NASA is a sad shell of its 1960's self, and these facilities are a very literal reminder of that fact.
C'mon, everybody knows by now that the real "'scare" of Sputnik wasn't that the Russkies put a tiny satellite into orbit, but that the R7 that put it there was a capable ICBM.
The whole "man on the Moon" thing was political cover for having the biggest-baddest ICBM rockets on the planet and being able to militarize space. You can tell taxpayers that you're going to spend a huge chunk of GDP on technology to obliterate the world, or on putting a Man on the Moon. Guess which gets more "rah-rah" support? The People aren't as psycho as the government, even if they are easily fooled.
The interesting thing is that the plan backfired. Now that politicians are themselves in danger of being obliterated if they start another war, they've backed down quite a bit. At least enough to only go picking on nations that aren't nuclear-armed themselves (Iran and PRNK learned this lesson).
The actual benefits that have been accrued from the Moon Landings are minimal, and at the cost of everything else that might have been done with those resources. Where space exploration is happening, and going, is in the private sector (SpaceX, et. al) where profits are to be made providing useful services from satellites or rich-men's wish fulfilment, or from non-profits looking to further the advancement of science. The difference is that dying peacefully on a Mars colony or studying the Sun is less with the blow-up-the-world crazy. By the end of the next decade NASA itself can be mothballed - they'll still be hard at work on the Senate Launch System that nobody wants. "Mission accomplished" if one must.
Isn't 'cyber-incident' the sort of bullshit term that is more or less designed to be slippery, and thus useful for both alarmism and obfuscation as the situation requires?
And for everybody and their brother to grab power.
Schneier had a good analogy with the Sony hack, and his rubrik is a good one - take what happened online and make the closest physical-world analogy you can. The Sony hack was equivalent to somebody sneaking into Sony HQ and photocopying a _lot_ of documents.
Clearly a violation, but now the Air Force is looking at ( / may have conducted) a counter-strike? For photocopying?
That's just crazy. But since the NSA has been militarized we should be very concerned about PsyOps leading the populous into war over simple property crimes.
It's just an example of a solution looking for a problem
Is your claim that nobody is frustrated by having to frequently re-enter a passcode? You do realize that most people's "solution" to this problem is to have no passcode at all, right?
The irony there is that it's these same member banks that have been avoiding a crypto upgrade for over 20 years, forcing Target to manage valuable strings of numbers.
Let's play "who's more wildly negligent here?" It'll be a tough call.
Meanwhile Iceland had marketable torts 1000 years ago and Americans still allow themselves to be screwed over by the class action system.
No kidding. I made the switch myself 14 years ago, nearly the same comparison. I was an msql user, found MySQL, then took a job where they used Pg. "Let me show you subselects" and that was that. I'm a total software "liberal" - show me a better solution and I'm there. The degree of software "conservatism" amazes me.
While admiring Cisco's efforts here, this seems hard. At least these criteria would need to be satisfied:
1) the order would have to come in over an actual secure channel and be handled on known-secure systems. 2) the payment could not be processed until the delivery was made. Once the payment is made, the delivery location is compromised for future orders. 3) the shipment would have to be to a location that does not appear on the MLS. The receiver would have to follow tracking and send a courier out to meet the delivery driver (a easy expense for the right customers).
Driving to a distributor for pickup also seems like a good idea, so long as #2 is adhered to, since it amplifies the required effort of an attack to intercept several palettes of gear.
What other attacks are there on such a secure-delivery system using a common carrier?
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
End of story. Hydrogen is a volatile gas that is EXTREMELY difficult to store and transport, making it very impractical.
Sound like you got the Reader's Digest version of the story. Methanol fuel cells are the practical version because we already know how to handle liquid fuels. You can even make it from air+water+solar by running the cells in reverse (scaled to factory levels). Look into George Olah's work.
In the US, already, various government agencies have defined "terrorists" as people who store food like the Mormons, support political candidates like Ron Paul, or prefer not to use the banking system.
Disappearing these people under the NDAA is already legal. I guess they could block their website too.
It's not. Wire transfers typically cost $30-40. Paypal is much preferred for small amounts. One 'hack' for larger amounts than Paypal will allow is to have an account at national bank and have your friend go to one and deposit cash into your account. Except the national banks usually charge a monthly fee for small accounts, so it's not cheap and it's certainly not easy. Facebook money will be very popular here.
We can't have nice things 'cause terrists (used to be "drugs and mob crime and pedos"). Land of the Free and all that jazz.
"That's just laziness on the part of a manufacturer," Paterson said in a phone interview. "This is cardinal sin."
Then it deserves at least social shaming and ostracism, if not worse than those minor responses to venial sins. Protecting the manufacturers only creates an environment where the incentives are aligned for them to do it again. If manufacturers aren't keenly aware that they need to protect their reputation, then they will cut every corner that doesn't provide them a competitive advantage.
binaural = stereo 3d audio = surround sound (5.1/7.1/8.1/etc)
No, binaural is one presentation modality for a 3D soundstage. You could do it with any given set of speakers if you have the right convolution matrix. Stereo imaging was what I worked on for an undergrad project in the early 90's. We had 5.1 available at the time and nobody called it '3D audio' - "Surround Sound" was the common parlance.
Except, if you read even the summary, you'll discover that they're taking half of estimated spending money, not half of your income.
Let's not be naive - the working poor don't have any "spending money" - they have high debt and have to figure out which bills to pay this month and if it's going to be beans or Ramen tonight.
I doubt the working poor pay no fines, so @SuperKendall is right on this one. If somebody can show that this is, in fact, not true, then by all means prove the Finns to be enlightened (the article does not do that). Until then it's fair to assume that nothing is unusual here and that low-level-crime prosecution is universally used to keep the lower classes down.
Can you really call something with the performance of a high-end desktop PC (or maybe a dual-processor workstation) a "super computer cluster"?
Hey, some CS nerd had $4500 left in his budget for the year, and the PR dept at GCHQ was desparate for *anything* that didn't involve destroying the security of the UK people.
If step 1 is not kill all the current warlords and government leaders it will fail.
The CIA fully agrees - history has shown that strategy always works...
Though it's a fair point that their focus should be on the means of communication rather than on implementing a curriculum. If the people have affordable 'net and there are classes in their language that they can gain immediate benefit from, everything else will sort itself out. Parents will ensure that their children learn the long-term benefit stuff (say every study on poor, rural education ever).
So, no outright bans, despite what the clickbait title would like you to believe:
Sometimes, those experiences and issues involve violence and graphic images of public interest or concern, such as human rights abuses or acts of terrorism. In many instances, when people share this type of content, they are condemning it or raising awareness about it. We remove graphic images when they are shared for sadistic pleasure or to celebrate or glorify violence.
Many of my friends regularly post pictures of some nation state having blown the shit out of some children or some wedding party, and those don't get taken down. If they did, they'd probably all leave, and really what these guidelines are about is maximizing ad sales.
I'm more concerned with Facebook's choice to impose Puritanism's soft-ban on depictions of the human body, which is a religious preference (one absent of logic, IMO) straight out of the Victorian era. More people would be upset if they were imposing other religious filters.
Why not ban depictions of Muhammad? That'll offend more people than boobs.
What is there that are so important to protect that propels them to do all these???
Power. Same as every failed government for the past seven thousand years.
2. Ron Wyden, as a senator, knows things that Edward Snowden doesn't know, but he can't tell us the things that he knows because they are classified.
Of course he can - he just chooses not to risk the possible consequences of doing so.
Snowden made news because he still believes in "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honors" - which is all but absent in our society. This is what they mean by "a society gets the government it deserves."
2 might be the right default, but shouldn't we at least allow acpi_version= on the kernel cmdline for people who want to take advantage of the feature spread between 2 and 5?
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NASA is a sad shell of its 1960's self, and these facilities are a very literal reminder of that fact.
C'mon, everybody knows by now that the real "'scare" of Sputnik wasn't that the Russkies put a tiny satellite into orbit, but that the R7 that put it there was a capable ICBM.
The whole "man on the Moon" thing was political cover for having the biggest-baddest ICBM rockets on the planet and being able to militarize space. You can tell taxpayers that you're going to spend a huge chunk of GDP on technology to obliterate the world, or on putting a Man on the Moon. Guess which gets more "rah-rah" support? The People aren't as psycho as the government, even if they are easily fooled.
The interesting thing is that the plan backfired. Now that politicians are themselves in danger of being obliterated if they start another war, they've backed down quite a bit. At least enough to only go picking on nations that aren't nuclear-armed themselves (Iran and PRNK learned this lesson).
The actual benefits that have been accrued from the Moon Landings are minimal, and at the cost of everything else that might have been done with those resources. Where space exploration is happening, and going, is in the private sector (SpaceX, et. al) where profits are to be made providing useful services from satellites or rich-men's wish fulfilment, or from non-profits looking to further the advancement of science. The difference is that dying peacefully on a Mars colony or studying the Sun is less with the blow-up-the-world crazy. By the end of the next decade NASA itself can be mothballed - they'll still be hard at work on the Senate Launch System that nobody wants. "Mission accomplished" if one must.
Isn't 'cyber-incident' the sort of bullshit term that is more or less designed to be slippery, and thus useful for both alarmism and obfuscation as the situation requires?
And for everybody and their brother to grab power.
Schneier had a good analogy with the Sony hack, and his rubrik is a good one - take what happened online and make the closest physical-world analogy you can. The Sony hack was equivalent to somebody sneaking into Sony HQ and photocopying a _lot_ of documents.
Clearly a violation, but now the Air Force is looking at ( / may have conducted) a counter-strike? For photocopying?
That's just crazy. But since the NSA has been militarized we should be very concerned about PsyOps leading the populous into war over simple property crimes.
But I thought Canada was better than that
Really, why? We were talking about Echelon here more than fifteen years ago.
Hosers.
(sorry)
It's just an example of a solution looking for a problem
Is your claim that nobody is frustrated by having to frequently re-enter a passcode? You do realize that most people's "solution" to this problem is to have no passcode at all, right?
Most of them are flat.
The steel industry in France is gonna love this rule!
Name one instance in history where the weather has been bad over the entire area of either US grid (east or west) at the same time.
Name one time electricity has been generated in Arizona and used in Maine.
Yeah, that superconducting backbone that runs along the Transcontinental Railroad ... maybe the Chinese can build that one too!
The irony there is that it's these same member banks that have been avoiding a crypto upgrade for over 20 years, forcing Target to manage valuable strings of numbers.
Let's play "who's more wildly negligent here?" It'll be a tough call.
Meanwhile Iceland had marketable torts 1000 years ago and Americans still allow themselves to be screwed over by the class action system.
4K TV is happening ... hang onto your hat and wait for the 4K 60Hz 4:4:4 panels later this year. Almost there.
Of course I'm buying the first 50" 8K display I can get my hands on for less than $2K. After 30 years of upgrading displays, I think I will be done.
No kidding. I made the switch myself 14 years ago, nearly the same comparison. I was an msql user, found MySQL, then took a job where they used Pg. "Let me show you subselects" and that was that. I'm a total software "liberal" - show me a better solution and I'm there. The degree of software "conservatism" amazes me.
What?
"Editors"
While admiring Cisco's efforts here, this seems hard. At least these criteria would need to be satisfied:
1) the order would have to come in over an actual secure channel and be handled on known-secure systems.
2) the payment could not be processed until the delivery was made. Once the payment is made, the delivery location is compromised for future orders.
3) the shipment would have to be to a location that does not appear on the MLS. The receiver would have to follow tracking and send a courier out to meet the delivery driver (a easy expense for the right customers).
Driving to a distributor for pickup also seems like a good idea, so long as #2 is adhered to, since it amplifies the required effort of an attack to intercept several palettes of gear.
What other attacks are there on such a secure-delivery system using a common carrier?
End of story.
Hydrogen is a volatile gas that is EXTREMELY difficult to store and transport, making it very impractical.
Sound like you got the Reader's Digest version of the story. Methanol fuel cells are the practical version because we already know how to handle liquid fuels. You can even make it from air+water+solar by running the cells in reverse (scaled to factory levels). Look into George Olah's work.
In the US, already, various government agencies have defined "terrorists" as people who store food like the Mormons, support political candidates like Ron Paul, or prefer not to use the banking system.
Disappearing these people under the NDAA is already legal. I guess they could block their website too.
I dont know if this is available in the USA.
It's not. Wire transfers typically cost $30-40. Paypal is much preferred for small amounts. One 'hack' for larger amounts than Paypal will allow is to have an account at national bank and have your friend go to one and deposit cash into your account. Except the national banks usually charge a monthly fee for small accounts, so it's not cheap and it's certainly not easy. Facebook money will be very popular here.
We can't have nice things 'cause terrists (used to be "drugs and mob crime and pedos"). Land of the Free and all that jazz.
Then it deserves at least social shaming and ostracism, if not worse than those minor responses to venial sins. Protecting the manufacturers only creates an environment where the incentives are aligned for them to do it again. If manufacturers aren't keenly aware that they need to protect their reputation, then they will cut every corner that doesn't provide them a competitive advantage.
binaural = stereo
3d audio = surround sound (5.1/7.1/8.1/etc)
No, binaural is one presentation modality for a 3D soundstage. You could do it with any given set of speakers if you have the right convolution matrix. Stereo imaging was what I worked on for an undergrad project in the early 90's. We had 5.1 available at the time and nobody called it '3D audio' - "Surround Sound" was the common parlance.
Except, if you read even the summary, you'll discover that they're taking half of estimated spending money, not half of your income.
Let's not be naive - the working poor don't have any "spending money" - they have high debt and have to figure out which bills to pay this month and if it's going to be beans or Ramen tonight.
I doubt the working poor pay no fines, so @SuperKendall is right on this one. If somebody can show that this is, in fact, not true, then by all means prove the Finns to be enlightened (the article does not do that). Until then it's fair to assume that nothing is unusual here and that low-level-crime prosecution is universally used to keep the lower classes down.
Can you really call something with the performance of a high-end desktop PC (or maybe a dual-processor workstation) a "super computer cluster"?
Hey, some CS nerd had $4500 left in his budget for the year, and the PR dept at GCHQ was desparate for *anything* that didn't involve destroying the security of the UK people.
You don't do something unless you have plans to use it
I suppose if people start snipping the cables to the camera, Hertz will have trouble proving damages.
If step 1 is not kill all the current warlords and government leaders it will fail.
The CIA fully agrees - history has shown that strategy always works...
Though it's a fair point that their focus should be on the means of communication rather than on implementing a curriculum. If the people have affordable 'net and there are classes in their language that they can gain immediate benefit from, everything else will sort itself out. Parents will ensure that their children learn the long-term benefit stuff (say every study on poor, rural education ever).
So, no outright bans, despite what the clickbait title would like you to believe:
Many of my friends regularly post pictures of some nation state having blown the shit out of some children or some wedding party, and those don't get taken down. If they did, they'd probably all leave, and really what these guidelines are about is maximizing ad sales.
I'm more concerned with Facebook's choice to impose Puritanism's soft-ban on depictions of the human body, which is a religious preference (one absent of logic, IMO) straight out of the Victorian era. More people would be upset if they were imposing other religious filters.
Why not ban depictions of Muhammad? That'll offend more people than boobs.
What is there that are so important to protect that propels them to do all these???
Power. Same as every failed government for the past seven thousand years.
2. Ron Wyden, as a senator, knows things that Edward Snowden doesn't know, but he can't tell us the things that he knows because they are classified.
Of course he can - he just chooses not to risk the possible consequences of doing so.
Snowden made news because he still believes in "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honors" - which is all but absent in our society. This is what they mean by "a society gets the government it deserves."
of course there's no chafing - the body has spent years building a keratin layer on the glans to protect the normally-sensitive skin from chafing.
we should work to get the rest of our infrastructure away from being addicted to having a synchronized time base in the first place?
There are thousands of other uses for accurate clocks on computers besides NFSv4.
2 might be the right default, but shouldn't we at least allow acpi_version= on the kernel cmdline for people who want to take advantage of the feature spread between 2 and 5?
Not everybody has broken Dell crap, right?