So people are taking documents that should be on a separate server, places it on a machine that is connected to the internet (which isn't supposed to happen)...
You'd think people would know better. Unfortunately...
...and then proceeds to share this information over a P2P network?
I've seen exactly the situation this article talks about, on a military computer. Luckily the only thing shared was pamphlets about military health benefits.
As others have said, they are still very useful. At my company, of the 125,020 pieces of spam we blocked in November, 81,316 of them were blocked by blacklists. That's 65% of all detected spam. That's over 2,700 e-mails per day that our already overloaded relay server didn't have to spend much processing time on.
I knew someone would bring up nukes and the like. Honestly, I don't know where the line should be drawn, if it all. I've never thought about it enough. I does seem like a good discussion.
I do however honestly have no problem with civilian ownership of automatic rifles and mortars. I know it's very possible to own automatics in the U.S, it's just a paperwork hassle. As for mortars, I'm pretty sure they're the same, but I haven't looked into it at all. Anyone here ever done an ATF Form 4 on mortars?
It depends on where you are. In Kentucky, the only law that forbids openly carrying a weapon is the law that forbids possession on the property of a private or public, primary or secondary education facility. The same law also explicitly states that colleges and the like don't count. I may get in trouble with my university for it, but I cannot be arrested for wearing a sword to class.
That said, I'd be surprised if someone did that in an urban area here and didn't get questioned by police. Fortunately, in the end the police wouldn't be able to actually arrest them for it.
When Second Amendment advocates talk about the right to bear arms, they exclude the materials mentioned above from the category of acceptable small weaponry.
I don't. The point of the second amendment, as others have said, is to allow the people the ability to take the government to task, brutally if need be, for overrunning our rights. If the government has access to automatic rifles and mortars, why shouldn't I?
You don't want to put the government in the business of deciding how much carbon you spent - at best you want a situation where you present them with data following their accounting rules and they occasionally audit you - like the IRS.
Exactly, since we all know the IRS is the perfect model of a good solution....
Remember, the members of our military are citizens too. Some of them will join the revolt. Others will desert because they don't want to fight their brothers and sisters.
A revolution started in America will not have to fight the entire military.
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Four or five people wouldn't be enough to cover a few states, much less the whole country. What most people don't realize is that the military is required to perform every funeral they are asked to do, for all active duty and veterans. I only served four years, but I am eligible for honors. I think you have to be dishonorable discharged to lose that right. When I was on the honor guard at Scott AFB, we did over 2000 funerals in 2000. And it just keeps increasing as more funeral homes find out it's required.
As I (and others) have said before here, this is a hell of a lot better than the CD player we used to use.
I know how you feel about the emotion. I never had to bury someone I knew, but after doing over 100 funerals, I too cannot hear taps without tearing up.
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When I was at Scott AFB, we had a band on base (which is getting rare, at least in the Air Force.) In the 1.5 years I was on the Honor Guard, the band was only able to send a trumpet player ONCE, out of the over 100 funerals I was in. The only way to meet the demand would be to have at least 6 players assigned to each base for funerals only. That's simply cost-prohibitive.
Like others have said, the emulators are much better than the old system. We did literally use a CD player. With these emulators, you can hold the bugle with your hand covering the end, and press the button before lifting it to your mouth. It waits about 3 seconds before it starts playing. Someone would have to look closely to tell you weren't playing.
As for the people who have mentioned that they'd take the job, go to the nearest National Cemetery and ask if they have buglers on staff. At Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, they had several of them, and they made good money. I think it was $35 per funeral, and they'd do 3 an hour.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
By designating Christmas as a National Holiday, Congress was not establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. No constitutional authority was broken. Merry Christmas.
You certainly have a point if you're looking for a temporary job to get out of a rough time, but if you're looking for a career, killing the interview with a question like that really is better in the long run.
Some providers in the US do ask for ID, and I've heard T-Mobile's pre-pay service even requires a credit card. However, there are still pre-paid providers who do not require proof. My sister got one, and she doesn't have any ID.
What about those of us stuck behind a Microsoft DNS server? We can't use this silly nyud.net thing. See http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php/Main/FAQ#SERVFAI L.
I'm glad he posted the original link, so I can get to it.
Yes, you do want it to fail due to programming errors, but not due to random latency in the VM. Granted, if your application is suffering from that latency you have a problem, but not an easy one to find or fix. If they can get rid of these random errors, then it will be easier to find and fix the real problems.
I like that idea of posting their pictures. Most security measures have to be balance against the cost, and this seems like an incredibly low cost solution. I've been in a job where we had to escort the janitors. Each shop in the building had to take turns, one week at a time. It sucked. Of course, this was a controlled area in the military, so that kind of thing is understandable and expected. Besides, when did any government agency care about balancing cost against anything?
It's really not applicable in the game case. Nintendo is the longest still surviving in this market, but (I think) Sony is doing the best (arguably.) They compete with each other quite a bit, so neither have monopolies, unless there's an early court case I'm unaware of. Microsoft, on the other hand, does have a monopoly, but not in the game market, and they're not leveraging that monopoly to knock everyone else out of the game market. If they made it impossible to use IE to lookup information online about the Sony and Nintendo consoles, then they'd possibly be illegally leveraging that monopoly. The closest they come right now is leveraging their money and name, which is legal.
I got the impression that the three PIN thing was in the system for creating the dummy cards. The bank employees setup the three PIN trick, then created a metric butt-load of cards without having to write down the PINs.
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Yes, that's exactly what this is. You better curl up into the fetal position in the corner and start crying.
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You'd think people would know better. Unfortunately...
I've seen exactly the situation this article talks about, on a military computer. Luckily the only thing shared was pamphlets about military health benefits.
You wouldn't mind it too much if your government cared...
Actually, I've typically found that to be the problem. I'd rather the government just stay the hell out of my life instead of trying to fix it.
As others have said, they are still very useful. At my company, of the 125,020 pieces of spam we blocked in November, 81,316 of them were blocked by blacklists. That's 65% of all detected spam. That's over 2,700 e-mails per day that our already overloaded relay server didn't have to spend much processing time on.
I knew someone would bring up nukes and the like. Honestly, I don't know where the line should be drawn, if it all. I've never thought about it enough. I does seem like a good discussion.
I do however honestly have no problem with civilian ownership of automatic rifles and mortars. I know it's very possible to own automatics in the U.S, it's just a paperwork hassle. As for mortars, I'm pretty sure they're the same, but I haven't looked into it at all. Anyone here ever done an ATF Form 4 on mortars?
It depends on where you are. In Kentucky, the only law that forbids openly carrying a weapon is the law that forbids possession on the property of a private or public, primary or secondary education facility. The same law also explicitly states that colleges and the like don't count. I may get in trouble with my university for it, but I cannot be arrested for wearing a sword to class.
That said, I'd be surprised if someone did that in an urban area here and didn't get questioned by police. Fortunately, in the end the police wouldn't be able to actually arrest them for it.
When Second Amendment advocates talk about the right to bear arms, they exclude the materials mentioned above from the category of acceptable small weaponry.
I don't. The point of the second amendment, as others have said, is to allow the people the ability to take the government to task, brutally if need be, for overrunning our rights. If the government has access to automatic rifles and mortars, why shouldn't I?
You don't want to put the government in the business of deciding how much carbon you spent - at best you want a situation where you present them with data following their accounting rules and they occasionally audit you - like the IRS.
Exactly, since we all know the IRS is the perfect model of a good solution....
However, Israel has resisted UN peacekeepers with all their power, because parts of their government doesn't fucking want peace.
Yeah, or maybe they just don't want their children raped.
Remember, the members of our military are citizens too. Some of them will join the revolt. Others will desert because they don't want to fight their brothers and sisters.
A revolution started in America will not have to fight the entire military.
Four or five people wouldn't be enough to cover a few states, much less the whole country. What most people don't realize is that the military is required to perform every funeral they are asked to do, for all active duty and veterans. I only served four years, but I am eligible for honors. I think you have to be dishonorable discharged to lose that right. When I was on the honor guard at Scott AFB, we did over 2000 funerals in 2000. And it just keeps increasing as more funeral homes find out it's required.
As I (and others) have said before here, this is a hell of a lot better than the CD player we used to use.
I know how you feel about the emotion. I never had to bury someone I knew, but after doing over 100 funerals, I too cannot hear taps without tearing up.
When I was at Scott AFB, we had a band on base (which is getting rare, at least in the Air Force.) In the 1.5 years I was on the Honor Guard, the band was only able to send a trumpet player ONCE, out of the over 100 funerals I was in. The only way to meet the demand would be to have at least 6 players assigned to each base for funerals only. That's simply cost-prohibitive.
Like others have said, the emulators are much better than the old system. We did literally use a CD player. With these emulators, you can hold the bugle with your hand covering the end, and press the button before lifting it to your mouth. It waits about 3 seconds before it starts playing. Someone would have to look closely to tell you weren't playing.
As for the people who have mentioned that they'd take the job, go to the nearest National Cemetery and ask if they have buglers on staff. At Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, they had several of them, and they made good money. I think it was $35 per funeral, and they'd do 3 an hour.
Muscle just makes hollowpoints expand quicker.
If you have NASA's budget, you can pay IBM or Sun to do it for you. Give me several million dollars and I'll do it.
It may not be the best way, but it's certainly possible.
By designating Christmas as a National Holiday, Congress was not establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. No constitutional authority was broken. Merry Christmas.
You certainly have a point if you're looking for a temporary job to get out of a rough time, but if you're looking for a career, killing the interview with a question like that really is better in the long run.
Some providers in the US do ask for ID, and I've heard T-Mobile's pre-pay service even requires a credit card. However, there are still pre-paid providers who do not require proof. My sister got one, and she doesn't have any ID.
What about those of us stuck behind a Microsoft DNS server? We can't use this silly nyud.net thing. See http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php/Main/FAQ#SERVFAI L.
I'm glad he posted the original link, so I can get to it.
Yes, you do want it to fail due to programming errors, but not due to random latency in the VM. Granted, if your application is suffering from that latency you have a problem, but not an easy one to find or fix. If they can get rid of these random errors, then it will be easier to find and fix the real problems.
Does anyone else find it strangely appropriate that this policy was, um, "inspired" by a woman complaining?
I like that idea of posting their pictures. Most security measures have to be balance against the cost, and this seems like an incredibly low cost solution.
I've been in a job where we had to escort the janitors. Each shop in the building had to take turns, one week at a time. It sucked. Of course, this was a controlled area in the military, so that kind of thing is understandable and expected. Besides, when did any government agency care about balancing cost against anything?
Except when it comes to murdering the child. Then it's the man with no choice.
It's really not applicable in the game case. Nintendo is the longest still surviving in this market, but (I think) Sony is doing the best (arguably.) They compete with each other quite a bit, so neither have monopolies, unless there's an early court case I'm unaware of. Microsoft, on the other hand, does have a monopoly, but not in the game market, and they're not leveraging that monopoly to knock everyone else out of the game market. If they made it impossible to use IE to lookup information online about the Sony and Nintendo consoles, then they'd possibly be illegally leveraging that monopoly. The closest they come right now is leveraging their money and name, which is legal.
I got the impression that the three PIN thing was in the system for creating the dummy cards. The bank employees setup the three PIN trick, then created a metric butt-load of cards without having to write down the PINs.
Yes, that's exactly what this is. You better curl up into the fetal position in the corner and start crying.