The service's report, Technology Collection Trends in the U.S. Defence Industry, says foreign-hosted conventions, seminars and exhibits are popular venues for pilfering secrets.
Call me crazy, but I think when you go to the table at the front to register at the "Spy Convention", your cover's pretty much blown right there. Or does everyone there walk around with disquises or those funny Graucho Marx glasses and mustache?
Microsoft originally scheduled eight bulletins for release, but pulled four last Friday without explanation.
That's because all available developers were redeployed to design the iPhone killer to be codenamed "zone".
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I personally like the picture of the post-hole digger on the cover. I don't know if that's supposed to represent data mining tools (a pick and shovel would have been more appropos in that case) or if it's just a tool to help dig yourself out of the hole you find yourself in after 'inheriting' a DBA position.
If only they'd used the $16 million to recruit more pirates, they'd have done a lot more to reduce Global Warming. More pirates = Less Global Warming. I thought everyone knew that by now! We simply have to have more pirates.
Well if this rumor turns out to be true, things could get real intersting over there soon. And just when oil prices had started coming down again.
A correction to my previous post: I did some checking and learned that Saudi Arabia has the largest known oil reserves in the region. Iran and Iraq are close seconds around a billion barrels each which combined is still less than what is known to exist under the Saudi sands. That will teach me to quote stuff I hear on the radio without checking first.
I also used to think the war in Iraq wasn't at all about oil until I learned a few things. First, Iraq has one of the (if not the) largest oil reserves remaining in the Middle Eastern region. And what happens there will continue have a big impact on the world oil markets for decades to come, while reserves begin to dry up in other countries. This and the fact that the US 'planners' (in discussions that took place well before 9/11) knew well in advance that any war in Iraq would take decades to resolve, makes one think that the Administration's motive was something more than the simple "Saddam is evil - has WMD's" arguments.
Second, prior to the invasion, Iraq was set to convert their oil exchange from dollars to Euros which would have had a pretty severe impact on the value of the dollar and hence the US economy. Those things alone are enough to make you think that the whole WMD argument was just a smoke screen to complete an agenda that was probably in place well before 9/11 even happened.
No offense taken, my good man. I guess when you do a submission, it's kind of like your baby and you become a little more sensitive than normal.
But I do know what you're saying about headlines. Someone sent me a bunch of them several years ago and they were a riot. Example: "Having trouble with your menu? Use your children.", stuff like that. English is a bizzarre language, and I like to have fun with it when I can. It drives my wife nuts too as she's a native Colombian of German descent so English is actually her third language. Still, she has better grammar and spelling skills than some teachers here that I know. Go figure.
Or vice versa. Some of the voting machines purchased in my once proud state of Florida were made by a company owned and controlled by the Chavez government in Venezuela. It was a point of contention in the news here and I believe there was also at least one/. story that referred to this but I'm too lazy to search for it.
*sigh* Ya know, I knew no matter how carefully I worded and proofread this some grammar nazi would get me for something. So as a public service to Slashdot readers around the world I'm fixing the title:
It does get one's imagination going if you think about the different potential applications. Remember the scene in (I think?) Total Recall where the girl sitting at the desk is changing her nail color with a touch of a stylus? This type of technology could well enable stuff like that. And I love the idea of having wallpaper that I could change at my whim.
OTOH, I'd hate to see this become yet another outlet for annoying adverts that could be seen everywhere you go. It already drives me completely nuts when I'm watching television programming (that I paid for!) and these stupid pop-ups that take up a significant portion of the screen keep coming up and spamming me for another program. It's not enough to have normal commercials, now they have to have commercials during the program I'm watching.
Okay, I did get off-topic there. But it's my submission so I'm entitled, right?:p
Not only that, you're going to zap every credit and debit card within an appreciable radius and I'm thinking you'll know pretty quickly if the guy in line next to you has a pacemaker or any other metallic implants.
OTOH, a lot of jewelry and loose change is going to fly to the center of the machine when you fire it up in the checkout line, so that may offset your costs somewhat.
You didn't have to go to all that trouble. All you had to do was get hold of a copy of Vista and your computer would have demanded those things all on its own.
While my comment and his were admittedly off-topic and the mods are free to mark them as such, I have become very tired of people making insulting comments about Colombia who have never been there and know next to nothing about it. Yes, the country remains embroiled in a nasty civil war that has been going on for decades, and there have been many problems in the past. But the fact is that the old cartels are a thing of the past and the country is on the rebound as evidenced by the growing strength of the Colombian Peso against the Dollar. It's a beautiful country with some of the most diverse landscapes on the continent populated by people who are by and large honest, hard working and fun loving.
The U.S. stereotypes about Colombia are at best misinformed and at their worst very insulting to the many, many good people who call it their home.
If you're going to insult an entire country and its citizens, most of whom have never touched cocaine, at least have the decency to spell the name correctly.
I just read that the President wants to increase the size of the military in Iraq. Maybe someone should tell him about this "natural male enhancement" so we can use it there?
I heard somewhere last week (NPR?) an interesting statistic on this. They said that the Zune was even being outsold by USB iPod chargers. Given that there's already a ton of iPods out there, it's a pretty telling statistic.
"Not all liquids are terrrorists, but all terrorists are liquids?"
No, it's: "People who are willing to sacrifice their liquids in exchange for security from the terrorsists are deserving of neither". Or...something like that.
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I personally like the picture of the post-hole digger on the cover. I don't know if that's supposed to represent data mining tools (a pick and shovel would have been more appropos in that case) or if it's just a tool to help dig yourself out of the hole you find yourself in after 'inheriting' a DBA position.
My current sig line came from one of these I read a couple of years ago. It was a label for a holiday light set.
I also wanted to submit one I saw on an Arm & Hammer box of cat litter that said: "This product safe for use around animals". One would hope so!
If only they'd used the $16 million to recruit more pirates, they'd have done a lot more to reduce Global Warming. More pirates = Less Global Warming. I thought everyone knew that by now! We simply have to have more pirates.
And more cowbell would be nice too.
Well if this rumor turns out to be true, things could get real intersting over there soon. And just when oil prices had started coming down again.
A correction to my previous post: I did some checking and learned that Saudi Arabia has the largest known oil reserves in the region. Iran and Iraq are close seconds around a billion barrels each which combined is still less than what is known to exist under the Saudi sands. That will teach me to quote stuff I hear on the radio without checking first.
I also used to think the war in Iraq wasn't at all about oil until I learned a few things. First, Iraq has one of the (if not the) largest oil reserves remaining in the Middle Eastern region. And what happens there will continue have a big impact on the world oil markets for decades to come, while reserves begin to dry up in other countries. This and the fact that the US 'planners' (in discussions that took place well before 9/11) knew well in advance that any war in Iraq would take decades to resolve, makes one think that the Administration's motive was something more than the simple "Saddam is evil - has WMD's" arguments.
Second, prior to the invasion, Iraq was set to convert their oil exchange from dollars to Euros which would have had a pretty severe impact on the value of the dollar and hence the US economy. Those things alone are enough to make you think that the whole WMD argument was just a smoke screen to complete an agenda that was probably in place well before 9/11 even happened.
No offense taken, my good man. I guess when you do a submission, it's kind of like your baby and you become a little more sensitive than normal.
But I do know what you're saying about headlines. Someone sent me a bunch of them several years ago and they were a riot. Example: "Having trouble with your menu? Use your children.", stuff like that. English is a bizzarre language, and I like to have fun with it when I can. It drives my wife nuts too as she's a native Colombian of German descent so English is actually her third language. Still, she has better grammar and spelling skills than some teachers here that I know. Go figure.
Or vice versa. Some of the voting machines purchased in my once proud state of Florida were made by a company owned and controlled by the Chavez government in Venezuela. It was a point of contention in the news here and I believe there was also at least one /. story that referred to this but I'm too lazy to search for it.
So THAT's where the Zune came from.
*sigh* Ya know, I knew no matter how carefully I worded and proofread this some grammar nazi would get me for something. So as a public service to Slashdot readers around the world I'm fixing the title:
:p
"Electronic Paper Plant to be Grown in Germany"
There, happy now?
It does get one's imagination going if you think about the different potential applications. Remember the scene in (I think?) Total Recall where the girl sitting at the desk is changing her nail color with a touch of a stylus? This type of technology could well enable stuff like that. And I love the idea of having wallpaper that I could change at my whim.
:p
OTOH, I'd hate to see this become yet another outlet for annoying adverts that could be seen everywhere you go. It already drives me completely nuts when I'm watching television programming (that I paid for!) and these stupid pop-ups that take up a significant portion of the screen keep coming up and spamming me for another program. It's not enough to have normal commercials, now they have to have commercials during the program I'm watching.
Okay, I did get off-topic there. But it's my submission so I'm entitled, right?
Not only that, you're going to zap every credit and debit card within an appreciable radius and I'm thinking you'll know pretty quickly if the guy in line next to you has a pacemaker or any other metallic implants.
OTOH, a lot of jewelry and loose change is going to fly to the center of the machine when you fire it up in the checkout line, so that may offset your costs somewhat.
No, the real question should be:
Is Generalissimo Francisco Franco still dead?
You didn't have to go to all that trouble. All you had to do was get hold of a copy of Vista and your computer would have demanded those things all on its own.
While my comment and his were admittedly off-topic and the mods are free to mark them as such, I have become very tired of people making insulting comments about Colombia who have never been there and know next to nothing about it. Yes, the country remains embroiled in a nasty civil war that has been going on for decades, and there have been many problems in the past. But the fact is that the old cartels are a thing of the past and the country is on the rebound as evidenced by the growing strength of the Colombian Peso against the Dollar. It's a beautiful country with some of the most diverse landscapes on the continent populated by people who are by and large honest, hard working and fun loving.
The U.S. stereotypes about Colombia are at best misinformed and at their worst very insulting to the many, many good people who call it their home.
It's "Colombia".
If you're going to insult an entire country and its citizens, most of whom have never touched cocaine, at least have the decency to spell the name correctly.
I just read that the President wants to increase the size of the military in Iraq. Maybe someone should tell him about this "natural male enhancement" so we can use it there?
Actually I found a picture of it which I'm posting here for your benefit:
Pretty cool, huh?
I heard somewhere last week (NPR?) an interesting statistic on this. They said that the Zune was even being outsold by USB iPod chargers. Given that there's already a ton of iPods out there, it's a pretty telling statistic.