Many TLA (Three Letter Agencies) already have the means. It's only a matter of going out and having built a data silo or twenty.
Just imagine a silo the size of one of those grain elevators that you'd see out in the middle of middle America filled with tapes and robotic arms to fetch, and tapes (each holding 250Gb of data) by the thousands. Now place these silos underground, in some former coal mine, in a nuclear bunker, and you're fairly close to what is rumored to be.
I used to work for a company called Epsilon Data Management in Burlington, MA. Data mining company, and yeah the DB wizards / gods would pour over the data for the little gems that would fit the requirements for the customers (usually direct mail marketing, but sometimes more interesting stuff like fraud detection).
However, I think my main point was that you'd only know what to look for after the fact, that someone was caught in the act and told all that they know, allowing you to then go back and see that when Mr. Bad Guy did play that online game and performed such-n-such tactics / said 'Hello' three times in a row, etc. that it ment something to someone else.
Needle in the haystack issue. Too much communication happens online- certainly they can have boxes report back a copy of all of the traffic from some ISP, or even all of the traffic out of / into an ISP, but to give analysis of that data is not something I'd like to be tasked with. And the real usefullness would be after the fact, and only when someone has told all that they know (and the goverment has all of the data recorded too).
Thinking back to the cold war, the most successful communciations that the Russians spies would do where out in the open- usually simple things like colored thumbtacks on public bulletin boards, which unless you knew what to look for and then what it ment, it was very easy to miss.
Intel hired knitters for wiring the first set of chips back in the day. Cobol was designed by a Grace Murray Hopper. Frances Elizabeth Snyder Holberton was involved in Fortran's development. Ada Lovelace wrote first program to calculate Bernouli numbers.
If you're going to troll, learn how to troll right.
She should blame herself first for not demanding some input into the production, then the agent who handled the sale to the production company for not getting these rights written into the contract.
Even though authors really do hate it when their books and stories need to change to work for theater, movies and TV, not giving them an input on how the story changes usually does bring out the worst in the final product. (Oh, of course there are some egos that can't stand the fact that someone has a different take on their mangum opus which could be just as valid as the author's intent. The name Jerry Pournelle comes to mind for instance.)
So what did they use before GPS was widespread and for public use? I'd love to see the documents on this, could you provide a few links?
If you're claiming that the GPS ticks are essential for timing, then an atomic clock would better serve the needs of the power industry than relying on a GPS signal. The advanatages of having an atomic clock local to you certainly out weigh those of using space based one.
Not too many American companyies do. I remeber hearing on NPR a while back (Gulf War I?) where someone was writing a book to companies with joke letters and collecting the PR responses, and Hormel was asked why they named their company after the Straits of Hormuz, and the reply was pure Python-isc.
My personal experience is this: I've been working (and earning money) doing PC / computer programing and work since I was 14, having learned at age 11 at the school where my father taught (WVU).
Your undergrad school's CS department doesn't mean a lot on interviews. What matters in a solid understanding of concepts, tasks, and programming methods. You'll learn a lot on the job no matter where you go. On a side note, I will strongly suggest that you do a double major, with a second degree in liberal arts. You might burn out of programming and want to switch over to something else, and having knowledge outside of computers is a good thing.
Now, if you continue with your education and want to earn a Masters or PhD in CS, then yes, your school does begin to matter.
On a personal note: My undergrad degree is Japanese Political Science, I write software for a HMO in Boston with a very (*ahem*) healthly salery. I started but never finished my Masters in Computer Science at Harvard, but I take a class every now and then to learn something new.
I'll speak up for the PRT at WVU- I grew up in Morgantown. The system was first developed and built in the 1970s- 1972 to be exact- although the project was orginially concived in 1969.
Having ridden on the system I can talk about the times it's broken down while being on it (more than once), or the ease at which I was able to get from my student parking lot to my class downtown in under 30 minutes (if you've been to Morgantown you'll realize that this is a big, big deal as traffic flows like an ice pack).
It is one of the things that became a real work-horse for the town. In 30 year there has been no accidents or injuries- for a completely automated system that's and incredible track record.
Here's a few PR links: http://www.nis.wvu.edu/2002_Releases/prt30 .htm http://www.nis.wvu.edu/Releases_Old/wvu_beat s_disn ey.html http://www.ia.wvu.edu/~magazine/issues/sp ring2003/ htmlfiles/campus.html
It really is a cool geeky thing to ride. One little known fact was that the CPU for the entire system was an old 8-bit job. When it was time to replace that system in the 1990s they couldn't find the cpu anymore and had to redevelop the system (I forget if it was emulated or a complete re-written).
Also, when the system was first shown, the First Daughter was a passenger- and also one of the first people to deal with a breakdown.:)
So most of these bots use IRC to get their marching orders- so why not disrupt that method of communication? This can be done on the ISP level, or at a personal level by blocking ports or what have you- or even by DDoS'ng known IRC servers themselves (a taste of their own meds?).
Well since question #20 is mine, I'll give you my response.
Background:
We're talking about 73 trillion dollars here, to be spent over the next 50 years. Allowing for a bell curve, that means in about 15 years time we'll be heading for the sharpest increase in the curve.
Since congress never met a pork project it didn't like, both the Repbulicians and Democrates used Social Security to spend money that they didn't have, on the promiss that it would be paid back.
The problem
Now what Bush is suggesting has faults of it's own:
Market preformance. What will people do if there is a stockmarket crash? How will people retire if their retirement funds are wiped out?
Fees by brokerage accounts. A 10% return is nice, but we all know that Wall Street is drooling over the fees that they will get to charge just for selling index funds.
Artifical bubble of the markets. Trillions will be put into the stockmarket, every stock will have someone buying it. Too much money, not enough products to buy = bubble.
This is already happening with popular Funds for 401(k)s! See Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund - FLPSX as an example
We'll still be paying for those who are already in Social Security. Somehow we have to make good on our promise to those who already are in the system. By taking out money that will be going into it, we'll need to come up with 2 or 3 trillion TODAY for this to work.
Don't forget that companies are defaulting on Pensions too. This is going to make the Savings & Loans trouble of the late 80s look like small potatoes.
So my point is that it's just not going to work out.
PS. I find your sig to be part of the problem with politics in general- too much '' mentality.
PSS. I agree 100% that SS is a Ponzi scheme, but origially SS was for widows, orphans, and the blind. See my comment above about pork.
Unfortunately, having pilots wear colored laser safety glasses would be impractical as that would make it impossible to interpret the colored symbols on paper maps and cockpit displays.
Okay, so make the cockpit window able block lasers.
Let's look ten years out. Since we have a wave of baby boomers planning on retirement, what effect will their retirement have on me, my family, and the nation as a whole. How will we pay for the trillions that Social Security, Medicaid, and all of the other entitlement programs be handled? How does having countries like Japan, China, and India who are buying our debt (thus allowing us to spend more money than we have), change the equation? How does the fact that Japan is heading for their baby boom retirement in 4 years change our equation?
Please answer in a fashion which is not compatiable to a 10 sound bite.
Not entirely true. If you have a 2 hour SDRAM buffer, then on the user pressing the shuffle button the device should go load the buffer with random songs until the memory is full.
Why not (since it's windows programming), create an IE object and have it return the results, this it would appear to Google to be nothing more than just normal traffic?
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Many TLA (Three Letter Agencies) already have the means. It's only a matter of going out and having built a data silo or twenty.
Just imagine a silo the size of one of those grain elevators that you'd see out in the middle of middle America filled with tapes and robotic arms to fetch, and tapes (each holding 250Gb of data) by the thousands.
Now place these silos underground, in some former coal mine, in a nuclear bunker, and you're fairly close to what is rumored to be.
I used to work for a company called Epsilon Data Management in Burlington, MA. Data mining company, and yeah the DB wizards / gods would pour over the data for the little gems that would fit the requirements for the customers (usually direct mail marketing, but sometimes more interesting stuff like fraud detection).
However, I think my main point was that you'd only know what to look for after the fact, that someone was caught in the act and told all that they know, allowing you to then go back and see that when Mr. Bad Guy did play that online game and performed such-n-such tactics / said 'Hello' three times in a row, etc. that it ment something to someone else.
Needle in the haystack issue. Too much communication happens online- certainly they can have boxes report back a copy of all of the traffic from some ISP, or even all of the traffic out of / into an ISP, but to give analysis of that data is not something I'd like to be tasked with.
And the real usefullness would be after the fact, and only when someone has told all that they know (and the goverment has all of the data recorded too).
Thinking back to the cold war, the most successful communciations that the Russians spies would do where out in the open- usually simple things like colored thumbtacks on public bulletin boards, which unless you knew what to look for and then what it ment, it was very easy to miss.
Intel hired knitters for wiring the first set of chips back in the day.
Cobol was designed by a Grace Murray Hopper.
Frances Elizabeth Snyder Holberton was involved in Fortran's development.
Ada Lovelace wrote first program to calculate Bernouli numbers.
If you're going to troll, learn how to troll right.
She should blame herself first for not demanding some input into the production, then the agent who handled the sale to the production company for not getting these rights written into the contract.
Even though authors really do hate it when their books and stories need to change to work for theater, movies and TV, not giving them an input on how the story changes usually does bring out the worst in the final product. (Oh, of course there are some egos that can't stand the fact that someone has a different take on their mangum opus which could be just as valid as the author's intent. The name Jerry Pournelle comes to mind for instance.)
Mods fail to see the humor again.
Really?
So what did they use before GPS was widespread and for public use? I'd love to see the documents on this, could you provide a few links?
If you're claiming that the GPS ticks are essential for timing, then an atomic clock would better serve the needs of the power industry than relying on a GPS signal. The advanatages of having an atomic clock local to you certainly out weigh those of using space based one.
Interesting idea, but the web site needs work.
Half of the search parameters refused to work (rows returned, type, distance, etc).
Not too many American companyies do.
I remeber hearing on NPR a while back (Gulf War I?) where someone was writing a book to companies with joke letters and collecting the PR responses, and Hormel was asked why they named their company after the Straits of Hormuz, and the reply was pure Python-isc.
My personal experience is this:
I've been working (and earning money) doing PC / computer programing and work since I was 14, having learned at age 11 at the school where my father taught (WVU).
Your undergrad school's CS department doesn't mean a lot on interviews. What matters in a solid understanding of concepts, tasks, and programming methods. You'll learn a lot on the job no matter where you go.
On a side note, I will strongly suggest that you do a double major, with a second degree in liberal arts. You might burn out of programming and want to switch over to something else, and having knowledge outside of computers is a good thing.
Now, if you continue with your education and want to earn a Masters or PhD in CS, then yes, your school does begin to matter.
On a personal note: My undergrad degree is Japanese Political Science, I write software for a HMO in Boston with a very (*ahem*) healthly salery.
I started but never finished my Masters in Computer Science at Harvard, but I take a class every now and then to learn something new.
See my URL of course. :)
When some bright person while develop a tool that will allow you to convert the maps automatically between HL2 and D3 and vice versa.
If you own both, I see no issues with such a gizmo.
A correction about the computer system:
The system that runs the PRT is / was a PDP 11/55 with 48k of RAM.
I'll speak up for the PRT at WVU-
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I grew up in Morgantown. The system was first developed and built in the 1970s- 1972 to be exact- although the project was orginially concived in 1969.
Having ridden on the system I can talk about the times it's broken down while being on it (more than once), or the ease at which I was able to get from my student parking lot to my class downtown in under 30 minutes (if you've been to Morgantown you'll realize that this is a big, big deal as traffic flows like an ice pack).
It is one of the things that became a real work-horse for the town. In 30 year there has been no accidents or injuries- for a completely automated system that's and incredible track record.
Here's a few PR links:
http://www.nis.wvu.edu/2002_Releases/prt3
http://www.nis.wvu.edu/Releases_Old/wvu_bea
http://www.ia.wvu.edu/~magazine/issues/s
It really is a cool geeky thing to ride.
One little known fact was that the CPU for the entire system was an old 8-bit job. When it was time to replace that system in the 1990s they couldn't find the cpu anymore and had to redevelop the system (I forget if it was emulated or a complete re-written).
Also, when the system was first shown, the First Daughter was a passenger- and also one of the first people to deal with a breakdown.
So most of these bots use IRC to get their marching orders- so why not disrupt that method of communication?
This can be done on the ISP level, or at a personal level by blocking ports or what have you- or even by DDoS'ng known IRC servers themselves (a taste of their own meds?).
Just a thought
Well at least it's not Le Citron.
But again, maybe the car builders where too honest.
PS. I find your sig to be part of the problem with politics in general- too much 'Get the other guy' mentality.
Well since question #20 is mine, I'll give you my response.
Background:
We're talking about 73 trillion dollars here, to be spent over the next 50 years. Allowing for a bell curve, that means in about 15 years time we'll be heading for the sharpest increase in the curve.
Since congress never met a pork project it didn't like, both the Repbulicians and Democrates used Social Security to spend money that they didn't have, on the promiss that it would be paid back.
The problem
This is already happening with popular Funds for 401(k)s! See Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund - FLPSX as an example
So my point is that it's just not going to work out.
PS. I find your sig to be part of the problem with politics in general- too much '' mentality.
PSS. I agree 100% that SS is a Ponzi scheme, but origially SS was for widows, orphans, and the blind. See my comment above about pork.
Did it in windows in 5 seconds with Adobe AB Standard V6.
Click on the menu item "Advanced" -> "Export All Images..." -> save in some location.
Done sans the red 'Specimen' text.
Because there are times when I would like to keep my transactions private.
Cash is anonymous, credit and every other type you've mention are not.
Okay, so make the cockpit window able block lasers.
Let's look ten years out. Since we have a wave of baby boomers planning on retirement, what effect will their retirement have on me, my family, and the nation as a whole.
How will we pay for the trillions that Social Security, Medicaid, and all of the other entitlement programs be handled?
How does having countries like Japan, China, and India who are buying our debt (thus allowing us to spend more money than we have), change the equation? How does the fact that Japan is heading for their baby boom retirement in 4 years change our equation?
Please answer in a fashion which is not compatiable to a 10 sound bite.
Thanks
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Not entirely true. If you have a 2 hour SDRAM buffer, then on the user pressing the shuffle button the device should go load the buffer with random songs until the memory is full.
Why not (since it's windows programming), create an IE object and have it return the results, this it would appear to Google to be nothing more than just normal traffic?