I agree. I was born in 1968. And again, I recall the occasional power outage - usually as a result of Mother Nature's temper tantrums. I was on cable phone for a few months. I bailed because I couldn't trust the service - and I have kids who old enough to stay home alone, and I want them to be able to make a phone call if they need it.
While much of that is true, it's also true that much of the durability of Cheyenne Mountain is predicated on the statistical probability that a missile aimed at the mountain would actually hit the mountain. I believe they calculated a 80% chance that a missile would miss the target by far enough that the complex would be able still serve it's mission - launch a retaliatory strike against those who attacked. All that it served was to provide enough of a threat that the Soviet Union would think twice before launching a first strike.
Everyone is making the assumption that Microsoft was in the driver's seat on this one. Microsoft has two major constituencies - The end user, and the OEMs.
I have a funny feeling that may bare out upon farther investigation, that it was the computer manufacturers that demanded the "Vista Capable" designation. After all, they have to keep foisting those 512MB Celeron machines on the store shelves of Walmat and Target on someone. We also know that those machines targeting the price sensitive consumer are targeting are simply not adequate.
What I will take Microsoft to task over is caving in to the OEMs.
In a modern market, prices are set has high as the decision maker will support. The cost to supply the product or service is irrelevant to the price. The major exception to that rule, is if a supplier can't supply a product for more than decision makers will support, then the supplier can't sustain the product or service. [Paraphrased from Robert G. Cross - ISBN 0553067346]
It therefore follows that if there is an subsidy of $40 that doesn't have any contingencies, then the supportable price will rise by $40.
By the way, I highly recommend this guys book. The people who price goods and services are reading it and it helps to know what they're up to.
I also look at the industry as a whole. I don't see any real drive, a critical mass if you will, for getting off of IPv4. My ISP doesn't offer IPv6. My company doesn't use IPv6. It's little wonder that the government is dragging it's feet.
I'm consulting at the biomedical informatics department of a major midwestern pediatric hospital. We're in the chase trying to make semantic web work. In sort, we're focused on the Data. There are at least six different well-known formats for representing Subject-Predicate-Object and the temptation is to get hung up on the markup and forgetting "It's the data stupid."
There's an old saying: Astronomy isn't about telescopes. Of course astronomy would be severely crippled without telescopes; the goal of astronomy is to study celestial objects rationally and scientifically.
I was trying to explain semantic web (or at least how we are trying to use it) to a group of college professors where I did my undergraduate studies. We're constructing huge lists of subject-predicate-object "phrases." These lists come from multiple sources with poor connectivity across different sources. We then run algorithms against those lists to synthetically and logically derive new phrases. This allows us to connect knowledge from animal studies with disease knowledge.
I say we're in the race to make semantic web work because classic problems of IT always impede progress. It's amazing how the same thing can have different meaning depending upon context. As an example, I used to work at an airline. They had as least different definitions of were and what the city of Cincinnati was. There included: 1) where the airport was (flight operations), 2) where the city center was (frequent flyers), 3) where the population center was (marketing)... you get the idea. If you've ever had to do data warehouse ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), you know these problems well. These "impedance mismatches" affect the ability to connect information.
I agree. What if the same report were written of auto traffic instead of air traffic? An event like a runway incursion is actually the lowest point where the potential for something unsafe might happen. That said, there is still a long way to go through the degrees of hazard before damage begins to occur. How many times have we seen unsafe conditions when a car or truck briefly crossed a the lane markings on the highway by an inch or two; or speeding; or following too close; or any number similar events? In auto driving, how many of us drive the way we were trained to drive? We frequently drive beyond those limits. Yet we have a sense that the textbook driver is ridiculously paranoid and a sense that there are "Those idiots who keep cutting me off." Air traffic still ridiculously paranoid about safety and the problem with any kind of safety report is media hyperbole that blows it out of proportion.
I think people are also interested in going the other way around. Someone has a shared iTunes library and they want to be able to stream that content to a non-apple client.
Elton is deeply insightful on one topic and woefully misinformed about another.
He clearly does not understand what the Internet is and what it does. He says as much in the article. His lack of experience with the Internet has led him to a limited and myopic view of what the Internet is. He claims the poor music quality being released on the Internet. I don't agree. I blame the focus groups, marketing "geniuses" who chose what gets published for the poor quality.
Where he absolutely nails it and I agree completely is that music is best created by flesh and blood people who come together as musicians and create music. To that end. This weekend, I challenge everyone who takes the time to read this remark to get out and see a live musician. It is refreshing how much better music is from a flesh and blood as compared to focus groups.
There are many positions within the US Federal Government which are considered "Officer" positions. These are directly analogous to military officers. In fact, people who hold these positions are eligible to use military officer quarters and services if their duty requires them to visit a military installation. These positions, in the corporate world would be similar to Manager or Director roles in the private sector.
All "Officers" of the US Federal Government, military or otherwise have to go through an appointment process. And they are approved by the US Senate. 99% of the time, these are non-political appointments who never met nor would ever meet the elected representatives who "appointed" and "approved" them. The news never covers these. These are also done in bulk - Thousands at a time.
Furthermore, USC 5 sect 3331 details the oath all government officers are required to take. This oath usually done in writing.
Perhaps they had a sweet deal with Intel that made it the right thing for Apple.
Remember: Apple is out to make Apple shareholders happy. And, of course, the same is true for Microsoft, Sun, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Google, Amazon, and all the rest of them. The fact that from time to time they make a great product for their customers is a means to an end, not the end itself.
I think the reason why people have gone the way they have is because so many of us have held such a device in our hands. The elegance of the technology they're describing is that there is no input except ticks from a clock. Anything more complicated than that would require adding a button to the card. I'd hate to accidentally hit the "next key" button too many times because it was in my wallet and I sat on it.
Indeed, I like how the spun the idea to sound like something others should emulate when it's Microsoft who is emulating MacOS. Before I erased it, I also typed sudo. I don't thing sudo qualifies because you have to invoke it before a privileged operation.
I think it would be un-unixish to try to do something like this in Linux (or any other flavour of unix) because in unix, the operating system does not talk to users. The OS talks to programs that talk to users. Now if some fancy unix program with ideas above it's station (aka GUI environments - Gnome, KDE) wants to speak to the user about privilege escalation on behalf of the OS, that's the only compromise I can think of.
The iPod video has a security feature. You can set a PIN code on it to lock it. Re-enter the PIN to unlock. If for some reason you "forget" the pin code, docking the iPod to its "Home" computer will unlock it the iPod.
It seems to me that the whole thing hinges on the fact that the teacher was disturbed. I wonder if the teacher would have been disturbed if the same paper was turned in before Virginia Tech.
Although they do have a minority government, the Conservatives are currently running the Canadian government. Although she doesn't appear to have an official Ministry office, Joy Smith would be expected to support her party (which is the rulling party) and is therefore not a backbencher in the traditional sense of the definition.
I do sound design for a small regional theatre comapny. I have a nice sound card (M-Audio DiO 2496) with S/PDIF in/out and an professional digital recording deck. I maniulate all my sound cues digitally, transfer them to the deck digitally, and they're only converted to analog during the performance. I've also used the deck as a glorified A-to-D converter too. I've record a friends music. I run his audio into the deck and then recorded the digital signal from the deck.
The setup dates back to the late '90s. If I were to do it all over again, I'd would probably get one of the Alesis Multimix line of digital mixers. They have a firewire version (avoid USB) that can route all 16 audio channels through the computer. You can multi-track record a band live, then do a proper mixdown after the event. Or do a multi-speaker digital thunder claps.
The only thing worse than desktop power rails are laptop power rails. There have been a few times I've have to do stuff on a laptop at the last minute and it is dreadful - you can hear the effects the hard drive has on the system in the audio output.
As the evil overlord in a secret base protected by Sharks with Freakin' Lasers, I am not worried about the.safe domain. My evil network of Pinky Tip ISPs (tm) will intercept all DNS queries and substitute my own servers. (Mwaaah!! *lots of reverb*) I will continue to fleece the widows, orphans and cute fluffy puppies for... One Million Dollars!!! (*more reverb*)
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I agree. I was born in 1968. And again, I recall the occasional power outage - usually as a result of Mother Nature's temper tantrums. I was on cable phone for a few months. I bailed because I couldn't trust the service - and I have kids who old enough to stay home alone, and I want them to be able to make a phone call if they need it.
While much of that is true, it's also true that much of the durability of Cheyenne Mountain is predicated on the statistical probability that a missile aimed at the mountain would actually hit the mountain. I believe they calculated a 80% chance that a missile would miss the target by far enough that the complex would be able still serve it's mission - launch a retaliatory strike against those who attacked. All that it served was to provide enough of a threat that the Soviet Union would think twice before launching a first strike.
Everyone is making the assumption that Microsoft was in the driver's seat on this one. Microsoft has two major constituencies - The end user, and the OEMs.
I have a funny feeling that may bare out upon farther investigation, that it was the computer manufacturers that demanded the "Vista Capable" designation. After all, they have to keep foisting those 512MB Celeron machines on the store shelves of Walmat and Target on someone. We also know that those machines targeting the price sensitive consumer are targeting are simply not adequate.
What I will take Microsoft to task over is caving in to the OEMs.
In a modern market, prices are set has high as the decision maker will support. The cost to supply the product or service is irrelevant to the price. The major exception to that rule, is if a supplier can't supply a product for more than decision makers will support, then the supplier can't sustain the product or service. [Paraphrased from Robert G. Cross - ISBN 0553067346]
It therefore follows that if there is an subsidy of $40 that doesn't have any contingencies, then the supportable price will rise by $40.
By the way, I highly recommend this guys book. The people who price goods and services are reading it and it helps to know what they're up to.
Agreed. Nothing like having Clear Channel and Newscorp on you side of an issue.
I also look at the industry as a whole. I don't see any real drive, a critical mass if you will, for getting off of IPv4. My ISP doesn't offer IPv6. My company doesn't use IPv6. It's little wonder that the government is dragging it's feet.
I love Schneier. I love how he cuts through the crap with a degree of precision and insight not found anywhere.
I'm consulting at the biomedical informatics department of a major midwestern pediatric hospital. We're in the chase trying to make semantic web work. In sort, we're focused on the Data. There are at least six different well-known formats for representing Subject-Predicate-Object and the temptation is to get hung up on the markup and forgetting "It's the data stupid."
There's an old saying: Astronomy isn't about telescopes. Of course astronomy would be severely crippled without telescopes; the goal of astronomy is to study celestial objects rationally and scientifically.
I was trying to explain semantic web (or at least how we are trying to use it) to a group of college professors where I did my undergraduate studies. We're constructing huge lists of subject-predicate-object "phrases." These lists come from multiple sources with poor connectivity across different sources. We then run algorithms against those lists to synthetically and logically derive new phrases. This allows us to connect knowledge from animal studies with disease knowledge.
I say we're in the race to make semantic web work because classic problems of IT always impede progress. It's amazing how the same thing can have different meaning depending upon context. As an example, I used to work at an airline. They had as least different definitions of were and what the city of Cincinnati was. There included: 1) where the airport was (flight operations), 2) where the city center was (frequent flyers), 3) where the population center was (marketing) ... you get the idea. If you've ever had to do data warehouse ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), you know these problems well. These "impedance mismatches" affect the ability to connect information.
I agree. What if the same report were written of auto traffic instead of air traffic? An event like a runway incursion is actually the lowest point where the potential for something unsafe might happen. That said, there is still a long way to go through the degrees of hazard before damage begins to occur. How many times have we seen unsafe conditions when a car or truck briefly crossed a the lane markings on the highway by an inch or two; or speeding; or following too close; or any number similar events? In auto driving, how many of us drive the way we were trained to drive? We frequently drive beyond those limits. Yet we have a sense that the textbook driver is ridiculously paranoid and a sense that there are "Those idiots who keep cutting me off." Air traffic still ridiculously paranoid about safety and the problem with any kind of safety report is media hyperbole that blows it out of proportion.
I think people are also interested in going the other way around. Someone has a shared iTunes library and they want to be able to stream that content to a non-apple client.
There are the IEEE Code of Ethics and the ACM Code of Ethics that frown on that kind of behaviour.
That said, abuse by those with technical power can only be contained either by division (and therefore dilution) of power or by aggressive monitoring.
Elton is deeply insightful on one topic and woefully misinformed about another.
He clearly does not understand what the Internet is and what it does. He says as much in the article. His lack of experience with the Internet has led him to a limited and myopic view of what the Internet is. He claims the poor music quality being released on the Internet. I don't agree. I blame the focus groups, marketing "geniuses" who chose what gets published for the poor quality.
Where he absolutely nails it and I agree completely is that music is best created by flesh and blood people who come together as musicians and create music. To that end. This weekend, I challenge everyone who takes the time to read this remark to get out and see a live musician. It is refreshing how much better music is from a flesh and blood as compared to focus groups.
Well .... mostly
There are many positions within the US Federal Government which are considered "Officer" positions. These are directly analogous to military officers. In fact, people who hold these positions are eligible to use military officer quarters and services if their duty requires them to visit a military installation. These positions, in the corporate world would be similar to Manager or Director roles in the private sector.
All "Officers" of the US Federal Government, military or otherwise have to go through an appointment process. And they are approved by the US Senate. 99% of the time, these are non-political appointments who never met nor would ever meet the elected representatives who "appointed" and "approved" them. The news never covers these. These are also done in bulk - Thousands at a time.
Furthermore, USC 5 sect 3331 details the oath all government officers are required to take. This oath usually done in writing.
I think the thorny issue is which license applies to the patch? Is it CDDL or GPL? Arguably both or neither could.
It is a shame that two open source licenses are preventing users from utilizing both Linux and ZFS.
Perhaps they had a sweet deal with Intel that made it the right thing for Apple.
Remember: Apple is out to make Apple shareholders happy. And, of course, the same is true for Microsoft, Sun, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Google, Amazon, and all the rest of them. The fact that from time to time they make a great product for their customers is a means to an end, not the end itself.
I think the reason why people have gone the way they have is because so many of us have held such a device in our hands. The elegance of the technology they're describing is that there is no input except ticks from a clock. Anything more complicated than that would require adding a button to the card. I'd hate to accidentally hit the "next key" button too many times because it was in my wallet and I sat on it.
Indeed, I like how the spun the idea to sound like something others should emulate when it's Microsoft who is emulating MacOS. Before I erased it, I also typed sudo. I don't thing sudo qualifies because you have to invoke it before a privileged operation.
I think it would be un-unixish to try to do something like this in Linux (or any other flavour of unix) because in unix, the operating system does not talk to users. The OS talks to programs that talk to users. Now if some fancy unix program with ideas above it's station (aka GUI environments - Gnome, KDE) wants to speak to the user about privilege escalation on behalf of the OS, that's the only compromise I can think of.
The iPod video has a security feature. You can set a PIN code on it to lock it. Re-enter the PIN to unlock. If for some reason you "forget" the pin code, docking the iPod to its "Home" computer will unlock it the iPod.
It seems to me that the whole thing hinges on the fact that the teacher was disturbed. I wonder if the teacher would have been disturbed if the same paper was turned in before Virginia Tech.
If I had the natural cooling of the Antarctic at my disposal, I'd save a fortune on cooling too.
Not when the company that hold a patent on this sets the price on it at $3000 a dose.
Although they do have a minority government, the Conservatives are currently running the Canadian government. Although she doesn't appear to have an official Ministry office, Joy Smith would be expected to support her party (which is the rulling party) and is therefore not a backbencher in the traditional sense of the definition.
... and in the first two weeks, it was probably the English version.
I do sound design for a small regional theatre comapny. I have a nice sound card (M-Audio DiO 2496) with S/PDIF in/out and an professional digital recording deck. I maniulate all my sound cues digitally, transfer them to the deck digitally, and they're only converted to analog during the performance. I've also used the deck as a glorified A-to-D converter too. I've record a friends music. I run his audio into the deck and then recorded the digital signal from the deck.
The setup dates back to the late '90s. If I were to do it all over again, I'd would probably get one of the Alesis Multimix line of digital mixers. They have a firewire version (avoid USB) that can route all 16 audio channels through the computer. You can multi-track record a band live, then do a proper mixdown after the event. Or do a multi-speaker digital thunder claps.
The only thing worse than desktop power rails are laptop power rails. There have been a few times I've have to do stuff on a laptop at the last minute and it is dreadful - you can hear the effects the hard drive has on the system in the audio output.
As the evil overlord in a secret base protected by Sharks with Freakin' Lasers, I am not worried about the .safe domain. My evil network of Pinky Tip ISPs (tm) will intercept all DNS queries and substitute my own servers. (Mwaaah!! *lots of reverb*) I will continue to fleece the widows, orphans and cute fluffy puppies for ... One Million Dollars!!! (*more reverb*)