The press has forgotten that Bob Gates, during his time at CIA, acquired a reputation for trying to tailor intelligence to satisfy political masters in the Reagan White House. In addition, Bob Gates, a man of enormous intellect and a photographic memory, conveniently forgot salient facts and meetings surrounding the Iran Contra scandal...
Three witnesses testified that Mr. Gates slanted intelligence analysis as a senior agency official in the 1980's . . .
The most dramatic testimony came from Melvin A. Goodman, a former division chief in Soviet affairs. He accused Mr. Gates of imposing his political judgments on intelligence analyses without any evidence to back his views, of suppressing his analysts' conclusions, of corrupting the agency's stringent analytical process and of misusing personnel. . .
I remember talking to the South African analyst back in 1988, who told me about the time Bob Gates tried to change the lede on an intelligence piece, which argued that Nelson Mandela was NOT a communist. Gates wanted the lede to say that Mandela was a communist. The analyst kicked back hard and ultimately prevailed, but this behavior was consistent with his reputation as a political animal willing to curry favor with the political masters downtown and sacrifice sound analysis.
Robert M. Gates was the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for intelligence (DDI) from 1982 to 1986. He was confirmed as the CIA's deputy director of central intelligence (DDCI) in April of 1986 and became acting director of central intelligence in December of that same year. Owing to his senior status in the CIA, Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of their activities.
This only happend because the Democrats won the house. Rumsfeld offered his resignation to the President at least 2 times in the past, and was rejected.
This is just playing politics. It's just like Pelosi stating she won't start any impeachment. Each party must concede something to get any support from the opposite party. Dems say they won't impeach and Bush gives up Rumsfeld. These people care more about their political games than actually taking a stand on something.
Most corporations buy Windows licenses in bulk. They don't care if they have to buy a few more licenses. Big businesses know the largest expenses are not the licenses, but rather support and development. Virtualization helps cut those costs while keeping their current platforms.
Never gonna happen. Part of the deal is for Microsoft to make no patent violation claims over Mono as it stands now. Microsoft would rather people virtualize Windows since it means more control plus more licenses. And that's the point of the deal: to control virtualization.
Making.NET more cross-platform would be nice for customers, but it's not in Microsoft's interest.
Those who actually bothered to read some details of the deal know it's all about virtualization. Microsoft realizes there's soon going to be a huge virtualization market. If they don't play into it they will simply lose control of big customers. So to control the virtualization market they can now tell customers they offer a more complete solution with the help of Novell. They can also use Novell to control the user experience. They need to make sure that customers that go multi-OS with relative ease still license Windows. If they alienate too many customers then those that try Linux may just switch completely.
So this is a play at the corporate market to retain control while use of virtualization grows.
That's largely the media's fault for not allowing them into debates. In very local offices where major media has less influence third parties do well. Success at the local level proves there is confidence in third party candidates, in general.
And to say all mayors hold no power is just silly. If you live in NYC, for example, you can see what a difference choice of mayor can make.
So I click on your link to see the latest polling issues. And the very top content, with bright red background, is "Britney Spears files for divorce from her husband Kevin Federline, citing irreconcilable differences." Apparently CNN thinks that's the most important thing you should know about, even if you're on their "political ticker" page.
Easy: mechanical lever voting machine. Served very well for about 100 years. Any idiot can see a picture or read some words and pull a lever. People don't even need to know how to read to use it. You know it worked when the curtains opened to let you out. You can lock it as tight as you want so it can be very hard to tamper with. There are no individual ballots for anyone to interpret.
200,000 people out of 300 million is too small a population for national retailers to care about, economically. But besides the legal incentives there is an economic incentive to following the WAI guidelines. Better accessibility also means more useful info for search engines and other applications. Alt tags help SEO and scrapers, for example. Target should be able to increase their site's overall effectiveness by working to make their site usable for the blind. When companies realize this they end up helping the blind as a side affect.
My experience has been similar to yours. I found Mandrake and Suse much faster and easier to install than any version of Windows, ever. There are less reboots and fewer questions to answer. On slighly old Dells I've never once had any issues.
But Linux won't go more mainstream until a major desktop vendor puts together a nice pre-installed distro and has the computers displayed next to the Windows machines at CompUSA and Best Buy. Linux can work perfectly well with most hardware if vendors make distros specific to their configurations. When people play with it in the store and see it looks "normal" they'll be inclined to buy it.
In fact, if you read XP's, 2000's, and SQL Server's EULAs you'll find many of the same limitations. This isn't new for Microsoft. For at least the last 6 years it's been against the SQL Server EULA to publish benchmark's without Microsoft's approval.
People shouldn't just be getting disgusted today. They should have been reading these EULAs for years.
All of this week's full episodes are on comedy central's own site. I got the impression they told youtube to remove the videos so they could test demand on their own site.
I see no mention of a paper trail. Yet they claim there are no problems counting yet. Well they can't possibly know this if there isn't paper verified by each voter.
I don't care at all if a screen displays the name of the person I voted for. I want to see it printed on a piece of paper and then drop it into a lock box. Without any way to verify electronic votes it's a failure.
I'd call the press, too. If just a few votes are miscounted in each district we could be talking about hundreds of thousands of votes nationwide. This is just the one incident we heard about. How many didn't make it to the press?
In my view every single vote that is miscounted or requires hurdles is a detriment to the nation.
Most corporate Windows machines are behind firewalls. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good. Windows servers are almost always set up behind even more strict firewalls. Ideally servers exposed to the internet are on a different network segment than the internal servers containing even more data.
The greatest threat to ID theft has always been humans. The vast majority of security breaches are from social engineering.
Many financial institutions' IT departments in the US have no policies for paper shredding. I was always mindful to shred account information, but many of my coworkers were not. No rules were published and I've never heard it brought up as an issue by management.
You might be wondering why IT staff would have account information on paper. There are a variety of reasons. Periodic statements still go to most customers by paper, and the IT departments are responsible for their automation. A large percentage of people on the business side still like to see reports on paper and often the IT department is responsible for generating them. We are very far from having paperless companies. And in my experience paper disposal policies are largely missing or ignored.
I think you're missing my point. Or maybe I wasn't clear enough. When asked why it took so long to get certain features into IE his answer is IE is actually first with many features. He doesn't mention that much of the team was pulled into other projects after IE 6. When asked about security issues going back to IE 5 he doesn't mention that Microsoft's management didn't initiate a big security policy update until only a few years ago. When asked about IE being the default browser and its affect on market share he argues it would probably have the same market share anyway, ignoring the fact that management had it intertwined into the OS for the purpose of gaining market share.
We don't need to know anything specific about this person when there's plenty of documentation on Microsoft middle and upper management. And I'm not saying he's lying. But discussing project management at Microsoft and making no mention of higher management implies he's leaving things out.
Whenever he's asked "why?" he always avoids one of the primary answers: management. He basically gets defensive and explains what they did do. But he never states how management changed priorities for them. Or if management told them not to add some feature. To me his answers are incomplete. Because there is no way they come up with all these features yet wait years to work on them without management's intervention.
So just say it. Things weren't delayed because you were too busy working on other things. Features and bug fixes were delayed because you were told to work on other things.
Blame your management. We all know they're a big part of the problem.
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This only happend because the Democrats won the house. Rumsfeld offered his resignation to the President at least 2 times in the past, and was rejected.
This is just playing politics. It's just like Pelosi stating she won't start any impeachment. Each party must concede something to get any support from the opposite party. Dems say they won't impeach and Bush gives up Rumsfeld. These people care more about their political games than actually taking a stand on something.
Most corporations buy Windows licenses in bulk. They don't care if they have to buy a few more licenses. Big businesses know the largest expenses are not the licenses, but rather support and development. Virtualization helps cut those costs while keeping their current platforms.
Never gonna happen. Part of the deal is for Microsoft to make no patent violation claims over Mono as it stands now. Microsoft would rather people virtualize Windows since it means more control plus more licenses. And that's the point of the deal: to control virtualization.
.NET more cross-platform would be nice for customers, but it's not in Microsoft's interest.
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Those who actually bothered to read some details of the deal know it's all about virtualization. Microsoft realizes there's soon going to be a huge virtualization market. If they don't play into it they will simply lose control of big customers. So to control the virtualization market they can now tell customers they offer a more complete solution with the help of Novell. They can also use Novell to control the user experience. They need to make sure that customers that go multi-OS with relative ease still license Windows. If they alienate too many customers then those that try Linux may just switch completely.
So this is a play at the corporate market to retain control while use of virtualization grows.
That's largely the media's fault for not allowing them into debates. In very local offices where major media has less influence third parties do well. Success at the local level proves there is confidence in third party candidates, in general.
And to say all mayors hold no power is just silly. If you live in NYC, for example, you can see what a difference choice of mayor can make.
Third parties do win. Over 200 Greens hold elected offices.
So I click on your link to see the latest polling issues. And the very top content, with bright red background, is "Britney Spears files for divorce from her husband Kevin Federline, citing irreconcilable differences." Apparently CNN thinks that's the most important thing you should know about, even if you're on their "political ticker" page.
I hate mainstream media.
Easy: mechanical lever voting machine. Served very well for about 100 years. Any idiot can see a picture or read some words and pull a lever. People don't even need to know how to read to use it. You know it worked when the curtains opened to let you out. You can lock it as tight as you want so it can be very hard to tamper with. There are no individual ballots for anyone to interpret.
200,000 people out of 300 million is too small a population for national retailers to care about, economically. But besides the legal incentives there is an economic incentive to following the WAI guidelines. Better accessibility also means more useful info for search engines and other applications. Alt tags help SEO and scrapers, for example. Target should be able to increase their site's overall effectiveness by working to make their site usable for the blind. When companies realize this they end up helping the blind as a side affect.
My experience has been similar to yours. I found Mandrake and Suse much faster and easier to install than any version of Windows, ever. There are less reboots and fewer questions to answer. On slighly old Dells I've never once had any issues.
But Linux won't go more mainstream until a major desktop vendor puts together a nice pre-installed distro and has the computers displayed next to the Windows machines at CompUSA and Best Buy. Linux can work perfectly well with most hardware if vendors make distros specific to their configurations. When people play with it in the store and see it looks "normal" they'll be inclined to buy it.
In fact, if you read XP's, 2000's, and SQL Server's EULAs you'll find many of the same limitations. This isn't new for Microsoft. For at least the last 6 years it's been against the SQL Server EULA to publish benchmark's without Microsoft's approval.
People shouldn't just be getting disgusted today. They should have been reading these EULAs for years.
All of this week's full episodes are on comedy central's own site. I got the impression they told youtube to remove the videos so they could test demand on their own site.
I see no mention of a paper trail. Yet they claim there are no problems counting yet. Well they can't possibly know this if there isn't paper verified by each voter.
I don't care at all if a screen displays the name of the person I voted for. I want to see it printed on a piece of paper and then drop it into a lock box. Without any way to verify electronic votes it's a failure.
I'd call the press, too. If just a few votes are miscounted in each district we could be talking about hundreds of thousands of votes nationwide. This is just the one incident we heard about. How many didn't make it to the press?
In my view every single vote that is miscounted or requires hurdles is a detriment to the nation.
Really? MasterCard never speaks to any customers (they only service banks), yet their headquarters get bomb threats all the time.
Negroponte's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair definitely disolves my faith in this government more than this label.
Your point is still a good one.
Most corporate Windows machines are behind firewalls. They're not perfect, but they're pretty good. Windows servers are almost always set up behind even more strict firewalls. Ideally servers exposed to the internet are on a different network segment than the internal servers containing even more data.
The greatest threat to ID theft has always been humans. The vast majority of security breaches are from social engineering.
Many financial institutions' IT departments in the US have no policies for paper shredding. I was always mindful to shred account information, but many of my coworkers were not. No rules were published and I've never heard it brought up as an issue by management.
You might be wondering why IT staff would have account information on paper. There are a variety of reasons. Periodic statements still go to most customers by paper, and the IT departments are responsible for their automation. A large percentage of people on the business side still like to see reports on paper and often the IT department is responsible for generating them. We are very far from having paperless companies. And in my experience paper disposal policies are largely missing or ignored.
I think you're missing my point. Or maybe I wasn't clear enough. When asked why it took so long to get certain features into IE his answer is IE is actually first with many features. He doesn't mention that much of the team was pulled into other projects after IE 6. When asked about security issues going back to IE 5 he doesn't mention that Microsoft's management didn't initiate a big security policy update until only a few years ago. When asked about IE being the default browser and its affect on market share he argues it would probably have the same market share anyway, ignoring the fact that management had it intertwined into the OS for the purpose of gaining market share.
So you only see the world in black and white. Blame this guy for everything and ignore the fact he has bosses. Good point.
You actually believe management has no affect on features or release dates?
We don't need to know anything specific about this person when there's plenty of documentation on Microsoft middle and upper management. And I'm not saying he's lying. But discussing project management at Microsoft and making no mention of higher management implies he's leaving things out.
Yeah, he talks as if IE was the world's first web browser. If he believes that he should read IE's own about box.
Whenever he's asked "why?" he always avoids one of the primary answers: management. He basically gets defensive and explains what they did do. But he never states how management changed priorities for them. Or if management told them not to add some feature. To me his answers are incomplete. Because there is no way they come up with all these features yet wait years to work on them without management's intervention.
So just say it. Things weren't delayed because you were too busy working on other things. Features and bug fixes were delayed because you were told to work on other things.
Blame your management. We all know they're a big part of the problem.