It isn't DoD, its the Navy. Wish it were DoD, then it would change much sooner.
To the bozo below talking about destroying anonymity, you may have heard of TOR, developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and given to the world.
Contracting for research is more true of the other services than the Navy. The Navy does a lot of its own research and as a result, that research gets disseminated throughout DoD and even given to contractors. Privatization does have a downside, some moronic Republicans and most of the Tea Twits thinks research grows on trees and is somehow freely available. They never met a research program they could understand.
Comedy aside, the Navy is the most technologically adept of all the U.S. military services. They do a lot of their own research as opposed to the Air Force which contracts out most of its which leaves the Air Force pretty much clueless. The AF are the guys who attempted to take over "cyber" work in military until Gates stepped on them. Their idea of cyber security is "standardizing on Microsoft products"....and actual edict from their most senior people.
How much of Win7 is in there because MS wants to hogtie all their systems together? Put another way, in the stripped down systems, are they as integrated with the rest of MS's ecosystem?
People who want all that other stuff, in my opinion, probably want a laptop and are happy with it. Apple never targeted that crowd, they have laptops and I'm sure they didn't want any new device they field to cannibalize their laptop sales (which I think are still pretty good). Instead, Apple shot for a new market of people. That new market could care less about a lot of the whizzy hardware stuff, they just wanted a simple device for simple things. They got it. MS hasn't realized this, they think they are going to get their flock to, in addition to their existing Windows machines, ante up for something that will complement those existing machines. But that crowd doesn't appear to want a complement, they are satisfied with what they have.
MS never identified a market for their tablets. They do not want to compete head-to-head with Apple so they are not building a knockoff. They wish to move Apple's market into something they can take advantage of...if they only knew what that was.
I had a different problem with those assholes as BofA. My late father had several loans in his retirement portfolio. BofA decided they didn't like them. To make a long story short, they forced Ma to take those loans out of the portfolio as a yearly distribution which caused her to pay about $15K in taxes that she wouldn't have had to pay if she were to take out the money over time in smaller amounts. They are a soulless company which deserves no better than to have their employees sold into slavery and their property financially salted to such an extent that no one should ever profit from it.
Wile E. Coyote didn't have to chase Bin Laden into Pakistan where the U.S. cannot really go after him except via drone and planes. Easy to hide in caves...or more likely, Karachi. And protected by the ISI, there isn't a chance the U.S. will get him. Kimmy on the other hand would have to disappear into China. From there, he'd probably be kept under house arrest lest his insanity be catching.
Yep, my fear is that the N. Korean military looks at Dear Jung Leader #3 and decides they are fucked. So rather than allow themselves to be quietly absorbed into S. Korea and out on their non-productive asses, the N. Korean military might feel they might as well go out with a bang.
I also don't think the U.S. would use nukes on N. Korea even if N. Korea used them. The reason: radioactive fallout. It would have a nasty tendency to drift over soon to be not-so-friendly nations. It would be quite a disaster if fallout from one of our nukes took out half the pop. of Japan, what would the U.S. say: ooopsie, we made a smelly?
I more or less agree, but I think there is another issue China thinks it must contend with. If S. Korea takes over N. Korea, and S. Korea remains tied to the U.S., then China will find it harder to make their claims to control the seas around their country. So I think China is always going to be looking for a way to keep the U.S. out of their neighborhood, and if that means sticking by N. Korea, they'll do that.
One thing I've noticed from Wally World is that some brand name items have less to them than what looks like the same item in other stores. I first noticed it in paper towels. The brand I buy had a cheaper price at Wally World, but there was less of it in a similar package as another store. Once I noticed this, I saw it in other items too.
Predators? Like scientists and engineers. Chickens = Business School Product. Predator's weapons = ideas, creativity, etc. Leave Business School Product out in an open area with scientists and engineers sneaking about and they will turn to each other for protection. The parallels are just too similar.
You are confusing intent with consequences. You believe the Air Force did this for nefarious reasons when in reality they probably did this, echoing some comment further up, that to scrub computers of classified documents is time and money consuming. That's a more reasonable assessment than to think the Air Force is so stupid as to attempt to blind its members to what they can easily read for themselves.
This sounds like MS trying to kill the tablet market with a different market they intend to build based on their legacy systems. I don't think they intend to compete in a tablet market defined by Apple and Google.
So, what you are suggesting is that the bee deaths were an Australian plot? I never really trusted those Australians, the funny not-quite-English accent, the hats, the occasional crocodile hunter that gets stabbed to death by a stingray...and now this plot to take over the world's bee markets. I think we must finally admit that England sent a fair amount of loonies to Australia mixed in with the criminals.
Muslims support Bin Laden because he strokes their heartstrings about a hallowed by-gone era when they thought they ruled the world; his reason they don't now is because they aren't Islamic enough. So they send him money and their sons who are dumb enough to think it is a winning proposition.
And they cannot simply be left alone, that's blaming the victim (us). The easy analogy is leaving the Nazies and Japan alone. When they were screwing over small peoples the West didn't care that much about, it was okay. The Nazies and Japan were not satisfied with that, it didn't satisfy their blood lust. Leaving the Musllims extremists alone will not satisfy their blood lust either. The only way they can show the rest of the Muslims that they are their political future is by causing and winning a war with the West. If China were the top dog, they'd be going after them. It isn't personal, war for them is merely a stepping stone to political power. Even Islam itself is irrelevant in this regard to them. It too is merely a (willing) stepping stone. And that is one reason never to trust Islam. Islam has the Breshnev Doctrine: What's mine is mine and what's yours is open to discussion.
The biggest irritant I find in the Tea Twits is that they have no idea about what it takes to produce research at the federal level and somehow think, along with Business School Product, that new science is magically produced by elves just so they can take advantage of it and pad their retirement accounts. The whole idea of even doing science for the sake of new knowledge appears foreign to them.
But then there is a certain segment of engineers who never believe something has any worth unless they can build something with it. Their attitudes are just as hideous.
I'm dubious that this would be all that useful, merely for the fact that if I'm searching for information, I'm looking for new information, not information I already have. Hence it is unlikely to be in or related to my previous searches. This is a solution in search of a problem. Hey, maybe they could use their fancy new searching thingy to find a problem it is good for.
That and his approach to the monetary systems. He wants to go back to the gold standard. That would totally shut down most intercountry commerce...but then he'd probably enjoy that.
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Actually, I quite liked their seaweed burger, it wasn't a fat-fest in your mouth so I could eat it without my heart threatening for divorce.
It isn't DoD, its the Navy. Wish it were DoD, then it would change much sooner.
To the bozo below talking about destroying anonymity, you may have heard of TOR, developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and given to the world.
Contracting for research is more true of the other services than the Navy. The Navy does a lot of its own research and as a result, that research gets disseminated throughout DoD and even given to contractors. Privatization does have a downside, some moronic Republicans and most of the Tea Twits thinks research grows on trees and is somehow freely available. They never met a research program they could understand.
Comedy aside, the Navy is the most technologically adept of all the U.S. military services. They do a lot of their own research as opposed to the Air Force which contracts out most of its which leaves the Air Force pretty much clueless. The AF are the guys who attempted to take over "cyber" work in military until Gates stepped on them. Their idea of cyber security is "standardizing on Microsoft products"....and actual edict from their most senior people.
How much of Win7 is in there because MS wants to hogtie all their systems together? Put another way, in the stripped down systems, are they as integrated with the rest of MS's ecosystem?
People who want all that other stuff, in my opinion, probably want a laptop and are happy with it. Apple never targeted that crowd, they have laptops and I'm sure they didn't want any new device they field to cannibalize their laptop sales (which I think are still pretty good). Instead, Apple shot for a new market of people. That new market could care less about a lot of the whizzy hardware stuff, they just wanted a simple device for simple things. They got it. MS hasn't realized this, they think they are going to get their flock to, in addition to their existing Windows machines, ante up for something that will complement those existing machines. But that crowd doesn't appear to want a complement, they are satisfied with what they have.
MS never identified a market for their tablets. They do not want to compete head-to-head with Apple so they are not building a knockoff. They wish to move Apple's market into something they can take advantage of...if they only knew what that was.
I had a different problem with those assholes as BofA. My late father had several loans in his retirement portfolio. BofA decided they didn't like them. To make a long story short, they forced Ma to take those loans out of the portfolio as a yearly distribution which caused her to pay about $15K in taxes that she wouldn't have had to pay if she were to take out the money over time in smaller amounts. They are a soulless company which deserves no better than to have their employees sold into slavery and their property financially salted to such an extent that no one should ever profit from it.
Wile E. Coyote didn't have to chase Bin Laden into Pakistan where the U.S. cannot really go after him except via drone and planes. Easy to hide in caves...or more likely, Karachi. And protected by the ISI, there isn't a chance the U.S. will get him. Kimmy on the other hand would have to disappear into China. From there, he'd probably be kept under house arrest lest his insanity be catching.
Yep, my fear is that the N. Korean military looks at Dear Jung Leader #3 and decides they are fucked. So rather than allow themselves to be quietly absorbed into S. Korea and out on their non-productive asses, the N. Korean military might feel they might as well go out with a bang.
I also don't think the U.S. would use nukes on N. Korea even if N. Korea used them. The reason: radioactive fallout. It would have a nasty tendency to drift over soon to be not-so-friendly nations. It would be quite a disaster if fallout from one of our nukes took out half the pop. of Japan, what would the U.S. say: ooopsie, we made a smelly?
I more or less agree, but I think there is another issue China thinks it must contend with. If S. Korea takes over N. Korea, and S. Korea remains tied to the U.S., then China will find it harder to make their claims to control the seas around their country. So I think China is always going to be looking for a way to keep the U.S. out of their neighborhood, and if that means sticking by N. Korea, they'll do that.
One thing I've noticed from Wally World is that some brand name items have less to them than what looks like the same item in other stores. I first noticed it in paper towels. The brand I buy had a cheaper price at Wally World, but there was less of it in a similar package as another store. Once I noticed this, I saw it in other items too.
Predators? Like scientists and engineers. Chickens = Business School Product. Predator's weapons = ideas, creativity, etc. Leave Business School Product out in an open area with scientists and engineers sneaking about and they will turn to each other for protection. The parallels are just too similar.
You are confusing intent with consequences. You believe the Air Force did this for nefarious reasons when in reality they probably did this, echoing some comment further up, that to scrub computers of classified documents is time and money consuming. That's a more reasonable assessment than to think the Air Force is so stupid as to attempt to blind its members to what they can easily read for themselves.
"Problem is, will it be too late?", I don't find this to be a problem.
This sounds like MS trying to kill the tablet market with a different market they intend to build based on their legacy systems. I don't think they intend to compete in a tablet market defined by Apple and Google.
Or unless Anonymous somehow gets the net address wrong (again) and takes out an innocent bystander.
So, what you are suggesting is that the bee deaths were an Australian plot? I never really trusted those Australians, the funny not-quite-English accent, the hats, the occasional crocodile hunter that gets stabbed to death by a stingray...and now this plot to take over the world's bee markets. I think we must finally admit that England sent a fair amount of loonies to Australia mixed in with the criminals.
Could I please have some of what you are smoking? I promise I won't inhale.
Muslims support Bin Laden because he strokes their heartstrings about a hallowed by-gone era when they thought they ruled the world; his reason they don't now is because they aren't Islamic enough. So they send him money and their sons who are dumb enough to think it is a winning proposition.
And they cannot simply be left alone, that's blaming the victim (us). The easy analogy is leaving the Nazies and Japan alone. When they were screwing over small peoples the West didn't care that much about, it was okay. The Nazies and Japan were not satisfied with that, it didn't satisfy their blood lust. Leaving the Musllims extremists alone will not satisfy their blood lust either. The only way they can show the rest of the Muslims that they are their political future is by causing and winning a war with the West. If China were the top dog, they'd be going after them. It isn't personal, war for them is merely a stepping stone to political power. Even Islam itself is irrelevant in this regard to them. It too is merely a (willing) stepping stone. And that is one reason never to trust Islam. Islam has the Breshnev Doctrine: What's mine is mine and what's yours is open to discussion.
The biggest irritant I find in the Tea Twits is that they have no idea about what it takes to produce research at the federal level and somehow think, along with Business School Product, that new science is magically produced by elves just so they can take advantage of it and pad their retirement accounts. The whole idea of even doing science for the sake of new knowledge appears foreign to them.
But then there is a certain segment of engineers who never believe something has any worth unless they can build something with it. Their attitudes are just as hideous.
I'm dubious that this would be all that useful, merely for the fact that if I'm searching for information, I'm looking for new information, not information I already have. Hence it is unlikely to be in or related to my previous searches. This is a solution in search of a problem. Hey, maybe they could use their fancy new searching thingy to find a problem it is good for.
That and his approach to the monetary systems. He wants to go back to the gold standard. That would totally shut down most intercountry commerce...but then he'd probably enjoy that.
yes, and you are full of shit, DoD is filthy with Unix, Linux, Mac OS, and other assorted systems. Go back under your rock.
It only takes one mole to compromise your security. At that point, it isn't strictly a technological issue, although technology can ameliorate it.
Yes, and how many of them missiles are actually fired off every year? I'm guessing not a lot.