Mysql 5.1 has been in preproduction since November 2005 and still isn't available as a GA release (aka don't use it in production). Are they sure they can get a 6.0 GA release out by next fall?
This is really good of Google to contribute this back, I'm just wondering how long it will be before we all can utilize their changes. I hate to see the code stay stuck in the devel cycle for three years when Goggle is using it to their advantage right now at this very moment.
I am calm:) and no offense taken to your post. What I would guess (by your post) is that we have a lot in common. I hate war, but I love aerospace and technology. It's unfortunate that things like the SR-71 and F-22 satisfy my cravings for such.
As for Afghanistan, I feel the US abandoned that war for the push in Iraq. Especially when Iraq had no WMD's and nothing to do with 9/11. Now both countries are in a mess, with Afghanistan left to NATO.
To specifically answer your question, the F-22 gives us no advantage in Afghanistan and no advantage in Iraq. Such tech gives way to a lot of chest pounding, but really nothing else in terms of non conventional war.
A better question would be to list the last conventional wars fought (Falklands/82) vs non conventional (Vietnam) and compare the outcomes.
Don't be so quick to think that an active AN/APG-77 automatically opens up the F-22 to detection. The AN/APG-77 is a statically mounted phased array radar, with electronic beam stearing capability. This coupled with the fact that it has the ability to frequency hop about a 1000 times a second gives it a very low probability of intercept. Short pulses at varying frequencies and (probably) varying pulse duration, timing,power, etc., keep it from being detected by the enemy's RWR.
I have been told that F-15C pilots at Red Flag could not detect the F-22's scanning them at beyond visual range (BVR). Nor could the F-15C's APG-63 radar detect the F-22 at BVR. They kill numbers would confirm this, but I have no official links to back it up (other than message board postings).
[Granted the F-15C and it's avionics don't represent the top of the line in modern technology anymore, so it's a grain of salt example. But I'll also point out that the F-15 has never been beaten in an actual air to air engagement to date.]
It's as much a defensive weapon as it is offensive, as quoted:
"I can't see the [expletive deleted] thing," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, exchange F-15 pilot in the 65th Aggressor Squadron. "It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me."
On other fronts, the F-22 represents our leading edge technology (even though it's essentially 1990's tech) and is what gives us an advantage. It's not surprising the technology isn't up for export. The F-15 and F-16 both were in the same position when they were introduced, but eventually were considered for export after there advantage subsided a bit (or "lower" tech versions of them were available).
As well, the F-22 is really expensive. The United States is one of the few countries (or groups of countries) that can pull off such an endeavor. This also naturally limits its export capability, there's simply few others that could afford to buy it.
IMHO, Japan will end up with export variants of the F-35 (the USAF already has F-22 stationed in Okinawa). And continue with their F-15 and possibly be allowed to construct a variant of the F-15E to replace their aging F-4s (though their limited production of F-2 can already fulfill this requirement).
Japan has tried this move before, they eventually canceled production of their F-2 program (basically a modernized F-16) and are looking to persuade the United Stated to open up more tech for them to acquire (again, probably the F-35, though possibly future F-22 export variants).
All Japan produced planes, so far, have been based on US tech. Any other home grown R&D project would be too expensive to survive in the political arena. There's no reason to believe this ATD-X project will find the same fate.
Finally, IMHO, it wouldn't be able to beat the F-22 is most engagements. Physical performance is only one aspect of why the F-22 is the best air superiority fighter in the world. Avionics, radar, and weapon load out represent some of the others. The ATD-X would just be too expensive to match the F-22 in all areas, if it sees flight, major compromises will have to be make.
Deep Brain Stimulation isn't necessarily a new technology. It has been helping folks with neuro-motor issues for awhile, with very good results for the most acute cases. It's not surprising to me that it's also been found beneficial for extreme cases of clinical depression.
DBS basically consists of two electrodes implanted deep within the brain, paper thin wires are then run down the neck to a pacemaker type device in the chest. The device can be programmed to emit various waveform pulses at different frequencies and voltages. After implantation, they tune all these parameters to find the best combination for the patient.
Like I said, I don't know it's benefits or results for depression, but for other diseases and syndromes it can be very beneficial. Video of patients, with beneficial outcomes.
I know this is just nitpicking, but I wouldn't call the Mig-25 or it's Turmansky jets a great technological success.
Yes, the jets may of been able to out run the F-15's of the day, but their maintenance requirements were extraordinary. A high speed run above mach 2 required them to be fully rebuilt. A high speed run above mach 2.8 for more than a few minutes generally resulted in the destruction of the engines.
That, coupled with the Mig-25's short effective combat radius (~180 miles with full load out), poor maneuverability (typical G loading limited to around 3 depending on fuel and load out), doesn't make it an effective interceptor. It makes it a cheap plane to produce with good numbers that really reflect on paper only.
Mig-25's have kills associated with their name, but none have ever intercepted an SR-71 (one task it was designed to handle). In a head on engagement (ie, F-15), their only defense is their speed, which results in massive maintenance or destruction of the engines.
I've never used ESX, but I would imagin that no matter what, ESX needs driver support.
Being a hypervisor, it has to access all kinds of devices like VGA consoles, serial ports, Fibre Channel HBAs, SCSI HBAs, IDE controllers (for CDROMs), Ethernet adapters, etc., etc. So my question is, where does the ESX hypervisor (vmkernel) get these? Does it pull them from Linux or did they write their own? This hardware _HAS_ to be setup, initialized, and arbitrated. Does vmkernel have it's own stack of device drivers, or does it conveniently run the ones in the Linux "bootloader"?
I'm thinking there's more to this than just the binary blob issue...
As an owner of a Macbook Pro, I've been waiting for this to get released. The Dynticks integration will (hopefully) help lower power consumption and heat output. Though this will help reduce heat and power on all platforms, those running Linux on a MBP C2D know it's hard to keep the fans from spinning up from relatively little activity.
Next up is to get ATI to actually support any power saving features in fglrx on the MBP C2D and give the mAdWiFi guys more time to work out the features on the Atheros AR5008.
OSX, right now, still has a significant advantage in keeping heat and power consumption down. Even though, I imagine some will testify that even OSX is having a hard time with it...
True the AK47 is more reliable, it's loose tolerances will make it fire after being dipped in mud. Being heavier is irrelevant, overall weight savings means a soldier can carry more ammo. In the art of killing humans, I'd take the accuracy of the M-16 anyday.
Or, just check this out and make your own conclusion...
I2 from a connectivity standpoint really isn't anything different from I1. It's still an IP routed network and all your normal IP routed toys (www, ftp, home brew app) still work as advertised. The term Abilene is actually the name of the I2 backbone network. It was spawned as a second generation IP network (and yes it can route IPV6 natively) to connect research institutions. Allowing them to utilize the network for research and high speed data transfers. What kind of research? Well anything really, hear about those doctors doing remote robotic surgery? That data probably was traversing the Abilene backbone. Grid computing in acedemia? Probably connected via Abilene .
Just like the I1 backbone, Abilene, being a backbone network, peers and eventually splits off to regional controlled networks. The one I am familiar with is OARNet (Ohio Acedemic Research Network). OARNet provides high speed connectivity to Ohio campuses and peers with the Abilene I2 backbone in Indianapolis (from OARNet's POP in Cleveland).
From an I2 connected campus (meaning you have access to the Abilene backbone at somepoint), there really isn't anything special to connect over the Abilene core. The network gurus had the IPV4 routing setup in such a way that if you connected to an IP address that was available via Abilene, the data would go that path. Otherwise, it would route out over the standard I1 connection. Most of the time when I would have to download some big ISO images, I would specifically look for an Abilene (I2) connected peer. Downloads over 10MBit weren't uncommon (mostly limited by the load on at the server on the other end). Pretty cool really. I'm sure others around are using it for more important stuff other than downloading ISOs:).
Not necessarily true in open loop systems. Amperage draw is heavily influenced by the voltage applied to the device. Though there are other factors involved (aka clock speed), a lower input voltage will almost always result in a lower amperage draw, which results in lower power consumption.
I've never seen a light bulb stay the same brightness when I reduced the voltage to it. It gets dim, draws less amperage, and less power.
Ohms Law regulates this, though in AC environments it isn't as cut and dry as V = I * R.
I'm glad to see some folks still doing things the old fashioned way, even if it was a couple years ago. One question that I have, if anyone is familiar with zBox. Why not go with 2 or 3 racks packed with commercial 1u 2CPU nodes? Was it cost, Heating/cooling? Perhaps it just wouldn't of had that "this is cool shit" factor...
When being initially trialled/evaluated we would expect most anti-spam applications to run around 65 percent to 70 percent spam catch accuracy with very low to zero false positives in "default" or "out of the box" configurations.
Then, once given the benefit of being "tuned" or "tweaked" and having localised white and black lists applied they should run at about 85 percent to 92 percent
I don't know about everyone else, but I'd expect a little more out of a product that costs thousands to implement. With a little research and dedication my SA 3.0.1 setup has no problem spanking those numbers.
I'm also assuming that none of these products produced extremely stellar results. The article never mentions any statistics based upon corpus runs for any of them.
This is nothing more than TLA eyecandy...
Voted this morning in Columbus, Ohio. Arrived at 7:45AM and waiting in line approx. 1.5 hours. From talking with others in line, they said that previous waits were no longer than about 15 minutes.
The site had 4 semi-electronic voting booths. You signed in for roll, then was issued a "vote authority" ticket with a ballot number on it. Upon entering the booth, the worker would place your ticket in a folder hanging outside the booth. Inside, there was a big ballot with flashing LEDs on it. As you touched your candidate the LED would go solid indicating your vote. After all selections were made you hit a big green vote button. The clerk then appeared to take a printed ballot and your ticket and place them in an envelope.
I wanted to stick around and investigate the process more, but there were tons of people there who I didn't want to hold up by quizzing the clerk. I would of done so if I felt at odds with the voting technology, but from observation it seemed like the process was a good balance between the use of electronic mechanisms, ease of use, and having a human readable ballot for counting.
Tonight on Discovery Channel you can check you Black Sky. The documentary on SpaceShipOne and the Ansari X Prize. Be sure to check it out. It's simply amazing!
IIRC, The RSA devices that I've used in the past rely on accurate time synchronization with the server. While it was easy for me to have it reset, I wonder how they plan to handle this on a large scale? It would require the end user to physically send the device back to AOL.
I suppose eventually they may integrate GPS timing with them, making it a thing of the past, but who wants your fob tracking you...
First of all, check out this site to get the dvb drivers. For ease of use, they also have a patched kernel tree in CVS you can pull down and compile.
Second, if you're a non DirectTV satellite customer, you can get HDTV sat streams if your provider conforms to the DVB-S standard (ie not DirectTV). Or, if you're in Europe and your standard cable provider conforms to the DVB-C standard, you're in luck as well. Snap up one of the TechnoTrend cards from here. These have been reported to work with MythTV.
Now, for us in America and some other select countries, we're out of luck in the cable market. We've seemed to create another standard called OpenCable that the big boys like Time Warner are using.
As of right now there are no OpenCable cards available for Windows or Linux. The best we can do is OTA ATSC...
In addition to that the people have had their tours extended time after time. Studies show that after about 200 or so days in combat troops fall into a zombie like state, not really caring what happens next. These produce the infamous "thousand mile stare" pictures from WWII and Vietnam. Put young 20 something soldiers in a position with a lack of training, lack of leadership, lack of planning, and no knowledge when they'll be going home and you'll be suprised what you'll end up with.
The girl in the photo with the Iraqi on a leash is just 21 years old. I think that they were told to do this by interrogators. Imagine the amount of intimidation that was being handed down (via CIA or contrators) with a huge lack of support from superiors. That coupled with the attributes above probably made positioning for the photos seem rather fun for a change. The lawlessness instilled from the interrogators coupled with the desensitisation by everyone in the military continually calling these prisioners thugs, terrorists, etc. probably put them in a state where they didn't consider the long term affects.
All the conditions were set up by the military for this to happen. The sad part is those 6 young soldiers will stand trail as scapegoats for the whole incident. Why do you think all the media suppression happened? It takes a bit of time to plan the cover up so all the higher ups can keep their jobs/commands...
Other than the scripting challenge, what's on this site? I've read the guides to hacking, but it's all a bunch of kindergarden material. Seems if you follow the guides you'll certainly have insecure PHP scripts with all kinds of SQL injection. How about posting some real articles on secure PHP scripting...
Slashdot Mirror
The best one:
"Bruce Schneier slashdotted slashdot."
This one is also quite clever.
Mysql 5.1 has been in preproduction since November 2005 and still isn't available as a GA release (aka don't use it in production). Are they sure they can get a 6.0 GA release out by next fall?
This is really good of Google to contribute this back, I'm just wondering how long it will be before we all can utilize their changes. I hate to see the code stay stuck in the devel cycle for three years when Goggle is using it to their advantage right now at this very moment.
I am calm :) and no offense taken to your post. What I would guess (by your post) is that we have a lot in common. I hate war, but I love aerospace and technology. It's unfortunate that things like the SR-71 and F-22 satisfy my cravings for such.
As for Afghanistan, I feel the US abandoned that war for the push in Iraq. Especially when Iraq had no WMD's and nothing to do with 9/11. Now both countries are in a mess, with Afghanistan left to NATO.
To specifically answer your question, the F-22 gives us no advantage in Afghanistan and no advantage in Iraq. Such tech gives way to a lot of chest pounding, but really nothing else in terms of non conventional war.
A better question would be to list the last conventional wars fought (Falklands/82) vs non conventional (Vietnam) and compare the outcomes.
You'd think the world would of learned by now...
Don't be so quick to think that an active AN/APG-77 automatically opens up the F-22 to detection. The AN/APG-77 is a statically mounted phased array radar, with electronic beam stearing capability. This coupled with the fact that it has the ability to frequency hop about a 1000 times a second gives it a very low probability of intercept. Short pulses at varying frequencies and (probably) varying pulse duration, timing ,power, etc., keep it from being detected by the enemy's RWR.
I have been told that F-15C pilots at Red Flag could not detect the F-22's scanning them at beyond visual range (BVR). Nor could the F-15C's APG-63 radar detect the F-22 at BVR. They kill numbers would confirm this, but I have no official links to back it up (other than message board postings).
[Granted the F-15C and it's avionics don't represent the top of the line in modern technology anymore, so it's a grain of salt example. But I'll also point out that the F-15 has never been beaten in an actual air to air engagement to date.]
It's as much a defensive weapon as it is offensive, as quoted:
"I can't see the [expletive deleted] thing," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, exchange F-15 pilot in the 65th Aggressor Squadron. "It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me."
On other fronts, the F-22 represents our leading edge technology (even though it's essentially 1990's tech) and is what gives us an advantage. It's not surprising the technology isn't up for export. The F-15 and F-16 both were in the same position when they were introduced, but eventually were considered for export after there advantage subsided a bit (or "lower" tech versions of them were available).
As well, the F-22 is really expensive. The United States is one of the few countries (or groups of countries) that can pull off such an endeavor. This also naturally limits its export capability, there's simply few others that could afford to buy it.
IMHO, Japan will end up with export variants of the F-35 (the USAF already has F-22 stationed in Okinawa). And continue with their F-15 and possibly be allowed to construct a variant of the F-15E to replace their aging F-4s (though their limited production of F-2 can already fulfill this requirement).
Japan has tried this move before, they eventually canceled production of their F-2 program (basically a modernized F-16) and are looking to persuade the United Stated to open up more tech for them to acquire (again, probably the F-35, though possibly future F-22 export variants).
All Japan produced planes, so far, have been based on US tech. Any other home grown R&D project would be too expensive to survive in the political arena. There's no reason to believe this ATD-X project will find the same fate.
Finally, IMHO, it wouldn't be able to beat the F-22 is most engagements. Physical performance is only one aspect of why the F-22 is the best air superiority fighter in the world. Avionics, radar, and weapon load out represent some of the others. The ATD-X would just be too expensive to match the F-22 in all areas, if it sees flight, major compromises will have to be make.
This post coming from a guy who just saw the F-16, F-15, and F-22 fly back to back at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends.
Deep Brain Stimulation isn't necessarily a new technology. It has been helping folks with neuro-motor issues for awhile, with very good results for the most acute cases. It's not surprising to me that it's also been found beneficial for extreme cases of clinical depression.
DBS basically consists of two electrodes implanted deep within the brain, paper thin wires are then run down the neck to a pacemaker type device in the chest. The device can be programmed to emit various waveform pulses at different frequencies and voltages. After implantation, they tune all these parameters to find the best combination for the patient.
Like I said, I don't know it's benefits or results for depression, but for other diseases and syndromes it can be very beneficial. Video of patients, with beneficial outcomes.
I know this is just nitpicking, but I wouldn't call the Mig-25 or it's Turmansky jets a great technological success.
Yes, the jets may of been able to out run the F-15's of the day, but their maintenance requirements were extraordinary. A high speed run above mach 2 required them to be fully rebuilt. A high speed run above mach 2.8 for more than a few minutes generally resulted in the destruction of the engines.
That, coupled with the Mig-25's short effective combat radius (~180 miles with full load out), poor maneuverability (typical G loading limited to around 3 depending on fuel and load out), doesn't make it an effective interceptor. It makes it a cheap plane to produce with good numbers that really reflect on paper only.
Mig-25's have kills associated with their name, but none have ever intercepted an SR-71 (one task it was designed to handle). In a head on engagement (ie, F-15), their only defense is their speed, which results in massive maintenance or destruction of the engines.
I've never used ESX, but I would imagin that no matter what, ESX needs driver support.
Being a hypervisor, it has to access all kinds of devices like VGA consoles, serial ports, Fibre Channel HBAs, SCSI HBAs, IDE controllers (for CDROMs), Ethernet adapters, etc., etc. So my question is, where does the ESX hypervisor (vmkernel) get these? Does it pull them from Linux or did they write their own? This hardware _HAS_ to be setup, initialized, and arbitrated. Does vmkernel have it's own stack of device drivers, or does it conveniently run the ones in the Linux "bootloader"?
I'm thinking there's more to this than just the binary blob issue...
Any of the folks in the loop know if they use Lustre for their storage backend?
As an owner of a Macbook Pro, I've been waiting for this to get released. The Dynticks integration will (hopefully) help lower power consumption and heat output. Though this will help reduce heat and power on all platforms, those running Linux on a MBP C2D know it's hard to keep the fans from spinning up from relatively little activity.
:)
Next up is to get ATI to actually support any power saving features in fglrx on the MBP C2D and give the mAdWiFi guys more time to work out the features on the Atheros AR5008.
OSX, right now, still has a significant advantage in keeping heat and power consumption down. Even though, I imagine some will testify that even OSX is having a hard time with it...
Here's to testing out 2.6.21 tonight
True the AK47 is more reliable, it's loose tolerances will make it fire after being dipped in mud. Being heavier is irrelevant, overall weight savings means a soldier can carry more ammo. In the art of killing humans, I'd take the accuracy of the M-16 anyday.
Or, just check this out and make your own conclusion...
While looking at these a voice in my head kept saying, "Enhance....Enhance....Enhance...."
I2 from a connectivity standpoint really isn't anything different from I1. It's still an IP routed network and all your normal IP routed toys (www, ftp, home brew app) still work as advertised. The term Abilene is actually the name of the I2 backbone network. It was spawned as a second generation IP network (and yes it can route IPV6 natively) to connect research institutions. Allowing them to utilize the network for research and high speed data transfers. What kind of research? Well anything really, hear about those doctors doing remote robotic surgery? That data probably was traversing the Abilene backbone. Grid computing in acedemia? Probably connected via Abilene .
:).
Just like the I1 backbone, Abilene, being a backbone network, peers and eventually splits off to regional controlled networks. The one I am familiar with is OARNet (Ohio Acedemic Research Network). OARNet provides high speed connectivity to Ohio campuses and peers with the Abilene I2 backbone in Indianapolis (from OARNet's POP in Cleveland).
From an I2 connected campus (meaning you have access to the Abilene backbone at somepoint), there really isn't anything special to connect over the Abilene core. The network gurus had the IPV4 routing setup in such a way that if you connected to an IP address that was available via Abilene, the data would go that path. Otherwise, it would route out over the standard I1 connection. Most of the time when I would have to download some big ISO images, I would specifically look for an Abilene (I2) connected peer. Downloads over 10MBit weren't uncommon (mostly limited by the load on at the server on the other end). Pretty cool really. I'm sure others around are using it for more important stuff other than downloading ISOs
Bacteria.... Hell, in my neck of town we just use water!
Water Fuel Cell
Not necessarily true in open loop systems. Amperage draw is heavily influenced by the voltage applied to the device. Though there are other factors involved (aka clock speed), a lower input voltage will almost always result in a lower amperage draw, which results in lower power consumption.
I've never seen a light bulb stay the same brightness when I reduced the voltage to it. It gets dim, draws less amperage, and less power.
Ohms Law regulates this, though in AC environments it isn't as cut and dry as V = I * R.
Apparently CNN is also using it as a resource as well...
I'm glad to see some folks still doing things the old fashioned way, even if it was a couple years ago. One question that I have, if anyone is familiar with zBox. Why not go with 2 or 3 racks packed with commercial 1u 2CPU nodes? Was it cost, Heating/cooling? Perhaps it just wouldn't of had that "this is cool shit" factor...
When being initially trialled/evaluated we would expect most anti-spam applications to run around 65 percent to 70 percent spam catch accuracy with very low to zero false positives in "default" or "out of the box" configurations. Then, once given the benefit of being "tuned" or "tweaked" and having localised white and black lists applied they should run at about 85 percent to 92 percent
I don't know about everyone else, but I'd expect a little more out of a product that costs thousands to implement. With a little research and dedication my SA 3.0.1 setup has no problem spanking those numbers.
I'm also assuming that none of these products produced extremely stellar results. The article never mentions any statistics based upon corpus runs for any of them. This is nothing more than TLA eyecandy...
Voted this morning in Columbus, Ohio. Arrived at 7:45AM and waiting in line approx. 1.5 hours. From talking with others in line, they said that previous waits were no longer than about 15 minutes.
The site had 4 semi-electronic voting booths. You signed in for roll, then was issued a "vote authority" ticket with a ballot number on it. Upon entering the booth, the worker would place your ticket in a folder hanging outside the booth. Inside, there was a big ballot with flashing LEDs on it. As you touched your candidate the LED would go solid indicating your vote. After all selections were made you hit a big green vote button. The clerk then appeared to take a printed ballot and your ticket and place them in an envelope.
I wanted to stick around and investigate the process more, but there were tons of people there who I didn't want to hold up by quizzing the clerk. I would of done so if I felt at odds with the voting technology, but from observation it seemed like the process was a good balance between the use of electronic mechanisms, ease of use, and having a human readable ballot for counting.
Tonight on Discovery Channel you can check you Black Sky. The documentary on SpaceShipOne and the Ansari X Prize. Be sure to check it out. It's simply amazing!
IIRC, The RSA devices that I've used in the past rely on accurate time synchronization with the server. While it was easy for me to have it reset, I wonder how they plan to handle this on a large scale? It would require the end user to physically send the device back to AOL.
I suppose eventually they may integrate GPS timing with them, making it a thing of the past, but who wants your fob tracking you...
Ok, here's some tuners that will work on Linux.
First of all, check out this site to get the dvb drivers. For ease of use, they also have a patched kernel tree in CVS you can pull down and compile.
Second, if you're a non DirectTV satellite customer, you can get HDTV sat streams if your provider conforms to the DVB-S standard (ie not DirectTV). Or, if you're in Europe and your standard cable provider conforms to the DVB-C standard, you're in luck as well. Snap up one of the TechnoTrend cards from here. These have been reported to work with MythTV.
Now, for us in America and some other select countries, we're out of luck in the cable market.
We've seemed to create another standard called OpenCable that the big boys like Time Warner are using.
As of right now there are no OpenCable cards available for Windows or Linux. The best we can do is OTA ATSC...
" some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world."
And that's particularly different from the U.S. how? PCS vs. GSM...
In addition to that the people have had their tours extended time after time. Studies show that after about 200 or so days in combat troops fall into a zombie like state, not really caring what happens next. These produce the infamous "thousand mile stare" pictures from WWII and Vietnam. Put young 20 something soldiers in a position with a lack of training, lack of leadership, lack of planning, and no knowledge when they'll be going home and you'll be suprised what you'll end up with.
The girl in the photo with the Iraqi on a leash is just 21 years old. I think that they were told to do this by interrogators. Imagine the amount of intimidation that was being handed down (via CIA or contrators) with a huge lack of support from superiors. That coupled with the attributes above probably made positioning for the photos seem rather fun for a change. The lawlessness instilled from the interrogators coupled with the desensitisation by everyone in the military continually calling these prisioners thugs, terrorists, etc. probably put them in a state where they didn't consider the long term affects.
All the conditions were set up by the military for this to happen. The sad part is those 6 young soldiers will stand trail as scapegoats for the whole incident. Why do you think all the media suppression happened? It takes a bit of time to plan the cover up so all the higher ups can keep their jobs/commands...
Other than the scripting challenge, what's on this site? I've read the guides to hacking, but it's all a bunch of kindergarden material. Seems if you follow the guides you'll certainly have insecure PHP scripts with all kinds of SQL injection. How about posting some real articles on secure PHP scripting...