That number includes persons of interest in past and current drug investigations. Also, portions of Colorado are a first and second-hop hub for a significant portion of the drug traffic that crosses the border.
I hope someone at the Sheriff's office will be charged with felony negligence for this. I know that leaving a weapon where it can be accessed by a child or a felon is against the law so it should be logical that leaving a database of information open to the world that could easily destroy many lives is worth a felony too.
This is so true. I just finished an excellent book called "Risk" that describes this. IIRC, the author claims that if a terrorist hijacked and crashed a plane once a month, you would have a 1 in 135,000 chance of dying in that incident but you have a 1 in 6000 chance of dying in an automobile accident every time you pull out of your driveway.
Bottom line: Our risk perception is fucked thanks to governments that want to restrict liberties and "security" companies that want to get rich.
Are they going to be performing live shows recreating events like when Lot's daughters got him shit-faced so they could have sex with him to impregnate themselves since they had to leave behind their boyfriends in Sodom?
If so, COUNT ME IN, FELLOW CHRISTIANS!
I was wondering this same thing about people like Bob Woodward and the entire Watergate scandal. We revere those journalists today and I wonder if Assange will eventually become the focus of an Oscar-winning feature film about standing up against government corruption.
Download the patent application and globally replace "rear" with "side." This will be the next "innovation" and I just wrote your million-dollar patent application for you.
If any heads should roll over the leaks, it should be those of the guy who stole the data and whatever dunce(s) allowed peons access to the data.
The US allowed it. This is a side-effect to the booming defense/security industry that developed after 9/11. Companies providing these services blossomed which resulted in millions more people requiring security clearances. More people + rushed investigations = more potential for leaks.
Does that make the documents they post invalid or untrue? Who cares if they have an axe to grind? If they are posting factual information about wrongdoing then it's a good thing.
The state provides us with roads to travel on but also polices those roads and removes people that are hazards to others. The ISP provides roads for our internet traffic and should remove users that are hazards to others (spam, viruses, etc).
Sorry, but if you can't manage your PC then you don't get to play Farmville till you get your shit fixed.
The military isn't overly concerned that the weapon might be captured by the enemy, because they would be unable to obtain its highly specialized ammunition, batteries and other components. Lehner said he expects other nations will try to copy its technology, but it will be very cost-prohibitive.
Instead of providing that evidence, or further negotiating, [...]
Doesn't Bin Laden himself provide the evidence every so often by releasing tapes claiming responsibility and threatening to continue killing Americans?
If you figure in the cost per weapon due to the development and acquisition cycles then the number skyrockets. I have heard that the M9 bayonet took something like 10 years for the military to get it through their acquisition cycle and that is just a damn knife. Figure in the salaries of all the federal employees that had their hands in that program into the cost of each unit.
I would be interested to know what percentage of his business comes from online university students and what percentage from traditional university students. I wonder if the dramatic increase in the growth of online universities has correlated to an increase in this business.
I have a BSEE and every one of my classes required a lot of Math...even Engineering Administration. Classes like "Web Security" are not engineering courses and fall more within the realm of "Information Systems", "Business Systems" or whatever they are calling it these days that can be picked up by anyone with an engineering background in a weekend.
This article is loaded with gems. This one particularly caught my eye:
I, who have no name, no opinions, and no style, have written so many papers at this point, including legal briefs, military-strategy assessments, poems, lab reports, and, yes, even papers on academic integrity, that it's hard to determine which course of study is most infested with cheating. But I'd say education is the worst.
These are the people that will be future teachers that are too inept to do their own course work that will eventually fail their own students who will in turn purchase academic papers from a professional writer. The vicious cycle continues.
This appears to be a business that will continue to boom for a long time especially considering how everyone is pushed toward college these days.
The subject matter, the grade level, the college, the course—these things are irrelevant to me. Prices are determined per page and are based on how long I have to complete the assignment. As long as it doesn't require me to do any math or video-documented animal husbandry, I will write anything.
It's nice to know that our beloved engineering is safe........for now.
Wikipedia hasn't "unleashed" any "greater good" that wasn't "unleashed" by every other encyclopedia or general-reference work that's ever been published.
Maybe you weren't around before the internet but buying a set of encyclopedias was not an option for the large majority of the world. Also, they were only updated every few years. Also, WP has produced a far more comprehensive set of reference articles than any Encyclopedia I have ever opened.
The fact that they "unleash" it for free only makes it harder for knowledge workers to make a living, and makes it harder for people with limited internet access to take advantage of the drop in price.
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That number includes persons of interest in past and current drug investigations. Also, portions of Colorado are a first and second-hop hub for a significant portion of the drug traffic that crosses the border.
I hope someone at the Sheriff's office will be charged with felony negligence for this. I know that leaving a weapon where it can be accessed by a child or a felon is against the law so it should be logical that leaving a database of information open to the world that could easily destroy many lives is worth a felony too.
"To Serve And Protect"...
You would probably get more radiation exposure from the TSA to fly over there and back....
This is so true. I just finished an excellent book called "Risk" that describes this. IIRC, the author claims that if a terrorist hijacked and crashed a plane once a month, you would have a 1 in 135,000 chance of dying in that incident but you have a 1 in 6000 chance of dying in an automobile accident every time you pull out of your driveway.
Bottom line: Our risk perception is fucked thanks to governments that want to restrict liberties and "security" companies that want to get rich.
Are they going to be performing live shows recreating events like when Lot's daughters got him shit-faced so they could have sex with him to impregnate themselves since they had to leave behind their boyfriends in Sodom? If so, COUNT ME IN, FELLOW CHRISTIANS!
I was wondering this same thing about people like Bob Woodward and the entire Watergate scandal. We revere those journalists today and I wonder if Assange will eventually become the focus of an Oscar-winning feature film about standing up against government corruption.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what would happen in the US:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92103242
Download the patent application and globally replace "rear" with "side." This will be the next "innovation" and I just wrote your million-dollar patent application for you.
If any heads should roll over the leaks, it should be those of the guy who stole the data and whatever dunce(s) allowed peons access to the data.
The US allowed it. This is a side-effect to the booming defense/security industry that developed after 9/11. Companies providing these services blossomed which resulted in millions more people requiring security clearances. More people + rushed investigations = more potential for leaks.
Now they are simply an anti-US organization.
Does that make the documents they post invalid or untrue? Who cares if they have an axe to grind? If they are posting factual information about wrongdoing then it's a good thing.
Who would profit (as in "cash") from Wikileaks being DDoS'ed off the internet?
I am interested to know if the ramp up in DDoS traffic coincided with the announcement of releasing leaked documents from a major US bank.
...still using cars, though.
The state provides us with roads to travel on but also polices those roads and removes people that are hazards to others. The ISP provides roads for our internet traffic and should remove users that are hazards to others (spam, viruses, etc).
Sorry, but if you can't manage your PC then you don't get to play Farmville till you get your shit fixed.
The military isn't overly concerned that the weapon might be captured by the enemy, because they would be unable to obtain its highly specialized ammunition, batteries and other components. Lehner said he expects other nations will try to copy its technology, but it will be very cost-prohibitive.
Instead of providing that evidence, or further negotiating, [...]
Doesn't Bin Laden himself provide the evidence every so often by releasing tapes claiming responsibility and threatening to continue killing Americans?
Is that not evidence?
If you figure in the cost per weapon due to the development and acquisition cycles then the number skyrockets. I have heard that the M9 bayonet took something like 10 years for the military to get it through their acquisition cycle and that is just a damn knife. Figure in the salaries of all the federal employees that had their hands in that program into the cost of each unit.
A great movie that is very similar to this is called "Payback" which stars Mel Gibson. I HIGHLY recommend it. Not a good person in the entire movie.
The regular air force does this now. You can join and be behind a desk and joystick piloting a UAV in a few years.
This is "mainstream" now.
http://www.popsci.com/drones
"I've attended three dozen online universities."
I would be interested to know what percentage of his business comes from online university students and what percentage from traditional university students. I wonder if the dramatic increase in the growth of online universities has correlated to an increase in this business.
"Integrity won't keep you warm and sane." -NoFX
It's terrible because it's true.
I have a BSEE and every one of my classes required a lot of Math...even Engineering Administration. Classes like "Web Security" are not engineering courses and fall more within the realm of "Information Systems", "Business Systems" or whatever they are calling it these days that can be picked up by anyone with an engineering background in a weekend.
I, who have no name, no opinions, and no style, have written so many papers at this point, including legal briefs, military-strategy assessments, poems, lab reports, and, yes, even papers on academic integrity, that it's hard to determine which course of study is most infested with cheating. But I'd say education is the worst.
These are the people that will be future teachers that are too inept to do their own course work that will eventually fail their own students who will in turn purchase academic papers from a professional writer. The vicious cycle continues.
This appears to be a business that will continue to boom for a long time especially considering how everyone is pushed toward college these days.
The subject matter, the grade level, the college, the course—these things are irrelevant to me. Prices are determined per page and are based on how long I have to complete the assignment. As long as it doesn't require me to do any math or video-documented animal husbandry, I will write anything.
It's nice to know that our beloved engineering is safe........for now.
Wikipedia hasn't "unleashed" any "greater good" that wasn't "unleashed" by every other encyclopedia or general-reference work that's ever been published.
Maybe you weren't around before the internet but buying a set of encyclopedias was not an option for the large majority of the world. Also, they were only updated every few years. Also, WP has produced a far more comprehensive set of reference articles than any Encyclopedia I have ever opened.
The fact that they "unleash" it for free only makes it harder for knowledge workers to make a living, and makes it harder for people with limited internet access to take advantage of the drop in price.
Is this your true gripe? They took yer jerb?
He repeatedly drove home the idea that "this is not email," nor is it "an email killer."
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/15/gmail-beware-facebook-unveils-e-mail-service/
"E-MAIL WAR: Facebook Launches 'Gmail Killer' -- AOL Jumps In, Too"
Yum, sensationalism.
So, it's gmail/gchat? Whoopdedoo.