Because plenty of reputable guys on Wall Street are selling Abilify for $700 for 60mg. I don't think ACTUAL illegal drugs are that much per gram to make to feel good.
Good thing they don't rent this tunnel out to actual bad terrorists! Imagine how many Al Queda guys could have gotten in? You'd think after 10 years they would do something about actual unsecured terrorist points.
I see that point. Are they selling "turn key" motion capture, or set-up and support to other companies?
If they are selling a "turn key" hardware and software system, directly to movie makers, they are not selling to a group that will open the guts anyway. open source might not matter, or might get younger crews to get your hardware kit.
On the other hand, if you are selling setup and support FOR your package, opening more of the code might be a good deal. What are the parts of the program your customers would most like to modify? Or integrate with other tools? On the other hand, is the secret sauce something they would WANT to modify?
Ultimately, what part do people PAY you for, and are you wanting to "live" off the day-to-day support, or potentially sell the company to a larger company?
To be fair when Steve Announced the iPhone he said they filed 200+ patents on it. Right from Day One Apple made their intentions clear.
Frankly, all the current smartphones are a copy of iPhone and what Steve pushed. Before iPhone, smartphones were a geek "toy" because they were painful to use. Steve showed the world how phones could be EASY and for Everybody.
But these fly fairly routine missions now. How hard is it to guess where the drone will be (especially if Iran thinks we're spying on THEM) and point a giant high-powered antenna in the general direction to make the drone lose comms? If the drone is broadcasting to the ground directly, it's trackable enough to jam.
Some clever mix of jamming GPS and control could get the drone mead where you want it... Think playing "Cut the Rope"!
But it would have to be awfully close to Iran airspace. It's not like IRAN is sending their techs too far away, are they? I'd venture they would keep something like that back 50 miles or so on THEIR side of the line just to be safe from "stray" "smart bombs"... Pesky little things...
What battlefield advantage? Anything they MIGHT have will be wiped out by B2 stealth bombers before any other shots are fired.
If anything, Iran gets to wave this at the Security Council (china and russia are pals with veto power) when the US wants to "librate" them. Nukes or not, Iran has not attacked the US or Israel directly, or violated any airspace under their operation. The US can't exactly say the same, can they.
Iran is not going to make the same mistake playing chicken with the US like Iraq did. Israel has already played our hand with the unprovoked attack on Iran's nuclear development (pissing off China and Russia)
Their goal is to talk smack to get Israel to keep stepping over the line... They are not attacking anybody right now.... Playing "fair" is not the same as violating international law and Iran is playing very carefully.
Well the US had been using these for years, plenty of time to snoop the signals. They're flying these over Iran (or as close as they can) so any script kiddy that hacks Wifi can figure out How to break it... Then go scoop it up when it runs out of gas flying in circles. Hint: it was already OVER IRAN, or pretty close so all they had to do was confuse it... Not too hard when they buzz around every day.
They are controlling these from hundreds of miles... The Iranians have their antennas a lot closer for some reason.
Right and there is such a shortage of people with experience hacking 2.4ghz signals? No matter what software it runs, the chips are still off the shelf... One of the things that makes them expendable.
Most industrial, environmentally hardend hardware is 3-5 years behind consumer stuff for firmware and software capabilities. Great for companies pushing rocks around... Not so great for war equipment.
Add to that as a designer his hands get tied only doing 1-2 games a year that are "bet the company" and sell for $50-$60. Imagine what the guy could do making 25MB games that sell for $1-$5? He is clearly somebody that wants to make lots of different KINDS of games... Nintendo probably only publishes a fraction of what he imagines.
I read that as he wants to make iPhone games. So much of his stuff is really experimental. If he wasn't tied to alway making another "blockbuster" for Nintendo, we'd probably see a lot more games.
He would mop up the cash with 2-3 new franchises and the Angry Birds model of small, regular updates.
I don't know... Having MULTIPLE $500 cameras... And hundreds more in accessories, and complaining that an extra $30 rechargable battery or two is kind of silly.
Of course that's why companies feel they can gouge:). I do think that when they get into chipping batteries there are issues with how you make the thing work in 10 years... I know plenty of people with 10 yr old SLRs that keep going...
Just jack the price of delivery up to its real value... I did a quick lookup at FedEx for sending a package across town... The lowest cost was $7. Add to that that UPS and FedEx essentially "cherry pick" only the profitable areas... Even locally they don't always deliver to suburbs and make you pick up the package.
The Post is undervalued. That used to be offset with "junk mail". Each of those items subsidized the wages of the mailman that only brought 0-3 pieces of actual mail per day. To turn the figures around, for a person to deliver to your house, you probably need 5-10 pieces of mail each day... Or $2.50-$5.00. That comes close to FedEx quote for $7 I mentioned earlier. Also, there is no way that $.44 now equals $.25 from 20 years ago.
Mail needs to cost more, I'd say the need to jump to $1 minimum. They also need to trim residential service days to Mon-Wed-Fri. I know I don't get ANY mail at least one day per week, and at least one other is only junk. I could easily get all my bills in one day per week, except that makes receiving things timely a problem. I think Businesses get enough mail to justify 4 day service, maybe take Wed off.
I don't think for most individuals upping the price to $1 will hurt anybody.. You're paying $4 for an average greeting card now! Packages are a separate business that allows a higher price point already.
Because at the same time making essentially free money from being bailed out, they were running around foreclosing on houses like crazy... $13B is a lot of mortgages... Then the govt turned around and gave them MORE funds specifically for mortgages, which, surprise, the banks haven't been able to "fully" use...
More important Bush didn't TRY to appoint a successor! The Republican party just let both the President and Vice walk away in the middle of a war and financial crisis. It was obvious that Cheaney was not physically fit to be President in Bush's first term... There was no way he would have physically stood up if he needed to step in. Yet the party didn't replace him with a real contender to maintain the continuity of leadership after the election??? The crop of candidates put up by Republicans was insultingly unsuited to run anything. Even the current race for 2012 is joke none of the Republicans are electable builders of the people.
The great Reagan bombed Lybia almost 30 years ago in a shot-first-tell-congress-later manner. The USA has actions all the time that the President doesn't tell Congress...
As far as secrecy, Obama got nothing on Bush. Hell, under Bush the VICE President claimed he didn't have to produce documents demanded by CONGRESS! Bush didn't bother to reply to FOIA he didn't "feel" was safe... They just "national security" classified everything they could... And Fox News and others rolled along with it. Of course the fact that TWO longstanding News Hosts were forced out due to reporting stuff that was clearly leaked and inconvienent to the administration... But Obama is the bad guy?
But it doesn't necessarily work that way. This is a money grab at the middle class that went out and got "degrees".
This attempt is for "IT" but they tried to go after Nurses, Police, engineers, drafters, etc. pretty much anybody with a "degree" or equivalent experience.
The real question is why the distinction for "professional"? Because most "unit producing" labor is now highly skilled. I like how somebody noted that California already has a limit $10 per hour higher and they are a tech giant. I get kicks that they are using the old 6.5 times number... From 10 years ago minimum wage. (while minimum wage is still lower in adjusted dollars than the 1960's) and minimum wage was held constant for 10+ years.... Because the "free market" was making wages higher than that???
The biggest problem is that they view $55k as "professional" wages. The median wage in most manufacturing states is $42k -$46k which is right about even with GDP. At the same time we are only making NEW jobs for $10 per hour, we are cutting off the people that actually make good money.
Frankly, if they really want to fix the overtime problem they should change from 1.5 hours pay to 2.5 hours pay (or more). The fact is that wage is not the highest cost driver, insurance and taxes are. 1.5x wage is close to a 50% DISCOUNT for most people billed at under $27 per hour.
The biggest insult is that nobody is asking about WORKED HOURS!!! This is just free money knocking wages from $80k to $56k for the same number of hours at the job!!!!
But code monkeys SHOULD be getting paid overtime because the company generates production by the hour. Admins are often exempt because 9-5 they might just be watching blinky lights, but do upgrades and such overnight or weekends... Salary is the compensation for work that is a "service" and not specific hours.
If the company is counting on you to "fill a chair" on time, and that time is working on a product or service the sell directly, then you are a "production" worker and deserve the pay.
They already tried a similar law to go after nurses and police because they are "professional" with degrees and it failed.
Wow.. I forget there are OSes that don't have serial panel output for error codes! Or Operator "key" codes to force diagnostic modes?
Coming from an AS400 background this article shows how silly "normal" system management is. To answer the parent, the system can be issued boot time commands in HARDWARE (which are also available for virtual machines) that will bring the system to a minimal "restricted" console state. That's like a cornerstone of the system and IBM doesn't mess with that.
Next, the proposal Red Hat has is a very AS400 concept. The History Log (QHST) and the Security Audit Journal (QAUDJRN) are both binary structures that have hard-coded readers built into the kernel. The system maintains internal integrity of the files with extra fields you never see. Of course the AS400 native file system is "DATABASE"-based. So any command that outputs from these displays to a screen or to something that can be instantly searched with SQL.
I'm certain that is what they are trying to make here. Ultimately in security you care about the integrity of the logs more than even recovering the system... Especially when to don't have to restart for a year at a time or more. Frankly, they should add an output option for SQLite file types and everybody can be happy.
Realize that when places like banks use AS400's they mirror the raw audit journals off to another system, often hundreds a day. Because the are binary journals, they are difficult to tamper with because they interlink with eachother. Yet at the same time because they are a data type programs can monitor them for specific events automatically and it's trivial to set up actions to take.
if that's the case, you don't have CONTROL over your equipment.
That was acceptable for Windows 95 but not even for desktop PCs anymore, let alone server equipment. My opinion is that your equipment isn't stable UNTIL you can turn it off and on again reliably. And yes... that is an ENORMOUS amount of work.
If you can't reliably replace individual pieces then you don't have control for maintenance... sure you can stick your head in the sand and just not touch anything... but that's just piling up all the things you didn't take time to figure out until come critical time later.
Exactly, we already see this in China because they managed to weed out a whole generation of girls. They are very firmly in a command economy even if it's not "communist". Most of the Eastern Asian countries have this problem, trying to get masses to conform to what's useful for business right now. Was it Korea or Japan complaining that men's waistlines were requiring too many sizes of pants in stores... that was not "efficient". Health had nothing to do with it.
This is why the free market works. Each person will go into a career because it pays well, or because they really excel at it and want to be there for less money. In this way there is always a buffer of individuals with skills ready to go for whatever employers need. Never mind that many degrees that don't pay well take years to achieve mastery of. If you stop the degrees now, then in 10 years when the current group of workers retires, you won't have workers with 10 years experience... Although in a command economy they really don't think that way. They think more of hire the best people needed now, then move on...
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Because plenty of reputable guys on Wall Street are selling Abilify for $700 for 60mg. I don't think ACTUAL illegal drugs are that much per gram to make to feel good.
Good thing they don't rent this tunnel out to actual bad terrorists! Imagine how many Al Queda guys could have gotten in? You'd think after 10 years they would do something about actual unsecured terrorist points.
Don't feel bad. There was a time when people smuggled Bible into East Germany the same way!!
I see that point. Are they selling "turn key" motion capture, or set-up and support to other companies?
If they are selling a "turn key" hardware and software system, directly to movie makers, they are not selling to a group that will open the guts anyway. open source might not matter, or might get younger crews to get your hardware kit.
On the other hand, if you are selling setup and support FOR your package, opening more of the code might be a good deal. What are the parts of the program your customers would most like to modify? Or integrate with other tools? On the other hand, is the secret sauce something they would WANT to modify?
Ultimately, what part do people PAY you for, and are you wanting to "live" off the day-to-day support, or potentially sell the company to a larger company?
To be fair when Steve Announced the iPhone he said they filed 200+ patents on it. Right from Day One Apple made their intentions clear.
Frankly, all the current smartphones are a copy of iPhone and what Steve pushed. Before iPhone, smartphones were a geek "toy" because they were painful to use. Steve showed the world how phones could be EASY and for Everybody.
If you are doing enterprise stuff you were silly to ever leave IBM an RPG. I maintain systems that use code written in '85.
But these fly fairly routine missions now. How hard is it to guess where the drone will be (especially if Iran thinks we're spying on THEM) and point a giant high-powered antenna in the general direction to make the drone lose comms? If the drone is broadcasting to the ground directly, it's trackable enough to jam.
Some clever mix of jamming GPS and control could get the drone mead where you want it... Think playing "Cut the Rope"!
But it would have to be awfully close to Iran airspace. It's not like IRAN is sending their techs too far away, are they? I'd venture they would keep something like that back 50 miles or so on THEIR side of the line just to be safe from "stray" "smart bombs"... Pesky little things...
What battlefield advantage? Anything they MIGHT have will be wiped out by B2 stealth bombers before any other shots are fired.
If anything, Iran gets to wave this at the Security Council (china and russia are pals with veto power) when the US wants to "librate" them. Nukes or not, Iran has not attacked the US or Israel directly, or violated any airspace under their operation. The US can't exactly say the same, can they.
Iran is not going to make the same mistake playing chicken with the US like Iraq did. Israel has already played our hand with the unprovoked attack on Iran's nuclear development (pissing off China and Russia)
Their goal is to talk smack to get Israel to keep stepping over the line... They are not attacking anybody right now.... Playing "fair" is not the same as violating international law and Iran is playing very carefully.
Well the US had been using these for years, plenty of time to snoop the signals. They're flying these over Iran (or as close as they can) so any script kiddy that hacks Wifi can figure out How to break it... Then go scoop it up when it runs out of gas flying in circles. Hint: it was already OVER IRAN, or pretty close so all they had to do was confuse it... Not too hard when they buzz around every day.
They are controlling these from hundreds of miles... The Iranians have their antennas a lot closer for some reason.
Right and there is such a shortage of people with experience hacking 2.4ghz signals? No matter what software it runs, the chips are still off the shelf... One of the things that makes them expendable.
Most industrial, environmentally hardend hardware is 3-5 years behind consumer stuff for firmware and software capabilities. Great for companies pushing rocks around... Not so great for war equipment.
Add to that as a designer his hands get tied only doing 1-2 games a year that are "bet the company" and sell for $50-$60. Imagine what the guy could do making 25MB games that sell for $1-$5? He is clearly somebody that wants to make lots of different KINDS of games... Nintendo probably only publishes a fraction of what he imagines.
I read that as he wants to make iPhone games. So much of his stuff is really experimental. If he wasn't tied to alway making another "blockbuster" for Nintendo, we'd probably see a lot more games.
He would mop up the cash with 2-3 new franchises and the Angry Birds model of small, regular updates.
I don't know... Having MULTIPLE $500 cameras... And hundreds more in accessories, and complaining that an extra $30 rechargable battery or two is kind of silly.
Of course that's why companies feel they can gouge:). I do think that when they get into chipping batteries there are issues with how you make the thing work in 10 years... I know plenty of people with 10 yr old SLRs that keep going...
Just jack the price of delivery up to its real value... I did a quick lookup at FedEx for sending a package across town... The lowest cost was $7. Add to that that UPS and FedEx essentially "cherry pick" only the profitable areas... Even locally they don't always deliver to suburbs and make you pick up the package.
The Post is undervalued. That used to be offset with "junk mail". Each of those items subsidized the wages of the mailman that only brought 0-3 pieces of actual mail per day. To turn the figures around, for a person to deliver to your house, you probably need 5-10 pieces of mail each day... Or $2.50-$5.00. That comes close to FedEx quote for $7 I mentioned earlier. Also, there is no way that $.44 now equals $.25 from 20 years ago.
Mail needs to cost more, I'd say the need to jump to $1 minimum. They also need to trim residential service days to Mon-Wed-Fri. I know I don't get ANY mail at least one day per week, and at least one other is only junk. I could easily get all my bills in one day per week, except that makes receiving things timely a problem. I think Businesses get enough mail to justify 4 day service, maybe take Wed off.
I don't think for most individuals upping the price to $1 will hurt anybody.. You're paying $4 for an average greeting card now! Packages are a separate business that allows a higher price point already.
Because at the same time making essentially free money from being bailed out, they were running around foreclosing on houses like crazy... $13B is a lot of mortgages... Then the govt turned around and gave them MORE funds specifically for mortgages, which, surprise, the banks haven't been able to "fully" use...
More important Bush didn't TRY to appoint a successor! The Republican party just let both the President and Vice walk away in the middle of a war and financial crisis. It was obvious that Cheaney was not physically fit to be President in Bush's first term... There was no way he would have physically stood up if he needed to step in. Yet the party didn't replace him with a real contender to maintain the continuity of leadership after the election??? The crop of candidates put up by Republicans was insultingly unsuited to run anything. Even the current race for 2012 is joke none of the Republicans are electable builders of the people.
You're kidding?
The great Reagan bombed Lybia almost 30 years ago in a shot-first-tell-congress-later manner. The USA has actions all the time that the President doesn't tell Congress...
As far as secrecy, Obama got nothing on Bush. Hell, under Bush the VICE President claimed he didn't have to produce documents demanded by CONGRESS! Bush didn't bother to reply to FOIA he didn't "feel" was safe... They just "national security" classified everything they could... And Fox News and others rolled along with it. Of course the fact that TWO longstanding News Hosts were forced out due to reporting stuff that was clearly leaked and inconvienent to the administration... But Obama is the bad guy?
But it doesn't necessarily work that way. This is a money grab at the middle class that went out and got "degrees".
This attempt is for "IT" but they tried to go after Nurses, Police, engineers, drafters, etc. pretty much anybody with a "degree" or equivalent experience.
The real question is why the distinction for "professional"? Because most "unit producing" labor is now highly skilled. I like how somebody noted that California already has a limit $10 per hour higher and they are a tech giant. I get kicks that they are using the old 6.5 times number... From 10 years ago minimum wage. (while minimum wage is still lower in adjusted dollars than the 1960's) and minimum wage was held constant for 10+ years.... Because the "free market" was making wages higher than that???
The biggest problem is that they view $55k as "professional" wages. The median wage in most manufacturing states is $42k -$46k which is right about even with GDP. At the same time we are only making NEW jobs for $10 per hour, we are cutting off the people that actually make good money.
Frankly, if they really want to fix the overtime problem they should change from 1.5 hours pay to 2.5 hours pay (or more). The fact is that wage is not the highest cost driver, insurance and taxes are. 1.5x wage is close to a 50% DISCOUNT for most people billed at under $27 per hour.
The biggest insult is that nobody is asking about WORKED HOURS!!! This is just free money knocking wages from $80k to $56k for the same number of hours at the job!!!!
I have a BETTER answer.
At that wage somebody with 12 hours of overtime will lose $500 a week of TAXABLE INCOME! From the highest taxed (overall) group.
In Most states, $55k is not much above qualifying for food stamps for a young family with little ones.
I'm sure companies will declare all this extra savings on the profit line to be taxed? Right?
But code monkeys SHOULD be getting paid overtime because the company generates production by the hour. Admins are often exempt because 9-5 they might just be watching blinky lights, but do upgrades and such overnight or weekends... Salary is the compensation for work that is a "service" and not specific hours.
If the company is counting on you to "fill a chair" on time, and that time is working on a product or service the sell directly, then you are a "production" worker and deserve the pay.
They already tried a similar law to go after nurses and police because they are "professional" with degrees and it failed.
Wow.. I forget there are OSes that don't have serial panel output for error codes! Or Operator "key" codes to force diagnostic modes?
Coming from an AS400 background this article shows how silly "normal" system management is. To answer the parent, the system can be issued boot time commands in HARDWARE (which are also available for virtual machines) that will bring the system to a minimal "restricted" console state. That's like a cornerstone of the system and IBM doesn't mess with that.
Next, the proposal Red Hat has is a very AS400 concept. The History Log (QHST) and the Security Audit Journal (QAUDJRN) are both binary structures that have hard-coded readers built into the kernel. The system maintains internal integrity of the files with extra fields you never see. Of course the AS400 native file system is "DATABASE"-based. So any command that outputs from these displays to a screen or to something that can be instantly searched with SQL.
I'm certain that is what they are trying to make here. Ultimately in security you care about the integrity of the logs more than even recovering the system... Especially when to don't have to restart for a year at a time or more. Frankly, they should add an output option for SQLite file types and everybody can be happy.
Realize that when places like banks use AS400's they mirror the raw audit journals off to another system, often hundreds a day. Because the are binary journals, they are difficult to tamper with because they interlink with eachother. Yet at the same time because they are a data type programs can monitor them for specific events automatically and it's trivial to set up actions to take.
if that's the case, you don't have CONTROL over your equipment.
That was acceptable for Windows 95 but not even for desktop PCs anymore, let alone server equipment. My opinion is that your equipment isn't stable UNTIL you can turn it off and on again reliably. And yes... that is an ENORMOUS amount of work.
If you can't reliably replace individual pieces then you don't have control for maintenance... sure you can stick your head in the sand and just not touch anything... but that's just piling up all the things you didn't take time to figure out until come critical time later.
Exactly, we already see this in China because they managed to weed out a whole generation of girls. They are very firmly in a command economy even if it's not "communist". Most of the Eastern Asian countries have this problem, trying to get masses to conform to what's useful for business right now. Was it Korea or Japan complaining that men's waistlines were requiring too many sizes of pants in stores... that was not "efficient". Health had nothing to do with it.
This is why the free market works. Each person will go into a career because it pays well, or because they really excel at it and want to be there for less money. In this way there is always a buffer of individuals with skills ready to go for whatever employers need. Never mind that many degrees that don't pay well take years to achieve mastery of. If you stop the degrees now, then in 10 years when the current group of workers retires, you won't have workers with 10 years experience... Although in a command economy they really don't think that way. They think more of hire the best people needed now, then move on...
Considering they have been moving to SSD for a while they might end up being cheaper .... I mean more profitable...