Most IT professionals will answer computer questions for free. Hell, even when it goes beyond just answering a question and it actually involves work, a lot of us will still do it for free or at least low cost.
Seems that the people who knew about it and used it actually liked the service. I used to use it, particularly when driving cross country. It was very handy to be able to find a motel in an upcoming city and be connected so I could make reservations. Texting while driving is becoming illegal in many states. Also, voice service is more reliable than data service in many parts of the country.
I haven't used GOOG-411 for quite some time, but it was nice to have available as on option. All in all, not too big of a loss I suppose.
Pretty much. Roll your eyes all you want. A small toke is all that is needed - not even enough to get high. It works much more reliably and is much faster acting than traditional OTC pain relievers. I'm not saying they're useless - they sometimes work for a mild headache or a hangover headache, but why bother when I have found something else that works better, faster, and more reliably?
Yup, just a gold star on a few officers' fitreps. I do think this would be very useful for the larger FOBs (Al Asad comes to mind).
Did anyone catch this from the article:
During EXFOB, Company I ran their equipment on solar and battery power for more than 192 continuous hours. This led to a saving of approximately eight gallons of fuel per day
Eight? That's it? When I was over, we used about 10 gallons of JP-8 per day JUST for our air conditioner genny (which was also a backup genny for our servers, though rarely used as such).
There's a native american tribe that I heard about recently with a very interesting approach to declaring war. The women of the tribe would choose which men sat on the war council. This way, they were less likely to end up with typical masculine war mongers deciding that they wanted to go fight. Instead, they generally chose men who were more pacifist and would be more likely to trust their decision if they ultimately did decide to go to war.
Unfortunately, hemp is marijuana's cousin, so growing enough industrial hemp to create enough fuel for a diesel truck will never happen unless marijuana is legalized. There are trace amounts of THC in hemp, but smoking it will only give you a headache, not get you high. Congress fails to see the difference (forestry lobbyists do not help - what would happen to forestry if we could make paper out of hemp? We'd have to stop cutting down the trees, man!)
I find the whole situation ironic. We are allowed to import enough hemp to make as many hemp necklaces as we want, but we can't grow it and contribute to help solve energy problems.
I'm not sure on this one, but there may be more THC in chocolate than there is in hemp, but of course chocolate is perfectly legal. I may be mistaken, but I know at least it's pretty comparable.
Whatever your opinion on marijuana is, hemp should be separated from that and be allowed to grow. A whole new industry, wouldn't that be nice?
To correct you on your THC in chocolate statement: Chocolate does not contain THC, but it does contain Anandamide which is a chemical that can bind to cannabinoid receptors in your brain. It produces a very weak, barely noticeable effect because it is broken down quite quickly.
All that aside, yes the potential for hemp is amazing. Fuel, food, paper, textiles, even whole houses can be made from hemp! It's a tragedy to see such a valuable resource go to waste.
It's true. Our military gets weapons from the lowest bidder. Ammunition from the lowest bidder. Armor and other equipment from - you guessed it - the lowest bidder. When I was in I had the chance to shoot match grade ammunition through a competition grade M-16. The improvement over the standard issue stuff was remarkable. Much more accurate. Much much more reliable.
India 3/5 will likely be at a smaller company FOB. Since this story came out of 29 Palms, they must be utilizing it during mojave viper or whatever they're calling it now (~4 wk training op most groundside Marine units go through prior to deploying). I have a feeling that they're going to pack this shit up into an Conex box, send it over, and FORGET about it while they're there. Most company FOBs are already developed enough that they won't be setting up tents. They'll already have a generator. It won't be worth THEIR effort to actually set this stuff up and use it.
I was an 0656 (Data Network Specialist) with 3/4 out of 29 Palms for a few years and pumped twice with them to Iraq. You said you were a communications officer, I'm going to assume Army since you mentioned brigades. Did the Army have the UOC? Basically what it was is a ready-to-go COC that can fit on two highback HMMWVs with trailers. One of the trailers was full of networking equipment, already "set up". Switches, routers, servers, etc. Also came with laptops, a projector, tent, tables, you get the picture. It was supposed to revolutionize the way we fight. The idea was we could pack up the whole COC, move to a new pos, then set back up. Do you think it was ever used like that? Only during Mojave Viper before deploying, and that was because it was a requirement. Once we got in country, the majority of it stayed packed up in a Conex box the whole deployment. Some of the stuff would have been nice to use, but not at the risk of losing track of it and not being SL-3 complete. I guarantee the Marines of 3/5 will have the same attitude towards this system. They're being required to use it now (to make their BC look good), and won't touch it in country.
That's what I thought too. Yeah, it's annoying. I really don't think it's the type of thing that needs to be legislated though. Seems like micromanagement.
I hate them because they lack intelligence and forethought.
Sorry, [Citation Needed]
The Government has constructed a system where anybody who does want to speak out, voice their opinion, question the gov't, etc. is painted as unamerican, racist, a terr'ist, crazy, or any combination thereof.
Do you really think the people orchestrating that are stupid shortsighted idiots? They are smart.
Corporations do want a nation of idiot slaves, and one of the ways they accomplish that is with government. Neither corporations nor the government want a nation of free thinkers - they're both equally guilty. The more people are inside watching American Idol or football (all the while being brainwashed to consume consume consume), the less they're out discussing REAL issues with REAL people. It has become a social faux pas to even discuss politics. Too many free thinkers and corporations and government wouldn't be able to get away with half the shit they do.
The more we regulate science kits and lose children's natural curiosity in the world around us by essentially telling them that anyplace other than indoors watching TV and doing a bit of exercise on the treadmill is going to kill them, the more we can watch the US slip further and further into the dark ages...
That's what the powers that be want. You think they want us to explore things for ourselves? To LEARN on our own without relying on the government to tell us what is fact and what is fiction? No, they want us to punch in, punch out, then go home and watch TV and be told what's going on.
Cannabis is an effective and non-toxic analgesic. Every medicine cabinet should have some cannabis extract for general aches and pains, insomnia, stomach upset, and many other mild ailments.
Many other mild ailments.. uh huh, like boredom?
Never mind that it's habit forming as hell.;) (And also never mind that the GP specifically mentions safety during pregnancy... lol).
Are you implying it's unsafe to use during pregnancy? Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, often as the sole analgesic given to the mother during childbirth. And guess what? It doesn't cause harm to the mother or fetus/baby. Don't take my word for it though - check out this study:
A total of 2964 infants was studied. At birth, 44% of the infants tested positive for drugs: 30.5% positive for cocaine, 20.2% for opiate, and 11.4% for cannabinoids. Compared to the drug negative group, a significantly higher percentage (P less than.05) of the drug positive infants had lower weight and smaller head circumference and length at birth and a higher percent of their mothers were single, multigravid, multiparous, and had little to no prenatal care. Within the first 2 years of life, 44 infants died: 26 were drug negative (15.7 deaths per 1000 live births) and 18 were drug positive (13.7 deaths per 1000 live births). The mortality rate among cocaine, opiate, or cannabinoid positive infants were 17.7, 18.4, and 8.9 per 1000 live births, respectively.
I realize that ONE study doesn't mean a whole lot, but those are pretty impressive results. Certainly something that needs to be looked into more. As for me - I use cannabis for everything from a headache to PTSD. Why? Because it WORKS. APAP, Ibuprofin, and other NSAID's have never been able to curb my headaches. I'm not certain about all NSAIDs, but I know APAP has been shown to cause liver damage. Why would I choose to use something that doesn't work and causes liver damage, when I can use a safe, effective medicine? As for the irritability, anxiety, nightmares, poor appetite, etc you talk about in another post - yes, I do experience those symptoms when I cease cannabis use. However, those are symptoms of PTSD rather than "withdrawal" symptoms.
Within the DoD (and perhaps other departments are the same), there has for a few years already been somewhat of a IPv6 compliance policy. Basically all it is currently is purchase orders are more likely to be approved if you check the "IPv6 capable" box when you submit it. It means nothing currently.
Also, who the hell cares if government websites support IPv6? That's not going to cause people to pressure their ISPs to cut over.
"Customer Service, how may I help you?"
"When are you going to support IPv6 - I NEED to see the dancing turtle on whitehouse.gov"
If he were serious, he would issue a deadline to have all internal government networks IPv6 as well. This would help with one half of the chicken/egg problem - that's a lot of client machines.
I'll have to try this on my Mac Mini. I just tried Firefox/4.0b6pre on my Lenovo T500 running 64 bit Arch Linux: 2fps - and it severely impacted overall performance while it was running. I fired up Chromium 7.0.515.0 on the same machine and scored 26 fps with no performance problems. TFA said it had to do with directX, so I don't think Macs would see a great increase either.
Military computers, especially in theater, get a custom install of windows, that is well known, because it is a special build, well studied and vetted.
Ha! Good one! Unless, of course, by "special build" you really mean "a burned ISO downloaded from the Pirate Bay - then you're spot on. And don't give me a [citation needed] either because [i was the guy doing those installs and know that damn near every other unit did it the same way]
If it had been an ordinary IT clerk, instead of a school system's policy, they would have faced serious prosecution, no ifs, ands, or buts. (except the kind on film..)
That's a really good way of looking at it. If one person had done this alone (like one of the school district's IT staff for instance) without any approval and it was discovered, he would have been hung out to dry. Even if he legitimately had no criminal intent. Even if he didn't necessarily capture any images which might be illegal. He would at the very least have lost his job, would likely be in prison, and would probably have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Right. I would like to implement IPv6 for my business, but it won't happen anytime soon. If I make up a plan to do so, and pitch it to my CFO, the first thing he's going to ask me is "How does the company benefit?" And that's a good question - because the company doesn't benefit. It's not like IPv4 is getting shut off anytime soon. There's not really anything "better" about IPv6. So why would any (non-IT centric) business spend money and resources in implementing it if there is zero return on investment? Collectively, it is in our best interest to move to IPv6, but individually, it doesn't make any sense
I think it's going to take some major, established website or web service to just say FUCK IT and go IPv6 only. If something like (though not necessarily) Facebook or Twitter were to become inaccessible via IPv4, I'd bet a lot of ISPs would be forced to upgrade to IPv6, and a lot of businesses probably would as well.
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Most IT professionals will answer computer questions for free. Hell, even when it goes beyond just answering a question and it actually involves work, a lot of us will still do it for free or at least low cost.
Seems that the people who knew about it and used it actually liked the service. I used to use it, particularly when driving cross country. It was very handy to be able to find a motel in an upcoming city and be connected so I could make reservations. Texting while driving is becoming illegal in many states. Also, voice service is more reliable than data service in many parts of the country.
I haven't used GOOG-411 for quite some time, but it was nice to have available as on option. All in all, not too big of a loss I suppose.
But then you can't use your Illudium Pu-36 for any practical applications. Your patent is as useless as theirs at that point.
Pretty much. Roll your eyes all you want. A small toke is all that is needed - not even enough to get high. It works much more reliably and is much faster acting than traditional OTC pain relievers. I'm not saying they're useless - they sometimes work for a mild headache or a hangover headache, but why bother when I have found something else that works better, faster, and more reliably?
Yup, just a gold star on a few officers' fitreps. I do think this would be very useful for the larger FOBs (Al Asad comes to mind).
Did anyone catch this from the article:
During EXFOB, Company I ran their equipment on solar and battery power for more than 192 continuous hours. This led to a saving of approximately eight gallons of fuel per day
Eight? That's it? When I was over, we used about 10 gallons of JP-8 per day JUST for our air conditioner genny (which was also a backup genny for our servers, though rarely used as such).
There's a native american tribe that I heard about recently with a very interesting approach to declaring war. The women of the tribe would choose which men sat on the war council. This way, they were less likely to end up with typical masculine war mongers deciding that they wanted to go fight. Instead, they generally chose men who were more pacifist and would be more likely to trust their decision if they ultimately did decide to go to war.
I wonder how quickly the taste for war would fade in this population if there was a draft?
Fast. That's why they'll probably never have another draft. It's a lot easier for many people to support the war when it's mostly volunteer.
Unfortunately, hemp is marijuana's cousin, so growing enough industrial hemp to create enough fuel for a diesel truck will never happen unless marijuana is legalized. There are trace amounts of THC in hemp, but smoking it will only give you a headache, not get you high. Congress fails to see the difference (forestry lobbyists do not help - what would happen to forestry if we could make paper out of hemp? We'd have to stop cutting down the trees, man!)
I find the whole situation ironic. We are allowed to import enough hemp to make as many hemp necklaces as we want, but we can't grow it and contribute to help solve energy problems.
I'm not sure on this one, but there may be more THC in chocolate than there is in hemp, but of course chocolate is perfectly legal. I may be mistaken, but I know at least it's pretty comparable.
Whatever your opinion on marijuana is, hemp should be separated from that and be allowed to grow. A whole new industry, wouldn't that be nice?
To correct you on your THC in chocolate statement: Chocolate does not contain THC, but it does contain Anandamide which is a chemical that can bind to cannabinoid receptors in your brain. It produces a very weak, barely noticeable effect because it is broken down quite quickly.
All that aside, yes the potential for hemp is amazing. Fuel, food, paper, textiles, even whole houses can be made from hemp! It's a tragedy to see such a valuable resource go to waste.
It's true. Our military gets weapons from the lowest bidder. Ammunition from the lowest bidder. Armor and other equipment from - you guessed it - the lowest bidder. When I was in I had the chance to shoot match grade ammunition through a competition grade M-16. The improvement over the standard issue stuff was remarkable. Much more accurate. Much much more reliable.
India 3/5 will likely be at a smaller company FOB. Since this story came out of 29 Palms, they must be utilizing it during mojave viper or whatever they're calling it now (~4 wk training op most groundside Marine units go through prior to deploying). I have a feeling that they're going to pack this shit up into an Conex box, send it over, and FORGET about it while they're there. Most company FOBs are already developed enough that they won't be setting up tents. They'll already have a generator. It won't be worth THEIR effort to actually set this stuff up and use it.
I was an 0656 (Data Network Specialist) with 3/4 out of 29 Palms for a few years and pumped twice with them to Iraq. You said you were a communications officer, I'm going to assume Army since you mentioned brigades. Did the Army have the UOC? Basically what it was is a ready-to-go COC that can fit on two highback HMMWVs with trailers. One of the trailers was full of networking equipment, already "set up". Switches, routers, servers, etc. Also came with laptops, a projector, tent, tables, you get the picture. It was supposed to revolutionize the way we fight. The idea was we could pack up the whole COC, move to a new pos, then set back up. Do you think it was ever used like that? Only during Mojave Viper before deploying, and that was because it was a requirement. Once we got in country, the majority of it stayed packed up in a Conex box the whole deployment. Some of the stuff would have been nice to use, but not at the risk of losing track of it and not being SL-3 complete. I guarantee the Marines of 3/5 will have the same attitude towards this system. They're being required to use it now (to make their BC look good), and won't touch it in country.
That's what I thought too. Yeah, it's annoying. I really don't think it's the type of thing that needs to be legislated though. Seems like micromanagement.
I hate them because they lack intelligence and forethought.
Sorry, [Citation Needed]
The Government has constructed a system where anybody who does want to speak out, voice their opinion, question the gov't, etc. is painted as unamerican, racist, a terr'ist, crazy, or any combination thereof.
Do you really think the people orchestrating that are stupid shortsighted idiots? They are smart.
Corporations do want a nation of idiot slaves, and one of the ways they accomplish that is with government. Neither corporations nor the government want a nation of free thinkers - they're both equally guilty. The more people are inside watching American Idol or football (all the while being brainwashed to consume consume consume), the less they're out discussing REAL issues with REAL people. It has become a social faux pas to even discuss politics. Too many free thinkers and corporations and government wouldn't be able to get away with half the shit they do.
The more we regulate science kits and lose children's natural curiosity in the world around us by essentially telling them that anyplace other than indoors watching TV and doing a bit of exercise on the treadmill is going to kill them, the more we can watch the US slip further and further into the dark ages...
That's what the powers that be want. You think they want us to explore things for ourselves? To LEARN on our own without relying on the government to tell us what is fact and what is fiction? No, they want us to punch in, punch out, then go home and watch TV and be told what's going on.
Cannabis is an effective and non-toxic analgesic. Every medicine cabinet should have some cannabis extract for general aches and pains, insomnia, stomach upset, and many other mild ailments.
Many other mild ailments.. uh huh, like boredom? Never mind that it's habit forming as hell. ;) (And also never mind that the GP specifically mentions safety during pregnancy... lol).
Are you implying it's unsafe to use during pregnancy? Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, often as the sole analgesic given to the mother during childbirth. And guess what? It doesn't cause harm to the mother or fetus/baby. Don't take my word for it though - check out this study:
A total of 2964 infants was studied. At birth, 44% of the infants tested positive for drugs: 30.5% positive for cocaine, 20.2% for opiate, and 11.4% for cannabinoids. Compared to the drug negative group, a significantly higher percentage (P less than .05) of the drug positive infants had lower weight and smaller head circumference and length at birth and a higher percent of their mothers were single, multigravid, multiparous, and had little to no prenatal care. Within the first 2 years of life, 44 infants died: 26 were drug negative (15.7 deaths per 1000 live births) and 18 were drug positive (13.7 deaths per 1000 live births). The mortality rate among cocaine, opiate, or cannabinoid positive infants were 17.7, 18.4, and 8.9 per 1000 live births, respectively.
I realize that ONE study doesn't mean a whole lot, but those are pretty impressive results. Certainly something that needs to be looked into more. As for me - I use cannabis for everything from a headache to PTSD. Why? Because it WORKS. APAP, Ibuprofin, and other NSAID's have never been able to curb my headaches. I'm not certain about all NSAIDs, but I know APAP has been shown to cause liver damage. Why would I choose to use something that doesn't work and causes liver damage, when I can use a safe, effective medicine? As for the irritability, anxiety, nightmares, poor appetite, etc you talk about in another post - yes, I do experience those symptoms when I cease cannabis use. However, those are symptoms of PTSD rather than "withdrawal" symptoms.
Within the DoD (and perhaps other departments are the same), there has for a few years already been somewhat of a IPv6 compliance policy. Basically all it is currently is purchase orders are more likely to be approved if you check the "IPv6 capable" box when you submit it. It means nothing currently.
Also, who the hell cares if government websites support IPv6? That's not going to cause people to pressure their ISPs to cut over.
"Customer Service, how may I help you?"
"When are you going to support IPv6 - I NEED to see the dancing turtle on whitehouse.gov"
If he were serious, he would issue a deadline to have all internal government networks IPv6 as well. This would help with one half of the chicken/egg problem - that's a lot of client machines.
The folks at Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network have both been active in organizing support, rallies, and donations.
I'll have to try this on my Mac Mini. I just tried Firefox/4.0b6pre on my Lenovo T500 running 64 bit Arch Linux: 2fps - and it severely impacted overall performance while it was running. I fired up Chromium 7.0.515.0 on the same machine and scored 26 fps with no performance problems. TFA said it had to do with directX, so I don't think Macs would see a great increase either.
Military computers, especially in theater, get a custom install of windows, that is well known, because it is a special build, well studied and vetted.
Ha! Good one! Unless, of course, by "special build" you really mean "a burned ISO downloaded from the Pirate Bay - then you're spot on. And don't give me a [citation needed] either because [i was the guy doing those installs and know that damn near every other unit did it the same way]
That was MY idea. I thought of it on my own and e-mailed Microsoft to tell them to make my PC simpler - and you know what? They did!
If it had been an ordinary IT clerk, instead of a school system's policy, they would have faced serious prosecution, no ifs, ands, or buts. (except the kind on film..)
That's a really good way of looking at it. If one person had done this alone (like one of the school district's IT staff for instance) without any approval and it was discovered, he would have been hung out to dry. Even if he legitimately had no criminal intent. Even if he didn't necessarily capture any images which might be illegal. He would at the very least have lost his job, would likely be in prison, and would probably have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Talk about a double standard.
Wow, the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture. What an honor. What's next? An Academy Award for "Best Unmade Motion Picture".
Right. I would like to implement IPv6 for my business, but it won't happen anytime soon. If I make up a plan to do so, and pitch it to my CFO, the first thing he's going to ask me is "How does the company benefit?" And that's a good question - because the company doesn't benefit. It's not like IPv4 is getting shut off anytime soon. There's not really anything "better" about IPv6. So why would any (non-IT centric) business spend money and resources in implementing it if there is zero return on investment? Collectively, it is in our best interest to move to IPv6, but individually, it doesn't make any sense
I think it's going to take some major, established website or web service to just say FUCK IT and go IPv6 only. If something like (though not necessarily) Facebook or Twitter were to become inaccessible via IPv4, I'd bet a lot of ISPs would be forced to upgrade to IPv6, and a lot of businesses probably would as well.
No compelling reason to switch to IPv6?? You're crazy. A dancing turtle isn't enough for you? What's it going to take to please you?
Now THAT is thinking outside the bun.