Though, really, have we ever seen the clouds from Amazon, Google, or Microsoft get compromised? Yes, the NSA has ALL of them infiltrated. Google and MS have been trying to lock them out through more internal encryption but you can bet anything that they then just receive a national security letter that tells them to turn over their encryption keys, even for servers outside the US.
Uh, the policy says they need a warrant and that it can't just be a rubber stamp "we're doing phone surveillance" warrant, but that they must explain what they are doing to the judge in detail. This should be the policy nationally and I for one plan to push my state Rep to make it law in my state.
I doubt it's a Dell SAN, it's MUCH more likely they're using EMC object storage with bring your own hardware (aka ECS) or something similar. Storing lots of large video files with retention metadata and access control just screams object storage (frankly one of the few things that does).
If the data isn't critical then why are they bothering to collect it in the first place? Why pay for license plate scanners, OCR systems, wireless network connections/bandwidth bills, etc if the data doesn't have value? If it does have value then placing it on a desktop system probably isn't the right answer.
However, keep in mind that kids still need to learn how to write with pencil, pen, and paper, or they'll be dysfunctional in the real world.
Huh? I haven't written anything long hand in my entire career, and asking around both my department and other departments in my company only those older than ~50 have and it was decades ago before computers were dominant.
Legal documents / Contracts - Because digital signatures aren't *quite* there yet, and most courts still only accept paper in official proceedings B.S. digital signatures have been legally enforceable since the freaking Clinton administration, and almost all courts will accept legal filings (all federal courts do) and those that won't will generally accept a fax which obviously can be generated on the senders end without paper.
Schools - For obvious reasons That reason eludes me, I know momentum keeps many schools using paper but if you do it right digital should be cheaper and better and do a better job or preparing the kids for the real world
Assembly instructions on shop floors (this is actually huge - even ruggedized tablets don't last very long in job shops) Then they're not properly ruggidized, most shops have no problem with the computer built into their CNC machines.
The Harrier can't really do VTO either, the max VTOL weight is 18,950lbs, the jet with full fuel (no weapons) weighs 20,259 lbs. Add to that the damage caused by full vertical thrust to the runway/pad/deck and in actual operations they were basically never used as VTO craft but rather STO/VL.
Yeah, we've known AT&T was in bed with the NSA since the existence of room 641A was revealed. Anything after that is just trying to get people to pay attention to something that they obviously don't want to care about. The only way to get the average person to care was pointed out by John Oliver in his typical funny but very poignant style.
Here's a crazy scenario: suppose you decide to invade Iran. You can't just sail your carrier up to the northern end of the Persian Gulf to support your drive to Tehran, the way we did on the way to Baghdad. You'd have to sail that carrier past 300 miles of Iraqi shoreline dotted with advanced anti-ship defenses in waters crawling with mini-subs. And it's a long, long way over rough terrain to get from the Gulf of Oman to Tehran in the extreme north of the country. Imagine fighting your way from New York City to Chicago, only the terrain in between was all mountains. So you land a Marine expeditionary force at the Gulf of Oman that fights its way northwest along the Persian Gulf. After they capture the shore batteries, you bring in your destroyers to clear out the mini-subs and then bring in your carriers.
Now that expeditionary force needs close air support and ground attack capabilities, and it needs to have them in an environment where the enemy has extensive, state of the art anti-aircraft missile installations. The logic for a Marine stealth jump jet in this scenario is compelling; what's questionable is trying to make that aircraft work for everyone else.
Prince Sultan Air Base is as close to the Iranian shoreline as the Gulf of Oman (significantly closer from the midpoint north), why play the Saudi's game for decades if you're not going to use their facilities when you need to fight in their back yard?
The Russians developed better top armor and added reactive armor which makes the tank much more likely to survive a single strafing run by an A-10, but the T72's with reactive armor that the republican guard had in gulf war 1 still took pretty bad losses without air support. As to the SAM problem, the A10 is built to survive those and in fact has. It won't survive every hit obviously, but there are enough examples of planes taking major damage that no other airframe would be likely to survive to prove that the design worked.
France and the UK combined are about the same size as Texas (760k km^2 vs 696k km^2) and each only has a single carrier group vs the US with 11 of which 5 are active at any one time with two on 90 day reserve. If France and the UK weren't part of NATO it's likely that they'd have 3-4 carrier groups each which would significantly increase their spending. Heck, the US typically has more nuclear submarines in docks than the UK has total. The only way we could realistically hope to cut huge percentages from our budget would be to tell our allies in SE Asia and Europe that they need to double or triple their own spending and give them a decade or two worth of warning (at least if we want to have the same balance of power in the world, if you want to have China and Russia exerting more influence in the world then sure unilaterally cut our budget without having our partners increase theirs)
Thanks, I was thinking that there had been an L part number z series box for at least a decade and was wondering what the news was. In fact slashdot covered their first linux only part 13 years ago
The day the sovereign cancels a major piece of legislation is the last day the farce of the monarchy will be allowed to continue. The brits love their royals but if they were to actually interfere in politics outside of their back room advisory role they will be pushed aside by those with real power.
I also said *after a manufacturer has released an update*, the process of doing the QA at the telecom level shouldn't take a significant percentage of the 90 days.
Sorry, you don't get time. Your own companies security folks are only giving 3rd parties 90+- days from communications to public disclosure of vulnerabilities to produce, test, and release a patch to their users, if you think anyone is going to give you any more is deluded so you have to have your stuff together enough that you can turn a security bug into an end user distributed patch *available through the carriers* in ~90 days. That's the cold hard reality. If you can't do it then something has to change because your customers WILL leave to a more secure option if you consistently fail to protect them.
Then they need to take some of their massive profits (in dollar terms) and hire some more QA engineers so they can test updates in a timely manner. It shouldn't take 6+ months after a manufacturer has released an update for it to hit my device, it should be days or weeks at most.
No, most of vistas problems were due to drm. With the release version of vistas playing a music file would reduce reduce network bandwidth by like 80%. This was fixed in a SP but it was available weeks after 7 launched and there was no reason to run vistas.
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Though, really, have we ever seen the clouds from Amazon, Google, or Microsoft get compromised?
Yes, the NSA has ALL of them infiltrated. Google and MS have been trying to lock them out through more internal encryption but you can bet anything that they then just receive a national security letter that tells them to turn over their encryption keys, even for servers outside the US.
Find one single company that's using the cloud that has performed a single disaster recovered exercise with it.
Netflix, they continuously test their DR practices with chaos monkey.
Uh, the policy says they need a warrant and that it can't just be a rubber stamp "we're doing phone surveillance" warrant, but that they must explain what they are doing to the judge in detail. This should be the policy nationally and I for one plan to push my state Rep to make it law in my state.
I doubt it's a Dell SAN, it's MUCH more likely they're using EMC object storage with bring your own hardware (aka ECS) or something similar. Storing lots of large video files with retention metadata and access control just screams object storage (frankly one of the few things that does).
I don't sell mainframes but I do tell users never to save their documents on their local computer as they're not backed up.
If the data isn't critical then why are they bothering to collect it in the first place? Why pay for license plate scanners, OCR systems, wireless network connections/bandwidth bills, etc if the data doesn't have value? If it does have value then placing it on a desktop system probably isn't the right answer.
However, keep in mind that kids still need to learn how to write with pencil, pen, and paper, or they'll be dysfunctional in the real world.
Huh? I haven't written anything long hand in my entire career, and asking around both my department and other departments in my company only those older than ~50 have and it was decades ago before computers were dominant.
Correct.
Legal documents / Contracts - Because digital signatures aren't *quite* there yet, and most courts still only accept paper in official proceedings
B.S. digital signatures have been legally enforceable since the freaking Clinton administration, and almost all courts will accept legal filings (all federal courts do) and those that won't will generally accept a fax which obviously can be generated on the senders end without paper.
Schools - For obvious reasons
That reason eludes me, I know momentum keeps many schools using paper but if you do it right digital should be cheaper and better and do a better job or preparing the kids for the real world
Assembly instructions on shop floors (this is actually huge - even ruggedized tablets don't last very long in job shops)
Then they're not properly ruggidized, most shops have no problem with the computer built into their CNC machines.
epson makes tiny printer toys compared to xerox
Really?
We've got one of the largest Xerox units made (700i) and I certainly don't consider our T7270 to be a little toy.
What federal power? Breaking encryption or other protection methods on toner cartridges isn't an offense under the DMCA, that's established law.
The Harrier can't really do VTO either, the max VTOL weight is 18,950lbs, the jet with full fuel (no weapons) weighs 20,259 lbs. Add to that the damage caused by full vertical thrust to the runway/pad/deck and in actual operations they were basically never used as VTO craft but rather STO/VL.
Yeah, we've known AT&T was in bed with the NSA since the existence of room 641A was revealed. Anything after that is just trying to get people to pay attention to something that they obviously don't want to care about. The only way to get the average person to care was pointed out by John Oliver in his typical funny but very poignant style.
Here's a crazy scenario: suppose you decide to invade Iran. You can't just sail your carrier up to the northern end of the Persian Gulf to support your drive to Tehran, the way we did on the way to Baghdad. You'd have to sail that carrier past 300 miles of Iraqi shoreline dotted with advanced anti-ship defenses in waters crawling with mini-subs. And it's a long, long way over rough terrain to get from the Gulf of Oman to Tehran in the extreme north of the country. Imagine fighting your way from New York City to Chicago, only the terrain in between was all mountains. So you land a Marine expeditionary force at the Gulf of Oman that fights its way northwest along the Persian Gulf. After they capture the shore batteries, you bring in your destroyers to clear out the mini-subs and then bring in your carriers.
Now that expeditionary force needs close air support and ground attack capabilities, and it needs to have them in an environment where the enemy has extensive, state of the art anti-aircraft missile installations. The logic for a Marine stealth jump jet in this scenario is compelling; what's questionable is trying to make that aircraft work for everyone else.
Prince Sultan Air Base is as close to the Iranian shoreline as the Gulf of Oman (significantly closer from the midpoint north), why play the Saudi's game for decades if you're not going to use their facilities when you need to fight in their back yard?
You do realize that the Tomahawk cruise missile navigated without GPS or outside communications and was designed in the 1970's, right?
The Russians developed better top armor and added reactive armor which makes the tank much more likely to survive a single strafing run by an A-10, but the T72's with reactive armor that the republican guard had in gulf war 1 still took pretty bad losses without air support. As to the SAM problem, the A10 is built to survive those and in fact has. It won't survive every hit obviously, but there are enough examples of planes taking major damage that no other airframe would be likely to survive to prove that the design worked.
France and the UK combined are about the same size as Texas (760k km^2 vs 696k km^2) and each only has a single carrier group vs the US with 11 of which 5 are active at any one time with two on 90 day reserve. If France and the UK weren't part of NATO it's likely that they'd have 3-4 carrier groups each which would significantly increase their spending. Heck, the US typically has more nuclear submarines in docks than the UK has total. The only way we could realistically hope to cut huge percentages from our budget would be to tell our allies in SE Asia and Europe that they need to double or triple their own spending and give them a decade or two worth of warning (at least if we want to have the same balance of power in the world, if you want to have China and Russia exerting more influence in the world then sure unilaterally cut our budget without having our partners increase theirs)
Actually the F-35B was the first accepted model, the Marines officially accepted delivery last month with the completion of IOC testing.
Thanks, I was thinking that there had been an L part number z series box for at least a decade and was wondering what the news was. In fact slashdot covered their first linux only part 13 years ago
The day the sovereign cancels a major piece of legislation is the last day the farce of the monarchy will be allowed to continue. The brits love their royals but if they were to actually interfere in politics outside of their back room advisory role they will be pushed aside by those with real power.
OpenDNS should also have it as a category you can block.
I also said *after a manufacturer has released an update*, the process of doing the QA at the telecom level shouldn't take a significant percentage of the 90 days.
Sorry, you don't get time. Your own companies security folks are only giving 3rd parties 90+- days from communications to public disclosure of vulnerabilities to produce, test, and release a patch to their users, if you think anyone is going to give you any more is deluded so you have to have your stuff together enough that you can turn a security bug into an end user distributed patch *available through the carriers* in ~90 days. That's the cold hard reality. If you can't do it then something has to change because your customers WILL leave to a more secure option if you consistently fail to protect them.
Then they need to take some of their massive profits (in dollar terms) and hire some more QA engineers so they can test updates in a timely manner. It shouldn't take 6+ months after a manufacturer has released an update for it to hit my device, it should be days or weeks at most.
No, most of vistas problems were due to drm. With the release version of vistas playing a music file would reduce reduce network bandwidth by like 80%. This was fixed in a SP but it was available weeks after 7 launched and there was no reason to run vistas.