I meant as opposed to the Koreans who weren't at the school opening they were supposedly supposed to be at and were later 'shopped in. This appears to have really happened, just the picture was a composite of two pictures taken at different angles. Still cheap, but more "understandable".
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Costa Ricans won't work at the mine. They're too scared of the rebel forces out in the jungle. Everyone knows the revolutionary forces are targeting the mine.
They don't have to be Costa Ricans, I am sure there are plenty of Nicaraguans and El Salvadorans who would be chomping at the bit for the job. However, an empty stomach will make a man do all manner of jobs just to fill that stomach once in a while.
Besides, the way these systems work, the corporation likely would pay the rebel forces in the jungle for protection, or at least pay local goons to protect the mine. Cheaper than bringing in workers and having to pay the ransoms.
1) 1-2 years - everyone adopts HTTP 2.0, ECDHE, DarkMail, OTR, and other such protocols that can even be implemented "tomorrow", if there's the will
2) 5-7 years replace TCP with CurveCP or similar protocol that encrypts all packets on the web with ephemeral keys
3) 10-15 years replace IPv6 with a new encrypted IP level protocol
I like where this is going, but the danger in all of this is that the network itself will still exist physically in the realm where the bad guy (be they government, corporation, or rogue party,) has access to the backbone and can store data from or deny service to.
Of course, to fix this, there will be a hell of a lot more latency (putting the infrastructure on a satellite or blimp will take it out of the hands of bad actors, but will increase the latency to painful levels.
Then again, putting the infrastructure on satellites may make it easier for us to move to the eventual (hopefully) network infrastructure that covers the solar system.
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then DONT APPROVE the project in the first place, certainly don't lead the company on, with licenses and approvals, then bow to local public pressure take the money already spend and screw over the company.
The government approves a lot of stuff (ala NSA) that end up getting cut (hopefully) when the public finds out what is going on. Corruption is big in some governments (I'd say all governments, but I'd be talking out of my rear since I am not familiar with all governments and am only familiar with some.)
Government employees/politicians make lots of backroom deals that serve themselves and are later scrutinized and rejected by the public. Even in my local government, three politicians are now standing trial for corruption charges because they accepted gifts from contractors in order to win building contracts, which in turn bilked a ton of money from the people (and when found out, the contracts were squashed and the companies in question fined, and some of the officers looking at jail time.) One of our representatives ended up in jail for accepting favors and bribes (which the public later discovered,) and the mayor of a sister city quit because he was thinking with his lower brain and abusing his position to try to get sexual favors from his staff and the public.
Governments approve stuff that, by mandate of the people, they didn't have the authority to approve.
It's always much clearer if you equip yourself with the real facts regarding the issue. As opposed to a biased commentary of the events.
I like the fact that you yell about other people not supplying facts when your own comments are rather fact-less. Pot, meet kettle.
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That. If there is an environmental issue detected they should just shut up and move on. I'd hit them with some hypocrisy-tackle by saying they CAN operate IF they drink the water from sources in the region that receive their effluents to the tune of 1 liter per day. I'm sure they'd drop it quite quickly.
Unless the plan is to send the water to the CEO and corporate officers, I doubt they will balk at that. Since they are likely hiring a good deal of workers from the area to run the mine, forcing the workers to drink the water they are already drinking will likely not have much effect. Outside contractors and initial first line management may be foreigners.
The Scientologists need to up their game...they are being beaten badly by the communists in a game they should handily win (being that they are all in at the crazy game, where the communists actually have some logic and reason behind their crazy.)
I do agree that this looks more like a composite of two pictures at different angles than a picture where people were added who weren't there.
As a proud owner of the Techdirt "This Shirt has been Seized" t-shirt, I hope that the alteration of those seals aren't in violation of federal law (might be a little more worrisome when I wear that shirt to the airport.) Now, I just get harassed by the Department of Homeland Stupidity/Transportation inSecurity Agency...
I'm just waiting for all other businesses to start adopting the same business model.
I believe other businesses have already started trying to use this. I can't seem to find it in Google (my googlefu isn't as strong as I'd like it to be,) but I seem to remember recently a developer got into hot water by putting into a sales contract a deed restriction preventing resale of the home based on a bogus copyright on the design of the home/blueprints. They wanted a cut whenever someone resold the home they built. (All I could find was the Techdirt article from 2010 about resale fee and a 2012 article from WSJ about it being prohibited by Fannie Mae.)
Declare the copyrights on all pre-1972 recordings expired.
Was going to say the same myself. If you haven't been able to recoup your costs of production after 40 years, you're doing it wrong. Any copyright that is over 40 years old serves to make corporations of a few well known works rich off of the destruction of all other lesser known copyrights. Since most works disappear into obscurity far shorter than 40 years, and disappear entirely to customers (because the company that owns the copyright no longer wishes to spend the money to produce the work,) it would be better to restore copyright to its 17 year plus extension lifetime than the ridiculous life+70 model which only serves to make a few companies richer than to make the public, which gets shafted, richer.
if a sales come through and you make it, you are then acting as a sales person, if you 'get a cut' you are 'employed' (paid) to conduct that sale.
And the state is already supposed to get a cut of it, in the form of earned income tax. They want the income tax *AND* the sales tax, because, of course, crack isn't free.
Should be simple: at the time of the sale the tax should be calculated based on the billing address as if it was a physical store. Simple as that. I wonder what's hard about it...
Its amazing how simple concepts to an engineer become leviathans when Government is involved.
I suspect the state the company is in would want some of the cash the company is collecting (yes, they already do in the form of franchise or business taxes, but they forget about that too,) since they usually get some sales tax in normal brick-and-mortar sales. Some states are hitting the crack pipe so hard at the moment that they want a piece of every sale, whether or not it starts in or finishes in their state.
Weird thing I read that an heard it in V's voice ...
Me too. At first, I wasn't paying attention and was just reading it, and then all the sudden it was V talking over the television to me all over again (about the time I realized where it came from.)
That movie was awesome, in every way, and I sure hope it never comes true.
All true if, as you say, a little pedantic. Doesn't change the fact that all WiFi receivers in range receive all packets though, does it?
Many access points, and most client software, captures data based on this traffic to show you what is in the air around you.
Many access points label this information as "site survey" so that they can allow the administrator to chose the least populated channel (which of course, very few administrators realize that there are only three channels which do not interfere with each other: 1, 6, 11, and that choosing 2,3,4,5,7,8,9, or 10 makes you a dick,) and thus allow the administrator to chose channel 3 (because nobody else is on it.)
Most clients will display, as a matter of course, the list of SSIDs they see so that the user can connect to the one they think is theirs. Which is often a lot of fun when you set up an identical SSID as the one they usually use, and then they end up connecting to your access point without authorization! Me loves me some hot "linksys" or "default" SSID action!
But our fear and our thirst for absolute security seem to have killed any sense of humor, no?
I made a joke on the phone a couple days ago about the NSA spying on my call. It was a dumb joke, but I do that from time to time. The person I was talking to said I shouldn't joke about that, in case the NSA is really listening to the call. I nearly dropped the phone laughing at that response.
The moral police is strong here too. But they are mostly mocked and laughed at.
I wish it were the same here. I think they are winning.
it shouldn't be that difficult to scrap up a couple million dollars to throw at the problem to get a relatively simple fix implemented.
I'd prefer to scratch the whole program entirely and save the money altogether. Why throw good money out with bad.
Implementing a simple Linux based system would be far easier than trying to wring water out of a stone. CAC works with Linux, albeit not as easily, and it wouldn't take too much money to dump Windows and ActiveCard and throw a little at the contractors to come up with what is needed using Linux.
Unfortunately, even with acquisition rules changing to enforce open-source in the selection process, it is still really difficult for open-source to get any sort of traction in government (mainly because it is seen as a free, and thus unsupported, operating system.)
they definitely have enough clout to get it fixed if they cared to exercise it.
I've sat in meetings with Microsoft in which a Microsoft engineer has told us, straight faced, that we don't buy enough of their product to mean anything to their bottom line (even though we apparently have enough clout to have a couple Microsoft-paid engineers working at our facility and with us on a regular basis.) They wouldn't move when we pointed out their software was broken, and we ended up having to write our own software to cover up their failure to fix their software (which they ended up using and pushing out to all their customers.)
Nope, unless the Army levels a couple buildings in Redmond Washington, or takes their business elsewhere (either of which are highly unlikely,) Microsoft will still view them with the same disdain it views all of its other customers.
You would be lucky if they were even using a recent version of Windows.
You'd be surprised. Recent efforts have been put into place to mandate the latest OS's and for the most part, the longest pole in the tent is usually running Windows 7/Windows 2008R2 (very few are pushing for Windows 8.) The problem has always been the program of records, which tend to take forever since engineering is done by a committee and they don't want to break anything by moving to a new OS without testing to make sure everything works exactly the way it worked on the old OS. And then, there is the ton of paperwork, studies, quick-look reports, mandated engineering documentation nobody will ever look at, and security and accreditation processes that turn a simple operation into a 6 year process.
It is still on par with a snail on a cold winter's day, but usually without the molasses part (unless that is used to keep the engineers happy.)
Very much a sad but true statement. They go so far as outlaw their own people from knowing what everyone else already knows, even though that action pretty much guarantees failure.
However, having experienced this issue myself (the abnormally slow and long period of time for a system to lock after removing a smart card,) it isn't something the Army can easily fix. The problem is Microsoft's and ActiveCard's. Microsoft has the capability of locking the computer on smartcard removal built into Windows, and it has the option to lock the system, or log the user off. The problem isn't when the lock the system option is used, but when the log the user off option is used (which is used for shared systems.)
Instead of Microsoft/ActiveCard doing the right thing, which is to lock the system, and then process the log-off of the user, it just goes through the standard log-off, which may take some time because running applications are terminated and user data is saved. And if any application asks the user a question (like, do you really want to quit without saving your document?,) the system may sit in a much longer than usual stuck state. If the user is impatient and leaves before this process is completed, then someone else can interrupt the process and continue on using the system.
There are really two ways to fix this problem, and both will require active participation from Microsoft/ActiveCard. The first would be to perform the "log on as different user" capability built into the OS when the user removes their CAC. By doing so, the user is still logged in, and their applications and data are still safe, but the system will allow another user to log in and receive a new session (this is limited in Windows, and since the original user is still running applications and using data, may slow down the system if a couple people are logged in.) Or, Microsoft/ActiveCard could change the software so that upon immediate removal of the card, the system is locked, and the user is logged out in the background.
I doubt the Army has enough clout to fix this themselves.
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I meant as opposed to the Koreans who weren't at the school opening they were supposedly supposed to be at and were later 'shopped in. This appears to have really happened, just the picture was a composite of two pictures taken at different angles. Still cheap, but more "understandable".
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And you expect this corporation to do ... what?
They don't have to be Costa Ricans, I am sure there are plenty of Nicaraguans and El Salvadorans who would be chomping at the bit for the job. However, an empty stomach will make a man do all manner of jobs just to fill that stomach once in a while.
Besides, the way these systems work, the corporation likely would pay the rebel forces in the jungle for protection, or at least pay local goons to protect the mine. Cheaper than bringing in workers and having to pay the ransoms.
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2) 5-7 years replace TCP with CurveCP or similar protocol that encrypts all packets on the web with ephemeral keys
3) 10-15 years replace IPv6 with a new encrypted IP level protocol
I like where this is going, but the danger in all of this is that the network itself will still exist physically in the realm where the bad guy (be they government, corporation, or rogue party,) has access to the backbone and can store data from or deny service to.
Of course, to fix this, there will be a hell of a lot more latency (putting the infrastructure on a satellite or blimp will take it out of the hands of bad actors, but will increase the latency to painful levels.
Then again, putting the infrastructure on satellites may make it easier for us to move to the eventual (hopefully) network infrastructure that covers the solar system.
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The government approves a lot of stuff (ala NSA) that end up getting cut (hopefully) when the public finds out what is going on. Corruption is big in some governments (I'd say all governments, but I'd be talking out of my rear since I am not familiar with all governments and am only familiar with some.)
Government employees/politicians make lots of backroom deals that serve themselves and are later scrutinized and rejected by the public. Even in my local government, three politicians are now standing trial for corruption charges because they accepted gifts from contractors in order to win building contracts, which in turn bilked a ton of money from the people (and when found out, the contracts were squashed and the companies in question fined, and some of the officers looking at jail time.) One of our representatives ended up in jail for accepting favors and bribes (which the public later discovered,) and the mayor of a sister city quit because he was thinking with his lower brain and abusing his position to try to get sexual favors from his staff and the public.
Governments approve stuff that, by mandate of the people, they didn't have the authority to approve.
It's always much clearer if you equip yourself with the real facts regarding the issue. As opposed to a biased commentary of the events.
I like the fact that you yell about other people not supplying facts when your own comments are rather fact-less. Pot, meet kettle.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: And you expect this corporation to do ... what?
Unless the plan is to send the water to the CEO and corporate officers, I doubt they will balk at that. Since they are likely hiring a good deal of workers from the area to run the mine, forcing the workers to drink the water they are already drinking will likely not have much effect. Outside contractors and initial first line management may be foreigners.
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I do agree that this looks more like a composite of two pictures at different angles than a picture where people were added who weren't there.
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Motherfucking Eagle!!!
Dan McCall got a couple new customers today.
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I believe other businesses have already started trying to use this. I can't seem to find it in Google (my googlefu isn't as strong as I'd like it to be,) but I seem to remember recently a developer got into hot water by putting into a sales contract a deed restriction preventing resale of the home based on a bogus copyright on the design of the home/blueprints. They wanted a cut whenever someone resold the home they built. (All I could find was the Techdirt article from 2010 about resale fee and a 2012 article from WSJ about it being prohibited by Fannie Mae.)
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Re: There is a simple way to resolve this...
Was going to say the same myself. If you haven't been able to recoup your costs of production after 40 years, you're doing it wrong. Any copyright that is over 40 years old serves to make corporations of a few well known works rich off of the destruction of all other lesser known copyrights. Since most works disappear into obscurity far shorter than 40 years, and disappear entirely to customers (because the company that owns the copyright no longer wishes to spend the money to produce the work,) it would be better to restore copyright to its 17 year plus extension lifetime than the ridiculous life+70 model which only serves to make a few companies richer than to make the public, which gets shafted, richer.
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And the state is already supposed to get a cut of it, in the form of earned income tax. They want the income tax *AND* the sales tax, because, of course, crack isn't free.
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Its amazing how simple concepts to an engineer become leviathans when Government is involved.
I suspect the state the company is in would want some of the cash the company is collecting (yes, they already do in the form of franchise or business taxes, but they forget about that too,) since they usually get some sales tax in normal brick-and-mortar sales. Some states are hitting the crack pipe so hard at the moment that they want a piece of every sale, whether or not it starts in or finishes in their state.
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Re: Re: To paraphrase....
Me too. At first, I wasn't paying attention and was just reading it, and then all the sudden it was V talking over the television to me all over again (about the time I realized where it came from.)
That movie was awesome, in every way, and I sure hope it never comes true.
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Many access points, and most client software, captures data based on this traffic to show you what is in the air around you.
Many access points label this information as "site survey" so that they can allow the administrator to chose the least populated channel (which of course, very few administrators realize that there are only three channels which do not interfere with each other: 1, 6, 11, and that choosing 2,3,4,5,7,8,9, or 10 makes you a dick,) and thus allow the administrator to chose channel 3 (because nobody else is on it.)
Most clients will display, as a matter of course, the list of SSIDs they see so that the user can connect to the one they think is theirs. Which is often a lot of fun when you set up an identical SSID as the one they usually use, and then they end up connecting to your access point without authorization! Me loves me some hot "linksys" or "default" SSID action!
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I made a joke on the phone a couple days ago about the NSA spying on my call. It was a dumb joke, but I do that from time to time. The person I was talking to said I shouldn't joke about that, in case the NSA is really listening to the call. I nearly dropped the phone laughing at that response.
The moral police is strong here too. But they are mostly mocked and laughed at.
I wish it were the same here. I think they are winning.
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Pot, meet kettle.
That is what I was thinking when I read it too.
I question his supposition that being isolated, lonely, bored, and depressed ends with alcoholism. While I have no scientific evidence otherwise, based on my limited experience dealing with alcoholics, it was the social aspect of drinking that led them to alcoholism, but their alcoholism turned them into isolated, bored, lonely, and depressed social outcasts. I think this is another correlation does not equal causation argument.
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Re: Scapegoat du jour
No, but I remember when I was a satanist and social malcontent when I played Dungeons & Dragons all weekend with my friends.
Those were the days. I was a lot more social and had a lot better friends back then.
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I'd prefer to scratch the whole program entirely and save the money altogether. Why throw good money out with bad.
Implementing a simple Linux based system would be far easier than trying to wring water out of a stone. CAC works with Linux, albeit not as easily, and it wouldn't take too much money to dump Windows and ActiveCard and throw a little at the contractors to come up with what is needed using Linux.
Unfortunately, even with acquisition rules changing to enforce open-source in the selection process, it is still really difficult for open-source to get any sort of traction in government (mainly because it is seen as a free, and thus unsupported, operating system.)
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I've sat in meetings with Microsoft in which a Microsoft engineer has told us, straight faced, that we don't buy enough of their product to mean anything to their bottom line (even though we apparently have enough clout to have a couple Microsoft-paid engineers working at our facility and with us on a regular basis.) They wouldn't move when we pointed out their software was broken, and we ended up having to write our own software to cover up their failure to fix their software (which they ended up using and pushing out to all their customers.)
Nope, unless the Army levels a couple buildings in Redmond Washington, or takes their business elsewhere (either of which are highly unlikely,) Microsoft will still view them with the same disdain it views all of its other customers.
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You'd be surprised. Recent efforts have been put into place to mandate the latest OS's and for the most part, the longest pole in the tent is usually running Windows 7/Windows 2008R2 (very few are pushing for Windows 8.) The problem has always been the program of records, which tend to take forever since engineering is done by a committee and they don't want to break anything by moving to a new OS without testing to make sure everything works exactly the way it worked on the old OS. And then, there is the ton of paperwork, studies, quick-look reports, mandated engineering documentation nobody will ever look at, and security and accreditation processes that turn a simple operation into a 6 year process.
It is still on par with a snail on a cold winter's day, but usually without the molasses part (unless that is used to keep the engineers happy.)
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It's not a problem if nobody knows about it!
Very much a sad but true statement. They go so far as outlaw their own people from knowing what everyone else already knows, even though that action pretty much guarantees failure.
However, having experienced this issue myself (the abnormally slow and long period of time for a system to lock after removing a smart card,) it isn't something the Army can easily fix. The problem is Microsoft's and ActiveCard's. Microsoft has the capability of locking the computer on smartcard removal built into Windows, and it has the option to lock the system, or log the user off. The problem isn't when the lock the system option is used, but when the log the user off option is used (which is used for shared systems.)
Instead of Microsoft/ActiveCard doing the right thing, which is to lock the system, and then process the log-off of the user, it just goes through the standard log-off, which may take some time because running applications are terminated and user data is saved. And if any application asks the user a question (like, do you really want to quit without saving your document?,) the system may sit in a much longer than usual stuck state. If the user is impatient and leaves before this process is completed, then someone else can interrupt the process and continue on using the system.
There are really two ways to fix this problem, and both will require active participation from Microsoft/ActiveCard. The first would be to perform the "log on as different user" capability built into the OS when the user removes their CAC. By doing so, the user is still logged in, and their applications and data are still safe, but the system will allow another user to log in and receive a new session (this is limited in Windows, and since the original user is still running applications and using data, may slow down the system if a couple people are logged in.) Or, Microsoft/ActiveCard could change the software so that upon immediate removal of the card, the system is locked, and the user is logged out in the background.
I doubt the Army has enough clout to fix this themselves.
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