It's been a few years since my TS clearance went away, but ISTR that publication of a secret document immediately renders it declassified. In other words, once it's on wikileaks, it's not classified. Prohibiting someone from viewing it is just silly and I expect that the "security violation" charge would not stand up, even in military court.
Howerever, I suspect this would be handled as an Article 15, "Conduct unbecoming", rather than a full courts-martial sort of thing.
1. Plant Japanese Bitter Orange under and in front of all your windows. Try to get the flying dragon cultivar. (No, I'm not kidding. Google it.)
2. Get a motion sensor and a recording of a dog barking. Put speaker in metal garbage can on your roof. Your neighbors will hate you but no one will come near your house.
3. Get good insurance. You will find that the discount for burglar alarms is minimal.
4. Stay away from monitored alarms. Most are crooked.
Seriously, it drives me up the wall that most people don't care about their on-line privacy, or if their accounts get compromised, or if their personal data is sold to Russia somewhere.
So why would these clueless dolts not support this sort of crap "against other people?"
Typically the older coders grew up in a much more structured environment - we were expected to know the theories of programming much more than today's coders. Not a put down for anyone; times have changed.
The only place I know of for old coders with old skills is in embedded linux. It's much the same attitude - squeeze a lot of performance from a limited box. And GUI skills don't really matter.
So start with busybox. Tear it apart, put it together, submit some patches. You'll find you're not so rusty.
Then find an embedded project you want to work on and contribute. Forget about working for someone else; most companies these days don't want anyone over 35.
Set yourself up as a specialist consultant. Embedded systems, old systems, IBM stuff that's still out there. COBOL is still in demand and coders, good ones, are getting consulting jobs. Not permanent jobs, mind you, consulting jobs.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy?:0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
Well, what happens at 1.5?
We get "Full Speed" which is going to be higher than "High Speed". Can anyone really remember which USB speed is "Full" and "High"?
It's all designed to sow confusion in the market, from which companies will profit.
"Oh, you have a standard cable. You really need a high speed cable."
$50 later,
"Did you say you have a high speed cable? Did you get the one with the integrated audio?"
$50 later,
"Did you say you have a high speed cable with integrated audio? You really need the standard c able with ethernet."
The folks in hyderabad are already practicing their scripts.
I'm not a gun wielding maniac, nor do I own a gun. But I've spent time in the military, and that coming out of the car, with the gun held surreptitiously at his side, made my hackles stand up. If I'd been carrying an M16 or a 9mm, I'd be off the bike, seeking cover and firing.
Wasn't this an MO of some rapist a few years ago? Bogus pull over stops, impersonating an officer, and such? Don't cops warn against such behavior?
And how many militaries have you served in that you can dispute that?
Well, there are other militaries that, arguably, are better on a soldier by soldier basis. But... The US has the only military that can field a lot of people at a very high level of training, backed up by equipment that is some of the best in the world.
Look at the kill ratios for air combat. Look at where other countries send their elite troops to train. See what equipment other countries buy. Look at what equipment the US can deliver.
No other country can do that.
Now whether that's a good use of our resources is another question.
I spent 21 years in the US military. It's the best military in the world, bar none.
But... It's a tool. To put it in perspective, a B787 is far advanced compared to the Titanic... But a fleet of them could not have influenced the disaster when the Titanic sank.
Like a 787, the US military is a tool finely honed to a specific purpose, which was to win a European theater mass war. To apply this tool to the one-on-one guerrilla fighting that is Afghanistan means to retrain and requip every troop, and to rewrite every manual of war the military has.
Or, just simply to say that the US military is the wrong tool for that job, and that someone like Greg Mortenson is far better suited to the effort than George Bush.
Further, you can cut the video size in half by going to 15fps instead of 30fps.
Unless you're doing high speed action flicks, no one will notice.
I've encoded fast action at 15fps for use on a handheld and no one noticed.
Also, I'm not sure about the devices you want to support, but typically you can encode at 1/4 the display resolution with OK results. Fast action at 1/4 resolution looks OK.
So:
1/4 resolution x 1/2 frame rate = 1/8 bandwidth of a normal stream.
I can tell you that if the CEO's pet gerbil caughed while on the rig, the best gerbil vet would be airlifted immediately. But people are much easier replaced than gerbils....
Heck, if my mythtv install falls over, I'm screwed. I have myth failover. If a home hacker on a shoe string budget can do it, why can't a multi-billion dollar corp?
I spent 7 years as the Disaster Preparedness Officer for the National Guard. I can tell you that one of the biggest issues we dealt with was all those people "who have a right" to go around barriers, into restricted areas, places where they can get killed, and generally get in the way of the recovery effort.
I had a guy argue with me for a while, all the time yelling at me that he "had a right" to go into the restricted area - we had leaking propane on top of everything else and our job was to make sure no one got blown up while cleaning up the mess. I finally told him that I had a right to shoot his ass with my M-16 if he didn't back off right NOW! And to get out of our way before I had him thrown in the brig.
Things go wrong in a recovery effort; they always do. You are working 20 hour days, with too few resources, with equipment scraped together, and the last thing you need is the press or some local wanker telling you what you should be doing differently.
These suck up resources that could go towards the recovery effort. It's no fun to be out there on the front lines while some know-it-all tells you all the things you are doing wrong, without actually contributing one iota towards the effort, and pissing off the men and women trying to do their job. Join the Guard if you want to help; otherwise STFU!
Wait 'til the next recession wipes out 70% of your 401k. If you've been around long enough, you got wiped out in 1987, then again in 2001, and then again in 2009. So you really aren't ahead unless you've got your money in something like bricks of gold.
In 2000, I almost had enough to retire on. In 2002 I basically started over; by 2008 I was doing great. Not so much in 2010...
Anyway, you haven't been working long enough to have suffered any sort of setback so don't get too complacent. A lot of arrogant people who had money and looked down on those who didn't are now in bankrupcy.
There may not be any "billion dollar companies" but open source allows small companies to play the big leagues. No one can play with MS - they're too big, too powerful, and too locked up. But open source allows a small firm with a single developer to put out a "best of breed" linux based widget - because that developer can leverage the work of hundreds of thousands of developers.
So while our closed source competitors built stuff that looked like it was stuck in the 80s - 300 baud modems for communication? We had ethernet, wifi, and a web interface.
No, we weren't a billion dollar company, but we sure looked like one.
Kids are kids. They will do stupid things; it's the nature of being a teenager. You push limits to see what they are.
OK, this kid did something stupid. Should the full force of the law be brought down on them? Heck no!
The kid took down the page, apologized, and it should end there. The kid learned something. Life goes on.
The school has no right to reach out and punish a kid for doing something on their own time. They can refer it to the cops, or they could actually use this to teach acceptable limits to behavior.
Instead, they used it to teach the kid how to play smackdown when you have power and they don't.
That's a lesson that the kid will remember for a long time. And when that kid is a wage earner, and the principal wants an increase to his social security check and better medicare, don't you think this kid will remember how it feels to have power over someone else and how to smack them down?
I guess I'm one of those "nutbags" who hikes regularly through some of those replanted forests. There's a lot of difference between a healthy forest composed of a variety of trees, and a monoculture stand of genetically selected fast growing softwoods.
One supports a variety of life and is a pleasant experience with animals and the sound of birds; the other is a wasteland with mostly insects to keep you company.
Taking out a large sitka spruce that may be 600 years old and replanting three seedlings is not an equivalence.
If our forests are "growing" why is the timber industry pushing to get at the few remaining stands of old growth forest? Just harvest the three trees you planted last harvest season. After all, that's 3 times the trees you will find in the old growth forest.
Look at http://www.scantool.net/ . I use a Scangauge II. I went through this same thing; in the end I decided that buying a scangauge gave me 90% of what I wanted, out of the box, without having a computer clutter up the driving area, and without spending weeks hacking up something that might work but then again might not.
You're only reading one side of the story. Maybe this kid got warned a couple of dozen times already; maybe they sent notes home, talked to the parents, and so on.
How about a week detention for consistently breaking the rules every day since the start of the year?
The story is highly incendiary and only provides limited info. Maybe the story should read: "The little darling has been warned 287 times so far this year; she continued to sneak candy in and even got her friend to bring candy. We can't abide rule breakers like that."
Read your military history. Up until very, very recently, the vast majority of war deaths were due to infections and disease. During the Civil War, disease and infection caused something like 2/3 of the casualites. I believe it was the Vietnam War where, for the first time, battlefield injuries caused more deaths than disease, mostly due to 1) dedicated civil engineering and sanitation teams, and 2) rapid evacuation by helicopter.
So yes, "minor" wounds are something the military takes very seriously. When you've in the field, not had a bath for 10 days, in humid, hot conditions, wearing the same clothes, a blister can kill you.
Alright, so if you're a US citizen who believes the police may have reason to suspect you're in the country illegally, you have a few options to avoid any issues. First and foremost, a driver's license works wonders.
Hmmm... You can get a driver's license in a number of states even if you're illegal. So that's no proof.
What's the litmus test for getting stopped? As a naturalized US citizen, I can tell you that for many years I had *no* papers. None, while my case wound its way through the immigration bureaucracy.
As a political refugee, you are allowed to stay, but you are provided no documentation to that effect. So should I have stayed out of AZ altogether?
What about a tourist? You don't need a visa; often my passport isn't stamped. Heck, I now carry two passports, legally. I can enter on one, get my stamp, and show the other, with no entry stamp.... Would I be arrested? Deported? Where to?
Yes, I exclude things like figure skating from 'sports'. That doesn't mean I have any sort of problem with it...it's just not a sport. It's competitive performance art.
Wait, it can't be art, since you can win at it.... Now I'm really confused, Perhaps we need a new word here..... NotArtNotSport? nans? So figure skating is nans....
Google for "Lance Armstrong is not an athlete". Seems about 8 years ago, some wanker of a sports reporter wrote this long idiotic oped piece that Lance Armstrong is not an athlete, because cycling is not a true sport. A true sport, like baseball, involves several motions, like running *and* throwing. Cycling does not; ergo cycling is not a sport and Lance is not an athlete. (At least according to this idiot, cycling only requires pedaling.)
So boxing (which this idiot covered) *is* a sport because it involves punching *and* falling down.
This is in the same vein; start out with a personal dislike of something or other, then write convoluted logic justifying your personal prejudice.
And this crap gets published because you are a member of the press, not because it makes any sense.
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OK, then it must be the other way around - once information has been publicly disclosed, it cannot be classified....
It's been a few years since my TS clearance went away, but ISTR that publication of a secret document immediately renders it declassified. In other words, once it's on wikileaks, it's not classified. Prohibiting someone from viewing it is just silly and I expect that the "security violation" charge would not stand up, even in military court.
Howerever, I suspect this would be handled as an Article 15, "Conduct unbecoming", rather than a full courts-martial sort of thing.
1. Plant Japanese Bitter Orange under and in front of all your windows. Try to get the flying dragon cultivar. (No, I'm not kidding. Google it.)
2. Get a motion sensor and a recording of a dog barking. Put speaker in metal garbage can on your roof. Your neighbors will hate you but no one will come near your house.
3. Get good insurance. You will find that the discount for burglar alarms is minimal.
4. Stay away from monitored alarms. Most are crooked.
are clueless idiots.
Move on, nothing to see here.
Seriously, it drives me up the wall that most people don't care about their on-line privacy, or if their accounts get compromised, or if their personal data is sold to Russia somewhere.
So why would these clueless dolts not support this sort of crap "against other people?"
After all, they have nothing to hide....
Typically the older coders grew up in a much more structured environment - we were expected to know the theories of programming much more than today's coders. Not a put down for anyone; times have changed.
The only place I know of for old coders with old skills is in embedded linux. It's much the same attitude - squeeze a lot of performance from a limited box. And GUI skills don't really matter.
So start with busybox. Tear it apart, put it together, submit some patches. You'll find you're not so rusty.
Then find an embedded project you want to work on and contribute. Forget about working for someone else; most companies these days don't want anyone over 35.
Set yourself up as a specialist consultant. Embedded systems, old systems, IBM stuff that's still out there. COBOL is still in demand and coders, good ones, are getting consulting jobs. Not permanent jobs, mind you, consulting jobs.
Do what you know and build on it.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy? :0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
Well, what happens at 1.5?
We get "Full Speed" which is going to be higher than "High Speed". Can anyone really remember which USB speed is "Full" and "High"?
It's all designed to sow confusion in the market, from which companies will profit.
"Oh, you have a standard cable. You really need a high speed cable."
$50 later,
"Did you say you have a high speed cable? Did you get the one with the integrated audio?"
$50 later,
"Did you say you have a high speed cable with integrated audio? You really need the standard c able with ethernet."
The folks in hyderabad are already practicing their scripts.
I'm not a gun wielding maniac, nor do I own a gun. But I've spent time in the military, and that coming out of the car, with the gun held surreptitiously at his side, made my hackles stand up. If I'd been carrying an M16 or a 9mm, I'd be off the bike, seeking cover and firing.
Wasn't this an MO of some rapist a few years ago? Bogus pull over stops, impersonating an officer, and such? Don't cops warn against such behavior?
That cop is lucky to be alive.
And how many militaries have you served in that you can dispute that?
Well, there are other militaries that, arguably, are better on a soldier by soldier basis. But... The US has the only military that can field a lot of people at a very high level of training, backed up by equipment that is some of the best in the world.
Look at the kill ratios for air combat. Look at where other countries send their elite troops to train. See what equipment other countries buy. Look at what equipment the US can deliver.
No other country can do that.
Now whether that's a good use of our resources is another question.
I spent 21 years in the US military. It's the best military in the world, bar none.
But... It's a tool. To put it in perspective, a B787 is far advanced compared to the Titanic... But a fleet of them could not have influenced the disaster when the Titanic sank.
Like a 787, the US military is a tool finely honed to a specific purpose, which was to win a European theater mass war. To apply this tool to the one-on-one guerrilla fighting that is Afghanistan means to retrain and requip every troop, and to rewrite every manual of war the military has.
Or, just simply to say that the US military is the wrong tool for that job, and that someone like Greg Mortenson is far better suited to the effort than George Bush.
Further, you can cut the video size in half by going to 15fps instead of 30fps.
Unless you're doing high speed action flicks, no one will notice.
I've encoded fast action at 15fps for use on a handheld and no one noticed.
Also, I'm not sure about the devices you want to support, but typically you can encode at 1/4 the display resolution with OK results. Fast action at 1/4 resolution looks OK.
So:
1/4 resolution x 1/2 frame rate = 1/8 bandwidth of a normal stream.
I can tell you that if the CEO's pet gerbil caughed while on the rig, the best gerbil vet would be airlifted immediately. But people are much easier replaced than gerbils....
Mission critical alarms without failover? WTF?
Heck, if my mythtv install falls over, I'm screwed. I have myth failover. If a home hacker on a shoe string budget can do it, why can't a multi-billion dollar corp?
Except that you can go upland and get to the beach from the other side of the boom.....
Take off the tinfoil hat, dude.
And how do you propose to get to the island without going through the boom? Maybe you can; how about the 500 other reporters, gawkers, and hangers on?
Pretty soon the boom is a churned up mess and more resources are needed to clean it up; resources than can go to other efforts.
Resources are finite in any effort.
I spent 7 years as the Disaster Preparedness Officer for the National Guard. I can tell you that one of the biggest issues we dealt with was all those people "who have a right" to go around barriers, into restricted areas, places where they can get killed, and generally get in the way of the recovery effort.
I had a guy argue with me for a while, all the time yelling at me that he "had a right" to go into the restricted area - we had leaking propane on top of everything else and our job was to make sure no one got blown up while cleaning up the mess. I finally told him that I had a right to shoot his ass with my M-16 if he didn't back off right NOW! And to get out of our way before I had him thrown in the brig.
Things go wrong in a recovery effort; they always do. You are working 20 hour days, with too few resources, with equipment scraped together, and the last thing you need is the press or some local wanker telling you what you should be doing differently.
These suck up resources that could go towards the recovery effort. It's no fun to be out there on the front lines while some know-it-all tells you all the things you are doing wrong, without actually contributing one iota towards the effort, and pissing off the men and women trying to do their job. Join the Guard if you want to help; otherwise STFU!
Wait 'til the next recession wipes out 70% of your 401k. If you've been around long enough, you got wiped out in 1987, then again in 2001, and then again in 2009. So you really aren't ahead unless you've got your money in something like bricks of gold.
In 2000, I almost had enough to retire on. In 2002 I basically started over; by 2008 I was doing great. Not so much in 2010...
Anyway, you haven't been working long enough to have suffered any sort of setback so don't get too complacent. A lot of arrogant people who had money and looked down on those who didn't are now in bankrupcy.
There may not be any "billion dollar companies" but open source allows small companies to play the big leagues. No one can play with MS - they're too big, too powerful, and too locked up. But open source allows a small firm with a single developer to put out a "best of breed" linux based widget - because that developer can leverage the work of hundreds of thousands of developers.
So while our closed source competitors built stuff that looked like it was stuck in the 80s - 300 baud modems for communication? We had ethernet, wifi, and a web interface.
No, we weren't a billion dollar company, but we sure looked like one.
Kids are kids. They will do stupid things; it's the nature of being a teenager. You push limits to see what they are.
OK, this kid did something stupid. Should the full force of the law be brought down on them? Heck no!
The kid took down the page, apologized, and it should end there. The kid learned something. Life goes on.
The school has no right to reach out and punish a kid for doing something on their own time. They can refer it to the cops, or they could actually use this to teach acceptable limits to behavior.
Instead, they used it to teach the kid how to play smackdown when you have power and they don't.
That's a lesson that the kid will remember for a long time. And when that kid is a wage earner, and the principal wants an increase to his social security check and better medicare, don't you think this kid will remember how it feels to have power over someone else and how to smack them down?
I guess I'm one of those "nutbags" who hikes regularly through some of those replanted forests. There's a lot of difference between a healthy forest composed of a variety of trees, and a monoculture stand of genetically selected fast growing softwoods.
One supports a variety of life and is a pleasant experience with animals and the sound of birds; the other is a wasteland with mostly insects to keep you company.
Taking out a large sitka spruce that may be 600 years old and replanting three seedlings is not an equivalence.
If our forests are "growing" why is the timber industry pushing to get at the few remaining stands of old growth forest? Just harvest the three trees you planted last harvest season. After all, that's 3 times the trees you will find in the old growth forest.
Look at http://www.scantool.net/ . I use a Scangauge II. I went through this same thing; in the end I decided that buying a scangauge gave me 90% of what I wanted, out of the box, without having a computer clutter up the driving area, and without spending weeks hacking up something that might work but then again might not.
You're only reading one side of the story. Maybe this kid got warned a couple of dozen times already; maybe they sent notes home, talked to the parents, and so on.
How about a week detention for consistently breaking the rules every day since the start of the year?
The story is highly incendiary and only provides limited info. Maybe the story should read: "The little darling has been warned 287 times so far this year; she continued to sneak candy in and even got her friend to bring candy. We can't abide rule breakers like that."
Read your military history. Up until very, very recently, the vast majority of war deaths were due to infections and disease. During the Civil War, disease and infection caused something like 2/3 of the casualites. I believe it was the Vietnam War where, for the first time, battlefield injuries caused more deaths than disease, mostly due to 1) dedicated civil engineering and sanitation teams, and 2) rapid evacuation by helicopter.
So yes, "minor" wounds are something the military takes very seriously. When you've in the field, not had a bath for 10 days, in humid, hot conditions, wearing the same clothes, a blister can kill you.
Alright, so if you're a US citizen who believes the police may have reason to suspect you're in the country illegally, you have a few options to avoid any issues. First and foremost, a driver's license works wonders.
Hmmm... You can get a driver's license in a number of states even if you're illegal. So that's no proof.
What's the litmus test for getting stopped? As a naturalized US citizen, I can tell you that for many years I had *no* papers. None, while my case wound its way through the immigration bureaucracy.
As a political refugee, you are allowed to stay, but you are provided no documentation to that effect. So should I have stayed out of AZ altogether?
What about a tourist? You don't need a visa; often my passport isn't stamped. Heck, I now carry two passports, legally. I can enter on one, get my stamp, and show the other, with no entry stamp.... Would I be arrested? Deported? Where to?
Yes, I exclude things like figure skating from 'sports'. That doesn't mean I have any sort of problem with it...it's just not a sport. It's competitive performance art.
Wait, it can't be art, since you can win at it.... Now I'm really confused, Perhaps we need a new word here..... NotArtNotSport? nans? So figure skating is nans....
Google for "Lance Armstrong is not an athlete". Seems about 8 years ago, some wanker of a sports reporter wrote this long idiotic oped piece that Lance Armstrong is not an athlete, because cycling is not a true sport. A true sport, like baseball, involves several motions, like running *and* throwing. Cycling does not; ergo cycling is not a sport and Lance is not an athlete. (At least according to this idiot, cycling only requires pedaling.)
So boxing (which this idiot covered) *is* a sport because it involves punching *and* falling down.
This is in the same vein; start out with a personal dislike of something or other, then write convoluted logic justifying your personal prejudice.
And this crap gets published because you are a member of the press, not because it makes any sense.