The Army, (and other services), also use.com,.org and.biz domains. The actual Family & MWR Command site is armymwr.com. This is primarily done so that soldiers, sailors, etc. can reach the, (commercially hosted), sites from home computers. Lots of.mil and.gov domains restrict huge chunks of the Internet from accessing anything.
It appears to be a super sized version of the system used in the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days. The astronauts are already in the "escape capsule". Three rocket motors lift the capsule to an altitude that will allow safe parachute deployment. Capsule and contents drift down and land more or less safely.
I'll second that. Cut my electronic teeth in my grandfather's radio/TV shop. Tube testers, Signal Generators and tracers, and ocilliscopes. No DVMs 'tho - just a Simpson 260 VOM and a Heath VTVM. I'm dating myself but we also used soldering irons that looked like pistols, weighed a couple of pounds, and drew 100W. Anyone remember when a vibrator was part of a power supply, (rather than a sexual gratification device)?
I wonder how many people still have the skills to set mixture and balance on SU carburetors? Then again - how many actually have a "Color Tune" to help them do it.)
It's just one of the ways we in the USA celebrate the British ancestry of our legal system and moral values. On both sides of the Atlantic we dress up 8 year old girls to look like Hollywood hookers. We then pretend that 16 year old girls are children...
TrueCrypt can protect you in both of these scenarios. After setting up the encrypted volume:
1. Set an administrative passphrase/key. 2. Make volume header backup. (Must be stored/protected as you would a safe combination.) 3. Have end user set personal passphrase. (Creates a new volume header)
If the user passphrase is lost or stolen the volume can be recovered by restoring the "admin" volume header. No ransom payment to bad guys required. (Applying clue stick to user is optional.)
This does add the potential risk of someone stealing the "admin" header backups. Storing the headers in a locked container in the company safe or an off-site bank vault will bring this risk down to reasonable levels. (Storing them on a CD on someone's desk will not!)
I was beginning to wonder if this was going to come around to the subject at hand, (it did). At any rate, it is a truly great comment on the State of the union!
Agree. Obviously there are not very many Slashdotters who have worked in security or conducted interviews/interrogations. You can frequently learn more from what a person does than what he or she is actually saying. Very hard to quantify, certainly not admissible as evidence, but very useful in determining lines of questioning or whether you should even be wasting your time talking to a given subject. Like a polygraph - it never proves guilt or innocence. A combination of training, experience, and common sense is required. ( So I hope it will not be conducted by some newbie, minimum wage bag inspector.)
Although the primary interest is Terrists this procedure can also be used to weed out Assorted Annoying People. Aggressive and drunken Englishmen, Texans and fashion models come to mind.
Also important to remember -- this is not an arrest/trial/sentence. It is a tool that can be used to steer your resources towards persons that may be of interest. This should mean less time and effort devoted to Security Theater.
Special CFLs that can be dimmed with normal dimmer switches are available, (Westinghouse for sure - likely others). You can also buy dimmer packs that can be used to control any CFL. Check Google or you local Home Depot etc. Regular CFL+regular dimmer switch may work/not work/fail spectacularly.
Interesting. No scientific testing - just change printers a lot. The worst performance I have seen was an Epson 850 with Epson ink on Epson paper. Prints that were exposed to office light were notably faded within 6 months. Same prints were reduced to greenish yellow shapes within one year. Had some older Canon BJC 6xx prints in the same location that still looked good, (not perfect) after 2 years in the same conditions.
Cadbury's was one of the companies that successfully fought proposed European Union regulations concerning contents of "Chocolate". One of the biggest issues was that Cadbury's, (and others in Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Finland), substitute vegetable oils for cocoa butter.
Guess this is one of those lessons that has to be relearned every now and then. In the early 1960s a project to dispose of liquid wastes, (from Rocky Mountain Arsenal), by pumping them into deep drill holes caused a large number of earthquakes in the Denver, CO area. In 2004 a similar process was used to dispose of brine from a desalinization plant. A number of minor earthquakes quickly followed. Would guess that some Googling will reveal other incidents.
General opinion is that the injected fluids lubricate surfaces along shear planes in the fault line. Wonder if this could actually be put to good use, (many minor earthquakes as opposed to the Big One), in areas prone to big, infrequent quakes.
Interesting idea which probably works as well as anything discussed in this thread. Steel is by far the best example of recycling that works.
I have always wondered about the possibility of treating electronics waste as a low grade ore. Shred/grind everything - then use, (mostly existing), separation and refining techniques to recover both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Ideally you would wind up with an assortment of metals, slag, and large pile of plastic and related waste. Two of the three have significant market value. Unfortunately no one has yet come up with reasonable used for used mixed plastics.
Probably not economically possible now. However, the value of the trace and precious metal component will always increase. Lots of past examples where material considered as waste by one generation or process became the raw material of the next.
Reflectivity was one of the big issues when we were facing "The Coming Ice Age" during the 1970s. General concept was that as forests, (low reflectivity),were replaced with man made structures, (higher reflectivity), the earth was going to cool significantly. This cooling could then, (at higher latitudes/altitudes), be compounded by snowfall -- which raises reflectivity yet again. This causes an additional temperature drop... The result would be a new, cooler climate would degrade pretty much everything from agriculture to sea routes.
Maybe we could just replace some forests with trailer parks. The aluminum painted roofs should increase albedo. A side benefit would be lots of low cost housing...
Item 5 is seldom discussed but significant. Of course it also applies to any machine readable, "easier to use", identification document. Security personnel get used to swiping the card, hearing a "happy sound", and handing the document back. Actual comparison of the individual and the photo is cursory at best. This one is fresh in my mind as one of our techs who has moved on to bigger and better things came back for a visit. He repeatedly passed through security using his girlfriend's ID Card. (2D barcode rather than RFID. Results would be the same.)
Was thinking the same thing as I read the article. Might really suck if the control software was plagued with the low battery voltage issues of the early Segways 'tho.
Not surprising. I lived in the Peoples Republic of Maryland back in the 80s. I can remember at least one state level election that included uniformed state troopers handing out "information" in the polling places. Of course this information happened to support the governor's, (Schaeffer), position on several issues. Maybe Diebold can adjust the electorate without having to pay overtime to the police.
Well stated. All of those reasons are why it is actually quite easy to predict when the last barrel of petroleum will be produced. (Answer: The day that no one will pay the cost of producing it.)
Not even a very good rhetorical question as the article refers to studying cracks in a given material. The levee failures in New Orleans were very probably not caused by a failure of a single element. Bending loads and the ability to resist them in systems made up of steel, concrete, and compacted earth are considerably more complex than propagation of a crack through a single material. Water movement and the undermining of foundations complicate thigs further by adding some dynamic loading to what are generally considered fixed structures. The research may be useful for elements of aircraft, bridge , or even building design. I would still hope that a BIG safety factor be applied to any levee system. (Obviously the folks that did N.O. do not agree with me.)
Agree that ABS can be more effective in most situations. Problem is, after many years of training and experience one's foot tends to release pressure or start to pump as soon as the brake pedal starts feeling all light and funny - which is the general feeling in most cars when the ABS starts to fire. I would not be surprised if my stopping distances were actually longer due to the "fighting" with my right foot's reflex.
That was the best answer yet. Motorcycles have two fairly small, oval-shaped contact patches connecting their tires to the road. As someone else has mentioned, they generate cornering force by camber change, (which requires a round profile).
Cars have four much larger tires. They, (ideally), stay square to the road and therefore can be made with a tread that is quite wide in relation to the size of the tire. In short more contact area == more force can be applied. (Yes the coefficient of friction and the force applied to the tire matter as well but those would lead to an excessivly long comment.)
On the other hand, even street motorcycles have amazing power to weight ratios. This can give them a good edge in acceleration. The limitations imposed by contact patch still apply but a good rider can accelrate like the proverbial scalded cat.
Almost forgot -- In a gravity based event the real enemy is going to be air resistance. I'd put my money on the two wheeler as it probably has a smaller cross section.
I have worked with the same locking system that Doubletree uses. This story is BS. There is nothing but instructions for the lock -- hotel#, card#, room#, card type, (normally Guest but can also be Housekeeping, Manager, Emergency etc.), valid from time/date, valid to time/date. I am also not sure why CBI would be quoting an Pasedena police Sergeant.
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The Army, (and other services), also use .com, .org and .biz domains. The actual Family & MWR Command site is armymwr.com. This is primarily done so that soldiers, sailors, etc. can reach the, (commercially hosted), sites from home computers. Lots of .mil and .gov domains restrict huge chunks of the Internet from accessing anything.
It appears to be a super sized version of the system used in the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days. The astronauts are already in the "escape capsule". Three rocket motors lift the capsule to an altitude that will allow safe parachute deployment. Capsule and contents drift down and land more or less safely.
As soon as I heard him say "holistic" I hit the back button. Learned a long time ago the term holistic us usually a codeword for inane bullshit.
I'll second that. Cut my electronic teeth in my grandfather's radio/TV shop. Tube testers, Signal Generators and tracers, and ocilliscopes. No DVMs 'tho - just a Simpson 260 VOM and a Heath VTVM. I'm dating myself but we also used soldering irons that looked like pistols, weighed a couple of pounds, and drew 100W. Anyone remember when a vibrator was part of a power supply, (rather than a sexual gratification device)?
I wonder how many people still have the skills to set mixture and balance on SU carburetors? Then again - how many actually have a "Color Tune" to help them do it.)
It's just one of the ways we in the USA celebrate the British ancestry of our legal system and moral values. On both sides of the Atlantic we dress up 8 year old girls to look like Hollywood hookers. We then pretend that 16 year old girls are children...
TrueCrypt can protect you in both of these scenarios. After setting up the encrypted volume:
1. Set an administrative passphrase/key.
2. Make volume header backup. (Must be stored/protected as you would a safe combination.)
3. Have end user set personal passphrase. (Creates a new volume header)
If the user passphrase is lost or stolen the volume can be recovered by restoring the "admin" volume header. No ransom payment to bad guys required. (Applying clue stick to user is optional.)
This does add the potential risk of someone stealing the "admin" header backups. Storing the headers in a locked container in the company safe or an off-site bank vault will bring this risk down to reasonable levels. (Storing them on a CD on someone's desk will not!)
I was beginning to wonder if this was going to come around to the subject at hand, (it did). At any rate, it is a truly great comment on the State of the union!
I may not agree with each and every facet of your platform. However -- you have my vote!
Agree. Obviously there are not very many Slashdotters who have worked in security or conducted interviews/interrogations. You can frequently learn more from what a person does than what he or she is actually saying. Very hard to quantify, certainly not admissible as evidence, but very useful in determining lines of questioning or whether you should even be wasting your time talking to a given subject. Like a polygraph - it never proves guilt or innocence. A combination of training, experience, and common sense is required. ( So I hope it will not be conducted by some newbie, minimum wage bag inspector.)
Although the primary interest is Terrists this procedure can also be used to weed out Assorted Annoying People. Aggressive and drunken Englishmen, Texans and fashion models come to mind.
Also important to remember -- this is not an arrest/trial/sentence. It is a tool that can be used to steer your resources towards persons that may be of interest. This should mean less time and effort devoted to Security Theater.
Special CFLs that can be dimmed with normal dimmer switches are available, (Westinghouse for sure - likely others). You can also buy dimmer packs that can be used to control any CFL. Check Google or you local Home Depot etc. Regular CFL+regular dimmer switch may work/not work/fail spectacularly.
Interesting. No scientific testing - just change printers a lot. The worst performance I have seen was an Epson 850 with Epson ink on Epson paper. Prints that were exposed to office light were notably faded within 6 months. Same prints were reduced to greenish yellow shapes within one year. Had some older Canon BJC 6xx prints in the same location that still looked good, (not perfect) after 2 years in the same conditions.
Cadbury's was one of the companies that successfully fought proposed European Union regulations concerning contents of "Chocolate". One of the biggest issues was that Cadbury's, (and others in Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Finland), substitute vegetable oils for cocoa butter.
Guess this is one of those lessons that has to be relearned every now and then. In the early 1960s a project to dispose of liquid wastes, (from Rocky Mountain Arsenal), by pumping them into deep drill holes caused a large number of earthquakes in the Denver, CO area. In 2004 a similar process was used to dispose of brine from a desalinization plant. A number of minor earthquakes quickly followed. Would guess that some Googling will reveal other incidents.
General opinion is that the injected fluids lubricate surfaces along shear planes in the fault line. Wonder if this could actually be put to good use, (many minor earthquakes as opposed to the Big One), in areas prone to big, infrequent quakes.
Interesting idea which probably works as well as anything discussed in this thread. Steel is by far the best example of recycling that works.
I have always wondered about the possibility of treating electronics waste as a low grade ore. Shred/grind everything - then use, (mostly existing), separation and refining techniques to recover both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Ideally you would wind up with an assortment of metals, slag, and large pile of plastic and related waste. Two of the three have significant market value. Unfortunately no one has yet come up with reasonable used for used mixed plastics.
Probably not economically possible now. However, the value of the trace and precious metal component will always increase. Lots of past examples where material considered as waste by one generation or process became the raw material of the next.
Reflectivity was one of the big issues when we were facing "The Coming Ice Age" during the 1970s. General concept was that as forests, (low reflectivity),were replaced with man made structures, (higher reflectivity), the earth was going to cool significantly. This cooling could then, (at higher latitudes/altitudes), be compounded by snowfall -- which raises reflectivity yet again. This causes an additional temperature drop... The result would be a new, cooler climate would degrade pretty much everything from agriculture to sea routes.
Maybe we could just replace some forests with trailer parks. The aluminum painted roofs should increase albedo. A side benefit would be lots of low cost housing...
Item 5 is seldom discussed but significant. Of course it also applies to any machine readable, "easier to use", identification document. Security personnel get used to swiping the card, hearing a "happy sound", and handing the document back. Actual comparison of the individual and the photo is cursory at best. This one is fresh in my mind as one of our techs who has moved on to bigger and better things came back for a visit. He repeatedly passed through security using his girlfriend's ID Card. (2D barcode rather than RFID. Results would be the same.)
Was thinking the same thing as I read the article. Might really suck if the control software was plagued with the low battery voltage issues of the early Segways 'tho.
Not surprising. I lived in the Peoples Republic of Maryland back in the 80s. I can remember at least one state level election that included uniformed state troopers handing out "information" in the polling places. Of course this information happened to support the governor's, (Schaeffer), position on several issues. Maybe Diebold can adjust the electorate without having to pay overtime to the police.
Well stated. All of those reasons are why it is actually quite easy to predict when the last barrel of petroleum will be produced. (Answer: The day that no one will pay the cost of producing it.)
Not even a very good rhetorical question as the article refers to studying cracks in a given material. The levee failures in New Orleans were very probably not caused by a failure of a single element. Bending loads and the ability to resist them in systems made up of steel, concrete, and compacted earth are considerably more complex than propagation of a crack through a single material. Water movement and the undermining of foundations complicate thigs further by adding some dynamic loading to what are generally considered fixed structures. The research may be useful for elements of aircraft, bridge , or even building design. I would still hope that a BIG safety factor be applied to any levee system. (Obviously the folks that did N.O. do not agree with me.)
Agree that ABS can be more effective in most situations. Problem is, after many years of training and experience one's foot tends to release pressure or start to pump as soon as the brake pedal starts feeling all light and funny - which is the general feeling in most cars when the ABS starts to fire. I would not be surprised if my stopping distances were actually longer due to the "fighting" with my right foot's reflex.
That was the best answer yet. Motorcycles have two fairly small, oval-shaped contact patches connecting their tires to the road. As someone else has mentioned, they generate cornering force by camber change, (which requires a round profile).
Cars have four much larger tires. They, (ideally), stay square to the road and therefore can be made with a tread that is quite wide in relation to the size of the tire. In short more contact area == more force can be applied. (Yes the coefficient of friction and the force applied to the tire matter as well but those would lead to an excessivly long comment.)
On the other hand, even street motorcycles have amazing power to weight ratios. This can give them a good edge in acceleration. The limitations imposed by contact patch still apply but a good rider can accelrate like the proverbial scalded cat.
Almost forgot -- In a gravity based event the real enemy is going to be air resistance. I'd put my money on the two wheeler as it probably has a smaller cross section.
The objective science...http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
I have worked with the same locking system that Doubletree uses. This story is BS. There is nothing but instructions for the lock -- hotel#, card#, room#, card type, (normally Guest but can also be Housekeeping, Manager, Emergency etc.), valid from time/date, valid to time/date. I am also not sure why CBI would be quoting an Pasedena police Sergeant.