I think he was referring to the profit made from selling newspapers hyping the flu situation.

i.e. scary headlines sells us more papers.

And the cost of living is psychotic. I grew up there, and definitely miss the year round constant temps. That is the entire reason my parents retires there.

That's what the data center monkeys are for.

two huge reasons I loved the 1st movie: the Balrog scene, and the scene where Borimir becomes a human pin cushion. I liked the book version of Borimir's death better, but the way it was modified for the screen worked. Oh, and Gandalf.

My only major complaint is they let the elves speak native and used subtitles but had all the other non-humans speaking English. They should have had the other races speaking native as well.

No, it is not self-enforcing. The Constitution is the 3rd party enforcement the agreement between the President and the people by providing a means for the people to get rid of him/her.

He wasn't referring to how people vote, but the fact that the # of votes is verifiable without the use of a 3rd party.

e.g. I just saw 14 hands go in the air for Proposition #15. It doesn't matter whether that was 14 people who actually want Prop #15 to pass, or whether it was 7 people who wanted it to pass who were holding a gun to the other 7, just that Prop #15 got 14 verifiable votes.

Because only the major vendors have been approved for use within the DOD?

Been there done that for 9+ years...it all really depends on how much common sense your IT security group has and how tech savvy they are. My favorite place was where the head IT security guy was an avid computer geek, so when the new vulnerability lists came out, as long as we could provide a memo for the record explaining how we mitigated the vulnerability (backporting the fix, upgrading to the next version, removing the software, etc.), he signed off on it.

Contrast that to another DOD job where no one wanted to put their signature on anything, so no one would sign a waiver for anything that had a vulnerability. This included running NIS/NIS+/or LDAP on the unix network. So as a result, we had over 200 servers supporting about 100 different projects, each with their own passwd/shadow/group files. Yet the same people allowed a Windows Active Directory domain to be ran on the network (and no, we weren't allowed to use AD as an LDAP server for the unix systems, because the unix ldap client had a vulnerability.)

If you've ever had to work with the DISA STIGs, you'll know how much of a piece of crap most of their scripts are w/r/t checking that you've performed the required lockdowns per the guides. One example for Solaris 10, one of the checks was to see if a certain service was running (I forget which at the moment). It performed the check by grep'ing for the service in inetd.conf, and seeing if it was commented out. Well, for Solaris 10, management of that service was moved to the SMF facility, so the line didn't exist in inetd.conf. The script wasn't updated for Solaris 10, and since the script wasn't written to handle the case where the line didn't exist, it would give a false positive hit and say you were running the vulnerability. We had to spend 30 minutes explaining this to very non-techy auditor, and finally after still not getting it he basically threw his hands in the air and said "fuck it, I believe you" and let us pass on that ONE lockdown. Multiply that by a couple dozen. Makes for a long week during your annual inspections.

So how exactly would a simple BASH script convert the title block on multiple proprietary, binary formatted files?

I seriously want to know how you would do that, since it would be very useful for when management arbitrarily decides to change the company letterhead and people need to go back and update all of the documents, manuals, publications, etc that go outside the company.

the real question is: did you finish watching the nasty horse porn?

Share the fun next time ;)

(thank goodness my wife doesn't read /.)

think about it like being on a vacation. you can't fill every minute of every day with something unique and fun

You obviously haven't been on a vacation with my wife, her goal is exactly that (much to my frustration).

The government agency I am contracted to is just now in the final testing phases for rolling out Windows XP to the desktop.

Yes, XP. They had a Vista pilot last year but due to legacy app issues decided to scrap it and start the process over again with XP.

Looking underage is ok...it's when they are underage that you get in trouble :)

Where I live, the law basically states that a cyclist has to ride as close as practical to the right side of the road...on some tiny roads, for safety bicycles are allowed to "take the lane" if that is the safest option. There is also supposed to be a "3 foot rule" when passing a cyclist, but just yesterday I got buzzed by some jerk on a 3 lane road with no other cars around.

And riding a bike on the sidewalk is almost more dangerous than riding in the street. You can potentially collide with pedestrians, and intersections are even more dangerous because drivers are not looking for things coming off of a sidewalk into traffic. If you are riding in the lane (smartly that is, with bright clothing and blinking things) you are a part of traffic and more noticeable to drivers.

A Multi-user trail is a safer option if they are available, but my county doesn't have very many. The next county over is much more bike commute friendly with tons of MUTs that crisscross the county.