The landing software of the Curiosity rover. Not only did it need to land on Mars, it did it in a highly complex sequence, fully automated, in conditions impossible to simulate and fully replicate here on Earth prior to launch. The distance from Earth also ment the signals confirming (or denying) a successful landing, took 14 minutes to reach the Earth.
When my daughter was asking how people could stand on the "downside" of the earth, I compared the earth and stuff to magnets. The larger the objects, the stronger magnet. We never got into energy, but I would compare energy to velocity: Throwing a piece of pebble at someone hurts. The harder (=faster) it's thrown, the more it hurts. But the same goes if the pebble is changed to a larger stone. That would hurt just as much even if it's thrown at a lower velocity. The same goes if you accidentally drop it on your toes.
Not entirely correct, but then again - the laws of Newton aren't either.
In terms of relativity, the experiment about dropping a ball inside a train (or bus) is quite easy to understand - inside the train the distance the ball falls, is equal to the height of which it is dropped. But for a viewer outside, the apparent distance is longer - the hypotenuse of a triangle. It might even be possible to show using a car.
I dropped ink-jet printing a couple of years ago when the constant issue of clogged nozzles were superseded by paper jams caused by aging rubber rollers. I replaced it with a B/W laser printer, since I've since long realized online print-shops would produce higher quality (and larger) prints at a reasonable cost overnight. Now I'm switching to a color laser printer, since I routinely print incoming invoices for book-keeping, screendumps for temporary use etc. The cost is ~1:30 SEK/page (14€c/15$c) Since I'm renting it for 3 years, I guess I'll replace it at the end of the rental period.
Salaries for developers in the embedded industry, especially telecom, android, automotive, IoT should be added, as well as categories for Other for developers and Other EU and Other countries.
This would make the calculator the world's most comprehensive calculator.
I find Ripple (XRP) quite interesting, since it is designed specifically for fast money transfers. I personally believe it will gain traction, and essentially take over Bitcoin as transaction media.
Disclaimer: I have invested in Ripple and Ether (ETH).
The copper price is high enough that homeless people steal copper wires, roofs and even break into live transformer stations, so you might get yourself some buck for the wires by selling to a recycling scrapyard that in turn sell copper by the ton to smelters. And you'll do something to the environment, too.
Why would a transport agency have any access to witness relocation data?
Because of incompetence.
Since the database is meant to contain information about who's got a driver's licence or own cars, they basically have contains every person's real address - including the ones in the witness protection programs, airforce pilots and others with secret identity. Problem is, the DB didn't contain markers about who's address is classified - or at least they weren't removed prior to the DB's publishing.
Turning one sheet of paper every day, it takes some time for any information of the leaks to be published under the freedom of information act ("Offentlighetsprincipen"). If you're in a hurry. Otherwise, they'll only do it on Friday afternoons. If there's any spare time...
It was Transportstyrelsen that simply pushed the timeline so they didn't have time to vet the persons with access to the database at IBM for security clearance. And I guess the IBM folks weren't informed that the database contained top secret information - because the officials at Transportstyrelsen didn't know that in the first place!
One of the multiple questions coming to my mind after reading all this is: why are so different types of top-level secret information of a country being stored in the same database?!
Because of incompetence.
The database didn't contain any marking of who's identities, military viecles and whereabouts where classified, or at least it was't removed prior to mailing. The top secret information of the infrastructure etc, are probably actually stored in a different, infrastructure-related database, but from a news point of view, that was never mentioned since it is of no importance how many different databases were leaked.
Oh yeah, and it also reveals the names of catholic priests, pedophiles, skull-fuckers, rapists, and community leaders. It reads as if it was a national security issue, whereas TFS holds that it's about names, photos and home addresses.
Fuck you Slashdot editors. You're worthless.
From a military standpoint, this leak IS indeed dangerous, since it basically tells any attacker what and whom (if just 30% of the fighter pilots are killed before any invasion, we're basically a sitting duck), so although I wish you weren't wrong, you are. The TFS has a lot more information than it ought to in its database, or at least, they did not remove top secret information prior to its publishing.
The "funny" thing is that the officials confirm the database was leaked, "but any villain do not have the correct interface, so they cannot read it". Well, is not a problem for any scriptkiddie to google an appropriate extraction tools, don't you think?
So this story is essentially much ado about nothing
So while some 90% of the database is official, it DOES contain secret military information without any marking of that, or at least that wasn't removed prior to publishing the database.
From a military perspective, this is the largest leak since the 1980's, when Russian spy Stig Bergling stole huge amounts of even more dangerous information, which basically forced a complete(!) re-organization of the whole military.
"..the transport agency then emailed the entire database in messages to marketers that subscribe to it."
This sentence makes no sense. What did the marketers subscribe to? The top secret database??!! This must have been quite a large database, I doubt that you can attach and mail it. Who mailed what to whom?
The whole database WAS indeed leaked. In clear text. To former Soviet countries. And also by mail. As decided by a senior official(!).
Most content of the DB is official data under the the freedom of information act (Offentlighetsprincipen), so it does make sense to supply that information to any commercial subscriber, such insurance companies etc., but from a military standpoint, this leak is the most severe leak since 1980's, when russian spy Stig Bergling stole enormous amounts of top secret information.
A government database like containing things like names, street-names, car make and models contains mostly repeating information, very easily compressed to mailable size using zip. The "funny" thing is that the officials confirm the database was leaked, "but any villain do not have the correct interface, so they cannot read it". Well, is not a problem for any scriptkiddie to google an appropriate extraction tools, don't you think? The only exaggeration in the post, is that minors and adults without a drivers license isn't included in the database, which still means that ~75% of the entire population is included.
Later on, I tought myself assembler on the same computer. Then I learnt assembler on the Commodore 64, followed by Pascal, Modula-2 and finally C on the Amiga. As life got on, I learned C++ and Java, and recently I've learnt Python. But I still use C and assembler in my daily work as embedded software designer on ARM Cortex-M and smaller MCU's.
The only time I've tried functional programming was during a class at the Uni. My memory from that class, was that when I finally got a progam through the compiler, it simply worked. No flaws or bugs at all. Of course, a single class doesn't make me qualified to neither promote nor dismiss it.
Having said that, I prefer Python for simple PC-based tasks, C (or the non-obscure parts of C++ if the resources permits) for my daily work as embedded designer on ARM Cortex-M and smaller MCU's.
What totally makes no sense, is that every UI since Windows 95/NT4/AmigaOS 3/Mac whatever, had a very distinct and standardized way to emphasize controls using 3d-effects, shading, etc., including obvious keyboard shortcuts. But, with the advent of HTML 5, all those good things were thrown out of the window, making a step back to pre-Norton Commander in DOS (minus keyboard controls).
Also, for a couple of years ago, websites were desktop-oriented, making browsing on mobile devices hard if not impossible, which now have turned 180 degrees; "Modern" websites are mobile-optimized, but more or less idiotically designed for desktop use.
A, well.
I guess the pendulum will swing back to a reasonable "good enough" middle-state within a year or two or so...
Sweden's tried allowing people to retain up to 80% of their income for an indefinite time when unemployed or long-term sick, in reality makeing it cheaper to remain non-working, than to work. Not surprisingly, both unemployment and sick-leave dropped rapidly as the taxes were lowered on work (but not on unemployment or sick-leave benefits), hence giving a better economic incitement to find a suitable job.
Basic income - without any requirements - are, to put it simply, poisonous to the welfare of the people!
Before I got myself a computer, I spent a lot of time with my friends', typing in programs from computer magazines. I read a lot of books on computers and programming, and tried to understand their example programs.
Learned assembler on the ZX Spectrum, got fluent in Basic on the C=, learned Modula 2 on Amiga and finally C on Amiga and some Sun workstations. I did take some classes on Pascal programming in high-school, and in the Uni, we were taught Java and C++, but I consider myself self-taught.
An ATM-type machine developed by an ex-employer used to play Silent Night on Christmas Eve by spinning its motors. Unfortunately, that model is no longer in use.:-(
I had a - what probably counts as - preliminary hearing, in a custody battle this morning, Friday 13th. And my daugther didn't loose. Her mother did, though - all of the mother's claims were dismissed, while all of mine were accepted. I just read through my statement (which, BTW, I wrote myself, my laywer just pointed out the important differences between my and my dautgher's mother's statements) to the court, and I (still) conclude the same thing - chance, good luck, or faith, doesn't make a difference.
Good preparation does.
Just buy furniture that can be arranged any configuration. The best seating arrangement is best decided by the individuals. Some people get really bothered if someone can peek over their shoulders, while others couldn't care less. Similarly, some might be very distracted by any movement that is visisble for them in the edge of their line-of-sight, and such people would actually prefer to work faceing directly into a wall.
Also, the team might change in the future, with people entering and leaving.
I'm currently working as a developer for a major player in the mobile industry. We're local admins on our windows boxes, but we're switching to Linux now, and are not given the ability to su our own linux boxes.:-(
The reason, is that the swedish law, is a local interpretation of en EU-directive. Thus - assuming that the swedish law is a correct interpretation of the EU-directive, similar acts would be illegal in the complete EU.
According to arguments held by the court, anyone in the world is breaking swedish law, independent of their physical location, if they commit a crime on the internet, which is illegal in Sweden. Thus, google can be prosecuted in Sweden.
Thus, if the verdict is confirmed in HÃgsta Domstolen, it does mean that google can be prosecuted in Sweden.
Slashdot Mirror
The landing software of the Curiosity rover. Not only did it need to land on Mars, it did it in a highly complex sequence, fully automated, in conditions impossible to simulate and fully replicate here on Earth prior to launch. The distance from Earth also ment the signals confirming (or denying) a successful landing, took 14 minutes to reach the Earth.
When my daughter was asking how people could stand on the "downside" of the earth, I compared the earth and stuff to magnets. The larger the objects, the stronger magnet. We never got into energy, but I would compare energy to velocity: Throwing a piece of pebble at someone hurts. The harder (=faster) it's thrown, the more it hurts. But the same goes if the pebble is changed to a larger stone. That would hurt just as much even if it's thrown at a lower velocity. The same goes if you accidentally drop it on your toes.
Not entirely correct, but then again - the laws of Newton aren't either.
In terms of relativity, the experiment about dropping a ball inside a train (or bus) is quite easy to understand - inside the train the distance the ball falls, is equal to the height of which it is dropped. But for a viewer outside, the apparent distance is longer - the hypotenuse of a triangle. It might even be possible to show using a car.
I dropped ink-jet printing a couple of years ago when the constant issue of clogged nozzles were superseded by paper jams caused by aging rubber rollers. I replaced it with a B/W laser printer, since I've since long realized online print-shops would produce higher quality (and larger) prints at a reasonable cost overnight. Now I'm switching to a color laser printer, since I routinely print incoming invoices for book-keeping, screendumps for temporary use etc. The cost is ~1:30 SEK/page (14€c/15$c) Since I'm renting it for 3 years, I guess I'll replace it at the end of the rental period.
Do any of you fellow slashdotter have any insight on how thick the ice actually is, around there?
This would make the calculator the world's most comprehensive calculator.
Disclaimer: I have invested in Ripple and Ether (ETH).
The copper price is high enough that homeless people steal copper wires, roofs and even break into live transformer stations, so you might get yourself some buck for the wires by selling to a recycling scrapyard that in turn sell copper by the ton to smelters. And you'll do something to the environment, too.
Why would a transport agency have any access to witness relocation data?
Because of incompetence.
Since the database is meant to contain information about who's got a driver's licence or own cars, they basically have contains every person's real address - including the ones in the witness protection programs, airforce pilots and others with secret identity. Problem is, the DB didn't contain markers about who's address is classified - or at least they weren't removed prior to the DB's publishing.
Leak happened in 2015!
Turning one sheet of paper every day, it takes some time for any information of the leaks to be published under the freedom of information act ("Offentlighetsprincipen"). If you're in a hurry. Otherwise, they'll only do it on Friday afternoons. If there's any spare time...
I hope they can sue IBM / jail someone for this.
It was Transportstyrelsen that simply pushed the timeline so they didn't have time to vet the persons with access to the database at IBM for security clearance. And I guess the IBM folks weren't informed that the database contained top secret information - because the officials at Transportstyrelsen didn't know that in the first place!
One of the multiple questions coming to my mind after reading all this is: why are so different types of top-level secret information of a country being stored in the same database?!
Because of incompetence.
The database didn't contain any marking of who's identities, military viecles and whereabouts where classified, or at least it was't removed prior to mailing. The top secret information of the infrastructure etc, are probably actually stored in a different, infrastructure-related database, but from a news point of view, that was never mentioned since it is of no importance how many different databases were leaked.
Oh yeah, and it also reveals the names of catholic priests, pedophiles, skull-fuckers, rapists, and community leaders. It reads as if it was a national security issue, whereas TFS holds that it's about names, photos and home addresses.
Fuck you Slashdot editors. You're worthless.
From a military standpoint, this leak IS indeed dangerous, since it basically tells any attacker what and whom (if just 30% of the fighter pilots are killed before any invasion, we're basically a sitting duck), so although I wish you weren't wrong, you are. The TFS has a lot more information than it ought to in its database, or at least, they did not remove top secret information prior to its publishing.
The "funny" thing is that the officials confirm the database was leaked, "but any villain do not have the correct interface, so they cannot read it". Well, is not a problem for any scriptkiddie to google an appropriate extraction tools, don't you think?
So this story is essentially much ado about nothing
So while some 90% of the database is official, it DOES contain secret military information without any marking of that, or at least that wasn't removed prior to publishing the database.
From a military perspective, this is the largest leak since the 1980's, when Russian spy Stig Bergling stole huge amounts of even more dangerous information, which basically forced a complete(!) re-organization of the whole military.
"..the transport agency then emailed the entire database in messages to marketers that subscribe to it."
This sentence makes no sense. What did the marketers subscribe to? The top secret database??!! This must have been quite a large database, I doubt that you can attach and mail it. Who mailed what to whom?
The whole database WAS indeed leaked. In clear text. To former Soviet countries. And also by mail. As decided by a senior official(!).
Most content of the DB is official data under the the freedom of information act (Offentlighetsprincipen), so it does make sense to supply that information to any commercial subscriber, such insurance companies etc., but from a military standpoint, this leak is the most severe leak since 1980's, when russian spy Stig Bergling stole enormous amounts of top secret information.
A government database like containing things like names, street-names, car make and models contains mostly repeating information, very easily compressed to mailable size using zip. The "funny" thing is that the officials confirm the database was leaked, "but any villain do not have the correct interface, so they cannot read it". Well, is not a problem for any scriptkiddie to google an appropriate extraction tools, don't you think? The only exaggeration in the post, is that minors and adults without a drivers license isn't included in the database, which still means that ~75% of the entire population is included.
Later on, I tought myself assembler on the same computer. Then I learnt assembler on the Commodore 64, followed by Pascal, Modula-2 and finally C on the Amiga. As life got on, I learned C++ and Java, and recently I've learnt Python. But I still use C and assembler in my daily work as embedded software designer on ARM Cortex-M and smaller MCU's.
The only time I've tried functional programming was during a class at the Uni. My memory from that class, was that when I finally got a progam through the compiler, it simply worked. No flaws or bugs at all. Of course, a single class doesn't make me qualified to neither promote nor dismiss it. Having said that, I prefer Python for simple PC-based tasks, C (or the non-obscure parts of C++ if the resources permits) for my daily work as embedded designer on ARM Cortex-M and smaller MCU's.
Also, for a couple of years ago, websites were desktop-oriented, making browsing on mobile devices hard if not impossible, which now have turned 180 degrees; "Modern" websites are mobile-optimized, but more or less idiotically designed for desktop use.
A, well.
I guess the pendulum will swing back to a reasonable "good enough" middle-state within a year or two or so ...
Sweden's tried allowing people to retain up to 80% of their income for an indefinite time when unemployed or long-term sick, in reality makeing it cheaper to remain non-working, than to work. Not surprisingly, both unemployment and sick-leave dropped rapidly as the taxes were lowered on work (but not on unemployment or sick-leave benefits), hence giving a better economic incitement to find a suitable job. Basic income - without any requirements - are, to put it simply, poisonous to the welfare of the people!
Before I got myself a computer, I spent a lot of time with my friends', typing in programs from computer magazines. I read a lot of books on computers and programming, and tried to understand their example programs.
Learned assembler on the ZX Spectrum, got fluent in Basic on the C=, learned Modula 2 on Amiga and finally C on Amiga and some Sun workstations. I did take some classes on Pascal programming in high-school, and in the Uni, we were taught Java and C++, but I consider myself self-taught.
An ATM-type machine developed by an ex-employer used to play Silent Night on Christmas Eve by spinning its motors. Unfortunately, that model is no longer in use. :-(
I had a - what probably counts as - preliminary hearing, in a custody battle this morning, Friday 13th. And my daugther didn't loose. Her mother did, though - all of the mother's claims were dismissed, while all of mine were accepted. I just read through my statement (which, BTW, I wrote myself, my laywer just pointed out the important differences between my and my dautgher's mother's statements) to the court, and I (still) conclude the same thing - chance, good luck, or faith, doesn't make a difference. Good preparation does.
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Just buy furniture that can be arranged any configuration. The best seating arrangement is best decided by the individuals. Some people get really bothered if someone can peek over their shoulders, while others couldn't care less. Similarly, some might be very distracted by any movement that is visisble for them in the edge of their line-of-sight, and such people would actually prefer to work faceing directly into a wall. Also, the team might change in the future, with people entering and leaving.
I'm currently working as a developer for a major player in the mobile industry. We're local admins on our windows boxes, but we're switching to Linux now, and are not given the ability to su our own linux boxes. :-(
The reason, is that the swedish law, is a local interpretation of en EU-directive. Thus - assuming that the swedish law is a correct interpretation of the EU-directive, similar acts would be illegal in the complete EU. According to arguments held by the court, anyone in the world is breaking swedish law, independent of their physical location, if they commit a crime on the internet, which is illegal in Sweden. Thus, google can be prosecuted in Sweden. Thus, if the verdict is confirmed in HÃgsta Domstolen, it does mean that google can be prosecuted in Sweden.