Writing something like MQ series isn't at all that hard. However, you had better deal with all the special cases and not drop anything.
I have seen other people's hacks at moving large quantities of data around. Generally speaking, they didn't sequence the data and they managed to drop data between systems. Bit of a shame when you are at a bank and that data represents money.
I believe her. Accurate reporting on contacts and conversations amongst 40+ people is hard work. I think that rather than any special moral reason. Many people disliked the state but were kept afraid, but scaring somebody may force cooperation but possibly not of the best quality.
Many of those working for the Stasi were so-called Inoffiziale Mitarbeiters (unofficial workers). I don't know any IMs in Germany but a friend of mine who is Russian was an interpreter during the Moscow olympics. She was just supposed to look after a bus load of visitors and report on anything interesting to the KGB. She ended up just making up some rubbish which took the heat away from the KGB and wouldn't get anyone into trouble. I guess that when you cooerce people into being informers, many end up fabricating the product.
Actually the airforce requirement for single orbit came from the problem of performing photographic reconnaisance. In the old days they shot down the film from space and captured it (in mid-air too). This was involved process and often pictures weren't taken of the right thing, hence the need for a Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) which would fit in the payload bay.
CCDs came along and rendered the airforce requirment redundant. You launch a satellite and you can get pictures out of it until it dies.
The foam was probably also loaded with ice caused by condensation on the outside of the tank (remember, liquid hydrogen is cold). The shuttle is accelerating too, and the airstream would quickly speed the foam up. The impact would not be trivial.
It is also cheaper for me to use online payment. My bank charges a little everytime they process paperwork. If they get an electronic transaction, either via the Internet or a payment terminal at the bank then the transaction is free.
A sweet young thing arrives for an interview as a temp at Decpark in Reading, UK. She no doubt passes the large corporate logo at the entrance saying "Digital".
After being asked the usual questions about her skills (i.e., being pretty), she is asked:
Do you now what we do here?
Well, you make watches, don't you?
Many of the engineers there were extremly upset that the company had so many good things, which were then being marketed so badly. This really ground the whole thing in.
Yep, but what is really worries them seems to be the high-power jobbies. Get that 20w CO2 laser from these guys or a s/h medical laser and you could really make someone's day.
You would have to get the pilot head-on (so you would need to be on the approach path), but you could really ruin someone's night vision. However, a 5mw isn't goint to do it. Maybe a 100mW or more would actually cause damage, I don't know.
To open onshore bank accounts now in the west, you need a fair amount of documentation (I know this as this is my current project). The worst bit is the govt id, i.e., SSN, drivers license or whatever. Other stuff like utilities bills could be faked as they are less likely to be checked.
For corps, they need to id the corp and the signatories running the account.
Use of floats for date and time really quite reasonable as generally you are interested in a the value of a mantissa (i.e., that ten digits or whatever is normally enough to always give the resolution that you need), however all times should be normalised (to UTC, Stardate or whatever) before they are stored or used. Local times shouldn't exist outside data presentation layers. Rounding errors on time are really not so much an issue, rounding errors on money, now there is a problem!
OTOH, I started when there was a lot of software floating point around and then you really wanted to use integers where possible in calculations.
I seem to remember that Hydrazine or at least one of its relatives, UDMH is really nasty. Contact with the vapour kills you. OTOH, it has a good specific impulse and is hypergolic with certain oxidizers. This means that it has a good bang per kilo and will self ignite on contact with the oxidizer so making it quite popular for use in an RCS (Reaction Control System) for manouvering in space.
Sure they can take a CC number or a paypal transaction but that is easily tracked and they can be burnt by an LEO making a 'buy' and tracking the payment. A CC or Paypal account has a link to a bank account. That bank account has a well documented beneficial owner.
Just think if this was opened uup and could be quickly adopted by browsers. All that pr0n could be compressed by 30% giving us all a new lease of life on internet bandwidth.
Was using it at my last project (until end of last year). It was hard because we were getting all kinds of minor incompatibilities. The thing is that this was for FX spot/derivatives at a fairly big bank.
I think that you probably have it there. Whatever else eBay does, it helps keep stuff out of landfill. Disposing of electronic goods has actuually started costing money now in some parts of Europe. This can help save it.
Regulations in the US and most western countries force the company to record all conversations with brokers.
A friend was selling some shares and the broker screwed up his order. The friend attempted to query the trade and was blown off. He asked for the tapes, he was blown off again. The next time he called he revealed that he was head of equities at another bank, he requested the trading supervision and then said they should listen to the tape, if not he was going straight to the regulator. The broker backed down very quickly.
Other problem is that it really used to be tape (usually videotape with about 4 to 16 lines) and find the right conversation was difficult. Now it goes onto HD and the HD gets backed up onto CD-R. Much faster to access.
Rutan makes sure that when people at Scaled point out their own mistakes, they're applauded rather than reprimanded.
I would hate that he didn't build Scaled, but he sounds like the kind of guy who they should have had to run the shuttle programme.
He also treats his staff well. They are worked hard and are by no means paid the best, however they like working at Virgin and for him.
When they see him getting up to his gimmicks, they aren't resentful, they are amused. They know that Virgin is Branson's, that is both an asset and a liability - but he is getting the business in.
Once you buy something it is yours to do whatever you want with it. You may take it to pieces or rebuild for other purposes. This is also why cable boxes are leased, or at least the cards are. In such a case, they can control what you do with the service.
Actually you tell the Feds that you were simply telling a homeowner that they had left their door open. They can close it, or they can ask you how to and you may ask for reward (but not for informing them of the breach, as that sound like extorion). However, they are being negligent and should be grateful less their negligence comes to light during an insurance claim.
At the same time, if you had an interest in the data, i.e., maybe t was your CC number then it is reasonable to check they are taking care of it.
As far as the Feds are concerned, you didn't reverse engineer their code (you had data not code) and you were concerned for the protection of your data. You throw in words like negligence and conspiracy and the Feds have lost their extortion motive.
Actually an XOR cipher against a random key stream as long s the plain-text is about as secure as you can get. Of course, they were using an XOR against a simple short key.
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Actually, the IM model is just a special case application of message queuing.
I have seen other people's hacks at moving large quantities of data around. Generally speaking, they didn't sequence the data and they managed to drop data between systems. Bit of a shame when you are at a bank and that data represents money.
I believe her. Accurate reporting on contacts and conversations amongst 40+ people is hard work. I think that rather than any special moral reason. Many people disliked the state but were kept afraid, but scaring somebody may force cooperation but possibly not of the best quality.
Many of those working for the Stasi were so-called Inoffiziale Mitarbeiters (unofficial workers). I don't know any IMs in Germany but a friend of mine who is Russian was an interpreter during the Moscow olympics. She was just supposed to look after a bus load of visitors and report on anything interesting to the KGB. She ended up just making up some rubbish which took the heat away from the KGB and wouldn't get anyone into trouble. I guess that when you cooerce people into being informers, many end up fabricating the product.
CCDs came along and rendered the airforce requirment redundant. You launch a satellite and you can get pictures out of it until it dies.
The foam was probably also loaded with ice caused by condensation on the outside of the tank (remember, liquid hydrogen is cold). The shuttle is accelerating too, and the airstream would quickly speed the foam up. The impact would not be trivial.
It is also cheaper for me to use online payment. My bank charges a little everytime they process paperwork. If they get an electronic transaction, either via the Internet or a payment terminal at the bank then the transaction is free.
Yep, but what is really worries them seems to be the high-power jobbies. Get that 20w CO2 laser from these guys or a s/h medical laser and you could really make someone's day.
You would have to get the pilot head-on (so you would need to be on the approach path), but you could really ruin someone's night vision. However, a 5mw isn't goint to do it. Maybe a 100mW or more would actually cause damage, I don't know.
For corps, they need to id the corp and the signatories running the account.
OTOH, I started when there was a lot of software floating point around and then you really wanted to use integers where possible in calculations.
I seem to remember that Hydrazine or at least one of its relatives, UDMH is really nasty. Contact with the vapour kills you. OTOH, it has a good specific impulse and is hypergolic with certain oxidizers. This means that it has a good bang per kilo and will self ignite on contact with the oxidizer so making it quite popular for use in an RCS (Reaction Control System) for manouvering in space.
Heard of gpg/pgp? It works with gmail as well as most other Email systems. The best you will get is a sender and a recipient.
Sure they can take a CC number or a paypal transaction but that is easily tracked and they can be burnt by an LEO making a 'buy' and tracking the payment. A CC or Paypal account has a link to a bank account. That bank account has a well documented beneficial owner.
Just think if this was opened uup and could be quickly adopted by browsers. All that pr0n could be compressed by 30% giving us all a new lease of life on internet bandwidth.
It is rather surreal and perhaps not strictly SF, but the idea of existance as a waveform makes it interesting.
Was using it at my last project (until end of last year). It was hard because we were getting all kinds of minor incompatibilities. The thing is that this was for FX spot/derivatives at a fairly big bank.
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I think that you probably have it there. Whatever else eBay does, it helps keep stuff out of landfill. Disposing of electronic goods has actuually started costing money now in some parts of Europe. This can help save it.
A friend was selling some shares and the broker screwed up his order. The friend attempted to query the trade and was blown off. He asked for the tapes, he was blown off again. The next time he called he revealed that he was head of equities at another bank, he requested the trading supervision and then said they should listen to the tape, if not he was going straight to the regulator. The broker backed down very quickly.
Other problem is that it really used to be tape (usually videotape with about 4 to 16 lines) and find the right conversation was difficult. Now it goes onto HD and the HD gets backed up onto CD-R. Much faster to access.
When they see him getting up to his gimmicks, they aren't resentful, they are amused. They know that Virgin is Branson's, that is both an asset and a liability - but he is getting the business in.
Once you buy something it is yours to do whatever you want with it. You may take it to pieces or rebuild for other purposes. This is also why cable boxes are leased, or at least the cards are. In such a case, they can control what you do with the service.
At the same time, if you had an interest in the data, i.e., maybe t was your CC number then it is reasonable to check they are taking care of it.
As far as the Feds are concerned, you didn't reverse engineer their code (you had data not code) and you were concerned for the protection of your data. You throw in words like negligence and conspiracy and the Feds have lost their extortion motive.
Actually an XOR cipher against a random key stream as long s the plain-text is about as secure as you can get. Of course, they were using an XOR against a simple short key.