The cost is also a little misleading. Additional units cost ~$130M each (which is still expensive as hell), the $339M figure is total program cost plus build cost divided out per aicraft. That number only decreases the more we produce. So if we ordered another singe aircraft, it would not cost $339M.
If that is the case then why don't we keep building them until they are free? As a bonus, we will have an unstoppable Air Force. Oh wait, we already did before the F-22.
"Do not be unbelieving, but believing." And JimLynch answered and said to him "My Lord and my OS!" Jesusbuntu said to him, JimLynch, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
You are right, and I was just about to post this. There is a large difference between 62% of the shares and 62% of the shareholders. The article gets it right, the summary gets it wrong.
I don't think that is the extraordinary part. The part we are focused on is the fact that they specifically refused any sort of backup before testing, knowing full well that all sorts of things can and do happen during testing. And these are the people who will be in charge of this system when it goes live.
No, that is just silly. Of course there should be a backup kept in a physically secure location for events just like this. In a real environment when a root CA loses its private key they not only have to reissue all new keys to everyone, but to all the CAs below them and all the users and CAs they signed (and so on all the way down the chain). This cascades quickly into a huge mess that can easily cost millions upon millions to clean up.
The entire concept of PKI revolves around the inheritance of trust from the root CA. It seems pretty clear these guys can not be trusted. I would be worried about the people who have to use them.
Flash drives are a big no-no in the federal government and military. If something is so sensitive that it needs this kind of encryption wrapped in dynamite, then it should not be walking around on a USB drive. Dumb dumb dumb.
I was going off my state laws, California. California has more cars and trucks than any other state in the country by a huge margin. If other, much smaller states have different laws then I can't speak to that.
I don't think that a parking ticket is a proper analogy (though I do commend you for using a car). A parking ticket doesn't go on any record, and you pay $25 or whatever the fine is and you are done.
You IP being used as proof of identify can cost you pretty much your entire life as we have seen time and again in RIAA/MPAA cases.
A license plate, street address and phone number are both unique and tied to a specific person until the person chooses to end that connection. An IP address (dynamic) is randomly assigned to a user and then changed with little or no control from the user's end. This isn't IPv6. Everyone can't be issued a permanent address when they sign up for an ISP.
Beyond that, you are aware that cars and the like can't be ticketed, right? If you run a red light and are caught on camera they have to be able to determine who is driving the car for it to be valid. Simply having the plate will not work. The same does not apply to IPs, however. They do not have to prove that it was actually you who committed the act, only that at one point in time you had been randomly assigned that IP.
Homer: Well, there's not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job. Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, sweetie. Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers. Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock. Homer: I see. Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you? Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
When you build an interface like that though you need to [specifically] design a game for it. It can't just be tacked on.
These controllers are gimmicks. A very small percentage of the games are truly designed from the ground up to incorporate these controllers, the rest are using them simply because they can and it is a frustrating experience.
I have almost all of the old SCUMM games, and would gladly repurchase them all on Steam if the price is decent. Considering their extreme age, however, anything more than $5 is just insulting.
So registering on the site isn't https. I know this isn't credit card information but still, I wonder how many people use the same password for this as they do their email. Too easy to snoop such a high profile web server.
First they scream for openness, then they complain it is too open. You people will never be happy.
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The cost is also a little misleading. Additional units cost ~$130M each (which is still expensive as hell), the $339M figure is total program cost plus build cost divided out per aicraft. That number only decreases the more we produce. So if we ordered another singe aircraft, it would not cost $339M.
If that is the case then why don't we keep building them until they are free? As a bonus, we will have an unstoppable Air Force. Oh wait, we already did before the F-22.
You mean to tell me the kind of shop that would charge $50 to install a stick of RAM might behave in a less than ethical manner? NO!
"Do not be unbelieving, but believing." And JimLynch answered and said to him "My Lord and my OS!" Jesusbuntu said to him, JimLynch, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Finally! My old, 2D webcam kept falling through the cracks in the floorboards.
You are right, and I was just about to post this. There is a large difference between 62% of the shares and 62% of the shareholders. The article gets it right, the summary gets it wrong.
I don't think that is the extraordinary part. The part we are focused on is the fact that they specifically refused any sort of backup before testing, knowing full well that all sorts of things can and do happen during testing. And these are the people who will be in charge of this system when it goes live.
Make games that are fun.
No, that is just silly. Of course there should be a backup kept in a physically secure location for events just like this. In a real environment when a root CA loses its private key they not only have to reissue all new keys to everyone, but to all the CAs below them and all the users and CAs they signed (and so on all the way down the chain). This cascades quickly into a huge mess that can easily cost millions upon millions to clean up.
The entire concept of PKI revolves around the inheritance of trust from the root CA. It seems pretty clear these guys can not be trusted. I would be worried about the people who have to use them.
Flash drives are a big no-no in the federal government and military. If something is so sensitive that it needs this kind of encryption wrapped in dynamite, then it should not be walking around on a USB drive. Dumb dumb dumb.
New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior 4 To Be Distributed For
To Be Distributed For what???
For free. If you bothered to read the only sentence in the summary you would have figured that out.
I was going off my state laws, California. California has more cars and trucks than any other state in the country by a huge margin. If other, much smaller states have different laws then I can't speak to that.
I don't think that a parking ticket is a proper analogy (though I do commend you for using a car). A parking ticket doesn't go on any record, and you pay $25 or whatever the fine is and you are done.
You IP being used as proof of identify can cost you pretty much your entire life as we have seen time and again in RIAA/MPAA cases.
Finally, a game that literally caters to the lowest common denominator.
A license plate, street address and phone number are both unique and tied to a specific person until the person chooses to end that connection. An IP address (dynamic) is randomly assigned to a user and then changed with little or no control from the user's end. This isn't IPv6. Everyone can't be issued a permanent address when they sign up for an ISP.
Beyond that, you are aware that cars and the like can't be ticketed, right? If you run a red light and are caught on camera they have to be able to determine who is driving the car for it to be valid. Simply having the plate will not work. The same does not apply to IPs, however. They do not have to prove that it was actually you who committed the act, only that at one point in time you had been randomly assigned that IP.
This gaze-tracking software will hurt the US military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
If your workers are handling sensitive material maybe you shouldn't have them in a cubicle with their back to the entrance.
There's a grain of truth here. Cookies have a nice cutesy name to them that makes them seem innocent. It's "just" an edible text file, that's all!
Why not call them something else? Take a page out of PETA's book; call them turds or something!
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Homer: Well, there's not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, sweetie.
Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
Here are a few notes I wrote a while ago on the subject:
http://kegel.com/academy/opensource.html
http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/ might also be of some interest.
I'll be honest, I thought those links were to something else entirely.
When you build an interface like that though you need to [specifically] design a game for it. It can't just be tacked on.
These controllers are gimmicks. A very small percentage of the games are truly designed from the ground up to incorporate these controllers, the rest are using them simply because they can and it is a frustrating experience.
I've been saying this for years.
I have almost all of the old SCUMM games, and would gladly repurchase them all on Steam if the price is decent. Considering their extreme age, however, anything more than $5 is just insulting.
Here is a good list of everything you will learn from RPGs: http://serpent231.tripod.com/cliche.shtml
So registering on the site isn't https. I know this isn't credit card information but still, I wonder how many people use the same password for this as they do their email. Too easy to snoop such a high profile web server.
First they scream for openness, then they complain it is too open. You people will never be happy.