"Listen, I can't make that judgement for you, but if you call [Mr. Boss] at local [local] he'll probably give you a new phone if you complain enough. You didn't hear that from me, all right?"
Don't worry about things you can't change and can't control. If it's not in your authority range, IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
When the fab labs make parts, they try to make everything space-qualified. (Aerospace-rated). Those that fail some of the tests (operating temperature limits, g-shock resistance, environmental ruggedness, etc.) go into the mil-spec bin. Those that fail those tests get dumped into the automotive bin. Fail the automotive tests, and the parts go into the industrial bin. The chips that fail that set of tests go into the consumer bin. If you buy consumer-grade chips and put them into a case that's going into space, it's pretty much a guaranteed failure.
I'm not sure where the idea that the parts are older comes from. That used to be the case because we couldn't make high-frequency parts in solid-state and had to use vacuum tubes, but that got fixed a decade ago.
Yeah, maybe the huge deep pockets that the military has can figure out a way to make a braincap. So what? DARPA built the Internet as a nuclear-weapons-resistant communications suite. Now it's a global information network that governments and media moguls around the globe are afraid of.
"Okay, Mike, get on the line with Martin from the Yard, just keep talking about boring shit for two hours... Uh, take this file, it's the legal briefing for case 345-12A. Read it out."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah, some fucking hackers got the credentials for the conference call, we want to see what they'd do with the intel."
"Fine, but you're buying donuts for the meeting on Friday."
I'm a military contractor. While I'm waiting for a file to download, I'm posting on/. My other monitor has a spec on it right now.
Nothing I work on with this computer is Classified, FULL STOP. 99% of the documents aren't classified anyway. There's no point and it just makes it harder to work with them.
If for some reason I want to look at a Classified document, I have to do this: 1. Request the document. 2. Get that document request approved and sent to me via a CD with the material burned onto it. 3. Go to the secure room with a supervisor and sign in. 4. Check the secure machine. 5. Get the HDD for the secure machine out of the vault. 6. Power up the secure machine. It doesn't have LAN or Internet connections. I'm pretty sure the room itself doesn't have ports. 7. Close the windows and blinds. 8. Work on the Classified document. 9. Power down the computer, put the drive back in the vault, sign out.
For some documents, there's also apparently a debriefing. I haven't looked at any of those.
Come to think of it, they should encrypt those disks. I don't think they do. I'll see about getting that change made.
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"Hi guys, we heard you're in the Nuclear Fun Club now. We've been there for a good 70 years now, good times, good times. Here's the list of everyone else that's in the Nuclear Fun Club. If any of yours ever go missing and/or get used outside of testing or declared nuclear war, everyone on this list will burn you to a cinder.
"Nuclear Fun Club. You join forever. Seventy years for us. Good times, good times."
If you've got the tools to do it, just buy the pre-assembled system and remove the solder. (Heat-gun soldering stations usually come with a removal gun as well.)
Voila, you've got your kit.
Now put it back together. Now you've done not just one, but TWO difficult, unnecessary things.
I worked with one woman who was a brilliant solderer. Production put a part upside down and she was able to solder it on so it worked. (For firmware development, bought me two weeks of dev time.) It was a QF44 PIC, I was astonished when I saw it.
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It's easier to pirate than it is to download paid copies.
If it was the other way around piracy would drop off like a brick.
I parsed that last bit as "then == ale", and realized it was time to go home. Then does in face equal ale.
Wherever you are, it's well past time to go home. ;)
Here's what you have to do:
"Listen, I can't make that judgement for you, but if you call [Mr. Boss] at local [local] he'll probably give you a new phone if you complain enough. You didn't hear that from me, all right?"
Don't worry about things you can't change and can't control. If it's not in your authority range, IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Amateur. My software is so good it doesn't even NEED hardware.
Nope.
When the fab labs make parts, they try to make everything space-qualified. (Aerospace-rated). Those that fail some of the tests (operating temperature limits, g-shock resistance, environmental ruggedness, etc.) go into the mil-spec bin. Those that fail those tests get dumped into the automotive bin. Fail the automotive tests, and the parts go into the industrial bin. The chips that fail that set of tests go into the consumer bin. If you buy consumer-grade chips and put them into a case that's going into space, it's pretty much a guaranteed failure.
I'm not sure where the idea that the parts are older comes from. That used to be the case because we couldn't make high-frequency parts in solid-state and had to use vacuum tubes, but that got fixed a decade ago.
Yeah, maybe the huge deep pockets that the military has can figure out a way to make a braincap. So what? DARPA built the Internet as a nuclear-weapons-resistant communications suite. Now it's a global information network that governments and media moguls around the globe are afraid of.
I'll add both those books to my list for later.
Maybe I haven't, but since you figured that I knew the title just magically then I guess I won't know if I've seen it or not.
If you're not offended, you're not living in a free society.
Maybe that's why the call was so boring.
"Okay, Mike, get on the line with Martin from the Yard, just keep talking about boring shit for two hours... Uh, take this file, it's the legal briefing for case 345-12A. Read it out."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah, some fucking hackers got the credentials for the conference call, we want to see what they'd do with the intel."
"Fine, but you're buying donuts for the meeting on Friday."
Or any indie artist that has an MP3 on their website.
We had gridlock in Canada for four years and it was glorious.
We're the only country on the planet that's not in a recession right now.
Mark, get a fucking /. account already.
Well that's the fucked up thing.
I'm a military contractor. While I'm waiting for a file to download, I'm posting on /. My other monitor has a spec on it right now.
Nothing I work on with this computer is Classified, FULL STOP. 99% of the documents aren't classified anyway. There's no point and it just makes it harder to work with them.
If for some reason I want to look at a Classified document, I have to do this:
1. Request the document.
2. Get that document request approved and sent to me via a CD with the material burned onto it.
3. Go to the secure room with a supervisor and sign in.
4. Check the secure machine.
5. Get the HDD for the secure machine out of the vault.
6. Power up the secure machine. It doesn't have LAN or Internet connections. I'm pretty sure the room itself doesn't have ports.
7. Close the windows and blinds.
8. Work on the Classified document.
9. Power down the computer, put the drive back in the vault, sign out.
For some documents, there's also apparently a debriefing. I haven't looked at any of those.
Come to think of it, they should encrypt those disks. I don't think they do. I'll see about getting that change made.
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Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
Yes, it would be trivial to solder on normally.
Production had the pin order flipped, so the chip had to be soldered upside down.
Double extra points if you're wanking with that other hand.
I'm a military contractor so I'm getting a
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A MIL-SPEC photon would have the weight of a neutron.
Why not just go over there?
"Hi guys, we heard you're in the Nuclear Fun Club now. We've been there for a good 70 years now, good times, good times. Here's the list of everyone else that's in the Nuclear Fun Club. If any of yours ever go missing and/or get used outside of testing or declared nuclear war, everyone on this list will burn you to a cinder.
"Nuclear Fun Club. You join forever. Seventy years for us. Good times, good times."
If you've got the tools to do it, just buy the pre-assembled system and remove the solder. (Heat-gun soldering stations usually come with a removal gun as well.)
Voila, you've got your kit.
Now put it back together. Now you've done not just one, but TWO difficult, unnecessary things.
I worked with one woman who was a brilliant solderer. Production put a part upside down and she was able to solder it on so it worked. (For firmware development, bought me two weeks of dev time.) It was a QF44 PIC, I was astonished when I saw it.
Yeah, same here, and they keep tagging photos with me in it, showing the location as "just outside your house".
Yeah, I find I can't start my day without a goatse link.
I want to know where the cookie recipe guy went, I liked that troll.
I've been using this signature since 1998, so welcome.
I'm not a mercenary. I write the specs for installing electrical and combat systems on warships.
And yes, that was my inference, that I could be jailed in the UK for knowing how to do my job.
My boots are safety boots, not combat boots, and it's an expression.