So now we'll pay 3 or 4X a soldier's pay for some Blackwater truck driver or cook.
One of the reasons we like to have soldiers 'push papers' is just to have them around should they be needed for combat. They can do non-essential work rather than just sit on their hands. The other reason we have them do K-P duty or maintain IT systems during peacetime is that this must also be done during war. And its better not to have civilians and other non-qualified personnel underfoot in the event of hostilities.
DARPA/Skunk works projects have at times been very successful, budget-wise. What gets cut out of these projects and enables the success is cutting Congress out of the acquisition process.
Black projects, built with no public visibility, allow the customer (Pentagon) and suppliers to negotiate on price and performance without some Senator trying to get a piece of the business for his constituency. If the technology proves to be beyond reach, the two parties can cancel the contract without all the political fallout we get on typical projects.
they're just going to shoot the dog, or kill it with the crowbar they used to get the door open.
That's why you don't want a yappy dog. You get one that just stands there, in the dark. And then tears the throat out of the intruder once they walk around the corner in the hallway.
Joke:
This burglar breaks into a house. After walking around in the dark for a few moments, he hears a voice, "Jesus is watching you."
Looking around, he sees a parrot, and sees it repeat, "Jesus is watching you."
He chuckles and says, "Really? What's your name, parrot?"
The parrot replies, "Moses."
The burglar says, "Who would name a parrot Moses?"
"The same guy who named the Rottweiler Jesus."
They said the problem was that their antenna system was seeing the increased signal strength of my booster antenna as if their system was receiving strong signals from cell phones in the neighborhood, and their system was automatically lowering its output signal strength, causing users in the area to have dropped calls and poor connections...
Actually, cell phones are supposed to modulate their output to suit the distance and attenuation between themselves and the base station. The fact that your booster revealed itself with a higher signal strength indicates that it does not properly implement that function.
There may be 'boosters' or repeaters that are tested and approved by the carrier. Ask and they may provide you with a list.
That's what I was trying to say. We (English speakers) used to use the term 'valve' for vacuum tubes back in the day. But that was replaced by tube, transistor, diode, etc. The Japanese, it appears, still use this term. A non-tech writer would translate that literally, not realizing the context dependence in English.
they explicitly do not dig around in nearly any financial records at all.
Oh really? If you think this is really aimed at stopping terrorism, keep in mind that the entire 9/11 attack could have easily been funded by some Saudi Prince diverting funds from a good weekend in Las Vegas. The CIA's surveillance won't pick that sort of thing up. This is financial espionage, plain and simple.
You are coming off as someone that uses bias and calls it reason.
Sometimes one has to, to make a point. Look at the USA's espionage program. Enter the country with a laptop and you risk having it searched. Funny. Terrorists coming in would have empty laptops. The data of interest would be going out. But not if you are looking for bid information from, say Airbus, competing with Boeing. Then your laptop is loaded with pricing data. And that gets scooped up.
China doesn't need to hack to steal much of our technology. They can just pull one unit off a production line over there before its loaded on a container ship.
I guess I don't understand. Short of a buffer overflow type attack, how would this work? I wasn't aware that TIFFs contained anything executable. And display s/w does one thing with TIFF data: splat it up on a screen.
it's often the people who complain the most about media violence who have the most trouble telling the difference between fantasy and reality.
True. Or they have kids who have trouble making this distinction. Try telling a kid that his friends are 'well adjusted' but he (or she) may be suffering from a lack of judgment.
If anything, we should be toughening ourselves up for the future instead of softening us up.
Then lets have some more realistic FPS games. Odds are that up against a similarly equipped enemy, you should be taken out after only a few kills. And going up against unarmed civilians gets you surrounded by the cops and shot or burned to death in your hiding place. Now that game I'd give any kid.
China may very well reason that a united Korea is much less of a worry than the loose cannon that is the DPRK.
I don't think China worries about that at all. What they do worry about is the flood of refugees into China during the 'reunification' process. Which is certain to be orders of magnitude worse than the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe.
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That new Yahoo homepage will look good as "The Boss is Coming" tab when management patrols cubicle-space.
So now we'll pay 3 or 4X a soldier's pay for some Blackwater truck driver or cook.
One of the reasons we like to have soldiers 'push papers' is just to have them around should they be needed for combat. They can do non-essential work rather than just sit on their hands. The other reason we have them do K-P duty or maintain IT systems during peacetime is that this must also be done during war. And its better not to have civilians and other non-qualified personnel underfoot in the event of hostilities.
DARPA/Skunk works projects have at times been very successful, budget-wise. What gets cut out of these projects and enables the success is cutting Congress out of the acquisition process.
Black projects, built with no public visibility, allow the customer (Pentagon) and suppliers to negotiate on price and performance without some Senator trying to get a piece of the business for his constituency. If the technology proves to be beyond reach, the two parties can cancel the contract without all the political fallout we get on typical projects.
I sense treble brewing.
Like the hell POSIX brought down upon the industry.
Particularly if your name is Reeva Steenkamp.
Inevitably, they will.
they're just going to shoot the dog, or kill it with the crowbar they used to get the door open.
That's why you don't want a yappy dog. You get one that just stands there, in the dark. And then tears the throat out of the intruder once they walk around the corner in the hallway.
Joke:
This burglar breaks into a house. After walking around in the dark for a few moments, he hears a voice, "Jesus is watching you."
Looking around, he sees a parrot, and sees it repeat, "Jesus is watching you."
He chuckles and says, "Really? What's your name, parrot?"
The parrot replies, "Moses."
The burglar says, "Who would name a parrot Moses?"
"The same guy who named the Rottweiler Jesus."
"No Trespassing: What the dogs don't finish, we feed to the pigs."
Buy a mean dog.
I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram. Revised to include all seven words currently proscribed.
They said the problem was that their antenna system was seeing the increased signal strength of my booster antenna as if their system was receiving strong signals from cell phones in the neighborhood, and their system was automatically lowering its output signal strength, causing users in the area to have dropped calls and poor connections...
Actually, cell phones are supposed to modulate their output to suit the distance and attenuation between themselves and the base station. The fact that your booster revealed itself with a higher signal strength indicates that it does not properly implement that function.
There may be 'boosters' or repeaters that are tested and approved by the carrier. Ask and they may provide you with a list.
That's what I was trying to say. We (English speakers) used to use the term 'valve' for vacuum tubes back in the day. But that was replaced by tube, transistor, diode, etc. The Japanese, it appears, still use this term. A non-tech writer would translate that literally, not realizing the context dependence in English.
That might be a translation of the Japanese term. By a non-technical translator.
I have a 4D printer. Its very slow.
Let's see your patent for that, smarty-pants.
I have a tablet. I can't click.
Sorry. That's already in use by US political parties.
they explicitly do not dig around in nearly any financial records at all.
Oh really? If you think this is really aimed at stopping terrorism, keep in mind that the entire 9/11 attack could have easily been funded by some Saudi Prince diverting funds from a good weekend in Las Vegas. The CIA's surveillance won't pick that sort of thing up. This is financial espionage, plain and simple.
You are coming off as someone that uses bias and calls it reason.
Sometimes one has to, to make a point. Look at the USA's espionage program. Enter the country with a laptop and you risk having it searched. Funny. Terrorists coming in would have empty laptops. The data of interest would be going out. But not if you are looking for bid information from, say Airbus, competing with Boeing. Then your laptop is loaded with pricing data. And that gets scooped up.
China doesn't need to hack to steal much of our technology. They can just pull one unit off a production line over there before its loaded on a container ship.
I guess I don't understand. Short of a buffer overflow type attack, how would this work? I wasn't aware that TIFFs contained anything executable. And display s/w does one thing with TIFF data: splat it up on a screen.
Call me when the USA stops digging around in everyone's financial records.
it's often the people who complain the most about media violence who have the most trouble telling the difference between fantasy and reality.
True. Or they have kids who have trouble making this distinction. Try telling a kid that his friends are 'well adjusted' but he (or she) may be suffering from a lack of judgment.
If anything, we should be toughening ourselves up for the future instead of softening us up.
Then lets have some more realistic FPS games. Odds are that up against a similarly equipped enemy, you should be taken out after only a few kills. And going up against unarmed civilians gets you surrounded by the cops and shot or burned to death in your hiding place. Now that game I'd give any kid.
They'll scramble any time now. Just as soon as those spare parts for their MiGs arrive. Currently back-ordered with the Soviet Union.
China may very well reason that a united Korea is much less of a worry than the loose cannon that is the DPRK.
I don't think China worries about that at all. What they do worry about is the flood of refugees into China during the 'reunification' process. Which is certain to be orders of magnitude worse than the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe.