What about single occupant cars with a proper hands free kit installed?
No such thing. It's not the hands that are the problem, it's the brain.
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Halliburton, et al, are screwing things up on the edges, but overall, there are very, very few corporations that could operate on that scale and actually get things done.
A bidding war would have resulted in A) way too many corners cut (even more than currently), and B) Nothing done yet, because the bidding process would stil be ongoing.
Sometimes you just have to cut the competitive bid process out, and say "Here, you do it!"
all the many, many programmers not employed by MS, but working on all the myriad Windows tools and applications, open or closed, part of Windos or external.
Does that open source 220,000 include the GIMP coders? Does the 22,000 MS coders include the Photoshop and PaintShopPro people?
1. Giving you book to a friend is different, in that you no longer have the book. 2. 'Sharing' is a cutesy word for distributing. You are no different from the music store, except that the artist gets zero compensation from you.
3. The entire Internet is not your friend. 4. Just because the RIAA is wrong doesn't mean we have to be.
And if the target of this hijacked airliner was the White House, or the Sears Tower, or the Capitol bldg?
As far as impacting a random house 200 miles away...not much different than shooting a regular A-A missile and missing. It's coming down eventually. With the kinetic kill weapon, against a house or something similar, you have a hole. Maybe 2. With a current missile, you have a hole, then an explosion. Either way, the house is screwed.
And with the shorter flight time of a hyper velocity round against a slow moving transport or airliner, you can have more freedom in choosing your impact point. "Ok...he's over open ground...shoot NOW"
Sometimes you have to choose between two bad outcomes, and pick the least bad.
Preview pane is "ok" if graphics are turned off. Outlook2003 does this by default. Graphics (webbugs, etc) only retrievable on request.
"Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet."
[disclaimer - I am retired USAF]
Stop-loss has been a recurring factor for years. During and after GulfWar I, Jan-Sep last year, just after Vietnam, and a few points in between.
Stop loss is to retain trained troops. It takes a looong time to bring a new service member to full combat/duty status. Systems and procedures have changed. Things are much more complex. A 2 year(?) draftee would see less than a year of effective use.
Because the two Democrats who proposed the bills are using it merely to snipe at the administration.
[from MSNBC]
"In the past year, some lawmakers have urged that a draft for military service be reintroduced, most notably New York Rep. Charlie Rangel and South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings, both Democrats, who have sponsored bills to that effect, primarily as a way to protest against war in Iraq. Though both bills (S. 89 and H.R. 163) remain stuck in committeeand Sen. Hollings was unable even to garner any cosponsors for his bill"
The Army/Air Force/Navy neither wants nor needs a draft.
As far as the Middle East, I think you could remain pretty safe if you just kept to yourself and didn't do too much playing around outside of the base.
My buddy in Saudi lives literally jut down the street frm the complex that was attacked a few weeks ago. His girlfriend (South African) lives in the apartment build right next to the one where the cops jumped out of the chopper. We were swapping IM's as it was going down.
Both guarded housing complexes.
He is bailing out soon
Even the complexes with armed guards aren't safe.
As far as comparison to downtown Detroit...would you live there voluntarily, for a good salary?
...a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, will likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation.
...a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, would, if passed, likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation.
And I don't think there's a chance in hell of that happening.
Bad ones are, though. Flash, JScript, DHTML, whatever....if it's done badly, with no thought to those who can't or don't want to wade through it, then it's BAD. Default to a simple graphic, display Flash *only* if Flash is detected. But that doesn't sell to the PHB and marketdroids.
I've seen numerous instances of good ones, though. A nice company logo that appears for a couple of seconds (with the ability to escape out) is fine. THat's a splash page. A 2 minute movie isn't.
They just want to make it a leeetle bit harder. They know it can't be truly unhackable. But if they can stop some (small?) percentage, with a basically no-cost solution, that is a 'win'.
Layers. Stop that segment of the audience with this technology, stop a different percentage of the audience with something else...repeat as necessary.
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The same thing that prevents any other business from, say, adding a nickel to everyones transactions. Ethics and the law.
It got them a win in the competition.
Is an AEROPLANE something you fly in the aero?
What about single occupant cars with a proper hands free kit installed?
No such thing.
It's not the hands that are the problem, it's the brain.
Halliburton, et al, are screwing things up on the edges, but overall, there are very, very few corporations that could operate on that scale and actually get things done.
A bidding war would have resulted in A) way too many corners cut (even more than currently), and B) Nothing done yet, because the bidding process would stil be ongoing.
Sometimes you just have to cut the competitive bid process out, and say "Here, you do it!"
all the many, many programmers not employed by MS, but working on all the myriad Windows tools and applications, open or closed, part of Windos or external.
Does that open source 220,000 include the GIMP coders? Does the 22,000 MS coders include the Photoshop and PaintShopPro people?
He let us know that the U.S. Air Force is the single largest customer of Microsoft.
And it's been that way since at least '96 when I heard the same thing.
Because not everyone has a mydomain.com
No. The X-prize hasn't been claimed yet, and there are other avenues and goals to reach.
Diversity is a good thing.
1. Giving you book to a friend is different, in that you no longer have the book.
2. 'Sharing' is a cutesy word for distributing. You are no different from the music store, except that the artist gets zero compensation from you.
3. The entire Internet is not your friend.
4. Just because the RIAA is wrong doesn't mean we have to be.
And if the target of this hijacked airliner was the White House, or the Sears Tower, or the Capitol bldg?
As far as impacting a random house 200 miles away...not much different than shooting a regular A-A missile and missing. It's coming down eventually. With the kinetic kill weapon, against a house or something similar, you have a hole. Maybe 2. With a current missile, you have a hole, then an explosion. Either way, the house is screwed.
And with the shorter flight time of a hyper velocity round against a slow moving transport or airliner, you can have more freedom in choosing your impact point. "Ok...he's over open ground...shoot NOW"
Sometimes you have to choose between two bad outcomes, and pick the least bad.
well...one of these on a ship stationed off Long Island could, theoretically, cover an arc from Boston, almost to Lake Ontario, to Wash DC.
4 ships and you could pretty much cover the whole east coast.
Ummm....I imagine it would stop a hijacked airliner pretty damn quick.
A very unfortunate outcome, but not as bad as it might be.
Preview pane is "ok" if graphics are turned off. Outlook2003 does this by default.
Graphics (webbugs, etc) only retrievable on request.
"Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet."
Or, just read in plain text mode.
[disclaimer - I am retired USAF]
Stop-loss has been a recurring factor for years. During and after GulfWar I, Jan-Sep last year, just after Vietnam, and a few points in between.
Stop loss is to retain trained troops. It takes a looong time to bring a new service member to full combat/duty status. Systems and procedures have changed. Things are much more complex. A 2 year(?) draftee would see less than a year of effective use.
Because the two Democrats who proposed the bills are using it merely to snipe at the administration.
[from MSNBC]
"In the past year, some lawmakers have urged that a draft for military service be reintroduced, most notably New York Rep. Charlie Rangel and South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings, both Democrats, who have sponsored bills to that effect, primarily as a way to protest against war in Iraq. Though both bills (S. 89 and H.R. 163) remain stuck in committeeand Sen. Hollings was unable even to garner any cosponsors for his bill"
The Army/Air Force/Navy neither wants nor needs a draft.
Actually, no. After spending many summers in Spain, Turkey, Saudi, he is quite used to it.
As far as the Middle East, I think you could remain pretty safe if you just kept to yourself and didn't do too much playing around outside of the base.
My buddy in Saudi lives literally jut down the street frm the complex that was attacked a few weeks ago. His girlfriend (South African) lives in the apartment build right next to the one where the cops jumped out of the chopper. We were swapping IM's as it was going down.
Both guarded housing complexes.
He is bailing out soon
Even the complexes with armed guards aren't safe.
As far as comparison to downtown Detroit...would you live there voluntarily, for a good salary?
A smaller active duty force, with the same or more work, means more and more has to be outsourced.
We've been cutting back on the military for years.
I have a friend (USAF retired ) in Saudi now, as a contractor associated with aircraft, and he's bailing.
Money fades. Bullet holes don't.
Yes, the spymac interface is quite bloated, slow, and mac oriented.
But...I pop3 down to my machine, and leave the mail on spymacs server, for searching, access when I'm away from home, backed up on their dime.
It does have it's uses.
Already at 1GB for email, 100MB webspace, and 250GB for Gallery pics.
No waiting, sign up now.
And no, not jut for macheads.
...a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, will likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation.
...a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, would, if passed, likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation.
And I don't think there's a chance in hell of that happening.
Bad ones are, though. Flash, JScript, DHTML, whatever....if it's done badly, with no thought to those who can't or don't want to wade through it, then it's BAD. Default to a simple graphic, display Flash *only* if Flash is detected. But that doesn't sell to the PHB and marketdroids.
I've seen numerous instances of good ones, though. A nice company logo that appears for a couple of seconds (with the ability to escape out) is fine. THat's a splash page. A 2 minute movie isn't.
what exactly are they're trying to accomplish?
They just want to make it a leeetle bit harder. They know it can't be truly unhackable. But if they can stop some (small?) percentage, with a basically no-cost solution, that is a 'win'.
Layers. Stop that segment of the audience with this technology, stop a different percentage of the audience with something else...repeat as necessary.