One of the criticisms of the Bush administration is that they're a bunch of cold-war throwbacks (Cheney, Rice, Feith, Wolfowitz) left over from the Republican cabinets of 1980-92 , and they came into power in 2000 all set to pick up where they left off, with star wars, new nukes, and new air combat platforms. Never mind that in 8 years the world had moved on and the active threat to America was terrorism, requiring police vigilance and response, not nation-killing weapons.
Now the Bush administration is losing control of the media coverage in Iraq. They've done very well up to this point--embedding reporters with units makes them very sympathetic, and for whatever reason US corporate media sources simply do not give bad news from Iraq the same prominence that other english-language sources do (UK, etc.). But, they've been caught by ubiquitous digital cameras and CD burners. Word-of-mouth is deniable, but trivially copyable pictures, where every grunt can have his own collection, is just too hard to control.
Personally I'm shocked that soldiers were allowed to have cameras--what kind of operational security is that? But, just like these guys don't get the net, they didn't realize the difference between film cameras and digital cameras--digital photos propagate at T1 speeds. This means that a hot photo may be copied 1000s of times in a week, where a film photo might be handed off, but not copied.
Just one detail for the freepers out there--the abuses occurred (and the photos were taken) in fall 2003. This is months before the four American contractors were killed and had their bodies burned in Fallujah.
So, if you want to put a biblical eye-for-an-eye spin on this, the Fallujah killings in March may have been revenge for the Abu Ghraib abuses, not the other way around as some folks are trying to insinuate.
CVS? Nah, we tried that but it didn't work. We're using visual source safe now.
Ok, first you model everything down each class and method level in UML, then you apply the elaboration bongfizzle according to rational unified process...
We're targeting this release to run on the Longhorn codebase...
I'm sorry, but you must adhere to the *letter* of the EJB spec. That means you cannot use java.io.*, cannot have worker threads, no socket communication, scheduled events, or application lifecycle events.
You absolutely must check in everything before you go home at the end of the day. That way you don't lose anything if your workstation dies. Build failures? No problem, someone will fix it before you get in the next day.
You can start coding as soon as you acquire linux licenses from SCO...
Canada, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, (gasp) France (gasp), Greece, AND MOST OF THE FUCKING CIVILIZED WORLD have single-payer medicine. And you know what? They live longer than we do. And they spend less per capita. There are parts of society where the profit motive just ain't quite the right way to do things.
What President Bush meant to say was that we'll have broadband on mars so those lonely astronauts won't get bored.
In further news, Halliburton annouced the formation of a new division specializing in the provisioning of broadband.
Can I have my pony now, and skip the 2007 broadband?
That depends--will they integrate microsoft web search such that any search on IE or explorer automatically also runs against the microsoft web search?
Will they skew web search results (searching for "Microsoft security hole" takes one only to microsoft update)?
Will they offer free ads for years in order to cut google's revenue stream ("knife the baby!")"?
I demand that The Sims either open source their voting system, or provide every voter a PKI-signed certificate record of their vote! Otherwise we will never be able to trust that the right gamer was elected, and civil chaos will result! The Sims could at least attempt to meet the standard we apply to these United States of ours,... oh, wait.
Microsoft, with the resources they posess, could make the rest of my professional life a nightmare.
What, they haven't already? Think of all the idiot employers running win[nt|2k|2003] on the server side--places you don't want to work.
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just take a look at 1.5 with enums, yes I know they existed before C# but I think their existence in C# prompted the move.
Uh, no. Enums' existence in ansi C and C++ prompted the move, given the large number of developers who work in both C/C++ and java, who know from real-world experience that enums improve maintainability and reliability of code.
"Free" web pages that require subscriptions to view them. Fuck off asswipes, I'm not paying you a time tax on top of giving you the priviledge of engaging my attention long enough to read what you have to say. What goddamned arrogance.
With comcast cable, every time you change a channel or hit the "info" button to return to viewing a channel, a "flip bar" covers the lower third of your screen for the next three seconds. This "helpful" feature tells you the time, channel, and name of show you're watching, along with a banner ad, the real reason for the feature.
They used to have a configuration option to turn off the flip bar, but that mysteriously disappeared after a year. Now all you can do is reduce its duration (from 6 seconds to 3 seconds).
Fuck you Comcast, overlaying your own ad on my screen on a service I'm paying for. Do the satellite services weasel in their own ads this way, or do they stay out of the way?
and the ocassional wild tiger, rare as they are, would still be unsettling for one who only see beasts in zoos.
Dude, those of us living in and around Silicon valley have to deal with mountain lions, which like tigers will also bite off your head at about the same frequency as that of buying a winning supper-lotto jackpot ticket. Take your troll elsewhere, munchkin.
Like all armored vehicles, the Stryker uses different amounts of armor on different parts of the vehicle, depending on level of threat. The 12mm armor (increased to 14+mm via applique) is frontal, not side armor. The side armor is intended to withstand 7.62 mm bullets, but the wheel wells have even less! I also strongly suspect that the up-armored variant described in your article is no longer air-deployable via a C130 due to increased weight. And we still haven't considered RPGs or simply shredding the tires with small arms fire, followed up with a toasty molotov.
So, what we have is a non-airborne wheeled APC which can only mount a 0.50 cal mg, requires the mg gunner to expose his upper body, has less armor than a M113A, is slower off-road, faster on-road, where it travels in nice, predictable directions. Don't get me started on the durability of its 8-wheel drive--field-deployed units will be lucky to have 40% live vehicles after 1 day. Also, I'll bet the Iraq units get deployed with 1 bradley per 4 strykers, to keep casualties down.
You wouldn't be associated with a Stryker unit, would you?
Stryker's armor is heavier than the armored version of the hummer, but not so armored as the Bradley, by intent.
Umm, it's not so armored as an M113A either, and lacks internal compartmentalization. The Stryker wastes an insane amount of weight on independent drive to each of 8 wheels, leaving little margin for armor if it is to be carried by a C130. Comparing it with a HumVee costing 1/10th as much is idiotic, especially when you consider that a C130 can carry THREE HumVees in roll-off configuration whereas it can carry a single Stryker only with the ammo and parts stored separately.
The sort of machine gun caliber that can penetrate the wheel wells are only mounted on aircraft
My mistake saying machine-gun--the wheel well armor isn't even rated vs 7.62 mm rounds--an AK47 can penetrate.
Now, I'd like to see you design a tank that can go where the Stryker can. Ain't gonna happen. You add more armor and it will sink in the sand.
Where can an 18 ton tracked vehicle not go that a Stryker can? I'll take a tracked Bradley in the sand over the wheeled Stryker any day, and so would you. The Bradley and M1 are both known to be 10mph faster off-road than the Stryker. And as far as cheap air-deployable fire support, give me an M8. Strykers in combat are targets, not weapons platforms.
This is the same Stryker that has such thin armor around the enormous wheel wells that machine-gun bullets can penetrate, would kill its own crew if the turret howitzer were fired, and is best taken out via a simple molotov cocktail setting fire to its tires. It is intended to be air-deployed, but is so close to the weight margin that some armor had to be eliminated. In some configurations the Stryker has to be split across 3 planes and assembled on-site. Oh, and the thing is the size of a school bus--just what you want in urban situations requring manouverability, which is supposedly among its missions.
The Stryker is a mistake--I can see why they'd bolt the robot onto it in order to keep funding going, or to mask the sunk cost on this turkey. I couldn't find the PDF detailing these problems, so try this link:
stryker problems Right now it's most interesting as an example of the strength of momentum some defense procurement contracts have.
Had PATRIOT been a creation of Clinton Administration I doubt anyone would be talking about it, but in a country where partisanship overwhelms common sense on both sides rational discussion about the best way to protect this country from the clear and present danger of terrorism is difficult to find.
That's right, anything the Clinton administration proposed got hailed and appreciated by the slashdot crowd. Especially all those idiotic controls on encryption the Clinton administration put into place--that went over real well; we were singing and dancing in the streets. Bad laws that lead towards a corporate-controlled police state are just that--bad laws.
It was the 9th Circuit Federal court, who usually do the right thing and then get overturned on appeal by Scalia and the Supremes. So, this is about as effective as singing folk songs and waving placards in the designated "protest" space at least one mile distant from wherever Bush is fundraising today.
Meanwhile, the much-worse provisions of Patriot II were tucked into the omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week. So, if you want to make a difference, call up your congresscritter and mention how relieved you are at this temporary reversal of Patriot I and how you really don't want to see more of these unamerican laws passed. You could also donate money or time to interest groups: EFF, EPIC, ACLU, whoever's most likely to throw Bush/Ashcroft/Cheney out of office, etc.
Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be considered good news
Paul Krugman put it best, referring to Bush's Mars initiative when he said something along the lines of "can't we save a great deal of money and take the photo now of Bush in an astronaut suit?"
Linus himself has said "It's not about beating Microsoft" (or something like that). People contribute to linux because they want to, not to deny Microsoft something.
What I'm really looking forward to is Microsoft Linux (tm), complete with Microsoft Linux Support that instructs you to reboot, then reinstall to deal with any problem (never mind those HOWTOs, written by communists no doubt). That will open the eyes of PHBs who think closed source support is better than open source support via newsgroups and participation.
Why would it be so bad if Microsoft incorporates parts of Linux? Supposedly they've already got chunks of VMS and BSD. Many implementations in an OS are simply common software engineering solutions to CS problems--the last thing we want is software engineering to become even more entangled with IP issues.
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One of the criticisms of the Bush administration is that they're a bunch of cold-war throwbacks (Cheney, Rice, Feith, Wolfowitz) left over from the Republican cabinets of 1980-92 , and they came into power in 2000 all set to pick up where they left off, with star wars, new nukes, and new air combat platforms. Never mind that in 8 years the world had moved on and the active threat to America was terrorism, requiring police vigilance and response, not nation-killing weapons.
Now the Bush administration is losing control of the media coverage in Iraq. They've done very well up to this point--embedding reporters with units makes them very sympathetic, and for whatever reason US corporate media sources simply do not give bad news from Iraq the same prominence that other english-language sources do (UK, etc.). But, they've been caught by ubiquitous digital cameras and CD burners. Word-of-mouth is deniable, but trivially copyable pictures, where every grunt can have his own collection, is just too hard to control.
Personally I'm shocked that soldiers were allowed to have cameras--what kind of operational security is that? But, just like these guys don't get the net, they didn't realize the difference between film cameras and digital cameras--digital photos propagate at T1 speeds. This means that a hot photo may be copied 1000s of times in a week, where a film photo might be handed off, but not copied.
Just one detail for the freepers out there--the abuses occurred (and the photos were taken) in fall 2003. This is months before the four American contractors were killed and had their bodies burned in Fallujah.
So, if you want to put a biblical eye-for-an-eye spin on this, the Fallujah killings in March may have been revenge for the Abu Ghraib abuses, not the other way around as some folks are trying to insinuate.
CVS? Nah, we tried that but it didn't work. We're using visual source safe now.
Ok, first you model everything down each class and method level in UML, then you apply the elaboration bongfizzle according to rational unified process...
We're targeting this release to run on the Longhorn codebase...
I'm sorry, but you must adhere to the *letter* of the EJB spec. That means you cannot use java.io.*, cannot have worker threads, no socket communication, scheduled events, or application lifecycle events.
You absolutely must check in everything before you go home at the end of the day. That way you don't lose anything if your workstation dies. Build failures? No problem, someone will fix it before you get in the next day.
You can start coding as soon as you acquire linux licenses from SCO...
Canada, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, (gasp) France (gasp), Greece, AND MOST OF THE FUCKING CIVILIZED WORLD have single-payer medicine. And you know what? They live longer than we do. And they spend less per capita. There are parts of society where the profit motive just ain't quite the right way to do things.
What President Bush meant to say was that we'll have broadband on mars so those lonely astronauts won't get bored. In further news, Halliburton annouced the formation of a new division specializing in the provisioning of broadband. Can I have my pony now, and skip the 2007 broadband?
Isn't this yet another abuse of its monopoly?
That depends--will they integrate microsoft web search such that any search on IE or explorer automatically also runs against the microsoft web search?
Will they skew web search results (searching for "Microsoft security hole" takes one only to microsoft update)?
Will they offer free ads for years in order to cut google's revenue stream ("knife the baby!")"?
I demand that The Sims either open source their voting system, or provide every voter a PKI-signed certificate record of their vote! Otherwise we will never be able to trust that the right gamer was elected, and civil chaos will result! The Sims could at least attempt to meet the standard we apply to these United States of ours, ... oh, wait.
Never mind, go ahead and fix it like a game show.
So people will be chanting "No blood for ketchup" (Or "No Ketchup for Blood" :) ) instead of "No Blood for Oil"?
That depends, is Kerry going to invade Italy?
start here: cd baby
Needs some advice in winemaking, that is. We already know about script-writing issues. He should talk to this guy, who is just up the road.
Microsoft, with the resources they posess, could make the rest of my professional life a nightmare.
What, they haven't already? Think of all the idiot employers running win[nt|2k|2003] on the server side--places you don't want to work.
just take a look at 1.5 with enums, yes I know they existed before C# but I think their existence in C# prompted the move.
Uh, no. Enums' existence in ansi C and C++ prompted the move, given the large number of developers who work in both C/C++ and java, who know from real-world experience that enums improve maintainability and reliability of code.
Ok, then where are the 4% of viruses for Apple?
And #11 technlogy that we wish would die is...
"Free" web pages that require subscriptions to view them. Fuck off asswipes, I'm not paying you a time tax on top of giving you the priviledge of engaging my attention long enough to read what you have to say. What goddamned arrogance.
With comcast cable, every time you change a channel or hit the "info" button to return to viewing a channel, a "flip bar" covers the lower third of your screen for the next three seconds. This "helpful" feature tells you the time, channel, and name of show you're watching, along with a banner ad, the real reason for the feature.
They used to have a configuration option to turn off the flip bar, but that mysteriously disappeared after a year. Now all you can do is reduce its duration (from 6 seconds to 3 seconds).
Fuck you Comcast, overlaying your own ad on my screen on a service I'm paying for. Do the satellite services weasel in their own ads this way, or do they stay out of the way?
and the ocassional wild tiger, rare as they are, would still be unsettling for one who only see beasts in zoos.
Dude, those of us living in and around Silicon valley have to deal with mountain lions, which like tigers will also bite off your head at about the same frequency as that of buying a winning supper-lotto jackpot ticket. Take your troll elsewhere, munchkin.
Like all armored vehicles, the Stryker uses different amounts of armor on different parts of the vehicle, depending on level of threat. The 12mm armor (increased to 14+mm via applique) is frontal, not side armor. The side armor is intended to withstand 7.62 mm bullets, but the wheel wells have even less! I also strongly suspect that the up-armored variant described in your article is no longer air-deployable via a C130 due to increased weight. And we still haven't considered RPGs or simply shredding the tires with small arms fire, followed up with a toasty molotov.
So, what we have is a non-airborne wheeled APC which can only mount a 0.50 cal mg, requires the mg gunner to expose his upper body, has less armor than a M113A, is slower off-road, faster on-road, where it travels in nice, predictable directions. Don't get me started on the durability of its 8-wheel drive--field-deployed units will be lucky to have 40% live vehicles after 1 day. Also, I'll bet the Iraq units get deployed with 1 bradley per 4 strykers, to keep casualties down.
You wouldn't be associated with a Stryker unit, would you?
Stryker's armor is heavier than the armored version of the hummer, but not so armored as the Bradley, by intent.
Umm, it's not so armored as an M113A either, and lacks internal compartmentalization. The Stryker wastes an insane amount of weight on independent drive to each of 8 wheels, leaving little margin for armor if it is to be carried by a C130. Comparing it with a HumVee costing 1/10th as much is idiotic, especially when you consider that a C130 can carry THREE HumVees in roll-off configuration whereas it can carry a single Stryker only with the ammo and parts stored separately.
The sort of machine gun caliber that can penetrate the wheel wells are only mounted on aircraft
My mistake saying machine-gun--the wheel well armor isn't even rated vs 7.62 mm rounds--an AK47 can penetrate.
Now, I'd like to see you design a tank that can go where the Stryker can. Ain't gonna happen. You add more armor and it will sink in the sand.
Where can an 18 ton tracked vehicle not go that a Stryker can? I'll take a tracked Bradley in the sand over the wheeled Stryker any day, and so would you. The Bradley and M1 are both known to be 10mph faster off-road than the Stryker. And as far as cheap air-deployable fire support, give me an M8. Strykers in combat are targets, not weapons platforms.
This is the same Stryker that has such thin armor around the enormous wheel wells that machine-gun bullets can penetrate, would kill its own crew if the turret howitzer were fired, and is best taken out via a simple molotov cocktail setting fire to its tires. It is intended to be air-deployed, but is so close to the weight margin that some armor had to be eliminated. In some configurations the Stryker has to be split across 3 planes and assembled on-site. Oh, and the thing is the size of a school bus--just what you want in urban situations requring manouverability, which is supposedly among its missions.
The Stryker is a mistake--I can see why they'd bolt the robot onto it in order to keep funding going, or to mask the sunk cost on this turkey. I couldn't find the PDF detailing these problems, so try this link: stryker problems Right now it's most interesting as an example of the strength of momentum some defense procurement contracts have.
Um, yeah. Why do you think publishers are so interested in ebooks? They can charge by the pageview.
Had PATRIOT been a creation of Clinton Administration I doubt anyone would be talking about it, but in a country where partisanship overwhelms common sense on both sides rational discussion about the best way to protect this country from the clear and present danger of terrorism is difficult to find.
That's right, anything the Clinton administration proposed got hailed and appreciated by the slashdot crowd. Especially all those idiotic controls on encryption the Clinton administration put into place--that went over real well; we were singing and dancing in the streets. Bad laws that lead towards a corporate-controlled police state are just that--bad laws.
It was the 9th Circuit Federal court, who usually do the right thing and then get overturned on appeal by Scalia and the Supremes. So, this is about as effective as singing folk songs and waving placards in the designated "protest" space at least one mile distant from wherever Bush is fundraising today.
Meanwhile, the much-worse provisions of Patriot II were tucked into the omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week. So, if you want to make a difference, call up your congresscritter and mention how relieved you are at this temporary reversal of Patriot I and how you really don't want to see more of these unamerican laws passed. You could also donate money or time to interest groups: EFF, EPIC, ACLU, whoever's most likely to throw Bush/Ashcroft/Cheney out of office, etc.
Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be considered good news
Paul Krugman put it best, referring to Bush's Mars initiative when he said something along the lines of "can't we save a great deal of money and take the photo now of Bush in an astronaut suit?"
Linus himself has said "It's not about beating Microsoft" (or something like that). People contribute to linux because they want to, not to deny Microsoft something.
What I'm really looking forward to is Microsoft Linux (tm), complete with Microsoft Linux Support that instructs you to reboot, then reinstall to deal with any problem (never mind those HOWTOs, written by communists no doubt). That will open the eyes of PHBs who think closed source support is better than open source support via newsgroups and participation.
Why would it be so bad if Microsoft incorporates parts of Linux? Supposedly they've already got chunks of VMS and BSD. Many implementations in an OS are simply common software engineering solutions to CS problems--the last thing we want is software engineering to become even more entangled with IP issues.