Either it's really low or really high. If their entire cyber warfare (I hate this word) command is 30 operators, then it becomes pretty simple to make these combatants ineffective during a conflict. In time of peace, you keep them covered with intelligence assets and take them out if the opportunity presents.
This strategy would be much more difficult to execute at 300 or 3000 such specialists. And it's China. You're telling me there are only 30 people in China that meet the PLA's rigorous standards for super hacker?
The primary kill vectors of an air burst nuclear strike are overpressure and initial radiation (there's a specific term for this but I can't recall what it is). While the classic duck and cover drills of the cold war may have been more about calming the public than protecting the masses (or at least that's how we perceive it now) in some instances, duck and cover would be effective. Depending on the distance from the blast something between you and the initial flash and pressure wave would be the difference between life and death--or at least death and survivable injury.
A very cogent argument. What happens when the callcenter workers begin to unionize? As another poster pointed out, the influx of jobs will undoubtedly increase standards of living across Asia. It may take 15 years but Big Blue will be griping about wage costs being too high in Bangalore and start eyeing Africa next...which leads me to an interesting notion: civilization through offshoring. Where missionaries, aid organizations and Bono have failed thus far, will corporationg seeking lower labor costs (ugh, nothing makes me feel better about my job than being considered a cost of doing biz by my employer) succeed?
Internationalization isn't a bad thing; making 10 year olds work in sweat shops is.
I think you're missing the point. There is no test code. Gathered requirements become test cases and the (production) code is built to pass the tests. Peer review within the team working the project prevents crappy code from making the release b/c an Interation Manager enforces coding standards.
Coming out of a "traditional" waterfall style of iterative development it can be a bit dificult to wrap your brain around it, but it does work.
Breaking the mentality of process prevents "real work" is part of getting customer buy in to Agile Methods. To borrow a friend's metaphor, the customer has to drink the kool-aid. Once they believe and understand, Agile Devs working with the customer within the test cases they lay out COOPERATIVELY make it all happen.
Clearly you haven't partaken of the kool-aid...and are in desperate need of a fresh dry-erase marker....and a better PM. If you are the PM...well, there's always waterfall.....
This was the first thing I said to a good friend of mine who is an Agile Progject Manager. Her reply which is utterly graceful in its simplicity: test cases are your documentation. When the code you write gives you the results you expect in testing, you're done. Anybody who later wants to enhance the code (assumably the same group who wrote it the first time but theoretically any Agile dev(s)) should be able to take the test cases, determine what's going on, build NEW test cases based on the expected results for the changes and generate code based on the delta of original functioning test cases and new test cases.
Or as I said before, the test cases are the documentation.
This may seem like pie in the sky and "hardened" devs are sure to line up telling me it never really happens that way. However, I know for a fact that it does. It can (and is) successful when the customer buys in and understands Agile Methods, peer review of code prevents sloppy product and tight iteration control is exercised.
Gabe, this is more directed at you since you've already reproduced but feel free to chime in (as we all know you will) at any time, Tycho. What, if any impact, has becoming a parent had on your work? I don't mean in that, now I have something to live for so I should be responsible crap; save that for VH1's Behind the Music. Are you losing sleep over the fact that when Gabe the Younger hits double digits, realizes his genitalia has more than one use and becomes biologically predisposed towards angst-rideen hate of his parents, he might pull gems from news posts on your own site as proof positive that you're wrong and an asshole to boot? Tycho, you've got it even worse b/c your the one servin' about 70% of the commentary in newsposts. You should just get the big V now man; you're kids are going to have a field day with your archived posts.
Try turning the remote 180 degrees. You'll notice the remote has no lettering on it so that you can read the universal symbols either way.
I had the same thought as you when I opened my ipod the first time. Then I thought about it for a second and reached a solution. Let's hope you're on day one of ipod ownership.
Odd. I've never seen a flash-heavy interface for router admin. That would require quite a bit more flash memory for the onboard webserver wouldn't it? I use a netgear mr814 at home and it allows you to remote admin via http only (sorry, I know you're looking for cmdline via terminal). I haven't seen a consumer router that offers that for some time now. You may end up having to go low end "pro" equipment. In such a case, I'd say check ebay and find a gently used Cisco, Netgear, Foundry, router that does what you require. I'm the kind of belt and suspenders guy that prefers a serial cable and terminal emulation. That's just me though.
If it were any other Congressmen I might chalk it up to one of those laws that says any citizen in the district can submit ideas for legislation that must be discussed and voted on by that legislative body. I think the Mass. State Commons (or whatever they call they state legislative body) has some sort of law like that (please hold all Mass. jokes). I think it a bit unfair of the slashbots to characterize all of Congress as uniformly unknowledgable when it comes to technology or blind to the fact that these two guys have Hollywood hands so deep in their pockets and so far up their asses that they look like some sort of human-sized muppets in a badly starched suits being groped in a Japanese commuter train (try to each your next meal with that image floating around).
Bottom line, with a few notable exceptions (the PATRIOT act and DMCA come to mind) the US Congress is usually a pretty fractious and discerning body that tends to steer away from stupid posturing such as this. It's far more likely these two Hollywood fluffers are up for re-election and want to top off their warchests. If this one doesn't get shot down in committee I'll be amazed.
To the Legislators of the Hand Shaped State: Either get behind technology or start admitting you cash checks from Disney and Viacom. This back and forth shit is just pissing me off. While it's wonderful you've passed an anti-spam law aren't you also the same group of slackjawed retards that passed a law technically making NAT illegal? Hey I've got an idea for your next legislative session! Why don't you investigate the legality of compression technology; there's sure to be a good law in there somewhere....
I've seen this one floating around a bit and nobody's bothered to answer it. The short answser, Apple made it a bit tougher to upgrade the Pismo Powerboooks (And probably the G4s as well if they require a mail-in) by putting the system rom chip on the same daughtercard as the proc. (Check out the ram installer guide of trans intl memory retailers, [transintl.com] for some good pics of the mem daughtercard of a pismo g3 powerboook).
That ROM is one of the ways the OS IDs the system and knows you're installing OS X on a Pismo Powerbook as opposed to a new iBook or a Blue and White G3 tower. So in order to upgrade you have to send them the whole unit (with a charged batt) so they--Powerlogix or NewPowr) can remove the ROM, slap it on the new G4 board, install it and fire the whole assemblage up for a quick spin through your pr0n collection before mailing it back. Thus you have 300 bucks for the total package. That's hardware, bench testing, a quick turn around guarantee and free return delivery. Not too bad for us Pismo owners dying for some Altivec goodness but just not able to swallow purchasing a Powerbook G4 and giving up our far more versatile (and proven durable) Pismo chassis.
I haven't checked out the info on the new G4 upgrades, but if it's just a PCI drop in with new ROM already onboard then it should be a breeze to install for the home user. Disabling the existing proc would be interesting but I'm sure the software included has some kind of OpenFirmware hack to tell your Mac which G4 to use and which one to cook hotdogs on. I'll have to dig around for some pix on the Cube upgrade...those puppies aren't built to be spacious on the inside.
how about a bit of hard science for you. Humans are top of the food chain predators; so we directly or indirectly consume everything beneath us. Toxins build up in the tissues of everything beneath us (proven fact) and accumulate in our food. Hence poisoned shellfish, fish with mercury in the meat, etc. So hurting the environment eventually hurts you too...but the mercury floating around in your skull will, by then, have dulled your wits so much you won't be able to comprehend that reality.
If you can figure out a way to build the perfect storage and guarantee that it will never leak, never corrode, never explode, etc, great have at designing it b/c nobody else can think of a way to do it that's more economically feasible than recycling. Even if you could come up with that simple component, you'd eventually run out of space (a derivative of the Malthusian quandry but with space for garbage instead of space for people).
So you smile all the way to the Hummer dealership knowing that not only is your logic flawed but so is your taste for a vehicle that has little to know civilian use.
I hate to break it to you, but I have nothing to do with Greenpeace; I just have a conscience and sense of self-preservation.
Last time I checked, dumb shit, this was the only ball of mud we have to live on, so it only makes sense to pick up our toys after we've played them out, doesn't it? You're probably one of those assholes who crashes a party, drinks all the good beer and replaces it with shitty beer.
Recycling just makes commmon sense. After you've used resources, either dispose of them in way that doesn't poison the rest of us or turn it into something else. Burying it in the ground is just fucking stupid. Who gives a shit whether it's making a profit or not? The point isn't to make a buck off of recycling. You're trying to keep benzene out of the water and toxic shit out of the air.
As for opting in costs at retail, that makes no sense, you're taxing people for taking care of your pathetic, irresponsible ass! If anything, they should be subsidized for taking care of you!
Mod me down for flaming/trolling if you like; I could give a shit about the karma involved. The satisfaction of gut checking a land tank driving, irresponsible piece of shit is enough for me.
I consider myself a political fence rider--let me just get that out there now. The latimes article at the end of the article just sucked the life out of me. It directly describes the weird discomfort of a way of life ending(?)--certainly changing. 'Figure those people have been there 2500 years. They've adapted to the worst imaginable environment on earth and suddenly within a decade, it's all different! That's just beyond my comprehension.
I think that was the first time I ever read something and thought "Crap, it could all be CO and Methane by the time my unborn kids are old enough to drive." That's some scary shit to think at 22.
These are the kind of environmental articles that get my attention. It's not some steven seagal-like attempt to blame it all on big business nor an impassioned plea to adopt neo-luddite policies. It offers no solution (at least it hadn't when I got to the point I could no longer read it). It just throws out the facts and leaves and unspoken challenge to do something about it.
Who the fuck knows what's going on with our planet, but until we can figure out a way to break free of this solar system, maybe we should be taking better care of the place. Maybe that's just me though and I should be modded down for being a flamebait-throwing, karma seeking troll.
I don't know about you guys, but I've been looking for a geek-friendly method of removing hair from my body and that IGEA thingy that does it one at a time just wasn't cutting it. Now I can just burn it all right off with a big nasty room temp laser. They should probably package it with a warning. Something like, "avoid using this device near mirrors." Can you imagine how stupid you'd feel if you ricocheted your hair burning beam off the bathroom mirror and vaporized your dog in the next room?
And when you weren't burning hair off your body, you could use it to super heat your evil Science Teacher's house so that popcorn exploded out of it everywhere...and you wouldn't even need to hijack the computers on a nearby B-1 bomber!!
Finally, my life can emulate Real Genius!! (thanks Cliff!)
I've been out of college less than a year and I'm on my second Tech Job. Both have been professionally satisfying, but like many others will probably say, management seems to be constantly 10 or more steps behind. I'm too inexperienced to speculate why, but it seems to me that rather than let the specialists take 5 minutes to plan and prepare to tackle whatever the critical error of the moment is, management wants results NOW NOW NOW.
It's like I overheard the other day: do something now and apologize for it later. Even if it was a joke (which it was), I feel it's a rather good way to describe the situation--not only where I work but all over the place in IT. It seems everyone's just a bit crazy to me, but hey, they pay us to play with computers. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
You want yer small case and all the power of your refrigerant cooled full tower monster AND use off the shelf parts AND make your posture better too? Too damn bad. How about a little realism. It's all well and good to talk about optical motherboards and 1U computer platters you could use as a table, but there are solutions out there now for the intelligent DIYer.
All a chassis need really contain is a power supply (let's not relive the Apple G4 Cube) and the main board and 1 drive. Everything else you need to connect can be through firewire, USB or SCSI. Hell with the new Creative Extigy you don't even need a PCI slot for sound. AGP slot for your video. NIC on motherboard. USB on board. Firewire on board (or PCI..whatever floats your boat). SCSI on board. What else do you really need?
Something like the shuttle is entirely possible if you willing to stack a few components when you go out LAN partying or be a bit more creative with your cable runs at home. The last thing we need is another form factor.
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Either it's really low or really high. If their entire cyber warfare (I hate this word) command is 30 operators, then it becomes pretty simple to make these combatants ineffective during a conflict. In time of peace, you keep them covered with intelligence assets and take them out if the opportunity presents.
This strategy would be much more difficult to execute at 300 or 3000 such specialists. And it's China. You're telling me there are only 30 people in China that meet the PLA's rigorous standards for super hacker?
Fuck. That.
The primary kill vectors of an air burst nuclear strike are overpressure and initial radiation (there's a specific term for this but I can't recall what it is). While the classic duck and cover drills of the cold war may have been more about calming the public than protecting the masses (or at least that's how we perceive it now) in some instances, duck and cover would be effective. Depending on the distance from the blast something between you and the initial flash and pressure wave would be the difference between life and death--or at least death and survivable injury.
A very cogent argument. What happens when the callcenter workers begin to unionize? As another poster pointed out, the influx of jobs will undoubtedly increase standards of living across Asia. It may take 15 years but Big Blue will be griping about wage costs being too high in Bangalore and start eyeing Africa next...which leads me to an interesting notion: civilization through offshoring. Where missionaries, aid organizations and Bono have failed thus far, will corporationg seeking lower labor costs (ugh, nothing makes me feel better about my job than being considered a cost of doing biz by my employer) succeed?
Internationalization isn't a bad thing; making 10 year olds work in sweat shops is.
Excellently put and a point I missed!
I think you're missing the point. There is no test code. Gathered requirements become test cases and the (production) code is built to pass the tests. Peer review within the team working the project prevents crappy code from making the release b/c an Interation Manager enforces coding standards.
Coming out of a "traditional" waterfall style of iterative development it can be a bit dificult to wrap your brain around it, but it does work.
Breaking the mentality of process prevents "real work" is part of getting customer buy in to Agile Methods. To borrow a friend's metaphor, the customer has to drink the kool-aid. Once they believe and understand, Agile Devs working with the customer within the test cases they lay out COOPERATIVELY make it all happen.
Clearly you haven't partaken of the kool-aid...and are in desperate need of a fresh dry-erase marker....and a better PM. If you are the PM...well, there's always waterfall.....
This was the first thing I said to a good friend of mine who is an Agile Progject Manager. Her reply which is utterly graceful in its simplicity: test cases are your documentation. When the code you write gives you the results you expect in testing, you're done. Anybody who later wants to enhance the code (assumably the same group who wrote it the first time but theoretically any Agile dev(s)) should be able to take the test cases, determine what's going on, build NEW test cases based on the expected results for the changes and generate code based on the delta of original functioning test cases and new test cases.
Or as I said before, the test cases are the documentation.
This may seem like pie in the sky and "hardened" devs are sure to line up telling me it never really happens that way. However, I know for a fact that it does. It can (and is) successful when the customer buys in and understands Agile Methods, peer review of code prevents sloppy product and tight iteration control is exercised.
Agile types, please feel free to corret me.
Gabe, this is more directed at you since you've already reproduced but feel free to chime in (as we all know you will) at any time, Tycho. What, if any impact, has becoming a parent had on your work? I don't mean in that, now I have something to live for so I should be responsible crap; save that for VH1's Behind the Music. Are you losing sleep over the fact that when Gabe the Younger hits double digits, realizes his genitalia has more than one use and becomes biologically predisposed towards angst-rideen hate of his parents, he might pull gems from news posts on your own site as proof positive that you're wrong and an asshole to boot? Tycho, you've got it even worse b/c your the one servin' about 70% of the commentary in newsposts. You should just get the big V now man; you're kids are going to have a field day with your archived posts.
Try turning the remote 180 degrees. You'll notice the remote has no lettering on it so that you can read the universal symbols either way.
I had the same thought as you when I opened my ipod the first time. Then I thought about it for a second and reached a solution. Let's hope you're on day one of ipod ownership.
Odd. I've never seen a flash-heavy interface for router admin. That would require quite a bit more flash memory for the onboard webserver wouldn't it? I use a netgear mr814 at home and it allows you to remote admin via http only (sorry, I know you're looking for cmdline via terminal). I haven't seen a consumer router that offers that for some time now. You may end up having to go low end "pro" equipment. In such a case, I'd say check ebay and find a gently used Cisco, Netgear, Foundry, router that does what you require. I'm the kind of belt and suspenders guy that prefers a serial cable and terminal emulation. That's just me though.
If it were any other Congressmen I might chalk it up to one of those laws that says any citizen in the district can submit ideas for legislation that must be discussed and voted on by that legislative body. I think the Mass. State Commons (or whatever they call they state legislative body) has some sort of law like that (please hold all Mass. jokes). I think it a bit unfair of the slashbots to characterize all of Congress as uniformly unknowledgable when it comes to technology or blind to the fact that these two guys have Hollywood hands so deep in their pockets and so far up their asses that they look like some sort of human-sized muppets in a badly starched suits being groped in a Japanese commuter train (try to each your next meal with that image floating around).
Bottom line, with a few notable exceptions (the PATRIOT act and DMCA come to mind) the US Congress is usually a pretty fractious and discerning body that tends to steer away from stupid posturing such as this. It's far more likely these two Hollywood fluffers are up for re-election and want to top off their warchests. If this one doesn't get shot down in committee I'll be amazed.
To the Legislators of the Hand Shaped State:
Either get behind technology or start admitting you cash checks from Disney and Viacom. This back and forth shit is just pissing me off. While it's wonderful you've passed an anti-spam law aren't you also the same group of slackjawed retards that passed a law technically making NAT illegal? Hey I've got an idea for your next legislative session! Why don't you investigate the legality of compression technology; there's sure to be a good law in there somewhere....
I've seen this one floating around a bit and nobody's bothered to answer it. The short answser, Apple made it a bit tougher to upgrade the Pismo Powerboooks (And probably the G4s as well if they require a mail-in) by putting the system rom chip on the same daughtercard as the proc. (Check out the ram installer guide of trans intl memory retailers, [transintl.com] for some good pics of the mem daughtercard of a pismo g3 powerboook).
That ROM is one of the ways the OS IDs the system and knows you're installing OS X on a Pismo Powerbook as opposed to a new iBook or a Blue and White G3 tower. So in order to upgrade you have to send them the whole unit (with a charged batt) so they--Powerlogix or NewPowr) can remove the ROM, slap it on the new G4 board, install it and fire the whole assemblage up for a quick spin through your pr0n collection before mailing it back. Thus you have 300 bucks for the total package. That's hardware, bench testing, a quick turn around guarantee and free return delivery. Not too bad for us Pismo owners dying for some Altivec goodness but just not able to swallow purchasing a Powerbook G4 and giving up our far more versatile (and proven durable) Pismo chassis.
I haven't checked out the info on the new G4 upgrades, but if it's just a PCI drop in with new ROM already onboard then it should be a breeze to install for the home user. Disabling the existing proc would be interesting but I'm sure the software included has some kind of OpenFirmware hack to tell your Mac which G4 to use and which one to cook hotdogs on. I'll have to dig around for some pix on the Cube upgrade...those puppies aren't built to be spacious on the inside.
cheers.
If you can figure out a way to build the perfect storage and guarantee that it will never leak, never corrode, never explode, etc, great have at designing it b/c nobody else can think of a way to do it that's more economically feasible than recycling. Even if you could come up with that simple component, you'd eventually run out of space (a derivative of the Malthusian quandry but with space for garbage instead of space for people).
So you smile all the way to the Hummer dealership knowing that not only is your logic flawed but so is your taste for a vehicle that has little to know civilian use.
I hate to break it to you, but I have nothing to do with Greenpeace; I just have a conscience and sense of self-preservation.
Recycling just makes commmon sense. After you've used resources, either dispose of them in way that doesn't poison the rest of us or turn it into something else. Burying it in the ground is just fucking stupid. Who gives a shit whether it's making a profit or not? The point isn't to make a buck off of recycling. You're trying to keep benzene out of the water and toxic shit out of the air.
As for opting in costs at retail, that makes no sense, you're taxing people for taking care of your pathetic, irresponsible ass! If anything, they should be subsidized for taking care of you!
Mod me down for flaming/trolling if you like; I could give a shit about the karma involved. The satisfaction of gut checking a land tank driving, irresponsible piece of shit is enough for me.
I think that was the first time I ever read something and thought "Crap, it could all be CO and Methane by the time my unborn kids are old enough to drive." That's some scary shit to think at 22.
These are the kind of environmental articles that get my attention. It's not some steven seagal-like attempt to blame it all on big business nor an impassioned plea to adopt neo-luddite policies. It offers no solution (at least it hadn't when I got to the point I could no longer read it). It just throws out the facts and leaves and unspoken challenge to do something about it.
Who the fuck knows what's going on with our planet, but until we can figure out a way to break free of this solar system, maybe we should be taking better care of the place. Maybe that's just me though and I should be modded down for being a flamebait-throwing, karma seeking troll.
I just wanted to go on record there.....
And when you weren't burning hair off your body, you could use it to super heat your evil Science Teacher's house so that popcorn exploded out of it everywhere...and you wouldn't even need to hijack the computers on a nearby B-1 bomber!!
Finally, my life can emulate Real Genius!! (thanks Cliff!)
I've been out of college less than a year and I'm on my second Tech Job. Both have been professionally satisfying, but like many others will probably say, management seems to be constantly 10 or more steps behind. I'm too inexperienced to speculate why, but it seems to me that rather than let the specialists take 5 minutes to plan and prepare to tackle whatever the critical error of the moment is, management wants results NOW NOW NOW.
It's like I overheard the other day: do something now and apologize for it later. Even if it was a joke (which it was), I feel it's a rather good way to describe the situation--not only where I work but all over the place in IT. It seems everyone's just a bit crazy to me, but hey, they pay us to play with computers. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Maybe I'm wrong.
You want yer small case and all the power of your refrigerant cooled full tower monster AND use off the shelf parts AND make your posture better too? Too damn bad. How about a little realism. It's all well and good to talk about optical motherboards and 1U computer platters you could use as a table, but there are solutions out there now for the intelligent DIYer.
All a chassis need really contain is a power supply (let's not relive the Apple G4 Cube) and the main board and 1 drive. Everything else you need to connect can be through firewire, USB or SCSI. Hell with the new Creative Extigy you don't even need a PCI slot for sound. AGP slot for your video. NIC on motherboard. USB on board. Firewire on board (or PCI..whatever floats your boat). SCSI on board. What else do you really need?
Something like the shuttle is entirely possible if you willing to stack a few components when you go out LAN partying or be a bit more creative with your cable runs at home. The last thing we need is another form factor.
-flaming commences-