Agreed. The Russians are the best at heavy lift, the Canadians are the best at robotics. There is no point in the US trying to reinvent the wheel. Leave those technologies to them and focus NASA funding elsewhere.
I didn't say get rid of lawyers, jut cut down on them. The fundamental job of a lawyer is to protect the persons right and ensure due process, it is NOT to get the guy off at all costs. Most lawyers have forgotten that.
Yea, like the military blowing the crap out of poor people and instigating coups in banana republics have ever protected my house. If anything they have made it more likely my house will be destroyed.
Conversely, I think this is an AWESOME development.
Just think. Once perfected this could be used in trials to definitively prove innocence or guilt. Massively cut back on the slimeball lawyers and jackasses lying in court to get off.
And what happens to the 17000 people directly employed by NASA and the 40000 people employed by subcontractors? Those are only direct employment numbers, there is a ton on secondary and tertiary jobs created by NASA spending. Shelving NASA would put tens if not hundreds of thousands of people out of work and close dozens of companies. Then there is the direct loss to the scientific community as well.
So NASA always gets hit during economic downturn, but apparently there is always money for the US war machine. At least something positive always comes out of the NASA spending.
Yes and do you have any idea how many lives have been ruined by alcohol in the mean time?
So you want to make everything illegal that can potentially harm someone? At least red wine has some health benefits. Should we make cigarettes illegal too? How about fast food, red meat and sugary carbonated beverages. How many lives have been lost due to people overusing these types of foods?
Mexico is (mostly) poor, and it's entirely possible that the only thing that will end their misery is wealth.
Possibly. But then the logical solution is instead of spending billions on border security to stop drugs and illegals, you just give the same amount of money to the Mexican people. Eventually there would be no reason to try and make money in the drug trade nor would anyone want to sneak over the border. Problem solved.
And my job as an Engineer is to do engineering. That means research and getting the latest information I need. If you really want to sit there and approve a new website every 10 minutes then go ahead. If you think that is making your company secure, then you're an idiot.
Well in my job I'm constantly using the internet as an information resource so I can do my job better. That means visiting on average a dozen or so different web sites per day for product literature, chip specifications, research papers, etc. If I had to ask permission for every site I wanted to look at I would never get anything done.
You do realize the internet is more than just for games and porn don't you? It is primarily an information repository, and people should be allowed to use it as such. You're obviously in IT, so I'm going to have to break it to you gently that you are in a SERVICE job for OTHER WORKERS. You are not in a police state deciding what other need or do not need for their job. If you don't like that then I'd suggest you are in the wrong job.
Actually the complete opposite needs to happen. The way the government stopped the smuggling of alcohol and the related gang/mob violence during prohibition was to re-legalize alcohol. Make drugs a legal product and have the government tax the profits. It will immediately stop all this wasteful drug related violence and security expenditure.
No, you have to assume your employees are mostly professional and use the corporate web access to support their job. Only block and restrict when employees visit sites they shouldn't. Every employee shouldn't have to request each and every site they visit just because a couple of employees are too cheap or lazy to download from their home connection.
On the other hand, "moving to the cloud" is basically a software-and-IT-support way of saying "outsourcing," and I see no evidence that companies plan to quit outsourcing whatever they can at any point in the near future.
As a company that works for NASA and defense, we are essentially prohibited from using 'cloud' based infrastructure as it is unsecured. Files cannot leave the company network so cloud resources / backups cannot be used.
The Ares design was fundamentally flawed. The engines created a massive vibration that they couldn't resolve. The modification they were proposing just before it got cancelled was the place a massive counterweight in the bottom of the rocket that would mechanically dampen the vibration. This would have reduced the payload capacity significantly. The cost overruns because of the poor design and trying to get it to work were staggering and projections of expenditure were even worse. The only possible solution was to cancel the program and just take lessons learned into a new design.
The other problem with this is they are releasing names (inadvertently or not). These are people who have risked their lives to give information and now they are at risk. What will happen with this is the sources of intelligence will dry up as people know that their anonymity cannot be protected anymore.
So what is worse? Governments operating without civilian oversight or without any reliable intelligence at all? Personally I think the US foreign policy has for the last 50 years been absolute shit, causing more problems than they have tried to fix. The world would be better off if they just packed up and went home.
Information is irrelevant if it is not acted upon. Is anyone going to call the US on their actions here? Did anything happen when the actions of the CIA overthrowing governments and propping up brutal dictators in their place in central america came to light? No. Nothing ever happens, and until people are willing to stand up and make their government accountable for their actions, and refuse to elect governments with ridiculous foreign policies, simply having this information is pointless.
Whats more important right now is the US government can listen in on your phone conversations, can confiscate your laptop at the airport and rifle through it at will, Homeland Security interferes in the normal lives of people at their whim with no accountability. These are the real issues.
Ok so how is knowing information such as the names on the no fly list of any importance to me or anyone else? Who cares? This is the tech equivalent of 'Young and the Restless' with geeks gripping their armchairs in anticipation of the next leaked rumour and backstabbing conspiracy theory. There is no real journalism there, and most documents on Wikileaks are about Julian himself. Its basically pointless.
I don't hand over my freedom, in fact if I lived in the US I would have left with the introduction of Bush's Patriot Act - thats a blatant violation of personal freedom and I cant believe US citizens put up with that crap. There are far more serious violations of our freedoms that happen every day that people should be more concerned about than the junk thats on Wikileaks.
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Agreed. The Russians are the best at heavy lift, the Canadians are the best at robotics. There is no point in the US trying to reinvent the wheel. Leave those technologies to them and focus NASA funding elsewhere.
I didn't say get rid of lawyers, jut cut down on them. The fundamental job of a lawyer is to protect the persons right and ensure due process, it is NOT to get the guy off at all costs. Most lawyers have forgotten that.
Republicans have eroded my rights, not protected them
I thought your comment was pretty funny. Unfortunately you had a bunch of complete shitheads (especially AC) responding.
Yea, like the military blowing the crap out of poor people and instigating coups in banana republics have ever protected my house. If anything they have made it more likely my house will be destroyed.
Conversely, I think this is an AWESOME development.
Just think. Once perfected this could be used in trials to definitively prove innocence or guilt. Massively cut back on the slimeball lawyers and jackasses lying in court to get off.
And what happens to the 17000 people directly employed by NASA and the 40000 people employed by subcontractors? Those are only direct employment numbers, there is a ton on secondary and tertiary jobs created by NASA spending. Shelving NASA would put tens if not hundreds of thousands of people out of work and close dozens of companies. Then there is the direct loss to the scientific community as well.
They should get rid of the MILITARY and REPUBLICANS all together if they don't intend on doing anything useful.
So NASA always gets hit during economic downturn, but apparently there is always money for the US war machine. At least something positive always comes out of the NASA spending.
They haven't done anything that made sense since they acquired that pile of crap Compaq.
I'm wondering if the CEO will actually be fired, or just given another ridiculous golden handshake like was given to Carly Fiorina
Yes and do you have any idea how many lives have been ruined by alcohol in the mean time?
So you want to make everything illegal that can potentially harm someone? At least red wine has some health benefits. Should we make cigarettes illegal too? How about fast food, red meat and sugary carbonated beverages. How many lives have been lost due to people overusing these types of foods?
Mexico is (mostly) poor, and it's entirely possible that the only thing that will end their misery is wealth.
Possibly. But then the logical solution is instead of spending billions on border security to stop drugs and illegals, you just give the same amount of money to the Mexican people. Eventually there would be no reason to try and make money in the drug trade nor would anyone want to sneak over the border. Problem solved.
And my job as an Engineer is to do engineering. That means research and getting the latest information I need. If you really want to sit there and approve a new website every 10 minutes then go ahead. If you think that is making your company secure, then you're an idiot.
Well in my job I'm constantly using the internet as an information resource so I can do my job better. That means visiting on average a dozen or so different web sites per day for product literature, chip specifications, research papers, etc. If I had to ask permission for every site I wanted to look at I would never get anything done.
You do realize the internet is more than just for games and porn don't you? It is primarily an information repository, and people should be allowed to use it as such. You're obviously in IT, so I'm going to have to break it to you gently that you are in a SERVICE job for OTHER WORKERS. You are not in a police state deciding what other need or do not need for their job. If you don't like that then I'd suggest you are in the wrong job.
Actually the complete opposite needs to happen. The way the government stopped the smuggling of alcohol and the related gang/mob violence during prohibition was to re-legalize alcohol. Make drugs a legal product and have the government tax the profits. It will immediately stop all this wasteful drug related violence and security expenditure.
No, you have to assume your employees are mostly professional and use the corporate web access to support their job. Only block and restrict when employees visit sites they shouldn't. Every employee shouldn't have to request each and every site they visit just because a couple of employees are too cheap or lazy to download from their home connection.
On the other hand, "moving to the cloud" is basically a software-and-IT-support way of saying "outsourcing," and I see no evidence that companies plan to quit outsourcing whatever they can at any point in the near future.
As a company that works for NASA and defense, we are essentially prohibited from using 'cloud' based infrastructure as it is unsecured. Files cannot leave the company network so cloud resources / backups cannot be used.
The Ares design was fundamentally flawed. The engines created a massive vibration that they couldn't resolve. The modification they were proposing just before it got cancelled was the place a massive counterweight in the bottom of the rocket that would mechanically dampen the vibration. This would have reduced the payload capacity significantly. The cost overruns because of the poor design and trying to get it to work were staggering and projections of expenditure were even worse. The only possible solution was to cancel the program and just take lessons learned into a new design.
It would have been repaired by the robotics program that was cancelled because Michael Griffin is a jackass.
The other problem with this is they are releasing names (inadvertently or not). These are people who have risked their lives to give information and now they are at risk. What will happen with this is the sources of intelligence will dry up as people know that their anonymity cannot be protected anymore.
So what is worse? Governments operating without civilian oversight or without any reliable intelligence at all? Personally I think the US foreign policy has for the last 50 years been absolute shit, causing more problems than they have tried to fix. The world would be better off if they just packed up and went home.
Information is irrelevant if it is not acted upon. Is anyone going to call the US on their actions here? Did anything happen when the actions of the CIA overthrowing governments and propping up brutal dictators in their place in central america came to light? No. Nothing ever happens, and until people are willing to stand up and make their government accountable for their actions, and refuse to elect governments with ridiculous foreign policies, simply having this information is pointless.
Whats more important right now is the US government can listen in on your phone conversations, can confiscate your laptop at the airport and rifle through it at will, Homeland Security interferes in the normal lives of people at their whim with no accountability. These are the real issues.
Ok so how is knowing information such as the names on the no fly list of any importance to me or anyone else? Who cares? This is the tech equivalent of 'Young and the Restless' with geeks gripping their armchairs in anticipation of the next leaked rumour and backstabbing conspiracy theory. There is no real journalism there, and most documents on Wikileaks are about Julian himself. Its basically pointless.
I don't hand over my freedom, in fact if I lived in the US I would have left with the introduction of Bush's Patriot Act - thats a blatant violation of personal freedom and I cant believe US citizens put up with that crap. There are far more serious violations of our freedoms that happen every day that people should be more concerned about than the junk thats on Wikileaks.
Now there is so much confusion and doubt.
How about indifference and 'couldn't give a rats ass' ?
It isn't and we are toying with something very important and crucial to all of us, true freedom and information.
No, its more about Julians ego than anything real.
and your point is??
Publish everything and let the chips fall as they may.
Really? Why don't you tell your wife 'Gee honey, you really DO look fat in that dress' and see how far that gets you.