You're giving us a bad rap here. There were/are Chinese Da Vinci's, Newtons, and Edisons but you aren't aware of them. It has been a while since China was at the forefront of tech. However, given their population, if they internalize the value of invention, individualism, and capitalism then learning Mandarin would be a good course of action for your future.
I hope they do decide on a more egalitarian system for their sake and ours.
Small point of order... but weren't the Greeks and Romans considered Western civilizations? (The term Western vs Eastern is often used in reference to the Greek resistance to the Persians.)
If so wouldn't you call the emergence of Western civilization ~1000 BC and with it's economic pre-eminence lasting from ~50 BC (Augustus) to ~410AD (in the interim Diocletian writes about the separation of the Eastern and Western Empire {285AD}). Take a break for a while to fight the Islamic invasion... (732AD) and off to the races again with innovation and travel for all... (1002 to 1003 Leif plants feet on land discovered by Bjarni... Newfoundland.)
I'm not terribly culturally ignorant (fluent in Mandarin, conversational Japanese) but I think Western culture has a interesting arc that may actually pave the way to never-ending expansion of thoughts and ideas. However, I believe this is threatened by an increase in the break-down of foundational constructs of Western society... The importance of the individual, and pragmatic gov't. As we lose the tenets supported by those ideas when they are subjugated to their antithesis (group over individual rights, and over-reaching gov't) we risk a tumultuous period.. ie the sacking of Rome.
If the Vatican requested it as a self-defense measure and Iran left gobs of money and gear behind after the conflict was over...
I'm pretty sure you would see much in the way of terrorism and hate... probably just a lot of bitching about how a bunch of Italian girls now have half-Persian children.
Depends on the sword... Short swords are particularly well suited to close quarter fighting and are not slashing weapons, they are stabbing weapons. (Please refer to Roman artifacts and strategy.)
Some martial arts are meant for meditative purposes or have become highly ornamental (Judo, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido), however there are several that are specifically meant for close quarter combat. Krav Maga and Sambo are good examples... Also some of the more complete collection of Kung Fu includes a great deal of eye-gouging, nerve center override engagement (groin/solar plexus/throat). A highly skilled martial could do a great deal of damage to the first few attackers, after that... toast.
As an MMA enthusiast I've kicked the teeth out of more than a few street-toughs (working the door and security for the girls at strip clubs in Vegas{Crazy Horse Too, Scores/Jaguars, Paradise Club, Spearmint Rhino}). They usually aren't prepared for someone who has already thought ahead of the fight.
Sure... Except there might be a selection bias in that more Americans seek dental care. Or as another poster has pointed out, the UK has recently privatized dental care so the current status may be getting better.
While I stayed in London it was not uncommon for the concept of "American Teeth" to come into the conversation because my wife has beautiful natural teeth, and I've never had a cavity.
Personally, I think it's mostly dietary choices in our case as we don't eat very many grain products and virtually zero processed sugars.
You neglect to factor in the cost-of-living that is built into the American worker's wage. By decreasing the wage of the worker to a sub-American level you decrease the overall tax income.
Then you end up with the problem that I described.
Except that Bush tried (17 times) to put back the regulations that were stripped during the Clinton era.
The lowering and eventual drop of regulation of CDS's were promulgated by fear-mongering by such heavy-hitters as Hank Paulson(when he worked for Goldman-Sachs).
If you're gonna bitch, at least get it straight, for example:
"Who the f--- thinks it's a good idea to trust one of the architects of the giant Ponzi scheme that the mortgage market has become with 350 billion more tax dollars?" Apparently the Prez Bush and 500+ members of Congress.
or another: "WTF? Geithner willfully skips out on taxes, and gets to pay them back without penalties... then he is appointed Treasury Secretary? and approved by 64 members of the Senate... and Prez Obama."
H1-B's are coming to work on our infrastructure, infrastructure that is currently being maintained by our tax dollars. The reason that they are brought here is so that they can work on a reliable infrastructure that is paid for by the built in cost of a more expensive worker. Thus H1-B's become foreign aid and corporate welfare all wrapped into one shiny program. By allowing the H1-B's to work on our infrastructure you reduce the dollars going into said infrastructure for renewal thus causing the US to sink backwards rather than plod ahead.
Would it not be a better plan for both societies for outsourcing to take place in (India/China/Pakistan/VietNam)as the country's infrastructure could be built up to support it? Sort of like an upgrade from the center gear rotation plan for a network infrastructure. The US workers would still be able to compete for those jobs using cost reduction techniques (tele-workers) to bridge some of the gap. They would also be able to compete on a matter of scale, India would be hard-pressed to provide the same number of highly experienced and technical staff within a given area.
Using H1-Bs as they were intended makes things into a "more fair" market system that allows the people with a rare skillset to come and take advantage of our system without (MS/IBM/EDS/HP/Dell) pillaging our coffers...
What mattered was whether the modifications they had to make would allow malicious traffic to go through. Securing this can be accomplished via whitelists. There really isn't an equivalent whitelist that says "this traffic pattern is never going to be interesting", especially when you start to be concerned about sleeper cells. You have to know what the content is to be able to make that assertion.
Agreed. That's where FISA or someone else will probably give the go ahead to do spot checks to raise or lower the risk rating of a particular class of communication. One of my worker bees used to do something similar to that for the Navy in their SIGINT units. I never handled comms like that even while working in SIGINT, I was more of a Counter-SIGINT guy, but if I were doing that sort of work I couldn't imagine dealing with the volume without some sort of prioritization schema.
That schema would probably be built around known identities, likely communication pathways ie 6 degree people, and watch words. Ideally each of the potential classes could be broken into sub-classes that would be fast-tracked to be reviewed later (functional white-list) while others would go into the 'review now' queue.
On those points, I agree wholeheartedly. Check out the M40A3 and the Marine Scout Sniper's comments on the weapon. Biggest complaints are weight and ability to rapidly engage with the weapon.
This is a neat toy that might get used once and a while, but I expect it to be accompanied by a whole lot o bitchin'.
Yikes... I guess I have buckets of troll bait going unused.
No... Actually quite a lot of us don't go into the military for college benefits. In fact, four of them from my family alone. I let my GI Bill and MCCF benefits expire because I make too damn much money to worry about college right now. At this pace, I'll retire and spend my middle years reading at some cabin up in the hills. Bros 2&3 got their papers from a Uni but they were hardly worried about that when they went in. They both are terminating this year and neither of them are going to work in the field that their degree is in.
Please pack it in bub..
(My three younger brothers and I. The youngest is an officer in the Coast Guard after completing his degree on scholarship.)
Actually I believe that's what the pen register is for. You look at everything and then start building a whitelist.
With as many security and network folks in the audience I'm surprised this thread is as horribly malformed as it is.
As a firewall/IPS/security geek, I know that the machine automates most of my work. However, a great deal of it needs to be checked to see if I alerting on data that's not relevant. To do so I have to peek into the whole stream, take it apart and make a decision. If it's innocuous, it goes on the whitelist never to be heard from again...
The geeks at the NSA operate within the same logical constraints. What someone will have to prove is that someone misused that data while it was being processed. Tice is raising a question that should probably be investigated, but don't get too excited if it turns out to be another Dick'd up situation.
I do have to call you on this one... The US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. Clinton fired every single one of them to insure their loyalty to his administration. Their job is to represent the administration's policies.
There was nothing improper or illegal about the firing process... However there did seem to be something amok with the interview questions during the hiring process.
I know that you're trolling but I don't know where you got your info about what American recruits are told but I can tell you that what I was told in boot camp was "If you get into a combat zone you may die, you will almost certainly be injured, but if you pay attention to what we're teaching you now... Your chances of survival get better."
Hell, while I was patrolling the border I was certain that some Mexican sniper was gonna punch one of our tickets... Luckily, that didn't happen.
Don't fool yourself, we know where to find the cowards among us and we usually dub them "Shitbirds"
Marines qualify once or twice a year with a open post sight on targets that are 500 yards away. No scope needed.
My Dad and I often headshot targets with standard AR-15 load at 550 to 575 yards. It's not that hard when shooting from the prone position.(The rear and front sights have a calculated range of 800m based on the rate of drop of a standard round.) The AR-15 doesn't have have half the max range of a.50 cal Barrett. (Although the primary weapon of the scout sniper is now the M40A3 with a max effective range of 1000meters.)
The hard part is leading your target and windage. Scopes just make the long shots easier, and impossible shots possible.
This is the third time that I've pointed this out in this thread. People really need to check out www.google.com, it's this cool place that makes it handy to look up commonly used facts...
Sure... Except that your right to refuse service to anyone is actually restricted by other's rights not to be discriminated against for various reasons, race, religion, sexual orientation, or in 40 states... women who are breastfeeding.
In some areas there is competition. At my home I currently have a fiber connection. (Thanks AT&T) If they should act like retards then I would switch to the local cable co (Cox) or the several wireless providers (AT&T, Windstream, Sprint, Verizon). Round and round you go. The more they act like tools, the less stable their income base will be and the more they'll see it as an unnecessary hassle. Unfortunately, such insight may take several years to come about.
The reality is that encryption and several other obfuscation mechanisms can make the inspect and quench option too costly for the ISP to implement.
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That's a pretty definitive statement for an academic supposition.
Yikes dude...
You're giving us a bad rap here. There were/are Chinese Da Vinci's, Newtons, and Edisons but you aren't aware of them. It has been a while since China was at the forefront of tech. However, given their population, if they internalize the value of invention, individualism, and capitalism then learning Mandarin would be a good course of action for your future.
I hope they do decide on a more egalitarian system for their sake and ours.
Small point of order... but weren't the Greeks and Romans considered Western civilizations? (The term Western vs Eastern is often used in reference to the Greek resistance to the Persians.)
If so wouldn't you call the emergence of Western civilization ~1000 BC and with it's economic pre-eminence lasting from ~50 BC (Augustus) to ~410AD (in the interim Diocletian writes about the separation of the Eastern and Western Empire {285AD}). Take a break for a while to fight the Islamic invasion... (732AD) and off to the races again with innovation and travel for all... (1002 to 1003 Leif plants feet on land discovered by Bjarni... Newfoundland.)
I'm not terribly culturally ignorant (fluent in Mandarin, conversational Japanese) but I think Western culture has a interesting arc that may actually pave the way to never-ending expansion of thoughts and ideas. However, I believe this is threatened by an increase in the break-down of foundational constructs of Western society... The importance of the individual, and pragmatic gov't. As we lose the tenets supported by those ideas when they are subjugated to their antithesis (group over individual rights, and over-reaching gov't) we risk a tumultuous period.. ie the sacking of Rome.
If the Vatican requested it as a self-defense measure and Iran left gobs of money and gear behind after the conflict was over...
I'm pretty sure you would see much in the way of terrorism and hate... probably just a lot of bitching about how a bunch of Italian girls now have half-Persian children.
Depends on the sword... Short swords are particularly well suited to close quarter fighting and are not slashing weapons, they are stabbing weapons. (Please refer to Roman artifacts and strategy.)
Some martial arts are meant for meditative purposes or have become highly ornamental (Judo, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido), however there are several that are specifically meant for close quarter combat. Krav Maga and Sambo are good examples... Also some of the more complete collection of Kung Fu includes a great deal of eye-gouging, nerve center override engagement (groin/solar plexus/throat). A highly skilled martial could do a great deal of damage to the first few attackers, after that... toast.
As an MMA enthusiast I've kicked the teeth out of more than a few street-toughs (working the door and security for the girls at strip clubs in Vegas{Crazy Horse Too, Scores/Jaguars, Paradise Club, Spearmint Rhino}). They usually aren't prepared for someone who has already thought ahead of the fight.
Sure... Except there might be a selection bias in that more Americans seek dental care. Or as another poster has pointed out, the UK has recently privatized dental care so the current status may be getting better.
While I stayed in London it was not uncommon for the concept of "American Teeth" to come into the conversation because my wife has beautiful natural teeth, and I've never had a cavity.
Personally, I think it's mostly dietary choices in our case as we don't eat very many grain products and virtually zero processed sugars.
You neglect to factor in the cost-of-living that is built into the American worker's wage. By decreasing the wage of the worker to a sub-American level you decrease the overall tax income.
Then you end up with the problem that I described.
Except that Bush tried (17 times) to put back the regulations that were stripped during the Clinton era.
The lowering and eventual drop of regulation of CDS's were promulgated by fear-mongering by such heavy-hitters as Hank Paulson(when he worked for Goldman-Sachs).
If you're gonna bitch, at least get it straight, for example:
"Who the f--- thinks it's a good idea to trust one of the architects of the giant Ponzi scheme that the mortgage market has become with 350 billion more tax dollars?" Apparently the Prez Bush and 500+ members of Congress.
or another: "WTF? Geithner willfully skips out on taxes, and gets to pay them back without penalties... then he is appointed Treasury Secretary? and approved by 64 members of the Senate... and Prez Obama."
Sure. Absolutely.
Although you are forgetting a few points.
H1-B's are coming to work on our infrastructure, infrastructure that is currently being maintained by our tax dollars. The reason that they are brought here is so that they can work on a reliable infrastructure that is paid for by the built in cost of a more expensive worker. Thus H1-B's become foreign aid and corporate welfare all wrapped into one shiny program. By allowing the H1-B's to work on our infrastructure you reduce the dollars going into said infrastructure for renewal thus causing the US to sink backwards rather than plod ahead.
Would it not be a better plan for both societies for outsourcing to take place in (India/China/Pakistan/VietNam)as the country's infrastructure could be built up to support it? Sort of like an upgrade from the center gear rotation plan for a network infrastructure. The US workers would still be able to compete for those jobs using cost reduction techniques (tele-workers) to bridge some of the gap. They would also be able to compete on a matter of scale, India would be hard-pressed to provide the same number of highly experienced and technical staff within a given area.
Using H1-Bs as they were intended makes things into a "more fair" market system that allows the people with a rare skillset to come and take advantage of our system without (MS/IBM/EDS/HP/Dell) pillaging our coffers...
What mattered was whether the modifications they had to make would allow malicious traffic to go through. Securing this can be accomplished via whitelists. There really isn't an equivalent whitelist that says "this traffic pattern is never going to be interesting", especially when you start to be concerned about sleeper cells. You have to know what the content is to be able to make that assertion.
Agreed. That's where FISA or someone else will probably give the go ahead to do spot checks to raise or lower the risk rating of a particular class of communication. One of my worker bees used to do something similar to that for the Navy in their SIGINT units. I never handled comms like that even while working in SIGINT, I was more of a Counter-SIGINT guy, but if I were doing that sort of work I couldn't imagine dealing with the volume without some sort of prioritization schema.
That schema would probably be built around known identities, likely communication pathways ie 6 degree people, and watch words. Ideally each of the potential classes could be broken into sub-classes that would be fast-tracked to be reviewed later (functional white-list) while others would go into the 'review now' queue.
On those points, I agree wholeheartedly. Check out the M40A3 and the Marine Scout Sniper's comments on the weapon. Biggest complaints are weight and ability to rapidly engage with the weapon.
This is a neat toy that might get used once and a while, but I expect it to be accompanied by a whole lot o bitchin'.
Yikes... I guess I have buckets of troll bait going unused.
No... Actually quite a lot of us don't go into the military for college benefits. In fact, four of them from my family alone. I let my GI Bill and MCCF benefits expire because I make too damn much money to worry about college right now. At this pace, I'll retire and spend my middle years reading at some cabin up in the hills. Bros 2&3 got their papers from a Uni but they were hardly worried about that when they went in. They both are terminating this year and neither of them are going to work in the field that their degree is in.
Please pack it in bub..
(My three younger brothers and I. The youngest is an officer in the Coast Guard after completing his degree on scholarship.)
Actually I believe that's what the pen register is for. You look at everything and then start building a whitelist.
With as many security and network folks in the audience I'm surprised this thread is as horribly malformed as it is.
As a firewall/IPS/security geek, I know that the machine automates most of my work. However, a great deal of it needs to be checked to see if I alerting on data that's not relevant. To do so I have to peek into the whole stream, take it apart and make a decision. If it's innocuous, it goes on the whitelist never to be heard from again...
The geeks at the NSA operate within the same logical constraints. What someone will have to prove is that someone misused that data while it was being processed. Tice is raising a question that should probably be investigated, but don't get too excited if it turns out to be another Dick'd up situation.
I do have to call you on this one... The US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president. Clinton fired every single one of them to insure their loyalty to his administration. Their job is to represent the administration's policies.
There was nothing improper or illegal about the firing process... However there did seem to be something amok with the interview questions during the hiring process.
Dude,
I know that you're trolling but I don't know where you got your info about what American recruits are told but I can tell you that what I was told in boot camp was "If you get into a combat zone you may die, you will almost certainly be injured, but if you pay attention to what we're teaching you now... Your chances of survival get better."
Hell, while I was patrolling the border I was certain that some Mexican sniper was gonna punch one of our tickets... Luckily, that didn't happen.
Don't fool yourself, we know where to find the cowards among us and we usually dub them "Shitbirds"
Marines qualify once or twice a year with a open post sight on targets that are 500 yards away. No scope needed.
My Dad and I often headshot targets with standard AR-15 load at 550 to 575 yards. It's not that hard when shooting from the prone position.(The rear and front sights have a calculated range of 800m based on the rate of drop of a standard round.) The AR-15 doesn't have have half the max range of a .50 cal Barrett. (Although the primary weapon of the scout sniper is now the M40A3 with a max effective range of 1000meters.)
The hard part is leading your target and windage. Scopes just make the long shots easier, and impossible shots possible.
Depends... There are such people who are ethnically Jewish. I would like to refer you to the Mt Sinai Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases.
http://www.mssm.edu/jewish_genetics/
My Compaq R4000 Synaptic pad has two finger scroll.
Not true. 40 of the 50 states specifically protect breastfeeding in public or private settings.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm
This is the third time that I've pointed this out in this thread. People really need to check out www.google.com, it's this cool place that makes it handy to look up commonly used facts...
Sure... Except that your right to refuse service to anyone is actually restricted by other's rights not to be discriminated against for various reasons, race, religion, sexual orientation, or in 40 states... women who are breastfeeding.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm
Wrong.
40 of the 50 states provide laws that protect the woman's right to breastfeed in any public place.
Use google before making such easily checked claims.
Thanks for playing!
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm
In some areas there is competition. At my home I currently have a fiber connection. (Thanks AT&T) If they should act like retards then I would switch to the local cable co (Cox) or the several wireless providers (AT&T, Windstream, Sprint, Verizon). Round and round you go. The more they act like tools, the less stable their income base will be and the more they'll see it as an unnecessary hassle. Unfortunately, such insight may take several years to come about.
The reality is that encryption and several other obfuscation mechanisms can make the inspect and quench option too costly for the ISP to implement.
Perhaps you use the mplayer-qt plugin as I do?
So sad... a buffer overflow sounds like fun.
I'm not a big multimedia person, but I don't seem to be missing much in the way of online streaming or interactive content.
So, Shockwave Flash, which I have plugin for in my IceWeasel 3.0.3 installation is not capable of handling this Shockwave content of which you speak?
Not to mention a very bothersome phenomenon exacerbated by tornadic conditions.
Lift.