It's a "maybe it'll help, can't hurt" sort of thing?
It does help on a purely psychological level. You lay out your problems, identify whats going well, whats not going well, note the problems of others, and ask for a steering hand to help you do your best to keep the good things good and do your part to make the bad things less bad. Its basically like having an honest closed door chat with your SCRUM master. It's relieving just to talk through whats going on.
Alternatively, try renting one of these guys [xirrus.com] and see how you fare. That said, this is probably the Wi-Fi equivalent of a fuel-air bomb, so again, talk to the nearby vendors and try to convince them to share your connection rather than making a further mess of the spectrum.
Its not the vendors. At HIMSS a few years ago we had to go all spy vs. spy to share a single electrical outlet with our booth neighbor. This could have incurred a fine or ejection per the contract with the convention organizer/convention hall.
I'm asking out of ignorance—is corn much higher lately? I know it's a little higher because I could only get 3 ears for a dollar at the store instead of four.
That could very easily be fuel prices. Costs more to the get the same corn for the same corn price to the store because of diesel being so damn expensive.
You're also forgetting that its simple for geeky types to use their own VPN. Its less simple for someone like my mom to use a VPN.
What about the hotel scenario? The hotel wants an open network and should have secure network. They could host a VPN, but then you have to dork around with logins and maintain it. This isn't something the hotel wants to pay for.
What IBM is trying to do is have something that is as simple as clicking on the wireless icon, finding an open or the right named network, and having it be reasonably secure.
Right. So you're going to take your corporate desktop home with you in your pocket, and when you accidentally leave it on a train...
No corporation in their right mind wants people walking out the door with documents and software that they don't have to take out of the building with them.
Are they hiring? That would free up a good 15GB of code checkouts from my laptop and there'd be no chance of getting work done on the plane trip to the next on-site meeting.
I heard some tinfoil hat types suggesting that lulzsec was actually fascist law enforcement types providing cover for legislation giving them more power to combat "cyberterrorism". They might be temporarily surprised, though they'll quickly rationalize that law enforcement just needed some fall guys.
I still think the TSA should be abolished and that no one should be subject to screening before any form of travel by the government.
Will this system be separate or does it allow for equivalences? I have friends in security with actual government clearances and deep background checks. I have a concealed carry permit which subjects me to a mild background check and regular automated checks for arrests, convictions, restraining orders, and other such naughty behaviours.
Of course lets not forget that I shouldn't have to dork around with any of this anyway. If I buy a ticket I should be allowed on the damn plane without a metal detector and without a screening unless that is part of the terms of the sale.
So what happens if, during an outage that also eliminates cellular connectivity, someone has, say, a medical emergency? With wireline redundancy on a separate system, I can call 911 and get an ambulance to my location in a hurry. Without it, I'm SOL.
The question, therefore, is: How do we mitigate the risk that some related service interruption leaves us completely disconnected at a moment of crisis?
You're on your own. Full stop.
The police and fire and medical services are there to help, but when the shit hits the fan they'll be busy. When seconds count they are minutes away. I respect and honor the people in these professions, but its far better to be prepared myself and have them and not need them than to not prepare and then not have their services available.
My plan is centered around time:
- seconds - imminient violence, severe medical, no-warning disaters (quakes, some tornados), house fire
- mintues - moderate medical
- hours - light medical, power outage
- days - long power outage, disaster recovery, water loss
- weeks - total SHTF
I'm working through this list in order. I am well prepared for seconds, minutes, and hours. Working on days. Weeks will come in time.
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You also need to recognize that there are wastes and negative impacts from all forms of energy:
- copper windings for any rotational generator have to be mined
- rare earths for solar arrays are also mined
- heavy metals (\m/\m/) and acids for batteries are not exactly harmless
- coal ash, great big mountains of it
- smoke and other pollutants from burning fuels
- alteration of waterways for hydro or cooling plus runoff
The reality is we don't get energy for free and no current form of energy production is entirely without environmental consequences.To attack the challenges and consequences of nuclear power without honestly acknowledging the same from other forms of energy will lead to poor decisions.
That would lead to lousy legal decisions. Except in cases of large corporation versus large corporation you'd wind up with legal cases being argued by Billy the Intern and Asok the Recent Graduate. Here in the US where case law is the real law, poorly represented cases can have devastating consequences to future suits.
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It's a "maybe it'll help, can't hurt" sort of thing?
It does help on a purely psychological level. You lay out your problems, identify whats going well, whats not going well, note the problems of others, and ask for a steering hand to help you do your best to keep the good things good and do your part to make the bad things less bad. Its basically like having an honest closed door chat with your SCRUM master. It's relieving just to talk through whats going on.
/dad_mode
If you really want to minimize damage, quit screwin' around and don't drop your fancy toys in the first place!
Alternatively, try renting one of these guys [xirrus.com] and see how you fare. That said, this is probably the Wi-Fi equivalent of a fuel-air bomb, so again, talk to the nearby vendors and try to convince them to share your connection rather than making a further mess of the spectrum.
Its not the vendors. At HIMSS a few years ago we had to go all spy vs. spy to share a single electrical outlet with our booth neighbor. This could have incurred a fine or ejection per the contract with the convention organizer/convention hall.
I'm asking out of ignorance—is corn much higher lately? I know it's a little higher because I could only get 3 ears for a dollar at the store instead of four.
That could very easily be fuel prices. Costs more to the get the same corn for the same corn price to the store because of diesel being so damn expensive.
a href="http://www.lynascorp.com/page.asp?category_id=1&page_id=25">yes/
Mod parent up. Factual.
Citation needed. If you got facts, please share them!
I would like to look at the actual numbers. How can I find them?
Hell, the Vatican has an observatory, with some damn good scientist running it.
Is the telescope pointed at the playground next door or the window in the nunnery shower?
You're also forgetting that its simple for geeky types to use their own VPN. Its less simple for someone like my mom to use a VPN.
What about the hotel scenario? The hotel wants an open network and should have secure network. They could host a VPN, but then you have to dork around with logins and maintain it. This isn't something the hotel wants to pay for.
What IBM is trying to do is have something that is as simple as clicking on the wireless icon, finding an open or the right named network, and having it be reasonably secure.
Good Lord! Did Google hire away the IE guys from Microsoft or something?
No. If they did the vulns wouldn't be getting patched.
Right. So you're going to take your corporate desktop home with you in your pocket, and when you accidentally leave it on a train...
No corporation in their right mind wants people walking out the door with documents and software that they don't have to take out of the building with them.
Are they hiring? That would free up a good 15GB of code checkouts from my laptop and there'd be no chance of getting work done on the plane trip to the next on-site meeting.
What happens if there is a local gravity abnormality AND the spring breaks?
Its OK. Most sysadmins deserve to celebrate both of those holidays.
Yes it worked out very well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Can you quantify this? What metrics can one use to decide what CDN to use?
What if we land the ISS on the island of garbage?
Then we'd have a habitable island of garbage!
Get yourself a toy boat and some fireworks. Float the boat in some body of water. Now use the firecrackers to get it to move.
Its not that easy to use a bomb as a propulsion device.
Ron Paul gets a lot of credit for doing a whole lot of nothing.
Its because he's doing exactly what most of us want him, our legislators, and government to do.
One bakers drove and one Krispy Kreme drove*.
* - Somehow theres always one donut missing between when I pick the order up and when I get home.
I heard some tinfoil hat types suggesting that lulzsec was actually fascist law enforcement types providing cover for legislation giving them more power to combat "cyberterrorism". They might be temporarily surprised, though they'll quickly rationalize that law enforcement just needed some fall guys.
Its not that far out there given recent events at the ATF and DoJ: http://news.google.com/news/search?&q=fast+furious+atf
I still think the TSA should be abolished and that no one should be subject to screening before any form of travel by the government.
Will this system be separate or does it allow for equivalences? I have friends in security with actual government clearances and deep background checks. I have a concealed carry permit which subjects me to a mild background check and regular automated checks for arrests, convictions, restraining orders, and other such naughty behaviours.
Of course lets not forget that I shouldn't have to dork around with any of this anyway. If I buy a ticket I should be allowed on the damn plane without a metal detector and without a screening unless that is part of the terms of the sale.
It is especially important to avoid the fine fibers if you are a smoker
One could also quit smoking I suppose.
So what happens if, during an outage that also eliminates cellular connectivity, someone has, say, a medical emergency? With wireline redundancy on a separate system, I can call 911 and get an ambulance to my location in a hurry. Without it, I'm SOL.
The question, therefore, is: How do we mitigate the risk that some related service interruption leaves us completely disconnected at a moment of crisis?
You're on your own. Full stop.
The police and fire and medical services are there to help, but when the shit hits the fan they'll be busy. When seconds count they are minutes away. I respect and honor the people in these professions, but its far better to be prepared myself and have them and not need them than to not prepare and then not have their services available.
My plan is centered around time:
- seconds - imminient violence, severe medical, no-warning disaters (quakes, some tornados), house fire
- mintues - moderate medical
- hours - light medical, power outage
- days - long power outage, disaster recovery, water loss
- weeks - total SHTF
I'm working through this list in order. I am well prepared for seconds, minutes, and hours. Working on days. Weeks will come in time.
You also need to recognize that there are wastes and negative impacts from all forms of energy:
- copper windings for any rotational generator have to be mined
- rare earths for solar arrays are also mined
- heavy metals (\m/\m/) and acids for batteries are not exactly harmless
- coal ash, great big mountains of it
- smoke and other pollutants from burning fuels
- alteration of waterways for hydro or cooling plus runoff
The reality is we don't get energy for free and no current form of energy production is entirely without environmental consequences.To attack the challenges and consequences of nuclear power without honestly acknowledging the same from other forms of energy will lead to poor decisions.
That would lead to lousy legal decisions. Except in cases of large corporation versus large corporation you'd wind up with legal cases being argued by Billy the Intern and Asok the Recent Graduate. Here in the US where case law is the real law, poorly represented cases can have devastating consequences to future suits.