Rosetta was licensed from Transitive, which was eventually bought by IBM. Apple didn't own it, so they couldn't open-source it.
I'm willing to bet that Classic drew on an ancient codebase with bits of licensed code mixed in. Getting it in a state where it could be open-sourced was probably more trouble than it was worth.
I get that Target might've forced their IT department to take the cheap way out and forgo a nice, isolated building management system. That's out of their control.
But how could they not notice the spike in network traffic as data was being sent to the hackers?
They should know how much bandwidth their terminals are chewing up on average, how many transactions are occurring, approximately how much data should be crossing the network per transaction and have an eye out for a sudden burst of outgoing data heading to one IP address.
The World Health Organization has declared a polio emergency in Syria.
After being free of the crippling disease for more than a decade, Syria recorded 10 confirmed cases of polio in October. Now the outbreak has grown to 17 confirmed cases, the WHO said last week. And the virus has spread to four cities, including a war-torn suburb near the capital of Damascus.
The Syrian government has pledged to immunize all Syrian children under age 5. But wartime politics is getting in the way. And the outbreak is expected to grow.
"Actually, it is spreading quickly," says Dr. Mohammed Al Saad in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the northern border of Syria. There are now more than 60 suspected cases, he says, with new ones reported each day.
BYOD is a nice idea, but even from an employee's perspective, it doesn't make much sense.
Do you really want IT reading / archiving all non-work related emails and texts on your phone? No, you don't. Even if they're the most benign messages ever.
I get that the company may take a peek at my computer screen at work, or MITM my gChats or quick "Do you want to meet for lunch?" emails I send out on company time on company machines, but I don't want them downloading the entirety of my private mail account, backing it up and perusing it.
And no, GIMP is not competition (and I have been using that, since the late-90s).
The fact that I use it instead of Photoshop shows it is. I suspect that as Photoshop start moving more and more to the cloud and users have to pay a subscription, more people will suddenly find Gimp very competitive.
I've never seen GIMP used in a production environment. It's just not really there yet.
(Disclaimer: I've worked for a fair number of TV networks and on several features you've probably seen.)
If your intent is to move into professional production, learn Avid, FCP and Premiere - in that order. Though, truth be told, Premiere comes in a distant third. It's been gaining ground since the FCP X disaster, but doesn't quite have the same market penetration.
Honestly, almost no one is going to care about the content of your student projects. But they will care that you used them to learn how to work with different editing platforms.
Amtrak spent $80 million back in the 1980s on a plan to build a high speed rail from LA to San Diego. Every little burg between the two cities sued to stop it. They finally sold the plans to somebody for $5 million.
If it had been a freeway, the property owners would have been told to take a walk.
I'll respectfully disagree, as I think the shift had more to do with the fact for most users, everything changed at home.
For years, most people had a cheap candy bar / flip phone, or at most, an expensive candy bar / flip phone. All phones were pretty dumb and very similar. Remember the RAZR? It was The Thing for a while, but looking back, it wasn't really that much different from everything else.
The hardware was sexy, but the software was horrible. Nobody liked the OS, nobody thought the phones were responsive, etc. It's essentially what the more vitriolic anti-Apple folks claim to be true with the iOS ecosystem. Except that in this case, it was true. There wasn't much to redeem the phones beyond the case. It was exactly the same garbage people had been force-fed for years.
At the same time, millions of people had BlackBerry phones provided by their employers. They offered email that worked and calendaring that wasn't a step below some CP/M program from 1980. (Seriously, did anyone actually use the calendar applications on those old consumer phones?)
While it was great to have email anywhere, it wasn't enough to shift the market away from the run-of-the-mill consumer devices and over to smartphones. At least not en masse.
Then the iPhone arrived. Suddenly people had phones that did a whole bunch of things people wanted to do and did them a whole lot better than their corporate-provided devices. While it had weak support for the features corporate IT demanded, it was immensely popular on the home front. The candy bars and flip phones got wiped out.
Customers went from owning a terrible phone for personal use and a fancy phone for the office, to owning a fancy phone at home and one at the office that seemed - quite suddenly - rather archaic. Rock solid, but... quaint.
Then Android hit the market. The iOS app store opened. The momentum had firmly shifted to the consumer side of things.
BlackBerry was lethargic in responding. Famously, they reacted to the iPhone launch with disbelief. They literally believed the feature list was a lie, so they didn't worry about it.
Even after reality hit them, BlackBerry's handsets were just more of the same. They admitted to not even knowing how many models they were making. Their tablet didn't even have email. In 2010. It made them look ridiculous. Especially in light of the fact email has always been BB's bread and butter.
Meanwhile, iOS and Android kept improving their corporate IT support and allowing third parties to rollout all kinds of management solutions without interference.
Executives carried iPhones and Androids and started wondering why they had to carry two phones.
Corporate IT people did the same. Sure, they were annoyed that they couldn't get the same crazy granularity in security on non-BB devices, but BlackBerries were looking more and more like the typewriter stuck in the corner of the office. It worked, but you didn't use it unless you needed to... and why was that thing still even around anyway?
BYOD was the final nail in the coffin. Penny-pinching execs eyes lit up when they saw the possibilities of not having to buy handsets anymore. Their iPhone and Android using employees could simply buy their own phone, with their own money!
BlackBerry's decline was due to a fundamental shift in the way people use phones and the failure of the market leader to recognize that fact until it was far too late. Had they mobilized on Day 1, I think they could have rolled-out BlackBerry 10 by the end of 2009. In which case, things probably would have been far, far different.
Honestly, it kind of reminds me of the home computing wars. The IBM PC arrived in 1981 and wiped out the entrenched CP/M market within a couple of years. Apple showed up in 1984 with an entirely different approach and snatched-up its own sizable segment. Commodore and Atari rolled out their own new platforms with strong niche appeal a bit later.
But this is like telling you: "Since a lot of parents fail to account for the true cost of raising their future children, you have ten years to come up with every penny you'll spend for the first 18 years of their lives, their college tuition and their retirement. Anyway, congratulations on graduating high school!"
Every business should be required to actually fund their pension plans instead of whining to the government for bailouts later. See countless examples of companies going bankrupt over union demands and the unions whining about their pensions they're "owed"
By forcing the USPS to actually be accountable for it's promises to the unions, they can deal with the problem now rather than later.
I have absolutely zero problem with forcing institutions to pre-fund their pension plans.
But Congress gave the USPS entirely unreasonable demands in an entirely unreasonable timeframe. Even 40 or 50 years in 10 would be far too much.
But all of this is beside the point and not the real issue here, as the whole purpose of the stipulation is to trigger the financial collapse of the USPS.
Because unlike every other business on the planet Dubya passed a law that says the USPS has to have the ENTIRE retirement plan, to the very last penny for every single employee, funded for something like 40 years?
It's worse than that. The law gives the USPS 10 years to come up with 100% of the money needed to fund all of its pension requirements for the next 75 years.
It's designed to destroy the USPS so Republican lawmakers can bemoan how government has once again failed to deliver. Except that they're the ones who have failed us.
As a kid in Canada, I thought "Paki" was an accepted term for Indian people. That didn't go over well when I moved to a more ethnic city. I didn't realize it was a euro slang and not just a generic slang term.
In New England, it's shorthand for "package store" aka "liquor store". The spelling is different, though.
i.e: "I'm gonna head down to the packie before the cookout."
Since moving away, I've had to mentally restrain myself from ever letting it slip. Not that I was ever really a fan of the term "package store".
I'd prefer a battery fire than exploding engines a la A380.
Only the Rolls-Royce engines do that. The Engine Alliance (GE/Pratt-Whitney consortium) engines work just fine. Nice to know we still make something that works.
I know people who worked on the A380 program and they're more than happy to fly on one and have their families fly on one. It's a fundamentally sound aircraft.
...in 1971 the recently renamed Kelly Services ran a series of ads in The Office, a human resources journal, promoting the “Never-Never Girl,” who, the company claimed: “Never takes a vacation or holiday. Never asks for a raise. Never costs you a dime for slack time. (When the workload drops, you drop her.) Never has a cold, slipped disc or loose tooth. (Not on your time anyway!) Never costs you for unemployment taxes and Social Security payments. (None of the paperwork, either!) Never costs you for fringe benefits. (They add up to 30% of every payroll dollar.) Never fails to please. (If your Kelly Girl employee doesn’t work out, you don’t pay.)”
You're not a person. You're not an employee. You're not even worthy of respect.
I think warning systems are one of the best new technologies for dealing with earthquakes.
The technology is pretty straightforward. You network seismic sensors together and create a system that can detect oncoming (and usually unnoticed) P-waves which have a higher velocity than the destructive S-waves that follow anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds later.
The distributed nature of the system ensures that any result is the product of multiple sensors producing the same data.
30 to 90 seconds is a lot of time. You could deploy receivers set accept the existing SAME codes and automatically send building systems into "Earthquake Mode" via simple relays. Virtually everything that would need to happen is already part of the programming of each affected system. In a lot of cases, you wouldn't even need to modify them in any significant way as they already accept inputs from external relays.
Once the alert goes out:
- Emergency messages are sent to all cell phone users - This system exists and is used for other emergencies. - Fire station doors roll-up. - Add a simple sounding device and momentary contact to the existing door-opening circuit and you're done. - Earthquake alarms sound in homes and small businesses - Weather radios that accept SAME codes are already programmed to do this. - Earthquake alarms sound in major buildings - Fire alarm systems with voice evac are already customized and can accept new initiating devices and announcements with a software update. - Emergency generators and fire pumps spin-up. Smoke handling systems activate. Stairwells are pressurized. - See above. - Elevators go into "Fire Mode". All cars go to their recall floor, hold the doors open and refuse input. - This programming exists in every elevator installed in the past few decades. Activating a building fire alarm system will trip this anyway. - Gas main valves are closed. - This is cheap and simple tech. - Halt surgery - Voice evac / weather radios that accept SAME codes. - Shut down industrial processes - Some combination of the above.
Wait until someone puts some funny looking USB plug to slurp everything off of the USB charge port.. There was a story on/. the other day about this too. You think ATM skimming is bad? Wait until they skim all of the nude photos of your gf off of your iphone.
Yeah, this might (probably wil) turn into a huge problem. They should offer traditional plugs to prevent a PR diaster.
Audio-out cables are the only untrusted ones you should mess with (at least on iOS devices). Anything else that uses the dock connector is extremely risky.
Or they'd simply rather not spend time and money to solve someone else's problem?
Verizon's bandwidth is indeed Verizon's problem.
It's not like rack space is free, or electricity is free...
The backspace and electricity demands of an OpenConnect box are likely negligible in comparison to the overall strain placed on the network by Verizon customers using Netflix en masse.
...or ensuring that someone else's hardware isn't going to harm your network is free. If I were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because I DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE I HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
Good. You sound like a capable admin. Now, what's to say you cannot verify the box?
What about the people who AREN'T Netflix customers and DON'T want to pay for someone else's service? Why should my ISP fees be used to help someone else stream movies I can't access?!
By having an ISP you are splitting the cost of using the network among X number of people. Since the cost of an OpenConnect box is rackspace + electricity + verification / customer base, the cost to you alone is exceedingly low.
There's absolutely no reason I should be footing the bill for a service I have no intention of using.
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Pretty sure Time Warner is great at making "information unavailable or less available".
Rosetta was licensed from Transitive, which was eventually bought by IBM. Apple didn't own it, so they couldn't open-source it.
I'm willing to bet that Classic drew on an ancient codebase with bits of licensed code mixed in. Getting it in a state where it could be open-sourced was probably more trouble than it was worth.
I get that Target might've forced their IT department to take the cheap way out and forgo a nice, isolated building management system. That's out of their control.
But how could they not notice the spike in network traffic as data was being sent to the hackers?
They should know how much bandwidth their terminals are chewing up on average, how many transactions are occurring, approximately how much data should be crossing the network per transaction and have an eye out for a sudden burst of outgoing data heading to one IP address.
Is there something I'm missing here?
The WSJ:
NPR:
Please don't listen to Truthers.
The 9/11 Comission did trace the orders back the investors and figured out what information motivated them to place the orders and what motivated the source of the information in the first place..
This will never work. ;)
BYOD is a nice idea, but even from an employee's perspective, it doesn't make much sense.
Do you really want IT reading / archiving all non-work related emails and texts on your phone? No, you don't. Even if they're the most benign messages ever.
I get that the company may take a peek at my computer screen at work, or MITM my gChats or quick "Do you want to meet for lunch?" emails I send out on company time on company machines, but I don't want them downloading the entirety of my private mail account, backing it up and perusing it.
I'd still love to know what fixes that "Kerberos 5 refuses you" thing you sometimes see in the Console when a user logs in.
It's survived an OS reinstall and rebuilt user account.
And no, GIMP is not competition (and I have been using that, since the late-90s).
The fact that I use it instead of Photoshop shows it is. I suspect that as Photoshop start moving more and more to the cloud and users have to pay a subscription, more people will suddenly find Gimp very competitive.
I've never seen GIMP used in a production environment. It's just not really there yet.
(Disclaimer: I've worked for a fair number of TV networks and on several features you've probably seen.)
If your intent is to move into professional production, learn Avid, FCP and Premiere - in that order. Though, truth be told, Premiere comes in a distant third. It's been gaining ground since the FCP X disaster, but doesn't quite have the same market penetration.
Honestly, almost no one is going to care about the content of your student projects. But they will care that you used them to learn how to work with different editing platforms.
This.
It annoys me to no end when people respond to those critiquing the nuclear power industry with childish replies like "OMG ATOMS!!!!" and the like.
I trust the science, but I sure as hell don't trust the public or private institutions involved.
How many times have we heard "Oh yeah, this terrible thing happened, and it nearly became this horrific thing, but it got covered-up"?
Nothing like going to one website on one occasion, only to have it come up first, every time you begin to type the URL for a site you visit every day.
Or, having an article you read three months ago appear in the drop-down, but not the one you called up three times that day.
Commies to her right, stealth snowmobiles to her left. Does DEFCON go to 11?
DEFCON 11 would be a state of peaceful tranquility unlike anything the world has seen since the dawn of humanity.
You're looking for DEFCON 1.
Amtrak spent $80 million back in the 1980s on a plan to build a high speed rail from LA to San Diego. Every little burg between the two cities sued to stop it. They finally sold the plans to somebody for $5 million.
If it had been a freeway, the property owners would have been told to take a walk.
I'll respectfully disagree, as I think the shift had more to do with the fact for most users, everything changed at home.
For years, most people had a cheap candy bar / flip phone, or at most, an expensive candy bar / flip phone. All phones were pretty dumb and very similar. Remember the RAZR? It was The Thing for a while, but looking back, it wasn't really that much different from everything else.
The hardware was sexy, but the software was horrible. Nobody liked the OS, nobody thought the phones were responsive, etc. It's essentially what the more vitriolic anti-Apple folks claim to be true with the iOS ecosystem. Except that in this case, it was true. There wasn't much to redeem the phones beyond the case. It was exactly the same garbage people had been force-fed for years.
At the same time, millions of people had BlackBerry phones provided by their employers. They offered email that worked and calendaring that wasn't a step below some CP/M program from 1980. (Seriously, did anyone actually use the calendar applications on those old consumer phones?)
While it was great to have email anywhere, it wasn't enough to shift the market away from the run-of-the-mill consumer devices and over to smartphones. At least not en masse.
Then the iPhone arrived. Suddenly people had phones that did a whole bunch of things people wanted to do and did them a whole lot better than their corporate-provided devices. While it had weak support for the features corporate IT demanded, it was immensely popular on the home front. The candy bars and flip phones got wiped out.
Customers went from owning a terrible phone for personal use and a fancy phone for the office, to owning a fancy phone at home and one at the office that seemed - quite suddenly - rather archaic. Rock solid, but... quaint.
Then Android hit the market. The iOS app store opened. The momentum had firmly shifted to the consumer side of things.
BlackBerry was lethargic in responding. Famously, they reacted to the iPhone launch with disbelief. They literally believed the feature list was a lie, so they didn't worry about it.
Even after reality hit them, BlackBerry's handsets were just more of the same. They admitted to not even knowing how many models they were making. Their tablet didn't even have email. In 2010. It made them look ridiculous. Especially in light of the fact email has always been BB's bread and butter.
Meanwhile, iOS and Android kept improving their corporate IT support and allowing third parties to rollout all kinds of management solutions without interference.
Executives carried iPhones and Androids and started wondering why they had to carry two phones.
Corporate IT people did the same. Sure, they were annoyed that they couldn't get the same crazy granularity in security on non-BB devices, but BlackBerries were looking more and more like the typewriter stuck in the corner of the office. It worked, but you didn't use it unless you needed to... and why was that thing still even around anyway?
BYOD was the final nail in the coffin. Penny-pinching execs eyes lit up when they saw the possibilities of not having to buy handsets anymore. Their iPhone and Android using employees could simply buy their own phone, with their own money!
BlackBerry's decline was due to a fundamental shift in the way people use phones and the failure of the market leader to recognize that fact until it was far too late. Had they mobilized on Day 1, I think they could have rolled-out BlackBerry 10 by the end of 2009. In which case, things probably would have been far, far different.
Honestly, it kind of reminds me of the home computing wars. The IBM PC arrived in 1981 and wiped out the entrenched CP/M market within a couple of years. Apple showed up in 1984 with an entirely different approach and snatched-up its own sizable segment. Commodore and Atari rolled out their own new platforms with strong niche appeal a bit later.
For years, Microsoft and Apple jostled for
But this is like telling you: "Since a lot of parents fail to account for the true cost of raising their future children, you have ten years to come up with every penny you'll spend for the first 18 years of their lives, their college tuition and their retirement. Anyway, congratulations on graduating high school!"
Every business should be required to actually fund their pension plans instead of whining to the government for bailouts later. See countless examples of companies going bankrupt over union demands and the unions whining about their pensions they're "owed"
By forcing the USPS to actually be accountable for it's promises to the unions, they can deal with the problem now rather than later.
I have absolutely zero problem with forcing institutions to pre-fund their pension plans.
But Congress gave the USPS entirely unreasonable demands in an entirely unreasonable timeframe. Even 40 or 50 years in 10 would be far too much.
But all of this is beside the point and not the real issue here, as the whole purpose of the stipulation is to trigger the financial collapse of the USPS.
Because unlike every other business on the planet Dubya passed a law that says the USPS has to have the ENTIRE retirement plan, to the very last penny for every single employee, funded for something like 40 years?
It's worse than that. The law gives the USPS 10 years to come up with 100% of the money needed to fund all of its pension requirements for the next 75 years.
It's designed to destroy the USPS so Republican lawmakers can bemoan how government has once again failed to deliver. Except that they're the ones who have failed us.
Have you ever tried getting young people interested in older media? "This is what I watched when I was your age" is not a selling point.
I assume this is what's behind going back and re-grading older films into teal and orange.
"Look, kids! It's just like that terrible blockbuster you saw in theaters three times!"
As a kid in Canada, I thought "Paki" was an accepted term for Indian people. That didn't go over well when I moved to a more ethnic city.
I didn't realize it was a euro slang and not just a generic slang term.
In New England, it's shorthand for "package store" aka "liquor store". The spelling is different, though.
i.e: "I'm gonna head down to the packie before the cookout."
Since moving away, I've had to mentally restrain myself from ever letting it slip. Not that I was ever really a fan of the term "package store".
I'd prefer a battery fire than exploding engines a la A380.
Only the Rolls-Royce engines do that. The Engine Alliance (GE/Pratt-Whitney consortium) engines work just fine. Nice to know we still make something that works.
I know people who worked on the A380 program and they're more than happy to fly on one and have their families fly on one. It's a fundamentally sound aircraft.
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You're not a person. You're not an employee. You're not even worthy of respect.
I think warning systems are one of the best new technologies for dealing with earthquakes.
The technology is pretty straightforward. You network seismic sensors together and create a system that can detect oncoming (and usually unnoticed) P-waves which have a higher velocity than the destructive S-waves that follow anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds later.
The distributed nature of the system ensures that any result is the product of multiple sensors producing the same data.
30 to 90 seconds is a lot of time. You could deploy receivers set accept the existing SAME codes and automatically send building systems into "Earthquake Mode" via simple relays. Virtually everything that would need to happen is already part of the programming of each affected system. In a lot of cases, you wouldn't even need to modify them in any significant way as they already accept inputs from external relays.
Once the alert goes out:
- Emergency messages are sent to all cell phone users - This system exists and is used for other emergencies.
- Fire station doors roll-up. - Add a simple sounding device and momentary contact to the existing door-opening circuit and you're done.
- Earthquake alarms sound in homes and small businesses - Weather radios that accept SAME codes are already programmed to do this.
- Earthquake alarms sound in major buildings - Fire alarm systems with voice evac are already customized and can accept new initiating devices and announcements with a software update.
- Emergency generators and fire pumps spin-up. Smoke handling systems activate. Stairwells are pressurized. - See above.
- Elevators go into "Fire Mode". All cars go to their recall floor, hold the doors open and refuse input. - This programming exists in every elevator installed in the past few decades. Activating a building fire alarm system will trip this anyway.
- Gas main valves are closed. - This is cheap and simple tech.
- Halt surgery - Voice evac / weather radios that accept SAME codes.
- Shut down industrial processes - Some combination of the above.
Wait until someone puts some funny looking USB plug to slurp everything off of the USB charge port.. There was a story on /. the other day about this too. You think ATM skimming is bad? Wait until they skim all of the nude photos of your gf off of your iphone.
Yeah, this might (probably wil) turn into a huge problem. They should offer traditional plugs to prevent a PR diaster.
Audio-out cables are the only untrusted ones you should mess with (at least on iOS devices). Anything else that uses the dock connector is extremely risky.
Or they'd simply rather not spend time and money to solve someone else's problem?
Verizon's bandwidth is indeed Verizon's problem.
It's not like rack space is free, or electricity is free...
The backspace and electricity demands of an OpenConnect box are likely negligible in comparison to the overall strain placed on the network by Verizon customers using Netflix en masse.
...or ensuring that someone else's hardware isn't going to harm your network is free. If I were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because I DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE I HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
Good. You sound like a capable admin. Now, what's to say you cannot verify the box?
What about the people who AREN'T Netflix customers and DON'T want to pay for someone else's service? Why should my ISP fees be used to help someone else stream movies I can't access?!
By having an ISP you are splitting the cost of using the network among X number of people. Since the cost of an OpenConnect box is rackspace + electricity + verification / customer base, the cost to you alone is exceedingly low.
There's absolutely no reason I should be footing the bill for a service I have no intention of using.
This mentality is destroying the country.