Social engineering at its finest. You get to know just the right "buddy" who happens to know everyone else and it is impressive what you can accomplish.
At a larger airport, it would, of course, be more difficult since there are multiple layers of security and it is very difficult for one person to know everyone else. But at a smaller regional airport, it is frighteningly easy. In fact, if you wanted to do some damage, you might just learn to be a pilot of a small airplane and fly from a local airport to a large regional one. You are on the tarmac, just the same, only there would have been zero screening before you got on your plane.
Call me when a US prepaid plan (e.g. Tracfone, Net10, Virgin) offers these. I am done paying in advance for minutes that I never use and for the times my cellphone sits idle. I guess I don't chat so much anymore to pay $40+ a month.
+1 to the AC comment. Live For Speed, even the free version, is fantastic car dynamics. Not being a hardcore online racer, but having spent some time behind the wheel of a real race car, it seems as close as you can get except for the crashers on the first turn.
In an interview with Slashdot, Major General Lord of the US Airforce responded "Certain skill sets can also be brought on board as civilians or contractors, and in many cases we do offer compensation competitive with the commercial sector."
I suspect the answer would be similar from the Army. The first answer will be a recruiting answer, how they use the talents of significant number of young men and women, but ultimately they also need to rely upon contractors.
If you look at past interviews with the Air Force and Army, you will find that they work with a significant number of contractors. So you do not need to be "in the armed forces" to work on anti-cyber terrorism.
Obviously you need to be able to get a security clearance.
I listened to a funny bit on NPR this morning with sound bites of the two candidates using "change" in their speeches. The thing is, they are always for change and yet nothing happens. The point of the bit on NPR, was that sometimes gridlock in Washington is a good thing since it means no new huge government programs or raised taxes.
The other thing you mention is Obama's record. Uh, what record? You are comparing a guy with 25+ years in public service to a guy with 50+ years. Of course you will get more opportunities to pick apart something that McCain has done versus a very limited set of experiences that Obama has done.
With that said, I am still probably voting for Obama. I just don't like all the people saying they are voting for change and based on a record they agree with. BS.
One problem is that the US currently has uranium reserves equal to 7% of the total world's reserves. If you think our dependence on foreign oil is a bad thing now, wait until our infrastructure is converted to electricity use and we need to start buying nuclear fuel from Australia and Kazakhstan (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html). This also just solves for the US... China has only 1% of the uranium reserves, so just wait until they start needing to move away from fossil fuels.
The answer will be found during perceived crisis. When this country or any other large one (e.g. China, Russia) is in dire straits, we have always come together to make the investment and eventually we figure out a solution. I do not believe we have hit that tipping point yet, and perhaps not for many years to come. Once the U.S. is panicked, however, then you will see the people come together, politicians begin to cooperate and move in a likewise direction, and appropriate investment in new technologies. Just look at what we accomplished in WWII and in our race to beat the Soviets to the moon.
Nah, I was thinking round numbers of $1.00 per gallon (locally, this would have been the late 90s or early 2000s versus $5 per gallon that we are going to reach soon. It used to cost me $10 a week to fill up back then. Right now it costs me $39 or so with fuel at $4.39. I shouldn't be on Slashdot since my math is terrible, but nevertheless I was estimating $50 a tank times 4 fillups a month.
Ok, well shocker here but two weeks ago it cost me $50 to fill the tank of my Mini. The town I live in is not the most commuter friendly (Hartford, CT) but I found a bus that picks up 4 miles from my house and am taking that instead. So instead of 210+ commuter miles a week, I am doing 40 and I haven't filled my tank yet. What used to cost me $40 a month in fuel was going to start costing $200 a month. Now I pay $100 for a 31 day pass (plus I get a $50 monthly pre-tax work subsidy), so the cost is much less, and as an extra bonus I figure my portion of the diesel emissions from the bus is significantly less than what I would put out even in my reasonably economical Mini.
Two weeks in, and I love commuting by bus. It does take some preplanning and the occasional drive into the office (when meetings are expected to run until 5 pm or later). I guess I am fortunate that CT seems to have made quite an investment in commuter vans, express busses and this thing called "NuRide" <http://www.nuride.com/nuride/main/main.jsp> , which is an online carpool meeting place, for rides into the city. There are definitely ways, beyond buying new vehicles, for people to save themselves some cash. Ridership on the busses has doubled in the last six months. Next we will need bike paths and commuting options for those people who work and live in the suburbs.
You Wrote: * I honestly do not write even remotely commercial music; it's instrumental, and it's somewhat experimental. It's not mainstream.
See, that is where your problem is. If it doesn't feel commercial to you, neatly fitting into fairly well established categories of music, then you are going to continue going it alone... even if you think there *might* be a record contract out there for you. The thing with record contracts is that you usually have to cover some basic costs before you get paid a dime. Will you be the next Alan Parsons Project or Pink Floyd (both fairly experimental when they started out)? Not unless you get a YouTube video or something that gets you recognition first.
I wanted to become able to solve the cube quickly. Unfortunately the memorization required has left me doing F2L intuitively rather than using preset algorithms. First solving the white cross, then F2L. With repeated practice I can do F2L pretty quickly.
What has me stumped right now is the last layer. Using some slow algorithms I found on the 'Net e.g. FRU'R'U'F or RUR'UR2U'R I can usually get the upper level the same color but without the sides or corners permutated correctly. It is those dang corners - most of the time they are incorrect. 1 in 20 times I get lucky and solve the cube though.:-)
The good thing is that there are tons of beginner algorithms for old guys like me who want to solve the cube in 60 seconds and have no desire to work any faster. It still takes lots of practice, and in my case I haven't memorized enough to do it without looking at a cheat sheet once I get to the last layer.
Ted Kennedy is a good example of this, in that he never again ran for President, taking the democratic nomination to the convention against Jimmy Carter. And while he has had his moments of power in the U.S. senate since, whether by choice or not, he has not held positions of directional power (e.g. Senate president, party leader, etc.) either.
Then they just need to uncheck the box and make a conscious decision not to install the browswer as the default. Seems like this argument is 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
I heard on NPR this morning that they even had to omit the periscope for checking the heat resistance tiles, because there is no room. Apparently the last space shuttle mission left theirs at the space station for the crew to use.
Great suggestions until you got to the part about the diet pop. Have you seen how many fatties order up huge meals and then have a diet coke to go with it? I have heard, though perhaps it is non-peer reviewed urban legend, that diet soda does more to retain weight than the high fructose corn syrup stuff.
Wow, so the bad spelling/grammar extends to your subconscious also? Man, this misspelling of "lose" is getting more and more pervasive! We must stop it before we loose the planet... oh noes! it has me too! argh, speeling, grammer, all gone to sh!t. $@$@#$@#$@#$DFAD#@@#$ *thud*
And was a POW in Vietnam for several years, refusing to come home before other prisoners. The guy was a hero, all over the newspapers way back then. Not that it means much to modern day programmers (most likely demographic for OSS contributors) who weren't around or paying attention to such news in the early 70s.
I wonder what happened to all the old ships that went down full of copper? All those sunken U-boats and merchant ships in WWII? You think that maybe the fish worried about it? Nope. More than likely they colonized it just the same, though we can't say for sure whether it took any longer for colonization to happen because of the copper, mostly because SCUBA hadn't been popularized yet for us humans to observe and track. Regardless, there are tons of modern wrecks from accidental sinkings (e.g. no time to clean the boat beforehand) that have been colonized very quickly.
The difference between your salt water aquarium and the open ocean is the volume and exchange rate of water. In your aquarium you have a fixed supply of water and it only takes some fixed time before the absorbtion (if that is what happens here, I forget my chemistry) of copper into the water reaches a critical, fatal level. None of the fish in the tank can escape to a less-copper rich area. On the other hand, in the big wide ocean you may get pockets of concentrated copper-water in areas of a wreck where the water doesn't move, but elsewhere will be flushed clean pretty regularly. There are no wrecks I have dived on that haven't had some current running across them. Then the copper is diluted into the larger ocean where it becomes inconsequential.
Come on. This is not always about shoving stuff down the little guys throat. There are plenty of communities that would love having a power plant in their town. For many more rural areas of the United States, they provide the only steady local jobs, provide taxes to help run the town, and sometimes even subsidized electricity (they do in the town next door to mine).
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Social engineering at its finest. You get to know just the right "buddy" who happens to know everyone else and it is impressive what you can accomplish.
At a larger airport, it would, of course, be more difficult since there are multiple layers of security and it is very difficult for one person to know everyone else. But at a smaller regional airport, it is frighteningly easy. In fact, if you wanted to do some damage, you might just learn to be a pilot of a small airplane and fly from a local airport to a large regional one. You are on the tarmac, just the same, only there would have been zero screening before you got on your plane.
Call me when a US prepaid plan (e.g. Tracfone, Net10, Virgin) offers these. I am done paying in advance for minutes that I never use and for the times my cellphone sits idle. I guess I don't chat so much anymore to pay $40+ a month.
+1 to the AC comment. Live For Speed, even the free version, is fantastic car dynamics. Not being a hardcore online racer, but having spent some time behind the wheel of a real race car, it seems as close as you can get except for the crashers on the first turn.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1427252
In an interview with Slashdot, Major General Lord of the US Airforce responded "Certain skill sets can also be brought on board as civilians or contractors, and in many cases we do offer compensation competitive with the commercial sector."
I suspect the answer would be similar from the Army. The first answer will be a recruiting answer, how they use the talents of significant number of young men and women, but ultimately they also need to rely upon contractors.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1733222
If you look at past interviews with the Air Force and Army, you will find that they work with a significant number of contractors. So you do not need to be "in the armed forces" to work on anti-cyber terrorism.
Obviously you need to be able to get a security clearance.
Just like in Bug's Life. If we let the ants know how powerful they are, they will crush us!
I listened to a funny bit on NPR this morning with sound bites of the two candidates using "change" in their speeches. The thing is, they are always for change and yet nothing happens. The point of the bit on NPR, was that sometimes gridlock in Washington is a good thing since it means no new huge government programs or raised taxes.
The other thing you mention is Obama's record. Uh, what record? You are comparing a guy with 25+ years in public service to a guy with 50+ years. Of course you will get more opportunities to pick apart something that McCain has done versus a very limited set of experiences that Obama has done.
With that said, I am still probably voting for Obama. I just don't like all the people saying they are voting for change and based on a record they agree with. BS.
One problem is that the US currently has uranium reserves equal to 7% of the total world's reserves. If you think our dependence on foreign oil is a bad thing now, wait until our infrastructure is converted to electricity use and we need to start buying nuclear fuel from Australia and Kazakhstan (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html). This also just solves for the US... China has only 1% of the uranium reserves, so just wait until they start needing to move away from fossil fuels.
The answer will be found during perceived crisis. When this country or any other large one (e.g. China, Russia) is in dire straits, we have always come together to make the investment and eventually we figure out a solution. I do not believe we have hit that tipping point yet, and perhaps not for many years to come. Once the U.S. is panicked, however, then you will see the people come together, politicians begin to cooperate and move in a likewise direction, and appropriate investment in new technologies. Just look at what we accomplished in WWII and in our race to beat the Soviets to the moon.
Nah, I was thinking round numbers of $1.00 per gallon (locally, this would have been the late 90s or early 2000s versus $5 per gallon that we are going to reach soon. It used to cost me $10 a week to fill up back then. Right now it costs me $39 or so with fuel at $4.39. I shouldn't be on Slashdot since my math is terrible, but nevertheless I was estimating $50 a tank times 4 fillups a month.
I feel like I am reliving the past... from a few hours ago. We just had this same lengthy conversation about SUVs, fuel mileage etc.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/10/0123241
Ok, well shocker here but two weeks ago it cost me $50 to fill the tank of my Mini. The town I live in is not the most commuter friendly (Hartford, CT) but I found a bus that picks up 4 miles from my house and am taking that instead. So instead of 210+ commuter miles a week, I am doing 40 and I haven't filled my tank yet. What used to cost me $40 a month in fuel was going to start costing $200 a month. Now I pay $100 for a 31 day pass (plus I get a $50 monthly pre-tax work subsidy), so the cost is much less, and as an extra bonus I figure my portion of the diesel emissions from the bus is significantly less than what I would put out even in my reasonably economical Mini.
Two weeks in, and I love commuting by bus. It does take some preplanning and the occasional drive into the office (when meetings are expected to run until 5 pm or later). I guess I am fortunate that CT seems to have made quite an investment in commuter vans, express busses and this thing called "NuRide" <http://www.nuride.com/nuride/main/main.jsp> , which is an online carpool meeting place, for rides into the city. There are definitely ways, beyond buying new vehicles, for people to save themselves some cash. Ridership on the busses has doubled in the last six months. Next we will need bike paths and commuting options for those people who work and live in the suburbs.
You Wrote: * I honestly do not write even remotely commercial music; it's instrumental, and it's somewhat experimental. It's not mainstream.
See, that is where your problem is. If it doesn't feel commercial to you, neatly fitting into fairly well established categories of music, then you are going to continue going it alone... even if you think there *might* be a record contract out there for you. The thing with record contracts is that you usually have to cover some basic costs before you get paid a dime. Will you be the next Alan Parsons Project or Pink Floyd (both fairly experimental when they started out)? Not unless you get a YouTube video or something that gets you recognition first.
I wanted to become able to solve the cube quickly. Unfortunately the memorization required has left me doing F2L intuitively rather than using preset algorithms. First solving the white cross, then F2L. With repeated practice I can do F2L pretty quickly.
:-)
What has me stumped right now is the last layer. Using some slow algorithms I found on the 'Net e.g. FRU'R'U'F or RUR'UR2U'R I can usually get the upper level the same color but without the sides or corners permutated correctly. It is those dang corners - most of the time they are incorrect. 1 in 20 times I get lucky and solve the cube though.
The good thing is that there are tons of beginner algorithms for old guys like me who want to solve the cube in 60 seconds and have no desire to work any faster. It still takes lots of practice, and in my case I haven't memorized enough to do it without looking at a cheat sheet once I get to the last layer.
Dumb question, but does AdBlock+ stop me from seeing the ads but they are still downloaded, or does it block the download entirely?
Ted Kennedy is a good example of this, in that he never again ran for President, taking the democratic nomination to the convention against Jimmy Carter. And while he has had his moments of power in the U.S. senate since, whether by choice or not, he has not held positions of directional power (e.g. Senate president, party leader, etc.) either.
Then they just need to uncheck the box and make a conscious decision not to install the browswer as the default. Seems like this argument is 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
Yeah, but then why would you use 'a' in your sentence instead of 'some' "black and white watermellon" or leave out the 'a' entirely.
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I heard on NPR this morning that they even had to omit the periscope for checking the heat resistance tiles, because there is no room. Apparently the last space shuttle mission left theirs at the space station for the crew to use.
Great suggestions until you got to the part about the diet pop. Have you seen how many fatties order up huge meals and then have a diet coke to go with it? I have heard, though perhaps it is non-peer reviewed urban legend, that diet soda does more to retain weight than the high fructose corn syrup stuff.
Ok, so the idea wasn't original but the execution was just fantastic! I can just picture Herr Borg "yu vil b asimilatd"
Nicely done!
Wow, so the bad spelling/grammar extends to your subconscious also? Man, this misspelling of "lose" is getting more and more pervasive! We must stop it before we loose the planet... oh noes! it has me too! argh, speeling, grammer, all gone to sh!t. $@$@#$@#$@#$DFAD#@@#$ *thud*
And was a POW in Vietnam for several years, refusing to come home before other prisoners. The guy was a hero, all over the newspapers way back then. Not that it means much to modern day programmers (most likely demographic for OSS contributors) who weren't around or paying attention to such news in the early 70s.
Mooooo!
Wanna do another cow run?
I wonder what happened to all the old ships that went down full of copper? All those sunken U-boats and merchant ships in WWII? You think that maybe the fish worried about it? Nope. More than likely they colonized it just the same, though we can't say for sure whether it took any longer for colonization to happen because of the copper, mostly because SCUBA hadn't been popularized yet for us humans to observe and track. Regardless, there are tons of modern wrecks from accidental sinkings (e.g. no time to clean the boat beforehand) that have been colonized very quickly.
The difference between your salt water aquarium and the open ocean is the volume and exchange rate of water. In your aquarium you have a fixed supply of water and it only takes some fixed time before the absorbtion (if that is what happens here, I forget my chemistry) of copper into the water reaches a critical, fatal level. None of the fish in the tank can escape to a less-copper rich area. On the other hand, in the big wide ocean you may get pockets of concentrated copper-water in areas of a wreck where the water doesn't move, but elsewhere will be flushed clean pretty regularly. There are no wrecks I have dived on that haven't had some current running across them. Then the copper is diluted into the larger ocean where it becomes inconsequential.
Come on. This is not always about shoving stuff down the little guys throat. There are plenty of communities that would love having a power plant in their town. For many more rural areas of the United States, they provide the only steady local jobs, provide taxes to help run the town, and sometimes even subsidized electricity (they do in the town next door to mine).