Lancaster County maybe, not Lancaster CITY, which is where the cameras are being installed. I'm from Lancaster, and while I am opposed to the slippery slope of Big Brother type constant surveillance, it may be worth pointing out the unsolved murders from last year. There is apparently a serial killer still on the loose, so some people are concerned enough for the security of themselves and their loved ones that they will put up with people watching them in a public space (GASP, SHOCK!).
You're playing with semantics. It no longer exhibited any of the characteristics of life. It had no metabolic function, no internal chemical reactions. It was dead. If you have a definition from a dictionary that defines dead to include someone who is irretreviably dead but not clinically dead, bring it forth. Otherwise, please realize such things are not so cut and dried.
I've worked at several places both in the Marine Corps and as a contractor, and they all suck in different ways. The CIA is the absolute worst in so many ways, and I don't feel bad one bit saying it. DIA sucks in its own special way, as does the command for which I work (though I love my job). I fail to see how my pointing out how bad the CIA sucks makes me part of the problem of why other places suck too. I don't see my pointing out CIA's problems as being tribal. I am not saying my command is the epitome of awesomeness (as do some here who have had too much Kool Aid). I am merely pointing what I think is true. They suck.
I have tried a few jabber clients, and taught Psi for a while. I'm not entirely thrilled with any of them yet. Not enough people on them to make it worthwhile and no easy way to browse for someone.
Apparently we have about 5.7 million miles of roads in the US (at least from some sites that came up on Google). That turns out to $570 Billion US. I have a hard time believing that's accurate to begin with. Maybe. Just seems a little high to me.
When I talk about tribalism, it DOES go both ways, because your org has a certain reputation as well (if you're where I'm guessing you are)
1. You have no idea where I am. Guess all you want. And if you're trying to guess from my posts, you're probably wrong 2. My first post merely stated surprise that the CIA was coming on board. You then said some very nasty things accusing me of bitching. YOU are the one bitching. YOU are the one laying down hate and blaming everyone for all the problems in the world. YOU are the one who is disgruntled and clearly needs some closure or something. Leave me out of it.
So you're saying you DON'T use jabber chat and DON'T edit your iped userpage?
First of all, this is entirely irrelevant and just shows you want to bitch regardless if there's something worth complaining about. In any case, I do not use any jabber clients. No one with whom I have to coordinate uses jabber. We have MS Office Communicator, email, phones, and our portal. I can get a hold of anyone I want through one or more of these means, and thousands of other people can contact me. And I do not edit my user page any more often than once a year.
I've worked in the IC for 12 years now, and have worked directly with the CIA more than once. I've seen their stove-piping firsthand and had to deal with their demands and their refusal to share what we needed for crucial operations. I was the one giving info we had to them, and they were the ones being tribal and not sharing just for the sake of not sharing. When asked a question, these clowns would all look at each other, one would shake their head, then they would say No, they didn't have anything, when it was obvious they did and obvious we had a need to know. And this is not uncommon behavior from them. I'd love to share more war stories, but I'm kind of limited on what I can say here.
then give yourself a big pat on the back for how you're improving work relations between IC agencies by hanging out on a chat channel and editing your intellipedia userpage
OK, troll, I never said anything about a chat channel or what if anything I personally edit. Read my posts. Or better yet, get the aforementioned clue.
Sounds like it is classified information from many different programs on a single classified network, in a single database.
No, it's two different wiki pages in two different classified networks that are not connected. Moving info from one to the other is no different than moving it in the past. Just like Wikipedia, it's a website on a network.
First of all, the CIA has a terrible reputation within the IC for not sharing info even with those who need to know, regardless of how many edits they make to Intellipedia. They demand everyone give them info, and return nothing. I've worked with them a few times directly, and they are the absolute worst at stove-piping. In fact, I have not heard a single positive comment about the CIA from anyone not at the CIA. And I actually work on a project devoted to sharing info throughout the IC, and CIA isn't involved, while dozens of other intel agencies and other commands are. So keep bitching about other people bitching. And maybe you should get a clue yourself.
It's classified information on classified networks. We've been doing this for ages, so it's not like we don't know how to handle it. USB ports are closed off on classified machines, distribution is limited, and the only people how have access are those who go through rigorous background checks. The checks in place to prevent unauthorized disclosure have worked in the past and there's really nothing different about this. What's the problem?
No, it's for anything up to the classification of the network, and this resides on Secret and Top Secret networks. It's no more dangerous than the terabytes of classified information that already reside on these intranets.
CIA is about the last agency I'd suspect of trying this. I use Intellipedia at work, and have been trying to advocate its use more, but like TFS said, most people in the IC talk about "need to know", not "need to share." There's a lot of products that really should just be pages on Intellipedia, like biographies on important people, but instead are powerpoint slides on someone's hard drive. Meanwhile, multiple commands are tracking the same people but aren't sharing info on those bios. I think we'll see more progress on this as senior leadership move out and people who grew up on Web 2.0 move up.
Yes, that's just what our country needs. Sue for millions, and raise the price of medical care for the rest of us so she can be a millionaire. Everyone should do that!
Depends on how they hit. If they ram each other dead-on, then yeah they break up into a lot of smaller pieces. But say they hit like a car swerving into another car going the same direction (oblig car analogy). They may merge into one body in a case like that. Also, the gravity of the two planets should help ensure stray pieces fall back on the combined mass.
Between the inaccuracy of the GPS (does NOT give pin-point locations like laser target designators) and the digital compass (which typically doesn't work well near metal objects, like your rifle, radio, etc), I see a marked decline in accuracy of the system you are describing (the laser range finder is probably the most accurate part of that system, but I don't know how far off it can be). Add to that the problems that have plagued systems like this in the past, like magnetic north vice true north (was that add 2.5deg or subtract?), using the proper datum when calculating the new position (is this area still in NAD 27 or WGS 84?), and above sea level vice ground level elevation calculation (sniper pointing a laser down into a canyon for instance). These problems have all resulted in non-combatant casualties in the past, and the laser target designator solved all of them. Just home in on the reflected light. Simple and effective. Yours is complex and inaccurate. Not that fucking hard to understand.
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Lancaster County maybe, not Lancaster CITY, which is where the cameras are being installed. I'm from Lancaster, and while I am opposed to the slippery slope of Big Brother type constant surveillance, it may be worth pointing out the unsolved murders from last year. There is apparently a serial killer still on the loose, so some people are concerned enough for the security of themselves and their loved ones that they will put up with people watching them in a public space (GASP, SHOCK!).
Yeah, well I own a DVD burner and a stack of blank DVDs, so I own every movie ever made!
I've been looking into LED projectors for a few years now
There's a Visine for that.
You're playing with semantics. It no longer exhibited any of the characteristics of life. It had no metabolic function, no internal chemical reactions. It was dead. If you have a definition from a dictionary that defines dead to include someone who is irretreviably dead but not clinically dead, bring it forth. Otherwise, please realize such things are not so cut and dried.
How could it be US territory since we never went there?
I've worked at several places both in the Marine Corps and as a contractor, and they all suck in different ways. The CIA is the absolute worst in so many ways, and I don't feel bad one bit saying it. DIA sucks in its own special way, as does the command for which I work (though I love my job). I fail to see how my pointing out how bad the CIA sucks makes me part of the problem of why other places suck too. I don't see my pointing out CIA's problems as being tribal. I am not saying my command is the epitome of awesomeness (as do some here who have had too much Kool Aid). I am merely pointing what I think is true. They suck.
I have tried a few jabber clients, and taught Psi for a while. I'm not entirely thrilled with any of them yet. Not enough people on them to make it worthwhile and no easy way to browse for someone.
Apparently we have about 5.7 million miles of roads in the US (at least from some sites that came up on Google). That turns out to $570 Billion US. I have a hard time believing that's accurate to begin with. Maybe. Just seems a little high to me.
When I talk about tribalism, it DOES go both ways, because your org has a certain reputation as well (if you're where I'm guessing you are)
1. You have no idea where I am. Guess all you want. And if you're trying to guess from my posts, you're probably wrong
2. My first post merely stated surprise that the CIA was coming on board. You then said some very nasty things accusing me of bitching. YOU are the one bitching. YOU are the one laying down hate and blaming everyone for all the problems in the world. YOU are the one who is disgruntled and clearly needs some closure or something. Leave me out of it.
So you're saying you DON'T use jabber chat and DON'T edit your iped userpage?
First of all, this is entirely irrelevant and just shows you want to bitch regardless if there's something worth complaining about. In any case, I do not use any jabber clients. No one with whom I have to coordinate uses jabber. We have MS Office Communicator, email, phones, and our portal. I can get a hold of anyone I want through one or more of these means, and thousands of other people can contact me. And I do not edit my user page any more often than once a year.
then give yourself a big pat on the back for how you're improving work relations between IC agencies by hanging out on a chat channel and editing your intellipedia userpage
OK, troll, I never said anything about a chat channel or what if anything I personally edit. Read my posts. Or better yet, get the aforementioned clue.
Sounds like it is classified information from many different programs on a single classified network, in a single database.
No, it's two different wiki pages in two different classified networks that are not connected. Moving info from one to the other is no different than moving it in the past. Just like Wikipedia, it's a website on a network.
First of all, the CIA has a terrible reputation within the IC for not sharing info even with those who need to know, regardless of how many edits they make to Intellipedia. They demand everyone give them info, and return nothing. I've worked with them a few times directly, and they are the absolute worst at stove-piping. In fact, I have not heard a single positive comment about the CIA from anyone not at the CIA. And I actually work on a project devoted to sharing info throughout the IC, and CIA isn't involved, while dozens of other intel agencies and other commands are. So keep bitching about other people bitching. And maybe you should get a clue yourself.
It's classified information on classified networks. We've been doing this for ages, so it's not like we don't know how to handle it. USB ports are closed off on classified machines, distribution is limited, and the only people how have access are those who go through rigorous background checks. The checks in place to prevent unauthorized disclosure have worked in the past and there's really nothing different about this. What's the problem?
No, it's for anything up to the classification of the network, and this resides on Secret and Top Secret networks. It's no more dangerous than the terabytes of classified information that already reside on these intranets.
CIA is about the last agency I'd suspect of trying this. I use Intellipedia at work, and have been trying to advocate its use more, but like TFS said, most people in the IC talk about "need to know", not "need to share." There's a lot of products that really should just be pages on Intellipedia, like biographies on important people, but instead are powerpoint slides on someone's hard drive. Meanwhile, multiple commands are tracking the same people but aren't sharing info on those bios. I think we'll see more progress on this as senior leadership move out and people who grew up on Web 2.0 move up.
Yes, that's just what our country needs. Sue for millions, and raise the price of medical care for the rest of us so she can be a millionaire. Everyone should do that!
Uh, yeah. What he said!
Swoosh? Is someone going to throw a Nike at you?
It's the iPhone killer we've all been waiting for!
...for which we've been waiting. Sorry, everyone. Sorry! I got a little carried away there.
Obscure? Nothing's obscure on slashdot.
Not to mention there is no year of the chicken, apart from the rooster/cock. Other than that, though, it was brilliant.
Let's just get that out of the way first and foremost.
Why?
That's no supernova...
Yeah, I hope they're smart enough not to have an open ballot. It would be Colbertium for sure.
Depends on how they hit. If they ram each other dead-on, then yeah they break up into a lot of smaller pieces. But say they hit like a car swerving into another car going the same direction (oblig car analogy). They may merge into one body in a case like that. Also, the gravity of the two planets should help ensure stray pieces fall back on the combined mass.
Between the inaccuracy of the GPS (does NOT give pin-point locations like laser target designators) and the digital compass (which typically doesn't work well near metal objects, like your rifle, radio, etc), I see a marked decline in accuracy of the system you are describing (the laser range finder is probably the most accurate part of that system, but I don't know how far off it can be). Add to that the problems that have plagued systems like this in the past, like magnetic north vice true north (was that add 2.5deg or subtract?), using the proper datum when calculating the new position (is this area still in NAD 27 or WGS 84?), and above sea level vice ground level elevation calculation (sniper pointing a laser down into a canyon for instance). These problems have all resulted in non-combatant casualties in the past, and the laser target designator solved all of them. Just home in on the reflected light. Simple and effective. Yours is complex and inaccurate. Not that fucking hard to understand.