First is a change in the design of the aircraft itself.Why not make new airplanes where the cockpit is not acessible by the inside...but instead has a private outside door ?
Bullshit. No offense.
Aircraft Security. Simple. Arm the citizens. If even a modest proportion of Americans were armed, there would have been no hijacking.
They'd have to figure something else out, but for damn sure they'd take several millions armed Citizens into account.
I have a 4 year old Toshiba Tecra on my desk. Next to is a 4 month old Dell Inspiron 8000. The Dell is what I need - roomy hard drive, fast processor, yadda yadda. But I *like* my Toshiba.
The Dell feels cheap, which is a rotten thing to say about a 3k laptop. The lid doesn't move up n down smoothly. The catch doesn't feel solid. Typical Dell, in other words.
My Tecra's lid still hinges up and down nicely, after 4 years. The catch makes a satisfying 'click' when closed and opened. It's a damned nice solid piece of work. If I could upgrade it, I'd toss the Dell to someone in our office who needs it....
Maybe you / he meant the center at Fort Ritchie, Maryland? Deitreich is in the middle of a largish town and is to my recolletion, not where the NECC is. There WAS a NECC (Site R) at Ft. Ritche.
Either way.. improbable. Site R is a fallout shelter, and dug into the rock.
to get serious about figuring out why the USA is so thoroughly hated and then figuring out how to gain, if not friendly terms, neutral terms with other nations/cultures/peoples.
Why are we hated? Envy.
The culture(s) that attack Western society (with the US as the icon for all) are backwards, insular cultures that cannot compete with the free open society of the West.
I'm not putting the culture's themselves down. Nor the people that live there. It's not a religion thing, either. Heck, there are places in America that, culturally speaking, cannot compete.
These places/cultures feel their grip slipping, and lash out.
The cure? There isn't one, short of the grave. The insular society will continue to lash out like a blind-drunk fool with a gun.
The Marines (the US variety) have been using a modded version of DOOM for a while now. Last I looked they were going to mod Quake.
How many times have you seen Private Ryan? Your not getting desensitezed to gore per se, just that damn movie.
Cival War battles and musket loads. It's a noted fact for many wars, not just the American Civil War. It's not that they were (or weren't) trained killers - loading / firing a musket is a multiple step process and it's easy when getting shot at to get rattled and skip a step or repeat a process.
I'm looking into it.. we have 3 (count 'em three) ver important gotta have it applications that do not support linux, but do work well under Solaris AND NT.
My boss doesn't want to pay 20k for a solaris box, and he doesn't want to deal with the hassle that windows has become - Linux (or *BSD, I'm agnostic) will do the job.
From the Linux box, (still in beta in my work shop) they can emulate the windows apps. They *should* be able to X into Solaris and the Solaris apps.
But... the U.S. Military operates in just such an environment - at least the Army and Marines do.
Think packet radio for the remote sites to connect to the main site (the one with the best tel connections, and the mail is dumped to the remote sites as needed. Ban attachments and everything except plain text (no html/rtf formatted email) and you're 1/2 way to a solution.
I earned my dischage from the Marines in '93, after 8 years service in the infantry and data processing fields (rifleman AND a computer programmer - the best of both worlds).
On my discharge paperwork, the DAY of my dischage, the company clerk (a guy who *knew* me) had entered, for my Occupations Specialty "Heavy Equipment Operator, 2 years experience" and nothing else.
I raised a shit fit with the guy and the Warrant Officer in charge of S-1 (a perfect example of who should *not* be a WO) - they would not tear it up and redo it - it had been signed by the C.O. They DID have a form with attached to the back of the form, stating that the orignal form was wrong and listing what I done and when.
It's worth nothing that they took my word for my MOS and years of experience, and didn't check my SRB. In hindsight, I could have slipped some really _good_ stuff in there. .
yeah, I'm stuck in the same Microsoft boat at work. It's even worse here, most of the computers are MACs. I just keep forwarding this information to our IT people.
Hello. I *am* your IT department and guess what? We know Exchange/Outlook isn't the best choice for you guys. We also know that we didn't choose Exchange, it was chosen *for* us - decisions like that just are not made by IT.
So. Keep sending us crap. We've already seen it. We're also laughing at you behind your back.
The IT department and the computers are meant to support the users, not the other way around.
If I want to install software on my work machine, and I think it's required in the slighest, I won't let anyone from IT tell me otherwise. If I want to make it as complicated as possible to troubleshoot, that's fine, because when I need troubleshooting IT is there and they're getting paid for it. I don't care about making their job easier.
It's fine with YOU. Attitudes like yours make jobs like mine much (sys admin) harder than they have to be. You can be very sure that your IT staff is very aware of the low regard you hold them, and they hold YOU in equally low regard.
Don't be too surprised if the best solution for any given problem is to reformat your drive and zap your data. Bastard.
I'm wondering why using SETI@Home on PCs with access to the internet would be a problem. As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop, and so no form of malware could affect their machines used for power generation and/or managment."
The article *didn't* say the machines used for power management were affected.
I've never worked for the TVA, but I *have* worked for the guv'mnit - every end-user acknowledges what they can/can't do. TVA owns the computers used, it's their business deciding how they're used. It's trivial, sure, but it's garbage like seti@home that drives IT bats.
giant kangaroos, the ferocious Thylacoleo -- the size of a leopard but known as the marsupial lion -- and the herbivore Diprotodon, bigger than a cow but which looked like a wombat. The giant flightless bird Genyornis and a 26-foot lizard and mammoths and mastodons (both relatives of modern elephants), giant ground sloths, tapirs, a large camel, llamas, a large-horned bison, prong-horned antelopes, oxen, a type of mountain goat, a giant armadillo and the glyptodonts, large mammals covered with solid armor. Large predators such as the saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and some bears
You, yes YOU should stand in awe of men (your ancestors and mine) who hunted these animals - their acomplishments will never be recorded, but just imagines the balls it took to hunt an animal many time their size, and bring it home for dinner.
Columbus wasn't looking for the New World, he was looking for gold, spices, converts to Christianity, in the Far East.
Planet-wide exploration DID happen before Columbus - the Porteguese were busy finding the route to the far east around Africa *years* before Columbus, the Chinese had a huge fleet of ships ready to explore the known world, but internal politics killed the project.
The Porteguese had the only known route to the Orient zealously gaurded - anything else looked like an expensive way to suicide.
The cost to the Spanish crown was, while not cheap, not especially expensive. Three ships, a handfull of men, and King John found a way to cut the cost to himself even further (I think) by forcing a town to pony up the three caravals as a fine.
rumour has it that an overnight guy that a contractor supplied at an unamed company whose initials are T. I. used to bring in his sleeping bag.
When he got tired of sleeping, he played games. And tunneled from one part of the data center to the other part. Which was _really_ funny 'cause the other part of the data center belonged to a different company.
Oddly, he didn't get fired for that. I heard he left of his own accord, several jobs later, and is wandering the web space of North Texas in his big ass truck, fixing radio towers and enjoying life.
How are things, Jay?
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It's not a "tank", it's a LAV - Light Armoured Vehicle - and it's old news. The Marines have had these since the late 80's.
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First is a change in the design of the aircraft itself.Why not make new airplanes where the cockpit is not acessible by the inside ...but instead has a private outside door ?
Bullshit. No offense.
Aircraft Security. Simple. Arm the citizens. If even a modest proportion of Americans were armed, there would have been no hijacking.
They'd have to figure something else out, but for damn sure they'd take several millions armed Citizens into account.
Why? I was pondering this today.
....
I have a 4 year old Toshiba Tecra on my desk. Next to is a 4 month old Dell Inspiron 8000. The Dell is what I need - roomy hard drive, fast processor, yadda yadda. But I *like* my Toshiba.
The Dell feels cheap, which is a rotten thing to say about a 3k laptop. The lid doesn't move up n down smoothly. The catch doesn't feel solid. Typical Dell, in other words.
My Tecra's lid still hinges up and down nicely, after 4 years. The catch makes a satisfying 'click' when closed and opened. It's a damned nice solid piece of work. If I could upgrade it, I'd toss the Dell to someone in our office who needs it
Um.
.. improbable. Site R is a fallout shelter, and dug into the rock.
Maybe you / he meant the center at Fort Ritchie, Maryland? Deitreich is in the middle of a largish town and is to my recolletion, not where the NECC is. There WAS a NECC (Site R) at Ft. Ritche.
Either way
to get serious about figuring out why the USA is so thoroughly hated and then figuring out how to gain, if not friendly terms, neutral terms with other nations/cultures/peoples.
Why are we hated? Envy.
The culture(s) that attack Western society (with the US as the icon for all) are backwards, insular cultures that cannot compete with the free open society of the West.
I'm not putting the culture's themselves down. Nor the people that live there. It's not a religion thing, either. Heck, there are places in America that, culturally speaking, cannot compete.
These places/cultures feel their grip slipping, and lash out.
The cure? There isn't one, short of the grave. The insular society will continue to lash out like a blind-drunk fool with a gun.
Linux - in whatever distro is not ready to replace HP-UX. And may never be.
It's a good, nay superior replacement OS for the desktop/department server. But to replace HP-UX (or Solaris or AIX) in the data center is loopy.
Um. Where to begin .
The Marines (the US variety) have been using a modded version of DOOM for a while now. Last I looked they were going to mod Quake.
How many times have you seen Private Ryan? Your not getting desensitezed to gore per se, just that damn movie.
Cival War battles and musket loads. It's a noted fact for many wars, not just the American Civil War. It's not that they were (or weren't) trained killers - loading / firing a musket is a multiple step process and it's easy when getting shot at to get rattled and skip a step or repeat a process.
I'm looking into it .. we have 3 (count 'em three) ver important gotta have it applications that do not support linux, but do work well under Solaris AND NT.
My boss doesn't want to pay 20k for a solaris box, and he doesn't want to deal with the hassle that windows has become - Linux (or *BSD, I'm agnostic) will do the job.
From the Linux box, (still in beta in my work shop) they can emulate the windows apps. They *should* be able to X into Solaris and the Solaris apps.
But it is a kludge.
But ... the U.S. Military operates in just such an environment - at least the Army and Marines do.
Think packet radio for the remote sites to connect to the main site (the one with the best tel connections, and the mail is dumped to the remote sites as needed. Ban attachments and everything except plain text (no html/rtf formatted email) and you're 1/2 way to a solution.
I earned my dischage from the Marines in '93, after 8 years service in the infantry and data processing fields (rifleman AND a computer programmer - the best of both worlds).
On my discharge paperwork, the DAY of my dischage, the company clerk (a guy who *knew* me) had entered, for my Occupations Specialty "Heavy Equipment Operator, 2 years experience" and nothing else.
I raised a shit fit with the guy and the Warrant Officer in charge of S-1 (a perfect example of who should *not* be a WO) - they would not tear it up and redo it - it had been signed by the C.O. They DID have a form with attached to the back of the form, stating that the orignal form was wrong and listing what I done and when.
It's worth nothing that they took my word for my MOS and years of experience, and didn't check my SRB. In hindsight, I could have slipped some really _good_ stuff in there. .
Examples abound:
NT over Novell (and Banyan Vines)
Ethernet over Token-Ring
Fast Ethernet over FDDI/ATM
PCs over mini-computers, dumb terminals, mainframes
But I wouldn't buy one for myself, and I'd not waste the companies money on it, given my druthers. Damn nice chair.
Since Allied Riser is going out of business, wonder if I could score a chair or two on the cheap at auction?
Hello. I *am* your IT department and guess what? We know Exchange/Outlook isn't the best choice for you guys. We also know that we didn't choose Exchange, it was chosen *for* us - decisions like that just are not made by IT.
So. Keep sending us crap. We've already seen it. We're also laughing at you behind your back.
It sounds like the serial/parallel/lan was(were) not properly grounded.
mf
If I want to install software on my work machine, and I think it's required in the slighest, I won't let anyone from IT tell me otherwise. If I want to make it as complicated as possible to troubleshoot, that's fine, because when I need troubleshooting IT is there and they're getting paid for it. I don't care about making their job easier.
It's fine with YOU. Attitudes like yours make jobs like mine much (sys admin) harder than they have to be. You can be very sure that your IT staff is very aware of the low regard you hold them, and they hold YOU in equally low regard.
Don't be too surprised if the best solution for any given problem is to reformat your drive and zap your data. Bastard.
I'm wondering why using SETI@Home on PCs with access to the internet would be a problem. As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop, and so no form of malware could affect their machines used for power generation and/or managment."
The article *didn't* say the machines used for power management were affected.
I've never worked for the TVA, but I *have* worked for the guv'mnit - every end-user acknowledges what they can/can't do. TVA owns the computers used, it's their business deciding how they're used. It's trivial, sure, but it's garbage like seti@home that drives IT bats.
You, yes YOU should stand in awe of men (your ancestors and mine) who hunted these animals - their acomplishments will never be recorded, but just imagines the balls it took to hunt an animal many time their size, and bring it home for dinner.
Imagine how foolish you'll feel if his ideas about magnetism are true.
Not saying they are, but just imagine how chagrined you'll feel.
Columbus wasn't looking for the New World, he was looking for gold, spices, converts to Christianity, in the Far East.
Planet-wide exploration DID happen before Columbus - the Porteguese were busy finding the route to the far east around Africa *years* before Columbus, the Chinese had a huge fleet of ships ready to explore the known world, but internal politics killed the project.
The Porteguese had the only known route to the Orient zealously gaurded - anything else looked like an expensive way to suicide.
The cost to the Spanish crown was, while not cheap, not especially expensive. Three ships, a handfull of men, and King John found a way to cut the cost to himself even further (I think) by forcing a town to pony up the three caravals as a fine.
When he got tired of sleeping, he played games. And tunneled from one part of the data center to the other part. Which was _really_ funny 'cause the other part of the data center belonged to a different company.
Oddly, he didn't get fired for that. I heard he left of his own accord, several jobs later, and is wandering the web space of North Texas in his big ass truck, fixing radio towers and enjoying life.
How are things, Jay?
On Slashdot?!? I'm sure it'll be here, but good luck finding it.
The only people with (mostly) curly hair are afro-american dudes, so that's why they get targeted.