3. Without the Shuttle program, there's no way to get Atlantis up there for retrieval or maintenance missions, so whatever service life these scopes have left the military are handing over to NASA for the simple reason that should there be a maintenance or retrieval mission in the future, it's on NASA's back. There's also the small problem of disposal, since the boffs are slowly realising that you can't just leave forty tons of metal and glass up there to go dark and potentially collide with $permanent_space_fixture with the obvious disastrous consequences, so there's...
Google "The Voyager Conspiracy" for 50+ montages exploring the Janeway/Seven relationship... if you feel like descending into fanslash. Some of the videos are very good, some are downright terrible.
You really think criminals give a SHIT about the Law?
Well done, Hugo, you might as well just put up a sign reading: "Welcome to Venezuela, our citizens are unarmed; please rob, rape and murder at leisure."
You tell that to those who were arrested following a series of BBM messages - BBM is supposed to be encrypted! Those messages were intercepted straight off the RIM servers!
See, when there's something like that set up (BBM, Skype, PGP), heavy encryption that the public can use, you'll notice that it's nowhere near military grade encryption which is practically unbreakable. Those seed algorithms that make it into the "wild", so to speak, are those algorithms which the security services have been supplied with a skeleton key. It won't take them long to break the encryption because they don't even have to try, unlike the civilian services (eg police) who have to use bruteforce techniques and burn thousands of P90-years to break one 256-bit AES key. Triple trouble if the drive is encrypted on a triple cascade.
By the way, in the UK at least, GCHQ run realtime monitoring of BBM and other SMS networks, and log realtime tracking data of each and every cellphone in use - with data freely supplied to MI5 by the carriers under the authority of the Home Office.
We have one freedom left to us: the freedom to choose.
We can choose to accept the terms that come with using a service such as Facebook, with the understanding that they operate for profit and they can use our data to achieve that end. Or, we can choose not to use Facebook and deprive them and their shareholders of that revenue - which in all fairness, is a pittance when counted individually; there are idiots who will click on every ad and buy everything that's shoved in front of them, and that collective revenue potential is what makes Facebook worth more than the global wheat industry.
CHOICE. It is our last remaining personal freedom. USE IT OR LOSE IT.
Oh your fucking God, she broke the LAW. Sucks as it sounds, she did. End of story. So what, she does NP for kids in chairs, but you know what? There are 36,000 charities in the States that do the same thing! THEY WILL NOT MISS ONE!!
I say, sue her arse.
Yours,
A photographer who notwithstanding the bleating on this thread, does appreciate people who reuse his photos for noncommercial purposes.
I've already said it: DIGIMARC Digital Watermark. Have the license terms set out in the alt text which will show in google image search (where most people lift stock images). The watermark is invisible yet with it you can assert ownership and take violators to the cleaners.
Most people who steal images do not even bother to look for watermarks. Ask then answer: how many images are floating the internet? Billions. They start off complacent that their nefarious deeds go unnoticed.
Funny story (yeah, I bet you hear this all the time): I had a photo of me relaxing on my lowrider a few years ago, uploaded it to a social networking site that shall remain nameless, then a year later I found it on a custom bike blog. After contacting the webmaster, she actually wrote back apologising, I just replied "Hey, don't worry, I thought I'd lost the pic after F***B*** had shitcanned my account, I'm glad somebody found use for it."
who will be using them in the next generation of missile guidance systems.
So they'll be able to put a warhead through a window still, just that they don't know if it'll be $Dictator's window or the kindergarten next door... oh, wait.
oh your fucking God, austerity measures in Greece? Joke. Italy? Beyond a joke. Spain? Don't even go there. Never mind the rest of Europe, who are all in the exact same mess. The Euro is going down the pan and it's dragging the Dollar and Sterling with it. The plug hole is gurgling and gagging on the shit sandwich of which we'll all soon have to take a HUGE bite.
As someone who knows what foreign manufacturing does to local economy (UK based and lived through the death of Sheffield Steel and British Coal), this is the only fix - to impose tariffs on foreign made goods, because we do have the technology and infrastructure to make this stuff ourselves; the only thing we're doing by outsourcing is PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK. This (taxing foreign goods) stimulates the local economy; hands up those who think this is in any way bad??
I would do the same thing to fix the auto industry (and raw materials eg refined aluminium and steel/alloys). Why? Because we've outsourced to Japan and China, they're getting rich selling us shitty cars, while our local auto industry (which used to make quality cars most of which still run after 20, 30, 40 or even 50+ years! Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Leyland, Rover...) has died a death or sold out to BMW who get most of their coachwork from... CHINA!
...that we already know about, never mind the ones they've so far managed to bury.
The simple fact of the matter is, there is no system-level security. It's a system of trust where the ones with access cannot be trusted. They are, to put it mildly, and without exception, un-trust-worthy.
POLICE OFFICERS are public servants. Into that, read: as long as they wear the UNIFORM they represent (or are supposed to) the LAW, and are responsible for making sure it is upheld in a VISIBLE MANNER. When they fuck up, they should expect to be called on it. Publicly.
With that uniform and the visibility comes the realisation that one HAS NO PRIVACY. If one cannot accept that, then one has NO BUSINESS WEARING THE UNIFORM.
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3. Without the Shuttle program, there's no way to get Atlantis up there for retrieval or maintenance missions, so whatever service life these scopes have left the military are handing over to NASA for the simple reason that should there be a maintenance or retrieval mission in the future, it's on NASA's back. There's also the small problem of disposal, since the boffs are slowly realising that you can't just leave forty tons of metal and glass up there to go dark and potentially collide with $permanent_space_fixture with the obvious disastrous consequences, so there's...
4. Plausible deniability.
From junk to useful at the stroke of a pen. Science is always a loftier and more honourable goal than war.
Google "The Voyager Conspiracy" for 50+ montages exploring the Janeway/Seven relationship... if you feel like descending into fanslash. Some of the videos are very good, some are downright terrible.
So the Voyager episode "The 37s" didn't/won't really happen?
Now I'm disillusioned.
it's a carbine. Still, it does the job on rabbits at 80 yards.
Mod parent UP!
I am a gun owner. I have guns in cabinets. To date, none have jumped out and tried to throttle me. I feel pretty safe around them.
I have to say though, I'm watching my .22. It's got a nasty glint in its eye.
You really think criminals give a SHIT about the Law?
Well done, Hugo, you might as well just put up a sign reading: "Welcome to Venezuela, our citizens are unarmed; please rob, rape and murder at leisure."
the microsd ports in my phones do that!
smells like prior art to me...
You tell that to those who were arrested following a series of BBM messages - BBM is supposed to be encrypted! Those messages were intercepted straight off the RIM servers!
See, when there's something like that set up (BBM, Skype, PGP), heavy encryption that the public can use, you'll notice that it's nowhere near military grade encryption which is practically unbreakable. Those seed algorithms that make it into the "wild", so to speak, are those algorithms which the security services have been supplied with a skeleton key. It won't take them long to break the encryption because they don't even have to try, unlike the civilian services (eg police) who have to use bruteforce techniques and burn thousands of P90-years to break one 256-bit AES key. Triple trouble if the drive is encrypted on a triple cascade.
By the way, in the UK at least, GCHQ run realtime monitoring of BBM and other SMS networks, and log realtime tracking data of each and every cellphone in use - with data freely supplied to MI5 by the carriers under the authority of the Home Office.
We have one freedom left to us: the freedom to choose.
We can choose to accept the terms that come with using a service such as Facebook, with the understanding that they operate for profit and they can use our data to achieve that end. Or, we can choose not to use Facebook and deprive them and their shareholders of that revenue - which in all fairness, is a pittance when counted individually; there are idiots who will click on every ad and buy everything that's shoved in front of them, and that collective revenue potential is what makes Facebook worth more than the global wheat industry.
CHOICE. It is our last remaining personal freedom. USE IT OR LOSE IT.
lol, I say BRING IT!
Oh your fucking God, she broke the LAW. Sucks as it sounds, she did. End of story. So what, she does NP for kids in chairs, but you know what? There are 36,000 charities in the States that do the same thing! THEY WILL NOT MISS ONE!!
I say, sue her arse.
Yours,
A photographer who notwithstanding the bleating on this thread, does appreciate people who reuse his photos for noncommercial purposes.
you're using the wrong type of watermarks. Digimarcs are invisible.
You could use a PGP short public key in the metaspace of the image, it does as well.
HTH.
I've already said it: DIGIMARC Digital Watermark. Have the license terms set out in the alt text which will show in google image search (where most people lift stock images). The watermark is invisible yet with it you can assert ownership and take violators to the cleaners.
one word: Digimarc.
Or some other form of steg/watermarking.
Most people who steal images do not even bother to look for watermarks. Ask then answer: how many images are floating the internet? Billions. They start off complacent that their nefarious deeds go unnoticed.
Funny story (yeah, I bet you hear this all the time): I had a photo of me relaxing on my lowrider a few years ago, uploaded it to a social networking site that shall remain nameless, then a year later I found it on a custom bike blog. After contacting the webmaster, she actually wrote back apologising, I just replied "Hey, don't worry, I thought I'd lost the pic after F***B*** had shitcanned my account, I'm glad somebody found use for it."
It's still up. Yep, that's me, the ugly one.
next Mars shot?
who will be using them in the next generation of missile guidance systems.
So they'll be able to put a warhead through a window still, just that they don't know if it'll be $Dictator's window or the kindergarten next door... oh, wait.
that was my +5, you clitoris.
oh your fucking God, austerity measures in Greece? Joke. Italy? Beyond a joke. Spain? Don't even go there. Never mind the rest of Europe, who are all in the exact same mess. The Euro is going down the pan and it's dragging the Dollar and Sterling with it. The plug hole is gurgling and gagging on the shit sandwich of which we'll all soon have to take a HUGE bite.
As someone who knows what foreign manufacturing does to local economy (UK based and lived through the death of Sheffield Steel and British Coal), this is the only fix - to impose tariffs on foreign made goods, because we do have the technology and infrastructure to make this stuff ourselves; the only thing we're doing by outsourcing is PUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF WORK. This (taxing foreign goods) stimulates the local economy; hands up those who think this is in any way bad??
I would do the same thing to fix the auto industry (and raw materials eg refined aluminium and steel/alloys). Why? Because we've outsourced to Japan and China, they're getting rich selling us shitty cars, while our local auto industry (which used to make quality cars most of which still run after 20, 30, 40 or even 50+ years! Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Leyland, Rover...) has died a death or sold out to BMW who get most of their coachwork from... CHINA!
...that we already know about, never mind the ones they've so far managed to bury.
The simple fact of the matter is, there is no system-level security. It's a system of trust where the ones with access cannot be trusted. They are, to put it mildly, and without exception, un-trust-worthy.
I wonder why people would think I only carry ONE?
There's the visible camera.
Then there's the two invisible cameras. (buttonhole HD and pen HD. Oh yes, I have both)
Then there's the highly sensitive voice recorder.
Then there's the Android phone streaming video and audio to justin.tv
Better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not have it!
POLICE OFFICERS are public servants. Into that, read: as long as they wear the UNIFORM they represent (or are supposed to) the LAW, and are responsible for making sure it is upheld in a VISIBLE MANNER. When they fuck up, they should expect to be called on it. Publicly.
With that uniform and the visibility comes the realisation that one HAS NO PRIVACY. If one cannot accept that, then one has NO BUSINESS WEARING THE UNIFORM.
::ducks as tracer rounds fly over his head followed by lawyers::
RTCW was a 2001 release. I was playing W3D *waaaaay* before that.
Good to see the classics making a comeback, tho.