Grossly underfunded? You must be joking. He grossly OVERfunded it.
And right now, it could take a 3/4 hit and still be grossly overfunded. It's time to shut down the insane military spending in this country.
Then how do you explain the current state of our military vehicles and armament of them? The armor thati s on the HUMMVEES is piss poor which is why they cannot withstand an IED, hell the presidential limo has far better protection then any of our military vehicles and transports. Troops were seen buying stuff off of eBay. I do not know how many times I have to repeat myself but that is the case and that is the facts. Our equipment is shitty and in severe need of upgrading/repair and R&D should be done to make better lighter armor to better defend our forces in the time of crisis.
our soldiers are using piss poor equipment in Iraq?
are you nuts?
We have the most decked out Army in the world when it comes to technology and gadgets. How about you go over to Africa and see what type of equipment they have.
I mean Hell, there was a post on here maybe a few weeks ago talking about how generals are sitting there using IM clients to send orders and retrieve updates of the mission on the fly, etc.
piss poor equipment my F-ing ass
Im not talking about computers and electronics. I am talking about Armor, Weapons, Bullets, and what have you. Been a lot of bad news about that which forced our soldiers to buy that stuff off of eBay or have it sent. Pretty sad to hear from care box organizers state they want gun oil and cleaning supplies more then luxury items.
He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment.
Perhaps the Clinton Administration should have upgraded and done better job to provide our Military with better equipment before handing the next administration the Department of Defense. Clinton failed to do preventative maintenance on our US Military and severely crippled it.
Hate to break it to you but our equipment isn't the problem in Iraq. It's the style of combat. Case in point, at the start of the Iraq war I read about how 30 American troops defeated over 300 Iraqi soldiers in combat. Of course that type of combat is done with and no (reasonable) amount of equipment is going to save us from what's happening.
You didn't even mention that your hero GWB sent our troops to Iraq for no good reason. Do you think getting thousands of American soldiers killed is okay?
Sounds like you just hate Clinton and have absolutely no clue as to the way the world works. I'm not saying Clinton was the best but seriously man, get a clue. Bush is by huge margins far worse than Clinton ever was.
Obviously you missed all the news stories about how poorly protected our convoys are against IED's and how soldiers were ordering better stuff off of eBay and other sites, and many of the campaigns here at home to send our troops better stuff.
He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment.
GWB got us into an unnecessary war we've spent nearly a trillion dollars fighting and the quality of the equipment the troops have is Clinton's fault? Hmmm, think that trillion dollars could have been spent differently? Perhaps on equipment for the troops?
Perhaps the Clinton Administration should have upgraded and done better job to provide our Military with better equipment before handing the next administration the Department of Defense. Clinton failed to do preventative maintenance on our US Military and severely crippled it.
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
He only kept it running by signing a budget that grossly underfunded the Department of Defense and hindered research and development. He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment. its easy to have a surplus when you fail to give money to a very important part of the National Government and the National Infrastructure. Clinton also had a major economic crisis during his term remember the Dot Com Bubble Bursting and people losing jobs.
And what if Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedriver are communicating with Joe Terrorist in BFE and gives Joe Terrorist in BFE information on what to blow up here in the US? And because Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedrive are US Citizens we must go get a warrant and in the mean time Joe Terrorist in BFE and all his other friends are already training to conduct a terrorist attack on say Times Square during New Years Celebrations 2009, and no one knows because of oops the warrant hasn't come back yet due to a stock piling of warrant requests.
Now 4 Million people are in Times Square, and the attack goes off which is a series of IED's and various other explosive devices killing say 1 million people and injuring 500K more. Which half of them die due to New York City's hospitals being unable to handle the capacity. What do you say about "Protecting the rights of Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedriver, Peter and Ulysses did this so they could get money to help pay off their mounting debt.
Yay some more people and moderators who cannot fathom the truth, and actually think. Maybe they should take your moderating points away and give them to someone who can actually think.
Yeah go ahead mod me down to troll go ahead and show your inability to accept the truth and the facts that you are presented with. Way to go mods guess you are severely blind. I dont give a shit. You mod anything down to troll that you do not agree with or do not even care to think about. Can't think critically or logically? Then maybe you shouldn't be online.
Clinton did try to kill bin Laden, and the right cried about him "wagging the dog".
Hindsight is a motherfucker, huh?
Yes it is, and that didn't happen because Janet Reno and his Legal Team to not do it. Had he took a risk like he did lying under oath then maybe all this terrorist talk wouldn't exist, but who knows. Maybe it would have happened anyways or maybe it wouldn't have.
Or Maybe if the Reagan administration wouldn't have helped Bin Laden and Crew fight the russians in the 80's then maybe this all wouldn't have happened. History sure does love biting us in the ass, but many people don't think that far back. Instead they only go back to January 20th 2001 when Bush took office and lay entire blame on him.
I will never understand how people can hold President Clinton up on a pedestal and praise him as the most influential president ever and think of him as some sort of God send, when in fact is is neither. To me he is the worse president to have ever laid foot in the Oval Office for not doing his job better.
It may get to the point where you really wish you'd done something earlier.
Yeah we should have demanded that Clinton get off his lazy ass and take a fucking risk and ignore the advice his legal team gave him, and issue an assassination order on Bin Laden, and kill anyone else who associated with him. Then maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened, the patriot act wouldn't exist, this new fisa law wouldn't have any merit, the protect America act wouldn't be in existence, but as we all know Clinton was a gutless spineless president who failed his job in so many ways.
Linksys is the one manufacturer that's on my "never" list. My previous employer used to use their hubs and cascaded them into a network switch. The darn things kept losing track of what MAC addresses were hanging off them and refusing to route traffic. You only have to have one complete and utter failure like that to be written off in my book.
That said, I've recently also written off Netgear. After about my fourth or fifth Netgear card went dead (I think I have one left that is still functioning after three or four years), I started avoiding their cards like the plague. Then, I bought one of their consumer hubs a couple of months ago and it was dropping something like 80% of the packets that went through it (between any two devices including upstream). I took it back to Fry's and replaced it with a D-Link and it worked flawlessly. (And no, I didn't have something hooked up to the uplink and the non-uplink port beside it. Been there, done that.)
Bottom line is that after three hard drive failures in the course of a little over a month (yes, I have a third Seagate drive misbehaving massively, randomly corrupting data), I've pretty much come to the conclusion that nearly all electronics built today are mass-Chinese-manufactured crap that barely works and doesn't even do that for very long. Very sad, really.
Maybe its not the equipment, but rather user error causing all your issues. If you want good network equipment stay away from Hubs as they are pure crap. Get a good switch and youll never have issues.
As far as your drivers go it could be various reasons from a bad SATA/IDE Port, Bad Cabling Practices, or low voltages.
I used to think D-Link routers were crap. Then I got a Linksys WRT54G, and my life went to hell. Constant lockups, power cycles, and constantly losing DNS service... It was batshit insane.
And then my folks got a D-Link 605 (the draft-N one) from a copy of Vista, and I inherited it. My connection has been ROCK SOLID ever since, NEVER have to reboot that thing. Their firmware also does more than the WRT54G.
In short, Linksys sucks, go D-Link.
I had wanted to try D-Link routers for my Cable internet, and guess what 3 routers from Best Buy were DoA as some services worked and others wouldnt like out bound web traffic. I got a free replacement from Best Buy and I took a Linksys WRT54G, and all my issues went away. D-Link also runs embedded Windows OS on the American ones. On the foreign ones you can get either Linux or Windows on them. So please do more research. I always recommend Linksys WRT54x Series routers. They work and they are easy to configure as GEICO says: "Even a Cave Man can do it."
Do you find that when you say that face to face, people nod as if they agree with you, then their eyes sort of glaze over, then they start glancing at their watch and... umm, gotta go - dental appointment!
You were in the NSA? Fair enough. Perhaps you could give us more details rather than just veiled implications. I lived in the Third World for almost 20 years. I know the world is a rough place, and there are all sorts of criminals and sociopaths out there (and, lamentably, in our own nation) at every level of society. Nevertheless, you have not made any kind of case in favor of the FISA bill that was passed.
For me to give you more information about what I saw and what I did would definitely violate several non-disclosure agreements that I signed along with getting me an all expense paid trip to 30 years in a maximum security prison and a record where no one would hire me.
So I take great offense that you would even ask me for that kind of information. All I can tell its a fucking pain in the ass to get things done with government red tape getting in the way of our tasks and duties. Yet many people think oh its the government all they need is a piece of paper to get this and that, well it takes several pieces of paper to go up the chain to get anything like the latest Office Suite. Its a freakin pain in the ass.
Why did you want it to pass (assuming your post is not a troll)? Do you actually believe the "Global War on Terror" is a legitimate, well-founded, and sincerely pursued enterprise? Do you think people are lining up to come and attack us out of sheer irrational hatred? Do you think it is credible that "we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here," and it doesn't occur to the bad guys to just come over here and attack us anyway instead of waiting in line patiently to fight one-on-one with our hero like in an old Batman episode?
Surely you can't be so gullible, so willing to take everything at face value and without analysis, so ready to assume that "they must know something we don't, so I'll trust them." Have you never ever wondered whether the vast sums of money changing hands have a significant bearing on the situation?
Well after working at the NSA while in the US Navy you tend to see things in a whole different light in regards to how much effort and money is spent on intelligence collection and analysis of such information. You also see more of the "real" news in raw unedited format of what exactly is going on. Some of the crap i have seen and read would make your jaw drop, and make you think why do we allow this to happen or propagate well within our borders, and why do we allow them to constantly put our civilians in danger. It is absurd the amount of trouble the intelligence communities do to make sure our borders are safe, and the amount of money and research and development goes into the programs that people want to see stopped because they think it infringes on our rights when in all actuality they do not.
IMHO, whistle blowing should be considered a crime just as much as wiretapping and eaves dropping. And as such should be punishable. If I went out of my way and told the press or anyone (other then my family) else what I did for a living, then I would face punishment.
I thought about buying stock in Microsoft, but this behavior appears to be out of spite rather than a sound business decision.
Microsoft buying Yahoo would only have made sense if they never had MSN in the first place. It is buying a competitor to compete with its own products and if they intend to only shut it down or merge it with MSN, its only going to bleed massive amounts of money from MSFT in the process.
The smartest decision would be to let Yahoo die on its own and focus on more "fresh" markets or ones that is truly their bread and butter like Xbox, Office, and Windows. There is no need for it to dominate a market that is firmly entrenched in Google by aquring Yahoo. If nothing else it only helps Google and people who are short selling MSFT.
Why would MSN Live and Yahoo allowed the integration of the two client protocols if they were competing with each other? Common sense and logic dictates that had they been in fierce competition that neither of them would have wanted Yahoo Messenger being capable of utilizing Live Email Addresses and vice versa on either clients.
Yahoo and MusicMatch merged together and now MusicMatch is no more, and Yahoo's Launch cast took its place.
Its business as usual.
I totally love this idea as well, and maybe with this I will whip out my bit torrent user agent and start to download stuff. 50 bucks is well worth it in my opinion.
I guess slashdotters are limiting my right to free speech and voicing my opinion way to go slashdotters for modding my opinion and voice down as trolling. Maybe you all should go to China and help their government limit rights as well.
Would you rather live in a nation that doesn't track suspected terrorist movements or communications to their friends inside and outside the boarders of the USA? I know I would want to live in a nation where tracking of such people was condoned.
I actually wrote my congressional members to vote for this bill, and I hope it goes through without a hitch.
Why should people know what the intelligence community is doing? You shouldn't as you haven't got the need to know.
Malware to me is anything that adversely effects the security of the computer system and the network. Which is why when I talk about viruses spyware or anything else along those lines I just group them all under malware.
Best defense against malware is safe browsing habits and knowing more about the internet and what it has to offer. As well as keeping up with system updates, and anything else you have on your computer. Make sure you have a good enough firewall, so in the event that you do get infected it will not spread. Also when you receive an email from someone you know and it contains an attachment call them up and ask them if they sent you an email and see if its safe to open up. Just my 2cents about computer security.
I would definitely get this for my commute of 320 miles a week.
Not sure how to read that - do you commute once a week, 160 miles each way, or 5 times a week, 32 miles each way?
I don't think I would be inclined to sit in such a small vehicle for 160 miles, but 32 would probably be tolerable.
I commute 80 miles a day times 4. I currently drive a 2006 Kia Rio LX Sedan.
I guess the correct answer then was door number 3, my bad. I'm sure you have a reason for tolerating that much driving - I'd probably shoot myself before I would spend that much time in traffic on a daily basis.
Although I could certainly see appeal in an increase in fuel economy of approximately 8x your Kia (around 30mpg, IIRC?).
I get between 28 in the city and upwards of 38 on the highway.
My motivation to tolerate long commutes is my wife and son. If I don't work I cannot support them, and if I cannot support them, then i am a bad husband/father.
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Grossly underfunded? You must be joking. He grossly OVERfunded it.
And right now, it could take a 3/4 hit and still be grossly overfunded. It's time to shut down the insane military spending in this country.
Then how do you explain the current state of our military vehicles and armament of them? The armor thati s on the HUMMVEES is piss poor which is why they cannot withstand an IED, hell the presidential limo has far better protection then any of our military vehicles and transports. Troops were seen buying stuff off of eBay. I do not know how many times I have to repeat myself but that is the case and that is the facts. Our equipment is shitty and in severe need of upgrading/repair and R&D should be done to make better lighter armor to better defend our forces in the time of crisis.
our soldiers are using piss poor equipment in Iraq? are you nuts? We have the most decked out Army in the world when it comes to technology and gadgets. How about you go over to Africa and see what type of equipment they have. I mean Hell, there was a post on here maybe a few weeks ago talking about how generals are sitting there using IM clients to send orders and retrieve updates of the mission on the fly, etc. piss poor equipment my F-ing ass
Im not talking about computers and electronics. I am talking about Armor, Weapons, Bullets, and what have you. Been a lot of bad news about that which forced our soldiers to buy that stuff off of eBay or have it sent. Pretty sad to hear from care box organizers state they want gun oil and cleaning supplies more then luxury items.
He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment.
Perhaps the Clinton Administration should have upgraded and done better job to provide our Military with better equipment before handing the next administration the Department of Defense. Clinton failed to do preventative maintenance on our US Military and severely crippled it.
Hate to break it to you but our equipment isn't the problem in Iraq. It's the style of combat. Case in point, at the start of the Iraq war I read about how 30 American troops defeated over 300 Iraqi soldiers in combat. Of course that type of combat is done with and no (reasonable) amount of equipment is going to save us from what's happening.
You didn't even mention that your hero GWB sent our troops to Iraq for no good reason. Do you think getting thousands of American soldiers killed is okay?
Sounds like you just hate Clinton and have absolutely no clue as to the way the world works. I'm not saying Clinton was the best but seriously man, get a clue. Bush is by huge margins far worse than Clinton ever was.
Obviously you missed all the news stories about how poorly protected our convoys are against IED's and how soldiers were ordering better stuff off of eBay and other sites, and many of the campaigns here at home to send our troops better stuff.
He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment.
GWB got us into an unnecessary war we've spent nearly a trillion dollars fighting and the quality of the equipment the troops have is Clinton's fault? Hmmm, think that trillion dollars could have been spent differently? Perhaps on equipment for the troops?
Perhaps the Clinton Administration should have upgraded and done better job to provide our Military with better equipment before handing the next administration the Department of Defense. Clinton failed to do preventative maintenance on our US Military and severely crippled it.
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
He only kept it running by signing a budget that grossly underfunded the Department of Defense and hindered research and development. He also hindered equipment upgrades, and now our soldiers are over in Iraq and Afghanistan using piss poor equipment. its easy to have a surplus when you fail to give money to a very important part of the National Government and the National Infrastructure. Clinton also had a major economic crisis during his term remember the Dot Com Bubble Bursting and people losing jobs.
Now 4 Million people are in Times Square, and the attack goes off which is a series of IED's and various other explosive devices killing say 1 million people and injuring 500K more. Which half of them die due to New York City's hospitals being unable to handle the capacity. What do you say about "Protecting the rights of Peter "The Citizen" Pothead and Ulysses "The Citizen" Unsafedriver, Peter and Ulysses did this so they could get money to help pay off their mounting debt.
Yay some more people and moderators who cannot fathom the truth, and actually think. Maybe they should take your moderating points away and give them to someone who can actually think.
Yeah go ahead mod me down to troll go ahead and show your inability to accept the truth and the facts that you are presented with. Way to go mods guess you are severely blind. I dont give a shit. You mod anything down to troll that you do not agree with or do not even care to think about. Can't think critically or logically? Then maybe you shouldn't be online.
Clinton did try to kill bin Laden, and the right cried about him "wagging the dog".
Hindsight is a motherfucker, huh?
Yes it is, and that didn't happen because Janet Reno and his Legal Team to not do it. Had he took a risk like he did lying under oath then maybe all this terrorist talk wouldn't exist, but who knows. Maybe it would have happened anyways or maybe it wouldn't have.
Or Maybe if the Reagan administration wouldn't have helped Bin Laden and Crew fight the russians in the 80's then maybe this all wouldn't have happened. History sure does love biting us in the ass, but many people don't think that far back. Instead they only go back to January 20th 2001 when Bush took office and lay entire blame on him.
I will never understand how people can hold President Clinton up on a pedestal and praise him as the most influential president ever and think of him as some sort of God send, when in fact is is neither. To me he is the worse president to have ever laid foot in the Oval Office for not doing his job better.
It may get to the point where you really wish you'd done something earlier.
Yeah we should have demanded that Clinton get off his lazy ass and take a fucking risk and ignore the advice his legal team gave him, and issue an assassination order on Bin Laden, and kill anyone else who associated with him. Then maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened, the patriot act wouldn't exist, this new fisa law wouldn't have any merit, the protect America act wouldn't be in existence, but as we all know Clinton was a gutless spineless president who failed his job in so many ways.
Linksys is the one manufacturer that's on my "never" list. My previous employer used to use their hubs and cascaded them into a network switch. The darn things kept losing track of what MAC addresses were hanging off them and refusing to route traffic. You only have to have one complete and utter failure like that to be written off in my book.
That said, I've recently also written off Netgear. After about my fourth or fifth Netgear card went dead (I think I have one left that is still functioning after three or four years), I started avoiding their cards like the plague. Then, I bought one of their consumer hubs a couple of months ago and it was dropping something like 80% of the packets that went through it (between any two devices including upstream). I took it back to Fry's and replaced it with a D-Link and it worked flawlessly. (And no, I didn't have something hooked up to the uplink and the non-uplink port beside it. Been there, done that.)
Bottom line is that after three hard drive failures in the course of a little over a month (yes, I have a third Seagate drive misbehaving massively, randomly corrupting data), I've pretty much come to the conclusion that nearly all electronics built today are mass-Chinese-manufactured crap that barely works and doesn't even do that for very long. Very sad, really.
Maybe its not the equipment, but rather user error causing all your issues. If you want good network equipment stay away from Hubs as they are pure crap. Get a good switch and youll never have issues. As far as your drivers go it could be various reasons from a bad SATA/IDE Port, Bad Cabling Practices, or low voltages.
I used to think D-Link routers were crap. Then I got a Linksys WRT54G, and my life went to hell. Constant lockups, power cycles, and constantly losing DNS service... It was batshit insane.
And then my folks got a D-Link 605 (the draft-N one) from a copy of Vista, and I inherited it. My connection has been ROCK SOLID ever since, NEVER have to reboot that thing. Their firmware also does more than the WRT54G.
In short, Linksys sucks, go D-Link.
I had wanted to try D-Link routers for my Cable internet, and guess what 3 routers from Best Buy were DoA as some services worked and others wouldnt like out bound web traffic. I got a free replacement from Best Buy and I took a Linksys WRT54G, and all my issues went away. D-Link also runs embedded Windows OS on the American ones. On the foreign ones you can get either Linux or Windows on them. So please do more research. I always recommend Linksys WRT54x Series routers. They work and they are easy to configure as GEICO says: "Even a Cave Man can do it."
Do you find that when you say that face to face, people nod as if they agree with you, then their eyes sort of glaze over, then they start glancing at their watch and ... umm, gotta go - dental appointment!
No thats just their "ADD/ADHD" kicking in.
You were in the NSA? Fair enough. Perhaps you could give us more details rather than just veiled implications. I lived in the Third World for almost 20 years. I know the world is a rough place, and there are all sorts of criminals and sociopaths out there (and, lamentably, in our own nation) at every level of society. Nevertheless, you have not made any kind of case in favor of the FISA bill that was passed.
For me to give you more information about what I saw and what I did would definitely violate several non-disclosure agreements that I signed along with getting me an all expense paid trip to 30 years in a maximum security prison and a record where no one would hire me.
So I take great offense that you would even ask me for that kind of information. All I can tell its a fucking pain in the ass to get things done with government red tape getting in the way of our tasks and duties. Yet many people think oh its the government all they need is a piece of paper to get this and that, well it takes several pieces of paper to go up the chain to get anything like the latest Office Suite. Its a freakin pain in the ass.
Why did you want it to pass (assuming your post is not a troll)? Do you actually believe the "Global War on Terror" is a legitimate, well-founded, and sincerely pursued enterprise? Do you think people are lining up to come and attack us out of sheer irrational hatred? Do you think it is credible that "we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here," and it doesn't occur to the bad guys to just come over here and attack us anyway instead of waiting in line patiently to fight one-on-one with our hero like in an old Batman episode?
Surely you can't be so gullible, so willing to take everything at face value and without analysis, so ready to assume that "they must know something we don't, so I'll trust them." Have you never ever wondered whether the vast sums of money changing hands have a significant bearing on the situation?
Well after working at the NSA while in the US Navy you tend to see things in a whole different light in regards to how much effort and money is spent on intelligence collection and analysis of such information. You also see more of the "real" news in raw unedited format of what exactly is going on. Some of the crap i have seen and read would make your jaw drop, and make you think why do we allow this to happen or propagate well within our borders, and why do we allow them to constantly put our civilians in danger. It is absurd the amount of trouble the intelligence communities do to make sure our borders are safe, and the amount of money and research and development goes into the programs that people want to see stopped because they think it infringes on our rights when in all actuality they do not.
I actually wanted this to be passed. I am thankful my senators listened to me.
IMHO, whistle blowing should be considered a crime just as much as wiretapping and eaves dropping. And as such should be punishable. If I went out of my way and told the press or anyone (other then my family) else what I did for a living, then I would face punishment.
I thought about buying stock in Microsoft, but this behavior appears to be out of spite rather than a sound business decision.
Microsoft buying Yahoo would only have made sense if they never had MSN in the first place. It is buying a competitor to compete with its own products and if they intend to only shut it down or merge it with MSN, its only going to bleed massive amounts of money from MSFT in the process.
The smartest decision would be to let Yahoo die on its own and focus on more "fresh" markets or ones that is truly their bread and butter like Xbox, Office, and Windows. There is no need for it to dominate a market that is firmly entrenched in Google by aquring Yahoo. If nothing else it only helps Google and people who are short selling MSFT.
Why would MSN Live and Yahoo allowed the integration of the two client protocols if they were competing with each other? Common sense and logic dictates that had they been in fierce competition that neither of them would have wanted Yahoo Messenger being capable of utilizing Live Email Addresses and vice versa on either clients. Yahoo and MusicMatch merged together and now MusicMatch is no more, and Yahoo's Launch cast took its place. Its business as usual.
I totally love this idea as well, and maybe with this I will whip out my bit torrent user agent and start to download stuff. 50 bucks is well worth it in my opinion.
I guess slashdotters are limiting my right to free speech and voicing my opinion way to go slashdotters for modding my opinion and voice down as trolling. Maybe you all should go to China and help their government limit rights as well.
Would you rather live in a nation that doesn't track suspected terrorist movements or communications to their friends inside and outside the boarders of the USA? I know I would want to live in a nation where tracking of such people was condoned.
I actually wrote my congressional members to vote for this bill, and I hope it goes through without a hitch. Why should people know what the intelligence community is doing? You shouldn't as you haven't got the need to know.
Best defense against malware is safe browsing habits and knowing more about the internet and what it has to offer. As well as keeping up with system updates, and anything else you have on your computer. Make sure you have a good enough firewall, so in the event that you do get infected it will not spread. Also when you receive an email from someone you know and it contains an attachment call them up and ask them if they sent you an email and see if its safe to open up. Just my 2cents about computer security.
The blogging software blogs you.
I would definitely get this for my commute of 320 miles a week.
Not sure how to read that - do you commute once a week, 160 miles each way, or 5 times a week, 32 miles each way? I don't think I would be inclined to sit in such a small vehicle for 160 miles, but 32 would probably be tolerable.
I commute 80 miles a day times 4. I currently drive a 2006 Kia Rio LX Sedan.
I guess the correct answer then was door number 3, my bad. I'm sure you have a reason for tolerating that much driving - I'd probably shoot myself before I would spend that much time in traffic on a daily basis. Although I could certainly see appeal in an increase in fuel economy of approximately 8x your Kia (around 30mpg, IIRC?).
I get between 28 in the city and upwards of 38 on the highway.
My motivation to tolerate long commutes is my wife and son. If I don't work I cannot support them, and if I cannot support them, then i am a bad husband/father.
http://www.cryptodan.com/misc_images/current_commute.png click on that for my current commute.