This is actually a DARPA help wanted ad. And from description of the project sounds like a good job opportunity for some slashdoters.

here is the ad:
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/12/14.aspx

and here is the proposers' day conference:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=e21984e31d49c3780966a53983daa4f6&tab=core&tabmode=list&=

in my case, poor/bad cables, especially the ones you buy, rather than ones you make, rank very low on things that actually happen. before I check the actual cable I do other things:

1. see if nic led is on, both on router and computer
2. ping the gateway
3. see if there was traffic on the nic
4. re-seat the cable, especially if plastic clip is missing - if that is the case I change the cable.
5. if distance is short, replace cable

had an interesting experience with a bad "connection". One summer the well pump, which is drilled inside the old stone well, 80 ft below ground, stopped working. The plumber comes, he climbs half way down the stone well in order to reach the well-cap, takes the entire pump+hose+wire (80ft) out, tests the pump, concludes that the pump is dead, replaces the pump, the wire (80ft), and makes a new water-tight connection. A year later the pump stops working again and I call the same plumber. My instinct was that the water-tight connection, 80 ft below ground, leaked, and made a short. The plumber comes, and rather than pulling out 80ft of pump to test the water-tight connection, the first thing he does is disconnect the pump from the mechanical fuse. And guess what... the mechanical fuse was bad. The fuse would trip even when there was nothing connected to it.

two parter:

1. Do you think the touch screen interface already the standard on phones and tablets will replace the traditional standard of keyboard & mouse interface on desktops/laptops in the next 5 years, 10 years, 20 years?

2. On a desktop/laptop, do you think a touch screen interface would be as functional/productive/efficient as keyboard & mouse?

thanks

you right... It has not been a decade, but it does have memory issues since the beginning of FF.

FF had memory issues a DECADE ago.

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=firefox+%22memory+leak%22&btnG=Search&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2003&as_drrb=b&sitesearch=

i can see why the nerds might be upset.

from the NATO document: http://www.nato-pa.int/default.asp?SHORTCUT=2443

[37] Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk, OECD/IFP Project on “Future Global Shocks”. ”. By Peter Sommer and Ian Brown. January 2011.

“Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk”

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/44/46889922.pdf

I think the NATO paragraph is supposed to paraphrase this quote on p32:

"The main practical limitations to hacktivism are that the longer the attack persists the more likely it is that counter-measures are developed and put in place, perpetrators identified, and groups penetrated by law enforcement investigators."

here are the schools in NYC that match CS

http://search.nycenet.edu/search?q=%22computer+science%22&btnG=Search&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&entqr=0&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1&site=default_collection

Introduction to Computer Science (Section 01) @ The Bronx HS
http://www.bxscience.edu/apps/classes/show_class.jsp?classREC_ID=274057

the math page which includes the CS at Bronx HS
http://www.bxscience.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=3719&type=d

and the different match/cs course offered
http://www.bxscience.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=3719&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=classes

care to provide a link to that "informative" claim, and please don't say OpenAFS.

thanks

just found out a new RHEL clone (thanks to distrowatch.com News 03.21.2011) - PUIAS http://puias.math.ias.edu/ is an RHEL clone "... started long before CentOS or other projects were available."

The question is: if CentOS fizzles for whatever reasons, how many will switch to one of the less than 5, one-man-show RHEL clone, how many will dig in and pay for RHEL, and how many will switch to non-RHEL?

At least in Firefox, "Zoom Out" is also an option.

Very Medieval, but do you mean something like the "Fourth Estate" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_estate
or the "Fifth Estate" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate ?

the other Estates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Estate#Third_Estate