I was thinking the same thing. They've already reduced the scope of the project (after Gov. Scott Walker promised $4B for their trouble) and now I wonder how much of it will ever happen. Foxconn in better times has screwed a city or two in the US before - promising a plant that never happened.
Then a Quantum Blockchain Coin. Or Quantum VR. Or Quantum NOSQL databases. C'mon people, think out of your comfy Einstein inspired box!
OK, not really. Fusion reactors. Self driving cars. Quantum computing. Sometimes the last 10% or 5% or 1% of development is where the rubber doesn't always meet the road and the whole thing, no matter how promising/life changing/world saving (pick any two) finally just doesn't work in the real world with real world requirements and expectations.
I live in Reno, so the Tesla project is front and center on the radar out here. Tesla did build a factory and continues to expand it. I haven't seen the latest numbers on employment but it is well into the thousands and growing from both continued construction jobs and existing and expanding production jobs. The big beef that is talked about is the wages being much lower than promised - Tesla said average wages would be $26/hr not including benefits, but the actual wage has been more like $15/hr, more after being on the job for a while but not much more. This is in an area where the median home price is $400K and a one bedroom apartment is $1500/mo. Even with a couple of people you really can't afford to live very well out here on Tesla wages.
A compiler and editor in 64K, and the whole environment was lightning fast on a 8088 machine with floppy disks for storage. I very much agree with the OP - things in IT in general have gotten bigger, fatter, and less predictable. This is not progress.
Forture Magazine is more and more running articles originally authored by PR agencies under the guise of an "original" "investigative" article signed off by one of their own writers/editors. This whole article looks and smells a lot to me like the hype buildup for the Segway device - and how well did that all go?
So I get the uPnP scenario - but a look at the source of the attack, and my own logs, show that the attack comes from port 23 - Telnet! Who the hell forwards that in a NAT environment?!? If true (and it must be) these guys who wrote and shipped the firmware for these devices (and enabled the uPnP port forward on port 23) are the biggest dumbasses on earth.
Assuming most consumer devices are installed at home behind some kind of NAT functionality, how did all these consumer devices get exposed to the public internet? This is the one thing about this entire hack I do not understand.
Years ago the Detroit car companies owned pieces of (or sometimes the entirety of) the major US rental car companies. Makes a nice place to dump unsold inventory - which they still do, despite having divested their ownership over time a long time ago.
This service does not exist as a commercial service that a customer can use. Total PR stunt by the local over-eager PR agency who seems to think that Reno is the next Silicon Valley (hilarious laughter).
When has Trump actually done anything besides (1) declare bankruptcy for his businesses, (2) screw his vendors, and (3) generally squander his daddy's inheritence? I'm all for a guy who actually can get things done (Hello Roger Penske!) but Trump is not that guy by a mile, no matter what and how he boasts.
Rusty Hodge has been running SomaFM.com for years just on donations. Someone should interview him - he seems to have it figured out. If you haven't given SomaFM a try you should - and donate a couple of bucks if you do.
Google has more money and lawyers than just about anyone and it is their app store that is at the center of the whole dispute. Why don't they grow a pair and help defend the app developers who use their store and have been sued? Nice business partner their Google...
... how exactly does someone run the latest and greated Linux kernel? My trusty Ubuntu 14.04 shows kernel 3.16. Some work I'm doing in Yocto on a Freescale ARM board shows something like 3.19 for the kernel version. Is there some mysterious bleeding edge distro to be had somewhere that is always up to date on everything, or at least the kernel? Or do I roll my own, install on Ubuntu 14.04 (for example) and hope it all works?
Enquiring minds want to know!
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Sorry to be the only guy who hasn't read the book (I'm only 60 FFS) but what was the conclusion the book had on the subject? Now get off my lawn.
Nice VAX 11/780 reference there. Indeed a great machine back in the day, first computer I was ever paid to manage.
The only explanation.
AI + blockchain = VC Fundgasm.
I always thought that, nice to see it official.
Don't be a dick. He means HIPAA, and you know it.
I was thinking the same thing. They've already reduced the scope of the project (after Gov. Scott Walker promised $4B for their trouble) and now I wonder how much of it will ever happen. Foxconn in better times has screwed a city or two in the US before - promising a plant that never happened.
Then a Quantum Blockchain Coin. Or Quantum VR. Or Quantum NOSQL databases. C'mon people, think out of your comfy Einstein inspired box! OK, not really. Fusion reactors. Self driving cars. Quantum computing. Sometimes the last 10% or 5% or 1% of development is where the rubber doesn't always meet the road and the whole thing, no matter how promising/life changing/world saving (pick any two) finally just doesn't work in the real world with real world requirements and expectations.
Best synopsis of the social media / web situation I've seen yet. I agree 1000%, well done.
I live in Reno, so the Tesla project is front and center on the radar out here. Tesla did build a factory and continues to expand it. I haven't seen the latest numbers on employment but it is well into the thousands and growing from both continued construction jobs and existing and expanding production jobs. The big beef that is talked about is the wages being much lower than promised - Tesla said average wages would be $26/hr not including benefits, but the actual wage has been more like $15/hr, more after being on the job for a while but not much more. This is in an area where the median home price is $400K and a one bedroom apartment is $1500/mo. Even with a couple of people you really can't afford to live very well out here on Tesla wages.
^^^ THIS. "applications now are built on many bloated layers such that no can understand or secure it." Exactly.
A compiler and editor in 64K, and the whole environment was lightning fast on a 8088 machine with floppy disks for storage. I very much agree with the OP - things in IT in general have gotten bigger, fatter, and less predictable. This is not progress.
Forture Magazine is more and more running articles originally authored by PR agencies under the guise of an "original" "investigative" article signed off by one of their own writers/editors. This whole article looks and smells a lot to me like the hype buildup for the Segway device - and how well did that all go?
So I get the uPnP scenario - but a look at the source of the attack, and my own logs, show that the attack comes from port 23 - Telnet! Who the hell forwards that in a NAT environment?!? If true (and it must be) these guys who wrote and shipped the firmware for these devices (and enabled the uPnP port forward on port 23) are the biggest dumbasses on earth.
Assuming most consumer devices are installed at home behind some kind of NAT functionality, how did all these consumer devices get exposed to the public internet? This is the one thing about this entire hack I do not understand.
Both are absolutely first rate. Also add "The Supermen", which is a great overview of the Supercomputer industry back in its heyday.
Years ago the Detroit car companies owned pieces of (or sometimes the entirety of) the major US rental car companies. Makes a nice place to dump unsold inventory - which they still do, despite having divested their ownership over time a long time ago.
This service does not exist as a commercial service that a customer can use. Total PR stunt by the local over-eager PR agency who seems to think that Reno is the next Silicon Valley (hilarious laughter).
When has Trump actually done anything besides (1) declare bankruptcy for his businesses, (2) screw his vendors, and (3) generally squander his daddy's inheritence? I'm all for a guy who actually can get things done (Hello Roger Penske!) but Trump is not that guy by a mile, no matter what and how he boasts.
That is my question of the moment.
Rusty Hodge has been running SomaFM.com for years just on donations. Someone should interview him - he seems to have it figured out. If you haven't given SomaFM a try you should - and donate a couple of bucks if you do.
Google has more money and lawyers than just about anyone and it is their app store that is at the center of the whole dispute. Why don't they grow a pair and help defend the app developers who use their store and have been sued? Nice business partner their Google ...
"It will be at least a year before the Stampede 2 is powered up since it just received funding" That's some real hard news there Slashdot. Thanks.
Perfect kind person - thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for - off I go.
... how exactly does someone run the latest and greated Linux kernel? My trusty Ubuntu 14.04 shows kernel 3.16. Some work I'm doing in Yocto on a Freescale ARM board shows something like 3.19 for the kernel version. Is there some mysterious bleeding edge distro to be had somewhere that is always up to date on everything, or at least the kernel? Or do I roll my own, install on Ubuntu 14.04 (for example) and hope it all works? Enquiring minds want to know!