No. You couldn't take the chance. An ICBM/SLBM currently has but one payload - a nuke warhead. You simply could not risk that this is not a conv weapon.
And its called a "Nuclear Triad" for a reason. Aircraft, sub, missile. Rendering any one leg inoperative still leaves two viable launch platforms. Each delivery mode has its own strengths and weaknesses. Aircraft can be recalled. ICBM's can't be stopped. Subs can't be found. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
and completely unshreddable plastic credit card in it
You need a better shredder. And no, no business grade. $40 at OfficeMax, and it eats cred cards, CD's, anything. I don't even open the junk mail..just shove the whole envelope in.
Obviously, WWII comes to mind. From the viewpoint of the Allies, there was no real choice. We did not choose it..it was thrust upon us. and we couldn't negotiate our way out of it. Not fighting that war, i.e. succumbing to the wishes of Germany and Japan, would have resulted in a far different world that what we have now.
The difference between dropping a bomb from a UAV while you are driving it from in a trailer, and dropping a bomb while you are sitting at 25,000 feet and 15 miles away is not that much different. You still have no real 'connection' and you are still relying on intel from elsewhere. Specifically, a laser guided bomb (LGB) may be relying on a laser designator from someone else, not in your aircraft. This works for a regular A/C or a UAV. Drop within the basket, and someone else guides it in.
And that intel/targeting may be from a competing warlord, wishing to take out his competition.
What about deaf? Apparently, there are some parents who would deliberately wish to have a deaf child.
'We celebrated when we found out about Molly's deafness,' says Lichy. 'Being deaf is not about being disabled, or medically incomplete - it's about being part of a linguistic minority. We're proud, not of the medical aspect of deafness, but of the language we use and the community we live in.'
Now the couple are hoping to have a second child, one they also wish to be deaf
Not that I know anything about it, but they are out there. I hope those in the know will chime in here.
There is no way to lawfully force a collective "vote of no confidence" in the entire executive branch and fire *all of them* at once and immediately have new elections. Every two years we can at most turn over about half the system--and that lets the last batch of people get corrupted and gain seniority and get broken in.
If you're in that seat today you're gone. I don't care who you are. Demonstrably, you have failed. Let's try someone new. Repeat in 2 years. Granted, the 2-4-6 year crossover will corrupt some. But they will get it eventually.
If you are in that seat today, you are gone. Period. No excuses.
Gee, I can't imagine any problems with that aspect of the situation...
Anywhere = the next desk over, or 3 states away. The trick is getting inside the network in the first place, and having the correct rights once you are in. If you want to require physical access to do any admin functions, let's go back many years.
Yeah, but the problem is precisely too much locking down: workers have always tinkered with their tools trying to improve them and the more locked down the environment the more frustrating their experience will likely be.
Generally, the job is not to dick around with the computer, but rather to produce something using the computer. Read and approve a report, produce a presentation, crunch some numbers in Excel.
I rail against the lockeddownness too. But in an org of that size, if you give people free reign, some people WILL screw it up. And when your org also contains the DoD, do we really want to allow 'free reign' to install and configure however you want?
It use to be that a base could keep its own list and the local people could control it,
Centralized control and admin. Used to be, a base would control its own network. No more. Even your local proxy server is now being admined from elsewhere.
I believe there should be a list of what is allowed and everything else is disallowed.
That's pretty much the way it is. They actually have a pretty secure MS ecosystem. Between DISA, NIST and USAF and Microsoft, they've come up with the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) (which is an outgrowth of the USAF 'Standard Desktop Computer' (SDC)).
Various security settings, GPO's, etc. If you use a standard FDCC image, it is pretty well locked down, AND can be administered from anywhere. Having said that...'locked down' as much as XP or Vista can be. But the VAST majority of users do not need much more than Office and the base OS. No real need for 8 zillion extra little tools, which may or may not have their own vuln's. But there is quite a lot on the approved list. Installed on a case by case eval. Wireshark or Firefox, for example. It is up to each department to further refine that list. For instance, the USAF (mostly) bans Firefox in favor of IE7.
Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
Changing the US fed govt infrastructure from MS to 'something else', Linux for example, will take an extremely long time, and may well end up worse than it is now. Take the Munich example and multiply the problems by 500. For better or worse, an org of that size can't just switch.
I know reading the link is frowned upon in here, but the actual credit card numbers were lifted. Plus (FTA), "It also appears that those behind the breach "made off with the gold" by intercepting and stealing the so-called Track 2 data from the magnetic stripe on the back of cards, which is all that's needed to create counterfeit cards"
If you don't want Google to have your information, then don't use their services
Realistically, we don't have that option. Someone sends me an email from a gmail acct, poof, there I am. And I can't reply without using gmail, because that is all they use.
I do use google products quite a lot, so I'm not trying to hide from them. But they have become so pervasive that it is hard to not use them, even tangentially.
One of the main issues with SharePoint (aside from the whole MS ecosystem) is that it is a large complex beast. Once you move beyond the base SharePoint Services and into SharePoint Server, the maintenance will drown you. Especially if you are only one deep. And I say this as a SharePoint admin/developer for a large US govt organization.
But yes, the base SharePoint Services 3.0 and upcoming SP Foundation(2010) will do pretty much everything he's asking for. And it's free (beer), if you are already running Server2003 or Server2008.
Also, FAR more requirements gathering is needed. What do the bosses really want?
I'm using MSE on multiple machines at home, and have only one issue. One of the machines will not obey the scheduled scan time. It does it whenever it feels like, whether the machine is in use or not.
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While I was Stationed at Ramstein AFB, Germany - Once a year a Russian Nuclear inspection team came by to verify that there were no Nukes on base.
...while I won't go into details, times change.
When were you there? I was there as well, probably before you, and
(Ramstein AB, not AFB)
Let's not change the goalposts. That's far more of a 'triad' than "So the US puts all its nukes on B-52s/B-1Bs/B-2/Next Gen Bomber"
No. You couldn't take the chance. An ICBM/SLBM currently has but one payload - a nuke warhead. You simply could not risk that this is not a conv weapon.
And its called a "Nuclear Triad" for a reason. Aircraft, sub, missile. Rendering any one leg inoperative still leaves two viable launch platforms. Each delivery mode has its own strengths and weaknesses. Aircraft can be recalled. ICBM's can't be stopped. Subs can't be found.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
with no perceptible loss in quality.
We've gone from 'So clear you can hear a pin drop' to "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!"
'Loss in quality' indeed.
and completely unshreddable plastic credit card in it
You need a better shredder. And no, no business grade. $40 at OfficeMax, and it eats cred cards, CD's, anything. I don't even open the junk mail..just shove the whole envelope in.
Not to mention the spreadsheet abuse outlined in the summary. Won't somebody think of the databases?
The bane of business IT people everywhere...spreadsheet = database.
For the record, we should be ashamed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What was the alternative? (Consider the context of several years of all out war all over the globe)
Can you point one out? A moral war that is.
Obviously, WWII comes to mind. From the viewpoint of the Allies, there was no real choice. We did not choose it..it was thrust upon us. and we couldn't negotiate our way out of it. Not fighting that war, i.e. succumbing to the wishes of Germany and Japan, would have resulted in a far different world that what we have now.
Should the Allies not have fought back?
The difference between dropping a bomb from a UAV while you are driving it from in a trailer, and dropping a bomb while you are sitting at 25,000 feet and 15 miles away is not that much different. You still have no real 'connection' and you are still relying on intel from elsewhere.
Specifically, a laser guided bomb (LGB) may be relying on a laser designator from someone else, not in your aircraft. This works for a regular A/C or a UAV. Drop within the basket, and someone else guides it in.
And that intel/targeting may be from a competing warlord, wishing to take out his competition.
What about deaf? Apparently, there are some parents who would deliberately wish to have a deaf child.
'We celebrated when we found out about Molly's deafness,' says Lichy. 'Being deaf is not about being disabled, or medically incomplete - it's about being part of a linguistic minority. We're proud, not of the medical aspect of deafness, but of the language we use and the community we live in.'
Now the couple are hoping to have a second child, one they also wish to be deaf
Not that I know anything about it, but they are out there. I hope those in the know will chime in here.
There is no way to lawfully force a collective "vote of no confidence" in the entire executive branch and fire *all of them* at once and immediately have new elections. Every two years we can at most turn over about half the system--and that lets the last batch of people get corrupted and gain seniority and get broken in.
If you're in that seat today you're gone. I don't care who you are. Demonstrably, you have failed. Let's try someone new.
Repeat in 2 years.
Granted, the 2-4-6 year crossover will corrupt some. But they will get it eventually.
If you are in that seat today, you are gone. Period. No excuses.
Gee, I can't imagine any problems with that aspect of the situation...
Anywhere = the next desk over, or 3 states away. The trick is getting inside the network in the first place, and having the correct rights once you are in. If you want to require physical access to do any admin functions, let's go back many years.
Yeah, but the problem is precisely too much locking down: workers have always tinkered with their tools trying to improve them and the more locked down the environment the more frustrating their experience will likely be.
Generally, the job is not to dick around with the computer, but rather to produce something using the computer. Read and approve a report, produce a presentation, crunch some numbers in Excel.
I rail against the lockeddownness too. But in an org of that size, if you give people free reign, some people WILL screw it up. And when your org also contains the DoD, do we really want to allow 'free reign' to install and configure however you want?
It use to be that a base could keep its own list and the local people could control it,
Centralized control and admin. Used to be, a base would control its own network. No more. Even your local proxy server is now being admined from elsewhere.
I believe there should be a list of what is allowed and everything else is disallowed.
That's pretty much the way it is. They actually have a pretty secure MS ecosystem. Between DISA, NIST and USAF and Microsoft, they've come up with the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) (which is an outgrowth of the USAF 'Standard Desktop Computer' (SDC)).
Various security settings, GPO's, etc. If you use a standard FDCC image, it is pretty well locked down, AND can be administered from anywhere. Having said that...'locked down' as much as XP or Vista can be. But the VAST majority of users do not need much more than Office and the base OS. No real need for 8 zillion extra little tools, which may or may not have their own vuln's.
But there is quite a lot on the approved list. Installed on a case by case eval. Wireshark or Firefox, for example. It is up to each department to further refine that list. For instance, the USAF (mostly) bans Firefox in favor of IE7.
Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
Changing the US fed govt infrastructure from MS to 'something else', Linux for example, will take an extremely long time, and may well end up worse than it is now. Take the Munich example and multiply the problems by 500. For better or worse, an org of that size can't just switch.
So where is the crime if nothing was compromised?
I know reading the link is frowned upon in here, but the actual credit card numbers were lifted. Plus (FTA), "It also appears that those behind the breach "made off with the gold" by intercepting and stealing the so-called Track 2 data from the magnetic stripe on the back of cards, which is all that's needed to create counterfeit cards"
NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space... the Russians used a pencil.
Someday, people will stop repeating this falsehood.
I fear that day is not coming anytime soon, though.
You're in a coffee shop. Try it at McDonalds, and I think you'd find a different level on the scale.
The same thing that prevents you from buying games in Ohio if you live in Philadelphia. A couple hundred miles instead of 3 miles to your local store.
If you don't want Google to have your information, then don't use their services
Realistically, we don't have that option. Someone sends me an email from a gmail acct, poof, there I am. And I can't reply without using gmail, because that is all they use.
I do use google products quite a lot, so I'm not trying to hide from them. But they have become so pervasive that it is hard to not use them, even tangentially.
Neighbor of mine broadcasts "FUCKYOU". Pretty sure I know who it is.
Seconded. The requests we get weekly for someone wanting to do X, or 'can we make the OK button do something else?' is just insane.
One of the main issues with SharePoint (aside from the whole MS ecosystem) is that it is a large complex beast. Once you move beyond the base SharePoint Services and into SharePoint Server, the maintenance will drown you. Especially if you are only one deep.
And I say this as a SharePoint admin/developer for a large US govt organization.
But yes, the base SharePoint Services 3.0 and upcoming SP Foundation(2010) will do pretty much everything he's asking for. And it's free (beer), if you are already running Server2003 or Server2008.
Also, FAR more requirements gathering is needed. What do the bosses really want?
I'm using MSE on multiple machines at home, and have only one issue. One of the machines will not obey the scheduled scan time. It does it whenever it feels like, whether the machine is in use or not.
Not a critical issue, but annoying.
And the difference is? If OnStar can remotely unlock your doors or slow/stop the car, they can just as easily turn on the mic and listen in.