Russians have licensed to the Chinese the full blueprint of Su-27 (the license is now revoked because of illegal cloning), the Chinese have bought a whole load of them. Despite all that they have failed to clone the engine. As a result the "stealth" jet fighter they have produced may be low radar profile (that is actually the easy bit nowdays), but it is still equipped with third generation engine 20 years behind US, EADS and Russia. As a result it is a piece of stealthy dead meat if it meets either an F-35 or a Sukhoi-PAKFA.
It is a similar story with everything else you mention.
There are a limits to what you can copy without having indigineous high skilled workforce and China has not learned to build one (yet). They pay their engineers so little that they see engineering positions solely as a step towards management or sales. As a result they are guaranteed to copy anything you put there and everything they get their hands on. However it is similarly guaranteed to be a generation behind countries which invest into their engineering and R&D workforce and where engineering and R&D can be a lifetime vocation.
The problem with companies like GE exporting tech to China (or India) is actually not with exporting the tech per se. It is with them looking at the Chinese "cheap engineer" model, considering it to be more cost effective from a purely accounting perspective and copying it.
Yeah, right... An article about failed "get rich quick" schemes in the cell phone industry that fails to mention:
1. WAP/WML and the players around it some of which had valuations exceeding the valuations of major carriers at some point. 2. iMode outside its native Japan 3. And the fairest of them all - IMS/PCRF/EPC and the 3G/LTE VAS model which was supposed to pay back for all those license investments. 60Bn in Germany alone with 0 payback from what was supposed to be the primary revenue generator and all revenue coming from low margin voice and cheap-as-chips data.
If it works better in D3D and Wine instead of natively this means that Mozilla developers have failed to use OpenGL properly. Wine relies on openGL so if something works in wine and fails natively this means that the native version is badly written.
Now, the fact that it is trivial to "write badly" in OpenGL is another story.
Also, OpenGL is the _WRONG_ choice for a number of things like video for example. It is _SLOWER_ than even the most basic native APIs like Xv. Last time I tried a P3 at 1200Mhz could not play a DVD through the OpenGL driver on Nvidia. It was playing it with flying colours via Xv with no other accel in place.
In fact, I'd rather have Mozilla and especially Adobe implement just plain old simple and trivial Xv instead of having a massive OpenGL technow*nk. Xv makes the difference between working video playback and the crap you get with flash all the way past DVD native res and into the realm of 720p/25~30.
It is based around the speculation that the joint analysis by Siemens and the energy department discovering some of the holes in 2008 was the foundation of Stuxnet. While this may be the case, the tools and approaches at the disposal of a good hacker today would have discovered them all the same.
For frak sake, we live in 2011, nearly 14 years since the original Aleph1 paper "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit". However, the entire energy sector continues to write code like the idea of feeding bogus data to their kit is out of this world. The truth is that SCADA systems cannot survive even a rather short assault by a determined hacker. Besides the numerous input validation bugs of their own software they are usually installed on a non-patched and severely out-of date instance of Windows which cannot be updated with any security patches because the vendor has not recertified their software to work on the patched version. In fact, the approach used by Stuxnet with the stolen certificate was a total overkill. In real life most of these systems can be attacked with a 2 year old zero day because they are up to 4 years behind on patches. What makes this even worse is that the same software developers with same practices and some of the same codebase will now enter every home on the coattails of Smart Metering and other similar initiatives.
So coming back to the original article - it is built on the assumption that the Idaho analysis was essential to build the worm. That fails the Occam razor. So the rest of the article is as much of a conjecture as all other similar bits and pieces floating around the net.
First was IBM Zurich 30 or so years ago with IR on the ceiling as a connection method
Then there was the IR profile for WiFi. 802.11b at 1Mbit actually has an optical option. However as there is nobody doing it any more so there is no standards compliant kit out there.
Otherwise it is a very cool idea for a number of applications. There are places where you just do not want radio for a variety of reasons. Light is much less likely to cause interference and is much easier to keep "contained" so it is not eavesdropped on.
Actually the reference to colour is from the days when they were used on open fire. So regardless of the material in use they all became black over time from soot. So it implies not just black colour, but dirt as well.
The days when most of them were made from black cast iron as well as the days of clean heat from gas and electricity came later.
No it was not because the proof from them is still inconclusive as they do not decrypt the network traffic. All that is clear is that the 3 people in question have used cell phones. This breaks the exam rules, but it is not conclusive if that was to cheat or simply a case of acute jobsian fondleslab addiction.
If you want to detect if people are cheating the best approach are kits which femtocell manufacturers sell on the side to security agencies worldwide. These pretend to be the cellular network and allow the security forces to snoop on all comms from the handset. The cost is on-par with Rode-Shwartz - in the 30K+ range. The difference however is that you get proper evidence admissible in court as a result.
It does and I guess that is Taco's problem. Even after all these years he still has some of the reactions from the days when Slashdot was being run on an Alpha salvaged from a skip and put under the desk in his dorm room.
Time to let go dude.
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I was going to make the same exact point.
As these are proper ocean cruiser boats you are not going to move them by container ship. 24m worth off composite hull is something you move by water with a hired crew, not by ship. Sailing such boats from A to B so that the person with excess pocket money can use it where they want it is a pretty good job if you can have it by the way. I would not mind being a sailing crew on one of those:)
So the only greenhouse emissions are from the leerjet flying you to the sailing destination and back.
If there is to be a choice, I woul definitely go for this (and Larry Ellison America cup obsession) compared to let's say top Microsoft execs lobbying for specia exemptions to the USA import regs so they can import limited use supercars for their personal consumption (which they did at least once).
1. It applies to everyone. They invoked the small print in the contract which says that they can alter it any time they like.
2. Everyone is misreading the switch. T-mob is from now on treating Google, Facebook, etc differently from video downloads and over-the-top media for billing purposes. Next stop on this train is called "bill per app" exactly as was originally intended with 3G/LTE VAS and IMS.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
I have worked in various telecoms and Internet related outfits in various capacities (sysadmin, architect, strategist, researcher, network engineer, "cleaner" - anyting and everything). 12+ years now. _EVERYONE_ in every area I have ever worked had change control even as far back as the heyday of the early dot-bomb. I have also seen more than one person being pink-slipped for not following it.
I have interviewed a couple of times for jobs in financial industry shops (one of the top 5 banks and one of the leading hedge funds) - both had change control with multiple approval levels for each change and revision control on all configs at least for the area which I was interviewing for.
A shop that has no change control and no revision control on configurations needs a cluebat, not a distributed administration system.
For the same reason anyone would like to use BSD on a platform instead of linux.
There are multiple possible reasons:
1. Licensing. 2. BSD has a number of interesting concepts like netgraph which allow for efficient (and controlled) movement of data from kernel to userspace applications and back. While you can do some of that in Linux, it is considerably easier to do that in BSD. So if you have a couple of BSD geeks to code it, your time to market for a high performance scalable system may be considerably less than in Linux. 3. The code in a lot of systems is considerably more clean and understandable than in Linux. If you have to modify the core OS it may be considerably easier to do so in a maintainable manner. This is doubly so today as we live in the days when Linus changes ABIs at the speed one changes nappies on a toddler with diarrhea. I would never even consider maintaining a linux kernel patch in the long term. With BSD - different story, any day, any time.
It is called: "Change Control" and usually goes along with "Revision Control" on configs.
If you change without recording the reason for change and without checking in the result so that the two versions can be compared and analysed you get a pink slip. Voila. Problem solved.
It sounds even more awesome than you can imagine. The bugs in the front are locusts. I prefer not to imagine what will happen if we "improve" them as we do with all domestic animals and the improved locust capable of living in let's say across the entire temperate zone gets our in the wild.
Read job adverts for this class of UK company IT architects on jobserve. They are _VERY_ explicit that the job of the architect is only to shop-n-ship. There is no allowance to collect reqs for a made-to-order job or spec-out an in-house system. If it is not supported by an off the shelf package it will not be. Period. The "We are not software developers" mantra taken to its ultimate limit.
My educated guess that the hodgepodge of systems delivered by 3 subcontractors for the drill had not off-the-shelf package supporting it and from there on it was policy.
You have to train someone to use them or have it remoted to an ops team over satellite. Both cost more money than the average cheapskate who has deliberately chosen a Liberian flag to avoid taxes and bypass labour and safety regs would like to spend.
In fact, the problem would have been long solved by now if navies did what they are allowed to do by law - protect their _OWN_ country ships and make a special point that ships with flags from Liberia, Panama and their ilk get no protection.
Typical American paranoia. Not that UK is much better.
Anyway, I have had a Bulgarian digital ID for nearly 4 years now. It is privately run - there are several companies which have been licensed to issue the certificates and they issue certs/smartcards to individuals and businesses. The govmint has nothing to do with it besides being obliged by law to accept a smartcard signed electronic document as a valid signature in any form of communication. I can sign a contract, sign my tax return, sell/buy stuff that requires a signed contract, give instructions to my bank and all of these are _EQUALLY_ legally binding to me showing up with a passport/ID and signing it in person. On top of that most cert authorities and smartcards fully support Linux at least on x86 so you do not even need to pay MSFT tax to use it.
On the negative side, banks, etc have been pretty quick on the uptake that this is an acknowledged and transactions are legally binding so you cannot do any electronic banking without it any more.
In any case - an example where "technological backwater" "undeveloped" "fifth world economy" and "third rate democracy" (all are labels which BG has had in USA press at various times) shows how this _CAN_ be run as a useful tool for individuals and companies to do business without the govmint having anything to do with it besides collecting some license revenue.
I did some consulting for one of the top 5 world banks a couple of years back and they had wad of cash with 6 zeroes at the end on the table for network monitoring.
5ms? There are places where 5us will not go unnoticed. It is being monitored top to bottom and logged with nanosecond precision timestamps for audit just in case.
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And your point is?
Russians have licensed to the Chinese the full blueprint of Su-27 (the license is now revoked because of illegal cloning), the Chinese have bought a whole load of them. Despite all that they have failed to clone the engine. As a result the "stealth" jet fighter they have produced may be low radar profile (that is actually the easy bit nowdays), but it is still equipped with third generation engine 20 years behind US, EADS and Russia. As a result it is a piece of stealthy dead meat if it meets either an F-35 or a Sukhoi-PAKFA.
It is a similar story with everything else you mention.
There are a limits to what you can copy without having indigineous high skilled workforce and China has not learned to build one (yet). They pay their engineers so little that they see engineering positions solely as a step towards management or sales. As a result they are guaranteed to copy anything you put there and everything they get their hands on. However it is similarly guaranteed to be a generation behind countries which invest into their engineering and R&D workforce and where engineering and R&D can be a lifetime vocation.
The problem with companies like GE exporting tech to China (or India) is actually not with exporting the tech per se. It is with them looking at the Chinese "cheap engineer" model, considering it to be more cost effective from a purely accounting perspective and copying it.
Or, you know, it could be that people with mental problems also have a predisposition to become addicts.
Fixed that for ya.
It can be gambling, it can be alcohol, it can be drugs and it can be MMO or first person shooters.
Yeah, right... An article about failed "get rich quick" schemes in the cell phone industry that fails to mention:
1. WAP/WML and the players around it some of which had valuations exceeding the valuations of major carriers at some point.
2. iMode outside its native Japan
3. And the fairest of them all - IMS/PCRF/EPC and the 3G/LTE VAS model which was supposed to pay back for all those license investments. 60Bn in Germany alone with 0 payback from what was supposed to be the primary revenue generator and all revenue coming from low margin voice and cheap-as-chips data.
If it works better in D3D and Wine instead of natively this means that Mozilla developers have failed to use OpenGL properly. Wine relies on openGL so if something works in wine and fails natively this means that the native version is badly written.
Now, the fact that it is trivial to "write badly" in OpenGL is another story.
Also, OpenGL is the _WRONG_ choice for a number of things like video for example. It is _SLOWER_ than even the most basic native APIs like Xv. Last time I tried a P3 at 1200Mhz could not play a DVD through the OpenGL driver on Nvidia. It was playing it with flying colours via Xv with no other accel in place.
In fact, I'd rather have Mozilla and especially Adobe implement just plain old simple and trivial Xv instead of having a massive OpenGL technow*nk. Xv makes the difference between working video playback and the crap you get with flash all the way past DVD native res and into the realm of 720p/25~30.
It is based around the speculation that the joint analysis by Siemens and the energy department discovering some of the holes in 2008 was the foundation of Stuxnet. While this may be the case, the tools and approaches at the disposal of a good hacker today would have discovered them all the same.
For frak sake, we live in 2011, nearly 14 years since the original Aleph1 paper "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit". However, the entire energy sector continues to write code like the idea of feeding bogus data to their kit is out of this world. The truth is that SCADA systems cannot survive even a rather short assault by a determined hacker. Besides the numerous input validation bugs of their own software they are usually installed on a non-patched and severely out-of date instance of Windows which cannot be updated with any security patches because the vendor has not recertified their software to work on the patched version. In fact, the approach used by Stuxnet with the stolen certificate was a total overkill. In real life most of these systems can be attacked with a 2 year old zero day because they are up to 4 years behind on patches. What makes this even worse is that the same software developers with same practices and some of the same codebase will now enter every home on the coattails of Smart Metering and other similar initiatives.
So coming back to the original article - it is built on the assumption that the Idaho analysis was essential to build the worm. That fails the Occam razor. So the rest of the article is as much of a conjecture as all other similar bits and pieces floating around the net.
First was IBM Zurich 30 or so years ago with IR on the ceiling as a connection method
Then there was the IR profile for WiFi. 802.11b at 1Mbit actually has an optical option. However as there is nobody doing it any more so there is no standards compliant kit out there.
Otherwise it is a very cool idea for a number of applications. There are places where you just do not want radio for a variety of reasons. Light is much less likely to cause interference and is much easier to keep "contained" so it is not eavesdropped on.
I guess you have forgotten exactly why he was left an orphan and raised as a Martian.
Actually the reference to colour is from the days when they were used on open fire. So regardless of the material in use they all became black over time from soot. So it implies not just black colour, but dirt as well.
The days when most of them were made from black cast iron as well as the days of clean heat from gas and electricity came later.
Kettle, meet pot, pot, meet kettle - you are both black.
Or playing nethack.
No reset, no checkpoint, no turning back. Unless you cheat every decision is final and will result in you, the game or both changing somewhat.
The only "reset" is to start from scratch which however will result in a completely different game.
Michael Valentine Smith. Martian by mentality, human by heredity.
No it was not because the proof from them is still inconclusive as they do not decrypt the network traffic. All that is clear is that the 3 people in question have used cell phones. This breaks the exam rules, but it is not conclusive if that was to cheat or simply a case of acute jobsian fondleslab addiction.
If you want to detect if people are cheating the best approach are kits which femtocell manufacturers sell on the side to security agencies worldwide. These pretend to be the cellular network and allow the security forces to snoop on all comms from the handset. The cost is on-par with Rode-Shwartz - in the 30K+ range. The difference however is that you get proper evidence admissible in court as a result.
It does and I guess that is Taco's problem. Even after all these years he still has some of the reactions from the days when Slashdot was being run on an Alpha salvaged from a skip and put under the desk in his dorm room.
Time to let go dude.
I was going to make the same exact point.
As these are proper ocean cruiser boats you are not going to move them by container ship. 24m worth off composite hull is something you move by water with a hired crew, not by ship. Sailing such boats from A to B so that the person with excess pocket money can use it where they want it is a pretty good job if you can have it by the way. I would not mind being a sailing crew on one of those :)
So the only greenhouse emissions are from the leerjet flying you to the sailing destination and back.
If there is to be a choice, I woul definitely go for this (and Larry Ellison America cup obsession) compared to let's say top Microsoft execs lobbying for specia exemptions to the USA import regs so they can import limited use supercars for their personal consumption (which they did at least once).
Yep.
And this way it prevents anyone who wanted to pitch a few Galactic North jokes.
1. It applies to everyone. They invoked the small print in the contract which says that they can alter it any time they like.
2. Everyone is misreading the switch. T-mob is from now on treating Google, Facebook, etc differently from video downloads and over-the-top media for billing purposes. Next stop on this train is called "bill per app" exactly as was originally intended with 3G/LTE VAS and IMS.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
I have worked in various telecoms and Internet related outfits in various capacities (sysadmin, architect, strategist, researcher, network engineer, "cleaner" - anyting and everything). 12+ years now. _EVERYONE_ in every area I have ever worked had change control even as far back as the heyday of the early dot-bomb. I have also seen more than one person being pink-slipped for not following it.
I have interviewed a couple of times for jobs in financial industry shops (one of the top 5 banks and one of the leading hedge funds) - both had change control with multiple approval levels for each change and revision control on all configs at least for the area which I was interviewing for.
A shop that has no change control and no revision control on configurations needs a cluebat, not a distributed administration system.
For the same reason anyone would like to use BSD on a platform instead of linux.
There are multiple possible reasons:
1. Licensing.
2. BSD has a number of interesting concepts like netgraph which allow for efficient (and controlled) movement of data from kernel to userspace applications and back. While you can do some of that in Linux, it is considerably easier to do that in BSD. So if you have a couple of BSD geeks to code it, your time to market for a high performance scalable system may be considerably less than in Linux.
3. The code in a lot of systems is considerably more clean and understandable than in Linux. If you have to modify the core OS it may be considerably easier to do so in a maintainable manner. This is doubly so today as we live in the days when Linus changes ABIs at the speed one changes nappies on a toddler with diarrhea. I would never even consider maintaining a linux kernel patch in the long term. With BSD - different story, any day, any time.
It is called: "Change Control" and usually goes along with "Revision Control" on configs.
If you change without recording the reason for change and without checking in the result so that the two versions can be compared and analysed you get a pink slip. Voila. Problem solved.
It sounds even more awesome than you can imagine. The bugs in the front are locusts. I prefer not to imagine what will happen if we "improve" them as we do with all domestic animals and the improved locust capable of living in let's say across the entire temperate zone gets our in the wild.
In any case - fair point about the lawns.
Wrong analogy. BT is a UK company.
Read job adverts for this class of UK company IT architects on jobserve. They are _VERY_ explicit that the job of the architect is only to shop-n-ship. There is no allowance to collect reqs for a made-to-order job or spec-out an in-house system. If it is not supported by an off the shelf package it will not be. Period. The "We are not software developers" mantra taken to its ultimate limit.
My educated guess that the hodgepodge of systems delivered by 3 subcontractors for the drill had not off-the-shelf package supporting it and from there on it was policy.
You have to train someone to use them or have it remoted to an ops team over satellite. Both cost more money than the average cheapskate who has deliberately chosen a Liberian flag to avoid taxes and bypass labour and safety regs would like to spend.
In fact, the problem would have been long solved by now if navies did what they are allowed to do by law - protect their _OWN_ country ships and make a special point that ships with flags from Liberia, Panama and their ilk get no protection.
Government already has a central database. It is called social security register.
They are not getting any more or any less information than they already have.
At best they will have to have it properly organised and properly access controlled.
Typical American paranoia. Not that UK is much better.
Anyway, I have had a Bulgarian digital ID for nearly 4 years now. It is privately run - there are several companies which have been licensed to issue the certificates and they issue certs/smartcards to individuals and businesses. The govmint has nothing to do with it besides being obliged by law to accept a smartcard signed electronic document as a valid signature in any form of communication. I can sign a contract, sign my tax return, sell/buy stuff that requires a signed contract, give instructions to my bank and all of these are _EQUALLY_ legally binding to me showing up with a passport/ID and signing it in person. On top of that most cert authorities and smartcards fully support Linux at least on x86 so you do not even need to pay MSFT tax to use it.
On the negative side, banks, etc have been pretty quick on the uptake that this is an acknowledged and transactions are legally binding so you cannot do any electronic banking without it any more.
In any case - an example where "technological backwater" "undeveloped" "fifth world economy" and "third rate democracy" (all are labels which BG has had in USA press at various times) shows how this _CAN_ be run as a useful tool for individuals and companies to do business without the govmint having anything to do with it besides collecting some license revenue.
Exactly.
I did some consulting for one of the top 5 world banks a couple of years back and they had wad of cash with 6 zeroes at the end on the table for network monitoring.
5ms? There are places where 5us will not go unnoticed. It is being monitored top to bottom and logged with nanosecond precision timestamps for audit just in case.