Same deal at Pizza Hut... I had a job with them porting from SCO Unix to Linux. Until they started a hugely expensive attempt to move over to windows NT. I'll bet that stuff is STILL in the stores (not the windows mess, I think they scrapped that after I left. )
Ah, come on. Open source intelligence? What's unusual about this?
I remember from Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" where the CIA was watching Cable News, getting lots of information from what was freely available from the likes of CNN and Fox. I also remember watching CNN reporting from Down Town Baghdad while the US was dropping bombs at the start of desert storm. Can you say instant BDA on the raid? "Yes, our power just went out! Good thing we have battery powered equipment so we can show you what's happening next to ground zero. Oh wow, Baghdad TV just went off the air too!" You know that this often happens in real life.
What's important about this story is that the North Koreans messed up, assuming they intended to keep this development a secret. Somehow, I doubt they made a mistake, but this release was calculated, knowing that the west would figure out what's going on. They are simply too controlling.
Full disclosure... I've been a Solaris Admin, off and on for years who has only been briefly involved with using zones
The zones idea is roughly equivalent to chroot (or schroot in some use cases) on Linux. So if you like zones, you can do almost the same thing on a Linux box.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Solaris as an OS. The reality is that Solaris is going to die and go the way of SCO Unix. The sooner it dies, the better at this point.
Nah. Oracle would rather kill Solaris than let that happen.
Good riddance... Solaris is nothing special or unique, at least these days. It's best feature was that it ran on Sparc based hardware, which when Sun Micro Systems was in it's heyday said "Rock Solid reliability". So if you wanted something to run for a decade or two, you purchased Sun hardware which locked you into Solaris. Now days, who cares about Solaris? Running Solaris on X86 hardware it is pointless because it buys you nothing in reliability while costing you in obscurity. Just go to a stable Linux distribution.
The ONLY reason you field Solaris now, is if your customer demands it or your legacy application is not easily ported. The one possible exception to this might be if you are putting up an Oracle cluster.
Solaris is going to die... It probably should too.
I've always wondered what RH could do about CentOS. It was obvious that RH wasn't all that happy with CentOS, at least at first. With CentOS having to refer to "the up-line vender" and removing all the RH references and graphics it has always seemed to be the Red Headed step child.
So, does this mean RH has embraced the concept of CentOS, where "free is free" to download?
I would assume that the methods used to collect this data are CLASSIFIED. Why else are they trying to get their hands on Snowden for leaking some of it?
IF you have classified information to store, you DON'T put it on third party systems unless they are under the necessary controls required to handle classified data. So, putting this data on contracted storage is NOT going to involve calling Amazon AWS for an account and just copy it up and pay the bill. So in reality you'd just be contracting somebody to build and run a storage solution for you.
Now *could* the government go out and *contract* with somebody to store their data someplace? Sure, it might even make sense to push it off to a number of contractors, but you NEVER, (and I mean NEVER) put classified data into public view (i.e. on systems you don't directly control), even encrypted, unless you have no choice. If you do, you are being STUPID. The more sensitive the information, the more this is true.
Assuming you don't use a one-time pad cypher, encryption doesn't mean that the adversary cannot read it only that they will have to break your encryption to see it. Brute forcing a key is *always* possible, the question is really "How Long" will it be, on average, before they will be able to view it, because they will eventually be able to.
And my opinion hasn't changed. They are just toying with us and need to cut to the chase. What can we build so you won't be here asking for money again?
Eventually we will be able to use the old one as a subway around the entire planet.
Why not just go for that now.. What are we wasting all this time shooting for 100 TeV, what about a relativistic bending 1 Million TeV . Heck, why not just put one in solar orbit where size would be less of a problem and you could avoid all the vacuum chambers, pumps and the cost of digging the tunnel.
But my point is that you get what you pay for as an employer. I.E. You get the performance you measure. If your employees start to collaborate because they get bonuses for it, GREAT, assuming that's what the employer wanted. If an employer doesn't measure the right things and pays bonuses for things they really don't want, who's fault is it?
I'll tell you though, few employers actually take the time to measure the right things. That's why we end up with huge bonus payouts to executives who just presided over the bankrupting of their companies or mindless "stack ranking" processes that do more harm than good because they are not objective or based on what is actually *important* to the company. Such companies are measuring the wrong things, and then reap the pain they cause themselves.
Yep, they are, but they are also ballistic objects for all but the boost phase of their trip. Once the rocket runs out of fuel, an ICBM does not change the path it is on.
They are discussing hypersonic versions of low level cruise missiles which are not ballistic. Low level cruise missiles are notoriously hard to detect, track and destroy even though they are usually subsonic. Hypersonic would make the detect, track and destroy problem harder.
Conventional missiles have been supersonic for oh, 60 years or so now.
Yeah. That's why we're talking about the new hypersonic missiles.
It would be like saying "My Nissan GT-R is faster than a Ferrari 360, so I'm sure I can win a Formula 1 race."
Major military powers have been fielding hypersonic air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles for decades too. That's why we're talking about the (relatively) new hypersonic ground attack missiles.
Actually, what IS new is the low level nature of the hypersonic missiles and the massively increased range. Air to Air weapons are pretty limited in range, the new crop of missiles that they are discussing are just faster versions of cruse missiles that have intercontinental range.
Stack Ranking only works on a short term basis where you want to trim the fat.
If you do it for too long, two things happen (a) you start cutting into good performers (b) people will not collaborate to make others look good
I'm not so sure those are the only two options. Like any system that ranks employees performance, it's all about what you are actually measuring in the ranking system. If you consider "collaboration" important and have a way to measure it that works, then I can assure you that employees will respond with more of it.
The issue is that most companies don't want to take the time to design performance rating systems where they are actually measuring what they really want. So they resort to using short cuts or stupid metrics and then get what they deserve.
Ahh yes.. VHF beams look a lot like TV antennas to the untrained eye... But I didn't tell you that.
Of course the antenna on my home certainly IS being used for my TV (wink wink). Why is it not pointed in any of the right directions? Don't ask.
But this doesn't fix the problem with HF antennas. Those things take a lot more metal, so trying to make them out to be TV antennas is a bit of a stretch. Even a small 20Meter beam is obviously not being used for TV, but you might get that one by the HOA Nazi's if you beat them down on a REAL TV antenna first.
Texas and Illinois share many competitive similarities.... (snip)
You lost me right there. I've lived in both states, and apart from some minor similarities in road striping colors and signs, these two states simply do NOT compare.
Personally, I much prefer Texas for political, financial and social reasons. It's a little cooler in Illinois, but Texas is worth the handful of hot days. Them people up north in Illinois are generally crazy and angry. But I'd be angry too, if I was taxed like they are... Give me Texas!
Hell, get your ham licence and put up a 100' tower. They cannot regulate amateur radio antenna installations, either.
Actually, I already have my Extra so I'm good to go with a ham license. I'd love to up up a tower and would if I could.
Problem is, HOA's are NOT subject to the FCC preemption of local ordinances for antennas. The sate, county and city must provide "reasonable accommodation" for ham radio antennas, but HOA's are seen as "private contracts" and the FCC specifically says it didn't preempt deed restrictions. The city, county or state must allow ham radio antennas by order of the FCC while my HOA can still ban them (and chooses to do so.) So, I'm still hostage of the HOA's antenna restrictions. I wish we could fix that, but the FCC has made it clear it won't consider doing that and so far, we've had zero luck getting any federal laws though congress to do that.
So if you want to tweak them, stick with the TV antennas. There is nothing they can really do about them.
Disclaimer, I'm no fan of this. However, this is article is missing critical information, namely, how much water do these drought ridden communities normally use? The number 97 billion sounds like a lot, but without some sort of baseline for comparison it could actually be a small percentage of total water demands for a community.
If one does some Fermi math on this, then it is a little less than 2 gallons per person per day per person in Texas. That's less water than a toilet uses. Are any of these drought ridden areas telling people to not flush their toilets?
I'm betting that we waste more water per day by leaving the water running when brushing our teeth than we could ever hope to consume in fracking. Talk about grasping at straws...
I like the way you think... Also, you need to put up a huge TV antenna or two.. Where most HOA's restrict antennas, such restrictions cannot apply to antennas for TV reception. The FCC says they cannot prevent you from putting up TV reception antennas and has specifically preempted any such rules from being enforced.
Nuclear fuel management is a complex business that is not intuitive at times. The operators at Chernobyl learned this the hard way.
Remember that nuclear plants just use a different fuel. They have all the same complexities of fossil fueled plants, once you get the water boiling. However, the heat source is vastly more complex to manage. As a result, nuclear plants are harder to manage and are less flexible.
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Same deal at Pizza Hut... I had a job with them porting from SCO Unix to Linux. Until they started a hugely expensive attempt to move over to windows NT. I'll bet that stuff is STILL in the stores (not the windows mess, I think they scrapped that after I left. )
Ah, come on. Open source intelligence? What's unusual about this?
I remember from Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" where the CIA was watching Cable News, getting lots of information from what was freely available from the likes of CNN and Fox. I also remember watching CNN reporting from Down Town Baghdad while the US was dropping bombs at the start of desert storm. Can you say instant BDA on the raid? "Yes, our power just went out! Good thing we have battery powered equipment so we can show you what's happening next to ground zero. Oh wow, Baghdad TV just went off the air too!" You know that this often happens in real life.
What's important about this story is that the North Koreans messed up, assuming they intended to keep this development a secret. Somehow, I doubt they made a mistake, but this release was calculated, knowing that the west would figure out what's going on. They are simply too controlling.
Full disclosure... I've been a Solaris Admin, off and on for years who has only been briefly involved with using zones
The zones idea is roughly equivalent to chroot (or schroot in some use cases) on Linux. So if you like zones, you can do almost the same thing on a Linux box.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Solaris as an OS. The reality is that Solaris is going to die and go the way of SCO Unix. The sooner it dies, the better at this point.
Nah. Oracle would rather kill Solaris than let that happen.
Good riddance... Solaris is nothing special or unique, at least these days. It's best feature was that it ran on Sparc based hardware, which when Sun Micro Systems was in it's heyday said "Rock Solid reliability". So if you wanted something to run for a decade or two, you purchased Sun hardware which locked you into Solaris. Now days, who cares about Solaris? Running Solaris on X86 hardware it is pointless because it buys you nothing in reliability while costing you in obscurity. Just go to a stable Linux distribution.
The ONLY reason you field Solaris now, is if your customer demands it or your legacy application is not easily ported. The one possible exception to this might be if you are putting up an Oracle cluster.
Solaris is going to die... It probably should too.
Buy them! Or hire them like in this case..
I've always wondered what RH could do about CentOS. It was obvious that RH wasn't all that happy with CentOS, at least at first. With CentOS having to refer to "the up-line vender" and removing all the RH references and graphics it has always seemed to be the Red Headed step child.
So, does this mean RH has embraced the concept of CentOS, where "free is free" to download?
"In Soviet America, home automation automates--" nah, I got nothing.
NSA data mining you...
I would assume that the methods used to collect this data are CLASSIFIED. Why else are they trying to get their hands on Snowden for leaking some of it?
IF you have classified information to store, you DON'T put it on third party systems unless they are under the necessary controls required to handle classified data. So, putting this data on contracted storage is NOT going to involve calling Amazon AWS for an account and just copy it up and pay the bill. So in reality you'd just be contracting somebody to build and run a storage solution for you.
Now *could* the government go out and *contract* with somebody to store their data someplace? Sure, it might even make sense to push it off to a number of contractors, but you NEVER, (and I mean NEVER) put classified data into public view (i.e. on systems you don't directly control), even encrypted, unless you have no choice. If you do, you are being STUPID. The more sensitive the information, the more this is true.
Assuming you don't use a one-time pad cypher, encryption doesn't mean that the adversary cannot read it only that they will have to break your encryption to see it. Brute forcing a key is *always* possible, the question is really "How Long" will it be, on average, before they will be able to view it, because they will eventually be able to.
This is old news, and was reported on this very site last year: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
And my opinion hasn't changed. They are just toying with us and need to cut to the chase. What can we build so you won't be here asking for money again?
And a new pair of roller skates, and a new girl friend, and a new life.
But I LIKE my life AND my wife...
10 new wheels might be nice, but can we go with MOTORIZED ones?
Eventually we will be able to use the old one as a subway around the entire planet.
Why not just go for that now.. What are we wasting all this time shooting for 100 TeV, what about a relativistic bending 1 Million TeV . Heck, why not just put one in solar orbit where size would be less of a problem and you could avoid all the vacuum chambers, pumps and the cost of digging the tunnel.
But my point is that you get what you pay for as an employer. I.E. You get the performance you measure. If your employees start to collaborate because they get bonuses for it, GREAT, assuming that's what the employer wanted. If an employer doesn't measure the right things and pays bonuses for things they really don't want, who's fault is it?
I'll tell you though, few employers actually take the time to measure the right things. That's why we end up with huge bonus payouts to executives who just presided over the bankrupting of their companies or mindless "stack ranking" processes that do more harm than good because they are not objective or based on what is actually *important* to the company. Such companies are measuring the wrong things, and then reap the pain they cause themselves.
Max is Mach 10, but the problem is they are low level cruise missiles which the Patriot radar would never see until it was too late to fire.
Aren't ICBMs already hypersonic?
Yep, they are, but they are also ballistic objects for all but the boost phase of their trip. Once the rocket runs out of fuel, an ICBM does not change the path it is on.
They are discussing hypersonic versions of low level cruise missiles which are not ballistic. Low level cruise missiles are notoriously hard to detect, track and destroy even though they are usually subsonic. Hypersonic would make the detect, track and destroy problem harder.
Conventional missiles have been supersonic for oh, 60 years or so now.
Yeah. That's why we're talking about the new hypersonic missiles.
It would be like saying "My Nissan GT-R is faster than a Ferrari 360, so I'm sure I can win a Formula 1 race."
Major military powers have been fielding hypersonic air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles for decades too. That's why we're talking about the (relatively) new hypersonic ground attack missiles.
Actually, what IS new is the low level nature of the hypersonic missiles and the massively increased range. Air to Air weapons are pretty limited in range, the new crop of missiles that they are discussing are just faster versions of cruse missiles that have intercontinental range.
They've gone to PLAID!
Stack Ranking only works on a short term basis where you want to trim the fat.
If you do it for too long, two things happen (a) you start cutting into good performers (b) people will not collaborate to make others look good
I'm not so sure those are the only two options. Like any system that ranks employees performance, it's all about what you are actually measuring in the ranking system. If you consider "collaboration" important and have a way to measure it that works, then I can assure you that employees will respond with more of it.
The issue is that most companies don't want to take the time to design performance rating systems where they are actually measuring what they really want. So they resort to using short cuts or stupid metrics and then get what they deserve.
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I honestly don't understand what the fuss is about.
Was it designed by your son or something?
Perhaps he works for them? Just saying..
Ahh yes.. VHF beams look a lot like TV antennas to the untrained eye... But I didn't tell you that.
Of course the antenna on my home certainly IS being used for my TV (wink wink). Why is it not pointed in any of the right directions? Don't ask.
But this doesn't fix the problem with HF antennas. Those things take a lot more metal, so trying to make them out to be TV antennas is a bit of a stretch. Even a small 20Meter beam is obviously not being used for TV, but you might get that one by the HOA Nazi's if you beat them down on a REAL TV antenna first.
Texas and Illinois share many competitive similarities .... (snip)
You lost me right there. I've lived in both states, and apart from some minor similarities in road striping colors and signs, these two states simply do NOT compare.
Personally, I much prefer Texas for political, financial and social reasons. It's a little cooler in Illinois, but Texas is worth the handful of hot days. Them people up north in Illinois are generally crazy and angry. But I'd be angry too, if I was taxed like they are... Give me Texas!
Hell, get your ham licence and put up a 100' tower. They cannot regulate amateur radio antenna installations, either.
Actually, I already have my Extra so I'm good to go with a ham license. I'd love to up up a tower and would if I could.
Problem is, HOA's are NOT subject to the FCC preemption of local ordinances for antennas. The sate, county and city must provide "reasonable accommodation" for ham radio antennas, but HOA's are seen as "private contracts" and the FCC specifically says it didn't preempt deed restrictions. The city, county or state must allow ham radio antennas by order of the FCC while my HOA can still ban them (and chooses to do so.) So, I'm still hostage of the HOA's antenna restrictions. I wish we could fix that, but the FCC has made it clear it won't consider doing that and so far, we've had zero luck getting any federal laws though congress to do that.
So if you want to tweak them, stick with the TV antennas. There is nothing they can really do about them.
Disclaimer, I'm no fan of this. However, this is article is missing critical information, namely, how much water do these drought ridden communities normally use? The number 97 billion sounds like a lot, but without some sort of baseline for comparison it could actually be a small percentage of total water demands for a community. If one does some Fermi math on this, then it is a little less than 2 gallons per person per day per person in Texas. That's less water than a toilet uses. Are any of these drought ridden areas telling people to not flush their toilets?
I'm betting that we waste more water per day by leaving the water running when brushing our teeth than we could ever hope to consume in fracking. Talk about grasping at straws...
And here I thought that was only done in Illinois...
I like the way you think... Also, you need to put up a huge TV antenna or two.. Where most HOA's restrict antennas, such restrictions cannot apply to antennas for TV reception. The FCC says they cannot prevent you from putting up TV reception antennas and has specifically preempted any such rules from being enforced.
Nuclear fuel management is a complex business that is not intuitive at times. The operators at Chernobyl learned this the hard way.
Remember that nuclear plants just use a different fuel. They have all the same complexities of fossil fueled plants, once you get the water boiling. However, the heat source is vastly more complex to manage. As a result, nuclear plants are harder to manage and are less flexible.