Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Side issue, why does anyone have to care about the way others are or need to live their life?
In a word.... control. This might just be the final frontier that Russia needs to conquer to totally control the population. Even if you're not gay, all it takes is some saying you are and you are up the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle. The is Mccarthyism and to a similar extent what J. Edgar puylled but taken to a different level. Lives will be ruined, families destroyed, but those in power won't care because their power will be even more consolidated and massive.
Hmm... after re-reading this, I wonder if Putin is really just pulling a J Edgar.... If I were in Russia I would be expecting a knock on the door for that in 5...4...3...2....
Around here, the troops on the floor go into a training room where an instructor versed in the software spends several days with them with actual hands on training along with some docs and cheat sheets.
For the support troops... we get a video conference for a couple of hours of watching some idiot move his mouse around the screen going: "click here", "do this"... We end up wondering what the purpose of this software is and what it really does.
The end result, the users know how more about the damn software than the support team. Bah....
Now if those same two had a say in the so-called USA Freedom Act... which isn't "freedom". There's some others in Congress who have some knowledge or at least have friends they can call for advice on things like this and they often do. Sadly, the lobbyists and LEO's usually win since logic an reason don't matter when there's power to be grabbed.
I hope this won't come up again, but I suspect there's a willing Congress Critter who will attach a rider that mandates what the FBI, etc. want. Impossible it maybe, they'll still mandate it.
There's "let's guess your age", "your name", "your date of death" (that sounds like a winner) and others. I'm guessing that they're all grabbing even more data than FB. I have some friends that use FB and play these games/sites and then suddenly get upset by the obvious increase in spam emails and ads. But no, you can't talk sense to them because it's "all in fun".....
Incredibly, ICANN appears adamant that the US Department of Commerce and Congress will give California-based ICANN that role forever – despite both institutions having made statements that would strongly suggest otherwise.
Why is that so hard to disbelieve? Look that all the hoops SpaceX and the other upstarts have had to jump through just to get a few launches from NASA. The bureaucracy likes "known" suppliers and contractors. They like a familiar face when it's time for negotiations, a free lunch, or brown envelope. They don't like change. Thus... ICANN has a pretty good shot at owning the cash cow that is the IANA contract (with perks) forever. I don't see Lockheed or Boeing being shut out of doing space launches even though they cost more. The system is what it is and the only way change will come about is from someplace other than the center of power.
At most airports, when they land and shut down the engines, ground power is connected. If this is like many aircraft, all electronics including the GCU's would have power. I guessing the solution is to disconnect the batteries and ground power every 247 days. Truly a cold reboot.
Edit: I'm not sure if the 787 has a breaker for each GCU to completely remove power from the unit. As I recall, some A/C do and some don't.
and you sorry asses the real SUCK story behind the ignorant HATE for AMS (anything Microsoft).
Nah.. we're equal-opportunity haters. We hate Apple, Google, M$, Facebook, Twitter, ad nauseam ad infinitum ... and just about everything else. We're commentards and wear our tardness proudly.
a) He's a politician
b) There's an election coming up
c) There's lobbyists and campaign contributions coming.
d) That's all he needs to know... in his world.
Unless there's a large check attached to the explanation, one might as well try to teach a pig to sing.
Can Airbus prove the charges? On both what was snooped and what was shared and with whom? It could be the embargo information (which would be embarrassing to Airbus and the German government) or something else. Given the way spy vs. spy vs. spy and "sharing" is and has been going on, there's really not much info in the article to say what's was done and what their grounds for tossing a sueball are.
I'd say, that one time and then arrested would get him a slap on the wrist if a good attorney is involved for the defense. "Poor kid.. hoodwinked and led astray.. have mercy". So they do what they've done in the past on a lot cases.. lead them along and the more incidents/thefts/whatevers, the stronger the grounds for conviction and heavy sentence.
Forget the "bomb" angle for now. Some of us are thinking it has to do with a police shooting. If cop shoots a suspect, shutdown the phones. No crowd will be drawn by witnesses with cell phones, etc. Civil disobedience, peaceful demonstrations... any of thousand reasons why they would or want to shut down the cell phone system.
The word "any" appears to be a catch-all here as given the way things are here in the States, a case could be made for their reasoning. The hell of it is, the courts agree that they don't have to tell us when it applies or doesn't apply. Government just has to say "life or lives are in danger".....
My apologies. You are correct in that I was using Blighty info from the 1700's and it's not a 100% correct. My fault as lately I've ben wrapped up in the old wooden ships and their history and design.
Yes, the weight of the vessel is equal to displacement. I'll go stand in the corner and repeat 1000 times "don't use old info"...
I'll also remove my post.
Icon for "my bad"...............
Dan,
I know of what you say. I've been myself. It still just strikes me that governments (and many companies) never learn.
My example is eons ago (it seems like) I worked in engineering a defense firm. We won a contract to design and build a turret for an armored fighting vehicle. We built it per the spec and then during acceptance, some General said: "Ok, let's take it out of the vehicle and tear it down." The spec stated "no repair needed". The as-built had wiring bundles to be cut and welds to be broken to get it out of the vehicle which destroyed the turret. The spec.. written my civilian and military members of DoD who should have known better. I should be jaded but idiocy still surprises me.
You have my curiosity up... which branch? In the 60's the Marine doctrine was single-shot, single-kill. Automatic fire was for the machinegun. The Army on the other hand, believed in massive suppressive fire... until they were out of bullets. It wasn't until towards the end of Vietnam that the Army started some training and testing of the single-shot, single-kill doctrine.
However, having said that, once the shooting starts, all bets are off. Some will shoot with well-placed single shots. Others will cut loose and empty the magazine.
I find it absurd that the first place looted and torched was a pharmacy. Another was a check cashing business. These were not protesters. These were criminals pure and simple who were taking advantage of the situation.
Same thing happened in Ferguson.. the first place looted and burned was liquor store.
Note that all the businesses looted and burned were black-owned. This BS the press tried to push at one point about it being about "whitey" is a myth left over from the 60's riots and ignores the criminal intent.
It will also help in emergency situations (a long way in the future) as it will be permanently available and you can have a roster of surgeons in your distant location (or even spread across the country).
Very possible though it would depend on the emergency. If power's out, infrastructure is destroyed or and earthquake has flattened the hospital on the robot.. then no.
When our own security services are hoovering up all our comms data it makes bugger all difference whether that data stays inside the EU or lands in US servers. It will all end up in US hands anyway thanks to our intelligence sharing arrangements.
And our data ends up in the EU hands due to the way the info is gathered and swapped. I guess I should say "thanks for sharing", but that's really a rather scary concept about data... metadata.. whatever data.
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