"This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer"
Neither would this have happened if the maintenance tech had followed procedure and just switched the damned thing off. I don't see how this is any different from a normal industrial accident with something like a sheet metal press.
Defenseindustrydaily.com had a pretty good article on the situation with the UK involvement on the JSF B variant and how it ties into their carrier project. The real driving force behind the Rafael deal is the French military. The short version is that since Dassault hasn't been able to find any export customers for the Rafael, the incremental cost has been driven up. As such, they want to find another customer in order to keep the production lines open longer. (Plus it means additional commonality between their carriers)
I don't see the RAAF or Royal Navy choosing the Rafael, it's half a generation behind the JSF and it also means having to add catapult and arrestor gear to their next gen flatop.
You're saying that we (the untrained, out of shape, great unwashed) should via force of personal arms (i.e. me and my AR-15) defianance (to which I assume you mean prevent our tax dollars from being used to finance) the defense industry (i.e. the folks that make all of said personal arms, AND the REALLY BIG and wizbang toys our military uses)?
Umm. So, does anyone else view this as a losing proposition on three fronts?
1) Even if we get rid of our defense industry, all those other countries (i.e. Russia, China, Argentina, hell even South Africa) will still have healthy military industrial complexes.... which would be all too happy to supply whatever groups or nation states that have the cash.
2) The Military is VERY good at what it does. Whatever shades of October revolution you might be seeing, aren't really feasible in this day and age. As much as I like my AR and USP, I am fully aware of what my odds are if I incur the wrath even the most inexperienced infantry squad.
3) Fighter planes are really cool.
Not to be flamebaight material, but as much as we may complain about the huge amount of our GDP that goes into the military (people that kill people and break their stuff) most of the world outside the west doesn't share our opinion.
Yeah, I do PACS at a SF hospital. Our GE MR and CTs are running Irix, the Angio Lab is Solaris 7. Our Digital Mammo stuff is Solaris 8, and the bulk of our PACS stuff is Solaris 9.
The thing you (well, not Sporkinum specifically, just in general) need to keep in mind is that most reliability or stability issues with Medical Imaging gear is due to flaws in the application itself, not the OS.
Ummm... If I wanted to run KDE, why would I buy a Mac? I mean I love my Powerbook, but I know the Pentium M systems are faster, cheaper, and (if my experiences are the rule not the exception) more reliable.
ISC is still showing green. To quote directly from the handler:
"CNN is heavily covering an outbreak of a worm in its own network. They are reporting that ABCNews and NYTimes are hit as well. All statements so far make this look like a Zotob variant, even though this variant appears to reboot the system. (Zotob.d ?).
Likely this is an isolated event, which became newsworthy because CNN got infected. We do not see any new threats at this point. Zotob keeps mutating and finding new victims. As seen with prior TCP worms, it is reaching its peak around 3 days after the outbreak.
Speculating: The fact that CNN, ABC and the NYTimes got it may be as simple as reporters from these organizations visiting the same event and connecting to an infected network. While a firewall may have protected their office network up to now, these infected laptops where able to take out the network from the inside once they connected back to it."
Feel free to insert the usual comments about media types overreacting and not understanding anything technical, along with misc sagely advice about defense in depth and perimiter security.
2) The few hospitals I've interacted with (Including my current employer) do offsite backups for disaster recovery, but that's not the same as outsourcing the data. Any corporation/entity with critical data would do the same.
With that said, I don't think this is the same thing though. With the offsite backup of the data from the PACS (Which, for anyone not familiar is any Medical Imaging you get done at a hospital. I.e. X-Rays, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Mammography, etc...) the last thing you want is to have that available to anyone else, plus (more importantly) you're not doing anything illegal/frowned up by goverments. The HavenCo/Data Haven idea was more to keep data that is legally questionable (for whatever reason) in an extraterritorial fashion.
Why is it that on a site that's supposedly for Techies/Geeks/other lovers of the Bleeding Edge that every new invention creates an automatic wave of "That'll never work, and it's a bad idea!"?
This isn't part of some vast conspiracy to bilk you out of your money. It's just a screw that works itself, and more importantly it's not necessarily meant for every application.
I doubt it's so much a luddite streak as much as it's a "I haven't eaten in 2 days" streak.
Agriculture is easily understood by the impoverished, and it has tangible benefits in the short term (i.e., more food). While it won't allow for long term growth, it does fill an immediate need.
Right. So you're saying that humans should never explore the cosmos?
You need to get away from your keyboard a bit more, sir. The need to explore is a funamental component of what makes humans, well, humans. Part of that drive to learn involves risk, and frankly I'd give anything to have a chance to take that risk.
What happens if the network is down? I can just see it now -
CFO - anyCompany - "I have a huge presentation to make and I can't print my slides!"
If the network is down, how is he going to print his slides anyway? In all seriousness, if the network is down, business operations more or less stop at that point. The CxO not being able to print is just a minor component of that.
Anyone care to put money on this car making it to market?
The Bugatti Veyron is the last gasp of Piech's reign at VW (He had a thing for supercars and old nameplates). It's been plauged with reliablity issues and has cost VW a fortune to develop.
Your instructor was talking about the hard Kevlar for the PAGST helmets. Kevlar vests (which ironically usually aren't Kevlar anymore, rather some kind of Aramid fiber) are still a lattice or weave of fibers. They work on two priciples 1) Extending the moment of impact by stretching out, and 2) by spreading the force of the impact across a wider area. When a bullet hits a "Kevlar" vest, the vest doesn't stop it cold instantly, rather the vest fibers stretch and entangle the round and slow it's progress. (The vest and bullet do actually move back into the body cavity slightly, but not enough to do permanent damage).
The current limiting factor with soft armor is that it won't stop a rifle round (Due to its extreme speed). So to provide protection to NIJ III+ or IV levels (i.e stopping rifle rounds) hard armor plates (usually a ceramic and titanium composite) are inserted in over vital areas.
The advantage of the liquid armor is that much less fabric will be needed to provide the same level of protection, and the hard armor plates won't be necessary.
Hit www.galls.com 's body armor section for more info on levels of protection and whatnot.
-E2
(BTW: Shadowrun had the liquid armor idea waaayyy before Snow Crash came out.)
It's nice to have all the numbers in one place, but you're not comparing the same years numbers. The US rate is from 1999, while the england rate is 1997, and so on.
Bzzt. Wrong.
Here are Interpol 2001 crime statistics (rate per 100,000):
4161 - US
7736 - Germany
6941 - France
9927 - England and Wales
And here's the 1995 ones:
5278 - US
8179 - Germany
6316 - France
7206 - England & Wales
Now, there's 2 things to notice here.
1) The US rate is CONSIDERABLY lower.
and
2) The US rate is dropping while the European rates are climbing.
Now, would you care to make an argument backed up factually?
(for those that want all the details, you can grab the Interpot docs here
Right. And that's why England (who has banned personal firearms ownership) has a crime rate higher than anywhere else in the Western World (including a murder rate higher than DC's and is STILL rising).
Banning firearms is pointless, even if you get all the guns off the street you're still going to have people killing eachother using whatever's handy. Going back to the England example, the parliment is now going to ban personal ownership of swords, due to the rising number of murders using those.
Taking away guns is just treating the symptoms, not the actual disease. It's just another way politicians can look like their actually solving the problem without having to do any work.
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To quote the Simpsons:
"McBane, how do you sleep at night?"
"On a huge pile of money with many beautiful women"
-E2
"This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer"
Neither would this have happened if the maintenance tech had followed procedure and just switched the damned thing off. I don't see how this is any different from a normal industrial accident with something like a sheet metal press.Defenseindustrydaily.com had a pretty good article on the situation with the UK involvement on the JSF B variant and how it ties into their carrier project. The real driving force behind the Rafael deal is the French military. The short version is that since Dassault hasn't been able to find any export customers for the Rafael, the incremental cost has been driven up. As such, they want to find another customer in order to keep the production lines open longer. (Plus it means additional commonality between their carriers)
I don't see the RAAF or Royal Navy choosing the Rafael, it's half a generation behind the JSF and it also means having to add catapult and arrestor gear to their next gen flatop.
Okay, just to clarify.
You're saying that we (the untrained, out of shape, great unwashed)
should via force of personal arms (i.e. me and my AR-15)
defianance (to which I assume you mean prevent our tax dollars from being used to finance)
the defense industry (i.e. the folks that make all of said personal arms, AND the REALLY BIG and wizbang toys our military uses)?
Umm. So, does anyone else view this as a losing proposition on three fronts?
1) Even if we get rid of our defense industry, all those other countries (i.e. Russia, China, Argentina, hell even South Africa) will still have healthy military industrial complexes.... which would be all too happy to supply whatever groups or nation states that have the cash.
2) The Military is VERY good at what it does. Whatever shades of October revolution you might be seeing, aren't really feasible in this day and age. As much as I like my AR and USP, I am fully aware of what my odds are if I incur the wrath even the most inexperienced infantry squad.
3) Fighter planes are really cool.
Not to be flamebaight material, but as much as we may complain about the huge amount of our GDP that goes into the military (people that kill people and break their stuff) most of the world outside the west doesn't share our opinion.
Yeah, I do PACS at a SF hospital. Our GE MR and CTs are running Irix, the Angio Lab is Solaris 7. Our Digital Mammo stuff is Solaris 8, and the bulk of our PACS stuff is Solaris 9.
The thing you (well, not Sporkinum specifically, just in general) need to keep in mind is that most reliability or stability issues with Medical Imaging gear is due to flaws in the application itself, not the OS.
Anyone else feel like firing up hping2 and hitting them with a bunch of UDP based HTTP GETs with randomly spoofed IPs?
Let them log 127.0.0.1, I'd love to see a John Doe warrant with that as it's IP.
Actually, what they really need now is a stable agrarian economy. Once they've got a handle on that, we'll talk information age.
Ummm... If I wanted to run KDE, why would I buy a Mac? I mean I love my Powerbook, but I know the Pentium M systems are faster, cheaper, and (if my experiences are the rule not the exception) more reliable.
"CNN is heavily covering an outbreak of a worm in its own network. They are reporting that ABCNews and NYTimes are hit as well. All statements so far make this look like a Zotob variant, even though this variant appears to reboot the system. (Zotob.d ?).
Likely this is an isolated event, which became newsworthy because CNN got infected. We do not see any new threats at this point. Zotob keeps mutating and finding new victims. As seen with prior TCP worms, it is reaching its peak around 3 days after the outbreak.
Speculating: The fact that CNN, ABC and the NYTimes got it may be as simple as reporters from these organizations visiting the same event and connecting to an infected network. While a firewall may have protected their office network up to now, these infected laptops where able to take out the network from the inside once they connected back to it."
Feel free to insert the usual comments about media types overreacting and not understanding anything technical, along with misc sagely advice about defense in depth and perimiter security.
Yes, but the bulk of the cost for Fuel in Europe is taxes (52% in the UK if I remember correctly)
I had a vendor bring water into my data center once.....
JUST ONCE.
So, you're saying that because his political beliefs differ from yours anything he says is suspect?
Er, so when did Linux stop being an OS and start being a cult-like religion?
It's a f-ing operating system for god(s) sake people. It doesn't have enimies, it has competitors.
1) PACS, not PAX
2) The few hospitals I've interacted with (Including my current employer) do offsite backups for disaster recovery, but that's not the same as outsourcing the data. Any corporation/entity with critical data would do the same.
With that said, I don't think this is the same thing though. With the offsite backup of the data from the PACS (Which, for anyone not familiar is any Medical Imaging you get done at a hospital. I.e. X-Rays, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Mammography, etc...) the last thing you want is to have that available to anyone else, plus (more importantly) you're not doing anything illegal/frowned up by goverments. The HavenCo/Data Haven idea was more to keep data that is legally questionable (for whatever reason) in an extraterritorial fashion.
Why is it that on a site that's supposedly for Techies/Geeks/other lovers of the Bleeding Edge that every new invention creates an automatic wave of "That'll never work, and it's a bad idea!"?
/rant
This isn't part of some vast conspiracy to bilk you out of your money. It's just a screw that works itself, and more importantly it's not necessarily meant for every application.
Sheesh.
How exactly does a broad statement with no supporting evidence earn a 4-Insightful rating? I mean, sheesh. WTF?
Here, let me have a go at it:
Blonds are more attractive.
Fords are better!
Green is superior.
Can I have my 4 rating now too?
(Not to bag on you specifically grumpish, I'm just sort of making an observation)
I doubt it's so much a luddite streak as much as it's a "I haven't eaten in 2 days" streak.
Agriculture is easily understood by the impoverished, and it has tangible benefits in the short term (i.e., more food). While it won't allow for long term growth, it does fill an immediate need.
Right. So you're saying that humans should never explore the cosmos?
You need to get away from your keyboard a bit more, sir. The need to explore is a funamental component of what makes humans, well, humans. Part of that drive to learn involves risk, and frankly I'd give anything to have a chance to take that risk.
What happens if the network is down? I can just see it now -
CFO - anyCompany - "I have a huge presentation to make and I can't print my slides!"
If the network is down, how is he going to print his slides anyway? In all seriousness, if the network is down, business operations more or less stop at that point. The CxO not being able to print is just a minor component of that.
Nice. So they're relocating a technology show AWAY from the world center of Technology?
Yeah, Brilliant. Next thing move CNBC from Wall Street.
Anyone care to put money on this car making it to market?
The Bugatti Veyron is the last gasp of Piech's reign at VW (He had a thing for supercars and old nameplates). It's been plauged with reliablity issues and has cost VW a fortune to develop.
(Kinda sounds like Rhapsody a bit, doesn't it?)
-E2
Your instructor was talking about the hard Kevlar for the PAGST helmets. Kevlar vests (which ironically usually aren't Kevlar anymore, rather some kind of Aramid fiber) are still a lattice or weave of fibers. They work on two priciples 1) Extending the moment of impact by stretching out, and 2) by spreading the force of the impact across a wider area. When a bullet hits a "Kevlar" vest, the vest doesn't stop it cold instantly, rather the vest fibers stretch and entangle the round and slow it's progress. (The vest and bullet do actually move back into the body cavity slightly, but not enough to do permanent damage).
The current limiting factor with soft armor is that it won't stop a rifle round (Due to its extreme speed). So to provide protection to NIJ III+ or IV levels (i.e stopping rifle rounds) hard armor plates (usually a ceramic and titanium composite) are inserted in over vital areas.
The advantage of the liquid armor is that much less fabric will be needed to provide the same level of protection, and the hard armor plates won't be necessary.
Hit www.galls.com 's body armor section for more info on levels of protection and whatnot.
-E2
(BTW: Shadowrun had the liquid armor idea waaayyy before Snow Crash came out.)
It's nice to have all the numbers in one place, but you're not comparing the same years numbers. The US rate is from 1999, while the england rate is 1997, and so on.
Bzzt. Wrong. Here are Interpol 2001 crime statistics (rate per 100,000): 4161 - US 7736 - Germany 6941 - France 9927 - England and Wales And here's the 1995 ones: 5278 - US 8179 - Germany 6316 - France 7206 - England & Wales Now, there's 2 things to notice here. 1) The US rate is CONSIDERABLY lower. and 2) The US rate is dropping while the European rates are climbing. Now, would you care to make an argument backed up factually? (for those that want all the details, you can grab the Interpot docs here
Right. And that's why England (who has banned personal firearms ownership) has a crime rate higher than anywhere else in the Western World (including a murder rate higher than DC's and is STILL rising).
Banning firearms is pointless, even if you get all the guns off the street you're still going to have people killing eachother using whatever's handy. Going back to the England example, the parliment is now going to ban personal ownership of swords, due to the rising number of murders using those.
Taking away guns is just treating the symptoms, not the actual disease. It's just another way politicians can look like their actually solving the problem without having to do any work.