1. Excellent point! Wish I'd thought of it before submitting.
2. It's still a feature that now will need remediation. Argues well against using work-arounds for long periods, rather than fixing the root problem. Think ITIL or Y2K.
3. Actually others have solved older bugs, they just haven't had a slashdot article with their names in light. Think COBOL/FORTRAN.
Long ago, in the days when MLS was just the holy grail, Harris Corporation created the first A1 rated Multi-Level Secure computer system. I can't recall the name given to it, BlackHawk or something overblown like that. It was secure, but utterly unusable. According to some early testers I knew, it took more than 10 minutes just to log on. The command line took, on average, 5 minutes to respond to the simplest command. There were no policy templates, so all permissions and access lists had to be entered manually.
SELinux doesn't look quite so bad in that light, now does it?
I invited NSA to run their red team against a classified intelligence network I ran back in the '90s. That's back when nearly every security tool was of your own creation. I was running SunOS 4.1.3, so at least I had a little help from OS security options.
They had to come on-site to break us and they identified only one finding for which we didn't already have fix planned or in work. We considered that a raging success!
The most embarrasing moment was when they broke the System Security Officer's password with an expanded dictionary attack. I got to kid her about that for months! "How's your password today?" "Strong, dammit!"
Limiting the hardware specs ensures a healthy profit margin on the OS. Sounds like good business.
We wouldn't want folks loading "WinXP lite" on good hardware. It might run really fast and have fewer conflicts, then they'll come to expect that from us in other products.
back when a SPST push button was cool, especially if it lit up on activation. That panel could be left over from the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo program.
If I were sitting on hundreds of tons of explosive fuel, I'd feel better if it took two switches and two buttons activated in deliberate order to end my life.
I wonder what the computed value of an Ad-Click is in China? Most of the country is dirt poor. Exactly which segments of the Chinese population are being reached by Google?
I can see this catching on with ranchers out west. They can fly to town twice as fast as they can drive and still park in the garage. At least they won't have to worry about tailgaters with that open prop out back.
and independently wealthy, you can contact Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are the folks who amazingly recovered the data off a hard drive from the shuttle Columbia wreckage. Based on that performance, the Amstrad diskettes would be a breeze for them.
A common satellite bus is a good thing, but it does not constitute a viable spacecraft. Like a transit bus that never carries passengers, it serves no useful purpose. The payload has always been the driving element in any satellite or probe, in schedule, budget and trade-offs. And rightfully so IMHO. I believe that's why a common bus hasn't been succesful in the past. Both NASA and the DoD have tried, but the needs of the payload outweigh the needs of the bus.
The Space Ground Link System, SGLS (note to self: submit wikipedia page in copious spare time) is analagous to a common satellite bus protocol at the physical to network layers and provides some commonality of bus structure for DoD satellites. The upper protocol layers vary but the foundation is the same.
Ask anyone who's worked in the essential, but unglamorous world of satellite control. Their biggest problem is upgrading the control network quickly enough to satisfy all the new requirements of the next big launch. New datalink frequencies, stronger encryption, faster throughput rates, etc. All the while, they have to maintain the capability to control and pamper the oldest bird flying and monitor everything in between.
It's not a bad thing that satellites outlive their design life, but it has to be considered when operating and budgeting for the control network.
Wonder what else they will add to the birds? Since they're using a Geosynchronous orbit, that does limit what they can add on with good effect. Now I'll be even less likely to use a cell phone in China (provided I go back).
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1. Excellent point! Wish I'd thought of it before submitting.
2. It's still a feature that now will need remediation. Argues well against using work-arounds for long periods, rather than fixing the root problem. Think ITIL or Y2K.
3. Actually others have solved older bugs, they just haven't had a slashdot article with their names in light. Think COBOL/FORTRAN.
Long ago, in the days when MLS was just the holy grail, Harris Corporation created the first A1 rated Multi-Level Secure computer system. I can't recall the name given to it, BlackHawk or something overblown like that. It was secure, but utterly unusable. According to some early testers I knew, it took more than 10 minutes just to log on. The command line took, on average, 5 minutes to respond to the simplest command. There were no policy templates, so all permissions and access lists had to be entered manually.
SELinux doesn't look quite so bad in that light, now does it?
I invited NSA to run their red team against a classified intelligence network I ran back in the '90s. That's back when nearly every security tool was of your own creation. I was running SunOS 4.1.3, so at least I had a little help from OS security options.
They had to come on-site to break us and they identified only one finding for which we didn't already have fix planned or in work. We considered that a raging success!
The most embarrasing moment was when they broke the System Security Officer's password with an expanded dictionary attack. I got to kid her about that for months! "How's your password today?" "Strong, dammit!"
If no one has cared enough to fix it for 25 years, I'm guessing this should be rated as "inconsequential."
Must have been a really slow news day at OSNews.
I bet that once they have these cool custom isotopes, they still give them that standard, gag-a-maggot, fake medical cherry flavor.
"Of course it will save you from cancer, but you have to choke it down first."
"Etiquette for Idiots" on a microSD card in your phone. That way you can read and not pretend to be talking on the phone when it rings.
Hey, maybe it will bluetooth your pacemaker with a restart request, but only if you stored the 256kb AES encryption key in hex from your keypad!
Limiting the hardware specs ensures a healthy profit margin on the OS. Sounds like good business.
We wouldn't want folks loading "WinXP lite" on good hardware. It might run really fast and have fewer conflicts, then they'll come to expect that from us in other products.
I've never seen a young AF captain look so old or so relieved as when passing the last milestone, "go for orbit" on a manned launch.
Likely these keys would be Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) with a codeword.
I doubt the codeword is BOOM or OOPS.
back when a SPST push button was cool, especially if it lit up on activation. That panel could be left over from the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo program.
If I were sitting on hundreds of tons of explosive fuel, I'd feel better if it took two switches and two buttons activated in deliberate order to end my life.
I know I would...
Edit, then submit. I always mess that up.
That's less than 1/100th of one percent of the population. What about the rest of them?
That's less than 1 percent of the population. What about the rest of them?
Actually, they followed the board's recommendations and voted down two proposed changes to policy.
Now that the issue has been raised, will Google's board take up the issue to develop a change that they can support? Time will tell.
I wonder what the computed value of an Ad-Click is in China? Most of the country is dirt poor. Exactly which segments of the Chinese population are being reached by Google?
Clearly the bottom line is the bottom line.
I can see this catching on with ranchers out west. They can fly to town twice as fast as they can drive and still park in the garage. At least they won't have to worry about tailgaters with that open prop out back.
or at least a Gold Wing, I might be tempted. There's throughput and then there's speed....
and independently wealthy, you can contact Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are the folks who amazingly recovered the data off a hard drive from the shuttle Columbia wreckage. Based on that performance, the Amstrad diskettes would be a breeze for them.
I double checked. It was en.wikipedia.org but it sure looked like Greek to me!
QED, isn't that ancient Latin for I'd rather not do the work? ~
I know it's strange, but I just had to go on-line and check out anagrams of "platypus." I was surprised to find that there were 42 including:
Splat Yup
Aptly Sup
Salty Pup
Lusty Pap
Stay Pulp
At Sly Pup
And my favorite: At Supply as in: Where did the platypus come from? There must have been a mix-up At Supply.
Definitely not worth it!
A common satellite bus is a good thing, but it does not constitute a viable spacecraft. Like a transit bus that never carries passengers, it serves no useful purpose. The payload has always been the driving element in any satellite or probe, in schedule, budget and trade-offs. And rightfully so IMHO. I believe that's why a common bus hasn't been succesful in the past. Both NASA and the DoD have tried, but the needs of the payload outweigh the needs of the bus.
The Space Ground Link System, SGLS (note to self: submit wikipedia page in copious spare time) is analagous to a common satellite bus protocol at the physical to network layers and provides some commonality of bus structure for DoD satellites. The upper protocol layers vary but the foundation is the same.
Ask anyone who's worked in the essential, but unglamorous world of satellite control. Their biggest problem is upgrading the control network quickly enough to satisfy all the new requirements of the next big launch. New datalink frequencies, stronger encryption, faster throughput rates, etc. All the while, they have to maintain the capability to control and pamper the oldest bird flying and monitor everything in between.
It's not a bad thing that satellites outlive their design life, but it has to be considered when operating and budgeting for the control network.
Wonder what else they will add to the birds? Since they're using a Geosynchronous orbit, that does limit what they can add on with good effect. Now I'll be even less likely to use a cell phone in China (provided I go back).