latest by Patrick Chappelle on cagle.com... multi-medalled muckety-muck in uniform in front of an endless form of servers, telling some hapless geek at a console, "We have all the phone calls. You sort out the threats."
that's what they need. plodders to wade through the muck.
news flash: any antenna provides voltage. usually in the microvolt range. to get enough voltage like they did, say, enough to blow a FET in the front end of a receiver at basically no current, you have to put the antenna in one hell of a strong RF field. a field strong enough to produce enough current to charge batteries or operate CMOS circuits is a field too strong to stay in, according to FCC emission guidelines. so I see this as a project for a grade, and not a "discovery."
there are undisclosed sums in bills out of Congress all the time when it comes to security. the way it works is, there is a backroom deal between the chairman and the agency, and Treasury is told there is authorization for $???,???,???.?? for account XYZ.
committee chairmen are in on a ton of secrets, and go along with a bunch more on the order of "I need this sum (flashes paper quickly and back in the pocket) on authorization of the President for national security purposes." the rest of the committee trusts the chairman on this, and Congress has a little routine in which they all ignore these things. anybody with a problem can ask the chairman WTF this is about, and probably get the answer, "got a problem, can't tell you, they won't tell me, but it's urgent."
not everything is public. just ask your regional VP about what's critical for next July...
gaping holes in the software for black hats, with all the security of a row of shoeboxes on a busy street for their business secrets. there are no grownups there.
from perfume to... not... our friend sulfur is usually there.
which could lead to a side discussion, instead of snide discussions, about how well the electrothingies inside the case will fare being cooped up with the palm rest in a laptop carrier after a few years.
I'd look up sulfoxones, as an example, if my lunch break wasn't over.
the obvious product upgrade at this point is to rename the line the Dell Attitude, and piss on ya if you don't buy the extended warranty. so you have done the cyberworld a favor in pointing this out.
who was the reporter who initiated the Info World techporn/rumor column, was dismissed, replaced with a series of other writers under the same masthead, and won a court judgement allowing him to continue using the pseudonym in his commercial endeavors. who has been hosted from PBS to his own website, and runs a venture capitalist operation, in addition to calling out the schnooks from cringely.com for close to a decade.
yeah, that guy. bigger than his bosses, as a court ruled;)
the speedometer is supposed to be a fixed device (or nowadays, daemon) that converts the turns of the transmission shaft, with tables of which gear does what, to an approximation of linear speed.
two gotchas... output of the shaft sensor hardware, and table lookup. depending on how much processing is between A and Z, fertile ground.
your readout device may be pristine, but as we all know, GIGO.
that frankly, who gives a rip. we are still stuck on XP at work until somebody finally gets off their wallet and completes the Win7 upgrade project.
I finally did it at home, picked up a bargain laptop for the hamshack. 73 critical upgrades for Win8 later, all I have to do is fight the "Modern" interface. it's good exercise sliding to the bottom left all the time.
the eMac is another issue, but that's my editing machine...
(1) there is so much cruft under the surface in Windows (fake DOS calls, umpteen levels of virtualism, etc) that the machine expends a ton of cycles doing what is NOP in newer systems not supporting 1980 calls.
(2) optimization isn't pretty and doesn't sell, so Microsoft is not cleaning house.
it took a massive fubar in designing and rebuilding transfer units at Diablo Canyon to get that plant shut down, and they're built on top of an active fault zone.
we might not get any Gen 3 plants running, frankly, the cost/benefit ratios have cancelled all but two being built now. and one of them keeps getting delayed.
but that didn't help the Three Mile Island operators any, now, did it?
you have to be at the top of your game to keep the dragons at bay in a nuke plant.
there is so much fouled up at Fukushima Daiichi that the training manuals and game plans are straight out the window and into the fire. this means you can't follow the manuals any more. and THAT means that a one-man job needs to be cross-checked at every step by somebody who is in position to monitor the stage being worked on.
and THAT... means the same old team can easily be outclassed by the breeding dragons in the lairs. we have already seen TEPCO stumbling around so many times like it takes two members of the shore patrol to drag them back to the ship for Captain's Mast.
TEPCO is, has not been for a long time, and will never be in a position to manage the catastrophe they set forth. this is no place for yes-men who are slaves to 40-year-old process.
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latest by Patrick Chappelle on cagle.com... multi-medalled muckety-muck in uniform in front of an endless form of servers, telling some hapless geek at a console, "We have all the phone calls. You sort out the threats."
that's what they need. plodders to wade through the muck.
news flash: any antenna provides voltage. usually in the microvolt range. to get enough voltage like they did, say, enough to blow a FET in the front end of a receiver at basically no current, you have to put the antenna in one hell of a strong RF field. a field strong enough to produce enough current to charge batteries or operate CMOS circuits is a field too strong to stay in, according to FCC emission guidelines. so I see this as a project for a grade, and not a "discovery."
there are undisclosed sums in bills out of Congress all the time when it comes to security. the way it works is, there is a backroom deal between the chairman and the agency, and Treasury is told there is authorization for $???,???,???.?? for account XYZ.
committee chairmen are in on a ton of secrets, and go along with a bunch more on the order of "I need this sum (flashes paper quickly and back in the pocket) on authorization of the President for national security purposes." the rest of the committee trusts the chairman on this, and Congress has a little routine in which they all ignore these things. anybody with a problem can ask the chairman WTF this is about, and probably get the answer, "got a problem, can't tell you, they won't tell me, but it's urgent."
not everything is public. just ask your regional VP about what's critical for next July...
or old satellite TV antennas?
gaping holes in the software for black hats, with all the security of a row of shoeboxes on a busy street for their business secrets. there are no grownups there.
unless you are using DOS
from perfume to... not... our friend sulfur is usually there.
which could lead to a side discussion, instead of snide discussions, about how well the electrothingies inside the case will fare being cooped up with the palm rest in a laptop carrier after a few years.
I'd look up sulfoxones, as an example, if my lunch break wasn't over.
we're starting to find out ;)
they purr when they're doing it, too.
the obvious product upgrade at this point is to rename the line the Dell Attitude, and piss on ya if you don't buy the extended warranty. so you have done the cyberworld a favor in pointing this out.
obviously this is why they don't ship mice with laptops, they were all eaten.
who was the reporter who initiated the Info World techporn/rumor column, was dismissed, replaced with a series of other writers under the same masthead, and won a court judgement allowing him to continue using the pseudonym in his commercial endeavors. who has been hosted from PBS to his own website, and runs a venture capitalist operation, in addition to calling out the schnooks from cringely.com for close to a decade.
yeah, that guy. bigger than his bosses, as a court ruled ;)
the speedometer is supposed to be a fixed device (or nowadays, daemon) that converts the turns of the transmission shaft, with tables of which gear does what, to an approximation of linear speed.
two gotchas... output of the shaft sensor hardware, and table lookup. depending on how much processing is between A and Z, fertile ground.
your readout device may be pristine, but as we all know, GIGO.
that frankly, who gives a rip. we are still stuck on XP at work until somebody finally gets off their wallet and completes the Win7 upgrade project.
I finally did it at home, picked up a bargain laptop for the hamshack. 73 critical upgrades for Win8 later, all I have to do is fight the "Modern" interface. it's good exercise sliding to the bottom left all the time.
the eMac is another issue, but that's my editing machine...
get caught spying, get expelled from NoValueIstan. this is the same thing.
otherwise known as shit on the neighbors, they won't like you any more.
something three-year-olds catch onto quickly, but governments never do...
put all the kerosene-powered fails in one place.
(1) there is so much cruft under the surface in Windows (fake DOS calls, umpteen levels of virtualism, etc) that the machine expends a ton of cycles doing what is NOP in newer systems not supporting 1980 calls.
(2) optimization isn't pretty and doesn't sell, so Microsoft is not cleaning house.
an army of ants adding spurious comments into the code base. helpful comments like /* this section queries the SQL get on every character typed */
on the other hand, reading the daily newspapers, maybe it's about time.
believe it is in everybody's plant license that they must be continually regulated.
rolling blackouts, anybody?
witness the smartphone makers and Android. can you upgrade your year-old phone to Moldy Pickle, or whatever the latest version is?
hell, no.
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it took a massive fubar in designing and rebuilding transfer units at Diablo Canyon to get that plant shut down, and they're built on top of an active fault zone.
we might not get any Gen 3 plants running, frankly, the cost/benefit ratios have cancelled all but two being built now. and one of them keeps getting delayed.
but that didn't help the Three Mile Island operators any, now, did it?
you have to be at the top of your game to keep the dragons at bay in a nuke plant.
there is so much fouled up at Fukushima Daiichi that the training manuals and game plans are straight out the window and into the fire. this means you can't follow the manuals any more. and THAT means that a one-man job needs to be cross-checked at every step by somebody who is in position to monitor the stage being worked on.
and THAT... means the same old team can easily be outclassed by the breeding dragons in the lairs. we have already seen TEPCO stumbling around so many times like it takes two members of the shore patrol to drag them back to the ship for Captain's Mast.
TEPCO is, has not been for a long time, and will never be in a position to manage the catastrophe they set forth. this is no place for yes-men who are slaves to 40-year-old process.
Clippy is actually running the joint.