I was doing a PC refresh project at a local hospital when my coworker transferred user data from the old PC to the network when he noticed some odd file names flashing on the status window. After the transfer got done, he checked the file names and discovered that the files contained child pornography. He informed the I.T. director, who informed security. That started a very uncomfortable process for everyone involved.
Security did a recorded interview with the coworker and I.T. director in the presence of the hospital legal counsel. Security then confiscated the hard drive from the old PC and the new PC from the desk without any notice to the employee. The employee freaked out for three days straight because he didn't have his computer with the incriminating content, couldn't do his job, and everyone from his management to I.T. to security couldn't tell him anything. Nothing screams like guilt than someone screaming, crying and running in the back hallways for hospital staff. He was quietly removed from his job as a tax accountant without the incident hitting the newspapers or landing in court.
The last thing the hospital wanted was a child pornography scandal just before the annual fundraiser.
You have to consider the environmental blow back from 2,000+ nuclear bombs being detonated in the atmosphere. A massive EMP attack would be much cleaner if the bombs are detonated in the upper atmosphere. Since the US military is harden against EMP attacks, a nuclear strike in retaliation becomes inevitable. Hence, mutual assured destruction keep the big players in check. Not so much for the terrorists.
Mr. Potato Head has gone to dark side, becoming Hot Potato and joining forces with Evil Bernie and Evil Ernie to rule the world. One Windows machine at a time.
If you enter "The Growing Threat From an EMP Attack" into Google, you can bypass the paywall to read the article for free. The Soviets during the Cold War could launch from space, the Chinese from an offshore freighter, or the North Korean with their missiles that are designed for mid-flight explosions. Of the three potential adversaries, China is the most likely, as there are Chinese freighters in every US port.
The claim that the American economy is stronger than most is obvious bunk.
That's not what The Wall Street Journal is telling me. Since Wall Street is taking a pisser for no obvious reason that's related to the US economy, I've been buying cheap shares of stock that are fundamentally sound.
If you haven't noticed the financial news today, the US economy is stronger than the world economies because those other idiots choose to cut their budgets and strangle their recovery in the mistaken belief that government spending was bad. In fact, those other idiots are now embracing stimulus.
Russia and China already has that capability to take down the entire US power grid.
What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.
The $800 billion stimulus bill was too small to make an impact and too many states used the money to pay for ongoing expenses rather than investing in infrastructure projects. It should have been two to three times larger. With the baby boomers retiring and the working taxpayers shrinking over the next 20 years, paying more taxes is an inevitable fact of life.
I read an article from a few years ago that digging to place utility lines underground can be a bitch at times, especially if the fiber optic link for the CIA gets cut and armed men in black SUVs taking over the construction zone.
You can take down a power grid with an EMP bomb. Military installations are already hardened against EMP bombs. Civilian installations are not hardened because the government and the utilities are not willing to foot the bill for upgrading equipment.
Many of those old books are available at the Atari Archives. I've been translating David H. Ahl's BASIC games into Python to learn that language better.
You can easily build those lessons around how to represent a chess board with 64 squares in code. This can be as simple as an array or complex as move generation.
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I was doing a PC refresh project at a local hospital when my coworker transferred user data from the old PC to the network when he noticed some odd file names flashing on the status window. After the transfer got done, he checked the file names and discovered that the files contained child pornography. He informed the I.T. director, who informed security. That started a very uncomfortable process for everyone involved.
Security did a recorded interview with the coworker and I.T. director in the presence of the hospital legal counsel. Security then confiscated the hard drive from the old PC and the new PC from the desk without any notice to the employee. The employee freaked out for three days straight because he didn't have his computer with the incriminating content, couldn't do his job, and everyone from his management to I.T. to security couldn't tell him anything. Nothing screams like guilt than someone screaming, crying and running in the back hallways for hospital staff. He was quietly removed from his job as a tax accountant without the incident hitting the newspapers or landing in court.
The last thing the hospital wanted was a child pornography scandal just before the annual fundraiser.
I meant the gang from Sesame Street.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E97Pg6YuOqk/hqdefault.jpg
You have to consider the environmental blow back from 2,000+ nuclear bombs being detonated in the atmosphere. A massive EMP attack would be much cleaner if the bombs are detonated in the upper atmosphere. Since the US military is harden against EMP attacks, a nuclear strike in retaliation becomes inevitable. Hence, mutual assured destruction keep the big players in check. Not so much for the terrorists.
Mr. Potato Head has gone to dark side, becoming Hot Potato and joining forces with Evil Bernie and Evil Ernie to rule the world. One Windows machine at a time.
If you enter "The Growing Threat From an EMP Attack" into Google, you can bypass the paywall to read the article for free. The Soviets during the Cold War could launch from space, the Chinese from an offshore freighter, or the North Korean with their missiles that are designed for mid-flight explosions. Of the three potential adversaries, China is the most likely, as there are Chinese freighters in every US port.
The claim that the American economy is stronger than most is obvious bunk.
That's not what The Wall Street Journal is telling me. Since Wall Street is taking a pisser for no obvious reason that's related to the US economy, I've been buying cheap shares of stock that are fundamentally sound.
If you haven't noticed the financial news today, the US economy is stronger than the world economies because those other idiots choose to cut their budgets and strangle their recovery in the mistaken belief that government spending was bad. In fact, those other idiots are now embracing stimulus.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/world-stocks-oil-surge-central-125120140.html
What part of Keynesian economics don't you understand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Active_fiscal_policy
You're right. Hillary will be president for the next eight years.
The only thing keeping terrorism at bay is the technical knowledge necessary to mess with it.
Doesn't take much technical knowledge to cut cables in an underground vault and shoot transformers with a sniper rifle.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606/sniper-attack-on-calif-power-station-raises-terrorism-fears
Microwaves coms can be intercepted just as well.
Russia and China already has that capability to take down the entire US power grid.
What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-attack-1407885281
The $800 billion stimulus bill was too small to make an impact and too many states used the money to pay for ongoing expenses rather than investing in infrastructure projects. It should have been two to three times larger. With the baby boomers retiring and the working taxpayers shrinking over the next 20 years, paying more taxes is an inevitable fact of life.
I read an article from a few years ago that digging to place utility lines underground can be a bitch at times, especially if the fiber optic link for the CIA gets cut and armed men in black SUVs taking over the construction zone.
You can take down a power grid with an EMP bomb. Military installations are already hardened against EMP bombs. Civilian installations are not hardened because the government and the utilities are not willing to foot the bill for upgrading equipment.
Bernie Sanders builds roads and streets, and makes U.S. citizens pay for it because that is the right thing to do.
Do what any good musician would do: start singing the blues. :)
I'm not sure it's possible to steal something you yourself made up.
I stand corrected. I should have wrote "misappropriating foreign words" for the English language.
If you have to ask, you failed in the quest to find a bag of weed.
Shakespeare stole everything he read for his plays, including making up new words for the English language. In short, so what?
Many of those old books are available at the Atari Archives. I've been translating David H. Ahl's BASIC games into Python to learn that language better.
http://www.atariarchives.org/
You can easily build those lessons around how to represent a chess board with 64 squares in code. This can be as simple as an array or complex as move generation.
http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/artificial-intelligence/chess-programming-part-ii-data-structures-r1046
That's better than snoring....
Maybe too many black ops budgets that are unaccountable to the general public?
Is that the new name for doubling up in the cubes to squeeze the most performance by square feet?