Chrome: 88
Opera: 83
Safari: 83
Firefox: 74
IE: 51

(Scores calculated by using chart on last page)

Wow, that must've sucked - moving a lot! Most of the main body and ops stayed on at Camp Liberty throughout the tour. I was in the IZ initially (FOB Union III) for about two weeks. After that I came back to Liberty and stayed there for the rest of the tour. We had two platoons go up north to Ramadi during the middle of the tour.

Are you Active Army? Reserves? National Guard? Or Marines?

Smalltalk.

I wonder if RIM, Motorola and Palm would join the fray. File amicus curae (or something of the sort). I think it would make sense for them to take preemptive action, in case Apple goes after them next. I think it would be a good idea. In another sense, I think this suit is good because it demonstrates how Software Patents are such a bad idea, and instead of increasing competition, they are allowing one manufacturer (Apple) to stifle competition.

Where were you stationed in Iraq? I was at Camp Liberty.

I remember when I was serving in Iraq (Nov '05 to Nov '06) Facebook was just getting big. MySpace was all the rage. People would upload some pictures and videos. In our unit, we didn't really have a policy although our Operations NCO kept a handle on our accounts (he didn't have access to them, but would just check them from time to time to make sure we weren't posting anything that violated opsec). Also, if we maintained a blog we gave him the URL. I didn't think it was a big deal and I understood the rationale. You don't want to post anything online that can:

a) Be taken out of context by the media or others (or if you want to be cynical, anything that can put the military in a bad light).
b) Anything that violates opsec and puts the success of the mission or personnel at risk

Not all of us had access to the NIPR net. Most of us just went to the Internet Cafe (really, a small trailer with a satellite internet connection), the MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation center), or pooled money to get internet access (2nd platoon pooled in money and set up a satellite dish and a modem, and then strung wires between the trailers). I'm not sure how effective this policy will be in these situations.

At the end of a drill weekend I'd usually be hanging out at the readiness NCO's office before I left and sometimes I'd forget I was using a military computer and try to log on to facebook only to see that it was blocked. Sometimes they blocked Gmail (but that seemed intermittent - I was able to get to it usually). Regarding the comment someone made earlier that the military should have a policy for requesting a site be unblocked, I believe it does. A buddy of mine works for the NGB's IT department (I forget the actual name) and he handles cases. It's very hard to get a site approved though unless you can demonstrate a legitimate use. It's not like writing code where you can find an example on some random dude's blog. The military has their own sites for resources, and anything you need to find can be looked up in a TM (Technical Manual) or an AR (Army Regulation), or DA PAM (Department of the Army Pamphlet), most of which are in digitized form.

Cat5 provides many more options than cat5.

That's so zen.

It was a reference to Caprica, regarding the creation of the very first Cylon.

'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,
 
... and then he will use your virtual avatar and put it into a military robot... we know where that goes!

"Submission: ReactOS gets Wine infusion"

OMG. A DRUNK Windows clone! Is this REALLY what we need??

Just kidding ;)

I tried to view the demonstration.

"Google Earth Plugin is only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+"

I guess I'm SOL.