But in truth, I find it remarkable that the US government is not owning up to the fact that it also seems to be running what amounts to basically insecure systems on much of its IT infrastructure.
This dude may have been a crackpot, but somehow these antics are only performed for the sake of overreaction, when the blame should also be squarely shared by those who administer these networks.
As a US taxpayer, I find this last part infinitely scarier... especially because all of this saber-rattling is not likely to remedy the conditions that made it possible to do this in the first place. A recent security audit of US Gov networks gave them an 'F' if I remember (could be wrong)
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You have essentially hit the nail on the head. Why admit to your own incredible flaws, when you can blame someone else? Why would the military admit that the security of their IT systems is embarrasingly weak, when they can blame the "super hacker" McKinnon. By making him sound more malicious and a super cracker, the military both escapes censure and makes it look like their security wasn't awful (because only a master cracker could have broken in).
The worst thing Gary McKinnon has going for him is that photo that's shown alongside every article that mentions him. I couldn't imagine a better caricature of a 'malevolent hacker' if I tried.
Picking a photo image of someone that leads people to judge him. - That's journalism
The Last Crusade was also the big clue that Indy had finished - "The Last Crusade" I am not an archaeologist but I would imagine that the holy grail of Archaeology is THE HOLY GRAIL, once Indy had found that (and eternal life, which he turned down) there was nowhere else for him to go. Everything will seem a anticlimax and (as happened) silliness needs to be added to try and make up for that.
This isn't Foxconn not supporting Linux, this is a motherboard advertised/displayed as 'ACPI' compliant when it isn't. The whole point about standards, as I understand them, is that a manufacturer doesn't have to support any specific product, simply comply to a standard and let all/any products comply to the same standard.
The user may not have done much research but he shouldn't have to with a motherboard, just check the MoBo complies to the standards and spec you need and that should be enough. File this under "False advertising/Fraud" (I'm never quite sure where the distinction is. Especially outside the UK)
This is a science story on a supposedly science aware discussion forum and yet a comment making a scientific (and bleedin' obvious) response to why economics doesn't govern the laws of physics gets modded flamebait. I hope there are at least some moderators with basic knowledge who can remedy this.
The only thing Hawkeye was/is used for is to decide an LBW decision which is a small percentage of 'outs' in a given game
LBWs are not a small percentage of decisions, the appeals made to the umpires to decide are usually LBWs (catches are generally obvious and the umpire doesn't even have to rule). Nonetheless the gp is talking nonsense, Hawk-eye usually just backs up the umpire showing that he came to the same conclusion in a second as the machine did in several anyway, remember in cricket no one or thing knows what would have happened so I'll pick the fast human standing there over the slow machine. Which is very different from the application used in tennis which is what did happen.
The reason it isn't officially used in cricket is because it would be used to predict the path of the ball had someone's legs not interrupted it. Whereas in tennis it is simply used to account for where the ball actually went. Obviously just tracking a ball is a more definite science than the prediction of something that didn't happen (but could have). Especially as anyone who knows about cricket will tell you is that the path of the cricket ball is 'mysterious'. I once heard a cricket commentator interviewing the inventor of Hawk-eye (a Mr Hawkins) and asked him how accurate the system was - he said something along the lines of "in testing it has been incredibly accurate" which I found quite weak as I was expecting tolerances of so many mm deviation per second.
In cricket it is only used as a commentary tool generally proving that the umpires get it 'right' most of the time anyway.
This is a rant about micrsoft.*com* - the website (and related update sites etc). It isn't about Microsoft itself, or its applications and operating systems. It's about the usability of the microsoft.com website and download services - which are probably largely outsourced to a few kids in India. It has nothing to do with "how bad Vista is" or lessons learned from XP.
Except for that whole Windows Update forcing you to reboot your computer bit, the download locking up his computer, the problems of garbage turning up in the Add/Remove Programs utility but not Moviemaker, the rant about Add/Remove being the only decent thing left with XP.
So no, other than about half of the email, it has nothing to do with XP.
Yep, the first thing I thought was that "wow this band is so original, they have copied the best part of a decade old Mark Thomas Comedy Product and used some of that footage in their video". Bet they never had an MI5/6 (I can never remember which one is which) file.
But you only pay *once* for those phones. I'm not buying an expensive phone AND an expensive phone contract. One or the other, not both.
That's why it hasn't taken off in the UK (and possibly Europe), double the price with less features than other phones, style doesn't make up the difference.
Or were you making a joke? I just can't tell any more.
I think the real reason is so that when somebody dies on a rollercoaster, you won't see footage of it on YouTube and CNN iReport within 5 minutes.
Alton Towers didn't say anything about banning phones (almost all have cameras now) or in fact cameras so the news 2.0 will still be in the loop.
Personally I think this is Alton Towers' way of stopping parents from amusing themselves while they wait in the queue for 4 hours for the 1 minute ride.
Lets put it this way, one of the UK's biggest radio DJ's (that's literaly biggest as well as most popular!) Chris Moyles, received his today (see around 08:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/runningorder_today.shtml ) ordering it years ago and talked about it on the air - he was very embarrassed to talk about price. And I doubt you could make your own R2D2 for much less considering how much projectors cost and the rarity of Millennium Falcon remotes.
As I said, "We'll censor our athletes". The difference is that whatever restrictions are placed on the athletes (I remember a Scottish skier couldn't have a Scottish flag died into his hair because it was "a nationalist flag"), the journalists (and hopefully the attending world public) do not have any restrictions. Hypocritical it may be but there is a difference between getting your participants to toe the line and allowing people to report on the event. Nothing would be more damaging to the games (and a little bit to China) than journo's coming home and writing up after the event on what they couldn't do.
Because they are obliged to not censor during the Olympics. This would actually be one of the things that would get the EU and the US to reconsider their participation in the games, Tibet certainly won't. The Olympic committee (I believe it may be one of those preconditions of holding the games) is obliging China to not restrict (at least) journalists. To be honest they should just wait until the games begin, then censor everyone themselves. Which they already can and do.
We'll censor our athletes, cause we're helpful like that. And we don't want any ungrateful comments about that smog, making us seem like bad losers. (Us being the UK)
Well the UK Military is less protective over the information its bathymetry generates. The UK government organisation that does sea mapping is a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence and if you want a submarine map, buy one from them - http://www.hydro.gov.uk/
Hogfather was the first TV adaptation because Sky could roll it out over Christmas and justify spending the most they have ever spent. They also used UK television alchemist Sir David Jason (synonymous with Christmas TV in the UK) who is himself a Pratchett fan. It rated very well and did win a BAFTA (UK EMMY, Sky don't get many). Also Hogfather allows for a self contained story which doesn't require a knowledge of any of the books and takes place mostly indoors (cheaper to film).
They just aired The Colour Of Magic here in Britain over Easter in two parts, the second was actually The Light Fantastic, they had to bypass some of the bits of the books but it didn't really matter, they so much to get in and the guy who played Cohen the barbarian was fantastic, they even inserted jokes which weren't in the books. My only real criticism of it would be Rincewind played by Sir David, perhaps I have never been his greatest fan but he just didn't seem right. Still they did do a good job and I would recommend checking them out, it is also worth seeing "the making of" as they do explain some of the artistic choices they made (such as Death being 'warmer' than he was in the early books). I would like to see a witches tale next, shouldn't need too much CGI and they could get in a fair amount of new humour which does help as sometimes jokes fall flat if you have already know them.
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But in truth, I find it remarkable that the US government is not owning up to the fact that it also seems to be running what amounts to basically insecure systems on much of its IT infrastructure. This dude may have been a crackpot, but somehow these antics are only performed for the sake of overreaction, when the blame should also be squarely shared by those who administer these networks. As a US taxpayer, I find this last part infinitely scarier... especially because all of this saber-rattling is not likely to remedy the conditions that made it possible to do this in the first place. A recent security audit of US Gov networks gave them an 'F' if I remember (could be wrong) Z.
You have essentially hit the nail on the head.
Why admit to your own incredible flaws, when you can blame someone else?
Why would the military admit that the security of their IT systems is embarrasingly weak, when they can blame the "super hacker" McKinnon.
By making him sound more malicious and a super cracker, the military both escapes censure and makes it look like their security wasn't awful (because only a master cracker could have broken in).
The worst thing Gary McKinnon has going for him is that photo that's shown alongside every article that mentions him. I couldn't imagine a better caricature of a 'malevolent hacker' if I tried.
Picking a photo image of someone that leads people to judge him. - That's journalism
No, ironic is like when it rains on your wedding day.
Irony is frequent in Britain
I'm confused - So has this Act been signed and ratified or not?
The Last Crusade was also the big clue that Indy had finished - "The Last Crusade"
I am not an archaeologist but I would imagine that the holy grail of Archaeology is THE HOLY GRAIL, once Indy had found that (and eternal life, which he turned down) there was nowhere else for him to go. Everything will seem a anticlimax and (as happened) silliness needs to be added to try and make up for that.
This isn't Foxconn not supporting Linux, this is a motherboard advertised/displayed as 'ACPI' compliant when it isn't. The whole point about standards, as I understand them, is that a manufacturer doesn't have to support any specific product, simply comply to a standard and let all/any products comply to the same standard.
The user may not have done much research but he shouldn't have to with a motherboard, just check the MoBo complies to the standards and spec you need and that should be enough.
File this under "False advertising/Fraud" (I'm never quite sure where the distinction is. Especially outside the UK)
Yesterday I changed to O2. I could have just as easily changed to a different network.
Oh well, it could be worse - I could have stayed with Virgin.
Whooosh!
Rove is the Joseph Goebbels of the neoconservative Republicans...
I don't think his kids will want to hear that.
This is a science story on a supposedly science aware discussion forum and yet a comment making a scientific (and bleedin' obvious) response to why economics doesn't govern the laws of physics gets modded flamebait.
I hope there are at least some moderators with basic knowledge who can remedy this.
Grammarnazi irrelevant point I know but I think cricket balls are bowled, hence bowlers.
I feel like I'm Aggers after that, time for some cake.
Wooosh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mcenroe
Although I understand the confusion caused by the fact my gp comment is modded insightful!
But the bickering is what everyone remembers fondly as a day when humans like McEnroe played the game not the machines we have nowadays.
Except perhaps for the penultimate comment -
LBWs are not a small percentage of decisions, the appeals made to the umpires to decide are usually LBWs (catches are generally obvious and the umpire doesn't even have to rule).
Nonetheless the gp is talking nonsense, Hawk-eye usually just backs up the umpire showing that he came to the same conclusion in a second as the machine did in several anyway, remember in cricket no one or thing knows what would have happened so I'll pick the fast human standing there over the slow machine. Which is very different from the application used in tennis which is what did happen.
The reason it isn't officially used in cricket is because it would be used to predict the path of the ball had someone's legs not interrupted it. Whereas in tennis it is simply used to account for where the ball actually went.
Obviously just tracking a ball is a more definite science than the prediction of something that didn't happen (but could have). Especially as anyone who knows about cricket will tell you is that the path of the cricket ball is 'mysterious'.
I once heard a cricket commentator interviewing the inventor of Hawk-eye (a Mr Hawkins) and asked him how accurate the system was - he said something along the lines of "in testing it has been incredibly accurate" which I found quite weak as I was expecting tolerances of so many mm deviation per second.
In cricket it is only used as a commentary tool generally proving that the umpires get it 'right' most of the time anyway.
"the chalk flew up"
This is a rant about micrsoft.*com* - the website (and related update sites etc). It isn't about Microsoft itself, or its applications and operating systems. It's about the usability of the microsoft.com website and download services - which are probably largely outsourced to a few kids in India. It has nothing to do with "how bad Vista is" or lessons learned from XP.
Except for that whole Windows Update forcing you to reboot your computer bit, the download locking up his computer, the problems of garbage turning up in the Add/Remove Programs utility but not Moviemaker, the rant about Add/Remove being the only decent thing left with XP.So no, other than about half of the email, it has nothing to do with XP.
Yep, the first thing I thought was that "wow this band is so original, they have copied the best part of a decade old Mark Thomas Comedy Product and used some of that footage in their video". Bet they never had an MI5/6 (I can never remember which one is which) file.
But you only pay *once* for those phones. I'm not buying an expensive phone AND an expensive phone contract. One or the other, not both.
That's why it hasn't taken off in the UK (and possibly Europe), double the price with less features than other phones, style doesn't make up the difference.
Or were you making a joke? I just can't tell any more.
Personally I think this is Alton Towers' way of stopping parents from amusing themselves while they wait in the queue for 4 hours for the 1 minute ride.
Lets put it this way, one of the UK's biggest radio DJ's (that's literaly biggest as well as most popular!) Chris Moyles, received his today (see around 08:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/runningorder_today.shtml ) ordering it years ago and talked about it on the air - he was very embarrassed to talk about price. And I doubt you could make your own R2D2 for much less considering how much projectors cost and the rarity of Millennium Falcon remotes.
As I said, "We'll censor our athletes". The difference is that whatever restrictions are placed on the athletes (I remember a Scottish skier couldn't have a Scottish flag died into his hair because it was "a nationalist flag"), the journalists (and hopefully the attending world public) do not have any restrictions. Hypocritical it may be but there is a difference between getting your participants to toe the line and allowing people to report on the event. Nothing would be more damaging to the games (and a little bit to China) than journo's coming home and writing up after the event on what they couldn't do.
Because they are obliged to not censor during the Olympics. This would actually be one of the things that would get the EU and the US to reconsider their participation in the games, Tibet certainly won't. The Olympic committee (I believe it may be one of those preconditions of holding the games) is obliging China to not restrict (at least) journalists.
To be honest they should just wait until the games begin, then censor everyone themselves. Which they already can and do.
We'll censor our athletes, cause we're helpful like that. And we don't want any ungrateful comments about that smog, making us seem like bad losers. (Us being the UK)
Well the UK Military is less protective over the information its bathymetry generates. The UK government organisation that does sea mapping is a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence and if you want a submarine map, buy one from them - http://www.hydro.gov.uk/
Hogfather was the first TV adaptation because Sky could roll it out over Christmas and justify spending the most they have ever spent. They also used UK television alchemist Sir David Jason (synonymous with Christmas TV in the UK) who is himself a Pratchett fan. It rated very well and did win a BAFTA (UK EMMY, Sky don't get many). Also Hogfather allows for a self contained story which doesn't require a knowledge of any of the books and takes place mostly indoors (cheaper to film).
They just aired The Colour Of Magic here in Britain over Easter in two parts, the second was actually The Light Fantastic, they had to bypass some of the bits of the books but it didn't really matter, they so much to get in and the guy who played Cohen the barbarian was fantastic, they even inserted jokes which weren't in the books. My only real criticism of it would be Rincewind played by Sir David, perhaps I have never been his greatest fan but he just didn't seem right. Still they did do a good job and I would recommend checking them out, it is also worth seeing "the making of" as they do explain some of the artistic choices they made (such as Death being 'warmer' than he was in the early books). I would like to see a witches tale next, shouldn't need too much CGI and they could get in a fair amount of new humour which does help as sometimes jokes fall flat if you have already know them.