The actual reason is that as costs go down, capacity goes up as a moving maxima on a bell curve.
It'd be cheap to buy the capacities of flash storage we have today in the future, but they won't be manufactured; instead we'll have much higher capacities at about the current price point.
The saddle spot where you get the-best-bang-for-the-buck will stay at about the same price point going forward as capacities increase. This is the same thing that happened with hard drives, and it's the same thing that happened with RAM. Read some Clayton Christensen to find out why.
That's true for current methods of developing software. Which is typing in code.
This is the same article that gets posted every 6-8 weeks under different names.
The whole point of these things appears to be to provide a modern day version of a Commodore-64, and get people interested in programming, and get them engaged, by having an environment where it's easy to do small hacks.
Radical new methods of developing software aren't going to get you employed until they have already been widely adopted, after which they are neither radical nor new. We tried this with 3G computer languages, and then with 4G computer languages, where you ended up linking icons together, and there have been lots of other attempts.
The OP should feel free to found a couple of companies, and good luck to them in getting their new paradigm adopted.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that.;-)
I also noticed this, and that the study was published by two administrators and a consultant. There did seem to be a slight amount of vested interest in the conclusions which were reached; I'm guessing they were just lucky the data came out that way?;)
The headline is misleading about the actual ruling; here it is:
"TR Labs’ concession that it is willing to grant Cisco an unqualified covenant not to sue, TR Labs’ concession that it has no basis for asserting direct or indirect infringement claims against Cisco, including the parties’ agreement that Cisco’s products have substantial non-infringing uses, and Cisco’s failure to identify any obligation to indemnify or defend its customers distinguish this action from others in which this Court has found declaratory judgment jurisdiction and support the district court’s finding that it lacked the same. We therefore affirm the district court ruling." http://www.finnegan.com/files/Publication/810cf458-9bde-4f9b-a98f-d5293cafbaad/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/11d7000f-5c7b-47ae-ad7a-db503720b379/12-1687%208-29-13.pdf
So because Cisco has no contractual obligation to indemnify their customers, and TR Labs is willing to give an unqualified covenant not to sue Cisco for direct or indirect infringement by Cisco's customers, and it's in the outside realm of possibility that all customers are using Cisco products in a non-failover configuration (the subject of the patents is failover) because they're stupid and fail to follow best common industry practice, Cisco is not a party to the suits against the customers.
Cisco could have taken this bullet if it had been willing to indemnify their customers via an amended terms and conditions on the Cisco OS software on the devices; it chose not to do so.
In 2006, the US Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future.
Since none of USPS's competitors (Fedex, UPS etc) are required to do this, USPS has essentially been setup to fail & then be privatized.
That would be this benefits plan?
"MHBP, previously known as Mail Handlers Benefit Plan, offers an outstanding selection of PPO federal health plans that are available to all federal and postal employees and annuitants" http://www.mhbp.com/benefit-plans/index.htm
Maybe it's because they are funding for the entire federal government?
For example, a guy wrote a Microsoft LAN Manager clone and talked about it on usenet. I spent six months harassing him to get the source pulled together and released so that I could run it on an Ultrix box for a lab full of AT&T PCs that our lab got as part of a grant from AT&T. The guy's name was Andrew Tridgell. His first message to me after that was "Help! I can't handle the volume of email I'm getting asking about it now!", so I suggested he set up a mailing list and let the people talk to each other instead of him.
But it all started because he wrote code that solved a problem I needed solved, and then talked about it in a forum I happened to read. Without actually solving a problem, it would have gone nowhere.
So your number one mission: Solve a problem that needs solved. Otherwise, you are just navel gazing.
This is a stupid idea. The 1976 consultation between the NSA and IBM over DES resulted in a stronger DES. The NSA couldn't disclose what it knew about how to easily attack the DES as it was originally proposed, and it took about 8 years for an academic researcher to understand why the original algorithm was actually weaker than the one with the proposed NSA modifications.
They are doing some rather asshole things at the moment (at the behest of the Federal Government - "We were just following orders"), but they tend not to screw with cryptography which is allowed to be on the GSA schedule when embodied in communications equipment for sale to the U.S.Military.
Bruce Schneier http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/black-budget-what-exactly-are-the-nsas-cryptanalytic-capabilities/ stated that "Breakthroughs in factoring have occurred regularly over the past several decades, allowing us to break ever-larger public keys. Much of the public-key cryptography we use today involves elliptic curves, something that is even more ripe for mathematical breakthroughs. It is not unreasonable to assume that the NSA has some techniques in this area that we in the academic world do not. Certainly the fact that the NSA is pushing elliptic-curve cryptography is some indication that it can break them more easily."
This is most probably correct, given the proof of the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture, thus proving Fermat's last theormen, and resulting in the establishment of the Modularity Theorem. On a related note, isn't 25519 a rational number? Meaning elliptic curve 25519 has a modular form? Meaning that Tor's choice of curve is rather subject to modular attack?
You are wrong. It's not meaningless, because in the country where I live we don't have software patents. I understand how you may feel it's meaningless for you though but that doesn't mean that it's meaningless in general. Also, I believe that this is distributed in source form and thus is not violating any patents. This makes it even less meaningless.
This is why New Zealand is region code 4, but pretty much all the content is region code 1. You've been sent to "we can't enforce software patents on you so you don't get content until after everyone else has paid for it" Coventry. It's also why the same content costs more there: out of spite, by the content production companies.
While I agree with the gist of everything you said, tlambert, I would humbly suggest the paid off "old debts" weren't still being sought "by accident" --- if ya know what I mean?
I'd rather attribute it to ignorance and poor record keeping than to billing fraud, but yeah, there's also billing fraud sometimes.
And in order to see the data they have about me, I have to give them my name, home address, last four digits of my SSN? Seriously? They're going to make a fortune off of this!
Why don't you want collection agencies being able to correlate your social with contact information so they can harass you? Especially collection agencies who buy old debt packages from people who don't keep very good billing records, like most doctors and dentists, and try to collect bills you've already paid because some idiot left a copy of one in the wrong old cardboard box somewhere?
It's pretty clear that you don't understand the important fact that, when they screw up, you're obligated to pay them again, and you are just a deadbeat.
Or maybe they intend to monetize stupidity, which has been a pretty standard trick for as long as there has been commerce...
I'll answer that for you: the group where the wires they are stealing are capable of killing them because they are hooked up to a functioning electrical grid. Three phase power will happily fry your ass, if you try and steal a live wire.
Yes, but some airlines/airports lose luggage more often than others. And some airlines are more helpful than others when they do lose the luggage.
And some customers are real douchebags who take affront at everything and are unreasonable no matter how hard the agent is trying to help.
Bottom line is - we don't know where the line is in this case. This guy may have a completely legitimate grievance, or he could be raising hell because BA wouldn't compensate him $500 a bag or give him 10,000 free travel miles. We just don't know.
I find it difficult to argue with success; they were apparently able to find his father's lost bag.
One has to wonder if they would have found it had he gone through normal channels; it certainly took more than 20 minutes (it was 4 hours before they contacted him back over the initial complaint).
Seems to me there's something wrong if you have 50 empty school buildings but the same number of available teachers and students (or more) than before you closed them. They do make great workspaces but, hey, even better schools in many cases... unless the school is so run down that it's more suited to being a practice space for local bands.
They have the same number of teachers, but not all of them are good teachers. The union walked off the job last year in protest of standardized testing, and rating teachers on their ability to actually teach children so that they can pass the tests; these are things that hurt bad teachers, and not so much good teachers,
Now obviously, part of the problem is mainstreaming children who are ineducable, either through no fault of their own, or because they could care less about learning; such children should go into remedial programs until they can be mainstreamed with certainty, and the teachers involved in teaching them shouldn't be penalized for the performance of kids we already know to be poor students: equality of opportunity is not the same thing as equality of ability, or equality of outcome.
Additionally, the Chicago Teacher's Union is claiming classroom overcrowding, which you could maybe buy if Utah weren't running 35 student class sizes, and have been since I was in elementary school in the 1970's, or their students weren't doing well on the standardized tests in a way that was attributable to class size. So it looks like what the district is doing is cutting dead wood.
Yeah, it's sad that those teachers couldn't teach very well, so they don't have jobs any more, but it's about as sad as trying to convert the under-enrolled schools, which no parent wants to send their children to because they won't get taught, being turned in blue collar training camps for blue collar jobs that aren't going to be there for the kids once they leave the makerspace. You're not going to get your machinists union journeyman card hanging out in a makerspace without a multi-year apprenticeship. Guess how many participants are currently in Seattle Machinists Apprentice program (you know, Seattle, where Boeing is located)? 34. Guess how many hours you have to put in to become a journeyman? 7,424. That's almost 4 years.
Blue collar jobs are not coming back any time soon. Unless you see the U.S. implementing trade tariffs in the near future so that it costs the same to buy something manufactured in a country that doesn't enforce environmental laws, making it a lot cheaper to buy labor there than in the U.S.? I didn't think so.
Is it just me, or were we all hoping to see Huey, Dewey, and Loie from the movie "Silent Running". That what I think of when I think of agricultural robots.
I think you are somewhat unfairly overlooking kerberos authenticated NFS, and that is the only sensible way to use it. Better yet, with encryption and integrity protection as well.
That's possible, although I have not seen this deployed anywhere other than a couple large universities, and both the ones of which I'm aware had a vested interest, as they were involved in designing the technology.
Indeed, wage floors priced unskilled people out of the market.
Too much of a government saying "pay them more, or don't pay them at all."
Still believe in labor unions?
I think you are confusing the wage floor resulting from minimum wage laws with the union negotiated wage on a job-by-job basis which is the reason for there only being one automaker still operating manufacturing in Detroit.
You're not going to get me to agree that putting the tires on a new car for an 8 hour shift is worth $48/hour, but it's not fair to blame the unions for everything.
New Jersey is hte worst, supposedly the attendants are there for your own good. They can make sure you don't put the wrong grade into a car or deisel instead of gas.
That's great, except the two times someone else pumped my gas, I had to stop them before them put too low of an octane into the tank.
It must be great to own a classic car like that! Those of us with cars manufactured since 1981 can put in any octane they sell at the station in our tanks, and the oxygen sensors will control the fuel mixture s that it doesn't matter. I guess you must also go through a lot of Red Lin or MDR additive, since 56 Chevy's would also require leaded fuel?
I guess you can add "gas stations trying to sell higher octane gas as if it means something" to the list of people being put out of business by technology.
If Snowden did in fact impersonate identities to access the information, and the systems in question are correctly configured, then about the only way to do what he did is on the servers in question themselves.
A properly configured system uses authenticated channels into the server, and that authentication is by means of the accessing system doing a couple things which are difficult to forge, without modifying the attacking system and installing foreign software.
Specifically, the server is a member of an SA - Security Association - and the client machine joins the SA through an attestation process which uses a distributed security certificate. So far, so good. Now a connection is established to the server through a secure point to point link; AFP and SMB use such links, NFS does not (NFS uses remote attestation, which is a point of vulnerability).
A credential is associated on the client side of the link, and it's also associated with the server side of the link through an attestation process to being a particular member of the SA. This attestation goes over the secure link to the server, and the server verifies it with the SA. Because the verification process between the server and the SA is incapable of being intermediated by the client, you have to have all authentication factors in hand. This is why you can't "su uid", as you can in an NFS, environment in order to effectively assume an identity.
Since they are using at least two factor authentication - and these guys do at least that; they use CAC (Common Access Card) attestation using cryptographic smart cards - identity is very difficult to forge.
So you end up with a connection to the server, and a UUID and.or GUID in your credential associated with the connection on the server side, and then ACLs are enforced on server objects you attempt to access over the connection using the UUID/GUID to compare ACL ownership, rights grants, group membership for which ownership or rights grants exist on the object, and so on.
Thus the only way this could have been done is with administrator access *on a server*, not merely administrator access on the network or on a client node on the network ( assuming a lack of sophisticated software).
That said... administrator rights would have been enough. There's no impersonation requirement needed in order to establish access, so he would not have needed to impersonate anyone in order to get the information, and given the authentication and attestation barriers in place, it would have actually been more difficult to obtain the information via impersonation, rather than just being local to the server itself and grabbing it.
This kind of looks like a "pile on the charges" gambit to try and get him for other crimes that could be associated with the attack, had he been silly and done it the way they are claiming he did in the article.
So when country X goes to the moon and mines the helium, are they going to come back and distribute it to all of the world's inhabitants or does it just belong to country X? I'm curious, because before mining the moon began, it would seem that we would need to know who owns the moon? Does it belong to the first one who gets there? Does it belong equally to all people? Or will it belong to some mining company? Because if you get that first basic question wrong then potentionally everything after that becomes immoral because it infringes not on the privelige of some inaimate lifeless celestial body, but real people, here on earth. And if it is immoral, then technically one could consider it evil (although that is a strong word).
It's an interesting question. I imagine the answer is something along the lines of "If you don't like the fact that we aren't sharing, then get you own asses up here and grab some for yourself, or, alternately, get your own asses up here and try to stop us".
I am a *much* better driver now than I was when I was younger and treating the highway like a personal race track and getting frustrated when someone got in the way of going the speed I wanted to go.
Yes, but...
Now that you are older, aren't you going to die in the nearer term future than younger persons? I would think that would cause you to want to speed up, since you don't have that much time left, and every minute wasted on the road is another minute you aren't going to be spending with family and friends.
Whenever I see an old person going 60 MPH in the left lane in a 65MPH zone, I ask myself "Don't they realize they don't have that much time left?".
Whenever I see someone younger doing the same thing, and it's the time of day that people are on their way to work, I think to myself "Boy, they must really hate their job!".
Whenever I see someone younger doing the same thing, and it's the time of day that people are on their way home from work, I think to myself "Boy, they must really hate their family!".
Also, I'm pretty sure the main reason for busses is to drive slowly in front of you so that you never get anywhere you want to go any faster than if you had ridden the bus.
No tickets? What ever will the governments do to replace that revenue?
Tax self-driving cars. Tax fueling self-driving cars. Tax by road miles. Tax for being white or non-white. Tax for being gay or non-gay. Tax for being a Baptist or Methodist, and tax for being neither. Tax, Tax, Tax,
Just because they make dumb life decisions, which are invariably down to their parents being lousy role-models, they not middle school dropouts like most of the country.
You are confusing 'wisdom' and 'knowledge' with 'intelligence'.
A basic definition of wisdom is the right use of knowledge. The opposite of wisdom is folly. People who make unwise life decisions, in other words, commit folly, do so from a lack of wisdom.
This is orthogonal to the 'intelligent'/'dumb' axis. A basic definition of intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. People who lack intelligence may acquire knowledge; we have a lot of techniques, including rote memorization, which can be used to instill knowledge. But even with knowledge, if you lack the ability to generalize to apply it, you are dumb as a box of rocks.
So to recap:
(1) If you can acquire knowledge, you are not ineluctably learning disabled; there is at least one workaround
(2) If you can apply the knowledge you have, you are intelligent
(3) If you choose to do so in a correct fashion, you are wise.
Yes, it's possible to spend gargantuan sums of money being a helicopter parent and cosseting your child's every move, or, if you have to tend to business in order to remain rich, which people who are not second generation rich must do, to delegate that task to a hired proxy. In doing this, you might be able shepherd them through a non-tehnical degree in a prestigious university, or a technical degree in a community college, where the major requirements allow for C's as passing grades toward the degree.
But you can pound as much sand as you want into a dumb persons ears, and it's not going to make the inside of their head a beach.
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And the reason is... not your reason...
The actual reason is that as costs go down, capacity goes up as a moving maxima on a bell curve.
It'd be cheap to buy the capacities of flash storage we have today in the future, but they won't be manufactured; instead we'll have much higher capacities at about the current price point.
The saddle spot where you get the-best-bang-for-the-buck will stay at about the same price point going forward as capacities increase. This is the same thing that happened with hard drives, and it's the same thing that happened with RAM. Read some Clayton Christensen to find out why.
That's true for current methods of developing software. Which is typing in code.
This is the same article that gets posted every 6-8 weeks under different names.
The whole point of these things appears to be to provide a modern day version of a Commodore-64, and get people interested in programming, and get them engaged, by having an environment where it's easy to do small hacks.
Radical new methods of developing software aren't going to get you employed until they have already been widely adopted, after which they are neither radical nor new. We tried this with 3G computer languages, and then with 4G computer languages, where you ended up linking icons together, and there have been lots of other attempts.
The OP should feel free to found a couple of companies, and good luck to them in getting their new paradigm adopted.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that. ;-)
I also noticed this, and that the study was published by two administrators and a consultant. There did seem to be a slight amount of vested interest in the conclusions which were reached; I'm guessing they were just lucky the data came out that way? ;)
The headline is misleading about the actual ruling; here it is:
"TR Labs’ concession that it is willing to grant Cisco an unqualified covenant not to sue, TR Labs’ concession that it has no basis for asserting direct or indirect infringement claims against Cisco, including the parties’ agreement that Cisco’s products have substantial non-infringing uses, and Cisco’s failure to identify any obligation to indemnify or defend its customers distinguish this action from others in which this Court has found declaratory judgment jurisdiction and support the district court’s finding that it lacked the same. We therefore affirm the district court ruling."
http://www.finnegan.com/files/Publication/810cf458-9bde-4f9b-a98f-d5293cafbaad/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/11d7000f-5c7b-47ae-ad7a-db503720b379/12-1687%208-29-13.pdf
So because Cisco has no contractual obligation to indemnify their customers, and TR Labs is willing to give an unqualified covenant not to sue Cisco for direct or indirect infringement by Cisco's customers, and it's in the outside realm of possibility that all customers are using Cisco products in a non-failover configuration (the subject of the patents is failover) because they're stupid and fail to follow best common industry practice, Cisco is not a party to the suits against the customers.
Cisco could have taken this bullet if it had been willing to indemnify their customers via an amended terms and conditions on the Cisco OS software on the devices; it chose not to do so.
In 2006, the US Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future.
Since none of USPS's competitors (Fedex, UPS etc) are required to do this, USPS has essentially been setup to fail & then be privatized.
That would be this benefits plan?
"MHBP, previously known as Mail Handlers Benefit Plan, offers an outstanding selection of PPO federal health plans that are available to all federal and postal employees and annuitants" http://www.mhbp.com/benefit-plans/index.htm
Maybe it's because they are funding for the entire federal government?
Sergey Brin: 40
Linus Torvalds: 43
Kirk McKusick: 59
Vint Cerf: 70
It's not an age thing.
Solve a problem that needs solved.
For example, a guy wrote a Microsoft LAN Manager clone and talked about it on usenet. I spent six months harassing him to get the source pulled together and released so that I could run it on an Ultrix box for a lab full of AT&T PCs that our lab got as part of a grant from AT&T. The guy's name was Andrew Tridgell. His first message to me after that was "Help! I can't handle the volume of email I'm getting asking about it now!", so I suggested he set up a mailing list and let the people talk to each other instead of him.
But it all started because he wrote code that solved a problem I needed solved, and then talked about it in a forum I happened to read. Without actually solving a problem, it would have gone nowhere.
So your number one mission: Solve a problem that needs solved. Otherwise, you are just navel gazing.
This is a stupid idea. The 1976 consultation between the NSA and IBM over DES resulted in a stronger DES. The NSA couldn't disclose what it knew about how to easily attack the DES as it was originally proposed, and it took about 8 years for an academic researcher to understand why the original algorithm was actually weaker than the one with the proposed NSA modifications.
They are doing some rather asshole things at the moment (at the behest of the Federal Government - "We were just following orders"), but they tend not to screw with cryptography which is allowed to be on the GSA schedule when embodied in communications equipment for sale to the U.S.Military.
Bruce Schneier http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/black-budget-what-exactly-are-the-nsas-cryptanalytic-capabilities/ stated that "Breakthroughs in factoring have occurred regularly over the past several decades, allowing us to break ever-larger public keys. Much of the public-key cryptography we use today involves elliptic curves, something that is even more ripe for mathematical breakthroughs. It is not unreasonable to assume that the NSA has some techniques in this area that we in the academic world do not. Certainly the fact that the NSA is pushing elliptic-curve cryptography is some indication that it can break them more easily."
This is most probably correct, given the proof of the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture, thus proving Fermat's last theormen, and resulting in the establishment of the Modularity Theorem. On a related note, isn't 25519 a rational number? Meaning elliptic curve 25519 has a modular form? Meaning that Tor's choice of curve is rather subject to modular attack?
Just saying...
You are wrong. It's not meaningless, because in the country where I live we don't have software patents. I understand how you may feel it's meaningless for you though but that doesn't mean that it's meaningless in general. Also, I believe that this is distributed in source form and thus is not violating any patents. This makes it even less meaningless.
This is why New Zealand is region code 4, but pretty much all the content is region code 1. You've been sent to "we can't enforce software patents on you so you don't get content until after everyone else has paid for it" Coventry. It's also why the same content costs more there: out of spite, by the content production companies.
While I agree with the gist of everything you said, tlambert, I would humbly suggest the paid off "old debts" weren't still being sought "by accident" --- if ya know what I mean?
I'd rather attribute it to ignorance and poor record keeping than to billing fraud, but yeah, there's also billing fraud sometimes.
And in order to see the data they have about me, I have to give them my name, home address, last four digits of my SSN? Seriously? They're going to make a fortune off of this!
Why don't you want collection agencies being able to correlate your social with contact information so they can harass you? Especially collection agencies who buy old debt packages from people who don't keep very good billing records, like most doctors and dentists, and try to collect bills you've already paid because some idiot left a copy of one in the wrong old cardboard box somewhere?
It's pretty clear that you don't understand the important fact that, when they screw up, you're obligated to pay them again, and you are just a deadbeat.
Or maybe they intend to monetize stupidity, which has been a pretty standard trick for as long as there has been commerce...
I'm not sure which group has more balls.
I'll answer that for you: the group where the wires they are stealing are capable of killing them because they are hooked up to a functioning electrical grid. Three phase power will happily fry your ass, if you try and steal a live wire.
Yes, but some airlines/airports lose luggage more often than others. And some airlines are more helpful than others when they do lose the luggage.
And some customers are real douchebags who take affront at everything and are unreasonable no matter how hard the agent is trying to help.
Bottom line is - we don't know where the line is in this case. This guy may have a completely legitimate grievance, or he could be raising hell because BA wouldn't compensate him $500 a bag or give him 10,000 free travel miles. We just don't know.
I find it difficult to argue with success; they were apparently able to find his father's lost bag.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/furious-british-airways-passenger-uses-promoted-tweet-to-complain-to-world-about--lost-luggage--104029390.html#PTH3eTh
One has to wonder if they would have found it had he gone through normal channels; it certainly took more than 20 minutes (it was 4 hours before they contacted him back over the initial complaint).
Seems to me there's something wrong if you have 50 empty school buildings but the same number of available teachers and students (or more) than before you closed them. They do make great workspaces but, hey, even better schools in many cases... unless the school is so run down that it's more suited to being a practice space for local bands.
They have the same number of teachers, but not all of them are good teachers. The union walked off the job last year in protest of standardized testing, and rating teachers on their ability to actually teach children so that they can pass the tests; these are things that hurt bad teachers, and not so much good teachers,
Now obviously, part of the problem is mainstreaming children who are ineducable, either through no fault of their own, or because they could care less about learning; such children should go into remedial programs until they can be mainstreamed with certainty, and the teachers involved in teaching them shouldn't be penalized for the performance of kids we already know to be poor students: equality of opportunity is not the same thing as equality of ability, or equality of outcome.
Additionally, the Chicago Teacher's Union is claiming classroom overcrowding, which you could maybe buy if Utah weren't running 35 student class sizes, and have been since I was in elementary school in the 1970's, or their students weren't doing well on the standardized tests in a way that was attributable to class size. So it looks like what the district is doing is cutting dead wood.
Yeah, it's sad that those teachers couldn't teach very well, so they don't have jobs any more, but it's about as sad as trying to convert the under-enrolled schools, which no parent wants to send their children to because they won't get taught, being turned in blue collar training camps for blue collar jobs that aren't going to be there for the kids once they leave the makerspace. You're not going to get your machinists union journeyman card hanging out in a makerspace without a multi-year apprenticeship. Guess how many participants are currently in Seattle Machinists Apprentice program (you know, Seattle, where Boeing is located)? 34. Guess how many hours you have to put in to become a journeyman? 7,424. That's almost 4 years.
Blue collar jobs are not coming back any time soon. Unless you see the U.S. implementing trade tariffs in the near future so that it costs the same to buy something manufactured in a country that doesn't enforce environmental laws, making it a lot cheaper to buy labor there than in the U.S.? I didn't think so.
Is it just me, or were we all hoping to see Huey, Dewey, and Loie from the movie "Silent Running". That what I think of when I think of agricultural robots.
I think you are somewhat unfairly overlooking kerberos authenticated NFS, and that is the only sensible way to use it. Better yet, with encryption and integrity protection as well.
That's possible, although I have not seen this deployed anywhere other than a couple large universities, and both the ones of which I'm aware had a vested interest, as they were involved in designing the technology.
Indeed, wage floors priced unskilled people out of the market.
Too much of a government saying "pay them more, or don't pay them at all."
Still believe in labor unions?
I think you are confusing the wage floor resulting from minimum wage laws with the union negotiated wage on a job-by-job basis which is the reason for there only being one automaker still operating manufacturing in Detroit.
You're not going to get me to agree that putting the tires on a new car for an 8 hour shift is worth $48/hour, but it's not fair to blame the unions for everything.
New Jersey is hte worst, supposedly the attendants are there for your own good. They can make sure you don't put the wrong grade into a car or deisel instead of gas.
That's great, except the two times someone else pumped my gas, I had to stop them before them put too low of an octane into the tank.
It must be great to own a classic car like that! Those of us with cars manufactured since 1981 can put in any octane they sell at the station in our tanks, and the oxygen sensors will control the fuel mixture s that it doesn't matter. I guess you must also go through a lot of Red Lin or MDR additive, since 56 Chevy's would also require leaded fuel?
I guess you can add "gas stations trying to sell higher octane gas as if it means something" to the list of people being put out of business by technology.
I think some are misrepresenting this as easy.
If Snowden did in fact impersonate identities to access the information, and the systems in question are correctly configured, then about the only way to do what he did is on the servers in question themselves.
A properly configured system uses authenticated channels into the server, and that authentication is by means of the accessing system doing a couple things which are difficult to forge, without modifying the attacking system and installing foreign software.
Specifically, the server is a member of an SA - Security Association - and the client machine joins the SA through an attestation process which uses a distributed security certificate. So far, so good. Now a connection is established to the server through a secure point to point link; AFP and SMB use such links, NFS does not (NFS uses remote attestation, which is a point of vulnerability).
A credential is associated on the client side of the link, and it's also associated with the server side of the link through an attestation process to being a particular member of the SA. This attestation goes over the secure link to the server, and the server verifies it with the SA. Because the verification process between the server and the SA is incapable of being intermediated by the client, you have to have all authentication factors in hand. This is why you can't "su uid", as you can in an NFS, environment in order to effectively assume an identity.
Since they are using at least two factor authentication - and these guys do at least that; they use CAC (Common Access Card) attestation using cryptographic smart cards - identity is very difficult to forge.
So you end up with a connection to the server, and a UUID and.or GUID in your credential associated with the connection on the server side, and then ACLs are enforced on server objects you attempt to access over the connection using the UUID/GUID to compare ACL ownership, rights grants, group membership for which ownership or rights grants exist on the object, and so on.
Thus the only way this could have been done is with administrator access *on a server*, not merely administrator access on the network or on a client node on the network ( assuming a lack of sophisticated software).
That said... administrator rights would have been enough. There's no impersonation requirement needed in order to establish access, so he would not have needed to impersonate anyone in order to get the information, and given the authentication and attestation barriers in place, it would have actually been more difficult to obtain the information via impersonation, rather than just being local to the server itself and grabbing it.
This kind of looks like a "pile on the charges" gambit to try and get him for other crimes that could be associated with the attack, had he been silly and done it the way they are claiming he did in the article.
So when country X goes to the moon and mines the helium, are they going to come back and distribute it to all of the world's inhabitants or does it just belong to country X? I'm curious, because before mining the moon began, it would seem that we would need to know who owns the moon? Does it belong to the first one who gets there? Does it belong equally to all people? Or will it belong to some mining company? Because if you get that first basic question wrong then potentionally everything after that becomes immoral because it infringes not on the privelige of some inaimate lifeless celestial body, but real people, here on earth. And if it is immoral, then technically one could consider it evil (although that is a strong word).
It's an interesting question. I imagine the answer is something along the lines of "If you don't like the fact that we aren't sharing, then get you own asses up here and grab some for yourself, or, alternately, get your own asses up here and try to stop us".
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I am a *much* better driver now than I was when I was younger and treating the highway like a personal race track and getting frustrated when someone got in the way of going the speed I wanted to go.
Yes, but...
Now that you are older, aren't you going to die in the nearer term future than younger persons? I would think that would cause you to want to speed up, since you don't have that much time left, and every minute wasted on the road is another minute you aren't going to be spending with family and friends.
Whenever I see an old person going 60 MPH in the left lane in a 65MPH zone, I ask myself "Don't they realize they don't have that much time left?".
Whenever I see someone younger doing the same thing, and it's the time of day that people are on their way to work, I think to myself "Boy, they must really hate their job!".
Whenever I see someone younger doing the same thing, and it's the time of day that people are on their way home from work, I think to myself "Boy, they must really hate their family!".
Also, I'm pretty sure the main reason for busses is to drive slowly in front of you so that you never get anywhere you want to go any faster than if you had ridden the bus.
No tickets? What ever will the governments do to replace that revenue?
Tax self-driving cars. Tax fueling self-driving cars. Tax by road miles. Tax for being white or non-white. Tax for being gay or non-gay. Tax for being a Baptist or Methodist, and tax for being neither. Tax, Tax, Tax,
Just because they make dumb life decisions, which are invariably down to their parents being lousy role-models, they not middle school dropouts like most of the country.
You are confusing 'wisdom' and 'knowledge' with 'intelligence'.
A basic definition of wisdom is the right use of knowledge. The opposite of wisdom is folly. People who make unwise life decisions, in other words, commit folly, do so from a lack of wisdom.
This is orthogonal to the 'intelligent'/'dumb' axis. A basic definition of intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. People who lack intelligence may acquire knowledge; we have a lot of techniques, including rote memorization, which can be used to instill knowledge. But even with knowledge, if you lack the ability to generalize to apply it, you are dumb as a box of rocks.
So to recap:
(1) If you can acquire knowledge, you are not ineluctably learning disabled; there is at least one workaround
(2) If you can apply the knowledge you have, you are intelligent
(3) If you choose to do so in a correct fashion, you are wise.
Yes, it's possible to spend gargantuan sums of money being a helicopter parent and cosseting your child's every move, or, if you have to tend to business in order to remain rich, which people who are not second generation rich must do, to delegate that task to a hired proxy. In doing this, you might be able shepherd them through a non-tehnical degree in a prestigious university, or a technical degree in a community college, where the major requirements allow for C's as passing grades toward the degree.
But you can pound as much sand as you want into a dumb persons ears, and it's not going to make the inside of their head a beach.