An excellent point when considering developed countries.
What about use in Afghanistan, though? Even Iraq in the months directly following the invasion when power and basic utilities were scarce? The number of measurable signals would have been cut harshly and the ability to confuse such a system would have increased.
I have no doubt about the viability of the signal/location system in good circumstances. I remember navigating on flight-sims using the system.
I am worried about more military money going into a system that assumes even a reasonable level of infrastructure stability to operate. Adding to that, I am concerned about all of the military's pet projects.. the failure of an initiative (ie. the Osprey project which has killed many servicemen and is now being deployed in combat situations) only justifies further spending, not review of standards and procedures.
Maybe I am dissillusioned, but I don't see this working in ultra-harsh conditions. Sattelites seem safer.
If you are incorporating known, ground based beacons/signals to provide positioning data wouldn't it be easy enough for the enemy to emulate those beacons/signals from some location near to the real one to create multiple signatures and distort positioning data? Wouldn't this confuse the proposed system?
All it would require is transmitting eq that you could fit into a small, mobile (cargo van type) container. Now you have to a: track down the false signatures & have response teams to eliminate dupe signals, or b: rely solely on satellite signals which is what GPS does.
All of the distros out there.. pet projects, in-house optimized kernels, serious attempts at desktop penetration - these things are allowing experimentation across a wide range of individuals with a wide range of interests and skill sets.
When several true desktop competitors emerge there will be the richest ecosystem of skilled laborers to draw from that has ever existed in the tech industry. Most importantly, they will not only contribute to what those major competitors are attemptig to achieve, but they will hopefully have tried different methods of achieving similar things, thus allowing Linux to harness the power of multiculture against their monoculture competitors.
Currently consolidation would simply mean uneccesary specialization by people who are more inclined to experimentation.. or trying their hand at directing efforts as they only can in a smaller scope development effort.
Believe me, if Linux possessed all the applications necessary to appease people who are used to other operating environments I would be decrying the number of distros as well. Fact is (and we are only hurt through denying this) we still lack some key components and players that are ubiquitous in the proprietary markets and 'vital' to the satisfaction of most users.
Anyhow, here's to a bright future for open source.
I don't follow hardware and I don't write multi-threaded apps so i could be way off on this... But with the sheer volume of poorly designed/implemented single threaded applications wouldn't it be asking for trouble to urge speed in the industry conversion to the increased complexity of multi-threaded solutions?
Y'all multi-thread developers take as much time as you want.
The article is carefull to state that this could be one of several factors.
Consider this, my brother-in-law was a mellow dude who did scientific work outdoors in beautiful national parks. He ate healthily and got regular excercise as part of his workday. He had bad hypertension.
they sell to 'servicers' of educational institutions and i am guessing y'all signed off on it. if you are pissed about this issue a good question might be how someone is classified as a servicer.
not offtopic, please. this link discusses issues such as rigidization of flexible structures if the structure is compromised. relates to tfa. this isn't what i read originally, but has some details about micrometeor protection systems including some stuff about asbestos foam and gelatin resin... true, all for a vacuum environment, but plenty of stuff starts with space research before getting to the general public.
link: http://www.sicsa.uh.edu/index.php?option=com_docma n&task=doc_view&gid=26
domes are cool, but having spent a little time in one i can't recommend the experience. a lot of the discomfort was due to not having things that were designed to work in a dome environment... or maybe the place was just too small.
anyhow, i am with you 100% on building to the environment.
there has been some interesting work in 'permanent' temporary shelter and my high school actually expanded through adding some of these structures. they were spacious and showed little effect during an earthquake as they were designed to 'ride it out,' and were extremely light weight. they had to be anchored carefully to contend with the the winds in the area, but even that was not much of a problem once they put some money into it.
i believe that the main structure they purchased is still up and doing fine alll these years later.
that would be more attractive to me than the type of house tfa describes...
i grew up in southern california and went through many earthquakes. paying attention to things like securing brick facades, anchoring furniture to walls, and buying adhesive pads for the bases of vases etc combined with improved building codes has nearly eradicated earthquake related deaths in that area.
my question is... could this whole gap filling technology be used to upgrade security for space vehicles..
i can't find links but read something about micro-meteorite protection systems already (i think) in place.
the e-mail i posted is a throw-away... i would be interested in continuing this conversation privately, and you can use that e-mail if you would like to do so.
in my opinion there is no difference between booth and a suicide bomber who dies for something they don't understand.
i am not interested in your comment so much as your sig...
as a lincoln fiend i am curious to know exactly how you believe j.w. booth was acting as a patriot...
ushering.sleeps@gmail.com
please reply/
anyone with more direct connections to old Borland want to wade in here?
maybe with something about the 'best and brightest' following the cash to a large corporation located in the u.s. pacific northwest where they were put to no good use while their old company foundered.
and then prevented from leaving their new employer by non-competition agreements they signed as part of their compensation packages.
bosses wouldn't be assholes if the 'best and brightest' weren't trained to care solely about the buck... which asshle bosses who care more about legal departments than about products can provide.
how long have people been pushed around by microsoft?
not long enough apparently, as i still make easy money picking up contracts to write updated code to run on these platforms.
do i feel like a crook for making money off this?
simply put... no.
is it wrong that a company push unsecured 'upgrades' like vista? of course.
but consider this before you flame me... everyone from the neighborhood security sites to the u.s. government has expressed concern about microsoft security over the past several years... and the general public cannot be bothered enough to care.
should i then be bothered about cashing in on the general public?
i don't think so.
welcome, vista... thanks for helping me feed my children at the expense of the unconcerned.
forgot to include 'open and publically reviewed' before 'auditable standards.'
this particular topic makes my kinda ill. the issue of the net being inherently insecure is constantly being glossed over and hidden from the public. that fact makes even reliable companies look like collaborators in the cover-up.
nothing on the net is truly secure... maybe creating auditable standards for online money handlers and then giving those that demonstrably meet those standards a.safe designation is not a bad idea.
yes, they will get more black hat attention because of the extension... but if they are hacked you revisit the auditable standards and identify where they failed, or if it was the implementation that failed, etc...
either way, i am sick and tired of not knowing what security standards online businesses hold themselves to. voluntary participation in a certification system would go a long way to making me more receptive to the online exchange of my money.
that being said, the current thinking behind.safe does not meet my standards for such a program.
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An excellent point when considering developed countries.
What about use in Afghanistan, though? Even Iraq in the months directly following the invasion when power and basic utilities were scarce? The number of measurable signals would have been cut harshly and the ability to confuse such a system would have increased.
I have no doubt about the viability of the signal/location system in good circumstances. I remember navigating on flight-sims using the system.
I am worried about more military money going into a system that assumes even a reasonable level of infrastructure stability to operate. Adding to that, I am concerned about all of the military's pet projects.. the failure of an initiative (ie. the Osprey project which has killed many servicemen and is now being deployed in combat situations) only justifies further spending, not review of standards and procedures.
Maybe I am dissillusioned, but I don't see this working in ultra-harsh conditions. Sattelites seem safer.
This idea seems pretty flimsy..
If you are incorporating known, ground based beacons/signals to provide positioning data wouldn't it be easy enough for the enemy to emulate those beacons/signals from some location near to the real one to create multiple signatures and distort positioning data? Wouldn't this confuse the proposed system?
All it would require is transmitting eq that you could fit into a small, mobile (cargo van type) container. Now you have to a: track down the false signatures & have response teams to eliminate dupe signals, or b: rely solely on satellite signals which is what GPS does.
Am I making any sense?
Regards.
All of the distros out there.. pet projects, in-house optimized kernels, serious attempts at desktop penetration - these things are allowing experimentation across a wide range of individuals with a wide range of interests and skill sets.
When several true desktop competitors emerge there will be the richest ecosystem of skilled laborers to draw from that has ever existed in the tech industry. Most importantly, they will not only contribute to what those major competitors are attemptig to achieve, but they will hopefully have tried different methods of achieving similar things, thus allowing Linux to harness the power of multiculture against their monoculture competitors.
Currently consolidation would simply mean uneccesary specialization by people who are more inclined to experimentation.. or trying their hand at directing efforts as they only can in a smaller scope development effort.
Believe me, if Linux possessed all the applications necessary to appease people who are used to other operating environments I would be decrying the number of distros as well. Fact is (and we are only hurt through denying this) we still lack some key components and players that are ubiquitous in the proprietary markets and 'vital' to the satisfaction of most users.
Anyhow, here's to a bright future for open source.
Regards.
I don't follow hardware and I don't write multi-threaded apps so i could be way off on this... But with the sheer volume of poorly designed/implemented single threaded applications wouldn't it be asking for trouble to urge speed in the industry conversion to the increased complexity of multi-threaded solutions?
Y'all multi-thread developers take as much time as you want.
Regards.
The article is carefull to state that this could be one of several factors.
Consider this, my brother-in-law was a mellow dude who did scientific work outdoors in beautiful national parks. He ate healthily and got regular excercise as part of his workday. He had bad hypertension.
What would the benefit of trapping white blood cells be? TFA refers to the discovery of a 'novel' role for the protein...
Is it possible that this is unintended behavior on the part of the protein or does the behavior serve some purpose?
i posted this lower in the thread so it will probably be buried. check out #3, item (d).
link:http://www.ed.gov/notices/pia/nslds.pdf
they sell to 'servicers' of educational institutions and i am guessing y'all signed off on it. if you are pissed about this issue a good question might be how someone is classified as a servicer.
regards.
section 3, item (d)...
"To provide financial aid history information, the Department may disclose records to educational institutions and servicers."
it is supposed to make money by integrating with the 'servicers.'
my guess is it is not too hard to be considered a servicer of an educational institution.
link:http://www.ed.gov/notices/pia/nslds.pdf
i don't post quotes all that often. someone let me know if i just broke a law.
not offtopic, please. this link discusses issues such as rigidization of flexible structures if the structure is compromised. relates to tfa. this isn't what i read originally, but has some details about micrometeor protection systems including some stuff about asbestos foam and gelatin resin... true, all for a vacuum environment, but plenty of stuff starts with space research before getting to the general public. link: http://www.sicsa.uh.edu/index.php?option=com_docma n&task=doc_view&gid=26
domes are cool, but having spent a little time in one i can't recommend the experience. a lot of the discomfort was due to not having things that were designed to work in a dome environment... or maybe the place was just too small.
anyhow, i am with you 100% on building to the environment.
there has been some interesting work in 'permanent' temporary shelter and my high school actually expanded through adding some of these structures. they were spacious and showed little effect during an earthquake as they were designed to 'ride it out,' and were extremely light weight. they had to be anchored carefully to contend with the the winds in the area, but even that was not much of a problem once they put some money into it.
i believe that the main structure they purchased is still up and doing fine alll these years later.
that would be more attractive to me than the type of house tfa describes...
i grew up in southern california and went through many earthquakes. paying attention to things like securing brick facades, anchoring furniture to walls, and buying adhesive pads for the bases of vases etc combined with improved building codes has nearly eradicated earthquake related deaths in that area.
my question is... could this whole gap filling technology be used to upgrade security for space vehicles..
i can't find links but read something about micro-meteorite protection systems already (i think) in place.
can anyone with better knowledge chip in here?
the e-mail i posted is a throw-away... i would be interested in continuing this conversation privately, and you can use that e-mail if you would like to do so.
in my opinion there is no difference between booth and a suicide bomber who dies for something they don't understand.
regards.
i am not interested in your comment so much as your sig... as a lincoln fiend i am curious to know exactly how you believe j.w. booth was acting as a patriot... ushering.sleeps@gmail.com please reply/
yes, this is slashdot... and people are suposed to have a sense of humor about things...
but given the state of the world i am really disturbed by jokes on this particular topic.
can anyone from a former soviet republic wade in and give us some ground-level perspective on what this means to them?
from my perspective it is kinda like michael jordan being arrested for protesting detentions in guantanamo.
regards.
p.s. i do understand that permits are necessary to march. i also understand that a viable ruling party can tolerate reasonble dissention.
next generation PIM suites should be the goal, which exchange falls far short of.
is anyone from the Chandler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(PIM)) team looking into integrating efforts here?
i just looked at the link... they have Airwolf! regards.
anyone with more direct connections to old Borland want to wade in here?
maybe with something about the 'best and brightest' following the cash to a large corporation located in the u.s. pacific northwest where they were put to no good use while their old company foundered.
and then prevented from leaving their new employer by non-competition agreements they signed as part of their compensation packages.
bosses wouldn't be assholes if the 'best and brightest' weren't trained to care solely about the buck... which asshle bosses who care more about legal departments than about products can provide.
i want to know what keeps you all voting? i stopped years ago because i was convinced of the futility...
regards.
p.s. local elections still make a difference... run for city council!
how long have people been pushed around by microsoft?
not long enough apparently, as i still make easy money picking up contracts to write updated code to run on these platforms.
do i feel like a crook for making money off this?
simply put... no.
is it wrong that a company push unsecured 'upgrades' like vista? of course.
but consider this before you flame me... everyone from the neighborhood security sites to the u.s. government has expressed concern about microsoft security over the past several years... and the general public cannot be bothered enough to care.
should i then be bothered about cashing in on the general public?
i don't think so.
welcome, vista... thanks for helping me feed my children at the expense of the unconcerned.
them train as many ignorant users to catch spam as possible in the alloted time and be judged on how well the users did.
forgot to include 'open and publically reviewed' before 'auditable standards.' this particular topic makes my kinda ill. the issue of the net being inherently insecure is constantly being glossed over and hidden from the public. that fact makes even reliable companies look like collaborators in the cover-up.
nothing on the net is truly secure... maybe creating auditable standards for online money handlers and then giving those that demonstrably meet those standards a .safe designation is not a bad idea.
.safe does not meet my standards for such a program.
yes, they will get more black hat attention because of the extension... but if they are hacked you revisit the auditable standards and identify where they failed, or if it was the implementation that failed, etc...
either way, i am sick and tired of not knowing what security standards online businesses hold themselves to. voluntary participation in a certification system would go a long way to making me more receptive to the online exchange of my money.
that being said, the current thinking behind
regards