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Planning trips, wave is invaluable. I'm an avid rock climber, and I used wave to constantly update people on trips, and used interactive maps to plan them (the map feature is arguably Wave's best gadget).
I also use wave to keep action item, backburner, and reference lists for myself and my business partner.
Lastly, I attempted to use wave instead of a forum on my website. It would've been great, but no one fucking knew what it was. In my opinion, wave's failure was a marketing one, not technical.
Lastly, it's more convenient for collaborative creative content generation than any other tool. The slashdot community, believe it or not, is the opposite of Wave's target market.
I hope Google has a replacement brewing for my purposes.
I'd like to know how low in latitude the Auroras reached - I'm around 44degrees north, and after seeing them once before, I'd travel quite a distance to view them, as long as I can make it to work tomorrow...
Damned weather systems are making things difficult, though.
Also, I'm interested in how high the Kp index needs to be for Auroras to be highly visible at my latitude. I went to school in Potsdam, NY, and was lucky enough to see a spectacular display right overhead one late fall night during finals week... spectacular enough for me to lose even more sleep while crunching for a final exam.
These auditors are exactly the individuals that benefit from pointing out inadequacies in security. I covered the "company laptop" and "USB" issue - if people have physical access to a system, then obviously, it's vulnerable. What does "100% isolated" mean? Controlled using rubber gloves behind a glass window of a clean room? These guys are simply pointing out that you can't make something 100% secure, which is a universal truth. All you can do is make it uneconomical or unrealistic, or at least very difficult. The auditor you heard had a whole lot to say about nothing.
And it's not necessary to begin your post with "uhhh... right."
I couldn't agree more - The risk of hackers getting to our grids is FAR outweighed by the risk of physical attack, which is FAR outweighed by the risk of poor design and maintenance.
My opinion as a controls engineer for a utility contractor:
The accusation that this was the work of hackers is ridiculous. Not only would such a job be extremely difficult to execute, but I doubt that, IF it were successfully executed, it would be easily returned to a working state.
This has all the indications of poor maintenance of dielectrics, especially "sooty insulators." If a high-voltage dielectric became overly-dirty, a ground fault could easily occur with a short across the materials on the surface of the dielectric.
Speaking as a controls engineer for a major utility contractor, the control systems for power plants are completely isolated from the internet... it's common sense. There are security consultants out there feeding FUD to the public about the vulnerability of these control systems to viruses planted (either knowingly or unknowingly) by plant personnel. Well, if someone had intimate knowledge of the software AND close ties to the operators AND really thought that bringing down the plant would be a good way screw everyone over, despite the fact that when things go wrong, all valves and systems return to a fail-safe position, AND once the software was re-installed, everything is easily restarted...
Yeah, I guess it could happen. As far as the grid is concerned, I'm *guessing* that a lot of people were influenced by the same method of thinking.
Look, if anyone really wants bring down the power grid, we should be worried about a physical attack WAY more than an electronic one. I just can't conceive of how our systems are as vulnerable as people say they are.
Why not propose a law that actually classifies social networking use, or even mandates a certain class of sex offenders to make their status known on social networking sites? I think it's pretty obvious that the governor from Illinois is a bit naiive and overreaching in his latest law. Also, I think that the subjectivity of healthy sexual behaviors is largely overlooked by many [puritanistic] lawmakers. Lastly, I don't think the governor is in any way qualified, experienced, or educated enough in the relevant fields to produce laws governing such things - it feels like he's making fluffy political moves based on voters' values, rather than making logical decisions that will yield actual social improvements.
The correct link should be to the original article in Nature, but my post got modded down due to it's factual, straightforward wording. I'll make it more sensationalistic next time, maybe add a side story about ethics, or a love triangle that formed between the researchers involved.
Another big advantage with using silver is that it isn't susceptible to photocorrosion (silver oxides do not form readily).
Hey, sorry for my ignorance, but I thought that silver is highly susceptible to photocorrosion - isn't it used in photographic (b&w) film, or photochromic lenses? I'd just like to know where the difference is, or just some more info.
I'd also like to add that many of the highly-rated comments are the same old arguments that pop up whenever there is a slashdot discussion of archival storage. There seems to be a difficulty understanding the difference between UTILITY and PRESERVATION. The idea here is not to produce a standard that will still be easily useful in the next millennium, but to simply provide a storage medium for the long-term preservation of data, whether it's historical, scientific, or just nostalgic.
The comments regarding the inability to test such claims are unfounded and not well thought out. Third parties could easily monitor the molecular breakdown of the data over the course of a shorter period of time, and project that over many years. And that's just what I conjured up with just a rudimentary knowledge of material science and chemistry.
Archival-quality digital storage was seriously lacking in the marketplace. Is it completely unfathomable that someone could engineer materials that don't degrade in such a short period of time? The claims made by Millenniata are easily testable, and it doesn't make any sense for such a small company to make a completely testable, yet reputation-damaging claim such as this.
Skepticism is good when well-founded. Otherwise, you're just being needlessly cynical.
I completely disagree. A HUD is a great idea for keeping attention on the road, especially for easily-distracted drivers... and I doubt a small hud would glaringly obscure objects with large opaque arrows. It would be easily implemented properly by auto makers, just as the kind gentleman above has pointed out (coincidentally highlighting my lack of googling the idea before my/. rant).
Anyone else fed up with audio prompts for turn-by-turn? I want HUDs to finally find their way into vehicles - i mean, they've been in fighter jets for ages, which is just a step away from my Subaru Forester.
Honestly, how expensive can it be to put the video on the dash instead of throwing it on some 3rd-party mount, or in the already-cramped control console? I say that the companies need to make better use of the windshields in cars, and allow me to listen to loud music while I don't know where I'm going.
I believe there needs to be a ruling when there is no previous legal precedent. For example, the admissability of DNA evidence to establish the presence of a person at a scene. Even though there is science there, even science has gray areas (including DNA, by the way), and Judges are there to sift through the exceptions and interpret it all for the masses.
Be careful with this kind of analogy. It can easily lead to legislation requiring internet users to take reasonable ownership and responsibility for their home network. It would be like giving the RIAA a guilty until proven innocent stance against filesharers: until the defendant could prove that a third party used extreme measures to break the security of their home network, then they are responsible for the actions taking place on their personal network.
I think that you have a good, pragmatic take on ADD diagnosis and treatment, but on the flip-side, how much more productive are you than many of your non-ADD co-workers simply due to your intelligence and ability to easily grasp concepts and problem-solve? And how many times were you penalized for being a "bad listener" and having "poor self-control" in your educational environment? Do you think that there are better ways to treat and guide people with ADHD as youngsters? Remember that a higher-than-average IQ is also a symptom of many people with ADD.
My feeling is that billions of dollars of productivity is lost in our system because people don't take the time to properly understand or educate those with ADD early-on in their lives. I think you know as well as I how well people with ADHD can focus on something when they're properly motivated to do so.
I have to ask how the APA is deciding that the broad spectrum of ADHD cases are classified as a quantifiable disorder. I do agree that the EEG diagnosis could be a huge advance, but could you punctuate your comment a bit better?
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Planning trips, wave is invaluable. I'm an avid rock climber, and I used wave to constantly update people on trips, and used interactive maps to plan them (the map feature is arguably Wave's best gadget).
I also use wave to keep action item, backburner, and reference lists for myself and my business partner.
Lastly, I attempted to use wave instead of a forum on my website. It would've been great, but no one fucking knew what it was. In my opinion, wave's failure was a marketing one, not technical.
Lastly, it's more convenient for collaborative creative content generation than any other tool. The slashdot community, believe it or not, is the opposite of Wave's target market.
I hope Google has a replacement brewing for my purposes.
I'd like to know how low in latitude the Auroras reached - I'm around 44degrees north, and after seeing them once before, I'd travel quite a distance to view them, as long as I can make it to work tomorrow...
Damned weather systems are making things difficult, though.
Also, I'm interested in how high the Kp index needs to be for Auroras to be highly visible at my latitude. I went to school in Potsdam, NY, and was lucky enough to see a spectacular display right overhead one late fall night during finals week... spectacular enough for me to lose even more sleep while crunching for a final exam.
Did you just quote "Men In Black?"
These auditors are exactly the individuals that benefit from pointing out inadequacies in security. I covered the "company laptop" and "USB" issue - if people have physical access to a system, then obviously, it's vulnerable. What does "100% isolated" mean? Controlled using rubber gloves behind a glass window of a clean room? These guys are simply pointing out that you can't make something 100% secure, which is a universal truth. All you can do is make it uneconomical or unrealistic, or at least very difficult. The auditor you heard had a whole lot to say about nothing.
And it's not necessary to begin your post with "uhhh... right."
I couldn't agree more - The risk of hackers getting to our grids is FAR outweighed by the risk of physical attack, which is FAR outweighed by the risk of poor design and maintenance.
My opinion as a controls engineer for a utility contractor:
The accusation that this was the work of hackers is ridiculous. Not only would such a job be extremely difficult to execute, but I doubt that, IF it were successfully executed, it would be easily returned to a working state.
This has all the indications of poor maintenance of dielectrics, especially "sooty insulators." If a high-voltage dielectric became overly-dirty, a ground fault could easily occur with a short across the materials on the surface of the dielectric.
Speaking as a controls engineer for a major utility contractor, the control systems for power plants are completely isolated from the internet... it's common sense. There are security consultants out there feeding FUD to the public about the vulnerability of these control systems to viruses planted (either knowingly or unknowingly) by plant personnel. Well, if someone had intimate knowledge of the software AND close ties to the operators AND really thought that bringing down the plant would be a good way screw everyone over, despite the fact that when things go wrong, all valves and systems return to a fail-safe position, AND once the software was re-installed, everything is easily restarted...
Yeah, I guess it could happen. As far as the grid is concerned, I'm *guessing* that a lot of people were influenced by the same method of thinking.
Look, if anyone really wants bring down the power grid, we should be worried about a physical attack WAY more than an electronic one. I just can't conceive of how our systems are as vulnerable as people say they are.
Why not propose a law that actually classifies social networking use, or even mandates a certain class of sex offenders to make their status known on social networking sites? I think it's pretty obvious that the governor from Illinois is a bit naiive and overreaching in his latest law. Also, I think that the subjectivity of healthy sexual behaviors is largely overlooked by many [puritanistic] lawmakers. Lastly, I don't think the governor is in any way qualified, experienced, or educated enough in the relevant fields to produce laws governing such things - it feels like he's making fluffy political moves based on voters' values, rather than making logical decisions that will yield actual social improvements.
The correct link should be to the original article in Nature, but my post got modded down due to it's factual, straightforward wording. I'll make it more sensationalistic next time, maybe add a side story about ethics, or a love triangle that formed between the researchers involved.
ohhh yeaaah... I forgot they made mirrors from silver. hah. Thanks.
I wish everyone thought like you. I love creative engineering solutions.
Another big advantage with using silver is that it isn't susceptible to photocorrosion (silver oxides do not form readily).
Hey, sorry for my ignorance, but I thought that silver is highly susceptible to photocorrosion - isn't it used in photographic (b&w) film, or photochromic lenses? I'd just like to know where the difference is, or just some more info.
I'd also like to add that many of the highly-rated comments are the same old arguments that pop up whenever there is a slashdot discussion of archival storage. There seems to be a difficulty understanding the difference between UTILITY and PRESERVATION. The idea here is not to produce a standard that will still be easily useful in the next millennium, but to simply provide a storage medium for the long-term preservation of data, whether it's historical, scientific, or just nostalgic.
The comments regarding the inability to test such claims are unfounded and not well thought out. Third parties could easily monitor the molecular breakdown of the data over the course of a shorter period of time, and project that over many years. And that's just what I conjured up with just a rudimentary knowledge of material science and chemistry.
Archival-quality digital storage was seriously lacking in the marketplace. Is it completely unfathomable that someone could engineer materials that don't degrade in such a short period of time? The claims made by Millenniata are easily testable, and it doesn't make any sense for such a small company to make a completely testable, yet reputation-damaging claim such as this.
Skepticism is good when well-founded. Otherwise, you're just being needlessly cynical.
I completely disagree. A HUD is a great idea for keeping attention on the road, especially for easily-distracted drivers... and I doubt a small hud would glaringly obscure objects with large opaque arrows. It would be easily implemented properly by auto makers, just as the kind gentleman above has pointed out (coincidentally highlighting my lack of googling the idea before my /. rant).
80% of iPhone users recommend not believing any statistic-backed assertion that begins with "80% of iPhone users."
Anyone else fed up with audio prompts for turn-by-turn? I want HUDs to finally find their way into vehicles - i mean, they've been in fighter jets for ages, which is just a step away from my Subaru Forester.
Honestly, how expensive can it be to put the video on the dash instead of throwing it on some 3rd-party mount, or in the already-cramped control console? I say that the companies need to make better use of the windshields in cars, and allow me to listen to loud music while I don't know where I'm going.
I believe there needs to be a ruling when there is no previous legal precedent. For example, the admissability of DNA evidence to establish the presence of a person at a scene. Even though there is science there, even science has gray areas (including DNA, by the way), and Judges are there to sift through the exceptions and interpret it all for the masses.
..."It was my car, but I wasn't driving"...
Be careful with this kind of analogy. It can easily lead to legislation requiring internet users to take reasonable ownership and responsibility for their home network. It would be like giving the RIAA a guilty until proven innocent stance against filesharers: until the defendant could prove that a third party used extreme measures to break the security of their home network, then they are responsible for the actions taking place on their personal network.
Now I know what I'll tell my future children.
Thank god someone else realized that. Please tell me you're a teacher.
I think that you have a good, pragmatic take on ADD diagnosis and treatment, but on the flip-side, how much more productive are you than many of your non-ADD co-workers simply due to your intelligence and ability to easily grasp concepts and problem-solve? And how many times were you penalized for being a "bad listener" and having "poor self-control" in your educational environment? Do you think that there are better ways to treat and guide people with ADHD as youngsters? Remember that a higher-than-average IQ is also a symptom of many people with ADD.
My feeling is that billions of dollars of productivity is lost in our system because people don't take the time to properly understand or educate those with ADD early-on in their lives. I think you know as well as I how well people with ADHD can focus on something when they're properly motivated to do so.
Great comment. Could you suggest a better way to educate children with broad-spectrum ADHD?
To expand on your idea, could people suggest a better educational pathway for people with objectively-identified ADHD patterns?
Also, I'd like to know how much the statistical analysis discerns between different degrees and types of ADHD symptoms.
I have to ask how the APA is deciding that the broad spectrum of ADHD cases are classified as a quantifiable disorder. I do agree that the EEG diagnosis could be a huge advance, but could you punctuate your comment a bit better?