Napolitano is heading out there to ensure that the Sharknado does not come to pass. She's going to take flying lessons so she can hover a helicopter 50 feet away from the up-coming EF4 tornado and "blow it up".
Simple answer, yes. Complex answer, sometimes the project managers want a hip and cool project name so they try to come up with a generic term for their project that is similar to what the project does. The project name has to go through a CAO (classification advisory officer), of which there are 20-25 at any given time. They are always people in positions that can be named to the public, so any name of an individual on the NSA website is a CAO. Like the Director of the NSA or the division chiefs. The CAO determines whether or not the project name gives away too much information about the details of the project.
In all reality, all of those project code names are probably one specific type of information that just came from different sources. Pinwale is e-mails. So one of them is a database of foreign HF intercepts, another is a database of foreign-bound cell phones, one is a database of every phone call made by political opponents of the administration, etc.
Project code names are not classified, ever. Every project has a unclassified code name like any of the above which can be used for things like budgeting and frankly, resumes. A guy I know tried to get "FLUFFY BUNNY" approved as a code name, but they denied it. The easy way to tell, is that unclassified code names are single words chosen by a random computer word generator, and the classified code names are always 2 words, chosen again by a random computer word generator.
While this may be interesting, the reality of the Fort Meade area is that any job in intelligence, analysis, or IT with a location of Fort Meade or Annapolis Junction, MD is a NSA job. Some of them even post on Craigslist and one time, I had a Facebook add pop up that said "Want an NSA Clearance?" (not a typo, the company messed up their grammar).
The system you describe is used by many intelligence agencies and is also known as a one-time pad. However, those are only used for the most sensitive of information. My guess would be that these typewriters are not meant to replace one-time pads, but are being used so that when someone needs to write a report (say a report on the Russian intelligence gathering from Yahoo.ru, Google.ru, etc.) that they can only present the information on paper with no electronic record that can be stolen by a low-level contractor working as an analyst.
I was driving by Fort Meade today and I heard a collective scream of "PUUUUUTTTTTIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!" coming from the NSA headquarters. Every single PRISM employee screamed in agony.
I knew those 569 acres of land on the Arizona/California border would gain some value. Just didn't think it would happen so soon. Anyone want to buy my new ocean-front property?
The movie apparently doesn't have Ender killing Bonzo because they didn't want to show youth violence or bullying.
Locke and Demontheses are completely cut out of the story.
OSC political views are something I do not care about. But Ender killing Bonzo was Ender's turning point, and Locke and Demontheses were full of intellectual irony. The pacifist rallying the troops and the sociopath calling for peace. That may make me skip the movie.
What was juvenile about a world government that was formed on the idea that elected leaders should have to serve their government as soldiers in order to gain the full rights of citizens? Starship Troopers was based on the idea that the politicians sending young men to war should have been young men going into war themselves. Nobody understands how terrible a thing war is unless they have lived it themselves. That idea is hardly juvenile.
Your comment is too insightful for a Slashdot moderator to actually give it points. You have reached critical mass for insightfulness, therefore your comment will be modded down, to prevent the implosion of the website.
Different Maryland counties have a different amount. The county I live in has decided they are morally opposed to the law, and are charging $.01 per property. However, the county has to figure out how to come up with $100 million to pay for "stormwater improvements". Other counties used satellite imagery to decide what is a non-permeable surface (asphalt, roof, etc.) and charge their residents by square footage. Your average mall is going to see a few million dollar surcharge per year.
Carthage was on the ocean, so I would imagine salt was in abundance.
But despite that, you are correct in your assessment. The whole "salting of the Earth" was decided to be hyperbole, but it did make for a funny reference.
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Napolitano is heading out there to ensure that the Sharknado does not come to pass. She's going to take flying lessons so she can hover a helicopter 50 feet away from the up-coming EF4 tornado and "blow it up".
Some of these programs are OLD! Very old. Like 1970s old.
I really wasn't sure, grammar wise. All I knew is that some sub-contractor was so desperate for employees that they posted Facebook ads.
It was a pretty recent change. Happened after the whole 2005 wiretapping thingy.
Simple answer, yes. Complex answer, sometimes the project managers want a hip and cool project name so they try to come up with a generic term for their project that is similar to what the project does. The project name has to go through a CAO (classification advisory officer), of which there are 20-25 at any given time. They are always people in positions that can be named to the public, so any name of an individual on the NSA website is a CAO. Like the Director of the NSA or the division chiefs. The CAO determines whether or not the project name gives away too much information about the details of the project.
In all reality, all of those project code names are probably one specific type of information that just came from different sources. Pinwale is e-mails. So one of them is a database of foreign HF intercepts, another is a database of foreign-bound cell phones, one is a database of every phone call made by political opponents of the administration, etc.
Project code names are not classified, ever. Every project has a unclassified code name like any of the above which can be used for things like budgeting and frankly, resumes. A guy I know tried to get "FLUFFY BUNNY" approved as a code name, but they denied it. The easy way to tell, is that unclassified code names are single words chosen by a random computer word generator, and the classified code names are always 2 words, chosen again by a random computer word generator.
While this may be interesting, the reality of the Fort Meade area is that any job in intelligence, analysis, or IT with a location of Fort Meade or Annapolis Junction, MD is a NSA job. Some of them even post on Craigslist and one time, I had a Facebook add pop up that said "Want an NSA Clearance?" (not a typo, the company messed up their grammar).
Do you plan on releasing any/all of the Wave Glider code under any sort of open source or not-for-profit license?
The system you describe is used by many intelligence agencies and is also known as a one-time pad. However, those are only used for the most sensitive of information. My guess would be that these typewriters are not meant to replace one-time pads, but are being used so that when someone needs to write a report (say a report on the Russian intelligence gathering from Yahoo.ru, Google.ru, etc.) that they can only present the information on paper with no electronic record that can be stolen by a low-level contractor working as an analyst.
Can you tell me about the HOSTS file too?
I was driving by Fort Meade today and I heard a collective scream of "PUUUUUTTTTTIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!" coming from the NSA headquarters. Every single PRISM employee screamed in agony.
Did someone watch Death Race last night?
His compound is on the Moon. I am Condiment King! I knew you would ketchon to me soon.
My Minecraft home floats above the ocean. Does that count?
I knew those 569 acres of land on the Arizona/California border would gain some value. Just didn't think it would happen so soon. Anyone want to buy my new ocean-front property?
So racism and bigotry are OK as long as the racist/bigot author doesn't profit from anything they do?
The movie apparently doesn't have Ender killing Bonzo because they didn't want to show youth violence or bullying.
Locke and Demontheses are completely cut out of the story.
OSC political views are something I do not care about. But Ender killing Bonzo was Ender's turning point, and Locke and Demontheses were full of intellectual irony. The pacifist rallying the troops and the sociopath calling for peace. That may make me skip the movie.
What was juvenile about a world government that was formed on the idea that elected leaders should have to serve their government as soldiers in order to gain the full rights of citizens? Starship Troopers was based on the idea that the politicians sending young men to war should have been young men going into war themselves. Nobody understands how terrible a thing war is unless they have lived it themselves. That idea is hardly juvenile.
Your comment is too insightful for a Slashdot moderator to actually give it points. You have reached critical mass for insightfulness, therefore your comment will be modded down, to prevent the implosion of the website.
So racism and bigotry are OK as long as 51% of the population agrees with them? So pre-1900 authors get a free pass because "everyone" was racist?
Shouldn't racism and bigotry be wrong, no matter the time period in which they occurred?
No love for Asimov?
I could buy 10,000 ball point pens from Office Depot. Which do you think will last longer?
Different Maryland counties have a different amount. The county I live in has decided they are morally opposed to the law, and are charging $.01 per property. However, the county has to figure out how to come up with $100 million to pay for "stormwater improvements". Other counties used satellite imagery to decide what is a non-permeable surface (asphalt, roof, etc.) and charge their residents by square footage. Your average mall is going to see a few million dollar surcharge per year.
Carthage was on the ocean, so I would imagine salt was in abundance.
But despite that, you are correct in your assessment. The whole "salting of the Earth" was decided to be hyperbole, but it did make for a funny reference.
If I can be charged a tax on the rain that falls on my property (Maryland Rain Tax), then I can make jokes about how toxic salt is too.
Recycling wood batteries = BBQ