I think it is kind of bad that someone would be so paranoid of their names and aliases being used by others (some just by coincidence, others by intent) that they would give a site the power to register them on a whole bunch of sites, many of which you may not want anything to do with. Many of them are useless. That is why MySpace and Facebook are dominant, because they stamped out or are in the process of stamping out other sites. Social networking is a difficult area to maintain a high stature in. Anyway, one big issue with this is that one site, knowem.com, will know as much (if not more) about you than yourself and there is a single source that could be hacked by malicious operators or subpoenaed by law enforcement. There goes your privacy....
It is common sense that it is impractical to send humans to other star systems. In fact, it is impractical to send robots! Even with some massively great propulsion technology that can get us to 10% the speed of light then it will still take around 4 decades to get there. Robots are the best answer to long range missions. Physical human exploration should be focused on the Solar system colonization and utilization. We should develop high speed long range propulsion for automated systems and should we realize that one day it will be practical for humans to go to these far away places then redevelop the technology for that but the simply fact of the matter is that for at least the next few hundred years, we're stuck here in the Sol system.
What IT managers that are indifferent on the matter need to think about is that although much of the energy cost flow to some other department, it could end up being their paycheck along with others, that gets cut because they spent too much money or energy even out of some other departments budget. Helping the organism overall is better than just trying to save brain. What good are you if you have a great heart or a great brain but everything else is toast.
Well, Oestreich could be spinning the numbers to mean no failures due to power ups and shutdowns (such as a power supply, fan, or hard drive failing during the startup/shutdown processes). I am sure they have had several major failures. They could also be running blade servers and logical partitions (virtual servers such as IBM L-PAR) and this director of product management has no clue what he is talking about when he says hundreds of servers that they shutdown and restart several time a day.
I will say this though, the only benefits to extreme power management practices such as this is to reduce heat therefore reduce the amount of energy it takes to cool and to also reduce the energy used to power the equipment and also, perhaps, to reduce EMI/EMR (electro magnetic interference/radiation).
I have seen the new "comparison" commercials with people running back and forth between Mac and "PC" systems and finally walking out of the door with a PC and then they get a bunch of money or something stupid like that and this report, DUMB ALL DUMB. I am an avid user of both Windows installed machines as well as Macs and I can say honestly, and anyone that has ever used both on a regular basis should agree, that they both suck as much as the other.
I dare not throw Linux into the mix because of the dozens of flavors of Linux and BSD that I have used over almost the entire decade, the only useful ones have been dedicated firewalls, web servers, and FTP servers.
You want stability and efficiency. Build me a bad ass windows shell like GNOME or KDE or even Windows 3.x that runs everything we need today and but runs off of DOS. Ok, that is crazy, but it is wishful thinking and me living a little in the past.
Anyway, the truth of the matter is that video game addiction does exist. How rampant is another story, however, some people do get addicted to games and it has cost some their education, jobs, girlfriends and wives, friends, their health and in a few extreme cases, their lives. With that said, if people want to "do games" like you would do any other drug, then let them. Until the FDA, CDC, or some wing of the Department of Justice.
I think the BATFE is just itching for ANOTHER letter to add to their already out of control name, BATFEG.
Web Developer.
Web development does not mean the person has to be proficient in HTML, CSS, javascript, any of the.NET framework, perl, PHP, etc. You just have to be someone who uses one or more of these tools (and others not listed) to build a webpage. Some people use a combination of all of all of these. Some people are really good at HTML and Javascript or HTML and PHP. Some are only really good at.NET languages and have some skills in javascript or HTML in order to get by when needed. In general, anyone who builds web pages regardless of how complicated, is a web developer.
It should be standard practice for organizations of all types and sizes to wait before moving to a new operating system or "upgrading" to a new version. Anyone that jumped on the later versions Windows NT, 95, 98, Me, 2000, and even XP just for the heck of staying current is dumb. If you have mission critical applications you just don't do it. Where I work, we were testing Windows Vista on just a few systems. One of our software developers is using an entirely Vista setup and everything seems to be working well. Many of our custom/in-house applications are or are going to be web apps and the mission critical software that I administer now will move entirely to a web based portal so in the future I won't have too many concerns about application compatibility because theoretically our software will be able to run on any operating system's web browser.
The truth of the matter is that Windows 7 has the potential to work well. I honestly think Vista got a bad hand due to small amounts (but apparent) of bad publicity that got blown way out of proportion. I use Vista as a home OS everyday and honestly, it works better than my fully updated Windows XP and my Mac OS 10.5! As it has been for years; casual users and people that don't know very much, have found it "cool" to jump on the bandwagon that is already over capacity, in saying that "Vista sucks" or "Windows is the biggest virus ever made." Then they turn around and call XP the greatest thing since the computer was invented, but if you rewind several years, they were also bad mouthing the earlier releases of XP as being big, slow, and dumb and Windows 2000 "couldn't play" any of their games; although I had no trouble. Get over it, operating systems of all types have problems. Windows is no exception and the fact that it has to tolerate a lot of hardware, software, and different types of users (including those that know little) it is not as good as it can be upon every single release.
Like clean water, one fee? I work int he public water works industry and can tell you that water is no where nearly the same as providing cable TV and internet service. For starters, water is not unlimited, can not be upgraded, and falls heavily under the scrutiny, in my town, of citizens and their elected leaders. We can't liberally decide to upgrade infrastructure, charge more, or reduce quality. We have a monopoly on water and sewer out of necessity and to meet regulations and protect the health of the citizens. Cable companies can actually share/lease-share the cable lines and they can provide whatever they want on their networks.
Does anyone remember Independence War and Independence War 2? The first one is almost 11 years old and the second is almost 8 years old. They used Lagrange points for a type of FTL travel. It was a cool game and being I was still in high school, I didn't know much about that level of astrophysics.
I know that Greensboro, North Carolina and other police/public safety departments across the United States already use something like this. It may not be setup to filter down to specific officer skills but I am sure they could implement that (skills such as spanish speaking, woman officer for email body searches, etc). The system they use here is from the old OSSI USA, now SunGard Public Sector, software suite which includes a CAD. In this case, CAD is computer aided dispatch.
Regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, fair use, he basically worked for News Corp., or he gave it a good review, etc; what he watched and reviewed was an illegally distributed corporate trade item, a federal crime. Watching pirated films is almost like receiving stolen property but worse. Friedman tried to build the bandwagon that others would have jumped on. Okay, so he gave it a good review (at least that is what those that read it have stated), but that does not make it right and it only encourages others to watch movie illegally instead of paying to go see it. That is part of why studios make movies, to make money.
Well, if you consider the Universe a bubble of space time, it at one point had to expand faster than light to grow from it's smaller than a pea size to what it is now. Quantum mechanics is the alchemy of physics and should be taken with large grains of salts.
Many recruiters do not know the difference between Computer Science and IT/MIS. The fact is, if you already know IT then it is perfectly fine to have computer science as your BS and MS or you can do comp sci for your BS then business administration for MS. I am not knocking IT/MIS but many schools teach you very basic things in these programs. Sometimes these programs are called Electronics and Computer Technology. If you already know this stuff, how hubs/routers/switches work, wireless networks, running Windows and Linux/UNIX servers, then a degree in IT/MIS is just as easy degree and many of them do not focus on the management side if it is not a degree offered in your schools Business department.
I come from a school, NC A&T State University, where the Computer Science undergrad and grad program are accredited as a part of our College of Engineering. ECT (Electronics/Comp Technology) is under the School of Technology, and the business department has its own Management Information Systems. What I have learned about all three programs is that in computer science you can not only learn the theory of how all of this works you will learn how to use and apply it, at least that is the case in my program.
Computer Science is more than "programming" and developing thought processes. I think it gives you the best tools, in the right CS program, to apply technology old, current, and future properly. IT/MIS is great but if you only want to do true IT/MIS then that is your choice.
Schools that are thinking about doing, think about it first. Before you do, you had certainly better consider lowering student fees and tuition since so much power, technology, and support will not be used.
This is just proof that we still know very little about what we have been looking at in the deep sky. We're still trying to figure out how our own planet works and we even have every type of probe, sensor, and satellite known to man pointed at or stuck into the Earth trying to figure it out. What makes anyone think they know anything for sure about the rest of the Universe?
California is very weird, they have laws in place that allow you to buy used motorcycles and cars from out of state, but you can't get them registered unless you find a way around the impossible or nearly impossible hoops of flames they have in in place.
The line should read: "12 memory slots that can accommodate 16 GB of PC-106000 (1333 MHz) DDR3 RAM EACH for a total of 192 GB."
Wupty do, gawd awful amounts of RAM.
What were they thinking? McVeigh and Nichols used 5400 pounds of ammonium nitrate. Th Mythbusters used almost 10 percent of that.... to knock the socks off a dummy? When McVeigh and Nichols mixed all of their chemicals together, in thirteen or so barrels, each weighed nearly 500 pounds. Thats a lot of flammables, accelerants, and oxidizers. Quite funny, though, on the part of the MythBusters.
Ok, 502 is referring to the California Penal Code, 502 which is all about computer hacking. I just read the entire thing. The law is pretty clear on how this guy can be charged and PROTECTS administrators that operate with in the scope. Just because an admin has a modem or some other device (it could be a satellite uplink/downlink, or DSL modem, or a direct Network-over-Radio connection) to connect to their employer network does not mean they are breaking the law, in fact, most of the time, it is protected under the law.
Read the Penal Code!
http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/computerlaw/Californ.txt
Like NASA the US Military does not jump on the latest and greatest technology for everything and for good reason. Some things they do but not all and not the most critical systems. The older technology has been tried and proven over time which makes it more trustworthy than the 15-year old's Alienwarez Octal Core "gaming" PC down the street. When you are flying your 2-billion dollar bomber aircraft over Baghdad and you don't want it to fall from the sky due to a floating point error that had never been seen because the processor is a year old and engineers rushed it to the production line. When you only have one rocket sending a single rover to Mars and the entire space program's life expectancy is hinging on the success, or failure, of this mission, you don't need a hardware failure of the SATA array because a small amount of cosmic radiation has an adverse effect on this one little chip unique to the controller.
I am an amateur operator in the Northern Piedmont of North Carolina. Ham radio operators and the ARRL are not against BPL; what we are against is the blatant disregard for our service and others. Amateur radio is defined and protected under the Radio Act of 1927 as well as commercial, government, and maritime radio communications. To allow another source of radio transmission to harmfully interfere with another service will set a precedence. Since amateur radio is hardly in the limelight (but is typically on site in disaster/emergency situations providing communications for the public and government sectors) it is easiest to be picked upon. This world needs amateur radio and is often on the front line of fighting for the public's use of the airwaves by fighting for our own use of our defined radio schedule. The FCC must work with the BPL companies to find less harmful means of transmitting data over powerlines. The interference is apparent and many hams have gone out and demonstrated this in areas where BPL is being operated. The noise is obvious and detrimental to our communications, local, regional, and abroad. The highly qualified persons that work for the FCC (many of them amateur operators), ARRL, and the general ham public have lots of ideas and are often some of the smartest people around to work on these types of situations.
Internet traffic is affected, yes, but they are not in the dark. If you check the many websites hosted out of Iran, you'll see they can be accessed, albeit slowly. The Internet monitoring from Analog X was only ping one router.
I think this is a very interesting way to not just drug test entire communities but to gauge the health of the a community. This I think will have little impact on drug enforcement. It will better help researchers, scientist, doctors, and activists better focus their needs. The DEA, Police, FBI, etc., pretty much know their drug trends to the point they know where to go to get the biggest busts. Setting up road blocks before and as people are going to clubs/parties on the weekends and right after those parties is already an effective tactic in catching trafficers (even if it is for their own enjoyment). Cops probably aren't surprised that affluent communities have a high concentration things like cocaine. But they aren't going to pull over more residents of those neighborhoods because of it. They'll catch hell. I think it is nice that they can do this. Think about it, it could have been part of your urine in that teaspoon!
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I think it is kind of bad that someone would be so paranoid of their names and aliases being used by others (some just by coincidence, others by intent) that they would give a site the power to register them on a whole bunch of sites, many of which you may not want anything to do with. Many of them are useless. That is why MySpace and Facebook are dominant, because they stamped out or are in the process of stamping out other sites. Social networking is a difficult area to maintain a high stature in. Anyway, one big issue with this is that one site, knowem.com, will know as much (if not more) about you than yourself and there is a single source that could be hacked by malicious operators or subpoenaed by law enforcement. There goes your privacy....
It is common sense that it is impractical to send humans to other star systems. In fact, it is impractical to send robots! Even with some massively great propulsion technology that can get us to 10% the speed of light then it will still take around 4 decades to get there. Robots are the best answer to long range missions. Physical human exploration should be focused on the Solar system colonization and utilization. We should develop high speed long range propulsion for automated systems and should we realize that one day it will be practical for humans to go to these far away places then redevelop the technology for that but the simply fact of the matter is that for at least the next few hundred years, we're stuck here in the Sol system.
What IT managers that are indifferent on the matter need to think about is that although much of the energy cost flow to some other department, it could end up being their paycheck along with others, that gets cut because they spent too much money or energy even out of some other departments budget. Helping the organism overall is better than just trying to save brain. What good are you if you have a great heart or a great brain but everything else is toast.
Well, Oestreich could be spinning the numbers to mean no failures due to power ups and shutdowns (such as a power supply, fan, or hard drive failing during the startup/shutdown processes). I am sure they have had several major failures. They could also be running blade servers and logical partitions (virtual servers such as IBM L-PAR) and this director of product management has no clue what he is talking about when he says hundreds of servers that they shutdown and restart several time a day. I will say this though, the only benefits to extreme power management practices such as this is to reduce heat therefore reduce the amount of energy it takes to cool and to also reduce the energy used to power the equipment and also, perhaps, to reduce EMI/EMR (electro magnetic interference/radiation).
I have seen the new "comparison" commercials with people running back and forth between Mac and "PC" systems and finally walking out of the door with a PC and then they get a bunch of money or something stupid like that and this report, DUMB ALL DUMB. I am an avid user of both Windows installed machines as well as Macs and I can say honestly, and anyone that has ever used both on a regular basis should agree, that they both suck as much as the other. I dare not throw Linux into the mix because of the dozens of flavors of Linux and BSD that I have used over almost the entire decade, the only useful ones have been dedicated firewalls, web servers, and FTP servers. You want stability and efficiency. Build me a bad ass windows shell like GNOME or KDE or even Windows 3.x that runs everything we need today and but runs off of DOS. Ok, that is crazy, but it is wishful thinking and me living a little in the past.
Anyway, the truth of the matter is that video game addiction does exist. How rampant is another story, however, some people do get addicted to games and it has cost some their education, jobs, girlfriends and wives, friends, their health and in a few extreme cases, their lives. With that said, if people want to "do games" like you would do any other drug, then let them. Until the FDA, CDC, or some wing of the Department of Justice. I think the BATFE is just itching for ANOTHER letter to add to their already out of control name, BATFEG.
Web Developer. Web development does not mean the person has to be proficient in HTML, CSS, javascript, any of the .NET framework, perl, PHP, etc. You just have to be someone who uses one or more of these tools (and others not listed) to build a webpage. Some people use a combination of all of all of these. Some people are really good at HTML and Javascript or HTML and PHP. Some are only really good at .NET languages and have some skills in javascript or HTML in order to get by when needed. In general, anyone who builds web pages regardless of how complicated, is a web developer.
It should be standard practice for organizations of all types and sizes to wait before moving to a new operating system or "upgrading" to a new version. Anyone that jumped on the later versions Windows NT, 95, 98, Me, 2000, and even XP just for the heck of staying current is dumb. If you have mission critical applications you just don't do it. Where I work, we were testing Windows Vista on just a few systems. One of our software developers is using an entirely Vista setup and everything seems to be working well. Many of our custom/in-house applications are or are going to be web apps and the mission critical software that I administer now will move entirely to a web based portal so in the future I won't have too many concerns about application compatibility because theoretically our software will be able to run on any operating system's web browser. The truth of the matter is that Windows 7 has the potential to work well. I honestly think Vista got a bad hand due to small amounts (but apparent) of bad publicity that got blown way out of proportion. I use Vista as a home OS everyday and honestly, it works better than my fully updated Windows XP and my Mac OS 10.5! As it has been for years; casual users and people that don't know very much, have found it "cool" to jump on the bandwagon that is already over capacity, in saying that "Vista sucks" or "Windows is the biggest virus ever made." Then they turn around and call XP the greatest thing since the computer was invented, but if you rewind several years, they were also bad mouthing the earlier releases of XP as being big, slow, and dumb and Windows 2000 "couldn't play" any of their games; although I had no trouble. Get over it, operating systems of all types have problems. Windows is no exception and the fact that it has to tolerate a lot of hardware, software, and different types of users (including those that know little) it is not as good as it can be upon every single release.
Like clean water, one fee? I work int he public water works industry and can tell you that water is no where nearly the same as providing cable TV and internet service. For starters, water is not unlimited, can not be upgraded, and falls heavily under the scrutiny, in my town, of citizens and their elected leaders. We can't liberally decide to upgrade infrastructure, charge more, or reduce quality. We have a monopoly on water and sewer out of necessity and to meet regulations and protect the health of the citizens. Cable companies can actually share/lease-share the cable lines and they can provide whatever they want on their networks.
Does anyone remember Independence War and Independence War 2? The first one is almost 11 years old and the second is almost 8 years old. They used Lagrange points for a type of FTL travel. It was a cool game and being I was still in high school, I didn't know much about that level of astrophysics.
I know that Greensboro, North Carolina and other police/public safety departments across the United States already use something like this. It may not be setup to filter down to specific officer skills but I am sure they could implement that (skills such as spanish speaking, woman officer for email body searches, etc). The system they use here is from the old OSSI USA, now SunGard Public Sector, software suite which includes a CAD. In this case, CAD is computer aided dispatch.
Regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, fair use, he basically worked for News Corp., or he gave it a good review, etc; what he watched and reviewed was an illegally distributed corporate trade item, a federal crime. Watching pirated films is almost like receiving stolen property but worse. Friedman tried to build the bandwagon that others would have jumped on. Okay, so he gave it a good review (at least that is what those that read it have stated), but that does not make it right and it only encourages others to watch movie illegally instead of paying to go see it. That is part of why studios make movies, to make money.
Well, if you consider the Universe a bubble of space time, it at one point had to expand faster than light to grow from it's smaller than a pea size to what it is now. Quantum mechanics is the alchemy of physics and should be taken with large grains of salts.
Many recruiters do not know the difference between Computer Science and IT/MIS. The fact is, if you already know IT then it is perfectly fine to have computer science as your BS and MS or you can do comp sci for your BS then business administration for MS. I am not knocking IT/MIS but many schools teach you very basic things in these programs. Sometimes these programs are called Electronics and Computer Technology. If you already know this stuff, how hubs/routers/switches work, wireless networks, running Windows and Linux/UNIX servers, then a degree in IT/MIS is just as easy degree and many of them do not focus on the management side if it is not a degree offered in your schools Business department. I come from a school, NC A&T State University, where the Computer Science undergrad and grad program are accredited as a part of our College of Engineering. ECT (Electronics/Comp Technology) is under the School of Technology, and the business department has its own Management Information Systems. What I have learned about all three programs is that in computer science you can not only learn the theory of how all of this works you will learn how to use and apply it, at least that is the case in my program. Computer Science is more than "programming" and developing thought processes. I think it gives you the best tools, in the right CS program, to apply technology old, current, and future properly. IT/MIS is great but if you only want to do true IT/MIS then that is your choice.
Schools that are thinking about doing, think about it first. Before you do, you had certainly better consider lowering student fees and tuition since so much power, technology, and support will not be used.
This is just proof that we still know very little about what we have been looking at in the deep sky. We're still trying to figure out how our own planet works and we even have every type of probe, sensor, and satellite known to man pointed at or stuck into the Earth trying to figure it out. What makes anyone think they know anything for sure about the rest of the Universe?
California is very weird, they have laws in place that allow you to buy used motorcycles and cars from out of state, but you can't get them registered unless you find a way around the impossible or nearly impossible hoops of flames they have in in place.
The line should read: "12 memory slots that can accommodate 16 GB of PC-106000 (1333 MHz) DDR3 RAM EACH for a total of 192 GB." Wupty do, gawd awful amounts of RAM.
What were they thinking? McVeigh and Nichols used 5400 pounds of ammonium nitrate. Th Mythbusters used almost 10 percent of that.... to knock the socks off a dummy? When McVeigh and Nichols mixed all of their chemicals together, in thirteen or so barrels, each weighed nearly 500 pounds. Thats a lot of flammables, accelerants, and oxidizers. Quite funny, though, on the part of the MythBusters.
Five seconds, clearly, is not enough
Ok, 502 is referring to the California Penal Code, 502 which is all about computer hacking. I just read the entire thing. The law is pretty clear on how this guy can be charged and PROTECTS administrators that operate with in the scope. Just because an admin has a modem or some other device (it could be a satellite uplink/downlink, or DSL modem, or a direct Network-over-Radio connection) to connect to their employer network does not mean they are breaking the law, in fact, most of the time, it is protected under the law. Read the Penal Code! http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/computerlaw/Californ.txt
Like NASA the US Military does not jump on the latest and greatest technology for everything and for good reason. Some things they do but not all and not the most critical systems. The older technology has been tried and proven over time which makes it more trustworthy than the 15-year old's Alienwarez Octal Core "gaming" PC down the street. When you are flying your 2-billion dollar bomber aircraft over Baghdad and you don't want it to fall from the sky due to a floating point error that had never been seen because the processor is a year old and engineers rushed it to the production line. When you only have one rocket sending a single rover to Mars and the entire space program's life expectancy is hinging on the success, or failure, of this mission, you don't need a hardware failure of the SATA array because a small amount of cosmic radiation has an adverse effect on this one little chip unique to the controller.
I am an amateur operator in the Northern Piedmont of North Carolina. Ham radio operators and the ARRL are not against BPL; what we are against is the blatant disregard for our service and others. Amateur radio is defined and protected under the Radio Act of 1927 as well as commercial, government, and maritime radio communications. To allow another source of radio transmission to harmfully interfere with another service will set a precedence. Since amateur radio is hardly in the limelight (but is typically on site in disaster/emergency situations providing communications for the public and government sectors) it is easiest to be picked upon. This world needs amateur radio and is often on the front line of fighting for the public's use of the airwaves by fighting for our own use of our defined radio schedule. The FCC must work with the BPL companies to find less harmful means of transmitting data over powerlines. The interference is apparent and many hams have gone out and demonstrated this in areas where BPL is being operated. The noise is obvious and detrimental to our communications, local, regional, and abroad. The highly qualified persons that work for the FCC (many of them amateur operators), ARRL, and the general ham public have lots of ideas and are often some of the smartest people around to work on these types of situations.
Internet traffic is affected, yes, but they are not in the dark. If you check the many websites hosted out of Iran, you'll see they can be accessed, albeit slowly. The Internet monitoring from Analog X was only ping one router.
I think this is a very interesting way to not just drug test entire communities but to gauge the health of the a community. This I think will have little impact on drug enforcement. It will better help researchers, scientist, doctors, and activists better focus their needs. The DEA, Police, FBI, etc., pretty much know their drug trends to the point they know where to go to get the biggest busts. Setting up road blocks before and as people are going to clubs/parties on the weekends and right after those parties is already an effective tactic in catching trafficers (even if it is for their own enjoyment). Cops probably aren't surprised that affluent communities have a high concentration things like cocaine. But they aren't going to pull over more residents of those neighborhoods because of it. They'll catch hell. I think it is nice that they can do this. Think about it, it could have been part of your urine in that teaspoon!