Like OOXML, it is a good example of how politics can override the standards process. In the case of PLAID, they needed something that complied to an international standard. They already had their own homebrew system, so they got that made an international standard, a case of the tail wagging the dog.
ISO 24727 (aka '747, due to its elephantine size) is another example of this, and in the same general area as LUDICROUS... uhh, PLAID. The whole thing is, and I'm not making this up, over six thousand pages long. Guess how much independent review that one got?
The practice isn't limited to ISO though, you can buy yourself IETF standards just as easily. What you do is, if you're a government organisation that needs a standard (and it seems to be almost exclusively government bodies that do this), you pay a standards consluttant to write you one and shepherd it through the process of becoming an RFC. Then once it's published you can point to it and say "Look, we comply with this industry standard".
Foreign government attack on power infrastructure?
Nahh, just government contractor cost-cutting. I mean, they abbreviated "Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System" as "JLENS" to save ink, who knows what other corners they cut. The tether was probably recycled baling twine.
Even with it under Nazi control, you'd expect it to have been run by Kripo (police) exclusively. Two of the Nazi-era leaders were (as well as being SS), but the other two were purely SS.
I love telling people we have the Nazis to thank for our space program.
And international criminal investigations/law enforcement. Interpol was run by SS generals for some years, including the likes of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague.
. . . so the judge gets delivered a National Security Letter. The first thing, that is very clearly stated in the letter, is that he is not allowed to talk about the National Security Letter.
The first rule of National Security Letter club is...
'We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity,' said Nicolas Biver of the Paris Observatory, France,
'On closer observation we found it to be ChÃteau Lafite Rothschild from somewhere between 1962 and 1978. The French government has authorised a French space mission to determine the vintage more closely, astronaut positions to be determined by national lottery', the scientist continued.
As any student of history knows, Greifswald was the location of assorted secret Nazi research projects during WWII. This thing wasn't built recently, they dug it up from the mine where it was buried in 1945 to hide it from the advancing Russians. Look at the photo of the cryostat, that's classic 1940s engineering design. The reason for the "schedule slips" mentioned in the article is because they've had problems disarming all the booby traps left to kill Russian investigators. Next thing you know a previously unknown German research institute in the Owl Mountains will invent an antigravity device, and another heretofore-unknown research group at Hillersleben will announce the creation of a death ray.
Whoever proposed tlsdate as an alternative to NTP has no idea how either NTP or tlsdate work. What moving to tlsdate is doing is replacing a well-designed clock-synchronisation protocol talking to precise time servers with an opportunistic gimme-whatver-time-you've-got mechanism that returns a one-off estimate of an approximate time on a web server, assuming the server doesn't just set the time field to random bytes as many do. They're totally different things.
If you're really worried about this, run your own stratum 1 clock and serve NTP off that. If you're worried about the cost of a dedicated NTP server, build it yourself using any number of instructions on the Internet, e.g. these ones.
There's a difference between "We found a bug in our software and are notifying our customers with an update" and Oracle's "Here's this months bucketload of bugs, updating last months bucketload of bugs, and the month before that, and the month before that, and the month before that, and the month... . Next month's bucketload of bugs will be delivered on schedule, and further bugs will be delivered every subsequent month until the Sun burns out".
As everyone should have realised by now, JVM actually stands for "Java Vulnerability Machine". Everyone makes a few programming errors, but products like Java seem to consist mostly of programming errors, held together with rubber bands and duct tape. There needs to be some point at which companies are held liable for shipping truly bad products.
Actually the police that use these vans should be more worried since they are the ones being exposed to X-Rays more than the general public.
Same with the police using radar guns. Since they're relatively heavy and holding them up each time you want to tag a car rapidly gets painful, some cops will open the car door, rest the gun on their laps, and fire it from there. Eventual result: Fried eggs.
This doesn't account for actual usage of drive space, people with 8 TB drives might need 8TB of space, but most people STILL don't need that much space.
There's a real problem at the very price-sensitive low end, where you need to provision an embedded device with just enough storage to boot off and store its logs. Several times we've ended up buying low-capacity SSDs from... not entirely salubrious Chinese manufacturers because they're the only ones that can hit the required price point. Everyone's chasing the high-end as-large-a-capacity-as-possible unit-sales market, but sourcing a consignment of 8GB SSDs where you're ready to order a container-load of them at once is near impossible from known-brand manufacturers.
That's what Jerome Lemelson made a career out of. Interesting to see that he's now mostly described as a "patent holder" or "patent grantee" rather than "inventor", since he rarely truly invented anything, he just brought the use of submarine patents to an art form. OK, so there's his one truly original invention, submarine patents, but I don't think he patented those.
What I want is a WWN clickbait generator: Woman gives birth to two-headed fish, WWII bomber found on moon, Cat owns 23 old ladies, Reporter eaten alive by rabid hamster, Bat child found in cave, yeah, now that's clickbait.
The more I see about Windows 10, the less I am interested in an update. I use Windows 7 on one computer and Windows 8 on another, but I think I will pass this "free" update.
People used to make jokes that Linux is free, like a puppy. It seems like Windows 10 is free, like syphilis.
They do seem to have focused almost entirely on one single thing, which is probably irrelevant for most non-geek users: If their router can stream YouTube, Skype, or Facetime, then it's fast enough. The criteria that really matter to most users, things like "Do you need to reboot it every second day in order to keep it functioning", "What are the chances of it being incorporated into a botnet if I do something as totally crazy as connecting it to the Internet" (something that Asus, D-Link, Netgear, and, oh yes, Trendnet are notorious for), and "For how many minutes after I buy it will the vendor provide firmware upgrades" (Linksys, where everything's a legacy product as soon as it ships) haven't been taken into consideration.
In D-LInk's case it seems to have turned them into props from the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I mean seriously, did you look at the photos of the AC3200? It should be marketed as an 802.11ac WTF Router.
No mention of Apple products. Apple has been using 802.11ac for years. I have one of their wifi routers: easy to use, just works, etc. and it has 802.11ac.
That's because it's really a Broadcom Xstream Chipset Router Roundup, not an 802.11ac Router Roundup. I wanted to see how they compared to my Draytek, but all they've reviewed is multiple tweaks of the same reference design from Broadcom. They even say they're reviewing "top-shelf units" (first time I've heard D-Link and Trendnet described as top-shelf), but then totally omit what I'd consider actual top-shelf units, maybe an Aironet 3600, a Draytek 2860, and an Airport Extreme.
hat said, CompSci should be split to have a formal engineering track for 99% of students, and a formal research/theory track for those that want to just stick to academia and related research. The software world would be better for it since a true discipline to how programs are written could be brought about instead of all this bs'ing over how it's art.
That would be an ideal solution, and it's one that's been de facto adopted in some cases in the University/Technical Institute split, with the Uni teaching abstract concepts in the trendy-language-du-jour ("So you have a PhD in Mac Pascal/Prolog/OCaml/Haskell? Perfect.Your overalls and mop bucket are over there") while the TI's teach programming skills. In recent years it's got a bit better with the Uni's moving more towards practical programming skills (about 10-15 years ago we were interviewing, on average, seventy Uni-educated programmers to fill one job because most of them couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag), but they really do need to split the courses into "learn usable programming skills" vs. "learn academic principles for a research position".
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Like OOXML, it is a good example of how politics can override the standards process. In the case of PLAID, they needed something that complied to an international standard. They already had their own homebrew system, so they got that made an international standard, a case of the tail wagging the dog.
ISO 24727 (aka '747, due to its elephantine size) is another example of this, and in the same general area as LUDICROUS... uhh, PLAID. The whole thing is, and I'm not making this up, over six thousand pages long. Guess how much independent review that one got?
The practice isn't limited to ISO though, you can buy yourself IETF standards just as easily. What you do is, if you're a government organisation that needs a standard (and it seems to be almost exclusively government bodies that do this), you pay a standards consluttant to write you one and shepherd it through the process of becoming an RFC. Then once it's published you can point to it and say "Look, we comply with this industry standard".
Foreign government attack on power infrastructure?
Nahh, just government contractor cost-cutting. I mean, they abbreviated "Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System" as "JLENS" to save ink, who knows what other corners they cut. The tether was probably recycled baling twine.
Even with it under Nazi control, you'd expect it to have been run by Kripo (police) exclusively. Two of the Nazi-era leaders were (as well as being SS), but the other two were purely SS.
And how does that prevent him from having been the head of Interpol?
It's actually a $499 PC. The $99 final cost comes from budgeting $499 for the hardware and $-400 for forcing people to use Windows 10.
Obligatory xkcd comic.
I love telling people we have the Nazis to thank for our space program.
And international criminal investigations/law enforcement. Interpol was run by SS generals for some years, including the likes of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague.
This summary makes no sense. What is F-Troop?
F-Troop is the former name of the Millwall Bushwackers, Milwall FC's hooligan firm.
No-one likes us, no-one likes us, no-one likes us, we don't care...
. . . so the judge gets delivered a National Security Letter. The first thing, that is very clearly stated in the letter, is that he is not allowed to talk about the National Security Letter.
The first rule of National Security Letter club is...
'We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity,' said Nicolas Biver of the Paris Observatory, France,
'On closer observation we found it to be ChÃteau Lafite Rothschild from somewhere between 1962 and 1978. The French government has authorised a French space mission to determine the vintage more closely, astronaut positions to be determined by national lottery', the scientist continued.
As any student of history knows, Greifswald was the location of assorted secret Nazi research projects during WWII. This thing wasn't built recently, they dug it up from the mine where it was buried in 1945 to hide it from the advancing Russians. Look at the photo of the cryostat, that's classic 1940s engineering design. The reason for the "schedule slips" mentioned in the article is because they've had problems disarming all the booby traps left to kill Russian investigators. Next thing you know a previously unknown German research institute in the Owl Mountains will invent an antigravity device, and another heretofore-unknown research group at Hillersleben will announce the creation of a death ray.
Remember, you read it first on Slashspot.
There is at least one alternative out there
Whoever proposed tlsdate as an alternative to NTP has no idea how either NTP or tlsdate work. What moving to tlsdate is doing is replacing a well-designed clock-synchronisation protocol talking to precise time servers with an opportunistic gimme-whatver-time-you've-got mechanism that returns a one-off estimate of an approximate time on a web server, assuming the server doesn't just set the time field to random bytes as many do. They're totally different things.
If you're really worried about this, run your own stratum 1 clock and serve NTP off that. If you're worried about the cost of a dedicated NTP server, build it yourself using any number of instructions on the Internet, e.g. these ones.
Every software company would go out of business.
There's a difference between "We found a bug in our software and are notifying our customers with an update" and Oracle's "Here's this months bucketload of bugs, updating last months bucketload of bugs, and the month before that, and the month before that, and the month before that, and the month... . Next month's bucketload of bugs will be delivered on schedule, and further bugs will be delivered every subsequent month until the Sun burns out".
As everyone should have realised by now, JVM actually stands for "Java Vulnerability Machine". Everyone makes a few programming errors, but products like Java seem to consist mostly of programming errors, held together with rubber bands and duct tape. There needs to be some point at which companies are held liable for shipping truly bad products.
Also, why is a cybertech cybernews cybersite like Slashspot using the unnecessary cyberword "cyber" in its cyberheadline?
Actually the police that use these vans should be more worried since they are the ones being exposed to X-Rays more than the general public.
Same with the police using radar guns. Since they're relatively heavy and holding them up each time you want to tag a car rapidly gets painful, some cops will open the car door, rest the gun on their laps, and fire it from there. Eventual result: Fried eggs.
Many computer manufacturers still charge ~$1/GB for SSDs.
See my earlier post on this, at the low end you're paying several dollars per GB unless you want to go to no-name Chinese vendors.
This doesn't account for actual usage of drive space, people with 8 TB drives might need 8TB of space, but most people STILL don't need that much space.
There's a real problem at the very price-sensitive low end, where you need to provision an embedded device with just enough storage to boot off and store its logs. Several times we've ended up buying low-capacity SSDs from... not entirely salubrious Chinese manufacturers because they're the only ones that can hit the required price point. Everyone's chasing the high-end as-large-a-capacity-as-possible unit-sales market, but sourcing a consignment of 8GB SSDs where you're ready to order a container-load of them at once is near impossible from known-brand manufacturers.
'The rules are more often guidelines or stylistic suggestions, not hard-and-fast rules that must be obeyed or code death will follow.
"The Programmers Code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules. Welcome about the Black Perl, Miss Turner...".
That's what Jerome Lemelson made a career out of. Interesting to see that he's now mostly described as a "patent holder" or "patent grantee" rather than "inventor", since he rarely truly invented anything, he just brought the use of submarine patents to an art form. OK, so there's his one truly original invention, submarine patents, but I don't think he patented those.
So we'll finally get a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity?
What I want is a WWN clickbait generator: Woman gives birth to two-headed fish, WWII bomber found on moon, Cat owns 23 old ladies, Reporter eaten alive by rabid hamster, Bat child found in cave, yeah, now that's clickbait.
The more I see about Windows 10, the less I am interested in an update. I use Windows 7 on one computer and Windows 8 on another, but I think I will pass this "free" update.
People used to make jokes that Linux is free, like a puppy. It seems like Windows 10 is free, like syphilis.
They do seem to have focused almost entirely on one single thing, which is probably irrelevant for most non-geek users: If their router can stream YouTube, Skype, or Facetime, then it's fast enough. The criteria that really matter to most users, things like "Do you need to reboot it every second day in order to keep it functioning", "What are the chances of it being incorporated into a botnet if I do something as totally crazy as connecting it to the Internet" (something that Asus, D-Link, Netgear, and, oh yes, Trendnet are notorious for), and "For how many minutes after I buy it will the vendor provide firmware upgrades" (Linksys, where everything's a legacy product as soon as it ships) haven't been taken into consideration.
In D-LInk's case it seems to have turned them into props from the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I mean seriously, did you look at the photos of the AC3200? It should be marketed as an 802.11ac WTF Router.
No mention of Apple products. Apple has been using 802.11ac for years. I have one of their wifi routers: easy to use, just works, etc. and it has 802.11ac.
That's because it's really a Broadcom Xstream Chipset Router Roundup, not an 802.11ac Router Roundup. I wanted to see how they compared to my Draytek, but all they've reviewed is multiple tweaks of the same reference design from Broadcom. They even say they're reviewing "top-shelf units" (first time I've heard D-Link and Trendnet described as top-shelf), but then totally omit what I'd consider actual top-shelf units, maybe an Aironet 3600, a Draytek 2860, and an Airport Extreme.
hat said, CompSci should be split to have a formal engineering track for 99% of students, and a formal research/theory track for those that want to just stick to academia and related research. The software world would be better for it since a true discipline to how programs are written could be brought about instead of all this bs'ing over how it's art.
That would be an ideal solution, and it's one that's been de facto adopted in some cases in the University/Technical Institute split, with the Uni teaching abstract concepts in the trendy-language-du-jour ("So you have a PhD in Mac Pascal/Prolog/OCaml/Haskell? Perfect.Your overalls and mop bucket are over there") while the TI's teach programming skills. In recent years it's got a bit better with the Uni's moving more towards practical programming skills (about 10-15 years ago we were interviewing, on average, seventy Uni-educated programmers to fill one job because most of them couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag), but they really do need to split the courses into "learn usable programming skills" vs. "learn academic principles for a research position".