This desperation to lure fresh victims into tech doesn't really square with the MANY online complaints about the shittiness of many tech job situations.
Men trying to lure women into tech just want to change the workplace "scenery" and should admit it.
" Those who created and programmed Stuxnet needed to know the exact amount of pressure or torque needed to damage aluminum rotors within them, sabotaging the country's uranium enrichment operation."
Mechanic with machinist training here. That's no big deal. Overloading a system by running it as hard as the drive motors allow will often break it as many machines aren't built with protective mechanical safeties such as simple wasp-waist shear points on driveshafts, shear pins, or mechanical governors.
It's easier to control machinery electrically and when a targeted operator doesn't expect malicious control operation they aren't likely to have designed with it in mind.
"what about if a car came along that didn't have wheels?"
They have. It's called a "hovercraft" and proponents saw them as the wave of the future. They are inefficient, lack positive steering or braking (good luck stopping one on a downgrade) and remain in the niche markets they suit.
If a future wheel-free car is offered, I won't need to "try" it to determine if it suits my requirements. I can infer that from what I see it do.
SAC was famous for tight discipline and esprit de corps. When TAC ate SAC, many SAC folks we'd inherited predicted slack standards and the end of the highly disciplined SAC culture. Years of fuckups proved their point.
Some jobs require performance of a very high standard. Go old-school and crush the cheaters in an exemplary manner. Do what Curtis LeMay would do to shitbags and replace the lot.
Quite right! Snowplows do get chewed up in the North, but they'd survive just fine in the South and last many, many years. Plow mounts could be swapped easily as generations of trucks are replaced. Both dump and garbage trucks already have hydraulic power takeoff systems so adding plows is is but mounting and plumbing. The bed modification shown in your pic is easy to retrofit at a cost of a few hundred dollars per truck, and easy to repair if it gets bashed. Local fab shops and possibly the DOT shops could spit them out easily. Spreaders can be purchased and fitted with quick-attach mounts. If it were my tasking I'd set aside warehouse space and have plows spreaders palletized on steel frames with forklift pockets for easy handling and maintenance. One or two forklifts could feed the gear to a line of trucks staged outdoors. Lift the gear, attach the gear to the truck, move to the next truck while hydraulic hookups and functional checks proceed. That's faster than storing them on the ground outdoors and would involve less wresting to connect if done right. When operations are complete, reverse the process, pressure wash and lube the gear on the pallets, then fork them back into the warehouse for the next adventure. Have each device carry a set of printed maintenance forms in an attached container as is done with military ground support equipment to facilitate easy review and entry of discrepancies. No need to invent a new system as the military has done it this way for decades and it works well.
Local forecasters don't forecast nor do they own their own weather satellites. Anyone using anything but the National Weather Service for weather information is a fool consuming altered data proffered with the intent to draw eyeballs to adverts. I do on my home PC exactly what they did in Ops facilities when I was in the Air Force. They had the appropriate NOAA page refreshing on one monitor for local reference. Of course mission data was provided by the USAF weather folks but that's a considerable additional level of detail ground users don't need.
" that's when you incorrectly shut-down most linux distro's you'll actually destroy your OS"
Citation needed or take your FUD elsewhere. I've been using a variety of distros since 1999 and have had FAR more problems with Windows when power is interrupted.
Incidentally, rescuing Linux with the live media I install it with in the first place is very convenient, though most rescues I use Linux to perform are on Windows machines.
The industrial model on which Detroit was based is obsolete, there is no reason to spend vast sums to remove obsolete infrastructure when greenfield locations in States with better climates are cheap, and the geographic advantages Detroit had many decades ago are gone. It is perfectly reasonable to shrink Detroit, demolish obsolete housing stock and bury onsite, then leave unsupportable areas unsupported.
I had an outstanding science teacher who resisted nonsensical, counter-productive standardised testing in Rutherford, NJ, and had the statistics to back up his contention. He could have caved in to the educrats and sold out his students, but he had the exemplary integrity to fight instead at considerable personal and social cost.
The school board tried to throw him under the proverbial bus, but he sued and eventually won. Without strong teacher representation he'd have been fired and many kids would have lost out both to the testing regime and by missing a stellar teacher.
There is FAR more to union protection of teachers than featherbedding.
The people to blame for many school problems and whose effect is largely ignored in the current debate are school administrations.
Here's a classic written by a (now retired) terrific science teacher who fought the Rutherford, NJ, administration over how they tested students and won in court after a protracted struggle. Steve Masone greatly inspired many of his students, self included. He had the guts to take on a pretty toxic administration when he could have just coasted and sacrificed his students instead.
Jet fuel is of course more abundant than plain kero, but it's also much more expensive due to additives and purity levels required for use as aviation fuel.
Folks who have access to free JP-8 drained from aircraft undergoing maintenance often run it in their diesel trucks as it's compatible with diesel engines.
Being an Old Fuck I recall when I became interested in even older tech. Folks who dig that are a self-selected group and always were.
Most people are drones who do the minimum, resist learning more than the minimum, and that's never been different.
What has changed in a wonderful way is the AVAILABILITY of information on technology old and new on the internet.Want to teach the interested about a particular technology? Make an engaging, informative Youtube video. There are many such covering old tech such as blacksmithing.
Leave out music (no one else want to hear distracting shit) and leave out the narrators face which conveys no useful information and is only ever included out of vanity. Add links to online sources interested viewers can use if their interest is piqued.
A talented fellow like Snowden should be able to lead a decent life in Russia. Why return to a nation owned by corporate globalist mafiosi who hate you? (Apologies to real mafiosi who haven't killed nearly as many people.)
Russian Slashdotters feel free to weigh in on wether Russia is the hell portrayed in the US media, or something different.
Too bad they were retired after Desert Storm (losing helicopters is apparently fine but woe betide we lose a couple of far less expensive fixed wing birds!). They are still flying elsewhere because Broncos are designed to be easy to repair and maintain. I enjoyed working on them.
If you've seen the drama "Lone Survivor", the SEALs lost comm because they didn't have a long loitering (thirsty helos don't loiter well) radio relay FAC aircraft orbiting above them and "leadership" relied on unreliable comms instead. Marcus Luttrel was eventually found with the help of his rescue beacon, but that was a day late and a dollar short for his dead buddies.
Ignored today is the solution perfected during the Viet Nam war. A Bronco could loiter, carried rockets and machine guns (and could be fitted with Sidewinders to kill enemy helos etc) and had (2 FM connected to allow automatic relay, 1 VHF AM, 1 UHF, and 1 HF for long distance) and ample radio suite. Its predecessor the O-2 Skymaster (seen in the movie about another operational disaster, Bat 21) was primitive but still effective in that role.
I can choose to have prescription lenses attached to the viewfinder of my video camera in order to "enhance my vision" which is in effect the same thing as fitting them to a Google Glass unit.
That a theater customer wear a pair of passive spectacles is not an unreasonable expectation.
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This desperation to lure fresh victims into tech doesn't really square with the MANY online complaints about the shittiness of many tech job situations.
Men trying to lure women into tech just want to change the workplace "scenery" and should admit it.
" Those who created and programmed Stuxnet needed to know the exact amount of pressure or torque needed to damage aluminum rotors within them, sabotaging the country's uranium enrichment operation."
Mechanic with machinist training here. That's no big deal. Overloading a system by running it as hard as the drive motors allow will often break it as many machines aren't built with protective mechanical safeties such as simple wasp-waist shear points on driveshafts, shear pins, or mechanical governors.
It's easier to control machinery electrically and when a targeted operator doesn't expect malicious control operation they aren't likely to have designed with it in mind.
"what about if a car came along that didn't have wheels?"
They have. It's called a "hovercraft" and proponents saw them as the wave of the future.
They are inefficient, lack positive steering or braking (good luck stopping one on a downgrade) and remain in the niche markets they suit.
If a future wheel-free car is offered, I won't need to "try" it to determine if it suits my requirements. I can infer that from what I see it do.
While encryption is desirable, hard disks, all of them, are trivially cheap compared to loss of classified into.
When in doubt, shred.
OP is right. Airliner environmental control systems move literally tons of air.
...tell them whatever lie will serve me.
They just forfeited any claim to my respect and are now prey.
Nursing schools are a good example, as there is a surplus of nurses in many area due to older nurses staying in the job market.
Commercial shools exist to fill classes and make money, any other outcomes are secondary.
SAC was famous for tight discipline and esprit de corps. When TAC ate SAC, many SAC folks we'd inherited predicted slack standards and the end of the highly disciplined SAC culture. Years of fuckups proved their point.
Some jobs require performance of a very high standard. Go old-school and crush the cheaters in an exemplary manner. Do what Curtis LeMay would do to shitbags and replace the lot.
Quite right!
Snowplows do get chewed up in the North, but they'd survive just fine in the South and last many, many years.
Plow mounts could be swapped easily as generations of trucks are replaced. Both dump and garbage trucks already have hydraulic power takeoff systems so adding plows is is but mounting and plumbing.
The bed modification shown in your pic is easy to retrofit at a cost of a few hundred dollars per truck, and easy to repair if it gets bashed. Local fab shops and possibly the DOT shops could spit them out easily.
Spreaders can be purchased and fitted with quick-attach mounts.
If it were my tasking I'd set aside warehouse space and have plows spreaders palletized on steel frames with forklift pockets for easy handling and maintenance. One or two forklifts could feed the gear to a line of trucks staged outdoors. Lift the gear, attach the gear to the truck, move to the next truck while hydraulic hookups and functional checks proceed. That's faster than storing them on the ground outdoors and would involve less wresting to connect if done right.
When operations are complete, reverse the process, pressure wash and lube the gear on the pallets, then fork them back into the warehouse for the next adventure.
Have each device carry a set of printed maintenance forms in an attached container as is done with military ground support equipment to facilitate easy review and entry of discrepancies. No need to invent a new system as the military has done it this way for decades and it works well.
Local forecasters don't forecast nor do they own their own weather satellites.
Anyone using anything but the National Weather Service for weather information is a fool consuming altered data proffered with the intent to draw eyeballs to adverts.
I do on my home PC exactly what they did in Ops facilities when I was in the Air Force. They had the appropriate NOAA page refreshing on one monitor for local reference.
Of course mission data was provided by the USAF weather folks but that's a considerable additional level of detail ground users don't need.
" that's when you incorrectly shut-down most linux distro's you'll actually destroy your OS"
Citation needed or take your FUD elsewhere. I've been using a variety of distros since 1999 and have had FAR more problems with Windows when power is interrupted.
Incidentally, rescuing Linux with the live media I install it with in the first place is very convenient, though most rescues I use Linux to perform are on Windows machines.
"Admit it, the first thing we're all going to print is genitalia."
And what glorious genitalia they will be. especially if the designs are crowdsourced on 4chan.
Our system is effortlessly able to discreetly process the people killed by conventional pollution.
Nuclear accidents are disruptive. Dispersed death isn't even interesting.
Dicedot page hits.
Add-on wireless print servers could be a fix for some, as could a slow subnet done by hanging a slow router off the fast router.
People with a desire for speed will Ebay a lot of their old gear or Craigslist it, so those who like legacy systems can do as always and stock up.
The industrial model on which Detroit was based is obsolete, there is no reason to spend vast sums to remove obsolete infrastructure when greenfield locations in States with better climates are cheap, and the geographic advantages Detroit had many decades ago are gone.
It is perfectly reasonable to shrink Detroit, demolish obsolete housing stock and bury onsite, then leave unsupportable areas unsupported.
It was and still is.
I had an outstanding science teacher who resisted nonsensical, counter-productive standardised testing in Rutherford, NJ, and had the statistics to back up his contention. He could have caved in to the educrats and sold out his students, but he had the exemplary integrity to fight instead at considerable personal and social cost.
The school board tried to throw him under the proverbial bus, but he sued and eventually won. Without strong teacher representation he'd have been fired and many kids would have lost out both to the testing regime and by missing a stellar teacher.
http://www.nea.org/home/41892....
There is FAR more to union protection of teachers than featherbedding.
The people to blame for many school problems and whose effect is largely ignored in the current debate are school administrations.
Here's a classic written by a (now retired) terrific science teacher who fought the Rutherford, NJ, administration over how they tested students and won in court after a protracted struggle. Steve Masone greatly inspired many of his students, self included. He had the guts to take on a pretty toxic administration when he could have just coasted and sacrificed his students instead.
http://www.hammerofchalk.com/
The administrators concerned retired comfortably without consequences to their careers.
Programming is broadening in the way mathematics is broadening.
Substitution is hardly "dumbing down" and it's wise to offer the choice early on. If anything schools should cater more to the technically inclined.
Jet fuel is of course more abundant than plain kero, but it's also much more expensive due to additives and purity levels required for use as aviation fuel.
Folks who have access to free JP-8 drained from aircraft undergoing maintenance often run it in their diesel trucks as it's compatible with diesel engines.
Being an Old Fuck I recall when I became interested in even older tech. Folks who dig that are a self-selected group and always were.
Most people are drones who do the minimum, resist learning more than the minimum, and that's never been different.
What has changed in a wonderful way is the AVAILABILITY of information on technology old and new on the internet.Want to teach the interested about a particular technology? Make an engaging, informative Youtube video. There are many such covering old tech such as blacksmithing.
Leave out music (no one else want to hear distracting shit) and leave out the narrators face which conveys no useful information and is only ever included out of vanity. Add links to online sources interested viewers can use if their interest is piqued.
A talented fellow like Snowden should be able to lead a decent life in Russia. Why return to a nation owned by corporate globalist mafiosi who hate you? (Apologies to real mafiosi who haven't killed nearly as many people.)
Russian Slashdotters feel free to weigh in on wether Russia is the hell portrayed in the US media, or something different.
Great Bronco history read aviation geeks will enjoy.
http://www.volanteaircraft.com...
Too bad they were retired after Desert Storm (losing helicopters is apparently fine but woe betide we lose a couple of far less expensive fixed wing birds!). They are still flying elsewhere because Broncos are designed to be easy to repair and maintain. I enjoyed working on them.
If you've seen the drama "Lone Survivor", the SEALs lost comm because they didn't have a long loitering (thirsty helos don't loiter well) radio relay FAC aircraft orbiting above them and "leadership" relied on unreliable comms instead. Marcus Luttrel was eventually found with the help of his rescue beacon, but that was a day late and a dollar short for his dead buddies.
Ignored today is the solution perfected during the Viet Nam war. A Bronco could loiter, carried rockets and machine guns (and could be fitted with Sidewinders to kill enemy helos etc) and had (2 FM connected to allow automatic relay, 1 VHF AM, 1 UHF, and 1 HF for long distance) and ample radio suite. Its predecessor the O-2 Skymaster (seen in the movie about another operational disaster, Bat 21) was primitive but still effective in that role.
They don't care because Dicedot makes money, and it's not as if standards matter any more since it ceased being a tech site.
I can choose to have prescription lenses attached to the viewfinder of my video camera in order to "enhance my vision" which is in effect the same thing as fitting them to a Google Glass unit.
That a theater customer wear a pair of passive spectacles is not an unreasonable expectation.