There is plenty of CND in the DoD's networks. The statement that they are completely compromised is one of those statements you can make without fear of it being falsified, but it's a bunch of bullshit nonetheless.
The best part is that what they are really saying there is that they lack the skilled personnel to compete with other nations. The reason they lack said personnel is that no one who is any good would like to work for the government. It's an unpleasant work environment in a lot of ways, especially in light of current budget expectations for DoD and certain mandated cuts.
The military would like a bunch of script kiddie canned attacks as their 'offensive' capability. They don't want to rely on anyone with a brain in real time. That doesn't work very well in practice.
They are referring to the NIPRnet which is directly connected to the rest of the internet. NIPR is all about web apps - time trackers and such, and e-mail. The actual secure stuff has an air gap.
This is mostly hyperbole. These people who are testifying don't know jack shit about technology, and neither do the people who are listening to them.
Gartner is famous for wrong predictions about everything. You'd be better off pissing at a 5 meter dart board for your decisions than trusting anything Gartner spews out. They obviously take money from vendors to write what they write.
Back in the 90s, the management I worked for at several firms was always quoting Gartner bullshit. They're all out of IT now. The last one got shitcanned when Lehman blew up in 08.
Serious question: why isn't it possible to put a set of birds in polar orbits and just do handoffs a few times a day as they move through their orbits? Or is Antarctic research not worth lofting 3-4 birds in a circumpolar orbit separated by 90 to 120 degrees?
The process sounds interesting but the writer is an idiot.
"we could cut down on electricity usage, CO2 output, and most importantly fresh water, which is growing more scarce by the year."
We're just shooting it all into space, right? It's not the water getting more scarce. It's TOO MANY PEOPLE vying for the same water that causes the issue. Instead of citing the actual problem, overpopulation, writers like this one refer to one of its symptoms, water shortage. As if conservation would do anything but encourage more overpopulation.
Oh and btw, the "no nuclear program" is a canard. I spent 6 months in-country in 07-08 helping deconstruct his nonexistent nuclear program. The weakness of left wing inquiry always astounds me. The canards that are accepted as truth...
1) This means we've already lost, if we're quantifying the lack of privacy rights and the trampling thereof. 2) This seems as useful as color-coding terrorist threat levels ala Homeland Security.
1) Failure to do anything meaningful about the abuses of 'oil for food'. 2) Failure to do anything meaningful about the potshots at the no-fly zone patrols. 3) Failure to do anything meaningful about the importation of dual use items into Iraq. 4) Failure to hold the hammer over Saddam's head about the Blix situation. There was lots of dithering in the run-up to the 2003 war.
Why is this insightful? Where has the UN had any success at all? Just last week, a dual veto of a SC resolution that would have done something about Assad killing his people in Syria occurred. This is an effective organization, one that can't do jack shit about people being killed in the street? But this isn't isolated: let's see what else the UN has done.
Korea? The only reason action was taken in Korea was that the Soviets boycotted the session in question, avoiding a Security Council veto. The UNC structure and DMZ are still there, 60 years on. All of the allied nations have fled except the US. There's a rousing success story.
UN peacekeepers have been involved in Israel since 1948. Note the many wars since.
UN peacekeepers have been in Cyprus since 1964. No resolution, of course.
We can't forget the Iraq-Kuwait observer mission from 91 to 03. They really prevented war in Iraq, border incursions or ground to air attack. They also made sure Hans Blix got into Baghdad and got his mission accomplished. Not.
Note the rush to get the UN involved in such affairs as: Vietnam Bosnia Serbia - the Kosovo intervention happened after the Serbians were pummeled outside UN authority...Russian veto again... Afghanistan in 2001 (they were there in late 80s-early 90s...great job, UN, first in stopping the 10 year Soviet occupation and then managing its aftermath so well) Libya in 2011
The list just goes on of UN failures in action, or failures to act in this area.
Actually, both groups were recipients of Soviet funding (and parrots of the Marxist/Leninist thought of same) and suffered a rather significant hit by the elimination of that source of funding. The years since can be understood in context as attempts by the chastened, underfunded groups attempting to find some modus operandi with the local government in question.
I think you are referring to statutory damages. While that would be a nice avenue to have in this case, I don't think it is absolutely necessary in this case, even though there wasn't much money lost.
The RS-232 port was capable (much) of higher rates than 19200. The computers weren't capable of handling polled communications at higher rates. Even 19200 was a stretch - I had a Kaypro Z-80 CP/M machine that would drop chars in polled mode at 9600, for instance. Interrupt-driven communications could be run faster, but some computers supported it (IBM PC compatibles) and some didn't. Even in the IBM PC, the UART chip would limit your ability to do high speed comms. The original UART was the 8250. The 8250 had no buffering. It held one character at a time. The much later 16550 UART had a 16 character FIFO buffer tacked on which alleviated the issue, requiring less than one interrupt per character.
The point was kinda moot in the early 1980s though. An original Hayes Smartmodem 1200 supported nothing faster than 1200 baud. It was only later that modems implemented things like v.42 and MNP5. The compression would require a higher DTE speed than the modem's connect speed to operate. You'd connect at 9600 and need to have the serial port locked at 19200 to gain anything from the compression.
North Korea saw true famine in the 90s, it only made their people more sure that the west was the evil empire. Famine only proves to the people of North Korea that we are their enemies and only the Kims are keeping them alive.
Citation, please.
Stalin starved relatively small minorities of his population. Stalin accepted vast amounts of Western aid during WWII to avoid famine amongst the Great Russian population. He would not have done this if he could have avoided it. Those cans of spam were a message to his people that they heard loud and clear, as later evidence proved.
A better argument against me would have been based on the effects of that western aid on the Soviet Union. Of course, the desired result took the better part of 50 years to realize.
Starvation is a great motivator. Feeding the people extends the regime's lifespan. Stalin feared famine. Napoleon understood this. The Romans understood it, too.
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I wonder if commercial transmutation would be feasible with such a neutron source - lead to gold, for a low hanging fruit example.
There is plenty of CND in the DoD's networks. The statement that they are completely compromised is one of those statements you can make without fear of it being falsified, but it's a bunch of bullshit nonetheless.
I SO agree with you. I am getting out after 10 years - at least I keep promising myself that.
The federal government is home to the most idiotic employees ever.
The best part is that what they are really saying there is that they lack the skilled personnel to compete with other nations. The reason they lack said personnel is that no one who is any good would like to work for the government. It's an unpleasant work environment in a lot of ways, especially in light of current budget expectations for DoD and certain mandated cuts.
The military would like a bunch of script kiddie canned attacks as their 'offensive' capability. They don't want to rely on anyone with a brain in real time. That doesn't work very well in practice.
They're never going to get what they want.
There are physically isolated networks.
They are referring to the NIPRnet which is directly connected to the rest of the internet. NIPR is all about web apps - time trackers and such, and e-mail. The actual secure stuff has an air gap.
This is mostly hyperbole. These people who are testifying don't know jack shit about technology, and neither do the people who are listening to them.
Actually, you make a good point. The thing is, you didn't need to pay them to know what to avoid!
Gartner is famous for wrong predictions about everything. You'd be better off pissing at a 5 meter dart board for your decisions than trusting anything Gartner spews out. They obviously take money from vendors to write what they write.
Back in the 90s, the management I worked for at several firms was always quoting Gartner bullshit. They're all out of IT now. The last one got shitcanned when Lehman blew up in 08.
Serious question: why isn't it possible to put a set of birds in polar orbits and just do handoffs a few times a day as they move through their orbits? Or is Antarctic research not worth lofting 3-4 birds in a circumpolar orbit separated by 90 to 120 degrees?
The process sounds interesting but the writer is an idiot.
"we could cut down on electricity usage, CO2 output, and most importantly fresh water, which is growing more scarce by the year."
We're just shooting it all into space, right? It's not the water getting more scarce. It's TOO MANY PEOPLE vying for the same water that causes the issue. Instead of citing the actual problem, overpopulation, writers like this one refer to one of its symptoms, water shortage. As if conservation would do anything but encourage more overpopulation.
"My hovercraft is full of eels" would have been perfect.
Oh and btw, the "no nuclear program" is a canard. I spent 6 months in-country in 07-08 helping deconstruct his nonexistent nuclear program. The weakness of left wing inquiry always astounds me. The canards that are accepted as truth ...
Concurrent user, you mean. Think about it.
1) This means we've already lost, if we're quantifying the lack of privacy rights and the trampling thereof.
2) This seems as useful as color-coding terrorist threat levels ala Homeland Security.
1) Failure to do anything meaningful about the abuses of 'oil for food'.
2) Failure to do anything meaningful about the potshots at the no-fly zone patrols.
3) Failure to do anything meaningful about the importation of dual use items into Iraq.
4) Failure to hold the hammer over Saddam's head about the Blix situation. There was lots of dithering in the run-up to the 2003 war.
Why is this insightful? Where has the UN had any success at all? Just last week, a dual veto of a SC resolution that would have done something about Assad killing his people in Syria occurred. This is an effective organization, one that can't do jack shit about people being killed in the street? But this isn't isolated: let's see what else the UN has done.
Korea? The only reason action was taken in Korea was that the Soviets boycotted the session in question, avoiding a Security Council veto. The UNC structure and DMZ are still there, 60 years on. All of the allied nations have fled except the US. There's a rousing success story.
UN peacekeepers have been involved in Israel since 1948. Note the many wars since.
UN peacekeepers have been in Cyprus since 1964. No resolution, of course.
We can't forget the Iraq-Kuwait observer mission from 91 to 03. They really prevented war in Iraq, border incursions or ground to air attack. They also made sure Hans Blix got into Baghdad and got his mission accomplished. Not.
Note the rush to get the UN involved in such affairs as:
Vietnam
Bosnia
Serbia - the Kosovo intervention happened after the Serbians were pummeled outside UN authority...Russian veto again...
Afghanistan in 2001 (they were there in late 80s-early 90s...great job, UN, first in stopping the 10 year Soviet occupation and then managing its aftermath so well)
Libya in 2011
The list just goes on of UN failures in action, or failures to act in this area.
Actually, both groups were recipients of Soviet funding (and parrots of the Marxist/Leninist thought of same) and suffered a rather significant hit by the elimination of that source of funding. The years since can be understood in context as attempts by the chastened, underfunded groups attempting to find some modus operandi with the local government in question.
It was more enjoyable than Canticle, though Canticle will make you think harder.
I think you are referring to statutory damages. While that would be a nice avenue to have in this case, I don't think it is absolutely necessary in this case, even though there wasn't much money lost.
I suspect the porn company is not liability limited and probably has lots of cash. Sue them, and let them sort it out with Flickr.
Not every cop is there to harass people and enlarge his dick size. Just most of them.
For bad police, cameras are terrorism.
The RS-232 port was capable (much) of higher rates than 19200. The computers weren't capable of handling polled communications at higher rates. Even 19200 was a stretch - I had a Kaypro Z-80 CP/M machine that would drop chars in polled mode at 9600, for instance. Interrupt-driven communications could be run faster, but some computers supported it (IBM PC compatibles) and some didn't. Even in the IBM PC, the UART chip would limit your ability to do high speed comms. The original UART was the 8250. The 8250 had no buffering. It held one character at a time. The much later 16550 UART had a 16 character FIFO buffer tacked on which alleviated the issue, requiring less than one interrupt per character.
The point was kinda moot in the early 1980s though. An original Hayes Smartmodem 1200 supported nothing faster than 1200 baud. It was only later that modems implemented things like v.42 and MNP5. The compression would require a higher DTE speed than the modem's connect speed to operate. You'd connect at 9600 and need to have the serial port locked at 19200 to gain anything from the compression.
North Korea saw true famine in the 90s, it only made their people more sure that the west was the evil empire. Famine only proves to the people of North Korea that we are their enemies and only the Kims are keeping them alive.
Citation, please.
Stalin starved relatively small minorities of his population. Stalin accepted vast amounts of Western aid during WWII to avoid famine amongst the Great Russian population. He would not have done this if he could have avoided it. Those cans of spam were a message to his people that they heard loud and clear, as later evidence proved.
A better argument against me would have been based on the effects of that western aid on the Soviet Union. Of course, the desired result took the better part of 50 years to realize.
Starvation is a great motivator. Feeding the people extends the regime's lifespan. Stalin feared famine. Napoleon understood this. The Romans understood it, too.