this has been done so many times its not funny - the problem with wide fielding outside of the military context is getting the FAA to let autonomous vehicles fly in national controlled airspace - its unlikely to happen anytime soon until such a system can exhibit all the robustness necessary to prevent a robot airplane from auguring into someones house or a school or a church or....
ideals ! I know this opinion will be not popular with at least 50% of the Slashdot crowd, but I think it shows Obama now understands whats going on in the back channels of intelligence - he now knows the US is at risk and why GW's administration did some of the things it did - I may have to evaluate my opinion of him now that he has apparently made an informed and intelligent decision
personally I'd like to see someone more rounded - maybe someone with a physics background from a National Lab - the job entails quite a bit more than IT issues I hope....
actually I found that since my neighbors had NO idea how to secure their AP's I went into each one with the default password (most were Linksys) I changed their frequencies all to 11 and made mine the loan AP on 1 - worked great !
there are government (NSA, ARmy, Air Force, IRIG) approved algorithms for erasing classified hard disks and flash memory - and there are disk drives that support the said erasure methods. The Following regulations are applicable: NISPOM DoD 5220.22-M NSA 130-2 Air Force AFSSI-5020 Army AR380-19 Navy NAVSO P-5239-26 IRIG 106-3
the great thing about half day Fridays was that if you NEEDED to take the whole day off you could burn HALF of a vacation day - that was great - and probably one of the reasons it was trashed....
as a salaried employee it takes an act of God to get authorized to work non-standard days/overtime etc... So while I MIGHT be able to get compensated it would take a lot of effort on my part probably as much as I worked - as far as travel if you end up having to travel back from a business trip on your off day that is just tough luck at my company:-(
My company does it - and yes frequently we get hosed out of our day off OR have to travel on our day off. It is inconvenient to many of our customers and I spend a lot of time on my off Fridays checking my e-mail for potential issues. It is not much of a day off. We USED to have a 4-9-4 work week, where we worked 4 nine hour days and half days (4 hours) on Fridays this was AWESOME and I loved it - 9/80 is bogus IMHO
first off, they are already quite well encrypted, second it would never be used for any type of classified e-mail or messaging, if by some massive waste of taxpayers dollars the NSA were to be engaged to approve a crackberry for processing Secret and above data it would not be allowed on the regular internet and would thus be useless for anything else - despite what some may say, workable multilevel security systems are many years away - as far as secure erasure THAT is in the realm of possible today and you can obtain devices capable of erasing themselves to NSA, DoD and other government standards
this is right up there with the Zune or iPod question - who the hell cares..... in fact I can't believe I wasted the internet bandwidth to respond to this topic, my bad....
truer words never spoken - once people start replacing old worn out TV's with digital ready ones all those silly converters are going to end up in the landfill anyway - press on with digital now !!
I certainly don't disagree with you and I personally don't plan on giving Mr. Obama any free passes - only history will tell for sure but I truly expect status quo democratic policy from Obama - nothing new, no change, just 4 years of the Democratic de jour - since Mr Obama is veneer thin he may even fair worse than Bush in the end...
truth be known - NASA and the DoD have had a pretty close relation ship over the years - in fact virtually all the planetary exploration missions have been launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - the only pads operating from Kennedy Space Center proper are the shuttle pads. There have also been DoD specific missions on the space shuttle and on past Skylab missions. I think the move to put the space program under DoD auspices would serve more to share engineering, management, etc. as well as put the technology under better control from industrial espionage perspective. personally I don't think its a bad idea at all...
finally... a good idea from the Obama camp, I was praying for at least one - now they will be able to use the cover of black military programs to protect their funding streams. Time to to get back in the space business
in Florida the laws are clear about where you can and cannot carry a concealed weapon - from a legal standpoint a sign at a mall that says "no Firearms" is not actually legally binding since a mall is a public place AND NOT on the list of places that the State of Florida says you cannot carry a concealed weapon - you might get "in trouble" for getting caught with a gun there but you would get off scott free in court (if you have a CWP) - same goes for hospitals, NOT on the list, and usually have a sign out front stating "No Firearms" but legally you can carry a concealed weapon there.
there are public places and there are private places, in a public place such as a street what you describe would be a violation of the constitution - however if it was on private property then by entering the property you would be consenting to search or whatever was stated on the sign
Flaimbait ! mods on crack !! - give me a break, someone posts that airports are doing illegal search and seizures which is total BS - I post a factual statement and its flaimbait ?
OK - let me re-word this, at any commercial airport there are signs up that clearly say that your bags and person are subject to search - YOU make the decision if you wish to enter the airport premises, it is NOT an illegal search, you consented to it by entering the area. This is not a gray area in any way. I work in a place that has signs up on the gate that state that I am subject to random search of my car, person, laptop bag etc.. I have NO expectation of privacy there - if I bring something prohibited to work (guns, drugs, etc) and I get searched its MY poor judgment in bringing said illegal items on the premises. An airport is exactly the same situation..
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this has been done so many times its not funny - the problem with wide fielding outside of the military context is getting the FAA to let autonomous vehicles fly in national controlled airspace - its unlikely to happen anytime soon until such a system can exhibit all the robustness necessary to prevent a robot airplane from auguring into someones house or a school or a church or....
ideals ! I know this opinion will be not popular with at least 50% of the Slashdot crowd, but I think it shows Obama now understands whats going on in the back channels of intelligence - he now knows the US is at risk and why GW's administration did some of the things it did - I may have to evaluate my opinion of him now that he has apparently made an informed and intelligent decision
personally I'd like to see someone more rounded - maybe someone with a physics background from a National Lab - the job entails quite a bit more than IT issues I hope....
Spam being illegal certainly has curbed its proliferation - NOT !
you know if Bill Gates had a penny for every bug in a Microsoft product he'd be a Billionaire...
I hate when don't catch that crap before I press submit - thank god my employer pays me to do engineering and not win spelling bees
sorry - I have typed it so many times since 1997 its automatic !
I am sure you have this backwards - Micro$oft probably made campaign contributions to Obama and Obama owed M$ the favor....
actually I found that since my neighbors had NO idea how to secure their AP's I went into each one with the default password (most were Linksys) I changed their frequencies all to 11 and made mine the loan AP on 1 - worked great !
no kidding - its not like the Messiah is being sworn in (I guess that makes no sense) - we should do exactly what they did for Bill/Hillary Clinton...
there are government (NSA, ARmy, Air Force, IRIG) approved algorithms for erasing classified hard disks and flash memory - and there are disk drives that support the said erasure methods. The Following regulations are applicable:
NISPOM DoD 5220.22-M
NSA 130-2
Air Force AFSSI-5020
Army AR380-19
Navy NAVSO P-5239-26
IRIG 106-3
the great thing about half day Fridays was that if you NEEDED to take the whole day off you could burn HALF of a vacation day - that was great - and probably one of the reasons it was trashed....
as a salaried employee it takes an act of God to get authorized to work non-standard days/overtime etc... So while I MIGHT be able to get compensated it would take a lot of effort on my part probably as much as I worked - as far as travel if you end up having to travel back from a business trip on your off day that is just tough luck at my company :-(
My company does it - and yes frequently we get hosed out of our day off OR have to travel on our day off. It is inconvenient to many of our customers and I spend a lot of time on my off Fridays checking my e-mail for potential issues. It is not much of a day off. We USED to have a 4-9-4 work week, where we worked 4 nine hour days and half days (4 hours) on Fridays this was AWESOME and I loved it - 9/80 is bogus IMHO
first off, they are already quite well encrypted, second it would never be used for any type of classified e-mail or messaging, if by some massive waste of taxpayers dollars the NSA were to be engaged to approve a crackberry for processing Secret and above data it would not be allowed on the regular internet and would thus be useless for anything else - despite what some may say, workable multilevel security systems are many years away - as far as secure erasure THAT is in the realm of possible today and you can obtain devices capable of erasing themselves to NSA, DoD and other government standards
this is right up there with the Zune or iPod question - who the hell cares..... in fact I can't believe I wasted the internet bandwidth to respond to this topic, my bad....
truer words never spoken - once people start replacing old worn out TV's with digital ready ones all those silly converters are going to end up in the landfill anyway - press on with digital now !!
I certainly don't disagree with you and I personally don't plan on giving Mr. Obama any free passes - only history will tell for sure but I truly expect status quo democratic policy from Obama - nothing new, no change, just 4 years of the Democratic de jour - since Mr Obama is veneer thin he may even fair worse than Bush in the end...
truth be known - NASA and the DoD have had a pretty close relation ship over the years - in fact virtually all the planetary exploration missions have been launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - the only pads operating from Kennedy Space Center proper are the shuttle pads. There have also been DoD specific missions on the space shuttle and on past Skylab missions. I think the move to put the space program under DoD auspices would serve more to share engineering, management, etc. as well as put the technology under better control from industrial espionage perspective. personally I don't think its a bad idea at all...
finally... a good idea from the Obama camp, I was praying for at least one - now they will be able to use the cover of black military programs to protect their funding streams. Time to to get back in the space business
in Florida the laws are clear about where you can and cannot carry a concealed weapon - from a legal standpoint a sign at a mall that says "no Firearms" is not actually legally binding since a mall is a public place AND NOT on the list of places that the State of Florida says you cannot carry a concealed weapon - you might get "in trouble" for getting caught with a gun there but you would get off scott free in court (if you have a CWP) - same goes for hospitals, NOT on the list, and usually have a sign out front stating "No Firearms" but legally you can carry a concealed weapon there.
inconceivable !!
there are public places and there are private places, in a public place such as a street what you describe would be a violation of the constitution - however if it was on private property then by entering the property you would be consenting to search or whatever was stated on the sign
Flaimbait ! mods on crack !! - give me a break, someone posts that airports are doing illegal search and seizures which is total BS - I post a factual statement and its flaimbait ?
OK - let me re-word this, at any commercial airport there are signs up that clearly say that your bags and person are subject to search - YOU make the decision if you wish to enter the airport premises, it is NOT an illegal search, you consented to it by entering the area. This is not a gray area in any way. I work in a place that has signs up on the gate that state that I am subject to random search of my car, person, laptop bag etc.. I have NO expectation of privacy there - if I bring something prohibited to work (guns, drugs, etc) and I get searched its MY poor judgment in bringing said illegal items on the premises. An airport is exactly the same situation..