Seriously? He had a non-DoD internet connection installed in his office at The Pentagon, and nobody noticed.
What happened? Some guy in a Comcast van showed up to do the install and security just waved them on thru to do whatever they felt like?
No chance. The comcast guy would install the connection point on the far side of the building from his office and he'd have to buy an extra long ethernet cable and string it through doors or over the roof.
I doubt it was a wired network. I suspect that an unauthorized hardware line would be very difficult to install unnoticed. Probably wireless Internet over a cellular network. Which raises the question: How does someone operate a cellular phone/modem/router in a SCIF without getting caught by periodic RF scans?
Politics aside: I'm going to call bullshit on this until someone has a reasonable idea as to how it was done.
Or maybe vpn proxy services magically work from within the super secure monitored networks. If he had to go to extraordinary lengths to make it work, you might reasonably be suspicious as to what was so important to keep from the prying eyes of the US government. I hear being chums with Russia is the new thing in incoming executive branch leadership.
>today i learned that you can embed Javascript code into an SVG image file
And today I learned that from you.
It's like people just can't stop themselves from making declarative things executable in full knowledge that it will lead to a fresh source of attack vectors that will be exploited for years to come. I expect there is no switch, defaulted to 'off' to prevent the execution of javascript in places it shouldn't be, like in SVG in any browser I use. I can't find such a thing in Chrome.
The data on cell phones causing an increase in accidents has never been statistically sound. It is based on assuming an untested contrapositive - If some percentage people in accidents were using their phone, then people not in accident were not using their phone.
The upwards trend in the use of mobile phones has coincided with a downwards trend in accident rates. There are many other variables in play.
I don't expect any measurable difference when they do this. They will do it in a way that the efficacy can't even be measured.
The RF band support is different for the two phones which affects your access to 3G and LTE in foreign countries. Having just been through Spain and Barcelona with a US SIM Free iPhone, I can confirm that that is the case.
But I misinterpreted the above comment as SIM-Free as meaning SIM-Less. I spent too much time designing cell phones and chips for cell phones that these terms got used interchangeably by a lot of engineers.
anyone in the market for an iPhone should just buy the SIM-free unit that has the better performing chipset.
Then I would be screwed without a SIM when traveling. Having a phone I can use is more important than restricting myself to one US-only proprietary protocol in return for a marginal download speed increase.
"Speaking as one of the neighboring states." LOL that is hilarious. Which one are you today? Let me guess, Oregon? How long have you had these delusions that you speak for an entire state?
Let me try one: "Speaking as the emperor of Mars, all women will report to my launch pad where they will be transported to my new domed pleasure palace on the Martian surface."
Your autism is strong today Glasshopper. When you can come across a witty comment without misinterpreting it as serious political discourse, you will pass.
Large laptop purchases are done by corporates directly with their supplier, not through public online channels. These numbers mean nothing.
Corporates do indeed make the most laptop purchases, but it is quite disingenuous to count them in as they are not really representative of what private users want from their laptop.
I do agree that the numbers are silly and contrived though.
I think my employers have brought laptops for me at about twice the rate I by personal laptops for myself. I think that's because I make better choices and I option up the RAM, disk, screen and CPU so it lasts longer.
Same here. Won't eat anything GMO.. Unfit for human consumption. Pretty much everything produced from the midwest area parent is touting. Additionally, most civilized nations around the world won't buy any of the Monsanto GMO garbage either, produced from that same region as well.
I can understand believing the European protectionist/anti-capitalist propaganda, and it's fine if you want to make choices for yourself based on it. But when your response to someone pointing out facts about agriculture is rant about how much of the country "produces garbage" - that's how you alienate the people who live there and lose elections because of it.
Anyway, do you agree that California doesn't "grow 2/3 of the US crops"? 'Cause that was my entire point.
I have no clue what proportion of US crops are grown in California. But yes, meat production in the US is mostly garbage. If you leveled the accusation at me (on behalf of my left side people) that we make garbage manuals that are impenetrable I would take it in the chin. It's true. I don't take it as alienating. Farmers who feed grain to cows to push the the fat in your ground beef from 15% to 20% while ruining it's healthy fat ratios and the quality of the meat are equally wrong. They don't have to read my manuals. I don't have to eat their crappy meat.
For *you*. Everyone else gets to do what, exactly?
They can do their own things. There are lots of things to do. At no point does one of those things become debased by making a profit, which is the assertion that you Mr A.C. made above.
You're aware that California grows 2/3 of the US crops?
You must mean 2/3 of the crop species. California only produces about 11% of the food grown in the US (by value) and has more than 12% of the population. Iowa has less than a tenth as many people and produces more than 2/3 the crop value that Cali does. 'You', or rather the state you're in, produce a variety of fruits and veggies. But the grain and grain-fed meat that make up the bulk of what people in the US eat comes from the Midwest.
I never eat grain fed meat. The stuff I get in my local supermarket is grass fed and comes from in-state. It's good too.
I wonder how California would feel after it's secession when we cut their fucking water off. That State drains water from all their neighbors. Good luck growing almonds.
Speaking as one of those neighboring states, we expect to go along with them for the ride and we've got lots of water.
No, Sv has debased an American work force in the name of profit while claiming to be providing a service.
Calexit? Over your dead body. Its time we break the sillycons and take their assets until their tax bill is paid in full.
I rather like my job designing chips, doing cryptography, setting international standards, traveling to nice places, occasionally lecturing at colleges. Silicon Valley didn't debase that job. Silicon Valley enabled that job.
>The people in other places that seem "weird" are only that way because... we're weird ourselves.
Fact is that every one is every one else's weirdo..
You write as if we are everyone else's weirdo, and they're normal. Stop canibalizing your self.
I know I'm weird. I expect if I said the things I really think, people would consider me to be weird. I filter to get along with people. I suspect many or most people are like that.
The ones who appear weird filter less than the ones who appear normal.
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Seriously? He had a non-DoD internet connection installed in his office at The Pentagon, and nobody noticed.
What happened? Some guy in a Comcast van showed up to do the install and security just waved them on thru to do whatever they felt like?
No chance. The comcast guy would install the connection point on the far side of the building from his office and he'd have to buy an extra long ethernet cable and string it through doors or over the roof.
I doubt it was a wired network. I suspect that an unauthorized hardware line would be very difficult to install unnoticed. Probably wireless Internet over a cellular network. Which raises the question: How does someone operate a cellular phone/modem/router in a SCIF without getting caught by periodic RF scans?
Politics aside: I'm going to call bullshit on this until someone has a reasonable idea as to how it was done.
Or maybe vpn proxy services magically work from within the super secure monitored networks. If he had to go to extraordinary lengths to make it work, you might reasonably be suspicious as to what was so important to keep from the prying eyes of the US government. I hear being chums with Russia is the new thing in incoming executive branch leadership.
>today i learned that you can embed Javascript code into an SVG image file
And today I learned that from you.
It's like people just can't stop themselves from making declarative things executable in full knowledge that it will lead to a fresh source of attack vectors that will be exploited for years to come. I expect there is no switch, defaulted to 'off' to prevent the execution of javascript in places it shouldn't be, like in SVG in any browser I use. I can't find such a thing in Chrome.
I grow very tired of this bigger-dick contest between EV vendors.
I know right. The petrol and Diesel vehicle makers have always been so responsible and have never pushed the performance angle.
In the US we have these things called race tracks where there are no speed limits.
Well there's C.
The data on cell phones causing an increase in accidents has never been statistically sound. It is based on assuming an untested contrapositive - If some percentage people in accidents were using their phone, then people not in accident were not using their phone.
The upwards trend in the use of mobile phones has coincided with a downwards trend in accident rates. There are many other variables in play.
I don't expect any measurable difference when they do this. They will do it in a way that the efficacy can't even be measured.
Just like your Windows computer.
Oh dear. They'll mess with my Goat Simulator profile. It's a good thing I do real work on something else.
The RF band support is different for the two phones which affects your access to 3G and LTE in foreign countries. Having just been through Spain and Barcelona with a US SIM Free iPhone, I can confirm that that is the case.
But I misinterpreted the above comment as SIM-Free as meaning SIM-Less. I spent too much time designing cell phones and chips for cell phones that these terms got used interchangeably by a lot of engineers.
anyone in the market for an iPhone should just buy the SIM-free unit that has the better performing chipset.
Then I would be screwed without a SIM when traveling. Having a phone I can use is more important than restricting myself to one US-only proprietary protocol in return for a marginal download speed increase.
"Speaking as one of the neighboring states." LOL that is hilarious. Which one are you today? Let me guess, Oregon? How long have you had these delusions that you speak for an entire state?
Let me try one:
"Speaking as the emperor of Mars, all women will report to my launch pad where they will be transported to my new domed pleasure palace on the Martian surface."
Your autism is strong today Glasshopper. When you can come across a witty comment without misinterpreting it as serious political discourse, you will pass.
That's a matter of spending priorities. You need both - investment in science and investing in helping people climb out of poverty.
Well, party's over for you.
Why do you think that?
Large laptop purchases are done by corporates directly with their supplier, not through public online channels. These numbers mean nothing.
Corporates do indeed make the most laptop purchases, but it is quite disingenuous to count them in as they are not really representative of what private users want from their laptop.
I do agree that the numbers are silly and contrived though.
I think my employers have brought laptops for me at about twice the rate I by personal laptops for myself. I think that's because I make better choices and I option up the RAM, disk, screen and CPU so it lasts longer.
You're comparing an Apple and an Orange though, unless you somehow configured the MacBook Pro with a touch screen.
That's right. Touch screens add negative value to a laptop, so a laptop with a touchscreen should indeed be cheaper.
Drive from N. Cal to San Diego and watch the trash on the side of the roads increase with every mile south.
Mexicans litter like pigs. It's just a fact.
Sorry I went bankrupt when I tried to buy petrol in Weed.
Go ahead, eat downer cattle (where most 'grass fed'* beef comes from).
Leaves more of the good stuff for the rest of us.
* all beef is 'grass fed', the good stuff also gets lots of grain in the last 6 weeks of life.
Cows are like humans. You feed them grains to fatten them up.
Same here. Won't eat anything GMO .. Unfit for human consumption. Pretty much everything produced from the midwest area parent is touting. Additionally, most civilized nations around the world won't buy any of the Monsanto GMO garbage either, produced from that same region as well.
I can understand believing the European protectionist/anti-capitalist propaganda, and it's fine if you want to make choices for yourself based on it. But when your response to someone pointing out facts about agriculture is rant about how much of the country "produces garbage" - that's how you alienate the people who live there and lose elections because of it.
Anyway, do you agree that California doesn't "grow 2/3 of the US crops"? 'Cause that was my entire point.
I have no clue what proportion of US crops are grown in California. But yes, meat production in the US is mostly garbage. If you leveled the accusation at me (on behalf of my left side people) that we make garbage manuals that are impenetrable I would take it in the chin. It's true. I don't take it as alienating. Farmers who feed grain to cows to push the the fat in your ground beef from 15% to 20% while ruining it's healthy fat ratios and the quality of the meat are equally wrong. They don't have to read my manuals. I don't have to eat their crappy meat.
For *you*. Everyone else gets to do what, exactly?
They can do their own things. There are lots of things to do.
At no point does one of those things become debased by making a profit, which is the assertion that you Mr A.C. made above.
I'm ok with them leaving. Their cities are disgusting and riddled with homeless, construction, and traffic.
Try driving from San Diego to Tijuana. Those places are not similar.
>CA makes a lot of money because it's a port state with refineries and military bases.
Actually there are some small industries related to tech and agriculture also. It seem odd to miss those things when talking about California.
You're aware that California grows 2/3 of the US crops?
You must mean 2/3 of the crop species. California only produces about 11% of the food grown in the US (by value) and has more than 12% of the population. Iowa has less than a tenth as many people and produces more than 2/3 the crop value that Cali does. 'You', or rather the state you're in, produce a variety of fruits and veggies. But the grain and grain-fed meat that make up the bulk of what people in the US eat comes from the Midwest.
I never eat grain fed meat. The stuff I get in my local supermarket is grass fed and comes from in-state. It's good too.
I wonder how California would feel after it's secession when we cut their fucking water off. That State drains water from all their neighbors. Good luck growing almonds.
Speaking as one of those neighboring states, we expect to go along with them for the ride and we've got lots of water.
I'll be these same people pointed and laughed when Texans said the same thing.
That's because Texas takes in a whole lot more money from the feds than they put in. They can't afford to.
No, Sv has debased an American work force in the name of profit while claiming to be providing a service.
Calexit? Over your dead body. Its time we break the sillycons and take their assets until their tax bill is paid in full.
I rather like my job designing chips, doing cryptography, setting international standards, traveling to nice places, occasionally lecturing at colleges.
Silicon Valley didn't debase that job. Silicon Valley enabled that job.
>The people in other places that seem "weird" are only that way because ... we're weird ourselves.
Fact is that every one is every one else's weirdo. .
You write as if we are everyone else's weirdo, and they're normal. Stop canibalizing your self .
I know I'm weird. I expect if I said the things I really think, people would consider me to be weird. I filter to get along with people.
I suspect many or most people are like that.
The ones who appear weird filter less than the ones who appear normal.