I do not disagree with the "speed-bump" analogy... just how you define "self-sustaining".
From what I recall, the first ground troops were the 101st Airborne (arriving on day 2 or so). Now these troops by all definitions are not self-sustaining. From what I recall, they arrive with only a few days of food, limitted headquarters and no combined arms... just small arms.
Contrast that with the marines who arrived a day or so later with all their vehicles, aircraft, artillery, man-pads, etc and the supplies to last about a month or so.
Of course, eventually (weeks-months) the regular army arrives with essentially unlimitted supplies, but they (troops and equipment) have to ferried to the region, (90% of non-personnel by sealife by-the-way).
I guess my point was that what the marines deliver compared with options A and C is pretty impressive considering the timeliness.
Actually, the Navy was there with multiple carriers within days and as I recall the 101st airborne was there within a day or two and the Marines showed up with the first "permanent" ground forces (meaning they brought their own supplies and were self-sustaining) a couple days after that.
How dare you make fun of the anti-Microsoft Nazis....see they already modded you as flamebait... for pointing out that it is yet another lego article... Note... if you had said it was a moon-landing conspiracy or Patriot Act privacy conspiracy, you'd have been modded up as insightful.
Perhaps I am mistaken and am thinking of above the Rotunda... It was certainly the highest place on Bancroft. The only place that looked higher was the dome of course and maybe the top of the Mahann clocktower. The place I was thinking of is accessed via a trapdoor is a "rooftop" about 10ft x 5 ft with high walls. There is another just like it accessed from the other side of the rotunda. As for sex "on" the hall, I seem to recall there was a gnarly water-soaked matress up there too. Someone must have been REALLY desperate to lug that thing up those ladders. Now that I think of it, there were some matresses at various places in the Ho Chi Minh trail under Stribling but they were equally nasty.
Now that is classic,... why didn't we think of that... we spend most of our time running around the Ho Chi Minh trail (I sat on a rat trap in a tunnel under Nimitz once) ostracizing the Jimmy Legs (getting them to chase us then locking them out of their cars...you'd think they'd learn). I hear there are burglar alarms now covering the entrances to the trail...shame. We also used to climb to the roof over Memorial hall via the catacombs and the catwalks above them. Excellent view up there.
I actually took bowling for my senior PE class. I have a picture somewhere of me bowling in reg PE gear (USNA bowling shoes and everything).
Bah! "When I was a plebe..." upperclass would come to our rooms to play their games on our spiffy new 386s. And don't even get me started about the internet... about 50 of use knew how to use Procomm to connect to a mainframe that had external IRC and FTP access and that was about it. Of course,... "When I was a firstie..." we would go into the plebes' rooms to check out their spiffy new 486s with CD-ROMS...wow. Oh yeah... back then the academy still had a bowling alley under 3rd wing and pool tables in memorial hall but I digress.
Exactly! My issue was the continued attacks on Windows for its stability which just isn't a problem anyore. Don't get me wrong, by no means am I knocking apple or *nix.
How is it that the Mac and Linux Nazis can still get away with the ridiculous claims about the "boue screen of death" and "drive conflicts". Are they still using Windows95? This is almost 2003 you know... I didn't even get the "BSD" with Win98. I made the "switch"... except I went from RedHat 6.2/Windows98 to WindowsXP and I don't plan on going back. Had it for about 9 months and it still hasn't crashed once.
Why? Because an agency of the government considered then dropped research in a way to make portions of the internet non-anonymous. Of course, your twisted little paranoid brains instantly assume this means the government wants to eliminate the anonymous internet. (find this in the article for me).
I don't necessarily think this is a bad idea. Believe it or not, there are quite a few good uses for this. Let me make a comparison to SSL connections. SSL is a technology that allows for data to move across the internet rather securely. Note, not all of the internet requires SSL, just those websites where the website owner and the client both think it would be a good idea. Of course, only your data is secure, not your identity. So lets add another layer with digital signatures. Now you can protect your data and limit those imposters to anyone who has access to your signature keys.
This is merely a technology that would allow the next step. Moving data around the internet with even greater assurance that you sent it.
Think of how this could reduce internet identity crime. Amazon.com gets cracked and your credit card info swiped? Useless without your eDNA.
What about sites like cNet or ZDnet whose review sections have just become a joke since PR firms have been loading up the user reviews with bogus perfect ratings even before the product is available.
Here is a pet peave of mine... I have participated in several eBay auctions where it was very apparent that the seller was "shrilling" (using other aliases to fraudulently raise the price). Believe it or not, this is a federal crime. Sites like eBay would be an ideal candidate for this type of technology to prevent this and other types of fraud.
Also this technology doesn't necessarily take away your identity. For instance, lets say you want to use an anonymous sounding handle on eBay and register for an eDNA pass with them. Now lets say you register with your DMV or something with your "real" name and get another. If the registration system is decentralized, then your anonymous eBay identity is more or less secure, provided that the the two different registration sources do not share data. Of course, this opens a whole can of worms with regard to attaining warrants for your eDNA info.
Big picture: This is about developing technology that would allow for (not mandate) areas of the internet to reduce the risks associated with anonymous traffic.
Dude,
Thanks! I have no idea why I thought it passed... of course the extreme-left local media here in Monterey probably made it appear as though it passed...
A classic case of this just occurred in California. We, the idiots of California just passed an "election-day registration" proposition that allows people to vote without photo ID. Thats right, if you don't have a photo ID, you can just bring two utility bills with your name and address on them and you can vote. Republicans were against this not because it would encourage more voting but because it opens the door to fraud.
Hell, IMHO I don't care how late you register but at least lets make sure people are eligible to vote! (i.e. citizen, non-felon)
With regard to the belief that the Constitution gives the right to overthrow a government... he is pretty much right! If you study the works of the founding fathers, it is pretty clear that that is why the second ammendment is,...well, second!
Put yourself in their shoes... they had just broken free from England by force. They firmly believed that English rule was tyranical and took up arms to break free. In this light, it is easy to see how the founding fathers would be weary of government. The second ammendment is not in the Constitution so that every yahoo redneck and crack dealer has the right to shoot tin cans. The second ammendment is a final check-and-balance when all others fail, granting the right of the people to bear arms such that should the need arise, a militia could be formed.... not to fend off the Indians or English mind you.. but the government.
Of course there isn't a "right" to overthrow the government,... they just wanted to make sure it was possible.
Of course, some will say that this is only my interpretation...but don't take my word for it! Lets do a google search and see what thye founding father had to say...
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of the territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition, and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements, and the military force in the possession of the usurpers can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to insure success to the popular resistance. -
Alexander Hamilton,Federalist Paper #28
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments,to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. -
James Madison, Federalist Paper #26
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -
Abraham Lincoln
What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. -
Thomas Jefferson
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.-
Abraham Lincoln
Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at the individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny, or private defense. -
John Adams
No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -
Thomas Jefferson
Good... I prefer "nerd" anyways... have you ever looked up the definitions of nerd and geek anyway?
Oh, and thanks for having the balls to post under your handle.
Let me make it more clear for my Anonymous Cowardly freind:
Mod chips can allow for untrusted code to be run by an Xbox. This code could possibly be something like an aimbot or some other game client-side game cheat(lets not go into the whole...is it smart to have client side checks..blah blah). Lets say the little cheater's code (perhaps maliciously) sends baddly formed data words to the server possibly doing damage, but likely ruining someone else's game experience. Is this so inconvievable? It happens all the time with PC MMRPGs and game server have been brought down by cheaters.
How many times have your heard a "Leet" Linux nazi shout RTFM? Well, in this case RTFE. (EULA). It is their service. The box is your hardware Now, I'll side with you that you have the right to modify said hardware anyway you choose. IMHO, you paid for it, you can use it how you want... however connecting to their network is completely another matter.
Why would they want to be responsible for some hacker bringing down their server because they hacked their box to do [fill in the blank] and screwed with some important protocol or something that causes their server to crash?
As for using foul language... what is your problem with that? Again, their server, they make the rules. You are not entilted to anything. If you have problems with their rules, than I suggest you don't buy one. Oh, and anti-language rules are relatively common in MMRPGs so it's not like that would be so shocking either. I actually prefer to play games with others who do not continuously spam my screen sexually immature comments.
Where is all the outrage about all those stickers on your components that say "warranty void if removed"? Or do you only rant about Microsoft (that was rhetorical).
You claim that progress will slow down if information is not shared.
I think the exact opposite is true,...if companies can not protect their R&D investments from their competitors, they won't spend the type of money that need to be spent (or take the risks that need to be taken) to continue technological progress.
Face it, large corporations (driven by market forces), not academia, have become the driving force behind technological advancement. Academia simply can not produce the inceasingly large funds required as technology research becomes prohibitively expensive.
Of course, I am playing devil's advocate to some extent, the truth probably lies somewhere between us both.
What you call "transparently corrupt" would more correctly be described as being protective of the intellectual property of individuals and corporations. This allows corporations to spend significant amounts of money for R&D without having their ideas stollen. You can argue whether or not large corporations should have such protections, but it is exactly this encouragement of competition that drives America to the forefront of all areas of technology as opposed to a being a country that prides itself on say, only making good cell-phones.
I know I will probably get clobbered by the anti-microsoft nazis but here goes... Windows XP works great for me. The OS has not crashed once in about 8 months. Sure, poorly written applications crash every once in a while but they don't bring down the OS like they did with Windows 9x. As for security, here is an anectode that is somewhat interesting. My brother and I both got Windows XP at about the same time and both have high-speed, always-on connections. My brother didn't trust the integrated microsoft firewall and put on Norton Firewall. He just recently reinstalled his OS after being completely owned for several months. After he complained about slow downloads, I talked him through checking his system and low and behold, some kids were using it as an ftp server. Doh! As for me, I stuck with the simple Microsoft firewall and haven't had a problem yet. (or should that be... don't know of any problems yet...)
Back to the subject...
As for making games run, try the following links:
link1link2link3
on how to get older games to work with XP. One piece of gouge that is not above but I have read in a magazine is that you can try copying the game to your hard disk, then running the SETUP program in compatability mode. I haven't tried it but it worked for whoever wrote the article.
I disagree, the denial of funding for not doing X is only the same as mandating not-doing X if libraries were the only place you could do this!
Also, the funding in question is for educational computer upgrades. No library would have to close because they didn't get this funding, they would merely not get new computers (I assume this doesn't apply to administrative-related computers)
As for which party affiliation this position is associated with, I would say it is equal parts Republican and Democrat. There is an odd element of the left that tries to ban music/porn etc with just as much zeal as the right. Don't know why you would throw libertarianism in there as they would clearly be against such laws.
Not at all,.. this is just a law. It is very likely that this law will be upheld as again, no rights are being taken away. There is no right to "view porn in libraries". The right to view porn elsewhere is intact. That being said, the constitutional way of getting rid of the law is to vote for a representative who will vote to repeal it.
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From what I recall, the first ground troops were the 101st Airborne (arriving on day 2 or so). Now these troops by all definitions are not self-sustaining. From what I recall, they arrive with only a few days of food, limitted headquarters and no combined arms... just small arms.
Contrast that with the marines who arrived a day or so later with all their vehicles, aircraft, artillery, man-pads, etc and the supplies to last about a month or so.
Of course, eventually (weeks-months) the regular army arrives with essentially unlimitted supplies, but they (troops and equipment) have to ferried to the region, (90% of non-personnel by sealife by-the-way).
I guess my point was that what the marines deliver compared with options A and C is pretty impressive considering the timeliness.
Actually, the Navy was there with multiple carriers within days and as I recall the 101st airborne was there within a day or two and the Marines showed up with the first "permanent" ground forces (meaning they brought their own supplies and were self-sustaining) a couple days after that.
How dare you make fun of the anti-Microsoft Nazis....see they already modded you as flamebait... for pointing out that it is yet another lego article... Note... if you had said it was a moon-landing conspiracy or Patriot Act privacy conspiracy, you'd have been modded up as insightful.
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Perhaps I am mistaken and am thinking of above the Rotunda... It was certainly the highest place on Bancroft. The only place that looked higher was the dome of course and maybe the top of the Mahann clocktower. The place I was thinking of is accessed via a trapdoor is a "rooftop" about 10ft x 5 ft with high walls. There is another just like it accessed from the other side of the rotunda. As for sex "on" the hall, I seem to recall there was a gnarly water-soaked matress up there too. Someone must have been REALLY desperate to lug that thing up those ladders. Now that I think of it, there were some matresses at various places in the Ho Chi Minh trail under Stribling but they were equally nasty.
I actually took bowling for my senior PE class. I have a picture somewhere of me bowling in reg PE gear (USNA bowling shoes and everything).
Bah! "When I was a plebe..." upperclass would come to our rooms to play their games on our spiffy new 386s. And don't even get me started about the internet... about 50 of use knew how to use Procomm to connect to a mainframe that had external IRC and FTP access and that was about it. Of course,... "When I was a firstie..." we would go into the plebes' rooms to check out their spiffy new 486s with CD-ROMS...wow. Oh yeah... back then the academy still had a bowling alley under 3rd wing and pool tables in memorial hall but I digress.
Exactly! My issue was the continued attacks on Windows for its stability which just isn't a problem anyore. Don't get me wrong, by no means am I knocking apple or *nix.
How is it that the Mac and Linux Nazis can still get away with the ridiculous claims about the "boue screen of death" and "drive conflicts". Are they still using Windows95? This is almost 2003 you know... I didn't even get the "BSD" with Win98. I made the "switch"... except I went from RedHat 6.2/Windows98 to WindowsXP and I don't plan on going back. Had it for about 9 months and it still hasn't crashed once.
I don't necessarily think this is a bad idea. Believe it or not, there are quite a few good uses for this. Let me make a comparison to SSL connections. SSL is a technology that allows for data to move across the internet rather securely. Note, not all of the internet requires SSL, just those websites where the website owner and the client both think it would be a good idea. Of course, only your data is secure, not your identity. So lets add another layer with digital signatures. Now you can protect your data and limit those imposters to anyone who has access to your signature keys.
This is merely a technology that would allow the next step. Moving data around the internet with even greater assurance that you sent it.
Think of how this could reduce internet identity crime. Amazon.com gets cracked and your credit card info swiped? Useless without your eDNA.
What about sites like cNet or ZDnet whose review sections have just become a joke since PR firms have been loading up the user reviews with bogus perfect ratings even before the product is available.
Here is a pet peave of mine... I have participated in several eBay auctions where it was very apparent that the seller was "shrilling" (using other aliases to fraudulently raise the price). Believe it or not, this is a federal crime. Sites like eBay would be an ideal candidate for this type of technology to prevent this and other types of fraud.
Also this technology doesn't necessarily take away your identity. For instance, lets say you want to use an anonymous sounding handle on eBay and register for an eDNA pass with them. Now lets say you register with your DMV or something with your "real" name and get another. If the registration system is decentralized, then your anonymous eBay identity is more or less secure, provided that the the two different registration sources do not share data. Of course, this opens a whole can of worms with regard to attaining warrants for your eDNA info.
Big picture: This is about developing technology that would allow for (not mandate) areas of the internet to reduce the risks associated with anonymous traffic.
In other news, Slashdot fanatics are slaving over the data trying to find a link between the catastophy caused by these strange quarks and Microsoft.
Dude, Thanks! I have no idea why I thought it passed... of course the extreme-left local media here in Monterey probably made it appear as though it passed...
A classic case of this just occurred in California. We, the idiots of California just passed an "election-day registration" proposition that allows people to vote without photo ID. Thats right, if you don't have a photo ID, you can just bring two utility bills with your name and address on them and you can vote. Republicans were against this not because it would encourage more voting but because it opens the door to fraud. Hell, IMHO I don't care how late you register but at least lets make sure people are eligible to vote! (i.e. citizen, non-felon)
Put yourself in their shoes... they had just broken free from England by force. They firmly believed that English rule was tyranical and took up arms to break free. In this light, it is easy to see how the founding fathers would be weary of government. The second ammendment is not in the Constitution so that every yahoo redneck and crack dealer has the right to shoot tin cans. The second ammendment is a final check-and-balance when all others fail, granting the right of the people to bear arms such that should the need arise, a militia could be formed.... not to fend off the Indians or English mind you.. but the government.
Of course there isn't a "right" to overthrow the government,... they just wanted to make sure it was possible.
Of course, some will say that this is only my interpretation...but don't take my word for it! Lets do a google search and see what thye founding father had to say...
Yup...it doesn't apply to XP.
Oh, and thanks for having the balls to post under your handle.
Let me make it more clear for my Anonymous Cowardly freind:
Mod chips can allow for untrusted code to be run by an Xbox. This code could possibly be something like an aimbot or some other game client-side game cheat(lets not go into the whole...is it smart to have client side checks..blah blah). Lets say the little cheater's code (perhaps maliciously) sends baddly formed data words to the server possibly doing damage, but likely ruining someone else's game experience. Is this so inconvievable? It happens all the time with PC MMRPGs and game server have been brought down by cheaters.
Excellent point. Look how many MMRPGs have sprouted dedicated open source server emulators... UO Server Everquest Server
Why would they want to be responsible for some hacker bringing down their server because they hacked their box to do [fill in the blank] and screwed with some important protocol or something that causes their server to crash?
As for using foul language... what is your problem with that? Again, their server, they make the rules. You are not entilted to anything. If you have problems with their rules, than I suggest you don't buy one. Oh, and anti-language rules are relatively common in MMRPGs so it's not like that would be so shocking either. I actually prefer to play games with others who do not continuously spam my screen sexually immature comments.
Where is all the outrage about all those stickers on your components that say "warranty void if removed"? Or do you only rant about Microsoft (that was rhetorical).
I think the exact opposite is true,...if companies can not protect their R&D investments from their competitors, they won't spend the type of money that need to be spent (or take the risks that need to be taken) to continue technological progress.
Face it, large corporations (driven by market forces), not academia, have become the driving force behind technological advancement. Academia simply can not produce the inceasingly large funds required as technology research becomes prohibitively expensive.
Of course, I am playing devil's advocate to some extent, the truth probably lies somewhere between us both.
What you call "transparently corrupt" would more correctly be described as being protective of the intellectual property of individuals and corporations. This allows corporations to spend significant amounts of money for R&D without having their ideas stollen. You can argue whether or not large corporations should have such protections, but it is exactly this encouragement of competition that drives America to the forefront of all areas of technology as opposed to a being a country that prides itself on say, only making good cell-phones.
Back to the subject... As for making games run, try the following links: link1 link2 link3 on how to get older games to work with XP. One piece of gouge that is not above but I have read in a magazine is that you can try copying the game to your hard disk, then running the SETUP program in compatability mode. I haven't tried it but it worked for whoever wrote the article.
Wow,... the story made it almost an hour before someone blamed Microsoft!
Seriously, what about war boating?!
I disagree, the denial of funding for not doing X is only the same as mandating not-doing X if libraries were the only place you could do this! Also, the funding in question is for educational computer upgrades. No library would have to close because they didn't get this funding, they would merely not get new computers (I assume this doesn't apply to administrative-related computers) As for which party affiliation this position is associated with, I would say it is equal parts Republican and Democrat. There is an odd element of the left that tries to ban music/porn etc with just as much zeal as the right. Don't know why you would throw libertarianism in there as they would clearly be against such laws.
Not at all,.. this is just a law. It is very likely that this law will be upheld as again, no rights are being taken away. There is no right to "view porn in libraries". The right to view porn elsewhere is intact. That being said, the constitutional way of getting rid of the law is to vote for a representative who will vote to repeal it.