I think many of us were thinking exactly the same thing. They can offshore them to the same companies that are taking care of all our banking and credit card systems.
You fail to see the silver lining in the doom and gloom cloud. The incompetent government managers have no one to do their bidding and take the fall when they do what they're told. As for the bought dogs of the gold, oil and drug consortium, you have to clean the dirt from the top, down. Fat chance and good luck. You would have better luck getting these A-wipes to buy into the same health care system that they are ramming down our throats, again, fat chance and good luck.
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." - RAH
We're not going to have Brave New World as long as the war on drugs lives.
Remember who's fighting this war, the DEA (Drugs to be Enforced Agency) Besides, the true power is ATP. When the utility companies figure out a way to meter it, they will have a way to charge you for living.
They have, you see, The People's Party to act in their interest. The vanguard of the fight for the rights of the people. *cough*
That's all well and good, however the People's Party doesn't seem to understand a "day's wages for a day's work". Slave labor is slave labor no matter which ideology is attached. Working the masses literally to death will get you talked about regardless of how big they may be.
It turns out that in business school classes on running defense contractors teach a fairly simple concept:
If your project isn't far enough along to survive cancellation when the power shifts in the white house, you fucked up.
Thus, NASA's problem isn't changing political whims, it's that the Constellation program was so far behind, overbudget, and mismanaged in 2009 that it got canned by the incoming administration.
Business school had alot to do with the financial situation we're in now. Incompetent political administrations since Ronnie the Ray-gun, let the shuttle become what it is. The failure to continue building shuttles beyond the four, then five was and is short-sighted. In the long run, creating more economical and easily modified shuttles makes more sense. The very first concept automobile and all concept vehicles are cost prohibitive. Only the use of mass production lowers the cost as well as making production economical, unless of course you have a bunch of idiots running the shuttle program into the ground like the auto industry did. What kind of bailout would that have been?
The vector is the windows machine that is networked (stupidly)
to older non windows boxen that do the SCADA work.
In theory, an attacker could manipulate the SCADA machines
and cause disruption.
I worked with non-windows SCADA systems. Any windows boxes operated with proprietary software and proprietary communication keys. Without the keys, you have nothing. If any dickwad engineer insisted on windows communications, they deserve exactly what they get and I hope it's a Dell.
Back in the 90's, I talked to the people who were setting this system up between Russia and the US. It was a NASA project using the TDRS satellites. The guys that I talked to had RED passports (diplomatic immunity?).
Black Hat conference canceled one of their talks due to political pressure?
Way slow on the uptake. If the coding and algorithms are known The Chinese will want all new coding sans the back-doors I'm sure have been included.
I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this"
If asked nicely, I'm sure they will. The only people who could intervene are the US government, for the above stated reason. To *not believe* that pawns and pawnage is in motion is truly myopic.
China is buying U.S. debt so that U.S. consumption can fuel their economic growth, placating the populace.
And as soon as the Chinese put the squeeze on us, we bail on the loans just like we did when Japan bought our debt. Will they ever learn? The way the Japanese got back at us stemmed from the fact that they increased quality above and beyond our own capabilities. Fat chance if China can think they could do the same. The mind set is beyond their ken. It will take at least a decade to even get on the same chapter let alone the same page.
They have the engineering capability to build nukes and guided missles, and this seems trivial in comparison.
All N. Korea has to do is underbid the electronics contract through a dummy corporation (location in some first or second world country) and S. Korea is pwnd.
Am I the only one who thought monkey soldiers was a type of military unit? Like shock troops or special forces? It wasn't until I saw the picture that I actually got it, they mean actual monkeys.
i think most countries are guilty of out and out propaganda.
the USA and UK are far more slick than other countries but apply the same Orwellian police state brain washing tactics.
What are you talking about? LeBron James is as noteworthy as any propaganda!
Figures are for the number of people jailed per 100,000 population, for 2007.
There is a more up to date list (7th edition) but I couldn't find a link for it that didn't require a PDF download.
We are free for this one number alone. But don't you worry, the powers that be want to "change" that too.
Reuters
About half the US population is sitting in jail as a result of drug related offenses - due the the war on drugs and 3 strikes policies there.
It's also a big part of the reason why California is going bankrupt.
Why is it that the people most involved with drug trafficking never get caught? These sites may open your eyes if you have the guts to do so.Site 1 Site 2 As to California's problems, do you think that this may have had something to do with it?
Site 3
Of course, as everyone know, Australia is entirely populated by criminals, which may account for the relatively low percentage of us locked up here.
As everyone "knows" America was first made up of religious radicals and status quo malcontents and they were sent west across the Atlantic ocean by the same people who sent criminals to Botany Bay.
Average American Income: $43,762 (US Census Bureau)
Average Chinese Income: $2,025 (WorldBank)
World Bank? Do you mean the IMF? The leader of "ALL" the private banking institutions? The institutions that the bought dogs of the American political system bailed out over the financial scam perpetrated on the American people?
"The other difference is in the US, workers are sold the dream that anyone has an equal chance to make it big if they work hard enough at it, and workers are free to complain long and loud about the system , their bosses, how much the government sucks, etc."
The Chinese workers are situated in a time frame correlated to 1910, prior to the union movement. Boy do the Chi-gov have a wake-up call heading their way.
"In China, they had a revolution that was supposed to make everyone equal"
Tienanmen square proved they are not equal. Government corruption in China has had a running start for centuries, don't expect it to end anytime soon. Forced population control, forced sterilization, a one child per couple policy, just to watch that one child die in an earthquake, in a school building of inferior construction, as well as being too old to have another child has nothing to do with the unrest in China, yeah right.
Why does it matter? Private companies can pay their employees whatever they want to. If they want to pay the CEO $10 million dollars and the regular employees $10/hour, there should be no problems.
1 Chinese yuan = 0.1477 US dollars $10/hr equals to... let me do the math...1 yuan/$0.1477 x $10 = 67.70 yuan/hr. Do you really expect me to believe the average Chinese worker makes 67 yuan per hour? These people would be lucky to make 10 yuan/hr. The Chinese want the market share just like the Japanese. When they have it, be ready for prices to go up rather steeply. The difference will be in quality, the Japanese will strive for it and the Chinese will just sell more crap to more people.
Which works great until $serious_spy_agency splices the fiber somewhere and takes over everything.
Air-gap security is all fine and good against casual hackers, but still leaves you with an awfully gooey center. I don't know why Slashdotters keep advocating it as such a panacea.
Dedicated fiber-optic systems can be setup to detect extended losses of light communication (ie. splicing into a main cable), at which time all communications ceases until integrity is assured. The threshold can be significantly shorter than the time to complete the splice. The splice could take a few minutes to make, compared to the number of operational cycles occurring during that same period (numbering into the millions), threshold parameters set significantly lower should be sufficient as a first line defense.
when I first saw the name of this, "Perfect Citizen", I wondered whether that sounded Orwellian to anyone else.
To paraphrase a quote, "The only Perfect Citizen is a totally subjugated and suppressed citizen". To really secure the infrastructure, a system of up-links and down-links to the TDRS satellites would be more secure. If land-based connectivity is required, then dedicated fiber-optics is a good bet. Just by-pass the internet altogether.
While Japanese are people just like Americans with similar faults, there is one area that lying would be unthinkable: Science.
Unfortunately, saving face is more important. Since Japanese society is communal, embarrassment reflects upon your elders / seniors (ie. family). Anything from cutting off a finger to committing sepuku is acceptable and often obligatory. The Yakuza has existed for centuries, possibly longer than the Sicilian mafia, they make their money however they can. Remember the banking scandal a few years back? Billions lost, people were embarrassed, people died, people came up missing, yet no mention of the Yakuza. This information is no way a definitive source and I am not saying the Yakuza were involved, however it will open your eyes to what really is out there about saving face and how it is dealt with. Project Camelot
No need! Obama has already given NASA a brand new top priority. According to NASA's director, the agency's foremost (his word) objective is now to "reach out to the Muslim world...
And when you do reach out, they will chop off your hand. For a society that keeps its women covered, ignorant, completely devoid of legal and individual rights, no good will come of this. These people are in the 12th century, and have no desire to advance, except to advance intolerant Islam.
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The USA has a bad habit of arresting anyone with the skills and curiosity to perform such tasks.
...and refusing the skilled and desperately needed service of anyone who "likes show tunes".
...or punishing with detention or expulsion from school when they exceed the capabilities of their instructors.
I think many of us were thinking exactly the same thing. They can offshore them to the same companies that are taking care of all our banking and credit card systems.
You fail to see the silver lining in the doom and gloom cloud. The incompetent government managers have no one to do their bidding and take the fall when they do what they're told.
As for the bought dogs of the gold, oil and drug consortium, you have to clean the dirt from the top, down. Fat chance and good luck. You would have better luck getting these A-wipes to buy into the same health care system that they are ramming down our throats, again, fat chance and good luck.
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." - RAH
We're not going to have Brave New World as long as the war on drugs lives.
Remember who's fighting this war, the DEA (Drugs to be Enforced Agency)
Besides, the true power is ATP. When the utility companies figure out a way to meter it, they will have a way to charge you for living.
Sounds like finger-painting to me. Really, really expensive finger-painting.
As for duct/duck/duc/duk tape, would you prefer low chloride HP tape?
They have, you see, The People's Party to act in their interest. The vanguard of the fight for the rights of the people. *cough*
That's all well and good, however the People's Party doesn't seem to understand a "day's wages for a day's work". Slave labor is slave labor no matter which ideology is attached.
Working the masses literally to death will get you talked about regardless of how big they may be.
Oz is going to blast hundreds of thousands of orbiting bit into hundreds of millions of bits?
Then what? Duck tape?
It turns out that in business school classes on running defense contractors teach a fairly simple concept:
If your project isn't far enough along to survive cancellation when the power shifts in the white house, you fucked up.
Thus, NASA's problem isn't changing political whims, it's that the Constellation program was so far behind, overbudget, and mismanaged in 2009 that it got canned by the incoming administration.
Business school had alot to do with the financial situation we're in now. Incompetent political administrations since Ronnie the Ray-gun, let the shuttle become what it is. The failure to continue building shuttles beyond the four, then five was and is short-sighted. In the long run, creating more economical and easily modified shuttles makes more sense.
The very first concept automobile and all concept vehicles are cost prohibitive. Only the use of mass production lowers the cost as well as making production economical, unless of course you have a bunch of idiots running the shuttle program into the ground like the auto industry did. What kind of bailout would that have been?
The vector is the windows machine that is networked (stupidly) to older non windows boxen that do the SCADA work.
In theory, an attacker could manipulate the SCADA machines and cause disruption.
I worked with non-windows SCADA systems. Any windows boxes operated with proprietary software and proprietary communication keys. Without the keys, you have nothing. If any dickwad engineer insisted on windows communications, they deserve exactly what they get and I hope it's a Dell.
Back in the 90's, I talked to the people who were setting this system up between Russia and the US. It was a NASA project using the TDRS satellites. The guys that I talked to had RED passports (diplomatic immunity?).
Black Hat conference canceled one of their talks due to political pressure?
Way slow on the uptake. If the coding and algorithms are known The Chinese will want all new coding sans the back-doors I'm sure have been included.
I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this"
If asked nicely, I'm sure they will. The only people who could intervene are the US government, for the above stated reason. To *not believe* that pawns and pawnage is in motion is truly myopic.
Chinese people want a good life, just like everyone else. China, the government is a friggen evil empire.
Let's give them some union organizers, The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I'm thinking.
Where's your friggen evil empire, now?
China is buying U.S. debt so that U.S. consumption can fuel their economic growth, placating the populace.
And as soon as the Chinese put the squeeze on us, we bail on the loans just like we did when Japan bought our debt. Will they ever learn?
The way the Japanese got back at us stemmed from the fact that they increased quality above and beyond our own capabilities. Fat chance if China can think they could do the same. The mind set is beyond their ken. It will take at least a decade to even get on the same chapter let alone the same page.
I bet there'll be a lot of names like Yin Dao Yan, Qian Lie Xie, Wei Shen Jing, and Ji Ba Mao.
There are so many Wings and Wongs in China, it is very likely to Wing a Wong number.
It had to be said.
We already do.
Ok, ours don't have guns (probably), but they do fly.
Yet!
They have the engineering capability to build nukes and guided missles, and this seems trivial in comparison.
All N. Korea has to do is underbid the electronics contract through a dummy corporation (location in some first or second world country) and S. Korea is pwnd.
The Taliban have a long history of working with Primates.
How do they get them to read the Quran?
Would this be blasphemous to Mohammad?
What would PETA say?
What would Allah say?
Am I the only one who thought monkey soldiers was a type of military unit? Like shock troops or special forces? It wasn't until I saw the picture that I actually got it, they mean actual monkeys.
Monkey drunk robot pirate ninjas?
i think most countries are guilty of out and out propaganda. the USA and UK are far more slick than other countries but apply the same Orwellian police state brain washing tactics.
What are you talking about? LeBron James is as noteworthy as any propaganda!
Figures are for the number of people jailed per 100,000 population, for 2007. There is a more up to date list (7th edition) but I couldn't find a link for it that didn't require a PDF download.
We are free for this one number alone. But don't you worry, the powers that be want to "change" that too. Reuters
About half the US population is sitting in jail as a result of drug related offenses - due the the war on drugs and 3 strikes policies there. It's also a big part of the reason why California is going bankrupt.
Why is it that the people most involved with drug trafficking never get caught?
These sites may open your eyes if you have the guts to do so.Site 1
Site 2
As to California's problems, do you think that this may have had something to do with it? Site 3
Of course, as everyone know, Australia is entirely populated by criminals, which may account for the relatively low percentage of us locked up here.
As everyone "knows" America was first made up of religious radicals and status quo malcontents and they were sent west across the Atlantic ocean by the same people who sent criminals to Botany Bay.
Average American Income: $43,762 (US Census Bureau)
Average Chinese Income: $2,025 (WorldBank)
World Bank? Do you mean the IMF? The leader of "ALL" the private banking institutions? The institutions that the bought dogs of the American political system bailed out over the financial scam perpetrated on the American people?
"The other difference is in the US, workers are sold the dream that anyone has an equal chance to make it big if they work hard enough at it, and workers are free to complain long and loud about the system , their bosses, how much the government sucks, etc."
The Chinese workers are situated in a time frame correlated to 1910, prior to the union movement. Boy do the Chi-gov have a wake-up call heading their way.
"In China, they had a revolution that was supposed to make everyone equal"
Tienanmen square proved they are not equal. Government corruption in China has had a running start for centuries, don't expect it to end anytime soon. Forced population control, forced sterilization, a one child per couple policy, just to watch that one child die in an earthquake, in a school building of inferior construction, as well as being too old to have another child has nothing to do with the unrest in China, yeah right.
Why does it matter? Private companies can pay their employees whatever they want to. If they want to pay the CEO $10 million dollars and the regular employees $10/hour, there should be no problems.
1 Chinese yuan = 0.1477 US dollars /hr. Do you really expect me to believe the average Chinese worker makes 67 yuan per hour? These people would be lucky to make 10 yuan/hr.
$10/hr equals to... let me do the math...1 yuan/$0.1477 x $10 = 67.70 yuan
The Chinese want the market share just like the Japanese. When they have it, be ready for prices to go up rather steeply. The difference will be in quality, the Japanese will strive for it and the Chinese will just sell more crap to more people.
Which works great until $serious_spy_agency splices the fiber somewhere and takes over everything.
Air-gap security is all fine and good against casual hackers, but still leaves you with an awfully gooey center. I don't know why Slashdotters keep advocating it as such a panacea.
Dedicated fiber-optic systems can be setup to detect extended losses of light communication (ie. splicing into a main cable), at which time all communications ceases until integrity is assured. The threshold can be significantly shorter than the time to complete the splice. The splice could take a few minutes to make, compared to the number of operational cycles occurring during that same period (numbering into the millions), threshold parameters set significantly lower should be sufficient as a first line defense.
when I first saw the name of this, "Perfect Citizen", I wondered whether that sounded Orwellian to anyone else.
To paraphrase a quote, "The only Perfect Citizen is a totally subjugated and suppressed citizen".
To really secure the infrastructure, a system of up-links and down-links to the TDRS satellites would be more secure. If land-based connectivity is required, then dedicated fiber-optics is a good bet. Just by-pass the internet altogether.
While Japanese are people just like Americans with similar faults, there is one area that lying would be unthinkable: Science.
Unfortunately, saving face is more important. Since Japanese society is communal, embarrassment reflects upon your elders / seniors (ie. family). Anything from cutting off a finger to committing sepuku is acceptable and often obligatory.
The Yakuza has existed for centuries, possibly longer than the Sicilian mafia, they make their money however they can. Remember the banking scandal a few years back? Billions lost, people were embarrassed, people died, people came up missing, yet no mention of the Yakuza.
This information is no way a definitive source and I am not saying the Yakuza were involved, however it will open your eyes to what really is out there about saving face and how it is dealt with. Project Camelot
No need! Obama has already given NASA a brand new top priority. According to NASA's director, the agency's foremost (his word) objective is now to "reach out to the Muslim world ...
And when you do reach out, they will chop off your hand. For a society that keeps its women covered, ignorant, completely devoid of legal and individual rights, no good will come of this.
These people are in the 12th century, and have no desire to advance, except to advance intolerant Islam.