What he said is not false. We typically reduce OPFOR assets until the "good guys" win. This win is mostly for confidence building. OPFOR usually know the terrain better because they are constantly training on it, that gives them a huge advantage.
A trainee or student will not learn if he is always dead or being assaulted by more than he can deal with.
You are right though that OPFOR are usually the SME (Subject Matter Experts) in their given fields.
Google included privacy statements about DNS when no other ISP or service does this. Why did they feel the need? You can't address this by trying to state simple facts (although appreciated) or citing particular issues.
Just because "one of these things is not like the others" doesn't mean it is wrong. It might be possible they are the only one to get it right. Or it might not even matter at all and you are pointing at shadows. So please don't say the defense of Google is wrong until you have a good reason to say their privacy statement is bad. Currently is appears to be very good and clearly worded.
Companies overselling is a very popular and acceptable thing too (for them). Airlines, hotels, and movie theaters often do this expecting no-shows and cancels. But i expect the percentage oversold is based on historical facts for that particular day the previous year. ISPs might have been able to oversell so much in the past but as more content moves from tv/phone/radio to the internet, the typical usage might be outstripping the previous years usage numbers. Just my thoughts..
I've always felt there was too much documentation. Information overload is very easy with linux.
I thought it was up to each Distro to maintain the relevant docs for their stuff? I've been using Gentoo for a long time now and they have great documentation. Here's the ATI howto/FAQ, for example: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml That wasn't cherry picked, look at the rest here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/
If i can't find the info i need i check the software's homepage (probably from sourceforge) or search the forums. Lastly i search the web *shudders* but that is where info-overload comes from.. so much there from present day to decades old.
PS: i'm at work and IE is previewing this post as a super tall box only one word wide.. hope it doesn't post like that : /
FLIR can't see through walls, only heat differences. I have used several heat based targetting systems, it can only show you temperature differences of what you see. There are some things you can see through.. like fog, camouflage, stuff like that. But step behind a tree and *poof* gone from view. Not sure why anyone would need a warrant to use FLIR? Is it illegal to own a system for personal use?
Yeah, that's a good point. I was just thinking if you wanted to have something encrypted and still be able to read it.. but you couldn't write down the decryption steps as you went (to hide the process).. you could have something mechanical. Just off the top of my head you could have ten wheels with 26+10+1 symbols (for english). This would let you decrypt small blocks of text without leaving any evidence of the decryption process. For example the anagrams are easy and could be done in your head.. the first x letters of the corrected anagram could be the key added to the block to spin the wheels for the correct answer. The pictures could be a part of the mental process as well.. some simple modification of the wheels? If the answers were cumulative it could get complicated very quickly and a mechanical process would be very helpful. It could even be symbols added to the inside of a clock that can be manipulated.. who knows?
The mental process of decoding and the design of the machine could be small and simple to pass from person to person.. but a books worth of knowledge would be difficult to keep secret if you wrote it down in pt and difficult to memorize.
Yeah, we've been using those kinds of simulators for a while.. they are fantastic. I have even used a squad sized simulator once that was setup like a firing line. We were in defensive positions and had to shift fire and move our heavy weapons depending on the incoming forces.
But the one/two man simulators are a lot of fun (and good training). Good for peace-keeping type scenarios that involve dialog and more decision making. Like we would be watching a market place and two people come running past.. one catches the other and starts yelling "thief!". We would issue commands or questions and a tech guy sitting on the side changes the gamestate based on our actions/words. Usually a weapon draw would escalate the scenario really quickly and people get shot. On the other hand, sometimes you had to go straight to deadly force and that is the correct action.
It changes the training from book education to hands on exercise in a very controlled way. Which might be doable on a small scale but probably impossible on the squad scale without computers.
I'm a vet and i agree with him. Typically the first to use force is the aggressor. Often the threat of force is used as a substitue for actual violence to create fear and through fear.. force is being applied.
imo the best response to an aggressor is extreme unending violence until the threat is over. When no aggressor is present.. play games, make love, read books, keep fit. In peace.
Veteran Affairs hospital in Louisville. But i'm told the system spans across all VA hospitals in the US, plus labs and all those little tiny clinics.
I think your medical experiences are different than mine. I usually see specialists.. like i go see the Ear/Nose/Throat guy and he says.. your lymphnodes are swolen (extremely simplified), go down to MRI (and gives directions). I go there with no paperwork or appointment.. say "hi, i'm blah blah" and they go "Right this way sir" stick me.. make me feel like i'm pissing all over myself and do the MRI thing. They analize it there with the MRI specialist and he writes the report. I can then go back to the E/N/T and he can immediately pull up the report.
I have never been assigned a doctor before. There is a case worker that keeps track of appointments and makes sure everything is moving along smoothly but he/she doesn't need medical knowledge (imo).
The whole process seems very streamlined. Perhaps very non-personal but i don't mind. There seems to be enough oversight and checkpoints that people don't fall through the cracks.
There seems to be many ways to implement the features they want too. My hospital has all digital records and their solution to MRI storage is have the MRI interpreted on the spot and draft a text report on the findings. One page of text versus a huge MRI. The actual MRI itself is probably deleted and only the text remains after the "case is closed".
This also means that when i visit a distant lab they can pull up my "MRI" instantly because all the important facts are there in a tiny text file.
In the US you can refuse to give up your fingerprints (i would assume DNA is the same). They can get a court to compel you to give up your prints though. If you don't comply with the court you'd go to jail i guess.
They could simply take your DNA/Fingerprints from your toothbrush or something (if they were legally allowed to take that object) but they would have to bind it to you and only you.. somehow. In most cases it is in your interest to give up fingerprints and DNA to disqualify yourself as a suspect.
DNA and fingerprints are used by law-enforcement for identification purposes only. Scientists may have other uses for your DNA though.
Their DNA is stored for identifcation purposes, i don't see how that counts as abuse? If the DNA is treated like a fingerprint, the only value it has is for identification.
Gene therapy requires the specific persons DNA because the part that is broken needs to be 'fixed' and reintroduced into the body. It would be silly to put someone else's DNA into your body. And of course it is expensive, it's still experimental!
DNA collection at birth must still be on a very limited scale, my state doesn't do it. Though we do keep criminal DNA records. In fact you can go to DNA.gov and look up the numbers for your state as well.
The Army collects DNA for "Identification purposes only". Just incase you don't belive me, he is sample text:
a. The Department of Defense (DOD) established the DNA Registry Program to aid in the identification of remains. DNA analysis will supplement fingerprint and dental panographic x-ray identification techniques.
b. Medical personnel will collect blood from each soldier. Specimens will be stored at the DOD, DNA Repository and analyzed only when needed to assist with remains identification.
c. The required sampling frequency is "one time only." The DOD, DNA Repository will store the specimens for the duration of the soldier's service. The soldier may request destruction after completing military obligation.
d. Access to the stored specimens and DNA typing information will be strictly controlled to protect soldier privacy.
I find it hard to belive that citizens have less control over their DNA when dealing with corporations than Soldiers do with the Government they work for.
You know what would be funny? Google should remove all of murdoch's news sites from the index and say "We took the liberty of removing the sites, like you've been publicly talking about". If he wants them back he'll have to publicly ask to be reincluded. That should make his intentions clearer.
Escalation has always been a problem though. Most distros repackage the program with their own default configs to fit the distro's "style". Even then most (i hope all!) admins change the defaults before deploying. If you don't like the feature, turn it off! The only news here is that Fedora didn't warn anyone about the change in defaults. It's very possibly they didn't even know.
You should have read that summary better. The feature has been around but is only just now enabled on a default install. Not only that but only signed software can be installed (no removal). This is aimed at desktop installs. So they can install apache, sure.. but it will just sit there.. not running.
This way if a desktop user needs something installed they can get it from the official repo without calling desktop-support.
Don't like it? Turn off the feature! Don't deploy a default install of anything.. that's retarded!
I get infected with something terrible at every lanparty >= 100 geeks. I take good care of my gaming machine, up-to-date patches/drivers/firmware and AV.
The worst one ever was the sasser worm. I was at a lanparty of 450 folks and the sasser got loose.. this was early to mid 2004. Someone there worked with an AV and got a removal tool for us within two hours.
I typically backup everything to my linux box before a party. Then post party i scan all the drives before putting the machine back on the network.
Oh, and i always disable autorun and even disable the use of USB to prevent drive-bys when i'm taking a leak.
Pretty sure NSW gets to use whatever sidearm is in the kit.. which includes 9mm and.45. Marine recon is 1911. SF is 9mm and Delta is a subset of that.. but i'm sure they get to choose from an assortment. Either way, there's still a big mix of sidearms out there. To most soldiers, your sidearm is seriously the LAST thing you pull.. just before you start throwing rocks/chairs/whatever. Prior to that, it's a piece of equipment you have to clean and carry around.
I started on an M9 and i still prefer that to this day. Because i know it works as advertised and i'm very comfortable with it. My guess is that's the same for most people. If you started with 10mm and shot that a lot.. you will probably swear by it the rest of your life.
If a pistol is your primary weapon, caliber sizes and small differences in performance might be of value. But as a sidearm.. who cares. Whatever you prefer is best.
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I have a lot more respect for today's US soldiers than last decades... know why? Because today, if you sign up you will most likely see your first tour in 1-2 years. Then you'll stop and go.. i have to do 20 years of this to retire?!
Disclaimer: I respect anyone who served or made it to retirement, but go talk to someone who's deployed over 48 months, been blown up three times, lost > 10 men, and re-ups for more. You will feel like your service to the country was lacking too.
The mines i've seen weren't hermetically sealed or even close. You have to open a port/hole in the mine and insert the detonator.. then arm it. And that's for basic function. Any sort of anti-personnel attachments (to prevent removal) are an additional hole and additional device (a scary device!). There are good reasons that mines are blown in place and not simply removed. Mines can be made of plastic too : / Not sure how permeable plastic mines are.. obviously waterproof though.
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What he said is not false. We typically reduce OPFOR assets until the "good guys" win. This win is mostly for confidence building. OPFOR usually know the terrain better because they are constantly training on it, that gives them a huge advantage.
A trainee or student will not learn if he is always dead or being assaulted by more than he can deal with.
You are right though that OPFOR are usually the SME (Subject Matter Experts) in their given fields.
Google included privacy statements about DNS when no other ISP or service does this. Why did they feel the need? You can't address this by trying to state simple facts (although appreciated) or citing particular issues.
Just because "one of these things is not like the others" doesn't mean it is wrong. It might be possible they are the only one to get it right. Or it might not even matter at all and you are pointing at shadows. So please don't say the defense of Google is wrong until you have a good reason to say their privacy statement is bad. Currently is appears to be very good and clearly worded.
Companies overselling is a very popular and acceptable thing too (for them). Airlines, hotels, and movie theaters often do this expecting no-shows and cancels. But i expect the percentage oversold is based on historical facts for that particular day the previous year. ISPs might have been able to oversell so much in the past but as more content moves from tv/phone/radio to the internet, the typical usage might be outstripping the previous years usage numbers. Just my thoughts..
I've always felt there was too much documentation. Information overload is very easy with linux.
I thought it was up to each Distro to maintain the relevant docs for their stuff? I've been using Gentoo for a long time now and they have great documentation. Here's the ATI howto/FAQ, for example: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml That wasn't cherry picked, look at the rest here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/
If i can't find the info i need i check the software's homepage (probably from sourceforge) or search the forums. Lastly i search the web *shudders* but that is where info-overload comes from.. so much there from present day to decades old.
PS: i'm at work and IE is previewing this post as a super tall box only one word wide.. hope it doesn't post like that : /
FLIR can't see through walls, only heat differences. I have used several heat based targetting systems, it can only show you temperature differences of what you see. There are some things you can see through.. like fog, camouflage, stuff like that. But step behind a tree and *poof* gone from view. Not sure why anyone would need a warrant to use FLIR? Is it illegal to own a system for personal use?
Yeah, that's a good point. I was just thinking if you wanted to have something encrypted and still be able to read it.. but you couldn't write down the decryption steps as you went (to hide the process).. you could have something mechanical. Just off the top of my head you could have ten wheels with 26+10+1 symbols (for english). This would let you decrypt small blocks of text without leaving any evidence of the decryption process. For example the anagrams are easy and could be done in your head.. the first x letters of the corrected anagram could be the key added to the block to spin the wheels for the correct answer. The pictures could be a part of the mental process as well.. some simple modification of the wheels? If the answers were cumulative it could get complicated very quickly and a mechanical process would be very helpful. It could even be symbols added to the inside of a clock that can be manipulated.. who knows?
The mental process of decoding and the design of the machine could be small and simple to pass from person to person.. but a books worth of knowledge would be difficult to keep secret if you wrote it down in pt and difficult to memorize.
Yeah, we've been using those kinds of simulators for a while.. they are fantastic. I have even used a squad sized simulator once that was setup like a firing line. We were in defensive positions and had to shift fire and move our heavy weapons depending on the incoming forces.
But the one/two man simulators are a lot of fun (and good training). Good for peace-keeping type scenarios that involve dialog and more decision making. Like we would be watching a market place and two people come running past.. one catches the other and starts yelling "thief!". We would issue commands or questions and a tech guy sitting on the side changes the gamestate based on our actions/words. Usually a weapon draw would escalate the scenario really quickly and people get shot. On the other hand, sometimes you had to go straight to deadly force and that is the correct action.
It changes the training from book education to hands on exercise in a very controlled way. Which might be doable on a small scale but probably impossible on the squad scale without computers.
I'm a vet and i agree with him. Typically the first to use force is the aggressor. Often the threat of force is used as a substitue for actual violence to create fear and through fear.. force is being applied.
imo the best response to an aggressor is extreme unending violence until the threat is over. When no aggressor is present.. play games, make love, read books, keep fit. In peace.
Veteran Affairs hospital in Louisville. But i'm told the system spans across all VA hospitals in the US, plus labs and all those little tiny clinics.
I think your medical experiences are different than mine. I usually see specialists.. like i go see the Ear/Nose/Throat guy and he says.. your lymphnodes are swolen (extremely simplified), go down to MRI (and gives directions). I go there with no paperwork or appointment.. say "hi, i'm blah blah" and they go "Right this way sir" stick me.. make me feel like i'm pissing all over myself and do the MRI thing. They analize it there with the MRI specialist and he writes the report. I can then go back to the E/N/T and he can immediately pull up the report.
I have never been assigned a doctor before. There is a case worker that keeps track of appointments and makes sure everything is moving along smoothly but he/she doesn't need medical knowledge (imo).
The whole process seems very streamlined. Perhaps very non-personal but i don't mind. There seems to be enough oversight and checkpoints that people don't fall through the cracks.
There seems to be many ways to implement the features they want too. My hospital has all digital records and their solution to MRI storage is have the MRI interpreted on the spot and draft a text report on the findings. One page of text versus a huge MRI. The actual MRI itself is probably deleted and only the text remains after the "case is closed".
This also means that when i visit a distant lab they can pull up my "MRI" instantly because all the important facts are there in a tiny text file.
In the US you can refuse to give up your fingerprints (i would assume DNA is the same). They can get a court to compel you to give up your prints though. If you don't comply with the court you'd go to jail i guess.
They could simply take your DNA/Fingerprints from your toothbrush or something (if they were legally allowed to take that object) but they would have to bind it to you and only you.. somehow. In most cases it is in your interest to give up fingerprints and DNA to disqualify yourself as a suspect.
DNA and fingerprints are used by law-enforcement for identification purposes only. Scientists may have other uses for your DNA though.
hahah, that was a good one
In a civilized country, you don't have to kill people to make a point. You have discussions.
Their DNA is stored for identifcation purposes, i don't see how that counts as abuse? If the DNA is treated like a fingerprint, the only value it has is for identification.
Gene therapy requires the specific persons DNA because the part that is broken needs to be 'fixed' and reintroduced into the body. It would be silly to put someone else's DNA into your body. And of course it is expensive, it's still experimental!
DNA collection at birth must still be on a very limited scale, my state doesn't do it. Though we do keep criminal DNA records. In fact you can go to DNA.gov and look up the numbers for your state as well.
The Army collects DNA for "Identification purposes only". Just incase you don't belive me, he is sample text:
a. The Department of Defense (DOD) established the DNA Registry Program to aid in the identification of remains. DNA analysis will supplement fingerprint and dental panographic x-ray identification techniques.
b. Medical personnel will collect blood from each soldier. Specimens will be stored at the DOD, DNA Repository and analyzed only when needed to assist with remains identification.
c. The required sampling frequency is "one time only." The DOD, DNA Repository will store the specimens for the duration of the soldier's service. The soldier may request destruction after completing military obligation.
d. Access to the stored specimens and DNA typing information will be strictly controlled to protect soldier privacy.
I find it hard to belive that citizens have less control over their DNA when dealing with corporations than Soldiers do with the Government they work for.
You know what would be funny? Google should remove all of murdoch's news sites from the index and say "We took the liberty of removing the sites, like you've been publicly talking about". If he wants them back he'll have to publicly ask to be reincluded. That should make his intentions clearer.
I'd hate to hear your comments on Blender
Escalation has always been a problem though. Most distros repackage the program with their own default configs to fit the distro's "style". Even then most (i hope all!) admins change the defaults before deploying. If you don't like the feature, turn it off! The only news here is that Fedora didn't warn anyone about the change in defaults. It's very possibly they didn't even know.
"Sir, we are finding a lot of possible passwords using the w,a,s,d keys"
You should have read that summary better. The feature has been around but is only just now enabled on a default install. Not only that but only signed software can be installed (no removal). This is aimed at desktop installs. So they can install apache, sure.. but it will just sit there.. not running.
This way if a desktop user needs something installed they can get it from the official repo without calling desktop-support.
Don't like it? Turn off the feature! Don't deploy a default install of anything.. that's retarded!
I get infected with something terrible at every lanparty >= 100 geeks. I take good care of my gaming machine, up-to-date patches/drivers/firmware and AV.
The worst one ever was the sasser worm. I was at a lanparty of 450 folks and the sasser got loose.. this was early to mid 2004. Someone there worked with an AV and got a removal tool for us within two hours.
I typically backup everything to my linux box before a party. Then post party i scan all the drives before putting the machine back on the network.
Oh, and i always disable autorun and even disable the use of USB to prevent drive-bys when i'm taking a leak.
Pretty sure NSW gets to use whatever sidearm is in the kit.. which includes 9mm and .45. Marine recon is 1911. SF is 9mm and Delta is a subset of that.. but i'm sure they get to choose from an assortment. Either way, there's still a big mix of sidearms out there. To most soldiers, your sidearm is seriously the LAST thing you pull.. just before you start throwing rocks/chairs/whatever. Prior to that, it's a piece of equipment you have to clean and carry around.
I started on an M9 and i still prefer that to this day. Because i know it works as advertised and i'm very comfortable with it. My guess is that's the same for most people. If you started with 10mm and shot that a lot.. you will probably swear by it the rest of your life.
If a pistol is your primary weapon, caliber sizes and small differences in performance might be of value. But as a sidearm.. who cares. Whatever you prefer is best.
Sounds like they needed to blame something.. then change something to make it look like they're actually making things better.
An explosion that'll shake every bone in your body.. your teeth in their sockets.. like the very fabric of your body was made of jello. This free experience can be yours! Sign up today!
I have a lot more respect for today's US soldiers than last decades... know why? Because today, if you sign up you will most likely see your first tour in 1-2 years. Then you'll stop and go.. i have to do 20 years of this to retire?!
Disclaimer: I respect anyone who served or made it to retirement, but go talk to someone who's deployed over 48 months, been blown up three times, lost > 10 men, and re-ups for more. You will feel like your service to the country was lacking too.
The mines i've seen weren't hermetically sealed or even close. You have to open a port/hole in the mine and insert the detonator.. then arm it. And that's for basic function. Any sort of anti-personnel attachments (to prevent removal) are an additional hole and additional device (a scary device!). There are good reasons that mines are blown in place and not simply removed. Mines can be made of plastic too : / Not sure how permeable plastic mines are.. obviously waterproof though.