I mean... was there a computer in the tree or something? Was this a genetically modified tree that the eeeeeeeevil biocapitalists were trying to protect their patent on? Did the cops catch these kids by scanning RFID chips embedded in the bark?
That sounds more like a secure gateway system that will allow "regular" military networks to talk to "trusted" military networks while still maintaining the required level of separation between the two. An application of which would be to allow inteligence gathered off of the web (or other public network) to be quickly and easily transferred to a secure network for analysis.
I mean TFA itself says that this is for an *application layer* protocol stack, not transport layer port blocking or network layer address translation (although presumably both of those things would also be going on).
Speaking as the son of a retired rural co-op lineman, underground counduit is a very bad idea in most situation. Whatever conduit you put the lines in breaks down and can leak. You would have to insulate the lines, buy new excavating equipment that most utilities don't own (and train/hire people who know how to operate them), shut down surface streets for extended periods of time. You'd also have to punch holes in the basements of all the hosues served by this underground line and move most, if not all of the meters. It'd be a nightmare, and in many rural environments like ours the terrain would absolutely prohibit it.
Overhead lines are cheap and easy to break, sure, but they're also cheap and easy to repair. Which would you prefer? Having your heat and lights go out in the dead of winter maybe once or twice every year, but you get to have it back in an hour or two; or having your heat and lights go out once every couple of years and not being able to have it back for a day or more (i.e. after grandma's dead because she's frozen to death or because she fell down the stairs or couldn't find her pills in the dark or her respirator's backup batteries died)?
Last time I checked, retailer x telling vendor y that they won't carry product z unless the vendor includes feature n wasn't illegal or unethical. Heck, it's good business. Give your customers what they want.
Try playing your video on a different machine not authorized to your itunes account and you'll see what he's griping about.\
Let's see... I have a home movie DVD that I edited with iMove, put DRMed iTMS music in as background music, and then burned with iDVD. Works fine on my computer, my wife's computer (which isn't authorized into my iTMS account), and pretty much every DVD player I've run it through.
I'm looking at my big black book of Mac OS X DVDs right now and every single one of them comes with a Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 Test-Drive on the "Additional Applications" Disc and everyone of them intalls this Test-Drive by default. None of them install the iWork trial by default.
Maybe you could stop sitting at your computer wondering about how much it would cost to be Batman and go actually do something worthwhile. Like volunteer to work with kids or the homeless.
Heck, you could even, I don't know. Go be a *cop* or a soldier if you want to fight crime and villiany. If for some reason you can't do that, you can always go down to the local VA Hospital (or suitable equivalent) and just talk to these guys who left the best years of their lives and maybe a few limbs in some hellhole protecting your life and freedom.
If you really want to wear a silly costume while doing it, I don't think anyone will mind.
Contrary to popular belief most (or at least a lot) of what the NSA does isn't all that secret. They're mostly just concerned with improving I.T. security in general, both for the gub'mint and private corporations. The do research. They publish papers. The typical boring CompSci stuff. This mailing list was probably a bunch of people involved in this sort of low-level work.
The secret stuff is done by Central Security Services and the Information Assurance Directorate. They're the guys that "certify" trusted networks and systems. They basically do for networks what the FBI does for people when they investigate them for clearance. Of course, as part of their job, they "audit" the security of our critical systems remotely and covertly (i.e. Red Teaming).
The really secret stuff is done by the SIGINT folks. They're tasked with intercepting and analyzing any "interesting" communications while at the same time keeping our communications secure. They're the codemakers and the codebreakers. Even in this über-secretive area, they're pretty much just a bunch of crypto-geeks who never get their hands dirty (they leave HUMINT to the CIA).
Heck, the only guys at NSA HQ who even carry guns are the security guards. Well.. them and the several thousand soldiers surrounding them (they are in the middle of an Army base after all).
That all having been said, whoever "harvested" this information is asking for trouble. They can expect a visit from some counter-intelligence officers who will want to know exactly why these persons are so interested in who's on the NSA's payroll.
You know, at least when we had arguments like this back in the seminary, they were about slightly more important matters than the skin color of an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
The principle of escheat has been around for a long time (think English Common Law), at least in real estate. The idea is to prevent any piece of real property from having no owner.
For example, if a person dies with no heirs and no will, that person's property reverts to the state under escheat. Consider what would happen without escheat: the person's property would fall into a legal black hole. It would have no owner and therefore no way of transferring ownership or assigning use rights to third parties.
Usually what happens is that the property in question is placed in escrow while a more in depth search for heirs is done. If the heirs can't be found everything will be sold at auction with the State keeping the proceeds.
AFAIK, the principle works the about the same in all areas outside real estate. IANAL. YMMV.
What I find amazing is that the record companies didn't put a reversion clause in their contracts. That is, if an artist or his/her heirs can't be found, the the royalties revert to the company.
This has been going on each year for almost 10 years now. Each of the "official" military academies compete, and the best team wins the NSA Information Assurance Directorate Trophy. In the past Army, Navy, and Air Force have all done quite well, while Coast Guard has not.
Contrary to popular belief, the NSA Red Team isn't allowed to use any of the NSA arsenal of dirty tricks. They are only allowed to use software that is freely available off the internet (NMAP, snort, etc.) running on commodity hardware. They can't do anything that violates Federal Law, (other than the intrusion attempts themselves), but social engineering is ok.
Also, break-ins are not an automatic loss, per se. Nor is prevention of break-in an automatic win. The goal of the Red Team is DoS. For every minute a service remains down, the Red Team scores points. The cadet teams win points based on how quickly they detect and respond to the attacks. All judging is done by an NSA White Team.
I'll see if I can find some more info and post it here.
It's all about the Human Interface Guidelines people.
Every app has most of the same keyboard shortcuts and the same menu items in the same places. That means that on a Mac I have to learn the interface once.
I just point and click at the main menu and select "Preferences" to get to my preferences. I press Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste. It doesn't matter if I'm in Safari, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, or Word. My most commonly used shortcuts are the same in every app.
Apple has been very good at this sort of thing. Linux hasn't, I'm sorry to say. Think about it. Where do you go in Mozilla to change the preferences? Now, where to you go in Evolution? See what I mean? It doesn't matter that you knew how to do both. What does matter is that you had to think about it. That's the difference between a "usable" and "intuitive".
If Windows is easier to use than any particular Linux distro (and I believe it is), it is only because they have a more consistent interface across applications.
So what do you (i.e. the Linux developers of the world) do about it? Standardize! Come up with an open HIG document, and then STICK TO IT!
Just in my small (30,000 or so permanent residents) town we have a Big Ten research school, a large defense contracting company, and a large meteorolgical company. We used to have a decent semi-conductor industry, but they're all closing up shop to go over seas.
If that's too large you can always work in my home town (about an hour away and maybe a third the size) there you have a small private college with one of the highest ratios of Nobel Prize laureates to alumni anywhere in higher education.
In short, yes you can find a high tech job in the boonies, and pretty easily at that. You'll have to take a small paycut, but since the cost of living is usually 20%-30% less, you usually end up taking home more money than you did before.
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Wah wah wah waaaaaaaaaaaah!
I mean... was there a computer in the tree or something? Was this a genetically modified tree that the eeeeeeeevil biocapitalists were trying to protect their patent on? Did the cops catch these kids by scanning RFID chips embedded in the bark?
What gives?
That sounds more like a secure gateway system that will allow "regular" military networks to talk to "trusted" military networks while still maintaining the required level of separation between the two. An application of which would be to allow inteligence gathered off of the web (or other public network) to be quickly and easily transferred to a secure network for analysis.
I mean TFA itself says that this is for an *application layer* protocol stack, not transport layer port blocking or network layer address translation (although presumably both of those things would also be going on).
Speaking as the son of a retired rural co-op lineman, underground counduit is a very bad idea in most situation. Whatever conduit you put the lines in breaks down and can leak. You would have to insulate the lines, buy new excavating equipment that most utilities don't own (and train/hire people who know how to operate them), shut down surface streets for extended periods of time. You'd also have to punch holes in the basements of all the hosues served by this underground line and move most, if not all of the meters. It'd be a nightmare, and in many rural environments like ours the terrain would absolutely prohibit it.
Overhead lines are cheap and easy to break, sure, but they're also cheap and easy to repair. Which would you prefer? Having your heat and lights go out in the dead of winter maybe once or twice every year, but you get to have it back in an hour or two; or having your heat and lights go out once every couple of years and not being able to have it back for a day or more (i.e. after grandma's dead because she's frozen to death or because she fell down the stairs or couldn't find her pills in the dark or her respirator's backup batteries died)?
...meet kettle.
Last time I checked, retailer x telling vendor y that they won't carry product z unless the vendor includes feature n wasn't illegal or unethical. Heck, it's good business. Give your customers what they want.
Don't like it? Take your business somewhere else.
One French iPod. Never played. Dropped once.
Try playing your video on a different machine not authorized to your itunes account and you'll see what he's griping about.\
Let's see... I have a home movie DVD that I edited with iMove, put DRMed iTMS music in as background music, and then burned with iDVD. Works fine on my computer, my wife's computer (which isn't authorized into my iTMS account), and pretty much every DVD player I've run it through.
I'm looking at my big black book of Mac OS X DVDs right now and every single one of them comes with a Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 Test-Drive on the "Additional Applications" Disc and everyone of them intalls this Test-Drive by default. None of them install the iWork trial by default.
Call me old fashioned, but...
Maybe you could stop sitting at your computer wondering about how much it would cost to be Batman and go actually do something worthwhile. Like volunteer to work with kids or the homeless.
Heck, you could even, I don't know. Go be a *cop* or a soldier if you want to fight crime and villiany. If for some reason you can't do that, you can always go down to the local VA Hospital (or suitable equivalent) and just talk to these guys who left the best years of their lives and maybe a few limbs in some hellhole protecting your life and freedom.
If you really want to wear a silly costume while doing it, I don't think anyone will mind.
And here I thought all this editorial trolling by the /. powers that be would end after the election. Silly me.
To bad we can't mod the stories themselves.
No.
But I have had retired NSA agents tell me exactly what they did.
Now go back under your tinfoil hat.
Contrary to popular belief most (or at least a lot) of what the NSA does isn't all that secret. They're mostly just concerned with improving I.T. security in general, both for the gub'mint and private corporations. The do research. They publish papers. The typical boring CompSci stuff. This mailing list was probably a bunch of people involved in this sort of low-level work.
The secret stuff is done by Central Security Services and the Information Assurance Directorate. They're the guys that "certify" trusted networks and systems. They basically do for networks what the FBI does for people when they investigate them for clearance. Of course, as part of their job, they "audit" the security of our critical systems remotely and covertly (i.e. Red Teaming).
The really secret stuff is done by the SIGINT folks. They're tasked with intercepting and analyzing any "interesting" communications while at the same time keeping our communications secure. They're the codemakers and the codebreakers. Even in this über-secretive area, they're pretty much just a bunch of crypto-geeks who never get their hands dirty (they leave HUMINT to the CIA).
Heck, the only guys at NSA HQ who even carry guns are the security guards. Well.. them and the several thousand soldiers surrounding them (they are in the middle of an Army base after all).
That all having been said, whoever "harvested" this information is asking for trouble. They can expect a visit from some counter-intelligence officers who will want to know exactly why these persons are so interested in who's on the NSA's payroll.
You know, at least when we had arguments like this back in the seminary, they were about slightly more important matters than the skin color of an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
So what happens to dropped packets? Do they burn up on re-entry or go into an orbit?
Wrap it in tinfoil?
I give to my church (the local Christian & Missionary Alliance) and I give to the Salvation Army.
Now *that's* a game I'd buy!
The principle of escheat has been around for a long time (think English Common Law), at least in real estate. The idea is to prevent any piece of real property from having no owner.
For example, if a person dies with no heirs and no will, that person's property reverts to the state under escheat. Consider what would happen without escheat: the person's property would fall into a legal black hole. It would have no owner and therefore no way of transferring ownership or assigning use rights to third parties.
Usually what happens is that the property in question is placed in escrow while a more in depth search for heirs is done. If the heirs can't be found everything will be sold at auction with the State keeping the proceeds.
AFAIK, the principle works the about the same in all areas outside real estate. IANAL. YMMV.
What I find amazing is that the record companies didn't put a reversion clause in their contracts. That is, if an artist or his/her heirs can't be found, the the royalties revert to the company.
This has been going on each year for almost 10 years now. Each of the "official" military academies compete, and the best team wins the NSA Information Assurance Directorate Trophy. In the past Army, Navy, and Air Force have all done quite well, while Coast Guard has not.
Contrary to popular belief, the NSA Red Team isn't allowed to use any of the NSA arsenal of dirty tricks. They are only allowed to use software that is freely available off the internet (NMAP, snort, etc.) running on commodity hardware. They can't do anything that violates Federal Law, (other than the intrusion attempts themselves), but social engineering is ok.
Also, break-ins are not an automatic loss, per se. Nor is prevention of break-in an automatic win. The goal of the Red Team is DoS. For every minute a service remains down, the Red Team scores points. The cadet teams win points based on how quickly they detect and respond to the attacks. All judging is done by an NSA White Team.
I'll see if I can find some more info and post it here.
It's all about the Human Interface Guidelines people.
Every app has most of the same keyboard shortcuts and the same menu items in the same places. That means that on a Mac I have to learn the interface once.
I just point and click at the main menu and select "Preferences" to get to my preferences. I press Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste. It doesn't matter if I'm in Safari, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, or Word. My most commonly used shortcuts are the same in every app.
Apple has been very good at this sort of thing. Linux hasn't, I'm sorry to say. Think about it. Where do you go in Mozilla to change the preferences? Now, where to you go in Evolution? See what I mean? It doesn't matter that you knew how to do both. What does matter is that you had to think about it. That's the difference between a "usable" and "intuitive".
If Windows is easier to use than any particular Linux distro (and I believe it is), it is only because they have a more consistent interface across applications.
So what do you (i.e. the Linux developers of the world) do about it? Standardize! Come up with an open HIG document, and then STICK TO IT!
It's not rocket science, people.
I don't use Windows as a second OS. I do have XP installed on VPC, but I only use that for testing my OS X servers Samba stuff.
Furthermore, I support about 300 users who use Macs at work, the lion's share of those don't use Windows at home.
We even have a handful of old-timers here who have *never* used Windows. Not once, ever.
Just in my small (30,000 or so permanent residents) town we have a Big Ten research school, a large defense contracting company, and a large meteorolgical company. We used to have a decent semi-conductor industry, but they're all closing up shop to go over seas.
If that's too large you can always work in my home town (about an hour away and maybe a third the size) there you have a small private college with one of the highest ratios of Nobel Prize laureates to alumni anywhere in higher education.
In short, yes you can find a high tech job in the boonies, and pretty easily at that. You'll have to take a small paycut, but since the cost of living is usually 20%-30% less, you usually end up taking home more money than you did before.
... or is Darl turning into L. Ron Hubbard?
When I was a kid (way back in the 19-hundred-and-80s), we geeks used to settle our disputes like men: over a game of D&D!