We're talking about an organization that has nuclear weapons. Now they'll also be able to shut off a city's electrical and water supply electronically. I don't see why that should make me more afraid.
Either way that's not cool at all. Just think if your company set this up on you, what would your reactions be?
If my company trusted my co-workers with information that could get me killed, I'd want them to test susceptibility to social engineering. If I do a bad job, my company loses money. When people in the military do a bad job, people can die (OK, when they do a good job people still die - but they're other people, those trying to kill them). They need to worry more about security.
Could the US have any more of an "attack mentality" than it already does?
Yes, and I pray we'll never get there. At the end of WWII Japan was getting ready to fight to the last Japanese. Not the last Japanese soldier, the last Japanese. The US was also getting ready to fight to the last Japanese. If it hadn't been for Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Japanese surrender, the Japanese culture would have ended up as the Cherokee or Sioux cultures.
All the retired military people I've read on this subject agree that given enough provocation this could happen today.
If Microsoft does something bad, you have to switches OSes, which isn't that easy. If Wal*Mart does something bad, you have to drive a longer distance and get more expensive stuff to avoid them. If Amazon does something bad, you just need to search for the product on Google and buy it from whoever sells it. There isn't even the effort of driving to Supermarket A for one product and Supermarket B for another - you're still at home on your computer.
Amazon is forgetting that their market share is of the easy-come-easy-go variety. They aren't like a physical location, but a mail order business. It's easy to go to somewhere else.
"You are infringing on my patent, the nature of which I can't disclose. Hand over money!"
Not exactly. Probably the purpose of those patents was so that after the war was over somebody authorized would decide which technologies can be declassified for civilian use.
You're talking about teletext. It used extra space in the TV channel for text broadcast. With today's technology, the same bandwidth can be used for decent bandwidth communication instead. The two are not really related except for using the same frequencies.
Of course, all of the column inches are being devoted to Obama, but the McCain/Hagee thing is way, way creepier.
Obama is up for candidacy now. McCain already has it, so there's no point to smear him until it gets close to the real elections in November.
I assume we'll see all the smears the Democrats can muster, justified or not. We'll also see all the anti-Obama / anti-Clinton smears the Republicans can muster, justified or not. There's too much money and power at stake for either side to behave like decent human beings.
In fact I went into security after college because of the allure, but in fact the daily things that have to be done are not that glamorous, and have little to do with his strange psychological theories.
Implementing security procedures is not at all glamorous, and does not require more than understanding the system to which they apply. Writing security procedures in such a way that they will be difficult to abuse requires a twisted mind. Doing it correctly, so the procedures properly balance security and availability, requires a mind that is twisted and straight at the same time.
I know from his posts on Baen's bar that Eric Flint does contribute a lot to books that he co-writes with lesser known authors. Then again, he is shrewd enough to know he has a brand to protect, possibly for decades. I'm pretty sure that John Ringo does the same with the Posleen series.
They're probably afraid that if the gov't wasn't authoritarian the country will fall apart. That happened in the USSR, Yugoslavia, etc. Arguably, it's happening in Iraq.
Since when have the Olympic games (Berlin in 1936, Moscow in 2000) been about freedom and democracy? They're about showing off to the world and bragging.
Oh yeah, no way they'll make a bunch of hackers do PT.. it might be easy for the guy who asked that question, but it's just unrealistic to expect "cyber warriors" to get a job that requires physical exercise when they can get a less life-intrusive job for similar pay.
Most people in the military can get less life-intrusive jobs for similar pay. They still manage to get new recruits.
I think if you are a white male and have lived to age 75, your life expectancy is about another 11 years. Does that mean Ron Paul would have about a 50% chance of not dieing in office?
The 11 years is an average. I don't know if Ron Paul's health is above or below average. We do know that the President of the US gets medical treatment that is better than Medicare. Not everybody in the US does. Therefore, we'd expect him to live for more than 11 years.
The Wikipedia Foundation is a US corporation, which does not hold assets in Italy, so it can't be sued in an Italian court. Or, to be more accurate, it can be sued but the verdict would be meaningless.
I would imagine that it's much cheaper to just have a competent patent examiner with enough time to do his/her research reject a patent than it is to get the courts involved.
Cheaper for whom? The government pays the patent examiner. The patent holder and the patent challenger pay the costs of litigation.
So whose value do you use? The farmer cannot afford to pay the taxes for 500 1-acre homesites, but he also has zero defense against deep pockets under your system.
The farmer could lose his 500 acres. But if he gave a valuation that is enough to buy a 600 acre farm, he only pays a bit more in property taxes and gets thrown out with money to buy a better farm.
I think Heinlein had the solution to that (he used it for real property). You declare a value, you pay taxes based on that, and anybody can force you to sell it to them at that price.
However, what happens when the information given through peer-based channels is different from and outright contradicts the information (and the orders based on that information) coming from command?
The peer based information also goes to the commander. Commands should be adjusted as needed. IIRC, the US military gives patrol commanders a certain level of leeway to best accomplish their missions - so this is just another source of information for use in that leeway.
War is never necessary except for those who's purpose it serves. For the rest of us - the other %99.9999... war is not necessary. To keep people such as Bush, Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, etc... in power they need wars. War is the best thing that drives their mission. It defines them. It drives them forward. It gives them power. It sucks the life out of everyone though. It is futile.
You remember Hitler. Do you also remember what stopped Hitler? Do you really think than life in France in 1950 was in no way better than life in France in 1940?
So barring a mad scientist destroy the world scenario, I don't believe satellite warfare is a real threat. It would be like poisoning a well that you drink from as well as the enemy.
If you're about to lose a war, you do what it takes to survive and ignore the long term consequences. Life without satellites is better than life without life.
I don't see the hole (and I live in Texas, which doesn't have a state income tax either). High earners still spend more money and have more expensive houses.
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We're talking about an organization that has nuclear weapons. Now they'll also be able to shut off a city's electrical and water supply electronically. I don't see why that should make me more afraid.
Either way that's not cool at all. Just think if your company set this up on you, what would your reactions be?
If my company trusted my co-workers with information that could get me killed, I'd want them to test susceptibility to social engineering. If I do a bad job, my company loses money. When people in the military do a bad job, people can die (OK, when they do a good job people still die - but they're other people, those trying to kill them). They need to worry more about security.
Could the US have any more of an "attack mentality" than it already does?
Yes, and I pray we'll never get there. At the end of WWII Japan was getting ready to fight to the last Japanese. Not the last Japanese soldier, the last Japanese. The US was also getting ready to fight to the last Japanese. If it hadn't been for Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Japanese surrender, the Japanese culture would have ended up as the Cherokee or Sioux cultures.
All the retired military people I've read on this subject agree that given enough provocation this could happen today.
If Microsoft does something bad, you have to switches OSes, which isn't that easy. If Wal*Mart does something bad, you have to drive a longer distance and get more expensive stuff to avoid them. If Amazon does something bad, you just need to search for the product on Google and buy it from whoever sells it. There isn't even the effort of driving to Supermarket A for one product and Supermarket B for another - you're still at home on your computer.
Amazon is forgetting that their market share is of the easy-come-easy-go variety. They aren't like a physical location, but a mail order business. It's easy to go to somewhere else.
Eric Flint wrote about this subject. His books are available electronically, but he still believes in paper books. He explains why.
Actually, most POD places do charge an upfront cost. Booksurge and Xlibris, for example, want $299.
I use lulu because they don't have an upfront cost. Then again, I don't expect to make money from this - it's a hobby with me.
"You are infringing on my patent, the nature of which I can't disclose. Hand over money!"
Not exactly. Probably the purpose of those patents was so that after the war was over somebody authorized would decide which technologies can be declassified for civilian use.
You're talking about teletext. It used extra space in the TV channel for text broadcast. With today's technology, the same bandwidth can be used for decent bandwidth communication instead. The two are not really related except for using the same frequencies.
Of course, all of the column inches are being devoted to Obama, but the McCain/Hagee thing is way, way creepier.
Obama is up for candidacy now. McCain already has it, so there's no point to smear him until it gets close to the real elections in November.
I assume we'll see all the smears the Democrats can muster, justified or not. We'll also see all the anti-Obama / anti-Clinton smears the Republicans can muster, justified or not. There's too much money and power at stake for either side to behave like decent human beings.
In fact I went into security after college because of the allure, but in fact the daily things that have to be done are not that glamorous, and have little to do with his strange psychological theories.
Implementing security procedures is not at all glamorous, and does not require more than understanding the system to which they apply. Writing security procedures in such a way that they will be difficult to abuse requires a twisted mind. Doing it correctly, so the procedures properly balance security and availability, requires a mind that is twisted and straight at the same time.
I know from his posts on Baen's bar that Eric Flint does contribute a lot to books that he co-writes with lesser known authors. Then again, he is shrewd enough to know he has a brand to protect, possibly for decades. I'm pretty sure that John Ringo does the same with the Posleen series.
Remember, the theory goes that the Government is a servant of the people, not the other way around.
Whose theory? A bunch of rebels declaring their independence from the British government?
They're probably afraid that if the gov't wasn't authoritarian the country will fall apart. That happened in the USSR, Yugoslavia, etc. Arguably, it's happening in Iraq.
Since when have the Olympic games (Berlin in 1936, Moscow in 2000) been about freedom and democracy? They're about showing off to the world and bragging.
Oh yeah, no way they'll make a bunch of hackers do PT.. it might be easy for the guy who asked that question, but it's just unrealistic to expect "cyber warriors" to get a job that requires physical exercise when they can get a less life-intrusive job for similar pay.
Most people in the military can get less life-intrusive jobs for similar pay. They still manage to get new recruits.
I think if you are a white male and have lived to age 75, your life expectancy is about another 11 years. Does that mean Ron Paul would have about a 50% chance of not dieing in office?
The 11 years is an average. I don't know if Ron Paul's health is above or below average. We do know that the President of the US gets medical treatment that is better than Medicare. Not everybody in the US does. Therefore, we'd expect him to live for more than 11 years.
The Wikipedia Foundation is a US corporation, which does not hold assets in Italy, so it can't be sued in an Italian court. Or, to be more accurate, it can be sued but the verdict would be meaningless.
However, Wikipedia does have an Italian chapter ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters ). I assume that is the organization being sued.
I would imagine that it's much cheaper to just have a competent patent examiner with enough time to do his/her research reject a patent than it is to get the courts involved.
Cheaper for whom? The government pays the patent examiner. The patent holder and the patent challenger pay the costs of litigation.
So whose value do you use? The farmer cannot afford to pay the taxes for 500 1-acre homesites, but he also has zero defense against deep pockets under your system.
The farmer could lose his 500 acres. But if he gave a valuation that is enough to buy a 600 acre farm, he only pays a bit more in property taxes and gets thrown out with money to buy a better farm.
I think Heinlein had the solution to that (he used it for real property). You declare a value, you pay taxes based on that, and anybody can force you to sell it to them at that price.
However, what happens when the information given through peer-based channels is different from and outright contradicts the information (and the orders based on that information) coming from command?
The peer based information also goes to the commander. Commands should be adjusted as needed. IIRC, the US military gives patrol commanders a certain level of leeway to best accomplish their missions - so this is just another source of information for use in that leeway.
He meant "in your head" as an idiom for "illusionary". Depression is not illusionary, it's a real disease.
War is never necessary except for those who's purpose it serves. For the rest of us - the other %99.9999... war is not necessary. To keep people such as Bush, Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, etc... in power they need wars. War is the best thing that drives their mission. It defines them. It drives them forward. It gives them power. It sucks the life out of everyone though. It is futile.
You remember Hitler. Do you also remember what stopped Hitler? Do you really think than life in France in 1950 was in no way better than life in France in 1940?
So barring a mad scientist destroy the world scenario, I don't believe satellite warfare is a real threat. It would be like poisoning a well that you drink from as well as the enemy.
If you're about to lose a war, you do what it takes to survive and ignore the long term consequences. Life without satellites is better than life without life.
I don't see the hole (and I live in Texas, which doesn't have a state income tax either). High earners still spend more money and have more expensive houses.