospheres"
No they don't, and not sure which scene you are referring to. IF its the noises in space, those are for artistic effect enhancing the visuals rather than a representation of what actually happens. If its something else, I can't think of what you might be referring to...
And actually, all that is stopping an asteroid from having an atmosphere is mass. An asteroid with the mass of Earth but the size of say, the moon, likely could have an atmosphere.
"If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it."
Entirely possible, especially if you make an effort through diet, makeup, and dress to appear not to age. And Amidala did look slightly older to me(of course, the actress is slightly older)
"Gravity does not apply to heads in helmets"
Referring to what scene?
Images and text stored together... search functions... over phone lines(expand to other networking technologies if you wish)... on video monitors.. etc...
Can anyone say X??? What they describe was entirely possible with X even in the 80s... and some of Xerox's GUI stuff back in the 70's was probably capable of such things. Late 60's ARPANET stuff could probably accomplish such tasks.
Just because I use a refrigirator in an interesting way does not mean I can patent my refrigirator. The only thing that makes their ecommerce patents different from X in the 80s is that they use it for advertising, X used the same exact techniques for computational tasks. A brand new technique can make a valid patent, but a new use for an old one does not.
Good points, but why lump in those geeks that know the risks, and choose to accept them. I'm a satisfied user of several of Yahoos services, and I know I'm going to get unnecesary ads and spams. I made a concious decision that the inconvenience and privacy sacrifice was worth the benefits of yahoo groups, the profile service to contact people of similar interests, the instant messenger(which I personally believe is the best single network IM client around, great balance between features and simplicity) and other things...
Granted, many people can't be bothered to care. But there are some who know the risks and make an informed decision that they are worth the benefits. When will people realize this????
Not something that allows lawsuits for any
problems. But a law that said something like:
"If the provider of the program gave a guarantee
that the program would function as intended, on
the customers particular system configuration,
and the customer operated the program according to
instructions given by the provider, then a lawsuit
for any damages resulting from use of the program
may be filed."
That could be useful and not stall closed or open
source development at all. It would allow recourse
for people who have recieved absolute guarantees
that a program would work in a mission critical
situation, but also protect developers against
frivolous lawsuits. Anything more specific would
not provide benefits to harmed consumers, anything
more general would stall development. Though, current
truth in advertising laws probably allow for lawsuits
in such circumstances already.
Duh.
I've never dealt with HPs tech support personally, but ehres a story about my moms PC.
My mom has an HP Pavillion sitting on her desk. For its day the little "look at me" sticker on the front was pretty impressive- most notably the quite fast at the time 366Mhz processor.
Now, they had problems with the PC. A few calls to HP finally got a tech out here to get it fixed. Tech came, found it was the CPU, and replaced it.
Now that I'm home, I notice when I use that PC that the POST reports a 300Mhz CPU. Damn tech after being a pain in the ass to get out here to fix the PC that was still under warranty, put the wrong CPU in the system. If I had been home when that happened, I would have badgered HP until they fixed it.
The Mormon Church keeps genealogical information because they feel baptism is necesary for final redemption. They believe that if someone is not baptized prior to death, someone can stand in for them, but they need information as to who is around. They also make this information free to anyone to research family history. The information they collect is only from freely available public sources and from members. It is freely available to the public to research their family line. They let anyone into their family history centers to do genealogical research, an admitted satanist, an exommunicated church member, all can go so long as they are polite and don't push their religious views, and the mormons return the favor and don't push theirs.