Are you kidding? This is one of the best ideas out of the Petagon in recent years. Think about it. The cost of a predator drone is 30 million and can only stay aloft for 24 hours. It also requires lots of support staff.
This would be cheap, quickly deployed in areas where we already have air superiority and can provide long term intel gathering. Imagine putting older spy sat optical systems in this thing (That way if it does go down, your high end stuff is not compromised) and you have a very efficient gathering asset. Add an electronic warfare suite, you can park one of these babies over a city and jam all local radio and television and even override it with your own signal.
Raptor, Schmator. The F15 still in our inventory is more than enough to handle anything the bad guys can throw at us (unless the bad guys are from like Proxima Centari or something). And just because we mothballed about 400 planes recently, that doesn't mean we couldn't put them in the air if a shooting war erupted between us and the Russians or Chinese (and if you don't think the Russians are still a threat, then you must have missed the part where they are threating to put nuclear armed bombers in Venezuela and Cuba) we could have them air worthy again in a matter of weeks.
Ohhh.. the 8250. I am missing that from my collection. I just have 1541s and 1581s. Of course, I did mod one of my broken beyond repair (or at least beyond my meager skills) 1541s recently into a portable HTPC with a Jetway NC62K ITX board with a 9850 Phenom and 2 gb of ram. It also has the Panasonic Notebook slot loader BlueRay burner and and a pair of Seagate Momentus 500g drives.
Jocks are back to power, geeks were responsible for the economic failure (Warren Buffet said that) and they must pay with their lives for this fault.
Umm.. no. The geeks are the one who will get us out. And Warren Buffet is such an authority. His company was just downgraded along with GE. The politicians, greedy wall street 'investors' and the banks got us into this. I suggest you start with them.
Cold Cathode Florescent Lighting (CCFL) is currently used to backlight most laptops. I know that neon is a type of CCFL, and that you are attempting humor. However one can not help to think that you expected it to fail because you posted anonymously (Yes.. I see the Canadian football league reference).
Back to the lighting subject. We would be better served to switch to LEDs rather than CCFLs because less power is used and less waste after they are at end of life.
Yes I did... its a LT Kernal 10mb. I got it in 86 or 87 when a guy I know who ran a C64 BBS quit. I think it had JiffyDOS. In 1990 or 91, I got a CMD HD-10 cheap, but it died in the mid 90s, but the last time I fired up the LT Kernal, it worked, but that was like in 99 or 2000.
I ran them both with GEOS. If you don't know GEOS, it was an 8 bit OS similar to early MacOS or Windows. It came out in like the late 80s.
So no.. I was not from the future. If I was, I would have already used those lottery numbers or pulled my 401k out last year.
I would have replaced the drives with a single RAID 0 of the Intel X-25e SLC SSDs (@ 32gb each for a total of 256 for your system drive) then a second raid card with 8x Velociraptors in a RAID5 array.
I would also dump the watercooling for a phase change cooling system as well. Not only would the system be vastly quieter, it would also be a bit cooler, should you chose to overclock.
If I was to build this system in a few months, the 6gb SAS should be out, and Id probably swap the raptors for those. The advantage would also be I could increase my storage as needed because of the scalability of SAS.
The caveat would be this system would cost MUCH more then 16k... probably in the realm of 25k-30k. But you MIGHT be able to run Vista with Aero or Crysis at full:)
Now I can see the need for using the obscuring technology to cover up places vital to national security like military bases and such. However, considering the level of detail available from Google earth is not enough to warrant the mass panic that Assemblyman Anderson seems to want to foster. It is not like you can see the details you can with the latest generation of spy sat. You don't get real time intel on things like deliveries and other information you would need for planning. You get no more than you would get driving down the street taking a few pictures.
Heck, cell phone cameras present a greater security risk to this country than Google Earth, but I don't see any reason to ban them either. Nearly anything can be used for nefarious purposes if desired. So banning a research tool just because someone MIGHT use it to help plan something untoward is a reactionary stance and should be avoided at all cost.
In real life, my karma is sound, and I sleep well at night. Just because a bunch of people who like to hide behind anonymity think that they are powerful just because the mod a comment down that comes from a different viewpoint than theirs, doesn't mean a damn thing. Its like who can get the most licks on a tootsie roll pop. I have 3 minus ones (and probably another for this one) but way more insightful and interesting mods than a few trolls or off topics, so it it will all balance out in the end.
Hmmm... wonder who the douche is around here. I place my disclaimer so those who are race baiters in the mold of Al Sharpton do not get their panties in a bunch and misunderstand what I mean. If anyone was being political, it was you. I was pointing out that the current president is doing a piss-poor job at leading the country.
And I am no more off topic than a lot of posts on Slashdot. Its just you got your left-wing Marxist stick up your ass in a twist because I made a comment about your messiah. And you don't have the balls to post as yourself. You hide behind the anonymous coward posting ability like most of the loony left. You think it gives you the right to be an asshole. Guess what.. posting anonymous or not, you still are a small, sad, little man (or woman... or chimp) who has no ideas of your own save 'The One's' talking points handed down from on high like Moses got the 10 commandments. I truly pity you and those like you... well maybe not. I am a douche according to you after all.
Better qualified than the current sitting president...
Disclaimer: The above comment was not a racial one. It was a comment on the fact that anyone,even an animal could do a better job as president than Barack Obama. Hell.. my pocket lint is better qualified to run this country.
... the entire State of Colorado's network shutdown today when every machine became infected with Trojan.BHO. When asked what was the source of the rampant spread of the trojan, the network administrator was at a loss because the state only allows Internet Explorer.
In related news, Colorado has begun issuing IOUs for state income tax refunds because the entire treasure was transferred to Nigeria in what the Office of Technology has determined is a sound investment.
Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain't comin' back Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me There's no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can't take the sky from me...
I do have a solution. Give every legal citizen tax payer (or those on SS, etc) a payment of $10,000 per single, $15,000 per joint tax filler, plus $1,500 per dependent. That money goes into the economy, people pay down their debts and buy the things they need. Not only does this spur the economy into recovery, it also satisfies Obama's promise of trickle up economics.
Unless the 'Spendulus' bill IS just for paying back favors for Obama, San Fran Nan, and Prince Harry.
Except if you bothered to pay attention even the congressional budget office said that the stimulus bill if passed will do more to hurt the economy in the long term over doing nothing.
Wake up Sheeple. You are perfectly willing to sit and listen to what 'Dear Leader' says. You listen to the talking heads regurgitate what better suits the Obama agenda and eat it up like its chocolate ice cream on a hot summer day. Just like the global warming crap. You take Al Gore's word that the sky is falling and we need to all drive Prius and eat vegan or we are going to be extinct by summer. You listen to them say there is a consensus on man made global warming when the truth is the only consensus is that the climate is changing, like it has done for the last 4.5 billion years.
Please, get a clue. Wake up. Take the Red Pill.
DO SOMETHING. Don't blindly follow the Pied Piper to our doom.
No.. you go fuck yourself. Anywhere else in the world DOESN'T MATTER when talking about US politics. The definitions change over time and by location. And your right in one respect. The correct term is Marxist.
I don't know where you are from (and frankly I don't care), but it sounds like some place that a few hundred kilotons of good stuff needs to be delivered.
Maybe YOU should learn what conservative and liberal REALLY mean. Now conservative or right wing have different meanings in different countries, but since we ARE talking about US politics, then we will use the current definition of a politically conservative. CONSERVATIVES tend to favor economic freedom, but frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates "traditional values." They oppose excessive government control of business, while endorsing government action to defend morality and the traditional family structure. Conservatives usually support a strong military, oppose bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free-market economy, and endorse strong law enforcement.
Left (Liberal) Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.
If you look at Obama's voting record (when he didn't vote present) then it is decidedly left. In fact, his record was farther left than Bernie Sanders, the only self-described socialist (although Pelosi and Reid are leaning that way).
Your claim that I don't 'understand' is ludicrous at best. We are discussing US politics,not global. Obama has surrounded himself with radical left wing people all his life. He is a student of Saul Alinsky. In his own book he states he deliberately sought out Marxist teachers in college.
I KNOW what far left is. It is communism. It is Marxism. It is Maoist. Its leaders are people like Chavez, Hu, and Castro. Its heroes are Stalin, Guerra and Marx. And you can add Obama to that list. He is leaning that way.
I guess the 'Change' Obama promised is either only 'change' left in my pocket after paying for all that crap San Fran Nan and the looney left are pushing or the 'change' from a Republic to a Socialist dictatorship.
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Are you kidding? This is one of the best ideas out of the Petagon in recent years. Think about it. The cost of a predator drone is 30 million and can only stay aloft for 24 hours. It also requires lots of support staff.
This would be cheap, quickly deployed in areas where we already have air superiority and can provide long term intel gathering. Imagine putting older spy sat optical systems in this thing (That way if it does go down, your high end stuff is not compromised) and you have a very efficient gathering asset. Add an electronic warfare suite, you can park one of these babies over a city and jam all local radio and television and even override it with your own signal.
Raptor, Schmator. The F15 still in our inventory is more than enough to handle anything the bad guys can throw at us (unless the bad guys are from like Proxima Centari or something). And just because we mothballed about 400 planes recently, that doesn't mean we couldn't put them in the air if a shooting war erupted between us and the Russians or Chinese (and if you don't think the Russians are still a threat, then you must have missed the part where they are threating to put nuclear armed bombers in Venezuela and Cuba) we could have them air worthy again in a matter of weeks.
Ohhh.. the 8250. I am missing that from my collection. I just have 1541s and 1581s. Of course, I did mod one of my broken beyond repair (or at least beyond my meager skills) 1541s recently into a portable HTPC with a Jetway NC62K ITX board with a 9850 Phenom and 2 gb of ram. It also has the Panasonic Notebook slot loader BlueRay burner and and a pair of Seagate Momentus 500g drives.
Jocks are back to power, geeks were responsible for the economic failure (Warren Buffet said that) and they must pay with their lives for this fault.
Umm.. no. The geeks are the one who will get us out. And Warren Buffet is such an authority. His company was just downgraded along with GE. The politicians, greedy wall street 'investors' and the banks got us into this. I suggest you start with them.
Cold Cathode Florescent Lighting (CCFL) is currently used to backlight most laptops. I know that neon is a type of CCFL, and that you are attempting humor. However one can not help to think that you expected it to fail because you posted anonymously (Yes.. I see the Canadian football league reference).
Back to the lighting subject. We would be better served to switch to LEDs rather than CCFLs because less power is used and less waste after they are at end of life.
Yes I did... its a LT Kernal 10mb. I got it in 86 or 87 when a guy I know who ran a C64 BBS quit. I think it had JiffyDOS. In 1990 or 91, I got a CMD HD-10 cheap, but it died in the mid 90s, but the last time I fired up the LT Kernal, it worked, but that was like in 99 or 2000.
I ran them both with GEOS. If you don't know GEOS, it was an 8 bit OS similar to early MacOS or Windows. It came out in like the late 80s.
So no.. I was not from the future. If I was, I would have already used those lottery numbers or pulled my 401k out last year.
14.4k.. why, that was blazing speed. I remember hitting bulletin boards with my 300 baud modem and downloading 16 color pr0n pics and playing empire :)
Of course, I was such a geek I had the 10mb Hard Drive for my c64 :) (still do actually... need to pull it out and see if it still works)
Geez.. I'm old... Get of my lawn.
Because it cries out to be built? Can you not hear the call of the 0s and 1s begging for life?
I would have replaced the drives with a single RAID 0 of the Intel X-25e SLC SSDs (@ 32gb each for a total of 256 for your system drive) then a second raid card with 8x Velociraptors in a RAID5 array.
I would also dump the watercooling for a phase change cooling system as well. Not only would the system be vastly quieter, it would also be a bit cooler, should you chose to overclock.
If I was to build this system in a few months, the 6gb SAS should be out, and Id probably swap the raptors for those. The advantage would also be I could increase my storage as needed because of the scalability of SAS.
The caveat would be this system would cost MUCH more then 16k... probably in the realm of 25k-30k. But you MIGHT be able to run Vista with Aero or Crysis at full :)
Now I can see the need for using the obscuring technology to cover up places vital to national security like military bases and such. However, considering the level of detail available from Google earth is not enough to warrant the mass panic that Assemblyman Anderson seems to want to foster. It is not like you can see the details you can with the latest generation of spy sat. You don't get real time intel on things like deliveries and other information you would need for planning. You get no more than you would get driving down the street taking a few pictures.
Heck, cell phone cameras present a greater security risk to this country than Google Earth, but I don't see any reason to ban them either. Nearly anything can be used for nefarious purposes if desired. So banning a research tool just because someone MIGHT use it to help plan something untoward is a reactionary stance and should be avoided at all cost.
From the faq - Karma doesn't mean anything.
In real life, my karma is sound, and I sleep well at night. Just because a bunch of people who like to hide behind anonymity think that they are powerful just because the mod a comment down that comes from a different viewpoint than theirs, doesn't mean a damn thing. Its like who can get the most licks on a tootsie roll pop. I have 3 minus ones (and probably another for this one) but way more insightful and interesting mods than a few trolls or off topics, so it it will all balance out in the end.
Thank you for your concern, though.
Hmmm... wonder who the douche is around here. I place my disclaimer so those who are race baiters in the mold of Al Sharpton do not get their panties in a bunch and misunderstand what I mean. If anyone was being political, it was you. I was pointing out that the current president is doing a piss-poor job at leading the country.
And I am no more off topic than a lot of posts on Slashdot. Its just you got your left-wing Marxist stick up your ass in a twist because I made a comment about your messiah. And you don't have the balls to post as yourself. You hide behind the anonymous coward posting ability like most of the loony left. You think it gives you the right to be an asshole. Guess what.. posting anonymous or not, you still are a small, sad, little man (or woman... or chimp) who has no ideas of your own save 'The One's' talking points handed down from on high like Moses got the 10 commandments. I truly pity you and those like you... well maybe not. I am a douche according to you after all.
Gee.. its funny how a Ballmer comment is ok, but you portray Obamamessiah in a less than flattering way, you are modded down.
Better qualified than the current sitting president...
Disclaimer: The above comment was not a racial one. It was a comment on the fact that anyone,even an animal could do a better job as president than Barack Obama. Hell.. my pocket lint is better qualified to run this country.
... the entire State of Colorado's network shutdown today when every machine became infected with Trojan.BHO. When asked what was the source of the rampant spread of the trojan, the network administrator was at a loss because the state only allows Internet Explorer.
In related news, Colorado has begun issuing IOUs for state income tax refunds because the entire treasure was transferred to Nigeria in what the Office of Technology has determined is a sound investment.
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...
It crashed Google when it tried to search for 'Sarah Connor'
I do have a solution. Give every legal citizen tax payer (or those on SS, etc) a payment of $10,000 per single, $15,000 per joint tax filler, plus $1,500 per dependent. That money goes into the economy, people pay down their debts and buy the things they need. Not only does this spur the economy into recovery, it also satisfies Obama's promise of trickle up economics.
Unless the 'Spendulus' bill IS just for paying back favors for Obama, San Fran Nan, and Prince Harry.
Except if you bothered to pay attention even the congressional budget office said that the stimulus bill if passed will do more to hurt the economy in the long term over doing nothing.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/
Wake up Sheeple. You are perfectly willing to sit and listen to what 'Dear Leader' says. You listen to the talking heads regurgitate what better suits the Obama agenda and eat it up like its chocolate ice cream on a hot summer day. Just like the global warming crap. You take Al Gore's word that the sky is falling and we need to all drive Prius and eat vegan or we are going to be extinct by summer. You listen to them say there is a consensus on man made global warming when the truth is the only consensus is that the climate is changing, like it has done for the last 4.5 billion years.
Please, get a clue. Wake up. Take the Red Pill.
DO SOMETHING. Don't blindly follow the Pied Piper to our doom.
Obama, is that you?
That's what she said!
... that Ted Stevens is a prophet and the internet WILL be a series of tubes?
No.. you go fuck yourself. Anywhere else in the world DOESN'T MATTER when talking about US politics. The definitions change over time and by location. And your right in one respect. The correct term is Marxist.
I don't know where you are from (and frankly I don't care), but it sounds like some place that a few hundred kilotons of good stuff needs to be delivered.
Hey Coward.
Maybe YOU should learn what conservative and liberal REALLY mean. Now conservative or right wing have different meanings in different countries, but since we ARE talking about US politics, then we will use the current definition of a politically conservative. CONSERVATIVES tend to favor economic freedom, but frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates "traditional values." They oppose excessive government control of business, while endorsing government action to defend morality and the traditional family structure. Conservatives usually support a strong military, oppose bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free-market economy, and endorse strong law enforcement.
Left (Liberal) Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.
If you look at Obama's voting record (when he didn't vote present) then it is decidedly left. In fact, his record was farther left than Bernie Sanders, the only self-described socialist (although Pelosi and Reid are leaning that way).
Your claim that I don't 'understand' is ludicrous at best. We are discussing US politics,not global. Obama has surrounded himself with radical left wing people all his life. He is a student of Saul Alinsky. In his own book he states he deliberately sought out Marxist teachers in college.
I KNOW what far left is. It is communism. It is Marxism. It is Maoist. Its leaders are people like Chavez, Hu, and Castro. Its heroes are Stalin, Guerra and Marx. And you can add Obama to that list. He is leaning that way.
...I didn't vote for him.
I guess the 'Change' Obama promised is either only 'change' left in my pocket after paying for all that crap San Fran Nan and the looney left are pushing or the 'change' from a Republic to a Socialist dictatorship.