Why would any sane person possibly give McDonald's all their personal information in the first place?
The same type of people who frequent McDonalds regularly, would think it's a good idea to get the McRib is coming updates. Also if you win a prize from their monopoly game you might have to give them your info?
It takes about 3-5 seconds to read the answer and the contestants are allowed 5 seconds to respond, the computer should signal immediately after the answer is read and finish parsing the answer and indexing the question it that time. What they have built is a good search engine designed for trivia, just doing a search on the answer would produce good results with a well designed database, being able to do this in 10 seconds should not be that difficult. All they need is a 75% success rate and they would win.
He was only stupid in bragging to known snitch Lamo.
So it was noble of Assage to publish classified documents including the names of Afghan informants thus putting their lives in danger,under the ruse of being open, and it was noble of Manning to turn this information over but when Lamo received information of a giant leak of classified information that could put many lives at stake (remember he had no idea was the information was) he is a snitch.
>"To prevent further breaches, the Pentagon has ordered that a feature that allows material to be copied onto thumb drives or other removable devices be disabled on its classified computer systems"
Yeah, like that is really going to make THAT much of a difference. Oh- make sure to remove all printers too, prevent all Email/IRC/IM, cut and paste, CD/DVDRW, etc. I suppose I can't criticize them for trying, but no amount of stuff like that is going to prevent information leaks if someone wants to leak information. It is no different than DRM.
Many of these techniques would work, If you are on a classified network then you cannot access an unclassified network with that computer, so email/IRC/IM would not work, as for CD/DVD RW, almost all classified computers do not have these, that is one of the reasons that CD and DVD drives with out writing capabilities are sold so making sure all do not or ones that do are disabled would be easy. Disabling ports works wonders, so no printers, external HDs, or any other unauthorized external media can be added to the computer. When printing classified from a network computer simply have the printers located in the security office, as those documents have to be taken into accountability anyway. Your point is still valid that at some point you have to trust your users but following these procedures will limit the bleeding. Stopping 100% of the leaks is impossible but stopping the average user from leaking these documents is possible. These measures would have stopped Manning from leaking all the classified information as he had the technical knowledge of my grandma.
how is it that an upstart organization like Wikileaks managed to acquire it?
A private in the army who has access to a classified network downloaded the information and sent it to wiki-leaks so people would think he is a cool superhacker. Private manning was used and manipulated by Assange to get this information, I just hope Assange realizes that he is partially responsible for ruining the kid's life, I bet he does and couldn't care less.
FTA "promising increased internal auditing and banning the ability of systems containing classified information to connect to thumb drives or other removable media"
Are the people running this network lost in the eighties, um, I mean sometime before Multix (say the early sixties)?
Wouldn't you think that internal auditing and limiting the ability to copy classified files to removable media should have been addressed decades before this leak occured?
Your falling into a common problem there are always circumstances where these rules will need to be flexible, if word comes out from above to ban all removable media this will be a problem. Removable HDs are essential as many unconnected computers can be used for multiple programs where the data can not be placed on the same HD this would go away under your shortsighted plan, and since the HDs are unconnected a backup will need to be made this is a vulnerability. The real problem was that private manning was able to access way too much information, he had no reason to access much of that information and should not have been able too.
It's not about being far behind it about being spread out, Japan has a population density of 336 people per km^2 while the US has a density of 31 people per km^2. It's much cheaper to connect people when their that close together.
I'll probably be waiting a long time. It's only been three years since they upgraded my phone lines to handle DSL. It'll probably be a long time 'til they upgrade them to fiber.
I think Congress could help too. Simple mandate, through the FCC, that phone companies MUST provide DSL (or cable or fiber) to any customer that requests DSL. And then give them a one-year-limit to do the upgrade. No person should have to be stuck on 50k internet.
If you want DSL or fiber how about you pay for the lines to be run I'm sure no company would object to that. The problem with people in the boonies is that the cost to run the line will not be recouped, think initial cost and maintenance, pricing it to cover the cost would be too expensive for most people, the only way everyone could get DSL is if the price were subsidized, I'm overcharged enough with out having to pay for someone else's service.
Exactly. He takes visual queues from the opposition players and coaches. Do I keep going, or do I stop. The decision for all four bases can't be made as soon as he contacts the ball. He hits it, he runs for 1st. Is it safe to go for second? Continue on, but that decision is made at or near 1st base.
Why does everyone keep repeating this? It's not true. I'm not a major league player, but after watching a good number of games, I assure you that I, most fans, and every major league player knows, very likely, what base they will reach when it becomes apparent where the ball will land. Sorry to repeat myself:
* Over the centerfielder's head: Triple
* Reaches the wall elsewhere: Double
* Doesn't make it past the outfielders: Single
If the defense tries to make a play on another runner, you might take an extra base, and there are a few other variables, but the above is pretty reliable. Think how many times a major leaguer has hit a ball: It's not like they have no idea what is going to happen, or that they won't make it past first when they hit it a line drive off the wall in left-center.
That is only partly true, if the ball is hit into the outfield, the batter will run to 1st and make the turn while evaluating whether to continue to second (you can watch a MLB hitters do this all the time), as the player is coming to second they can look for the ball if they hit it to left or center and/or look at their 3rd base coach if they can't locate the ball. While most batters will have and idea of what base they will reach shortly after hitting the ball but because of errors, caroms, and other random stuff deciding at contact will not work. Singles can become double or triples very easily if the ball takes a funny bounce especially along right and left field foul lines. Line drives off the wall can sometimes bounce right to the outfielder allowing them to come up firing, outfielders routinely practice taking line-drives off the wall for just this reason. In MLB games there are an average of 1.25 errors per game so these anomalies are not as rare as you might think.
But by all means, continue ignoring the reality that our greatest period of growth was right after WW2 when we had 90% tax brackets.
If I have $5m and want to start a company, I will be risking that money if the company does poorly I loose it all if the company does very well and I have $1m is profits a year under your tax plan I will only be making 100k a year back it would take me 50 years to make the money back. The problem with high taxes is simply the risk outweighs the reward, without a carrot innovation will dwindle.
Undoing the damage he did to civil liberties and the environment alone will take years.
I see President Obama is making great headway in undoing the damage President Bush did. Policies like this are sure-fire ways to improve the status of civil liberties in this country. Or not.
At least with Bush we could fall back on, "hey, the guy's a stooge for corporate interests, what did we expect?" Obama on the other hand is doing pretty much exactly what he promised not to do regarding liberties, transparency, and many other areas that made people want to vote for him.
Somehow we need to put a stop to this practice of appointing "Czars". Anyone who can't pass muster with the Senate shouldn't be calling shots in the Executive Branch.
I voted nay for Obama which meant I had to vote for McCain, but the only reason I voted for McCain was because I may as well abstain rather then vote for a third party. Anyone that looked at Obama's history and voting record knew what he was, unfortunately the other choice was creepy old McCain whose only good point was that his wife owns a beer distributor, many people probably voted for Obama just to ensure that they wouldn't have to hear McCain say "My Friends" anymore.
We doing this now? Last time I checked, there are literally hundreds of thousands of privately owned businesses, and you can't name me a single solitary industry which government controls every aspect of it, including marketing, distribution, R&D, and everything else (which is the definition of socialism.)
There have been flutters of socialism in this country for decades...completely independent of anything else, we aren't really any more "socialistic" now than we were 10 years ago.
The USPS, government run, government owned, government controlled, no competition in the mail business by law. How is that for you?
Can't get qualified IT staff? Why should someone who has studied for several years and has worked to gain specialist knowledge, want to work in an environment where people who know less than them and don't have to break their backs to meet arbitrary deadlines are more highly rewarded? When those with the greatest expertise and who have to work hardest to actually create the product get the smallest portion of the credit and the pay, no wonder there are problems encouraging people to work in the field.
I guess you are new to the real world, it's not a managers job to be an expert in the field his job is to motivate. The good ones may not have expert knowledge in their field but get input from their team about decisions and deadlines. The reason Cyber Command is not fully staffed is because not only do they have to find qualified personal but their personal will need to be free of personal discretions, not because IT staff are refusing to enter a work place where they will be working for someone else.
Seriously. I'd be very weirded out if a girl used a line like that during a conversation, only to later find out that she had no clue what she was talking about. If she needs to resort to being fake to make people think she's interesting, well, I'll take my chances elsewhere.
My annoyance to that is inversely related to her hotness.
This is a good thing and a positive step for democracy, because, without knowing -what- our tax dollars are used for, how can we make decisions on how to spend them? Without the -full- intelligence from Iraq and Afghanistan, how can we know the true cost to make a rational decision on whether to continue them?
A democracy (or republic) can't work unless people have all the facts, otherwise it falls apart. The more information the better.
You do know how a republic works and why it works that way, with the shear number of people in the US it would be impossible to have everyone vote one every issue, so we elect people to make those decisions on our behalf (Democratic Republic). Furthermore items like troop movement, asset locations, and battlefield strategies should not be made public as it will jeopardize lives and the effectiveness of missions. Wiki leaks should be a place where people can post information about cover-ups, not where enemies can go to figure out troop locations.
[...] before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
Thumbs and all the other fingers down on this one. What makes you believe that people with vision deficiency are non-productive?
They are not, but forcing every computer and hand-held device to incorporate software to handle this is, it would be like forcing all books to have braille and print in the same copy.
ABS is over-rated and will actually cause the car to stop slower, all it is good for is people that panic and stomp on their brakes which would put them in a spin otherwise.
Oh yeah, I'm sure the republicans would have voted against health benefits for 911 rescue workers if Bush were still in office. The dems are cowardly little pussies, but the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country to make a quick buck for themselves.
The republicans and some democrats voted against the health benefits for 911 rescue workers, this bill had so many problems that some democrats refused to vote for it too. You fail to realize or comprehend that the same bill would not have been on the floor had republicans been in power so your point shows your true ignorance.
Actually, I understand and respect your position (even if I obviously don't agree with the reasons which placed you in Iraq).
But you accuse him and other soldiers of killing people because they are bored, or over-reacting which if it does happen, happens rarely this is the media's wet dream story, and then justify your comments because the GGGGP said the enemy would be a suicide bomber or a IED builder which happen multiple times every day. You are a typical liberal pretending to support our troops but silently hating them and all they stand for.
What you fail to realize because you couldn't even RTFS is that in IE8 EVERY time you run the program you have to turn the privacy settings on, while in Firefox you set them once.
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Why would any sane person possibly give McDonald's all their personal information in the first place?
The same type of people who frequent McDonalds regularly, would think it's a good idea to get the McRib is coming updates. Also if you win a prize from their monopoly game you might have to give them your info?
It takes about 3-5 seconds to read the answer and the contestants are allowed 5 seconds to respond, the computer should signal immediately after the answer is read and finish parsing the answer and indexing the question it that time. What they have built is a good search engine designed for trivia, just doing a search on the answer would produce good results with a well designed database, being able to do this in 10 seconds should not be that difficult. All they need is a 75% success rate and they would win.
He was only stupid in bragging to known snitch Lamo.
So it was noble of Assage to publish classified documents including the names of Afghan informants thus putting their lives in danger,under the ruse of being open, and it was noble of Manning to turn this information over but when Lamo received information of a giant leak of classified information that could put many lives at stake (remember he had no idea was the information was) he is a snitch.
>"To prevent further breaches, the Pentagon has ordered that a feature that allows material to be copied onto thumb drives or other removable devices be disabled on its classified computer systems"
Yeah, like that is really going to make THAT much of a difference. Oh- make sure to remove all printers too, prevent all Email/IRC/IM, cut and paste, CD/DVDRW, etc. I suppose I can't criticize them for trying, but no amount of stuff like that is going to prevent information leaks if someone wants to leak information. It is no different than DRM.
Many of these techniques would work, If you are on a classified network then you cannot access an unclassified network with that computer, so email/IRC/IM would not work, as for CD/DVD RW, almost all classified computers do not have these, that is one of the reasons that CD and DVD drives with out writing capabilities are sold so making sure all do not or ones that do are disabled would be easy. Disabling ports works wonders, so no printers, external HDs, or any other unauthorized external media can be added to the computer. When printing classified from a network computer simply have the printers located in the security office, as those documents have to be taken into accountability anyway. Your point is still valid that at some point you have to trust your users but following these procedures will limit the bleeding. Stopping 100% of the leaks is impossible but stopping the average user from leaking these documents is possible. These measures would have stopped Manning from leaking all the classified information as he had the technical knowledge of my grandma.
how is it that an upstart organization like Wikileaks managed to acquire it?
A private in the army who has access to a classified network downloaded the information and sent it to wiki-leaks so people would think he is a cool superhacker. Private manning was used and manipulated by Assange to get this information, I just hope Assange realizes that he is partially responsible for ruining the kid's life, I bet he does and couldn't care less.
FTA "promising increased internal auditing and banning the ability of systems containing classified information to connect to thumb drives or other removable media"
Are the people running this network lost in the eighties, um, I mean sometime before Multix (say the early sixties)?
Wouldn't you think that internal auditing and limiting the ability to copy classified files to removable media should have been addressed decades before this leak occured?
Your falling into a common problem there are always circumstances where these rules will need to be flexible, if word comes out from above to ban all removable media this will be a problem. Removable HDs are essential as many unconnected computers can be used for multiple programs where the data can not be placed on the same HD this would go away under your shortsighted plan, and since the HDs are unconnected a backup will need to be made this is a vulnerability. The real problem was that private manning was able to access way too much information, he had no reason to access much of that information and should not have been able too.
It's not about being far behind it about being spread out, Japan has a population density of 336 people per km^2 while the US has a density of 31 people per km^2. It's much cheaper to connect people when their that close together.
I'll probably be waiting a long time. It's only been three years since they upgraded my phone lines to handle DSL. It'll probably be a long time 'til they upgrade them to fiber.
I think Congress could help too. Simple mandate, through the FCC, that phone companies MUST provide DSL (or cable or fiber) to any customer that requests DSL. And then give them a one-year-limit to do the upgrade. No person should have to be stuck on 50k internet.
If you want DSL or fiber how about you pay for the lines to be run I'm sure no company would object to that. The problem with people in the boonies is that the cost to run the line will not be recouped, think initial cost and maintenance, pricing it to cover the cost would be too expensive for most people, the only way everyone could get DSL is if the price were subsidized, I'm overcharged enough with out having to pay for someone else's service.
Exactly. He takes visual queues from the opposition players and coaches. Do I keep going, or do I stop. The decision for all four bases can't be made as soon as he contacts the ball. He hits it, he runs for 1st. Is it safe to go for second? Continue on, but that decision is made at or near 1st base.
Why does everyone keep repeating this? It's not true. I'm not a major league player, but after watching a good number of games, I assure you that I, most fans, and every major league player knows, very likely, what base they will reach when it becomes apparent where the ball will land. Sorry to repeat myself:
* Over the centerfielder's head: Triple * Reaches the wall elsewhere: Double * Doesn't make it past the outfielders: Single
If the defense tries to make a play on another runner, you might take an extra base, and there are a few other variables, but the above is pretty reliable. Think how many times a major leaguer has hit a ball: It's not like they have no idea what is going to happen, or that they won't make it past first when they hit it a line drive off the wall in left-center.
That is only partly true, if the ball is hit into the outfield, the batter will run to 1st and make the turn while evaluating whether to continue to second (you can watch a MLB hitters do this all the time), as the player is coming to second they can look for the ball if they hit it to left or center and/or look at their 3rd base coach if they can't locate the ball. While most batters will have and idea of what base they will reach shortly after hitting the ball but because of errors, caroms, and other random stuff deciding at contact will not work. Singles can become double or triples very easily if the ball takes a funny bounce especially along right and left field foul lines. Line drives off the wall can sometimes bounce right to the outfielder allowing them to come up firing, outfielders routinely practice taking line-drives off the wall for just this reason. In MLB games there are an average of 1.25 errors per game so these anomalies are not as rare as you might think.
But by all means, continue ignoring the reality that our greatest period of growth was right after WW2 when we had 90% tax brackets.
If I have $5m and want to start a company, I will be risking that money if the company does poorly I loose it all if the company does very well and I have $1m is profits a year under your tax plan I will only be making 100k a year back it would take me 50 years to make the money back. The problem with high taxes is simply the risk outweighs the reward, without a carrot innovation will dwindle.
Undoing the damage he did to civil liberties and the environment alone will take years.
I see President Obama is making great headway in undoing the damage President Bush did. Policies like this are sure-fire ways to improve the status of civil liberties in this country. Or not.
At least with Bush we could fall back on, "hey, the guy's a stooge for corporate interests, what did we expect?" Obama on the other hand is doing pretty much exactly what he promised not to do regarding liberties, transparency, and many other areas that made people want to vote for him.
Somehow we need to put a stop to this practice of appointing "Czars". Anyone who can't pass muster with the Senate shouldn't be calling shots in the Executive Branch.
I voted nay for Obama which meant I had to vote for McCain, but the only reason I voted for McCain was because I may as well abstain rather then vote for a third party. Anyone that looked at Obama's history and voting record knew what he was, unfortunately the other choice was creepy old McCain whose only good point was that his wife owns a beer distributor, many people probably voted for Obama just to ensure that they wouldn't have to hear McCain say "My Friends" anymore.
Change to socialism
We doing this now? Last time I checked, there are literally hundreds of thousands of privately owned businesses, and you can't name me a single solitary industry which government controls every aspect of it, including marketing, distribution, R&D, and everything else (which is the definition of socialism.)
There have been flutters of socialism in this country for decades...completely independent of anything else, we aren't really any more "socialistic" now than we were 10 years ago.
The USPS, government run, government owned, government controlled, no competition in the mail business by law. How is that for you?
Can't get qualified IT staff? Why should someone who has studied for several years and has worked to gain specialist knowledge, want to work in an environment where people who know less than them and don't have to break their backs to meet arbitrary deadlines are more highly rewarded? When those with the greatest expertise and who have to work hardest to actually create the product get the smallest portion of the credit and the pay, no wonder there are problems encouraging people to work in the field.
I guess you are new to the real world, it's not a managers job to be an expert in the field his job is to motivate. The good ones may not have expert knowledge in their field but get input from their team about decisions and deadlines. The reason Cyber Command is not fully staffed is because not only do they have to find qualified personal but their personal will need to be free of personal discretions, not because IT staff are refusing to enter a work place where they will be working for someone else.
Seriously. I'd be very weirded out if a girl used a line like that during a conversation, only to later find out that she had no clue what she was talking about. If she needs to resort to being fake to make people think she's interesting, well, I'll take my chances elsewhere.
My annoyance to that is inversely related to her hotness.
This is a good thing and a positive step for democracy, because, without knowing -what- our tax dollars are used for, how can we make decisions on how to spend them? Without the -full- intelligence from Iraq and Afghanistan, how can we know the true cost to make a rational decision on whether to continue them? A democracy (or republic) can't work unless people have all the facts, otherwise it falls apart. The more information the better.
You do know how a republic works and why it works that way, with the shear number of people in the US it would be impossible to have everyone vote one every issue, so we elect people to make those decisions on our behalf (Democratic Republic). Furthermore items like troop movement, asset locations, and battlefield strategies should not be made public as it will jeopardize lives and the effectiveness of missions. Wiki leaks should be a place where people can post information about cover-ups, not where enemies can go to figure out troop locations.
Nothing is impossible for those cheese eating surrender monkeys.
really? cause I can't remember a day where there wasn't some liberal politician crying about fox news.
Meh to the teacher's union being the sole problem. "You get what you pay for!"
40-50k for 9months of work or 53k-66k if they would work year round. When you include their benefits they are compensated well.
So does that mean that my whiskey will be cheaper, or will I get a warm feeling in my tummy every time I drink it.
[...] before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
Thumbs and all the other fingers down on this one. What makes you believe that people with vision deficiency are non-productive?
They are not, but forcing every computer and hand-held device to incorporate software to handle this is, it would be like forcing all books to have braille and print in the same copy.
ABS is over-rated and will actually cause the car to stop slower, all it is good for is people that panic and stomp on their brakes which would put them in a spin otherwise.
Oh yeah, I'm sure the republicans would have voted against health benefits for 911 rescue workers if Bush were still in office. The dems are cowardly little pussies, but the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country to make a quick buck for themselves.
The republicans and some democrats voted against the health benefits for 911 rescue workers, this bill had so many problems that some democrats refused to vote for it too. You fail to realize or comprehend that the same bill would not have been on the floor had republicans been in power so your point shows your true ignorance.
Actually, I understand and respect your position (even if I obviously don't agree with the reasons which placed you in Iraq).
But you accuse him and other soldiers of killing people because they are bored, or over-reacting which if it does happen, happens rarely this is the media's wet dream story, and then justify your comments because the GGGGP said the enemy would be a suicide bomber or a IED builder which happen multiple times every day. You are a typical liberal pretending to support our troops but silently hating them and all they stand for.
What you fail to realize because you couldn't even RTFS is that in IE8 EVERY time you run the program you have to turn the privacy settings on, while in Firefox you set them once.
Unless you're a Republican or a corporate shill, that is.
You could just call the corporate shills democrat politicians.