That's Insightful, it shouldn't be Interesting because other then MSFT fantards the intelligent expectation of Windows is that it is as fucked up as a concrete bicycle.
Windows is not secure in common use, cannot be made secure in common use, and running it with the expectation that it won't be exploited is as smart as using a cutting torch in your lap.
"Wah, my 'Doze is broken!"
Don't run a shit OS, and don't respond to those who remind you not to run a shit OS as if that statement is a troll.
If a plainclothes cop doesn't identify himself and comes pointing or brandishing a weapon, he's a threat. My property is MINE and not anyone elses. I respect the property of others and expect the same.
If I break into your house, shoot me in the face. I'll avoid that fate by _not_breaking_into_your_house_.:)
No Trespassing signs mean what they say, and it should logically be incumbent on property owners to warn the public to stay off.
Likewise, it should be incumbent on the public to stay off and make damn sure they don't go where they don't belong.
The "postman" example is a deliberate (and pretty stupid) strawman. One has a mailbox with the expectation that the mail carrier will use it for its intended purpose, and not perceive delivery as an attack. If the mail carrier decides to break into my residence, that's "storming" it.
"This will be just one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption in parts of the world that can't afford any more of either."
Failure is part of the human condition. That doesn't negate advances in medicine, it just means they won't be as available to area where the humans who run things make bad decisions.
This is why it should be legal everywhere to use armed force to protect one's property. A home should be a castle, and the best way to deal with those who would storm that castle is to kill them,
Unless you advocate protecting your rights with violence if necessary, you don't advocate protecting your rights.
I wouldn't remove it, I'd hit it with my piezo-electric gas grill ignition unit I keep to ensure I can RMA "intermittent" components by turning them into "inoperative" components.
Clickclickclickclick and it's dead like the Kennedy brothers. No burn marks, thanks to the high voltage/low amperage.
"I think people resist checklists, because it makes them feel like they've become some sort of cog in a machine, but I for one recognize the limits of my memory and ability to manage complexity in critical situations."
Good point. When you teach people that checklist DISCIPLINE HELPS THEM do the job right, they are more likely to accept it.
Examples help. If checklists are good enough for the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, they are worth considering elsewhere.
Outside trauma and emergency medicine, perhaps, but the "crisis managment" mentality is clearly inappropriate to most care, which involves _scheduled_ appointments, examinations, etc.
If we are doing a comparison, a combat turn on an F16 with intake inspection, servicing inspection, weapons load, etc can be done in under 20 minutes (hot refuel done on the taxiway). The Weapons folks have the checklist open and mark off the steps using grease pencil. The process is hectic, but a key part of control is the checklist.
I put down the resistance to checklists outside of dire emergencies ("dire" being outside even of most ER visits) to elitism. If a pilot can abide by them (including some emergencies) then other skilled people have limited excuse.
I thought that too until I enlisted, but the military (well, at least the Air Force) is _highly_ safety conscious about their people in most cases. It isn't the money first, it's the mission, then the people, then the money by and large.
You aren't expected to die to save inanimate objects, even expensive ones with wings, and checklist discipline extends to inexpensive systems. G.I.s are aware of the cost of what they work on (easy enough to look up), but don't obsess on it.
The USAF safety culture is genuine. I find some civilian workplaces slack and indifferent to their people by comparison.
The Compressed Gas Association has been using incompatible, standard fittings for (many decades), along with colored gas hose where appropriate (welding torch hose is a common example).
The medical industry strikes me as a bit odd.
In the Air Force, I couldn't work on aircraft beyond 12 hours excepting emergencies because performance drops off drastically after that long a shift. (It's fun mentioning this to interns just to see the looks on their faces!)
In the Air Force, everyone working around aircraft including pilots uses a CHECKLIST because memory is acknowledged to be fallible. Memory is nice, but get caught without a job guide and it's yo' ass!
I have more faith in military aircraft maintenance than I do modern medicine...
"And with modern technology, the moment they see you, your precious moments will be recorded, shared and stored for eternity."
The way to deal with that is to fucking vanish when not at work. I learned that one in the military and apply it to working in education. Outside of a select group, I don't fucking want to know anyone and I'm not missing much.
""amid international fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons"... should be:... amid american/israeli fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons."
The "international" bit comes when the weapons and/or gear to make them go on sale. Pakistan ring any bells?
"So if they could just take the rods one stormy night, mix it with the right diluent, properly package it and send it off on some missiles to Israel it's ok since it won't explode?"
That's WAY too much work. Set the rods around a bursting charge then deliver however you like. No need to worry about handling if your handlers are expendable.
"Even an underground bunker isn't "fire proof" (people still die getting to them and in them)."
A GOOD one is fireproof. Bunkers can be made to take a direct hit with a napalm canister. Hesco bastion can also be used to build standoff walls around property (dirt and sand don't burn).
While the weather in Oz obviously favors sheds, an ISO container potted in concrete would make a fine bunker (the metal serving as a spall liner). It would follow the principles of Hardened Aircraft Shelters, and the concrete roof would make a nice deck.
The South (I live there too) is too poor and too cheap to afford trailer construction codes that are worth a damn. It's trivially cheap to haul them off though, so it works out.
Mobile homes based on ISO shipping containers could look no worse than conventional mobile homes, and sustain over 100 MPH winds. I use them for my shop buildings because they are tough, waterproof, don't burn (wood is for furniture and campfires) and can be easily moved without twisting or breaking up. When they are no longer wanted, the metal is easily recycled.
"Trailers"/container housing/modular housing can be as tough as the container structures used in construction and by the military. It can also be cheap shit designed for maximum square footage. To be kind, customers don't know shit so they'll go for "cheap and large". Building codes rightly keep trailers out of cities, but IMO they are fine for rural areas.
The case boils down to suing any available target, and the Iranian government isn't available.
The Iranian resistance movement is going to suffer either way, but unlike the more courageous Jihadists, they are playing at change instead of killing their opponents.
The bar has been set by the devout Muslims who run the show. The less devout sort who want a piece of the pie will need to kill for it.
"those who have done it don't exactly like those who haven't."
Wake me when they STOP the other sort by turning them in, by turning in businesses that hire them (there is reward system, BTW), by advocating extreme border restrictions (and what Mexico likes be damned!), by advocating total denial of all benefits to illegals, and by creating a climate of total and utter hostility to them.
Arizona had the solution. California opposed it. The way to stop the enemy is to stop them, hurt them, drive them off, and not give a damn if is causes them pain. Check everyone's ID. EXCLUSIVITY is what conserves resources.
The Welfare State that California cannot afford is even less affordable when extended to Mexico.
"That all seems a little excessive for a public school that -- let's face it -- is going to be housing lots of illegal immigrants."
California doesn't, except for a few old white folks (who will soon pass on) object to illegal immigration. For most Californians, the Reconquista cannot come soon enough.
It's their money to mismanage, and my right to wish California the total fiscal collapse it deserves.
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That's Insightful, it shouldn't be Interesting because other then MSFT fantards the intelligent expectation of Windows is that it is as fucked up as a concrete bicycle.
Windows is not secure in common use, cannot be made secure in common use, and running it with the expectation that it won't be exploited is as smart as using a cutting torch in your lap.
"Wah, my 'Doze is broken!"
Don't run a shit OS, and don't respond to those who remind you not to run a shit OS as if that statement is a troll.
If a plainclothes cop doesn't identify himself and comes pointing or brandishing a weapon, he's a threat. My property is MINE and not anyone elses. I respect the property of others and expect the same.
If I break into your house, shoot me in the face. I'll avoid that fate by _not_breaking_into_your_house_. :)
No Trespassing signs mean what they say, and it should logically be incumbent on property owners to warn the public to stay off.
Likewise, it should be incumbent on the public to stay off and make damn sure they don't go where they don't belong.
The "postman" example is a deliberate (and pretty stupid) strawman. One has a mailbox with the expectation that the mail carrier will use it for its intended purpose, and not perceive delivery as an attack. If the mail carrier decides to break into my residence, that's "storming" it.
"Now what am I supposed to wish upon my enemies?"
Nancy Pelosi, naked and petrified.
"By the way, I find it somewhat strange that "terrorism" is mentioned as a reason here."
I don't. Weaponisation of both agents was a concern many years ago, and mentioned routinely in military NBC training.
"This will be just one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption in parts of the world that can't afford any more of either."
Failure is part of the human condition. That doesn't negate advances in medicine, it just means they won't be as available to area where the humans who run things make bad decisions.
This is why it should be legal everywhere to use armed force to protect one's property. A home should be a castle, and the best way to deal with those who would storm that castle is to kill them,
Unless you advocate protecting your rights with violence if necessary, you don't advocate protecting your rights.
I wouldn't remove it, I'd hit it with my piezo-electric gas grill ignition unit I keep to ensure I can RMA "intermittent" components by turning them into "inoperative" components.
Clickclickclickclick and it's dead like the Kennedy brothers. No burn marks, thanks to the high voltage/low amperage.
"I bet Kim Kardashian's pretty excited that there's finally a use for her new perfume."
Summer's Eve makes perfume?
" If only that were a solution to the floating garbage island in the pacific."
No need to worry. Rush Limbaugh said "the Earth will heal itself."
"I think people resist checklists, because it makes them feel like they've become some sort of cog in a machine, but I for one recognize the limits of my memory and ability to manage complexity in critical situations."
Good point. When you teach people that checklist DISCIPLINE HELPS THEM do the job right, they are more likely to accept it.
Examples help. If checklists are good enough for the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, they are worth considering elsewhere.
Outside trauma and emergency medicine, perhaps, but the "crisis managment" mentality is clearly inappropriate to most care, which involves _scheduled_ appointments, examinations, etc.
If we are doing a comparison, a combat turn on an F16 with intake inspection, servicing inspection, weapons load, etc can be done in under 20 minutes (hot refuel done on the taxiway). The Weapons folks have the checklist open and mark off the steps using grease pencil. The process is hectic, but a key part of control is the checklist.
I put down the resistance to checklists outside of dire emergencies ("dire" being outside even of most ER visits) to elitism.
If a pilot can abide by them (including some emergencies) then other skilled people have limited excuse.
http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/Medical_Errors_Cost_Americans_19_5_Billion_Dollars_a_Year_100823
I thought that too until I enlisted, but the military (well, at least the Air Force) is _highly_ safety conscious about their people in most cases. It isn't the money first, it's the mission, then the people, then the money by and large.
You aren't expected to die to save inanimate objects, even expensive ones with wings, and checklist discipline extends to inexpensive systems. G.I.s are aware of the cost of what they work on (easy enough to look up), but don't obsess on it.
The USAF safety culture is genuine. I find some civilian workplaces slack and indifferent to their people by comparison.
The Compressed Gas Association has been using incompatible, standard fittings for (many decades), along with colored gas hose where appropriate (welding torch hose is a common example).
The medical industry strikes me as a bit odd.
In the Air Force, I couldn't work on aircraft beyond 12 hours excepting emergencies because performance drops off drastically after that long a shift. (It's fun mentioning this to interns just to see the looks on their faces!)
In the Air Force, everyone working around aircraft including pilots uses a CHECKLIST because memory is acknowledged to be fallible. Memory is nice, but get caught without a job guide and it's yo' ass!
I have more faith in military aircraft maintenance than I do modern medicine...
"The best security protection is to hire lazy employees"
In that case, put the national gold reserves in my workplace and close Fort Knox.
We won't need it any more.
"And with modern technology, the moment they see you, your precious moments will be recorded, shared and stored for eternity."
The way to deal with that is to fucking vanish when not at work. I learned that one in the military and apply it to working in education. Outside of a select group, I don't fucking want to know anyone and I'm not missing much.
"Or worse... YOU walk in and recognize that it's HER shoes while SHE's raging on the toilet with PBR beer shits at 150psi."
I, for one, find the idea vaguely arousing...
""amid international fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons" ... should be: ... amid american/israeli fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons."
The "international" bit comes when the weapons and/or gear to make them go on sale. Pakistan ring any bells?
"So if they could just take the rods one stormy night, mix it with the right diluent, properly package it and send it off on some missiles to Israel it's ok since it won't explode?"
That's WAY too much work. Set the rods around a bursting charge then deliver however you like. No need to worry about handling if your handlers are expendable.
Fuck the Quonset except possibly for an entrance. Consider metal culvert or other material DESIGNED to support a pour.
I'd use High Cube ISO shipping containers after coating them (ALL the way round) with marine paint.
"Sure, its like, a 2 million dollar project, but hey, *i can dream*."
Two million for a palace perhaps, but not much for a smallish, cozy bunker, and you needn't build it all at once.
"Build the whole damn house underground so that you need no AC or heating and grow native grasses over it. Problem solved."
Not with my water table. :)
"Even an underground bunker isn't "fire proof" (people still die getting to them and in them)."
A GOOD one is fireproof. Bunkers can be made to take a direct hit with a napalm canister. Hesco bastion can also be used to build standoff walls around property (dirt and sand don't burn).
While the weather in Oz obviously favors sheds, an ISO container potted in concrete would make a fine bunker (the metal serving as a spall liner). It would follow the principles of Hardened Aircraft Shelters, and the concrete roof would make a nice deck.
The South (I live there too) is too poor and too cheap to afford trailer construction codes that are worth a damn. It's trivially cheap to haul them off though, so it works out.
Mobile homes based on ISO shipping containers could look no worse than conventional mobile homes, and sustain over 100 MPH winds. I use them for my shop buildings because they are tough, waterproof, don't burn (wood is for furniture and campfires) and can be easily moved without twisting or breaking up. When they are no longer wanted, the metal is easily recycled.
"Trailers"/container housing/modular housing can be as tough as the container structures used in construction and by the military. It can also be cheap shit designed for maximum square footage. To be kind, customers don't know shit so they'll go for "cheap and large". Building codes rightly keep trailers out of cities, but IMO they are fine for rural areas.
The case boils down to suing any available target, and the Iranian government isn't available.
The Iranian resistance movement is going to suffer either way, but unlike the more courageous Jihadists, they are playing at change instead of killing their opponents.
The bar has been set by the devout Muslims who run the show. The less devout sort who want a piece of the pie will need to kill for it.
"those who have done it don't exactly like those who haven't."
Wake me when they STOP the other sort by turning them in, by turning in businesses that hire them (there is reward system, BTW), by advocating extreme border restrictions (and what Mexico likes be damned!), by advocating total denial of all benefits to illegals, and by creating a climate of total and utter hostility to them.
Arizona had the solution. California opposed it. The way to stop the enemy is to stop them, hurt them, drive them off, and not give a damn if is causes them pain. Check everyone's ID. EXCLUSIVITY is what conserves resources.
The Welfare State that California cannot afford is even less affordable when extended to Mexico.
"That all seems a little excessive for a public school that -- let's face it -- is going to be housing lots of illegal immigrants."
California doesn't, except for a few old white folks (who will soon pass on) object to illegal immigration. For most Californians, the Reconquista cannot come soon enough.
It's their money to mismanage, and my right to wish California the total fiscal collapse it deserves.