Rockets bound for France or Germany from Iran won't fly over Poland, look at the map.
The mere presence of antimissile defense near the Russian border will require Russia to do additional steps to counter this new threat. And this will in turn justify further actions from NATO. And so on.
Intercontinental ballistic rockets from Iran or Pakistan (remember, Pakistan is US ally and USA even provides nuclear technology Pakistan) aimed at the USA will not fly above Poland. Even Pentagon admits it.
There's no question that this new system is deployed against Russia.
Biometrics is fine for us, because we need means for authentication. We don't store full biomteric data like fingerprint images, we just store biometric 'hashes' (about 16 bytes for user) because the risks of losing biometric data are much higher than risks from losing SSNs.
Yes, we tried to print numbers on cards - and users lose it all the time.
We don't use SSN is authenticator, we use it as IDENTIFIER. But lots of other institutions use it as authenticator and that's the problem.
Biometric data from cheap devices can be used only for authentication. I.e. to confirm that a user with ID 12435478 is really the user with ID 12435478.
And people just can't (or don't care to) remember anything other than their SSN. We allow them to use any identifier in place of SSN if they wish but most people just don't care.
Have you TRIED to do this? I'm working on a project which uses SSNs as user identifiers in automatic biometric door locks. We know that it is way too insecure, but there's no other good way (no, we can't use smart cards for access control).
Users either too stupid to use something else or just plainly REFUSE something different from SSN. We tried to use phone numbers as IDs, and we still get tons of support calls from users who change their phone number and expect our system to magically pick up this change. Yes, people are that stupid.
The entire SSN system is a hack.
SSNs should be public info, not a closely guarded secrets. It's quite a good identifier but SUCKS as authenticator. Something like government-issued smart cards would be MUCH better.
That means there's a difference of 20V between two wires leading from power adapter to notebook.
But the difference between one wire and the GROUND can be anything.
For example, voltage difference between my desktop computer's case and ground is about 110V (luckily, the current is limited by high impedance) because of #$^%$&^#% electric wiring in my apartment. It's not pleasant at all to touch hot-water radiator and computer case simultaneously.
Actually, my development environment does not require semicolons after lone SQL statements. Besides, when you embed SQL statements in code using JDBC/DBI/... you also don't need semicolons.
And I don't like semicolons because one time I accidentally typed "DELETE FROM Table; WHERE..." on a production database. Luckily, one entry had a constraint which forced transaction to rollback.
Chechnya had a de-facto independence - please read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasav-Yurt_Accord . It was not a real de-jure independence, but for all practical means it was full independence. I agree that Chechnya is still a murky water, but I don't really think that instability in Chechnya is advantageous for Putin, it may allow money-laundering but now it's much easier to use legal means. And Chechnya now is much better than it was in 2001. At least we don't have a shooting war anymore.
As for siloviki - I don't really care about large oil companies. ALL (yes, ALL) of them were captured during 90-s using illegal methods (pledge auctions, etc.). So it doesn't really matter for me who controls these companies if this is the price to pay for current political stability.
That said, I admire Russian cellular phone and network companies - they were able to get really large without pumping oil. Russian aerospace was able to survive without much of state funding, etc. As for small business, it was almost killed by the default in 98 (which was a result of %*$#*$&^%#&^$ economic policy of Yeltsin).
Amazingly, but now small and medium business is much better when it was during the years of Yeltsin. I'm the CEO (and also CIO/CFO/...) of a small 4-men company (I've started my own business half-year ago) and it's much better now than it was in 90-s. You don't even need to pay gangsters for 'protection' anymore (gangsters now have much more profitable oil companies):)
I don't like Russian dependency on oil/gas export, but at least now it is used as a political weapon and we've stopped donating anti-Russian regimes in some countries.
Beta-rays (essentially, very fast electrons) are easily shielded with a centimeter of wax or polyethylene.
And auroras actually are not very energetic - they are caused NOT by sun's radiation, but by particles which normally orbit the Earth along force lines of magnetic fields. During sun flares Earth's magnetic field distorts and these stored particles collide with the atmosphere.
Actually, Chechnya WAS a de-facto independent state during the late nineties (after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hostage_c risis ). And guess what, Chechen terrorists started kidnapping people for ransom (it was their largest income source, after drug trafficking), making public executions and in the end they invaded Dagestan (a republic of Russian Federation).
At that time 'siloviki' were essentially powerless and Berezovsky, Gusinski and other 'oligarchs' were the 'shadow rulers' of Russia. It was really a scary time to live.
And I admire how Putin dislodged Berezovsky from position of power. He actually initiated a media war between oligarchs and then just picked them one by one.
As for Putin profiting from oil in Chechnya - that is a BS. There's more than enough oil in much more peaceful regions of Russia. Besides, instability in Chechen republic does not help with oil drilling and processing.
Dear ignorant idiot. First of all, I live in Russia, fairly close to Chechnya (its border is about 250 km from my home).
Second, there ARE Chechen terrorists, just come close to Chechnya (preferably, to mountainous region) and see it yourself.
Chechens fully deserve the beating, because during early 90-s they forced about 500000 Russians to move out of Chechnya (talk about displaced ordinary guys), including some of my distant relatives.
After Budenovsk crisis Chechnya was given de-facto independence (they had even Sharia laws and public executions!), but in 1999 they invaded Dagestan. So Chechens can't even claim that they were not given a chance to live in their own independent state.
When pressed, Maskhadov names the man he sees as the prime villain in the affair: tycoon Boris Berezovsky. For the past several years Berezovsky has been channeling ransom payments to terrorists in Chechnya who have kidnapped visitors. Berezovsky boasts of his rescue efforts, but, says Maskhadov, the ransom money has dark consequences: It finances the Islamic militias, which are now attacking Russia.
In a recent interview with Le Figaro, Berezovsky admits to the payment. "I gave him this money... to begin the reconstruction of the republic," he says, adding that his money does not go to support war against Russia.
And this is just the result of 5 minutes of Internet search. I'm sure you can find more such examples, that's why the Russian Office of Public Prosecutor still wants him.
He openly provided funds to Chechen terrorists. He openly declared his plans to violently overthrow Russian government. If both of these are legal, then I'm Santa Claus.
Nope. There was another explosive, which was used in landmines. It can be fairly easy synthesized in any laboratory (I synthesized small quantities for different pranks).
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Rockets bound for France or Germany from Iran won't fly over Poland, look at the map.
The mere presence of antimissile defense near the Russian border will require Russia to do additional steps to counter this new threat. And this will in turn justify further actions from NATO. And so on.
Nope.
Intercontinental ballistic rockets from Iran or Pakistan (remember, Pakistan is US ally and USA even provides nuclear technology Pakistan) aimed at the USA will not fly above Poland. Even Pentagon admits it.
There's no question that this new system is deployed against Russia.
We're NOT talking about Alaska. We're talking about Poland and Czechia (see http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/pl_nm/poland_u sa_missiles_dc for example).
Nuclear arms, of course :) The ultimate solution for spam and cyberattacks.
Then why is it going to be placed near Russia borders?
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USA is going to start another cold war. And that's after Russia has closed radio locators in Cuba and Vietnam ( http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B
Biometrics is fine for us, because we need means for authentication. We don't store full biomteric data like fingerprint images, we just store biometric 'hashes' (about 16 bytes for user) because the risks of losing biometric data are much higher than risks from losing SSNs.
Yes, we tried to print numbers on cards - and users lose it all the time.
We don't use SSN is authenticator, we use it as IDENTIFIER. But lots of other institutions use it as authenticator and that's the problem.
Biometric data from cheap devices can be used only for authentication. I.e. to confirm that a user with ID 12435478 is really the user with ID 12435478.
And people just can't (or don't care to) remember anything other than their SSN. We allow them to use any identifier in place of SSN if they wish but most people just don't care.
Have you TRIED to do this? I'm working on a project which uses SSNs as user identifiers in automatic biometric door locks. We know that it is way too insecure, but there's no other good way (no, we can't use smart cards for access control).
Users either too stupid to use something else or just plainly REFUSE something different from SSN. We tried to use phone numbers as IDs, and we still get tons of support calls from users who change their phone number and expect our system to magically pick up this change. Yes, people are that stupid.
The entire SSN system is a hack.
SSNs should be public info, not a closely guarded secrets. It's quite a good identifier but SUCKS as authenticator. Something like government-issued smart cards would be MUCH better.
Laptop power adapter outputs about 20V.
That means there's a difference of 20V between two wires leading from power adapter to notebook.
But the difference between one wire and the GROUND can be anything.
For example, voltage difference between my desktop computer's case and ground is about 110V (luckily, the current is limited by high impedance) because of #$^%$&^#% electric wiring in my apartment. It's not pleasant at all to touch hot-water radiator and computer case simultaneously.
Myopia - hardware antialiasing right in your eyes!
But sometimes you DO need to do something on a real database (I was fixing a critical production issue). And Murhpy just LOVES such situations :(
There's a reason why IBM's legal department is called 'The Nazgul' :)
Actually, my development environment does not require semicolons after lone SQL statements. Besides, when you embed SQL statements in code using JDBC/DBI/... you also don't need semicolons.
..." on a production database. Luckily, one entry had a constraint which forced transaction to rollback.
And I don't like semicolons because one time I accidentally typed "DELETE FROM Table; WHERE
> SELECT loc FROM Locations loc, People p WHERE p.name="Jim Gray" AND p.loc=loc.id
The query returned 0 results.
How about NOW?
New Russian rockets can maneuver in three dimensions and deploy decoys. And I'm not even speaking about multiple warheads on each rocket.
Chechnya had a de-facto independence - please read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasav-Yurt_Accord . It was not a real de-jure independence, but for all practical means it was full independence. I agree that Chechnya is still a murky water, but I don't really think that instability in Chechnya is advantageous for Putin, it may allow money-laundering but now it's much easier to use legal means. And Chechnya now is much better than it was in 2001. At least we don't have a shooting war anymore.
:)
As for siloviki - I don't really care about large oil companies. ALL (yes, ALL) of them were captured during 90-s using illegal methods (pledge auctions, etc.). So it doesn't really matter for me who controls these companies if this is the price to pay for current political stability.
That said, I admire Russian cellular phone and network companies - they were able to get really large without pumping oil. Russian aerospace was able to survive without much of state funding, etc. As for small business, it was almost killed by the default in 98 (which was a result of %*$#*$&^%#&^$ economic policy of Yeltsin).
Amazingly, but now small and medium business is much better when it was during the years of Yeltsin. I'm the CEO (and also CIO/CFO/...) of a small 4-men company (I've started my own business half-year ago) and it's much better now than it was in 90-s. You don't even need to pay gangsters for 'protection' anymore (gangsters now have much more profitable oil companies)
I don't like Russian dependency on oil/gas export, but at least now it is used as a political weapon and we've stopped donating anti-Russian regimes in some countries.
Or maybe KKK. They are doing illegal things too, right?
Beta-rays (essentially, very fast electrons) are easily shielded with a centimeter of wax or polyethylene.
And auroras actually are not very energetic - they are caused NOT by sun's radiation, but by particles which normally orbit the Earth along force lines of magnetic fields. During sun flares Earth's magnetic field distorts and these stored particles collide with the atmosphere.
Actually, Chechnya WAS a de-facto independent state during the late nineties (after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hostage_c risis ). And guess what, Chechen terrorists started kidnapping people for ransom (it was their largest income source, after drug trafficking), making public executions and in the end they invaded Dagestan (a republic of Russian Federation).
At that time 'siloviki' were essentially powerless and Berezovsky, Gusinski and other 'oligarchs' were the 'shadow rulers' of Russia. It was really a scary time to live.
And I admire how Putin dislodged Berezovsky from position of power. He actually initiated a media war between oligarchs and then just picked them one by one.
As for Putin profiting from oil in Chechnya - that is a BS. There's more than enough oil in much more peaceful regions of Russia. Besides, instability in Chechen republic does not help with oil drilling and processing.
Dear ignorant idiot. First of all, I live in Russia, fairly close to Chechnya (its border is about 250 km from my home).
c risis ? But I guess that killing pregnant women is not terrorism if Chechen 'fighters' do it.
Second, there ARE Chechen terrorists, just come close to Chechnya (preferably, to mountainous region) and see it yourself.
Chechens fully deserve the beating, because during early 90-s they forced about 500000 Russians to move out of Chechnya (talk about displaced ordinary guys), including some of my distant relatives.
And how about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hostage_
After Budenovsk crisis Chechnya was given de-facto independence (they had even Sharia laws and public executions!), but in 1999 they invaded Dagestan. So Chechens can't even claim that they were not given a chance to live in their own independent state.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1101/6411090a.h
When pressed, Maskhadov names the man he sees as the prime villain in the affair: tycoon Boris Berezovsky. For the past several years Berezovsky has been channeling ransom payments to terrorists in Chechnya who have kidnapped visitors. Berezovsky boasts of his rescue efforts, but, says Maskhadov, the ransom money has dark consequences: It finances the Islamic militias, which are now attacking Russia.
In a recent interview with Le Figaro, Berezovsky admits to the payment. "I gave him this money
And this is just the result of 5 minutes of Internet search. I'm sure you can find more such examples, that's why the Russian Office of Public Prosecutor still wants him.
What??
He openly provided funds to Chechen terrorists. He openly declared his plans to violently overthrow Russian government. If both of these are legal, then I'm Santa Claus.
Non-profit doesn't mean it's FREE. It means that the publishing company can't get profit from selling journals.
And who decides if they are really unlawful combatants and not just random people grabbed from streets?
It's innocent until proved guilty, so they should have either protection of Geneva Conventions or they should be sued.
Nope. There was another explosive, which was used in landmines. It can be fairly easy synthesized in any laboratory (I synthesized small quantities for different pranks).