censorship of the internet in Iraq. In my experience, if I was on a government computer, there was stuff I couldn't get to (though that list did not include email sites), but at the internet centers that were set up, I never ran into any site that had been blocked.
I don't know how helpful or even pertinent you may find this, but:
I work on Radios for the Marine Corps (in particular, my specialty is those that operate in the HF radio spectrum, and one that does VHF and UHF, used for comm with aircraft). I was sent through a school giving me a basic general knowledge of elecrtonics, then a follow-on school to that teaching me about several of the radios that the Marine Corps uses, including several I have not worked with since the school. The VHF/UHF radio I mentioned was not included in this school--I was told "learn how to fix it" and I talked to some people who fix the thing and read the manual; now I'm pretty good at it. The other 2 radios I repair were covered in shcool, however, one was not covered on the component level, which I am required to troubleshoot to here. The other one, I gained pretty good knowledge of, just no real-world experience from school. When I was turned to my shop in the Fleet Marine Force, I was instructed and supervised by my section head, and others with more experience. I am now currently the section head, and am tasked with doing the same thing. In my opinion, this system is pretty good, reasonably efficient system. It worked for me, and the Marine under me currently is learing quickly. Another note I left out is that I spent nearly a year between the two schools. They also tought us details of reading and understanding electronic schematics during the radio-specific school, which is an absolutely indispensible skill in the particular line of work.
Granted, this is a highly technical field, but there's almost no possibl way anyone except maybe the most gifted of individuals could succeed without the initial training given in the Marine Corps comm-electronics schools.
I, along with many many other Marines in Iraq, was recently issued something that sounds very similar. I actually haven't even worn mine yet favoring the Under Armour I purchased myself before deploying. A note on the silver fiber, though. First, judging from experience of the others who have worn it, nothing in it prevents sweating. And second, according to the tags, at least, the silver is what prevents microbial growth.
Wow, if the site weren't being slashdotted right now, I might could put in here how much I'll be saving by just using an old school burner and a sharpie!
When you say that the US violates the Geneva Convention, you imply that the countries we are fighting actually follow it. The Geneva Convention says that you are not to kill the enemy's medics, but Corpsmen do not wear a red cross on their combat uniforms in battle with the current enemby because they will be singled out deliberately and killed. We arm our Corpsmen, and I assume the army does the same with their medics, for the same reason, despite the fact that they are considered non-combatants under the Geneva Convention. If that's the only way to save the life of even a single person on the battlefield, then you're fucking right we're going to violate the Geneva Convention. But it hardly holds any sway to begin with when the enemy doesn't recognize it.
Now stay on topic and quit trolling! You're going to get me bad karma for posting offtopic in repsonse to stupid shit.
I can say from experience, that that's how the Marine Corps assures the security of its communication devices. Or is is it just a built-in function of the damn operators to break those things?
I have to say something about this. The Army has a tendency not to learn to get around the battlefield without their utilities. I can't much comment about how well they fight without weapons, but judging by how many of them get their asses kicked regularly by Marines, it's not very good. And, honestly, I don't feel like I've been trained as well as I should have been to fight should my rifle be lost/deserviced/captured, whatever the (granted unlikely) case.
That would almost make it a good browser. Now, if they just made it as customizeable as Firefox, and got rid of all of the defaultly annoying 'user friendly' crap, implement a Linux version, and sell it to someone who isn't M$, I might actually consider liking it a little.
Or is this just a step in a direction? My job is repairing ground radios for the Marine Corps. With the training I have in the electronics field, if I can get my hands on a scematic, I can fix damn near anything. Does that mean that, should I move to Louisianna and set up a radio repair business, or get licensed similarly, that I need to pay 55 more dollars just because I am capable of fixing TVs? This may seem a little off topic, but that's almost the impression I'm getting from this story, that they're just looking for more income, and will jack pretty much anyone they can to get it.
Have you failed to notice that we always manage to find some way around DRM? In this case, although I don't really know all of the details, it seems like a video capture card and gnutella would suffice. Only difference is it's not resltime and it can be distributed indefinitely.
If it makes Uncle Sam a little happier, it's not like I'm losing much to that new law, even besides the fact that I don't use VoIP. I'm quite used to using a line that can be easily tapped, and, as of right now, the most common phone I use is cellular, awesome privacy there, huh? While it's true that the government may as well have a probe up my ass 25/7 anyway, since I'm in the service, I'm not sure I would care about this if I were a civilian. Any time that this type of thing happens, the terrorists just find some way to work around it anyway, if they really don't want our intelligence agencies to know what's going on.
Personally, I might be said to be addicted to the internet since I'm pretty much always on it. On the other hand, that's probably because it's just about the only thing to do around here. When I don't have and internet connection available to me, I find myself actually finding other things to do. And another issue to bring up, the only things I really missed while I was away at bootcamp for 3 months, was my tobacco products and alcohol, while I did really miss my news and whatnot, I didn't have all that much of a problem leaving it behind. It's my opinion that these individuals only wanted to get out of military service, and not spend their year in prison (as is Finnish law, mandatory service, a beautiful thing if you ask me, but Uncle Sam didn't). In my day I've heard some pretty bad excuses to get out of/avoid going into military service, and this is really about one of the crappiest ones yet.
What I have a problem with, is that soldiers have this strange tendency to put total reliance in the gear they're issued. Granted, they get brand new gear all the time, but it comes from the same lowest bidder that the rest of us use.
Yes, this creature would be an incredible conveniece (if one can say there's such a thing) on the battlefield, but it also has a lot of varialbes, a lot things that can faile that a soldier in the heat of battle would be screwed without, and for some reason (granted, I don't know anything about the design of this thing,but) is seems like it has parts that would be pretty easy to break without babying, and that's simply not an option when you're trying your hardes not to end up with a 30 calibre chunk of lead in your ass. Good idea, I would say, but I don't know if I, personally, would like to trust my life with this thing.
I can't top that with a story where one still worked, but this is amusing all the same. One of my buddies (a Marine) bought a laptop and was told it was 'indestructible' and had a replacement plan to back it up. He ran over the thing with an AMTRACK (that's Amphibious tracked vehicle, not a train, btw) and took it back to the store in several pieces now. When the vendor asked what the hell happened, he got a response saying never to tell a Marine something is indestructible.
Quite frankly, I've never had any problem "casualy" working around this stuff. Most sharware "protection" is easy to get past, and the CD protections have never hindered me a single bit.
Actually, I have had unmonitored, unlimited 'net access since i was about 10 (I'm 16 now) and my parents never had a problem. Hell, I stayed away from the porn untill I was at least 13, and by then they trusted me.
I don't know if anyone's said this already or not, there are too many comments for me to read in the time I have:
I am a 16 year old geek in Lone Oak High School. I have said numerous times stuff such as "If they let the geeks knock off who the thought needed to be, the world would be a better place." I've been lucky so far, apparently, as to who has heard me say stuff like this, for I have not been turned in yet. However, is there any reason I should not be able to say that? Honestly now, we all have the freedom of speech and, though I would like to very much, I'm not going to kill anyone, it's a damned joke!!! I should be able to say whateve the fuck I want to without worrying about being charged with making terroristic threats!
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
D.A.R.E was extremely good for education about drugs and their effects, but I don't feel it has much effect as to whether or not kids "do" drugs. I went through the program at my school in fifth grade and have never used drugs, but I really don't think D.A.R.E influenced this decision with the possible exception of that it told me how exactly some drugs affect the body and I've never had any desire to be "high" or anything such.
I don't know if anyone's posted this yet, I haven't read all of the comments, but it needs to be posted if it hasn't been. The virus was written for Windows, and when Linux reads it, or trys to anyway, it says "the binaries are wrong, this isn't a freakin' program you stupid idiot, I can't run it." If no one's figured that out already, that's why Linux isn't affected by the virus.
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censorship of the internet in Iraq. In my experience, if I was on a government computer, there was stuff I couldn't get to (though that list did not include email sites), but at the internet centers that were set up, I never ran into any site that had been blocked.
I don't know how helpful or even pertinent you may find this, but:
I work on Radios for the Marine Corps (in particular, my specialty is those that operate in the HF radio spectrum, and one that does VHF and UHF, used for comm with aircraft). I was sent through a school giving me a basic general knowledge of elecrtonics, then a follow-on school to that teaching me about several of the radios that the Marine Corps uses, including several I have not worked with since the school. The VHF/UHF radio I mentioned was not included in this school--I was told "learn how to fix it" and I talked to some people who fix the thing and read the manual; now I'm pretty good at it. The other 2 radios I repair were covered in shcool, however, one was not covered on the component level, which I am required to troubleshoot to here. The other one, I gained pretty good knowledge of, just no real-world experience from school. When I was turned to my shop in the Fleet Marine Force, I was instructed and supervised by my section head, and others with more experience. I am now currently the section head, and am tasked with doing the same thing. In my opinion, this system is pretty good, reasonably efficient system. It worked for me, and the Marine under me currently is learing quickly. Another note I left out is that I spent nearly a year between the two schools. They also tought us details of reading and understanding electronic schematics during the radio-specific school, which is an absolutely indispensible skill in the particular line of work.
Granted, this is a highly technical field, but there's almost no possibl way anyone except maybe the most gifted of individuals could succeed without the initial training given in the Marine Corps comm-electronics schools.
I hope my comments are helpful to you.
I, along with many many other Marines in Iraq, was recently issued something that sounds very similar. I actually haven't even worn mine yet favoring the Under Armour I purchased myself before deploying. A note on the silver fiber, though. First, judging from experience of the others who have worn it, nothing in it prevents sweating. And second, according to the tags, at least, the silver is what prevents microbial growth.
Wow, if the site weren't being slashdotted right now, I might could put in here how much I'll be saving by just using an old school burner and a sharpie!
Now stay on topic and quit trolling! You're going to get me bad karma for posting offtopic in repsonse to stupid shit.
I can say from experience, that that's how the Marine Corps assures the security of its communication devices. Or is is it just a built-in function of the damn operators to break those things?
I have to say something about this. The Army has a tendency not to learn to get around the battlefield without their utilities. I can't much comment about how well they fight without weapons, but judging by how many of them get their asses kicked regularly by Marines, it's not very good. And, honestly, I don't feel like I've been trained as well as I should have been to fight should my rifle be lost/deserviced/captured, whatever the (granted unlikely) case.
That would almost make it a good browser. Now, if they just made it as customizeable as Firefox, and got rid of all of the defaultly annoying 'user friendly' crap, implement a Linux version, and sell it to someone who isn't M$, I might actually consider liking it a little.
Or is this just a step in a direction? My job is repairing ground radios for the Marine Corps. With the training I have in the electronics field, if I can get my hands on a scematic, I can fix damn near anything. Does that mean that, should I move to Louisianna and set up a radio repair business, or get licensed similarly, that I need to pay 55 more dollars just because I am capable of fixing TVs? This may seem a little off topic, but that's almost the impression I'm getting from this story, that they're just looking for more income, and will jack pretty much anyone they can to get it.
Have you failed to notice that we always manage to find some way around DRM? In this case, although I don't really know all of the details, it seems like a video capture card and gnutella would suffice. Only difference is it's not resltime and it can be distributed indefinitely.
If it makes Uncle Sam a little happier, it's not like I'm losing much to that new law, even besides the fact that I don't use VoIP. I'm quite used to using a line that can be easily tapped, and, as of right now, the most common phone I use is cellular, awesome privacy there, huh? While it's true that the government may as well have a probe up my ass 25/7 anyway, since I'm in the service, I'm not sure I would care about this if I were a civilian. Any time that this type of thing happens, the terrorists just find some way to work around it anyway, if they really don't want our intelligence agencies to know what's going on.
Personally, I might be said to be addicted to the internet since I'm pretty much always on it. On the other hand, that's probably because it's just about the only thing to do around here. When I don't have and internet connection available to me, I find myself actually finding other things to do. And another issue to bring up, the only things I really missed while I was away at bootcamp for 3 months, was my tobacco products and alcohol, while I did really miss my news and whatnot, I didn't have all that much of a problem leaving it behind. It's my opinion that these individuals only wanted to get out of military service, and not spend their year in prison (as is Finnish law, mandatory service, a beautiful thing if you ask me, but Uncle Sam didn't). In my day I've heard some pretty bad excuses to get out of/avoid going into military service, and this is really about one of the crappiest ones yet.
What I have a problem with, is that soldiers have this strange tendency to put total reliance in the gear they're issued. Granted, they get brand new gear all the time, but it comes from the same lowest bidder that the rest of us use.
Yes, this creature would be an incredible conveniece (if one can say there's such a thing) on the battlefield, but it also has a lot of varialbes, a lot things that can faile that a soldier in the heat of battle would be screwed without, and for some reason (granted, I don't know anything about the design of this thing,but) is seems like it has parts that would be pretty easy to break without babying, and that's simply not an option when you're trying your hardes not to end up with a 30 calibre chunk of lead in your ass. Good idea, I would say, but I don't know if I, personally, would like to trust my life with this thing.
I can't top that with a story where one still worked, but this is amusing all the same. One of my buddies (a Marine) bought a laptop and was told it was 'indestructible' and had a replacement plan to back it up. He ran over the thing with an AMTRACK (that's Amphibious tracked vehicle, not a train, btw) and took it back to the store in several pieces now. When the vendor asked what the hell happened, he got a response saying never to tell a Marine something is indestructible.
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AH HAH!! So my fraudulent ads did work. . . excellent!
yeah, good point, I just rip CDs for personal use, and, fortunately for current circumstances, I quit using shareware years ago when I got Linux.
Quite frankly, I've never had any problem "casualy" working around this stuff. Most sharware "protection" is easy to get past, and the CD protections have never hindered me a single bit.
I've already re-ripped all of my CDs into OGG, and don't plan to buy a portable player untill they support OGG.
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Actually, I have had unmonitored, unlimited 'net access since i was about 10 (I'm 16 now) and my parents never had a problem. Hell, I stayed away from the porn untill I was at least 13, and by then they trusted me.
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I don't know if anyone's said this already or not, there are too many comments for me to read in the time I have:
I am a 16 year old geek in Lone Oak High School. I have said numerous times stuff such as "If they let the geeks knock off who the thought needed to be, the world would be a better place." I've been lucky so far, apparently, as to who has heard me say stuff like this, for I have not been turned in yet. However, is there any reason I should not be able to say that? Honestly now, we all have the freedom of speech and, though I would like to very much, I'm not going to kill anyone, it's a damned joke!!! I should be able to say whateve the fuck I want to without worrying about being charged with making terroristic threats!
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
D.A.R.E was extremely good for education about drugs and their effects, but I don't feel it has much effect as to whether or not kids "do" drugs. I went through the program at my school in fifth grade and have never used drugs, but I really don't think D.A.R.E influenced this decision with the possible exception of that it told me how exactly some drugs affect the body and I've never had any desire to be "high" or anything such.
If it were restricted to religious websites I think this would be a great idea. However, since I somehow doubt it is, I think it's pretty stupid.
I don't know if anyone's posted this yet, I haven't read all of the comments, but it needs to be posted if it hasn't been. The virus was written for Windows, and when Linux reads it, or trys to anyway, it says "the binaries are wrong, this isn't a freakin' program you stupid idiot, I can't run it." If no one's figured that out already, that's why Linux isn't affected by the virus.