They do mention a compromised domain controller, which suggests (though doesn't guarantee) Windows.
They also mention DOT, which I believe is heavily into Windows.
In the late 1980s I know there was some UNIX/X11 development going on for ATC in Germany, but I never heard whether it went big time in Europe, much less in the USA.
There are some references on the net from 2007 or so that the FAA was switching from Win to Lin, but I'm not sure what systems those were, or if it really happened. They could easily run a mix of UNIX, Linux, Windows and others on the back end, and mostly Windows on the front end.
Finally, the ATC systems probably run RTOS or a real-time UNIX.
There have been several games that have been released to "reflect on the nature of the human condition" or words that mean the same thing. AFAIK, none of them went anywhere to speak of.
...States are allowed to regulate even if there isn't a constitutional bar to an action.
In fact, all powers not specifically delegated to the Constitution are reserved for the states. Which means that if the courts rule it isn't covered by the Constitution, each state can ignore it or pass its own law[s] on the subject.
This can lead to widely different laws, which isn't necessarily bad-- it means (in theory) that each group of people had different beliefs about what the law should be.
The next comment had the Smoking Gun link. I think these folk did an excellent job, and I don't see what anyone could have gotten legitimately offended or upset about in this book. It's not gory. They don't have people leaping to their deaths, or being decapitated, or burned alive ("No, Johnny, the flame about his head should have more blue in it").
At what age do you think kids stop coloring? I agree that they might stop at age 4 if you us ethe TV set as a babysitter, or have them addicted to high tech games by then. But a lot of kids, even today, color at least til 7 or 8, and many later than that. And a six year old understands a lot more than most people give them credit for.
I never suggested the book was to "teach kids about 9/11". But it is a disaster, and it could happen again. Beyond that, it's a disaster that profoundly affects them whether they yet realize it or not.
I've raised two kids, and spent an awful lot of time with kids of all ages, from all walks of life. I know kids. This isn't going to traumatize them.
Beyond that, we survived a tornado which tore our house up good while we were at home. I promise you that tornados showed up in the majority of pictures, stories (spoken, written, etc) and whatnot our kids were involved with for quite some time.
I haven't seen the book, only the cover. But it seems very promising. Pulling it, however, seems to be a kneejerk response to kneejerk responses by a small group of people. If you can point me to a link with the full book I'll be happy to re-evaluate in lihgt of fuller data.
But given the level of ignorance and PCness in this country, not at all surprising. Games and coloring books are two ways kids learn, remember and process things. I recall growing up with coloring books that depicted, for instance, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Nazis, etc. It didn't turn me into a hateful monster or give me terrible dreams; it helped me learn, remember and understand. I've talked to several friends about this (I have friends across most spectrums you can come up with) and they reached the same conclusion.
We've found that anything that smells like humans (hair, pee, etc) keeps the deer away from our plants. Peeing around the flowers is one thing, but we're not so keen on that around the veggies. So this could help there.
I'm sorry, but this is public information. If you want it to be private, you keep it private. If Jane and Joe Average can access the information it's not private.
How it gets used is another matter, but...
If I'm at a party and keep my ears open and hear a reliable source say "Fred has been recruiting people to go around at night and kill all the blacks people in the town", I'm not going to hire Fred. Now if they note that Fred got drunk a lot in college, that doesn't really matter to me, unless he was too drunk to go to classes and cheated his way through. I don't see checking out facebook or myspace as any different.
We're getting farther and farther away from freedom and equality, all in the name of Freedom and Equality. It's like Dave Barry says, when someone tells you they're doing something "for the People" it's usually not the people at large who win.
Ironically enough, I had moved past the article in question to read the article about Jason's bandwidth being overwhelmed by myspace layout providers referencing an image on textfiles.com; I clicked on the next article and... down to to either "maintenance or capacity problems". 8^/
Ours are in use 24/7 except when a user screws up and locks their desktop out of the compute pool. We're mostly a linux shop. I suppose a couple of the Windows servers could sleep, but (a) we don't trust it, (b) people log in at all sorts of odd hours to do things and (c) backups and other things run during off hours. So sleeping just isn't an option for our systems.
I realize this doesn't apply to everyone, but the situation isn't black and white.
Let's eliminate the spammers, thus saving 100% of that energy. I'm thinking the same way the US recently eliminated some pirates.
These guys are wasting at least a day of my life every year, plus billions of dollars corporations an individuals spend avoiding their plague of emails, and then on top of that they're destroying the environment. Terrorists, every last one of them.
Worse than that, I once was in tis position, and every time we recompiled, new bugs cropped up. Until we realized they were *old* bugs. The taope drive had ceased writing about 3 months ago, only it always said it was writing fine. So what we had brought with us was 3 month old code. On the meantime, the drive crashed back at the office (no, I am not making this up), so we had current binaries, but old source, and every recompile brought in more old library code. Everyone, and I mean everyone involved, was breathing down our necks.
Including my wife, stuck at home 300 miles away with our colic-y firstborn.
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They do mention a compromised domain controller, which suggests (though doesn't guarantee) Windows.
They also mention DOT, which I believe is heavily into Windows.
In the late 1980s I know there was some UNIX/X11 development going on for ATC in Germany, but I never heard whether it went big time in Europe, much less in the USA.
There are some references on the net from 2007 or so that the FAA was switching from Win to Lin, but I'm not sure what systems those were, or if it really happened. They could easily run a mix of UNIX, Linux, Windows and others on the back end, and mostly Windows on the front end.
Finally, the ATC systems probably run RTOS or a real-time UNIX.
There have been several games that have been released to "reflect on the nature of the human condition" or words that mean the same thing. AFAIK, none of them went anywhere to speak of.
...States are allowed to regulate even if there isn't a constitutional bar to an action.
In fact, all powers not specifically delegated to the Constitution are reserved for the states. Which means that if the courts rule it isn't covered by the Constitution, each state can ignore it or pass its own law[s] on the subject.
This can lead to widely different laws, which isn't necessarily bad-- it means (in theory) that each group of people had different beliefs about what the law should be.
How does "some researchers believe" equate to "clearly demonstrated"? I think whoever wrote that blurb has experienced brain shrinkage!
Not just political intrusion. We need to send all those returning soldiers somewhere, too!
"Microsoft joined 200 companies who signed a letter complaining that the proposed tax changes would put them at a disadvantage with their rivals..."
Um, just what non-US rivals is Microsoft worried about here?
I found it mildly amusing (or maybe scary) that at post time, there were more myspace friends than anything else.
The next comment had the Smoking Gun link. I think these folk did an excellent job, and I don't see what anyone could have gotten legitimately offended or upset about in this book. It's not gory. They don't have people leaping to their deaths, or being decapitated, or burned alive ("No, Johnny, the flame about his head should have more blue in it").
At what age do you think kids stop coloring? I agree that they might stop at age 4 if you us ethe TV set as a babysitter, or have them addicted to high tech games by then. But a lot of kids, even today, color at least til 7 or 8, and many later than that. And a six year old understands a lot more than most people give them credit for.
I never suggested the book was to "teach kids about 9/11". But it is a disaster, and it could happen again. Beyond that, it's a disaster that profoundly affects them whether they yet realize it or not.
I've raised two kids, and spent an awful lot of time with kids of all ages, from all walks of life. I know kids. This isn't going to traumatize them.
Beyond that, we survived a tornado which tore our house up good while we were at home. I promise you that tornados showed up in the majority of pictures, stories (spoken, written, etc) and whatnot our kids were involved with for quite some time.
I haven't seen the book, only the cover. But it seems very promising. Pulling it, however, seems to be a kneejerk response to kneejerk responses by a small group of people. If you can point me to a link with the full book I'll be happy to re-evaluate in lihgt of fuller data.
It isn't the government's place to do what?
But given the level of ignorance and PCness in this country, not at all surprising. Games and coloring books are two ways kids learn, remember and process things. I recall growing up with coloring books that depicted, for instance, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Nazis, etc. It didn't turn me into a hateful monster or give me terrible dreams; it helped me learn, remember and understand. I've talked to several friends about this (I have friends across most spectrums you can come up with) and they reached the same conclusion.
We've become absurdly over-sensitive as a nation.
... is still broken. It just means we are more overdue to fix it than most people realize.
But, since it's mostly lawyers who would hav eto fix it, and it funds lots of lawyers...
... and we won't close the borders!
We've found that anything that smells like humans (hair, pee, etc) keeps the deer away from our plants. Peeing around the flowers is one thing, but we're not so keen on that around the veggies. So this could help there.
Just so they scrub it for head lice!
I'm sorry, but this is public information. If you want it to be private, you keep it private. If Jane and Joe Average can access the information it's not private.
How it gets used is another matter, but...
If I'm at a party and keep my ears open and hear a reliable source say "Fred has been recruiting people to go around at night and kill all the blacks people in the town", I'm not going to hire Fred. Now if they note that Fred got drunk a lot in college, that doesn't really matter to me, unless he was too drunk to go to classes and cheated his way through. I don't see checking out facebook or myspace as any different.
We're getting farther and farther away from freedom and equality, all in the name of Freedom and Equality. It's like Dave Barry says, when someone tells you they're doing something "for the People" it's usually not the people at large who win.
Ironically enough, I had moved past the article in question to read the article about Jason's bandwidth being overwhelmed by myspace layout providers referencing an image on textfiles.com; I clicked on the next article and... down to to either "maintenance or capacity problems". 8^/
A social life for /. readers! Now we all just have to die. I'll call Al up and see if he has any Internet Kool-Aid[tm]. He invented that, you know!
Ours are in use 24/7 except when a user screws up and locks their desktop out of the compute pool. We're mostly a linux shop. I suppose a couple of the Windows servers could sleep, but (a) we don't trust it, (b) people log in at all sorts of odd hours to do things and (c) backups and other things run during off hours. So sleeping just isn't an option for our systems.
I realize this doesn't apply to everyone, but the situation isn't black and white.
Install translators so drivers and passengers can communicate.
Let's eliminate the spammers, thus saving 100% of that energy. I'm thinking the same way the US recently eliminated some pirates.
These guys are wasting at least a day of my life every year, plus billions of dollars corporations an individuals spend avoiding their plague of emails, and then on top of that they're destroying the environment. Terrorists, every last one of them.
It may be overkill, but RenewData (www.renewdata.com) specifically handles online data storage for legal firms, complete with e-discovery tools.
Worse than that, I once was in tis position, and every time we recompiled, new bugs cropped up. Until we realized they were *old* bugs. The taope drive had ceased writing about 3 months ago, only it always said it was writing fine. So what we had brought with us was 3 month old code. On the meantime, the drive crashed back at the office (no, I am not making this up), so we had current binaries, but old source, and every recompile brought in more old library code. Everyone, and I mean everyone involved, was breathing down our necks.
Including my wife, stuck at home 300 miles away with our colic-y firstborn.
No. I suspect MS spends more on this per year for toilet paper.
Didn't google already do that? With streetview? I'm sure I heard a car drive through my cortex the other night.
What do they evolve into? You can just rock me to sleep tonight!