Oh, I didn't realize Hawkeye was a member of Slashdot. I am sure with your superhuman abilities you were able to identify a white blob on an infrared night-vision camera as a child. It could have also been the following: paper plate, basketball, laser disc, bowl of hummus, block of C4, 155mm artillery shell, or a Mac G4.
It's not spin. It's called the Rules of Engagement. You have a problem with them, you should have voted. Otherwise, it is better to be judged by 12 (or a nation) than be carried by six in a casket.
Many people I was deployed with have been developing hypothyroidism and severe weight gain. Not a few pounds, but 50+ pounds which started after returning from Iraq. Even once they are on thyroid replacement medication, the weight gain still stays. Not trying to claim that my observations are statistically significant or are the de facto truth, but merely want to point out that breathing trash fumes 2-3 times a day for a year cannot be good for your health. And anyone who claims that is safe should buy their next house down-wind from an incinerator and see how they like it.
The CM video is a perfect example of playing Armchair General. The objects being carried by the "civilians" had the same profile as RPGs. Only from post-engagement analysis can you tell what they are. The video is a grainy night-vision camera from miles away. Nor can you identify the "children" in the video, they are literally small white blobs on the screen. If you watch the video, without preconceived notions, you can easily identify that it was legitimate engagement.
According to the Rules of Engagement from the 2006-2007 time frame, if any person from a crowd of group of people commit a hostile act or show hostile intent, the entire group is displaying hostile acts or hostile intent. In that crowd which was shot by the Apache, one person in the group was displaying hostile intent (carrying an RPG, which has so legitimate self-defense purpose) so therefore, can be engaged. If it was an AK-47, they would not have been able to engage. I know this because a farmer across from my guard tower would carry his AK everywhere and we were specifically told that carrying an AK was not hostile intent. If it was a PKM (machine gun), the group would also have been displaying hostile intent. Another group of people showed up and were in the field of fire. Therefore, they become part of that group and are showing hostile intent.
When you stop sipping on your latte's and get a dose of reality, the video is a legit engagement. Sorry for the innocent lives lost, but that is part of war. If you do not want to run that risk, then you should run away when you hear 30mm machine gun rounds land in your area, not drive towards the weapon fire.
I mostly blame the fact that my company is forced to buy standard Dell's which, despite being advertised to run Linux, have numerous driver and kernel issues that arise every time I apply updates. Every other kernel renders the system inoperable until I do some random work-around. The full size DVDs that I have ripped will take 30 minutes, while a Ubuntu 12.04 CD takes me about 10.
So without any technical details of the discs, you are going to make a grand total of 3 assumptions about how the physical hardware will be set up? Perhaps you should read my OP and notice that I said
I hope they have a plan to address the bandwidth limitation of these discs, and not just focus on "EHRMAGAWD BIG DISC!" for the consumer shock value.
Then you can go ahead and RTFA and notice that there was no announcement about the hardware at all. Again, this first article about these new optical discs is all about consumer shock value, not about the actual technical information surrounding the technology. I bet similar stories were made back in the 70s when LaserDisc came out. Lot of bang. No substance.
We all said the same thing about CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays when they first came out. Eventually the technology will be available for this to be a consumer device at an affordable price. While it is appealing to have a single disc for full system backups, it looses a lot of it's value if it runs at DVD drive speed. I could use a USB 3.0 external drive that is cheaper and faster.
You obviously do not understand I/O. My DVD drive is SATA 6 GB/s, but the disc cannot spin fast enough to be read at 6 GB/s. Hence the reason it takes 30 minutes to write/verify a disc. The bottleneck is not the interface, but the mechanical spin of the disc.
But what are they going to do about the I/O? It takes me about 20-30 minutes to write a single 5 GB DVD and verify the data on the disc. Now with a 300 GB disc, it will take me a full day to write a disc?
I hope they have a plan to address the bandwidth limitation of these discs, and not just focus on "EHRMAGAWD BIG DISC!" for the consumer shock value.
I have a feeling that your concept of "enabling" is closer to the concept of "The developer is always right". A good systems administrator will have a firewall running and only allow needed ports (i.e. 22, 80, 443). I have never seen e-mail inboxes limited to 1MB, I think you are either making that up or this is a story from 20 years ago. I would also imagine that your custom install scripts ignore recommended practices in terms of security, because you do not want to type in your 4-letter password each time you need to sudo. You probably have no firewall rules, and I bet that you put the/boot sector on a non-ext* partition, because RAIDs are "cool". Does your custom install script also install tools like tripwire and AV? Probably not, because it would be too much of a hassle. There are more ways to exchange files than I can count. In-house thumb drive, scp, sftp, shared network drive, etc. Why do you have to use e-mail, which generally includes absolute 0 security measures?
Everything you have described is a systems administrator task, and one worth his/her weight in salt would be able to do those in their sleep. Syslog will tell you the address of the DCHP server. Password management is in GUI form now. Bash is just a series of terminal commands.
Sounds like you need to hire some new systems administrators.
I give them virtual machines when they are using something specialized that may mess with other apps. However, most of my developers are running Java code or experimental scripts to parse/process large amounts of data. The Java devs have their own Java test server, and since Java apps are self-contained none of them actually need an independent server. The parse/process guys have their own environment with access to the RAID, and they can do whatever they want as long as they do not modify the original data.
And I have an overflow server that I use for my own parse/process experiments, and I let the developers that I like use it when they need to.
Just because it takes 30 minutes to compile your code once every 2 weeks doesn't mean you require a $15,000 server so it takes 10 minutes instead. Here's a thought, how about you write up your system requirements right the first time and I will be able to create a server environment (bare metal, VM, whatever) that can satisfy all your needs? If you need python 3.3, then tell me while I am building it, instead of sending me an "EHRMAGAWD" e-mail about how the world is going to end because you cannot run your brand new script that requires it, despite the fact that you have been writing the script for weeks and never bothered to tell me that it was in a version of python that I had not installed yet.
Telling the developers, for the 76732198435 time, that their application is not important enough to warrant it's own server, they do not need root access, and I cannot fix their personal laptop.
Fortunately for the American, government workers are overall inefficient and bad at their jobs. Therefore, I would safely assume that 65% of these data centers are "down for maintenance" and another 30% are experiencing "technical difficulties", meaning the 5% of data centers are actually storing anything.
But alas, not all is lost. Since these government workers at the data centers have little/nothing to do, they hang out on Slashdot.
You representative is probably a typical politician, so here's the list of dirt they have on him/her. - affair with interns - hiring prostitutes - taking bribes from government contractors - getting top donors cushy political appointments (like ambassadorships) - manipulating the Justice system to get friends out of jail - insider trading. While still not illegal, is morally wrong - etc.
This will never pass for one simple reason. The same people who have access to the information and can use these intimate details of someone's life for personal or political gain, are the same ones who are voting on the funding of the same program. Why would the government shut it down, when they can use this to blackmail anyone they want? If had access to all this information and was a sociopathic politician, I would NEVER give the program up.
Remember the Petraeus scandal? Do you really think it was a coincidence that 1 month after Benghazi, the CIA director is found out to be having an affair? The United States is entering a phase known as the post-constitutional republic, where the rule of law is disregarded by the people who are "more equal than others". The Rule of Law offers no protection, because the same people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones breaking the law.
Fortunately, the Founding Fathers gave the American People two amendments which are their best attempt at protecting the people from the post-constitutional republic. The 1st, allowing the people to speak about what is happening. And the 2nd, allowing people to defend themselves from a tyrannical government. Once the 1st and 2nd Amendment have been 100% usurped, it is time to start learning Chinese.
Somewhere in a top secret government research lab, nestled in the hills of Canada next to a hydroelectric power plant, lies an organization that is grafting adamantium to the spine of these poor shrews.
Even the government is not stupid enough to run multiple Exchange servers within the same intranet. They probably run a version of Exchange with some add-ons they bought from Microsoft to handle classification controls. Even with multiple Exchange servers, in order for e-mail to actually be sent between subnets, they need to be connected. NSA is 30,000+ people, so we're talking about a cloud (hate that word) environment for managing that many e-mails. Querying for data from the "cloud" is not complicated or difficult.
Plus let us consider how many of those 30,000+ people are not analysts or anything of the sort. Half of those are probably support staff, handling paperwork, budgets, crappy powerpoint presentations, etc. The only thing they have to hide is how little they actually do at work.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, I didn't realize Hawkeye was a member of Slashdot. I am sure with your superhuman abilities you were able to identify a white blob on an infrared night-vision camera as a child. It could have also been the following: paper plate, basketball, laser disc, bowl of hummus, block of C4, 155mm artillery shell, or a Mac G4.
It's not spin. It's called the Rules of Engagement. You have a problem with them, you should have voted. Otherwise, it is better to be judged by 12 (or a nation) than be carried by six in a casket.
Anecdotal evidence only:
Many people I was deployed with have been developing hypothyroidism and severe weight gain. Not a few pounds, but 50+ pounds which started after returning from Iraq. Even once they are on thyroid replacement medication, the weight gain still stays. Not trying to claim that my observations are statistically significant or are the de facto truth, but merely want to point out that breathing trash fumes 2-3 times a day for a year cannot be good for your health. And anyone who claims that is safe should buy their next house down-wind from an incinerator and see how they like it.
The CM video is a perfect example of playing Armchair General. The objects being carried by the "civilians" had the same profile as RPGs. Only from post-engagement analysis can you tell what they are. The video is a grainy night-vision camera from miles away. Nor can you identify the "children" in the video, they are literally small white blobs on the screen. If you watch the video, without preconceived notions, you can easily identify that it was legitimate engagement.
According to the Rules of Engagement from the 2006-2007 time frame, if any person from a crowd of group of people commit a hostile act or show hostile intent, the entire group is displaying hostile acts or hostile intent. In that crowd which was shot by the Apache, one person in the group was displaying hostile intent (carrying an RPG, which has so legitimate self-defense purpose) so therefore, can be engaged. If it was an AK-47, they would not have been able to engage. I know this because a farmer across from my guard tower would carry his AK everywhere and we were specifically told that carrying an AK was not hostile intent. If it was a PKM (machine gun), the group would also have been displaying hostile intent. Another group of people showed up and were in the field of fire. Therefore, they become part of that group and are showing hostile intent.
When you stop sipping on your latte's and get a dose of reality, the video is a legit engagement. Sorry for the innocent lives lost, but that is part of war. If you do not want to run that risk, then you should run away when you hear 30mm machine gun rounds land in your area, not drive towards the weapon fire.
Did you check Snowden's laptop?
$i = 0
while $i = 0
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker"
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"
'Nuff Said
I mostly blame the fact that my company is forced to buy standard Dell's which, despite being advertised to run Linux, have numerous driver and kernel issues that arise every time I apply updates. Every other kernel renders the system inoperable until I do some random work-around. The full size DVDs that I have ripped will take 30 minutes, while a Ubuntu 12.04 CD takes me about 10.
So without any technical details of the discs, you are going to make a grand total of 3 assumptions about how the physical hardware will be set up? Perhaps you should read my OP and notice that I said
I hope they have a plan to address the bandwidth limitation of these discs, and not just focus on "EHRMAGAWD BIG DISC!" for the consumer shock value.
Then you can go ahead and RTFA and notice that there was no announcement about the hardware at all. Again, this first article about these new optical discs is all about consumer shock value, not about the actual technical information surrounding the technology. I bet similar stories were made back in the 70s when LaserDisc came out. Lot of bang. No substance.
You are correct. Even so, 6 Gb/s is much faster than the mechanical write speed of a drive.
We all said the same thing about CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays when they first came out. Eventually the technology will be available for this to be a consumer device at an affordable price. While it is appealing to have a single disc for full system backups, it looses a lot of it's value if it runs at DVD drive speed. I could use a USB 3.0 external drive that is cheaper and faster.
You obviously do not understand I/O. My DVD drive is SATA 6 GB/s, but the disc cannot spin fast enough to be read at 6 GB/s. Hence the reason it takes 30 minutes to write/verify a disc. The bottleneck is not the interface, but the mechanical spin of the disc.
But what are they going to do about the I/O? It takes me about 20-30 minutes to write a single 5 GB DVD and verify the data on the disc. Now with a 300 GB disc, it will take me a full day to write a disc?
I hope they have a plan to address the bandwidth limitation of these discs, and not just focus on "EHRMAGAWD BIG DISC!" for the consumer shock value.
I have a feeling that your concept of "enabling" is closer to the concept of "The developer is always right". A good systems administrator will have a firewall running and only allow needed ports (i.e. 22, 80, 443). I have never seen e-mail inboxes limited to 1MB, I think you are either making that up or this is a story from 20 years ago. I would also imagine that your custom install scripts ignore recommended practices in terms of security, because you do not want to type in your 4-letter password each time you need to sudo. You probably have no firewall rules, and I bet that you put the /boot sector on a non-ext* partition, because RAIDs are "cool". Does your custom install script also install tools like tripwire and AV? Probably not, because it would be too much of a hassle. There are more ways to exchange files than I can count. In-house thumb drive, scp, sftp, shared network drive, etc. Why do you have to use e-mail, which generally includes absolute 0 security measures?
Everything you have described is a systems administrator task, and one worth his/her weight in salt would be able to do those in their sleep. Syslog will tell you the address of the DCHP server. Password management is in GUI form now. Bash is just a series of terminal commands.
Sounds like you need to hire some new systems administrators.
I give them virtual machines when they are using something specialized that may mess with other apps. However, most of my developers are running Java code or experimental scripts to parse/process large amounts of data. The Java devs have their own Java test server, and since Java apps are self-contained none of them actually need an independent server. The parse/process guys have their own environment with access to the RAID, and they can do whatever they want as long as they do not modify the original data.
And I have an overflow server that I use for my own parse/process experiments, and I let the developers that I like use it when they need to.
I've got to tell you JonBoy, I've tried products like these before, paid a pretty penny. And if these $1-2K/year servers work, I'll order a dozen!
Just because it takes 30 minutes to compile your code once every 2 weeks doesn't mean you require a $15,000 server so it takes 10 minutes instead. Here's a thought, how about you write up your system requirements right the first time and I will be able to create a server environment (bare metal, VM, whatever) that can satisfy all your needs? If you need python 3.3, then tell me while I am building it, instead of sending me an "EHRMAGAWD" e-mail about how the world is going to end because you cannot run your brand new script that requires it, despite the fact that you have been writing the script for weeks and never bothered to tell me that it was in a version of python that I had not installed yet.
- Root
Telling the developers, for the 76732198435 time, that their application is not important enough to warrant it's own server, they do not need root access, and I cannot fix their personal laptop.
Fortunately for the American, government workers are overall inefficient and bad at their jobs. Therefore, I would safely assume that 65% of these data centers are "down for maintenance" and another 30% are experiencing "technical difficulties", meaning the 5% of data centers are actually storing anything.
But alas, not all is lost. Since these government workers at the data centers have little/nothing to do, they hang out on Slashdot.
You representative is probably a typical politician, so here's the list of dirt they have on him/her.
- affair with interns
- hiring prostitutes
- taking bribes from government contractors
- getting top donors cushy political appointments (like ambassadorships)
- manipulating the Justice system to get friends out of jail
- insider trading. While still not illegal, is morally wrong
- etc.
This will never pass for one simple reason. The same people who have access to the information and can use these intimate details of someone's life for personal or political gain, are the same ones who are voting on the funding of the same program. Why would the government shut it down, when they can use this to blackmail anyone they want? If had access to all this information and was a sociopathic politician, I would NEVER give the program up.
Remember the Petraeus scandal? Do you really think it was a coincidence that 1 month after Benghazi, the CIA director is found out to be having an affair? The United States is entering a phase known as the post-constitutional republic, where the rule of law is disregarded by the people who are "more equal than others". The Rule of Law offers no protection, because the same people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones breaking the law.
Fortunately, the Founding Fathers gave the American People two amendments which are their best attempt at protecting the people from the post-constitutional republic. The 1st, allowing the people to speak about what is happening. And the 2nd, allowing people to defend themselves from a tyrannical government. Once the 1st and 2nd Amendment have been 100% usurped, it is time to start learning Chinese.
We're talking about the NSA. Half of the probably play Klingon Boggle at lunch.
Somewhere in a top secret government research lab, nestled in the hills of Canada next to a hydroelectric power plant, lies an organization that is grafting adamantium to the spine of these poor shrews.
Disassemble? No disassemble Johnny 5!
Even the government is not stupid enough to run multiple Exchange servers within the same intranet. They probably run a version of Exchange with some add-ons they bought from Microsoft to handle classification controls. Even with multiple Exchange servers, in order for e-mail to actually be sent between subnets, they need to be connected. NSA is 30,000+ people, so we're talking about a cloud (hate that word) environment for managing that many e-mails. Querying for data from the "cloud" is not complicated or difficult.
Plus let us consider how many of those 30,000+ people are not analysts or anything of the sort. Half of those are probably support staff, handling paperwork, budgets, crappy powerpoint presentations, etc. The only thing they have to hide is how little they actually do at work.
Perfect example of "do as I say, not as I do". But this isn't just a NSA problem, it is a government problem.