CBS didn't fake a report. They didn't check the veracity of the report they received and stood behind it until they found out it was faked.
CBS just didn't do it's homework regarding the story. I don't know if that behaviour is worthy of getting fired but definitely reprimanded.
Also, last I heard Newsweek only apologized about the Quran flushing and didn't retract the story. They basically couldn't get confirmation from their sources. Sort of the same thing but more like the source wasn't clear on the point and Newsweek went ahead with the story.
I think it goes back to the ideas in "Good to Great". If you bring in outside people for high level management the company is doomed. That person doesn't understand the company's culture. Carly had no idea of the culture, at best she might have had some knowledge of Lucent's (I can't recall how long she was there).
Outsiders to a company need time to absorb and understant the culture of the company. Otherwise they just go with what they know which is usely not good for the company.
They are reasonably priced for the printer itself, about $100, it color separated (CMYK) with a cartridge for each color and they're only about $10 per cartridge.
You could just get a color laser. I like the Xerox Phaser 8400. Very cool.
I would concur with those using aluminum briefcases. I have one to that my Sony SR7K fits nicely into. I then place it in a backpack that has a padded pocket.
The briefcase is big enough to hold my laptop, power adapter, USB LCD fly-light, WiFi card, USB Network adapter, small USB cable, VGA adapter, and a couple of CD's.
All bags I looked at had decent padding but nothing for crush protection. That's when I started looking at a briefcase/backpack combo.
I don't agree with the idea that the West had better lateral thinking. I lean towards an idea put forward by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Basically, the West isn't/wasn't one culture but many. In China, if the emporer didn't like your ideas about how to use gunpowder you had nobody else to go to. However, in Europe you could shop your idea around to Italy, Portugal, or even Spain. If it was a good idea (was successful) then other countries adopted it readily, especially if it had military implications.
It isn't that the West are better thinkers, it's just that we are a diverse lot trying to kill each other.:-)
Actually, how "close" are the images, network-wise? As another has noted, it will take a long time do the image.
In my labs we just deploy the machine and update the software remotely as needed. Sure, we should redeploy once or twice a year to clear out the cruft that builds up ove a semester. But I think it beats re-imaging on every boot.
A good question is how much are you imaging? That could save some time.
Of course, that's just my opinion I could be wrong.
I went through the RPC worm shit 2 weeks ago. How is this news now? I've patched almost all of my boxes and am about finished with cleaning up the boxes that got missed and consequently hacked.
As the sysadmin for a large engineering department I always, *always*, recommend grad students learn LaTex if they're go to write any papers.
Anecdotally, Word just seems to do weird things with the layout on way too many papers. This could because the studentsa aren't creating the papers properly or Word is crap.
With LaTex you just have to worry about the content and the equations, the formatting is usely something that can be set once and forgotten.
Equations are a pain no matter what you use. There is just no easy way to create them, well hand writing them is easy but usually not acceptable in most papers.
Find a set of tools, many have been mentioned, that work for you. Learn a version control system to help track/save your document, I would recommend CVS, and start writing.
From what I've read concerning about what the review board has found this is exactly what they want to change.
It is one thing in a test/development/research environment to have something unexpected to happen, that's why you are doing testing/development/research. However, once the project goes live anything unexpected that does happen should be examined thoroughly. Like in Challenger, when the O-rings were being eroded that wasn't expected behaviour. Yes, O-rings are there to seal joints and they did their job but no one expected them to be eroded.
With Columbia there were 2 events: surface roughness and foam chunks. Hard to say which was more deadly, I'll start with the chunks. I would have thought that when things start falling off of the vehicle that NASA/Boeing/whomever would have done better testing and research into what was going on. A first guess would be that no harm would come of it, it's foam. However, it was moving at several hundred miles per hour and it wasn't something that was expected.
There was also a large amount of surface roughness on the wings. This leads to an early transition to turbulence which leads to increased heating earlier in the descent. Combine that with a foam chunk tearing a whole in the wing and you get 7 more dead astronauts.
Both these things were not part of the expected behaviour of the shuttle. Folks at NASA didn't think they were particularly harmful or didn't appear to cause any harm. So they let them go because they rationalized it away without understanding why they were occurring and what effects they may have.
We do have term limits, they are called elections. Use your vote to elect them out of office. Better yet, use your voice and get fellow members of the electorate to help you in this.
Term limits would hurt politicians that are good as well as those that are scum.
That is the beauty of a democratic system. We get the opportunity to throw out the crummy tyrants and try to elect good tyrants.
Beer can go bad from thermal cycles but UV will skunk a beer in minutes.
Gotta love photochemistry.:-)
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For us beer geeks we would just drink beer in the sun faster. UV rays is what skunks beer.
UV interacts with the alpha acids from the hops and creates that "skunky" taste. This is why most beer bottle are brown, it blocks out most of the UV for a period of time.
This page does a a decent job of explaining what happens.
Nonetheless, this is a cool hack. Just drink it fast or leave it in the bottle/can.
If you're looking to save money by going custom think again.
My fiancee and I had her engagement ring custom made. We had them get a selection of stones to look at instead of trying to get them elsewhere, however, if they pushed issue we would have gone elsewhere. My feeling though was that we could have brought our own stones in.
We worked with the designer to get something we liked. They know how the metals and stones work with each other. This is their field of expertise. Your job is get something you like at a price you can afford.
We also had to get a custom wedding band made for my fiancee because of the design we had. That might be something to think about as well.
Just my several thousand dollars of experience worth.:-)
...For Columbia, docking with Station Alpha was impossible-- wrong orbit, not enough fuel.
How about they couldn't dock because they didn't have the correct docking mechanism.
If they had enough fuel to get to the Space Station(SS) about the only choice they had to get the crew onto it was to use the 2 space suits to ferry folks from Columbia to the SS. I'm assuming that there is an airlock on the SS that can be used for EVA's.
This might have given folks enough time on the ground to get 4 (need a trained pilot for the return I'm guessing) Soyuz capsules up there and rescure the Columbia crew.
Of course, this crazy scheme depends on there being enough fuel onboard Columbia to get it close to the SS.
He was originally detained for suspicion that he might make a dirty bomb. When the government could no long hold him under criminal charges the government decided to list him as an "enemy combatant" and a material witness. So he left a civilian jail and was put into a mility brig in South Carolina.
Basically, the government couldn't find enough evidence to hold him for criminal charges and reclassified him to they can hold him indefinitely. Just recently a judge ruled that he can see a lawyer. Of course, the government is fighting this vigorously. Ironically, this is the same judge that ruled he could be reclassified an enemy combatant.
His status was changed to "enemy combatant" because he couldn't be detained any longer as a material witness nor a suspect in a crime. So, he was re-classified as an "enemy combatant".
What evidence is there to support that he is a terrorist? The word of another terrorist? Yes, he did return from Pakistan where he is alleged to have undergone some terrorist training, but what further evidence is there to support the claim he is a terrorist?
I think making him an "enemy combatant" is a bit extreme and not giving him access to legel counsel is just flat out wrong.
Interesting as this may be they only point that seemed most interesting was about VNC.
I've been ok with how win2k performs and I see no real reason to upgrade to winxp. I am actually working harder to move everything to linux and save windows for those machines I have to administer at work.
While I agree that NASA has to come up with some good ideas in order for Congress to hand over the money. However, Congress has to be of the mindset to "think big" and be open to spending money on these ideas as well.
It's kind of like convincing your boss that Linux is a good idea. If he doesn't have the mindset to try new things. Congress in the 1970's lacked this. They were satisfied with going to the Moon. In fact, they cut the Apollo program short, two flight I think.
If the people holding the purse strings don't have the ability to understand what you want to do then no amount of "thinking big" on your part help.
Otherwise everyone becomes more of a marketer then a thinker of epic ideas.
The real failing of NASA was when US (Congress mostly) stopped thinking big.
The grand plan after Apollo was going to Mars. This needed a couple of key things:
1) Reusable vehicle to ferry cargo and personnel to 2) Space Station that could be used to house personnel and behind a vehicle to go to 3) Mars
After Apollo (during the end actually) funding was cut back and each of the steps listed had to stand on its own.
So instead of building a reusable vehicle to ferry personnel and some cargo to orbit we got the Shuttle. So it was beefed up to spend 2 weeks in orbit, self contained, and big enough to carry ridiculous amounts of cargo and satellites.
We then got a re-re-re-redesigned space station with a primary mission for science instead of a place to build an interplanetary vehicle.
The Mars mission you ask? Well that's just a pipe dream since each of the parts necessary to get there were meant to stand on their own instead of working together for the big payoff.
I think a big reason for the lack of scientists and engineers is the lack of advancement and prestige at companies.
Usually you have: Junior Engineer, Senior Engineer, Princple Engineer, and Distinguished Engineer (roughly speaking). Whereas there is a multitude of levels for those in the management track.
How many people want to be "stuck" in a technical track? The money isn't as good, your don't seem to get much respect, and you don't even get a decent title.
I think we are seeing lots of good technical people being pushed into the ranks of management.
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...but that rug really pulled the room together.
I'm thinking the phrase, "You are very wise", is Jedi code for, "What are you, fucking stupid?"
CBS didn't fake a report. They didn't check the veracity of the report they received and stood behind it until they found out it was faked.
CBS just didn't do it's homework regarding the story. I don't know if that behaviour is worthy of getting fired but definitely reprimanded.
Also, last I heard Newsweek only apologized about the Quran flushing and didn't retract the story. They basically couldn't get confirmation from their sources. Sort of the same thing but more like the source wasn't clear on the point and Newsweek went ahead with the story.
Both basically boil down to fact checking.
I think it goes back to the ideas in "Good to Great". If you bring in outside people for high level management the company is doomed. That person doesn't understand the company's culture. Carly had no idea of the culture, at best she might have had some knowledge of Lucent's (I can't recall how long she was there).
Outsiders to a company need time to absorb and understant the culture of the company. Otherwise they just go with what they know which is usely not good for the company.
They are reasonably priced for the printer itself, about $100, it color separated (CMYK) with a cartridge for each color and they're only about $10 per cartridge.
You could just get a color laser. I like the Xerox Phaser 8400. Very cool.
I would concur with those using aluminum briefcases. I have one to that my Sony SR7K fits nicely into. I then place it in a backpack that has a padded pocket.
The briefcase is big enough to hold my laptop, power adapter, USB LCD fly-light, WiFi card, USB Network adapter, small USB cable, VGA adapter, and a couple of CD's.
All bags I looked at had decent padding but nothing for crush protection. That's when I started looking at a briefcase/backpack combo.
I don't agree with the idea that the West had better lateral thinking. I lean towards an idea put forward by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel.
:-)
Basically, the West isn't/wasn't one culture but many. In China, if the emporer didn't like your ideas about how to use gunpowder you had nobody else to go to. However, in Europe you could shop your idea around to Italy, Portugal, or even Spain. If it was a good idea (was successful) then other countries adopted it readily, especially if it had military implications.
It isn't that the West are better thinkers, it's just that we are a diverse lot trying to kill each other.
Actually, how "close" are the images, network-wise? As another has noted, it will take a long time do the image.
In my labs we just deploy the machine and update the software remotely as needed. Sure, we should redeploy once or twice a year to clear out the cruft that builds up ove a semester. But I think it beats re-imaging on every boot.
A good question is how much are you imaging? That could save some time.
Of course, that's just my opinion I could be wrong.
Didn't the RPC worm come out 2-3 weeks ago?
I went through the RPC worm shit 2 weeks ago. How is this news now? I've patched almost all of my boxes and am about finished with cleaning up the boxes that got missed and consequently hacked.
As the sysadmin for a large engineering department I always, *always*, recommend grad students learn LaTex if they're go to write any papers.
Anecdotally, Word just seems to do weird things with the layout on way too many papers. This could because the studentsa aren't creating the papers properly or Word is crap.
With LaTex you just have to worry about the content and the equations, the formatting is usely something that can be set once and forgotten.
Equations are a pain no matter what you use. There is just no easy way to create them, well hand writing them is easy but usually not acceptable in most papers.
Find a set of tools, many have been mentioned, that work for you. Learn a version control system to help track/save your document, I would recommend CVS, and start writing.
From what I've read concerning about what the review board has found this is exactly what they want to change.
It is one thing in a test/development/research environment to have something unexpected to happen, that's why you are doing testing/development/research. However, once the project goes live anything unexpected that does happen should be examined thoroughly. Like in Challenger, when the O-rings were being eroded that wasn't expected behaviour. Yes, O-rings are there to seal joints and they did their job but no one expected them to be eroded.
With Columbia there were 2 events: surface roughness and foam chunks. Hard to say which was more deadly, I'll start with the chunks. I would have thought that when things start falling off of the vehicle that NASA/Boeing/whomever would have done better testing and research into what was going on. A first guess would be that no harm would come of it, it's foam. However, it was moving at several hundred miles per hour and it wasn't something that was expected.
There was also a large amount of surface roughness on the wings. This leads to an early transition to turbulence which leads to increased heating earlier in the descent. Combine that with a foam chunk tearing a whole in the wing and you get 7 more dead astronauts.
Both these things were not part of the expected behaviour of the shuttle. Folks at NASA didn't think they were particularly harmful or didn't appear to cause any harm. So they let them go because they rationalized it away without understanding why they were occurring and what effects they may have.
We do have term limits, they are called elections. Use your vote to elect them out of office. Better yet, use your voice and get fellow members of the electorate to help you in this.
Term limits would hurt politicians that are good as well as those that are scum.
That is the beauty of a democratic system. We get the opportunity to throw out the crummy tyrants and try to elect good tyrants.
Beer can go bad from thermal cycles but UV will skunk a beer in minutes.
:-)
Gotta love photochemistry.
For us beer geeks we would just drink beer in the sun faster. UV rays is what skunks beer.
UV interacts with the alpha acids from the hops and creates that "skunky" taste. This is why most beer bottle are brown, it blocks out most of the UV for a period of time.
This page does a a decent job of explaining what happens.
Nonetheless, this is a cool hack. Just drink it fast or leave it in the bottle/can.
If you're looking to save money by going custom think again.
:-)
My fiancee and I had her engagement ring custom made. We had them get a selection of stones to look at instead of trying to get them elsewhere, however, if they pushed issue we would have gone elsewhere. My feeling though was that we could have brought our own stones in.
We worked with the designer to get something we liked. They know how the metals and stones work with each other. This is their field of expertise. Your job is get something you like at a price you can afford.
We also had to get a custom wedding band made for my fiancee because of the design we had. That might be something to think about as well.
Just my several thousand dollars of experience worth.
...For Columbia, docking with Station Alpha was impossible-- wrong orbit, not enough fuel.
How about they couldn't dock because they didn't have the correct docking mechanism.
If they had enough fuel to get to the Space Station(SS) about the only choice they had to get the crew onto it was to use the 2 space suits to ferry folks from Columbia to the SS. I'm assuming that there is an airlock on the SS that can be used for EVA's.
This might have given folks enough time on the ground to get 4 (need a trained pilot for the return I'm guessing) Soyuz capsules up there and rescure the Columbia crew.
Of course, this crazy scheme depends on there being enough fuel onboard Columbia to get it close to the SS.
I just hope we truly learn from this mistake.
He was originally detained for suspicion that he might make a dirty bomb. When the government could no long hold him under criminal charges the government decided to list him as an "enemy combatant" and a material witness. So he left a civilian jail and was put into a mility brig in South Carolina.
Basically, the government couldn't find enough evidence to hold him for criminal charges and reclassified him to they can hold him indefinitely. Just recently a judge ruled that he can see a lawyer. Of course, the government is fighting this vigorously. Ironically, this is the same judge that ruled he could be reclassified an enemy combatant.
Kind of sucks that one can't read the whole article.
Can we moderate a user down if they give a really crappy link?
His status was changed to "enemy combatant" because he couldn't be detained any longer as a material witness nor a suspect in a crime. So, he was re-classified as an "enemy combatant".
What evidence is there to support that he is a terrorist? The word of another terrorist? Yes, he did return from Pakistan where he is alleged to have undergone some terrorist training, but what further evidence is there to support the claim he is a terrorist?
I think making him an "enemy combatant" is a bit extreme and not giving him access to legel counsel is just flat out wrong.
Interesting as this may be they only point that seemed most interesting was about VNC.
I've been ok with how win2k performs and I see no real reason to upgrade to winxp. I am actually working harder to move everything to linux and save windows for those machines I have to administer at work.
While I agree that NASA has to come up with some good ideas in order for Congress to hand over the money. However, Congress has to be of the mindset to "think big" and be open to spending money on these ideas as well.
It's kind of like convincing your boss that Linux is a good idea. If he doesn't have the mindset to try new things. Congress in the 1970's lacked this. They were satisfied with going to the Moon. In fact, they cut the Apollo program short, two flight I think.
If the people holding the purse strings don't have the ability to understand what you want to do then no amount of "thinking big" on your part help.
Otherwise everyone becomes more of a marketer then a thinker of epic ideas.
The real failing of NASA was when US (Congress mostly) stopped thinking big.
The grand plan after Apollo was going to Mars. This needed a couple of key things:
1) Reusable vehicle to ferry cargo and personnel to
2) Space Station that could be used to house personnel and behind a vehicle to go to
3) Mars
After Apollo (during the end actually) funding was cut back and each of the steps listed had to stand on its own.
So instead of building a reusable vehicle to ferry personnel and some cargo to orbit we got the Shuttle. So it was beefed up to spend 2 weeks in orbit, self contained, and big enough to carry ridiculous amounts of cargo and satellites.
We then got a re-re-re-redesigned space station with a primary mission for science instead of a place to build an interplanetary vehicle.
The Mars mission you ask? Well that's just a pipe dream since each of the parts necessary to get there were meant to stand on their own instead of working together for the big payoff.
I think a big reason for the lack of scientists and engineers is the lack of advancement and prestige at companies.
Usually you have: Junior Engineer, Senior Engineer, Princple Engineer, and Distinguished Engineer (roughly speaking). Whereas there is a multitude of levels for those in the management track.
How many people want to be "stuck" in a technical track? The money isn't as good, your don't seem to get much respect, and you don't even get a decent title.
I think we are seeing lots of good technical people being pushed into the ranks of management.
Did the DOD think to have these sensitive files encrypted? Don't most online stores encrypt their credit card databases now?
I may not be the most paranoid person I know and I think it's a bit crazy to go to such lengths but if a file is that important why wouldn't you?
Why not go the extra mile and use and encrypted file system as well? Wait, that's the paranoid side of my thinking again.
I guess it takes a lot of high profile incidents like this to get folks to wise up about security on all levels.
Pit of Despair.
What else can you call it when you're told to come up with a non-obvious name for something that needs a real name.
Runner up: Sisyphus.