ZDNet News reports that the Real ID Act of 2005 has been passed by the House, by a 251-161 margin. It stipulates that driver's licenses must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined machine-readable technology.
Lessee....how are these electronic besides having a mag stripe or something that stores the data?? Sounds like you still have to physically have it....which by reading, the office HAS all of that info anyway. Most Drivers Licenses's already have this.
The worry is the linking of Databases. Also, there's going to be time after even the senate passes it if they do, that we can say something before the president has to sign it. Even then, the Supremes can still rull this unconstitutioinal.
Surveys of such a insignificant sample mean nothing. Survey's themselves are usually not executed with the most scientific method either. They can be easily modified by the selection of the people who take the survey. One example would be a survey addressing gay marriage. Would I bother taking something that is obviously shooting for what I am against? No i would not. Survey participants have to be willing. Sometimes, the opposite side does not even want to take the survey. They can be manipulated.
What would scare me more if anyone had actualy proof other then a survey or a anecdote. Show me the true results and the results that were publicised and then I will believe. Show me a video or a recorded phone call of Bush or any other superior telling them to change their report. But because of 28.5 percent that said they had been asked? So what if they are asked....it's if they HAVE changed the results is when you need to worry. What it boils down to, 69 percent of those surveyed have never been given a directive to change thier results....folks that's a majority! Am I worried? No....not until I SEE REAL PROOF. Survey's mean dick....they can be wildly in accurate. All it takes is a mistaken mark on a mechanical form and boom....it's done and invalidated.
Anyone got any proof Bush lied besides all of the sore losers? Anyone? Thanks. I'll go read my bible now....as if that's a bad thing(it isn't).
Just because Bush is a Christian does not mean anything. What lots of the left fail to realize is that if this is a government for the people, by the people and of the people, then it's going to go the direction of the majority....which isn't atheistic. It's Christianity. If you want freedom of speech and you want freedom of religion, then you need to investigate and consider both sides of the ball. If you don't, then your just as guilty as what you say Bush is guilty of. The current administration isn't lying any more then the Democrats are. I mean....your going to go with a party with the screaming Howqard Dean as the head of it? OOOOOk,,,,,,
Read my post....it's a FRIGGIN TV SHOW! Put your damn politics away and watch the show.
Personally, I like it and it's definitely not vacuous. Listen, if we had all wanted the particle of the week and other techno babble, TNG would still be around. Although Particle of the week went away during the end.....
BSG studies current events....or events similar to them, in a alien setting. I have not seen the HUGE parallels you see, but I do se some....
Examples.....
Roslin getting sworn in on the shuttle, now Colonial One. This scene purposefully shot with the idea of Johnson getting sworn in on Air Force one.
Muslims/Cylon Parallel....yes muslims live among us. Some are bad....but we have also found out some are good (ie Boomer could be or is a cylon...yet can and has fought along side the humans......we know that some cylons don't even know that they ARE Cylons.....yet....). This is a tenuous parallel, but I can see how it can be drawn.
Aside from that, I cannot see many more, but there are some specific story line things that come right out of today.
it's Gaius BALTAR. BALTAR.....the main turncoat of the original series and he seems to be standing up (in more ways then one har har) to the Original Baltar)....I mean this guy has wet dreams...WIDE AWAKE!:D
This is very well put. I did not really get into Star Trek much until the big hit of The Next Generation. I also personally feel that while there's nothing for the next year or two, watch out. By 2007, there will be a series worthy of Star Trek. When BSG has given Ron Moore the experience he needs with Michael Rymer to take over the franchise from Berman. Ron Moore has the potential to be able to get the right crew together and to create a 29th century star trek worthy of the name. If not 29th century, the 39th century. Make it so now we have super warp drive....a drive that makes it possible to travel not just within one Galaxy....but to other galaxies. The Universe is a big place and most of trek kicked around the milky way. What if Star Trek really got back to exploring the unknown? THAT would make a excellent show.
The NEW BSG has turned out WAYY Better then I had ever thought it would. I LOVED the last episode. Starbuck figuring out how to make that raider fly....incredible. I love the storylines. Makes the old BSG look, well, cheesy. How many times did we see theold cut shot of the viper sweeping in from the top of the screen laser cannons blazing?
I agree with this. While nice for the users (only have to memorize one password) and nice for the net admins (only one auth server to fix when you can't get authenticated), it's horrible for almost everything else. If teh main LDAP goes down and there's no HOT failover(warm standbys suck), then your users will not be able to log in. Also, once a password is compromised, ALL of your servers are at risk...not just the LDAP server. LDAP and other centrally controlled authentication needs to be planned very well and the security needs to be HIGH. Make sure your users call you the SECOND that they think someone is doing something wrong or the SECOND that they forget their password or realize that it's in the wrong hands. Better yet, if you must go LDAP, get some RSA keyfobs and the RSA security package setup. This will inctrase security while reducing the overhead of multiple log ins.
Plumbers DO have to update themselves. If you have built a hosue in the last year or so or even the last 5-10 years things have changed considerably depending on what the builder chose. Almost noone I know does copper piping any more. It's PVC. Did the plumber who sweated copper all his life learn how to do PVC overnight? No. Did the plumber have to get training? Yes. The technologies are different. PLUS there's the new kid on the block, PEX. PEX is run similarly to cables. It's all home run to a central point which is basically a junction where one side is hot one side is cold. There's two input valves and a bunch of output valves. PEX is done very differently.
On the rest of the post, I have to agree. Computers ARE a business. I refuse to do it for free for anyone except family. If my neighboar asks, i do not rape him though and if he offers food/beer I am THERE.
Get rid of Berman. Kick the timeline another 100 years and bring in a new fantastic looking Enterprise. Make the use of the wormhole to get to the Gamma Quadrant. No damn time travel missions. More exploration and dammit give me more space scenes. Klingon attacks.....romulan war....whatever. Make it exciting and do a story arc like B5 and BSG does.....
I personally just got caught up with BSG tonight (thanks SciFi for replaying the two I missed back to back!). Starbuck flying back that raider with the starbuck painted on the underside.....awesome.....make a point....equip all viper pilots with a can o red spray paint!:D
Neat concept, but what if your graphics driver goes out?? Will it respawn automagically? Whaty if the hard drive controller's driver dies? Sometimes a neat concept ends up not being very practical. I would rather have the OS die if the hard drive controller's driver kicks off as there's less of a probablility of hard drive corruption. If the driver code for the hard drive dies and the kernel keeps running, would you not have lost alot data?
This should be a state-by-state decision and a state run program. We do not need the federal government adding one more "TAX" to the laundry list of "TAXES" that they already do not fund what they were supposed to fund when we were made to PAY.
Why don't they call this what it is.....it's a TAX. They aren't going to recycle your computers. They just want more of OUR money. Writer your congressman. REJECT this bill.
Which is why I am so set agains using LDAP. It's nice and it can provide one signon for every damn thing you got....but again, once a password is compromised, your toast. Help Desk idiots like it because it lightens their load. I personally hate them. They make everything nice for the help desk, but again, once your password has been yoinked, your done.
Use something you have and something you know. You have a fingerprint. Use that and a RSA key. Also, what if you accidently damage or cut off the finger you use? What if you were forced to scan all 10 fingers and use a different one each time and never two neighboring fingers in succession. I mean biometrics can add a additional later to what we have....security is best done in layers.
TNG was great. If you think about it though, the only hiatus there was was from the end of the series until the motion picture came out. As I have gotten older, TMP has grown on me and it's definitely one of my favs. It brings to mind that we should REALLY think about what we shoot into interstellar space. Granted, Voyager 6 never existed, but whatever. I mean what happens if the real version of the Borg get ahold of it (which I DO think is what happened to V'ger). Anyway, since TMP came out, there's been either movies or series coming out. DO I think it needs a hiatus, no. I DO think they need new blood in both production and writing. MAYBE keep Okuda anda few of the others just to make sure things stay in the timeline or don't get too outta wack.
This show, while it was star trek and bad star trek is better then none at all, it deserved to be cancelled for a few reasons....first...
Prequels never work to well. Star Wars works a little, but even it has the look that the past was more modern then the future problem. Examples in Star Wars is the Naboo Starfighter and Amidala's ship.
One thing that Enteprise was effected was the ship looked fricken great. LCD's all over the damn place and very sharp looking....NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IT CAME BEFORE KIRK!
I'd have rather seen more buttons and things like that....the bridge should have looked more like a 80's carrier. MUCH more cramped and not as modern looking. Even that may be slightly more then the old series.
UPN's signal SUCKS in my neighborhood and I never watched it primarily because of that. Also, my UPN affiliate is also a WB affiliate and they do not show it at the same time as the rest of the nation.
I will be picking this up on DVD. Since this one is real short, pricewise, it should be ok for me to get UNLIKE other Trek DVD sets!
Hmm...they could even make the capsule concept reusable as well. Just make a big heatshield from the same material the shuttle uses.
I think I read somewhere that the plane concept was picked because our astronauts did not like that they could NOT land the capsules. Back then, most astronauts were all US Air Force and Navy pilots. They probably still are, but now alot of these guys are much smarter then alot of the astronauts of old. Not that they old guys were dumb, it's just they wanted things a certain way. I think the astronaut core all realize that the plane is not the way to go right now unless new materials come out that make it work better then the shuttle and to make it less prone to failure. Longer glidepaths could help as well. Someone stated that the current shuttle was designed to avoid gliding over the Soviet Union. Well, now, they don't exist anymore. Plus now since the military does not use it any more (nor should they be able to co-opt this system), is there still a air of secrecy that needs to be kept? I doubt it.
FINALLY! This will be some exciting times in the aerospace community. I don't hold hope for Burt Rutan to be able to top Northup Grumman/Boeing or Lockheed Martins team but I sure as heck hope that the follwing things are considered:
1. Modern, yet tested hardware for the flight computers and a way to upgrade them easily should they be needed. I still like the idea of multiple redundant computers and a voting structure that the shuttle uses for it's flight computers.
2. Reuseablity is nice, but can be expensive as the shuttle has pointed out. If we do go reusable, I hope we find some new heat shielding that is less fragile.
3. Ejection seets for the crew or a crew module rescue system of some sort.
4. Sensor the HECK out of it. Put little cameras in the superstructure and have one monitor cycle through them on both launch and landing. If teh crew sees something the least bit suspicious, they can initiate a emergency eject.
5. Make it FAST to launch another incase there's damage to one crew module. Maybe make it so that we launch 2 at the same time with both being capable of holding the whole crew in a emergency landing situation. You could even make sure one is always on orbit and is in good shape(docked at ISS or whatever).
6. Make it REPAIRABLE in space either via ISS assistance or a small repair kit heald on board.
I could go on, but this is the opportunity to make a funcitonal system that is much safer then the shuttle. Consider that the shuttle's design is almost 30-40 years old and BOTH planes and cars are MUCH safer today then ones designed that long ago.
Um, wires suck. When a new Wire technology comes out (Cat 7...8...9....6e or whatever), then your wire is worthless. Buying a new wireless router/nic is better because then you don't have to open up Walls...;)
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IBM stil sells them...the Lenovo deal still isn't complete....yet...but noone makes thier machines here anymore except maybe final assembly.
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Um, Lessee....regular 1 GB USB drives are going for around 100 retail....add 50 and you have a shuffle. Not only can you use it for music but for files too. Want to try again?
Unless you are talking about Linux, IBM already had the enterprise. AIX is the enterprise OS and it's pretty darn good. Support for LPAR's, very good SMP support, HACMP, HAGEO, and 64 bit support. IBM can brign this all to Linux, but they have to fight the SCO monkey yet.
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ZDNet News reports that the Real ID Act of 2005 has been passed by the House, by a 251-161 margin. It stipulates that driver's licenses must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined machine-readable technology.
Lessee....how are these electronic besides having a mag stripe or something that stores the data?? Sounds like you still have to physically have it....which by reading, the office HAS all of that info anyway. Most Drivers Licenses's already have this.
The worry is the linking of Databases. Also, there's going to be time after even the senate passes it if they do, that we can say something before the president has to sign it. Even then, the Supremes can still rull this unconstitutioinal.
Surveys of such a insignificant sample mean nothing. Survey's themselves are usually not executed with the most scientific method either. They can be easily modified by the selection of the people who take the survey. One example would be a survey addressing gay marriage. Would I bother taking something that is obviously shooting for what I am against? No i would not. Survey participants have to be willing. Sometimes, the opposite side does not even want to take the survey. They can be manipulated.
What would scare me more if anyone had actualy proof other then a survey or a anecdote. Show me the true results and the results that were publicised and then I will believe. Show me a video or a recorded phone call of Bush or any other superior telling them to change their report. But because of 28.5 percent that said they had been asked? So what if they are asked....it's if they HAVE changed the results is when you need to worry. What it boils down to, 69 percent of those surveyed have never been given a directive to change thier results....folks that's a majority! Am I worried? No....not until I SEE REAL PROOF. Survey's mean dick....they can be wildly in accurate. All it takes is a mistaken mark on a mechanical form and boom....it's done and invalidated.
Anyone got any proof Bush lied besides all of the sore losers? Anyone? Thanks. I'll go read my bible now....as if that's a bad thing(it isn't).
Just because Bush is a Christian does not mean anything. What lots of the left fail to realize is that if this is a government for the people, by the people and of the people, then it's going to go the direction of the majority....which isn't atheistic. It's Christianity. If you want freedom of speech and you want freedom of religion, then you need to investigate and consider both sides of the ball. If you don't, then your just as guilty as what you say Bush is guilty of. The current administration isn't lying any more then the Democrats are. I mean....your going to go with a party with the screaming Howqard Dean as the head of it? OOOOOk,,,,,,
Read my post....it's a FRIGGIN TV SHOW! Put your damn politics away and watch the show.
Personally, I like it and it's definitely not vacuous. Listen, if we had all wanted the particle of the week and other techno babble, TNG would still be around. Although Particle of the week went away during the end.....
BSG studies current events....or events similar to them, in a alien setting. I have not seen the HUGE parallels you see, but I do se some....
Examples.....
Roslin getting sworn in on the shuttle, now Colonial One. This scene purposefully shot with the idea of Johnson getting sworn in on Air Force one.
Muslims/Cylon Parallel....yes muslims live among us. Some are bad....but we have also found out some are good (ie Boomer could be or is a cylon...yet can and has fought along side the humans......we know that some cylons don't even know that they ARE Cylons.....yet....). This is a tenuous parallel, but I can see how it can be drawn.
Aside from that, I cannot see many more, but there are some specific story line things that come right out of today.
it's Gaius BALTAR. BALTAR.....the main turncoat of the original series and he seems to be standing up (in more ways then one har har) to the Original Baltar)....I mean this guy has wet dreams...WIDE AWAKE! :D
This is very well put. I did not really get into Star Trek much until the big hit of The Next Generation. I also personally feel that while there's nothing for the next year or two, watch out. By 2007, there will be a series worthy of Star Trek. When BSG has given Ron Moore the experience he needs with Michael Rymer to take over the franchise from Berman. Ron Moore has the potential to be able to get the right crew together and to create a 29th century star trek worthy of the name. If not 29th century, the 39th century. Make it so now we have super warp drive....a drive that makes it possible to travel not just within one Galaxy....but to other galaxies. The Universe is a big place and most of trek kicked around the milky way. What if Star Trek really got back to exploring the unknown? THAT would make a excellent show.
The NEW BSG has turned out WAYY Better then I had ever thought it would. I LOVED the last episode. Starbuck figuring out how to make that raider fly....incredible. I love the storylines. Makes the old BSG look, well, cheesy. How many times did we see theold cut shot of the viper sweeping in from the top of the screen laser cannons blazing?
I agree with this. While nice for the users (only have to memorize one password) and nice for the net admins (only one auth server to fix when you can't get authenticated), it's horrible for almost everything else. If teh main LDAP goes down and there's no HOT failover(warm standbys suck), then your users will not be able to log in. Also, once a password is compromised, ALL of your servers are at risk...not just the LDAP server. LDAP and other centrally controlled authentication needs to be planned very well and the security needs to be HIGH. Make sure your users call you the SECOND that they think someone is doing something wrong or the SECOND that they forget their password or realize that it's in the wrong hands. Better yet, if you must go LDAP, get some RSA keyfobs and the RSA security package setup. This will inctrase security while reducing the overhead of multiple log ins.
Plumbers DO have to update themselves. If you have built a hosue in the last year or so or even the last 5-10 years things have changed considerably depending on what the builder chose. Almost noone I know does copper piping any more. It's PVC. Did the plumber who sweated copper all his life learn how to do PVC overnight? No. Did the plumber have to get training? Yes. The technologies are different. PLUS there's the new kid on the block, PEX. PEX is run similarly to cables. It's all home run to a central point which is basically a junction where one side is hot one side is cold. There's two input valves and a bunch of output valves. PEX is done very differently.
On the rest of the post, I have to agree. Computers ARE a business. I refuse to do it for free for anyone except family. If my neighboar asks, i do not rape him though and if he offers food/beer I am THERE.
Get rid of Berman. Kick the timeline another 100 years and bring in a new fantastic looking Enterprise. Make the use of the wormhole to get to the Gamma Quadrant. No damn time travel missions. More exploration and dammit give me more space scenes. Klingon attacks.....romulan war....whatever. Make it exciting and do a story arc like B5 and BSG does.....
:D
I personally just got caught up with BSG tonight (thanks SciFi for replaying the two I missed back to back!). Starbuck flying back that raider with the starbuck painted on the underside.....awesome.....make a point....equip all viper pilots with a can o red spray paint!
Neat concept, but what if your graphics driver goes out?? Will it respawn automagically? Whaty if the hard drive controller's driver dies? Sometimes a neat concept ends up not being very practical. I would rather have the OS die if the hard drive controller's driver kicks off as there's less of a probablility of hard drive corruption. If the driver code for the hard drive dies and the kernel keeps running, would you not have lost alot data?
This should be a state-by-state decision and a state run program. We do not need the federal government adding one more "TAX" to the laundry list of "TAXES" that they already do not fund what they were supposed to fund when we were made to PAY.
Why don't they call this what it is.....it's a TAX. They aren't going to recycle your computers. They just want more of OUR money. Writer your congressman. REJECT this bill.
Which is why I am so set agains using LDAP. It's nice and it can provide one signon for every damn thing you got....but again, once a password is compromised, your toast. Help Desk idiots like it because it lightens their load. I personally hate them. They make everything nice for the help desk, but again, once your password has been yoinked, your done.
Use something you have and something you know. You have a fingerprint. Use that and a RSA key. Also, what if you accidently damage or cut off the finger you use? What if you were forced to scan all 10 fingers and use a different one each time and never two neighboring fingers in succession. I mean biometrics can add a additional later to what we have....security is best done in layers.
TNG was great. If you think about it though, the only hiatus there was was from the end of the series until the motion picture came out. As I have gotten older, TMP has grown on me and it's definitely one of my favs. It brings to mind that we should REALLY think about what we shoot into interstellar space. Granted, Voyager 6 never existed, but whatever. I mean what happens if the real version of the Borg get ahold of it (which I DO think is what happened to V'ger). Anyway, since TMP came out, there's been either movies or series coming out. DO I think it needs a hiatus, no. I DO think they need new blood in both production and writing. MAYBE keep Okuda anda few of the others just to make sure things stay in the timeline or don't get too outta wack.
This show, while it was star trek and bad star trek is better then none at all, it deserved to be cancelled for a few reasons....first...
Prequels never work to well. Star Wars works a little, but even it has the look that the past was more modern then the future problem. Examples in Star Wars is the Naboo Starfighter and Amidala's ship.
One thing that Enteprise was effected was the ship looked fricken great. LCD's all over the damn place and very sharp looking....NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IT CAME BEFORE KIRK!
I'd have rather seen more buttons and things like that....the bridge should have looked more like a 80's carrier. MUCH more cramped and not as modern looking. Even that may be slightly more then the old series.
UPN's signal SUCKS in my neighborhood and I never watched it primarily because of that. Also, my UPN affiliate is also a WB affiliate and they do not show it at the same time as the rest of the nation.
I will be picking this up on DVD. Since this one is real short, pricewise, it should be ok for me to get UNLIKE other Trek DVD sets!
Hmm...they could even make the capsule concept reusable as well. Just make a big heatshield from the same material the shuttle uses.
I think I read somewhere that the plane concept was picked because our astronauts did not like that they could NOT land the capsules. Back then, most astronauts were all US Air Force and Navy pilots. They probably still are, but now alot of these guys are much smarter then alot of the astronauts of old. Not that they old guys were dumb, it's just they wanted things a certain way. I think the astronaut core all realize that the plane is not the way to go right now unless new materials come out that make it work better then the shuttle and to make it less prone to failure. Longer glidepaths could help as well. Someone stated that the current shuttle was designed to avoid gliding over the Soviet Union. Well, now, they don't exist anymore. Plus now since the military does not use it any more (nor should they be able to co-opt this system), is there still a air of secrecy that needs to be kept? I doubt it.
Um, APU's ARE electric. The generate electricity. They are the FULE CELLS.
FINALLY! This will be some exciting times in the aerospace community. I don't hold hope for Burt Rutan to be able to top Northup Grumman/Boeing or Lockheed Martins team but I sure as heck hope that the follwing things are considered:
1. Modern, yet tested hardware for the flight computers and a way to upgrade them easily should they be needed. I still like the idea of multiple redundant computers and a voting structure that the shuttle uses for it's flight computers.
2. Reuseablity is nice, but can be expensive as the shuttle has pointed out. If we do go reusable, I hope we find some new heat shielding that is less fragile.
3. Ejection seets for the crew or a crew module rescue system of some sort.
4. Sensor the HECK out of it. Put little cameras in the superstructure and have one monitor cycle through them on both launch and landing. If teh crew sees something the least bit suspicious, they can initiate a emergency eject.
5. Make it FAST to launch another incase there's damage to one crew module. Maybe make it so that we launch 2 at the same time with both being capable of holding the whole crew in a emergency landing situation. You could even make sure one is always on orbit and is in good shape(docked at ISS or whatever).
6. Make it REPAIRABLE in space either via ISS assistance or a small repair kit heald on board.
I could go on, but this is the opportunity to make a funcitonal system that is much safer then the shuttle. Consider that the shuttle's design is almost 30-40 years old and BOTH planes and cars are MUCH safer today then ones designed that long ago.
Um, wires suck. When a new Wire technology comes out (Cat 7...8...9 ....6e or whatever), then your wire is worthless. Buying a new wireless router/nic is better because then you don't have to open up Walls... ;)
IBM stil sells them...the Lenovo deal still isn't complete....yet...but noone makes thier machines here anymore except maybe final assembly.
Um, Lessee....regular 1 GB USB drives are going for around 100 retail....add 50 and you have a shuffle. Not only can you use it for music but for files too. Want to try again?
Unless you are talking about Linux, IBM already had the enterprise. AIX is the enterprise OS and it's pretty darn good. Support for LPAR's, very good SMP support, HACMP, HAGEO, and 64 bit support. IBM can brign this all to Linux, but they have to fight the SCO monkey yet.
AMEN! Torrents are great on Zero Day to Day Seven. BAD every other time though because once the rush is over, the Torrent slows down.