...from interacting with the person behind the post office counter? That person can remember what you look like and describe it to other people after you leave. Even if the person can't fully describe what you look like there is probably a video camera that captured some of your image that can jog the memory of the post office employee. I don't see any invasion of privacy here.
As the major source of research funding, I don't think that there is any way for government money to become undesirable. In fact, I don't think that there is any way government funding could become undersirable in ANY area.
Also, a lot of government research money comes with a contract that requires the institution getting the money to publish a scientific paper of their work.
I think that the DoD should treat open source the same way as it treats ALL software, regardless of the where it comes from.....untrusted until it is reviewed and the risks are identified and mitigated. Why the analysis process would be any different for a proprietary app vs. an open source app makes absolutely no sense to me.
I'd also like to see these so-called "DO-178B Level A" certified operating systems. I wonder what kinds of software has been written to run on them? Is there a GUI toolkit, basic tools, etc? Or maybe Mr. O'Dowd would prefer that the government pay his company to provide that?
There are many factors that you or the article don't consider. For example, it might have been cheaper, long-term, to continue Comanche helicopter development than it was to support the logistics for continued operations of the Apache. Just because R&D on a system is complete doesn't mean that the costs of the system have been paid. In fact, the sustainment phase of a system is the most costly, usually dwarfing the original R&D costs. Many of the existing weapons systems were deisgned using older engineering methodologies. They are man power intensive to maintain and don't have modular systems. I'm sure that there are many offshoot benefits from the Comanche program, both civilian and military.
Why does the peson writing the forecast have to live in the local area? I think that the least accurate form of forecasting has to be going outside and seeing what things look like. More likely they are using weather products generated from satellites and NEXRAD and projections from computer models to come up with fairly accurate forecasts. I'd rather have the radio station have someone who is an expert on meterology come up with the forecast then some TV or Radio personality who only knows how to read off a prompter.
Of course you like it. You didn't have to pay for most of it. The rest of the country did.
Right, and federal tax dollars from Massachusetts residents didn't pay for projects in every other state in the union? Just think of the Big Dig as a lump sum payment on the Massachusetts share.
How do you think that most states do any highway construction? Federal tax dollars are what does most of that work. In fact the federal government uses the highway construction dollars as leverage against the states to get them to support various laws. For example: if the state does not set the drinking age at 21, it is not eligible for federal highway construction money.
As a member of the US military, don't you think that those charged with the national security of the United States should be held to a higher standard? After all, if you can't trust me not to commit crimes while I'm home on leave, how can you trust me to handle weapons or classified information?
To this day I can't understand why professors think that I should give a crap because they are a prof. It has been my experience so far that professors don't think that they need to follow the rules. I'm not sure where this attitude comes from, but I don't see it in any other profession except for politicians, and professors are usually too anti-social for politics (or too left-wing radical).
I just took a class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the prof decided not to lecture for the last month of the course.....and the school let him get away with it!
I thought that professors were supposed to be at a school to teach. Most of the ones that I have dealt with have done everything in their power to avoid as much as possible of their teaching responsiblility.
Wouldn't the standard log on banner that states that any and all use of the system could be monitored, used in court, etc, etc, be useful in preventing legal action? How can someone sue you if you warned them that you were monitoring them?
The technology works by converting direct current (DC) electricity into microwave power at the transmitting end in the same way that switching on a microwave oven converts electricity into waves using a device called a magnetron. Residents are unlikely to be baked as the frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
I wonder what the probability of the residents being baked is? Hopefully they don't forget to test that part out before the turn it on.....
...maybe they will create a new meaning for french fry!
Guess you missed the day in math class where they talked about exponential functions. You might want to go back and review that part.....its kinda important.
(1) Ignore them (Has little effect al la China) Wored fine on Soviet Union. (in this context a little war over Vietnam/Afghanistan/some South-American contries don't count) It will probablly work on China in some years too.
Ignore them....good idea. This idea is what allowed Hitler to gain power and start a world war. The Cold War was NOT ignoring the Soviet Union. The US actively used its power to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding its influence. A lot of people spent many hours conducting operations to make that happen. Ignoring and appeasing people like Hitler and Saddam Hussien in the end only causes more problems than confronting them and removing them from power.
The fact that you can call the war in Vietnam a little war makes me sick. What is your definition of a "little war"....less than 100,000 casualties? How do you define WWII? A "big war"?
(2) Sanctions (Cuba, Iraq, Libia) Cuba: Castro still rules...Do I really need to say more?
Iraq: 600000 childrens dead under the sanctions; didn't work, Instead they strnghtened Saddams regime.
Libia: I would call it even. Sanctions have crippled their economy, but Ghadaffi still in power.
Sanctions do work....but only if they are applied and the issue is resolved in the short term. Sanctions are meant to be a warning and shouldn't remain in place for decades while the people the sanctions are designed to displace remain in power.
I think the numbers you quote above are incorrect.....either way, the world community did its best to prevent innocents from suffering. Remember....the UN eased the sanctions to allow Iraq to sell oil to buy food and medicine. What did Saddam do with the money? He used it to equip his military in violation of an agreement that he made with the UN.
(3) War Going to war over every disagreement ain't a long term solution in conflicts.
This is true. However, war is sometimes necessary. Iraq for instance.....we gave them over a decade to work out the disagreement. How long do you propose that we wait next time?
When you do that, you and everyone following your rhetoric fail to see that there are other options; such as trying to work out a deal trough UN.
Hmmm......I'm almost positive this is exactly what we did for over a decade.
You have bought in too strongly to the idea that if we curl up in our shell and ignore the bad things in the world, they will go away. This will never happen. The US learned awhile ago (Pearl Harbor) and recently (9/11) that an isolation policy does not ensure security.
So? Isn't this what we have computers for? I think you could go to Best Buy and get Quick Books for $50 and manage all of those numbers. Add for a little more cost (which the telco can get back from the customers) and you can build a database system that can track all of your equipment and neatly tally all of the costs of that equipment.
I would not want to be the engineer responsible for putting inner duct and fiber optic into steam pipes. Think about this for a second......steam has no limitations on how pipes are connected, what the radius of bends is, putting a Y in the pipe line, etc. However, fiber does have all kinds of limitations. I've seen people try to shove inner duct and fiber down a conduit run with a 90 in it and it wasn't pretty. For a conduit large enough to put 4 inner ducts in, we could only get one.
Those of us who disagree with the likes of the Dixie Chicks are also expressing our right to free speech. Since the people you mention are expressing a minority opinion, the majority is simply telling them that we don't agree. In the case of people who make money by selling records or acting, the way to express that viewpoint is to boycott their work.
I spoke with a RedHat marketing guy about the EOL calendar at LinuxWorld. Basically there will be two types of their distribution. The first will be a version with a one year EOL. This would be the version that you can DL an iso from ftp.redhat.com. The second type is the "professional" version of RedHat Server and RedHat Workstation. These versions will have longer EOL schedules and are designed for large organizations. You have to pay to get the professional version.
Parents need to take a more active role in what games their kids are playing. Instead of just pulling the box off the shelf, paying for the game, and giving it to their kids they need to understand what kind of material they are allowing their kids to view. Rather then try to put more restrictions on games, wouldn't the effort be better spent educating parents so they can make choices for their own children?
drug user = drug addict in my book. I don't care how you rationalize it for yourself.
They could have made her piss in a cup also. How about getting more evidence against her to make a good case for her termination. It usually takes lots of evidence against someone to fire them from a government job.
You must have read a different article then I did because there is no mention that the officer who ordered the investigation dated the cop that was being investigated.
When you work in a profession such as being a police officer you necessarily give up some of your rights. This has to be done to keep the profession from abusing their powers.
How about the fact that the cop was USING DRUGS?!?
Do you seriously want a police officer out on the street that is a drug addict? I don't think the cops did anything wrong by taking her trash, and I also find it amusing that the press took the mayor's trash. I'm sure that taking someone's garbage off their lawn is not all that has to happen to convict someone in court. As another poster points out, a defense attorney would not have much trouble creating resonable doubt. Also, think about it this way. Why would the police go and take trash from the dismissed cop unless they had good reason to suspect that she was a drug addict?
How can you blame Apple for fighting this company? Apple has spent large amounts of money to promote their name, logo, trademarks, etc. Most people do not see a difference between computers and telecommunications. You can't tell me that Apple Communications wasn't hoping to gain some quick name recognition by using "Apple" in their name. I can see it now..."Gee, it says Apple so it must be real easy to use, I know I saw that on TV yesterday."
Besides doesn't trademark law say that if you don't actively protect your trademarks then you can't complain when someone starts using them? Purely from a legal standpoint I'm sure a lot of this has to do with setting precedent for future trademark infringement cases.
You all know what MITRE stands for right?
MANY IDIOTS TRYING to RUN EVERYTHING
MITRE only wrote this paper because they saw other organizations beginning to use more open source and they felt that they need to jump on the bandwagon so they could claim that they pushed DoD in the direction of open source.
And, Yes, MITRE is just another freakin' contractor!
by using LCD projectors instead of monitors. You can either throw the screen onto a wall or have a rear-projection setup. With the LCD projectors and a little patience you can make the images sit next to each other perfectly and give the illusion of a monstrous desktop.
As someone who works on government contracts that generally involve someone writing software, I can say that my contracts are always written so that the govt retains rights to ALL code used in the project (i.e. the government has an unrestricted license to do as it pleases with the code used in the performance of the contract). You can't bring in code from other areas and NOT give me the source at the end of the contract. SO, if federal law said that the code had to be GPL'ed at the end of the contract, I would think that the answer to your question is yes.
I can also say that most govt lawyers and contracting officers aren't very knowledgeable on what exactly the GPL is. I've only met one legal person so far that knew what the GPL was and he couldn't really answer any of my questions about how we handle the GPL in relation to government software.
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...from interacting with the person behind the post office counter? That person can remember what you look like and describe it to other people after you leave. Even if the person can't fully describe what you look like there is probably a video camera that captured some of your image that can jog the memory of the post office employee. I don't see any invasion of privacy here.
As the major source of research funding, I don't think that there is any way for government money to become undesirable. In fact, I don't think that there is any way government funding could become undersirable in ANY area.
Also, a lot of government research money comes with a contract that requires the institution getting the money to publish a scientific paper of their work.
I think that the DoD should treat open source the same way as it treats ALL software, regardless of the where it comes from.....untrusted until it is reviewed and the risks are identified and mitigated. Why the analysis process would be any different for a proprietary app vs. an open source app makes absolutely no sense to me.
I'd also like to see these so-called "DO-178B Level A" certified operating systems. I wonder what kinds of software has been written to run on them? Is there a GUI toolkit, basic tools, etc? Or maybe Mr. O'Dowd would prefer that the government pay his company to provide that?
There are many factors that you or the article don't consider. For example, it might have been cheaper, long-term, to continue Comanche helicopter development than it was to support the logistics for continued operations of the Apache. Just because R&D on a system is complete doesn't mean that the costs of the system have been paid. In fact, the sustainment phase of a system is the most costly, usually dwarfing the original R&D costs. Many of the existing weapons systems were deisgned using older engineering methodologies. They are man power intensive to maintain and don't have modular systems. I'm sure that there are many offshoot benefits from the Comanche program, both civilian and military.
Why does the peson writing the forecast have to live in the local area? I think that the least accurate form of forecasting has to be going outside and seeing what things look like. More likely they are using weather products generated from satellites and NEXRAD and projections from computer models to come up with fairly accurate forecasts. I'd rather have the radio station have someone who is an expert on meterology come up with the forecast then some TV or Radio personality who only knows how to read off a prompter.
Of course you like it. You didn't have to pay for most of it. The rest of the country did.
Right, and federal tax dollars from Massachusetts residents didn't pay for projects in every other state in the union? Just think of the Big Dig as a lump sum payment on the Massachusetts share.
How do you think that most states do any highway construction? Federal tax dollars are what does most of that work. In fact the federal government uses the highway construction dollars as leverage against the states to get them to support various laws. For example: if the state does not set the drinking age at 21, it is not eligible for federal highway construction money.
As a member of the US military, don't you think that those charged with the national security of the United States should be held to a higher standard? After all, if you can't trust me not to commit crimes while I'm home on leave, how can you trust me to handle weapons or classified information?
...why the hell are you playing?!?!
Stop paying $20 a month, I'm sure that you can easily go out and find someone that will abuse you for free.
To this day I can't understand why professors think that I should give a crap because they are a prof. It has been my experience so far that professors don't think that they need to follow the rules. I'm not sure where this attitude comes from, but I don't see it in any other profession except for politicians, and professors are usually too anti-social for politics (or too left-wing radical).
I just took a class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the prof decided not to lecture for the last month of the course.....and the school let him get away with it!
I thought that professors were supposed to be at a school to teach. Most of the ones that I have dealt with have done everything in their power to avoid as much as possible of their teaching responsiblility.
Why do we tolerate that?
Wouldn't the standard log on banner that states that any and all use of the system could be monitored, used in court, etc, etc, be useful in preventing legal action? How can someone sue you if you warned them that you were monitoring them?
The technology works by converting direct current (DC) electricity into microwave power at the transmitting end in the same way that switching on a microwave oven converts electricity into waves using a device called a magnetron. Residents are unlikely to be baked as the frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
I wonder what the probability of the residents being baked is? Hopefully they don't forget to test that part out before the turn it on.....
...maybe they will create a new meaning for french fry!
Guess you missed the day in math class where they talked about exponential functions. You might want to go back and review that part.....its kinda important.
(1) Ignore them (Has little effect al la China) Wored fine on Soviet Union. (in this context a little war over Vietnam/Afghanistan/some South-American contries don't count) It will probablly work on China in some years too.
Ignore them....good idea. This idea is what allowed Hitler to gain power and start a world war. The Cold War was NOT ignoring the Soviet Union. The US actively used its power to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding its influence. A lot of people spent many hours conducting operations to make that happen. Ignoring and appeasing people like Hitler and Saddam Hussien in the end only causes more problems than confronting them and removing them from power.
The fact that you can call the war in Vietnam a little war makes me sick. What is your definition of a "little war"....less than 100,000 casualties? How do you define WWII? A "big war"?
(2) Sanctions (Cuba, Iraq, Libia) Cuba: Castro still rules...Do I really need to say more? Iraq: 600000 childrens dead under the sanctions; didn't work, Instead they strnghtened Saddams regime.
Libia: I would call it even. Sanctions have crippled their economy, but Ghadaffi still in power.
Sanctions do work....but only if they are applied and the issue is resolved in the short term. Sanctions are meant to be a warning and shouldn't remain in place for decades while the people the sanctions are designed to displace remain in power.
I think the numbers you quote above are incorrect.....either way, the world community did its best to prevent innocents from suffering. Remember....the UN eased the sanctions to allow Iraq to sell oil to buy food and medicine. What did Saddam do with the money? He used it to equip his military in violation of an agreement that he made with the UN.
(3) War Going to war over every disagreement ain't a long term solution in conflicts.
This is true. However, war is sometimes necessary. Iraq for instance.....we gave them over a decade to work out the disagreement. How long do you propose that we wait next time?
When you do that, you and everyone following your rhetoric fail to see that there are other options; such as trying to work out a deal trough UN.
Hmmm......I'm almost positive this is exactly what we did for over a decade.
You have bought in too strongly to the idea that if we curl up in our shell and ignore the bad things in the world, they will go away. This will never happen. The US learned awhile ago (Pearl Harbor) and recently (9/11) that an isolation policy does not ensure security.
So? Isn't this what we have computers for? I think you could go to Best Buy and get Quick Books for $50 and manage all of those numbers. Add for a little more cost (which the telco can get back from the customers) and you can build a database system that can track all of your equipment and neatly tally all of the costs of that equipment.
I would not want to be the engineer responsible for putting inner duct and fiber optic into steam pipes. Think about this for a second......steam has no limitations on how pipes are connected, what the radius of bends is, putting a Y in the pipe line, etc. However, fiber does have all kinds of limitations. I've seen people try to shove inner duct and fiber down a conduit run with a 90 in it and it wasn't pretty. For a conduit large enough to put 4 inner ducts in, we could only get one.
I think this guy is having a pipe dream....
Those of us who disagree with the likes of the Dixie Chicks are also expressing our right to free speech. Since the people you mention are expressing a minority opinion, the majority is simply telling them that we don't agree. In the case of people who make money by selling records or acting, the way to express that viewpoint is to boycott their work.
I spoke with a RedHat marketing guy about the EOL calendar at LinuxWorld. Basically there will be two types of their distribution. The first will be a version with a one year EOL. This would be the version that you can DL an iso from ftp.redhat.com. The second type is the "professional" version of RedHat Server and RedHat Workstation. These versions will have longer EOL schedules and are designed for large organizations. You have to pay to get the professional version.
Parents need to take a more active role in what games their kids are playing. Instead of just pulling the box off the shelf, paying for the game, and giving it to their kids they need to understand what kind of material they are allowing their kids to view. Rather then try to put more restrictions on games, wouldn't the effort be better spent educating parents so they can make choices for their own children?
drug user = drug addict in my book. I don't care how you rationalize it for yourself.
They could have made her piss in a cup also. How about getting more evidence against her to make a good case for her termination. It usually takes lots of evidence against someone to fire them from a government job.
You must have read a different article then I did because there is no mention that the officer who ordered the investigation dated the cop that was being investigated.
When you work in a profession such as being a police officer you necessarily give up some of your rights. This has to be done to keep the profession from abusing their powers.
How about the fact that the cop was USING DRUGS?!?
Do you seriously want a police officer out on the street that is a drug addict? I don't think the cops did anything wrong by taking her trash, and I also find it amusing that the press took the mayor's trash. I'm sure that taking someone's garbage off their lawn is not all that has to happen to convict someone in court. As another poster points out, a defense attorney would not have much trouble creating resonable doubt. Also, think about it this way. Why would the police go and take trash from the dismissed cop unless they had good reason to suspect that she was a drug addict?
How can you blame Apple for fighting this company? Apple has spent large amounts of money to promote their name, logo, trademarks, etc. Most people do not see a difference between computers and telecommunications. You can't tell me that Apple Communications wasn't hoping to gain some quick name recognition by using "Apple" in their name. I can see it now..."Gee, it says Apple so it must be real easy to use, I know I saw that on TV yesterday."
Besides doesn't trademark law say that if you don't actively protect your trademarks then you can't complain when someone starts using them? Purely from a legal standpoint I'm sure a lot of this has to do with setting precedent for future trademark infringement cases.
You all know what MITRE stands for right? MANY IDIOTS TRYING to RUN EVERYTHING MITRE only wrote this paper because they saw other organizations beginning to use more open source and they felt that they need to jump on the bandwagon so they could claim that they pushed DoD in the direction of open source. And, Yes, MITRE is just another freakin' contractor!
by using LCD projectors instead of monitors. You can either throw the screen onto a wall or have a rear-projection setup. With the LCD projectors and a little patience you can make the images sit next to each other perfectly and give the illusion of a monstrous desktop.
As someone who works on government contracts that generally involve someone writing software, I can say that my contracts are always written so that the govt retains rights to ALL code used in the project (i.e. the government has an unrestricted license to do as it pleases with the code used in the performance of the contract). You can't bring in code from other areas and NOT give me the source at the end of the contract. SO, if federal law said that the code had to be GPL'ed at the end of the contract, I would think that the answer to your question is yes.
I can also say that most govt lawyers and contracting officers aren't very knowledgeable on what exactly the GPL is. I've only met one legal person so far that knew what the GPL was and he couldn't really answer any of my questions about how we handle the GPL in relation to government software.