I'm calling bullsh*t on that "I can agree for some positions where security is of the utmost importance" thing. I'm in the military and I still see no need for this chip. We (government and military employees) don't want to be treated like cattle either.
Whoever decided that we should "upgrade" to vista is obviously just trying to make up stuff to do to keep their job. Govt. contractors and DoD guys do that all the time... "Hey sir, we need a new [fill in the blank] for this and that mission. Can we get some appropriations for that?...No no sir, it's absolutely imperative for our mission here." Maybe now they'll make us get rid of our Unix systems.(Hahahaha sure.)
President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?
I agree with you 100%. I work around classifications a lot, and I can assure you that some guy taking home a laptop with that much sensitive info would never happen in the active military. Either the VA is one jacked up division of the government or this was a blatant attack on someone. If that guy had been military, he would be facing MAJOR UCMJ action right now.
Normally you would need something like a 'courier card' to take that much information out of a mil site (even those deemed as sensitive). It would have to be reviewed by a security officer and signed off on. Even then, it would NEVER happen that you would take that laptop home! What kind of stupid #$%^ is that? (The guy who allowed all the info about the servicemembers brought the laptop home). The problem lies in the VA's operating procedures.
How about this you VA morons, don't have a laptop out side of a secure area with sensitive or higher classification! No remoting into the system and no taking classified laptops out of a classfied area. It's that freaking easy. Sure all those servicemembers' personal info is not deemed by the government to be of such a high level of class, but it SHOULD BE. Make it so! I'm in the military and I deal with classifications all day long. The VA should adopt the standards of the rest of the military.
I work in a government controlled NOC... I'm pretty much a newbie at anything not long haul, equipment-side WAN. We are definitely moving to mostly ip based networks with more routers and new equipment. We used to be using mostly t1's for our circuits (which is were all my experience lies). Now we have just installed an Alcatel ATM. So my question is, with all this upgrading in the speed area, what kind of vulnerabilities does this create with adding all these routers? Seems like everyday my job gets less and less WAN and more and more LAN. (I'm trying to play catchup and get my CCNA..)
Sorry if this seems too off topic but/. seems like the best place for me to ask.
It's not just because they registered a domain. Google has announced it plans to create a checkout service to compete with Paypal. This is why Yahoo and Paypal just made a deal on May 25th to back each other.
It won't happen. Microsoft is too broke right now to do this. Yahoo and Paypal have just announced a... not merger... but a deal. Yahoo is going to promote paypal and vice-versa.
I think the public should stop anaylzing the way kids think these days, and their lives and take a long hard look at the teachers. Up until the 5th grade I was an all A's student, honor roll every year. For some reason when I got to junior high it seemed as though the teachers were no longer enthused about being there, interacting with the kids, or getting involved in the lessons at all. This apathy directly carries over onto the kids. It sure did to me. I was like, "this isn't challenging anymore, I don't even care anymore, why should I keep going." I feared the worst for college being the same way... to this day I still haven't attended college... I'm 22. So where did this apathy come from? I asked a few people my age and they all said that's when the kids start not 'being cute anymore.' It is true that during this age kids start puberty and they can be really cruel to the teachers. But I say to that, the teachers' job is to shape the way these kids think, and it can be done through certain [use your imagination here] motivational techniques. I blame the teachers 100%.
As I stated in a parent reply to this post, we have a lot of civilian contractors (DoD too) around here, and they loooove it. I work in a US Army controlled NOC... A lot of those guys are veterans, and all of them are over 40.
Just a note: be nice to the military guys you may work with, they get paid way less... sometimes to do the same job, and then they have to go to the field and shit in dirt holes.
Where shall we go? I'm ready to follow you.
Also I'm sick and tired of moderators giving negative ratings to things they disagree with, and giving positive to topics that go wayyyyy out in left field. I say they try a little harder to keep things on topic, this is getting retarded.
Condoleezza Rice, said, 'The president acted lawfully in every step that he has taken.'"
This is actually true, in a way. Under the Patriot Act the NSA was granted the authority to (unconstitutionally) search people electronically. Now the question is, do Acts override The Bill of Rights?
its true that i dont know many programmers over 40, that is, that aren't DoD (u.s. department of defense) or contracted through the army.... im in the army and i work around a lot of programmer/network specialist civilian guys, and they're almost all veterans and they're all definitely over 40. most of them have atleast a 4 year degree in something computer or network related. but all thats just a personal observation, and i don't know what to say about the older programmers in other countries...
you know, i love the fact that more and more people are making the transition over to linux, but i dont see how its really necessary to have a computer for every student at the school. when i was in high school sitting in multimedia class, we rarely paid any attention to the teacher. we were more worried about chatting over IM's and figuring out how we could set up quake over the classroom's lan. yay for linux, but nay for assimilation of the human race....
They've been talking about putting these chips into soldiers' hands for years... In some cases I see this as a big help, because we have a big problem where I'm stationed: people getting wallets pick-pocketed simply for those oh-so-spiffy white military ID cards, not the credit cards or the cash. Its happened to me 4 times this year. Also, they lay the hammer down on us when we have to report it missing... Hey, we've already lost most of our rights as citizens when we joined the military, what's losing the right to privacy matter when we no longer have it anyways. However I do see how this can be a problem if we were captured and happened to be a high ranking officer, but that could be alleviated by high encryption or simply leaving the rank out of the infomation in the first place.
i don't see what the big deal is. men still get paid more...and finally women are getting their chance to be on 'top' then its a national epidemic. come on, give us geek girls a break.
when i lived in arkansas, i applied for an job at a company that manufactured joists. the head guy of the comp. dept. said i was more qualified than the others (who all 6 were male) in front of everyone. alas, after we left that day i never got a single call, even an apology. a few months later i saw the guy that didnt give me a chance, and i said what was up with that? and he simply he looked down at the ground, shook his head, and walked out of the texaco where i was working.
so even if women are succeeding academically, we still don't get the chances we deserve (especially in the hick south)...:D oh yeah THAT rant felt good.
misty
...will never have a long life span. too many users = too much of being in a public eye..and this equals being noticed by the riaa. however..trading/ripping groups on irc (such as the ones of efnet for years now)...will, i think, never go away because it seems no one has noticed them enough to mention them. they should be #1 on the list of winners for longevity. and my take on this whole riaa vs. mp3 thing, people still buy cds if they want the quality (like if your entering into a car audio competion) because cd's burnt from mp3 files are lower quality. and if cd sales is in fact dropping, then if the musicians were really worth a da** then they would make their money in live performances.
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"Unfortunately that's not what actually happened in the real history." Oh, you must've bought your time machine online too.
I'm calling bullsh*t on that "I can agree for some positions where security is of the utmost importance" thing. I'm in the military and I still see no need for this chip. We (government and military employees) don't want to be treated like cattle either.
I stopped using SuSe when they attached "Novell" to its name. Can't ever be a good sign.
Whoever decided that we should "upgrade" to vista is obviously just trying to make up stuff to do to keep their job. Govt. contractors and DoD guys do that all the time... "Hey sir, we need a new [fill in the blank] for this and that mission. Can we get some appropriations for that? ...No no sir, it's absolutely imperative for our mission here." Maybe now they'll make us get rid of our Unix systems.(Hahahaha sure.)
President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?
I'll say this, we only run Windows when it doesn't count. Take it or leave it, that's all I got.
***stands and applauds*** Normally that wouldn't happen. The guy broke normal military operation procedures. I say burn him at the stake.
I agree with you 100%. I work around classifications a lot, and I can assure you that some guy taking home a laptop with that much sensitive info would never happen in the active military. Either the VA is one jacked up division of the government or this was a blatant attack on someone. If that guy had been military, he would be facing MAJOR UCMJ action right now.
Normally you would need something like a 'courier card' to take that much information out of a mil site (even those deemed as sensitive). It would have to be reviewed by a security officer and signed off on. Even then, it would NEVER happen that you would take that laptop home! What kind of stupid #$%^ is that? (The guy who allowed all the info about the servicemembers brought the laptop home). The problem lies in the VA's operating procedures.
How about this you VA morons, don't have a laptop out side of a secure area with sensitive or higher classification! No remoting into the system and no taking classified laptops out of a classfied area. It's that freaking easy. Sure all those servicemembers' personal info is not deemed by the government to be of such a high level of class, but it SHOULD BE. Make it so! I'm in the military and I deal with classifications all day long. The VA should adopt the standards of the rest of the military.
I work in a government controlled NOC... I'm pretty much a newbie at anything not long haul, equipment-side WAN. We are definitely moving to mostly ip based networks with more routers and new equipment. We used to be using mostly t1's for our circuits (which is were all my experience lies). Now we have just installed an Alcatel ATM. So my question is, with all this upgrading in the speed area, what kind of vulnerabilities does this create with adding all these routers? Seems like everyday my job gets less and less WAN and more and more LAN. (I'm trying to play catchup and get my CCNA..) Sorry if this seems too off topic but /. seems like the best place for me to ask.
It's not just because they registered a domain. Google has announced it plans to create a checkout service to compete with Paypal. This is why Yahoo and Paypal just made a deal on May 25th to back each other.
here is the link: MSN: EBay-Yahoo! combine, economy boost stocks
sorry... its an msn site, but it's true...
It won't happen. Microsoft is too broke right now to do this. Yahoo and Paypal have just announced a... not merger... but a deal. Yahoo is going to promote paypal and vice-versa.
I think the public should stop anaylzing the way kids think these days, and their lives and take a long hard look at the teachers. Up until the 5th grade I was an all A's student, honor roll every year. For some reason when I got to junior high it seemed as though the teachers were no longer enthused about being there, interacting with the kids, or getting involved in the lessons at all. This apathy directly carries over onto the kids. It sure did to me. I was like, "this isn't challenging anymore, I don't even care anymore, why should I keep going." I feared the worst for college being the same way... to this day I still haven't attended college... I'm 22. So where did this apathy come from? I asked a few people my age and they all said that's when the kids start not 'being cute anymore.' It is true that during this age kids start puberty and they can be really cruel to the teachers. But I say to that, the teachers' job is to shape the way these kids think, and it can be done through certain [use your imagination here] motivational techniques. I blame the teachers 100%.
+ Korean + Arabic.
As I stated in a parent reply to this post, we have a lot of civilian contractors (DoD too) around here, and they loooove it. I work in a US Army controlled NOC... A lot of those guys are veterans, and all of them are over 40. Just a note: be nice to the military guys you may work with, they get paid way less... sometimes to do the same job, and then they have to go to the field and shit in dirt holes.
Where shall we go? I'm ready to follow you. Also I'm sick and tired of moderators giving negative ratings to things they disagree with, and giving positive to topics that go wayyyyy out in left field. I say they try a little harder to keep things on topic, this is getting retarded.
its true that i dont know many programmers over 40, that is, that aren't DoD (u.s. department of defense) or contracted through the army.... im in the army and i work around a lot of programmer/network specialist civilian guys, and they're almost all veterans and they're all definitely over 40. most of them have atleast a 4 year degree in something computer or network related. but all thats just a personal observation, and i don't know what to say about the older programmers in other countries...
you know, i love the fact that more and more people are making the transition over to linux, but i dont see how its really necessary to have a computer for every student at the school. when i was in high school sitting in multimedia class, we rarely paid any attention to the teacher. we were more worried about chatting over IM's and figuring out how we could set up quake over the classroom's lan. yay for linux, but nay for assimilation of the human race....
They've been talking about putting these chips into soldiers' hands for years... In some cases I see this as a big help, because we have a big problem where I'm stationed: people getting wallets pick-pocketed simply for those oh-so-spiffy white military ID cards, not the credit cards or the cash. Its happened to me 4 times this year. Also, they lay the hammer down on us when we have to report it missing... Hey, we've already lost most of our rights as citizens when we joined the military, what's losing the right to privacy matter when we no longer have it anyways. However I do see how this can be a problem if we were captured and happened to be a high ranking officer, but that could be alleviated by high encryption or simply leaving the rank out of the infomation in the first place.
Shut your face! You should be mmoded! *pulls out ginormous death bringing staff*
lol. (and this time, i actually did "ol")
i don't see what the big deal is. men still get paid more...and finally women are getting their chance to be on 'top' then its a national epidemic. come on, give us geek girls a break. when i lived in arkansas, i applied for an job at a company that manufactured joists. the head guy of the comp. dept. said i was more qualified than the others (who all 6 were male) in front of everyone. alas, after we left that day i never got a single call, even an apology. a few months later i saw the guy that didnt give me a chance, and i said what was up with that? and he simply he looked down at the ground, shook his head, and walked out of the texaco where i was working. so even if women are succeeding academically, we still don't get the chances we deserve (especially in the hick south)... :D oh yeah THAT rant felt good.
misty
...will never have a long life span. too many users = too much of being in a public eye..and this equals being noticed by the riaa. however..trading/ripping groups on irc (such as the ones of efnet for years now)...will, i think, never go away because it seems no one has noticed them enough to mention them. they should be #1 on the list of winners for longevity.
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and my take on this whole riaa vs. mp3 thing, people still buy cds if they want the quality (like if your entering into a car audio competion) because cd's burnt from mp3 files are lower quality. and if cd sales is in fact dropping, then if the musicians were really worth a da** then they would make their money in live performances.
oh yeah, that rant felt. good.
misty
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