I'll cover the bomb with a huge multilayered armored tent made of this fabric (and other stuff) and then blow up the bomb (or disarm/document it with a robot).
If you can stop people from breaking into a car without triggering an alarm, you can stop people from disarming a car bomb without the bomb going off.
The stupid man with the lasgun is dead. The smart man launching the lasgun "mortar/missile" at the shields would be laughing his head off at vaporized stupid shield fighters. Those shields would be useless as shields if people in those books actually used their brains.
The book was a good read but was a bit of a stretch.
Getting back to topic - books are auxetic too the more you stretch them the thicker they get:).
Also there are people who: 1) Have brains and can read amongst other valuable skills 2) Actually read and understand the terms of employment contracts and their implications 3) Have integrity and would uphold contracts they signed 4) Aren't that desperate for a job.
If your contracts suck, you're not going to get those.
Same goes for contracts which state "The Company will own all of your ideas - past, present, future".
No problem signing for people who can't come up with a single great idea in the first place:).
You pay me, I'll write code, build stuff for you and you can have full rights to that. BUT I'm going to keep rights to my libraries and stuff- they're my toolbox. Don't expect me to walk in your company with my toolbox and leave without it. I'm even fine with you having a copy of my toolbox and using it for other stuff. No problem as long as I get to do what I want with mine.
Don't like it? Go hire someone stupid or sloppy or someone who can be "bought" easily.
Coca Cola is a bad example. Coca Cola are where they are because of other things.
There's nothing great about their recipe. They've changed many times anyway, and apparently they made it crap in the USA (corn syrup instead of real sugar).
So unless there's something _damning_ in their recipe (illegal substances etc), it doesn't matter.
They can just claim it was a decoy formula that got stolen, and so keep the "mystery" safe which is part of their brand.
What do you expect a baker/coder/doctor/etc to do then? Somehow not earn a living with her/his skills (while still keeping them up to date for future employment) for X years?
Ridiculous.
Same goes for those unethical clauses which basically state "On signing up, the Company owns any idea you had in the past, in the present and in the future".
I thought slavery was abolished in most countries.
A typical install of Windows XP would still boot up with boot.ini deleted - it would grumble but it'll still work since it can still find the stuff in the default partition.
This might be a reason why they didn't catch it in testing IF they tested in the first place.
Anyway, this is the sort of crap Microsoft has to deal with - trying to keep things working with 3rd party apps (or users) that do really stupid stuff, and getting blamed for it if it doesn't.
There's lots of stuff you can blame Microsoft for though;).
Is it economically viable for a Gov to have some staff trained on it and stand by to do such things during emergencies?
Couldn't one set up a fairly standardized and user friendly radio kit with psk stuff and generators etc so that nonexperts can use it? Just fill it up with fuel, select destinations/channels and type away..
I suppose it's cheaper to have volunteers invest in expensive stuff as a hobby and do all this stuff for free, but are there many countries where there aren't ham operators and there's a need for such stuff?
"Sequoia's IT team has nine members. With such a small shop I have to spend a great deal of my time maintaining operational excellence. However, my role must move from an operational one to one that is more strategic. During my first year at Sequoia I concentrated on improving the processes that affect operational excellence. "
My PHB-dichlorian meter has just gone off the scale!
"I do not have the expertise to create a plan that can withstand the scrutiny of auditors and Sequoia's board"
Is this the CIO rag equivalent of one of those "Ask Slashdot" stories where an obviously incompetent submitter asks Slashdot about how to do his job?
Sounds like he's whining that someone should help him do his job for 25k while he keeps being paid big bucks for helping his staff play buzzword/bullshit bingo at "operational excellence meetings".
"Not only are the IBMs of the world leaving money on the table, they're also risking future sales. " "Let's imagine (with apologies to George Lucas) what Yoda might do if he were running a large consultancy."
AFAIK IBM are in the business of providing all sorts of complex hardware, solutions and choices to customers, AND having lots of patents so that there's a high chance that they can do/provide something that others can't legally. They're not like Microsoft where everything must be Microsoft, or other "One True Way" vendors. The more choices the better.
If you want a system that uses Java, VB.Net, Windows, Cisco, Redhat Linux and an old AS/400 sure no problem. Too many choices to choose from and need help? No problem, IBM has a bunch of expensive consultants to help you make those choices.
Not enough money? Sorry, can't hear you, I think you've got the wrong number.
While you're at it why not call up Learjet/Gulfstream/Boeing and tell them you have a 25k budget?
Maybe if Yoda ran Boeing, they'd be selling planes to all these people with 25k budgets... Haha.
I suppose he's not used to flying economy eh? I feel a _bit_ sad for him.
But maybe that's because I didn't read the whole article - I just had a nice dinner and would prefer to keep it in:).
It's probably more a fear of the unknown factor, but I was thinking recently that a lot of the risks people are seemingly overworried about are risks that "natural selection" doesn't adapt well to.
If you drive a car, and you make mistakes and die, that might be good for the species overall:). If you smoke and die, OR smoke and somehow still don't die, either way that's good too.
But if the plane crashes into a mountain - you're likely to be dead even if your genes are excellent. Unless it's possible to select for luck or "future sense", it's not so helpful to the species overall.
So maybe there's a "meta" evolution going on, where creatures would eventually tend to avoid situations where natural selection won't work as well.
Well IF the van could actually make it into the relevant bits of the village, I'm sure you can design it so the steel barricade can be raised or opened.
Otherwise, better not to let those huge vans in.
On a related note I wonder if modern sized tourists have got stuck in some of those old houses designed for much smaller people:).
It doesn't matter if you design the thing to block and be hit by a truck reasonably safely and not serve any other function.
At the entry roads to the village put up barriers that will block vehicles above a certain height. Most trucks are taller than normal vehicles that would fit.
Or set up a chicane designed to block vehicles which won't make it through the village.
Then put up a big traffic sign with red circle and a red slash across it with a symbol of a truck inside the circle - "No trucks". This is so you can justify the fines etc to drivers that ignore it and hit the barriers/chicane.
It's better to have the trucks stuck outside the village than inside the village - damage to stuff that's designed to take the damage, easier to clean up the mess, doesn't affect village as much, etc.
If you're lucky you might be able to place the barriers where it's much easier to tow the trucks away.
I've said this before but anyway- the Wikipedia has become successful in spite of the policies, power-mad admins and "leadership" rather than because of all that. It's a wiki, lots of people used it and it grew.
The rotten core was/is usually covered by all the good stuff added by other people.
Nowadays it sure looks like they're trying hard to "outshine" the good with their rottenness. Mass deletion of stuff and attempts to get rid of contributors/contributions.
Who knows, maybe someone might start a new wiki, and people might copy stuff over, and it might be less rotten in the core, for a while:).
"critical to avoiding false positives because good sites (like Yahoo and Hotmail) send email to honeypots all the time"
Really?
1) Why/How would Yahoo/Hotmail send email to honeypots specifically created to collect spam? 2) Why would I or most other people want to read that email if they did?
How much better is your approach over a pure honeypot approach? I believe you have the stats on your service, you can calculate it yourself.
Whether you like it or not, if you pick your nose (or whatever) in public, you could end up in a Youtube video, with the (in)appropriate music.
I've been telling some teens that they're going to have to grow thicker skins- someone is bound to youtube them one day.
I'm actually fine with everyone being able to see what I'm doing (including past events) as long as I get to see what everyone else is doing too (that includes Presidents and Prime Ministers etc) AND everyone can easily find out who watched who/what;).
Is there a way to pay/tip OSS coders directly? I suppose that might be such a great thing as it becomes a popularity contest - and some code though vital might not attract as much attention from the masses.
"You give hot liquids your full, undivided attention or you should NOT be handling them. If this means pulling the damn car over and walking in to get your caffiene fix DO IT"
I personally think most people should give the control of a > 1 ton fast moving vehicle their full undivided attention, or they should not be handling them at all...
Don't drink and drive. Don't eat and drive. Don't chat and drive. Just drive and stick to your frigging lane dammit! If you're Michael Schumacher you can chat with the pit crew while you drive at 300+kph in twilight and do near normal F1 lap times, but most drivers aren't and can barely control their cars safely under normal circumstances, any increase in their cognitive load would badly affect their performance.
So what's the statistics on fatalities/car trip vs 3rd degree burns/McD coffee served? How many millions of McD coffee sold, and how many burns?
Maybe they should sue car makers for making stuff that's so much more dangerous than McD coffee;).
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I'll cover the bomb with a huge multilayered armored tent made of this fabric (and other stuff) and then blow up the bomb (or disarm/document it with a robot).
If you can stop people from breaking into a car without triggering an alarm, you can stop people from disarming a car bomb without the bomb going off.
Use the lasgun as the bullet and fire that "bullet" from very far away or from behind something that can withstand the resulting explosion.
The stupid man with the lasgun is dead. The smart man launching the lasgun "mortar/missile" at the shields would be laughing his head off at vaporized stupid shield fighters. Those shields would be useless as shields if people in those books actually used their brains.
:).
The book was a good read but was a bit of a stretch.
Getting back to topic - books are auxetic too the more you stretch them the thicker they get
Also there are people who:
:).
1) Have brains and can read amongst other valuable skills
2) Actually read and understand the terms of employment contracts and their implications
3) Have integrity and would uphold contracts they signed
4) Aren't that desperate for a job.
If your contracts suck, you're not going to get those.
Same goes for contracts which state "The Company will own all of your ideas - past, present, future".
No problem signing for people who can't come up with a single great idea in the first place
You pay me, I'll write code, build stuff for you and you can have full rights to that. BUT I'm going to keep rights to my libraries and stuff- they're my toolbox. Don't expect me to walk in your company with my toolbox and leave without it. I'm even fine with you having a copy of my toolbox and using it for other stuff. No problem as long as I get to do what I want with mine.
Don't like it? Go hire someone stupid or sloppy or someone who can be "bought" easily.
Coca Cola is a bad example. Coca Cola are where they are because of other things.
There's nothing great about their recipe. They've changed many times anyway, and apparently they made it crap in the USA (corn syrup instead of real sugar).
So unless there's something _damning_ in their recipe (illegal substances etc), it doesn't matter.
They can just claim it was a decoy formula that got stolen, and so keep the "mystery" safe which is part of their brand.
What do you expect a baker/coder/doctor/etc to do then? Somehow not earn a living with her/his skills (while still keeping them up to date for future employment) for X years?
Ridiculous.
Same goes for those unethical clauses which basically state "On signing up, the Company owns any idea you had in the past, in the present and in the future".
I thought slavery was abolished in most countries.
Hey it's EVE, corruption is the norm. Corrupt company, corrupt admins, corrupt developers, corrupt game and now...
:).
EVE Online: "We don't just corrupt space sectors"...
OK it's not quite the boot sector but close enough for me
The last I checked boot.ini is marked system, hidden and readonly.
A typical install of Windows XP would still boot up with boot.ini deleted - it would grumble but it'll still work since it can still find the stuff in the default partition.
;).
This might be a reason why they didn't catch it in testing IF they tested in the first place.
Anyway, this is the sort of crap Microsoft has to deal with - trying to keep things working with 3rd party apps (or users) that do really stupid stuff, and getting blamed for it if it doesn't.
There's lots of stuff you can blame Microsoft for though
Well if he says it's plastic and square maybe his stint as postal worker was in 2000 and he hasn't seen a netflix envelope since?
http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/netflix/frameset.exclude.html
Intelligent designing? Not really. Just look at the 13 different types they went through in 6 years.
Is it economically viable for a Gov to have some staff trained on it and stand by to do such things during emergencies?
Couldn't one set up a fairly standardized and user friendly radio kit with psk stuff and generators etc so that nonexperts can use it? Just fill it up with fuel, select destinations/channels and type away..
I suppose it's cheaper to have volunteers invest in expensive stuff as a hobby and do all this stuff for free, but are there many countries where there aren't ham operators and there's a need for such stuff?
"Sequoia's IT team has nine members. With such a small shop I have to spend a great deal of my time maintaining operational excellence. However, my role must move from an operational one to one that is more strategic. During my first year at Sequoia I concentrated on improving the processes that affect operational excellence. "
:).
My PHB-dichlorian meter has just gone off the scale!
"I do not have the expertise to create a plan that can withstand the scrutiny of auditors and Sequoia's board"
Is this the CIO rag equivalent of one of those "Ask Slashdot" stories where an obviously incompetent submitter asks Slashdot about how to do his job?
Sounds like he's whining that someone should help him do his job for 25k while he keeps being paid big bucks for helping his staff play buzzword/bullshit bingo at "operational excellence meetings".
"Not only are the IBMs of the world leaving money on the table, they're also risking future sales. " "Let's imagine (with apologies to George Lucas) what Yoda might do if he were running a large consultancy."
AFAIK IBM are in the business of providing all sorts of complex hardware, solutions and choices to customers, AND having lots of patents so that there's a high chance that they can do/provide something that others can't legally. They're not like Microsoft where everything must be Microsoft, or other "One True Way" vendors. The more choices the better.
If you want a system that uses Java, VB.Net, Windows, Cisco, Redhat Linux and an old AS/400 sure no problem. Too many choices to choose from and need help? No problem, IBM has a bunch of expensive consultants to help you make those choices.
Not enough money? Sorry, can't hear you, I think you've got the wrong number.
While you're at it why not call up Learjet/Gulfstream/Boeing and tell them you have a 25k budget?
Maybe if Yoda ran Boeing, they'd be selling planes to all these people with 25k budgets... Haha.
I suppose he's not used to flying economy eh? I feel a _bit_ sad for him.
But maybe that's because I didn't read the whole article - I just had a nice dinner and would prefer to keep it in
I think you could use lasers powerful enough to ionize the air and provide a path for lightning to the ground.
:).
Maybe not practical, but more fun than lightning rods
OK say its doomsday or "really really crappy but not enough to be dooms" day.
Who gets access? Only Monsanto, Microsoft and friends?
"It's just human nature. Doesn't mean it's sane"
:). If you smoke and die, OR smoke and somehow still don't die, either way that's good too.
;).
It's probably more a fear of the unknown factor, but I was thinking recently that a lot of the risks people are seemingly overworried about are risks that "natural selection" doesn't adapt well to.
If you drive a car, and you make mistakes and die, that might be good for the species overall
But if the plane crashes into a mountain - you're likely to be dead even if your genes are excellent. Unless it's possible to select for luck or "future sense", it's not so helpful to the species overall.
So maybe there's a "meta" evolution going on, where creatures would eventually tend to avoid situations where natural selection won't work as well.
Or maybe it's late and I should go to sleep
Well IF the van could actually make it into the relevant bits of the village, I'm sure you can design it so the steel barricade can be raised or opened.
:).
Otherwise, better not to let those huge vans in.
On a related note I wonder if modern sized tourists have got stuck in some of those old houses designed for much smaller people
It doesn't matter if you design the thing to block and be hit by a truck reasonably safely and not serve any other function.
At the entry roads to the village put up barriers that will block vehicles above a certain height. Most trucks are taller than normal vehicles that would fit.
Or set up a chicane designed to block vehicles which won't make it through the village.
Then put up a big traffic sign with red circle and a red slash across it with a symbol of a truck inside the circle - "No trucks". This is so you can justify the fines etc to drivers that ignore it and hit the barriers/chicane.
It's better to have the trucks stuck outside the village than inside the village - damage to stuff that's designed to take the damage, easier to clean up the mess, doesn't affect village as much, etc.
If you're lucky you might be able to place the barriers where it's much easier to tow the trucks away.
Maybe someone did that already a long time ago:
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong
I've said this before but anyway- the Wikipedia has become successful in spite of the policies, power-mad admins and "leadership" rather than because of all that. It's a wiki, lots of people used it and it grew.
:).
The rotten core was/is usually covered by all the good stuff added by other people.
Nowadays it sure looks like they're trying hard to "outshine" the good with their rottenness. Mass deletion of stuff and attempts to get rid of contributors/contributions.
Who knows, maybe someone might start a new wiki, and people might copy stuff over, and it might be less rotten in the core, for a while
"critical to avoiding false positives because good sites (like Yahoo and Hotmail) send email to honeypots all the time"
Really?
1) Why/How would Yahoo/Hotmail send email to honeypots specifically created to collect spam?
2) Why would I or most other people want to read that email if they did?
How much better is your approach over a pure honeypot approach? I believe you have the stats on your service, you can calculate it yourself.
Well if a T Rex interrupted my shower I might run naked in the streets.
Might be still time to grab a towel though, after all it's the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Whether you like it or not, if you pick your nose (or whatever) in public, you could end up in a Youtube video, with the (in)appropriate music.
;).
I've been telling some teens that they're going to have to grow thicker skins- someone is bound to youtube them one day.
I'm actually fine with everyone being able to see what I'm doing (including past events) as long as I get to see what everyone else is doing too (that includes Presidents and Prime Ministers etc) AND everyone can easily find out who watched who/what
Sounds cool.
Is there a way to pay/tip OSS coders directly? I suppose that might be such a great thing as it becomes a popularity contest - and some code though vital might not attract as much attention from the masses.
"You give hot liquids your full, undivided attention or you should NOT be handling them. If this means pulling the damn car over and walking in to get your caffiene fix DO IT"
;).
I personally think most people should give the control of a > 1 ton fast moving vehicle their full undivided attention, or they should not be handling them at all...
Don't drink and drive. Don't eat and drive. Don't chat and drive. Just drive and stick to your frigging lane dammit! If you're Michael Schumacher you can chat with the pit crew while you drive at 300+kph in twilight and do near normal F1 lap times, but most drivers aren't and can barely control their cars safely under normal circumstances, any increase in their cognitive load would badly affect their performance.
So what's the statistics on fatalities/car trip vs 3rd degree burns/McD coffee served? How many millions of McD coffee sold, and how many burns?
Maybe they should sue car makers for making stuff that's so much more dangerous than McD coffee