Collectively, we are all a bunch of f***ups
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The shuttle was not a failure. The failure was not having the balls or the smarts to think of something better, sooner.
Jesus H Frigging Bill Gates, the State of California can't even build a bridge over the f***ing San Francisco Bay, how can we expect a large space agency constantly bent over to Congress' bidding to get things right?
And every IT project I've ever worked on, the more people it had working on it the more f***ed up it was.
Let's put space exploration in the hand of private research institutions where it belongs. Rutan for President.
I'm not going to assert very stringly that plain English WX might be useful, but the codes are not that obscure and are fairly easy to learn worldwide, even if you don't speak English or even use a Latin alphabet - and only the tip of what constitutes the offical definitions of weather observations codified in "FMH-1", the Bible of meteo observational arcana:
All helps ensure that weather descriptions are easy to read all round the world no matter what your native alphabet, or whether you are a machine or human.
And just think of the "legacy" code devoted to reading METARs!
I'm no expert, or even profess to know anything about how to own Cisco routers. I was making the argument more along the lines of how this is kind of a disturbing new trend, celebrity tell-all technies, and smells like a publicity stunt. There are better, collegial ways to share this information, without putting ones credibility at stake.
A couple of times in my career as a senior sysadmin I've been ambushed by so-called security "auditors" by being called into meetings and being told "we like totally 0wn3d your systems". When I asked how, I was told "d00d that's a seekrit". I was skeptical, and I was never asked to take additional measures beyond the usual comprehensive, and as far as I can tell, effective measures. As far as I am concerned, it's "put up or shut up" with these so-called security experts.
Unfortunately, it took some legal hardball for Lynn to finally put up or shut up with regard to his Cisco exploits. I'm not saying he's a poseur himself, but I'm not sympathetic to hearing about his legal woes. It damages his integrity by showing he does not respect NDAs and was drumming up consulting business after expecting to get fired. If anything I expect so-called security consultants to lay low, regardless of what they think of their clients' practices.
A child of a friend once spent a while watching all the pretty colors produced by waving a magnet in front of a monitor. It permanently messed up the monitor, I guess by magnetizing some part of the monitor that didn't get degaussed at startup. So only do this to a monitor you disrespect.
For us 'Merkins, there's the "fuck you" factor (we don't bother with all that Latin stuff.) What this means is that if you grovel appropriately defore the authorities, you will be given leniency. If you're response to everything is "fuck you", you will be treated harshly. An extreme example of this was when, some years ago, two yahoos shot up LA in a botched bank robbery, spraying hundreds of rounds of AK-47 fire everywhere. One of the yahoos was shot in the femoral artery, and his responses to police help consisted of repeated "fuck you"'s. So he was cuffed and left to bleed to death on the sidewalk, even though his partner has been killed minutes earlier.
I'm sure there's a Latin expression for this, something to the effect that "the law can always be a bigger asshole than you can."
- bring the Cat-V cables out of the cabinet and then slam the cabinet doors on them. Much more random networking problems tha merely rebooting routers. Besides, if you reboot a router, you have no excuse for not upgrading to this week's IOS version, and that's real work, tsk tsk.
Ever noticed stars are correct in Google earth bg?
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If you zoom all the way out, to an eye alt of 39400+ miles, and place India pretty much centered and north side up, you will be able to see Orion. The rest of the major constellations are there, with a sprinking of random background stars.
This is kind of a disturbing new trend, celebrity tell-all technies pulling these publicity stunts, along the lines of the "I f***ed " celebrity wannabees.
Really this flaw is well known, every competent admin I know patches their routers within days of release, and "I'm just doing this to draw attention to all the yadda yadda yadda" is just a bunch of press whoring.
The root cause of all this is that "security" is now a standalone specialty with a self-appointed celebrity 3l33t of high priests marketing their services to clueless PHBs, and hordes of clueless posturing wannabees. When in fact every garden-variety technie should know all this stuff anyway, and I wouldn't hire anyone who didn't for even the lowliest project. I've hired and worked around some of the high priests in the past and I was impressed on only a few occasions.
Believe it or not, China's fuel economy standards are stricter than the US's and are a significant detriment to the US automakers exporting giant hulking SUVs there, according to an article in yesterday's Wall St Journal. This actually may be a significant motivator for the US to develop hybrid vehicles with better mileage, to be able to export them to China.
I for one would go out and finally buy an HD TV and subscribe to a channel that consisted solely of Earth views from an HD-capable camera placed in orbit permanently. Or you could just bolt this on to the side of the ISS. How hard could this be? And you could use the footage for MSN Maps (ka-dunk!)
I have a small pile of "Earth View" tapes from early shuttle missions that NASA used to sell for cheap. Good viewing, slap in a tape and put your favorite space music on the CD player. Not very HD but an excellent use of my tax dollars.
Judging from the info returned by terraserver.microsoft.com for 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA::
Urban Areas 2/27/2004 Aerial Photo 10/30/1991 Topo Map 7/1/1982
The "urban area" photo (a more recent set of aerial photos) for 1 Infinite Loop is not available. However, the photos of my former house on Laurel Way in Mountain View are dated the same, and the "urban area" photo is available.
If you zoom out and then scroll, you will switch to a color view. Zoom back in and you will see a splice between the 2004 data (color) and 1991 data (black and white).
These are public domain aerial photo series from USGS and there are lots of reasons the new photos would not be available.
"...verify the XML configuration files by verifying the XML files against their respective DTDs or XSDs"
I really don't have anything against ant and have a small amount of experience with it. The prejudice against XML might even come from not actually having access to the XML DTD or schema itself in a lot of cases. One fears what one doesn't understand. For example, I have to mass-administer SunONE web server, which stores its configration parameters in a dog's breakfast of several XML and flat files. I can randomly hack the files with perl or sed, and then test each hack to see what it breaks, or if I knew the DTD I could actually make some intelligent decisions about what to do.
Sysadmins should learn more about this stuff, because a lot of programmers are trying to do sysadminish stuff in XML, like the Bourne shell commands embedded in XML, mentioned in a parent. Ick.
Well, as a sysadmin in a big J2EE shop, I spend about half my time fixing other applications' and other peoples' broken XML, so dealing with ant is no different. Most people around here see ant as a make-equivalent.
I was under the impression that XML was designed to be written and used by machines with little intervention from people. Some people insist it's a programming language. I hope those people burn in heck.
They just floated the Yuan, and I think this is an attempt by China to clean up their act over time. *All* the markets went up, I think as a result of the removal of some intangible market risk that China would continue to weasel its way out of generally cooperating in world affairs.
I don't expect them to come clean right away. They are conservative and even paranoid about making big changes.
But count on it 10 years from now all the 3rd world taxi drivers are going to be asking for crisp new "Chairman Maos" instead of "Franklins".
If you're worried about what happens if someone decrypts your PGP files, you've got worse problems than just having your PGP file decrypted. Like maybe there's a number of gun barrels pointed at your noggin, right now.
My impression from what I see on the media is that (besides IEDs) our forces are hit by bad guys who fire and then disappear, or blend into the crowd, or who appear to be good guys, and then pull out a weapon or blow themselves up. Is this correct? If so, the the weapon would be have to be used somewhat indiscriminately. Not that there is anything wrong with that IMHO, if you like to hang out on the street corner and watch your insurgent buddies you're asking for trouble.
Another use for the microwave beam might be to disrupt IEDs. Useful - you could zap a guy and if he's a suicide bomber he blows up, if he's not he just gets a headache.
For some reason my earlier post got lost or posted as AC, but yes - Mendeleev was onto something. I'm rereading a old found copy of "The Ascent of Man" and Bronowski devotes a chapter to the periodic table.
You can tell all those properties at a glance, and even more interesting to me is that Mendeleev recognized that the Table was laid out intutively, with elements grouped by their *tactile* properties in columns. He was even able to make predictions of the properties of undiscovered elements like Germanium, which sits right above Silicon in teh table.
Astronomy hack - plumbing your yard for liquid N2
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I dunno, "astronomy hack" seems more like plumbing your yard for liquid nitrogen using existing sprinkler system pipe, or turning a Mattel Barbie Photo Designer into a functioning spectrograph.
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.. like 500 years ago.
If I was a Polish or Italian astronomer, I'd start packin' some heat.
Roofing cement - $100 million per bucket!
The shuttle was not a failure. The failure was not having the balls or the smarts to think of something better, sooner.
Jesus H Frigging Bill Gates, the State of California can't even build a bridge over the f***ing San Francisco Bay, how can we expect a large space agency constantly bent over to Congress' bidding to get things right?
And every IT project I've ever worked on, the more people it had working on it the more f***ed up it was.
Let's put space exploration in the hand of private research institutions where it belongs. Rutan for President.
I'm not going to assert very stringly that plain English WX might be useful, but the codes are not that obscure and are fairly easy to learn worldwide, even if you don't speak English or even use a Latin alphabet - and only the tip of what constitutes the offical definitions of weather observations codified in "FMH-1", the Bible of meteo observational arcana:
o c.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/fmh1/fmh1t
All helps ensure that weather descriptions are easy to read all round the world no matter what your native alphabet, or whether you are a machine or human.
And just think of the "legacy" code devoted to reading METARs!
Unfortunately, "-r" is the default.
I'm no expert, or even profess to know anything about how to own Cisco routers. I was making the argument more along the lines of how this is kind of a disturbing new trend, celebrity tell-all technies, and smells like a publicity stunt. There are better, collegial ways to share this information, without putting ones credibility at stake.
A couple of times in my career as a senior sysadmin I've been ambushed by so-called security "auditors" by being called into meetings and being told "we like totally 0wn3d your systems". When I asked how, I was told "d00d that's a seekrit". I was skeptical, and I was never asked to take additional measures beyond the usual comprehensive, and as far as I can tell, effective measures. As far as I am concerned, it's "put up or shut up" with these so-called security experts.
Unfortunately, it took some legal hardball for Lynn to finally put up or shut up with regard to his Cisco exploits. I'm not saying he's a poseur himself, but I'm not sympathetic to hearing about his legal woes. It damages his integrity by showing he does not respect NDAs and was drumming up consulting business after expecting to get fired. If anything I expect so-called security consultants to lay low, regardless of what they think of their clients' practices.
A child of a friend once spent a while watching all the pretty colors produced by waving a magnet in front of a monitor. It permanently messed up the monitor, I guess by magnetizing some part of the monitor that didn't get degaussed at startup. So only do this to a monitor you disrespect.
- sorry about that "you're". Its Monday morning, and my typings not fully connected to my brain's.
For us 'Merkins, there's the "fuck you" factor (we don't bother with all that Latin stuff.) What this means is that if you grovel appropriately defore the authorities, you will be given leniency. If you're response to everything is "fuck you", you will be treated harshly. An extreme example of this was when, some years ago, two yahoos shot up LA in a botched bank robbery, spraying hundreds of rounds of AK-47 fire everywhere. One of the yahoos was shot in the femoral artery, and his responses to police help consisted of repeated "fuck you"'s. So he was cuffed and left to bleed to death on the sidewalk, even though his partner has been killed minutes earlier.
I'm sure there's a Latin expression for this, something to the effect that "the law can always be a bigger asshole than you can."
No more of this I.P. bullshit! Stand up for old fashioned traditional American union busting, predatory pricing, and worker exploitation!
- bring the Cat-V cables out of the cabinet and then slam the cabinet doors on them. Much more random networking problems tha merely rebooting routers. Besides, if you reboot a router, you have no excuse for not upgrading to this week's IOS version, and that's real work, tsk tsk.
If you zoom all the way out, to an eye alt of 39400+ miles, and place India pretty much centered and north side up, you will be able to see Orion. The rest of the major constellations are there, with a sprinking of random background stars.
. . But the Lamb won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
This is kind of a disturbing new trend, celebrity tell-all technies pulling these publicity stunts, along the lines of the "I f***ed " celebrity wannabees.
Really this flaw is well known, every competent admin I know patches their routers within days of release, and "I'm just doing this to draw attention to all the yadda yadda yadda" is just a bunch of press whoring.
The root cause of all this is that "security" is now a standalone specialty with a self-appointed celebrity 3l33t of high priests marketing their services to clueless PHBs, and hordes of clueless posturing wannabees. When in fact every garden-variety technie should know all this stuff anyway, and I wouldn't hire anyone who didn't for even the lowliest project. I've hired and worked around some of the high priests in the past and I was impressed on only a few occasions.
http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?Artic leID=9128
Believe it or not, China's fuel economy standards are stricter than the US's and are a significant detriment to the US automakers exporting giant hulking SUVs there, according to an article in yesterday's Wall St Journal. This actually may be a significant motivator for the US to develop hybrid vehicles with better mileage, to be able to export them to China.
I for one would go out and finally buy an HD TV and subscribe to a channel that consisted solely of Earth views from an HD-capable camera placed in orbit permanently. Or you could just bolt this on to the side of the ISS. How hard could this be? And you could use the footage for MSN Maps (ka-dunk!)
I have a small pile of "Earth View" tapes from early shuttle missions that NASA used to sell for cheap. Good viewing, slap in a tape and put your favorite space music on the CD player. Not very HD but an excellent use of my tax dollars.
Judging from the info returned by terraserver.microsoft.com for 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA::
Urban Areas 2/27/2004
Aerial Photo 10/30/1991
Topo Map 7/1/1982
The "urban area" photo (a more recent set of aerial photos) for 1 Infinite Loop is not available. However, the photos of my former house on Laurel Way in Mountain View are dated the same, and the "urban area" photo is available.
If you zoom out and then scroll, you will switch to a color view. Zoom back in and you will see a splice between the 2004 data (color) and 1991 data (black and white).
These are public domain aerial photo series from USGS and there are lots of reasons the new photos would not be available.
a good "do what I mean" XML to XSD translator.
"...verify the XML configuration files by verifying the XML files against their respective DTDs or XSDs"
I really don't have anything against ant and have a small amount of experience with it. The prejudice against XML might even come from not actually having access to the XML DTD or schema itself in a lot of cases. One fears what one doesn't understand. For example, I have to mass-administer SunONE web server, which stores its configration parameters in a dog's breakfast of several XML and flat files. I can randomly hack the files with perl or sed, and then test each hack to see what it breaks, or if I knew the DTD I could actually make some intelligent decisions about what to do.
Sysadmins should learn more about this stuff, because a lot of programmers are trying to do sysadminish stuff in XML, like the Bourne shell commands embedded in XML, mentioned in a parent. Ick.
Well, as a sysadmin in a big J2EE shop, I spend about half my time fixing other applications' and other peoples' broken XML, so dealing with ant is no different. Most people around here see ant as a make-equivalent.
I was under the impression that XML was designed to be written and used by machines with little intervention from people. Some people insist it's a programming language. I hope those people burn in heck.
They just floated the Yuan, and I think this is an attempt by China to clean up their act over time. *All* the markets went up, I think as a result of the removal of some intangible market risk that China would continue to weasel its way out of generally cooperating in world affairs.
I don't expect them to come clean right away. They are conservative and even paranoid about making big changes.
But count on it 10 years from now all the 3rd world taxi drivers are going to be asking for crisp new "Chairman Maos" instead of "Franklins".
If you're worried about what happens if someone decrypts your PGP files, you've got worse problems than just having your PGP file decrypted. Like maybe there's a number of gun barrels pointed at your noggin, right now.
My impression from what I see on the media is that (besides IEDs) our forces are hit by bad guys who fire and then disappear, or blend into the crowd, or who appear to be good guys, and then pull out a weapon or blow themselves up. Is this correct? If so, the the weapon would be have to be used somewhat indiscriminately. Not that there is anything wrong with that IMHO, if you like to hang out on the street corner and watch your insurgent buddies you're asking for trouble.
Another use for the microwave beam might be to disrupt IEDs. Useful - you could zap a guy and if he's a suicide bomber he blows up, if he's not he just gets a headache.
For some reason my earlier post got lost or posted as AC, but yes - Mendeleev was onto something. I'm rereading a old found copy of "The Ascent of Man" and Bronowski devotes a chapter to the periodic table.
You can tell all those properties at a glance, and even more interesting to me is that Mendeleev recognized that the Table was laid out intutively, with elements grouped by their *tactile* properties in columns. He was even able to make predictions of the properties of undiscovered elements like Germanium, which sits right above Silicon in teh table.
I dunno, "astronomy hack" seems more like plumbing your yard for liquid nitrogen using existing sprinkler system pipe, or turning a Mattel Barbie Photo Designer into a functioning spectrograph.