I'm sure that Lockheed -doesn't- have any secret self destruct equipment on those. The war heads are of UK manufacture, and the explosives, receiver antennas and amplifiers that would be required for the rockets are too huge to hide. I install self destruct mechanisms in submarine ballistic missiles for when they do live fire tests (a couple times a year), and have crawled around inside enough missiles to know...
That's actually a pretty good idea, guy (not that I play WoW)... it'd be another revenue stream for Blizzard, and it'd give the players another way of getting points.
IANAL, but I hope there is some way you could copyright (or whatever the proper legal phrase would be) that idea so you could get something if Blizzard ever does it.
On board ship, a lot of networking is done on the fantail/in the smokepit. Talking over rumors, ship's plans, who's doing what, letting your superiors bum cigarettes... It's the one place onboard that you really can interact socially with your chain of command.
On shore, a lot of the same thing goes on during at after work gatherings at bars, though not as much as when I got into the Navy 20 years ago. Drinking isn't encouraged as it once was... We've come a long way from when I was chastised for not tapping the keg at 9:00 am.
Thundersnatch says: In short: It's the Michael Jordan of armed combat, and is compensated accordingly.
What have you been smoking? Our soldiers are no where near to being compensated accordingly...
The average army private makes $25,000 a year. Throw in the combat pay of $225/month and you get $27,700. That is not nearly enough to compensate for being sent overseas, away from your loved ones, to live in a desert, and have to worry about every bag of trash you drive by.
What I can't understand is what the hell the IT departments (of the places in the article)were doing? Ours was pretty good and laid back, but they took the trouble to block the porn sites, and if you tried accessing them you'd get a nastygram in your email. The occaisional mistaken or experimental attempt was ok, since they understood sometimes clicking a link could unintentionally lead you to the dark internet underbelly... But someone that habitually tried to get onto block domains would have gotten into a bit more official trouble.
Other than not accessing porn, email, or hate sites, they didn't care. As long as we were getting our work done in our shop, what we did online was irrelevant.
One of my major complaints against US military idiotic IT policies was when, back in the '80s, they "standardized" on Microsoft Word documents for all official correspondance. I wonder who got paid off for that little fiat? There's no document that couldn't have been done just as well in, at most, ".rtf" format.
I went against tradition and checked out the link first before I read the comments. To me it's obvious that it's a bunch of photoshops... Fairly good ones, but nothing that passed inspection after more than a few seconds examination.
The "stalking game" is the King photoshopped into a game of "Sims 2", not sure about the others...
Then again, if everyone realsied this, we would never have athread comparing UK fast food to Argentina, and a walk down commercial memory lane...
huh... why was this moderated as "Troll"? Is Gametap in the doghouse for some reason? I have financial interest in them; I'm no even a subscriber... What unwritten (or written) line did I unwittingly cross?
NoMaster - "(Actually, looking at my workbench now, I've probably got the bits for a LP FM transmitter too. Still, my workbench may be exceptional - while it's possible to build an AM transmitter out of anything more complicated than a torch...)"
Well, that's better than trying to build a transmetter using stone knives and bearskins...
Or Archon for that matter? Especially since they're releasing an Xbox live dev kit... I don't do much programming, but I would think that it wouldn't take too much effort to do those games... The game play is simple, the graphics would not have to be complex. The only problem would be finding out who owns the rights... Dani Bunting (creator of M.U.L.E.) has been dead for several years, and she wouldn't have necesarilly had the rights anyway....
Steve Jackson Games making the next Halo game sounds all well and good, up until the point where the Feds come in and bust him for making a murder simulator trainer...
You are correct insofar that I should have backed that assertion up with a reference. My apologies for being in too much in a hurry to post the link... a slight oversight,and I thank paradoks for posting the link below to cover my statement.
As for snake oil, one of my friends would kill me for selling snake products, but I might be able to convince her to part with some venom or anti-venom if you prove to have a need or license...
Maybe so, but studies show that people who get their news from Jon Stewart are better informed than those who watch news shows on Fox...
How long is you tube going to be around, though?
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I've heard Dvorak discussing Youtube on the TWiT podcast with Leo Laport and others, and they all agree on two things. First, it is easy and fun to use. The second, their bandwidth bills must be astronomical.
So... where is the money coming from? They don't take down a ton of personal info to datamine (not even town or state). Even if they did, how much money can they make from that? There're no membership fees. Are google ads -that- lucrative? Eventually their going to burn through their initial funding... Not trying to downplay them, I'm just wondering what part of the picture I'm missing.
There once was a girl on Slashdot
Who'd talk dirty to make the geeks hot.
In those days of yore,
the guys tried to score,
Not knowing that she was only a spambot
There once was a girl on Slashdot
Who'd talk dirty to make the geeks hot.
She would speak 733T,
to the guys in heat.
They never guessed that she was only a spambot.
Speculation at the Bahraini Blog Mahmood's Den (No link provided; google him if you're interested... I like him too much to slashdot) speculate that either the governement there doesn't want the people to see how much prime real-estate has confiscated... It has als obeen claimed that one person put anti-government / misleading labels on all the palaces (there are like five or more, I believe)which pissed off some royal type. Mahmoud included directions on how to get around the blocking, though, being the good guy that he is...
Bahrain is a fairly pleasant place, progressive for the most part. A major base for the US Navy 5th fleet is there. Slashdot admins have the place blacklisted though, for some reason... I could only post as AC when I was there, even after I wrote them about it. Oh well.
"For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..."
That's pretty good and all that, but you're really never going to be able to get the dead fish smell out of the place."
If you think that is bad, wait til you get a whiff of R'lyeh...
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
Interesting idea, but not really needed. The PCs in question are rack mounted, and only used for those two programs to test out some radio frequency cards, so we don't need to wait on them for anything. Plus, we'd have to be allotted money for the programs, and testing, etc... The current set-up costs nothing and works.
In actuallity, I kind of enjoy running Win 3.1 on a modernish (the motherboard might hold a Pentium II) machine; it burns through boot-up, DOS, and Windows 3.2 into the test program so quickly that there is little time spent waiting for the machine to get ready.
Well, we (a US Navy shop) have one machine running Win 3.1, and another that was "upgraded" to Win98... Though I doubt that as stand alone machines they qualify as being in a "high availibility enviroment". The machies run some specialised RF testing programs, and it just isn't cost effective to re-write the programs and/or QA the programs to run in a more modern version of Windows.
When I was stationed in Bahrain, my home connection was a banned ISP or soemthing like that Apparently all commercial 'net lines go through the University of Bahrain, which was blacklisted. That meant I couldn't log on from home (though I could from my military net connection on base). I even wrote to the web address given to get myself unbanned, but never received a response back.
Of course, if you're going to say something bad about a company you work for, you might want to post as AC. Theoretically, if what you say is truly insightful and intersting, someone will mod you up. When I have mod points, I browse at -1 just for this reason. Otherwise I browse at +1.
Actually, it is better to frame the picture properly instead of relying on image editing afterwards. The camera is evaluating its settings to use based on what you are shooting, so if you have too much "white space (or whatever)" in the shot it'll throw off the image.
Not that I manage to do that all (or even most) of the time, but it is the best practice.
Actually, there are many computers on "classified" networks... maybe a quarter of all computers, if not more. The Defense Department even has their own secure "internet" cleared for Top Secret (SIPRNET)information. I'm in the Navy, and the ratio at my command seesm to be at least 1 in 3 PCs are classified secret or above, and we're not even involved with warships on a daily basis.
Now, not every computer "classified" is classifed "Secret" or "Confidential"... There's also sensitive data involved... addresses, pay records, medical records, social security data bases, etc... Things that, while not vital to national defense, you don't want out in the general public.
That being said, I'm tending to be skeptical over the legitimacy of this concern. I lost all respect for the our military's grasp of cyber-threats when they banned Furbies for being recording devices...
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I'm sure that Lockheed -doesn't- have any secret self destruct equipment on those. The war heads are of UK manufacture, and the explosives, receiver antennas and amplifiers that would be required for the rockets are too huge to hide. I install self destruct mechanisms in submarine ballistic missiles for when they do live fire tests (a couple times a year), and have crawled around inside enough missiles to know...
There's a lesbian sexual encounter early in Fallout 1, though I think you had to be a female character.
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Where's the power of the internets now? There has to be a page somewhere detailing gays in video games...
(hmmm... ctr-t, type in search box...)
Voila! Should have known it'd be a wikipedia entry. Take with the usual wiki grain of salt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay,_lesbian,_bisexu
Plus...
http://www.games.net/features/100321_1.shtml
And for just sex in general (though the first page might be "disturbing" to some...
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/sexual-games/1
That's actually a pretty good idea, guy (not that I play WoW)... it'd be another revenue stream for Blizzard, and it'd give the players another way of getting points. IANAL, but I hope there is some way you could copyright (or whatever the proper legal phrase would be) that idea so you could get something if Blizzard ever does it.
On board ship, a lot of networking is done on the fantail/in the smokepit. Talking over rumors, ship's plans, who's doing what, letting your superiors bum cigarettes... It's the one place onboard that you really can interact socially with your chain of command. On shore, a lot of the same thing goes on during at after work gatherings at bars, though not as much as when I got into the Navy 20 years ago. Drinking isn't encouraged as it once was... We've come a long way from when I was chastised for not tapping the keg at 9:00 am.
Thundersnatch says:
In short: It's the Michael Jordan of armed combat, and is compensated accordingly.
What have you been smoking? Our soldiers are no where near to being compensated accordingly...
The average army private makes $25,000 a year. Throw in the combat pay of $225/month and you get $27,700. That is not nearly enough to compensate for being sent overseas, away from your loved ones, to live in a desert, and have to worry about every bag of trash you drive by.
I used to be one, but retired last Friday.
What I can't understand is what the hell the IT departments (of the places in the article)were doing? Ours was pretty good and laid back, but they took the trouble to block the porn sites, and if you tried accessing them you'd get a nastygram in your email. The occaisional mistaken or experimental attempt was ok, since they understood sometimes clicking a link could unintentionally lead you to the dark internet underbelly... But someone that habitually tried to get onto block domains would have gotten into a bit more official trouble.
Other than not accessing porn, email, or hate sites, they didn't care. As long as we were getting our work done in our shop, what we did online was irrelevant.
I'm going to miss that place.
One of my major complaints against US military idiotic IT policies was when, back in the '80s, they "standardized" on Microsoft Word documents for all official correspondance. I wonder who got paid off for that little fiat? There's no document that couldn't have been done just as well in, at most, ".rtf" format.
I went against tradition and checked out the link first before I read the comments. To me it's obvious that it's a bunch of photoshops... Fairly good ones, but nothing that passed inspection after more than a few seconds examination. The "stalking game" is the King photoshopped into a game of "Sims 2", not sure about the others... Then again, if everyone realsied this, we would never have athread comparing UK fast food to Argentina, and a walk down commercial memory lane...
huh... why was this moderated as "Troll"? Is Gametap in the doghouse for some reason? I have financial interest in them; I'm no even a subscriber... What unwritten (or written) line did I unwittingly cross?
http://www.gametap.com/home/game_titles/browseTitl es.jsp?&pager=&pageNumber=32&sort=1&title=&publish er=&type=&system=&paginationPage=4
NoMaster - "(Actually, looking at my workbench now, I've probably got the bits for a LP FM transmitter too. Still, my workbench may be exceptional - while it's possible to build an AM transmitter out of anything more complicated than a torch...)" Well, that's better than trying to build a transmetter using stone knives and bearskins...
Or Archon for that matter? Especially since they're releasing an Xbox live dev kit... I don't do much programming, but I would think that it wouldn't take too much effort to do those games... The game play is simple, the graphics would not have to be complex. The only problem would be finding out who owns the rights... Dani Bunting (creator of M.U.L.E.) has been dead for several years, and she wouldn't have necesarilly had the rights anyway....
Steve Jackson Games making the next Halo game sounds all well and good, up until the point where the Feds come in and bust him for making a murder simulator trainer...
You are correct insofar that I should have backed that assertion up with a reference. My apologies for being in too much in a hurry to post the link... a slight oversight,and I thank paradoks for posting the link below to cover my statement. As for snake oil, one of my friends would kill me for selling snake products, but I might be able to convince her to part with some venom or anti-venom if you prove to have a need or license...
Maybe so, but studies show that people who get their news from Jon Stewart are better informed than those who watch news shows on Fox...
I've heard Dvorak discussing Youtube on the TWiT podcast with Leo Laport and others, and they all agree on two things. First, it is easy and fun to use. The second, their bandwidth bills must be astronomical.
So... where is the money coming from? They don't take down a ton of personal info to datamine (not even town or state). Even if they did, how much money can they make from that? There're no membership fees. Are google ads -that- lucrative? Eventually their going to burn through their initial funding... Not trying to downplay them, I'm just wondering what part of the picture I'm missing.
Gaah... that'll teach me not to preview.
There once was a girl on Slashdot
Who'd talk dirty to make the geeks hot.
In those days of yore,
the guys tried to score,
Not knowing that she was only a spambot
There once was a girl on Slashdot Who'd talk dirty to make the geeks hot. She would speak 733T, to the guys in heat. They never guessed that she was only a spambot.
Speculation at the Bahraini Blog Mahmood's Den (No link provided; google him if you're interested... I like him too much to slashdot) speculate that either the governement there doesn't want the people to see how much prime real-estate has confiscated... It has als obeen claimed that one person put anti-government / misleading labels on all the palaces (there are like five or more, I believe)which pissed off some royal type. Mahmoud included directions on how to get around the blocking, though, being the good guy that he is...
Bahrain is a fairly pleasant place, progressive for the most part. A major base for the US Navy 5th fleet is there. Slashdot admins have the place blacklisted though, for some reason... I could only post as AC when I was there, even after I wrote them about it. Oh well.
Interesting idea, but not really needed. The PCs in question are rack mounted, and only used for those two programs to test out some radio frequency cards, so we don't need to wait on them for anything. Plus, we'd have to be allotted money for the programs, and testing, etc... The current set-up costs nothing and works. In actuallity, I kind of enjoy running Win 3.1 on a modernish (the motherboard might hold a Pentium II) machine; it burns through boot-up, DOS, and Windows 3.2 into the test program so quickly that there is little time spent waiting for the machine to get ready.
Well, we (a US Navy shop) have one machine running Win 3.1, and another that was "upgraded" to Win98... Though I doubt that as stand alone machines they qualify as being in a "high availibility enviroment". The machies run some specialised RF testing programs, and it just isn't cost effective to re-write the programs and/or QA the programs to run in a more modern version of Windows.
Of course, if you're going to say something bad about a company you work for, you might want to post as AC. Theoretically, if what you say is truly insightful and intersting, someone will mod you up. When I have mod points, I browse at -1 just for this reason. Otherwise I browse at +1.
Actually, it is better to frame the picture properly instead of relying on image editing afterwards. The camera is evaluating its settings to use based on what you are shooting, so if you have too much "white space (or whatever)" in the shot it'll throw off the image. Not that I manage to do that all (or even most) of the time, but it is the best practice.
Actually, there are many computers on "classified" networks... maybe a quarter of all computers, if not more. The Defense Department even has their own secure "internet" cleared for Top Secret (SIPRNET)information. I'm in the Navy, and the ratio at my command seesm to be at least 1 in 3 PCs are classified secret or above, and we're not even involved with warships on a daily basis. Now, not every computer "classified" is classifed "Secret" or "Confidential"... There's also sensitive data involved... addresses, pay records, medical records, social security data bases, etc... Things that, while not vital to national defense, you don't want out in the general public. That being said, I'm tending to be skeptical over the legitimacy of this concern. I lost all respect for the our military's grasp of cyber-threats when they banned Furbies for being recording devices...