Didn't need Wikileaks for that.. this has been a known and very common problem with not just contractors but also US military and UN officials/peacekeepers and from the stories I'm hearing from my military friends (Canadian Peackeepers and US military) that it happens in a lot of different countries. I've heard more than one of my friends tell me that complaints go nowhere even though there were reports of UN official vehicles parked in front of known brothels.
From a run in I had with two wannabe "private security" guys looking to apply for work in Iraq last year I get the feeling that there are people looking for work in places with little law enforcement for exactly these reasons. Their only question after an hour of being lectured 45 minutes on the ins and outs of Iraq? "How are the women there"
Anon/lolsec made it much easier for the police to do this by bragging that they engaged in credit card fraud(used stolen card numbers for charitable donations).
I haven't seen any evidence that he is a Nazi. He puts his views on everything for all to see. So you can read for yourself that he advocates for Open Source and guns while arguing and against monogamous marriage.
ESR is no different in this case as he has his own agenda he is trying to push.
You are more right than you realize. ESR considers himself one of the Open Source greats despite that his largest contribution is that he maintained the termcap db and his is the first I've heard anything from him since Linus Torvalds refused his rewrite of the kernel config system. Not to mention his self proclaimed expertise in lovemaking.
His main function in life is to be what bloggers were before we called them bloggers and really isn't someone we need or want as a spokesman.
You forget that the file conversion between Office versions is far from perfect, in fact, we have a display machine with LibreOffice on it just to handle people who bring in PowerPoint presentations that MS Office won't even read.
Procedure: Load in LibreOffice, save, Open in MSOffice, fix glitches, save, load in PowerPoint Viewer.
The best part is that we can't use MS Office for the display because some presentations require an Office Permissions dialog to work and those will just display blank slides if Office is used in viewer mode.
If we learned anything form 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq it's that government internal intelligence seems hampered by ideological slant and internal politics. Stratfor, on the other hand, tries to be as accurate as possible and even publishes how accurate it's predictions were on a quarterly and yearly basis. Quite frankly, I would be more worried if governments weren't using services like Stratfor.
Judging from the differences of what gets posted on my wall, I find that men put up random cool things, pics from something they did with their friends etc while most of the really personal stuff I read such as struggles with life, relationships etc tend to be put up by women. I suspect the gender gap on the privacy settings are simply because woman care more about who reads what they put up.
Last I heard they were just tapping the satellite feeds from the US drones so unless the US govt has finally started encrypting their feeds the taliban doesn't need their own drones.
If the doctor could log in and select the medication and have the pharmacy read the prescription it would, on it's own, prevent a lot of errors that happen from misreading prescriptions. On top of that, if there is something wrong that requires a specialist then the patient is in a fun place where no one doctor knows what all medications are prescribed so a system that did any sort of automated conflict checking could save a lot of lives.
The current system is far from perfect, I once almost lost my job because some pharmacist misread my prescription for Singulair (Asthma med) and gave me an antipsychotic instead and for a week I couldn't be motivated to do anything.
At least when PostgreSQL starts working it stays working but I agree the same can't be said for MySQL. A recent upgrade changed the layout of mysql.user causing none of the users to be able to login. The oracle approved fix? mysqdump and restore but that just restored the bad layout of mysql.user. The actual fix involved dumping everything one database at a time and recreating mysql.user from a script. My best guess is that whoever designed the MySQL login system ignored SQL best practices and did the C equivalent of a "select * from mysql.user" rather than explicitly ask for the fields in the needed order.
I understand your offense but I wonder if anyone has considered that this whole thing could be a hoax.
Domain servers in listed order:
SK.S7.ANS1.NS103.KLCZY.COM
SK.S7.ANS2.NS103.KLCZY.COM
If a government agency had grabbed the domain wouldn't they have changed the hosting to something they control rather than some cheap name service whose homepage seems to only be an ad portal?
That is provided the do it consistently. There is a convenience store on the west island of Montreal that does this. Outside they were playing a nice symphony on shockingly good speakers but inside they were playing annoying pop music. Never before in my life have I found standing outside a store so much more enjoyable than inside.
Except for the part where they have mistakenly transferred domains (sex.com being the largest but not the only example) and then not only refused to fix the problem but argued in court that they shouldn't be responsible for or need to fix the problem. Not to mention the whole frontrunning thing they got caught doing a few years back where they registered domain names people searched for in advance so that they would be the only people who could register the domain.
On the evil scale network solutions are worse than GoDaddy.
Not really, people tend not to buy their cancer drugs online since you would need an expensive doctor to preform expensive tests to tell you what you need. Most of the online pharmacies that I have seen don't have anything other than the things people know by name with leanings to things people would be embarrassed to ask their doctor for such as drugs for erectile dysfunction, depression etc. There have been multiple reports where the counterfeit drug had either low/no active ingredient or in some cases the wrong ingredient.
I think a large part of the problem with a lot of guys is that think porn is actually how dating works (guy meets girl, girl is so impressed with his package she sleeps with him right away). It doesn't help that there are prostitutes who use those dating services (and facebook) as a place to find customers by playing off that fantasy.
Exactly, time is worth something. My policy is that for most people I fix computers for a living that means I want something in return even if it's just dinner. As a side note: my best barter ever was a guy who really messed up his computer several times and his wife was a professional massage therapist.
They do that because every minute they are in a high speed chase, the odds off an accident involving innocent bystanders goes up. I would much rather lose a car than two cars and a life because some idiot ran a red light at 5x the speed limit and crashed into someone who had no way to know what was coming.
If the old OS was XP they would be near a forced upgrade anyways to avoid being caught insecure after XP EOLs in 2014. XP to Windows 7 would require a complete hardware refresh. Windows 7 or Linux, no smart admin will want to wait until the last minute (next year) to deal with whatever transition they are planning.
Also: 5 minutes of browsing on dell.es netted me a mid range machine (core i3, 4g ram, 500g hd) with a 23 inch monitor for 610 Euro and of course that price goes down when start talking bulk purchase (and down even more without the win7 license).
I know for a fact that you can't do DNAT with Linux on ipv6 and I suspect the same is true with Windows and FreeBSD as well (someone correct me if I'm wrong)
Two decades? There have been platform based flamewars for almost as long as I've been on this planet. Back when I was a small child the entertainment was the Apple II vs Macintosh vs PC vs Comodore vs Atari fury in the mid 80s.
Iran doesn't invade countries, they train and fund terrorists instead. Lebanon and Iraq are good examples
Essentially what we have right now is a problem because the US changed the balance of power the middle east when they invaded Iraq and now it's out of whack and Iran no longer has any real countering force. I'm betting the idea at this point is to pummel Iran into the dark ages and hope Turkey emerges as the new dominant power.
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Didn't need Wikileaks for that.. this has been a known and very common problem with not just contractors but also US military and UN officials/peacekeepers and from the stories I'm hearing from my military friends (Canadian Peackeepers and US military) that it happens in a lot of different countries. I've heard more than one of my friends tell me that complaints go nowhere even though there were reports of UN official vehicles parked in front of known brothels.
From a run in I had with two wannabe "private security" guys looking to apply for work in Iraq last year I get the feeling that there are people looking for work in places with little law enforcement for exactly these reasons. Their only question after an hour of being lectured 45 minutes on the ins and outs of Iraq? "How are the women there"
Anon/lolsec made it much easier for the police to do this by bragging that they engaged in credit card fraud(used stolen card numbers for charitable donations).
I haven't seen any evidence that he is a Nazi. He puts his views on everything for all to see. So you can read for yourself that he advocates for Open Source and guns while arguing and against monogamous marriage.
ESR is no different in this case as he has his own agenda he is trying to push.
You are more right than you realize. ESR considers himself one of the Open Source greats despite that his largest contribution is that he maintained the termcap db and his is the first I've heard anything from him since Linus Torvalds refused his rewrite of the kernel config system. Not to mention his self proclaimed expertise in lovemaking.
His main function in life is to be what bloggers were before we called them bloggers and really isn't someone we need or want as a spokesman.
You forget that the file conversion between Office versions is far from perfect, in fact, we have a display machine with LibreOffice on it just to handle people who bring in PowerPoint presentations that MS Office won't even read.
Procedure: Load in LibreOffice, save, Open in MSOffice, fix glitches, save, load in PowerPoint Viewer.
The best part is that we can't use MS Office for the display because some presentations require an Office Permissions dialog to work and those will just display blank slides if Office is used in viewer mode.
If we learned anything form 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq it's that government internal intelligence seems hampered by ideological slant and internal politics. Stratfor, on the other hand, tries to be as accurate as possible and even publishes how accurate it's predictions were on a quarterly and yearly basis. Quite frankly, I would be more worried if governments weren't using services like Stratfor.
Judging from the differences of what gets posted on my wall, I find that men put up random cool things, pics from something they did with their friends etc while most of the really personal stuff I read such as struggles with life, relationships etc tend to be put up by women. I suspect the gender gap on the privacy settings are simply because woman care more about who reads what they put up.
I counter that with the example of Jaime Escalante who took students who everyone thought wouldn't be able to succeed and brought them through anyways only to find himself opposed by the Janitors, teacher's Union and school administrators. The system is badly screwed up.
Last I heard they were just tapping the satellite feeds from the US drones so unless the US govt has finally started encrypting their feeds the taliban doesn't need their own drones.
If the doctor could log in and select the medication and have the pharmacy read the prescription it would, on it's own, prevent a lot of errors that happen from misreading prescriptions. On top of that, if there is something wrong that requires a specialist then the patient is in a fun place where no one doctor knows what all medications are prescribed so a system that did any sort of automated conflict checking could save a lot of lives.
The current system is far from perfect, I once almost lost my job because some pharmacist misread my prescription for Singulair (Asthma med) and gave me an antipsychotic instead and for a week I couldn't be motivated to do anything.
At least when PostgreSQL starts working it stays working but I agree the same can't be said for MySQL. A recent upgrade changed the layout of mysql.user causing none of the users to be able to login. The oracle approved fix? mysqdump and restore but that just restored the bad layout of mysql.user. The actual fix involved dumping everything one database at a time and recreating mysql.user from a script. My best guess is that whoever designed the MySQL login system ignored SQL best practices and did the C equivalent of a "select * from mysql.user" rather than explicitly ask for the fields in the needed order.
I understand your offense but I wonder if anyone has considered that this whole thing could be a hoax.
Domain servers in listed order:
SK.S7.ANS1.NS103.KLCZY.COM
SK.S7.ANS2.NS103.KLCZY.COM
If a government agency had grabbed the domain wouldn't they have changed the hosting to something they control rather than some cheap name service whose homepage seems to only be an ad portal?
That is provided the do it consistently. There is a convenience store on the west island of Montreal that does this. Outside they were playing a nice symphony on shockingly good speakers but inside they were playing annoying pop music. Never before in my life have I found standing outside a store so much more enjoyable than inside.
Except for the part where they have mistakenly transferred domains (sex.com being the largest but not the only example) and then not only refused to fix the problem but argued in court that they shouldn't be responsible for or need to fix the problem. Not to mention the whole frontrunning thing they got caught doing a few years back where they registered domain names people searched for in advance so that they would be the only people who could register the domain.
On the evil scale network solutions are worse than GoDaddy.
Not really, people tend not to buy their cancer drugs online since you would need an expensive doctor to preform expensive tests to tell you what you need. Most of the online pharmacies that I have seen don't have anything other than the things people know by name with leanings to things people would be embarrassed to ask their doctor for such as drugs for erectile dysfunction, depression etc. There have been multiple reports where the counterfeit drug had either low/no active ingredient or in some cases the wrong ingredient.
I think a large part of the problem with a lot of guys is that think porn is actually how dating works (guy meets girl, girl is so impressed with his package she sleeps with him right away). It doesn't help that there are prostitutes who use those dating services (and facebook) as a place to find customers by playing off that fantasy.
Exactly, time is worth something. My policy is that for most people I fix computers for a living that means I want something in return even if it's just dinner. As a side note: my best barter ever was a guy who really messed up his computer several times and his wife was a professional massage therapist.
They do that because every minute they are in a high speed chase, the odds off an accident involving innocent bystanders goes up. I would much rather lose a car than two cars and a life because some idiot ran a red light at 5x the speed limit and crashed into someone who had no way to know what was coming.
If the old OS was XP they would be near a forced upgrade anyways to avoid being caught insecure after XP EOLs in 2014. XP to Windows 7 would require a complete hardware refresh. Windows 7 or Linux, no smart admin will want to wait until the last minute (next year) to deal with whatever transition they are planning.
Also: 5 minutes of browsing on dell.es netted me a mid range machine (core i3, 4g ram, 500g hd) with a 23 inch monitor for 610 Euro and of course that price goes down when start talking bulk purchase (and down even more without the win7 license).
Could be worse. Try Bell/Videotron
I know for a fact that you can't do DNAT with Linux on ipv6 and I suspect the same is true with Windows and FreeBSD as well (someone correct me if I'm wrong)
Unless your computer supports Privacy extensions If it does your ipv6 address is not static but generated randomly.
XFCE dropped support for hald so the Thunar file manager no longer mounts usb/DVD etc on any version of BSD.
Two decades? There have been platform based flamewars for almost as long as I've been on this planet. Back when I was a small child the entertainment was the Apple II vs Macintosh vs PC vs Comodore vs Atari fury in the mid 80s.
Iran doesn't invade countries, they train and fund terrorists instead. Lebanon and Iraq are good examples
Essentially what we have right now is a problem because the US changed the balance of power the middle east when they invaded Iraq and now it's out of whack and Iran no longer has any real countering force. I'm betting the idea at this point is to pummel Iran into the dark ages and hope Turkey emerges as the new dominant power.