The parties with 3 different types of 'Sensitive' may or may not ever exchange information in the first place.
What if we surveyed private industry, how many different ways would we find to label sensitive data? Would the economy be more efficient if time were taken to force everybody onto a single standard?
People talk about "the government" like it's a single entity. Then they divide up problems in different ways and assume a single department should be responsible for each sub-problem in their arbitrary breakdown. I.e. "six different agencies are responsible for X" (implying that's ridiculous). In practice, no large complex problem can be attacked without some degree of autonomy pushed down the chain of command - which necessarily implies some redundancy and inconsistency. Until everything is controlled by a single massive computer, that will always be the case.
Don't get me wrong, I recognize the need to constantly search for improvements to the system. But it's not necessary to be shocked and outraged every time some government auditor finds a way to improve whatever he just audited.
I could care less if it came from Google as long as it's not infringing on anyone's legal rights that could come back to haunt the company.
Re-consider the statement: "I give open-notes exams, so it's not memory that's an issue, it's networking." I'm not sure whether (s)he meant computer networking or person-to-person, but the latter is a real problem; what if the student isn't using google, but rather sending snapshots of the test questions to some help desk in Russian or India? (There are plenty of smart, well educated people in both places).
As a family man with potentially 6 phones to pay for, almost any per-phone-per-month fee is out of the question, and unlimited talk time is overkill. So for now, Tracfone is the best bet I have found.
However, I think Tracfone could be undercut by making two improvements that I think competitors could implement cheaply:
1) Allow phones to pool pre-paid minutes.
2) Charge less for texting (I haven't seen anybody dispute that texting fees are pure profit).
For now, we just get by without all having our own phones, which is OK too.
By the way, in case any camcorder manufacturers are watching, consider this idea: make a video camera with three (or more) times the required number of sensors for the resolution you want to record at.
That's crazy. You'd get practically the same effect just by alternately under/over-exposing successive frames. From there you could interpolate whatever level of exposure you wanted without losing too much detail.
this is what happens an organization does not have processes for execution and validation
They do, or this story wouldn't exist. The DHS audited its own systems and this is what they found. If they were a company, they would just quietly fix the problem (or not) and move on. Since it's government, they self-report and we get the daily anti-government whine.
Lunatic is too kind - it suggests he is not responsible for his actions. This man is a crazy evil shit.
Thought experiment: would we feel any different if Christopher Hitchens were burning a Bible, Koran, Talmud, Bhagavad Gita, and Book of Mormon together in the same pile?
Just because it has "google" and "apple" in it doesn't mean squat. They aren't relevant at all when it comes to TV.
From my own little corner of the world, the leaders in Internet TV appear to be Netflix and Hulu, not google (youtube is not TV shows or movies), nor Apple (do Sony, Samsung, or ANY major brand TV's have built-in support for Apple's streaming service?)
Magnesium, as in pure magnesium, is highly flammable and easily ignited when it is in powdered form, and less when in shavings. It corresponds to how much surface area of the metal is exposed to an oxider which is generally the oxygen in air. Magnesium will also burn without oxygen, it can burn in pure nitrogen gas or in carbon dioxide.
Yeah, I noticed that too... "titanium" is still sort of exotic, but titanium dioxide is the ingredient that makes today's paint cover so well, and is used in lots of other stuff too.
This plane is smaller than a few of the largest RC planes out there. Imagine throwing a leg over your RC airplane with controller in hand and taking off! Do you hear me, mythbusters!?
This is neat, but I don't see anything to do with snakes here.. Which is a shame.
I agree the writeup over-states the degree to which this robot is biomimetic, but why is that a bad thing? Evolution never even "discovered" the wheel.
Perhaps it's occurred to you that he was being snarky and simply speaking the view common to an industry that regards its people to be as disposable as its technology.
Or perhaps he really does think programming is good, but he played it straight evil so we wouldn't guess he was being snarky and thus fall even harder for his reverse psychology.
Or maybe he's really a manager, sick of all the MBA abuse on slashdot and this is his chance to say what he really feels, yet in doing it so over-the-top that the really cool people will think he's just being snarky and come to his defense, yet actually just making fools of themselves and proving what tools programmers really are! Except for me... and now I have him right where I want him!
Hmm, I was about to speculate the opposite - the new robotic stuff is probably too perfect, lacking the flaws that we think of as craftsmanship or authenticity. Like how women don't want man-made diamonds even though the only difference is they're flawless. And just like audiophiles who stick to LPs and vacuum tubes despite all evidence of their inferiority because, hey, what kind of enthusiast am I if I use the same equipment as everybody else?
Oblig Caine quote, in reference to 'Jaws - The Revenge': "I have never seen it [the film], but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"
In an Michael Caine movie, you can be pretty sure it will at least have a bit of good acting. But there's no guarantee about anything else in the film; it may be crap, so the fact he's in it is not, in itself, much incentive to go see it. In contrast, an actor with a good track record is a big draw, and that is reflected in the actor's paycheck. Both quantity and quality are valid strategies for turning a buck, but are you saying the strategy of quantity is actually more respectable?
Is there any particular advantage to having a new OS every half-year (versus Apple's two year cycle or Microsoft's 3-4 year cycle)?
Microsoft isn't on any cycle. They are lost in the woods.
If you're like me and don't like the risk of upgrading all the time, pick a LTS ("Long Term Support") release, and stick with it for the next 3 years. Lucky for you, it sounds like you installed 10.04 which is an LTS release.
I agree Visa probably still wants the business. Mostly likely they'll patch up the issue with cash reloads (or whatever it is) that makes them attractive for money laundering and then be back to business as usual, which is fine.
Youtube in Linux is hardware accelerated when possible, but for me it crashes if I full-screen it when using acceleration. Another problem I've had (for example) is having to run Netflix "watch instantly" under VMWare (no Linux support), and VSync not working through that mess. Another problem I've had was each display could only have one accelerated app; the second would fail to get an XV port and lose VSync. It seems like there was also some conflict between 3d acceleration vs. XV so it was either/or in XF86Config, but I think that was some time ago.
Rock-steady frame synchronization (I mean the framerate, not VSync) is something I simply haven't seen a PC do. I use mplayer with no deinterlacing. I always assumed the problem is mplayer is trying to control the replay framerate itself, so it occasionally waits slightly too long to decode the next frame in time for the next VSync. Looking at the documentation, mplayer has some options such as vidix=nvidia which are fairly new, or at least I haven't tried with my current hardware. Maybe it's time to give it another whirl.
Vertical Sync fixes tearing, except when it doesn't. For example, some cards or drivers only support hardware acceleration on the first display port, and if you connect the TV to the second port, it won't work. Or watching youtube or netflix from a flash player, it may not work. My experience is sometimes it's hard to figure out why it's not working when it seems like it should be. From the number of forum posts you see about tearing and VSync, I'm not the only one.
Anyways, the bigger problem is getting a steady framerate, meaning exactly one interlaced field per TV refresh. I'll bet whatever software solution you're using with whatever settings, if you watch a side-scrolling banner (e.g. stock or news ticker), it moves along with a bit of jerking.
All the recommendations of using a general purpose PC are neglecting to mention you NEVER get frame-accurate replay this way. Watch a scrolling ticker and you'll see it jerking along. Also you may or may not be able to eliminate tearing which is quite annoying. You need dedicated hardware, integrated closely with the software, to really get replay right.
No, I said small vs large sensor assuming a fixed objective lens size and rows/cols of pixels - so the total amount of light is the same, as is the light per pixel / photosite. When you say the photosites are further apart, do you mean there are insulating gaps between them that are larger, or that the average distance between points on neighboring photosites is larger, thus reducing leakage between them?
I have never really understood why large sensors are better in low light. The amount of light collected depends on the size of the objective lens, not on the size of the sensor. Thus for a given resolution the number of photons landing on each pixel should be the same regardless of sensor size.
The only exception I can see is the gaps that must exist between rows and columns of pixels - they would cover a smaller percentage of a larger receptor.
Thanks for the link, I'm interested in trying it. I have an 800 mhz celeron I'm trying to push my kids onto but they won't use it because it can't watch youtube.
I too noticed the lenses seem bizarrely cheap - I guess because the ones listed have relatively short focal lengths and high f-stop numbers (in other words, they're little). For $1500 you get a 300 mm f5.6. Since the receptor is huge, 300mm would be pretty short focal length. 10 inches is 254 mm, so a 300mm lens would only be equivalent to a 35.4 mm lens for a 30mm camera. (300 * 30 / 254 = 35.4) The $9,000 lens is still only 800 mm (94.5mm focal length in 30mm equiv, which is a mild telephoto, nice for portraiture) and only opens to f/12. You would NEED a very sensitive receptor to go around shooting at f/12 all the time.
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What if we surveyed private industry, how many different ways would we find to label sensitive data? Would the economy be more efficient if time were taken to force everybody onto a single standard?
People talk about "the government" like it's a single entity. Then they divide up problems in different ways and assume a single department should be responsible for each sub-problem in their arbitrary breakdown. I.e. "six different agencies are responsible for X" (implying that's ridiculous). In practice, no large complex problem can be attacked without some degree of autonomy pushed down the chain of command - which necessarily implies some redundancy and inconsistency. Until everything is controlled by a single massive computer, that will always be the case.
Don't get me wrong, I recognize the need to constantly search for improvements to the system. But it's not necessary to be shocked and outraged every time some government auditor finds a way to improve whatever he just audited.
Re-consider the statement: "I give open-notes exams, so it's not memory that's an issue, it's networking." I'm not sure whether (s)he meant computer networking or person-to-person, but the latter is a real problem; what if the student isn't using google, but rather sending snapshots of the test questions to some help desk in Russian or India? (There are plenty of smart, well educated people in both places).
However, I think Tracfone could be undercut by making two improvements that I think competitors could implement cheaply:
1) Allow phones to pool pre-paid minutes.
2) Charge less for texting (I haven't seen anybody dispute that texting fees are pure profit).
For now, we just get by without all having our own phones, which is OK too.
That's crazy. You'd get practically the same effect just by alternately under/over-exposing successive frames. From there you could interpolate whatever level of exposure you wanted without losing too much detail.
They do, or this story wouldn't exist. The DHS audited its own systems and this is what they found. If they were a company, they would just quietly fix the problem (or not) and move on. Since it's government, they self-report and we get the daily anti-government whine.
Thought experiment: would we feel any different if Christopher Hitchens were burning a Bible, Koran, Talmud, Bhagavad Gita, and Book of Mormon together in the same pile?
From my own little corner of the world, the leaders in Internet TV appear to be Netflix and Hulu, not google (youtube is not TV shows or movies), nor Apple (do Sony, Samsung, or ANY major brand TV's have built-in support for Apple's streaming service?)
Not magnesium?
Yeah, I noticed that too... "titanium" is still sort of exotic, but titanium dioxide is the ingredient that makes today's paint cover so well, and is used in lots of other stuff too.
I say, let's hope more of them get exposed to the Internet and the wider world in general because that tends to (though not always!) curb extremism.
This plane is smaller than a few of the largest RC planes out there. Imagine throwing a leg over your RC airplane with controller in hand and taking off! Do you hear me, mythbusters!?
I agree the writeup over-states the degree to which this robot is biomimetic, but why is that a bad thing? Evolution never even "discovered" the wheel.
Or perhaps he really does think programming is good, but he played it straight evil so we wouldn't guess he was being snarky and thus fall even harder for his reverse psychology.
Or maybe he's really a manager, sick of all the MBA abuse on slashdot and this is his chance to say what he really feels, yet in doing it so over-the-top that the really cool people will think he's just being snarky and come to his defense, yet actually just making fools of themselves and proving what tools programmers really are! Except for me... and now I have him right where I want him!
Hmm, I was about to speculate the opposite - the new robotic stuff is probably too perfect, lacking the flaws that we think of as craftsmanship or authenticity. Like how women don't want man-made diamonds even though the only difference is they're flawless. And just like audiophiles who stick to LPs and vacuum tubes despite all evidence of their inferiority because, hey, what kind of enthusiast am I if I use the same equipment as everybody else?
In an Michael Caine movie, you can be pretty sure it will at least have a bit of good acting. But there's no guarantee about anything else in the film; it may be crap, so the fact he's in it is not, in itself, much incentive to go see it. In contrast, an actor with a good track record is a big draw, and that is reflected in the actor's paycheck. Both quantity and quality are valid strategies for turning a buck, but are you saying the strategy of quantity is actually more respectable?
Microsoft isn't on any cycle. They are lost in the woods.
If you're like me and don't like the risk of upgrading all the time, pick a LTS ("Long Term Support") release, and stick with it for the next 3 years. Lucky for you, it sounds like you installed 10.04 which is an LTS release.
I agree Visa probably still wants the business. Mostly likely they'll patch up the issue with cash reloads (or whatever it is) that makes them attractive for money laundering and then be back to business as usual, which is fine.
Fooey, I'll need a new card for vdpau.
Rock-steady frame synchronization (I mean the framerate, not VSync) is something I simply haven't seen a PC do. I use mplayer with no deinterlacing. I always assumed the problem is mplayer is trying to control the replay framerate itself, so it occasionally waits slightly too long to decode the next frame in time for the next VSync. Looking at the documentation, mplayer has some options such as vidix=nvidia which are fairly new, or at least I haven't tried with my current hardware. Maybe it's time to give it another whirl.
Anyways, the bigger problem is getting a steady framerate, meaning exactly one interlaced field per TV refresh. I'll bet whatever software solution you're using with whatever settings, if you watch a side-scrolling banner (e.g. stock or news ticker), it moves along with a bit of jerking.
All the recommendations of using a general purpose PC are neglecting to mention you NEVER get frame-accurate replay this way. Watch a scrolling ticker and you'll see it jerking along. Also you may or may not be able to eliminate tearing which is quite annoying. You need dedicated hardware, integrated closely with the software, to really get replay right.
No, I said small vs large sensor assuming a fixed objective lens size and rows/cols of pixels - so the total amount of light is the same, as is the light per pixel / photosite. When you say the photosites are further apart, do you mean there are insulating gaps between them that are larger, or that the average distance between points on neighboring photosites is larger, thus reducing leakage between them?
The only exception I can see is the gaps that must exist between rows and columns of pixels - they would cover a smaller percentage of a larger receptor.
But surely it's not just that?
Thanks for the link, I'm interested in trying it. I have an 800 mhz celeron I'm trying to push my kids onto but they won't use it because it can't watch youtube.
I too noticed the lenses seem bizarrely cheap - I guess because the ones listed have relatively short focal lengths and high f-stop numbers (in other words, they're little). For $1500 you get a 300 mm f5.6. Since the receptor is huge, 300mm would be pretty short focal length. 10 inches is 254 mm, so a 300mm lens would only be equivalent to a 35.4 mm lens for a 30mm camera. (300 * 30 / 254 = 35.4) The $9,000 lens is still only 800 mm (94.5mm focal length in 30mm equiv, which is a mild telephoto, nice for portraiture) and only opens to f/12. You would NEED a very sensitive receptor to go around shooting at f/12 all the time.