I just don't see that taking away my fingernail clippers is going to prevent a repeat of 9/11. In fact, I highly doubt that a 9/11-style attack will happen again, the bad guys have already moved on to the next idea. My point was that we need to focus resources on identifying how the next attack is likely to play out.
All of this added so-called airport security is like closing the door after the horse is out of the barn, so to speak.
Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe that I do have the right to anonymous domestic travel. Up until recently we have had this right, but now we have to show papers wherever we go.
What fuels my sense of outrage is that so much is being done in the name of fighting terrorism that clearly has little or nothing to do with fighting terrorism, and does take away my civil liberties. Look at it this way, when do you expect to get any of your liberties back? That's right, everything changed on September 11 2004! You hear it all of the time. There is a constitutional process for dealing with war and curtailing liberties in time of war. But we chose, for a host of reasons, not to go that route. So now we have an open-ended "war", and no way to get our rights back when/if the war ends. The terrorists achieved their goal.
And yes, every time I have to deal with frigging AV software, I get pissed because I am sacrificing my time and resources to the script kiddies.
How do we make the system better? As citizens, we provide well-reasoned critical analysis (whoops, I forgot, this is/.), and elect officials who demonstrate understanding and respect for the principles that differentiate our country from the systems that preceeded it.
Yes, I posted in haste (and anger). Upon reflection , I should have said..need to focus on identifying the unidentified threats... Hey, I guess I could grow up to be president some day!
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This guy is a U.S. Senator. Not just that, but probably one of the most well-known senators (love him or hate him). This goes way beyond a little quirk in the system.
I highly doubt that the next attack is going to be the same as the last one, we need to focus on the unidentified threats, but instead we focus on implementing systems that get us used to losing our rights. Fuck it, the 9/11 terrorists actually accomplished their goal by fundamentally changing the way we think and act!
And when I speak of a system, I mean the end-to-end system, not the computer system.
I just logged into my Hotmail account directly (I rarely do this any more, thanks to this), and found that my mail limit was upped from a paltry 1MB to a whopping 2MB!
Seems like there is a kind of "reverse FUD" thing going on here...
You are correct that it classifies most spam as spam and puts it in the "Junk Mail" folder.
Unfortunately, the Junk Mail folder counts against your storage allowance, so for me it is almost as bad as not filtering it at all. Also, I guess I have one of those easily guessed user names, so I get a lot of spam.
I could allow "Contacts Only", but then everything that isn't a contact goes to junk mail, and a lot of mail that isn't spam (but also isn't from a contact) goes to junk mail, and again, it is just like not having a spam filter.
And the interface does suck
I'm sorry you read this as a knee-jerk anti-MS rant, I think I am looking at this fairly objectively. BTW, I have had a Hotmail account since long before MS bought it.
I guess it is about equal with the devil that "reads your email" to determine whether or not it is spam. The personalized ads thingy is probably just an add-on module to their spam filter. Two faces of the same program. Nothing to see here, move along...
First we heard that they were going to up to 250MB. Hasn't happened yet. Now 2GB. I'm not holding my breath.
If Hotmail would actually filter spam, and do something about the headache-inducing interface, -that- would be an improvement. Thank goodness for gotmail!
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They may be "trained" (briefed) on Operational Security, but I see and hear people violate this all of the time. You put people in front of a computer on the internet, and they instantly become stupid. The excitement of being able to talk to people at home about what's going on pushes OpSec considerations out of peoples' minds. Believe me, I see it all of the time. People want to talk, and the juicy stuff is just waiting there to pop out. If you think that young people have this level of discipline, especially in a situation where they start to feel relaxed, you need a reality check. It sucks, but it is true.
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after all, we are talking email and video messaging, nothing secret?
The problem is that a lot of the information that is likely to be passed via email or video messaging may well be secret, or at least sensitive. Even if nothing secret is passed over one of these links, someone who is listening could easily pick up on clues to troop movements, upcoming operations, etc..
It would not be very smart to put one of these up without taking extensive steps to secure it, lives could literally be at stake. Loose lips sink ships, as the old saying goes.
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"Semper Fidelis" (or Semper Fi) is the Marine Corps motto...
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This sounds like an Operational Security nightmare. Unless it is well secured (and fully encrypted end-to-end), it could well be a valuable source of information for the Bad Guys.
From the gpstk-announce mailing list:
From: Ben Harris
GPSTk Version 1.0 released; article in Linux Journal
2004-08-09 07:52
It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the GPSTk has been
released to Source Forge. This release was timed to support subscribers
of Linux Journal who this weekend received a writeup about the GPS
Toolkit in the September issue.
This milestone was achieved through the hard work of many individuals,
from programmers to analysts to administrators. I believe that their
investment has created a solid contribution to the GPS community. By
choosing to follow the open source development model with this code, I
believe the initial investment will be rewarded many times over.
Regards,
Ben
Knowing your position very precisely is useful for astronomy (astrometrics, quickly calibrating go-to systems, calculating ephemera). Linking sky-mapping/telescope control software to a library like this would be pretty cool.
If all you are doing is presenting web content without much in the way of heavy-duty transactional requirements (ie., no money is changing hands, mostly doing output as opposed to input), then MySQL is fine. Of course, PG would be fine as well. I don't get all of the zealotry on both sides. They are two fine databases, most stuff is not "enterprise" level requirements, so no suprise that you see MySQL all over the place. That doesn't make PG any "better" or "worse"!
Why doesn't spam come under the same scrutiny and attempts to shut it down as P2P?
If it is mostly as centralized as this study indicates, it should be easy.
OK, I know the answer (nobody's precious "IP" is threatened by spam), but if there are going to be attempts to regulate the Internet, it seems like this is a far more productive place to start.
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The red pill, or the blue pill?
s/2004/2001/ [blush]
I just don't see that taking away my fingernail clippers is going to prevent a repeat of 9/11. In fact, I highly doubt that a 9/11-style attack will happen again, the bad guys have already moved on to the next idea. My point was that we need to focus resources on identifying how the next attack is likely to play out.
All of this added so-called airport security is like closing the door after the horse is out of the barn, so to speak.
Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe that I do have the right to anonymous domestic travel. Up until recently we have had this right, but now we have to show papers wherever we go.
What fuels my sense of outrage is that so much is being done in the name of fighting terrorism that clearly has little or nothing to do with fighting terrorism, and does take away my civil liberties. Look at it this way, when do you expect to get any of your liberties back? That's right, everything changed on September 11 2004! You hear it all of the time. There is a constitutional process for dealing with war and curtailing liberties in time of war. But we chose, for a host of reasons, not to go that route. So now we have an open-ended "war", and no way to get our rights back when/if the war ends. The terrorists achieved their goal.
And yes, every time I have to deal with frigging AV software, I get pissed because I am sacrificing my time and resources to the script kiddies.
How do we make the system better? As citizens, we provide well-reasoned critical analysis (whoops, I forgot, this is /.), and elect officials who demonstrate understanding and respect for the principles that differentiate our country from the systems that preceeded it.
Yes, I posted in haste (and anger). Upon reflection , I should have said ..need to focus on identifying the unidentified threats... Hey, I guess I could grow up to be president some day!
LMAO!!! Nice one...
My point being, why bother, they are going to do an official one soon...
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or we learn to live with some inconvenience
You're kidding right?
This guy is a U.S. Senator. Not just that, but probably one of the most well-known senators (love him or hate him). This goes way beyond a little quirk in the system.
I highly doubt that the next attack is going to be the same as the last one, we need to focus on the unidentified threats, but instead we focus on implementing systems that get us used to losing our rights. Fuck it, the 9/11 terrorists actually accomplished their goal by fundamentally changing the way we think and act!
And when I speak of a system, I mean the end-to-end system, not the computer system.
It goes to show that once you head down this road, it is abused, or at best, applied incompetently and inflexibly. Show me your papers, citizen!
Hmm, that's funny, I used it yesterday.
And I'll email you a screenshot of my account that was just upped to a whopping 2MB...
I just logged into my Hotmail account directly (I rarely do this any more, thanks to this), and found that my mail limit was upped from a paltry 1MB to a whopping 2MB!
Seems like there is a kind of "reverse FUD" thing going on here...
You are correct that it classifies most spam as spam and puts it in the "Junk Mail" folder.
Unfortunately, the Junk Mail folder counts against your storage allowance, so for me it is almost as bad as not filtering it at all. Also, I guess I have one of those easily guessed user names, so I get a lot of spam.
I could allow "Contacts Only", but then everything that isn't a contact goes to junk mail, and a lot of mail that isn't spam (but also isn't from a contact) goes to junk mail, and again, it is just like not having a spam filter.
And the interface does suck
I'm sorry you read this as a knee-jerk anti-MS rant, I think I am looking at this fairly objectively. BTW, I have had a Hotmail account since long before MS bought it.
I guess it is about equal with the devil that "reads your email" to determine whether or not it is spam. The personalized ads thingy is probably just an add-on module to their spam filter. Two faces of the same program. Nothing to see here, move along...
So far, it seems like it is all rumors.
First we heard that they were going to up to 250MB. Hasn't happened yet. Now 2GB. I'm not holding my breath.
If Hotmail would actually filter spam, and do something about the headache-inducing interface, -that- would be an improvement. Thank goodness for gotmail!
They may be "trained" (briefed) on Operational Security, but I see and hear people violate this all of the time. You put people in front of a computer on the internet, and they instantly become stupid. The excitement of being able to talk to people at home about what's going on pushes OpSec considerations out of peoples' minds. Believe me, I see it all of the time. People want to talk, and the juicy stuff is just waiting there to pop out. If you think that young people have this level of discipline, especially in a situation where they start to feel relaxed, you need a reality check. It sucks, but it is true.
after all, we are talking email and video messaging, nothing secret?
The problem is that a lot of the information that is likely to be passed via email or video messaging may well be secret, or at least sensitive. Even if nothing secret is passed over one of these links, someone who is listening could easily pick up on clues to troop movements, upcoming operations, etc..
It would not be very smart to put one of these up without taking extensive steps to secure it, lives could literally be at stake. Loose lips sink ships, as the old saying goes.
"Semper Fidelis" (or Semper Fi) is the Marine Corps motto...
This sounds like an Operational Security nightmare. Unless it is well secured (and fully encrypted end-to-end), it could well be a valuable source of information for the Bad Guys.
Remember, information wants to be free...
From the gpstk-announce mailing list: From: Ben Harris GPSTk Version 1.0 released; article in Linux Journal 2004-08-09 07:52 It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the GPSTk has been released to Source Forge. This release was timed to support subscribers of Linux Journal who this weekend received a writeup about the GPS Toolkit in the September issue. This milestone was achieved through the hard work of many individuals, from programmers to analysts to administrators. I believe that their investment has created a solid contribution to the GPS community. By choosing to follow the open source development model with this code, I believe the initial investment will be rewarded many times over. Regards, Ben
Knowing your position very precisely is useful for astronomy (astrometrics, quickly calibrating go-to systems, calculating ephemera). Linking sky-mapping/telescope control software to a library like this would be pretty cool.
If all you are doing is presenting web content without much in the way of heavy-duty transactional requirements (ie., no money is changing hands, mostly doing output as opposed to input), then MySQL is fine. Of course, PG would be fine as well. I don't get all of the zealotry on both sides. They are two fine databases, most stuff is not "enterprise" level requirements, so no suprise that you see MySQL all over the place. That doesn't make PG any "better" or "worse"!
Why doesn't spam come under the same scrutiny and attempts to shut it down as P2P?
If it is mostly as centralized as this study indicates, it should be easy.
OK, I know the answer (nobody's precious "IP" is threatened by spam), but if there are going to be attempts to regulate the Internet, it seems like this is a far more productive place to start.
Sounds like script-kiddie heaven!
Geez, I had heard that emacs was the be-all do-all, but I didn't know you could listen to music over it! Damn, I'll be switching from vi right away!!