Or how about the fact that parents send their kids to school sick vs. losing a day of wages or worse yet spending for a doctor to get the kid better? Schools are petri dishes for everything and anything. There are however air to air heat exchangers that can minimize energy loss and provide enough fresh air. The problem with those is cost. Meh, maybe they should just open up a window once in awhile.
I hit this with KIS and Kaspersky never even responded to the ticket I opened. I'm sure they're scratching their heads about it now but anyway back to Firefox for now.
For those of us on the Dev channel for Chrome hit this in February. It's definitely a fucked up decision by the Chrome team and has led to a lot of folks ripping out Chrome in favor of something else. The claim made by the devs is that it's safer if the extensions come out of their web store and would eliminate malicious activity from extensions. They obviously didn't want to fix the browser to alert the user when malicious extensions are installed or provide a sysadmin set of functions necessary to install necessary, safe extensions. Of course we all know it's another fucking walled garden take-over by Google. I've already recommended to clients that they don't use Chrome and have removed it from a little over 4000 systems thus far. Personally Google is fucking the user community on this one, so fuck Google.
I think you'll find that the NSA is relatively efficient at what it does in terms of its mission statement. That's the more chilling analogy here. 40 to 50 years ago it took massive amounts of "feet on the street" to gather intelligence along with lots of time to analyze the information. Now with wholesale wiretapping of all forms of communication there's not much that our government can't learn about nearly every citizen in the country. By nearly we have to think of kids who aren't on the Internet or have a cell phone yet. If you start to tie together the communications surveillance with the amount of surveillance that goes on from commercial entities and local law enforcement a profile on the behaviors and destinations of every American is now at hand. Your license plates on your car are tracked, your credit card/banking transactions tracked. Your travel is now tracked both by "chipped" passports and airline itineraries. Even your transit pass is tracking you. We may have backed into our Orwellian surveillance world in the name of easy shopping or "security" but that certainly doesn't mean that we have to allow it to continue. That's the failure of our democracy right now, we're failing to push our leadership to dismantle this system and to push for legislation that would outlaw these wholesale collection processes in the first place.
You mean let him express his views that only benefit his rainbow push coalition and his own endeavors? He's an extortionist, plain and simple with a long history of condemning businesses over racial issues and once they pay him off, he shuts up and supports them. Funny how that works. There's an excellent book on the subject.
Is this guy still relevant? I guess he hasn't heard, we have a black president. This guy needs to just retire because all he does is try to get people to kiss his ass.
true but other than a wire tap I can't think of anything that wouldn't require tipping the customer off. Oh well, someday we may know exactly what this was all about.
I'd like to know how they can do something "lawful" and obtain the information from the customer without disclosing what the "underlying investigation" is about?
Two words.. Canadian Pharmacy.. Naw, the whole EU ban on it and the only US company, Hospira, stopped in 2011 means that the easy way isn't so easy. I smell a commercial opportunity here. Would it be unethical to try and use kickstarter for seed funding?;-)
We would like to ramp up production of Sodium Thiopental to develop the onshore capability for killing our prisoners on death row. This means we'll be manufacturing it here in the good old USA and hiring American workers (except for the Janitorial staff). For this we're targeting an initial funding of $20 million to set up the lab and limited production facilities.
Guillotine, Hanging, Firing Squad and the Electric Chair.
You could also take standard drugs like Sodium Thiopental that are used in countries that allow euthanasia
Sodium thiopental is used intravenously for the purposes of euthanasia. In both Belgium and the Netherlands, where active euthanasia is allowed by law, the standard protocol recommends sodium thiopental as the ideal agent to induce coma, followed by pancuronium bromide.
Intravenous administration is the most reliable and rapid way to accomplish euthanasia. A coma is first induced by intravenous administration of 20 mg/kg thiopental sodium (Nesdonal) in a small volume (10 ml physiological saline). Then, a triple dose of a non-depolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron). The muscle relaxant should be given intravenously to ensure optimal availability but pancuronium bromide may be administered intramuscular at an increased dosage level of 40 mg.
In reading the documents, the NSL surrounded a Microsoft enterprise customer. This could have been around Azure or any other professional service that Microsoft offers to organizations. Since the documents provided don't disclose a who, it could be assumed that the FBI was looking into a company, not an individual. Since everything else around this case is sealed, we'll never know who or what organization was targeted by the NSL which again problematic in a free country.
I find this other statement hilarious.
The FBI obtained the requested information through lawful means from a third party, the Customer, in a way that maintains the confidentiality of the underlying investigation
It's obvious that the Customer knows now that they're targeted in an investigation and "lawful" means would imply that the NSL wasn't legal or possibly that the FBI uses "unlawful" means of obtaining information? I guess I just find the wording funny, I mean they could have just said "we obtained a search warrant and served it directly on the suspect."
It was a fast aircraft, incredibly dangerous and is only credited with shooting down 9 planes. By other accounts 16 victories vs. 10 losses so from the concept of being a fighter it wasn't very good at all especially since after the powered rocket phase which only lasted 7 and a half minutes, it became a glider and was easily shot down by allied fighters. A lot were lost as well due to it not having landing gear that fell off on takeoff. http://www.world-war-2-planes....
The concept of a sea plane that big was 1930s thinking, by the time the war ended a B29 had a 5500 mile range which allowed it to cross the Pacific ocean with relative ease. By the end of the war the plans were already being sketched out for the B50 (B29 follow on) which had a 7500 mile range and the B36 which had nearly double the range, 9,900 miles, of the B29. While both of these were bombers and not transports it showed how fast things were progressing in the industry and for comparison the C97, a cargo version of the B50, was in service from 1947 and could go father and faster than the H-4 was projected to do.
The largest big flying boats built in the US were the Martin Mars, which only 7 were built and delivered in the 1940s. So even the US Navy didn't think that flying boats were the future.
I interned on a project for Hughes Ground Systems Group in the 1970s and while working there I remember it being said that the Aircraft Division was always a love of Hughes and while his designs never made it into production he influenced the industry greatly. So maybe he wasn't a mover but definitely a shaker in the industry.
It's already past history and while nobody likes it when a program comes to an end, get over it. Even the ISS has a useful life and with the recent statements by Russia that's about six years away now and I don't think we'll be pushing for another international cooperation effort like this again, not in my lifetime at least. The discontinuity in the space program as I previously pointed out is natural for our political landscape. We can't agree on anything and don't think beyond a 4 or 8 year presidency anymore and unless it's for the military industrial complex in this nation we don't do long term programs that involve anything of a scientific or technical nature. Why? Because new and innovative ways of killing the enemy is good politics because it's strong on defense and it creates jobs. The Space Race was an extension of the Cold War and it was synergistic in its goals to embarrass the Soviets who had previously embarrassed us with Sputnik and Gagarin. Also Kennedy wasn't looking so good after the whole "Bay of Pigs" thingy, so he had to distract folks away from that a bit. So a month after the bay of pigs we have the "We choose to go to the moon" speech. Spin doctors were alive and well in the 1960s.
If you asked the typical American citizen right now what the key goals or problems to solve in the country are right now I don't think Russian rockets ferrying US Astronauts to the ISS is in the top 10. You can lay the blame for paying the Russians to get to the ISS squarely on the current administration despite the objections of many members of congress and the public. It was and is a somewhat unholy alliance and current events makes it even more tenuous. If it gets much worse I'd suspect that the ISS will get shuttered here very very soon.
We look back at Apollo because it had unique set of circumstances backing it. You had Johnson who pushed for NASA before he was Vice President and then President and you had Webb who had an extremely long tenure as administrator pushing members of congress relentlessly. You also had the aura of an assassinated president who inspired the nation to shoot for the moon. What happened after July 20, 1969 became a cold bucket of water on everybody and congress felt that the mission had been accomplished. Sure, the moon landings were cut back but again that seems to be the norm. Skylab was only designed to be in space for 9 years and it could have been cobbled together and pushed into orbit etc. but even NASA wasn't going to the wall for it, they wanted the Shuttle and just about the time it came online Sklyab would have been end of life anyway. It doesn't make it right, it's just how things were done. NASA had priorities in the budget and fixing/keeping Skylab wasn't more important than the shuttle. The country had other priorities as well in the 70s. Vietnam, Watergate, Inflation, Oil Embargoes, 20+% interest rates and double digit inflation to name a few. With all those things going on it's amazing that we even had Skylab up there at all.
As for the Soviets (Russians), yes they have a great amount of LEO experience but I do believe we've played out that space. It's time to move on, I would love to have seen us back on the Moon, Mars maybe but I'm afraid that there's not the leadership and money available to go and do it. I would love to see the best and brightest all over the world go and do it but again, we have international politics involved and there's that money thing.
Since the Chinese and Oil producing nations are absorbing all of the cash in the world, maybe we'll see a joint Sino-Arab mission to mars that we'll be able to watch on our LG TVs or iPads which curiously enough aren't made in the US.
How do you know that? Were you there with him? Probably not. I pointed out that he had a lot of initiative and didn't wait around for somebody to "learn him somthin." I also was describing the education system, you focused on Universities where, let's face it, nowadays by and large it's all about churning out MBAs not great physicists. I'm also pretty sure that MIT has produced it's share of mundane graduates as well. Oh wait, I've worked with a couple one being a Project Manager.
I've been to DC, more times than I care to think about. I presume you're talking about the Udvar-Hazy museum and to KSC as well as JSC and yes there are a few rockets around but one rocket does not a program make and there were problems with Skylab and after the last mission the did push it further up and then vented the atmosphere inside. Skylab as a project was a last minute, "hey we have a few Saturn Vs and 1Bs hanging around" type of deal but studies had been conducted all the way back to 1960 on an orbital lab,
Sorry, I followed the the space program very carefully back then. I even followed it more closely when I worked for a NASA subcontractor on the shuttle but that was another life.
First there was Apollo 8 and the uproar that was created when they interrupted a football game. Never get between a football game and scientific discovery, we know who will lose that argument.
Despite being able to show this milestone in audio and visual communications, a spokesman for CBS said nearly 1,000 calls of protest were received in short order after the network left the game. The calls all were in the vein of “How dare you interrupt the game?” One person even said he hoped the astronauts “never came back,” according to the CBS spokesman.
Next congress took away funding for missions going to the moon, the typical "been there, done that" mentality crept in. We'd also gone to the moon, landed there etc. Many members of congress felt that there was little value to continue the moon landings. James Webb was no longer in charge of NASA and Johnson was out of office. Oddly, the public never spoke up or argued with that decision to stop the moon landings.
Finally, the Apollo program, while an enormous achievement, left a divided legacy for NASA and the aerospace community. The perceived "golden age" of Apollo created for the agency an expectation that the direction of any major space goal from the president would always bring NASA a broad consensus of support and provide it with the resources and license to dispense them as it saw fit. Something most NASA officials did not understand at the time of the Moon landing in 1969, however, was that Apollo had not been conducted under normal political circumstances and that the exceptional circumstances surrounding Apollo would not be repeated.
The Apollo decision was, therefore, an anomaly in the national decision-making process. The dilemma of the "golden age" of Apollo has been difficult to overcome, but moving beyond the Apollo program to embrace future opportunities has been an important goal of the agency's leadership in the recent past. Exploration of the Solar System and the universe remains as enticing a goal and as important an objective for humanity as it ever has been. Project Apollo was an important early step in that ongoing process of exploration.
An anomaly in the national decision-making process. That's why we can't seem to do anything "difficult" in this country unless it's war related.
As for keeping Skylab going, there's three 1Bs left and that's the only vehicle we had until 1981 to even get to Skylab. There were also two "could fly" Saturn V rockets, one's at KSC the other is at JSC on display. The one at the Rocket Center at MSFC was never flight ready it was for testing, that means two which were intended for moon landings. So that means we could have done at least 5 more missions to Skylab possibly until the shuttle came along. It could have been fixed, nursed, etc. but the costs of operating it and doing all of that outweighed the national priorities. There were also real world things going on like two interceding oil embargoes and double digit inflation that happened as well in the 1970s. Congress' attention and the public was focused on other matters.
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Or how about the fact that parents send their kids to school sick vs. losing a day of wages or worse yet spending for a doctor to get the kid better? Schools are petri dishes for everything and anything. There are however air to air heat exchangers that can minimize energy loss and provide enough fresh air. The problem with those is cost. Meh, maybe they should just open up a window once in awhile.
I think it's along the lines of "if my girlfriend is menstruating, I don't get sex."
True, old news but no, unless it comes from their blessed store or points to their blessed store you can't http://www.chromium.org/develo...
I hit this with KIS and Kaspersky never even responded to the ticket I opened. I'm sure they're scratching their heads about it now but anyway back to Firefox for now.
For those of us on the Dev channel for Chrome hit this in February. It's definitely a fucked up decision by the Chrome team and has led to a lot of folks ripping out Chrome in favor of something else. The claim made by the devs is that it's safer if the extensions come out of their web store and would eliminate malicious activity from extensions. They obviously didn't want to fix the browser to alert the user when malicious extensions are installed or provide a sysadmin set of functions necessary to install necessary, safe extensions. Of course we all know it's another fucking walled garden take-over by Google. I've already recommended to clients that they don't use Chrome and have removed it from a little over 4000 systems thus far. Personally Google is fucking the user community on this one, so fuck Google.
is that why we're fucked?
You've obviously never had to pay for a lawyer for anything. The system is rigged that whoever wins or loses in a trial, the lawyers always get paid.
You're doing it wrong.
I think you'll find that the NSA is relatively efficient at what it does in terms of its mission statement. That's the more chilling analogy here. 40 to 50 years ago it took massive amounts of "feet on the street" to gather intelligence along with lots of time to analyze the information. Now with wholesale wiretapping of all forms of communication there's not much that our government can't learn about nearly every citizen in the country. By nearly we have to think of kids who aren't on the Internet or have a cell phone yet. If you start to tie together the communications surveillance with the amount of surveillance that goes on from commercial entities and local law enforcement a profile on the behaviors and destinations of every American is now at hand. Your license plates on your car are tracked, your credit card/banking transactions tracked. Your travel is now tracked both by "chipped" passports and airline itineraries. Even your transit pass is tracking you. We may have backed into our Orwellian surveillance world in the name of easy shopping or "security" but that certainly doesn't mean that we have to allow it to continue. That's the failure of our democracy right now, we're failing to push our leadership to dismantle this system and to push for legislation that would outlaw these wholesale collection processes in the first place.
You mean let him express his views that only benefit his rainbow push coalition and his own endeavors? He's an extortionist, plain and simple with a long history of condemning businesses over racial issues and once they pay him off, he shuts up and supports them. Funny how that works. There's an excellent book on the subject.
From the 2010 US Census:
The Black or African-American
alone population was 38.9 million
and represented 13 percent of the
total population.
Is this guy still relevant? I guess he hasn't heard, we have a black president. This guy needs to just retire because all he does is try to get people to kiss his ass.
true but other than a wire tap I can't think of anything that wouldn't require tipping the customer off. Oh well, someday we may know exactly what this was all about.
I'd like to know how they can do something "lawful" and obtain the information from the customer without disclosing what the "underlying investigation" is about?
Two words.. Canadian Pharmacy.. Naw, the whole EU ban on it and the only US company, Hospira, stopped in 2011 means that the easy way isn't so easy. I smell a commercial opportunity here. Would it be unethical to try and use kickstarter for seed funding? ;-)
We would like to ramp up production of Sodium Thiopental to develop the onshore capability for killing our prisoners on death row. This means we'll be manufacturing it here in the good old USA and hiring American workers (except for the Janitorial staff). For this we're targeting
an initial funding of $20 million to set up the lab and limited production facilities.
I could sell it to the states and make a fortune!
Guillotine, Hanging, Firing Squad and the Electric Chair.
You could also take standard drugs like Sodium Thiopental that are used in countries that allow euthanasia
Sodium thiopental is used intravenously for the purposes of euthanasia. In both Belgium and the Netherlands, where active euthanasia is allowed by law, the standard protocol recommends sodium thiopental as the ideal agent to induce coma, followed by pancuronium bromide.
Intravenous administration is the most reliable and rapid way to accomplish euthanasia. A coma is first induced by intravenous administration of 20 mg/kg thiopental sodium (Nesdonal) in a small volume (10 ml physiological saline). Then, a triple dose of a non-depolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron). The muscle relaxant should be given intravenously to ensure optimal availability but pancuronium bromide may be administered intramuscular at an increased dosage level of 40 mg.
It's also cheap too.
In reading the documents, the NSL surrounded a Microsoft enterprise customer. This could have been around Azure or any other professional service that Microsoft offers to organizations. Since the documents provided don't disclose a who, it could be assumed that the FBI was looking into a company, not an individual. Since everything else around this case is sealed, we'll never know who or what organization was targeted by the NSL which again problematic in a free country.
I find this other statement hilarious.
The FBI obtained the requested information through lawful means from a third party, the Customer, in a way that maintains the confidentiality of the underlying investigation
It's obvious that the Customer knows now that they're targeted in an investigation and "lawful" means would imply that the NSL wasn't legal or possibly that the FBI uses "unlawful" means of obtaining information? I guess I just find the wording funny, I mean they could have just said "we obtained a search warrant and served it directly on the suspect."
It was a fast aircraft, incredibly dangerous and is only credited with shooting down 9 planes. By other accounts 16 victories vs. 10 losses so from the concept of being a fighter it wasn't very good at all especially since after the powered rocket phase which only lasted 7 and a half minutes, it became a glider and was easily shot down by allied fighters. A lot were lost as well due to it not having landing gear that fell off on takeoff. http://www.world-war-2-planes....
So the MiG 23 wasn't as popular as the MiG 21.
Since when does a fighter jet need to be 'popular?'
The concept of a sea plane that big was 1930s thinking, by the time the war ended a B29 had a 5500 mile range which allowed it to cross the Pacific ocean with relative ease. By the end of the war the plans were already being sketched out for the B50 (B29 follow on) which had a 7500 mile range and the B36 which had nearly double the range, 9,900 miles, of the B29. While both of these were bombers and not transports it showed how fast things were progressing in the industry and for comparison the C97, a cargo version of the B50, was in service from 1947 and could go father and faster than the H-4 was projected to do.
The largest big flying boats built in the US were the Martin Mars, which only 7 were built and delivered in the 1940s. So even the US Navy didn't think that flying boats were the future.
I interned on a project for Hughes Ground Systems Group in the 1970s and while working there I remember it being said that the Aircraft Division was always a love of Hughes and while his designs never made it into production he influenced the industry greatly. So maybe he wasn't a mover but definitely a shaker in the industry.
It's already past history and while nobody likes it when a program comes to an end, get over it. Even the ISS has a useful life and with the recent statements by Russia that's about six years away now and I don't think we'll be pushing for another international cooperation effort like this again, not in my lifetime at least. The discontinuity in the space program as I previously pointed out is natural for our political landscape. We can't agree on anything and don't think beyond a 4 or 8 year presidency anymore and unless it's for the military industrial complex in this nation we don't do long term programs that involve anything of a scientific or technical nature. Why? Because new and innovative ways of killing the enemy is good politics because it's strong on defense and it creates jobs. The Space Race was an extension of the Cold War and it was synergistic in its goals to embarrass the Soviets who had previously embarrassed us with Sputnik and Gagarin. Also Kennedy wasn't looking so good after the whole "Bay of Pigs" thingy, so he had to distract folks away from that a bit. So a month after the bay of pigs we have the "We choose to go to the moon" speech. Spin doctors were alive and well in the 1960s.
If you asked the typical American citizen right now what the key goals or problems to solve in the country are right now I don't think Russian rockets ferrying US Astronauts to the ISS is in the top 10. You can lay the blame for paying the Russians to get to the ISS squarely on the current administration despite the objections of many members of congress and the public. It was and is a somewhat unholy alliance and current events makes it even more tenuous. If it gets much worse I'd suspect that the ISS will get shuttered here very very soon.
We look back at Apollo because it had unique set of circumstances backing it. You had Johnson who pushed for NASA before he was Vice President and then President and you had Webb who had an extremely long tenure as administrator pushing members of congress relentlessly. You also had the aura of an assassinated president who inspired the nation to shoot for the moon. What happened after July 20, 1969 became a cold bucket of water on everybody and congress felt that the mission had been accomplished. Sure, the moon landings were cut back but again that seems to be the norm. Skylab was only designed to be in space for 9 years and it could have been cobbled together and pushed into orbit etc. but even NASA wasn't going to the wall for it, they wanted the Shuttle and just about the time it came online Sklyab would have been end of life anyway. It doesn't make it right, it's just how things were done. NASA had priorities in the budget and fixing/keeping Skylab wasn't more important than the shuttle. The country had other priorities as well in the 70s. Vietnam, Watergate, Inflation, Oil Embargoes, 20+% interest rates and double digit inflation to name a few. With all those things going on it's amazing that we even had Skylab up there at all.
As for the Soviets (Russians), yes they have a great amount of LEO experience but I do believe we've played out that space. It's time to move on, I would love to have seen us back on the Moon, Mars maybe but I'm afraid that there's not the leadership and money available to go and do it. I would love to see the best and brightest all over the world go and do it but again, we have international politics involved and there's that money thing.
Since the Chinese and Oil producing nations are absorbing all of the cash in the world, maybe we'll see a joint Sino-Arab mission to mars that we'll be able to watch on our LG TVs or iPads which curiously enough aren't made in the US.
How do you know that? Were you there with him? Probably not. I pointed out that he had a lot of initiative and didn't wait around for somebody to "learn him somthin." I also was describing the education system, you focused on Universities where, let's face it, nowadays by and large it's all about churning out MBAs not great physicists. I'm also pretty sure that MIT has produced it's share of mundane graduates as well. Oh wait, I've worked with a couple one being a Project Manager.
I've been to DC, more times than I care to think about. I presume you're talking about the Udvar-Hazy museum and to KSC as well as JSC and yes there are a few rockets around but one rocket does not a program make and there were problems with Skylab and after the last mission the did push it further up and then vented the atmosphere inside. Skylab as a project was a last minute, "hey we have a few Saturn Vs and 1Bs hanging around" type of deal but studies had been conducted all the way back to 1960 on an orbital lab,
Sorry, I followed the the space program very carefully back then. I even followed it more closely when I worked for a NASA subcontractor on the shuttle but that was another life.
First there was Apollo 8 and the uproar that was created when they interrupted a football game. Never get between a football game and scientific discovery, we know who will lose that argument.
Despite being able to show this milestone in audio and visual communications, a spokesman for CBS said nearly 1,000 calls of protest were received in short order after the network left the game. The calls all were in the vein of “How dare you interrupt the game?” One person even said he hoped the astronauts “never came back,” according to the CBS spokesman.
Next congress took away funding for missions going to the moon, the typical "been there, done that" mentality crept in. We'd also gone to the moon, landed there etc. Many members of congress felt that there was little value to continue the moon landings. James Webb was no longer in charge of NASA and Johnson was out of office. Oddly, the public never spoke up or argued with that decision to stop the moon landings.
Even NASA's own statement on Apollo says this:
Finally, the Apollo program, while an enormous achievement, left a divided legacy for NASA and the aerospace community. The perceived "golden age" of Apollo created for the agency an expectation that the direction of any major space goal from the president would always bring NASA a broad consensus of support and provide it with the resources and license to dispense them as it saw fit. Something most NASA officials did not understand at the time of the Moon landing in 1969, however, was that Apollo had not been conducted under normal political circumstances and that the exceptional circumstances surrounding Apollo would not be repeated.
The Apollo decision was, therefore, an anomaly in the national decision-making process. The dilemma of the "golden age" of Apollo has been difficult to overcome, but moving beyond the Apollo program to embrace future opportunities has been an important goal of the agency's leadership in the recent past. Exploration of the Solar System and the universe remains as enticing a goal and as important an objective for humanity as it ever has been. Project Apollo was an important early step in that ongoing process of exploration.
An anomaly in the national decision-making process. That's why we can't seem to do anything "difficult" in this country unless it's war related.
As for keeping Skylab going, there's three 1Bs left and that's the only vehicle we had until 1981 to even get to Skylab. There were also two "could fly" Saturn V rockets, one's at KSC the other is at JSC on display. The one at the Rocket Center at MSFC was never flight ready it was for testing, that means two which were intended for moon landings. So that means we could have done at least 5 more missions to Skylab possibly until the shuttle came along. It could have been fixed, nursed, etc. but the costs of operating it and doing all of that outweighed the national priorities. There were also real world things going on like two interceding oil embargoes and double digit inflation that happened as well in the 1970s. Congress' attention and the public was focused on other matters.
It's all about the Twinkies and snowballs...