20 years ago, true, but I was a Combat Engineer in the Marine Corps.
In a perfect world, you call up the Engineers, and they handle it. In peacetime you may even be able to call up the EOD guys to handle it. In war, they're never around when you want them. But we usually are.
True, as pointed out, you don't want a lot of stray RF around, esp. since these IEDs are mostly controlled by your car alarm system key fob. However, if your frequencies are not in that range, it won't set it off.
If it does set it off? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! That's what we do! We are not some movie or TV show hero who defuses the bomb! Most of the time we prefer to set it off in place to eliminate the threat.
If these little robots can lug a block of C4 up to the IED, and either get away before the C4 is set off, (prefered) or sacrifice itself and get rid of it, good job! I've almost pissed my pants doing the same thing, hoping that the device wouldn't go off when I touched it.
To sum up: in war, it's not about defusing, it's about detonating (safely) so the mission can continue!
What will be the human cost factor? How many war drivers will be put out of business?
I know of several cities that are supposed to be putting in free WiFi for their citizens. This will put more and more ISPs into the economic trashheap. This can't be allowed to continue! Soon the economic impact will upset the whole applecart!
Join us now, before it's too late!
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This is of course an attempt to patent a piece of logic. While it may be said that the whole purpose of the computer is to follow logic, we also have the problem of prior art. IsNot, a combination of 2 simple English words, does not differ from using ! as a way of symbolizing *not equal to*.
If MS gets away with this, thay will use it to destroy their compitition, as has been their habit. Can you imagine the problems created when every software developer gets a notice from MS's legal team that they're in violation of the IsNot patent?
This cannot be allowed to stand, and is clearly an abuse of the system.
The problem with paper trails is that you have to have people to handle the paper.
Don't get me wrong, I WANT a paper trail, but I've been intimately involved enough in the mechanics of the voting system that I know a LOT of things have to change.
Ever notice who your election judges are? Old retired people, unemployed people, high school drop-outs, etc. Why? Because we expect them to be at the polls at 5:30 am to set up and open at 6, then stay until 8pm after closing at 7 and doing all the things that need to be done. And we pay them rather well for that - $85 for the whole day!
If we value our voting system, we need to treat it like National Guard and Reserve duty: your employer must let you off to do it, (not just vote, working the polls, too) and then we should pay people $200 a day to do it. Then we would get qualified people who could not only properly handle the system, but actually (and accurately!) count the paper ballots 1 polling place at a time.
Let's hope that this type of engine isn't adopted by commercial arlines. If it were, a flight cross country would take less than an hour, and the flight crew wouldn't have time to get us all drinks and peanuts.
Scott doesn't need a 12 step program, he needs some sleep.
Honestly! He's a member of our local LUG, and he's always doing so much - teaching Linux courses at the community college, writing articles, earning a living, - that he HAS to be going 22 1/2 hours a day!
Keep up the good work, Scott, and Mrs. G., I would up his life insurance policy.....
You have to love the ability to recount. No matter who wins, I want the election to be FAIR. You can only assure this with a paper trail for a re-count.
Some areas use only computerized systems, and how do you recount when you have a recording media failure?
True, SoS is the first Cabinet position in the line of PS, but what are the chances that it will ever get down that far? And if it does, we'll be in such a world of hurt that I seriously doubt we could maintain much of a federal govt.
We develop a computer with voice interaction designed to write user programs. It will of course require superior programers who will have to be paid millions, since they are working themselves out of a job, but then again, aren't we all working ourselves - or someone else - out of a job by helping the automation revolution?
How may typing pool people have we put out of work with the word processor? The list goes on....
A very important position, but most important? Perhaps in time of international crisis, it could be. However, we are past the crisis stage and into the shooting stage now, so I feel that Sec. of Defense is the most important. Of course, should we get hit again, ala 9/11, we'll all think that Homeland Security is the most important position!
The article is really a cipher, and decoded it reads: We really have no idea what we're talking about, but thought that if we threw in enough technobable, you'd buy it.
Wasn't that outlawed when we passed a Constitutional Ammendment to end all slavery?
I'm NOT trolling here, I cannot stand either side's reasoning on mandatory service for students. (Note, Bush has said nothing on this AFAIK, but other conservatives have).
This is not to say I don't support mandatory military service, since it's purpose is to protect the country.
I'm going to start a web site where I proclaim that, since my Uncle's cousin's brother-in-law's 2 wife once sold a dog to Kerry's ex-wife, and my uncle's a Bushite, we all should be.
It would have about the same relevance to this election.
Well, I get more than enough crap comming at me already over the airwaves. That's why I don't pay for cable TV, either.
The quality things I want I usually want to see or hear more than once, so I purchase them. On Video, that a rare thing, on music, almost as rare. I was never one for the large audio collection. And now that Cd backup is possible, (and legal for archiving)I just burn me a copy, and when it wears out, burn another.
I guess I just don't see the value in it, but hey! That's just me! YMMV
Not just why a portable, but why a satelite radio at all? Do you live so far out in the boonies that there are no stations? Are your tastes so esoteric that you can only find you genre on a satelite station?
I get all the radio stations I need for free! It's funny how people complain about the cost of software that they can use forever, then pay a monthly fee for something that evaporates as soon as it's broadcast!
Show that Bush has more depth on the subjects (yes, it may be just better coaching), while Kerry again and again says (in essence) " I can do a better job than him if I'm elected."
Steve Ballmer was caught smoking crack while doing an interview with Zaff-Davis.
Does he really think that people pirate because HARDWARE, which takes a lot of time, energy and equipment to manufacture, is big, bulky and very tangible, and that they cannot duplicate with resources at hand, is thought by the consumer to be too expensive?
Isn't more likely that they think that CD that can be copied for 25 cents at any computer is too expensive? Not to mention that there are competitive products for free, which give the impression that MS products are a rip-off!
Maybe it's just that I live in the real world, and he lives in the rarified air of MS Corporate BS!
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20 years ago, true, but I was a Combat Engineer in the Marine Corps.
In a perfect world, you call up the Engineers, and they handle it. In peacetime you may even be able to call up the EOD guys to handle it. In war, they're never around when you want them. But we usually are.
True, as pointed out, you don't want a lot of stray RF around, esp. since these IEDs are mostly controlled by your car alarm system key fob. However, if your frequencies are not in that range, it won't set it off.
If it does set it off? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! That's what we do! We are not some movie or TV show hero who defuses the bomb! Most of the time we prefer to set it off in place to eliminate the threat.
If these little robots can lug a block of C4 up to the IED, and either get away before the C4 is set off, (prefered) or sacrifice itself and get rid of it, good job! I've almost pissed my pants doing the same thing, hoping that the device wouldn't go off when I touched it.
To sum up: in war, it's not about defusing, it's about detonating (safely) so the mission can continue!
What will be the human cost factor? How many war drivers will be put out of business?
I know of several cities that are supposed to be putting in free WiFi for their citizens. This will put more and more ISPs into the economic trashheap. This can't be allowed to continue! Soon the economic impact will upset the whole applecart!
Join us now, before it's too late!
This post brought to you by Horse Drawn Buggy Manufacturers of America.
This is of course an attempt to patent a piece of logic. While it may be said that the whole purpose of the computer is to follow logic, we also have the problem of prior art. IsNot, a combination of 2 simple English words, does not differ from using ! as a way of symbolizing *not equal to*.
If MS gets away with this, thay will use it to destroy their compitition, as has been their habit. Can you imagine the problems created when every software developer gets a notice from MS's legal team that they're in violation of the IsNot patent?
This cannot be allowed to stand, and is clearly an abuse of the system.
Hhhmmm Can I patent cannot?
The problem with paper trails is that you have to have people to handle the paper.
Don't get me wrong, I WANT a paper trail, but I've been intimately involved enough in the mechanics of the voting system that I know a LOT of things have to change.
Ever notice who your election judges are? Old retired people, unemployed people, high school drop-outs, etc. Why? Because we expect them to be at the polls at 5:30 am to set up and open at 6, then stay until 8pm after closing at 7 and doing all the things that need to be done. And we pay them rather well for that - $85 for the whole day!
If we value our voting system, we need to treat it like National Guard and Reserve duty: your employer must let you off to do it, (not just vote, working the polls, too) and then we should pay people $200 a day to do it. Then we would get qualified people who could not only properly handle the system, but actually (and accurately!) count the paper ballots 1 polling place at a time.
Let's hope that this type of engine isn't adopted by commercial arlines. If it were, a flight cross country would take less than an hour, and the flight crew wouldn't have time to get us all drinks and peanuts.
Scott doesn't need a 12 step program, he needs some sleep.
Honestly! He's a member of our local LUG, and he's always doing so much - teaching Linux courses at the community college, writing articles, earning a living, - that he HAS to be going 22 1/2 hours a day!
Keep up the good work, Scott, and Mrs. G., I would up his life insurance policy.....
Maybe it's just that people skip the preview when they hear their boss coming up behind them..
Hey! Your not the company spy, are you? How did you know...
You have to love the ability to recount. No matter who wins, I want the election to be FAIR. You can only assure this with a paper trail for a re-count.
Some areas use only computerized systems, and how do you recount when you have a recording media failure?
True, SoS is the first Cabinet position in the line of PS, but what are the chances that it will ever get down that far? And if it does, we'll be in such a world of hurt that I seriously doubt we could maintain much of a federal govt.
We develop a computer with voice interaction designed to write user programs. It will of course require superior programers who will have to be paid millions, since they are working themselves out of a job, but then again, aren't we all working ourselves - or someone else - out of a job by helping the automation revolution?
How may typing pool people have we put out of work with the word processor? The list goes on....
A very important position, but most important? Perhaps in time of international crisis, it could be. However, we are past the crisis stage and into the shooting stage now, so I feel that Sec. of Defense is the most important. Of course, should we get hit again, ala 9/11, we'll all think that Homeland Security is the most important position!
The article is really a cipher, and decoded it reads: We really have no idea what we're talking about, but thought that if we threw in enough technobable, you'd buy it.
You mean a company that's losing business to Linux (MS) might be helping another company (SCO)that's also losing users to Linux?
Sort of like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Who'd a thunk it!
Wasn't that outlawed when we passed a Constitutional Ammendment to end all slavery?
I'm NOT trolling here, I cannot stand either side's reasoning on mandatory service for students. (Note, Bush has said nothing on this AFAIK, but other conservatives have).
This is not to say I don't support mandatory military service, since it's purpose is to protect the country.
I'm going to start a web site where I proclaim that, since my Uncle's cousin's brother-in-law's 2 wife once sold a dog to Kerry's ex-wife, and my uncle's a Bushite, we all should be.
It would have about the same relevance to this election.
Well, I get more than enough crap comming at me already over the airwaves. That's why I don't pay for cable TV, either.
The quality things I want I usually want to see or hear more than once, so I purchase them. On Video, that a rare thing, on music, almost as rare. I was never one for the large audio collection. And now that Cd backup is possible, (and legal for archiving)I just burn me a copy, and when it wears out, burn another.
I guess I just don't see the value in it, but hey! That's just me! YMMV
Not just why a portable, but why a satelite radio at all? Do you live so far out in the boonies that there are no stations? Are your tastes so esoteric that you can only find you genre on a satelite station?
I get all the radio stations I need for free! It's funny how people complain about the cost of software that they can use forever, then pay a monthly fee for something that evaporates as soon as it's broadcast!
Just my 2 cents.
Show that Bush has more depth on the subjects (yes, it may be just better coaching), while Kerry again and again says (in essence) " I can do a better job than him if I'm elected."
I just hired all those illegal aliens to do that work for me, and now they're telling me I need to replace them with robots?
That's just going to further depress the wage structure of the underclass!
So they can't mean me. I play my Monkees and Herman's Hermits tapes on the 8 track.
What's this about the 8 track? I still have mine! I even have a working 8 track recorder!
Next thing you know, they'll say I have to replace all my Beta tapes and Laser Disks!
HexaByte
Steve Ballmer was caught smoking crack while doing an interview with Zaff-Davis.
Does he really think that people pirate because HARDWARE, which takes a lot of time, energy and equipment to manufacture, is big, bulky and very tangible, and that they cannot duplicate with resources at hand, is thought by the consumer to be too expensive?
Isn't more likely that they think that CD that can be copied for 25 cents at any computer is too expensive? Not to mention that there are competitive products for free, which give the impression that MS products are a rip-off!
Maybe it's just that I live in the real world, and he lives in the rarified air of MS Corporate BS!
HexaByte
Now I can get the new CarJack virus, that causes my car to drive itself over to the nearest chop-shop!
Is there a Norton For Cars out yet? McAfee Automotive Edition?
HexaByte
Be interesting, and they'll not ignore....
Print it, fax it, copy it and then let them try to find the orginal printer.
If I'm really THAT into keeping my identity secret, I'll just print it out at some kiosk in a mall.