When he tried to break it off, they said, "Oh, no problem. By the way, totally unrelated matter, here's a picture of your daughter walking to school.
"Just thinking out loud, I wonder how much a girl like that would sell for in Russia. Anyway, yeah sure, if you want to stop spying for us, that's... oh, you're going to keep it up? That's cool too."
The stuff I know is freaking boring*. Part of OpSec is for me to simply divulge everything I know, then when the captors fall asleep, we just quietly walk out of the room.
I work with point clouds for scanning military vessels. That's what the data on the screen in Star Wars shows, point clouds.
Each compartment IRL is a couple of GB of data. The Death star, assuming 1000 compartments, would require several Terabytes of point cloud information in order for it to be useful to the Alliance. We have trouble moving individual compartments around our 1000 Network and it's just easier to move stuff around on portable hard drives.
Well first it allows you to have a country, which is nice for your GDP.
Second, there are thousands of contractors working on those ships. We're buying TVs, cars, gas, clothes, tools, food, etc. The refit for one ship here will boost the local GDP by...just under 5%, with another 2.5% across the country.
Third, all that procurement means that the steel mills, cable companies, transit manufacturers, etc, are going to hire more people, who in turn will be buying TVs, cars, gas, clothes, tools, food, etc.
I'd say my military contracting gig is pretty secure. You have to be born in the country, go through a background check, then a second background check, and all sorts of other goodies.
It's kind of a sticking point to not have FNs inspecting warships.
My kids (6 and 8) know that they can watch TV quietly in the mornings and they can grab snacks from the fruit bowl. They're perfectly able to put in a DVD, watch Netflix, or use the media player. (It helps that the first two auto-switch the TV to the right input)
Geez man, if you're going to have an electronic babysitter, let it sit when you're trying to sleep in.
As for "After Earth", well... it's just kind of a shame M. Night Shamylan keeps getting money
He seems like a talented-enough director... but what kind of imbecile writes a plot where aliens who are advanced enough to achieve FTL travel - yet too stupid to wear basic protection against water, a substance deadly to them - want to invade a planet literally drenched in the stuff??!
Okay, good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was screaming "THE ENTIRE FUCKING ATMOSPHERE IS FULL OF WATER YOU FUCKBAG!!".
I'll be able to go back to Silver City on Nov 7, when the restraining order lifts.
A bike helmet will not save your life in an accident. It's a thin piece of foam. It will, at best, reduce the severity of a head injury. Organ donor -> Lifelong affliction -> Bad concussion -> minor concussion -> bad headache. Or, it terms that Slashdotters can understand, it offers DR 1/- against head injuries. That's IFF it's worn correctly, and my observations show that helmets are worn correctly less than 10% of the time.
It's not magical, it only protects your cranium, and leaves your spine and the rest of your body flapping in the breeze. It can actually increase the risk of a very unlikely injury (twisting and ripping, but that's such a small likelyhood as to make no odds). Helmet or no, all you really have on is skintanium.
When you're biking, the only piece of safety gear you really have is what's under your helmet. Anticipate traffic, avoid accidents, and bike safe.
Now, I wear a helmet all the time when I'm biking. Where else would I put my helmet lights and mirror?
The press is most likely wrong. I've been on the news a couple of times, and they always get something wrong.
Any classified info is airgapped, end of story. I can do drawings on the [system] on the same computer I'm using for/. The vast, vast majority of drawings are not classified. (I joke that part of the OpSec is that if we get captured, I tell them everything I know, and when they fall asleep, we tiptoe out of the room. "In this circuit, we use cable LS2SJ-14. But in this circuit, we went to LS2SJ-12. Hey, PAY ATTENTION!" So like I was saying, we used LS2SJ-12 here...) If I want to look at anything that's classified, or even something that's CG, I have to do the following:
1. Have the clearance and the need to know. 2. Get a copy of the document sent to me, usually by FedEx. 3. Get a supervisor and go to the secure room, sign in, close the blinds and the door. 4. Get the HDD from the safe. 5. Check the computer, then put in the HDD. 6. Power up the computer. It's a stand-alone machine, that's what I was checking for. 7. Work. 8. Finish working. Print up stuff or burn it onto a disk. Fill out the form that shows that another copy of the material exists. 9. Power down the machine and put the HDD back in the safe. 10. Sign out of the secure room. 11. Mail the printout or CD to whoever it was that wanted it.
And that's for CG stuff. The TS stuff is watched constantly by people with weapons.
If someone can hack their way into a system where the info is not only powered off, but in a separate room from the equipment that can read it, inside a safe, then it's time to give the fuck up.
Actually, he's automated the entire White House with a bunch of Arduinos, five Raspberry Pis, and programmed the whole thing on a custom port of Visual Studio onto Slackware.
I'm actually reasonably good at talking to kids. It's really not too difficult, you get down to their level and let them lead the discussion. With boys, it's pretty easy because they like talking about Batman, and hey, I like Batman too. Also, I'm an Electrical Engineer just like Iron Man. Kids like talking to adults, it makes them feel like adults. But sadly, adults don't like it when you talk to their kids. Girls like talking about superheroes too, and they have favorites, but there's huge pressure on them to like princesses and pink and not think about how awesome Batman is.
I've got two kids of my own. The kids at my kids' preschool love talking to me, because I will actually talk to them. Same with strangers' kids. It's a great way to break the ice with the parents as well. "Yep, they're in the Batman / dinosaur / Polly Pocket stage, mine too."
For strangers, when I still had my wedding ring on, it was fine. Once I stopped wearing it, parents started the "oh yuck, creepy stranger is talking to my kids!" and would usher their kids away.
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That's why it's more important to give them false information 25% of the time than it is to worry about who or what is tracking you.
Poison the well.
Based on their hologram technology, no, they have some serious bandwidth problems.
Oh, I see what you're getting at.
If the military provides 5% of the GDP, then only 5% of the jobs are secure by that means.
Okay, your point is taken.
When he tried to break it off, they said, "Oh, no problem. By the way, totally unrelated matter, here's a picture of your daughter walking to school.
"Just thinking out loud, I wonder how much a girl like that would sell for in Russia. Anyway, yeah sure, if you want to stop spying for us, that's... oh, you're going to keep it up? That's cool too."
The stuff I know is freaking boring*. Part of OpSec is for me to simply divulge everything I know, then when the captors fall asleep, we just quietly walk out of the room.
*It's also not classified.
Harper's selling us out for $26k a month. Is that a better amount?
No.
I work with point clouds for scanning military vessels. That's what the data on the screen in Star Wars shows, point clouds.
Each compartment IRL is a couple of GB of data. The Death star, assuming 1000 compartments, would require several Terabytes of point cloud information in order for it to be useful to the Alliance. We have trouble moving individual compartments around our 1000 Network and it's just easier to move stuff around on portable hard drives.
Well first it allows you to have a country, which is nice for your GDP.
Second, there are thousands of contractors working on those ships. We're buying TVs, cars, gas, clothes, tools, food, etc. The refit for one ship here will boost the local GDP by...just under 5%, with another 2.5% across the country.
Third, all that procurement means that the steel mills, cable companies, transit manufacturers, etc, are going to hire more people, who in turn will be buying TVs, cars, gas, clothes, tools, food, etc.
I'd say my military contracting gig is pretty secure. You have to be born in the country, go through a background check, then a second background check, and all sorts of other goodies.
It's kind of a sticking point to not have FNs inspecting warships.
Can't I just have one authentication device?
No because patents.
My kids (6 and 8) know that they can watch TV quietly in the mornings and they can grab snacks from the fruit bowl. They're perfectly able to put in a DVD, watch Netflix, or use the media player. (It helps that the first two auto-switch the TV to the right input)
Geez man, if you're going to have an electronic babysitter, let it sit when you're trying to sleep in.
I dunno, sleeping in until 7:30 sounds pretty sweet to me.
It also looks like lots of pending work for EEs, here comes the gravy train, whoo whoo!
Well, it was a "mommies and me" showing.
Damn it man, most people stopped halfway through book 4. They don't reveal most of the cool shit until book 6.
As for "After Earth", well... it's just kind of a shame M. Night Shamylan keeps getting money
He seems like a talented-enough director... but what kind of imbecile writes a plot where aliens who are advanced enough to achieve FTL travel - yet too stupid to wear basic protection against water, a substance deadly to them - want to invade a planet literally drenched in the stuff??!
Okay, good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was screaming "THE ENTIRE FUCKING ATMOSPHERE IS FULL OF WATER YOU FUCKBAG!!".
I'll be able to go back to Silver City on Nov 7, when the restraining order lifts.
Actually, it's a dumping ground for the First World's industrial waste.
There are still pirates (ship-based) throughout the world. Ever hear of what's happening in Somalia? The West Coast of Mexico?
Just because the age of sail ended doesn't mean piracy ended.
That's not true.
A bike helmet will not save your life in an accident. It's a thin piece of foam. It will, at best, reduce the severity of a head injury. Organ donor -> Lifelong affliction -> Bad concussion -> minor concussion -> bad headache. Or, it terms that Slashdotters can understand, it offers DR 1/- against head injuries. That's IFF it's worn correctly, and my observations show that helmets are worn correctly less than 10% of the time.
It's not magical, it only protects your cranium, and leaves your spine and the rest of your body flapping in the breeze. It can actually increase the risk of a very unlikely injury (twisting and ripping, but that's such a small likelyhood as to make no odds). Helmet or no, all you really have on is skintanium.
When you're biking, the only piece of safety gear you really have is what's under your helmet. Anticipate traffic, avoid accidents, and bike safe.
Now, I wear a helmet all the time when I'm biking. Where else would I put my helmet lights and mirror?
The disks are encrypted, so it doesn't really matter.
The press is most likely wrong. I've been on the news a couple of times, and they always get something wrong.
Any classified info is airgapped, end of story. I can do drawings on the [system] on the same computer I'm using for /. The vast, vast majority of drawings are not classified. (I joke that part of the OpSec is that if we get captured, I tell them everything I know, and when they fall asleep, we tiptoe out of the room. "In this circuit, we use cable LS2SJ-14. But in this circuit, we went to LS2SJ-12. Hey, PAY ATTENTION!" So like I was saying, we used LS2SJ-12 here...) If I want to look at anything that's classified, or even something that's CG, I have to do the following:
1. Have the clearance and the need to know.
2. Get a copy of the document sent to me, usually by FedEx.
3. Get a supervisor and go to the secure room, sign in, close the blinds and the door.
4. Get the HDD from the safe.
5. Check the computer, then put in the HDD.
6. Power up the computer. It's a stand-alone machine, that's what I was checking for.
7. Work.
8. Finish working. Print up stuff or burn it onto a disk. Fill out the form that shows that another copy of the material exists.
9. Power down the machine and put the HDD back in the safe.
10. Sign out of the secure room.
11. Mail the printout or CD to whoever it was that wanted it.
And that's for CG stuff. The TS stuff is watched constantly by people with weapons.
If someone can hack their way into a system where the info is not only powered off, but in a separate room from the equipment that can read it, inside a safe, then it's time to give the fuck up.
USA, China and Russia are going to duke it out for who's top dog.
That is two big dogs and a chihuahua.
More like one giant cybernetically-enhanced genetically-modified killer dog, a litter of puppies, and an old dog with liver problems.
The US is the biggest dog on the planet, despite what you'll see on sites and shows that want to scare you to make money.
Actually, he's automated the entire White House with a bunch of Arduinos, five Raspberry Pis, and programmed the whole thing on a custom port of Visual Studio onto Slackware.
Fucker can code.
Stop it.
70% of the US debt is internal to the United States.
China only owns 7% of the total US debt.
I'm actually reasonably good at talking to kids. It's really not too difficult, you get down to their level and let them lead the discussion. With boys, it's pretty easy because they like talking about Batman, and hey, I like Batman too. Also, I'm an Electrical Engineer just like Iron Man. Kids like talking to adults, it makes them feel like adults. But sadly, adults don't like it when you talk to their kids. Girls like talking about superheroes too, and they have favorites, but there's huge pressure on them to like princesses and pink and not think about how awesome Batman is.
I've got two kids of my own. The kids at my kids' preschool love talking to me, because I will actually talk to them. Same with strangers' kids. It's a great way to break the ice with the parents as well. "Yep, they're in the Batman / dinosaur / Polly Pocket stage, mine too."
For strangers, when I still had my wedding ring on, it was fine. Once I stopped wearing it, parents started the "oh yuck, creepy stranger is talking to my kids!" and would usher their kids away.
and sex shouldn't matter.
You sound like my ex-wife.
I love my smart meter. My electric bill is half what it used to be.
Of course, that was after I installed my own software on it, but hey, fuck em they're a power company.