Nice - they really focus on the handling assistant, but at about one-third to one-half of the way through, Holy Floating Balloons Batman! That Air Jelly is gorgeous.
Is anyone else finding it really hard to judge these things without realistic images? Most of these are heavily posed with a hand/arm model, which makes them hard to take at face value.
Actually, the word comes from bio- and -ic, which means "like" or "akin to." Bionic is really just a synonym for mimicry, although its usage in medicine is not necessarily the same.
...he allegedly tapped into the secure computers of a large Defense Department contractor that managed systems for military transport movements and other U.S. military operations?
...he had gotten the credit and bank card data by tapping into the computer networks of "several major international banks" and companies
In large part these are the networks of companies, which, while it makes sense for them to be online, doesn't make it easier to swallow.
To be honest, though, I think the worst part of the article is this:
"If a guy from Malaysia can get into networks like this, you can imagine what the Chinese and Russians, the people with real capabilities, are able to do," said one former senior U.S. intelligence official...
Training is everything. It doesn't matter whether you're from Russia or China or Malaysia or Sweden, what you know and how you know it is everything. It might be easier to be from one country or another, but once you get there nationality means nothing. This kind of ignorant and racist Cold War thinking is patently absurd, thank god it's a "former" official.
In August of 2009, GPI was shut down by Washington state's Ecology Department who said GPI had "not provided adequate compliance with the environmental air quality regulations." This was cleared on September 8, 2010 by an EPA ruling that support's GPI's claim and reverses Washington state's Ecology Department's claim that placed the GPI process in the class of incinerators, which it is not.
According to the EPA:
Green Power describes its process as a proprietary catalytic pressure-less depolymerization process (CDP) where municipal solid waste or a wide variety of organic wastes are 'cracked' at the molecular level and the long-chain polymers (plastic, organic material such as wood, etc.) are chemically altered to become short-chain hydrocarbons with no combustion. Combustion requires oxygen or a similar compound, but according to Green Power the CDP occurs in an anaerobic environment, exposed only to inert gases like nitrogen.
War is war just like cyber-bullying is bullying but the term cyber war does bring with it distinctions. When you say war, people think WWII, Vietnam, Iraq - something tangible. Cyber war is beyond the grasp of most people (especially those normally involved in war) and has different rules.
It's more like e-mail versus mail, or cyber-sex versus sex. You can prepare for or experience one, but that doesn't necessarily help with the other.
The total cost of linking national systems into a shared network would rise well above $100 million, he predicted, without counting the tens of millions more necessary for individual nations to invest in their national defense systems. In an era of budget cutbacks across Europe, he acknowledged, the idea of universal anti-missile coverage may still end up falling victim to deficit reduction.
"What's that? If Help the West invest time and money into a overly-complex and bureaucratic system that will never work, I can look like I'm cooperating and moving forward? Sounds like a deal to me!"
There doesn't need to be a Cold War, but Russia doesn't exactly want a Western hegemony.
Addendum - ONE senator tries to take Pistole to task for the patdowns, saying he finds them invasive and would not want to see his wife go through them. He then follows it up by saying we should have a national/worldwide database so that when he hands over his license they can look up his entire travel history around the world.
That's called being on the right track but taking the train way too far.
Checks and balances is an inherently good system. How well it works is a different issue, but the filibuster doesn't fall into that system. The filibuster is a way for the legislature to stop itself, and no one else. It's a product of bitter polarization within a two-party system, but all it does is weaken the legislature.
For anyone who saw Schneier's link to the video of the Senate hearing but didn't want to spend 90 minute sitting through it, don't. It's disgusting.
The first 30 minutes are nothing more than senator after senator saying the same three things:
1. How much of a threat we all face 2. How thankful they are for the fantastic job the TSA is doing 3. How glad they are for the new screening procedures, because they all have busted knees/hips, which means they can avoid a patdown.
They do say that we need to assess the concerns, but only in the context of understanding why people are complaining. A number of complaints are offended by private screenings for fear of greater molestation, yet the senators think private screenings are a good thing... they're simply out of touch. With one single witness, the hearing was a waste of time; Pistole gives the company line.
People in their middle-ages on up have a pretty low adoption rate, I find. They got on with some ISP 10-15 years ago, and haven't looked back, except to change their ISP and thus the email. Webmail is still foreign to a lot of people.
Anyone who attended school in the past decade or so and actually made some friends there. I don't mean to be insulting, but rather to say that not everyone a slashdotter knows is also a slashdotter. Ten years ago that meant AIM instead of IRC, now it means Facebook.
Too many times have major news outlets such as the NYT hosted images from Wikimedia without giving proper attribution. I cite Cartman V. Family Guy to point out that if you can create exception for one website, you can create an exception for another, and another, and another.
Chickity check it.. "Let there be no compulsion in religion." Of course, that hasn't particularly stopped anyone, but the Christians aren't exactly innocent there either; the only difference is that I don't know of any similar bit in the Bible. The Abrahamic religions all advocate some pretty atrocious customs, and I don't think characterizing one as more violent than another based on the texts would be accurate, especially given how history has turned out. That bloodshed has more to do with power than anything else.
Religion is a way of focusing a particular system of beliefs and morals, much like nationalism and other community constructs. Religion has been used to make some of the most beautiful creations in history while justifying some of its greatest atrocities. Feverish and fanatical beliefs follow from a personality, comparable to addiction. When you're in an uneducated, third-world country that the developed world has ignored, the narrative works.
Slashdot Mirror
No, but I do know a guy with a dog that uses the internet.
Nice - they really focus on the handling assistant, but at about one-third to one-half of the way through, Holy Floating Balloons Batman! That Air Jelly is gorgeous.
Is anyone else finding it really hard to judge these things without realistic images? Most of these are heavily posed with a hand/arm model, which makes them hard to take at face value.
Actually, the word comes from bio- and -ic, which means "like" or "akin to." Bionic is really just a synonym for mimicry, although its usage in medicine is not necessarily the same.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bionic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics
...he allegedly tapped into the secure computers of a large Defense Department contractor that managed systems for military transport movements and other U.S. military operations?
...he had gotten the credit and bank card data by tapping into the computer networks of "several major international banks" and companies
In large part these are the networks of companies, which, while it makes sense for them to be online, doesn't make it easier to swallow.
To be honest, though, I think the worst part of the article is this:
"If a guy from Malaysia can get into networks like this, you can imagine what the Chinese and Russians, the people with real capabilities, are able to do," said one former senior U.S. intelligence official...
Training is everything. It doesn't matter whether you're from Russia or China or Malaysia or Sweden, what you know and how you know it is everything. It might be easier to be from one country or another, but once you get there nationality means nothing. This kind of ignorant and racist Cold War thinking is patently absurd, thank god it's a "former" official.
From TFA: (yeah, yeah, I know)
In August of 2009, GPI was shut down by Washington state's Ecology Department who said GPI had "not provided adequate compliance with the environmental air quality regulations." This was cleared on September 8, 2010 by an EPA ruling that support's GPI's claim and reverses Washington state's Ecology Department's claim that placed the GPI process in the class of incinerators, which it is not.
According to the EPA:
Green Power describes its process as a proprietary catalytic pressure-less depolymerization process (CDP) where municipal solid waste or a wide variety of organic wastes are 'cracked' at the molecular level and the long-chain polymers (plastic, organic material such as wood, etc.) are chemically altered to become short-chain hydrocarbons with no combustion. Combustion requires oxygen or a similar compound, but according to Green Power the CDP occurs in an anaerobic environment, exposed only to inert gases like nitrogen.
Well, what are your remedies? You going to give him the cold shoulder?
Want to see more Russian women? There are ways. I even hear there are websites that let you "order" one as a kind of live-at-home model/spy. YMMV.
War is war just like cyber-bullying is bullying but the term cyber war does bring with it distinctions. When you say war, people think WWII, Vietnam, Iraq - something tangible. Cyber war is beyond the grasp of most people (especially those normally involved in war) and has different rules.
It's more like e-mail versus mail, or cyber-sex versus sex. You can prepare for or experience one, but that doesn't necessarily help with the other.
As I said, overly-complex and bureaucratic.
The total cost of linking national systems into a shared network would rise well above $100 million, he predicted, without counting the tens of millions more necessary for individual nations to invest in their national defense systems. In an era of budget cutbacks across Europe, he acknowledged, the idea of universal anti-missile coverage may still end up falling victim to deficit reduction.
Sounds like a good PR move to me.
"What's that? If Help the West invest time and money into a overly-complex and bureaucratic system that will never work, I can look like I'm cooperating and moving forward? Sounds like a deal to me!"
There doesn't need to be a Cold War, but Russia doesn't exactly want a Western hegemony.
Addendum - ONE senator tries to take Pistole to task for the patdowns, saying he finds them invasive and would not want to see his wife go through them. He then follows it up by saying we should have a national/worldwide database so that when he hands over his license they can look up his entire travel history around the world.
That's called being on the right track but taking the train way too far.
Checks and balances is an inherently good system. How well it works is a different issue, but the filibuster doesn't fall into that system. The filibuster is a way for the legislature to stop itself, and no one else. It's a product of bitter polarization within a two-party system, but all it does is weaken the legislature.
For anyone who saw Schneier's link to the video of the Senate hearing but didn't want to spend 90 minute sitting through it, don't. It's disgusting.
The first 30 minutes are nothing more than senator after senator saying the same three things:
1. How much of a threat we all face
2. How thankful they are for the fantastic job the TSA is doing
3. How glad they are for the new screening procedures, because they all have busted knees/hips, which means they can avoid a patdown.
They do say that we need to assess the concerns, but only in the context of understanding why people are complaining. A number of complaints are offended by private screenings for fear of greater molestation, yet the senators think private screenings are a good thing... they're simply out of touch. With one single witness, the hearing was a waste of time; Pistole gives the company line.
Well, at least in Canada they're $250k a pop. Although since it's Canada, it's really only monopoly money.
Write him to say thank you:
http://wyden.senate.gov/
I'm embarrassed to say that one of my senators is on the passing committee, and I've already written him about that, but let's keep Wyden supported.
It looks like that's what happened. The video shows an N of 535, and if 1/3 have appeared to cheat that means only 160 actually did.
Tribune had the original video taken down, but the news report is still viewable here, with most of the actual footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNY_PTULO4
People in their middle-ages on up have a pretty low adoption rate, I find. They got on with some ISP 10-15 years ago, and haven't looked back, except to change their ISP and thus the email. Webmail is still foreign to a lot of people.
Anyone who attended school in the past decade or so and actually made some friends there. I don't mean to be insulting, but rather to say that not everyone a slashdotter knows is also a slashdotter. Ten years ago that meant AIM instead of IRC, now it means Facebook.
Too many times have major news outlets such as the NYT hosted images from Wikimedia without giving proper attribution. I cite Cartman V. Family Guy to point out that if you can create exception for one website, you can create an exception for another, and another, and another.
What I said is that the Koran specifically forbids forced conversions i.e. there should be no compulsion in religion.
Chickity check it.. "Let there be no compulsion in religion." Of course, that hasn't particularly stopped anyone, but the Christians aren't exactly innocent there either; the only difference is that I don't know of any similar bit in the Bible. The Abrahamic religions all advocate some pretty atrocious customs, and I don't think characterizing one as more violent than another based on the texts would be accurate, especially given how history has turned out. That bloodshed has more to do with power than anything else.
Religion is a way of focusing a particular system of beliefs and morals, much like nationalism and other community constructs. Religion has been used to make some of the most beautiful creations in history while justifying some of its greatest atrocities. Feverish and fanatical beliefs follow from a personality, comparable to addiction. When you're in an uneducated, third-world country that the developed world has ignored, the narrative works.
I believe the report showing fewer active centrifuges, along with the wikileaks stuff, is trying to do that, however successfully.