My son just got back from the Army's "unix school" and from a five minute talk with him the outlook is not good. He asked me why unix commands had so many options; which told me after eight weeks of training nobody explained unix pipes, everything is a file or that gnome even exists. The MS fanboys got the orders to teach unix, but they are killing it by teaching it in the most obtuse and difficult manner possible.
Reminds me of what they did to JINTACCS, which was a message format to allow inter-service communications very similar to XML from back arround 1993, I know you never heard of it and that's the way they wanted it.
The Army also has constitional constraints on its budget, Army project budgets have to be activly renewed wher Air Force and Navy usualy have to activly cancelled by congress.
I think the Air Force would be secretly relieved if those dog ass ugly A10s got transfer to the Army whose grunts who love them.
Actualy punch cards are very good for inventory control systems, they were only made obsolete by replacemennt with bar-codes and scanners. I rather suspect that the replacement with a "somewhat more modern inventory system" was effectively a step backwards a system is more than software and computers.
The Air Force has had specialised a unit for about twenty years that deals with cyberwarfare, at least the computer/network security aspects of cyberwarfare. Neither the technical capabilities nor institutional culture of the Air Force really lend themselves to this mission. Given the mega-tonnage of stratigic nuclear weapons in the Air Force invetory, the entire world hopes you are wrong about that.
If it's an Air Force only mission, I'd be surprised. The truth is I've known that the Air Force is the Head-Huncho in this area for quite a while like arround 1985. This has been in professional journals of the service's and military orientated newspapers like "Stars and Stripes". Just because this is a mission that's primarily Air Force doesn't mean that the other services have no capabilities in this area, after all the right to self-defense shall not be infringed.
don't start any applications yeah right, it takes my wife's WinXP longer to go from log-in screen to usable desktop than it takes to go from boot to login because of all the crap that gets installed into auto-start; cable-modem goes crazy!
LaTeX plus CVS; there are frontends to make cvs easier OpenOffice's new fileformat opendoc is xml based so integrating with cvs should be fairly easy (hint, hint any openoffice folks)
If you do away with the concept of 'files', the operating system then has to handle every possible type of document. The concept of 'files' is just an abstraction of the reality of your hard-disk which is a couple chains of linked lists of sectors, we can access it at an extremely low levels that disregards any data on it such as dd -if/dev/hda -of/dev/hdb or we can pile tons of metadata in it so we can see things like thumbnails in our filemanagers. Take a look at libFerris, they working on some very interesting stuff.
If you have an application that doesn't work with FILES then don't use a file menu. that would really weird out a lot of people, they'd never be able to find the exit button!
Not everything is a document, so not everything needs to be "saved" to a filesystem; a lot of applications have a File menu only because users have been conditioned to look there for "exit"
Actualy there are drugs out ther that cost $1,400.00 a day! These are typically orphan drugs and are for the treatment of rare diseases. Imagine going to bed and asking yourself "was this a $1400.00 day?" every night for the rest of your life.
I can beat that, I used to run poiuyt.com, you'd be amazed at how much spam and Email-newslettrs qwerty@poiuyt.com gets. Its also amazing how many sites you can log in as qwerty with poiuyt as a password.
There are states seriously considering not putting a person's address on their driver's licences, to stop the lose your wallet, get stalked and your home burglerized thing.
IANAL but as I understand it, if you have a legaly purchased LD or CD then your possession of a MP3 of the same music is a fair use, offering it to others isn't; time/media shifting and archival/working copies are fair use.
The other thing I wonder about is it's my understanding that Canada has a media-tax to cover loses due to sharing, would this DRM thing make the Lable inelligable for that money?
I'm not sure that cyberterrorism is possible, if terrorism is defined as an activity that causes mass-fear due to an attack; because most networks have been so hammered by attacks that its just business as usual. If they can demonstrate a concrete chain of events leading to a catastrophic physicl event maybe, but a lot of links in the chain routinely deign events so that would be hard. I predict if it happens the real resopnce will be more along the line of " with all of the DDOSs, worms and viruses they should have been ready" rather than "OMG the world's coming to an end"
I really don't like the way plasma's look, at least the way they are adjusted in stores. At one point I decided if I was ever going to buy one I'd have to make a VCD with gamma correction scales and a video shirley. Then I saw some projection LCDs and DLPs that didn't look to bad; but still the in-store picture adjustments are pretty pathetic, I'm amazed they can even sell the things.
considering that americium is a strong alpha emmiter in addition to emitting neutrons and gamma radiation, and has a half-life of 7370 years, that makes it about as toxic as the plutonium 241 it comes from via beta decay! Let the hysteria begin.
I guess i have a hard time considering any organism without metabolic activity as living, as far as killing a virus, I believe the proper term is inactivated,
I also don't eat 'table salt' since it's not really salt I suppose your one of those people who uses sea salt, extracted from our seas presently suffering from man-made pollution because it healthier than eating sea salt from a sea that existed a 100 million years before man was arround to make pollution.
There is no state legistature or city council in the entire continent that would be able to draft legislation banning cyclotrons without banning television CRTs unless they recieved massive help from academic and industrial experts. Hell I remember people making linear accellerators for high school science fair projects and I'm 52; mine was geneticaly modified radishes. Today some kids are make hydrogen fusion reactors in high school.
If he can get the instalation past the city building code inspectors and a pass radiation machine inspection from the alaskan public health dept.; they'd have a hard time stopping him.
if CO2 is a gas that's not usefull in making proteins carbohydrates and lipids, please feel free to explain to us why chlorophyllic plants use so much of it?
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My son just got back from the Army's "unix school" and from a five minute talk with him the outlook is not good. He asked me why unix commands had so many options; which told me after eight weeks of training nobody explained unix pipes, everything is a file or that gnome even exists. The MS fanboys got the orders to teach unix, but they are killing it by teaching it in the most obtuse and difficult manner possible.
Reminds me of what they did to JINTACCS, which was a message format to allow inter-service communications very similar to XML from back arround 1993, I know you never heard of it and that's the way they wanted it.
The Army also has constitional constraints on its budget, Army project budgets have to be activly renewed wher Air Force and Navy usualy have to activly cancelled by congress.
I think the Air Force would be secretly relieved if those dog ass ugly A10s got transfer to the Army whose grunts who love them.
Actualy punch cards are very good for inventory control systems, they were only made obsolete by replacemennt with bar-codes and scanners. I rather suspect that the replacement with a "somewhat more modern inventory system" was effectively a step backwards a system is more than software and computers.
The Air Force has had specialised a unit for about twenty years that deals with cyberwarfare, at least the computer/network security aspects of cyberwarfare.
Neither the technical capabilities nor institutional culture of the Air Force really lend themselves to this mission. Given the mega-tonnage of stratigic nuclear weapons in the Air Force invetory, the entire world hopes you are wrong about that.
If it's an Air Force only mission, I'd be surprised. The truth is I've known that the Air Force is the Head-Huncho in this area for quite a while like arround 1985. This has been in professional journals of the service's and military orientated newspapers like "Stars and Stripes". Just because this is a mission that's primarily Air Force doesn't mean that the other services have no capabilities in this area, after all the right to self-defense shall not be infringed.
don't start any applications
yeah right, it takes my wife's WinXP longer to go from log-in screen to usable desktop than it takes to go from boot to login because of all the crap that gets installed into auto-start; cable-modem goes crazy!
LaTeX plus CVS; there are frontends to make cvs easier
OpenOffice's new fileformat opendoc is xml based so integrating with cvs should be fairly easy (hint, hint any openoffice folks)
If you do away with the concept of 'files', the operating system then has to handle every possible type of document.
The concept of 'files' is just an abstraction of the reality of your hard-disk which is a couple chains of linked lists of sectors, we can access it at an extremely low levels that disregards any data on it such as dd -if/dev/hda -of/dev/hdb or we can pile tons of metadata in it so we can see things like thumbnails in our filemanagers. Take a look at libFerris, they working on some very interesting stuff.
If you have an application that doesn't work with FILES then don't use a file menu. that would really weird out a lot of people, they'd never be able to find the exit button!
Not everything is a document, so not everything needs to be "saved" to a filesystem; a lot of applications have a File menu only because users have been conditioned to look there for "exit"
Actualy there are drugs out ther that cost $1,400.00 a day! These are typically orphan drugs and are for the treatment of rare diseases. Imagine going to bed and asking yourself "was this a $1400.00 day?" every night for the rest of your life.
Why not take your cell phone off and get a 966 phone number instead? ;) It would probably pay for the PO Box.
I'm amazed the number is so low
I can beat that, I used to run poiuyt.com, you'd be amazed at how much spam and Email-newslettrs qwerty@poiuyt.com gets. Its also amazing how many sites you can log in as qwerty with poiuyt as a password.
There are states seriously considering not putting a person's address on their driver's licences, to stop the lose your wallet, get stalked and your home burglerized thing.
IANAL but as I understand it, if you have a legaly purchased LD or CD then your possession of a MP3 of the same music is a fair use, offering it to others isn't; time/media shifting and archival/working copies are fair use.
The other thing I wonder about is it's my understanding that Canada has a media-tax to cover loses due to sharing, would this DRM thing make the Lable inelligable for that money?
There is a lot to be said for some crazy stuff, like serving from a 33Mhz 486, kinda gives a feel for a normal server getting really hammered.
I'm not sure that cyberterrorism is possible, if terrorism is defined as an activity that causes mass-fear due to an attack; because most networks have been so hammered by attacks that its just business as usual. If they can demonstrate a concrete chain of events leading to a catastrophic physicl event maybe, but a lot of links in the chain routinely deign events so that would be hard. I predict if it happens the real resopnce will be more along the line of " with all of the DDOSs, worms and viruses they should have been ready" rather than "OMG the world's coming to an end"
I really don't like the way plasma's look, at least the way they are adjusted in stores. At one point I decided if I was ever going to buy one I'd have to make a VCD with gamma correction scales and a video shirley. Then I saw some projection LCDs and DLPs that didn't look to bad; but still the in-store picture adjustments are pretty pathetic, I'm amazed they can even sell the things.
considering that americium is a strong alpha emmiter in addition to emitting neutrons and gamma radiation, and has a half-life of 7370 years, that makes it about as toxic as the plutonium 241 it comes from via beta decay! Let the hysteria begin.
I guess i have a hard time considering any organism without metabolic activity as living, as far as killing a virus, I believe the proper term is inactivated,
I also don't eat 'table salt' since it's not really salt I suppose your one of those people who uses sea salt, extracted from our seas presently suffering from man-made pollution because it healthier than eating sea salt from a sea that existed a 100 million years before man was arround to make pollution.
There is no state legistature or city council in the entire continent that would be able to draft legislation banning cyclotrons without banning television CRTs unless they recieved massive help from academic and industrial experts. Hell I remember people making linear accellerators for high school science fair projects and I'm 52; mine was geneticaly modified radishes. Today some kids are make hydrogen fusion reactors in high school.
If he can get the instalation past the city building code inspectors and a pass radiation machine inspection from the alaskan public health dept.; they'd have a hard time stopping him.
if CO2 is a gas that's not usefull in making proteins carbohydrates and lipids, please feel free to explain to us why chlorophyllic plants use so much of it?