with ownCloud or SeaFile, a Raspberry Pi 2, and whatever size USB you want.
Maybe for home use, but that's going to be pretty darn slow... You will effectively be limited to 1/2 of USB 2.0 speed (or less) because the Pi's network connection is via the single USB connection which is shared by that USB drive, the keyboard and the mouse etc.... Ouch...
Personally, I'd go with an old scrapped desktop PC running OpenMediaVault attached to your network. Just stuff in a cheap SATA interface or two, load up on cheap drives, raid them into a redundant array of some kind and then install "ownCloud" plugin (Open Media Vault). You may spend some cash on drives, but you will be much happier than using that Pi.
Once you get OMV up, there are plenty of ways to do backups of just about anything you like.....
Easy to say, hard to do. What about the wife and kids? Who's going to make the mortgage payment?
Look, many times these things are a question of "acceptable" and "unacceptable" risk. If the PHB says he's willing to accept the risk, even after I've explained it to him, then he gets what he wants within the bounds of the law and ethics. He signs my paycheck and he calls the shots. I suggest you come up with options for the PHB that are solutions to his problem though.
Of course, if you object on moral grounds, you are working at the wrong place and should start looking for another job now. You do what you are told, but leave ASAP. If you object on legal grounds, do it in writing, and if you are overruled in writing, run, don't walk, run. But I'll guarantee you, 99.999% of the time it won't come to that.
Verizon FIOS (aka Verizon broad band) has what they call "SPAM Filters" but they are pretty much worthless. It used to be pretty good, but they have apparently not managed the filters for a few years and now they are really not effective at all. It is so bad that I'm almost wondering if they actually HAVE a filter anymore, or is it just a check box on the web screen they put there to keep people from complaining....
I've been seriously considering buying a domain and setting up my own server just so I can get some reasonable filters back, but who's got time for that? What I do now is just use GMail for everything and I just use a throw away account for most things with specific filters to forward only what I want to see and keep my *real* e-mail address for only the most important things and close friends.
how about we just make it a crime punishable by 20 years for any IT professional to hook sensitive computers to the internet.
Even if the PHB makes you do it?
In my experience, it's not the IT guy that is responsible, it's the PHB who doesn't understand the risks, doesn't take the IT guy's advice or provide the necessary resources to do the job safely, they just want it done NOW!
Huh? You've got to be kidding me.. The A-10 has a huge GUN on it which is aimed by sight and where they do drop gravity bombs, the action is pretty darn up close and personal. The Drone pilot, if the drone is armed (which is NOT true in most cases) is going to shoot a missile from a long distance and view the result though a pretty low definition video feed. An A-10 pilot is at point blank range in comparison.
This is the military... IF the information leak is even slightly a problem, the cost of plugging the leak is about nothing. It may not be well tolerated by the troops, but it's not going to cost you much to put a standing order in place that says "When deployed or in transit to and from a deployment, you leave all personal electronic devices at home." Then you inspect the personal gear of any troops arriving to assure the order is being followed.
My point is that if this was a serious problem, any formal military with reasonable discipline can and would easily deal with this. That they choose not to tells me that the information being disclosed is not that important.
You think they actually SEE anything more than the A10 pilot does? I'm not discounting the effect of witnessing combat, even from afar, but if the USAF is having issues specifically with drone pilots over other pilots flying close air support missions there has to be some additional issue. So, It's about that yes, but there is more...
Full motion video with that much resolution is going to be EXPENSIVE to store for very long so they are not going to be doing that.
The problem here really is the storage and retrieval of such huge amounts of data, at least that's the problem once you get the data down and processed. I think this kind of stuff is great for getting high resolution still imagery but they are not going to be doing video except on special occasions and for special locations. You are going to have to order it in advance, and then wait until they manage to get it for you, but you won't get historical video for some random location because they won't be able to afford to keep it laying around for you.
Another problem they face is being able to provide timely data. The ISS orbit takes just longer than 90 min and if you are just taking pictures of what's going under the ISS at the time, it's going to be quite some time before you re-image the same patch of real-estate with similar lighting. You might get a few passes in a month, but depending on the weather and cloud situation it may be months before you get a picture of that one interesting spot again. Problem is, you don't really know in advance how long this interval will be, nor do you know who might need the imagery and be willing to pay for it if you keep it around. So what do you do? Buy disk space to keep it around and hope somebody pays you for it some day? I don't think so.
No what you do is take orders for future data and keep snapshots from the past with longer and longer intervals between the snapshots as it gets further back in the past. You throw away data as quickly as you can get it processed, fulfill your standing orders, then start winnowing though what's left for your updated snapshot from "today". But you simply must be down sizing your data storage, throwing away data which is worthless and down sampling stuff that might be interesting... But that's what "big data" is all about right? Running "map reduce" jobs and throwing away the original data because it's too big to keep around.
Somebody at AT&T forgot to make that recurring cash donation to the political party in power and *now* they will pay the price... Come on AT&T you know how this game is played, how the FCC does "business" here. Suck it up and write that check so we can get this overturned on appeal.
I predict next year, AT&T's rates will magically go up by $100,000,000 divided by the number of their customers.
Not even close... AT&T is just going to slow down a bit on their equipment purchases (say a couple of cell towers won't get upgraded or something) but their operating costs are going DOWN per subscriber, even with such a fine. They won't pass this on in the form of rate hikes...
They may just jack up the price of a cell phone by a few bucks or something, but their monthly rates will stay competitive, meaning they will be dropping like everybody else's are. What AT&T cannot do is lose market share. They cannot loose subscribers (I mean sheep) to fleece, because the point here is that you make just a little bit of money on a LOT of subscribers that way and the guy with the most subscribers is the winner.
So customers will pay by increased non-recurring costs, and possibly less signal coverage, but you can bet the advertised monthly rates won't do anything but go down.
Even with the FCC's ruling, "unlimited " data really isn't "unlimited" if there is a time and speed limit anywhere in the system. They haven't yet invented an unlimited speed data pipe for a cell phone and AT&T is fond of monthly billing....
Wow, you really spew a lot of things without knowledge of the subject:
You too apparently..
1. For producing thrust impulses, any old explosion will do, but to actually impart enough energy there might be more effective ways than blowing something up next to it.... Hollywood movies aside..
2. Parking nuclear weapons in space is NOT accepted practice, slinging them on rockets and sending them though a ballistic arc to their targets is not the same thing as being in orbit. Sure, they can survive the rigors of being launched and doing a re-entry, but they are NOT built to stay in space very long. What's the average length of time from launch to target? 25 min? An hour?
3. Doing a ballistic trip and staying in orbit are two very different things. Case in point, Mercury missions verses Gemini missions from the 60's. With all due respect to John Glenn, It's a whole new level of complexity to be in orbit.
4. Sustaining G's is great, but that's not the problem in orbit or in space. The issues in space quickly become temperature management and power. Which is followed by navigation and fuel management once you start trying to stay in orbit. Being mechanically strong and able to handle high G-Loads is pointless. You just need to be strong enough to launch and handle the vibration of the assent phase, and after that? Nobody will care if you can do 2 G's or 2,000 G's.
5. I am not aware of any nuclear weapons being stored in space now or in the past. Any such storage would be in violation of standing international treaties, so if you have evidence of this I suggest you share it because we have a serious world wide problem if this is true. Plus, I would argue that ground storage of nuclear weapons would be MUCH safer, given that it's really easy to make them inert by physically removing some of the fissionable material. In fact, this is EXACTLY how they render nuclear weapons "safe", by removing what they call the "pill" from the device and storing them separately. So keep these babies on the ground where we have physical access and can keep them inert until needed.
6. Surface detonation of a nuclear device is FAR safer than one in LEO. The lower the altitude, the better... In fact underground would be good... The ground acts as a shield and although it would be a mess at ground zero, the blast radius would be smaller. I'm not saying a surface detonation would be a good thing, but that it is much preferred to a high altitude blast where the effects will go for thousands of miles.
Yes, we put nuclear powered spacecraft into space, I misspoke on that.. But what we DON'T do is put them in orbit. Nuclear powered craft are ONLY used for spacecraft which will be leaving earth orbit and not returning.
I'll try and explain why you don't want a nuclear device going off in space near the earth and rather have it in a bunker... First, you can physically render a nuclear device inert by removing parts of it. I believe they call it a "pill" and without it, it doesn't matter what you do to the device, it cannot become critical and cause a nuclear explosion. You store the "pill" separately from the device for a number of security reasons, and they don't come together until you want a device that can go critical when triggered.... Second, as odd as it may seem, having a device in a bunker is actually safer if it really did decide to go off on it's own. Being close to the ground, better yet UNDER ground helps to contain the blast and the adverse affects it creates. HEMP pulses are a serious problem as are X-Ray generation and a whole host of things which are bad from a nuclear device, but if the device is close to the ground, the area these things can affect is lower. So keep your nuclear devices UNDER ground, keep them disabled by storing that last bit of fissionable material in a totally different area...
Setting a device off in LEO is going to be a mess and it's going to affect a huge area.
1. Nuclear devices are ineffective in space. This means you will have to use BIG ones, or you will have to use them early to nudge the object onto a different path. Bigger devices are harder to throw into space and detection and targeting of dangerous objects makes the problem all that harder.
2. Nuclear weapons in space is in itself insane and banned by multiple international agreements due to the danger they pose.
3. Nuclear material in orbit is dangerous because what goes up, must come down. We don't put nuclear power generators in space for a reason and putting a fission device in space would present the same kind of difficulty.
4. Nuclear devices are pretty fragile devices. Believe it or not, but there are issues with a high radiation environment for any kind of electronics and nuclear fuses are no exception. High explosives also are kind of fickle things, when you start talking about temperature changes between extremes commonly experienced in space. Nuclear devices make use of shaped charges and special detonation timing, all which can be very temperature sensitive.
5. Nuclear fission devices require regular maintenance - It's not much maintenance, but it's enough to be a problem if you have to go into orbit to service the thing that I'd suggest you not consider it.
6. An accidental malfunction would be a SERIOUS problem for the near by earth. If you accidentally triggered one of these things, say a radiation induced trigger, or cosmic ray induced malfunction, a lot of things could get broken on earth.
So for the above reasons, I say NO, this is NOT a good idea.
Services like Uber have a serious problem. They want to not be taxi services because of the regulations, but they want to do business as if they where a taxi service. So on one hand, they want to claim to be a means of arranging a private deal between two private citizens and claiming their commission in the process, but on the other hand they don't want to run a taxi service or have any of their "drivers" running a taxi service.
I don't think we've seen the last of these kinds of issues for Uber and the like. Somehow, I'm figuring that things like this (Uber is actually an employer in some cases) or some of the other issues of needing commercially registered vehicles, commercial drivers licenses and associated medical certificates to go along with the required "on duty" and "rest" time regulations will eventually catch up with Uber and others.
Eventually, for Uber to stay in business the laws will need to change for taxi services in general. I don't think regulators will just go out, throw up their hands and say "Forget it, let Uber roll on". I think they will use stuff like this decision and enforcement of existing commercial transportation laws and force Uber drivers into a more traditional Taxi business with all that uncomfortable regulation and overhead that Uber so wishes to avoid. Hopefully, regulators will see the value of Uber and move to eliminate some of the more difficult regulations, but somehow I figure the local government is more likely to respond to that taxi service in their voting district than the ramblings of some internet company in Cali who cannot vote for anything.
Huh? Enlighten me how having only ONE income means you cannot be an independent contractor? Are you SURE you mean what you said? Because the implications of that logical position are pretty staggering when applied to the system as a whole...
Just because we can easily track individual troops on Social Media, doesn't mean we don't have other ways of knowing what's going on. Of course it's nice to get independent confirmation of troop movements from external sources, but if the Russians really thought there was an operational risk here, they'd fix it. It's not like it's a hard problem to fix, just make your troops leave their personal devices at home. Further, The Russians are NOT stupid and obviously recognize this problem and have taken steps to keep their troops off of social media with information that really matters.
My guess (and yes, I'm only guessing) the Russian's fully understand what information they are allowing out though social media and they have decided that it's not worth the effort to stop the information leak more than they already have. Plus, I'm sure we know a whole lot more about what's really going on than the Russians would like us to know, even without the social media angle. Further, I wouldn't put it past the Russians to be using social media to pass misinformation too. After all, this is just a revamped cold war.
Blah blah. How do you think Britain expected to hold the continent, you're completely indoctrinated in the myth of American exceptionalism. It was inevitable America would go solo. And yes companies try and screw people over all the time, that's why there are so many laws to try and restrict them from doing so.
So this whole declaration of independence thing was pointless? That King George was just putting up a token defense and all the killing during the revolutionary war was just for show? Or that if the colonists had just waited a bit longer they would have been handed their independence, no struggle required?
The writing may have been on the wall, but I don't think the king was able to read it, nor was the whole idea of being independent inevitable. There IS something exceptional about the founding of this country. There are pivotal truths in the Declaration of Independence which had NEVER been put together all in one place before, and NEVER had be used as a whole to create a system of government. A form of government which had never existed in the history of the world, one where the rights of the citizen are protected and the role of government is limited by it's very founding documents.
Of course this was exceptional. It may not be important to YOU, but history has proven that the ideas and events that birthed the United States as an independent country were and are exceptional and unique, regardless of how you feel about it. That this country has been in existence for more than 200 years, prospered greatly and risen to have the most influence, the most wealth, the most powerful military not only in the world today, but in ALL of history shows how exceptional our founding was.
What do you think the guys manning the nuclear missiles are going though when they sit in the underground bunker for 24 hours straight waiting for the half functioning phone to ring so they can end the world?
Being in the USAF is a lousy job for a lot of people. Flying drones has got to be one of the worst I can think of. Yea you are a pilot, but you literally fly a desk in a shipping container chained to the apron at some military base in the USA. All the "action" takes place at odd hours compared to your local time because that's when the sun is up where the drone is operating so shifts are ALWAYS at bad times. You'd never get enough sleep.... It's like endless shift work with no end in sight, with hours that start before 3am and don't end until about 5 pm locally.
Maybe the solution is to move these guys and gals to "forward" operating areas which are at least in the same general time zone? At least moving them to a location where the action takes place between noon and midnight would be helpful... People are more comfortable with late mornings and late evening shifts. It's this starting before the sun comes up that really sucks..
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I like that idea... ;)
with ownCloud or SeaFile, a Raspberry Pi 2, and whatever size USB you want.
Maybe for home use, but that's going to be pretty darn slow... You will effectively be limited to 1/2 of USB 2.0 speed (or less) because the Pi's network connection is via the single USB connection which is shared by that USB drive, the keyboard and the mouse etc.... Ouch...
Personally, I'd go with an old scrapped desktop PC running OpenMediaVault attached to your network. Just stuff in a cheap SATA interface or two, load up on cheap drives, raid them into a redundant array of some kind and then install "ownCloud" plugin (Open Media Vault). You may spend some cash on drives, but you will be much happier than using that Pi.
Once you get OMV up, there are plenty of ways to do backups of just about anything you like.....
Death, taxes, hard-drive failure.
Not in that order though.
Easy to say, hard to do. What about the wife and kids? Who's going to make the mortgage payment?
Look, many times these things are a question of "acceptable" and "unacceptable" risk. If the PHB says he's willing to accept the risk, even after I've explained it to him, then he gets what he wants within the bounds of the law and ethics. He signs my paycheck and he calls the shots. I suggest you come up with options for the PHB that are solutions to his problem though.
Of course, if you object on moral grounds, you are working at the wrong place and should start looking for another job now. You do what you are told, but leave ASAP. If you object on legal grounds, do it in writing, and if you are overruled in writing, run, don't walk, run. But I'll guarantee you, 99.999% of the time it won't come to that.
Verizon FIOS (aka Verizon broad band) has what they call "SPAM Filters" but they are pretty much worthless. It used to be pretty good, but they have apparently not managed the filters for a few years and now they are really not effective at all. It is so bad that I'm almost wondering if they actually HAVE a filter anymore, or is it just a check box on the web screen they put there to keep people from complaining....
I've been seriously considering buying a domain and setting up my own server just so I can get some reasonable filters back, but who's got time for that? What I do now is just use GMail for everything and I just use a throw away account for most things with specific filters to forward only what I want to see and keep my *real* e-mail address for only the most important things and close friends.
how about we just make it a crime punishable by 20 years for any IT professional to hook sensitive computers to the internet.
Even if the PHB makes you do it?
In my experience, it's not the IT guy that is responsible, it's the PHB who doesn't understand the risks, doesn't take the IT guy's advice or provide the necessary resources to do the job safely, they just want it done NOW!
Huh? You've got to be kidding me.. The A-10 has a huge GUN on it which is aimed by sight and where they do drop gravity bombs, the action is pretty darn up close and personal. The Drone pilot, if the drone is armed (which is NOT true in most cases) is going to shoot a missile from a long distance and view the result though a pretty low definition video feed. An A-10 pilot is at point blank range in comparison.
This is the military... IF the information leak is even slightly a problem, the cost of plugging the leak is about nothing. It may not be well tolerated by the troops, but it's not going to cost you much to put a standing order in place that says "When deployed or in transit to and from a deployment, you leave all personal electronic devices at home." Then you inspect the personal gear of any troops arriving to assure the order is being followed.
My point is that if this was a serious problem, any formal military with reasonable discipline can and would easily deal with this. That they choose not to tells me that the information being disclosed is not that important.
You think they actually SEE anything more than the A10 pilot does? I'm not discounting the effect of witnessing combat, even from afar, but if the USAF is having issues specifically with drone pilots over other pilots flying close air support missions there has to be some additional issue. So, It's about that yes, but there is more...
Full motion video with that much resolution is going to be EXPENSIVE to store for very long so they are not going to be doing that.
The problem here really is the storage and retrieval of such huge amounts of data, at least that's the problem once you get the data down and processed. I think this kind of stuff is great for getting high resolution still imagery but they are not going to be doing video except on special occasions and for special locations. You are going to have to order it in advance, and then wait until they manage to get it for you, but you won't get historical video for some random location because they won't be able to afford to keep it laying around for you.
Another problem they face is being able to provide timely data. The ISS orbit takes just longer than 90 min and if you are just taking pictures of what's going under the ISS at the time, it's going to be quite some time before you re-image the same patch of real-estate with similar lighting. You might get a few passes in a month, but depending on the weather and cloud situation it may be months before you get a picture of that one interesting spot again. Problem is, you don't really know in advance how long this interval will be, nor do you know who might need the imagery and be willing to pay for it if you keep it around. So what do you do? Buy disk space to keep it around and hope somebody pays you for it some day? I don't think so.
No what you do is take orders for future data and keep snapshots from the past with longer and longer intervals between the snapshots as it gets further back in the past. You throw away data as quickly as you can get it processed, fulfill your standing orders, then start winnowing though what's left for your updated snapshot from "today". But you simply must be down sizing your data storage, throwing away data which is worthless and down sampling stuff that might be interesting... But that's what "big data" is all about right? Running "map reduce" jobs and throwing away the original data because it's too big to keep around.
Somebody at AT&T forgot to make that recurring cash donation to the political party in power and *now* they will pay the price... Come on AT&T you know how this game is played, how the FCC does "business" here. Suck it up and write that check so we can get this overturned on appeal.
I predict next year, AT&T's rates will magically go up by $100,000,000 divided by the number of their customers.
Not even close... AT&T is just going to slow down a bit on their equipment purchases (say a couple of cell towers won't get upgraded or something) but their operating costs are going DOWN per subscriber, even with such a fine. They won't pass this on in the form of rate hikes...
They may just jack up the price of a cell phone by a few bucks or something, but their monthly rates will stay competitive, meaning they will be dropping like everybody else's are. What AT&T cannot do is lose market share. They cannot loose subscribers (I mean sheep) to fleece, because the point here is that you make just a little bit of money on a LOT of subscribers that way and the guy with the most subscribers is the winner.
So customers will pay by increased non-recurring costs, and possibly less signal coverage, but you can bet the advertised monthly rates won't do anything but go down.
Even with the FCC's ruling, "unlimited " data really isn't "unlimited" if there is a time and speed limit anywhere in the system. They haven't yet invented an unlimited speed data pipe for a cell phone and AT&T is fond of monthly billing....
But let's not get technical...
To be overturned in an appeal.
Not unless the campaign donations are brought up to current standing....
Wow, you really spew a lot of things without knowledge of the subject:
You too apparently..
1. For producing thrust impulses, any old explosion will do, but to actually impart enough energy there might be more effective ways than blowing something up next to it.... Hollywood movies aside..
2. Parking nuclear weapons in space is NOT accepted practice, slinging them on rockets and sending them though a ballistic arc to their targets is not the same thing as being in orbit. Sure, they can survive the rigors of being launched and doing a re-entry, but they are NOT built to stay in space very long. What's the average length of time from launch to target? 25 min? An hour?
3. Doing a ballistic trip and staying in orbit are two very different things. Case in point, Mercury missions verses Gemini missions from the 60's. With all due respect to John Glenn, It's a whole new level of complexity to be in orbit.
4. Sustaining G's is great, but that's not the problem in orbit or in space. The issues in space quickly become temperature management and power. Which is followed by navigation and fuel management once you start trying to stay in orbit. Being mechanically strong and able to handle high G-Loads is pointless. You just need to be strong enough to launch and handle the vibration of the assent phase, and after that? Nobody will care if you can do 2 G's or 2,000 G's.
5. I am not aware of any nuclear weapons being stored in space now or in the past. Any such storage would be in violation of standing international treaties, so if you have evidence of this I suggest you share it because we have a serious world wide problem if this is true. Plus, I would argue that ground storage of nuclear weapons would be MUCH safer, given that it's really easy to make them inert by physically removing some of the fissionable material. In fact, this is EXACTLY how they render nuclear weapons "safe", by removing what they call the "pill" from the device and storing them separately. So keep these babies on the ground where we have physical access and can keep them inert until needed.
6. Surface detonation of a nuclear device is FAR safer than one in LEO. The lower the altitude, the better... In fact underground would be good... The ground acts as a shield and although it would be a mess at ground zero, the blast radius would be smaller. I'm not saying a surface detonation would be a good thing, but that it is much preferred to a high altitude blast where the effects will go for thousands of miles.
Yes, we put nuclear powered spacecraft into space, I misspoke on that.. But what we DON'T do is put them in orbit. Nuclear powered craft are ONLY used for spacecraft which will be leaving earth orbit and not returning.
I'll try and explain why you don't want a nuclear device going off in space near the earth and rather have it in a bunker... First, you can physically render a nuclear device inert by removing parts of it. I believe they call it a "pill" and without it, it doesn't matter what you do to the device, it cannot become critical and cause a nuclear explosion. You store the "pill" separately from the device for a number of security reasons, and they don't come together until you want a device that can go critical when triggered.... Second, as odd as it may seem, having a device in a bunker is actually safer if it really did decide to go off on it's own. Being close to the ground, better yet UNDER ground helps to contain the blast and the adverse affects it creates. HEMP pulses are a serious problem as are X-Ray generation and a whole host of things which are bad from a nuclear device, but if the device is close to the ground, the area these things can affect is lower. So keep your nuclear devices UNDER ground, keep them disabled by storing that last bit of fissionable material in a totally different area...
Setting a device off in LEO is going to be a mess and it's going to affect a huge area.
1. Nuclear devices are ineffective in space. This means you will have to use BIG ones, or you will have to use them early to nudge the object onto a different path. Bigger devices are harder to throw into space and detection and targeting of dangerous objects makes the problem all that harder.
2. Nuclear weapons in space is in itself insane and banned by multiple international agreements due to the danger they pose.
3. Nuclear material in orbit is dangerous because what goes up, must come down. We don't put nuclear power generators in space for a reason and putting a fission device in space would present the same kind of difficulty.
4. Nuclear devices are pretty fragile devices. Believe it or not, but there are issues with a high radiation environment for any kind of electronics and nuclear fuses are no exception. High explosives also are kind of fickle things, when you start talking about temperature changes between extremes commonly experienced in space. Nuclear devices make use of shaped charges and special detonation timing, all which can be very temperature sensitive.
5. Nuclear fission devices require regular maintenance - It's not much maintenance, but it's enough to be a problem if you have to go into orbit to service the thing that I'd suggest you not consider it.
6. An accidental malfunction would be a SERIOUS problem for the near by earth. If you accidentally triggered one of these things, say a radiation induced trigger, or cosmic ray induced malfunction, a lot of things could get broken on earth.
So for the above reasons, I say NO, this is NOT a good idea.
Uber is on it's way to the grave yard...
Services like Uber have a serious problem. They want to not be taxi services because of the regulations, but they want to do business as if they where a taxi service. So on one hand, they want to claim to be a means of arranging a private deal between two private citizens and claiming their commission in the process, but on the other hand they don't want to run a taxi service or have any of their "drivers" running a taxi service.
I don't think we've seen the last of these kinds of issues for Uber and the like. Somehow, I'm figuring that things like this (Uber is actually an employer in some cases) or some of the other issues of needing commercially registered vehicles, commercial drivers licenses and associated medical certificates to go along with the required "on duty" and "rest" time regulations will eventually catch up with Uber and others.
Eventually, for Uber to stay in business the laws will need to change for taxi services in general. I don't think regulators will just go out, throw up their hands and say "Forget it, let Uber roll on". I think they will use stuff like this decision and enforcement of existing commercial transportation laws and force Uber drivers into a more traditional Taxi business with all that uncomfortable regulation and overhead that Uber so wishes to avoid. Hopefully, regulators will see the value of Uber and move to eliminate some of the more difficult regulations, but somehow I figure the local government is more likely to respond to that taxi service in their voting district than the ramblings of some internet company in Cali who cannot vote for anything.
Huh? Enlighten me how having only ONE income means you cannot be an independent contractor? Are you SURE you mean what you said? Because the implications of that logical position are pretty staggering when applied to the system as a whole...
Just because we can easily track individual troops on Social Media, doesn't mean we don't have other ways of knowing what's going on. Of course it's nice to get independent confirmation of troop movements from external sources, but if the Russians really thought there was an operational risk here, they'd fix it. It's not like it's a hard problem to fix, just make your troops leave their personal devices at home. Further, The Russians are NOT stupid and obviously recognize this problem and have taken steps to keep their troops off of social media with information that really matters.
My guess (and yes, I'm only guessing) the Russian's fully understand what information they are allowing out though social media and they have decided that it's not worth the effort to stop the information leak more than they already have. Plus, I'm sure we know a whole lot more about what's really going on than the Russians would like us to know, even without the social media angle. Further, I wouldn't put it past the Russians to be using social media to pass misinformation too. After all, this is just a revamped cold war.
Blah blah. How do you think Britain expected to hold the continent, you're completely indoctrinated in the myth of American exceptionalism. It was inevitable America would go solo. And yes companies try and screw people over all the time, that's why there are so many laws to try and restrict them from doing so.
So this whole declaration of independence thing was pointless? That King George was just putting up a token defense and all the killing during the revolutionary war was just for show? Or that if the colonists had just waited a bit longer they would have been handed their independence, no struggle required?
The writing may have been on the wall, but I don't think the king was able to read it, nor was the whole idea of being independent inevitable. There IS something exceptional about the founding of this country. There are pivotal truths in the Declaration of Independence which had NEVER been put together all in one place before, and NEVER had be used as a whole to create a system of government. A form of government which had never existed in the history of the world, one where the rights of the citizen are protected and the role of government is limited by it's very founding documents.
Of course this was exceptional. It may not be important to YOU, but history has proven that the ideas and events that birthed the United States as an independent country were and are exceptional and unique, regardless of how you feel about it. That this country has been in existence for more than 200 years, prospered greatly and risen to have the most influence, the most wealth, the most powerful military not only in the world today, but in ALL of history shows how exceptional our founding was.
What do you think the guys manning the nuclear missiles are going though when they sit in the underground bunker for 24 hours straight waiting for the half functioning phone to ring so they can end the world?
Being in the USAF is a lousy job for a lot of people. Flying drones has got to be one of the worst I can think of. Yea you are a pilot, but you literally fly a desk in a shipping container chained to the apron at some military base in the USA. All the "action" takes place at odd hours compared to your local time because that's when the sun is up where the drone is operating so shifts are ALWAYS at bad times. You'd never get enough sleep.... It's like endless shift work with no end in sight, with hours that start before 3am and don't end until about 5 pm locally.
Maybe the solution is to move these guys and gals to "forward" operating areas which are at least in the same general time zone? At least moving them to a location where the action takes place between noon and midnight would be helpful... People are more comfortable with late mornings and late evening shifts. It's this starting before the sun comes up that really sucks..
You are right, they just need a longer commute to be able to de-stress from the day a bit more before getting home to the wife and kiddies..
Do you know anything about the GPL, capitalism or copyrights?
Yes, do you?
Once is a typo... but twice needs correcting: Torvalds not Travois.
Thanks, darn autocorrect and horrible spelling skills... I apologize, there is no ill intent...