Yes, because when being tortured, you are given things to read and have the ability to make phone calls, both of which are forms of human contact.
And Saddam was given the opportunity to watch a movie about himself, made by people who really understood him. But I'll agree with you, they should have let us write letters to him and read them aloud to him so he could have a little more contact.
Actually the problem was the autoplay on USB keys re-infecting machines every time the virus was wiped out.
Autoplay is supposed to be disabled on all Military machines but it appears that some unit's IT departments were. . . Lax.
When I was in, I brought it up to my IT guys... they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. But don't worry, they banned thumb drives a long time ago, so the problem has been solved.
The irony is that idiots like you still label them 'republican' and 'democrat' as if that matters.
What team they play for doesn't change who the person is, our country will do a lot better when you idiots stop voting for your team and start voting for the guy that makes most sense for the job.
Go local sports team!!!
Call me when you see humans shunning group mentality, exclusion, and blind dogmatism.
Well, technically, they are OUR employees. The government is for the benefit of the people, not the government. Shall our protectors remove our liberties to protect us? Claiming anything national security, while having wide open borders, is a farce.
I demand to know all of your personal secrets, sexual and medical history, and anything I may be able to use against you. Claiming anything privacy, while posting on Slashdot, is a farce.
They do have their own Root CA. Either AC is talking out of his ass, or the images using at his base are all kinds of jacked up. Frankly, from my experience with AF IT, it wouldn't surprise me if both were true.
You can have every virus and trojen known to man on your NIPER computer and it won't affect the mission at all since they can't touch the SIPER or JWICS computer networks.
I have no idea where you work, but if everything your unit does on NIPR was instantly lost without warning and NIPR was never available to you again, I'm quite sure it would affect your mission. If not, you should look around you at the way other units operate, or need to operate, and realize that it would affect them.
Retraining costs a neither here nor there as they are a one of cost versus continuing licence and security costs, basically going on forever. Quite simply they should go for parallel networks and external high risk network with strictly limited access and an internal network with no external access for all security work.
How are retraining costs neither a here nor there? Like it or not, that cost is huge and absolutely factors in. It's not easy to train millions of people to use a new OS, but it's doable. Teaching millions of people, who are generally already busy doing other things, how to use a PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word replacement is very expensive. Getting all of your internal solutions, custom apps, scripts, etc. recreated under the new environment is nearly impossible.
If the problem was a high percentage of zombie and infected PCs on DoD's networks, I might agree with you that there's a reason to do it. Since that doesn't appear to be the case, the cost/benefit analysis looks a bit like this: really expensive/very little return.
Also, there's the whole cold-weather thing. Traditional fluorescent tubes will start up in the garage for me, provided it's over 0F or so. Not so for CFLs; I went back to incandescent.
I was on the board of our rather large condo complex and wanted to replace the 100 or so incandescent bulbs outside with CFLs but was afraid of the cold factor (it gets to -40 sometimes where I live). So, I took four brands of CFLs and did a controlled experiment: stick two of each brand in the deep freeze overnight, then quickly screw them into sockets to how well they light up. GE and Sylvania 's ballasts punked out, even after warming up. The only brand that worked completely was Globe, the cheapest of the bunch, so don't always go by price. We switched the bulbs in 2005, and haven't replaced a single one yet. They are controlled by photo sensors, so on and off once a day, with no hiccups even in the cold...
Do you have any idea how much money the move has saved so far?
I dunno about that. I'm pretty sure that if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems start looking like nails . . . allowing the hammer to be "applied" to every application . ..
Since this study was done by Microsoft, are you implying that Microsoft only makes hammers? Must I remind you, sir, that Microsoft has been primarily producing bombs lately?
They won't listen to reason, but this was a good effort.
"zOMG everyone in government is defending this secret government program that we only know a little about... they're all evil and we need to expose it!"
Now, just look at it through their [flawed] logic:
Step 1. my position is correct, I don't need evidence. Step 2. this person opposes me, therefore they are wrong, ignorant, or evil Step 3. demonize
I would argue that the term "victim" should indeed be applied to any non-combatant/non-support civilian killed in a war
non-support? What if they work at a power plant? A factory? What if they work at the bank that is being used for financial transactions between the government and its defense suppliers? America could be severely crippled if key financial institutions were targeted properly, and I would expect any serious military opponent of the US to attempt to do so given the opportunity. When it's your life and those of your citizens on the line, the line between "enemy soldier" and "enemy citizen supporting their war effort" gets rather blurred. And I think a legitimate case could be made that in a democracy citizens are more responsible for the actions of their government. But, in reality, we all know the victor will not see a court room.
Everyone is support. War is a national effort. Even a protester throwing rocks and trying to create problems for the govt can be bolstering the hawks and providing them with increased political power... aka "support".
The current terminology exists for a reason: it's accurate. Mixing words and calling all warfare "terrorism" or all civilian casualties "victims" is just a silly way to attempt to soften the terminology and take away its meaning. Sorry if it offends you.
You've obviously never used Outlook in a large enterprise setting that properly uses shared tasks, calendars, and all those other spiffy features properly. Businesses use it because it works very, very well, and there's nothing else [that I've seen] on the market that really comes close right now. I love gmail for my home use, and I have several google apps accounts for sites I run, but I would've been furious if my last large employer took away our Outlook.
For small-medium sized businesses that aren't really utilizing Outlook's full feature set, it certainly makes sense to just pay a company like Google to handle things for you.
As for open standards, yeah, I'd love it if MS opened up their standards or adopted existing standards, but I have to give them credit for their UI. Outlook's UI and feature set are by far the best I've seen/used.
It is the only non-proxy website I have seen in a decade or more that uses temporary URLs (which makes deep linking to their content on Wikipedia difficult, since we can't link to the page we got it from).
I was going to argue with you and say you've obviously never seen the House/Senate sites, but it appears they've transition to the LoC as well. But yeah, this isn't just a problem with wikipedia... they make the full text of legislation very difficult to actually find, and even harder to store your own copy, bookmark, or share with others.
ESPN and the newspaper can only use a "fair use" amount of your material. So ESPN can't use all of your 140 character creation, they can only use a fair amount of it.
Since typical fair use wouldn't exceed 10%, we should agree, then, that "fair use" of 140 characters should be no more than 14 characters? I suppose that quote in the first part of my post is actually a violation of Anonymous Coward's copyright. Sorry, Anonymous Coward. You can sue if you want. Or, y'know, read up on the debate here over fair use.
Certainly NOT flamebait. Moderations like this are why a can't believe anything you man made global warming types say.
Comments like this are why we can't accept criticism from you "can't believe anything we man made global warming types say" types as intellectually honest.
The DRM has mostly been removed, although they charge you something like $0.30/song to remove the DRM from old purchases.
The DRM isn't lockin but even if it was it's easy to remove. iTunes can burn songs, even iTunes store bought music, to CD and it not have any DRM. iTunes can then read and rip CDs and add music to your library.
How is DRM with a proprietary format that can't be read by any other devices or software NOT lock-in? Your suggestion is certainly a workaround, but it's not removing the DRM from the original, it's making a copy that may not be as high of quality.
when I bought a new computer (a mac book pro), and installed iTunes on it
Ah, now I know you're talking BS. Macs come with iTunes installed.
I take that back, when I bought a new computer and upgraded iTunes on it, then tried to make it work with my iPod, I was told to buzz off and that I should reformat my iPod. A proper "Music Library" program that's designed for syncing with an external hard drive-based media player like the iPod should have the ability to recover the entire library from the device. iTunes not only doesn't, but they attempt to make this more difficult than it needs to be. It should be right there under File - Import - From iPod.
Tell me again, what's that magical thing that happens at their 14. birthday that gives them that ability? The Consent Fairy arrives at midnight and blesses them? Does the state bestow a soul upon them?
Depends on the state. I'm not aware of any US state that has 14 as the age of consent. Here in Arizona, it's 18, and you goddamned well BETTER ask for her ID and know how to spot a fake. She could turn 18 at midnight, but the cops will arrest you today.
I know I shouldn't be responding to these at 5am when I haven't gone to sleep yet, but... This is just a semantic difference... every state I know of has different categories of "sex with someone under the age of consent". Statutory rape, in most states, extends around the 14-17 age. Below that they're children who are being abused/raped because they really can't understand what's going on (in theory)... above that, they can't legally give consent, but there's an acknowledgment that they were at least somewhat aware of what was going on and actively participated.
This may sound weird, but if you don't believe me, go look up penalties for forcible, violent rape as they apply by age. You should find that the penalties for raping an 8 year old are comparable to the penalties for violently raping a teenager, but the penalties for "statutorily raping" a teenager are relatively low... The only difference is consent, we just don't call it that:)
In 2002, Moody reports, the per capita federal tax burden in California was $7,313-or 116% of the national average. On the other hand, per capita federal spending in the state was only $5,592-or 88% of the national average. For every dollar California sent in taxes to Washington, D.C., it received only 76 cents in return. Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200308/ai_n9240268
But once again, the GP is a smug, self-righteous ass who feels that he's been somehow wronged and that he is being forced to support CA. Of course, he probably doesn't realize that CA has been supporting many of the smaller states in hard-working "real" America for a very long time. Nor does he realize that much of the mess that we're currently in was created by the policies he likely supports.
Back on topic: I like black cars. This CARB policy is stupid, and I don't think the general populace will allow it.
I hear or see this a lot but haven't got an answer to my question, perhaps you can answer. What is this lock-in Apple has with the iPod?
The DRM has mostly been removed, although they charge you something like $0.30/song to remove the DRM from old purchases. The main thing is that they go out of their way to ensure that the iTunes library can't be synced with other PCs or other devices. If you use iTunes+iPod, you can't just copy the library+files between computers, you can't use any sort of normal sharing, you can't use any common apps to make them sync... You have to either use a home brew, hacked solution or a commercial third party solution. For example, my laptop caught fire while I was on the road with my iPod. My whole iPod/iTunes library existed on my iPod, but when I bought a new computer (a mac book pro), and installed iTunes on it, it demanded that it be allowed to reformat my iPod before it could sync with the iPod. In other words, I couldn't import the library back from the iPod to iTunes. Likewise, they go out of their way to make it difficult for third party apps, other music players, and other software to sync the libraries. They haven't provided a good explanation for this, but it seems bogus to me. Archos didn't do this, and the other "small time" MP3 players all seemed to be perfectly happy with simply moving stuff around.
Is this charge for text messages for sending, receiving, or both? I never send text but sometimes I receive text ads.
In the US, both. You get charged for sending and receiving text messages, even if the text messages were unsolicited.
I paid less when I got my MacBook Pro than I would have paid for a Dell. And since I switched I've paid a lot less in grief as I have never had my computer or OS crash since switching.
Agreed, my laptop requirements were: Fire Wire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet. The MacBook Pro (old model) was the only laptop I could get that would fill my needs for under $2,000... but Apple has made it impossible for me to do things like sync my iTunes PC and iTunes Mac libraries without third party software.
I apologize if this is slightly wordy... I'm a bit inebriated, but I wanted to answer your post before I fell asleep.
Also, an annoying idiot has gone away. That's a positive outcome in my books. It's not interpretation, it's cold hard reality - they're dead, and their argument has failed.
We made the decision to be "poor" so that my wife can stay home with the kids and further their education because the school system simply is too broken to keep our daughter engaged. If we relied on the public schools entirely then she would be one of those high IQ kids with straight D's, simply because she would be bored to death.
I wish my parents could have done something similar, or found somebody else like you and paid someone like your wife to teach someone like me instead of the school system. And yes, I was the kid with straight D's... that still haunts me.
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Yes, because when being tortured, you are given things to read and have the ability to make phone calls, both of which are forms of human contact.
And Saddam was given the opportunity to watch a movie about himself, made by people who really understood him. But I'll agree with you, they should have let us write letters to him and read them aloud to him so he could have a little more contact.
http://diajobs.dia.mil/
Says it all!
You just made me vomit and laugh simultaneously.
Seriously though -- save $100 million and run a separate network.
Do me a favor - go read up on military networks in Wikipedia. You can start with the 25-year old MILNET network.
You can also bet that there's networks that nobody in the public (or low-to-medium levels of military) knows.
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The idea that if I had the right combination of addresses and credentials I could launch a nuke right now is ludicrus.
You're right, it's ludicrous. That's why the idea is never pursued, except possibly for honeypots/misinformation.
Man, I just wasted 15 minutes trying to enlighten you!
You need a new moniker. Or are you trying to be funny, like the guy who is 7 feet tall and nicknamed "Small"?
Actually the problem was the autoplay on USB keys re-infecting machines every time the virus was wiped out.
Autoplay is supposed to be disabled on all Military machines but it appears that some unit's IT departments were. . . Lax.
When I was in, I brought it up to my IT guys... they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. But don't worry, they banned thumb drives a long time ago, so the problem has been solved.
The irony is that idiots like you still label them 'republican' and 'democrat' as if that matters.
What team they play for doesn't change who the person is, our country will do a lot better when you idiots stop voting for your team and start voting for the guy that makes most sense for the job.
Go local sports team!!!
Call me when you see humans shunning group mentality, exclusion, and blind dogmatism.
Well, technically, they are OUR employees. The government is for the benefit of the people, not the government. Shall our protectors remove our liberties to protect us? Claiming anything national security, while having wide open borders, is a farce.
I demand to know all of your personal secrets, sexual and medical history, and anything I may be able to use against you. Claiming anything privacy, while posting on Slashdot, is a farce.
They do have their own Root CA. Either AC is talking out of his ass, or the images using at his base are all kinds of jacked up. Frankly, from my experience with AF IT, it wouldn't surprise me if both were true.
You can have every virus and trojen known to man on your NIPER computer and it won't affect the mission at all since they can't touch the SIPER or JWICS computer networks.
I have no idea where you work, but if everything your unit does on NIPR was instantly lost without warning and NIPR was never available to you again, I'm quite sure it would affect your mission. If not, you should look around you at the way other units operate, or need to operate, and realize that it would affect them.
Retraining costs a neither here nor there as they are a one of cost versus continuing licence and security costs, basically going on forever. Quite simply they should go for parallel networks and external high risk network with strictly limited access and an internal network with no external access for all security work.
How are retraining costs neither a here nor there? Like it or not, that cost is huge and absolutely factors in. It's not easy to train millions of people to use a new OS, but it's doable. Teaching millions of people, who are generally already busy doing other things, how to use a PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word replacement is very expensive. Getting all of your internal solutions, custom apps, scripts, etc. recreated under the new environment is nearly impossible.
If the problem was a high percentage of zombie and infected PCs on DoD's networks, I might agree with you that there's a reason to do it. Since that doesn't appear to be the case, the cost/benefit analysis looks a bit like this: really expensive/very little return.
I was on the board of our rather large condo complex and wanted to replace the 100 or so incandescent bulbs outside with CFLs but was afraid of the cold factor (it gets to -40 sometimes where I live). So, I took four brands of CFLs and did a controlled experiment: stick two of each brand in the deep freeze overnight, then quickly screw them into sockets to how well they light up. GE and Sylvania 's ballasts punked out, even after warming up. The only brand that worked completely was Globe, the cheapest of the bunch, so don't always go by price. We switched the bulbs in 2005, and haven't replaced a single one yet. They are controlled by photo sensors, so on and off once a day, with no hiccups even in the cold...
Do you have any idea how much money the move has saved so far?
I dunno about that. I'm pretty sure that if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems start looking like nails . . . allowing the hammer to be "applied" to every application . . .
Since this study was done by Microsoft, are you implying that Microsoft only makes hammers? Must I remind you, sir, that Microsoft has been primarily producing bombs lately?
They won't listen to reason, but this was a good effort.
"zOMG everyone in government is defending this secret government program that we only know a little about... they're all evil and we need to expose it!"
Now, just look at it through their [flawed] logic:
Step 1. my position is correct, I don't need evidence.
Step 2. this person opposes me, therefore they are wrong, ignorant, or evil
Step 3. demonize
I would argue that the term "victim" should indeed be applied to any non-combatant/non-support civilian killed in a war
non-support? What if they work at a power plant? A factory? What if they work at the bank that is being used for financial transactions between the government and its defense suppliers? America could be severely crippled if key financial institutions were targeted properly, and I would expect any serious military opponent of the US to attempt to do so given the opportunity. When it's your life and those of your citizens on the line, the line between "enemy soldier" and "enemy citizen supporting their war effort" gets rather blurred. And I think a legitimate case could be made that in a democracy citizens are more responsible for the actions of their government. But, in reality, we all know the victor will not see a court room.
Everyone is support. War is a national effort. Even a protester throwing rocks and trying to create problems for the govt can be bolstering the hawks and providing them with increased political power... aka "support".
The current terminology exists for a reason: it's accurate. Mixing words and calling all warfare "terrorism" or all civilian casualties "victims" is just a silly way to attempt to soften the terminology and take away its meaning. Sorry if it offends you.
You've obviously never used Outlook in a large enterprise setting that properly uses shared tasks, calendars, and all those other spiffy features properly. Businesses use it because it works very, very well, and there's nothing else [that I've seen] on the market that really comes close right now. I love gmail for my home use, and I have several google apps accounts for sites I run, but I would've been furious if my last large employer took away our Outlook.
For small-medium sized businesses that aren't really utilizing Outlook's full feature set, it certainly makes sense to just pay a company like Google to handle things for you.
As for open standards, yeah, I'd love it if MS opened up their standards or adopted existing standards, but I have to give them credit for their UI. Outlook's UI and feature set are by far the best I've seen/used.
Is this a record for most replies under one post?
It is the only non-proxy website I have seen in a decade or more that uses temporary URLs (which makes deep linking to their content on Wikipedia difficult, since we can't link to the page we got it from).
I was going to argue with you and say you've obviously never seen the House/Senate sites, but it appears they've transition to the LoC as well. But yeah, this isn't just a problem with wikipedia... they make the full text of legislation very difficult to actually find, and even harder to store your own copy, bookmark, or share with others.
As tree falls in woods,
copyright works on awful
haiku poems, no?
(65 characters, counting spaces & punctuation 137 counting this line).
Sir, I will purchase your copyright from you for $0.01, and I promise I will never reproduce your "poem" again. And I pray nobody else will, either.
ESPN and the newspaper can only use a "fair use" amount of your material. So ESPN can't use all of your 140 character creation, they can only use a fair amount of it.
Since typical fair use wouldn't exceed 10%, we should agree, then, that "fair use" of 140 characters should be no more than 14 characters? I suppose that quote in the first part of my post is actually a violation of Anonymous Coward's copyright. Sorry, Anonymous Coward. You can sue if you want. Or, y'know, read up on the debate here over fair use.
Certainly NOT flamebait. Moderations like this are why a can't believe anything you man made global warming types say.
Comments like this are why we can't accept criticism from you "can't believe anything we man made global warming types say" types as intellectually honest.
The DRM has mostly been removed, although they charge you something like $0.30/song to remove the DRM from old purchases.
The DRM isn't lockin but even if it was it's easy to remove. iTunes can burn songs, even iTunes store bought music, to CD and it not have any DRM. iTunes can then read and rip CDs and add music to your library.
How is DRM with a proprietary format that can't be read by any other devices or software NOT lock-in? Your suggestion is certainly a workaround, but it's not removing the DRM from the original, it's making a copy that may not be as high of quality.
when I bought a new computer (a mac book pro), and installed iTunes on it
Ah, now I know you're talking BS. Macs come with iTunes installed.
I take that back, when I bought a new computer and upgraded iTunes on it, then tried to make it work with my iPod, I was told to buzz off and that I should reformat my iPod. A proper "Music Library" program that's designed for syncing with an external hard drive-based media player like the iPod should have the ability to recover the entire library from the device. iTunes not only doesn't, but they attempt to make this more difficult than it needs to be. It should be right there under File - Import - From iPod.
Depends on the state. I'm not aware of any US state that has 14 as the age of consent. Here in Arizona, it's 18, and you goddamned well BETTER ask for her ID and know how to spot a fake. She could turn 18 at midnight, but the cops will arrest you today.
I know I shouldn't be responding to these at 5am when I haven't gone to sleep yet, but... This is just a semantic difference... every state I know of has different categories of "sex with someone under the age of consent". Statutory rape, in most states, extends around the 14-17 age. Below that they're children who are being abused/raped because they really can't understand what's going on (in theory)... above that, they can't legally give consent, but there's an acknowledgment that they were at least somewhat aware of what was going on and actively participated.
This may sound weird, but if you don't believe me, go look up penalties for forcible, violent rape as they apply by age. You should find that the penalties for raping an 8 year old are comparable to the penalties for violently raping a teenager, but the penalties for "statutorily raping" a teenager are relatively low... The only difference is consent, we just don't call it that :)
You shouldn't have to bet.... California's disproportionate federal tax burden and return on tax dollar are a hard, well-documented facts.
In 2002, Moody reports, the per capita federal tax burden in California was $7,313-or 116% of the national average. On the other hand, per capita federal spending in the state was only $5,592-or 88% of the national average. For every dollar California sent in taxes to Washington, D.C., it received only 76 cents in return.
Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200308/ai_n9240268
But once again, the GP is a smug, self-righteous ass who feels that he's been somehow wronged and that he is being forced to support CA. Of course, he probably doesn't realize that CA has been supporting many of the smaller states in hard-working "real" America for a very long time. Nor does he realize that much of the mess that we're currently in was created by the policies he likely supports.
Back on topic: I like black cars. This CARB policy is stupid, and I don't think the general populace will allow it.
I hear or see this a lot but haven't got an answer to my question, perhaps you can answer. What is this lock-in Apple has with the iPod?
The DRM has mostly been removed, although they charge you something like $0.30/song to remove the DRM from old purchases. The main thing is that they go out of their way to ensure that the iTunes library can't be synced with other PCs or other devices. If you use iTunes+iPod, you can't just copy the library+files between computers, you can't use any sort of normal sharing, you can't use any common apps to make them sync... You have to either use a home brew, hacked solution or a commercial third party solution. For example, my laptop caught fire while I was on the road with my iPod. My whole iPod/iTunes library existed on my iPod, but when I bought a new computer (a mac book pro), and installed iTunes on it, it demanded that it be allowed to reformat my iPod before it could sync with the iPod. In other words, I couldn't import the library back from the iPod to iTunes. Likewise, they go out of their way to make it difficult for third party apps, other music players, and other software to sync the libraries. They haven't provided a good explanation for this, but it seems bogus to me. Archos didn't do this, and the other "small time" MP3 players all seemed to be perfectly happy with simply moving stuff around.
Is this charge for text messages for sending, receiving, or both? I never send text but sometimes I receive text ads.
In the US, both. You get charged for sending and receiving text messages, even if the text messages were unsolicited.
I paid less when I got my MacBook Pro than I would have paid for a Dell. And since I switched I've paid a lot less in grief as I have never had my computer or OS crash since switching.
Agreed, my laptop requirements were: Fire Wire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet. The MacBook Pro (old model) was the only laptop I could get that would fill my needs for under $2,000... but Apple has made it impossible for me to do things like sync my iTunes PC and iTunes Mac libraries without third party software.
I apologize if this is slightly wordy... I'm a bit inebriated, but I wanted to answer your post before I fell asleep.
Also, an annoying idiot has gone away. That's a positive outcome in my books. It's not interpretation, it's cold hard reality - they're dead, and their argument has failed.
I think you need a new moniker.
We made the decision to be "poor" so that my wife can stay home with the kids and further their education because the school system simply is too broken to keep our daughter engaged. If we relied on the public schools entirely then she would be one of those high IQ kids with straight D's, simply because she would be bored to death.
I wish my parents could have done something similar, or found somebody else like you and paid someone like your wife to teach someone like me instead of the school system. And yes, I was the kid with straight D's... that still haunts me.