In fact, an F-117 would proabably be dead meat if it ever got mixed up in a dogfight with a conventional fighter less than 30 years old.
The F-117 has a couple of advantages over conventional fighters. Especially with it's passive defenses. There is a good chance that an F-117 pilot could achive a lock and launch a missile before the other fighter pilot was even aware of its presence.
Sending 'stealth' planes into airspace that has no defending air force is not exactly a 'proof of the concept'.
In January 1991 Iraq DID in fact have air defenses. You don't need an airforce to defend against airplanes. Iraqi AAA and SAM sites were crushed by the B2 and F117A.
Stealth planes are not undetectable, they are just more difficult to detect than traditional aircraft.
Unless they are very close to the radar site, they often look like birds to radar. To detect them, one needs to simply adjust the sensitivity of the radar, but at the same time you'll be tracking every goose that flies overhead too.
Was so when the US bombs their next nation, they can catch them by surprise.
Have you ever heard of the "Stealth Bomber"? We've been able to catch our enemies by surprise for quite a while now. The B2 and the F117A "Stealth Fighter" proved how well they work the first time we went to war with Iraq.
What this tells me is that you shouldn't be in the market for a "budget" computer. Your need for Firewire and 6 PCI slots (excluding sound and NIC) speaks volumes. You needed an upper/upper-mid range system.
We also don't have a clue as to what management was actually doing in regards to the supervisor and quite honestly there's no reason for the sysadmin to know either.
BS. A boss that gets paid more than you for doing less work is enough of a detriment to workplace morale. One that gets paid more than you to play solitaire and manage his stock portfolio is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The fact that his monitoring went on for several months was enough to indicate that upper management was doing nothing about the problem.
The biggest problem with the current/. story is every link is from the sysadmin's position.
If his evidence is good enough (in this case it is), his side is all we need.
The state will bring up the issue that he wasn't authorized to install the software.
Two words, Jury Trial.
If the state has a privacy law that will be brought up.
Two words, Jury Trial.
The final nail will be the state getting an expert on the stand detailing the alternatives to grabbing screen captures and how what he did was the antithesis of industry best practice.
Two words, Jury Trial.
The point that I'm making is that once a jury hears this, none of that other stuff will matter. It will look like the state tried to silence him instead of fixing the problem of a freeloading employee. The "average person" that sits on a jury will be more likely to side with the person who was "doing the right thing" as oppposed to the person who was doing the legal but unethical thing.
The only reason that this "was the antithesis of industry best practice" is because usually it's management spying on lower level employees. A jury will LOVE the story about some regular guy who was wathing a watcher. The state is going to do any and everything it can to keep this out of the hands of a jury because it's a foregon conclusion that the state has lost this case if a jury hears it.
People have known that smoking cigarettes causes cancer since at least the 1950s. "Cancer Sticks" has been a slang term for cigarettes for about 50 years. The tobacco companies are marking a product that while detrimental to the health isn't marketed to be anything else.
OK, back in the 1930s they actually tried to convince people of the health benefits of smoking, but those days are long gone.
The put the Surgeon General's warning on the packs and have you ever seen one of those "CrazyWorld" commercials? Those are paid for by the tobacco companies as well.
They can't advertise on TV, radio or (in some places) billboards. The ads that they do put out tell you not to use their products. Guess what? People still smoke. As awful and disgusting a habit as it may be, smoking provides people with something that they are missing in their lives. People will smoke as long as cigarettes are available.
If this gets before a jury he has the case won. His lawyer just needs to show how he was "looking out for you, the taxpayers and his bosses those 'upper management types' didn't like it".
If his lawyer does his job properly, he'll never have to work again; unless he chooses to.
Seriously, 'my boss said it was dead, so it was' has to be the most insane thing I have heard today.
It looks like his boss wasn't wrong. Sega has a long history of fucking over the people who adopt their game systems. After the Genesis, Sega seemed to treat every other system that they developed as a way to raise money for the "next generation" system that in turn would be brought to market to raise money for the next "next generation" system.
32X, SegaCD, Saturn, Dreamcast. All decent systems that never got a fair shot in the marketplace because Sega killed them off too early.
Come on now boys. I can't believe that they'd make a mistake that huge. Sony spends tons of money on market research. Whatever suit killed MP3 support needs to lose his or her fucking job. That is pure idiocy in action.
If your cpu utilization isn't at 100%, you aren't wasting anything except electricity.
I have 3 machines running right now, and all 3 are at 100% cpu utilization. If more resources were being used by something like refreshing my desktop "in 3D", the other processes that I'm running *cough* distributed net client *cough* would get less cpu time.
Laura Anderson said, 'We felt by adjusting the schedule for the products, we could better meet our customers' volume requirements and their high expectations.
Suit to Geek Translation.
"We can maximize the profit we make off of our existing inventory by delaying the release of the new chips until we sell off the current stock."
I am working on a few fairly complex Filemaker databases and for many functions, stored procedures are the way to go.
If the calculation needed is fairly comples, I prefer to do the work at runtime using scripts. That allows me to tweak the results for the situation the user is in when the function is called. If it's something simple like percentages, go for the stored procedure. It's simpler. Set it up and forget about it.
for over a decade. As I remember, they had a problem with the circulatory system; it is designed to work with the small pulses of pressure that a natural heart produces, not the constant pressure from these artificial hearts.
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In fact, an F-117 would proabably be dead meat if it ever got mixed up in a dogfight with a conventional fighter less than 30 years old.
The F-117 has a couple of advantages over conventional fighters. Especially with it's passive defenses. There is a good chance that an F-117 pilot could achive a lock and launch a missile before the other fighter pilot was even aware of its presence.
LK
Sending 'stealth' planes into airspace that has no defending air force is not exactly a 'proof of the concept'.
In January 1991 Iraq DID in fact have air defenses. You don't need an airforce to defend against airplanes. Iraqi AAA and SAM sites were crushed by the B2 and F117A.
Stealth planes are not undetectable, they are just more difficult to detect than traditional aircraft.
Unless they are very close to the radar site, they often look like birds to radar. To detect them, one needs to simply adjust the sensitivity of the radar, but at the same time you'll be tracking every goose that flies overhead too.
LK
Money and regular checkups will do wonders for you.
LK
Your keystrokes can be transmitted over a non-evesdroppable keyed session. Port-knocking can't.
The knock sequence is supposed to change each time. Repeating a previous knock will provide you with nothing.
LK
Was so when the US bombs their next nation, they can catch them by surprise.
Have you ever heard of the "Stealth Bomber"? We've been able to catch our enemies by surprise for quite a while now. The B2 and the F117A "Stealth Fighter" proved how well they work the first time we went to war with Iraq.
LK
What this tells me is that you shouldn't be in the market for a "budget" computer. Your need for Firewire and 6 PCI slots (excluding sound and NIC) speaks volumes. You needed an upper/upper-mid range system.
LK
We also don't have a clue as to what management was actually doing in regards to the supervisor and quite honestly there's no reason for the sysadmin to know either.
/. story is every link is from the sysadmin's position.
BS. A boss that gets paid more than you for doing less work is enough of a detriment to workplace morale. One that gets paid more than you to play solitaire and manage his stock portfolio is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The fact that his monitoring went on for several months was enough to indicate that upper management was doing nothing about the problem.
The biggest problem with the current
If his evidence is good enough (in this case it is), his side is all we need.
LK
Explain to me how he will win.
Two words, Jury Trial.
The state will bring up the issue that he wasn't authorized to install the software.
Two words, Jury Trial.
If the state has a privacy law that will be brought up.
Two words, Jury Trial.
The final nail will be the state getting an expert on the stand detailing the alternatives to grabbing screen captures and how what he did was the antithesis of industry best practice.
Two words, Jury Trial.
The point that I'm making is that once a jury hears this, none of that other stuff will matter. It will look like the state tried to silence him instead of fixing the problem of a freeloading employee. The "average person" that sits on a jury will be more likely to side with the person who was "doing the right thing" as oppposed to the person who was doing the legal but unethical thing.
The only reason that this "was the antithesis of industry best practice" is because usually it's management spying on lower level employees. A jury will LOVE the story about some regular guy who was wathing a watcher. The state is going to do any and everything it can to keep this out of the hands of a jury because it's a foregon conclusion that the state has lost this case if a jury hears it.
LK
Not only is it security through obscurity
Only in the same sense that passwords are security through obscurity.
Right combination of keystrokes, right combination of ports to knock, these sound very similar to me.
LK
but is anyone out there using port knocking for serious security?
LK
People have known that smoking cigarettes causes cancer since at least the 1950s. "Cancer Sticks" has been a slang term for cigarettes for about 50 years. The tobacco companies are marking a product that while detrimental to the health isn't marketed to be anything else.
OK, back in the 1930s they actually tried to convince people of the health benefits of smoking, but those days are long gone.
LK
The put the Surgeon General's warning on the packs and have you ever seen one of those "CrazyWorld" commercials? Those are paid for by the tobacco companies as well.
They can't advertise on TV, radio or (in some places) billboards. The ads that they do put out tell you not to use their products. Guess what? People still smoke. As awful and disgusting a habit as it may be, smoking provides people with something that they are missing in their lives. People will smoke as long as cigarettes are available.
LK
He should sue the state into bankruptcy.
If this gets before a jury he has the case won. His lawyer just needs to show how he was "looking out for you, the taxpayers and his bosses those 'upper management types' didn't like it".
If his lawyer does his job properly, he'll never have to work again; unless he chooses to.
LK
It's hard to beat Amiga freaks for pathetic-ness.
Somehow, month after month Apple FanBoys seem to manage this nigh impossible feat.
LK
Seriously, 'my boss said it was dead, so it was' has to be the most insane thing I have heard today.
It looks like his boss wasn't wrong. Sega has a long history of fucking over the people who adopt their game systems. After the Genesis, Sega seemed to treat every other system that they developed as a way to raise money for the "next generation" system that in turn would be brought to market to raise money for the next "next generation" system.
32X, SegaCD, Saturn, Dreamcast. All decent systems that never got a fair shot in the marketplace because Sega killed them off too early.
LK
Who says the Dreamcast is dead?
Let me give you an equation..
"Who says the Dreamcast is dead?" = ((Everyone_In_The_Entire_World)- (GPF + Bluecrab))
LK
No MP3, ATRAC only?
Come on now boys. I can't believe that they'd make a mistake that huge. Sony spends tons of money on market research. Whatever suit killed MP3 support needs to lose his or her fucking job. That is pure idiocy in action.
LK
If your cpu utilization isn't at 100%, you aren't wasting anything except electricity.
I have 3 machines running right now, and all 3 are at 100% cpu utilization. If more resources were being used by something like refreshing my desktop "in 3D", the other processes that I'm running *cough* distributed net client *cough* would get less cpu time.
LK
Laura Anderson said, 'We felt by adjusting the schedule for the products, we could better meet our customers' volume requirements and their high expectations.
Suit to Geek Translation.
"We can maximize the profit we make off of our existing inventory by delaying the release of the new chips until we sell off the current stock."
LK
...which will render the Windows Desktop using a GPU's 3D graphics processing power...
Microsoft, finding new ways to waste processing power every day.
LK
I am working on a few fairly complex Filemaker databases and for many functions, stored procedures are the way to go.
If the calculation needed is fairly comples, I prefer to do the work at runtime using scripts. That allows me to tweak the results for the situation the user is in when the function is called. If it's something simple like percentages, go for the stored procedure. It's simpler. Set it up and forget about it.
LK
Sorry man, I'm an American. We don't use that one too often.
You mean it's not dead? Are you telling me that my fellow Slashdotters lied to me?
BULLOCKS!
LK
for over a decade. As I remember, they had a problem with the circulatory system; it is designed to work with the small pulses of pressure that a natural heart produces, not the constant pressure from these artificial hearts.
LK
"It kinda looks like a Hummer taking a crap."
That's called a Blumpkin.
LK