It should be noted that he is resigning, not retiring. It that a usually significant nuance? Yes. Is it in this case? I don't know, but it could indicate something deeper behind the scenes. Or not...
CNN is also reporting this as well here. The interesting part is that it is the result of a civil investigative demand. I'd be interested to know who did it. *cough* Napster *cough*;-)
Good point, I realized after I submitted it that it sounded contradictory. However, I was referring to the previous./ article where it was stated "Sega is getting out of hardware altogether." Sorry for the confusion.
Well, if it's only $4,140,830.00...
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Let's be realistic about who we're dealing with here. You really think that all terroist's have the technology & the know-how to write their own crypto??? I'm not saying that none of them do, or that it would never happen. However, I believe an illustrative point is the fact that some of the terrorists disposed of Arabic-language flight manuals in a dumpster behind the motel they were staying in. Can they buy the talent? Yes. Will they? Maybe not, operational mistakes and mis-judgements will be made. Either way, I think that we can agree that it's a bad idea. Thanks.
We should all agree with the statement that it would be very helpful in preventing terroist attacks. Of course it would be! So would random house-to-house searches! However, what was not asked was "Do you think we should?", "Would you be willing to trade this liberty away?", etc. Poll questions are oftentimes baited - remember they're looking for a story more than public opinion. Don't believe the hype. Thanks.
My point wasn't that I or anyone else could dictate what they play and I appreciate you pointing out how stupid that would be. My point was that 1)These are a lot of "bread & butter" songs for modern rock & classic rock stations (ClearChannel owns one of each in Louisville) and more imporatantly 2)These songs have no relation to the tradgedy & it would take a stretch to get them there - therefore I think the list is fake or some idiot's musings. If the posts below are true, it's the former. If the update is true, it's the latter. Thanks.
P.S. Banning some of these songs would be worse than banning my sig because it talks about killing. Of course, I'm a Marine, so guess who I'd be killing...
In related news, all Tom Clancy books were pulled from Wal-Mart's shelves today. They mention a plane being deliberatly crashed into the Capitol Buliding (Debt of Honor & Executive Orders).
Will that be posted as well if Michael gets emailed that shit from his AOL buddies, too? C'mon!
Read the list. There is no way in hell this is real. This has got to be a joke. Tom Petty "Free Fallin"? Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"? Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven"? Steve Miller "Jet Airliner"? Metallica "Enter Sandman"?
My ass. This list is obviouly BS. While I could see some of the songs on the list being banned someone who's over-reacting, a good read through it makes it look like crap../ editors jumped the gun on this one, it think. Even if ClearChannel has lost it's mind, these are some of the most popular songs of all time and have NOTHING to do with what tragicly happened in NYC. It looks like someone did a word search, made up some crap, and started distributing this FUD to mess with people. I'll probably get emailed this crap along with a few chain letters from my little sister later today. *sigh*
Most lawmakers don't understand it, how it works, or why it is necessary for legitimate uses. They get briefings from staffers who don't understand it, who got briefed by people with an agenda. We need to put more efforts into Congressional education, IMHO.
That was the closed captioning output being streamed through an IRC channel. It's being typed in real-time by a third person. Tom Clancy was being interviewed live , in person, in CNN's studios, on TV. Sorry about the confusion.
I logged this from CNN's IRC live feed [edited slightly for readability], while I was watching it on TV. He says that the evnts of yesterday wouldn't be believable in a book (and he's right, of course). I especially love the way they switch to New York as soon as he points a finger at them...
Session Start: Tue Sep 11 17:20:07 2001
*** Now talking in #CNN_Newsfeed
*** Topic is 'Live CNN Closed Captioning'
JOINING ME HERE IN THE
WASHINGTON STUDIO, A
FAMILIAR NAME, A FAMILIAR
FACE, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF
SO MANY NOVELS.
TOM CLANCY.
MYSTERIES AT THE HEART, TOM
CLANCY, AT THE MILITARY
COMMUNITY, THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY, PEOPLE IN OUR
NEWSROOM HAVE BEEN SAYING
WHAT IS THINK IS LIKE RIGHT
OUT OF A TOM CLANCY NOVEL.
BUT HAVE YOU -- COULD YOU
POSSIBLY IMAGINE SOMETHING
LIKE THIS TO WRITE ABOUT?
>> NO.
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH
BEING A WRITER OF FICTION,
IS YOU CAN'T KEEP WUP ALL OF
THE MAD MAN IN THE WORLD, AS
MUCH AS YOU TRY.
AND I -- I FRANKLY WOULD
HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS
NOT A CREDIBLE THREAT TO THE
HAVE FOUR SEPARATE PEOPLE TO
DECIDE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN
THE SAME WAY IN THE SAME
MORNING.
JUDY: WHY NOT?
>> BECAUSE GIVING UP YOUR
OWN LIFE IS NOT WHAT YOU DO.
EVERYONE IS ASSUMING THAT
THESE ARE ISLAMIC TERRORIST,
IF SO, THEY HAVE DEFIED
THEIR OWN RELIGION.
ISLAM DOES NOT PERMIT
SUICIDE, IT SAYS THAT YOU GO
TO HEATING OIL IF DO YOU
SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
JUDY: WE HAVE SEEN THE
SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL.
>> JUDY WE SAW PEOPLE IN
NORTHERN IRELAND CATHOLICS
ACTING LOOISH LIKE SAVIDGES
AND PROTESTANTS ACTING LIKE
SAVIDGES AND MUSLIMS ACTING
LIKE SAVIDGES.
IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE FOOLS.
JUDY: WHAT DOES THIS SAY
NOW?
YOU'VE -- YOU'VE DONE A LOT
OF REPORTING.
NOT NOT ONLY WRITE FICTION,
YOU DO A LOT OF REPORTING
FROM INSIDE OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
INSIDE OF THE MILITARY
COMMUNITY.
WHAT SDL DOES THIS SAY HOW
WELL-PREPARED AS A COUNTRY?
>> EVERYONE ASK THAT KIND OF
A QUESTION WHEN THINGS GO
WRONG, AND YOU DON'T ASK THE
QUESTION WHEN THINGS DON'T
GO RIGHT AND THE REASON IS
YOU CAN'T TELL WHEN THINGS
GO RIGHT IN THE BUSINESS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS,
WE NEED TO UPGRADE THE HUMAN
CAPABILITY -- THE HUMAN
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES IN
THE CIA.
BECAUSE YOU CAN DO A LOT OF
SATELLITES AND A LOT OF
EAVESDROPPING TECHNIQUES,
BUT YOU CAN'T -- YOU CAN'T
FIND OUT WHAT IS IN A
PERSON'S MIND EXCEPT BY
TALKING TO THAT PERSON.
AND SO THE AGENCY NEEDS TO
INCREASE ITS HUMAN -- IT'S
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
CAPABILITY.
THE CIA HAS ABOUT 20,000
EMPLOIT ELESS OF A -- IT
SHOULD BE DOUBLED.
BUT AMERICA AS A NATION
DOESN'T LOVE OR INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
AND CERTAINLY THE NEWS MEDIA
DOESN'T LOVE OUR
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
JUDY: I WILL HAVE TO
INTERRUPT TOM CLANCY, I AM
TOLD AARON BROWN IN NEW YORK
HAS A DEVELOPMENT.
AARON?
AARON: WELL, JUDY, ANOTHER
IN THE LAST FEW SECOND,
ANOTHER BUILDING, WE WILL
SPECULATE CAREFULLY HERE
THAT THERE WAS BUILDING
NUMBER 7.
ONE OF THE BUILDINGS IN
SUPPORT OF THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER TOWERS HAS COLLAPSED.
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN
WITH US FOR A WHILE, YOU CAN
SEE, INDEED, THE SMOKE COLOR
HAS CHANGED, GOTTEN MUCH
LIGHTER.
SO WE BELIEVE THAT YET
ANOTHER BUILDING, THIS WOULD
BE THE THIRD BUILDING HAS
COLLAPSED.
LIKELY, BUILDING NUMBER
SEVEN.
ALTHOUGH, WE ALSO HEARD THAT
THERE WERE PROBLEMS AT
BUILDING NUMBER FIVE.
AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THAT
ONE WENT DOWN, TOO.
AGAIN, ANOTHER BUILDING IN
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
COMPLEX APPEARS TO NOW HAVE
CAVED IN.
AFTER THESE ATTACKS.
JUDY?
JUDY: AARON, WE'RE LOOKING
AT THESE PICTURES, TOM
CLANCY AND I AS WE SIT HERE
IN THE WASHINGTON STUDIO,
AND JUST AS A COME BACK TO
TOM CLANCY.
I WANT TO READ JUST A
PORTION OF THE STATEMENT
ISSUED BY SECRETARY OF STATE
POWELL, COLIN POWELL CALLING
THESE ATTACKS A TERRIBLE
TRAGEDY, TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
BEFALLEN NOT JUST MY NATION,
BUT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF
THIS REGIONAL, THE NATIONS.
WORLD.
ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
DEMOCRACY.
TOM CLANCY, YOU WERE SAYING
SURE, WE CAN ASK THESE
QUESTIONS ABOUT FAILED
SECURITY, FAILED
INTELLIGENCE, WHEN THINGS GO
WRONG.
BUT WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO
THE ASK THESE
QUESTIONS, DON'T WE?
>> HAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO THE
SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT.
IT'S A PRACTICAL MATTER OF
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU
WANT TO DO, IF YOU OF THE
WANT TO PREVENT THIS IS TO
BUILD UP YOUR LINE OF THE
DEFENSE.
AND FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE IS
THE INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY.
WHEN OF THE LAST TIME THAT
THE CNN OR THE NEWS MEDIA
ISF SAID IN GENERAL TO PUT
MORE MONEY OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY INTO
THE CIA.
YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT.
JUDY: WE WOULDN'T TAKE THE
SIDE IN THAT IN TERMS OF
WHAT DO YOU FUND.
>> THAT YOU HAVE FAILED.
WHY NOT HELP THEM SUCCEED
FOR A WHILE.
JUDY: ARE YOU SAYING THAT
THEY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY
UNDERFUNDED IN THAT AREA NOT
JUST THE CIA BUT THE FBI?
>> HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IS
DEEMPHASIZED.
THE FBI'S JOB -- IS --
>> SPYING IS WHAT WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
>> THAT'S WHAT THE
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS DO, IS
THEY SPY.
ANDEI HAS 20,000 EMPLOYEES.
ABOUT 700 OF WHOM ARE
ACTUALLY SPOOKS.
AND OF THEM AS MANY AS
TWO-THIRDS GET OUT AND GET
OUTSIDE AND DO THE SPOOK
OPERATIONS AND WE NEED TO DO
BETTER THAT, MORE THAN THAT
YOU GATHER THE INFORMATION
OF THIS TYPE OF PUTTING
PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS.
SEEING THE COPS GATHERED
INFORMATION FROM THE
INFORMANTS.
THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.
A NUMBER OF HIRING THE
PEOPLE AND LETTING THEM DO
THE WORK.
I HAVE TO TURN IT BACK OVER
TO THE AARON.
This version of Linux is NOT, REPEAT NOT any more secure than any other distro as far as most of us have a sense of the word. What is does do is a couple of things.
1) It shuts off almost all services and ports by default. Unless you specify it, it does not enable it.
2) It includes (rather clever and robust) methods for autheticating a user and his/her permissions and/or clearance levels on-the-fly in a secure manner called Flask. If you read this document, it explains it in very precise terms (if somewhat dryly).
The articles linked from the last time NSALinux was covered were better, but./ is screwy today and I can't get it to come up.
Works fine on my system. I have the Asus A7M266 mobo with that chipset and I'm running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 with the nVidia drivers. Ironically enough, with the AGP driver for win32 installed (& also with the reference drivers), I'm having strange stability problems in Win98 SE. Email me & we'll arrange a prisoner exchange.;-)
Ok, here's my signature. Here's a CD-ROM with the only copy we have, honest! All users, lets see... how about every Open Source Fan that Adobe just lost as a customer? That should cover it. And profit? We, uh... only made twenty bucks. I swear. Here it is!
No shit! I want to have my computer loud as hell! If I could add side pipes & have them blow fucking fire like Gone In 60 Seconds, I would! I have a totally obnoxious tower with fans out the ass just to pester the shit out of my fat-ass roomates. Quieter Computers - BAH!
Of course this is still very cool, don't get me wrong...;-)
No, I think that the./ community more surprised than anything. MS has a tendancy to wait after there is a public outcry against one of their policies and then change it down the road in an "upgrade", so that they don't have to acknowledge any actual fault. (Sort of like the Cuban Missle Crisis, where the US agreed to move the missle out of Turkey six months later to avoid any immediate apparances of reciprosity or capitulation.) It's nice to see them finally responding to customer criticism in a timely fashion. Maybe they will "embrace and extend" this idea to all their software and services...
They must have read the article on Slashdot the other day and freaked out. OH SHIT, SLASHDOT'S ON TO US!!! Now if we could only get the same results with their other business practices...
The Marine Corps and Navy are about to embark on an new project called Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). Actually the Navy began last year, and the Marine Corps will follow in Fall 2002. Under this agreement, which is with EDS, Microsoft, Dell, and Yap!, we will buy EVERYTHING as a service. It is a 5 year contract (with, I believe a 2 or 3 year possible extension).
Here's how it will work: First, we will sell the NMCI vendors all of our existing infrastructure. PC's, printers, routers, cabling, etc. Then they will sell us "seats". Each seat will come with 2 accounts, i.e. 68,000 seats equals 136,000 possible users. Each seat will include a PC with an OS, all applications needed (in theory), network access, 1 printer per 20 seats, and support (guaranteed problem resolution in 48 hours). They will provide everything, once again, in theory. We will get it all by paying them a monthly fee per seat. Now, I can't get into my personal opinion of the project, but this is important insight into where the market is going. Entities will pay a subscribtion fee and will get their entire computing infrastructure. Of course they will pay more, but all the headaches are out of their hands and they can fine the vendors for any problems. For more information on NMCI, I suggest you visit the MARCORSYSCOM website on NMCI.
Pay attention, because this is the way the government and corporate America is beginning to view future computing policy. We will probably begin to see a large shift in employment of computer types away from large organizations and towards the vendors who want to provide this level of support.
Don't get me wrong. I run two different flavors on my box at home, a third at work, and love it. Of course I'll take linux any day. Unfortunately, it's still just short of passing the "Mom" test. However, I didn't want to sound like the rest of the jack-offs who have nothing better to say than, "Forget it all and run [insert fav distro here]." And, given the choice between Mac and Win, I'll choose Windows.
But, is this possible? Will they let you do it, or will they attempt some digital controls to prevent this from happening? Even if you do have to pay the full fee, it'd still be less than Win2000 server with all the licenses I would think.
The difference is that the 2.4 kernel did include everything that they said it would. And if it didn't, notification would be put out at once. Microsoft announces bullshit features for their products months and sometimes even over a year ahead of time and then sweeps them under the rug when it doesn't pan out. It's the willful deception in their marketing that's the problem. I remeber when they were saying that what turned into Win2000 Pro was going to combine NT Workstation, NT Server, & 98. Nope. Now it'll be WINDOWS XP - ohhh! ahhh! That will save all of us from ourselves. Yeah, right. The sad part is, I'm probably going to have to abandon my argument in the question of Win vs. Mac, that Windows is more configurable. Those fucks don't even trust us with our own PC's any more. XP won't let people do shit if MS doesn't approve.
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It should be noted that he is resigning, not retiring. It that a usually significant nuance? Yes. Is it in this case? I don't know, but it could indicate something deeper behind the scenes. Or not...
;-)
Let the paranoia begin!
CNN is also reporting this as well here. The interesting part is that it is the result of a civil investigative demand. I'd be interested to know who did it. *cough* Napster *cough* ;-)
See my comment above. Not necessarily wrong, just poorly worded.
Good point, I realized after I submitted it that it sounded contradictory. However, I was referring to the previous ./ article where it was stated "Sega is getting out of hardware altogether." Sorry for the confusion.
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Actually, ogg has plugins for XMMS, Winamp, and even Windows Media Player. You can get more info from the FAQ or just go straight to the software page, which also has players for most modern OSes (sorry Amiga). Thanks.
Let's be realistic about who we're dealing with here. You really think that all terroist's have the technology & the know-how to write their own crypto??? I'm not saying that none of them do, or that it would never happen. However, I believe an illustrative point is the fact that some of the terrorists disposed of Arabic-language flight manuals in a dumpster behind the motel they were staying in. Can they buy the talent? Yes. Will they? Maybe not, operational mistakes and mis-judgements will be made. Either way, I think that we can agree that it's a bad idea. Thanks.
We should all agree with the statement that it would be very helpful in preventing terroist attacks. Of course it would be! So would random house-to-house searches! However, what was not asked was "Do you think we should?", "Would you be willing to trade this liberty away?", etc. Poll questions are oftentimes baited - remember they're looking for a story more than public opinion. Don't believe the hype. Thanks.
My point wasn't that I or anyone else could dictate what they play and I appreciate you pointing out how stupid that would be. My point was that 1)These are a lot of "bread & butter" songs for modern rock & classic rock stations (ClearChannel owns one of each in Louisville) and more imporatantly 2)These songs have no relation to the tradgedy & it would take a stretch to get them there - therefore I think the list is fake or some idiot's musings. If the posts below are true, it's the former. If the update is true, it's the latter. Thanks.
P.S. Banning some of these songs would be worse than banning my sig because it talks about killing. Of course, I'm a Marine, so guess who I'd be killing...
In related news, all Tom Clancy books were pulled from Wal-Mart's shelves today. They mention a plane being deliberatly crashed into the Capitol Buliding (Debt of Honor & Executive Orders).
Will that be posted as well if Michael gets emailed that shit from his AOL buddies, too? C'mon!
Read the list. There is no way in hell this is real. This has got to be a joke. Tom Petty "Free Fallin"? Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"? Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven"? Steve Miller "Jet Airliner"? Metallica "Enter Sandman"?
./ editors jumped the gun on this one, it think. Even if ClearChannel has lost it's mind, these are some of the most popular songs of all time and have NOTHING to do with what tragicly happened in NYC. It looks like someone did a word search, made up some crap, and started distributing this FUD to mess with people. I'll probably get emailed this crap along with a few chain letters from my little sister later today. *sigh*
My ass. This list is obviouly BS. While I could see some of the songs on the list being banned someone who's over-reacting, a good read through it makes it look like crap.
Most lawmakers don't understand it, how it works, or why it is necessary for legitimate uses. They get briefings from staffers who don't understand it, who got briefed by people with an agenda. We need to put more efforts into Congressional education, IMHO.
That was the closed captioning output being streamed through an IRC channel. It's being typed in real-time by a third person. Tom Clancy was being interviewed live , in person, in CNN's studios, on TV. Sorry about the confusion.
I logged this from CNN's IRC live feed [edited slightly for readability], while I was watching it on TV. He says that the evnts of yesterday wouldn't be believable in a book (and he's right, of course). I especially love the way they switch to New York as soon as he points a finger at them...
Session Start: Tue Sep 11 17:20:07 2001
*** Now talking in #CNN_Newsfeed
*** Topic is 'Live CNN Closed Captioning'
JOINING ME HERE IN THE
WASHINGTON STUDIO, A
FAMILIAR NAME, A FAMILIAR
FACE, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF
SO MANY NOVELS.
TOM CLANCY.
MYSTERIES AT THE HEART, TOM
CLANCY, AT THE MILITARY
COMMUNITY, THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY, PEOPLE IN OUR
NEWSROOM HAVE BEEN SAYING
WHAT IS THINK IS LIKE RIGHT
OUT OF A TOM CLANCY NOVEL.
BUT HAVE YOU -- COULD YOU
POSSIBLY IMAGINE SOMETHING
LIKE THIS TO WRITE ABOUT?
>> NO.
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH
BEING A WRITER OF FICTION,
IS YOU CAN'T KEEP WUP ALL OF
THE MAD MAN IN THE WORLD, AS
MUCH AS YOU TRY.
AND I -- I FRANKLY WOULD
HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS
NOT A CREDIBLE THREAT TO THE
HAVE FOUR SEPARATE PEOPLE TO
DECIDE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN
THE SAME WAY IN THE SAME
MORNING.
JUDY: WHY NOT?
>> BECAUSE GIVING UP YOUR
OWN LIFE IS NOT WHAT YOU DO.
EVERYONE IS ASSUMING THAT
THESE ARE ISLAMIC TERRORIST,
IF SO, THEY HAVE DEFIED
THEIR OWN RELIGION.
ISLAM DOES NOT PERMIT
SUICIDE, IT SAYS THAT YOU GO
TO HEATING OIL IF DO YOU
SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
JUDY: WE HAVE SEEN THE
SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL.
>> JUDY WE SAW PEOPLE IN
NORTHERN IRELAND CATHOLICS
ACTING LOOISH LIKE SAVIDGES
AND PROTESTANTS ACTING LIKE
SAVIDGES AND MUSLIMS ACTING
LIKE SAVIDGES.
IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE FOOLS.
JUDY: WHAT DOES THIS SAY
NOW?
YOU'VE -- YOU'VE DONE A LOT
OF REPORTING.
NOT NOT ONLY WRITE FICTION,
YOU DO A LOT OF REPORTING
FROM INSIDE OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
INSIDE OF THE MILITARY
COMMUNITY.
WHAT SDL DOES THIS SAY HOW
WELL-PREPARED AS A COUNTRY?
>> EVERYONE ASK THAT KIND OF
A QUESTION WHEN THINGS GO
WRONG, AND YOU DON'T ASK THE
QUESTION WHEN THINGS DON'T
GO RIGHT AND THE REASON IS
YOU CAN'T TELL WHEN THINGS
GO RIGHT IN THE BUSINESS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS,
WE NEED TO UPGRADE THE HUMAN
CAPABILITY -- THE HUMAN
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES IN
THE CIA.
BECAUSE YOU CAN DO A LOT OF
SATELLITES AND A LOT OF
EAVESDROPPING TECHNIQUES,
BUT YOU CAN'T -- YOU CAN'T
FIND OUT WHAT IS IN A
PERSON'S MIND EXCEPT BY
TALKING TO THAT PERSON.
AND SO THE AGENCY NEEDS TO
INCREASE ITS HUMAN -- IT'S
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
CAPABILITY.
THE CIA HAS ABOUT 20,000
EMPLOIT ELESS OF A -- IT
SHOULD BE DOUBLED.
BUT AMERICA AS A NATION
DOESN'T LOVE OR INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
AND CERTAINLY THE NEWS MEDIA
DOESN'T LOVE OUR
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
JUDY: I WILL HAVE TO
INTERRUPT TOM CLANCY, I AM
TOLD AARON BROWN IN NEW YORK
HAS A DEVELOPMENT.
AARON?
AARON: WELL, JUDY, ANOTHER
IN THE LAST FEW SECOND,
ANOTHER BUILDING, WE WILL
SPECULATE CAREFULLY HERE
THAT THERE WAS BUILDING
NUMBER 7.
ONE OF THE BUILDINGS IN
SUPPORT OF THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER TOWERS HAS COLLAPSED.
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN
WITH US FOR A WHILE, YOU CAN
SEE, INDEED, THE SMOKE COLOR
HAS CHANGED, GOTTEN MUCH
LIGHTER.
SO WE BELIEVE THAT YET
ANOTHER BUILDING, THIS WOULD
BE THE THIRD BUILDING HAS
COLLAPSED.
LIKELY, BUILDING NUMBER
SEVEN.
ALTHOUGH, WE ALSO HEARD THAT
THERE WERE PROBLEMS AT
BUILDING NUMBER FIVE.
AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THAT
ONE WENT DOWN, TOO.
AGAIN, ANOTHER BUILDING IN
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
COMPLEX APPEARS TO NOW HAVE
CAVED IN.
AFTER THESE ATTACKS.
JUDY?
JUDY: AARON, WE'RE LOOKING
AT THESE PICTURES, TOM
CLANCY AND I AS WE SIT HERE
IN THE WASHINGTON STUDIO,
AND JUST AS A COME BACK TO
TOM CLANCY.
I WANT TO READ JUST A
PORTION OF THE STATEMENT
ISSUED BY SECRETARY OF STATE
POWELL, COLIN POWELL CALLING
THESE ATTACKS A TERRIBLE
TRAGEDY, TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
BEFALLEN NOT JUST MY NATION,
BUT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF
THIS REGIONAL, THE NATIONS.
WORLD.
ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
DEMOCRACY.
TOM CLANCY, YOU WERE SAYING
SURE, WE CAN ASK THESE
QUESTIONS ABOUT FAILED
SECURITY, FAILED
INTELLIGENCE, WHEN THINGS GO
WRONG.
BUT WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO
THE ASK THESE
QUESTIONS, DON'T WE?
>> HAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO THE
SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT.
IT'S A PRACTICAL MATTER OF
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU
WANT TO DO, IF YOU OF THE
WANT TO PREVENT THIS IS TO
BUILD UP YOUR LINE OF THE
DEFENSE.
AND FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE IS
THE INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY.
WHEN OF THE LAST TIME THAT
THE CNN OR THE NEWS MEDIA
ISF SAID IN GENERAL TO PUT
MORE MONEY OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY INTO
THE CIA.
YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT.
JUDY: WE WOULDN'T TAKE THE
SIDE IN THAT IN TERMS OF
WHAT DO YOU FUND.
>> THAT YOU HAVE FAILED.
WHY NOT HELP THEM SUCCEED
FOR A WHILE.
JUDY: ARE YOU SAYING THAT
THEY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY
UNDERFUNDED IN THAT AREA NOT
JUST THE CIA BUT THE FBI?
>> HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IS
DEEMPHASIZED.
THE FBI'S JOB -- IS --
>> SPYING IS WHAT WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
>> THAT'S WHAT THE
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS DO, IS
THEY SPY.
ANDEI HAS 20,000 EMPLOYEES.
ABOUT 700 OF WHOM ARE
ACTUALLY SPOOKS.
AND OF THEM AS MANY AS
TWO-THIRDS GET OUT AND GET
OUTSIDE AND DO THE SPOOK
OPERATIONS AND WE NEED TO DO
BETTER THAT, MORE THAN THAT
YOU GATHER THE INFORMATION
OF THIS TYPE OF PUTTING
PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS.
SEEING THE COPS GATHERED
INFORMATION FROM THE
INFORMANTS.
THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.
A NUMBER OF HIRING THE
PEOPLE AND LETTING THEM DO
THE WORK.
I HAVE TO TURN IT BACK OVER
TO THE AARON.
This version of Linux is NOT, REPEAT NOT any more secure than any other distro as far as most of us have a sense of the word. What is does do is a couple of things.
./ is screwy today and I can't get it to come up.
1) It shuts off almost all services and ports by default. Unless you specify it, it does not enable it.
2) It includes (rather clever and robust) methods for autheticating a user and his/her permissions and/or clearance levels on-the-fly in a secure manner called Flask. If you read this document, it explains it in very precise terms (if somewhat dryly).
The articles linked from the last time NSALinux was covered were better, but
Works fine on my system. I have the Asus A7M266 mobo with that chipset and I'm running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 with the nVidia drivers. Ironically enough, with the AGP driver for win32 installed (& also with the reference drivers), I'm having strange stability problems in Win98 SE. Email me & we'll arrange a prisoner exchange. ;-)
No problem! Lemme see here...
Ok, here's my signature. Here's a CD-ROM with the only copy we have, honest! All users, lets see... how about every Open Source Fan that Adobe just lost as a customer? That should cover it. And profit? We, uh... only made twenty bucks. I swear. Here it is!
*cough* Suckers! *cough*
No shit! I want to have my computer loud as hell! If I could add side pipes & have them blow fucking fire like Gone In 60 Seconds, I would! I have a totally obnoxious tower with fans out the ass just to pester the shit out of my fat-ass roomates. Quieter Computers - BAH!
;-)
Of course this is still very cool, don't get me wrong...
No, I think that the ./ community more surprised than anything. MS has a tendancy to wait after there is a public outcry against one of their policies and then change it down the road in an "upgrade", so that they don't have to acknowledge any actual fault. (Sort of like the Cuban Missle Crisis, where the US agreed to move the missle out of Turkey six months later to avoid any immediate apparances of reciprosity or capitulation.) It's nice to see them finally responding to customer criticism in a timely fashion. Maybe they will "embrace and extend" this idea to all their software and services...
They must have read the article on Slashdot the other day and freaked out. OH SHIT, SLASHDOT'S ON TO US!!! Now if we could only get the same results with their other business practices...
While I cannot, once again, offer a personal opinion... Thank you for pointing this out. It will be interesting to see what happens.
The Marine Corps and Navy are about to embark on an new project called Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). Actually the Navy began last year, and the Marine Corps will follow in Fall 2002. Under this agreement, which is with EDS, Microsoft, Dell, and Yap!, we will buy EVERYTHING as a service. It is a 5 year contract (with, I believe a 2 or 3 year possible extension).
Here's how it will work: First, we will sell the NMCI vendors all of our existing infrastructure. PC's, printers, routers, cabling, etc. Then they will sell us "seats". Each seat will come with 2 accounts, i.e. 68,000 seats equals 136,000 possible users. Each seat will include a PC with an OS, all applications needed (in theory), network access, 1 printer per 20 seats, and support (guaranteed problem resolution in 48 hours). They will provide everything, once again, in theory. We will get it all by paying them a monthly fee per seat. Now, I can't get into my personal opinion of the project, but this is important insight into where the market is going. Entities will pay a subscribtion fee and will get their entire computing infrastructure. Of course they will pay more, but all the headaches are out of their hands and they can fine the vendors for any problems. For more information on NMCI, I suggest you visit the MARCORSYSCOM website on NMCI.
Pay attention, because this is the way the government and corporate America is beginning to view future computing policy. We will probably begin to see a large shift in employment of computer types away from large organizations and towards the vendors who want to provide this level of support.
Don't get me wrong. I run two different flavors on my box at home, a third at work, and love it. Of course I'll take linux any day. Unfortunately, it's still just short of passing the "Mom" test. However, I didn't want to sound like the rest of the jack-offs who have nothing better to say than, "Forget it all and run [insert fav distro here]." And, given the choice between Mac and Win, I'll choose Windows.
But, is this possible? Will they let you do it, or will they attempt some digital controls to prevent this from happening? Even if you do have to pay the full fee, it'd still be less than Win2000 server with all the licenses I would think.
The difference is that the 2.4 kernel did include everything that they said it would. And if it didn't, notification would be put out at once. Microsoft announces bullshit features for their products months and sometimes even over a year ahead of time and then sweeps them under the rug when it doesn't pan out. It's the willful deception in their marketing that's the problem. I remeber when they were saying that what turned into Win2000 Pro was going to combine NT Workstation, NT Server, & 98. Nope. Now it'll be WINDOWS XP - ohhh! ahhh! That will save all of us from ourselves. Yeah, right. The sad part is, I'm probably going to have to abandon my argument in the question of Win vs. Mac, that Windows is more configurable. Those fucks don't even trust us with our own PC's any more. XP won't let people do shit if MS doesn't approve.