As one of my USAian friends, a veteran of 18 years US SF and 7 or 8 more in 82nd Abn before that likes to point out:
When Obama was elected, everything was going to be different. Warrantless wiretaps would be going away, Gitmo would be going away, extraordinary rendition would stop, and so on.
Then the new President got his first National Security Briefing. Then nothing changed and the surveillance powers extended, drone strikes intensified, Gitmo is still there, and so on.
His opinion was that once anyone understood the full nature of the varied threats and their agency leaders explained that the tools were very useful in threat management, this would inevitably happen no matter who was in the White House.
Routinely, I've seen: speeding, lane changes without signals, driving with one hand (at best) on the wheel in traffic, following too close, driving in cars whose brakes and general state of maintenance I have doubts about, talking on the cell phone and sometimes also radio at the same time while driving, cutting people off, etc.
I'm sure the cab driver profession is the first thing we can replace with automated cars to have greater road safety.
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Even if what you mention is the case, why is it safe to drive other places and not to the airport?
Methinks city revenues and cab driver unhappiness are behind this. The Taxi Guild is a powerful lobby because it pumps money into CIty Hall's coffers. Neat new disruptive technology is all well and good until it threatens the city's bottom line....
And they'll stop geeks, some of the potentially most heavy users of their technology, from leveraging them, recommending them, or wanting to develop for them.
I don't see that the current permission system was preventing anyone developing anything. Have you noticed how many apps are on Google Play? This seems like trying to pursue business that is already being done....
I'm already not sanguine about the permissions apps ask for (and in fact, several security research firms have pointed out the risks). Often times, a well meaning dev will explain that he has to have X permission because google has buried one particular function (not always obviously related) into that permission and that function makes sense for the app. You almost get the feeling the dev is apologetic in many cases and would like to just have a single finer grained permission.
It's okay to HAVE permission groups, but you should also have very finely grained permissions. Good companies and devs would only use the fine grained ones that did the MINIMUM they needed to do. And one would then not install overly broad permission groups.
Why is Google putting the work of vetting permission groups and understanding the implications onto end users versus onto themselves and the devs for apps? This smacks of something for lazy devs versus something for consumers.
And one more thing: How about installation require the minimum number of permissions to make the basic app functions work and additional permissions queried and granted/denied if optional features are enabled?
I have a lot of apps that want permissions for social media integration and I'm not on that boat and will never use that part of their app. Why do I need to open that security door to install since the rest of their app functions fine without it?
Mobile development seems to be about as poorly thought out (API wise and design wise) as PC software was in the early days of GUIs.
Given his opinions, I wouldn't give him $0.01, let alone 13 million. And as far as demanding to be paid in bitcoins, ROFLCopter!
If you voluntarily associate yourself with the murderers of innocent people, it says a lot about you. His own judgment is obviously very suspect (both for choosing associates and for assessing his worth). He comes off as a narcissist and a troubled soul who is projecting his rage at the outside world, rather than accepting responsibility and dealing with his own issues.
He is neither hero, patriot, nor poor soul. He has made his own choices and has no ability (as far as I can see) to accept the consequences of his own decisions and their consequences. If this pattern repeats, he'll end up back in jail again.
If he was smart, he'd take his freedom and run with it and spend some time fixing up his own problems.
A friend of mine who works for NASA (or at least in the downstream distribution of NASA satellite data) and is an amateur astronomer and photographer sent me this information: (Thanks Indy!) - Maybe it'll be useful to some....
So, this coming weekend, specifically Friday night/Saturday morning, there is to be a brand spanky new meteor shower happening. So brand spanky new it hasn't been observed before, because the dust from the associated comet has not intersected with Earth's path until now. And because of all the uncertainty with the debris stream, there are heavy caveats to "this MAY happen" - but if it does...brand new event never before seen!
Given that it's so new, that nothing is *known* about it, anything could happen. It could fizzle. Or it could become the most spectacular thing to happen since the Leonid meteor storm of 2002 (it is unlikely, however great this meteor shower gets, that it'll get THAT good!).
So, first, the nuts and bolts for this weekend. The meteor shower is *predicted* to reach it's peak between the hours of 2am and 4am Eastern Daylight Time on the morning of May 24th (adjust your times accordingly with respect to your time zones; example, midnight to 2am Mountain Time). BUT, because there are uncertainties in exactly where the dust ball is that we will be passing by, it could peak upwards of a few hours on either side of that. However, the meteor folk who have been tracking this stuff are reasonably confident on their predict times.
Further to this, it's not known how distributed the debris cloud is. It could be pretty compact, in which case the peak may last only a few minutes. Or it could be fairly distributed, in which case the peak could last for hours. Or it could be clumpy, in which case there may be more than one peak! Again, new brand spanky new meteor shower, we have no idea yet!:-D
Second, the meteor shower will appear to be coming out of the *very* obscure constellation of Camelopardalis, which is situated to the right of the Big Dipper, left of Cassiopeia, and below the Little Dipper (see attached image). It's a pretty sparse area of sky. The constellation is so obscure that in the decades of my looking at the sky, I've never tried tracing it out. Maybe this weekend I finally will.:-D
So, given the above radiant, your best option to face during the shower is to the north (and if you're not sure where that is - and not everyone does, especially if they are directionally challenged - remember where the sun went down, then stand so that direction is off to your left:-) ). But don't *focus* on staring to the north! Look around. Face east a bit. West. Look overhead! Meteors can fall all around. It's just that you will likely see more (albeit shorter, quicker) meteors coming out of the north than you will to the west, east, or overhead (which will be longer, and slower, but relatively fewer). But don't restrict yourself to only northward-looking.
Darkness. If at all possible, you want to find the darkest location you can to see this. That means, getting out of and AWAY from the cities. Light pollution will utterly swamp the sky, and you won't see ANYthing.:-( The further away from lights you can get, the better. And get to a location where you have open skies, a view to the north, and can see as much of the sky as possible (being in the middle of the woods - dark or not - won't do you a bit of good in viewing the sky much)
Dressing for the Weather. Assuming it'll be clear where you are, check the forecasted temperature lows, and dress as if it will be 10-15 degrees cooler/colder than that. Hats are good.:-) Meteor watching - heck, night sky watching in general - is not among the more heat-inducing activities.;-) Also, lawn chairs or blankets, and sleeping bags, are nice to have. Be comfortable!
What you MIGHT expect to see? Really, nobody *knows* for certain, but I've seen some healthy numbers tossed out t
Some geographers tried to use the math model that describes the migration of particles between atoms to try to describe population migrations between population centers. This (if I recall) was called the Gravity Model. And it was a huge attempt to make the softer sciences a bit harder by 'mathing them up'. Beyond that, it was trying to shoe-horn the data to fit the theory.
It failed and fell into just disrepute.
I have a feeling that much of the 'amazing power' of Big Data is going to turn out to be a) not as useful as anyone thinks and b) even where it is statistically accurate, it will tell little or nothing about individual instances, thus limiting utility for many purposes.
Big Data can do some things. I can collate and correlate vast data samples and perform other useful descriptive statistical tasks. When they start to move off into inferential activities, I suspect things start to break down.
I don't feel like the data about what I do with my smart phone will usefully tell anyone much about me that they could not have obtained otherwise. And its value as a tool to sell me things is fairly dubious.
I, on the other hand, have had a mixed experience with Indian workers.
I worked on one team with 3 of them. One was female, the other two male. One of the males had a good business head and presentation and passable technical skills. The other fellow was out of his depth and was compensating by trying to talk over everyone. The gal was the smartest of the lot and new her stuff (the QC side of things) better than either of the male devs, but their cultural propensity to just marginalize or ignore the female (or try to speak for her) meant the best way to let her excel was to arrange interactions with her that did not involve the two indian males.
On another project I worked on, offshoring a code base for a major US Telco, I will tell you that there were some smart devs (they got what I was presenting) and there were others who struggled and I don't think ever did fathom the complex code.
Frankly, the Russians I worked with were better as far as offshore resources go - thorough, smart, logical, didn't try to claim what they didn't actually know and figured out a lot of things as required (and did a good job of being thorough).
I think the only two objections I have overall (as a generalization) to Indian workers are a) tendency to be patriarchal and not listen to and respect females and b) a tendency to say yes to everything when it comes to 'can you do X by time Y?' even if the thing they are agreeing to do is well beyond them. They can't seem to say no or it'll take longer. Everything is yes. We learned that we could not depend on any time estimates and routinely doubled their estimates and sometimes even then had to get in and solve the problems ourselves.
Any group of devs is going to reflect the amount and nature of their education and their cultural perspectives. Being Canadian, I've had some good fortune to work in very diverse settings with many cultural groups and nationalities. As long as you know who you are dealing with and allow for that, you can work well together.
In the case of IT work, the skillset required for broader business aspects of that field require a broad knowledge of many technologies, a broad knowledge of business practices, and the business to treat the IT staff less like a cost center and more like a critical piece of infrastructure - provide training, support sufficient time for projects and manpower resources, and to generally not try to get the IT staff to be responsible for everything, all of the time, in all respects, with few or no resources. That's the most common failing in IT departments - how companies see them as an expense and try to minimize that to the detriment of employee quality and their overall business in the long run.
Yes, they are armed. That is their purpose - to be a last line of defense for major threats and to be an early-responder to unruly passenger scenarios.
I'm afraid I have worked with Flash. If it is the solution, then you have an apocalyptic problem. I'd rather nail my head to a coffee table than ever have to work with Flash again.
If Google keeled over today, my email and docs would be a loss.
I have some of the docs backed up locally, but not all (got used to using the cloud, don't know an easy full-google-docs backup tech). If email went guts up... argh. I do try to pull the mail archive periodically, but it is absolutely huge now. Beyond that, if I lose tagging - very likely in an export/import to different tool scenaro - then I lose a massive amount of organization that helps me find individual collections of email in 15 years worth of heavy email traffic.
This is my biggest issue with these services - even if you can get the data out, you might not get all of it and some of the metadata (organizing data) might no longer be useful/available.
I'd really love to see more open standards in use for both the downloading of all of this sort of stuff but also being able to reuse it in a new product if there was a need. But Google doesn't want you to do that, really.
Boxee hasn't had an update in forever because after they were bought, the Dev team was re-vectored. So some things that really should be fixed aren't and some things that could have been added now never will be. It *is* my TV source, so I will miss it when Netflix finally ceases to work or something comes along that means I have to get another box.
Really, it would be nice to see people develop these sorts of products with an idea to them having longevity, but no hardware manufacturer wants that.
Even content they are now trying to LICENSE to us for a time and in a particular format, rather than simply selling us the work to own (like books and games used to be) and that's a ridiculous model in my mind.
DRM-servers for many products will eventually go silent then everyone wanting to revisit old nostalgic movies and books will have to buy them again in some new format from a new provider. (legally, of course there are other non-legal options)
But I run it all: 5 licenses of XP Pro SP3 (old laptop, main desktop, netbook, older desktop, something I'm forgetting), 1 license Win 7 Home Premium (new laptop, to avoid win8 atrocity), 1 license Vista Business (argh), 1 Xubuntu install (small file server/dev box), 1 Ubuntu install (old laptop), 1 Boxee Box (linux), 1 WAP (linux), Android 4.3 Tablet (nexus 7), Android 4.4 Phone (nexus 4), Android 4.1 Tablet (asus transformer prime), 1 Win95 box (older desktop), 1 WinNT 4.0 box (older desktop),
One of these once had a triple boot with XP or 95 alongside OS/2 2.1 and Yggdrasil Linux....
I'd love to migrate my XP boxes to Win 7 but Win 7 pricing is *still* stupid. And I'm vague on whether the laptop and even the desktops would have full drivers for all of the older stuff. Win 8+ is an atrocity - I can't say how much I hate METRO. Even in XP, I switched to the classic NT look.
Because of my disdain for Metro and Win 8, I may well end up with more Linux boxes. Ubuntu or Xubuntu, although a BSD might be tempting too. I've used RHEL at work and it isn't bad either.
My issue is I have so much software from small producers that I like that only runs on XP (and some of it actually requires kernel hacks - one DB fix in particular - that I am unconvinced will work on a virtualization platform) that I feel I'll have to keep some XP boxes up and running.
I rather hate the fact that I need nothing (except security updates) from Win7 or Win8 and once again I've had to relearn where all the admin tools are and so on (just like every Windows release) and I'm going to have to rebuy a bunch of apps that cost $$$ that work fine for me on XP on the new platform for no increase in utility.
Ubuntu is good and the apps are okay, but honestly they just don't match up to what the MS office apps (for instance) can do. I've tried libre office, star office, and a number of other products. They just aren't as easy to use nor as capable as MS products IMO.
The only compelling reasons to migrate forward are professional experience with the new OSes (most like teeth pulling) and security (given XP security updates are coming to an end... you'd have thought MS could out source this and charge some $ to keep security updates coming for a few more years, but they want you to migrate.
But being on Linux is no protection from changes of a major nature (Unity appearing in Ubuntu as one example). Every platform, even the free ones, if you want to keep up with current levels of software for compatibility and security, you have to take all the other UI changes, repackagings, deprecations, and additions. It's the miserable cost of staying current.
No, I'm not a luddite. I just know that XP gave me functionally pretty much everything I've needed as a professional, small office user, and heavy internet user/developer. Security could have been better (no doubt), but the truth is what Win7 and WIn8 have added has been of little utility to me and therefore is primarily an annoyance. And Chromebook sure isn't a substitute, nor is MacOS.
TCP is transport layer. IP is not. (at least by the OSI model and I think the TCP model though I'm a bit rustier on that one - Network layer is IP)
There is no reason to imagine TCP/IP could not have included Session or higher level encryption protocols without really affecting the TCP or IP parts of the protocol stack. The design could well have been exactly as you suggest.
You could encrypt content. That's something and the content could have been secure.
You are correct that encrypting routing encapsulation would be a whole other ball of wax, so who transactions were between may not have been protected.
Content would at least have been more private than it is today (until NSA used a big lever on hardware and software producers anyway).
It isn't a magic kingdom. It's hosted on servers and backbones that were *always* owned by someone(s). So the 'free as a bird' perspective is just blatant fantasy.
The earliest Internet tech was developed for DARPA/USGOV. It also appeared around the same time in academic uses. Neither of these was 'free' nor 'uncontrolled'.
It may have been not heavily policed in the early days, because nothing much of general public interest (or interest to the movers and shakers) was happening on the limited public Internet, but it sure as heck was all owned by someone.
I don't find it a stretch at all that engineers didn't consider encrypting for privacy and security at the start. It may not have been practical (either given public domain cryptosystems or hardware) but it may have been conceptually considered.
You send 3N of each type. (Of course, I am cherry picking - this assumes high (95-98%+ reliability) vessels and then 3 is the magic number for maximum redundancy I believe)
I'd send more than one type and more than one of each type. In fact, I'd figure out what my mission needs and dispatch 3 concurrently to the same place with minor separation (enough for something to happen to the first and another may avoid their fate or come in to save them).
Colonization is such a ludicrously big venture, it should be done on a big scale. By that point, Earth may well have a population of 9-13 Bn, so we can certainly spare about 120,000.
Whether we can beat the energy or resource limits is another issue entirely.
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As one of my USAian friends, a veteran of 18 years US SF and 7 or 8 more in 82nd Abn before that likes to point out:
When Obama was elected, everything was going to be different. Warrantless wiretaps would be going away, Gitmo would be going away, extraordinary rendition would stop, and so on.
Then the new President got his first National Security Briefing. Then nothing changed and the surveillance powers extended, drone strikes intensified, Gitmo is still there, and so on.
His opinion was that once anyone understood the full nature of the varied threats and their agency leaders explained that the tools were very useful in threat management, this would inevitably happen no matter who was in the White House.
I was hoping for the technology that would give them a short, sharp jolt of electricity to the testicles.
Play nice or play sore, your call, griefer punks!
Have you ever ridden in a cab?
Routinely, I've seen: speeding, lane changes without signals, driving with one hand (at best) on the wheel in traffic, following too close, driving in cars whose brakes and general state of maintenance I have doubts about, talking on the cell phone and sometimes also radio at the same time while driving, cutting people off, etc.
I'm sure the cab driver profession is the first thing we can replace with automated cars to have greater road safety.
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That's not a 'safety requirement' as such.
Even if what you mention is the case, why is it safe to drive other places and not to the airport?
Methinks city revenues and cab driver unhappiness are behind this. The Taxi Guild is a powerful lobby because it pumps money into CIty Hall's coffers. Neat new disruptive technology is all well and good until it threatens the city's bottom line....
Want to backup your Notes? Oh wait, that's a hidden db and you need a @me.com email address...
It isn't a permission per se but Apple has a lot of their own lock-in in how they do things.
And they'll stop geeks, some of the potentially most heavy users of their technology, from leveraging them, recommending them, or wanting to develop for them.
I don't see that the current permission system was preventing anyone developing anything. Have you noticed how many apps are on Google Play? This seems like trying to pursue business that is already being done....
I'd agree entirely with that.
I'm already not sanguine about the permissions apps ask for (and in fact, several security research firms have pointed out the risks). Often times, a well meaning dev will explain that he has to have X permission because google has buried one particular function (not always obviously related) into that permission and that function makes sense for the app. You almost get the feeling the dev is apologetic in many cases and would like to just have a single finer grained permission.
It's okay to HAVE permission groups, but you should also have very finely grained permissions. Good companies and devs would only use the fine grained ones that did the MINIMUM they needed to do. And one would then not install overly broad permission groups.
Why is Google putting the work of vetting permission groups and understanding the implications onto end users versus onto themselves and the devs for apps? This smacks of something for lazy devs versus something for consumers.
And one more thing: How about installation require the minimum number of permissions to make the basic app functions work and additional permissions queried and granted/denied if optional features are enabled?
I have a lot of apps that want permissions for social media integration and I'm not on that boat and will never use that part of their app. Why do I need to open that security door to install since the rest of their app functions fine without it?
Mobile development seems to be about as poorly thought out (API wise and design wise) as PC software was in the early days of GUIs.
Given his opinions, I wouldn't give him $0.01, let alone 13 million. And as far as demanding to be paid in bitcoins, ROFLCopter!
If you voluntarily associate yourself with the murderers of innocent people, it says a lot about you. His own judgment is obviously very suspect (both for choosing associates and for assessing his worth). He comes off as a narcissist and a troubled soul who is projecting his rage at the outside world, rather than accepting responsibility and dealing with his own issues.
He is neither hero, patriot, nor poor soul. He has made his own choices and has no ability (as far as I can see) to accept the consequences of his own decisions and their consequences. If this pattern repeats, he'll end up back in jail again.
If he was smart, he'd take his freedom and run with it and spend some time fixing up his own problems.
A friend of mine who works for NASA (or at least in the downstream distribution of NASA satellite data) and is an amateur astronomer and photographer sent me this information: (Thanks Indy!) - Maybe it'll be useful to some....
:-D
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:-) ). But don't *focus* on staring to the north! Look around. Face east a bit. West. Look overhead! Meteors can fall all around. It's just that you will likely see more (albeit shorter, quicker) meteors coming out of the north than you will to the west, east, or overhead (which will be longer, and slower, but relatively fewer). But don't restrict yourself to only northward-looking.
:-( The further away from lights you can get, the better. And get to a location where you have open skies, a view to the north, and can see as much of the sky as possible (being in the middle of the woods - dark or not - won't do you a bit of good in viewing the sky much)
:-) Meteor watching - heck, night sky watching in general - is not among the more heat-inducing activities. ;-) Also, lawn chairs or blankets, and sleeping bags, are nice to have. Be comfortable!
So, this coming weekend, specifically Friday night/Saturday morning, there is to be a brand spanky new meteor shower happening. So brand spanky new it hasn't been observed before, because the dust from the associated comet has not intersected with Earth's path until now. And because of all the uncertainty with the debris stream, there are heavy caveats to "this MAY happen" - but if it does...brand new event never before seen!
Given that it's so new, that nothing is *known* about it, anything could happen. It could fizzle. Or it could become the most spectacular thing to happen since the Leonid meteor storm of 2002 (it is unlikely, however great this meteor shower gets, that it'll get THAT good!).
So, first, the nuts and bolts for this weekend. The meteor shower is *predicted* to reach it's peak between the hours of 2am and 4am Eastern Daylight Time on the morning of May 24th (adjust your times accordingly with respect to your time zones; example, midnight to 2am Mountain Time). BUT, because there are uncertainties in exactly where the dust ball is that we will be passing by, it could peak upwards of a few hours on either side of that. However, the meteor folk who have been tracking this stuff are reasonably confident on their predict times.
Further to this, it's not known how distributed the debris cloud is. It could be pretty compact, in which case the peak may last only a few minutes. Or it could be fairly distributed, in which case the peak could last for hours. Or it could be clumpy, in which case there may be more than one peak! Again, new brand spanky new meteor shower, we have no idea yet!
Second, the meteor shower will appear to be coming out of the *very* obscure constellation of Camelopardalis, which is situated to the right of the Big Dipper, left of Cassiopeia, and below the Little Dipper (see attached image). It's a pretty sparse area of sky. The constellation is so obscure that in the decades of my looking at the sky, I've never tried tracing it out. Maybe this weekend I finally will.
So, given the above radiant, your best option to face during the shower is to the north (and if you're not sure where that is - and not everyone does, especially if they are directionally challenged - remember where the sun went down, then stand so that direction is off to your left
Darkness. If at all possible, you want to find the darkest location you can to see this. That means, getting out of and AWAY from the cities. Light pollution will utterly swamp the sky, and you won't see ANYthing.
Dressing for the Weather. Assuming it'll be clear where you are, check the forecasted temperature lows, and dress as if it will be 10-15 degrees cooler/colder than that. Hats are good.
What you MIGHT expect to see? Really, nobody *knows* for certain, but I've seen some healthy numbers tossed out t
Similar in a fashion to this story....
Some geographers tried to use the math model that describes the migration of particles between atoms to try to describe population migrations between population centers. This (if I recall) was called the Gravity Model. And it was a huge attempt to make the softer sciences a bit harder by 'mathing them up'. Beyond that, it was trying to shoe-horn the data to fit the theory.
It failed and fell into just disrepute.
I have a feeling that much of the 'amazing power' of Big Data is going to turn out to be a) not as useful as anyone thinks and b) even where it is statistically accurate, it will tell little or nothing about individual instances, thus limiting utility for many purposes.
Big Data can do some things. I can collate and correlate vast data samples and perform other useful descriptive statistical tasks. When they start to move off into inferential activities, I suspect things start to break down.
I don't feel like the data about what I do with my smart phone will usefully tell anyone much about me that they could not have obtained otherwise. And its value as a tool to sell me things is fairly dubious.
I, on the other hand, have had a mixed experience with Indian workers.
I worked on one team with 3 of them. One was female, the other two male. One of the males had a good business head and presentation and passable technical skills. The other fellow was out of his depth and was compensating by trying to talk over everyone. The gal was the smartest of the lot and new her stuff (the QC side of things) better than either of the male devs, but their cultural propensity to just marginalize or ignore the female (or try to speak for her) meant the best way to let her excel was to arrange interactions with her that did not involve the two indian males.
On another project I worked on, offshoring a code base for a major US Telco, I will tell you that there were some smart devs (they got what I was presenting) and there were others who struggled and I don't think ever did fathom the complex code.
Frankly, the Russians I worked with were better as far as offshore resources go - thorough, smart, logical, didn't try to claim what they didn't actually know and figured out a lot of things as required (and did a good job of being thorough).
I think the only two objections I have overall (as a generalization) to Indian workers are a) tendency to be patriarchal and not listen to and respect females and b) a tendency to say yes to everything when it comes to 'can you do X by time Y?' even if the thing they are agreeing to do is well beyond them. They can't seem to say no or it'll take longer. Everything is yes. We learned that we could not depend on any time estimates and routinely doubled their estimates and sometimes even then had to get in and solve the problems ourselves.
Any group of devs is going to reflect the amount and nature of their education and their cultural perspectives. Being Canadian, I've had some good fortune to work in very diverse settings with many cultural groups and nationalities. As long as you know who you are dealing with and allow for that, you can work well together.
In the case of IT work, the skillset required for broader business aspects of that field require a broad knowledge of many technologies, a broad knowledge of business practices, and the business to treat the IT staff less like a cost center and more like a critical piece of infrastructure - provide training, support sufficient time for projects and manpower resources, and to generally not try to get the IT staff to be responsible for everything, all of the time, in all respects, with few or no resources. That's the most common failing in IT departments - how companies see them as an expense and try to minimize that to the detriment of employee quality and their overall business in the long run.
I was under the impression sometimes a second marshal may fly on a flight without notifying staff.
Yes, they are armed. That is their purpose - to be a last line of defense for major threats and to be an early-responder to unruly passenger scenarios.
They are also well trained.
I'm afraid I have worked with Flash. If it is the solution, then you have an apocalyptic problem. I'd rather nail my head to a coffee table than ever have to work with Flash again.
If Google keeled over today, my email and docs would be a loss.
I have some of the docs backed up locally, but not all (got used to using the cloud, don't know an easy full-google-docs backup tech). If email went guts up... argh. I do try to pull the mail archive periodically, but it is absolutely huge now. Beyond that, if I lose tagging - very likely in an export/import to different tool scenaro - then I lose a massive amount of organization that helps me find individual collections of email in 15 years worth of heavy email traffic.
This is my biggest issue with these services - even if you can get the data out, you might not get all of it and some of the metadata (organizing data) might no longer be useful/available.
I'd really love to see more open standards in use for both the downloading of all of this sort of stuff but also being able to reuse it in a new product if there was a need. But Google doesn't want you to do that, really.
Boxee hasn't had an update in forever because after they were bought, the Dev team was re-vectored. So some things that really should be fixed aren't and some things that could have been added now never will be. It *is* my TV source, so I will miss it when Netflix finally ceases to work or something comes along that means I have to get another box.
Really, it would be nice to see people develop these sorts of products with an idea to them having longevity, but no hardware manufacturer wants that.
Even content they are now trying to LICENSE to us for a time and in a particular format, rather than simply selling us the work to own (like books and games used to be) and that's a ridiculous model in my mind.
DRM-servers for many products will eventually go silent then everyone wanting to revisit old nostalgic movies and books will have to buy them again in some new format from a new provider. (legally, of course there are other non-legal options)
Do you call your Linux "Flash"?
(sorry, your username made that joke inevitable).
But I run it all:
5 licenses of XP Pro SP3 (old laptop, main desktop, netbook, older desktop, something I'm forgetting),
1 license Win 7 Home Premium (new laptop, to avoid win8 atrocity),
1 license Vista Business (argh),
1 Xubuntu install (small file server/dev box),
1 Ubuntu install (old laptop),
1 Boxee Box (linux),
1 WAP (linux),
Android 4.3 Tablet (nexus 7),
Android 4.4 Phone (nexus 4),
Android 4.1 Tablet (asus transformer prime),
1 Win95 box (older desktop),
1 WinNT 4.0 box (older desktop),
One of these once had a triple boot with XP or 95 alongside OS/2 2.1 and Yggdrasil Linux....
I'd love to migrate my XP boxes to Win 7 but Win 7 pricing is *still* stupid. And I'm vague on whether the laptop and even the desktops would have full drivers for all of the older stuff. Win 8+ is an atrocity - I can't say how much I hate METRO. Even in XP, I switched to the classic NT look.
Because of my disdain for Metro and Win 8, I may well end up with more Linux boxes. Ubuntu or Xubuntu, although a BSD might be tempting too. I've used RHEL at work and it isn't bad either.
My issue is I have so much software from small producers that I like that only runs on XP (and some of it actually requires kernel hacks - one DB fix in particular - that I am unconvinced will work on a virtualization platform) that I feel I'll have to keep some XP boxes up and running.
I rather hate the fact that I need nothing (except security updates) from Win7 or Win8 and once again I've had to relearn where all the admin tools are and so on (just like every Windows release) and I'm going to have to rebuy a bunch of apps that cost $$$ that work fine for me on XP on the new platform for no increase in utility.
Ubuntu is good and the apps are okay, but honestly they just don't match up to what the MS office apps (for instance) can do. I've tried libre office, star office, and a number of other products. They just aren't as easy to use nor as capable as MS products IMO.
The only compelling reasons to migrate forward are professional experience with the new OSes (most like teeth pulling) and security (given XP security updates are coming to an end... you'd have thought MS could out source this and charge some $ to keep security updates coming for a few more years, but they want you to migrate.
But being on Linux is no protection from changes of a major nature (Unity appearing in Ubuntu as one example). Every platform, even the free ones, if you want to keep up with current levels of software for compatibility and security, you have to take all the other UI changes, repackagings, deprecations, and additions. It's the miserable cost of staying current.
No, I'm not a luddite. I just know that XP gave me functionally pretty much everything I've needed as a professional, small office user, and heavy internet user/developer. Security could have been better (no doubt), but the truth is what Win7 and WIn8 have added has been of little utility to me and therefore is primarily an annoyance. And Chromebook sure isn't a substitute, nor is MacOS.
....and something went horribly wrong....
TCP is transport layer. IP is not. (at least by the OSI model and I think the TCP model though I'm a bit rustier on that one - Network layer is IP)
There is no reason to imagine TCP/IP could not have included Session or higher level encryption protocols without really affecting the TCP or IP parts of the protocol stack. The design could well have been exactly as you suggest.
Someone uses it and the bugs get identified and resolved.
Every solid release came from buggy prototypes.
You could encrypt content. That's something and the content could have been secure.
You are correct that encrypting routing encapsulation would be a whole other ball of wax, so who transactions were between may not have been protected.
Content would at least have been more private than it is today (until NSA used a big lever on hardware and software producers anyway).
The Internet was NEVER owned by no one.
It isn't a magic kingdom. It's hosted on servers and backbones that were *always* owned by someone(s). So the 'free as a bird' perspective is just blatant fantasy.
The earliest Internet tech was developed for DARPA/USGOV. It also appeared around the same time in academic uses. Neither of these was 'free' nor 'uncontrolled'.
It may have been not heavily policed in the early days, because nothing much of general public interest (or interest to the movers and shakers) was happening on the limited public Internet, but it sure as heck was all owned by someone.
I don't find it a stretch at all that engineers didn't consider encrypting for privacy and security at the start. It may not have been practical (either given public domain cryptosystems or hardware) but it may have been conceptually considered.
You send 3N of each type. (Of course, I am cherry picking - this assumes high (95-98%+ reliability) vessels and then 3 is the magic number for maximum redundancy I believe)
I'd send more than one type and more than one of each type. In fact, I'd figure out what my mission needs and dispatch 3 concurrently to the same place with minor separation (enough for something to happen to the first and another may avoid their fate or come in to save them).
Colonization is such a ludicrously big venture, it should be done on a big scale. By that point, Earth may well have a population of 9-13 Bn, so we can certainly spare about 120,000.
Whether we can beat the energy or resource limits is another issue entirely.