There is no way to impose discipline so all that is left are "confining structures" that include or exclude. There is no social or parental sanction for misbehavior.
Personal recognizance only works in very limited areas. That's why secured areas restrict access and demand ID.
Expecting substitutes or other teachers to know all your little snowflakes from the beginning of the school years is absurd. Expecting them to know who does and doesn't belong throughout the rest of the school is insane.
Maybe a one-room schoolhouse in Mayberry has the span of control you seem to expect.
How about viewing school security with the professional expectations you would have for COMPUTER security?
Creepy? If you expect an institution you charge with the SAFETY of your offspring to function they need to know where students are and exclude those not authorized to be on campus.
Schools have a duty to keep out unauthorized and dangerous outsiders.
They still should not be running Windows. Logical reasons do not exist for military command and controls systems to run Windows, at all, ever.
"Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors"
Government end-users are mostly appliance operators who have no fucking idea about security outside their annual AFCERT Powerpoint training. NO IDEA. They may be great at whatever their main specialty is, but that is different.
"Opposed piston designs, like boxer engines, are not well suited for this."
Perhaps to DIYers, but I've never met an extremely difficult engine to pull. Subaru have quite a loyal following.
"Neither are EVs. They have parts that wear out and are either too cost prohibitive to replace, or too difficult (in terms of accessing them to take them out)."
Expensive parts in all vehicles are now normally scavenged from organ donor wrecks. It's cheaper to replace an engine than do a top end.
IAAM. (I Am A Mechanic) and don't consider "access" to anything to be a deal breaker. Engine access is more about accessory layout obstructing the mechanic than the basic engine shape. The flat-four VW boxers were among the easiest engines to remove, install, and rebuild.
"Meanwhile, they could ask Pfc Manning about how much information crosses the vaunted air gaps in military networks."
I've been retired since 2007, but back then it would have been no problem to open a PC and make it your bitch. Pop the case, reset the chassis intrusion warning, boot off (whatever) and own the main hard disk, reassemble, done.
Manning didn't even need to do that thanks to a multi-session CD.
The government is so in love with COTS equipment they don't get that most of it is designed for extreme convenience, not security.
Just changing cases and connectors, and controlling ALL removable media would do wonders for lockdown. Shitcan Windows of course, because to MOST users a different OS IS a barrier. No security is perfect, but more locks "keep honest people honest".
Not necessarily SKILLED manual labor, but one gets dirty being a welder or machinist. Good for my welder and machinist buddies that everyone else thinks the trades suck. The trades are still so valuable that they can sustain strong unions and bargain collectively.
Some of us don't consider Jihadists to be anything but cultural enemies and are fine with destroying them on the global battlefield.
I'll get modded to oblivion for this, but someone needs to say it:
Awlaki etc are superstitionists whose supersition is vastly worse than any ideology that has come before. We can choose to simply route around restraints and kill them, so we do.
I admire one thing about Communists. They appreciated the toxicity of religion and weren't shy about pulling a trigger on the primitives who espouse it.
I want my government to kill them and I support legislators who facilitate killing them. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
"And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone."
Pearl Harbor began the best thing to happen to the US in the last century, the Second World War. The combination of economic expansion and military supremacy which resulted dwarfed the costs such that they were trivial by comparison.
WWII had the NET effect of moving a very large part of the world forward, including the Axis losers and mainland China.
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There is no way to impose discipline so all that is left are "confining structures" that include or exclude. There is no social or parental sanction for misbehavior.
Personal recognizance only works in very limited areas. That's why secured areas restrict access and demand ID.
Expecting substitutes or other teachers to know all your little snowflakes from the beginning of the school years is absurd. Expecting them to know who does and doesn't belong throughout the rest of the school is insane.
Maybe a one-room schoolhouse in Mayberry has the span of control you seem to expect.
How about viewing school security with the professional expectations you would have for COMPUTER security?
Creepy? If you expect an institution you charge with the SAFETY of your offspring to function they need to know where students are and exclude those not authorized to be on campus.
Schools have a duty to keep out unauthorized and dangerous outsiders.
They still should not be running Windows. Logical reasons do not exist for military command and controls systems to run Windows, at all, ever.
"Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors"
Government end-users are mostly appliance operators who have no fucking idea about security outside their annual AFCERT Powerpoint training. NO IDEA. They may be great at whatever their main specialty is, but that is different.
Foreign car makers didn't have to meet US crash safety requirements on many of their vehicles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Jumo_205
"Opposed piston designs, like boxer engines, are not well suited for this."
Perhaps to DIYers, but I've never met an extremely difficult engine to pull. Subaru have quite a loyal following.
"Neither are EVs. They have parts that wear out and are either too cost prohibitive to replace, or too difficult (in terms of accessing them to take them out)."
Expensive parts in all vehicles are now normally scavenged from organ donor wrecks. It's cheaper to replace an engine than do a top end.
IAAM. (I Am A Mechanic) and don't consider "access" to anything to be a deal breaker. Engine access is more about accessory layout obstructing the mechanic than the basic engine shape. The flat-four VW boxers were among the easiest engines to remove, install, and rebuild.
Capstone turbines are already powering data centers and buses.
YOUR link is actually useful instead of "designed to get xconomy page hits".
This isn't the first time.
Slashdot doesn't need to fucking post xconomy Slashvertisements.
WTF? Is it a Slashdot affiliate?
"Meanwhile, they could ask Pfc Manning about how much information crosses the vaunted air gaps in military networks."
I've been retired since 2007, but back then it would have been no problem to open a PC and make it your bitch. Pop the case, reset the chassis intrusion warning, boot off (whatever) and own the main hard disk, reassemble, done.
Manning didn't even need to do that thanks to a multi-session CD.
The government is so in love with COTS equipment they don't get that most of it is designed for extreme convenience, not security.
Just changing cases and connectors, and controlling ALL removable media would do wonders for lockdown. Shitcan Windows of course, because to MOST users a different OS IS a barrier. No security is perfect, but more locks "keep honest people honest".
They chased the motivated, volunteer geeks away during the 1990s because their actual AFSCs were other career fields.
Most AF computer maintainers are essentially Admin paper-pushers at the lower levels.
The whole idea of "wiping it off" is silly. Destroy suspect hard disks instead of trying to save them. The cost is trivial.
"Machines made manual labor a cheap commodity,"
Not necessarily SKILLED manual labor, but one gets dirty being a welder or machinist. Good for my welder and machinist buddies that everyone else thinks the trades suck. The trades are still so valuable that they can sustain strong unions and bargain collectively.
That depends on their CHOICE of education. For someone to pay you, you must serve their workforce needs.
It is incumbent on students to study the economy and job market if they wish to be payed well.
Some of us don't consider Jihadists to be anything but cultural enemies and are fine with destroying them on the global battlefield.
I'll get modded to oblivion for this, but someone needs to say it:
Awlaki etc are superstitionists whose supersition is vastly worse than any ideology that has come before. We can choose to simply route around restraints and kill them, so we do.
I admire one thing about Communists. They appreciated the toxicity of religion and weren't shy about pulling a trigger on the primitives who espouse it.
I want my government to kill them and I support legislators who facilitate killing them. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Positive eugenics should not be confused with Nazi pseudo-science.
Humans already breed by choice. Positive eugenics merely expands the choices. If you can evolve by choice, why not do that?
"And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone."
Pearl Harbor began the best thing to happen to the US in the last century, the Second World War. The combination of economic expansion and military supremacy which resulted dwarfed the costs such that they were trivial by comparison.
WWII had the NET effect of moving a very large part of the world forward, including the Axis losers and mainland China.
Rossi escaped to the US. Here's his spin:
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/RossiPetroldragonStory.shtml
Can you connect him or his supporters to Santilli and the MagneGas project which is similar to Petroldragon?
"You might consider adding avatars / gravatars next to people's comments."
Useless decoration. Have an option to disable.
"Some really terrible articles get through sometimes."
Including articles that the MSM cover. I can find CNN on my own TYVM.
Search "MagneGas" for more smarmy entertainment.
Such people disgrace legitimate scientists.
"So Rossi either is a completely self-deluded man that manages to delude lots of other people around him as well, or he really has something working."
Third option:
His previous endeavors got him enough bank to roll the dice this time.
"His own money" didn't fall from the sky.
...the only place you'll soon be able to afford medical care. :-P