DoD is well-aware of the security implications. Like any other large enterprise, they must also be concerned with cost. Installing Linux across DoD and retraining staff would take years and then eejits like Ted Cruz would be braying about the high cost of government. So DoD is stuck in the same predicament as everyone else, i.e., how to ease out of MS Hell and still function.
And NSA does not set compute standards for the rest of DoD. If they did, the Air Force would never be allowed to have an offensive cyber capability.
You are President Truman. You have lost nearly 300,000 servicemen and women, plus many more civilians. You have just helped to defeat a very nasty Germany. The Japanese have defended the near islands (Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima) to nearly the last man. Those fights were nasty The home islands have been mobilized down to even school children with pitchforks. An unbeaten Japan means you will have to deal with them for years in the future. The American people are damn tired of war. To invade Japan, your military leaders tell you, will take anywhere from nearly all you have lost so far to upwards of 1 million, they cannot be precise. The Russians are establishing their asses in Eastern Europe, Stalin likes to make trouble. They have kicked Japanese butt in Manchuria but have no fleet to assail the home islands.
You have some nukes which may or may not work, and which may or may not cause Japan to capitulate. And you only have 2 or 3 of them. What do you do Mr. President? You must act one way or another. To leave an unbowed Japan means to declare defeat and tell Americans they've wasted all those lives in the Pacific. And you have to tell them there will be a low grade military conflict for the next 10 years which could lead to another war just as bad as the current one.
The U.S. made the correct decision. Attempting to re-write history with all the accumulated facts it took 50 years to uncover and then accuse the U.S. of being negligent in not knowing all them at the time (and I'd dispute that "current" analysis) is just disingenuous.
The U.S was attacked by Muslim nutjobs who declared war on the U.S. The U.S. tries to minimize civilian casualties. To leave the Muslim nutjobs unfought means to hand them the tools to attack the U.S. mainland, which they have pledged to do time and again. You are President Bush or Obama, you must act or watch Americans die at the hands of Muslim nutjobs claiming it would be wrong to fight back. What do you do Mr. President?
The Muslim nutjobs didn't need any reason, and indeed had none, to attack the U.S. They did it because it is a means to political power in attracting recruits. If the West didn't exist, they would need to invent it. Religion is beside the point for them other than it is a very convenient recruiting tool.
I think what we can determine is that some legislators and bureaucrats weren't in government at that time and hence didn't learn those lessons. Government is not some G-d-like entity that remembers everything and capable of anything.
It is hard to argue that tariffs will make America better off, less authoritarian, spied upon less, and increase peoples expectations their children will be better off. These tariffs are just downright amazing.
I think it is more the old Soviet/MidEast trick of using overblown language to cover up their lack of anything imaginative..."We gonna kill you with a thousand deaths"...or better Erdogan, "U.S. support of the Kurds is causing a sea of blood"...yeah, that's it...
Yep, for secure systems, you are free to develop your own organizational internet with all the built in protections you can muster. That should take about, what, a few days for you?
Yep, it is totally beyond the pale for the Norks to slip Daesh a nuke and claim Daesh stole it from the Russkies. That would never happen in your bunny world.
Even without those, there was no will in the U.S. or S. Korea to whip the Norks senseless. Even years ago the causalities on the S. Korean side would be horrendous.
Here's a hint, not every world problem is the U.S.'s fault.
Easy, no one wants to feed the S. Koreans into a very nasty war which the little sawed off runt of the Norks might just start. S. Korea would eventually win, but before that happens, China will jump in to defend The Runt and any suggestion that China would allow a competent country on their borders making China's toy dictatorship look precarious.
So, in true Western fashion, the can is kicked down the road a bit further in the hopes that the can will spontaneously fail to exist at some point whereupon the problem could be declared solved and Victory with Honor promoted throughout the halls of the U.N.
I've done extensive work in math, logic, and CS, including programming. Math and logic are by far the most useful. CS is good for grinding out mundane chores after you have used your math and logic to solve the problem.
Errr...you mean the U.S. government that recently signed on to the latest climate protocol by the U.N. The government headed by Obama who has been warning about global climate warming? Is that the government you are thinking about? Stop watching TV, it is bad for you.
Won't work. Companies will just find ways to incorporate outside the U.S. and its laws. It means they won't be able to rely on the U.S. justice system for other things, but then maybe not getting sued because some employed stabbed their finger with a mechanical pencil won't bother them.
The Norks provide much to the little weenies running China. Being a buffer between S. Korea and China is okay for starters. But what really causes the Chinese leaders to wet their pants would be nice prosperous S. Korea on their border showing China how its done. It might give Taiwan, I don't know, ideas that they can run their own country and not bow down to their future Chinese masters.
In addition, nothing makes the Chinese leaders happier than irritating Japan. Japan only makes things worse by never apologizing for WWII, but even were that never to have happened, the Chinese leaders would still being encouraging the Norks to fly missiles over Japan.
And the Norks make America look weak and indecisive because there is nothing America can do short of feeding the S. Koreans into a war just to stop the North. And now that the Norks will be able to threaten America directly, that has the Chinese leaders dancing, and distracts America from the Chinese claim to all of the S. China Sea. Without these sorts of claims, there is no reason for the Communist Party to continue to exist. They need them to generate that threatened feeling so cherished by illegitimate rulers everywhere.
So in order to use this whizzy new technology, I must have an independent power source for the RFID chip and I need a server. Yup, that won't be too expensive for most RFID applications.
I think the reason Paul threw his support to Trump (whatever remained of it and as if his followers really care) is that Cruz has shown repeatedly that he only cares about himself. In that sense, he's no different than Trump. However, there is a personal nastiness about him. Trump is nasty too but in a general, offend all comers sort of way. With Cruz, I get the sense that he personally enjoys sticking the dagger in someone's back and then hiding behind his "ideology" to cover his tracks.
The app market is too tiny to tickle MS's books. I rather think that they are buying apps to make sure they appear on MS's alleged phone in a bid for it to stay relevant in a market that is cannibalizing to some extent PCs.
You are using the typical Western idea that any conflict can be divided down the middle, Solomon's solution.
No one in the Middle East thinks that way. You can explain it to them until the end of time, but there is no listening when their religions tell them they are correct and those other bastards will rot in hell.
And the Arabs have learned a lot too from the Nazis. The majority will agree they have peace when all the Jews in Israel have been killed...in their defense, that is what the Nazi propaganda they use as truth tells them.
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DoD is well-aware of the security implications. Like any other large enterprise, they must also be concerned with cost. Installing Linux across DoD and retraining staff would take years and then eejits like Ted Cruz would be braying about the high cost of government. So DoD is stuck in the same predicament as everyone else, i.e., how to ease out of MS Hell and still function.
And NSA does not set compute standards for the rest of DoD. If they did, the Air Force would never be allowed to have an offensive cyber capability.
Gee, and the FBI didn't think of this? You should tell them, I'm sure they'd be pleased to get this information.
The technical term was "proggie".
Cruz, just listen to his campaigngasms...he's going to smote this, carpet bomb that, etc....he's a perfect fit. And Trump bores them.
Well...there are the Neanderthal babes...furry little sex kittens that they are.
You are President Truman. You have lost nearly 300,000 servicemen and women, plus many more civilians. You have just helped to defeat a very nasty Germany. The Japanese have defended the near islands (Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima) to nearly the last man. Those fights were nasty The home islands have been mobilized down to even school children with pitchforks. An unbeaten Japan means you will have to deal with them for years in the future. The American people are damn tired of war. To invade Japan, your military leaders tell you, will take anywhere from nearly all you have lost so far to upwards of 1 million, they cannot be precise. The Russians are establishing their asses in Eastern Europe, Stalin likes to make trouble. They have kicked Japanese butt in Manchuria but have no fleet to assail the home islands.
You have some nukes which may or may not work, and which may or may not cause Japan to capitulate. And you only have 2 or 3 of them. What do you do Mr. President? You must act one way or another. To leave an unbowed Japan means to declare defeat and tell Americans they've wasted all those lives in the Pacific. And you have to tell them there will be a low grade military conflict for the next 10 years which could lead to another war just as bad as the current one.
The U.S. made the correct decision. Attempting to re-write history with all the accumulated facts it took 50 years to uncover and then accuse the U.S. of being negligent in not knowing all them at the time (and I'd dispute that "current" analysis) is just disingenuous.
The U.S was attacked by Muslim nutjobs who declared war on the U.S. The U.S. tries to minimize civilian casualties. To leave the Muslim nutjobs unfought means to hand them the tools to attack the U.S. mainland, which they have pledged to do time and again. You are President Bush or Obama, you must act or watch Americans die at the hands of Muslim nutjobs claiming it would be wrong to fight back. What do you do Mr. President?
The Muslim nutjobs didn't need any reason, and indeed had none, to attack the U.S. They did it because it is a means to political power in attracting recruits. If the West didn't exist, they would need to invent it. Religion is beside the point for them other than it is a very convenient recruiting tool.
I think what we can determine is that some legislators and bureaucrats weren't in government at that time and hence didn't learn those lessons. Government is not some G-d-like entity that remembers everything and capable of anything.
It is hard to argue that tariffs will make America better off, less authoritarian, spied upon less, and increase peoples expectations their children will be better off. These tariffs are just downright amazing.
Nah, make them listen to boy bands....it's the worst we can do to them.
I think it is more the old Soviet/MidEast trick of using overblown language to cover up their lack of anything imaginative..."We gonna kill you with a thousand deaths"...or better Erdogan, "U.S. support of the Kurds is causing a sea of blood"...yeah, that's it...
Yep, for secure systems, you are free to develop your own organizational internet with all the built in protections you can muster. That should take about, what, a few days for you?
Yep, it is totally beyond the pale for the Norks to slip Daesh a nuke and claim Daesh stole it from the Russkies. That would never happen in your bunny world.
Even without those, there was no will in the U.S. or S. Korea to whip the Norks senseless. Even years ago the causalities on the S. Korean side would be horrendous.
Here's a hint, not every world problem is the U.S.'s fault.
Easy, no one wants to feed the S. Koreans into a very nasty war which the little sawed off runt of the Norks might just start. S. Korea would eventually win, but before that happens, China will jump in to defend The Runt and any suggestion that China would allow a competent country on their borders making China's toy dictatorship look precarious.
So, in true Western fashion, the can is kicked down the road a bit further in the hopes that the can will spontaneously fail to exist at some point whereupon the problem could be declared solved and Victory with Honor promoted throughout the halls of the U.N.
I've done extensive work in math, logic, and CS, including programming. Math and logic are by far the most useful. CS is good for grinding out mundane chores after you have used your math and logic to solve the problem.
Errr...you mean the U.S. government that recently signed on to the latest climate protocol by the U.N. The government headed by Obama who has been warning about global climate warming? Is that the government you are thinking about? Stop watching TV, it is bad for you.
Won't work. Companies will just find ways to incorporate outside the U.S. and its laws. It means they won't be able to rely on the U.S. justice system for other things, but then maybe not getting sued because some employed stabbed their finger with a mechanical pencil won't bother them.
The Norks provide much to the little weenies running China. Being a buffer between S. Korea and China is okay for starters. But what really causes the Chinese leaders to wet their pants would be nice prosperous S. Korea on their border showing China how its done. It might give Taiwan, I don't know, ideas that they can run their own country and not bow down to their future Chinese masters.
In addition, nothing makes the Chinese leaders happier than irritating Japan. Japan only makes things worse by never apologizing for WWII, but even were that never to have happened, the Chinese leaders would still being encouraging the Norks to fly missiles over Japan.
And the Norks make America look weak and indecisive because there is nothing America can do short of feeding the S. Koreans into a war just to stop the North. And now that the Norks will be able to threaten America directly, that has the Chinese leaders dancing, and distracts America from the Chinese claim to all of the S. China Sea. Without these sorts of claims, there is no reason for the Communist Party to continue to exist. They need them to generate that threatened feeling so cherished by illegitimate rulers everywhere.
So in order to use this whizzy new technology, I must have an independent power source for the RFID chip and I need a server. Yup, that won't be too expensive for most RFID applications.
I think the reason Paul threw his support to Trump (whatever remained of it and as if his followers really care) is that Cruz has shown repeatedly that he only cares about himself. In that sense, he's no different than Trump. However, there is a personal nastiness about him. Trump is nasty too but in a general, offend all comers sort of way. With Cruz, I get the sense that he personally enjoys sticking the dagger in someone's back and then hiding behind his "ideology" to cover his tracks.
The app market is too tiny to tickle MS's books. I rather think that they are buying apps to make sure they appear on MS's alleged phone in a bid for it to stay relevant in a market that is cannibalizing to some extent PCs.
You are using the typical Western idea that any conflict can be divided down the middle, Solomon's solution.
No one in the Middle East thinks that way. You can explain it to them until the end of time, but there is no listening when their religions tell them they are correct and those other bastards will rot in hell.
And the Arabs have learned a lot too from the Nazis. The majority will agree they have peace when all the Jews in Israel have been killed...in their defense, that is what the Nazi propaganda they use as truth tells them.
What they need to do is cut Icahn's balls off before he finishes destroying the remains of Xerox.
Okay Satya, as soon as your eyes stop glowing, take the little yellow pills and go have a time out.