I don't want anything privatized. I want them to use the facility they already built. If it is totally unfit for that use, then I want the money raked back from every contractor that we spent it on. Which will never happen. If they start from scratch, they get to spend all that money -again-. And the skimming will go on and on and on. Note: This is a nuclear facility. Lots of security. Which means blacked-out costs and expenditures and a perfect place to hide graft and corruption. Its not like civilian auditors will ever get to see what we spent all that money on the super secure widgets. There is no incentive for anyone to do the right thing! The only incentive is to keep the money flowing so everyone gets paid forever.
the price? I suspect the biggest problem with Yucca is that we are ignoring the lost revenue of building another one. And the guys in charge would really love to be able to steer another bazillion dollars to their favorite contractors. Very generous contractors.
"Home networking is a fairly new area for the IETF." -- this statement does not inspire confidence. The majority of the networks in the world are small NAT based networks. Small businesses based abound a NAT firewall are indistinguishable from these home networks. And now they say they are just getting around to thinking about the vast majority of networks?
maybe if the fiberoptic is a good insulator, it will be less likely to try to carry current to the ground and blow the helicopter and ground station to bits. This would make it safer in areas where there are power lines. It also might make it safer when the weather is not so nice.
The boy has not been convicted yet. So the judge is punishing him in advance of seeing all the evidence and hearing all the testimony. I guess the kid can expect to be convicted based on a biased judge and fiat exclusion of exculpatory evidence. The good news is that the kid is getting a lesson. A lesson on how the system protects functions that are poorly designed and do not work.
All hardware has VPD strings (vital product data) strings that will tell you what you have. Why cant they come up with a simple cheat sheet of default parameters for the hardware. Write some code that walks the bus from CPU out to the last usb dongle and if any gotcha hardware comes up, then its "magic numbers" get added to the boot parameters. If the hardware is trustworthy, fine...no parameters. If not, then it gets the fixes it needs. Are these rules being hard-coded in now? Why edit a file in a million places to turn on something in grub. Add it to one place: the apt repository and then the next update the hardware profile parameters for mobo chip xyz version 6 mod 3 fix 2 get downloaded. If you have that exact thing, then it gets fixed. You could have any number of these and they would not interfere with each other.
The sooner they can get you talking, the sooner you might divulge something they can use. Even if they can't use it, they can ask you the same question again later and if your answer is not exactly the same then your story changed. Once your version can be called into question because you are changing your story (lying), they win.
Turbo Pascal on the IBM PC worked extremely well and was cheap enough for everyone to afford. It was a killer-app all on its own. I don't even remember a C compiler being offered in the early days of the PC. And I don't know why there wasnt one. But all the Microsoft development kit was expensive except for the assembler.
Could you bounce the beam off a satellite and back down to earth targets? Or to air and space targets that are over the horizon? Could you do it with something flying lower, like a mirror mounted on a aircraft?
Where is the glue language that makes a single distributable work on all platforms? As far as Java goes, they should have come up with their own implementation/compiler whatever that does not draw from anything but the syntax of the language. The syntax is open right? And bytecode is not a new idea so they could have rolled their own clean-room bytecode without straining anything.
Either you are defending from an attack or you want to raid the other guy for his resources. Its been true as far back as history goes: from the earliest history the first armies were raiding parties that went to other fields and other lands to "seize the day" and "take their stuff". But modern times have seen a change. No one wants to be seen as empires anymore. So now when we fight a war, the money and lives get stolen from a countries own people. But none of the riches and conquered lands enrich the raiders. They go home empty handed. It doesn't matter to those that arranged and profited from the war: they already got paid. And the people are left holding the tab. Thats why the times you quote actually looked good for Britain and France. They took wealth out of India and Indochina and wherever else they were trying to expand their empires. But in the end, it was short term profit because they could not keep what they took. It made the wealthy class rich for generations. And thats why its good to be King.
If they kill the wrong people, are you going to hold them accountable? Are you personally going to close the doors on their cells? No? Do you know the individuals who are? No? Then exactly how careful do you think they need to be when they have to account to nobody for anything? '
They are firing shells, missiles, burning fuel, and consuming resources including time and attention. Once, shells, missiles strike their target, they are gone for good: burned up. The fuel is burned up. The time is burned up. None of these things can then benefit us or anyone else in the future. If we spend money on tools that we need to make more things in the future, then spending the money may help our economy. But only if the amount of money we can draw from those added resources exceeds what we spent. Every time the US declares war (or fails to declare it), its really a war against its own people. Its an excuse to funnel billions of dollars down a rat-hole that has no oversight, and no end in sight. Can you think of another country just before WW1 and WW2 that was addicted to war? Look what happened to them. Our leaders think they can gamble at any stakes and take all the winnings for themselves. And if they lose, they can parachute out to some haven and leave the people with the crushing debt of their mistakes.
If you need to keep this machine super-secure and only serving a specific kind of data.....then talk to it via a serial port. No network stacks, no "oh that machine was under-utilized, so we added this function", no nuthin. I hated serial back in the day, but if this shit is going to keep happening, then kill it with fire.
Microsoft announces it is closing its doors.... Windows Update Stops...no more updates; virus writers spring into action Windows License Server Stops... no more windows installations can run. You cannot even move your existing "Property" to a new machine. All those zunes probably self-destruct. All 2000 of them. I guess unlocked site-license iso's would crop up to allow people to install the last available version. All those planes, trains, cars, subs, destroyers, etc would have had their last update.
It would be interesting to model the implications as they percolate through society. Kind of like one of those "earth after mankind" movies where the plants and animals take over.
You want geek creds, you need to inspire people. Be the place where parents want to take their kids because they have a chance to learn something besides the best "fatality" moves. Think about offering classes. Have homebrew stuff displayed in-store so people can see what they can build. Embrace the niche.
People are taking an enormous risk purchasing these products. So make the risks seem so high they justs wont do it. 1. They never got what they ordered. 2. They got sugar pills. 3. They got mislabeled pharma that fucked them up. Heart meds, psychotropics 4. They got their card defrauded. 5. It got sent to their next door neighbor 6. They got something instead that was really illegal and they got arrested, lost their job, etc. 7. It was a mega-dose and they had to go to emergency. And then had to explain it.
At the very least, there should be a real report as to what these things are and if they are dangerous.
What are we going to have instead? Besides, Isnt the searching for something to read a lot different in a bookstore? In a bookstore, you can find books you didnt know you wanted and were not expecting to be interested in. And there is no search or cover-art download delay. Are people going to bookstores and then buying an ebook once they have found the book they want? And are they going to ever offer ebooks at ridiculous sale prices like at a bookstore? And how about the Linux mags with the CD? Now you have to download it? I guess the readers probably can do audiobooks. Modern bookstores sell more than just books. What is going to be the replacement? Maybe coffee houses will expand and have bigscreens running blurbs about new books?
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I don't want anything privatized. I want them to use the facility they already built. If it is totally unfit for that use, then I want the money raked back from every contractor that we spent it on. Which will never happen. If they start from scratch, they get to spend all that money -again-. And the skimming will go on and on and on. Note: This is a nuclear facility. Lots of security. Which means blacked-out costs and expenditures and a perfect place to hide graft and corruption. Its not like civilian auditors will ever get to see what we spent all that money on the super secure widgets.
There is no incentive for anyone to do the right thing! The only incentive is to keep the money flowing so everyone gets paid forever.
the price? I suspect the biggest problem with Yucca is that we are ignoring the lost revenue of building another one. And the guys in charge would really love to be able to steer another bazillion dollars to their favorite contractors. Very generous contractors.
Just a guess. :)
"Home networking is a fairly new area for the IETF." -- this statement does not inspire confidence. The majority of the networks in the world are small NAT based networks. Small businesses based abound a NAT firewall are indistinguishable from these home networks. And now they say they are just getting around to thinking about the vast majority of networks?
maybe if the fiberoptic is a good insulator, it will be less likely to try to carry current to the ground and blow the helicopter and ground station to bits. This would make it safer in areas where there are power lines. It also might make it safer when the weather is not so nice.
The boy has not been convicted yet. So the judge is punishing him in advance of seeing all the evidence and hearing all the testimony. I guess the kid can expect to be convicted based on a biased judge and fiat exclusion of exculpatory evidence.
The good news is that the kid is getting a lesson. A lesson on how the system protects functions that are poorly designed and do not work.
All hardware has VPD strings (vital product data) strings that will tell you what you have. Why cant they come up with a simple cheat sheet of default parameters for the hardware. Write some code that walks the bus from CPU out to the last usb dongle and if any gotcha hardware comes up, then its "magic numbers" get added to the boot parameters.
If the hardware is trustworthy, fine...no parameters. If not, then it gets the fixes it needs. Are these rules being hard-coded in now? Why edit a file in a million places to turn on something in grub. Add it to one place: the apt repository and then the next update the hardware profile parameters for mobo chip xyz version 6 mod 3 fix 2 get downloaded. If you have that exact thing, then it gets fixed.
You could have any number of these and they would not interfere with each other.
The sooner they can get you talking, the sooner you might divulge something they can use. Even if they can't use it, they can ask you the same question again later and if your answer is not exactly the same then your story changed. Once your version can be called into question because
you are changing your story (lying), they win.
Turbo Pascal on the IBM PC worked extremely well and was cheap enough for everyone to afford. It was a killer-app all on its own. I don't even remember a C compiler being offered in the early days of the PC. And I don't know why there wasnt one. But all the Microsoft development kit was expensive except for the assembler.
Could you bounce the beam off a satellite and back down to earth targets? Or to air and space targets that are over the horizon? Could you do it with something flying lower, like a mirror mounted on a aircraft?
I thought dalvik converted java to something else, but its another tool that does that.
Where is the glue language that makes a single distributable work on all platforms?
As far as Java goes, they should have come up with their own implementation/compiler whatever that does not draw from anything but the syntax of the language. The syntax is open right? And bytecode is not a new idea so they could have rolled their own clean-room bytecode without straining anything.
Either you are defending from an attack or you want to raid the other guy for his resources. Its been true as far back as history goes: from the earliest history the first armies were raiding parties that went to other fields and other lands to "seize the day" and "take their stuff".
But modern times have seen a change. No one wants to be seen as empires anymore. So now when we fight a war, the money and lives get stolen from a countries own people. But none of the riches and conquered lands enrich the raiders. They go home empty handed. It doesn't matter to those that arranged and profited from the war: they already got paid. And the people are left holding the tab.
Thats why the times you quote actually looked good for Britain and France. They took wealth out of India and Indochina and wherever else they were trying to expand their empires. But in the end, it was short term profit because they could not keep what they took. It made the wealthy class rich for generations. And thats why its good to be King.
Its kind of a funny story actually.....
If they kill the wrong people, are you going to hold them accountable? Are you personally going to close the doors on their cells? No? Do you know the individuals who are? No? Then exactly how careful do you think they need to be when they have to account to nobody for anything?
'
They are firing shells, missiles, burning fuel, and consuming resources including time and attention. Once, shells, missiles strike their target, they are gone for good: burned up. The fuel is burned up. The time is burned up. None of these things can then benefit us or anyone else in the future.
If we spend money on tools that we need to make more things in the future, then spending the money may help our economy. But only if the amount of money we can draw from those added resources exceeds what we spent.
Every time the US declares war (or fails to declare it), its really a war against its own people. Its an excuse to funnel billions of dollars down a rat-hole that has no oversight, and no end in sight. Can you think of another country just before WW1 and WW2 that was addicted to war? Look what happened to them.
Our leaders think they can gamble at any stakes and take all the winnings for themselves. And if they lose, they can parachute out to some haven and leave the people with the crushing debt of their mistakes.
Well played.
Is it stored in a locked file cabinet in the basement in an unused lavatory with a sign on the front "Beware of the Leopard"?
- Hitchhikers Guide
If you need to keep this machine super-secure and only serving a specific kind of data.....then talk to it via a serial port. No network stacks, no "oh that machine was under-utilized, so we added this function", no nuthin. I hated serial back in the day, but if this shit is going to keep happening, then kill it with fire.
I think maybe the xbox kids might storm the state of Washington. It would not be pretty. They're pretty out of shape.
Microsoft announces it is closing its doors....
Windows Update Stops...no more updates; virus writers spring into action
Windows License Server Stops... no more windows installations can run. You cannot even move your existing "Property" to a new machine.
All those zunes probably self-destruct. All 2000 of them.
I guess unlocked site-license iso's would crop up to allow people to install the last available version.
All those planes, trains, cars, subs, destroyers, etc would have had their last update.
It would be interesting to model the implications as they percolate through society. Kind of like one of those "earth after mankind" movies where the plants and animals take over.
You want geek creds, you need to inspire people. Be the place where parents want to take their kids because they have a chance to learn something besides the best "fatality" moves. Think about offering classes. Have homebrew stuff displayed in-store so people can see what they can build. Embrace the niche.
I wasnt thinking about it like that.
People are taking an enormous risk purchasing these products. So make the risks seem so high they justs wont do it.
1. They never got what they ordered.
2. They got sugar pills.
3. They got mislabeled pharma that fucked them up. Heart meds, psychotropics
4. They got their card defrauded.
5. It got sent to their next door neighbor
6. They got something instead that was really illegal and they got arrested, lost their job, etc.
7. It was a mega-dose and they had to go to emergency. And then had to explain it.
At the very least, there should be a real report as to what these things are and if they are dangerous.
What are we going to have instead? Besides, Isnt the searching for something to read a lot different in a bookstore? In a bookstore, you can find books you didnt know you wanted and were not expecting to be interested in. And there is no search or cover-art download delay. Are people going to bookstores and then buying an ebook once they have found the book they want? And are they going to ever offer ebooks at ridiculous sale prices like at a bookstore?
And how about the Linux mags with the CD? Now you have to download it? I guess the readers probably can do audiobooks.
Modern bookstores sell more than just books. What is going to be the replacement? Maybe coffee houses will expand and have bigscreens running blurbs about new books?