Which could have been done by a bad landing. If there were holes, or better video, it would be a lot more believable. But two slightly damaged rotors is not clear evidence of being shot down.
Make sure your babysitters are the best of the best, and make sure that they can affect immediate change in IT without having to go through the proper channels. If they need to open a port on the firewall then they should have the passwords and access to do so. If they need to have an account created make sure that they can log into the LDAP server and create one, etc...
They also need the balls to say "NO!" when appropriate. And then suggest a working alternative. "No, you can't install that application you downloaded from some dude in Romania. I've looked, and it is not what you think it is. But here's another way to do the thing you need to do." "No, we won't make that Excel file editable by the entire company. It won't work like you think it will. But here's a workaround."
Trains? Extra handling. The train cannot go directly into the storage facility like a truck can, so you must put it on a truck at the start of the journey. Building > truck > train > truck > building, instead of building > truck > building. You're introducing extra possibility of an accident.
offering a customer the types of products they have bought in the past.
They dive much, much deeper than that. Get a scrip for a particular prenatal drug that is usually taken around delivery - 23 weeks (they know this from analyzing past purchases from everyone), they will then send you particular ads and coupons at specific time periods when you are most apt to buy those specific items. Crib before car seat, diapers after blankets. Or whatever their sales/marketing people show it to be.
Also, a pregnant woman in the second trimester is quite easy to detect by the good old method of looking at her.
The servers sending out the coupons aren't looking at her tummy. And often...is she preg or just fat.
Even more than that:
Caltech proposed the concept to NASA
Caltech had a major part in designing it
Caltech hosts the GALEX Science center
Caltech continues to staff and run it
NASA approved, funded, and launched it. Choosing Caltech wasn't just throwing a dart at the map and saying "OK, those guys get it!"
The satellite, which could be something everybody in America gets a chance to use, is going to become the private property of not several, not a network or a special organization devoted to the satellite, but just one single university. A very expensive university in California. Why should they get it? Why not MIT? "Why not" a hundred other universities and colleges? It shouldn't be given to Caltech.
Logistics. Operating in this country, the US military relies a LOT on civilians. Not just DoD and contractors, but regular civilian companies. How are spare parts delivered? FEDEX. "Sorry, General, the truck went into the river." And with the spare parts, many, many things are simply remove and replace boxes at the unit level. The broken ones are sent back to the factory or depot for low level repair. If the supply on base runs out, the jets don't fly anymore.
And as far as trained troops...there are a LOT of people out here with recent, relevant military experience.
Sad thing is, the experienced guy can often get done in 20 what it takes the new guy 80 to do, but to a certain type of managers, all he sees is that the old guy goes home after 40, and the young guy is working away over the weekend....
Bingo. The young bloods will flail away for 3 weeks to come to solution Z, after going through A, B, C, X and Y. The old guy can look at it and say "Yeah, we saw this concept 8 years ago. Solution Z is what you want. Hang on a sec, let me find my original design. Put it in a new wrapper, but no need to redesign the basic concept" (channeling my inner Space Cowboy)
By only having a land area about 5% of Ontario to worry about, and having 1/2 the population living in one city. If all you had to manage was London, Ontario, you could do some pretty cool stuff.
No, that obviously does not cover the whole difference. But that is a factor.
Just like drone != robot. Language changes. Words change. Even in here, part of the high holy of geekspace...how many times have we seen the USAF drones (large RC aircraft) referred to as 'robots'?
'Robot' implies some independent decision making abilities. Or at least it used to.
All this has been done for a long time. Why do you think grocery stores are laid out the way they are? Product boxes have specific colors?
Yes, the big wholesalers can demand (and get) better shelf space. And the 'store owner' never had control to begin with. This is for big box chains. BestBuy/Target/OfficeMax dictate to the store manager where things go. Changed weekly, if necessary.
And this data is aggregated over regions, not just 'a store'.
"When the snow shovels are on the right of the store entrance, consumers in the Northeast region, during the months of November thru March, spend an aggregate 67 seconds per dollar looking at snow shovels and salt. When the display is on the left, consumers spend an additional 18 seconds per dollar spent on those same snow shovels." "Consumers in the Mid-Atlantic region spend 1/3 the time looking at snow shovels, but only convert 1/5th of that into sales."
They are trying to maximize that last 0.10% of looking at something, into buying something.
And the marketing people (software/hardware/facial recog) are selling them the snake oil to try to do it.
SOPA/PIPA were US legislation and would have had only been able to be used to prosecute inside the United States.
Absolutely backwards. SOPA, specifically -
" Rep. Goodlatte, "Intellectual property is one of America's chief job creators and competitive advantages in the global marketplace, yet American inventors, authors, and entrepreneurs have been forced to stand by and watch as their works are stolen by foreign infringers beyond the reach of current U.S. laws."
"They say it protects the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign websites"
Claiming flaws in present laws that do not cover foreign owned and operated sites, and citing examples of "active promotion of rogue websites" by U.S. search engines, proponents say stronger enforcement tools are needed.
SOPA is designed to American citizens from accessing foreign sites that are deemed (implied) to be infringing.
Yes, of course it will, because it needs to get right anyway (to allow the cop to pass), if getting right puts it on the shoulder, it should stop.
NO. Not always. Sometimes moving left is the necessary action, to facilitate the center of the roadway being open to emergency vehicles. Just around the corner from me is a major 6 lane (3 each way except at intersections when it becomes 8.5 including turn and merge lanes). Just around the other corner is a major hospital. Across the street is a fire house. "Always move right" is not always the best move.
Eventually, the vehicle AI will get there. But we are nowhere near close enough yet.
We need to have the liability insurance rates take vehicle weight into account.
Are you sure they don't already do this? Full coverage insurance for my pickup truck (11 yrs old) is more than a new Honda Civic in the same family. Not 2-3x more, but more. Because of the greater potential to cause damage to the other vehicle in a crash.
Yes, if there is to be a significant base on the Moon, all the current spacefaring and contributor nations need to partner up. Russia/NASA/ESA/Japan. Maybe even China. But you can stop fellating the Russians anytime now.
Nice to just hand wave 5 years of construction, transport, and assembly into existence.
Correction(IMHO): Nice to just hand wave 50 years of construction, transport, and assembly into existence.
Look how long it took to buid the ISS. We would have needed (and would continue to need) a SaturnV or Shuttle capacity mission every other week for decades to have a semi-sustainable 'base' on the Moon.
It'll happen eventually. But all these fools with "Why aren't we there yet?!?" are simply delusional.
And this, specifically, is one of the reasons I don't run an open WiFi here at the house. I'm not giving them the potential to link my IP address to whatever they want to do online.
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Which could have been done by a bad landing. If there were holes, or better video, it would be a lot more believable.
But two slightly damaged rotors is not clear evidence of being shot down.
Make sure your babysitters are the best of the best, and make sure that they can affect immediate change in IT without having to go through the proper channels. If they need to open a port on the firewall then they should have the passwords and access to do so. If they need to have an account created make sure that they can log into the LDAP server and create one, etc...
They also need the balls to say "NO!" when appropriate. And then suggest a working alternative.
"No, you can't install that application you downloaded from some dude in Romania. I've looked, and it is not what you think it is. But here's another way to do the thing you need to do."
"No, we won't make that Excel file editable by the entire company. It won't work like you think it will. But here's a workaround."
Trains? Extra handling. The train cannot go directly into the storage facility like a truck can, so you must put it on a truck at the start of the journey. Building > truck > train > truck > building, instead of building > truck > building. You're introducing extra possibility of an accident.
offering a customer the types of products they have bought in the past.
They dive much, much deeper than that.
Get a scrip for a particular prenatal drug that is usually taken around delivery - 23 weeks (they know this from analyzing past purchases from everyone), they will then send you particular ads and coupons at specific time periods when you are most apt to buy those specific items. Crib before car seat, diapers after blankets. Or whatever their sales/marketing people show it to be.
Also, a pregnant woman in the second trimester is quite easy to detect by the good old method of looking at her.
The servers sending out the coupons aren't looking at her tummy. And often...is she preg or just fat.
Even more than that:
Caltech proposed the concept to NASA
Caltech had a major part in designing it
Caltech hosts the GALEX Science center
Caltech continues to staff and run it
NASA approved, funded, and launched it. Choosing Caltech wasn't just throwing a dart at the map and saying "OK, those guys get it!"
And (from their About|Basics page) "All observations made by GALEX are publicly available through the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope institute (MAST)."
The satellite, which could be something everybody in America gets a chance to use, is going to become the private property of not several, not a network or a special organization devoted to the satellite, but just one single university. A very expensive university in California. Why should they get it? Why not MIT? "Why not" a hundred other universities and colleges? It shouldn't be given to Caltech.
Caltech already runs it, and has since the start.
Logistics. Operating in this country, the US military relies a LOT on civilians. Not just DoD and contractors, but regular civilian companies. How are spare parts delivered? FEDEX. "Sorry, General, the truck went into the river."
And with the spare parts, many, many things are simply remove and replace boxes at the unit level. The broken ones are sent back to the factory or depot for low level repair. If the supply on base runs out, the jets don't fly anymore.
And as far as trained troops...there are a LOT of people out here with recent, relevant military experience.
Why not a national ID system?
States Rights. This is a conglomeration of 50 individual states. There is no 'national election'.
Why not any kind of biometric systems?
Too prone to failure
Why nothing but a picture?
How else would you do it? What is your suggestion?
Sad thing is, the experienced guy can often get done in 20 what it takes the new guy 80 to do, but to a certain type of managers, all he sees is that the old guy goes home after 40, and the young guy is working away over the weekend....
Bingo. The young bloods will flail away for 3 weeks to come to solution Z, after going through A, B, C, X and Y. The old guy can look at it and say "Yeah, we saw this concept 8 years ago. Solution Z is what you want. Hang on a sec, let me find my original design. Put it in a new wrapper, but no need to redesign the basic concept"
(channeling my inner Space Cowboy)
Upfront: I am over 60. Been doing product design for 45+ years. I think and have thought for decades, you get what you pay for.
When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
So how exactly does Estonia do it?
By only having a land area about 5% of Ontario to worry about, and having 1/2 the population living in one city.
If all you had to manage was London, Ontario, you could do some pretty cool stuff.
No, that obviously does not cover the whole difference. But that is a factor.
Hah, the largest nuclear stockpile on the planet would like to see them try to collect.
FTFY.
If you are referring to the US, it is actually, the second largest nuclear stockpile.
Formation does not equal swarm.
Just like drone != robot. Language changes. Words change. Even in here, part of the high holy of geekspace...how many times have we seen the USAF drones (large RC aircraft) referred to as 'robots'?
'Robot' implies some independent decision making abilities. Or at least it used to.
So you're saying the terrorists won some time in the early 80s.
1880's?
All this has been done for a long time. Why do you think grocery stores are laid out the way they are? Product boxes have specific colors?
Yes, the big wholesalers can demand (and get) better shelf space. And the 'store owner' never had control to begin with. This is for big box chains. BestBuy/Target/OfficeMax dictate to the store manager where things go. Changed weekly, if necessary.
And this data is aggregated over regions, not just 'a store'.
"When the snow shovels are on the right of the store entrance, consumers in the Northeast region, during the months of November thru March, spend an aggregate 67 seconds per dollar looking at snow shovels and salt. When the display is on the left, consumers spend an additional 18 seconds per dollar spent on those same snow shovels."
"Consumers in the Mid-Atlantic region spend 1/3 the time looking at snow shovels, but only convert 1/5th of that into sales."
They are trying to maximize that last 0.10% of looking at something, into buying something.
And the marketing people (software/hardware/facial recog) are selling them the snake oil to try to do it.
Not many, but there are some. Moving it to Mogadishu, for instance.
SOPA/PIPA were US legislation and would have had only been able to be used to prosecute inside the United States.
Absolutely backwards.
SOPA, specifically -
" Rep. Goodlatte, "Intellectual property is one of America's chief job creators and competitive advantages in the global marketplace, yet American inventors, authors, and entrepreneurs have been forced to stand by and watch as their works are stolen by foreign infringers beyond the reach of current U.S. laws."
"They say it protects the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign websites"
Claiming flaws in present laws that do not cover foreign owned and operated sites, and citing examples of "active promotion of rogue websites" by U.S. search engines, proponents say stronger enforcement tools are needed.
SOPA is designed to American citizens from accessing foreign sites that are deemed (implied) to be infringing.
How do you pull a car over with no one inside?
OnStar or similar.
Yes, of course it will, because it needs to get right anyway (to allow the cop to pass), if getting right puts it on the shoulder, it should stop.
NO. Not always. Sometimes moving left is the necessary action, to facilitate the center of the roadway being open to emergency vehicles.
Just around the corner from me is a major 6 lane (3 each way except at intersections when it becomes 8.5 including turn and merge lanes). Just around the other corner is a major hospital. Across the street is a fire house.
"Always move right" is not always the best move.
Eventually, the vehicle AI will get there. But we are nowhere near close enough yet.
We need to have the liability insurance rates take vehicle weight into account.
Are you sure they don't already do this? Full coverage insurance for my pickup truck (11 yrs old) is more than a new Honda Civic in the same family. Not 2-3x more, but more.
Because of the greater potential to cause damage to the other vehicle in a crash.
Then you report it, immediately. No different than a phone call at home, or a 'visit' by some friendly guy on a Saturday afternoon.
Report it, and let the judge/prosecution/defense work it out.
A couple of years ago, there was much screeching about Exxon's excessive profits. "I want to take those profits and..."
Why not the same here? I guess it's just evil oil vs. cool iPhones.
Yes, if there is to be a significant base on the Moon, all the current spacefaring and contributor nations need to partner up. Russia/NASA/ESA/Japan. Maybe even China. But you can stop fellating the Russians anytime now.
Nice to just hand wave 5 years of construction, transport, and assembly into existence.
Correction(IMHO): Nice to just hand wave 50 years of construction, transport, and assembly into existence.
Look how long it took to buid the ISS. We would have needed (and would continue to need) a SaturnV or Shuttle capacity mission every other week for decades to have a semi-sustainable 'base' on the Moon.
It'll happen eventually. But all these fools with "Why aren't we there yet?!?" are simply delusional.
And this, specifically, is one of the reasons I don't run an open WiFi here at the house. I'm not giving them the potential to link my IP address to whatever they want to do online.