As a former network administrator for a JSC Contractor, I always hate seeing news like this. In an age where the economy is sagging to incredible lows, and the re-entry of the United States into a deficit-driven war-time budget (read: drowning), it's hard to see this news and not feel badly for the contractors. Payment for a completed contract is generally not tendered to the contracted agent until the service is fully rendered. In this industry, it means 'you don't get paid, until it flies.' This means that all operating and manufacturing costs not covered by initial payments is absorbed by the company until whatever flight your project was slated for actually gets to fly. STS-107 has been pushed back for years now, and was the launch of the Research Double Module. A massive payload-based laboratory and general-purpose unit.
This is just another example of the dying gasps of the entire space-industry in the United States, and certainly another nail in the coffin of the many contractors who are having to tighten their belts and lay off a few more employees while praying for a flight, and sympathetic Washington headcount. Priorities and agendas sure need to be re-evaluated by this nation's leaders. Without an ample budget, I fully expect this to just be the first of many such show-stopping problems that will begin to plague the program as the orbiters age. NASA has begun looking to privatize and sell off the shuttle program, to solely act as a management group. I expect to see the shuttle bought out by a consortium of aerospace leaders like United Space Alliance, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, or others. Pop-stars in space is a symptom (yes, I know, that was the Russians) of an increasing problem of budgetary cut after cut. Let's hope that people start to look at the stars again soon, before we lose a once-proud testament of engineering.
* So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them?
/me checks the direction of the wind at this precise moment
* The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one.
Unfortunately for the Warchowski brothers, now that everyone and their brother-in-law's dogs cousin has stolen every directing trick they used in the first one, we (the audience) are a little jaded by 30 second bullet-time sequences. Let's hope they break new ground here.
* How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11.
I actually hope there is a special blurb in every movie and TV show that comes out from this moment on in time, that features the Trade Centers in all their glory, followed by a subliminal flashing of the phrase 'unclench' that etches itself permanently into the frontal lobes of all viewers in a 50 mile radius, then instructs them to construct hats of tinfoil and hide in their basements.
*click* *click* *type type type* Hmmm.. let's play some FreeSpace2 while the Boss isn't looking Alright, you alien bastards in your color-coordinated Judas Priest ships, time to die!! Why, I think I'll punch my credit card information in to the chat window... TFTP server on my machine... Sure! Firewall..? Who needs one! *click* *click* *click* Yes, I think I'll send my porn collection to the global address list..
I run a VNC session over a zebedee tunnel to my home RedHat box while at work. Every document I create is thusly already at home. It was a bit awkward at first trying to cope with the lag of the interface, but in time you get used to it. After a while of this, I even threw down on some PERL scripts to nightly ftp my documents from my linux box to my wife's XP machine, because 'hey, you never know. Shit happens'. In this way I always use the same desktop and all my files on hand. Even when I go to the parental units houses, I can just jump right in and grab files (SFTP), or check something for them (What's that address?). At work they've given me a XP laptop to do my stuff, but all I use it for launching my terminal, and playing BB King and Charles Mingus all damn day.
Not having finished my degree yet has certainly held me back in more than one job. I'm a network admin with a strong *nix and NT background, but even with certification from Cisco, it is difficult to progress. One can always land a job based on what you know, and how well you present yourself in the interview, but my experience so far has shown repeatedly that the lack of degree will dampen your chances of rising beyond the daily grind. I work for a large utility now as the prime network admin for my department, but I will not be able to make the leap into management without a degree. My advice to anyone who jumped into the IT business too early (for whatever reason) is to make the time to get the degree from a respectable establishment. It'll cut into your personal time and, in my case, family time, but the ends will justify the means. No one really wants to retire a packet-jockey. Certainly not me. Thus I am making the economic and social sacrifices to get my degree. Even if it takes years, it's worth it.
Not to undermind the braintrust of IT professionals at the Time Warner offices or anything.. but how could anyone firing on more than three synapses honestly find the AOL GUI-From-Hell to be a professional grade internet and mail delivery system? I can almost picture the hilarity that would ensue if I was to walk into any of my department or regional managers office and installed a mail application that featured more than four 'smiley faces buttons' and clicking on 'hearts' to access the company address book. By hilarity I mean: Termination Notice. It would only truly be classic, is when one of those poor helldesk drones plugged in the CAT5 to the wall plate, and the computer erupted into a frenzy of busy-signals and asking (politely, to be sure) to try a different wall plate.
Tragic!
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Cygwin works just fine in XP. I use it daily both at home and at work. The TCSH works well also. I prefer to use BASH myself, but to each his own. Just be sure to select *all* the packages to install them during setup. Yes. This means you have to click the mouse to a version number over and over and over again. Then after the post-install scripts finish running, run setup again to get all the version updates. It sounds silly, but after mass installing this thing, I've found it to be reliable. Also, keep a copy of the setup.exe in the root of the cygwin directory, since you just have to double click it and select a mirror to check and upgrade all your packages.
To gain access to your windows drives under the cygwin shell, just map a link to the drives like this:
One must wonder why the CEO of a company that produces spiffy animations of flying children and elephants with airfoils for ears is even marginally attributed with "keen insight to the inner bowels of Information Technology." This government investigation amounts to no more than a witch-hunt where everyone is to blame, and no one is innocent. Guilt-by-association seems to have become the rule of the day. This is reminescent of the Communist hunts of the previous century that besmirched a government in over it's head. Once again we find ourselves watching the antics of a leadership in the US that obviously hasn't a clue what is really going on, and needs to have their AOL accounts revoked. What a sad state of affairs we have when the decision-makers in office rely on public-but-completely-unqualified experts for intelligence information.
Truly, has the legal system devolved to such a state that companies are punished for the actions of a minority using their products in an illegal manner? Why this of all things? We don't see congressional or senate hearings where Senators who obviously haven't a clue what they are talking about verbally accost and regulate the 'cigarette-paper' companies because their products might be used to roll a joint. Nor do we see the CEO of Johnson and Johnson testifying for the continued operation of his Baby-Powder production despite the fact that drug-pushers use it to cut down the heroin they sell.
The truth is that some people in the Entertainment industry have bought off some influential people and convinced those legislators to pursue monetary compensation for ill-perceived losses. Oh yeah, and on the way, let's throw in a little public humiliation.
If the RIAA and the other Media Moguls want to circle-jerk on something, why aren't they really going after the little guy?
What is with the desire to use Tablet-PCs? I cannot figure out who the target-market is for this. If we wanted to write on paper, or a surface with handwriting recognition, we'd write on a damn pad of paper like normal people. If I want notes in my computer, I type them. How many of you out there write faster than you type?
I know for a fact that I fit into that 18%, and possibly the 3%. Between my wife and I, who both use my UID, we live on this website. Constant updating, reading damn near all the posts of +2 or higher that don't involve Jon Katz, etc. Shit, we even use the slashboxes as our link section to the world, since you have every site I read regularly in a slashbox. I really think you should consider a flat fee option, even if it is higher than the paypal metered option, for straight unmetered monthly access. I know that my UID must hit/. at least 100 times a day... Please consider a monthly unmetered rate as a viable alternative to supplement the metered access. I'll gladly fork over some cash if I can continue my current use of/.
As long as the router/pc/whatever gets an IP via DHCP or whatever it won't matter how many machines he buries behind it, nor require any routing updating on the part of the universities net admin. A little PAT and he's off into the wild pr0n yonder!
Get a LinkSys or something.. Unless you (the original poster) are made of money, you don't need a real router. Any basic cable/modem type router should suffice. Especially one with the ability to set the MAC of the WAN port..
From all appearances it would seem to be able to pass the 'wife test'. That is, can she intuitively find what she wants and enjoy her media and surfing? While the purists might balk at a distribution that makes Linux look more like Windows, I offer nothing but praise. If more people are willing to try a distribution of linux that has a more familiar feel to them and uses a structure they understand, then I consider that to be a victory. It's still one less Windows machine in the wild no matter how you count it. While I prefer my X with Gnome a la Blackbox, I applaud the efforts of groups to create a nice middle of the road solution for those that don't want or need to to know how the internals work. I think this is an area that seems to be a much contested battlefield and ideal here on/. where people tend to use their desktop and OS to form a sense of identity. However, we must remember the vast majority of corporate and home users (think of your seceretary, or execs) can not and will not be swayed into trying anything new as long it requires a steep learning curve from what they use every day.
Haven't we already seen enough on this drama by now? I mean, sometimes it's like a damn soap opera around here with the "he said/she said".. Let's see, Miguel makes some statements about the idea of.Net and Mono, RMS is taken out of context and made to look confrontational (OK! *More* confrontational) about it. Both of them bend over backwards to explain themselves and repair the appearance of any breach, Miguel comes back with a *very* lengthy explanation about what he meant and what 'The Register' had taken out of context for whatever reason, and yet we find ourselves looking at the same tired issues, yet again..
Regarding the English. While I was stationed in Korea in the Army, I learned that as a requirement to graduate from the equivalent of Elementary school, students must be able to read and write 'book English.' To progress past Middle School, students must have a grasp of conversational or colloquial English. The high-school requires the addition of yet another language, which the majority of students I met wound up taking Japanese. While a great many Koreans feigned not understanding English to avoid 'Evil American Military GIs', the bottomline was that the vast majority of urban citizens speak, read, and write English fluently.
At my last job, working for a NASA contractor, we suffered a constant barrage of attacks that all seemed to originate in Beijing, or Seoul. Blocking Class-C blocks at a time knocked out the Seoul communications, but China was another matter. This went on for some time, with myself sending e-mail after e-mail to China Net with no responses. The difficulty arose from our having offices in Shanghai, so a total block of all addresses was next to impossible. (Anyone who has worked with China Net before can attest to the difficulties of getting static IPs, or *anything* for that matter) Another difficulty arose from the dynamic assignment of IPs by China Net as packets cleared their network. It was difficult to trace and block, and eventually my edge router configurations wound up with quite a group of extended access-lists. We had to ship off a VPN solution to our Shanghai offices, and hold our breath while we punched down tightened controls. After a couple of months though, we finally managed to stop the assault. It was annoying to be forced to such extreme measures, that wound up costing the company significant dollars in manhours, equipment, and travel time just because of the lack of professional courtesy from across the ocean. On a positive note, at least it taught me to be entirely proactive with my blocks, and now I don't hesitate to toss people's packets into/dev/null. Cynical perhaps, but necessary IMHO.
When I first saw the post, I thought it was a Valentine's joke, then realized it was serious, then thought 'that is the coolest thing I have ever seen.' Congratulations you two!
Imagine a whole world of distributed termimals running WindowsXP with the Fischer-Price Blue and Green Plastic Desktop Theme!! The mind reels, and Martha Stewart drops dead of a massive coronary!
I applaud Miguel's decision to allow for future generations of GNOME to plug into what will undoubtedly drive a significant portion of web-services. It shows intelligence and a desire for long-term security.
Most slashdotters, myself included, use both Windows and *nix machines in our work environments. While this might bring a deluge of "Yeah but, my xxx company only uses *nix" and "Only a sux0r company would use Windows!" responses, I feel relatively safe that anyone that's been in the industry for a while and worked for multiple companies knows the real deal here. The fact is that both *nix and Windows coexist, and should coexist. Each has a niche and fills a specific need.
The kind of blind fanaticism shown by certain proponents of GNU is both unhealthy and short-sided. A pro-linux-only (or is that GNU-linux? Who gives a shit?) jihad accomplishes nothing but the accelaration of the demise of a good thing. Only by being flexible and adapting will GNOME, and indeed linux, find it's way into more mainstream use. The unflexible and unyielding only assure their own death. Miguel isn't accountable to anyone but his family and his company. Some people (RMS) should probably stop and do a little introspection on what they want the future to be, and what is *really* the best way to achieve it. Fanaticism is never a good policy. Observation, understanding, and assimilation are what truly make a good leader.
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As a former network administrator for a JSC Contractor, I always hate seeing news like this. In an age where the economy is sagging to incredible lows, and the re-entry of the United States into a deficit-driven war-time budget (read: drowning), it's hard to see this news and not feel badly for the contractors. Payment for a completed contract is generally not tendered to the contracted agent until the service is fully rendered. In this industry, it means 'you don't get paid, until it flies.' This means that all operating and manufacturing costs not covered by initial payments is absorbed by the company until whatever flight your project was slated for actually gets to fly. STS-107 has been pushed back for years now, and was the launch of the Research Double Module. A massive payload-based laboratory and general-purpose unit.
This is just another example of the dying gasps of the entire space-industry in the United States, and certainly another nail in the coffin of the many contractors who are having to tighten their belts and lay off a few more employees while praying for a flight, and sympathetic Washington headcount. Priorities and agendas sure need to be re-evaluated by this nation's leaders. Without an ample budget, I fully expect this to just be the first of many such show-stopping problems that will begin to plague the program as the orbiters age. NASA has begun looking to privatize and sell off the shuttle program, to solely act as a management group. I expect to see the shuttle bought out by a consortium of aerospace leaders like United Space Alliance, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, or others. Pop-stars in space is a symptom (yes, I know, that was the Russians) of an increasing problem of budgetary cut after cut. Let's hope that people start to look at the stars again soon, before we lose a once-proud testament of engineering.
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* This movie is going to rock. I can't wait!
I think Jackson is dragging it out on purpose just to make the geeks sweat it out and buy more McFarlane toys
* Stupid apple doesn't port Quicktime to linux.
Apple's Idea of Open Source
* So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them?
/me checks the direction of the wind at this precise moment
* The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one.
Unfortunately for the Warchowski brothers, now that everyone and their brother-in-law's dogs cousin has stolen every directing trick they used in the first one, we (the audience) are a little jaded by 30 second bullet-time sequences. Let's hope they break new ground here.
* How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11.
I actually hope there is a special blurb in every movie and TV show that comes out from this moment on in time, that features the Trade Centers in all their glory, followed by a subliminal flashing of the phrase 'unclench' that etches itself permanently into the frontal lobes of all viewers in a 50 mile radius, then instructs them to construct hats of tinfoil and hide in their basements.
*click*
*click*
*type type type*
Hmmm.. let's play some FreeSpace2 while the Boss isn't looking
Alright, you alien bastards in your color-coordinated Judas Priest ships, time to die!!
Why, I think I'll punch my credit card information in to the chat window...
TFTP server on my machine... Sure!
Firewall..? Who needs one! *click* *click* *click*
Yes, I think I'll send my porn collection to the global address list..
****connection lost****
It is described as 'extremely deep... extremely large...'
Reminds me of my prom date! Ah.. memories better left at the bottom of the ocean..
I run a VNC session over a zebedee tunnel to my home RedHat box while at work. Every document I create is thusly already at home. It was a bit awkward at first trying to cope with the lag of the interface, but in time you get used to it. After a while of this, I even threw down on some PERL scripts to nightly ftp my documents from my linux box to my wife's XP machine, because 'hey, you never know. Shit happens'. In this way I always use the same desktop and all my files on hand. Even when I go to the parental units houses, I can just jump right in and grab files (SFTP), or check something for them (What's that address?). At work they've given me a XP laptop to do my stuff, but all I use it for launching my terminal, and playing BB King and Charles Mingus all damn day.
Not having finished my degree yet has certainly held me back in more than one job. I'm a network admin with a strong *nix and NT background, but even with certification from Cisco, it is difficult to progress. One can always land a job based on what you know, and how well you present yourself in the interview, but my experience so far has shown repeatedly that the lack of degree will dampen your chances of rising beyond the daily grind. I work for a large utility now as the prime network admin for my department, but I will not be able to make the leap into management without a degree. My advice to anyone who jumped into the IT business too early (for whatever reason) is to make the time to get the degree from a respectable establishment. It'll cut into your personal time and, in my case, family time, but the ends will justify the means. No one really wants to retire a packet-jockey. Certainly not me. Thus I am making the economic and social sacrifices to get my degree. Even if it takes years, it's worth it.
Not to undermind the braintrust of IT professionals at the Time Warner offices or anything.. but how could anyone firing on more than three synapses honestly find the AOL GUI-From-Hell to be a professional grade internet and mail delivery system? I can almost picture the hilarity that would ensue if I was to walk into any of my department or regional managers office and installed a mail application that featured more than four 'smiley faces buttons' and clicking on 'hearts' to access the company address book. By hilarity I mean: Termination Notice. It would only truly be classic, is when one of those poor helldesk drones plugged in the CAT5 to the wall plate, and the computer erupted into a frenzy of busy-signals and asking (politely, to be sure) to try a different wall plate.
Tragic!
Cygwin works just fine in XP. I use it daily both at home and at work. The TCSH works well also. I prefer to use BASH myself, but to each his own. Just be sure to select *all* the packages to install them during setup. Yes. This means you have to click the mouse to a version number over and over and over again. Then after the post-install scripts finish running, run setup again to get all the version updates. It sounds silly, but after mass installing this thing, I've found it to be reliable. Also, keep a copy of the setup.exe in the root of the cygwin directory, since you just have to double click it and select a mirror to check and upgrade all your packages.
/cygdrive/c/ windows
/cygdrive/d/ d-drive
To gain access to your windows drives under the cygwin shell, just map a link to the drives like this:
ln -s
ln -s
That's it! Enjoy!
One must wonder why the CEO of a company that produces spiffy animations of flying children and elephants with airfoils for ears is even marginally attributed with "keen insight to the inner bowels of Information Technology." This government investigation amounts to no more than a witch-hunt where everyone is to blame, and no one is innocent. Guilt-by-association seems to have become the rule of the day. This is reminescent of the Communist hunts of the previous century that besmirched a government in over it's head. Once again we find ourselves watching the antics of a leadership in the US that obviously hasn't a clue what is really going on, and needs to have their AOL accounts revoked. What a sad state of affairs we have when the decision-makers in office rely on public-but-completely-unqualified experts for intelligence information.
Truly, has the legal system devolved to such a state that companies are punished for the actions of a minority using their products in an illegal manner? Why this of all things? We don't see congressional or senate hearings where Senators who obviously haven't a clue what they are talking about verbally accost and regulate the 'cigarette-paper' companies because their products might be used to roll a joint. Nor do we see the CEO of Johnson and Johnson testifying for the continued operation of his Baby-Powder production despite the fact that drug-pushers use it to cut down the heroin they sell.
The truth is that some people in the Entertainment industry have bought off some influential people and convinced those legislators to pursue monetary compensation for ill-perceived losses. Oh yeah, and on the way, let's throw in a little public humiliation.
If the RIAA and the other Media Moguls want to circle-jerk on something, why aren't they really going after the little guy?
Because there is no money to steal.
Way to go Michael!
What is with the desire to use Tablet-PCs? I cannot figure out who the target-market is for this. If we wanted to write on paper, or a surface with handwriting recognition, we'd write on a damn pad of paper like normal people. If I want notes in my computer, I type them. How many of you out there write faster than you type?
Confused...
Seriously, I'll pony up some cash just to keep him off the site! Just like Mariah Carey! I'll pay to not listen to techno-troll!
my $.02, or maybe $5, who can tell these days!
I know for a fact that I fit into that 18%, and possibly the 3%. Between my wife and I, who both use my UID, we live on this website. Constant updating, reading damn near all the posts of +2 or higher that don't involve Jon Katz, etc. Shit, we even use the slashboxes as our link section to the world, since you have every site I read regularly in a slashbox. I really think you should consider a flat fee option, even if it is higher than the paypal metered option, for straight unmetered monthly access. I know that my UID must hit /. at least 100 times a day... Please consider a monthly unmetered rate as a viable alternative to supplement the metered access. I'll gladly fork over some cash if I can continue my current use of /.
eh?
As long as the router/pc/whatever gets an IP via DHCP or whatever it won't matter how many machines he buries behind it, nor require any routing updating on the part of the universities net admin. A little PAT and he's off into the wild pr0n yonder!
Get a LinkSys or something.. Unless you (the original poster) are made of money, you don't need a real router. Any basic cable/modem type router should suffice. Especially one with the ability to set the MAC of the WAN port..
my $.02
From all appearances it would seem to be able to pass the 'wife test'. That is, can she intuitively find what she wants and enjoy her media and surfing? While the purists might balk at a distribution that makes Linux look more like Windows, I offer nothing but praise. If more people are willing to try a distribution of linux that has a more familiar feel to them and uses a structure they understand, then I consider that to be a victory. It's still one less Windows machine in the wild no matter how you count it. While I prefer my X with Gnome a la Blackbox, I applaud the efforts of groups to create a nice middle of the road solution for those that don't want or need to to know how the internals work. I think this is an area that seems to be a much contested battlefield and ideal here on /. where people tend to use their desktop and OS to form a sense of identity. However, we must remember the vast majority of corporate and home users (think of your seceretary, or execs) can not and will not be swayed into trying anything new as long it requires a steep learning curve from what they use every day.
my $.02
That's just great! Now I'll never be able to watch Toonami once channel 22 gets slashdotted!! Thanks for fucking it up for the little guy Taco!
*sigh* what's on Lifetime I wonder.. oh another Justine Bateman abusive husband movie..
Haven't we already seen enough on this drama by now? I mean, sometimes it's like a damn soap opera around here with the "he said/she said".. Let's see, Miguel makes some statements about the idea of .Net and Mono, RMS is taken out of context and made to look confrontational (OK! *More* confrontational) about it. Both of them bend over backwards to explain themselves and repair the appearance of any breach, Miguel comes back with a *very* lengthy explanation about what he meant and what 'The Register' had taken out of context for whatever reason, and yet we find ourselves looking at the same tired issues, yet again..
Hrmmm.. I wonder what's on Jerry Springer...
Regarding the English. While I was stationed in Korea in the Army, I learned that as a requirement to graduate from the equivalent of Elementary school, students must be able to read and write 'book English.' To progress past Middle School, students must have a grasp of conversational or colloquial English. The high-school requires the addition of yet another language, which the majority of students I met wound up taking Japanese. While a great many Koreans feigned not understanding English to avoid 'Evil American Military GIs', the bottomline was that the vast majority of urban citizens speak, read, and write English fluently.
At my last job, working for a NASA contractor, we suffered a constant barrage of attacks that all seemed to originate in Beijing, or Seoul. Blocking Class-C blocks at a time knocked out the Seoul communications, but China was another matter. This went on for some time, with myself sending e-mail after e-mail to China Net with no responses. The difficulty arose from our having offices in Shanghai, so a total block of all addresses was next to impossible. (Anyone who has worked with China Net before can attest to the difficulties of getting static IPs, or *anything* for that matter) Another difficulty arose from the dynamic assignment of IPs by China Net as packets cleared their network. It was difficult to trace and block, and eventually my edge router configurations wound up with quite a group of extended access-lists. We had to ship off a VPN solution to our Shanghai offices, and hold our breath while we punched down tightened controls. After a couple of months though, we finally managed to stop the assault. It was annoying to be forced to such extreme measures, that wound up costing the company significant dollars in manhours, equipment, and travel time just because of the lack of professional courtesy from across the ocean. On a positive note, at least it taught me to be entirely proactive with my blocks, and now I don't hesitate to toss people's packets into /dev/null. Cynical perhaps, but necessary IMHO.
When I first saw the post, I thought it was a Valentine's joke, then realized it was serious, then thought 'that is the coolest thing I have ever seen.' Congratulations you two!
Maybe they are thinking of a "distributed Terminal Server"..?
One can only imagine the vast reworkings of geek-speak they are capable of.
Imagine a whole world of distributed termimals running WindowsXP with the Fischer-Price Blue and Green Plastic Desktop Theme!! The mind reels, and Martha Stewart drops dead of a massive coronary!
I applaud Miguel's decision to allow for future generations of GNOME to plug into what will undoubtedly drive a significant portion of web-services. It shows intelligence and a desire for long-term security.
Most slashdotters, myself included, use both Windows and *nix machines in our work environments. While this might bring a deluge of "Yeah but, my xxx company only uses *nix" and "Only a sux0r company would use Windows!" responses, I feel relatively safe that anyone that's been in the industry for a while and worked for multiple companies knows the real deal here. The fact is that both *nix and Windows coexist, and should coexist. Each has a niche and fills a specific need.
The kind of blind fanaticism shown by certain proponents of GNU is both unhealthy and short-sided. A pro-linux-only (or is that GNU-linux? Who gives a shit?) jihad accomplishes nothing but the accelaration of the demise of a good thing. Only by being flexible and adapting will GNOME, and indeed linux, find it's way into more mainstream use. The unflexible and unyielding only assure their own death. Miguel isn't accountable to anyone but his family and his company. Some people (RMS) should probably stop and do a little introspection on what they want the future to be, and what is *really* the best way to achieve it. Fanaticism is never a good policy. Observation, understanding, and assimilation are what truly make a good leader.
Here are the results of the domains owned by the SEC according to the whois database at network solutions:
WINDHANDEL.COM
SEC-CIVIL.COM
SECRECRUITMENT.COM
SEC-NL.COM
OPERATIONDESERTFOX.COM
DOUZALS.COM
SEC (SE463-ORG) no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET 619 487 7988
MCWHORTLE.COM
What do we do if James Woods hijacks a flight to the base and fires the laser repeatedly at the Earth's Gaia ?? Did anyone think of that?
yeah, hydrogen-filled aircraft have proven so safe in the past...