Try learning more modern stuff than whatever antiquated VoIP crap your company was using.
As an example, I was working with VoIP stuff 3 years ago with Cisco, T-Mobile and Level 3: we had a project that took a GSM signal, put it onto a local (in building only) network, and from there to VoIP and onto the Cisco Call Manager system. This allowed the cell phone to be your internal company phone extension while on campus, but automatically switch back when off campus. We faced many of the same problems you cited but all were solved by the end of the "beta" test.
Also we deployed a nation-wide softswitch infrastraucture that allowed us to hook Cisco VoIP phones at any point in the network and make toll-quality calls out from the main PBX back in Broomfield. This saved the company from having to drag a copper pair to each and every little regeneration site onthe fiber right of way, which is not an inconsiderable amount of cash when you figure the extent of Level 3's network.
Update your knowledge base. IP is starting to be picked up now that the private IP networks Like Level 3, Genuity, plus parts of AT&T and Sprint have worked out the problems. Draft Martini (Read the IETF documents) has been delivering standard phone services like ATM and FR over IP for a year. And Level 3, where I used to work, has had an all IP infrastructure for several years now, using the old XCom (Now VIPER) sofswitch. Want to know where those cheap long distance calling cards are coming from? They probably travel over Level 3's all IP network, converting at the edges on the softswitched architecture. And a good percentage of Worldcom/MCI long distance moves on Level 3's all IP network as well.
Secondly, the VoIP mentioned here is primarily in the backhaul, behind the CO switches (RTFA again!). For Inter and Intra-LATA carriage, VoIP is highly reliable, and much less expensive than the TDM stuff.
As for the "silence", RTFA. Seriously, they solved this one a long time ago with a little echo back on the reciever side, as well as "comfort noise" from the IP switch. This technique goes back several years.
Seriously, you need to learn more - and RTFA, because you are "mistaken about a great many thing"....
There are valid arguments against the US and its actions, but you did not come close to them with your ignorant, lie filled, slanted screed.
Give me a break. Just because you RANT it does not mean it is fact.
Here's just a couple of errors you make.
Freedom to assemble? No - try reading the source code: 1st Amendment:...the right of the people peaceably to assemble... And the ones that were not peaceably assembling were removed and arrested for breaking the law. Its called civil disobedience becuase you deliberately break the law, thus no longer "peacably" assemble (look for the legal context - peacable means "law abiding" in the case law)
Grandmothers hauled away by SWAT teams? Citation please. Were they breaking the law? And also, show me the SAWT teams - they are sledom if ever called out for demonstrations. So this is yet another one of your "points" that is just another hyperbolic lie from an obvious US Basher.
"Highest crime rates in the priveledged world" Wrong again. UK leads the world in occupied home burglaries, among other things. And just what is the "priveledged" world? Another transparent lie of yours despatched.
The US is a "Police State"? Pull the other one! Do you realize how stupid that is, prima facia - and deep down too? Were that so, Slashdot would not exist, nor would the ACLU or EFF, or the gun-nuts at the NRA (Police states hate armed populaces) or the loony "John Birch Society" for that matter. So, more non-factual hot air - just inflammatory language to try to draw peopel away fromthe fact that you have no real case here other than just venting a lot of anti-US emotion.
You want a future police state to worry about - one in which the people have already sheep-like comitted to giving their rights to unelected non-representative political masters, go look up what the EU are doing in Brussels. The powers the people of EU are givig the police and EU government there, socially and economically, are incredible, and enough to shackle them in chains within a generation. Even the Communist Party of the UK claims to to be a budding police state.
http://www.communist-party.org.uk/site/Archives/ Fe bruary_2003/European_Union_and_the_Police_/europea n_union_and_the_police_.html
Bashing the last election? Give me a break - thats old news and it proves the system works AS DESIGNED (Electoral votes). The local electors screwed up - even after all the recounts Bush was still ahead, and even after the FLa Supreme Court partisanly thwarted the election code, Bush was still ahead - and the Supreme Court overruled the bad decision from the FL court, just as it should have. Bad decision? Maybe - but the real mistake was by the locals in screwing up the ballots in a Democrat run district to the point where the vote counts were unreliable and obviously partisanly biased in favor of the Democrat. Furthermore, on a national basis, the election borke down to Gore winning the urban and coastal areas, and Bush won all the rest - even Gore's home state of Tennesse. Bush won 4:1 in terms of counties, and in terms of win a county = support, the population of the counties that voted pro-Bush was 143 million to Gore's 120 million. Similary, land area goes 6:1 for Bush excluding the Bush victory in Alaska.
So it was a close race, but to say Bush is not properly president is to perpatuate a bitter lie by those disappointed with Gore's poor candidacy.
For the Electoral Colleg - if we dont like it, we need to change it, just like we did with the Senatorial elections (and some of us are working on that instead of whining about it). And unlike the Chinese, with whom you speciously compare us, we DO have the option of changing our government without a Tienamen Square style massacre.
As for "growing up" - why don't you try to learn a few things and stop reciting things straight out of the Euro-marxist US Basher handbook, and start looking at results, overall free
CDMA is head and shoulders above - look at where the highspeed wireless is going - CDMA, not GSM. Plus CDMA is more efficient in its bandwidth usage than GSM. Remember GSM is still TDMA at its roots. So CDMA has better spectral efficiency.
Example: GSM provides 8 slots in a channel 200 kHz wide, while IS-136 provides 3 slots in a channel only 30 kHz wide. GSM therefore consumes 25 kHz per user, while IS-136 consumes only 10 kHz per user.
Plus you should take into account the terrain and desnity - Iraq probably is not all that population dense outside of Baghdad and Basra. CDMA really comes into its element when you are out in the countryside with few sites covering large expanses of land. Under these conditions CDMA provides extremely stable audio with few frame errors to mess things up. This is because Channel Pollution is almost non-existent in these situations. Under similar conditions TDMA suffers too readily from interference and it will often blank the audio. Many people who use CDMA systems in sparsely populated areas have given this technology extremely high marks.
Nex you should look at GPRS versus CDMA2000/1xRTT, and the costs to upgrade from these technologies to genuine 3G communications. Without going into the specifics, CDMA holds a slight advantage here as well.
So despite the obvious political motivations behind this decision, technologically speaking, it s actually a good decision to favor CDMA.
If you are looking for relief from an"fscked economy", then SCS will doom you. A vibrant economy requires a lot of varied crafters. Consider that to make a top notch item, per the designers, wil require the input of 6 crafters.
The number of crafters that are "free" (outside of a PA that supports them by making a "production chain" and consumes 100% of the input) on a server will be miniscule. Your player economy will be nothing because far more people will use their one and ONLY slot to be an adventurous character, not a factory worker or a retail clerk.
This leads me to believe that someone in Marketing is driving this decision in order to ensure multple sales of accounts to individuals - more boxes sold = higher profits that will offset the loss of revenues due to disillusioned SCS players quitting/
As big and heavy as the Newton is (compared to a Palm or iPaq or Zarus), and as small and light as PC laptops are becoming, whats the difference between the two other than the former being obsolescent and the latter being more flexible in terms of hardware vendors (c.f. latest Apple jackboot of non-apple DVD players and its software).
The weight and size of the Newton is a factor. Or did I mistake the slant of the article, and this is more of a nostalgia item, like rehabbing my old Amiga?
because it's illegal for the NSA to spy on Americans doesn't mean they don't...
Having worked there, I can tell you this: intercepting a US person is a SERIOUS infraction. Its not something you can do without running afoul of a lot of laws. The abuse done by the NSA during the Nixon years caused a lot of severe curbs (both open and classified) to be placed on the NSA, and those laws have serious teeth that will bite anyone violating them. As with the armed forces, there are a lot of very liberty minded folks working there to preserve your freedoms at the cost of their own. One example is that free speech is very limited once you hold certain accesses and clearances.
IMHO, you're in more danger from those folks at the FBI.
You really ought to do a seach on "USSID 18". I cant say anything confirming or denying, but there are some very interesting things that have been declassified out of Big Daddy DIRNSA's pockets.
Secondarily, its NSA/CSS. Ever hear of the CSS side of the house? I suggest you look it up before posting obvious biased off-base stuff thats based on a hokey movie [sneakers].
Panel your interior with this stuff. It'll be crap for getting cell calls in the house, but hell for anyonetrying to get your data short of tapping your net feed. And mount an exterior antenna (something liek a cheapo repeater) to "pipe in" the signals you want. A real RF Firewall. Heh.
Go read the redacted USSID (United States Signals Intelligence Directive) covering this issue USSID 18, Dept Of Defense Order 5240.1-R as operant at the NSA. Its missing chunks, but a lot fo the important stuff is there for you to look at. These documents(USSIDS) are the legal basis for all operations of the NSA. As an employee of the NSA or a military analyst assigned ther, you obey these things or get put in jail.
For instance, Exec. Order No. 12333, 3 C.F.R. 200 (1982), The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C., and the executive orders founding the NSA and the post-Nixon limits on what can be done with intercepts of "US Persons" no matter where they are talking.
The relevant portion of the laws state:
A deference to U.S. persons' rights by closely regulating the conduct of electronic surveillance that either targets U.S. persons or may result in the acquisition of information to, from, or about U.S. persons. For example, in order to conduct electronic surveillance against a U.S. person located within the United States, FISA requires the intelligence agency to obtain a court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. If the United States person is abroad, the Executive Order requires that the Attorney General approve such surveillance. In both instances, generally speaking there must be probable cause that the target is an agent of a foreign power. In addition, the information sought by the surveillance must be foreign intelligence that cannot be obtained by other less intrusive collection techniques. Furthermore, even if a U.S. person is not the target, all foreign intelligence electronic surveillance must be conducted in a manner that minimizes the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of information about unconsenting U.S. persons.
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I worked there over a decade ago as a cryptanalyst, and it was deadly serious business if you intercepted a US person, even by accident. Reports were written, and people were debriefed on the circumstance, but not the content. The content and any sources for the error were destroyed. Talking mag erasor then burn bag for the media.
IMHO you are being paranoid beyond reason simply because you are ignorant of what the truth is. I've been in the belly of the leviathan, and its nowhere as malevolent as you make it out to be. People like you work there, and they are all reminded of their primary oath, which is to uphold and defend the Constitution. And even if there were to be some rogues, all it takes is a few honest people to expose them - the agency was gutted from within during hte Nixon crisis by people who knew that we shoul not be operating against US persons that weree not legitimate intelligence targets. Beleive me, its not the cowboy agency that it was under Nixon, when a lot of the abuses took place. Its not even as good as it was under Reagan - they do not have the staff to handle analysis of all intercepts, so excluding things they cannot legally touch is not only the right thing to do, it also promotes better function of the entire process. And these very laws and situations were heavily emphasised to us during indoctrination. It was our duty to uphold these laws, and we took that duty damned seriously.
There may have been some erosion of ethical standards this during the Clinton years with the "loose" ethics flowing down from the CINC, but there are a lot of stiff necked old spooks that would never let this crpa happen to the agency again like it almost did in the agency after Nixon. And before you keep on eating the BS about Reagan being a "fascist", consider that the only reason you have the protections you do now is due to a series of orders he issued because he did not trust government to regulate itself well when it involvedthe fundamental (4th amendment in this instance) rights of Americans.
Read Jim Bamford's "Puzzle Palace" if you want a good idea of how close things came in the early 70's when there was really nobody except the NSA wathcing itself - and how the NSA corrected itself with the changes to law and executive orders that are the basis of the existence of the agency.
I can look directly at the sun - big red ball, not all that bright. Who needs smoked glass when you have smoked air?
80,000+ acre wildfire out of control. Smoke up to 30,000 feet spreading across Colorado to Nebraska to South Dakota (visible on satellite). Completely out of control, nothing we can do but hope for a weather change. They pulled the crews from in front of it, calling it suicidal to fight this thing from in front. Humidities as low as 5%. Winds 25-35 gusting to 45 fanning the fire and keeping hte slurry bombers and tankers from fighting it effectively. Problem is fuel: timber here has less moisture (10%) than kiln dried lumber due to drought.
Peronal note: I worked at the Lockheed rocket engine plant (boosters). And it is in the way of this fire at Waterton Canyon facility. Thats a bad mix: 200 ft wall of flames advancing at 5-10 MPH and tons of rocket fuel in bunkers nearby. Bad combo.
40,000 people evacuated as of 4PM mountain time. Rained ash (like snow flurries) here at my house.
Every coder I've ever known keeps a collection of vital dead-tree books at hand. And its usually a couple of shelves worth - not something you could cram into a locker or lug to your desk every day. What about whiteboards too?
These are common things for coders. I see no allowance for them in this system.
And it helps to have paper (filing cabinet) as well, things like notes from meetings, or desktop sketches where you are brainstorming. I use my Palm-Vx for some of that, or a PC drawing program, but, except for a whiteboard, nothing compares to 8x10 grid paper and a sharp Staedler Mars mechanical pencil for brainstorming with several other people.
I do not see how this one would work for coders at all.
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They have something like that already: its called the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA. I'm a proud graduate of the Arabic program there over a decade ago. Can't remember much except military terminology and how to cuss. Of Course Arabic was my 5th langage after my native English, grandparent's German, 2 years of College Russian, and Soldiers/Programmer's Universal Language (Profanity).
Actually, thats one of the approaches they are taking - go read the PPT presentation. CMU has a team that works on a the need to "teach" the translator veruss the IBM team's "rules based" approach.
Microsoft also said open-source software is inherently less secure because the code is available for the world to examine for flaws, making it possible for hackers or criminals to exploit them. Proprietary software, the company argued, is more secure because of its closed nature.
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare.
its that they are issuing bad patents due to bad laws and bad examiners and bad budgeting for the patent office. Reduce the life to 5 years from issue, and start denying software and business process patents as a default action. Another idea would be to post all patent applications to the internet for comment for 180 days before approval. Prior art would show up in a hurry for things like the BT patent and probably this one as well.
US $0.00033/minute or portion (equivalent to US $0.02/hour) based on playback/normal running time for every stream, download or other use of MPEG-4 video data in connection with which a service provider or content owner
receives remuneration as a result of offering/providing the video for viewing or having the video viewed
Well I think that pretty much makes if "free for free usage" in terms of providing streams.
The proposed settlement is a bad one; please reject it and have the DoJ and the states go back and draft something that will address the facts found in the District court case.
A unanimous US Court of Appeals agreed that Microsoft had illegally kept its monopoly position by preying on other software developers and computer manufacturers. The bottom line is that Microsoft operated illegally, and any settlement or resolution of this case should make sure the company cannot continue its anticompetitive behavior. Unfortunately the proposed solution does not do this. In many ways, it actually reinforces Microsoft's monopoly, and does nothing to restrain Microsoft from acting illegally again in future markets.
Indeed, Microsoft has already shown they intend to continue to piggyback off their illegally obtained operating system monopoly to crush more markets. As an example, look at the "give away" of millions of dollars of development effort in their Media Player, which is unnecessarily "integrated" into WindowsXP - and is targeted at the RealPlayer product line, in order to crush it, in the same way they did the Netscape Browser. Microsoft, unlike its competitors, simply rolls the development cost into their illegally obtained monopoly operating system, and undercuts the competition unfairly. Yet the proposed settlement does not address preventing this sort of monopolistic behavior at all. Remember, developing a media player, a browser and other software costs money, and Microsoft leverages their monopoly to mask these costs while smashing competition unfairly. The Circuit court in it s 7-0 decision, and lower courts found this "bundling" illegal and monopolistic, yet the settlement does not address this in any sort of meaningful fashion: it allows Microsoft to tightly integrate and bundle its media player, its web browser, and myriad other applications into the Windows Operating System, instead of competing freely against external applications.
Also, the proposed settlement contains no provisions to remedy the unlawful monopolization of the operating system; nothing that will produce competition. Remember that the Circuit court ordered that a remedy must "unfetter the market from anticompetitive conduct... [and].. terminate the illegal monopoly". the proposed settlement does nothing of the sort. Its attempt to open the "API" (programming interface) of the Windows operating system will merely reinforce the monopoly, not terminate it as the court called for. Also opening the API is not enough: Microsoft plans only to open a mere a subset. Complete and full disclosure of ALL the source-code is the only "opening" that would suffice to terminate the Microsoft monopoly.
Finally, the proposed settlement does nothing at all to address the issue of effective remedy along side enforcement. the proposed penalties are ludicrous - an extension of terms that they have already violated is hardly a punishment. Fiduciary penalties must be applied, as well as structural ones. Also, the solutions proposed for "competition" are heavily dependent upon Original Equipment Manufacturers for implementation - the same OEMs who are partners and part of Microsoft's business plans (Such as Dell and Compaq).
In sum, this settlement is wholly inadequate, and should be rejected and the DoJ and the States should be directed to follow the rulings of the Circuit Court and lower courts when crafting a settlement, instead of ignoring the findings of fact and law, and currying favor with an unrepentant lawbreaking monopolist.
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Add up the numbers from your citation. Count of civilians is about 400.
They certainly arent "thousands" of civilian casualties. And certainly, if there were larger civilain casualties from missed strikes, the would have been trumpeted much more loudly than the cited examples.
Therefore you are wrong. There are no "thousands" of civilian casualties.
Try learning some math to go with your obviously biased mental state. Math does lie, although you and your ilk do.
Talk about a disjucture with the truth - the write of the above post has a severe one in many places.
Fact: The unit was not "all white".
The quote you cite is taken out of context. But allowing that context in rather ruins your attempts to smear the Rangers with a racism chage, doesnt it?
"U.S. troops killed unarmed men, women and children from the outset of their mission"
Try reading up on the whole truth, not the half truths fed to you by this obviously ant-military author.
There are cited incident reports of the Somli thugs using women and childre as shield in combat. Indeed there was even one guy firing his machin guns at pinned down us soldiers from between a woman's legs, while covered with children sitting on his back. Remember, its the Somali who endangered those children. What would you have the soldier do in that situation?
What would YOU do in that situation, with a guy killing people around you, injuring your friends, and threatenting your life? The combat deaths did not happen in the peacefulness of your living room - and the situation was hardly immoral as you insinuate it to be. The immorality belongs to the first cause - the Somali warlords and their illegal combatant thugs who endanger the lives of thier own citizens by using them as combatant shields.
Also remember the laws of war (Hauge Convention), and article 1, to wit:
Article 1. The laws, rights, and duties of war apply not only to armies,
but also to militia and volunteer corps fulfilling the following
conditions:
1. To be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
2. To have a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance;
3. To carry arms openly; and
4. To conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs
of war.
The "illegal combatant" problem is indemic to situations where tribalism is rampant, like Somalia and Afghanistan.
Also do not forget, had the Somalis not been starving and systematically killing thier own people, that pushed the US into intervening (the ambush of Pakistani UN troops monitoring food distribution), and the Afghani sponsorship of terroists that killed thousands in NY, there woulc have been NO us presence there. The US ignored Afghanistan killing its citizens for a decade in terms of US military action, as we also did Somalia.
The blame is not on the US military, its squarely on the triblist and collectivist systems that spawned the atrocities in those nations that ended up drawing the US into action.
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Try learning more modern stuff than whatever antiquated VoIP crap your company was using.
As an example, I was working with VoIP stuff 3 years ago with Cisco, T-Mobile and Level 3: we had a project that took a GSM signal, put it onto a local (in building only) network, and from there to VoIP and onto the Cisco Call Manager system. This allowed the cell phone to be your internal company phone extension while on campus, but automatically switch back when off campus. We faced many of the same problems you cited but all were solved by the end of the "beta" test.
Also we deployed a nation-wide softswitch infrastraucture that allowed us to hook Cisco VoIP phones at any point in the network and make toll-quality calls out from the main PBX back in Broomfield. This saved the company from having to drag a copper pair to each and every little regeneration site onthe fiber right of way, which is not an inconsiderable amount of cash when you figure the extent of Level 3's network.
Update your knowledge base. IP is starting to be picked up now that the private IP networks Like Level 3, Genuity, plus parts of AT&T and Sprint have worked out the problems. Draft Martini (Read the IETF documents) has been delivering standard phone services like ATM and FR over IP for a year. And Level 3, where I used to work, has had an all IP infrastructure for several years now, using the old XCom (Now VIPER) sofswitch. Want to know where those cheap long distance calling cards are coming from? They probably travel over Level 3's all IP network, converting at the edges on the softswitched architecture. And a good percentage of Worldcom/MCI long distance moves on Level 3's all IP network as well.
Secondly, the VoIP mentioned here is primarily in the backhaul, behind the CO switches (RTFA again!). For Inter and Intra-LATA carriage, VoIP is highly reliable, and much less expensive than the TDM stuff.
As for the "silence", RTFA. Seriously, they solved this one a long time ago with a little echo back on the reciever side, as well as "comfort noise" from the IP switch. This technique goes back several years.
Seriously, you need to learn more - and RTFA, because you are "mistaken about a great many thing"....
There are valid arguments against the US and its actions, but you did not come close to them with your ignorant, lie filled, slanted screed.
...the right of the people peaceably to assemble... And the ones that were not peaceably assembling were removed and arrested for breaking the law. Its called civil disobedience becuase you deliberately break the law, thus no longer "peacably" assemble (look for the legal context - peacable means "law abiding" in the case law)
Give me a break. Just because you RANT it does not mean it is fact.
Here's just a couple of errors you make.
Freedom to assemble? No - try reading the source code: 1st Amendment:
Grandmothers hauled away by SWAT teams? Citation please. Were they breaking the law? And also, show me the SAWT teams - they are sledom if ever called out for demonstrations. So this is yet another one of your "points" that is just another hyperbolic lie from an obvious US Basher.
"Highest crime rates in the priveledged world" Wrong again. UK leads the world in occupied home burglaries, among other things. And just what is the "priveledged" world? Another transparent lie of yours despatched.
The US is a "Police State"? Pull the other one! Do you realize how stupid that is, prima facia - and deep down too? Were that so, Slashdot would not exist, nor would the ACLU or EFF, or the gun-nuts at the NRA (Police states hate armed populaces) or the loony "John Birch Society" for that matter. So, more non-factual hot air - just inflammatory language to try to draw peopel away fromthe fact that you have no real case here other than just venting a lot of anti-US emotion.
You want a future police state to worry about - one in which the people have already sheep-like comitted to giving their rights to unelected non-representative political masters, go look up what the EU are doing in Brussels. The powers the people of EU are givig the police and EU government there, socially and economically, are incredible, and enough to shackle them in chains within a generation. Even the Communist Party of the UK claims to to be a budding police state.
http://www.communist-party.org.uk/site/Archives/ Fe bruary_2003/European_Union_and_the_Police_/europea n_union_and_the_police_.html
Bashing the last election? Give me a break - thats old news and it proves the system works AS DESIGNED (Electoral votes). The local electors screwed up - even after all the recounts Bush was still ahead, and even after the FLa Supreme Court partisanly thwarted the election code, Bush was still ahead - and the Supreme Court overruled the bad decision from the FL court, just as it should have. Bad decision? Maybe - but the real mistake was by the locals in screwing up the ballots in a Democrat run district to the point where the vote counts were unreliable and obviously partisanly biased in favor of the Democrat. Furthermore, on a national basis, the election borke down to Gore winning the urban and coastal areas, and Bush won all the rest - even Gore's home state of Tennesse. Bush won 4:1 in terms of counties, and in terms of win a county = support, the population of the counties that voted pro-Bush was 143 million to Gore's 120 million. Similary, land area goes 6:1 for Bush excluding the Bush victory in Alaska.
So it was a close race, but to say Bush is not properly president is to perpatuate a bitter lie by those disappointed with Gore's poor candidacy.
For the Electoral Colleg - if we dont like it, we need to change it, just like we did with the Senatorial elections (and some of us are working on that instead of whining about it). And unlike the Chinese, with whom you speciously compare us, we DO have the option of changing our government without a Tienamen Square style massacre.
As for "growing up" - why don't you try to learn a few things and stop reciting things straight out of the Euro-marxist US Basher handbook, and start looking at results, overall free
GSM? WHICH GSM? Africa, US or European frequency?
GSM not as universal as most think.
CDMA is head and shoulders above - look at where the highspeed wireless is going - CDMA, not GSM. Plus CDMA is more efficient in its bandwidth usage than GSM. Remember GSM is still TDMA at its roots. So CDMA has better spectral efficiency.
Example: GSM provides 8 slots in a channel 200 kHz wide, while IS-136 provides 3 slots in a channel only 30 kHz wide. GSM therefore consumes 25 kHz per user, while IS-136 consumes only 10 kHz per user.
Plus you should take into account the terrain and desnity - Iraq probably is not all that population dense outside of Baghdad and Basra. CDMA really comes into its element when you are out in the countryside with few sites covering large expanses of land. Under these conditions CDMA provides extremely stable audio with few frame errors to mess things up. This is because Channel Pollution is almost non-existent in these situations. Under similar conditions TDMA suffers too readily from interference and it will often blank the audio. Many people who use CDMA systems in sparsely populated areas have given this technology extremely high marks.
Nex you should look at GPRS versus CDMA2000/1xRTT, and the costs to upgrade from these technologies to genuine 3G communications. Without going into the specifics, CDMA holds a slight advantage here as well.
So despite the obvious political motivations behind this decision, technologically speaking, it s actually a good decision to favor CDMA.
If you are looking for relief from an"fscked economy", then SCS will doom you. A vibrant economy requires a lot of varied crafters. Consider that to make a top notch item, per the designers, wil require the input of 6 crafters.
The number of crafters that are "free" (outside of a PA that supports them by making a "production chain" and consumes 100% of the input) on a server will be miniscule. Your player economy will be nothing because far more people will use their one and ONLY slot to be an adventurous character, not a factory worker or a retail clerk.
This leads me to believe that someone in Marketing is driving this decision in order to ensure multple sales of accounts to individuals - more boxes sold = higher profits that will offset the loss of revenues due to disillusioned SCS players quitting/
We can now wait 17 years before anyone gets to freely reap the fruits of this basic scientific discovery.
Patenting the method, as long as its not the only method? Thats fine. Patenting the discovery? Thats absurd.
90,000 of them were warez, mp3 and chan-op war bots. ;-)
As big and heavy as the Newton is (compared to a Palm or iPaq or Zarus), and as small and light as PC laptops are becoming, whats the difference between the two other than the former being obsolescent and the latter being more flexible in terms of hardware vendors (c.f. latest Apple jackboot of non-apple DVD players and its software).
The weight and size of the Newton is a factor. Or did I mistake the slant of the article, and this is more of a nostalgia item, like rehabbing my old Amiga?
From the article:
"heating the disk and recording components makes it easier to write information, which is stabilized with subsequent cooling."
Hot processors, hot RAM, now even hotter Hard drives. More heat in the case, is this a good idea?
Having worked there, I can tell you this: intercepting a US person is a SERIOUS infraction. Its not something you can do without running afoul of a lot of laws. The abuse done by the NSA during the Nixon years caused a lot of severe curbs (both open and classified) to be placed on the NSA, and those laws have serious teeth that will bite anyone violating them. As with the armed forces, there are a lot of very liberty minded folks working there to preserve your freedoms at the cost of their own. One example is that free speech is very limited once you hold certain accesses and clearances.
IMHO, you're in more danger from those folks at the FBI.
You really ought to do a seach on "USSID 18". I cant say anything confirming or denying, but there are some very interesting things that have been declassified out of Big Daddy DIRNSA's pockets.
Secondarily, its NSA/CSS. Ever hear of the CSS side of the house? I suggest you look it up before posting obvious biased off-base stuff thats based on a hokey movie [sneakers].
Thats the big question! A GPL WinClone and OfficeClone woudl be cool.
Panel your interior with this stuff. It'll be crap for getting cell calls in the house, but hell for anyonetrying to get your data short of tapping your net feed. And mount an exterior antenna (something liek a cheapo repeater) to "pipe in" the signals you want. A real RF Firewall. Heh.
Go read the redacted USSID (United States Signals Intelligence Directive) covering this issue USSID 18, Dept Of Defense Order 5240.1-R as operant at the NSA. Its missing chunks, but a lot fo the important stuff is there for you to look at. These documents(USSIDS) are the legal basis for all operations of the NSA. As an employee of the NSA or a military analyst assigned ther, you obey these things or get put in jail.
For instance, Exec. Order No. 12333, 3 C.F.R. 200 (1982), The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C., and the executive orders founding the NSA and the post-Nixon limits on what can be done with intercepts of "US Persons" no matter where they are talking.
The relevant portion of the laws state:
A deference to U.S. persons' rights by closely regulating the conduct of electronic surveillance that either targets U.S. persons or may result in the acquisition of information to, from, or about U.S. persons. For example, in order to conduct electronic surveillance against a U.S. person located within the United States, FISA requires the intelligence agency to obtain a court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. If the United States person is abroad, the Executive Order requires that the Attorney General approve such surveillance. In both instances, generally speaking there must be probable cause that the target is an agent of a foreign power. In addition, the information sought by the surveillance must be foreign intelligence that cannot be obtained by other less intrusive collection techniques. Furthermore, even if a U.S. person is not the target, all foreign intelligence electronic surveillance must be conducted in a manner that minimizes the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of information about unconsenting U.S. persons.
,br> I worked there over a decade ago as a cryptanalyst, and it was deadly serious business if you intercepted a US person, even by accident. Reports were written, and people were debriefed on the circumstance, but not the content. The content and any sources for the error were destroyed. Talking mag erasor then burn bag for the media.
IMHO you are being paranoid beyond reason simply because you are ignorant of what the truth is. I've been in the belly of the leviathan, and its nowhere as malevolent as you make it out to be. People like you work there, and they are all reminded of their primary oath, which is to uphold and defend the Constitution. And even if there were to be some rogues, all it takes is a few honest people to expose them - the agency was gutted from within during hte Nixon crisis by people who knew that we shoul not be operating against US persons that weree not legitimate intelligence targets. Beleive me, its not the cowboy agency that it was under Nixon, when a lot of the abuses took place. Its not even as good as it was under Reagan - they do not have the staff to handle analysis of all intercepts, so excluding things they cannot legally touch is not only the right thing to do, it also promotes better function of the entire process. And these very laws and situations were heavily emphasised to us during indoctrination. It was our duty to uphold these laws, and we took that duty damned seriously.
There may have been some erosion of ethical standards this during the Clinton years with the "loose" ethics flowing down from the CINC, but there are a lot of stiff necked old spooks that would never let this crpa happen to the agency again like it almost did in the agency after Nixon. And before you keep on eating the BS about Reagan being a "fascist", consider that the only reason you have the protections you do now is due to a series of orders he issued because he did not trust government to regulate itself well when it involvedthe fundamental (4th amendment in this instance) rights of Americans.
Read Jim Bamford's "Puzzle Palace" if you want a good idea of how close things came in the early 70's when there was really nobody except the NSA wathcing itself - and how the NSA corrected itself with the changes to law and executive orders that are the basis of the existence of the agency.
I can look directly at the sun - big red ball, not all that bright. Who needs smoked glass when you have smoked air?
80,000+ acre wildfire out of control. Smoke up to 30,000 feet spreading across Colorado to Nebraska to South Dakota (visible on satellite). Completely out of control, nothing we can do but hope for a weather change. They pulled the crews from in front of it, calling it suicidal to fight this thing from in front. Humidities as low as 5%. Winds 25-35 gusting to 45 fanning the fire and keeping hte slurry bombers and tankers from fighting it effectively. Problem is fuel: timber here has less moisture (10%) than kiln dried lumber due to drought.
Peronal note: I worked at the Lockheed rocket engine plant (boosters). And it is in the way of this fire at Waterton Canyon facility. Thats a bad mix: 200 ft wall of flames advancing at 5-10 MPH and tons of rocket fuel in bunkers nearby. Bad combo.
40,000 people evacuated as of 4PM mountain time. Rained ash (like snow flurries) here at my house.
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Every coder I've ever known keeps a collection of vital dead-tree books at hand. And its usually a couple of shelves worth - not something you could cram into a locker or lug to your desk every day. What about whiteboards too?
These are common things for coders. I see no allowance for them in this system.
And it helps to have paper (filing cabinet) as well, things like notes from meetings, or desktop sketches where you are brainstorming. I use my Palm-Vx for some of that, or a PC drawing program, but, except for a whiteboard, nothing compares to 8x10 grid paper and a sharp Staedler Mars mechanical pencil for brainstorming with several other people.
I do not see how this one would work for coders at all.
Far from home, subject to the endless sunlight of the Alaskan winter
I think its SUMMER when the globe tilts that way.
They have something like that already: its called the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA. I'm a proud graduate of the Arabic program there over a decade ago. Can't remember much except military terminology and how to cuss. Of Course Arabic was my 5th langage after my native English, grandparent's German, 2 years of College Russian, and Soldiers/Programmer's Universal Language (Profanity).
Actually, thats one of the approaches they are taking - go read the PPT presentation. CMU has a team that works on a the need to "teach" the translator veruss the IBM team's "rules based" approach.
like this quote?
Microsoft also said open-source software is inherently less secure because the code is available for the world to examine for flaws, making it possible for hackers or criminals to exploit them. Proprietary software, the company argued, is more secure because of its closed nature.
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare.
Lemme guess, Kesmai? (Good 'ol IOK/LOK)
What EA did to Kesmai was criminal IMHO. Your offices in Charlottesville were pretty cool, old brick buildings and all that...
I almost worked for you guys, but I was making too much in Telecom (HA! not anymore) for you guys to be able to afford me.
its that they are issuing bad patents due to bad laws and bad examiners and bad budgeting for the patent office. Reduce the life to 5 years from issue, and start denying software and business process patents as a default action. Another idea would be to post all patent applications to the internet for comment for 180 days before approval. Prior art would show up in a hurry for things like the BT patent and probably this one as well.
Well I think that pretty much makes if "free for free usage" in terms of providing streams.
Dear Judge,
.. terminate the illegal monopoly". the proposed settlement does nothing of the sort. Its attempt to open the "API" (programming interface) of the Windows operating system will merely reinforce the monopoly, not terminate it as the court called for. Also opening the API is not enough: Microsoft plans only to open a mere a subset. Complete and full disclosure of ALL the source-code is the only "opening" that would suffice to terminate the Microsoft monopoly.
The proposed settlement is a bad one; please reject it and have the DoJ and the states go back and draft something that will address the facts found in the District court case.
A unanimous US Court of Appeals agreed that Microsoft had illegally kept its monopoly position by preying on other software developers and computer manufacturers. The bottom line is that Microsoft operated illegally, and any settlement or resolution of this case should make sure the company cannot continue its anticompetitive behavior. Unfortunately the proposed solution does not do this. In many ways, it actually reinforces Microsoft's monopoly, and does nothing to restrain Microsoft from acting illegally again in future markets.
Indeed, Microsoft has already shown they intend to continue to piggyback off their illegally obtained operating system monopoly to crush more markets. As an example, look at the "give away" of millions of dollars of development effort in their Media Player, which is unnecessarily "integrated" into WindowsXP - and is targeted at the RealPlayer product line, in order to crush it, in the same way they did the Netscape Browser. Microsoft, unlike its competitors, simply rolls the development cost into their illegally obtained monopoly operating system, and undercuts the competition unfairly. Yet the proposed settlement does not address preventing this sort of monopolistic behavior at all. Remember, developing a media player, a browser and other software costs money, and Microsoft leverages their monopoly to mask these costs while smashing competition unfairly. The Circuit court in it s 7-0 decision, and lower courts found this "bundling" illegal and monopolistic, yet the settlement does not address this in any sort of meaningful fashion: it allows Microsoft to tightly integrate and bundle its media player, its web browser, and myriad other applications into the Windows Operating System, instead of competing freely against external applications.
Also, the proposed settlement contains no provisions to remedy the unlawful monopolization of the operating system; nothing that will produce competition. Remember that the Circuit court ordered that a remedy must "unfetter the market from anticompetitive conduct... [and]
Finally, the proposed settlement does nothing at all to address the issue of effective remedy along side enforcement. the proposed penalties are ludicrous - an extension of terms that they have already violated is hardly a punishment. Fiduciary penalties must be applied, as well as structural ones. Also, the solutions proposed for "competition" are heavily dependent upon Original Equipment Manufacturers for implementation - the same OEMs who are partners and part of Microsoft's business plans (Such as Dell and Compaq).
In sum, this settlement is wholly inadequate, and should be rejected and the DoJ and the States should be directed to follow the rulings of the Circuit Court and lower courts when crafting a settlement, instead of ignoring the findings of fact and law, and currying favor with an unrepentant lawbreaking monopolist.
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Add up the numbers from your citation. Count of civilians is about 400.
They certainly arent "thousands" of civilian casualties. And certainly, if there were larger civilain casualties from missed strikes, the would have been trumpeted much more loudly than the cited examples.
Therefore you are wrong. There are no "thousands" of civilian casualties.
Try learning some math to go with your obviously biased mental state. Math does lie, although you and your ilk do.
Talk about a disjucture with the truth - the write of the above post has a severe one in many places.
Fact: The unit was not "all white".
The quote you cite is taken out of context. But allowing that context in rather ruins your attempts to smear the Rangers with a racism chage, doesnt it?
"U.S. troops killed unarmed men, women and children from the outset of their mission"
Try reading up on the whole truth, not the half truths fed to you by this obviously ant-military author.
There are cited incident reports of the Somli thugs using women and childre as shield in combat. Indeed there was even one guy firing his machin guns at pinned down us soldiers from between a woman's legs, while covered with children sitting on his back. Remember, its the Somali who endangered those children. What would you have the soldier do in that situation?
What would YOU do in that situation, with a guy killing people around you, injuring your friends, and threatenting your life? The combat deaths did not happen in the peacefulness of your living room - and the situation was hardly immoral as you insinuate it to be. The immorality belongs to the first cause - the Somali warlords and their illegal combatant thugs who endanger the lives of thier own citizens by using them as combatant shields.
Also remember the laws of war (Hauge Convention), and article 1, to wit:
Article 1. The laws, rights, and duties of war apply not only to armies,
but also to militia and volunteer corps fulfilling the following
conditions:
1. To be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
2. To have a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance;
3. To carry arms openly; and
4. To conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs
of war.
The "illegal combatant" problem is indemic to situations where tribalism is rampant, like Somalia and Afghanistan.
Also do not forget, had the Somalis not been starving and systematically killing thier own people, that pushed the US into intervening (the ambush of Pakistani UN troops monitoring food distribution), and the Afghani sponsorship of terroists that killed thousands in NY, there woulc have been NO us presence there. The US ignored Afghanistan killing its citizens for a decade in terms of US military action, as we also did Somalia.
The blame is not on the US military, its squarely on the triblist and collectivist systems that spawned the atrocities in those nations that ended up drawing the US into action.