You know, that sure would get rid of our nasty Disposal problem.. Beef up NASA's budget. Help science, and no more Yucca mountain or reprocessing mess to deal with!
I've always thought it would be interesting to take someone that lived in the jungle their whole life into a movie theater, and show them the latest movie. How would they react? Would they be able to tell it was just a movie, or would they hit the floor? I think that would work with North Korea. Something tells me (from the few crap video's i've seen from there) that they have never really seen special effects (besides government photoshopping, of course) and they might just crap their pants watching the new Star Trek on the big screen.
In my old town in Southern Oregon, they used goats along the sides of highways to keep down the noxious weeds,and fire hazard. it was something like $2.50/goat/day. They would put up an electric fence 2 miles long along the highway, let a bunch of goats off at one end, then pick them up at the other end a few days later.. Worked pretty good.. Mowing doesn't cut some of the noxious weeds low enough to kill them off. The goats ate them down to nothing..
They're last big "upgrade" to their player about a year ago killed off linux functionality. Fortunately, Hulu.com works great in linux. Maybe I'll actually start watching ABC shows again...
In my office, they have 6 48 port blades in a big chassis switch filled with ports. All are plugged in, so around 300 of them.. I have 65 users on this floor, some servers, printers, etc.. over the years, people have re-arranged, moved, whatever, and they never wanted to take away the network ports, just added more when they ran out. I have been trying to convince them they would save a ton of money by getting 1 24-port gigabit switch, and a few Wireless N AP's. not to mention the backup battery would last for DAYS, and the AC would run a ton less. (and it would be much easier to manage then dealing with 300 wires in a patch panel. Its a mess. 24 ports would be more then enough for a few PoE devices, printers, servers, etc.
Problem is, nothing will break, just nobody new can get address blocks. NOthing will change, because you and I won't notice people we don't know about, not coming online..
Course, people were saying the same thing about manufacturing laptop cases, like out of single blocks of aluminum.
Steve jobs seems to get a hard on from fully automated factories. The NEXT factory could produce thousands of computers a week, with a handful of employees.. (they could just never sell that many)
And, if you read Fahrenheit 451, is one of the main reasons that firemen will soon start fires, instead of putting them out. We can't have books, because they will offend people.
Or, you can look for Wi-Max providers, which are few and far between, but much, much faster than 3g wireless. Of course, you need to really study the TOS and fine print, especially if that provider is Clearwire.. Maybe approach some regional ISP's about it, or heck, go for it yourself...
What you are failing to grasp, is that we are now becoming the old, bearded IT guys that we thought were soo old fashioned when we started. We laughed at their mainframes, and their command lines..
We are, in fact, that cynical, bearded, old Unix guy from the Dilbert cartoons.. "here's a quarter kid, go buy a real computer"..
In Oregon, the number of new nurses accepted every year is severely limited to "ensure only the best candidates" are accepted. This is decided upon by a panel of nurses, who benefit from the shortage driving up wages. I know of people with 3.8GPA's, that were not selected for the nursing program, and told to apply next year, two years in a row. Yet the state screams about how much more it needs to pay nurses, to attract more, while it is turning them away.. Talk about either a scam, or just plain stupidity.. (or both)
I have had all sorts of problems at work with my cabling.. All sorts of stuff worked great with the initial 10Mbt network. Now it is getting flaky at even 100MB, let alone gigabit. Occasionaly, we'll troubleshoot a wire, take off the faceplate at the wall, and find about 4-5 inches of unsheilded wired before its punched into its jack. Sometimes, its just one pair or two. I actually had a cable that someone made longer, by stripping the wires, twisting them together, and using MASKING tape to hold them together. That one was a treasure to find. Now, keep in mind, 80% of my cabling is awesome, and fully to spec. However, i'm guessing one of the guys working on the team that installed this cabling, long before I came, was of the "good enough" mentality, and its costing quite a bit to fix now.
I worked on a comitee to study distance learning for a group of 2 year colleges.. Several of the larger schools had this dream, about a person living alone on a mountaintop with an internet connection being able to get educated. (and the school getting state funding for providing that)..
But realistically, you can study books all you want, but you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver. Many people can't learn Calculus in a book, and need a class, along with discussion with their teachers to grasp it. It is currently impossible to have any kind of "lab" class online. You can't even order some of the chemicals the chemistry lab has, without the goverment coming to check out if your the next unabomber... I guess in theory you could get a liberal arts degree, but there are only so many waitress positions available.;)
Not to mention the "working well with others" and the social interaction you get in person. The learning to put up with the guy next to you that clicks a pen all day, since in the real world, your going to have that guy in the next cube over..
I know I like to have a rough sketch of about 10 or more meme's that I like to use on slashdot. Every time I see one being used, I cross it off my list, so I don't look like an Un-Original poser, trying to get affection.
However, even though there are a large number of meme's on slashdot, I do sometimes end up crossing them all off, and then don't post to the story. I am working, however, to counter this, by developing a meme-generating meme that will allow me to create more as I need them. (a Just-In-Time meme, if you will)
In Europe, Denmark had the first known radio station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to (Denmark in this case). The station was named Radio Mercur and began transmission on August 2nd 1958. In the Danish newspapers it was soon called a "pirate radio".
I never new how the name "Pirate Radio" got started. That makes sense...
wouldn't the time/money/resources spent on busting the "pirates" be better spent on a new (secure) system?
I hate this method of thinking. No. there is a cost benefit ratio to work out. You have to spend billions to develop and launch a few satellites into orbit. (well, millions, plus contractor's "government discount of negative 300%") The communications themselves are not compromised, since the encryption happens at the endpoints of the conversation.
That is alot of money if "pirates" are hogging a small number of your available channels. Plus, by not having a "secure" system, you can simply and cheaply relay your signals, for example, a small hand held radio, that can reach the ship out at see a mile or so, which then amplifies the signal to the satellite, which then bounces it to the US.
the secret data wasn't on the internet, according to the article. It was not compromised. Only "sensitive" data was compromised. So while they might be able to infer information about the fighter, and its capabilities, they don't have the design and code for it.
Your own computer can not be trusted anymore. Look at some of the new stuff being included by default in many computers. You can get a computrace chip installed on the motherboard, you can also have an Intel vPro chipset, that can work outside the OS, without the OS knowing what it is doing. Or, any kind of Hyper visor that is installed, or Rootkit. You can not trust any tool on your computer to tell you if your computer is compromised. You need something like a monitoring tool on your router, or in another machine.
If you have the RC in hand, you can start developing your programs to work with it, and feel reasonably confident that there will not be drastic changes that will affect your code. (like ubuntu's code freezes)
I used to work at a small college.. We'd have bandwidth problems, I'd check the logs (ntop is very handy for this) and then look up the IP/MAC. Trace it to the nearest access point, walk into the cafeteria, see two students with laptops out. One of them, sitting far back in the corner so nobody could see their screen..
It would scare the shit out of them when I'd walk up to them and just stay "please stop, or I will have to disable your access until you talk to the director of IT about our acceptable use policy" They could never quite figure out how I knew it was them..
Don't forget the two that people always seem to forget in a discussion of socialism.. Fire and Police protection..
Used to be in the US, you had to have a "contract" with a fire-house. If you didn't have a contract, too bad. If your house was on fire, but "your" fire-house was too far away, cause you couldn't afford the guys nearby, too bad. If your station was already busy, and all the other stations were bored, too bad.. That went away quite a few years ago. Some things you have to give to everyone,
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The first one to figure out how the power a device with the stored smugness of prius owners is going to make a mint!
You know, that sure would get rid of our nasty Disposal problem.. Beef up NASA's budget. Help science, and no more Yucca mountain or reprocessing mess to deal with!
I've always thought it would be interesting to take someone that lived in the jungle their whole life into a movie theater, and show them the latest movie. How would they react? Would they be able to tell it was just a movie, or would they hit the floor? I think that would work with North Korea. Something tells me (from the few crap video's i've seen from there) that they have never really seen special effects (besides government photoshopping, of course) and they might just crap their pants watching the new Star Trek on the big screen.
In my old town in Southern Oregon, they used goats along the sides of highways to keep down the noxious weeds,and fire hazard. it was something like $2.50/goat/day. They would put up an electric fence 2 miles long along the highway, let a bunch of goats off at one end, then pick them up at the other end a few days later.. Worked pretty good.. Mowing doesn't cut some of the noxious weeds low enough to kill them off. The goats ate them down to nothing..
They're last big "upgrade" to their player about a year ago killed off linux functionality. Fortunately, Hulu.com works great in linux. Maybe I'll actually start watching ABC shows again...
In my office, they have 6 48 port blades in a big chassis switch filled with ports. All are plugged in, so around 300 of them.. I have 65 users on this floor, some servers, printers, etc.. over the years, people have re-arranged, moved, whatever, and they never wanted to take away the network ports, just added more when they ran out. I have been trying to convince them they would save a ton of money by getting 1 24-port gigabit switch, and a few Wireless N AP's. not to mention the backup battery would last for DAYS, and the AC would run a ton less. (and it would be much easier to manage then dealing with 300 wires in a patch panel. Its a mess. 24 ports would be more then enough for a few PoE devices, printers, servers, etc.
Problem is, nothing will break, just nobody new can get address blocks. NOthing will change, because you and I won't notice people we don't know about, not coming online..
Course, people were saying the same thing about manufacturing laptop cases, like out of single blocks of aluminum.
Steve jobs seems to get a hard on from fully automated factories. The NEXT factory could produce thousands of computers a week, with a handful of employees.. (they could just never sell that many)
And, if you read Fahrenheit 451, is one of the main reasons that firemen will soon start fires, instead of putting them out. We can't have books, because they will offend people.
Or, you can look for Wi-Max providers, which are few and far between, but much, much faster than 3g wireless. Of course, you need to really study the TOS and fine print, especially if that provider is Clearwire.. Maybe approach some regional ISP's about it, or heck, go for it yourself...
What you are failing to grasp, is that we are now becoming the old, bearded IT guys that we thought were soo old fashioned when we started. We laughed at their mainframes, and their command lines..
We are, in fact, that cynical, bearded, old Unix guy from the Dilbert cartoons.. "here's a quarter kid, go buy a real computer"..
Charter.net actually was planning the ISP level ads.. however, they backed down after a shit-storm of controversy.
I was going to moderate your post, but realized there is no '-1 Smug Bastard' rating...
Isn't it time slashdot gave us a few more choices to moderate with? I'm nominating that one...
In Oregon, the number of new nurses accepted every year is severely limited to "ensure only the best candidates" are accepted. This is decided upon by a panel of nurses, who benefit from the shortage driving up wages. I know of people with 3.8GPA's, that were not selected for the nursing program, and told to apply next year, two years in a row. Yet the state screams about how much more it needs to pay nurses, to attract more, while it is turning them away.. Talk about either a scam, or just plain stupidity.. (or both)
I have had all sorts of problems at work with my cabling.. All sorts of stuff worked great with the initial 10Mbt network. Now it is getting flaky at even 100MB, let alone gigabit. Occasionaly, we'll troubleshoot a wire, take off the faceplate at the wall, and find about 4-5 inches of unsheilded wired before its punched into its jack. Sometimes, its just one pair or two. I actually had a cable that someone made longer, by stripping the wires, twisting them together, and using MASKING tape to hold them together. That one was a treasure to find. Now, keep in mind, 80% of my cabling is awesome, and fully to spec. However, i'm guessing one of the guys working on the team that installed this cabling, long before I came, was of the "good enough" mentality, and its costing quite a bit to fix now.
That's actually GNU\MEME...
I worked on a comitee to study distance learning for a group of 2 year colleges.. Several of the larger schools had this dream, about a person living alone on a mountaintop with an internet connection being able to get educated. (and the school getting state funding for providing that)..
But realistically, you can study books all you want, but you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver. Many people can't learn Calculus in a book, and need a class, along with discussion with their teachers to grasp it. It is currently impossible to have any kind of "lab" class online. You can't even order some of the chemicals the chemistry lab has, without the goverment coming to check out if your the next unabomber... I guess in theory you could get a liberal arts degree, but there are only so many waitress positions available. ;)
Not to mention the "working well with others" and the social interaction you get in person. The learning to put up with the guy next to you that clicks a pen all day, since in the real world, your going to have that guy in the next cube over..
I know I like to have a rough sketch of about 10 or more meme's that I like to use on slashdot. Every time I see one being used, I cross it off my list, so I don't look like an Un-Original poser, trying to get affection.
However, even though there are a large number of meme's on slashdot, I do sometimes end up crossing them all off, and then don't post to the story. I am working, however, to counter this, by developing a meme-generating meme that will allow me to create more as I need them. (a Just-In-Time meme, if you will)
Interesting.. the Wikipedia entry had this:
In Europe, Denmark had the first known radio station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to (Denmark in this case). The station was named Radio Mercur and began transmission on August 2nd 1958. In the Danish newspapers it was soon called a "pirate radio".
I never new how the name "Pirate Radio" got started. That makes sense...
wouldn't the time/money/resources spent on busting the "pirates" be better spent on a new (secure) system?
I hate this method of thinking. No. there is a cost benefit ratio to work out. You have to spend billions to develop and launch a few satellites into orbit. (well, millions, plus contractor's "government discount of negative 300%") The communications themselves are not compromised, since the encryption happens at the endpoints of the conversation.
That is alot of money if "pirates" are hogging a small number of your available channels.
Plus, by not having a "secure" system, you can simply and cheaply relay your signals, for example, a small hand held radio, that can reach the ship out at see a mile or so, which then amplifies the signal to the satellite, which then bounces it to the US.
the secret data wasn't on the internet, according to the article. It was not compromised. Only "sensitive" data was compromised. So while they might be able to infer information about the fighter, and its capabilities, they don't have the design and code for it.
Your own computer can not be trusted anymore. Look at some of the new stuff being included by default in many computers. You can get a computrace chip installed on the motherboard, you can also have an Intel vPro chipset, that can work outside the OS, without the OS knowing what it is doing. Or, any kind of Hyper visor that is installed, or Rootkit. You can not trust any tool on your computer to tell you if your computer is compromised. You need something like a monitoring tool on your router, or in another machine.
If you have the RC in hand, you can start developing your programs to work with it, and feel reasonably confident that there will not be drastic changes that will affect your code. (like ubuntu's code freezes)
I used to work at a small college.. We'd have bandwidth problems, I'd check the logs (ntop is very handy for this) and then look up the IP/MAC. Trace it to the nearest access point, walk into the cafeteria, see two students with laptops out. One of them, sitting far back in the corner so nobody could see their screen..
It would scare the shit out of them when I'd walk up to them and just stay "please stop, or I will have to disable your access until you talk to the director of IT about our acceptable use policy" They could never quite figure out how I knew it was them..
Don't forget the two that people always seem to forget in a discussion of socialism.. Fire and Police protection..
Used to be in the US, you had to have a "contract" with a fire-house. If you didn't have a contract, too bad. If your house was on fire, but "your" fire-house was too far away, cause you couldn't afford the guys nearby, too bad. If your station was already busy, and all the other stations were bored, too bad.. That went away quite a few years ago. Some things you have to give to everyone,