The classic story of course is Clive Cartmill being investigated by the FBI during world War II about his short story that described the atomic bomb. In my personal experience as a fiction writer I did a story that involved pre-Gulf War II Iraq and an improvised nuke that attracted the attention of someone in SpecOps who asked where I had collected my data from. He also had the good sense to stress that HE was interested and it was not any kind of offical inquiry. I sent him a list of my online sources and we became pretty good friends over time .. in fact he wound up as the model for a character in the story series. I've had security clearances (including DOE nuclear)..and I've had a press card... so I'm aware of the regulations. And the stupidity behind a lot of them. By the letter of the law..yes the Wikileaks stuff is classified.. but at this point telling the members of the military not to read it is , to risk the wrath of Harlan Ellison "Like telling a man who's just crawled out of the Gobi Desert on hands and knees that he can't have a peanut butter sandwich"

Ah.. thank you for the numbers.. I can see how you arrived at the projection ..now we have to see if the reality matches the calculations :-)

thanks for taking the time to do the breakdown for me/us

Now, tell me HOW reducing the number of employees who spend thousands of man hours correcting issues caused by Microsoft products is not a cost benefit for the taxpayers? Tell me HOW not having to maintain the in-house servers (humans, power,etc) is NOT a cost benefit for the taxpayers? And not to minimize your achievements, HOW does potential savings (your 2 to 4 million dollars) get validated in the real world? How does the taxpayer see the results of the fruits of your labors? Tell me HOW it costs more money and reduces services to go to the cloud concept, which is really a throwback to the old mainframe/timesharing system just using the web to handle the traffic and the PC/Mac acting as a "dumb" terminal? As a taxpayer in the County of Los Angeles, I'd like to know. To me, this is just more FUD thrown up to protect jobs, that if Microsoft's stuff actually WORKED, would be unneeded. Yes, I'm a cranky old mainframe guy who has seen WAY too many good ideas get killed for corporate profits or to preserve the status quo. Justify your claims of service reductions and increased costs please

You are totally correct. One of the fights I had early in my IS career was with a county accounting department that wanted to have the accounting of the local law enforcement agency placed under their control. The law enforcement accounts contained information (allocation for sting operations, reciepts for witness protection program expenses, etc) that if placed in an insecure environment (like the same computer system EVERY OTHER COUNTY DEPARTMENT COULD ACCESS WITHOUT RESTRICTION) could result in the loss of lives of officers and witnesses. We maintained security by having a physically seperate system that ran on customized software on a technically obsolete piece of hardware in an area with restricted access. Just ONCE somebody cut a corner and tied into our patch panel who wasn't authorized and I personally pulled the cable. When the responsible party showed up to scream about being cut off he was handed his hat and told to go speak to the Head Sheriff and ask HIM if I had that much authority. I did.. he didn't. The best security is ISOLATION!

Except the PADD wasn't tied to AT&T And you could configure the PADD the way you wanted it ... (all user interfaces were customizable per the ST:TNG Tech Manual) And you could put an isolinear optical chip in it to transfer data .. And did anybody else ever notice that people had piles of PADD's on their desks? Did that mean the PADD didn't multitask? ok.. I'm a Trek geek .. with friends who worked on all of the shows in the art and design departments Try this https://synthesize.us/LCARS_PADD?title=LCARS_PADD Nokia's Internet Tablet OS 2008

Yes Apple blew the testing. Yes they should cop to the error and make the rubber bumper available for free. And yes the sticky tape will work... But if you want a more elegent solution, get some tool dip at the hardware store and paint a thin rubber coat over the bloody antenna. Does this solve the problem? Yes. Should the problem never have occured in the first place? Also yes. Fix the issue now..and then who cares what the legal guys do? (Disclaimer:I work in a law office) I've been around long enough to remember the Apple III motherboard issue: " The fix for the motherboard issue is easy - Just drop it a couple of inches and the chips will reseat themselves..." Percussive maintenence anybody?