Well, yeah. But you said that America "was built by hand through the ethic of self help and self work." True, but not complete. There was a strong component of helping your neighbors. You're right though, we shouldn't do his homework for him. Heck, he can find everything he wants in the YRO section;-)
Aren't the software and hardware of an embedded system much more closely tied than that of a desktop computer
As someone who used to work in that field (I do programs that connect Oracle databases to XML files now), no. Many embedded systems (Hubble Space Telescope comes to mind) run on x86 CPUs. The main differences were that the UI often consisted of push buttons, lights, buzzers, and, if you were lucky, a five line LCD display. And they often had little RAM. Linux is a big win in that area.
Korean products, in terms of market share and quality, are about where Japanese products were in the early-70's. Hyundai has the best car warranty around. I have a KDS monitor at home and am quite satisfied with it. True, it's not as good as a NEC MultiSynch or Sony Trinitron, but a 19" only cost $250. I suspect that Hyundai and Samsung are perfectly positioned to be the "next Sony". Or perhaps the next Honda and next Sony.
You can't outsource production of guns and bombs when the bad guys own all the factories you used to buy from.
Yup. Most merchant hulls are made overseas and there are very few US based merchant shippers.
Navy's really unhappy about that. We do food production very well, but the manufacturing is what's gonna get us. There's been lots of discussion over at Pournelle's site about that.
A problem that DOD is quietly worried about is the declining number of people with the skills needed to build military equipment. I'm not talking about engineers here, but about welders, pipefitters, and the like. There's only one company building submarines, Electric Boat, and they have trouble keeping enough work to stay afloat. If they went under it could take years to re-build the know how to build subs. (Yes, I know, "afloat", "go under"). The same thing applies to military aircraft. If we don't spend the money to keep up our expertise then it won't be there when we need it. "The most expensive army in the world is the one that's second best."
The F-22 will probably happen, and the Joint Strike Fighter, planned to replace the F-16, is moving along. The UK and other Europeans are putting money into it, so killing it would be a major diplomatic, as well as domestic, hassle. The B-52 fills a need that has disappeared. Arclight strikes aren't all that effective unless your enemy is all bunched together in a desert and strategic nuclear bombing can be handled by B-2's and missiles.
The Air Force has much better luck moving things into production via X programs than through the normal acquisitions process. The F-117 started out as Have Blue, the SR-71 as the A-12. X programs and various black programs are not subject to the various procurement rules and thus cost less. You see, the rules are intended to ensure fairness and reduce fraud. They do this by imposing tremendous paperwork requirements on the contractor. Many companies won't work for the government because of this and those that do make sure that the government picks up the extra cost. Which is why hammers can cost $100 to the government and $10 at the local hardware store.
From the Post: "While that is a large amount of money for an Air Force already struggling to buy all the weapons on its shopping list, the total is less than the cost of developing a whole new bomber program"
So your concern that the Air Force could save money by developing new systems is misplaced. Also, note that this is Lockheed, which has a record of delivering military (F-117) and intelligence aircraft (U-2, SR-71) ahead of schedule and under budget.
Alcatel told zdnet the remote update is "a feature that is intended to allow communications service providers to remotely upgrade the software within their customers' modems."
I opened up each message. Cliked "Save as" and saved as.eml. It was a bitch. I think there's a pst2eml perl script out there somewhere. Or maybe mbx2eml?
When the 3.5 inch floppy came out, I copied all my stuff on 5 inchers over. When CDR came out, I copied it all onto a cd. Made backups, too. Copied all my e-mail from outlook to the standard text format when I went to Linux. No doubt I will be copying my data to DVD-R someday. And, 20-30 years from now, to its successor.
One problem with archiving digital communications is the volume. One of the problems that were found during the many Clinton investigations was, when e-mail was subpoenaed, separating the wheat from the chaff. All the mail was backed up onto tapes, which weren't very well marked. And the first searches were done on subject lines. Quite a bit of relevant mail was missed, and turned up years later when people actually sat down and read every message.
The National Archives (here in the USA) is worried about preserving data. The various software and hardware formats used over the years make it difficult to track and retrieve the data. NASA has spent a fair amount of money moving old planetary exploration data from tapes to optical disks, and then to CD. My father worked on a project at DMA (now NIMA) to do the same thing there.
Well, they didn't edge over the line. They were heading straight for Kamchatka. A flight path that many recon filghts had flown. The book "Deep Black" goes a little into KAL 007 in the context of recon flights that tickled air defenses. Fascinating book. Goes into overhead reconnaisance from the US Civil War (balloons) to the early 80's (KH-11).
IIRC (it's been a while since this happened) the 747 had a computer navigation system (or possibly the autopilot?) and it was thought that the pilots had entered the wrong numbers into it. Personally, I don't think that civilian airliners would have been used to test air defense networks, that's what we have e3p aircraft for. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" applies here.
Part of the problem is that it took many years for the US and USSR to arrive at a modus operandi in regards to spying on each other, as well as the occaisonal "incident". The US/Chinese relationship does not have those years of experience. Thus, the common basis for resolving disputes that the US and USSR had is not in place with China. That's the source of the problem. In the early years of the First Cold War the USSR shot down several US aircraft in international airspace. Since neither country publicized those incidents, they didn't generate the hoopla that this incident has. And, as the two countries worked out their m.o., the shoot downs ceased. Over time the same types of problem resolution systems will be discovered as were discovered for the US/USSR.
Yes, I know about KAL 007. It was in USSR airspace, and thus liable to shootdown under the "rules". Unfortunately the "rules" did not consider civilian aircraft with bad navigation. Especially civilian aircraft on courses that looked like penetration courses and which looked, on radar, like military recon aircraft. The USSR pilots did get a visual before firing, and knew it was a civilian. But fired anyway. After that, the "rules" changed.
What would the USA do if the chinese kept flying planes up the cost of California
The Soviet Union used to do that frequently. Their aircraft would be met by US fighters, which would get close enough to take pictures, and would "escort" them all the way down the coast. But there were never any collisions. The US understood that a collision would be a Bad Thing in terms of international diplomacy. The US rarely, if ever, complained when the USSR shot down military (as opposed to KAL 007) aircraft that penetrated Soviet airspace.
As a side note. KAL 007 was a Korean Air Lines 747 passenger jet that penetrated Soviet airspace accidently and was shot down. It is interesting to note that its course matched what a recon penetration would look like, and a 747 on radar looks just like an E-2 (military 707). That said, the Soviet pilots got a visual ID before they fired, so they knew it was a civilian aircraft.
Lets see. Assuming 50 characters and 93 useable characters (assuming case-sensitivity in the passphrase) on the keyboard, not including the "extended" ibm-ascii character set. We get 93^50 possible combinations. Divide that by the number of combinations that can be tried per second and you know how long it takes to brute force.
Yeah, but how strong is the passphrase? It's basically a long password, and if your passphrase is something like "I love tux" repeated 9 times, it's not that good. A good passphrase, like a good password, is long, contains few real words, has odd punctuation and spelling, and is generally so hard to remember that, unless you spend serious time memorizing it, will be written down.
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Well, yeah. But you said that America "was built by hand through the ethic of self help and self work." True, but not complete. There was a strong component of helping your neighbors. You're right though, we shouldn't do his homework for him. Heck, he can find everything he wants in the YRO section ;-)
Many posters are getting the two confused. Embedded OS's do not neccessarily have to be RTOS's.
As someone who used to work in that field (I do programs that connect Oracle databases to XML files now), no. Many embedded systems (Hubble Space Telescope comes to mind) run on x86 CPUs. The main differences were that the UI often consisted of push buttons, lights, buzzers, and, if you were lucky, a five line LCD display. And they often had little RAM. Linux is a big win in that area.
Korean products, in terms of market share and quality, are about where Japanese products were in the early-70's. Hyundai has the best car warranty around. I have a KDS monitor at home and am quite satisfied with it. True, it's not as good as a NEC MultiSynch or Sony Trinitron, but a 19" only cost $250. I suspect that Hyundai and Samsung are perfectly positioned to be the "next Sony". Or perhaps the next Honda and next Sony.
Yup. Most merchant hulls are made overseas and there are very few US based merchant shippers.
Navy's really unhappy about that. We do food production very well, but the manufacturing is what's gonna get us. There's been lots of discussion over at Pournelle's site about that.
A problem that DOD is quietly worried about is the declining number of people with the skills needed to build military equipment. I'm not talking about engineers here, but about welders, pipefitters, and the like. There's only one company building submarines, Electric Boat, and they have trouble keeping enough work to stay afloat. If they went under it could take years to re-build the know how to build subs. (Yes, I know, "afloat", "go under"). The same thing applies to military aircraft. If we don't spend the money to keep up our expertise then it won't be there when we need it. "The most expensive army in the world is the one that's second best."
The Air Force has much better luck moving things into production via X programs than through the normal acquisitions process. The F-117 started out as Have Blue, the SR-71 as the A-12. X programs and various black programs are not subject to the various procurement rules and thus cost less. You see, the rules are intended to ensure fairness and reduce fraud. They do this by imposing tremendous paperwork requirements on the contractor. Many companies won't work for the government because of this and those that do make sure that the government picks up the extra cost. Which is why hammers can cost $100 to the government and $10 at the local hardware store.
So your concern that the Air Force could save money by developing new systems is misplaced. Also, note that this is Lockheed, which has a record of delivering military (F-117) and intelligence aircraft (U-2, SR-71) ahead of schedule and under budget.
Also, read "By his bootstraps" the Heinlein short about the time travelling hermaphrodite who's his/her own parents. Takes solipsism to the extreme.
Last I heard, he was dead.
That's sort of what I thought. Especially since I've been at the 50 pt karma cap for a while, so karma whoring does no good.
Please. Porn involving CowboyNeal? I just ate lunch!
Alcatel told zdnet the remote update is "a feature that is intended to allow communications service providers to remotely upgrade the software within their customers' modems."
I opened up each message. Cliked "Save as" and saved as .eml. It was a bitch. I think there's a pst2eml perl script out there somewhere. Or maybe mbx2eml?
One problem with archiving digital communications is the volume. One of the problems that were found during the many Clinton investigations was, when e-mail was subpoenaed, separating the wheat from the chaff. All the mail was backed up onto tapes, which weren't very well marked. And the first searches were done on subject lines. Quite a bit of relevant mail was missed, and turned up years later when people actually sat down and read every message.
The National Archives (here in the USA) is worried about preserving data. The various software and hardware formats used over the years make it difficult to track and retrieve the data. NASA has spent a fair amount of money moving old planetary exploration data from tapes to optical disks, and then to CD. My father worked on a project at DMA (now NIMA) to do the same thing there.
OK, I'll look it up. Got a link?
IIRC (it's been a while since this happened) the 747 had a computer navigation system (or possibly the autopilot?) and it was thought that the pilots had entered the wrong numbers into it. Personally, I don't think that civilian airliners would have been used to test air defense networks, that's what we have e3p aircraft for. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" applies here.
Gotten some neat t-shirts from thankful sys admins that way, btw.
It's MLP.
Yes, I know about KAL 007. It was in USSR airspace, and thus liable to shootdown under the "rules". Unfortunately the "rules" did not consider civilian aircraft with bad navigation. Especially civilian aircraft on courses that looked like penetration courses and which looked, on radar, like military recon aircraft. The USSR pilots did get a visual before firing, and knew it was a civilian. But fired anyway. After that, the "rules" changed.
Sometimes it's an advantage to be old enough to remember when that happened.
The Soviet Union used to do that frequently. Their aircraft would be met by US fighters, which would get close enough to take pictures, and would "escort" them all the way down the coast. But there were never any collisions. The US understood that a collision would be a Bad Thing in terms of international diplomacy. The US rarely, if ever, complained when the USSR shot down military (as opposed to KAL 007) aircraft that penetrated Soviet airspace.
As a side note. KAL 007 was a Korean Air Lines 747 passenger jet that penetrated Soviet airspace accidently and was shot down. It is interesting to note that its course matched what a recon penetration would look like, and a 747 on radar looks just like an E-2 (military 707). That said, the Soviet pilots got a visual ID before they fired, so they knew it was a civilian aircraft.
Lets see. Assuming 50 characters and 93 useable characters (assuming case-sensitivity in the passphrase) on the keyboard, not including the "extended" ibm-ascii character set. We get 93^50 possible combinations. Divide that by the number of combinations that can be tried per second and you know how long it takes to brute force.
Yeah, but how strong is the passphrase? It's basically a long password, and if your passphrase is something like "I love tux" repeated 9 times, it's not that good. A good passphrase, like a good password, is long, contains few real words, has odd punctuation and spelling, and is generally so hard to remember that, unless you spend serious time memorizing it, will be written down.