WindersXP firewall only blocks incoming traffic, not outgoing. While ZoneAlarm might be the "Firewall For Dummies", it let's me know what apps are trying to contact the mother ship.
Example: Win2k has the infamous Services and Controller app that I do not allow out. Upgrade to Win2k SP2 and you'll find that you better let the Sevices and Controller app talk to the mother ship or your access to the 'net will be disabled.
Bladerunner was to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" what Forrest Gump (the movie) was to Forrest Gump (the book). You had to ask yourself "how'd they get that movie from that book?"
Shouldn't have to connect to the internet to "relicense" the music in the first place. This is simply the "guilty until proven innocent" or "all our customers are thieves" or the "computers sold without an operating system will have a pirated OS installed" mentality that the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/M$ have been spouting all along.
What's on my computer is my business and no one else's.
I would imagine no one mentions the Russian input because the Yak didn't turn out to be "all that." AFAIK none of the Sov/Russian V/STOL aircraft were "all that." Don't see a lot of utilization, or catch them on the export market.
Written in 1952, about a world where advertising is king.
If I were pessimistic about what the advertisers think their rights regarding commercials are, this book would be very prophetic.
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I still haven't figured out if there is someone I can contact to do it. I suppose I could just let the box fill with the 70 spam messages I get every day. They would probably shut it down after a while.
...is a new ratings system determined by how far into the movie you said "That's Bullshit!" (or just "Bullshit"), and the number of times you felt compelled enough to say it after a particularly bad scene.
--Man and woman jump from 100 ft tall cliff, scene cuts to man and woman dusting themselves off--
I have to support DVD-R (of which I have no problem with the format)and I have the Pioneer A03. Prassi sucks...I agree with the article writer. But picking up Nero is not a big deal.
After producing a few hundred DVD-Rs (data disks...I work for the DOD), the biggest issue has been media quality. Some folks purchase the cheapest disks they can and it shows.
Of one particular manufacturer, 20% of the disks, while readable in the burner, were not consistently readable in other DVD-ROM drives. No problems whatsoever with the higher quality (and a little more expensive) disks.
Nowadays (and this can be traced back to the Clinton regime giving people clearances that would NEVER under any circumstances get them otherwise) it takes forever to get a clearance. Used to be you had to lie about something, or have committed a felon. About the only way to lose it was to come up hot on a piss test, other than stealing gov't secrets.
Now they not only check your crimilnal record, but they look at your credit record too. Even the uniformed military has problems getting people into positions because the clearance process takes so long (2-3 years just for a secret clearance).
BTW, I am a gov't contractor (and a vet). Not a DSS agent.
A recruiter that would say you would be a "commo" officer must have been an infantryman. Most folks not in signal battalions see a field phone a say "commo," True: there are dedicated commo officers, but that is only one tour out of many.
Tactical telephone and data communications in the Army are provided by Signal Battalions. As a new signal officer, you will pull one command tour and one staff tour. Typical staff tours are as "commo" officers for a combat arms battalion (infantry, armor, artillery, etc) with command of the battalion commo platoon a bonus. Commo platoons handle the internal battalion communications (telephones, faxes, PCs, radios, etc).
Command tours will be in command of operational platoons in the signal battalion providing infrastructure services including the military equivalent to cellular telephone. As a commissioned officer, you have given up most of your "down and dirty, hands-on" technical rights, unless you get into R&D or become a warrant officer. You will be given very little technical training on the equipment you are signed for. Your NCOs and enlisted folks are the technicians. That's just the nature of the U.S. Army - officers insure that the work gets done.
I spent 11 years in the U.S. Army in Signal. I have also worked for the USAF as a civilian in IT for the past few years. 2 different organizations with 2 different missions. Hard to quantify what you want if you don't know what is there.
One of mine crapped out yesterday.....after a reboot (Win2k...I know but hey, I work for the gov't). Made a funky noise and couldn't find the registry. Froze up at 9% in scandisk (never seen that before). Froze up at 9% in a format. Fortunately, it's a FAT32 partition, so I was able to copy my critical files over. Even though they're still under warranty, DOD policy is that the drive be destroyed rather than sent back in for replacement.
Looks like I am off today to buy not just one but 2 60GB non-IBM drives.
Several years ago (well over a decade) I bought one of the original Super Soaker pistols for of all things...cat training (yes it works very well). Pissed off the wife using it to train my infant son (now 6), and it kept working until just a couple of months ago. Tried to find a replacement in the store and found that they just don't make small Super Soakers anymore. I thought it would make a great entry into a museum.
I almost bought one of those chrome-plated anniversary edition Super Soakers just out of deference to my pistol lasting for so many years, but it seemed a little out of place doing cat training. Maybe a little overkill.
The SETI@Home client allows you to NOT have it contact the mothership unless you give it permission. The TVA users that allowed it to communicate unattended....well they should have been aware of the risks, especially on the corporate dime.
I am behind a firewall on the corporate/guvment-shill LAN, and if SETI@Home were banging away trying to contact the mothership, my firewall guys wouldn't contact me...they'd just lock me out until I called them. Just like they do for those poor saps who installed GoZilla, CometCursor, and all that other crap.
...on a daily basis, I would be very surprised that they could make this work. NIMA just got two thumbs down on a gov't audit, and the recommendation was made to clean the slate and start over. Ever since the DMA was moved into NIMA, QC has been very lacking, and lot's of folks (myself included)have spent many hours correcting their mistakes, or making workarounds.
NIMA is one of those top-heavy monolithic organizations where the whole beaurocracy is devoted to only one thing....the continuation of NIMA. Forget putting out a decent product.
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WindersXP firewall only blocks incoming traffic, not outgoing. While ZoneAlarm might be the "Firewall For Dummies", it let's me know what apps are trying to contact the mother ship.
Example: Win2k has the infamous Services and Controller app that I do not allow out. Upgrade to Win2k SP2 and you'll find that you better let the Sevices and Controller app talk to the mother ship or your access to the 'net will be disabled.
Bladerunner was to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" what Forrest Gump (the movie) was to Forrest Gump (the book). You had to ask yourself "how'd they get that movie from that book?"
Obsolete would imply that they had a function at one point in time.
Maybe "usless" would be a better term.
Shouldn't have to connect to the internet to "relicense" the music in the first place. This is simply the "guilty until proven innocent" or "all our customers are thieves" or the "computers sold without an operating system will have a pirated OS installed" mentality that the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/M$ have been spouting all along.
What's on my computer is my business and no one else's.
I would imagine no one mentions the Russian input because the Yak didn't turn out to be "all that." AFAIK none of the Sov/Russian V/STOL aircraft were "all that." Don't see a lot of utilization, or catch them on the export market.
Read "The Space Merchants" by Frederik Pohl.
Written in 1952, about a world where advertising is king.
If I were pessimistic about what the advertisers think their rights regarding commercials are, this book would be very prophetic.
I still haven't figured out if there is someone I can contact to do it. I suppose I could just let the box fill with the 70 spam messages I get every day. They would probably shut it down after a while.
...is a new ratings system determined by how far into the movie you said "That's Bullshit!" (or just "Bullshit"), and the number of times you felt compelled enough to say it after a particularly bad scene.
--Man and woman jump from 100 ft tall cliff, scene cuts to man and woman dusting themselves off--
Commentary: "aw man...dat's boolshit"
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Cable doesn't make it out that far. Trust me...I live in the sticks, and am in almost the exact same position. The cable ends 4.5 miles from my home.
You're right...it had nothing to do with the bill. But the article refers to a commercial that does seem to be about the bill.
Knee-jerk reactions are not attractive.
Yeah...all in very spyware-free Real Audio.
I work in IT for the AF. *nix any day.
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Too bad the app I support is Windows only.
I have to support DVD-R (of which I have no problem with the format)and I have the Pioneer A03. Prassi sucks...I agree with the article writer. But picking up Nero is not a big deal.
After producing a few hundred DVD-Rs (data disks...I work for the DOD), the biggest issue has been media quality. Some folks purchase the cheapest disks they can and it shows.
Of one particular manufacturer, 20% of the disks, while readable in the burner, were not consistently readable in other DVD-ROM drives. No problems whatsoever with the higher quality (and a little more expensive) disks.
Yeah...you'd figure at MIT they'd actually have some engineers working on the device that actually knew the terminology.
Or maybe they are trying to communicate to the lowest common denominator..../.
Nowadays (and this can be traced back to the Clinton regime giving people clearances that would NEVER under any circumstances get them otherwise) it takes forever to get a clearance. Used to be you had to lie about something, or have committed a felon. About the only way to lose it was to come up hot on a piss test, other than stealing gov't secrets.
Now they not only check your crimilnal record, but they look at your credit record too. Even the uniformed military has problems getting people into positions because the clearance process takes so long (2-3 years just for a secret clearance).
BTW, I am a gov't contractor (and a vet). Not a DSS agent.
Probably saved more souls than schools.
A recruiter that would say you would be a "commo" officer must have been an infantryman. Most folks not in signal battalions see a field phone a say "commo," True: there are dedicated commo officers, but that is only one tour out of many.
Tactical telephone and data communications in the Army are provided by Signal Battalions. As a new signal officer, you will pull one command tour and one staff tour. Typical staff tours are as "commo" officers for a combat arms battalion (infantry, armor, artillery, etc) with command of the battalion commo platoon a bonus. Commo platoons handle the internal battalion communications (telephones, faxes, PCs, radios, etc).
Command tours will be in command of operational platoons in the signal battalion providing infrastructure services including the military equivalent to cellular telephone. As a commissioned officer, you have given up most of your "down and dirty, hands-on" technical rights, unless you get into R&D or become a warrant officer. You will be given very little technical training on the equipment you are signed for. Your NCOs and enlisted folks are the technicians. That's just the nature of the U.S. Army - officers insure that the work gets done.
I spent 11 years in the U.S. Army in Signal. I have also worked for the USAF as a civilian in IT for the past few years. 2 different organizations with 2 different missions. Hard to quantify what you want if you don't know what is there.
Not necessarily....the USAF has a multi-million $ IW center that they are very proud of.
With very little knowledge of nix.....
Defense contractor hired me as an electronic technician to work on some IRIX-based SGI training systems (USAF), and pulled an "Oh, by the way...".
Fortunately, IRIX came with a very comprehensive set of man pages.
One of mine crapped out yesterday.....after a reboot (Win2k...I know but hey, I work for the gov't). Made a funky noise and couldn't find the registry. Froze up at 9% in scandisk (never seen that before). Froze up at 9% in a format. Fortunately, it's a FAT32 partition, so I was able to copy my critical files over. Even though they're still under warranty, DOD policy is that the drive be destroyed rather than sent back in for replacement.
Looks like I am off today to buy not just one but 2 60GB non-IBM drives.
Several years ago (well over a decade) I bought one of the original Super Soaker pistols for of all things...cat training (yes it works very well). Pissed off the wife using it to train my infant son (now 6), and it kept working until just a couple of months ago. Tried to find a replacement in the store and found that they just don't make small Super Soakers anymore. I thought it would make a great entry into a museum.
I almost bought one of those chrome-plated anniversary edition Super Soakers just out of deference to my pistol lasting for so many years, but it seemed a little out of place doing cat training. Maybe a little overkill.
The SETI@Home client allows you to NOT have it contact the mothership unless you give it permission. The TVA users that allowed it to communicate unattended....well they should have been aware of the risks, especially on the corporate dime.
I am behind a firewall on the corporate/guvment-shill LAN, and if SETI@Home were banging away trying to contact the mothership, my firewall guys wouldn't contact me...they'd just lock me out until I called them. Just like they do for those poor saps who installed GoZilla, CometCursor, and all that other crap.
P-Codes allow access to a completely different band, and some military nav systems are designed not to work without them.
We had some folks that thought that the SA removal would mean no P-codes.
...on a daily basis, I would be very surprised that they could make this work. NIMA just got two thumbs down on a gov't audit, and the recommendation was made to clean the slate and start over. Ever since the DMA was moved into NIMA, QC has been very lacking, and lot's of folks (myself included)have spent many hours correcting their mistakes, or making workarounds.
NIMA is one of those top-heavy monolithic organizations where the whole beaurocracy is devoted to only one thing....the continuation of NIMA. Forget putting out a decent product.