Really slow news day. This is a pretty photo looking for a press release, IMHO. Today, even moderate amateur telescopes resolve M-56. That they improved the H-R diagram using HST, is good science, but hardly/. worthy.
That article is beneath any decent publication to run and certainly didn't deserve to be on/.
As a manager of a Federal IT data center that is mission critical for emergency management as well as daily operations for important parts of the transportation/DoD infrastructure, the concept of putting my system in a commercial cloud as they talk about here is laughable at best.
Anyone who remotely understands how we work will know the process we call FISMA. As my system goes through the process of a rearchitecture that will hopefully come on line in the 16/17 time frame, assuming the current administration stays in place, there will be pressure to push to the cloud. But our FISMA requirements will push the requirements process in a direction that will almost certainly result in only cloud systems built specifically for government applications meeting the requirements.
I'm going to guess that when push comes to shove the cost of us using one of these high end government cloud systems will be far higher than our hosting and owning our own system. I will be amazed if we end up in the Amazon cloud.
Years ago, I wrote newspaper heds for a living. It was fun, challenging work to see what you can cram into a very limited space. And to try to convey the article's meaning. Even more "fun" when you have minutes or just a minute to meet a deadline. The WSJ hed is right out of the paper and no doubt fits a two column layout. Huffo wasn't bound by the old physical layout.
Because they won't know until about a day before if the science conditions are right. This is the window they are working within, likely with FAA approval, scheduling of their other activities and use of the east coast tracking range system in relation to activities at the Cape. Factors down to the hour will include surface conditions and boats out in the water. Join the Wallops Twitter feed to get updates.
I've never been able to see a terrier launch from the DC area. Just too far away.
Now show this with the truck moving vertically 6-10 feet every few seconds, with 15-30 knot winds that change 10-30 degrees every minute, and hundreds/thousands of pounds of sea spray hitting the side of the helo. Was in a bird that landed in these conditions. Another time, we aborted in worse conditions and had to find a bigger deck.
So what exactly does the X-47B have to do with Afghanistan? After all these years of conflict, CNN still does not understand the basics of the US Military.
My family ran small rural stations for many years. You have no idea what you are talking about. It is a damn hard market, but we survived and were able to feel very good about the value we provided to the community and the close, very, very close relationships we had. If an NPR station can't make it in the free market, it deserves to die. If they can adapt, all the more power to them. The fact that they can't make it expressly defines the "quality" of the programming. This guy is only whining for a public sector jobs program.
You are way low. Figure more like $70-90 per hour for labor (fully loaded) by time you add in the normal government overhead for contracting. If, assuming the native agency that manages the connectivity to the office agrees, you need to budget for a firewall. And a good 40 hours of security configuration and documentation (something in govt called "C&A") at $100+ an hour. Then there are quarterly scans, and re-certification of the security documents (at least every two years). Most the local agencies won't be interested in allowing anonymous users on their network, even if it is in a firewall zone, or risk their bandwidth being consumed by some free loader, so most of these installs will require dedicated connectivity. And then figure O&M. Who is going to fix this when the hardware breaks, is unplugged, or turned off? Either the locals or your contractors who will need to travel? Who patching the firewalls, the routers? Where is the funding for hardware replacement in 3-5 years?
Not only is this a waste and doesn't make sense, but $15m won't be enough. There isn't a govt network admin who will want this traffic on their network and there isn't a govt security group that will allow it. That means each of these will be a new ISP connection. So does GSA get to do this, or the IT group who in the building at the time?
The "point" forecasts on the National Weather Service website are created by a robot off digital - gridded - data.
Here
A little clunky at times, but there are forecasts for either 5x5km or 2.5x-2.5km grids across the US, more than a million forecast areas updated anywhere from hourly to a few times a day. The human forecasters create the gridded data, so they focus on the data, not the words.
This week I needed to get a package to a friend from one coast to the other in two days with the delivery end being a pretty remote location in the western US. Experience in the past had suggested USPS would say two days, but it would really take three to four. Last year, their "tracking" system showed the package had been dropped off and offered no updates until it was delivered... and that wasn't updated for several hours after delivery.
This year, Fedex was really two days and tracking was updated at least every 8 hours right down to it was out on the truck for local delivery.
I fully expect any "reform" of USPS will be nothing more than restrictions on the private sector who completes against it.
Rarely considered is the relationship between the armed Iraqi civilians and the photogs. Did the photogs embed themselves into an insurgent unit moving into position, or did these armed men decide to follow the photogs towards the sound of gun fire just for fun?
IMHO, I think the photogs had good sources in the insurgency that allowed them to get close the action in order to get good photos and were caught in the middle, IMHO, a risk of the job.
Nothing at all scientific about it, just observations from my backyard in the mid-Atlantic region of the US, while I haven't seen a honey bee since mid-last summer, the native bumble and carpenter bees are all over the place, with my strawberries, raspberries and apple trees having no pollination problems this spring. While I had noticed this, it hadn't registered until I was talking to a naturalist this weekend at a local park who had also noticed and is guessing the collapse of the European honey bees had allowed the natives to expand.
This isn't surprising at all and was completely predictable. Even during Apollo, post modern liberalism has always been lukewarm-cold towards space exploration, a fact I always found interesting since many NASA supporters at the grass root level are Democrats. The whole global warming thing has pushed not only the liberals against NASA, but brought along the environmental movement as well. "How can we afford to rape another world when we can't take care of..." and "How can we afford to provide jobs to highly paid engineers when there are poor..."
That NASA screwed up the engineering of some of new hardware didn't help. That NASA could only look at and award to the normal fat-cat defense contractors didn't help either.
The combination of the two and NASA's own problems are all quite deadly when it comes to this administration.
Amazingly hope for American humans in space will now rely on Republicans and the US private sector, assuming we just don't try to contract it out to other countries (and lose yet another technology base).
Just as amazing is a lack of understanding by the liberals and environmentalists that the destruction of human space flight dooms the long term prospects for robotic exploration; which is a key tool to understanding the environment and natural resources on Earth. When the over all size of NASA is reduced, it's ability to innovate across programs is gone and the technology stales over time.
Finally, you could assume that even the environmentalists could start to see the only viable long term solution to maintaining Earth's ecosystem is expansion to other worlds, but clearly they don't have that kind of vision.
If AGW was proven wrong tomorrow, wouldn't make a hill of beans difference. The Pols have discovered AGW is great cover for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars and gaining massive amounts of control. Modern industrialists will make millions/billions off this.
Recently heard someone describe Gore as a industrialist. This struck me odd, but come to think about it, he is little different then the robber baron industrialists of the 19th century. He is positioned to make tens of millions off the backs of the poor and middle class.
Besides, AGW is everywhere. My kid's elementary text books, the Disney Channel, the movies... everywhere. It will take a decade to remove all this stuff and a generation to de-learn it.
Article in the current issue of Air and Space magazine about this sort of technology and how might be used to create cloaking devices one day.
Scientists and engineers are trying to emulate that trick by designing materials that could constitute the next-next (or next-next-next) generation of stealth. Some of their ideas sound like they sprang from the imaginations of Gene Roddenberry or J.K. Rowling, with phrases like “cloaking device” and “invisibility carpet” popping up as frequently in academic papers as in television scripts and books for kids. Other ideas are more realistic, as researchers devise ways to change an aircraft’s color and blur its outline, confusing the bad guys enough to make them shoot in the wrong direction.
To make this more attractive to the Navy, the carrier's escort ships, the frigates, destroyers and cruisers all use gas turbine engines - jet engines - that burn the same fuel as the aircraft. Carriers have refueled escorts for more than 20 years. What an interesting concept. The only supply chain that would be left is ammo, parts and food. In any case, would certainly free the battle group to move faster and more independently at first need since even a nuclear powered carrier can only move as fast/far as it can refuel and supply it's escorts.
less natural catastrophes
What? If they are man-caused (apparently because of global warming) they aren't natural, eh?
The concept of human caused warming will one day go down as one of the greatest scams of all time. It was used to enrich a few (like Al Gore), increase the power of a few more (Democrats) and make a few outspoken wackos (environmentalists) feel good.
In the meantime, thousands of lost jobs, lost homes, busted up families, children forced in to lesser quality schools, reduced standard of living for everyone, prolonged recession if not complete depression and a massive increase in the misery rate.
It was a poor, poor, poor example of the joke US society has become that the media (already massively basised for this piece of crap) could only focus on the death of a odd-ball has been pop star instead of the very serious joke going in Washington that is going to help bankrupt this country and destroy the lives of our children.
No photos of any wound, but fast enough to bury in the ground or leave a foot long mark on the ground? Loud noise? Many small meteors are traveling quite slowly by time they reach the surface. Small meteorites are quite easy to obtain. Apparently this is a photo of the rock. Is that the 3-inch scar? Just dunno...
Aged, but the primary points are the same for the future of Medicare; it is a house of cards that will fail many of us just as we need it the most. Our children will not be able to do this AND pay for all the trillions we are spending today.
Not all that 17% goes to CEOs, there are salaries for many jobs, and that advertising creates jobs too. Government doesn't create new jobs or new wealth, it can't. I guess "fair" might be the day you or I reach the point that some young kid decides we are of no value and should be put down.
I'd love to hear more examples of the government running things efficiently. Katrina? The Big Dig? Highways and bridges to no-where? Iraq? Mogadishu? (to be fair), Challenger? Columbia? If you are a bit right minded and at least honest, here is a good list, including documentation about waste in the Medicare program.
And you assume the US Government can actually manage such a program? How good have they done with Social Security? Medicare? Can anyone name a US Government program to citizens the size of this that is run efficiently? The trust to those in DC to run and control our lives is nothing short of incredible, given all the complaints of the past four years.
Scrap prices, including copper have tanked in the past 90 days. From $4 to $1.50.
We dealt with several outages last year and early this year due to copper thefts in Dallas where they broke fiber while stealing the copper. They've stopped. Railroads were having problems because the brake piping on some cars and traction motor cables on locomotives are copper and brass, reports suggest they've almost come to to a halt.
Slashdot Mirror
Really slow news day. This is a pretty photo looking for a press release, IMHO. Today, even moderate amateur telescopes resolve M-56. That they improved the H-R diagram using HST, is good science, but hardly /. worthy.
That article is beneath any decent publication to run and certainly didn't deserve to be on /.
As a manager of a Federal IT data center that is mission critical for emergency management as well as daily operations for important parts of the transportation/DoD infrastructure, the concept of putting my system in a commercial cloud as they talk about here is laughable at best.
Anyone who remotely understands how we work will know the process we call FISMA. As my system goes through the process of a rearchitecture that will hopefully come on line in the 16/17 time frame, assuming the current administration stays in place, there will be pressure to push to the cloud. But our FISMA requirements will push the requirements process in a direction that will almost certainly result in only cloud systems built specifically for government applications meeting the requirements.
I'm going to guess that when push comes to shove the cost of us using one of these high end government cloud systems will be far higher than our hosting and owning our own system. I will be amazed if we end up in the Amazon cloud.
Years ago, I wrote newspaper heds for a living. It was fun, challenging work to see what you can cram into a very limited space. And to try to convey the article's meaning. Even more "fun" when you have minutes or just a minute to meet a deadline. The WSJ hed is right out of the paper and no doubt fits a two column layout. Huffo wasn't bound by the old physical layout.
Because they won't know until about a day before if the science conditions are right. This is the window they are working within, likely with FAA approval, scheduling of their other activities and use of the east coast tracking range system in relation to activities at the Cape. Factors down to the hour will include surface conditions and boats out in the water. Join the Wallops Twitter feed to get updates. I've never been able to see a terrier launch from the DC area. Just too far away.
Now show this with the truck moving vertically 6-10 feet every few seconds, with 15-30 knot winds that change 10-30 degrees every minute, and hundreds/thousands of pounds of sea spray hitting the side of the helo. Was in a bird that landed in these conditions. Another time, we aborted in worse conditions and had to find a bigger deck.
So what exactly does the X-47B have to do with Afghanistan? After all these years of conflict, CNN still does not understand the basics of the US Military.
My family ran small rural stations for many years. You have no idea what you are talking about. It is a damn hard market, but we survived and were able to feel very good about the value we provided to the community and the close, very, very close relationships we had. If an NPR station can't make it in the free market, it deserves to die. If they can adapt, all the more power to them. The fact that they can't make it expressly defines the "quality" of the programming. This guy is only whining for a public sector jobs program.
You are way low. Figure more like $70-90 per hour for labor (fully loaded) by time you add in the normal government overhead for contracting. If, assuming the native agency that manages the connectivity to the office agrees, you need to budget for a firewall. And a good 40 hours of security configuration and documentation (something in govt called "C&A") at $100+ an hour. Then there are quarterly scans, and re-certification of the security documents (at least every two years). Most the local agencies won't be interested in allowing anonymous users on their network, even if it is in a firewall zone, or risk their bandwidth being consumed by some free loader, so most of these installs will require dedicated connectivity. And then figure O&M. Who is going to fix this when the hardware breaks, is unplugged, or turned off? Either the locals or your contractors who will need to travel? Who patching the firewalls, the routers? Where is the funding for hardware replacement in 3-5 years?
Not only is this a waste and doesn't make sense, but $15m won't be enough. There isn't a govt network admin who will want this traffic on their network and there isn't a govt security group that will allow it. That means each of these will be a new ISP connection. So does GSA get to do this, or the IT group who in the building at the time?
The "point" forecasts on the National Weather Service website are created by a robot off digital - gridded - data. Here A little clunky at times, but there are forecasts for either 5x5km or 2.5x-2.5km grids across the US, more than a million forecast areas updated anywhere from hourly to a few times a day. The human forecasters create the gridded data, so they focus on the data, not the words.
This year, Fedex was really two days and tracking was updated at least every 8 hours right down to it was out on the truck for local delivery.
I fully expect any "reform" of USPS will be nothing more than restrictions on the private sector who completes against it.
Rarely considered is the relationship between the armed Iraqi civilians and the photogs. Did the photogs embed themselves into an insurgent unit moving into position, or did these armed men decide to follow the photogs towards the sound of gun fire just for fun? IMHO, I think the photogs had good sources in the insurgency that allowed them to get close the action in order to get good photos and were caught in the middle, IMHO, a risk of the job.
Nothing at all scientific about it, just observations from my backyard in the mid-Atlantic region of the US, while I haven't seen a honey bee since mid-last summer, the native bumble and carpenter bees are all over the place, with my strawberries, raspberries and apple trees having no pollination problems this spring. While I had noticed this, it hadn't registered until I was talking to a naturalist this weekend at a local park who had also noticed and is guessing the collapse of the European honey bees had allowed the natives to expand.
Steam Locomotive
That NASA screwed up the engineering of some of new hardware didn't help. That NASA could only look at and award to the normal fat-cat defense contractors didn't help either.
The combination of the two and NASA's own problems are all quite deadly when it comes to this administration.
Amazingly hope for American humans in space will now rely on Republicans and the US private sector, assuming we just don't try to contract it out to other countries (and lose yet another technology base).
Just as amazing is a lack of understanding by the liberals and environmentalists that the destruction of human space flight dooms the long term prospects for robotic exploration; which is a key tool to understanding the environment and natural resources on Earth. When the over all size of NASA is reduced, it's ability to innovate across programs is gone and the technology stales over time.
Finally, you could assume that even the environmentalists could start to see the only viable long term solution to maintaining Earth's ecosystem is expansion to other worlds, but clearly they don't have that kind of vision.
Recently heard someone describe Gore as a industrialist. This struck me odd, but come to think about it, he is little different then the robber baron industrialists of the 19th century. He is positioned to make tens of millions off the backs of the poor and middle class.
Besides, AGW is everywhere. My kid's elementary text books, the Disney Channel, the movies... everywhere. It will take a decade to remove all this stuff and a generation to de-learn it.
Scientists and engineers are trying to emulate that trick by designing materials that could constitute the next-next (or next-next-next) generation of stealth. Some of their ideas sound like they sprang from the imaginations of Gene Roddenberry or J.K. Rowling, with phrases like “cloaking device” and “invisibility carpet” popping up as frequently in academic papers as in television scripts and books for kids. Other ideas are more realistic, as researchers devise ways to change an aircraft’s color and blur its outline, confusing the bad guys enough to make them shoot in the wrong direction.
Yeah, and the last step ladder I bought had about 12 of these warnings on it and ladders don't even move.
To make this more attractive to the Navy, the carrier's escort ships, the frigates, destroyers and cruisers all use gas turbine engines - jet engines - that burn the same fuel as the aircraft. Carriers have refueled escorts for more than 20 years. What an interesting concept. The only supply chain that would be left is ammo, parts and food. In any case, would certainly free the battle group to move faster and more independently at first need since even a nuclear powered carrier can only move as fast/far as it can refuel and supply it's escorts.
In the meantime, thousands of lost jobs, lost homes, busted up families, children forced in to lesser quality schools, reduced standard of living for everyone, prolonged recession if not complete depression and a massive increase in the misery rate.
It was a poor, poor, poor example of the joke US society has become that the media (already massively basised for this piece of crap) could only focus on the death of a odd-ball has been pop star instead of the very serious joke going in Washington that is going to help bankrupt this country and destroy the lives of our children.
No photos of any wound, but fast enough to bury in the ground or leave a foot long mark on the ground? Loud noise? Many small meteors are traveling quite slowly by time they reach the surface. Small meteorites are quite easy to obtain. Apparently this is a photo of the rock. Is that the 3-inch scar? Just dunno...
Although I'll wait for someone to claim it is George Bush's fought... after he was video'ed falling off one.
Not all that 17% goes to CEOs, there are salaries for many jobs, and that advertising creates jobs too. Government doesn't create new jobs or new wealth, it can't. I guess "fair" might be the day you or I reach the point that some young kid decides we are of no value and should be put down.
I'd love to hear more examples of the government running things efficiently. Katrina? The Big Dig? Highways and bridges to no-where? Iraq? Mogadishu? (to be fair), Challenger? Columbia? If you are a bit right minded and at least honest, here is a good list, including documentation about waste in the Medicare program.
And you assume the US Government can actually manage such a program? How good have they done with Social Security? Medicare? Can anyone name a US Government program to citizens the size of this that is run efficiently? The trust to those in DC to run and control our lives is nothing short of incredible, given all the complaints of the past four years.
We dealt with several outages last year and early this year due to copper thefts in Dallas where they broke fiber while stealing the copper. They've stopped. Railroads were having problems because the brake piping on some cars and traction motor cables on locomotives are copper and brass, reports suggest they've almost come to to a halt.