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by olympus 13y ago
Can someone provide commentary on what this means for those of us who aren't knowledgable about SSL/secure web traffic stuff? Is an A rating really good (I presume it is), or is it one of those things that you aren't really
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by olympus 13y ago
Seeing as jazzychad is OP, I think this is the campaign he was talking about.
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by olympus 13y ago
Manning was a PFC in the Army. He wouldn't have been able to afford fleeing to Hong Kong or Moscow making less than $30,000 per year. He would have had a much more difficult time evading arrest.
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by olympus 13y ago
Guessing that an A320 carries about 150 passengers, losing 3-4 of them would still make this worth it, and if they weren't flying 100% full in the first place the lost seats don't cost them anything. It's a neat idea, seems
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by olympus 13y ago
I wonder how much weight this adds to the plane. A full jet is often right at the edge of it's envelope and adding a few hundred pounds of electric motors could mean that they lose a row of seats. I would love it if extra leg room wa
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by olympus 13y ago
As a casual LaTeX user I never really got into the macro/package programming side of it, but for some reason I really don't want to have to type a backslash before every 'therefore.' Is it possible to write a procedure
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by olympus 13y ago
Sorry, bad grammar. I meant that sometimes they reboot automatically. The systems are designed to always reboot without physically crashing the jet, but sometimes the pilot has to command the reboot themselves.
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by olympus 13y ago
> system that is designed to never crash Oh, they crash. Software on currently fielded jets crash all the time, pilots call them "software anomalies." Systems are designed to fail softly and reboot quickly (~1 minute) and some
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by olympus 13y ago
Microsoft Communicator. If you're in a big company that already uses MS Exchange for emails then it's a pretty easy integration. Probably not a great solution for small companies due to the cost.
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Lockheed Reassigns Workers to Fix F-35 Software(military.com)
37 points by olympus 13y ago|50 comments
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by olympus 13y ago
They shouldn't be spying on American citizens in the first place. That protection could possibly be extended to civilians in other countries as well, but there's nothing in the Constitution about the rights of non-citizens. How
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by olympus 13y ago
His profile looks a lot like he copied/pasted his OPR/EPR (performance report) bullets. The big thing to remember here is that OPR/EPR bullets have to make even small things sound like big things so everything is punched up
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by olympus 13y ago
I'm not being too much of a stickler. He did admit to it on video. Yes, he could have been forced to say that, but it looks an awful lot like he willingly broke the law. If he had come out on video claiming that he didn't do
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by olympus 13y ago
No, if you self admit you can still keep your clearance. At least at the Secret level. If you are admitted to a mental institution after a breakdown it might be a different story, but I don't know anyone like that. But getting couns
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by olympus 13y ago
Except there is a difference between the law and morality. In this case, Snowden clearly broke the law, and is a criminal regardless of his moral motivations. This PRISM program, while obviously an overreach of the government, has yet to
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by olympus 13y ago
Nope. Every military officer in the US has Secret clearance, so it's not as big of a deal as you might think. You go through an investigation which requires you to list things up to seven years in your past, but isn't a big deal
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by olympus 13y ago
Who's throwing around terms? I'm not the one who works at a law firm. I didn't bring up FISA, HIPPA, or FERPA here. I was just stating it like it is, which you in your roundabout way have confirmed: The system isn't
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by olympus 13y ago
Rayiner, you're confusing legal concepts with reality. Remember that AT&T was granted immunity by Congress for the room 641A fiasco. So even if you can't meet the legal standards for sovereign immunity the system will still
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by olympus 13y ago
Remember, you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you. If the powers that be decide that they are immune, then they are. If they decide to give immunity to Verizon for complying with government orders then poof! they ha
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by olympus 13y ago
That could certainly be the case. The only two plausible reasons for leaking classified information are moral convictions or personal gain (selling it to the news or a foreign country). Edit: Maybe three reasons. Blackmail/extortion is a
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by olympus 13y ago
No, I was suggesting that the government has touched things that many people don't realize. There might not be an explicit backdoor in the code, but it's quite possible there is a vulnerability that the government can exploit. I'm not say
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by olympus 13y ago
I'm not sure when the security people you are talking about did their audit, but when Microsoft bought Skype a few years ago they changed it from P2P communications to routing everything through a central server. After that it would be chi
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by olympus 13y ago
They hand out these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter You're not even supposed to reveal that you are complying (gag order). Google has been in the news recently about fighting one in court.
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by olympus 13y ago
Edit: Just saw the portion markings (the stuff on the slides that says their classification level), and I'm going to change my judgement to "this was pretty classified." And whoever released these slides to the public is going to jail for
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by olympus 13y ago
"89 percent of California companies that got crucial seed funding were founded by men. What percentage were all-female founding teams? Just three percent." Sure, but what was the prior distribution of teams seeking funding? If only 1% of t
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by olympus 13y ago
I think it should be pointed out that the information the police get back from a DNA sample is NOT a fully sequenced genome. It contains enough information to find high confidence matches, but they can't go through the information and star
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by olympus 13y ago
Yours is perhaps the best argument I've ever heard against corporal punishment. I've never accepted the "spanking causes trauma" argument since any form of discipline will do that if administered inappropriately. I do have a vendetta agai
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by olympus 13y ago
tptacek, I'm sure you have a compelling viewpoint both as someone who has to manage an entire company and as someone who is older and wiser than I am (I'm not sure if you have kids of your own). Would you care to expand on why you don't th
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by olympus 13y ago
There's a story from Gene Woolsey that I had to read my senior year in college (I was an Ops Research major, and Gene Woolsey is a pretty big deal in that field). The story went something like this: A group of students had just finished a
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by olympus 13y ago
I understand that this is a good idea for Amazon because it is good for them to keep people within their ecosystem, but this is what I think of whenever someone announces a product that has already been made several times: http://xkcd.com/

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