....I just want them to get their collective scat together. I am on the board of a non-profit organization and I have to file "articles of amendment" using a state form. It is a pdf. It was not authored as a fill-in form and as far as I can tell it is not editable in any way (I made a half hearted attempt with a full version of Adobe 5)
I asked the office of the secretary of state if there was an alternative format since I could not edit the document for electronic submittal. I was told (actual quote) "Our only
suggestion would be to locate a typewriter; most likely at your local public
library."
I work at a lab of over 2000 engineers and scientists and computer professionals. I'm appalled at the number of people that use IE here, despite our allegedly high computer security stance....it's pathetic, I hope we get infected and badly.
As far as my family/friends go, they've all been warned that if they use IE I will not fix their computers.
Prius mileage is VERY variable. In the coldest part of the winter we get in the low 40s or even the high 30's occasionally (disappointing). In the rain, or slush it gets very bad too (increased rolling resistance).
When it's warm we usually are in the 50's on average. In really hot weather with an ideal traffic pattern, and a driver interested in maximizing battery usage, it's pretty easy to hit 60 MPG
The 66.5 I quoted was one particular commute, my wifes actually, she arrived home and beeped the horn, refusing to shut off the car until I came out to witness the 66.5.
I bought my prius to replace my 15 year old celica. I didn't buy it to save money, I bought it because it was an interesting/cool car in my price range. The fact that it is a hybrid entered into MY purchase equation but it wasn't the only reason.
The fact that I've gotten as much as 66.5 mpg (after a 50 mile round trip commute) is just icing on the cake.
I'm printing this out in 72pt font or larger and putting it on my office wall monday.
After TQM a few years ago (SPC was moderately successful), followed by a full on assault of CMMi, I'm now living through "Lean". Lean has tied up 20 people for a week, with 3 consultants to identify 10 things that will allegedly save $100k in 1 year if we successfully implement them. By a conservative estimate, we spent $40k to identify these potential savings that I cynically do not think will happen.
I don't think this is a kitchen sink addition. I think this will be a welcome addition to a very large fraction of C# developers. First, my gut feeling is that the majority of non-trivial C# applications connect to databases of some kind, this will help that. Second, even if you don't use a DBMS this will be useful for complex operations on pretty much any data structure that you create.
This will make me a lot more productive and I'm going to install it ASAP!
Are there toolkits available for this? Like maybe something for SciLab I'd love to let a linux bot roam around my yard if it could recognize the boundaries.
This is amazingly timely because 10 minutes ago I finished writing an article for our internal newsletter (a "feel good" thing for our developers) about how to use Ajax.
I wrote a quick demo page with less than a screenfull of javascript and that included browser detection, a reusable main function and it's callback, plus a function specific to my example.
Ok mod me down because I didn't read the article (yet) but why is a "framework" necessary.
Suppose I design a P2P service for music where I share content that I have legally acquired. I share song XYZ to the world, along with a number of other people who happen to own and share the same song.
So there are n legal copies being shared. If a user wants to play song XYZ they scan the P2P network for a copy not in use, if they find one, they lock it so that no one else including the owner can play it, they listen to it and then the file is unlocked for further use.
If there are n copies in use then the request is denied.
Hypothetically, would that be legal? or more legal or (in a miracle max voice) "mostly legal"?
A friend of mine bought a brand new lower end dell about 3 months ago. It had XP home but only 256MB of RAM. With SP2, a third party firewall, an anti-virus suite, some parental control software, and Ad-aware running he could not launch media player which was the only thing he wanted the computer for! (to listen to stock market conference calls not pr0n)
We've had our roomba discovery for about 2 months. Bought on a whim, I was skeptical that it would be anything other than a novelty. Not only am I surprised, my *very* skeptical wife approves with two thumbs up.
We are pretty good about vacuuming and even still, when we let the roomba loose he can still pick up a lot of dirt. And watching him seek back home when it's (his?) batteries run low is pretty cool. I'll definitely be looking into this new gadget!
I think BG is right though. I have a cell phone and an iPod. I don't *want* both, but I have both. Combine them and make them better than the sum of their parts and I'll happily give up my iPod.
If you have a Secret document on a secret computer and you want the unclassified portion of the secret document on an unclassified computer (this is a fairly common occurence) you have to follow the procedure I stated and referenced. You must save it in an ascii human readable format, then copy it to a virgin formatted floppy (and if I recall correctly you cannot format it on the secret machine either) then copy the unclassified subset, write protect the floppy, then put the floppy back in and reread the ascii text.
You can't copy via CD nor via USB memory device. It's a pain, but if you follow these procedures you won't have a classified spill.
It is hard to get some special custom engineering binary format approved (where the contractor has 100% knowledege of file format and can account for exact meaning of every byte).
I would say the chances of getting a binary format approved are essentially zero. The only possible solution would be a commercial "High Assurance Guard" product and they are well over $100k, plus continued administrative costs to run it would be significant.
Parent (me) IS correct. I am an ISSM and those are our Command-wide, and I believe Navy-wide and possibly DoD-wide policies for Cross Domain Interface Process (CDIP). References available at http://www.infosec.navy.mil./
I can accept the fact that there is a framework to grant wiggle-room for "unique" situations, however after personally witnessing spills due to proprietary office documents coupled with stupid users I would be hard pressed to ever accept a process that allowed downgrading MS Office documents.
This is 100% of a case of people not being properly trained and not following security procedures.
Secret data must be stored only on computers cleared for secret processing. Secret documents can only be downgraded to unclassified by deletion of the text followed by exporting it to plain ASCII text only.
Word documents, Powerpoint presentations, PDFs, etc cannot ever be transfered from a secret computer to an unclassified computer even if the original file is unclassified. The only allowable format is human readable text. Basically, if you can't read it in notepad, you cannot copy it from a classified computer to an unclassified computer.
These are the rules, unfortunately not everyone follows them (convenience) or is properly trained.
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I asked the office of the secretary of state if there was an alternative format since I could not edit the document for electronic submittal. I was told (actual quote) "Our only suggestion would be to locate a typewriter; most likely at your local public library."
I work at a lab of over 2000 engineers and scientists and computer professionals. I'm appalled at the number of people that use IE here, despite our allegedly high computer security stance....it's pathetic, I hope we get infected and badly.
As far as my family/friends go, they've all been warned that if they use IE I will not fix their computers.
So a dual core new offering might be as good as a 2+ year old G4??
Is the Pentium M really that bad? Is the G4 really THAT good?
Prius mileage is VERY variable. In the coldest part of the winter we get in the low 40s or even the high 30's occasionally (disappointing). In the rain, or slush it gets very bad too (increased rolling resistance).
When it's warm we usually are in the 50's on average. In really hot weather with an ideal traffic pattern, and a driver interested in maximizing battery usage, it's pretty easy to hit 60 MPG
The 66.5 I quoted was one particular commute, my wifes actually, she arrived home and beeped the horn, refusing to shut off the car until I came out to witness the 66.5.
I bought my prius to replace my 15 year old celica. I didn't buy it to save money, I bought it because it was an interesting/cool car in my price range. The fact that it is a hybrid entered into MY purchase equation but it wasn't the only reason.
The fact that I've gotten as much as 66.5 mpg (after a 50 mile round trip commute) is just icing on the cake.
After TQM a few years ago (SPC was moderately successful), followed by a full on assault of CMMi, I'm now living through "Lean". Lean has tied up 20 people for a week, with 3 consultants to identify 10 things that will allegedly save $100k in 1 year if we successfully implement them. By a conservative estimate, we spent $40k to identify these potential savings that I cynically do not think will happen.
Everybody makes fun of the poëpli databses....
luxury!
We had no zeros at all and had to use twigs for ones!
I don't think this is a kitchen sink addition. I think this will be a welcome addition to a very large fraction of C# developers. First, my gut feeling is that the majority of non-trivial C# applications connect to databases of some kind, this will help that. Second, even if you don't use a DBMS this will be useful for complex operations on pretty much any data structure that you create.
This will make me a lot more productive and I'm going to install it ASAP!
Give a lazy man a job and he finds the easiest way to do it.
I think I read that in Beetle Bailey 20 years ago....words to live by.
"This is going to get interesting"
:)
"define 'interesting'"
"oh god, oh god we're all going to die?"
Loved the delivery, can't wait to see this
Are there toolkits available for this? Like maybe something for SciLab I'd love to let a linux bot roam around my yard if it could recognize the boundaries.
re point 2....my *.mil is a class B servicing around 4k hosts :(
This is amazingly timely because 10 minutes ago I finished writing an article for our internal newsletter (a "feel good" thing for our developers) about how to use Ajax.
I wrote a quick demo page with less than a screenfull of javascript and that included browser detection, a reusable main function and it's callback, plus a function specific to my example.
Ok mod me down because I didn't read the article (yet) but why is a "framework" necessary.
Suppose I design a P2P service for music where I share content that I have legally acquired. I share song XYZ to the world, along with a number of other people who happen to own and share the same song.
So there are n legal copies being shared. If a user wants to play song XYZ they scan the P2P network for a copy not in use, if they find one, they lock it so that no one else including the owner can play it, they listen to it and then the file is unlocked for further use.
If there are n copies in use then the request is denied.
Hypothetically, would that be legal? or more legal or (in a miracle max voice) "mostly legal"?
A friend of mine bought a brand new lower end dell about 3 months ago. It had XP home but only 256MB of RAM. With SP2, a third party firewall, an anti-virus suite, some parental control software, and Ad-aware running he could not launch media player which was the only thing he wanted the computer for! (to listen to stock market conference calls not pr0n)
We are pretty good about vacuuming and even still, when we let the roomba loose he can still pick up a lot of dirt. And watching him seek back home when it's (his?) batteries run low is pretty cool. I'll definitely be looking into this new gadget!
Now if it could only run Apache....
I think BG is right though. I have a cell phone and an iPod. I don't *want* both, but I have both. Combine them and make them better than the sum of their parts and I'll happily give up my iPod.
Give it a shot. The MythTV interface is really intuitive. My wife and 3 kids all picked it up in minutes with no problems.
In that one, it said the stuff cost over $1k/gal.
If you have a Secret document on a secret computer and you want the unclassified portion of the secret document on an unclassified computer (this is a fairly common occurence) you have to follow the procedure I stated and referenced. You must save it in an ascii human readable format, then copy it to a virgin formatted floppy (and if I recall correctly you cannot format it on the secret machine either) then copy the unclassified subset, write protect the floppy, then put the floppy back in and reread the ascii text.
You can't copy via CD nor via USB memory device. It's a pain, but if you follow these procedures you won't have a classified spill.
I would say the chances of getting a binary format approved are essentially zero. The only possible solution would be a commercial "High Assurance Guard" product and they are well over $100k, plus continued administrative costs to run it would be significant.
I can accept the fact that there is a framework to grant wiggle-room for "unique" situations, however after personally witnessing spills due to proprietary office documents coupled with stupid users I would be hard pressed to ever accept a process that allowed downgrading MS Office documents.
Secret data must be stored only on computers cleared for secret processing. Secret documents can only be downgraded to unclassified by deletion of the text followed by exporting it to plain ASCII text only.
Word documents, Powerpoint presentations, PDFs, etc cannot ever be transfered from a secret computer to an unclassified computer even if the original file is unclassified. The only allowable format is human readable text. Basically, if you can't read it in notepad, you cannot copy it from a classified computer to an unclassified computer.
These are the rules, unfortunately not everyone follows them (convenience) or is properly trained.