I was in the AF from 1977-1981 and worked directly for the NSA when they still had some scruples. In fact, my last posting was at Fort Meade after several years in the far east.
As a '202xxA'(Radio Communications Analyst), that focused on foreign military communications, I could have been reassigned at any time as a 202xxB (Radio Communications Security Specialist) with no retraining. The B job just meant we were testing our own weaknesses instead of exploiting those of our opponents. It is important to look inward, find your flaws, and fix them. Kind of like debugging open source code, huh?
If you haven't seen the move 'Johnny Dangerously' you probably won't get it.
Sorry, but these bastards screwed up all the web standards. Just fix the damned thing and move along, please.
Department of Homeland Security is a "Department", which comes with a seat on the Cabinet. This looks more like the DEA with its "Drug Czar", which I believe falls into the "Agency" category. No cabinet post.
The property seizure powers also look similar, though not so much the civil litigation stuff.
I have been retaliated against, and on another occasion the seller refused to give feedback until I did with the intent to do the same. Both times I paid promptly (upholding my part of the bargain) and got screwed because they have position, in poker terms. Eff them. I'll never buy anything on eBay again.
Been running Gentoo for years. Decided to put my lappy on Ubuntu to save compile time. WPA would not work like it has for a long time and couldn't override the stupid defaults. Easier to rebuild Gentoo from scratch. End of story.
It's not hard, but it is a pain in the neck. For example, in Gentoo:
emerge dev-java/sun-jdk
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06-r2 to/ !!! jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-amd64.bin not found in/net/distfiles
!!! dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06-r2 has fetch restriction turned on. !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded !!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information.
* Please download jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-amd64.bin from: http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?... * Select the Linux AMD64 self-extracting file * and move it to/net/distfiles
So you have to go there, accept the 'clickwrap' license, download it somewhere, then mv it to your distfiles directory. Unnecessary mumbo jumbo.
It has been an awfully long time, but I was a "radio communications analyst" back in the late 70's and early 80's. Though I wore an Air Force uniform and collected my paycheck from them, everybody in my units were tasked by, and reported directly to, NSA. My first 3+ years were spent doing real-time work in the far east and the last 6 months at Fort Meade at NSA HQ. I can assure you that all of us were aware of the fact that intercepting communications involving any "United States Persons" were strictly forbidden. If we did so inadvertently, we were required to destroy all such records and file a report detailing the circumstances, though not the content.
This was all codified in an "executive order" which was, ironically, signed by Richard Nixon. My best googling efforts have come up dry, but I'll bet someone here can find it. The definition of "United States persons" is easier to find and essentially means: a U.S. citizen located anywhere or anyone who is currently located in the U.S., regardless of citizenship. Our reporting requirements were strictly defined by exacting criteria and little was left to chance or personal judgement.
The whistle blower sounds like the real deal to me.
They may have had "pleanty" of money, but they must have run out before they got to spelling and grammar.
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Negative.
It allows you to do the same thing with fewer steps.
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A "cracker-program"? Hardly. Just a snippet from the sarovar response:
PlayFair does not give the user any special facilities that Apple
itself has not given the user:
1. PlayFair requires a valid key from Apple to convert the format of music downloaded from iTunes. PlayFair cannot convert downloaded
songs' formats without authorized keys.
2. PlayFair is not a music distribution program. All PlayFair does is convert songs from one, restricted format to another, less restricted
format.
3. PlayFair is not a method for making illegal copies of iTunes songs. PlayFair by itself cannot be used to copy music to CD, distribute on a peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing network, play music or edit songs.
4. PlayFair saves time in converting songs. The Apple iPod permits
the iTunes user to make a music CD out of iTunes songs. After that
the user can convert the songs in that CD to MP3 or another digital
format for playing on portable, non-Apple music players. By converting iTunes songs directly to a common digital format, PlayFair shortcuts this sequence by eliminating the need to make a CD and then convert it.
At the time that the Linux port of WP8 was released the office-suite market for Linux was wide open. As I recall, there were few choices and none of them were very comfortable to use. Admittedly, WP fell into this category.
Corel could have learned from their experience and pursued a vigorous development stategy, but instead they waffled on the issue and here they are trying to find a niche to fill. Fighting for market share against MS Office on Windows is an uphill battle at best, and now OpenOffice has a firm foothold on Linux and will run on almost any platform.
They had their chance and blew it, so I guess 'Too Little Too Late' sums it up nicely.
Know the old adage, 'better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than open it and prove them right'? I think I'll play it safe and choose to lose 'em today.
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I was in the AF from 1977-1981 and worked directly for the NSA when they still had some scruples. In fact, my last posting was at Fort Meade after several years in the far east.
As a '202xxA'(Radio Communications Analyst), that focused on foreign military communications, I could have been reassigned at any time as a 202xxB (Radio Communications Security Specialist) with no retraining. The B job just meant we were testing our own weaknesses instead of exploiting those of our opponents. It is important to look inward, find your flaws, and fix them. Kind of like debugging open source code, huh?
That's what they were doing. Good job.
Ten, yes 10! That's how many scripts computerworld tried to run just to read a cheesy article. Screw them.
In fact, they'll even come out and run it for you.
If you haven't seen the move 'Johnny Dangerously' you probably won't get it. Sorry, but these bastards screwed up all the web standards. Just fix the damned thing and move along, please.
They probably died off because we destroyed their environment. So unless we can clone that, this is just a pointless "gee whiz" exercise.
Read the no frills version here.
...when I need them. You hit the nail on the head, pal.
Good thing I scrolled to the bottom of the page before I posted and avoided the dreaded "Redundant".
Department of Homeland Security is a "Department", which comes with a seat on the Cabinet. This looks more like the DEA with its "Drug Czar", which I believe falls into the "Agency" category. No cabinet post.
The property seizure powers also look similar, though not so much the civil litigation stuff.
Change two values
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Set this to 0 (zero)
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For 11% of the people it is.
why do they need to give negative feedback?
I have been retaliated against, and on another occasion the seller refused to give feedback until I did with the intent to do the same. Both times I paid promptly (upholding my part of the bargain) and got screwed because they have position, in poker terms. Eff them. I'll never buy anything on eBay again.
Been running Gentoo for years. Decided to put my lappy on Ubuntu to save compile time. WPA would not work like it has for a long time and couldn't override the stupid defaults. Easier to rebuild Gentoo from scratch. End of story.
No need to anchor. We use dynamic positioning along with HiPAP and APOS to track our ROV's position.
It has been an awfully long time, but I was a "radio communications analyst" back in the late 70's and early 80's. Though I wore an Air Force uniform and collected my paycheck from them, everybody in my units were tasked by, and reported directly to, NSA. My first 3+ years were spent doing real-time work in the far east and the last 6 months at Fort Meade at NSA HQ. I can assure you that all of us were aware of the fact that intercepting communications involving any "United States Persons" were strictly forbidden. If we did so inadvertently, we were required to destroy all such records and file a report detailing the circumstances, though not the content.
This was all codified in an "executive order" which was, ironically, signed by Richard Nixon. My best googling efforts have come up dry, but I'll bet someone here can find it. The definition of "United States persons" is easier to find and essentially means: a U.S. citizen located anywhere or anyone who is currently located in the U.S., regardless of citizenship. Our reporting requirements were strictly defined by exacting criteria and little was left to chance or personal judgement.
The whistle blower sounds like the real deal to me.
Earth to Slashdot editors. This was posted a month ago
Is that this is probably more planning than went into 99% of the dot.coms.
Here in Key West there would probably be too many unwelcome offers.
They may have had "pleanty" of money, but they must have run out before they got to spelling and grammar.
Negative.
It allows you to do the same thing with fewer steps.
A "cracker-program"? Hardly. Just a snippet from the sarovar response:
So read it and think again.Pay attention to WTF you are doing and you will have fewer problems.
At the time that the Linux port of WP8 was released the office-suite market for Linux was wide open. As I recall, there were few choices and none of them were very comfortable to use. Admittedly, WP fell into this category.
Corel could have learned from their experience and pursued a vigorous development stategy, but instead they waffled on the issue and here they are trying to find a niche to fill. Fighting for market share against MS Office on Windows is an uphill battle at best, and now OpenOffice has a firm foothold on Linux and will run on almost any platform.
They had their chance and blew it, so I guess 'Too Little Too Late' sums it up nicely.
I do.
Know the old adage, 'better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than open it and prove them right'? I think I'll play it safe and choose to lose 'em today.
...would be "greyed out".