The surface of the moon churns because of solar heating and cooling cycles. It takes about 100 years for surface features to completely disappear to be replaced by new surface features.
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Java provides almost the power of the C++ programming language, and combines it with the ease of use of the C++ programming language.
Thanks for the truth on Chinese food. I was arguing with friends about whether or not there was such a thing as "American Cuisine." I told them that the food they can find in the average Chinese restaurant here in Austin would count as 100% American. The people who invented it lived in North America 150 years ago. We might think of it as "Chinese" food, but it's as American as apple pie. And didn't we get apple pie from eastern Europe or something?
Mr. Wong is at the hospital because his wife had a baby. After the delivery, the doctor brings the baby to him and says "Here's your beautiful new baby, Mr. Wong."
Mr. Wong notices that the baby isn't Chinese, but white. He objects, saying that the baby isn't his. The doctor says "why would you think this baby isn't yours?"
Mr. Wong replies, EVERYONE knows that two Wongs don't make a white!
(And if you don't like that joke you can kiss my Chinese ass.)
Well, sometimes we programmers don't WANT to interact with anyone else. Particularly when a normal exchange with your boss goes like this:
ME: Hi, I'm going to be out today from 9 to 11 because I'm having a dishwasher installed in my house. I came in at 5 this morning, have no meetings, and will be back before lunch. If you need me urgently, my pager number is XXX-XXXX.
BOSS: (e-mail CC'd to the project manager and the Vice President) Your assignments were due last week. You will need to work all weekend to compensate for this. You are behind in all your work. I expect you to be a team player and step up to the plate. Everyone is depending on you for this most urgent blah blah blah blah blah.
ME: (also CC'd to the project manager and the Vice President) If my assignments were due last week, then you should have informed the team of your new schedule before today. See you at 11.
Turns out that he was caught in a lie - my assignments were NOT due the previous week. After I completed my project on time he also had to answer a lot of questions about why he mistakenly thought I was behind in my work. It's his job to know where the team is at all times.
Get a modem like me. Things have to be pretty far gone before you notice that the rest of the internet is moving less than 56K. It works in real life too. That guy going 45 MPH in the right lane of the highway doesn't wait for ANYBODY.
I agree. I once had a college roommate who claimed that the Soviet Union had infiltrated the United States to such an extent that we are the actual Russians.
I found one article that said he started in the spy business in 1975.
I found another article that said he worked for the NSA for 20 years.
My incredible deductive powers have allowed me to determine that he left the NSA 5 years ago.
(knock knock)
Ummm. Folks, I have to go now. It seems that I have impressed more people than just myself and thou. Some men wearing nice suits are offering me a job. Bye.
"In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
EX-AGENT TO DANISH MINISTERS: YOU ARE BEING MONITORED
Former Echelon agent warns Danish politicians against confidential
conversations over the phone.
The Echelon system not only listens in on private persons, companies and
interest groups, Danish politicians and ministers are also the target of
the NSA's extensive espionage, reveals Wayne Madsen to Ekstra Bladet, who
meets him in Washington D.C. Wayne Madsen was once a spy for the National
Security Agency NSA - the intelligence service behind Echelon - but he has
severed connections with his former employer.
We are crossing the border into the state of Maryland. Behind us lies
Washington D.C., the US capital - and somewhere in front before us lies
Fort Meade in neighbor-state Maryland. 'The Fort' is the headquarters for
world-wide espionage and the workplace for 38,613 of the most talented
secret agents in the world.
Wayne Madsen is very familiar with Fort Meade. For several years, it was
his clandestine workplace. He has a pistol in the glove compartment of his
car. Loaded. Wayne Madsen is always armed wherever he drives.
"I don't carry a gun because I think it's cool to have a pistol. But based
on the sources I still have in the NSA, I know there are people in the
intelligence services who do not care for people who talk about the secret
services. Since they are armed, I had better be prepared, too."
Wayne Madsen is an experienced man in regards to secret projects and
surveillance. Since 1975, he has been operating the most sophisticated
computer technology in existence. First as a marine in the US Navy, then
as an agent for the National Security Agency, NSA, and most recently as an
employee at two of the NSA's partners, RCA and the Computer Science
Corporation.
"Whenever anyone criticizes the NSA, it is important to remember that they
have done a lot of important work, too. Both during the Second World War
and the Cold War, when they were talented at breaking the codes of the
Nazis and the East Bloc countries respectively."
TOTAL HEARABILITY
To prove to us that the NSA does more than just 'black work', Wayne Madsen
wants to show us an unusual museum, the NSA's Center for Cryptologic
History.
"Since it is located at the same address as NSA headquarters, Fort Meade,
we can see the buildings I worked in at the same time -from the outside at
least."
Just before we get to Fort Meade, Wayne Madsen points down an access road.
"I went through a lie-detector test and a voice-test analysis over there,
before I was approved by the NSA," Wayne tells us with a faint, shy smile.
He was a lieutenant in the Navy at the time with ten years of experience
in tracking Soviet U-boats and monitoring computer security.
What is the role of the NSA now that the Cold War is over?
"Primarily, they have a global network of computers known as Echelon. The
computers are connected with their intelligence satellites and listening
posts all over the world. And they still do military work. The difference
is, however, that today they monitor everything and everyone. Politicians,
organizations, companies, private individuals, even friends in allied
countries. In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
MINISTERS MONITORED
Is Denmark part of this system?
"Yes. Denmark is a third-party partner in the surveillance agreements. On
the other hand, however, Danish ministers and politicians must assume that
they are under surveillance."
What?
"Yes, that is part of the way they work. At their embassies, they have
groups called 'Special Collection Elements' that monitor local
low-frequency communication. Anything of interest is forwarded here to
Fort Meade where it is analyzed."
"If something can't be intercepted from the embassies, they try to
intercept it from the listening posts in the various neighboring
countries. So is it very risky for Danish ministers to talk on cellular
and satellite telephones alike," says Wayne Madsen as we enter the NSA
museum.
SPY TO EX-SPY
Inside the museum, Wayne Madsen asks whether Jack Ingram is at work today.
A moment later, a tall man appears. Ingram has been an NSA spy for many
years. Now he administrates the museum. He shakes hands with Wayne, and
the pair quickly strike up a conversation about common acquaintances at
various intelligence agencies and companies.
Shortly after, we walk around looking at the NSA's exhibits of cast-off
super-computers and code deciphering equipment - debris from more than
fifty years of intensive espionage in world-wide communication. Wayne
Madsen continues:
"Denmark doesn't get very much out of being a third party, because NSA is
the first party and decides which information the other countries receive.
So obviously, whenever they monitor specific politicians or companies in a
certain country, they naturally don't tell the local government about it.
The information they give to Denmark is something that promotes their own
interests or something they themselves consider to be a threat. For
example something about Tamilians or the PKK, the Kurdish resistance
movement. If it involves information which promotes their own financial
interests, then naturally they use it for their own benefit."
Do you have specific examples of what you are saying?
"Mike Frost, who worked for Canada's intelligence service, which also
participates in Echelon, has personally monitored both politicians and
companies in other countries. He told me among other things about
monitoring the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Australia. All the information
was forwarded here, to Fort Meade. The Australians never saw the
information because the US could use it to control the world wheat trade.
Although I write books and articles about the NSA, I still have good
contacts in intelligence circles at present," states Wayne Madsen.
As we drive back to Washington, he turns briefly toward Fort Meade's
parabolic antennas with a serious look on his face:
"The problem is that the NSA has lost sight of its purpose. It's not right
that taxpayers' money is used to help major shareholders in large
corporations to earn huge profits. Or for that matter the fact that the
NSA puts ordinary people, legal organizations and politicians under
constant suspicion."
EXTRA FACTS
In a joint council in September, Minister for Defense Hans Hækkerup
admitted that Denmark cooperates with other countries on surveillance.
However, Hans Hækkerup would not reveal which countries and intelligence
agencies Denmark cooperates with. It does appear, however, in the archives
left behind by the former head of the Danish Defense Department's
Intelligence Service, Commander Mørch.
Sources in Mørch's archives show that Denmark entered into an agreement
with the US on surveillance cooperation all the way back in 1947 - the
same year that the UKUSA - the pact behind Echelon - was established. The
UKUSA pact is controlled by the National Security Agency in the US, in
which the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British intelligence
services participate as second-party partners.
Most NATO countries - including Denmark - officially entered the pact as
third-party partners in 1950.
According to documents in the possession of Extra Bladet, the National
Security Agency has now confirmed that it has third-party partners.
BY BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
You're right about that. My friends and I were talking about the MIR television program/contest coming up. I told them that I would only want to be launched in a Soyuz. They thought I was nuts! I would be nervous as hell in the shuttle. In a Soyuz, I would relax and really enjoy the trip.
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Didn't you know? We're Communist now. Putting a monetary value on karma isn't really applicable anymore. I myself am "giving to the poor" so to speak. My fairly high karma is dwindling a couple points a day, thanks to comments such as this one. Sure, I could post insightful comments like I did in the good old days when the Czars ran the place, but now, what's the point? To each according to his need, from each according to what Cmdr "Stalin" Taco dictates. I am happy to live on my ration of 50 karma, for the good of the glorious future of the Slashdot Union. Please be sure to do your duty and acquire an approved work of art.
I wish that the X-15 program had been extended another 20 years or so. If it had been, we would have had a vehicle that launched from a Bomber with a 1 or 2 man crew, that could reach low earth orbit.
If you wonder what good an X-15 type plane would be if it could only launch 1 or 2 people at once, then consider that it would be much better than our current cheap launcher which doesn't exist. A cheap launcher that can send a single person up is better than an expensive launcher that can send 7 people up.
Launch your heavy mass on Titan IVs and Energias. Launch people in small launchers. Have then rendesvous in orbit. It's cheaper that way.
Is there a good place to find the tips and tricks of the Debian packaging system? I run Debian on all my machines, and I still haven't figured out how to get a full list of every package installed in a machine.
Yes, SLS was the first distro, but Ygg was the first commercial one I think. It was included with a book or something.
I never ran Ygg. I started with kernel 0.97pl4 way back, and I think I scratched most of that system together myself. On a 2400 baud modem. Uphill, both ways.
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The surface of the moon churns because of solar heating and cooling cycles. It takes about 100 years for surface features to completely disappear to be replaced by new surface features.
Java provides almost the power of the C++ programming language, and combines it with the ease of use of the C++ programming language.
Thanks for the truth on Chinese food. I was arguing with friends about whether or not there was such a thing as "American Cuisine." I told them that the food they can find in the average Chinese restaurant here in Austin would count as 100% American. The people who invented it lived in North America 150 years ago. We might think of it as "Chinese" food, but it's as American as apple pie. And didn't we get apple pie from eastern Europe or something?
Mr. Wong is at the hospital because his wife had a baby. After the delivery, the doctor brings the baby to him and says "Here's your beautiful new baby, Mr. Wong."
Mr. Wong notices that the baby isn't Chinese, but white. He objects, saying that the baby isn't his. The doctor says "why would you think this baby isn't yours?"
Mr. Wong replies, EVERYONE knows that two Wongs don't make a white!
(And if you don't like that joke you can kiss my Chinese ass.)
Amazing! With all the censorship here in the US it takes a foreigner to tell us that John HanCOCK was not a president!
This has really gone waaaay to far.
Can you confirm for me if these people were also presidents?
George BUSH
aBRAham lincoln
WOODrow wilson
johN ADams
CHESTer arthur
andrew JACKS-ON
DICK nixon
warren g HARDing
andrew JOHNSON
lyndon b JOHNSON
I think all these men were presidents, but with these dang filters I cannot tell for sure. Can you check for me? Thanks.
Well, sometimes we programmers don't WANT to interact with anyone else. Particularly when a normal exchange with your boss goes like this:
ME: Hi, I'm going to be out today from 9 to 11 because I'm having a dishwasher installed in my house. I came in at 5 this morning, have no meetings, and will be back before lunch. If you need me urgently, my pager number is XXX-XXXX.
BOSS: (e-mail CC'd to the project manager and the Vice President) Your assignments were due last week. You will need to work all weekend to compensate for this. You are behind in all your work. I expect you to be a team player and step up to the plate. Everyone is depending on you for this most urgent blah blah blah blah blah.
ME: (also CC'd to the project manager and the Vice President) If my assignments were due last week, then you should have informed the team of your new schedule before today. See you at 11.
Turns out that he was caught in a lie - my assignments were NOT due the previous week. After I completed my project on time he also had to answer a lot of questions about why he mistakenly thought I was behind in my work. It's his job to know where the team is at all times.
True story.
If it took me 4 hours to compile a kernel I think my arm would get sore.
Get a modem like me. Things have to be pretty far gone before you notice that the rest of the internet is moving less than 56K. It works in real life too. That guy going 45 MPH in the right lane of the highway doesn't wait for ANYBODY.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. But you've described the best way.
I agree. I once had a college roommate who claimed that the Soviet Union had infiltrated the United States to such an extent that we are the actual Russians.
TRANSISTORS SUCK Why does this think insist on putting spaces in my links? DAMN!
I found one article that said he started in the spy business in 1975.
I found another article that said he worked for the NSA for 20 years.
My incredible deductive powers have allowed me to determine that he left the NSA 5 years ago.
(knock knock)
Ummm. Folks, I have to go now. It seems that I have impressed more people than just myself and thou. Some men wearing nice suits are offering me a job. Bye.
Printed in Denmark nov. 26. 1999.
"In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
EX-AGENT TO DANISH MINISTERS: YOU ARE BEING MONITORED
Former Echelon agent warns Danish politicians against confidential
conversations over the phone.
The Echelon system not only listens in on private persons, companies and
interest groups, Danish politicians and ministers are also the target of
the NSA's extensive espionage, reveals Wayne Madsen to Ekstra Bladet, who
meets him in Washington D.C. Wayne Madsen was once a spy for the National
Security Agency NSA - the intelligence service behind Echelon - but he has
severed connections with his former employer.
We are crossing the border into the state of Maryland. Behind us lies
Washington D.C., the US capital - and somewhere in front before us lies
Fort Meade in neighbor-state Maryland. 'The Fort' is the headquarters for
world-wide espionage and the workplace for 38,613 of the most talented
secret agents in the world.
Wayne Madsen is very familiar with Fort Meade. For several years, it was
his clandestine workplace. He has a pistol in the glove compartment of his
car. Loaded. Wayne Madsen is always armed wherever he drives.
"I don't carry a gun because I think it's cool to have a pistol. But based
on the sources I still have in the NSA, I know there are people in the
intelligence services who do not care for people who talk about the secret
services. Since they are armed, I had better be prepared, too."
Wayne Madsen is an experienced man in regards to secret projects and
surveillance. Since 1975, he has been operating the most sophisticated
computer technology in existence. First as a marine in the US Navy, then
as an agent for the National Security Agency, NSA, and most recently as an
employee at two of the NSA's partners, RCA and the Computer Science
Corporation.
"Whenever anyone criticizes the NSA, it is important to remember that they
have done a lot of important work, too. Both during the Second World War
and the Cold War, when they were talented at breaking the codes of the
Nazis and the East Bloc countries respectively."
TOTAL HEARABILITY
To prove to us that the NSA does more than just 'black work', Wayne Madsen
wants to show us an unusual museum, the NSA's Center for Cryptologic
History.
"Since it is located at the same address as NSA headquarters, Fort Meade,
we can see the buildings I worked in at the same time -from the outside at
least."
Just before we get to Fort Meade, Wayne Madsen points down an access road.
"I went through a lie-detector test and a voice-test analysis over there,
before I was approved by the NSA," Wayne tells us with a faint, shy smile.
He was a lieutenant in the Navy at the time with ten years of experience
in tracking Soviet U-boats and monitoring computer security.
What is the role of the NSA now that the Cold War is over?
"Primarily, they have a global network of computers known as Echelon. The
computers are connected with their intelligence satellites and listening
posts all over the world. And they still do military work. The difference
is, however, that today they monitor everything and everyone. Politicians,
organizations, companies, private individuals, even friends in allied
countries. In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
MINISTERS MONITORED
Is Denmark part of this system?
"Yes. Denmark is a third-party partner in the surveillance agreements. On
the other hand, however, Danish ministers and politicians must assume that
they are under surveillance."
What?
"Yes, that is part of the way they work. At their embassies, they have
groups called 'Special Collection Elements' that monitor local
low-frequency communication. Anything of interest is forwarded here to
Fort Meade where it is analyzed."
"If something can't be intercepted from the embassies, they try to
intercept it from the listening posts in the various neighboring
countries. So is it very risky for Danish ministers to talk on cellular
and satellite telephones alike," says Wayne Madsen as we enter the NSA
museum.
SPY TO EX-SPY
Inside the museum, Wayne Madsen asks whether Jack Ingram is at work today.
A moment later, a tall man appears. Ingram has been an NSA spy for many
years. Now he administrates the museum. He shakes hands with Wayne, and
the pair quickly strike up a conversation about common acquaintances at
various intelligence agencies and companies.
Shortly after, we walk around looking at the NSA's exhibits of cast-off
super-computers and code deciphering equipment - debris from more than
fifty years of intensive espionage in world-wide communication. Wayne
Madsen continues:
"Denmark doesn't get very much out of being a third party, because NSA is
the first party and decides which information the other countries receive.
So obviously, whenever they monitor specific politicians or companies in a
certain country, they naturally don't tell the local government about it.
The information they give to Denmark is something that promotes their own
interests or something they themselves consider to be a threat. For
example something about Tamilians or the PKK, the Kurdish resistance
movement. If it involves information which promotes their own financial
interests, then naturally they use it for their own benefit."
Do you have specific examples of what you are saying?
"Mike Frost, who worked for Canada's intelligence service, which also
participates in Echelon, has personally monitored both politicians and
companies in other countries. He told me among other things about
monitoring the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Australia. All the information
was forwarded here, to Fort Meade. The Australians never saw the
information because the US could use it to control the world wheat trade.
Although I write books and articles about the NSA, I still have good
contacts in intelligence circles at present," states Wayne Madsen.
As we drive back to Washington, he turns briefly toward Fort Meade's
parabolic antennas with a serious look on his face:
"The problem is that the NSA has lost sight of its purpose. It's not right
that taxpayers' money is used to help major shareholders in large
corporations to earn huge profits. Or for that matter the fact that the
NSA puts ordinary people, legal organizations and politicians under
constant suspicion."
EXTRA FACTS
In a joint council in September, Minister for Defense Hans Hækkerup
admitted that Denmark cooperates with other countries on surveillance.
However, Hans Hækkerup would not reveal which countries and intelligence
agencies Denmark cooperates with. It does appear, however, in the archives
left behind by the former head of the Danish Defense Department's
Intelligence Service, Commander Mørch.
Sources in Mørch's archives show that Denmark entered into an agreement
with the US on surveillance cooperation all the way back in 1947 - the
same year that the UKUSA - the pact behind Echelon - was established. The
UKUSA pact is controlled by the National Security Agency in the US, in
which the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British intelligence
services participate as second-party partners.
Most NATO countries - including Denmark - officially entered the pact as
third-party partners in 1950.
According to documents in the possession of Extra Bladet, the National
Security Agency has now confirmed that it has third-party partners.
BY BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
I see nothing that indicates how long he has been out of the NSA.
Tape it to the sidewalk next to the mailbox and mail it to Venus COD. The Earth is very heavy, and the delivery should be spectacular.
You're right about that. My friends and I were talking about the MIR television program/contest coming up. I told them that I would only want to be launched in a Soyuz. They thought I was nuts! I would be nervous as hell in the shuttle. In a Soyuz, I would relax and really enjoy the trip.
Didn't you know? We're Communist now. Putting a monetary value on karma isn't really applicable anymore. I myself am "giving to the poor" so to speak. My fairly high karma is dwindling a couple points a day, thanks to comments such as this one. Sure, I could post insightful comments like I did in the good old days when the Czars ran the place, but now, what's the point? To each according to his need, from each according to what Cmdr "Stalin" Taco dictates. I am happy to live on my ration of 50 karma, for the good of the glorious future of the Slashdot Union. Please be sure to do your duty and acquire an approved work of art.
Never trust anyone over 9576.
It is. It takes 5 minutes.
I wish that the X-15 program had been extended another 20 years or so. If it had been, we would have had a vehicle that launched from a Bomber with a 1 or 2 man crew, that could reach low earth orbit.
If you wonder what good an X-15 type plane would be if it could only launch 1 or 2 people at once, then consider that it would be much better than our current cheap launcher which doesn't exist. A cheap launcher that can send a single person up is better than an expensive launcher that can send 7 people up.
Launch your heavy mass on Titan IVs and Energias. Launch people in small launchers. Have then rendesvous in orbit. It's cheaper that way.
I love the Braille edition of Playboy.
It has a hairy page!
and then she KICKED HIM IN THE DING DING!
The end.
Is there a good place to find the tips and tricks of the Debian packaging system? I run Debian on all my machines, and I still haven't figured out how to get a full list of every package installed in a machine.
The reward for finding a bug in one of Knuth's books is a binary dollar - 2^8 pennies - $2.56.
He's written a lot of checks for $2.56, but very few of hem have been cashed.
Yes, SLS was the first distro, but Ygg was the first commercial one I think. It was included with a book or something.
I never ran Ygg. I started with kernel 0.97pl4 way back, and I think I scratched most of that system together myself. On a 2400 baud modem. Uphill, both ways.