Simply fit a barier around the robot work area so that any human trying to access it must first open a gate - once that gate is opened the power to that device is locked out so the maintenance guy can't take any short cuts etc...
Industrial accidents have been around since man first picked up a piece of flint to shape another piece and cut his thumb off;)
I would suspect that you are right with regards to the source of the funding but MIT rather than discouraging this sort of thing actually encourages it and depending on their course I would guess alot of what they have done and the lessons they've learnt from such a project will stand them in good stead.
I'd rather employee people like these two who can demonstrate not only do they have their bits of paperwork (assuming they pass) but the ability to actually use their knowledge. Too many grads I've seen in industry have nice fancy degrees but sweet FA practical experience and even less ability to apply their knowledge to the real world away from the ivory towers.
Pure speculation but why not a core os which handles the basics of resource management and then via a set of services which can be extended provides 'features' such as on demand clustering using google's networks - for each use of the clustering service charge a small fee.
Or for home/basic users a simple os which provides access to a basic but fully functional gui which then uses web based apps to provide anything more complex than a basic browser... have some offline syncing software and readers (I tend to find I need to read stuff more offline than actually do any extensive editing of documents etc).
Just had a quick ping to the beeb... via a wireless hop onto my ethernet network, two hops to my adsl router, then 6 hops around Nildram's network (ATM into their network then god knows, probably some form of gigabit ethernet) and a couple more hops to the bbc.
Average latency is around 20ms.
Now I know this isn't as plain as straight ethernet but I'd have guessed the latency if anything on ATM + the change from 802.11g to ethernet to atm to ethernet to whatever would have been worse.
So either someone is using cheep hardware or has misconfigured their network.
Apart from that if I was running a cluster each machine would probably have two NIC's depending on their use - one using gigabit ethernet to provide the internal network between nodes on the cluster and the other for external use. The external network would be as normal, the internal network I'd ensure had minimal routers/switches between the nodes and any switches/routers where a) good quality and b) correctly configured.
The other reason for the attack being a Word only is down to the number of copies of Word which are used day to day compared to the alternatives. As Star Office/Open Office etc become more popular the number of attacks will increase.
The same thing is true for Firfox, the browser with the biggest market penetration is the one which will suffer the attacks.
Hm, walking to work carries a number of risks, drinking beer ditto, flying on a normal plane ditto.
You can never avoid risks and when you consider the extreme conditions which the shuttle is designed for the risks, when put into perspective, are there but they are manageable.
I have a suspicion that the cost will be free for internet download and a few dollars/euros/pounds/whatever for a CD with cost dependant on where you live etc.
Yes there is something wrong with that idea. A military funeral in addition to being for the family is also a chance for the military to pay its last respects to a fallen comerade and to honour that person for giving their life in the service of their country. It is not that a civilian musician couldn't do the job it is that the military would view it as being slightly disrespectful to a fallen comerade.
I was taking liberties with the out of the box - I take it out of the box, do stuff to it and stuff it back in the box (which to get the kit in tidly usually takes me more work than configuring the ****er in first place).
Preconfigured by me prior to shipping out to end user.
I also attach an nmap report (I use a dial up link on another line to come back in - both accounts have no blocking by my ISP and they're aware that account 1 is used to scan account 2) showing what's open in both directions...
Now if only more people got their kit from people who set the dammed thing up to be secure from the word go then we'd be seeing slightly less problems;)
I've supplied firewall/routers (SOHO type) to people preconfigured to only allow the usual suspects out and deny all other packets. (Out tends to be web,mail,ftp and whatever else is requested, everything inbound is blocked as standard and some can be opened). I also put full instructions (with screenshot examples) to open up other protocols and a copy of the custom config file on CD together with the router...
Hm, the original quote about the spike wasn't from a driving instructor... instead it was Lawerance of Arabia instead;)
Anyway, first time I drove a car with ABS and needed to stop in a hurry I nearly piled it as I was so used to manually stopping the brakes from locking I didn't think about the fact that that just confuses the ABS...
ARM and Intel are operating in very different market areas these days (sad actually as ARM processors fly). ARM are targetting the embedded and PDA type market (Alot Pocket PC's use StrongARM) and given all their embedded processors stuck in cars, washing machines etc I'd imagine in their target market space they've got more than 50% market share.
Can people please remember the computer industry does not start and stop with the latest bit of kit for playing DOOM3 or surfing the ruddy internet....
Don't quite get the fuss over Windows Vista. I'm strangely under the misaprehension that the killer package on my PC should be the app's I use day in day out and not the OS. The OS's role in life is to provide resource manangement and hardware abstraction for applications running on the box. A GUI, while a nice to have, should not be an essential requirement of an OS and should ideally be a minimal setup which enables the user to easily carry out tasks in a graphical environment without getting in the way. Hence my lack of love for XP, KDE, GNOME when used with all the trimmings.
Everytime the OS forces a hardware upgrade on people we're moving away from app's driving user computational requirements to being driven by the thing which is just supposed to manage all the bits of a PC - not mint money for the hardware manufactures.
There is a world of difference between the technical file size limit (ie based on the bit size) and the actually maximum anyone has used... 1.6 petabytes while being well short of the theoretical limits of a 64bit address system is still an impressive feat...
But as most PC's are only supplied bundled with Windows and MS's VLK schemes for universities etc aren't as expensive as some make out then I'd imagine not alot.
Now if you can get rid of the MS Tax on new PC's then the balance would be restored.
45% of Americans say it's simply too expensive. 30% say that they just don't want it. 14% say they feel dial-up is adequate for their needs. Less than 10% are not able to get broadband access in their area. Five percent insist broadband is "too complicated". Another 5% aren't even sure why they don't have it..."
Hm....
45% to expensive
30% don't want it
14% find dialup adequate
05% too complicated
05% unsure
Doesn't that equal 99%? In which case shouldn't the 10% be 1% (which in turn means 1% have broadband) - either that or the survey has redefined 100% to be 110%...
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Good news on the surface but until it is confirmed the original writers have signed up I won't be keeping too many expectations of the new series.
The actors can be replaced, the writing team can not - not if you want to keep the same style of humour.
Assuming that the launch doesn't fail... hard to get to the ISS while bits of your craft are disintegrating around you.
Simply fit a barier around the robot work area so that any human trying to access it must first open a gate - once that gate is opened the power to that device is locked out so the maintenance guy can't take any short cuts etc...
;)
Industrial accidents have been around since man first picked up a piece of flint to shape another piece and cut his thumb off
I would suspect that you are right with regards to the source of the funding but MIT rather than discouraging this sort of thing actually encourages it and depending on their course I would guess alot of what they have done and the lessons they've learnt from such a project will stand them in good stead.
I'd rather employee people like these two who can demonstrate not only do they have their bits of paperwork (assuming they pass) but the ability to actually use their knowledge. Too many grads I've seen in industry have nice fancy degrees but sweet FA practical experience and even less ability to apply their knowledge to the real world away from the ivory towers.
Pure speculation but why not a core os which handles the basics of resource management and then via a set of services which can be extended provides 'features' such as on demand clustering using google's networks - for each use of the clustering service charge a small fee.
Or for home/basic users a simple os which provides access to a basic but fully functional gui which then uses web based apps to provide anything more complex than a basic browser... have some offline syncing software and readers (I tend to find I need to read stuff more offline than actually do any extensive editing of documents etc).
Just had a quick ping to the beeb... via a wireless hop onto my ethernet network, two hops to my adsl router, then 6 hops around Nildram's network (ATM into their network then god knows, probably some form of gigabit ethernet) and a couple more hops to the bbc.
Average latency is around 20ms.
Now I know this isn't as plain as straight ethernet but I'd have guessed the latency if anything on ATM + the change from 802.11g to ethernet to atm to ethernet to whatever would have been worse.
So either someone is using cheep hardware or has misconfigured their network.
Apart from that if I was running a cluster each machine would probably have two NIC's depending on their use - one using gigabit ethernet to provide the internal network between nodes on the cluster and the other for external use. The external network would be as normal, the internal network I'd ensure had minimal routers/switches between the nodes and any switches/routers where a) good quality and b) correctly configured.
The other reason for the attack being a Word only is down to the number of copies of Word which are used day to day compared to the alternatives. As Star Office/Open Office etc become more popular the number of attacks will increase.
The same thing is true for Firfox, the browser with the biggest market penetration is the one which will suffer the attacks.
Hm, walking to work carries a number of risks, drinking beer ditto, flying on a normal plane ditto.
You can never avoid risks and when you consider the extreme conditions which the shuttle is designed for the risks, when put into perspective, are there but they are manageable.
I have a suspicion that the cost will be free for internet download and a few dollars/euros/pounds/whatever for a CD with cost dependant on where you live etc.
So what if I want to rip my iPod to bits and do the battery replacement myself? Will the store just accept the dead bit?
Yes there is something wrong with that idea. A military funeral in addition to being for the family is also a chance for the military to pay its last respects to a fallen comerade and to honour that person for giving their life in the service of their country. It is not that a civilian musician couldn't do the job it is that the military would view it as being slightly disrespectful to a fallen comerade.
I was taking liberties with the out of the box - I take it out of the box, do stuff to it and stuff it back in the box (which to get the kit in tidly usually takes me more work than configuring the ****er in first place).
Preconfigured by me prior to shipping out to end user.
;)
I also attach an nmap report (I use a dial up link on another line to come back in - both accounts have no blocking by my ISP and they're aware that account 1 is used to scan account 2) showing what's open in both directions...
Now if only more people got their kit from people who set the dammed thing up to be secure from the word go then we'd be seeing slightly less problems
Nope. Wrong.
I've supplied firewall/routers (SOHO type) to people preconfigured to only allow the usual suspects out and deny all other packets. (Out tends to be web,mail,ftp and whatever else is requested, everything inbound is blocked as standard and some can be opened). I also put full instructions (with screenshot examples) to open up other protocols and a copy of the custom config file on CD together with the router...
Hm, the original quote about the spike wasn't from a driving instructor... instead it was Lawerance of Arabia instead ;)
Anyway, first time I drove a car with ABS and needed to stop in a hurry I nearly piled it as I was so used to manually stopping the brakes from locking I didn't think about the fact that that just confuses the ABS...
Or some stupid oik could have stuck a usb stick into the CBP network...
ARM and Intel are operating in very different market areas these days (sad actually as ARM processors fly). ARM are targetting the embedded and PDA type market (Alot Pocket PC's use StrongARM) and given all their embedded processors stuck in cars, washing machines etc I'd imagine in their target market space they've got more than 50% market share.
Can people please remember the computer industry does not start and stop with the latest bit of kit for playing DOOM3 or surfing the ruddy internet....
Don't quite get the fuss over Windows Vista. I'm strangely under the misaprehension that the killer package on my PC should be the app's I use day in day out and not the OS. The OS's role in life is to provide resource manangement and hardware abstraction for applications running on the box. A GUI, while a nice to have, should not be an essential requirement of an OS and should ideally be a minimal setup which enables the user to easily carry out tasks in a graphical environment without getting in the way. Hence my lack of love for XP, KDE, GNOME when used with all the trimmings.
Everytime the OS forces a hardware upgrade on people we're moving away from app's driving user computational requirements to being driven by the thing which is just supposed to manage all the bits of a PC - not mint money for the hardware manufactures.
To be fair to the developer the pirate was the person who wanted to carry the fight on... guess he's probably changed his mind now ;)
Also over-fed isn't much help in the ring... better to well-fed rather than over-fed.
Well done to him.
Er... go out and look for a sense of humour ;)
There is a world of difference between the technical file size limit (ie based on the bit size) and the actually maximum anyone has used... 1.6 petabytes while being well short of the theoretical limits of a 64bit address system is still an impressive feat...
If ever I'm faced with getting on a plane which has a pilot who considers GPS a vital instrument I'll either leave or take a parachute.
GPS is an AID to navigation that is all, nothing more and nothing less.
Now if it was the radar altimeter, ILS, the engine management system etc that would be critical issue...
And then Monsato will come along with a new GM improved Soya bean which they'll claim will give better MPG...
But as most PC's are only supplied bundled with Windows and MS's VLK schemes for universities etc aren't as expensive as some make out then I'd imagine not alot.
Now if you can get rid of the MS Tax on new PC's then the balance would be restored.
Hm....
45% to expensive
30% don't want it
14% find dialup adequate
05% too complicated
05% unsure
Doesn't that equal 99%? In which case shouldn't the 10% be 1% (which in turn means 1% have broadband) - either that or the survey has redefined 100% to be 110%...