i've built dozens of computers since 1987 and have cracked the case on thousands of others, literally. I've never toasted a part but for once, and that was an improperly soldered CPU board on a Compaq Proliant 2500 back in 1996. A surface-mount capacitor just fell off the board. Warranty replacement - the system was brand new.
Now, i've seen bad boards, particularly in the lower quality side of the Taiwanese parts market back in the late 80s, when if you ordered 10 motherboards you might expect 2 or 3 to fail. Never got any, though. I hear the same thing is true with some of the cheaper SiS based boards today.
I don't think it's all luck. Quality parts selection and careful handling will take you a long way.
Home electronics resellers have a pretty spotty past - seems they expand exponentially, then raise their prices and reduce their service to customer-unfriendly levels, then they go bankrupt. It's a constant cycle caused by cutthroat competition and low margins.
Best Buy is just summiting the mountain and headed to the downhill side of the cycle. Profits are up. The problem is that i'm not going there anymore because the prices are pretty exorbitant. I'm sure others are getting the same impression.
They are following in the path of Crazy Eddie, The Wiz, Circuit City, and lots of smaller outfits.
I have voted in many districts across multiple states. In one there were actual watchers. (the local candidates were actually there to meet and greet too)
In the rest, it was a completely unsupervised operation. The dead vote every single election. Who they vote for is whomever the person running the polls wants them to.
Perhaps, but it just seems weird. There is a lot of comms activity going on there and nearby. If something was going to interfere, i'd expect it to crop up there. Houses butt up against the base, the whole area is prime real estate.
I happen to work at a base where the US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) is headquartered. I have a keyless entry. So do many of the thousands of other people who work there. Never heard of a keyless entry problem.
Voting has been screwed up since the very beginning. You have to trust the people working at the election districts who handle the ballots. I don't. Do you?
That said, the fraud usually cancels itself out, and a winner is clearly chosen. It was godawful close in 2000, which was the source of the problem then. There is very little chance that is going to happen again. After 52 presidential elections, we finally had one that was within 1000 votes - the closest before that was Nixon in 1960, I believe.
It may not happen again during your or my lifetime, in which case the usual election fraud won't be of any concern at all to the general public.
Frankly though, typing emerge -u samba (if say, it was a samba bug) takes about 6 months to complete on some of my less capable machines.
I recommend distcc for you. It doesn't work real well with Samba, but just about everything else it speeds up compilations to near-"I don't care" ranges by using all your systems to compile stuff. I have 4 systems rigged up with it.
It's clear that the parent's acidic droplet of truth deserved to get modded troll.
Well, as long as you buy into the groupthink here. How exactly can there be useful interchange if, whenever something offends the sensibilities of the dumbshit mods, it gets sent down to -1?
"Cheerleading for PC nerds, conversation that doesn't matter"
Your military networks-fu is not up to snuff. Let me educate you.
There are three primary networks in use within DoD.
DREN is an R&D network. You won't find anything sensitive here, and it's considered the least secure of the primary DoD networks.
NIPRnet is where you find the DoD's mail servers, primarily. This is where your mistake is - NIPRnet is considered at maximum SBU "sensitive but unclassified". The network isn't secure in the sense that Secret systems would be. All DoD systems are required to be 'secure', moreso than most or all commercial machines, but no special effort is expended to secure down NIPRnet systems. It's an analogue to the office network in a commercial environment. If you only used the Secret networks, you could never communicate outside of DoD, mostly.
SIPRnet - You need a Secret clearance to be here. SIPRnet is for sensitive stuff. It isn't directly connected to anything else. This is what you were thinking about when you were talking about 'secure systems'. However, even stuff on the NIPRnet or DREN has to be secure.
Please note I used completely public sources. There is more to know, but not more that I can say.
In direct answer to your question, we get a decent amount of spam, mostly worm related stuff though. Most spammers seem to be afraid to send Viagra ads to.mil addresses. I dunno why. Maybe they're afraid they'll get a Hummer.
Well, you are right, this is about NSA and decryption.
It has nothing to do with other weapons systems. However, the disingenous reference to nuclear materials and 'weaponry' sounds sexier than the truth, which is code cracking.
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It disintegrates.
I've seen the powder residue.
There are 293 million of us, and only a tiny percentage are lefties like the /. average user.
i've built dozens of computers since 1987 and have cracked the case on thousands of others, literally. I've never toasted a part but for once, and that was an improperly soldered CPU board on a Compaq Proliant 2500 back in 1996. A surface-mount capacitor just fell off the board. Warranty replacement - the system was brand new.
Now, i've seen bad boards, particularly in the lower quality side of the Taiwanese parts market back in the late 80s, when if you ordered 10 motherboards you might expect 2 or 3 to fail. Never got any, though. I hear the same thing is true with some of the cheaper SiS based boards today.
I don't think it's all luck. Quality parts selection and careful handling will take you a long way.
That 'rogue nation' has been the primary enforcer of the UN's very limited successes.
Absent the US's cooperation the UN would have no success at all in preventing war.
Don't worry if you don't agree now - you'll get the idea when we pull out of that modern League of Nations.
Home electronics resellers have a pretty spotty past - seems they expand exponentially, then raise their prices and reduce their service to customer-unfriendly levels, then they go bankrupt. It's a constant cycle caused by cutthroat competition and low margins.
Best Buy is just summiting the mountain and headed to the downhill side of the cycle. Profits are up. The problem is that i'm not going there anymore because the prices are pretty exorbitant. I'm sure others are getting the same impression.
They are following in the path of Crazy Eddie, The Wiz, Circuit City, and lots of smaller outfits.
No argument there.
Still, considering the place I live (New Jersey, home of corrupt politics) it's understandable.
I have voted in many districts across multiple states. In one there were actual watchers. (the local candidates were actually there to meet and greet too)
In the rest, it was a completely unsupervised operation. The dead vote every single election. Who they vote for is whomever the person running the polls wants them to.
Perhaps, but it just seems weird. There is a lot of comms activity going on there and nearby. If something was going to interfere, i'd expect it to crop up there. Houses butt up against the base, the whole area is prime real estate.
I happen to work at a base where the US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) is headquartered. I have a keyless entry. So do many of the thousands of other people who work there. Never heard of a keyless entry problem.
Weird.
Do you visit every election district? It's physically impossible.
Is there an observer at every district? Even MOST? No.
The dead vote every time we have an election. Be realistic, please.
Voting has been screwed up since the very beginning. You have to trust the people working at the election districts who handle the ballots. I don't. Do you?
That said, the fraud usually cancels itself out, and a winner is clearly chosen. It was godawful close in 2000, which was the source of the problem then. There is very little chance that is going to happen again. After 52 presidential elections, we finally had one that was within 1000 votes - the closest before that was Nixon in 1960, I believe.
It may not happen again during your or my lifetime, in which case the usual election fraud won't be of any concern at all to the general public.
Frankly though, typing emerge -u samba (if say, it was a samba bug) takes about 6 months to complete on some of my less capable machines.
I recommend distcc for you. It doesn't work real well with Samba, but just about everything else it speeds up compilations to near-"I don't care" ranges by using all your systems to compile stuff. I have 4 systems rigged up with it.
heh heh.
I knew it would get modded down, but it served its purpose. I have some karma to burn.
It's clear that the parent's acidic droplet of truth deserved to get modded troll.
Well, as long as you buy into the groupthink here. How exactly can there be useful interchange if, whenever something offends the sensibilities of the dumbshit mods, it gets sent down to -1?
"Cheerleading for PC nerds, conversation that doesn't matter"
Thank you for counteracting the Communist propaganda above.
Please note I used completely public sources. There is more to know, but not more that I can say.
In direct answer to your question, we get a decent amount of spam, mostly worm related stuff though. Most spammers seem to be afraid to send Viagra ads to .mil addresses. I dunno why. Maybe they're afraid they'll get a Hummer.
I am stating that I think the classification is BS and the real story is decryption.
Well, you are right, this is about NSA and decryption.
It has nothing to do with other weapons systems. However, the disingenous reference to nuclear materials and 'weaponry' sounds sexier than the truth, which is code cracking.
Are there classes in driving your vehicle off a bridge with a woman in the passenger seat? Advanced swimming? Avoiding Authorities 101?
Seems to me that a "Kennedy School of Government" degree could be a lot of fun if structured properly!
Decades... only two, it was the early 80's when the walkman had its appeal.
Please try not to make me feel older than I am.
Only a troll because you disagree with it.
The leftist bunker mentality here is kind of humorous and kind of sad, at the same time.
after another viewing of F911.
I have to admit, he's outdone himself - who knew he had something comparable to "Triumph of the Will" in him.
I know that's being generous, comparing him to Leni Riefenstahl. I'm feeling generous towards the fat lying white bastard today.
We're thinking back to the last impeachment.
Remember perjury? It was all about sex, right?
Well, now it's all about terrorism, so live with the monster you created.
Umm...
Dude I use Moz 1.6 to go to Fleet's site all the time, works great.