I can't remember where I first heard this, but the quote is along the lines of:
Whenever you hear a reference to "the cloud", replace it with "someone else's computer" and see how much sense it makes
Once you start doing that it shows you how little control you have over such services and how dependent you are on other parties, especially if you consider them as a panacea to not having to keep your own backups (as the OP seems to have done)
Unless you are seated right in the center of the theater (which is only a small part of the total seating) your movie experience will suck big time. I really have no idea why people go to such theaters.
I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
Given how screwed up LAX is (and I know it well) I think that it is more likely that they were trying to balance the load between the US and residents line and the foreigners line.
Can someone explain why websites were taken down during the shutdown? I would have thought that the expenditure needed to keep a site up and running would already have been paid in advance, and that the sites were not so fragile that they could have withstood 2 weeks unattended operation.
I look back with fondness for the times when a program was a set of instructions and declarations written in a programming language, rather than am odd derivative of C++ tied to a billion files in various XML schemas.
Yeah and I remember hand crafting make files in order to build systems from all that carefully written C code.
I mean I really hate myself for clicking on the NuGet package manager that I installed in VS, browsing a huge number of open source solutions and downloading and installing libraries and libraries of useful code with almost a single click. Yeah.. progress sucks
Not only did Canonical update Ubuntu on the same day that Microsoft updated Windows 8, both Microsoft and Canonical waited until after the US government resolved its minor tiff and agreed to pay its bills. Sounds like both Canonical and Microsoft are benefitting from largesse hidden as a rider in some bill.
use LXC (Linux containers) or KVM or OpenVZ instead. Remember, this is the same company that killed solaris, pissed on RHEL, and shit all over the idea of open source recently. Now its trying to turn a buck on an open source product?
None of those solutions run on anything other than a linux based system. So how do you propose I run my VM's on Windows and OSX? And please don't tell me that I can move to Linux.. it ain't going to happen due to all the OS specific software that I am using as a part of my work.
A Theremin is a box with an antenna. You wave your hands and make "space sounds" - the music you heard in all those 1950s science-fiction movies. Ever play one? They are effin' difficult, because you're just waving your hands in the air using your muscle memory as reference points for tones only. Anyone who is good at playing a Theremin is a musical instrument genius.
Um.. did you even watch the video?? They are using phased ultrasonics to create tactile points in space - no muscle memory needed.
Currently around 10 million shipping containers arrive in the USA every year. So how many of these devices do you think you need in order to make an impact? Not only do you have that volume to deal with, but given the throughput at a multi-modal shipping port, you'll need to be scanning a container pretty damn quick in order not to impeded operations.
In addition the gubmint is already behind in scanning all shipping containers for radio-active materials. They are supposed to be checking 100% of inbound containers, but that has been costed in the order of $16 billion (with a pinkie finger, and a B), and there doesn't seem to be money for it.
The article is absolutely correct. But it also fails to take into account that the new jobs are lower paying while inflation decreases the value of the new wages.
This.
I can't remember the source, but recently I saw a graph that showed a timeline of $US minimum wage vs inflation. Up until the the 80's or 90's the minimum wage was keeping track with inflation, but after that it flattened off. So inflation kept on going up, but the minimum wage stayed the same.
If the US minimum wage had kept track with inflation, then it would be around $13/hr or $14/hr right now. Interestingly the Australian minimum wage *is* around $14/hr
why the fuck did you not participate in one of the several regular 'contests' or 'races' for this type of 'boat'? such as http://www.microtransat.org/ ???
First of all.. interesting competition.
Secondly.. from the rules of that competition: No source of propulsion other than wind.
The boat in TFA is electrically driven, so that might (IMHO) disqualify it from the microtransat competition.
The harder part would be hardening the computer/radio, for all radio signals are eventually found, and could likely be pinpointed.
You don't need to harden the computer/radio - all you need is code in computer the goes something like:
Am I near the start or end waypoint? Yes - OK listen for instructions from sources that validate in my cryptographic code, but don't announce my location until instructed to. No - Shut the radio down and run silent
Now lets generate 10 semi random way points and head towards them one by one. Have I reached one of the computed waypoints?
Is it the last computed waypoint?
No - head for the next computed waypoint
Yes - head for the end waypoint.
If the "opposition" knows where the start and end way points are, or know how to defeat your encryption then you have bigger problems that someone hijacking you cargo.
They would need weaponized autonomous vehicles though. Otherwise the other drug runners would steal from them by capturing their autonomous vehicle.
I severely doubt it. Picture a very low profile boat with a camouflage paint job that pics its own random course between the start and finish waypoints. And with enough smarts to know not to broadcast its whereabouts or to accept instructions from random transmitters. They only way you could intercept something like that is to accidentally hit it.
How much cocaine or heroin can you pack into one of these babies? I'm sure after trying their hand with human piloted semi-submersibles the cartels could be interested in autonomous vehicles.
After all if you can keeps the contents dry and keep the supply chain flowing it doesn't matter how long the transit time is.
Probably some bored billionaire playboy who strikes down at the bad science epidemic at night by publishing reproducible results under his secret identity.
Phooey. Hand in your Geek card.
The author can be no other than Mr Walker* Just look for the "Good Mark" on the front of the paper. Old jungle sayings say that he is a dab hand with scientific research
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I can't remember where I first heard this, but the quote is along the lines of:
Whenever you hear a reference to "the cloud", replace it with "someone else's computer" and see how much sense it makes
Once you start doing that it shows you how little control you have over such services and how dependent you are on other parties, especially if you consider them as a panacea to not having to keep your own backups (as the OP seems to have done)
Unless you are seated right in the center of the theater (which is only a small part of the total seating) your movie experience will suck big time. I really have no idea why people go to such theaters.
I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
Given how screwed up LAX is (and I know it well) I think that it is more likely that they were trying to balance the load between the US and residents line and the foreigners line.
And if so, do they provide the parachute????
Can someone explain why websites were taken down during the shutdown? I would have thought that the expenditure needed to keep a site up and running would already have been paid in advance, and that the sites were not so fragile that they could have withstood 2 weeks unattended operation.
Was it a precautionary or political matter?
I look back with fondness for the times when a program was a set of instructions and declarations written in a programming language, rather than am odd derivative of C++ tied to a billion files in various XML schemas.
Yeah and I remember hand crafting make files in order to build systems from all that carefully written C code.
.. progress sucks
I mean I really hate myself for clicking on the NuGet package manager that I installed in VS, browsing a huge number of open source solutions and downloading and installing libraries and libraries of useful code with almost a single click. Yeah
Not only did Canonical update Ubuntu on the same day that Microsoft updated Windows 8, both Microsoft and Canonical waited until after the US government resolved its minor tiff and agreed to pay its bills. Sounds like both Canonical and Microsoft are benefitting from largesse hidden as a rider in some bill.
use LXC (Linux containers) or KVM or OpenVZ instead. Remember, this is the same company that killed solaris, pissed on RHEL, and shit all over the idea of open source recently. Now its trying to turn a buck on an open source product?
None of those solutions run on anything other than a linux based system. So how do you propose I run my VM's on Windows and OSX? And please don't tell me that I can move to Linux .. it ain't going to happen due to all the OS specific software that I am using as a part of my work.
The public has no idea about the level of US spending. They need to know things like Air Conditioning The Military Costs More Than NASA's Entire Budget. Until they understand that NASA does so much for so little they will never want to expand its budget.
George Clooney talking for hours with a woman his age?
Pure Fantasy.
Yeah .. I watch SNL as well
A Theremin is a box with an antenna. You wave your hands and make "space sounds" - the music you heard in all those 1950s science-fiction movies. Ever play one? They are effin' difficult, because you're just waving your hands in the air using your muscle memory as reference points for tones only. Anyone who is good at playing a Theremin is a musical instrument genius.
Um .. did you even watch the video?? They are using phased ultrasonics to create tactile points in space - no muscle memory needed.
Currently around 10 million shipping containers arrive in the USA every year. So how many of these devices do you think you need in order to make an impact? Not only do you have that volume to deal with, but given the throughput at a multi-modal shipping port, you'll need to be scanning a container pretty damn quick in order not to impeded operations.
In addition the gubmint is already behind in scanning all shipping containers for radio-active materials. They are supposed to be checking 100% of inbound containers, but that has been costed in the order of $16 billion (with a pinkie finger, and a B), and there doesn't seem to be money for it.
Port security: U.S. fails to meet deadline for scanning of cargo containers
After rounding, there's roughly zero information about this in the linked "article."
Maybe you should apply a different rounding algorithm then?
Why do you think that your opinion trumps that of Regents University law professor James Duane?
Please either cite your relevant legal qualifications, or prefix your opinions with IANAL.
Oh yeah .. TL;ORTFS (Too long; only read TFS)
The article is absolutely correct. But it also fails to take into account that the new jobs are lower paying while inflation decreases the value of the new wages.
This.
I can't remember the source, but recently I saw a graph that showed a timeline of $US minimum wage vs inflation. Up until the the 80's or 90's the minimum wage was keeping track with inflation, but after that it flattened off. So inflation kept on going up, but the minimum wage stayed the same.
If the US minimum wage had kept track with inflation, then it would be around $13/hr or $14/hr right now. Interestingly the Australian minimum wage *is* around $14/hr
Who is in it now?
dice ruins slashdot
Here's the Space-X price list. Pricing is about half of other launchers.
Given that I don't have a few hundred million to drop on some satellite projects, I'm more interested in Space-X careers
And you have gotta love a company that advertises a position as:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (BORG)
why the fuck did you not participate in one of the several regular 'contests' or 'races' for this type of 'boat'? such as http://www.microtransat.org/ ???
First of all .. interesting competition.
.. from the rules of that competition: No source of propulsion other than wind.
Secondly
The boat in TFA is electrically driven, so that might (IMHO) disqualify it from the microtransat competition.
The harder part would be hardening the computer/radio, for all radio signals are eventually found, and could likely be pinpointed.
You don't need to harden the computer/radio - all you need is code in computer the goes something like:
Am I near the start or end waypoint?
Yes - OK listen for instructions from sources that validate in my cryptographic code, but don't announce my location until instructed to.
No - Shut the radio down and run silent
Now lets generate 10 semi random way points and head towards them one by one.
Have I reached one of the computed waypoints?
Is it the last computed waypoint?
No - head for the next computed waypoint
Yes - head for the end waypoint.
If the "opposition" knows where the start and end way points are, or know how to defeat your encryption then you have bigger problems that someone hijacking you cargo.
They would need weaponized autonomous vehicles though. Otherwise the other drug runners would steal from them by capturing their autonomous vehicle.
I severely doubt it. Picture a very low profile boat with a camouflage paint job that pics its own random course between the start and finish waypoints. And with enough smarts to know not to broadcast its whereabouts or to accept instructions from random transmitters. They only way you could intercept something like that is to accidentally hit it.
Somebody is WAAAAY too easily impressed. It's a cool achievment? But historic?!?!?!
Its got "an Arduino, of course!" (*) in it .. surely that by itself is enough to make the history books?
.. including the exclamation mark.
* Direct quote from TFA
How much cocaine or heroin can you pack into one of these babies? I'm sure after trying their hand with human piloted semi-submersibles the cartels could be interested in autonomous vehicles.
After all if you can keeps the contents dry and keep the supply chain flowing it doesn't matter how long the transit time is.
Where are some examples of these offending comments? With no context this list of languages is meaningless.
Probably some bored billionaire playboy who strikes down at the bad science epidemic at night by publishing reproducible results under his secret identity.
Phooey. Hand in your Geek card.
The author can be no other than Mr Walker* Just look for the "Good Mark" on the front of the paper. Old jungle sayings say that he is a dab hand with scientific research
* The Ghost Who walks