It's been 17 years since the last federal gas tax increase including some of the most prosperous times in the nations history. Inflation adjusted we're paying the lowest gas tax rates ever. The gas tax has become another third rail issue.
Electric vehicles and increasing fuel economy, it's become politically unacceptable for some reason to increase the fuel tax rate which means revenue has been dropping and the drop is likely to accelerate even as our need to overhaul or transportation infrastructure is increasing (average age of bridges in the US is 50+ years even though most were designed for 40 year lifespans and for half the traffic they support today).
If the big red button doesn't take everything down you're going to have a LOT of explaining to do to the local fire marshal. The button is there so that the firefighters don't get electrocuted when they have to hose things down. I know when we put in our datacenter we had to prove that the EPO button would correctly send the shutdown signal to our UPS and AC units.
There was a key on Sun keyboards that would halt the system, I once had a box fall and land on they keyboard of a 16 way server used by a whole office of developers. While not as bad a day as the one where the EPO on the main UPS got pushed it was still pretty bad.
Yeah, APC and Raritan KVM's both use scroll-scroll as the default activator. I think Belkin does as well but they are so unreliable it's been years since I last used one (not being a consultant means I no longer have to put up with substandard equipment at client sites).
In theory AES256 with a good passphrase would take all the energy of a star running until the universe dies of heatdeath to cover a small fraction of the keyspace.
Why wouldn't he use crazy(?) encryption, it's not like he's running an eCommerce site where the small amount of additional overhead for better encryption has some noticeable impact. Heck since Truecrypt uses AES acceleration if available it can be actually faster than a less secure software only implementation.
The Russian snipers at Stalingrad were quite good at taking out officers, not that taking out field commanders is sufficiently high to change the strategic aims of the enemy.
Huh, a sniper is emotionally much closer to their target than your average infantry soldier doing a spray and pray, same for the predator pilot. Watching the death of your target has got to be harder than responding to imminent danger at a much closer distance.
The longest US kill was made by Brian Kremer in Iraq at 2,340 meters using the Barrat, just short of the longest sniper shot ever 2,470 meters by Craig Harrison of the UK, but given the relative air densities of Afghanistan and Iraq the US shot was actually more impressive IMHO (though the back to back kills by Mr Harrison makes it essentially a draw).
Hmm, of the four engines we use you mentioned two. Abbyy has by far the worst recognition rate (but is most flexible for scan setup so we use it for arbitrary documents rather than the forms based stuff going into our document management system). We also use Nuance through Adlib. The other two we use are Kofax AIP, and DokuStar.
We OCR everything that's scanned into our document management system, search would be basically impossible without it since relying on users to accurately enter metadata is suicidal if you want useful data.
All cellphone makers are like that, there are plenty of Android devices with plenty powerful hardware that will never see 2.2 let alone 2.3, and if you have an HTC device that wan't announced this quarter you're not getting Sense 3.0.
I think the PSN and Epsilon hacks from this quarter are about as big as anything I can remember (including the TJX hack) as far as number of users affected. The PSN one is huge because they didn't just get account names and CC numbers but also answers to challenge questions, data of birth, address, and unhashed passwords (wtf?), basically everything except SSN that you'd need to complete identity theft.
Nope, all personal data stored with your PSN account has been compromised. It's taken this long for the forensic team to verify what people suspected. Everything including name, address, birth date, the answers to your account reset questions (used by *many* sites), email address, and *passwords* (haven't they heard of a f'ing hash!). Obviously Sony has a worst case scenario here and they wanted to be absolutely sure it was as bad as they feared before coming forward. This probably means legal trouble for them in the EU, and it might actually get Congress off their arse to enact some privacy legislation.
The problem isn't too many PhD's, or even too many highly specialized PhD's, it's too many worthless PhD's. A highly specialized polymer chemist might come out with the next kevlar but a highly specialized French histories student is only going to over-analyze some works by some long dead French monk that nobody has ever cared about until they started their dissertation. The humanities have a place, and are even important to a civilized society, but we've reached saturation on new useful areas to study in much of the humanities and hence are at this position. We need to increase the number of PhD's in Science, Engineering, and Math and decrease the number of Starbucks employees with PhD's.
That's all well and good but the real money and support on the hill for the AAFEX line of tests has been the USAF. Spending money to do research for industry isn't real popular with Congress at the moment but if the USAF brass tells the subcomity that it's a mater of national security it's pretty sure to get funded.
16M, no probably not but they probably DO have a couple hundred thousand devices spread over most of their IP range. Besides as has been pointed out a bajillion times the growth in IP usage in the last 18 months has been so explosive that taking back their entire block would only have extended the time to exhaustion by a few *weeks*.
Uh, MIT still has their class A to this day, re-ip'ing everything on campus would be a huge undertaking and besides having every end station using a publicly routable IP is the ideal situation since it ensures the original end to end design of the internet.
ERP platforms range from Quickbooks to SAP with a whole lot of solutions in-between. Any company with more than 2 employees should have an ERP suite, my dad's business with a handful of employees uses Quickbooks for Manufacturing which is tailored for turning sub-assemblies into final products and handling that kind of inventory tracking and billing. As they say in the summary tracking natural inventory shrinkage is probably important with a business that's as heavily scrutinized as the medical marijuana dispensaries.
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It's been 17 years since the last federal gas tax increase including some of the most prosperous times in the nations history. Inflation adjusted we're paying the lowest gas tax rates ever. The gas tax has become another third rail issue.
Electric vehicles and increasing fuel economy, it's become politically unacceptable for some reason to increase the fuel tax rate which means revenue has been dropping and the drop is likely to accelerate even as our need to overhaul or transportation infrastructure is increasing (average age of bridges in the US is 50+ years even though most were designed for 40 year lifespans and for half the traffic they support today).
If you knew that was the problem =)
If the big red button doesn't take everything down you're going to have a LOT of explaining to do to the local fire marshal. The button is there so that the firefighters don't get electrocuted when they have to hose things down. I know when we put in our datacenter we had to prove that the EPO button would correctly send the shutdown signal to our UPS and AC units.
There was a key on Sun keyboards that would halt the system, I once had a box fall and land on they keyboard of a 16 way server used by a whole office of developers. While not as bad a day as the one where the EPO on the main UPS got pushed it was still pretty bad.
Yeah, APC and Raritan KVM's both use scroll-scroll as the default activator. I think Belkin does as well but they are so unreliable it's been years since I last used one (not being a consultant means I no longer have to put up with substandard equipment at client sites).
In theory AES256 with a good passphrase would take all the energy of a star running until the universe dies of heatdeath to cover a small fraction of the keyspace.
Uh, nope. A drive which contains TS information is required to be physically destroyed after running a certified wipe program.
Why wouldn't he use crazy(?) encryption, it's not like he's running an eCommerce site where the small amount of additional overhead for better encryption has some noticeable impact. Heck since Truecrypt uses AES acceleration if available it can be actually faster than a less secure software only implementation.
I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?
Early harvest wheat with a high moisture content?
The Russian snipers at Stalingrad were quite good at taking out officers, not that taking out field commanders is sufficiently high to change the strategic aims of the enemy.
Huh, a sniper is emotionally much closer to their target than your average infantry soldier doing a spray and pray, same for the predator pilot. Watching the death of your target has got to be harder than responding to imminent danger at a much closer distance.
The longest US kill was made by Brian Kremer in Iraq at 2,340 meters using the Barrat, just short of the longest sniper shot ever 2,470 meters by Craig Harrison of the UK, but given the relative air densities of Afghanistan and Iraq the US shot was actually more impressive IMHO (though the back to back kills by Mr Harrison makes it essentially a draw).
Hmm, of the four engines we use you mentioned two. Abbyy has by far the worst recognition rate (but is most flexible for scan setup so we use it for arbitrary documents rather than the forms based stuff going into our document management system). We also use Nuance through Adlib. The other two we use are Kofax AIP, and DokuStar.
We OCR everything that's scanned into our document management system, search would be basically impossible without it since relying on users to accurately enter metadata is suicidal if you want useful data.
All cellphone makers are like that, there are plenty of Android devices with plenty powerful hardware that will never see 2.2 let alone 2.3, and if you have an HTC device that wan't announced this quarter you're not getting Sense 3.0.
I think the PSN and Epsilon hacks from this quarter are about as big as anything I can remember (including the TJX hack) as far as number of users affected. The PSN one is huge because they didn't just get account names and CC numbers but also answers to challenge questions, data of birth, address, and unhashed passwords (wtf?), basically everything except SSN that you'd need to complete identity theft.
Nope, all personal data stored with your PSN account has been compromised. It's taken this long for the forensic team to verify what people suspected. Everything including name, address, birth date, the answers to your account reset questions (used by *many* sites), email address, and *passwords* (haven't they heard of a f'ing hash!). Obviously Sony has a worst case scenario here and they wanted to be absolutely sure it was as bad as they feared before coming forward. This probably means legal trouble for them in the EU, and it might actually get Congress off their arse to enact some privacy legislation.
The problem isn't too many PhD's, or even too many highly specialized PhD's, it's too many worthless PhD's. A highly specialized polymer chemist might come out with the next kevlar but a highly specialized French histories student is only going to over-analyze some works by some long dead French monk that nobody has ever cared about until they started their dissertation. The humanities have a place, and are even important to a civilized society, but we've reached saturation on new useful areas to study in much of the humanities and hence are at this position. We need to increase the number of PhD's in Science, Engineering, and Math and decrease the number of Starbucks employees with PhD's.
That's all well and good but the real money and support on the hill for the AAFEX line of tests has been the USAF. Spending money to do research for industry isn't real popular with Congress at the moment but if the USAF brass tells the subcomity that it's a mater of national security it's pretty sure to get funded.
This has *nothing* to do with being green and everything to do with the USAF being worried about the availability of fuel.
16M, no probably not but they probably DO have a couple hundred thousand devices spread over most of their IP range. Besides as has been pointed out a bajillion times the growth in IP usage in the last 18 months has been so explosive that taking back their entire block would only have extended the time to exhaustion by a few *weeks*.
Uh, MIT still has their class A to this day, re-ip'ing everything on campus would be a huge undertaking and besides having every end station using a publicly routable IP is the ideal situation since it ensures the original end to end design of the internet.
ERP platforms range from Quickbooks to SAP with a whole lot of solutions in-between. Any company with more than 2 employees should have an ERP suite, my dad's business with a handful of employees uses Quickbooks for Manufacturing which is tailored for turning sub-assemblies into final products and handling that kind of inventory tracking and billing. As they say in the summary tracking natural inventory shrinkage is probably important with a business that's as heavily scrutinized as the medical marijuana dispensaries.