When many of these systems were put in place there wasn't much in the way of alternatives. People forget, but Linux hasn't king for all that long. There was a time when the world was completely run by Unix dinosaurs, Windows and very niche and expensive OS's. Many things that never should have, ended up with Windows because it was affordable on the scale needed and finding developers familiar with the platform was cheap and easy.
What you stated has been the situation until very recently however things are changing. New typeds of ASAT weapons that do not create mass amount of collateral are being developed by the Chinese. Instead of blasting a satellite with a laser, warhead or KE projectile these are derived from the emerging servicing probes that are just now reaching the market. These probes have the ability to disable satellites in ways that dont create debris. They can burn out sensors, damage solar panels and antennas, things like that.
So its no longer a situation of space MAD involving Kessler syndrome.
1: SDI's primary objective was always to get the USSR to waste money. Nobody in the know actually believed it was feasible in the 1980's. Both sides greatly overestimated eachother's technical capabilities to the point where even vague reports of new weapons could get the top military leaders buzzing all at once. They did it to us with the MiG-25 unintentionally. It was meant to be just an interceptor but when we saw it everyone lost their minds and thought it was an F-15 killer. SDI was a targeted social engineering attack to get the Soviets to panic and waste tons of money on something we knew couldn't be done at the time.
2: It's secondary goal was to fund real foundational research into directed energy and other types of exotic weapons that is paying off today. Because of the original funding and research in SDI and subsequent programs both the Army and Navy are field testing laser based point defense systems today. It's no longer science fiction.
It's not 1985 anymore. Lasers are actually pretty mature technology. Back then to get enough power to be a weapon they had to be chemical lasers or the hilarious nuclear X-ray lasers they showed in promotional material. The X-ray lasers were a joke and chemical lasers are big, heavy, complicated and finicky. Not something you want on a space weapons platform that may orbit for years before being used. Solid state lasers are now powerful enough to be useful.
I don't think we should be teaching elementary school kids alegbra until they have first mastered arithmetic. That's putting the cart before the horse.
Common Core is the Systemd of the education world. Might have a decent idea here or there but that has been completely muddle by poor implementation and leadership who rule with an iron fist.
Your comment makes me think of its opposite number in the UN cooling technology thread that claimed all liberals want a return a pre-industrial hunamity because NAAAATUUUUREEEE MAN.
Its of course ridiculous. That's not even what a majority of liberals think. That's a vocal fringe group.
And your comment is exactly the same but flipped the other way around.
No, most people who criticize common core do not think its some crazy UN conspiracy. Most people who criticize common core do so because it is a very strange and different way to do arithmetic than they are used to. The arguments I have heard for it by educators is that it helps get you thinking in the right mindset to deal with higher level math down the road. While this may be true, and I'm not sure, it does seem to be less efficient at the four basic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There is also a high degree of frustration on the part of parents who are unequipped to help their kids study common core or do their homework.
Think of it from the parents perspective:
I know I don't have the time in my day to learn number sense on top of everything else I have to fit in 24 hours. So if I see a homework assignment that instead of asking a simple math problem and instead uses some "made up" words and "fake" notation, I'll just throw my hands up.
Not going to happen. Planes are redirected all the time. You can't just make them fly on rails. What needs to happen is the reverse, a simplification of avionics and a back to basics training for pilots. Most of these systems were put into place to counter a failure on the part of the pilots which usually stemmed from bad training, fatigue or too much corporate pressure. You can fix the systemic issues without making it so your pilots aren't actually qualified to fly the aircraft.
Because even if they have it on autopilot they don't just get to check out. They have to stay on the radio, check radar, monitor instrumentation and be able to take control back from autopilot at a moment's notice. That is mentally taxing because you are forcing yourself to keep focus.
Have you tried to get 4 adults play on one laptop at the same time? Or do you mean connecting the laptop to the TV via HDMI? That works fine but most modern models don't have enough usb ports for all of the Controller's receivers or plugs. So then you have to use a hub, which is just another annoying thing to hook up. It's all doable just fine but feels half assed and a bit of a hack.
Read Blind Man's Bluff. The US Navy has been tapping cables for much longer than that. I think the fear isn't so much about the cables being tapped once installed though. The Chinese Navy would do that on their own. I think the fear is more that Huawei as a supplier for systems related to these cables may be building in a way for Chinese authorities to snoop on traffic. Huawei almost certainly doesn't have in their possession a submarine with cable tapping equipment. Tapping into fiber optics is a bad idea anyways, it doesn't work like copper.
Would be great for the new generation of PC based party games like gang beasts or all of those weird ones that you dont know jack devs make. Its fun to play but my PC monitor isn't ideal for local multiplayer, nor is my PC in front of a couch. Beaming it to a TV would be convenient. However this has been possible through a number of different solutions over the years. I think the biggest benefit would be since its first party microsoft its probably more seamless and idiot proof than other solutions.
There are different levels of classification and NOFORN is a special rider often attached. There are many reasons why it could be classified as NOFORN, perhaps Chinese agents have been identified within Allied power structures and we don't want them to know they've been had, perhaps we don't want to let on that we know how the devices are being compromised, or perhaps we don't know the how but we do know they are. Or it could be a case of there isn't any confirmed espionage through that vector but its a proactive process to prevent a potential leak. Anyone who was using Chinese equipment for classified purposes is already a fool given the vast sea of public examples we have of their snooping.
Anyways, NOFORN isn't strange. All nations have certain information that they will not share, even with Allies. I'm sure there are plenty of things the Germans wouldn't share with us for many competely valid reasons. For example, whats the complete specs and performance data on the latest APFSDS round for the Leopard 2A7? Beyond basic information like, its tungsten and will kill a T-90 at ____ range they aren't likely to say more. Why? Because the more who know, the more likely that info gets out to people who really shouldn't know it like the Russians for example who then may change the design of their latest vehicles to be protected against it when before they weren't. Or maybe the info gets leaked to a competitor like GDS and they can use that info to win some contracts and sell Abrams where before the customer was looking at Leopards.
There are a multitude of reasons one service may come up actionable intelligence but not want to disclose further details. Part of having a trusted long term ally is that when they say hey you probably don't want to be doing the thing, you trust they are acting in your interests. If the tables were flipped and Germany was telling us not to use Huawei, I would be inclined to believe them and drop the products.
And again, why are the usually protectionist Europeans even using Chinese hardware to begin with? Both Ericsson and Nokia make enterprise networking hardware. Why aren't you buying European? I would assume that would be a legal requirement for government offices already./P.
And Guantanamo is still not closed yet... under international law they are POWs... the war is over since a decade. Go figure...
Guantanamo is a black mark but I fail to see how its Trump's fault. Its existed for a long time. Obama also ran on the promise to close it and never did. Likely because when he got into office he found out that it was a bigger can of worms than expected and he had to balance the safety of Americans versus a legal nightmare and chose pragmatism.
You had Mexican kids in concentration camps just a few month ago.
Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me. A detention center is not a concentration camp. They are completely different things. They have to keep them somewhere until they are deported. What do you want them to do? Throw them in our over crowded prisons? I don't think that's practical or fair. The detention centers aren't bad places. Minimum security with hot food, warm showers and a clean bed. It's not a Hilton but that would also be stupid.
I mean, you have to take it as a relative thing. You don't judge a leader on how much they personally know, but rather their ability to motivate qualified people and then take their advice. Hitler did a decent enough job of that right up until the wehrmacht started meeting real setbacks. At that point his hysteria kind of took over. Was it stupid? Well I guess that depends on whether you classify insanity as stupidity? You also have to be careful reading some accounts. Guderian and others do their best to try and absolve themselves of any blame for German defeat. If you listen to him, he was right all along and Hitler was stupid. But if you actually look into the archives you find that the recorded minutes for meetings and dispatches showed that he was an ass kisser all the way. TV documentaries are also a terrible source. They are completely divorced from academia. I don't claim to be a historian, but I do try to get my information from well regarded historians. The current hot thing in WW2 historiography is connecting Hitler being gassed at the Somme to brain damage which impacted his judgement and temper.
Not only is it sarcasm, its wrong and stupid. Car manufacturers don't make all the parts for their cars. And aside from the Benz Patentmotorwagen probably never have. Cars have many parts suppliers behind them, Delco, Bosch and Denso to name a few off the top of my head.
That is of course, a very incorrect view of history. He was a very formidable man as was Mussolini believe it or not. They may seem bumbling and ineffective now but they came to rule nations and were responsible for a terrible war. Real life isn't hollywood were the bad guys are some comically evil mustache twirlers. Hitler was nuts and evil but he wasn't stupid. If he was then he never would have gotten half as far as he did and someone else would have brought germany to ruin.
Now his predecessor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was a bit of a stereotypical stuck up nobleman who had no idea what he was doing. Its a bit of an exaggeration but not too much. He was incompetent, quick to temper and thought a great deal about himself.
Oh get over yourself. It's possible to have different opinions. Not everyone is a Russian agent and while it may be a shock to your snowflake sensibilities there are legitimate reasons for wanting to leave the EU.
I'm still baffled by how many supposedly smart people can be so easily manipulated into thinking its the end of the world. I shouldn't be surprised I suppose, when Bush was re-elected some major UK newspaper had a on its cover the question how 300 million people could be wrong. Europeans and wannabe Europeans have always felt some kind of weird superiority over us. Jokes on them, Obama was the same shit. Continued the same wars and economic policies for the most part and the major social changes attributed to his presidency were all done by the courts.
Trump's presidency has been pretty mundane truth be told. Nothing is on fire. We have less war for a change. My 401k is looking good. The price of gas is too. Oh yeah and nobody is in concentration camps like so many claimed. Yet clearly the guy is somehow at the same time both Hitler and incapable of walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time.
I'll tell you what he actually is, a centrist who has a focus on economic policy. 99% of the whining and bitching about him is manipulation by the other party because they are mad they lost.
The comments are always full of whattaboutism with Cisco. That's a red herring to the discussion.
And to the arrogant Europeans who think they can live without US intelligence because Orange Man Bad. Enjoy losing access to all of those satellites, drones, ELINT platforms and more. Its a hard pill to swallow but Europe's military is tiny and you simply haven't invested in those platforms. Without access to US assets you have little to no intelligence gathering capability on your own.
I also don't think there is anything unreasonable about the requirements. Would you have said the same thing in the 60's if the US refused to share intel over Russian built radios? Why do you think Chinese built hardware is acceptable for official purposes. You have your own tech companies, buy their hardware.
What makes you think its only cellular and unencrypted? Huawei doesn't just sell cellular modems. They sell a little bit of everything. As for encryption, it doesn't matter how nice your VPN tunnel is when the device that is providing that service is compromised. Come one, this is infosec 101. Get out of here with this weak shit.
The one good idea in Systemd is having a way to manage services and restart them as needed in one place. This eases management and is a good thing. The rest of systemd is a disaster of monolithic code made by someone who has a secret hard on for Microsoft's and Apple's way of doing things. Its fundamentally incompatible with the *nix platform which is why it runs like crap and has a security flaw every week.
If they had just stuck to the core idea of being able to manage services then it would be fine. BSD actually did that over 15 years ago.
It doesn't need to be creative. BSD isn't in the business of selling shiny iDevices to people. Its a server and workstation OS. Its main goal is to be stable, secure and perform well. If someone else comes up with a creative idea that pans out then it can be implemented once matured. BSD is the opposite of fads. You are't going to find Rust and Snap in BSD.
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When many of these systems were put in place there wasn't much in the way of alternatives. People forget, but Linux hasn't king for all that long. There was a time when the world was completely run by Unix dinosaurs, Windows and very niche and expensive OS's. Many things that never should have, ended up with Windows because it was affordable on the scale needed and finding developers familiar with the platform was cheap and easy.
What you stated has been the situation until very recently however things are changing. New typeds of ASAT weapons that do not create mass amount of collateral are being developed by the Chinese. Instead of blasting a satellite with a laser, warhead or KE projectile these are derived from the emerging servicing probes that are just now reaching the market. These probes have the ability to disable satellites in ways that dont create debris. They can burn out sensors, damage solar panels and antennas, things like that. So its no longer a situation of space MAD involving Kessler syndrome.
1: SDI's primary objective was always to get the USSR to waste money. Nobody in the know actually believed it was feasible in the 1980's. Both sides greatly overestimated eachother's technical capabilities to the point where even vague reports of new weapons could get the top military leaders buzzing all at once. They did it to us with the MiG-25 unintentionally. It was meant to be just an interceptor but when we saw it everyone lost their minds and thought it was an F-15 killer. SDI was a targeted social engineering attack to get the Soviets to panic and waste tons of money on something we knew couldn't be done at the time. 2: It's secondary goal was to fund real foundational research into directed energy and other types of exotic weapons that is paying off today. Because of the original funding and research in SDI and subsequent programs both the Army and Navy are field testing laser based point defense systems today. It's no longer science fiction. It's not 1985 anymore. Lasers are actually pretty mature technology. Back then to get enough power to be a weapon they had to be chemical lasers or the hilarious nuclear X-ray lasers they showed in promotional material. The X-ray lasers were a joke and chemical lasers are big, heavy, complicated and finicky. Not something you want on a space weapons platform that may orbit for years before being used. Solid state lasers are now powerful enough to be useful.
I don't think we should be teaching elementary school kids alegbra until they have first mastered arithmetic. That's putting the cart before the horse.
Common Core is the Systemd of the education world. Might have a decent idea here or there but that has been completely muddle by poor implementation and leadership who rule with an iron fist.
Your comment makes me think of its opposite number in the UN cooling technology thread that claimed all liberals want a return a pre-industrial hunamity because NAAAATUUUUREEEE MAN.
Its of course ridiculous. That's not even what a majority of liberals think. That's a vocal fringe group.
And your comment is exactly the same but flipped the other way around.
No, most people who criticize common core do not think its some crazy UN conspiracy. Most people who criticize common core do so because it is a very strange and different way to do arithmetic than they are used to. The arguments I have heard for it by educators is that it helps get you thinking in the right mindset to deal with higher level math down the road. While this may be true, and I'm not sure, it does seem to be less efficient at the four basic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There is also a high degree of frustration on the part of parents who are unequipped to help their kids study common core or do their homework.
Think of it from the parents perspective:
I know I don't have the time in my day to learn number sense on top of everything else I have to fit in 24 hours. So if I see a homework assignment that instead of asking a simple math problem and instead uses some "made up" words and "fake" notation, I'll just throw my hands up.
Not going to happen. Planes are redirected all the time. You can't just make them fly on rails. What needs to happen is the reverse, a simplification of avionics and a back to basics training for pilots. Most of these systems were put into place to counter a failure on the part of the pilots which usually stemmed from bad training, fatigue or too much corporate pressure. You can fix the systemic issues without making it so your pilots aren't actually qualified to fly the aircraft.
Because even if they have it on autopilot they don't just get to check out. They have to stay on the radio, check radar, monitor instrumentation and be able to take control back from autopilot at a moment's notice. That is mentally taxing because you are forcing yourself to keep focus.
Have you tried to get 4 adults play on one laptop at the same time? Or do you mean connecting the laptop to the TV via HDMI? That works fine but most modern models don't have enough usb ports for all of the Controller's receivers or plugs. So then you have to use a hub, which is just another annoying thing to hook up. It's all doable just fine but feels half assed and a bit of a hack.
You are obviously new to this. Steam is much better today than it was at launch.
Read Blind Man's Bluff. The US Navy has been tapping cables for much longer than that. I think the fear isn't so much about the cables being tapped once installed though. The Chinese Navy would do that on their own. I think the fear is more that Huawei as a supplier for systems related to these cables may be building in a way for Chinese authorities to snoop on traffic. Huawei almost certainly doesn't have in their possession a submarine with cable tapping equipment. Tapping into fiber optics is a bad idea anyways, it doesn't work like copper.
Only Sith deal in absolutes.
Would be great for the new generation of PC based party games like gang beasts or all of those weird ones that you dont know jack devs make. Its fun to play but my PC monitor isn't ideal for local multiplayer, nor is my PC in front of a couch. Beaming it to a TV would be convenient. However this has been possible through a number of different solutions over the years. I think the biggest benefit would be since its first party microsoft its probably more seamless and idiot proof than other solutions.
There are different levels of classification and NOFORN is a special rider often attached. There are many reasons why it could be classified as NOFORN, perhaps Chinese agents have been identified within Allied power structures and we don't want them to know they've been had, perhaps we don't want to let on that we know how the devices are being compromised, or perhaps we don't know the how but we do know they are. Or it could be a case of there isn't any confirmed espionage through that vector but its a proactive process to prevent a potential leak. Anyone who was using Chinese equipment for classified purposes is already a fool given the vast sea of public examples we have of their snooping.
Anyways, NOFORN isn't strange. All nations have certain information that they will not share, even with Allies. I'm sure there are plenty of things the Germans wouldn't share with us for many competely valid reasons. For example, whats the complete specs and performance data on the latest APFSDS round for the Leopard 2A7? Beyond basic information like, its tungsten and will kill a T-90 at ____ range they aren't likely to say more. Why? Because the more who know, the more likely that info gets out to people who really shouldn't know it like the Russians for example who then may change the design of their latest vehicles to be protected against it when before they weren't. Or maybe the info gets leaked to a competitor like GDS and they can use that info to win some contracts and sell Abrams where before the customer was looking at Leopards.
There are a multitude of reasons one service may come up actionable intelligence but not want to disclose further details. Part of having a trusted long term ally is that when they say hey you probably don't want to be doing the thing, you trust they are acting in your interests. If the tables were flipped and Germany was telling us not to use Huawei, I would be inclined to believe them and drop the products.
And again, why are the usually protectionist Europeans even using Chinese hardware to begin with? Both Ericsson and Nokia make enterprise networking hardware. Why aren't you buying European? I would assume that would be a legal requirement for government offices already. /P.
And Guantanamo is still not closed yet ... under international law they are POWs ... the war is over since a decade. Go figure ...
Guantanamo is a black mark but I fail to see how its Trump's fault. Its existed for a long time. Obama also ran on the promise to close it and never did. Likely because when he got into office he found out that it was a bigger can of worms than expected and he had to balance the safety of Americans versus a legal nightmare and chose pragmatism.
You had Mexican kids in concentration camps just a few month ago.
Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me. A detention center is not a concentration camp. They are completely different things. They have to keep them somewhere until they are deported. What do you want them to do? Throw them in our over crowded prisons? I don't think that's practical or fair. The detention centers aren't bad places. Minimum security with hot food, warm showers and a clean bed. It's not a Hilton but that would also be stupid.
I mean, you have to take it as a relative thing. You don't judge a leader on how much they personally know, but rather their ability to motivate qualified people and then take their advice. Hitler did a decent enough job of that right up until the wehrmacht started meeting real setbacks. At that point his hysteria kind of took over. Was it stupid? Well I guess that depends on whether you classify insanity as stupidity? You also have to be careful reading some accounts. Guderian and others do their best to try and absolve themselves of any blame for German defeat. If you listen to him, he was right all along and Hitler was stupid. But if you actually look into the archives you find that the recorded minutes for meetings and dispatches showed that he was an ass kisser all the way. TV documentaries are also a terrible source. They are completely divorced from academia. I don't claim to be a historian, but I do try to get my information from well regarded historians. The current hot thing in WW2 historiography is connecting Hitler being gassed at the Somme to brain damage which impacted his judgement and temper.
Not only is it sarcasm, its wrong and stupid. Car manufacturers don't make all the parts for their cars. And aside from the Benz Patentmotorwagen probably never have. Cars have many parts suppliers behind them, Delco, Bosch and Denso to name a few off the top of my head.
Now his predecessor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was a bit of a stereotypical stuck up nobleman who had no idea what he was doing. Its a bit of an exaggeration but not too much. He was incompetent, quick to temper and thought a great deal about himself.
Oh get over yourself. It's possible to have different opinions. Not everyone is a Russian agent and while it may be a shock to your snowflake sensibilities there are legitimate reasons for wanting to leave the EU.
Trump's presidency has been pretty mundane truth be told. Nothing is on fire. We have less war for a change. My 401k is looking good. The price of gas is too. Oh yeah and nobody is in concentration camps like so many claimed. Yet clearly the guy is somehow at the same time both Hitler and incapable of walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time.
I'll tell you what he actually is, a centrist who has a focus on economic policy. 99% of the whining and bitching about him is manipulation by the other party because they are mad they lost.
The comments are always full of whattaboutism with Cisco. That's a red herring to the discussion. And to the arrogant Europeans who think they can live without US intelligence because Orange Man Bad. Enjoy losing access to all of those satellites, drones, ELINT platforms and more. Its a hard pill to swallow but Europe's military is tiny and you simply haven't invested in those platforms. Without access to US assets you have little to no intelligence gathering capability on your own. I also don't think there is anything unreasonable about the requirements. Would you have said the same thing in the 60's if the US refused to share intel over Russian built radios? Why do you think Chinese built hardware is acceptable for official purposes. You have your own tech companies, buy their hardware.
What makes you think its only cellular and unencrypted? Huawei doesn't just sell cellular modems. They sell a little bit of everything. As for encryption, it doesn't matter how nice your VPN tunnel is when the device that is providing that service is compromised. Come one, this is infosec 101. Get out of here with this weak shit.
Seriously, why? CSS is meant to make pages prettier. Does it need math functions? Are they going to make turing complete?
The one good idea in Systemd is having a way to manage services and restart them as needed in one place. This eases management and is a good thing. The rest of systemd is a disaster of monolithic code made by someone who has a secret hard on for Microsoft's and Apple's way of doing things. Its fundamentally incompatible with the *nix platform which is why it runs like crap and has a security flaw every week. If they had just stuck to the core idea of being able to manage services then it would be fine. BSD actually did that over 15 years ago.
It doesn't need to be creative. BSD isn't in the business of selling shiny iDevices to people. Its a server and workstation OS. Its main goal is to be stable, secure and perform well. If someone else comes up with a creative idea that pans out then it can be implemented once matured. BSD is the opposite of fads. You are't going to find Rust and Snap in BSD.