Build a cylindrical wall surrounding the launch complex and the outbound trajectory. Put a hefty airlock at the bottom, at ground level. Make the wall tall enough to poke out of the atmosphere. Install really big vacuum pumps.
Move the spacecraft into the wall through the airlock. Get everyone out of the walled area. Close the airlock and evacuate all the atmosphere from the walled region. (Pump it into the surrounding open air.)
When the walled in area is a hard vacuum, from ground to space, launch! The FAA has no say, because there's no atmosphere! The EPA has no say because there's no air!
The spacecraft never undergoes aerodynamic stress during launch and can be any dang shape you want! Spherical ship? No problem!
"Security Excursion" gets 50 Google hits, most of which seem to be talking about boondoggles and outings. ("Excursion" about "security".)
One google hit supports GFP's use of the phrase, though:
Security Vulnerability Threat Assessment Audit: The scope of Gulf Coast Project Services audit process goes beyond Public Safety. It encompasses Business Interruption and Corporate Survivability. The objective of this audit is to leverage existing work processes and standard guidelines in order to determine gaps in a particular Security Vulnerability threat analysis. GCPS's Security Vulnerability Threat Assessment audit is organized into three sections. The three sections are; Security Excursion Protection, Security Excursion Remediation and Security Excursion Mitigation.
(emphasis mine)
Sounds like someone's bureaucratese euphemism for "Security screwup". Other than being bafflegab and needlessly obscure, it's consistent with the usage.
That qualifies as damning with faint praise, but there you go.
The Reg article kinda brushed off the risks of a cell-tower MITM attack, relegating it to a mere "loss of privacy" because the 3G cryptosystem is strong.
I assume it means that the cryptosystem is too strong for a realtime attack. It's a damn rare cryptosystem that can't be broken using enough stored ciphertext, so if the modified femtocell is storing and forwarding all traffic, traffic analysis + theoretical weaknesses in the algo + massive compute power == recovered clear material at some point in the future. Depending on the use case, there may be a lot of value in that.
This is no infringement on free speech. Yes, anonymity may be useful if you're blowing the whistle on wrong-doing by the powerful, but in normal political debate anonymity is a bad thing. When you see a thousand comments with a thousand different names all supporting the same view, how do you know whether it's a widely held view or one loon with nine hundred and ninety nine sock puppets? How do you know whether it's astroturf by a foreign corporation or foreign government meddling in your affairs?
Well, that certainly explains a lot. Why is the Obama administration turning its back on returning to the Moon?
Clearly, one loon with 999 sock puppets has succeeded in convincing the powers-that-be that the initial moon landing never happened! The conspiracy theorists have won! OMG! Witness the terrible power of anonymous sockpuppetry!!!!111one
I don't talk politics at work. I get enough pointless argument at work just doing the daily job; I have no desire or need to chum for more.
I don't use Facebook, MySpace, or any other online forum under my real name. Without packet capture, good luck tying me to those pseudonyms.
I'm not sure I even visibly espouse any particular political flavor under those 'nyms, other than generally being in favor of personal liberty over governmental convenience. I guess that just means that since I don't self-identify as one brand of tuna or another, the reader can label me however it pleases them. As if I care.
but get rid of anonymous voting, especially on referenda.
This is sufficiently borderline-retarded that I'm tempted to think it's just a troll, but you seem quite sincere. So let's pretend, for the sake of amusement, that you are.
Retarded. Epic retarded.
If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want the government to personally assess you a new tax so you can put your money where your mouth is if I decide to vote "no" on it.
Welcome to democracy, Grasshopper. The vote is not "Yes I will" or "No I won't". We all will or won't. So vote no, but if you lose, you get to help anyways. This is reality. No one gets an opt-out. Deal.
Besides, what's the difference between "If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want the government to personally assess you a new tax" and "If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want gather up a posse and teach you rough justice"?
Stereotypically, this would just degenerate into mob rule, the majority abusing or eliminating the minority. In a few cases, where the minority already has the whip hand, this degenerates into death squads and los desaparecidos.
But, as long as you don't have to get taxed for anything you don't personally approve of... I guess it's ok.
Aww, you got me there. How about if you never leave your mom's basement, and you arrange your furniture on the side of the basement away from the street? Would that work?
Sorry. Off-road vehicles approaching from the middle of the block. Cars dropped from the back of transport aircraft and crashing through the roof and all intervening floors. Cars experiencing a freakish (vanishingly unlikely, highly improbable, probably only going to happen if someone triggers an Improbability Drive without shielding) spontaneous quantum teleportation from the street into the basement.
It's like the Golden BB... if your number is up, it's up.
I would imagine the best way to avoid a car accident is to have never been conceived. After all, for some people, having been conceived was itself a car accident.
Well, it's a moderately current US Military usage. "CONUS". Means Lower 48.
Yes, Alaska and Hawaii are "overseas". Back in the day, it counted as an overseas tour for the purposes of "We need someone who is assigned stateside right now for a 2-year unaccompanied tour within spitting distance of the Korean DMZ."
ObDisclaimer: I've been out of the service the better part of a decade, so the U.S. Air Force military personnel system may have entered the 21st Century in the meanwhile.
Did I say "tower" (by itself)? I said "rig". Unless you have direct HDMI or DVI access to your visual cortex, you'll need a monitor. If this is a decent gaming rig, it's not going to be small, even if it's thin (LCD), so that's several cc more.
And your keyboard, mouse, and software CDs? (or did you crack the game, you insidious polar pirate?)
No, it won't be a cubic meter. As long as you use no packing material. I'm sure the cargo ships carrying your less-than-cubic-meter of computing goodness will have a smooth, waveless, undisturbed trip. And all loading/offloading activities will be as gentle as a mother cradling her child.
Bad testing environment for that. A few minutes exposure to Winter ambient conditions and you'll welcome the warming glow of the Active Denial System (AKA open-air microwave oven).
Personal effects transportation limit is 1 cubic meter and 250 kg. I hope your OCable gaming rig is pretty compact. (Yes, even a tower system with all accouterments would fit, but that would be pretty close to all you could take.)
It used to be that CompTIA's cert never needed renewal.
Then someone realized that a "lifetime" technology certification is as valuable as 25-year-old bread, CompTIA changed to say you'd need re-certification periodically.
But, of course, that didn't fly with the armies of A+ drones who paid good money for their "lifetime" certification.
CompTIA's new position is, once again, the A+ is good for "lifetime". However, they're sticking to the position that technology moves too fast for an old cert to be still good.
The compromise position? Once enough time and progress has elapsed since your cert was issued, CompTIA's elite certification ninja team assassinates you. Your cert was, therefore, good for your "lifetime".
And after executing the no-know SWAT incursion to service the warrant, they discover that mcgrew was, in fact, running an underground heirloom tomato operation.
No charges were pressed, and eventually (years later), the claims for illegal arrest, harassment, and damage to property and reputation wended their way through court and mcgrew's lawyer received a substantial windfall from mcgrew's city.
The interests of justice were not particularly well served, but the produce manager of the local chain grocery store was happy that he could resume selling his wax-and-cardboard pseudo-tomatoes at their previous inflated price.
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OMG brilliant!
Build a cylindrical wall surrounding the launch complex and the outbound trajectory. Put a hefty airlock at the bottom, at ground level. Make the wall tall enough to poke out of the atmosphere. Install really big vacuum pumps.
Move the spacecraft into the wall through the airlock. Get everyone out of the walled area. Close the airlock and evacuate all the atmosphere from the walled region. (Pump it into the surrounding open air.)
When the walled in area is a hard vacuum, from ground to space, launch! The FAA has no say, because there's no atmosphere! The EPA has no say because there's no air!
The spacecraft never undergoes aerodynamic stress during launch and can be any dang shape you want! Spherical ship? No problem!
Note to all slashbots: I am joking. Maybe.
"Security Excursion" gets 50 Google hits, most of which seem to be talking about boondoggles and outings. ("Excursion" about "security".)
One google hit supports GFP's use of the phrase, though:
(emphasis mine)
Sounds like someone's bureaucratese euphemism for "Security screwup". Other than being bafflegab and needlessly obscure, it's consistent with the usage.
That qualifies as damning with faint praise, but there you go.
(Yes, I read TFAs)
The Reg article kinda brushed off the risks of a cell-tower MITM attack, relegating it to a mere "loss of privacy" because the 3G cryptosystem is strong.
I assume it means that the cryptosystem is too strong for a realtime attack. It's a damn rare cryptosystem that can't be broken using enough stored ciphertext, so if the modified femtocell is storing and forwarding all traffic, traffic analysis + theoretical weaknesses in the algo + massive compute power == recovered clear material at some point in the future. Depending on the use case, there may be a lot of value in that.
Last transmission: "No... a Bud Light!"
This is no infringement on free speech. Yes, anonymity may be useful if you're blowing the whistle on wrong-doing by the powerful, but in normal political debate anonymity is a bad thing. When you see a thousand comments with a thousand different names all supporting the same view, how do you know whether it's a widely held view or one loon with nine hundred and ninety nine sock puppets? How do you know whether it's astroturf by a foreign corporation or foreign government meddling in your affairs?
Well, that certainly explains a lot. Why is the Obama administration turning its back on returning to the Moon?
Clearly, one loon with 999 sock puppets has succeeded in convincing the powers-that-be that the initial moon landing never happened! The conspiracy theorists have won! OMG! Witness the terrible power of anonymous sockpuppetry!!!!111one
I don't talk politics at work. I get enough pointless argument at work just doing the daily job; I have no desire or need to chum for more.
I don't use Facebook, MySpace, or any other online forum under my real name. Without packet capture, good luck tying me to those pseudonyms.
I'm not sure I even visibly espouse any particular political flavor under those 'nyms, other than generally being in favor of personal liberty over governmental convenience. I guess that just means that since I don't self-identify as one brand of tuna or another, the reader can label me however it pleases them. As if I care.
but get rid of anonymous voting, especially on referenda.
This is sufficiently borderline-retarded that I'm tempted to think it's just a troll, but you seem quite sincere. So let's pretend, for the sake of amusement, that you are.
Retarded. Epic retarded.
If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want the government to personally assess you a new tax so you can put your money where your mouth is if I decide to vote "no" on it.
Welcome to democracy, Grasshopper. The vote is not "Yes I will" or "No I won't". We all will or won't. So vote no, but if you lose, you get to help anyways. This is reality. No one gets an opt-out. Deal.
Besides, what's the difference between "If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want the government to personally assess you a new tax" and "If you vote for a big expenditure on a local ballot like a new bond, I want gather up a posse and teach you rough justice"?
Stereotypically, this would just degenerate into mob rule, the majority abusing or eliminating the minority. In a few cases, where the minority already has the whip hand, this degenerates into death squads and los desaparecidos.
But, as long as you don't have to get taxed for anything you don't personally approve of... I guess it's ok.
I dunno. At worst, it shifts the kinds of risks they'd be willing to take.
"Oops, traffic ahead on the street has stopped suddenly, and it looks like I can't avoid hitting something."
Normal steering wheel: "Brake hard, hope the ABS works well, and trust to the air bag and the seat belts."
Spiked steering wheel: "Swerve onto the sidewalk to buy about another 200 feet of braking distance. Too bad for the pedestrians."
Aww, you got me there. How about if you never leave your mom's basement, and you arrange your furniture on the side of the basement away from the street? Would that work?
Sorry. Off-road vehicles approaching from the middle of the block. Cars dropped from the back of transport aircraft and crashing through the roof and all intervening floors. Cars experiencing a freakish (vanishingly unlikely, highly improbable, probably only going to happen if someone triggers an Improbability Drive without shielding) spontaneous quantum teleportation from the street into the basement.
It's like the Golden BB... if your number is up, it's up.
I would imagine the best way to avoid a car accident is to have never been conceived. After all, for some people, having been conceived was itself a car accident.
Nice.
Except you forgot to incorporate about 15 rambling and detailed paragraphs about your English Sheepdog before getting to the punchline.
Probably "xinerama and xrandr"
When searching for an answer, it helps to know the answer.
Well, it's a moderately current US Military usage. "CONUS". Means Lower 48.
Yes, Alaska and Hawaii are "overseas". Back in the day, it counted as an overseas tour for the purposes of "We need someone who is assigned stateside right now for a 2-year unaccompanied tour within spitting distance of the Korean DMZ."
ObDisclaimer: I've been out of the service the better part of a decade, so the U.S. Air Force military personnel system may have entered the 21st Century in the meanwhile.
I have to respond to this.
Did I say "tower" (by itself)? I said "rig". Unless you have direct HDMI or DVI access to your visual cortex, you'll need a monitor. If this is a decent gaming rig, it's not going to be small, even if it's thin (LCD), so that's several cc more.
And your keyboard, mouse, and software CDs? (or did you crack the game, you insidious polar pirate?)
No, it won't be a cubic meter. As long as you use no packing material. I'm sure the cargo ships carrying your less-than-cubic-meter of computing goodness will have a smooth, waveless, undisturbed trip. And all loading/offloading activities will be as gentle as a mother cradling her child.
Yes, exactly. It's a notebook with no keyboard. Completely different thing.
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! DIDN'T YOU HEAR STEVE!?!?!
Bad testing environment for that. A few minutes exposure to Winter ambient conditions and you'll welcome the warming glow of the Active Denial System (AKA open-air microwave oven).
Personal effects transportation limit is 1 cubic meter and 250 kg. I hope your OCable gaming rig is pretty compact. (Yes, even a tower system with all accouterments would fit, but that would be pretty close to all you could take.)
Wait, wait... Grand Island has Internet access?
Wow. Things have changed. Welcome to the 21st Century!
For the robots who are still alive!
It used to be that CompTIA's cert never needed renewal.
Then someone realized that a "lifetime" technology certification is as valuable as 25-year-old bread, CompTIA changed to say you'd need re-certification periodically.
But, of course, that didn't fly with the armies of A+ drones who paid good money for their "lifetime" certification.
CompTIA's new position is, once again, the A+ is good for "lifetime". However, they're sticking to the position that technology moves too fast for an old cert to be still good.
The compromise position? Once enough time and progress has elapsed since your cert was issued, CompTIA's elite certification ninja team assassinates you. Your cert was, therefore, good for your "lifetime".
Airstrip One, DoublePlusGood!
We're at war with street crime, and always have been.
It's a good thing that airborne drone cameras fly at street level so they can't see into privacy-fenced yards, then.
Oh, they don't? Hmmm...is that another exception to the logical and clear limit?
I think this is the part where you say something like "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
lol, "no-know". Freudian, or what?
No-knock was intended.
And after executing the no-know SWAT incursion to service the warrant, they discover that mcgrew was, in fact, running an underground heirloom tomato operation.
No charges were pressed, and eventually (years later), the claims for illegal arrest, harassment, and damage to property and reputation wended their way through court and mcgrew's lawyer received a substantial windfall from mcgrew's city.
The interests of justice were not particularly well served, but the produce manager of the local chain grocery store was happy that he could resume selling his wax-and-cardboard pseudo-tomatoes at their previous inflated price.
I've used this quote before, because it keeps coming up as relevant:
--Frederick Douglass
So, Our Combine Benefactors == NuLabor?
I'd recruit him, if I wanted the computer to win.