Google Voice Search seems to do everything that Siri does (send an email, sms, "find me blah blah blah"). The only thing it doesn't do is talk back to you which seems like it wouldn't take nearly the time that this article suggests.
At best it is some pogues in the woods with loudspeakers on thier HMMWV trying to make the enemy scouts tell their commander that they hear tanks when there really aren't any.
As a former Tactical PSYOP Team Leader, I take offense to your pogues comment. Tactical PSYOPers are on the ground every day with the infantry guys going through the same crap that they are. You can look up the list of awards given to PSYOPers for valor as well as the number of KIA/WIA relative to our size in the Army. Not to mention that they're held to SOF certification standards, jump qualified, as well as some going through SERE school and having Ranger tabs.
Playing tank noises over the loudspeaker is just one thing in the PSYOP toolkit. We're also your cultural experts on the ground and/or your linguists (I was an arabic linguist) and are pretty darn useful in a COIN environment. We also keep the civilians away from the infantry guys so that they don't wind up on CNN for causing collateral damage.
In regards to the article, I don't know any LTC that ever received much practical PSYOP training. From the sound of the article, he only had 3 people in his group, so it sounds like a staff officer rated his skillset a bit higher than it actually was. In a tactical unit, officers don't really do anything other than just provide overwatch of their NCOs and handle admin/supply stuff.
Agreed. Wikileaks has been good about not editorializing in the past, but they wanted to make a big splash with this. Even going to the length of creating a special URL and website for it. One of the Wikileaks spokespeople was on the BBC yesterday and made no bones about them having an agenda on this. Here is a write up:
Logged into my 2K8 server this morning and it was listed as a critical update. I'm going to disable this for now see what the verdict is from other folks.
Al Qaeda can't claim 'victory' over America until we're all dead. That is, after all, their stated purpose.
I said "a victory" not "victory". People want to join a winning team and "a victory" in Iraq strengthens recruitment. I know there's other sides to the argument that we've done plenty to strengthen AQIZ recruitment, but I'd rather have us try to stop that if possible.
Obama DOES NOT want to leave. He merely wants to trade soldiers for aid workers, with soldiers that protect them. No net difference here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/6273123.stm That was in my AO when I was there. The aid worker didn't take the liberty of notifying our battalion (who owned the battle space) that they were going to a hostile area and meeting with potentially hostile people. That was the result.
In the current environment it takes a minimum of 12 infantry men to escort 1 - 4 aid workers anywhere. The military usually needs roughly 3 support soldiers for every 1 infantry soldier. I fail to see how replacing soldiers with aid workers is going to result in a draw down of troops.
Imagine, if you will, that Victory Base Complex was about to fall behind enemy lines. There's really not a plan to abandon it? The orders are really fight to the death? Really? I'd suspect that it is merely an asset, like all the others. Remember the billion-dollar prisons that they merely demolished because the contracting was shoddy? These dollars are already spent. They'd really seriously just pull up stakes and leave if they so chose to. They have done it in every major conflict in this century, they would do it today as well.
Yes there are plans of last resort. But rather than abandoning -billions- of dollars in equipment (that WILL need to be replaced), wouldn't you prefer an orderly draw down to beating feet for the exit? Obama wants to withdraw 1-2 brigades a month, I don't think we have enough cargo planes in the fleet to accommodate all the equipment that would be coming with them, nevermind the personnel to get those soldiers adequately processed all at once when they return home. All the equipment that's over there now has been accumulated over 5 years of warfare and there was a significant amount pre-positioned in Kuwait before the war kicked off. Just because we can get in there and start shooting quickly doesn't mean we can leave as easily with all our stuff once the shooting stops.
I'm shocked at the number of people who think they have insight into the Iraqi mind without ever having actually talked to an Iraqi.....
As someone who served during the "lost year" in Iraq (2006) I can tell you that what you see on TV is not always what's happening. Yes some Iraqis want us out, mainly Shias who have the majority and want to consolidate control over all aspects of the government. Al Qaeda in Iraq wants us gone so they can claim a victory over America. Yet the average Sunni in Iraq wants us to stay because we're one of the only honest brokers between them and the Shia.
Now that the Sunnis have formed the awakening councils and come on board with the Americans, they have legitimate bargaining power. Violence is down to its lowest levels since the war began, and now while we're on the cusp of securing Iraqi political agreements, we want to just up and leave?!
Obama is either outright lying or doesn't know any better about what the situation on the ground is in Iraq. You can't just pick up and leave. We have virtual -cities- of equipment and personnel on the ground there. It would take years to move it out of country. Victory Base Complex alone has over 15,000 personnel there with miles and miles of trailers, connexes, and equipment. At this point, we might as well see it out to the end.
I disagree that the war should've happened in the first place, but Colin Powell said it right, "You break it, you buy it."
And where is the money for this settlement going? Is it actually going to go to some authors who had their books scanned or is the majority going to the lawyers and the guild itself?
Why aren't more of these large internet companies located in a state like New Hampshire where there's no sales tax? The current status quo is that you only have to collect sales tax from the customers in the state where you reside. So in a sales tax free state, you wouldn't have to collect anything at all.
I pay in every other year, but the year I happened to be in Iraq was the year the government starts throwing out "free" money. It's ok, I'll be paying for it in the form of the deficit for the rest of my life.
Since I earned all my income fighting in Iraq last year, my tax free income doesn't qualify me for a surplus check. Good enough to lay my life down for the country, but not good enough for a surplus check apparently.
This seems to be part of Senator Clinton's move toward the middle to try to setup a 2008 presidential election run. Recently, Senator Clinton came down closer to the traditional conservative position on abortion while at the same time trying not to alienate the pro-choice lobby. Now she's trying to come down on violent movies, games, etc. in an attempt to court the family values voters.
Most political commentators attribute President Bush's 2004 victory to American voters looking for a "family values" candidate. Given the tightness of the last two elections, in addition to Senator Clinton being portrayed as a extreme left-winger, she sees the need to try to court some of the family values votes. IMHO, expect Senator Clinton to come down on the conservative side of more social issues while pushing health care reform and government entitlement initiatives in an attempt to solidify her position as the 2008 Democratic nominee.
I think this needs to happen if satellite radio will be viable in 5+ years. There's too much overhead cost involved to split what some would call a niche market. Will the FCC allow it? I'm 50/50 on it. However, I think there could be an argument that satellite radio is a "natural monopoly" similiar to cable or local telephone. Since the costs of entering the market are so high (launching satellites, content costs, programming managers, DJs, etc) I think there could be an argument for this. It's different from broadcast radio because broadcast radio serves a local market and if you only own one station, you only need to worry about content for one channel, where in satellite you have to manage 100+ channels. Just my $.02.
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The Internet was advertised as "The Information Super Highway"?
lol
Google Voice Search seems to do everything that Siri does (send an email, sms, "find me blah blah blah"). The only thing it doesn't do is talk back to you which seems like it wouldn't take nearly the time that this article suggests.
At best it is some pogues in the woods with loudspeakers on thier HMMWV trying to make the enemy scouts tell their commander that they hear tanks when there really aren't any.
As a former Tactical PSYOP Team Leader, I take offense to your pogues comment. Tactical PSYOPers are on the ground every day with the infantry guys going through the same crap that they are. You can look up the list of awards given to PSYOPers for valor as well as the number of KIA/WIA relative to our size in the Army. Not to mention that they're held to SOF certification standards, jump qualified, as well as some going through SERE school and having Ranger tabs.
Playing tank noises over the loudspeaker is just one thing in the PSYOP toolkit. We're also your cultural experts on the ground and/or your linguists (I was an arabic linguist) and are pretty darn useful in a COIN environment. We also keep the civilians away from the infantry guys so that they don't wind up on CNN for causing collateral damage.
In regards to the article, I don't know any LTC that ever received much practical PSYOP training. From the sound of the article, he only had 3 people in his group, so it sounds like a staff officer rated his skillset a bit higher than it actually was. In a tactical unit, officers don't really do anything other than just provide overwatch of their NCOs and handle admin/supply stuff.
Agreed. Wikileaks has been good about not editorializing in the past, but they wanted to make a big splash with this. Even going to the length of creating a special URL and website for it. One of the Wikileaks spokespeople was on the BBC yesterday and made no bones about them having an agenda on this. Here is a write up:
http://www.dissectednews.com/2010/04/wikileaks-monday-morning-quarterbacking.html
A system of governance that is based upon "what is good for me personally" is simple anarchy.
Actually, it's called democracy.
Why is this guy living with his mom if he's such a great and skilled hacker? Where's his money? Where's his grandiose lifestyle?...
He's been buying US Treasury Bills
You need to read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Management-System-Administrators-Thomas-Limoncelli/dp/0596007833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261000026&sr=8-1
It's for systems administrators, but the rules apply across all jobs and even your personal life. It's helped me out immensely at the office.
Apparently the USMC doesn't read yahoo news:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090819/ap_on_hi_te/as_afghan_wired_war
Logged into my 2K8 server this morning and it was listed as a critical update. I'm going to disable this for now see what the verdict is from other folks.
IANAL, but my understanding is that libel is a lie that harms someone's reputation put into print. Slander is the same thing, but in non-print form.
I, for one, welcome our new Hispaniolan solenodon overlords!
What OPSEC breach? Have you not read a paper or watched a Pentagon press conference in the last 5 years?
A couple of responses:
Al Qaeda can't claim 'victory' over America until we're all dead. That is, after all, their stated purpose.
I said "a victory" not "victory". People want to join a winning team and "a victory" in Iraq strengthens recruitment. I know there's other sides to the argument that we've done plenty to strengthen AQIZ recruitment, but I'd rather have us try to stop that if possible.
Obama DOES NOT want to leave. He merely wants to trade soldiers for aid workers, with soldiers that protect them. No net difference here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/6273123.stm
That was in my AO when I was there. The aid worker didn't take the liberty of notifying our battalion (who owned the battle space) that they were going to a hostile area and meeting with potentially hostile people. That was the result.
In the current environment it takes a minimum of 12 infantry men to escort 1 - 4 aid workers anywhere. The military usually needs roughly 3 support soldiers for every 1 infantry soldier. I fail to see how replacing soldiers with aid workers is going to result in a draw down of troops.
Imagine, if you will, that Victory Base Complex was about to fall behind enemy lines. There's really not a plan to abandon it? The orders are really fight to the death? Really? I'd suspect that it is merely an asset, like all the others. Remember the billion-dollar prisons that they merely demolished because the contracting was shoddy? These dollars are already spent. They'd really seriously just pull up stakes and leave if they so chose to. They have done it in every major conflict in this century, they would do it today as well.
Yes there are plans of last resort. But rather than abandoning -billions- of dollars in equipment (that WILL need to be replaced), wouldn't you prefer an orderly draw down to beating feet for the exit? Obama wants to withdraw 1-2 brigades a month, I don't think we have enough cargo planes in the fleet to accommodate all the equipment that would be coming with them, nevermind the personnel to get those soldiers adequately processed all at once when they return home. All the equipment that's over there now has been accumulated over 5 years of warfare and there was a significant amount pre-positioned in Kuwait before the war kicked off. Just because we can get in there and start shooting quickly doesn't mean we can leave as easily with all our stuff once the shooting stops.
I'm shocked at the number of people who think they have insight into the Iraqi mind without ever having actually talked to an Iraqi.....
As someone who served during the "lost year" in Iraq (2006) I can tell you that what you see on TV is not always what's happening. Yes some Iraqis want us out, mainly Shias who have the majority and want to consolidate control over all aspects of the government. Al Qaeda in Iraq wants us gone so they can claim a victory over America. Yet the average Sunni in Iraq wants us to stay because we're one of the only honest brokers between them and the Shia.
Now that the Sunnis have formed the awakening councils and come on board with the Americans, they have legitimate bargaining power. Violence is down to its lowest levels since the war began, and now while we're on the cusp of securing Iraqi political agreements, we want to just up and leave?!
Obama is either outright lying or doesn't know any better about what the situation on the ground is in Iraq. You can't just pick up and leave. We have virtual -cities- of equipment and personnel on the ground there. It would take years to move it out of country. Victory Base Complex alone has over 15,000 personnel there with miles and miles of trailers, connexes, and equipment. At this point, we might as well see it out to the end.
I disagree that the war should've happened in the first place, but Colin Powell said it right, "You break it, you buy it."
And where is the money for this settlement going? Is it actually going to go to some authors who had their books scanned or is the majority going to the lawyers and the guild itself?
System administrator, eh? You can start by showing your scars.
All of my scars are on the inside :-(
Why aren't more of these large internet companies located in a state like New Hampshire where there's no sales tax? The current status quo is that you only have to collect sales tax from the customers in the state where you reside. So in a sales tax free state, you wouldn't have to collect anything at all.
I pay in every other year, but the year I happened to be in Iraq was the year the government starts throwing out "free" money. It's ok, I'll be paying for it in the form of the deficit for the rest of my life.
Since I earned all my income fighting in Iraq last year, my tax free income doesn't qualify me for a surplus check. Good enough to lay my life down for the country, but not good enough for a surplus check apparently.
"Ow, ya got me!"
You can still use a passport.
As long as you wear your tinfoil hat you should be fine.
Google replies, offering Infinity squared megabytes.
Still not enough to hold all my porn
This seems to be part of Senator Clinton's move toward the middle to try to setup a 2008 presidential election run. Recently, Senator Clinton came down closer to the traditional conservative position on abortion while at the same time trying not to alienate the pro-choice lobby. Now she's trying to come down on violent movies, games, etc. in an attempt to court the family values voters.
Most political commentators attribute President Bush's 2004 victory to American voters looking for a "family values" candidate. Given the tightness of the last two elections, in addition to Senator Clinton being portrayed as a extreme left-winger, she sees the need to try to court some of the family values votes. IMHO, expect Senator Clinton to come down on the conservative side of more social issues while pushing health care reform and government entitlement initiatives in an attempt to solidify her position as the 2008 Democratic nominee.
I think this needs to happen if satellite radio will be viable in 5+ years. There's too much overhead cost involved to split what some would call a niche market. Will the FCC allow it? I'm 50/50 on it. However, I think there could be an argument that satellite radio is a "natural monopoly" similiar to cable or local telephone. Since the costs of entering the market are so high (launching satellites, content costs, programming managers, DJs, etc) I think there could be an argument for this. It's different from broadcast radio because broadcast radio serves a local market and if you only own one station, you only need to worry about content for one channel, where in satellite you have to manage 100+ channels. Just my $.02.