I take it the poster doesn't have children. I'll take taking care of my kids anyday. I'll be looking at code for the rest of my working life one way or another but my kids, they are my joy!
How exactly can this be new or newsworthy? I saw a demonstration 20 years ago almost to the day where guys from the swedish equivalent of NSA captured keystrokes from a Mac Plus at 300 meters distance (I was working in military research at the time). As a consequence we built a room paneled entirly in copper, with copper chicken wire across the windows and baffled air vents. Opto-couplers for the phone lines and stabilizers for the power and we were emission free. The whole TEMPEST package.
This may sound crazy given the current times, but what about the financial industry? There are a host of interesting problems to work on: high volume, low latency transaction systems for the stock market, low latency network applications for information feeds between various parts of the financial world, high reliability systems and so on. And when you grow tired of coding, there are always a spot for a coder turned project manager (they are rare and seems to be treasured). I ended up in the financial software trade by accident and I've never regretted it.
Oh, come on! No one claims that the swedish chef in the muppet show is racist, right? So why should this be racist? I'm swedish and I'm not the least bit offended. In fact, I laughed.
1. Laser guided missiles are not used against airplanes.
Not that it matters (I figure the story for a hoax also) but there do exist laser beam riding SAM systems
like the RBS 70 from Sweden.
Did my military service assigned to one of the RBS70 units.
I was watching a documentary on the race to build the next generation fighter jet, and time and time again, the main argument in favor of the X22 was that the other design looked weird.
Strange seeing as how the consensus seems to have been that the YF-23 looked better than then F-22.
Read here for more realistic information.
Thanks for the reply. But, not aiming your weapon and not having anything to shoot are different things. One could look at that stat, and have it easily explained that most combat is over by the time it takes to run for cover. Running from a mortar shell, ducking from machine gun fire doesn't give you a chance to fire back.
All can I say is that the research done indicates that the soldiers went to immense lengths to avoid having to fire on the enemy.
The research results are actually consistent independent of who's doing the research, conflict and period (except for modern times, post-Korean War). People, including soldiers, have barriers against killing other people. In most people those barriers are hard to overcome and so they don't fire on the enemy. Note that it doesn't matter if the enemy fires on them.
I'd be willing to bet that during the American Civil War, the percentage of infantry who fired their weapon was a bit higher, even though there wasn't enough ammo to spend much time shooting at targets (whether bullseye or silhouette shaped).
I'd take that bet and I'd win too.
Seriously, if this topic interests you, read 'On Killing'. It covers everything about this, including the Civil War.
Do you happen to have a cite for the bullseye line?
Read 'On Combat' by Grossman (Of 'On Killing' fame) and Christensen. (Amazon).
I also don't recall any historical narratives citing any soldiers on a large scale not aiming at anything.
This is actually a well-established fact. S.L.A Marshalls study after WW2 found that only 15-20% of the individual riflemen actually fired their weapons at the enemy. Pretty controversial at its time.
For more on this, read 'On Killing' by Grossman.
All your questions will be answered.
ut to answer your question; No, I don't believe there is a number shortage in Sweden at present. They are probably just conserving and planning for the day when there might be an actual number shortage. (Don't ask; it's a Swedish thing:).
Being swedish, is this something I should be aware of? Do I need to stock up on some numbers? Err, where do I get them? The numbers shops seems to be missing in the yellow pages.
Let me guess.. Weekly stats in by 2pm Thursdays, and each week they had to be higher than before even if that made no sense at all?
The scientologist led company I worked for had it even worse. We had the curse of the Battleplan (why are scientologists so big on war?)! For each day you had a battleplan with the items you had to do that day. At the end of the day you sent that days battleplan (which was shortened to BP and BPs),where you ticked off the items that had been done, what had been started and not completed and why it hadn't been completed and the items not started on and why, to your boss who would review and send it on to his boss and so on up to the top and then back down again. Together with the bp of the day you had to submit a bp for the next day as well. At the end of the week you had to turn in your weekly battleplan as well as your bp for the next week. The boss also measured success on how many items on the bp that got checked each week and got really annoyed when the percentage was low. So he introduced a scheme where those with a high success rate would get stock options. So the testers automated the tests with JUnit and put in each test as an item in the bp. They got lots of options before management caught on. If you balked at filling out the bp you got a warning and an entry in your ethics file.
Yes, the array A took up every bit of memory. What about other variables? There weren't any. There was A. Store your data in A. Do you remember what A(326) is?
On a related note, I worked for a mad man (ex scientologist to boot) who demanded: - All classes had to have numbers as names. If you wanted to know what a class did you had to look it up in a book. - There could only be one method per class. - There could be no if (or equivalent) statements in the method. Oh, and he had invented a new way of programming.
o you think that the rest of the world would fear the USA military so much if their front-line troops were running windows?
Well, didn't the Vincennes (sp?) run windows when the network crashed and she had to be towed back to shore? I did know that the USN (and other branches) runs un*x of different flavors. Linux however was new to me.
Of course. There's only past and future. A little thought experiment will prove that to you. As everyone knows time can be divided ever finer. Fematoseconds, attoseconds, etc. however fine you go, there's always a past and a future, but no present.
This is true if you postulate time as a continuum. If time is discrete then this does not hold true. Some people working with loop quantum gravity postulates both discrete time and space. See qgravity for more.
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Having developed military software for aerospace applications I'm here to tell you that they are about as good or bad as developers everywhere. Sadly they seem to tend to be a little bit worse than the civilian industry. One of the reasons might be the immense amount of documentation that has to be written before the actual coding starts, at least if you are developing to DOD 2167A standards. The more coding interested developers tend to leave once they see the documentation effort needed.
In an earlier incarnation I used to work for the government doing military research. We had to burn all disc containing classified material. The reason given, since substantiated by a guy at the swedish equiv of NSA, was that a SQUID (Super-conducting Quantum Interference Device) could manage at least 25 overwrites, possibly many more.
Our security officer built a large bonfire every spring of used hard drives and ignited them with thermite. T'was a grand sight!
I suppose I also could say 'Not true' but I'll restrain myself. In fact the F-117 does use RAM, even the SR-71 did (some sort of iron-based paint IIRC). FYI, the reason the F-117 is facetted is because the software used for the RCS calculation could only handle 2-D surfaces. Both the f-117 and the B-2 uses controlled dispersion for handling radar returns. The technological limits at the time of the F-117s construction forced the designers to accept very strong returns at some few very specific angles, that's why the F-117 seems so symmetrical. Better software meant that the B-2 could dispense with that. They are both vulnerable to illumination from above but not as much as an ordinary aircraft. An OTH-B radar will detect a stealth (low-observable is really a better term) aircraft. However, chances are they will not be able to establish a track, which is the important thing and even more, the AA-systems target acquisition radars will not be able to get a lock except at very short ranges.
The type of radar (be it phased array or bi-static) has nothing to do with if the aircraft can be detected or not. All that matters is power output and wavelength (or frequency if you will). The radars that can detect stealthed aircraft are all long wavelength radars. They might detected the aircraft but they don't have the target resolution to guide a wepon onto the aircraft. They simply do not get an accurate enough fix on the aircraft.
Actually you are. By voting for somebody like David Villanueva Nuñez in CA you at least counter-act Hollings on his own arena. You can act within your political system in a way that I can't (without emigrating anyway).
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I take it the poster doesn't have children. I'll take taking care of my kids anyday. I'll be looking at code for the rest of my working life one way or another but my kids, they are my joy!
How exactly can this be new or newsworthy?
I saw a demonstration 20 years ago almost to the day where guys from the swedish equivalent of NSA captured keystrokes from a Mac Plus at 300 meters distance (I was working in military research at the time).
As a consequence we built a room paneled entirly in copper, with copper chicken wire across the windows and baffled air vents.
Opto-couplers for the phone lines and stabilizers for the power and we were emission free. The whole TEMPEST package.
This may sound crazy given the current times, but what about the financial industry? There are a host of interesting problems to work on: high volume, low latency transaction systems for the stock market, low latency network applications for information feeds between various parts of the financial world, high reliability systems and so on.
And when you grow tired of coding, there are always a spot for a coder turned project manager (they are rare and seems to be treasured).
I ended up in the financial software trade by accident and I've never regretted it.
Oh, come on! No one claims that the swedish chef in the muppet show is racist, right? So why should this be racist? I'm swedish and I'm not the least bit offended. In fact, I laughed.
1. Laser guided missiles are not used against airplanes.
Not that it matters (I figure the story for a hoax also) but there do exist laser beam riding SAM systems like the RBS 70 from Sweden. Did my military service assigned to one of the RBS70 units.
I was watching a documentary on the race to build the next generation fighter jet, and time and time again, the main argument in favor of the X22 was that the other design looked weird.
Strange seeing as how the consensus seems to have been that the YF-23 looked better than then F-22. Read here for more realistic information.
Ugly, cheap, effective, easy to fly. Scrapped. Sex sells, even in the military
It is not scrapped, the A-10 is still in the active inventory and due for an upgrade (the A-10C program).
Thanks for the reply. But, not aiming your weapon and not having anything to shoot are different things. One could look at that stat, and have it easily explained that most combat is over by the time it takes to run for cover. Running from a mortar shell, ducking from machine gun fire doesn't give you a chance to fire back.
All can I say is that the research done indicates that the soldiers went to immense lengths to avoid having to fire on the enemy. The research results are actually consistent independent of who's doing the research, conflict and period (except for modern times, post-Korean War). People, including soldiers, have barriers against killing other people. In most people those barriers are hard to overcome and so they don't fire on the enemy. Note that it doesn't matter if the enemy fires on them.
I'd be willing to bet that during the American Civil War, the percentage of infantry who fired their weapon was a bit higher, even though there wasn't enough ammo to spend much time shooting at targets (whether bullseye or silhouette shaped).
I'd take that bet and I'd win too. Seriously, if this topic interests you, read 'On Killing'. It covers everything about this, including the Civil War.
Do you happen to have a cite for the bullseye line?
Read 'On Combat' by Grossman (Of 'On Killing' fame) and Christensen. (Amazon).
I also don't recall any historical narratives citing any soldiers on a large scale not aiming at anything.
This is actually a well-established fact. S.L.A Marshalls study after WW2 found that only 15-20% of the individual riflemen actually fired their weapons at the enemy. Pretty controversial at its time.
For more on this, read 'On Killing' by Grossman. All your questions will be answered.
Damn it, I'm a man not a number!
ut to answer your question; No, I don't believe there is a number shortage in Sweden at present. They are probably just conserving and planning for the day when there might be an actual number shortage. (Don't ask; it's a Swedish thing :).
Being swedish, is this something I should be aware of? Do I need to stock up on some numbers? Err, where do I get them? The numbers shops seems to be missing in the yellow pages.
Personally I have little interest in purchasing an ipod or itune, precisely because of this 'lock-in'.
But can't you burn a cd of your ITMS bought songs and then rip that cd?
You cannot operate an ipod one handed.
You can't? Wow, finally something physical I'm good at!
Let me guess .. Weekly stats in by 2pm Thursdays, and each week they had to be higher than before even if that made no sense at all?
The scientologist led company I worked for had it even worse. We had the curse of the Battleplan (why are scientologists so big on war?)!
For each day you had a battleplan with the items you had to do that day. At the end of the day you sent that days battleplan (which was shortened to BP and BPs),where you ticked off the items that had been done, what had been started and not completed and why it hadn't been completed and the items not started on and why, to your boss who would review and send it on to his boss and so on up to the top and then back down again. Together with the bp of the day you had to submit a bp for the next day as well. At the end of the week you had to turn in your weekly battleplan as well as your bp for the next week.
The boss also measured success on how many items on the bp that got checked each week and got really annoyed when the percentage was low. So he introduced a scheme where those with a high success rate would get stock options. So the testers automated the tests with JUnit and put in each test as an item in the bp. They got lots of options before management caught on.
If you balked at filling out the bp you got a warning and an entry in your ethics file.
Yes, the array A took up every bit of memory. What about other variables? There weren't any. There was A. Store your data in A. Do you remember what A(326) is?
On a related note, I worked for a mad man (ex scientologist to boot) who demanded:
- All classes had to have numbers as names. If you wanted to know what a class did you had to look it up in a book.
- There could only be one method per class.
- There could be no if (or equivalent) statements in the method.
Oh, and he had invented a new way of programming.
Not to mention the poor miners. You not only dig 16 tons and owe your soul, you get fired too!
o you think that the rest of the world would fear the USA military so much if their front-line troops were running windows?
Well, didn't the Vincennes (sp?) run windows when the network crashed and she had to be towed back to shore?
I did know that the USN (and other branches) runs un*x of different flavors. Linux however was new to me.
Of course. There's only past and future. A little thought experiment will prove that to you. As everyone knows time can be divided ever finer. Fematoseconds, attoseconds, etc. however fine you go, there's always a past and a future, but no present.
This is true if you postulate time as a continuum. If time is discrete then this does not hold true. Some people working with loop quantum gravity postulates both discrete time and space. See qgravity for more.
Having developed military software for aerospace applications I'm here to tell you that they are about as good or bad as developers everywhere. Sadly they seem to tend to be a little bit worse than the civilian industry. One of the reasons might be the immense amount of documentation that has to be written before the actual coding starts, at least if you are developing to DOD 2167A standards. The more coding interested developers tend to leave once they see the documentation effort needed.
AFAIK Apple licensed the windowing concept from Xerox.
Apple also tried to sue Microsoft for IP theft to no avail.
Thermite. Might be classed as explosive, I dunno.
In an earlier incarnation I used to work for the government doing military research. We had to burn all disc containing classified material. The reason given, since substantiated by a guy at the swedish equiv of NSA, was that a SQUID (Super-conducting Quantum Interference Device) could manage at least 25 overwrites, possibly many more. Our security officer built a large bonfire every spring of used hard drives and ignited them with thermite. T'was a grand sight!
I suppose I also could say 'Not true' but I'll restrain myself.
In fact the F-117 does use RAM, even the SR-71 did (some sort of iron-based paint IIRC).
FYI, the reason the F-117 is facetted is because the software used for the RCS calculation could only handle 2-D surfaces. Both the f-117 and the B-2 uses controlled dispersion for handling radar returns. The technological limits at the time of the F-117s construction forced the designers to accept very strong returns at some few very specific angles, that's why the F-117 seems so symmetrical. Better software meant that the B-2 could dispense with that.
They are both vulnerable to illumination from above but not as much as an ordinary aircraft. An OTH-B radar will detect a stealth (low-observable is really a better term) aircraft. However, chances are they will not be able to establish a track, which is the important thing and even more, the AA-systems target acquisition radars will not be able to get a lock except at very short ranges.
The type of radar (be it phased array or bi-static) has nothing to do with if the aircraft can be detected or not. All that matters is power output and wavelength (or frequency if you will). The radars that can detect stealthed aircraft are all long wavelength radars. They might detected the aircraft but they don't have the target resolution to guide a wepon onto the aircraft.
They simply do not get an accurate enough fix on the aircraft.
Actually you are. By voting for somebody like David Villanueva Nuñez in CA you at least counter-act Hollings on his own arena. You can act within your political system in a way that I can't (without emigrating anyway).