Microsoft was involved in satellite mapping (Terraserver - June 1998) before Google existed (September 1998), and its operating systems have a nasty tendency to "phone home." Google's contextual ads and web-based services warrant a watchful eye, but "Street View"'s blurry panoramas don't bother me a bit.
It took the revelation in 1974 that Richard Nixon had cheated twice on his taxes, to the tune of over $400K, for Americans to finally turn against him... this was after years of the Watergate scandal, years after VP Spiro Agnew resigned over tax evasion, years of "Dirty Tricks", enemies lists, etc etc.
For President Bush, so far the scandals are not clear enough to make the average apolitical American (and the bovine mainstream press) sit up and take notice. We expect a "parade (of) scandals, lies, coverups & half-truths": it takes crime that is simple, clear and relate-able to our experiences to catch on as something worthy of our scorn. Everything so far has been too complicated (Iraq, Plame,et al).
Ummmm... what does Kerry have to do with this? Where did this little factoid come from - the 2005 Boston Globe article? If you read that article, it indicated that he had a rough start at Yale and improved through the years - indicating that he was teachable. Has anyone been able to show that W is teachable?
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Weirdly enough there are a lot of military folks that go contractor while waiting to get picked up for a government job. The pay is often less as a "govvie", but contractors are under pressure to hunt down the next contract, have less job security and are subject to the whims of the government and/or the prime contractor (I know, I'm overgeneralizing here.)
There are many amusing people (parent excluded) in on this whole discussion. There are the liberals that obviously haven't read the article (I know, it's/.) and go into tirades against the Bush administration using the same complaints so often that they jackhammer their own arguments, regardless of validity, to dust through incessant repetition. There are the conservatives that go into Rush-the-fat-pill-popping-tard-dittohead mode and rail against anything regarding the U.S. federal government bureaucracy. Then there are the folks who've read the article and don't quite grasp what's being said. OK, these people aren't funny, they're more "self-parody."
What I find really funny is that this is a Slashdot discussion about a Slate article... that's based on a Powerpoint brief on acquisition. Besides the telephone effect of involved with a conversation about an opinion piece (the Slate article) done on what is basically an opinion piece (the PPT - and really, what objective/absolute truth has EVER been conveyed in a PPT brief?), there's the dynamic that the whole government/contractor mix is not a fixed ratio, but has pendulum swings - and Slashdot threads about opinion pieces about opinion pieces are bad ways to figure out where it really is. But we do get plenty of "Bush bad"/"Gubmint bad".
I believe you've missed the point on what EMIO (Expanded Maritime Interception Operations) involves and what this WI-FI communications system is used for - it's for boarding teams to relay information back to the mother ship, where specially trained sailors can use databases to help determine if there is a terrorist or smuggler on the boarded ship's crew. I understand that you're making an attempt at a cheap political joke, but this is serious, dangerous work, and it happens every day in the Gulf and other parts of the world.
Wow, a blanket statement based on a relatively few well-publicized - and rightly so - incidents. Gitmo was a bad decision by the U.S. government when faced with an influx of prisoners of questionable status... in practice, Gitmo's facilities fulfill Geneva standards, have trained and well supervised guards... it could be a lot worse, and if it's a violation of international law, that falls on "The Decider's" shoulders, not the U.S. military. Secret prisons? That's the CIA's bag. Abu Ghraib? Some redneck reservists are given vague orders, too much power and no supervision - call it the "Stanford Prison Experiment 2", but don't call it a grand plan by the U.S. Military to break international treaties.
Excellent point - it looks like Galileo is at that stage in its life cycle where the stakeholders have to decide to either re-scope the program in terms of cost, performance (fewer satellites), or schedule, or just scrap the whole shebang. I don't envision the U.S. government being interested in partnering up with the EU on Galileo, as, contrary to opinion expressed earlier, the U.S. doesn't have bottomless pockets. I do, however, look forward to future geo-positioning receivers taking advantage of timing signals from European, U.S., Chinese and Russian GPS satellite navigation systems.
This is definitely an idea you should explore further, but I recommend doing a little research on it first. For example, with current digital technology, the "sample (44100/sec etc)" you mention is a 16 bit chunk. Adding an identifier would adversely affect the amount of data used for music and have bad side effects, such as decreased SNR. There are other issues such as bandwidth and connectivity, but I assume that you are looking towards the future.
In reading the article, paragraph two states that the Department of Defense led the list of failing agencies. DoD is made up of NSA, ONI, NRO, DIA, NGIA, "Army Intelligence" (INSCOM) and AIA, as well as a myriad assortment of other entities, big and small. So, if 2 through 7 in coward's list of "agencies" hacked, they only looked out for themselves, sabotaged each other, or hid under a rock.
Ahh, the military will probably ban them b/c it disrupts their radars.
I'm curious why "the military", whoever that may be, would want to ban something that would increase the RCS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_cross_section of commercial ships. Without "disruption", the signal does not return to the radar receiver.
Worry about this article - just don't base your worry on the writer's assessment. He/she makes an erroneous logical leap that an attack capability against "any" information system is the same as an ability to attack "all" information systems. Few militaries desire to do that sort of thing kinetically, what would be the military value of doing it in the information space?
Correct - with TDOA/FDOA, you can ideally get the geolocation a lot tighter than with just knowing the cell tower sector, but "about 300 yards" may be all you can hope for in a dense multipath environment (lots of buildings, Nissan Armadas, etc.)
Most subs are quicker submerged, around twice as fast - the screw is less efficient at shallow depths due to cavitation. Subs surface to recharge batteries (if diesel-powered), snorkel, enter/leave port, perform damage control, etc, but not to go faster.
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Microsoft was involved in satellite mapping (Terraserver - June 1998) before Google existed (September 1998), and its operating systems have a nasty tendency to "phone home." Google's contextual ads and web-based services warrant a watchful eye, but "Street View"'s blurry panoramas don't bother me a bit.
The U-dub news site, "www.uwnews.org", has been hacked and defaced.
It took the revelation in 1974 that Richard Nixon had cheated twice on his taxes, to the tune of over $400K, for Americans to finally turn against him... this was after years of the Watergate scandal, years after VP Spiro Agnew resigned over tax evasion, years of "Dirty Tricks", enemies lists, etc etc.
For President Bush, so far the scandals are not clear enough to make the average apolitical American (and the bovine mainstream press) sit up and take notice. We expect a "parade (of) scandals, lies, coverups & half-truths": it takes crime that is simple, clear and relate-able to our experiences to catch on as something worthy of our scorn. Everything so far has been too complicated (Iraq, Plame,et al).
Ummmm... what does Kerry have to do with this? Where did this little factoid come from - the 2005 Boston Globe article? If you read that article, it indicated that he had a rough start at Yale and improved through the years - indicating that he was teachable. Has anyone been able to show that W is teachable?
In response to parent...
/.) and go into tirades against the Bush administration using the same complaints so often that they jackhammer their own arguments, regardless of validity, to dust through incessant repetition. There are the conservatives that go into Rush-the-fat-pill-popping-tard-dittohead mode and rail against anything regarding the U.S. federal government bureaucracy. Then there are the folks who've read the article and don't quite grasp what's being said. OK, these people aren't funny, they're more "self-parody."
Weirdly enough there are a lot of military folks that go contractor while waiting to get picked up for a government job. The pay is often less as a "govvie", but contractors are under pressure to hunt down the next contract, have less job security and are subject to the whims of the government and/or the prime contractor (I know, I'm overgeneralizing here.)
There are many amusing people (parent excluded) in on this whole discussion. There are the liberals that obviously haven't read the article (I know, it's
What I find really funny is that this is a Slashdot discussion about a Slate article... that's based on a Powerpoint brief on acquisition. Besides the telephone effect of involved with a conversation about an opinion piece (the Slate article) done on what is basically an opinion piece (the PPT - and really, what objective/absolute truth has EVER been conveyed in a PPT brief?), there's the dynamic that the whole government/contractor mix is not a fixed ratio, but has pendulum swings - and Slashdot threads about opinion pieces about opinion pieces are bad ways to figure out where it really is. But we do get plenty of "Bush bad"/"Gubmint bad".
I believe you've missed the point on what EMIO (Expanded Maritime Interception Operations) involves and what this WI-FI communications system is used for - it's for boarding teams to relay information back to the mother ship, where specially trained sailors can use databases to help determine if there is a terrorist or smuggler on the boarded ship's crew. I understand that you're making an attempt at a cheap political joke, but this is serious, dangerous work, and it happens every day in the Gulf and other parts of the world.
Wow, a blanket statement based on a relatively few well-publicized - and rightly so - incidents. Gitmo was a bad decision by the U.S. government when faced with an influx of prisoners of questionable status... in practice, Gitmo's facilities fulfill Geneva standards, have trained and well supervised guards... it could be a lot worse, and if it's a violation of international law, that falls on "The Decider's" shoulders, not the U.S. military. Secret prisons? That's the CIA's bag. Abu Ghraib? Some redneck reservists are given vague orders, too much power and no supervision - call it the "Stanford Prison Experiment 2", but don't call it a grand plan by the U.S. Military to break international treaties.
He's a troll, don't feed him. [Per IMDB, it is indeed a UK effort, with a Spanish director]
Excellent point - it looks like Galileo is at that stage in its life cycle where the stakeholders have to decide to either re-scope the program in terms of cost, performance (fewer satellites), or schedule, or just scrap the whole shebang. I don't envision the U.S. government being interested in partnering up with the EU on Galileo, as, contrary to opinion expressed earlier, the U.S. doesn't have bottomless pockets. I do, however, look forward to future geo-positioning receivers taking advantage of timing signals from European, U.S., Chinese and Russian GPS satellite navigation systems.
This is definitely an idea you should explore further, but I recommend doing a little research on it first. For example, with current digital technology, the "sample (44100/sec etc)" you mention is a 16 bit chunk. Adding an identifier would adversely affect the amount of data used for music and have bad side effects, such as decreased SNR. There are other issues such as bandwidth and connectivity, but I assume that you are looking towards the future.
In reading the article, paragraph two states that the Department of Defense led the list of failing agencies. DoD is made up of NSA, ONI, NRO, DIA, NGIA, "Army Intelligence" (INSCOM) and AIA, as well as a myriad assortment of other entities, big and small. So, if 2 through 7 in coward's list of "agencies" hacked, they only looked out for themselves, sabotaged each other, or hid under a rock.
CNN's "The Ticker" breaks under Firefox 2.0. Another vote for IE6, yeah! High five!
Went up without a hitch, the satellites are separating from the spacecraft and all is well.
Worry about this article - just don't base your worry on the writer's assessment. He/she makes an erroneous logical leap that an attack capability against "any" information system is the same as an ability to attack "all" information systems. Few militaries desire to do that sort of thing kinetically, what would be the military value of doing it in the information space?
Correct - with TDOA/FDOA, you can ideally get the geolocation a lot tighter than with just knowing the cell tower sector, but "about 300 yards" may be all you can hope for in a dense multipath environment (lots of buildings, Nissan Armadas, etc.)
Most subs are quicker submerged, around twice as fast - the screw is less efficient at shallow depths due to cavitation. Subs surface to recharge batteries (if diesel-powered), snorkel, enter/leave port, perform damage control, etc, but not to go faster.