Air traffic controllers are quick to tell you that they do not care about the ATC system that sit in front of them.
If they are unreliable, or go down, they will continue to perform their job, by slowing everyone down, increasing the gaps, limiting the number of new plans onto the grid.
It gums up the works a bit, but everyone gets to walk away.
Anyone who has worked with IDS/IPS systems will realize that unless very carefully managed you will have a large number of events that amount to nothing, even some with some very scary sounding titles.
I am actually surprised to see the count levels so low, even for systems that are believed to be somewhat out of the way.
ATC is not actually a single system within the FAA this function is broken up over several different systems, each with their own silo of responsibility. My understanding from talking with traffic controllers is that the systems are not a requirement for controlling traffic. If the systems are down, or are believed to be unreliable the controllers will simply continue with a more conservative approach, although this can have the effect of gumming up the works as everyone is slowed down and larger gaps are used.
Real danger would be if information was off in some subtle way that was not detected, but as soon as it was determined that something was wrong, the system in question would be taken out of the work flow and further issues with it would not matter.
Crafting such a problem would take not only the IT info to gain access to the system, but at least some level of ATC understanding on how to alter a situation without tipping your hand. While far from impossible, it is not what I would suspect would be a common skill set.
Distance Education does not mean that you do not have an opportunity to work with fellow students.
Last term I took a distance education course and much of the grade was based on group projects. My last group of four students, I did my work near Washington DC, the other three where in Japan, England and Texas. Very few traditional schools will you have a chance to practice following the sun with a school project.
And what means are actually employed at brick and mortar schools to ensure that the person who signed up for courses is really the one that is doing the work?
How many of these are unable to be able to distance education?
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This may well be, but the NPR piece on this seem to make a big point about HM himself wanting his brain to be available for further research.
In my mind this would seem to imply that he had an understanding that he was an unusual case. The story seemed to imply that with great effort he was able to remember items beyond the 30 seconds of short term memory, but given the complexities of this case I wonder how much he himself understood of it as his life drew to a close.
I am sure that this man's misfortune has provided the rest of us a great opportunity to benefit form the research that has been performed on him to date, and possible further gains with his brian now (or soon to be) directly accessible to scientific research.
But I do wonder how a man who was unable to create new memories (or at least had great difficulty in this area) would be able to take in what is going on around him and give informed consent to offer his brain for further study after his passing.
It is worth noting, that despite the pain caused by Robert T. Morris with the release of his worm and the criminal record that followed, he has managed to find productive work (currently a professor at MIT).
Perhaps it is a good reminder that while punishment may be appropriate, it is not necessarily good for society to punish people continuously for past misdeeds.
Now let's not get hasty 25 years can come and go very quickly, we may not get around to that whole IPv6 thing by then. Hmmm... now where did I place my 8-track...
If you are a regular person, you do not have privacy. One of the radio pieces (NPR) on this story discussed that one of the now infamous events took place in a training class where the trainees where told look up the records of a relative, but instead looked up Hillary.
So because the student looked up Mrs. Clinton, vice cousin Bob this is a violation. Although I am not exactly sure how we come to accept that cousin Bob can have his records pulled for no reason, but the famous and wealthy are to have protection.
Let's talk about home internet service via cable. The providers would love to charge you a great deal more to 'promise' that some packets will arrive more reliably for time sensitive packets such as VoIP or streaming media, but the reality is that the way things are these matters normally just work. So why would the customer want to pay more for a service that they are already getting.
It is true that sometimes things fail for various reasons, but it is also true that if you were to pay more, what you would likely get is QoS for the connections that you are using. The reality of this is that it would only save your skin if the problem was on your ISP and the problem was directly related to a shortage of bandwidth at some point on this network, hence your VoIP would lose out to someone else attempt to download the CNN page. It would do nothing to correct a temporary routing problem, or a failed handoff with another provider, thus many of the issues that you have would still exist despite the higher cost.
So the question becomes, how do you get someone to spend more when what they currently get is good enough?
Nothing here (on the surface) seems to breaking new ground here, even in combination. Now if the system worked as it should, this patent would not be granted. Or, it were to be granted, it would be set-aside in a challenge due to prior art.
But with the Patent Office in its usual dysfunctional form and with IBM sitting on top of a team of patent lawyers that would not blush at arguing about IBM being the inventor of the wheel. It should be yet another step towards maintaining the status quo.
I too am a little unclear as to what the advantage of this would be. It does not seem to be a hardware firewall, but a software firewall running (somewhat) independently from your computer.
Personally I prefer my set up where I normally run behind my ASUS WL-500g, that is running PacketProtector, which is a handy one stop shop for Linux (OpenWRT) and a suite of security tools (firewall, VPN, IPS, AV and more), plus given that it is running Linux, if there is something else that you want or need you can run other Linux applications to meet those needs, or if you are more adventurous, build your own...
OpenWRT provides a great deal of flexibility, and as such it is used in packages such as PacketProtector that provides a complete suite of network security applications in one easy to use package.
Well, we will likely never know weather or not the data was accessed. But I can tell you that the data was not encrypted. If it had been then the VA would not have been required to disclose the loss of the information.
For this reason the Department of Veterans Affairs has been looking at whole disk encryption systems for deployment on all portable computers. It looks like Pointsec will likely get this contract in the near future.
Where do you get a US computer? I have worked on secure networks and I have yet to see a US computer on them. As for rigors testing of applications, that is a bad joke. Take for instance the Anti-Virus software used on these systems, the code is produced by people who do not have security clearances and would be ineligible for them (for nationality if no other reason), yet the software is trusted implicitly with no real testing or access to the code base on which they operate.
This is not as rare as it should be. Many companies view their IT staff as interchangeable parts. I have been tasked with picking up the ball on many a dropped program over the years. Much of my promotions and job opportunities have come from the success that I have had in salvaging train wrecks that have been left behind.
Is it fair, no it is not. But the challenges can be interesting. If I wanted a career that involved filling in the boxes in the neat prescribed manner that I had been taught, I would switch over to processing forms for an insurance company.
yes, that is what it sounds like, but one does not know. Even if they were to be found in the future, unless it happenes to be in a very unusual event, in which they can somehow prove the whereabouts and control of the tapes for the entire time, there will be no way to prove that someone of dubious intention has not had them and already gained what information that they wanted from the tapes.
He is right that if you wish to purchase a PC from a major distributor you will likely get no break for not having windows. But for a moment lets say that one where to simply buy Windows boxes and then reinstall them when they arrive.
I know that to some, this might sound silly, but it is common practice in many medium to large business anyway. They will simply overwrite the OS that comes on the box with the version that they want configured in the manner that they want it for their IT department.
Now lets look MS office that is installed on the image that is deployed on almost every corporate system across the country. Now if you are a company of any size you will likely get a very nice discount of the retail price, although if you are talking 1,000 PC or more, unless you wish to risk ripping of MS, the price will still add up to a pretty penny.
Then we have things such as Exchange, which at first everyone will swear that they need because it has integrated scheduling functions, despite the fact that most corporations hardly ever use the functionality, except for one or two very annoying people who are quickly ignored by everyone else (if you are one of those people, think of that statement as humor). Here is where the price starts getting steep.
But he does make a fair point, that when we discuss this matters it is only fair that we make an effort to be fair with ourselves and others on the subject.
I wish to respectfully disagree. While a lot of effort would be placed in the large population centers such as New York and Los Angles. Due to the rich density of voters this would be the ripe target grounds for the alternate party candidates who would not have the budget to make a truly nationwide campaign.
While in most years these groups may not pull that high of a percentage, it is not unheard of for them to make a difference. For example Ross Perot managed to achieve 19 percent of the popular vote. The fear of this possibility will force any major candidate to run a nationwide candidacy to avoid being victim to potential localized swings that could be achieved in given areas.
The idea that nearly one in five voters can select a candidate and still not have a singe electoral vote to represent their wishes. This is a clear example that this systems fails to represent the people and needs to be revised.
I know that going to page two of a story is such a challage, so I thought that I would help you out.
Using the most restrictive standard -- the fully punched ballot card -- 5,252 new votes would have been added to the Florida total, producing a net gain of 652 votes for Mr. Gore, and a 115-vote victory margin.
All the other combinations likewise produced additional votes for Mr. Gore, giving him a slight margin over Mr. Bush, when at least two of the three coders agreed.
I am sorry, you have scored an incorrect answer. The real answer, which has been report to several times, but amazingly is ignored by people such as yourself is that Gore won the election in Florida. When the state wide recount was completed Gore simply had more votes that Bush.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/12VOT E. html
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Air traffic controllers are quick to tell you that they do not care about the ATC system that sit in front of them.
If they are unreliable, or go down, they will continue to perform their job, by slowing everyone down, increasing the gaps, limiting the number of new plans onto the grid.
It gums up the works a bit, but everyone gets to walk away.
Anyone who has worked with IDS/IPS systems will realize that unless very carefully managed you will have a large number of events that amount to nothing, even some with some very scary sounding titles.
I am actually surprised to see the count levels so low, even for systems that are believed to be somewhat out of the way.
ATC is not actually a single system within the FAA this function is broken up over several different systems, each with their own silo of responsibility. My understanding from talking with traffic controllers is that the systems are not a requirement for controlling traffic. If the systems are down, or are believed to be unreliable the controllers will simply continue with a more conservative approach, although this can have the effect of gumming up the works as everyone is slowed down and larger gaps are used.
Real danger would be if information was off in some subtle way that was not detected, but as soon as it was determined that something was wrong, the system in question would be taken out of the work flow and further issues with it would not matter.
Crafting such a problem would take not only the IT info to gain access to the system, but at least some level of ATC understanding on how to alter a situation without tipping your hand. While far from impossible, it is not what I would suspect would be a common skill set.
Distance Education does not mean that you do not have an opportunity to work with fellow students.
Last term I took a distance education course and much of the grade was based on group projects. My last group of four students, I did my work near Washington DC, the other three where in Japan, England and Texas. Very few traditional schools will you have a chance to practice following the sun with a school project.
And what means are actually employed at brick and mortar schools to ensure that the person who signed up for courses is really the one that is doing the work?
How many of these are unable to be able to distance education?
This may well be, but the NPR piece on this seem to make a big point about HM himself wanting his brain to be available for further research.
In my mind this would seem to imply that he had an understanding that he was an unusual case. The story seemed to imply that with great effort he was able to remember items beyond the 30 seconds of short term memory, but given the complexities of this case I wonder how much he himself understood of it as his life drew to a close.
I am sure that this man's misfortune has provided the rest of us a great opportunity to benefit form the research that has been performed on him to date, and possible further gains with his brian now (or soon to be) directly accessible to scientific research.
But I do wonder how a man who was unable to create new memories (or at least had great difficulty in this area) would be able to take in what is going on around him and give informed consent to offer his brain for further study after his passing.
It is worth noting, that despite the pain caused by Robert T. Morris with the release of his worm and the criminal record that followed, he has managed to find productive work (currently a professor at MIT).
Perhaps it is a good reminder that while punishment may be appropriate, it is not necessarily good for society to punish people continuously for past misdeeds.
Now let's not get hasty 25 years can come and go very quickly, we may not get around to that whole IPv6 thing by then. Hmmm... now where did I place my 8-track...
If you are a regular person, you do not have privacy. One of the radio pieces (NPR) on this story discussed that one of the now infamous events took place in a training class where the trainees where told look up the records of a relative, but instead looked up Hillary.
So because the student looked up Mrs. Clinton, vice cousin Bob this is a violation. Although I am not exactly sure how we come to accept that cousin Bob can have his records pulled for no reason, but the famous and wealthy are to have protection.
You make a good point.
Let's talk about home internet service via cable. The providers would love to charge you a great deal more to 'promise' that some packets will arrive more reliably for time sensitive packets such as VoIP or streaming media, but the reality is that the way things are these matters normally just work. So why would the customer want to pay more for a service that they are already getting.
It is true that sometimes things fail for various reasons, but it is also true that if you were to pay more, what you would likely get is QoS for the connections that you are using. The reality of this is that it would only save your skin if the problem was on your ISP and the problem was directly related to a shortage of bandwidth at some point on this network, hence your VoIP would lose out to someone else attempt to download the CNN page. It would do nothing to correct a temporary routing problem, or a failed handoff with another provider, thus many of the issues that you have would still exist despite the higher cost.
So the question becomes, how do you get someone to spend more when what they currently get is good enough?
Nothing here (on the surface) seems to breaking new ground here, even in combination. Now if the system worked as it should, this patent would not be granted. Or, it were to be granted, it would be set-aside in a challenge due to prior art.
But with the Patent Office in its usual dysfunctional form and with IBM sitting on top of a team of patent lawyers that would not blush at arguing about IBM being the inventor of the wheel. It should be yet another step towards maintaining the status quo.
I too am a little unclear as to what the advantage of this would be. It does not seem to be a hardware firewall, but a software firewall running (somewhat) independently from your computer.
Personally I prefer my set up where I normally run behind my ASUS WL-500g, that is running PacketProtector, which is a handy one stop shop for Linux (OpenWRT) and a suite of security tools (firewall, VPN, IPS, AV and more), plus given that it is running Linux, if there is something else that you want or need you can run other Linux applications to meet those needs, or if you are more adventurous, build your own...
OpenWRT provides a great deal of flexibility, and as such it is used in packages such as PacketProtector that provides a complete suite of network security applications in one easy to use package.
Well, we will likely never know weather or not the data was accessed. But I can tell you that the data was not encrypted. If it had been then the VA would not have been required to disclose the loss of the information.
For this reason the Department of Veterans Affairs has been looking at whole disk encryption systems for deployment on all portable computers. It looks like Pointsec will likely get this contract in the near future.
Where do you get a US computer? I have worked on secure networks and I have yet to see a US computer on them. As for rigors testing of applications, that is a bad joke. Take for instance the Anti-Virus software used on these systems, the code is produced by people who do not have security clearances and would be ineligible for them (for nationality if no other reason), yet the software is trusted implicitly with no real testing or access to the code base on which they operate.
I am sure that anyone who is using free software and runs in to difficulty in the first 90 days can get their money back as well.
Oh wait a second....
Please name one example of Microsoft every being held accountable for their software failing to work as promised?
This is not as rare as it should be. Many companies view their IT staff as interchangeable parts. I have been tasked with picking up the ball on many a dropped program over the years. Much of my promotions and job opportunities have come from the success that I have had in salvaging train wrecks that have been left behind.
Is it fair, no it is not. But the challenges can be interesting. If I wanted a career that involved filling in the boxes in the neat prescribed manner that I had been taught, I would switch over to processing forms for an insurance company.
... I hear that the US Army is hiring!
http://www.goarmy.com/
Some geeks might even be able to swing an enlistment bouns...8)
yes, that is what it sounds like, but one does not know. Even if they were to be found in the future, unless it happenes to be in a very unusual event, in which they can somehow prove the whereabouts and control of the tapes for the entire time, there will be no way to prove that someone of dubious intention has not had them and already gained what information that they wanted from the tapes.
He is right that if you wish to purchase a PC from a major distributor you will likely get no break for not having windows. But for a moment lets say that one where to simply buy Windows boxes and then reinstall them when they arrive.
I know that to some, this might sound silly, but it is common practice in many medium to large business anyway. They will simply overwrite the OS that comes on the box with the version that they want configured in the manner that they want it for their IT department.
Now lets look MS office that is installed on the image that is deployed on almost every corporate system across the country. Now if you are a company of any size you will likely get a very nice discount of the retail price, although if you are talking 1,000 PC or more, unless you wish to risk ripping of MS, the price will still add up to a pretty penny.
Then we have things such as Exchange, which at first everyone will swear that they need because it has integrated scheduling functions, despite the fact that most corporations hardly ever use the functionality, except for one or two very annoying people who are quickly ignored by everyone else (if you are one of those people, think of that statement as humor). Here is where the price starts getting steep.
But he does make a fair point, that when we discuss this matters it is only fair that we make an effort to be fair with ourselves and others on the subject.
Hmmm, are you sure about that? I don't remember hearing anything from him recently, maybe we should call and see if he is alright.
While in most years these groups may not pull that high of a percentage, it is not unheard of for them to make a difference. For example Ross Perot managed to achieve 19 percent of the popular vote. The fear of this possibility will force any major candidate to run a nationwide candidacy to avoid being victim to potential localized swings that could be achieved in given areas.
The idea that nearly one in five voters can select a candidate and still not have a singe electoral vote to represent their wishes. This is a clear example that this systems fails to represent the people and needs to be revised.
I am sorry, you have scored an incorrect answer. The real answer, which has been report to several times, but amazingly is ignored by people such as yourself is that Gore won the election in Florida. When the state wide recount was completed Gore simply had more votes that Bush.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/12VO
I now return you to your normal delusion.