doctors independent contractors / own offices have to do there own IT. Other times they are stuck on old apps that may need ADMIN rights and even only run in windows XP.
This wasn't the case though. The majority of infections were in unpatched Win7 machines. And for the specific issue one of the major reasons for NOT patching was the need to communication with SMB1 servers. Most frequently these server run Linux.
Disclaimer: yes I work for Microsoft. No not on these projects.
This was demo'd live in front of 30K MSFT employees at our annual company meeting. It nearly brought me to tears. Yes, I can see through demoware and and yes it's highly imperfect, but honestly it was the single most impressive use of technology I've ever seen. It was both novel and simple. It combined hardware, algorithms, user experience, and cloud scale. I don't know if it will ever go anywhere though I expect that it will. The key point here is that these are off the shelf components. Kinect and gesture APIs combined with machine translation and text to speech. It's important that these are, all or nearly all public production APIs. Such a system 10 years ago even if possible, would never make it to market because of the tiny user base. Today we can build such apps for the 0.01% of the population that need Mandarin Sign Language translated to English. And it can be cost effectively. That is the point. Technology being used to address real problems for under served communities. So yes, maybe people researched automated sign language recognition years ago, but bringing it to market and enabling a scenario for real people is a wholly different beast
There is a difference. I don't think anyone is claiming the inhabitant(s) of SeaLand are made of a distinct ethnic, cultural, or religious group. It is also worth nothing that even without land, groups can have rights under international law. Take the Palestinians for example.
And yet the minimal standards are much higher than most people actually do.
My take: Do audits and auditors do anything to secure your systems? Rarely. Do having real hoops to jump through and jobs/salaries/bonuses on the line for failure prompt people to try to secure their systems? Frequently.
You are conflating scientific certainty with the need to make policy/engineering decisions. Yes relativity is a theory, not a certainty bu lLet's say you were in a position of designing a satellite. Would you say to yourself "self, relativity is just a theory so I can ignore it"? Or if you were drilling for oil would you say "tectonics is just a theory I'll spend $2million to drill this well and ignore the theory". Or a text book company "Climate change is just a theory, all other theories are exactly as valid. . . .
Another option is SQL Azure. You get most of the features of on prem SQL Sever, but billed monthly. If you are storing a reatively small amount of data (~10GB or so) it is pretty cheap and get 99.9% up time with littl to no effort.
I worked in Qatar (not in IT), which is technically a war zone by USG standards. It is also the wealthiest country on the planet and obscenely safe. I didn't even bother to lock my door. The pay there was good, but not insanely good. I looked into IT work in Afghanistan and would have made ~$300K. That job would require two things. 1) A USG security clearance and 2)willingness to literally be on the front lines and get shot at. Not all war zone are created equal. Pay will reflect that.
Now you will probably hear a lot of folks talking about the danger etc. Yes, it is a war zone, but your odds of being killed are very low. I'd say your two biggest concerns in a place like Iraq are: 1) dying in a traffic accident, which would be just as likely in India of SE asia. 2) Dying of boredom. THAT is the big issue. These places are boring. And the security you are forced to endure will piss off most geeks. You see it, it is designed to slow you and everyone else down. There is a lot of theater and it can get tedious.
That said, If you spend all your free time indoors reading obscure tech blogs, then I say go for it.
This is why I consider Libertarians imbeciles. Replace X with "driving on the right side of the road (or left when in Britain)". . . . . . Still think the answer is "No"?
These sorts of trials/prosecutions, where the USG invokes national security to avoid presenting evidence, are becoming all too common. We currently have 800,000+ citizens with TS clearances (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/). I used to. I'd be happy to serve on a jury in these situations and I assume many other folks would too. With that many people to draw from I would think we could find a good jury pool and give people a fair trial instead of dropping charges or kangaroo courts. It would be slightly more expensive, but I don't understand why this couldn't work.
Doesn't Congress declare war. Isn't the Predisent commander in chief? Why are we letting the military decide what is and what isn't an act of war? Seriously, this strikes me as dangeraous! What happens when the pentagon declares somethig an act of war and the president decideds it is not? Can the military decide that the president is in on it and unilaterally launch a war?
IAAHG ( I am a hydrogeologist ), or at least was an one point. People do not understand the effects of time on engineerd materials. Most engineered materails have a usefull life of a few decades or less. You new roof is water tight today, but come back in 50 years and it will leak like a sive.
The uinderground environment is a hostile one. There water continually percolating through the ground. This water may or may not be acidic, and may or may not be under perssure. Almost no rock is impervious. It may only leak a little but over 100s or 1000s or yeah a little becomes a lot.
Anything will leak. The questions are: -At what rate -And where will the leakage go -What happens when some idiot archeaologist 500 years from now opens it up?
I find that this arguement is very rarely true. Do you tow a boat or a tralier on weekends? An old beat up truck from the 80's + Jetta TDI will be cheaper MUCH more versitle and have beter aggregate milage than a Suburban.
Or do you pack the inside of the car? I fill my surabru wagon up the skis, kayaks, bikes, sailboards and climbing gear all the time. I can take 4 people climbing or skiing for a week no problem, with room to spare. The ride is more comfortable, the car is safer and I get much better milage and the car itself is cheaper than something like s for Explorer.
If you have a large family and you haul a trailer frequently I can see it. But most of the time this arguement is just flat out wrong on all accounts.
I think most people wouldn't want thier phones to ring during an opera or a funeral and such. Why not a transmitter that says to the phone, "please do not ring". This would be optional. Users could override this behavior so people like doctors, or police could get emergency calls. But most people would be more than happy to turn off thier phone they just forget to.
Yes solving non-linear PDE such as the physically based Navier Stokes Equation are difficult. Genetally there are no closed form solutions for such equations with complicated boundary conditions and initial conditions. You can make numerical approximations to arbitrary precision given detailed enough data and a big enough computer. Many non-linear solvers exist.
But I doubt that is what is going on here. My guess is they are not solving a fully coupled set of physiclly based PDEs. Instead they are probably solving a set of empircal equations modelling energy fluxes and mass balances for all large climatological drivers. Additionally I doubt they are trying to model the temperatue at 8:12pm on Jun 12 2462 AD in fiji. Rather then are probably looking for long term trends. This seems much more plausible.
In economic theory there is the concept of pareto efficiency. The idea is simple. An economic system is most efficient when the only way to increase the one persons wealth is to decrease the wealth of another individual. For example, suppose Joe has 100 apples and Jane has 100 oranges.
An interesting thing happens when you assign a value to these commodities. Generally people don't value the 100th apple as much as the first. So while Joe may like apples much more than oranges he may be willing to trade 2 apples for 1 orange. The reverse can be said of Jane. If John and Jane can trade they are BOTH BETTER OFF and there is more total utility in the system.
Eventually an equilibrium will result. At some point the marginal cost of an apple equals the margial benefit of an orange to Joe. It need not be the same point for Jane. At this point even though Jane may be willing to trade oranges for apples no trade will occur. This is the pareto efficient outcome. The only way to increase Janes utility is to decrease Joe's.
It's an interesting concept. Unlike most natural systems (not including thermodynamics. Entropy is not conserved) economics is not conservative.
IAMHG (hydrogeologist) or at least was. I've been to Yucca. They are doing very good science there. And yes it appears likely that water table has intersected the planned storage vaults. But like the stock market, past results do not inidicate future performace. One way or another.
The things is. I can't think of another place where this isn't true. The climate was very different 20K years ago (lakes in Death Valley, glaciers in Ney York etc.). Yucca is about as good a place as we will find (If you ignore the nearby faults and volcanic activity) to store high level waste. The salt mines in Texas and/or New Mexico are good Geologically too.
Inseresting notes. One of the things people are worried about is that Nuclear fuel gets HOT. If the water table rises and comes in contact with the fuel a massive steam explosion is possible. The first man made volcano! This would be bad. Even is there is no explosion the natural ground water flow system flow directly to Death Valley.
Crossgain was not your normal startup. It was started by a couple of heavy hitters from M$FT. Basically some of the chief architects of ther XML/.NET strategy. They built it for Microsoft, then left and took a bunch of thier developers. Basically they were (are?) building an outsourced XML integration server (kinda like BizTalk server) on Sun/Java/Oracle kit. Not real Microsoft friendly! Bill said NIMBY (Not In my Back Yard) and squished them like a bug. They have about $10m in funding and unless they get more from Sun the well has dried up. No VC fund will touch these guys with a 10 foot pole.
In a geology class I once took we studied turbidity currents. These are basically undersea sediment avalanches. Since nobody had ever seem one (only the deposits) we couldn't figure out how fast they moved.
Eventually someone in the trans Atlantic cable business noticed cables breaking at regular intervals, based on the distance apart they were.
It turns out the turbidity currents were breaking the cables. We knew where the cables were, and exactly when they broke! So that's how we figured out how fast these avalanches are.
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Actually they are the problem. The majority, and yes I mean that, of these phishing sites are using letâ(TM)s encrypt certs.
doctors independent contractors / own offices have to do there own IT. Other times they are stuck on old apps that may need ADMIN rights and even only run in windows XP.
This wasn't the case though. The majority of infections were in unpatched Win7 machines. And for the specific issue one of the major reasons for NOT patching was the need to communication with SMB1 servers. Most frequently these server run Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4tPrcePdGM
Disclaimer: yes I work for Microsoft. No not on these projects.
This was demo'd live in front of 30K MSFT employees at our annual company meeting. It nearly brought me to tears. Yes, I can see through demoware and and yes it's highly imperfect, but honestly it was the single most impressive use of technology I've ever seen. It was both novel and simple. It combined hardware, algorithms, user experience, and cloud scale. I don't know if it will ever go anywhere though I expect that it will. The key point here is that these are off the shelf components. Kinect and gesture APIs combined with machine translation and text to speech. It's important that these are, all or nearly all public production APIs. Such a system 10 years ago even if possible, would never make it to market because of the tiny user base. Today we can build such apps for the 0.01% of the population that need Mandarin Sign Language translated to English. And it can be cost effectively. That is the point. Technology being used to address real problems for under served communities. So yes, maybe people researched automated sign language recognition years ago, but bringing it to market and enabling a scenario for real people is a wholly different beast
There is a difference. I don't think anyone is claiming the inhabitant(s) of SeaLand are made of a distinct ethnic, cultural, or religious group. It is also worth nothing that even without land, groups can have rights under international law. Take the Palestinians for example.
And yet the minimal standards are much higher than most people actually do.
My take: Do audits and auditors do anything to secure your systems? Rarely. Do having real hoops to jump through and jobs/salaries/bonuses on the line for failure prompt people to try to secure their systems? Frequently.
You are conflating scientific certainty with the need to make policy/engineering decisions. Yes relativity is a theory, not a certainty bu lLet's say you were in a position of designing a satellite. Would you say to yourself "self, relativity is just a theory so I can ignore it"? Or if you were drilling for oil would you say "tectonics is just a theory I'll spend $2million to drill this well and ignore the theory". Or a text book company "Climate change is just a theory, all other theories are exactly as valid. . . .
Another option is SQL Azure. You get most of the features of on prem SQL Sever, but billed monthly. If you are storing a reatively small amount of data (~10GB or so) it is pretty cheap and get 99.9% up time with littl to no effort.
It is far superior to MySQL geographic types. I'm partial to MSSQL, but PostGIS is a close second.
I worked in Qatar (not in IT), which is technically a war zone by USG standards. It is also the wealthiest country on the planet and obscenely safe. I didn't even bother to lock my door. The pay there was good, but not insanely good. I looked into IT work in Afghanistan and would have made ~$300K. That job would require two things. 1) A USG security clearance and 2)willingness to literally be on the front lines and get shot at. Not all war zone are created equal. Pay will reflect that.
Now you will probably hear a lot of folks talking about the danger etc. Yes, it is a war zone, but your odds of being killed are very low. I'd say your two biggest concerns in a place like Iraq are: 1) dying in a traffic accident, which would be just as likely in India of SE asia. 2) Dying of boredom. THAT is the big issue. These places are boring. And the security you are forced to endure will piss off most geeks. You see it, it is designed to slow you and everyone else down. There is a lot of theater and it can get tedious.
That said, If you spend all your free time indoors reading obscure tech blogs, then I say go for it.
Read the title of the thread "should composting be mandatory in US cities". Where is the charging me part?
This is why I consider Libertarians imbeciles. Replace X with "driving on the right side of the road (or left when in Britain)". . . . . . Still think the answer is "No"?
These sorts of trials/prosecutions, where the USG invokes national security to avoid presenting evidence, are becoming all too common. We currently have 800,000+ citizens with TS clearances (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/). I used to. I'd be happy to serve on a jury in these situations and I assume many other folks would too. With that many people to draw from I would think we could find a good jury pool and give people a fair trial instead of dropping charges or kangaroo courts. It would be slightly more expensive, but I don't understand why this couldn't work.
Doesn't Congress declare war. Isn't the Predisent commander in chief? Why are we letting the military decide what is and what isn't an act of war? Seriously, this strikes me as dangeraous! What happens when the pentagon declares somethig an act of war and the president decideds it is not? Can the military decide that the president is in on it and unilaterally launch a war?
This is bad.
Just signed up with the evil empire. Got a 20% raise, stock and bonus. Better job too although the commute sucks.
I'm sorry Carbide and diamond cutting tools will now be banned under the DCMA.
IAAHG ( I am a hydrogeologist ), or at least was an one point. People do not understand the effects of time on engineerd materials. Most engineered materails have a usefull life of a few decades or less. You new roof is water tight today, but come back in 50 years and it will leak like a sive.
The uinderground environment is a hostile one. There water continually percolating through the ground. This water may or may not be acidic, and may or may not be under perssure. Almost no rock is impervious. It may only leak a little but over 100s or 1000s or yeah a little becomes a lot.
Anything will leak. The questions are:
-At what rate
-And where will the leakage go
-What happens when some idiot archeaologist 500 years from now opens it up?
I find that this arguement is very rarely true. Do you tow a boat or a tralier on weekends? An old beat up truck from the 80's + Jetta TDI will be cheaper MUCH more versitle and have beter aggregate milage than a Suburban.
Or do you pack the inside of the car? I fill my surabru wagon up the skis, kayaks, bikes, sailboards and climbing gear all the time. I can take 4 people climbing or skiing for a week no problem, with room to spare. The ride is more comfortable, the car is safer and I get much better milage and the car itself is cheaper than something like s for Explorer.
If you have a large family and you haul a trailer frequently I can see it. But most of the time this arguement is just flat out wrong on all accounts.
I think most people wouldn't want thier phones to ring during an opera or a funeral and such. Why not a transmitter that says to the phone, "please do not ring". This would be optional. Users could override this behavior so people like doctors, or police could get emergency calls. But most people would be more than happy to turn off thier phone they just forget to.
Yes solving non-linear PDE such as the physically based Navier Stokes Equation are difficult. Genetally there are no closed form solutions for such equations with complicated boundary conditions and initial conditions. You can make numerical approximations to arbitrary precision given detailed enough data and a big enough computer. Many non-linear solvers exist. But I doubt that is what is going on here. My guess is they are not solving a fully coupled set of physiclly based PDEs. Instead they are probably solving a set of empircal equations modelling energy fluxes and mass balances for all large climatological drivers. Additionally I doubt they are trying to model the temperatue at 8:12pm on Jun 12 2462 AD in fiji. Rather then are probably looking for long term trends. This seems much more plausible.
In economic theory there is the concept of pareto efficiency. The idea is simple. An economic system is most efficient when the only way to increase the one persons wealth is to decrease the wealth of another individual. For example, suppose Joe has 100 apples and Jane has 100 oranges.
An interesting thing happens when you assign a value to these commodities. Generally people don't value the 100th apple as much as the first. So while Joe may like apples much more than oranges he may be willing to trade 2 apples for 1 orange. The reverse can be said of Jane. If John and Jane can trade they are BOTH BETTER OFF and there is more total utility in the system.
Eventually an equilibrium will result. At some point the marginal cost of an apple equals the margial benefit of an orange to Joe. It need not be the same point for Jane. At this point even though Jane may be willing to trade oranges for apples no trade will occur. This is the pareto efficient outcome. The only way to increase Janes utility is to decrease Joe's.
It's an interesting concept. Unlike most natural systems (not including thermodynamics. Entropy is not conserved) economics is not conservative.
IAMHG (hydrogeologist) or at least was. I've been to Yucca. They are doing very good science there. And yes it appears likely that water table has intersected the planned storage vaults. But like the stock market, past results do not inidicate future performace. One way or another.
The things is. I can't think of another place where this isn't true. The climate was very different 20K years ago (lakes in Death Valley, glaciers in Ney York etc.). Yucca is about as good a place as we will find (If you ignore the nearby faults and volcanic activity) to store high level waste. The salt mines in Texas and/or New Mexico are good Geologically too.
Inseresting notes. One of the things people are worried about is that Nuclear fuel gets HOT. If the water table rises and comes in contact with the fuel a massive steam explosion is possible. The first man made volcano! This would be bad. Even is there is no explosion the natural ground water flow system flow directly to Death Valley.
I just tell them I'm glad they called. Because the bankrupcy judge forced me to cut up and cancel all my old cards.
Crossgain was not your normal startup. It was started by a couple of heavy hitters from M$FT. Basically some of the chief architects of ther XML/.NET strategy. They built it for Microsoft, then left and took a bunch of thier developers. Basically they were (are?) building an outsourced XML integration server (kinda like BizTalk server) on Sun/Java/Oracle kit. Not real Microsoft friendly! Bill said NIMBY (Not In my Back Yard) and squished them like a bug. They have about $10m in funding and unless they get more from Sun the well has dried up. No VC fund will touch these guys with a 10 foot pole.
In a geology class I once took we studied turbidity currents. These are basically undersea sediment avalanches. Since nobody had ever seem one (only the deposits) we couldn't figure out how fast they moved.
Eventually someone in the trans Atlantic cable business noticed cables breaking at regular intervals, based on the distance apart they were.
It turns out the turbidity currents were breaking the cables. We knew where the cables were, and exactly when they broke! So that's how we figured out how fast these avalanches are.