There is no such thing as a tactical nuke. Any nation that uses "small" nukes in a limited fashion will be a pariah state in a matter of hours. The blowback from limited use will probably negate any gains. If you are going to use, go all out!
In 10 years I may regret posting this non-anonymously but the previous poster hit upon something I have been thinking about recently (in an abstract way!). Good people, loyal corporate drones at the end of their ropes after being on the wrong side of our winner take all system, finally lose it and act out in a spontaneous manner. The end is usually suicide by cop or killing a cop or some other non-productive result. I certainly do not advocate doing this but it would interesting if people that have lost everything and want to end it all and simultaneously strike back began to aim for the head the snake instead of the tail. It's unlikely due to the way people seem to suddenly crack but it seems a few days of research and a little road trip might make a an exponentially bigger statement without a corresponding increase in effort.
Or maybe that amount of effort isn't required. Maybe publishing a dossier of the executives listing their addresses, time lines of their daily movements, pictures of them on the golf course might serve to moderate their behavior.
Or maybe we will just get martial law earlier than otherwise...
Again, I am not an advocate of this type of thing for moral reasons, I do not want blood on my hands, or the dystopia that would be sure to follow.
That make sense to me, Everyone/everyplace already has POTS so it makes sense to take advantage of the existing infrastructure. And while they are at it lets get some decent bandwidth out of it. Say symmetrical 100Mb at least. This would let us save the bandwidth for other purposes.
It looks like the requirements are quite demanding, even for 2010. I would expect multiple mishaps before it reaches production status. As a side note: MILSPEC RFP's are generally quite aggressive and challenge the "state of the art" and requires correct operation in all conceivable environmental conditions. This accounts in part for the expense of military equipment.
I don't want to come off as cynical but am compelled to remark that "If you're not lying, you're not trying". HR attempts to game the hiring process (8yrs experience W2K8) which one must circumvent by gaming them back (9yrs experience W2K8) so that you can get the face to face interview that you need to get the gig. Maybe my approach works because I've been doing this a loong time. BTW, 3yrs ago I could almost assume that if I got an interview I would get an offer, these days its running more like one out of two or three. The economy does seem to be making things more competitive...might be time to color the gray hair a bit.
I don't expect to have privacy while I am at work. The datacenter has cameras, my entering and leaving secure areas is logged, my internet traffic is monitored. I don't have a problem with it as it serves to protect me AND my employer.
Police Officers, if you don't have anything to hide why is it a problem videotaping you? Policing is serious business, the stakes are high, and in the interest of fairness both parties should be able to document the transaction.
Police already have the upper hand, they have legal powers and lethal force at their disposal.
Until recently I worked as an American employee of an Indian outsourcing firm at a Fortune 100 client in the US. One day I was in the break area with my Indian coworkers and they were commiserating with each about about recruiters exacting skillset demands, I joined in and added, "yeah, they want all that and want to pay $35K/yr!" All of the Indians there looked at me like I had said the dumbest thing imaginable. At that moment I realized they were probably making LESS than 35k in spite of the market rate being >$70K/yr for the described skillset. I thought H1B's had to be paid market rates, apparently the rules are being subverted and they are being paid far less.
What we are seeing is the decimation of another good paying industry. In a few years IT architecture meetings will be conducted in Hindi and the remaining Americans will be frozen out.
I don't blame Indians for pursuing their interests, I blame the multinational corporations for wanting it boths ways: They want the advantages of the American system AND the labor costs of third world countries. Corporations should display good citizenship and realize that if they want to enjoy the advantages of the developed worlds markets they need to pay developed world wages.
The trends really suck...It used to be one citizen = one vote, now it has become one dollar = one vote. Corporations are selecting our political candidates, Democrat or Republican they have to suckle the corporate teat to be elected....
Novell...I didn't know they were still around. When someones says "Novell" I think of Lantastic, Banyan Vines, 100VGAnyLan, etc. NT4.0 ate their lunch and had freaky buttsex with their mom.
My first NOS was a pirated copy of 3.11 (20 floppies) running on a 12MB 386DX 33 with a 90MB hard disk. Someone gave me two Arcnet cards (ARCNET!) and I was all set. The first time I saw that F: drive in Windows 3.11 I got so stoked I lived and breathed Netware and was CNA the next month and CNE about six months later. I was having a great time and these were the days when knowing a few DOS commands would get you a gig as sysadmin.
I expect another graying veteran will point out that 3.11 needed (officially) 16MB to load. I spent hours tweaking the thing to get it going in 12MB.
Now get off my lawn!
US standard of living vs India is an arbitrage opportunity for big US multinationals. When you smell shit and curry all the time you know parity has been achieved. I don't hold a grudge against the Indians, I hold a grudge against a government that doesn't respond to the majority of its citizens.
Politicians should wear Nomex coveralls like race car drivers do, plastered with the logos of the companies that own them. That way we could make better informed voting decisions.
"I don't blame the school...it's the continued pussification of America that is the real problem at hand".
Wish I had said that. WTF is going on with these school admin? Dude is staff a magnet school, got to expect to come across situations like this and be able to deal with it.
I think the school staff needs counseling not the kid and his family.
Pussies.....
Blaze is cool, storage is ripe for commoditization. but my experience has been that OpenFiler is overated, FreeNas crashes frequently. Suns storage offerings are a step in the right direction but the pricepoint isn't compelling yet. Nexenta on commodity hardware gets my vote. My take is: As our jobs are pushed down to the least common denominator, i.e. who can perform the same function at at the lowest cost, corporations will expect the same of their storage solutions. I would rather see a DMX or USP go off lease than than see another persons livelihood ruined by this race to the bottom. Lets throw out enterprise solutions and replace them with cheaper, possibly more manpower intensive solutions.
OK, just kidding. But am bringing up the point that in these uncertain times all options are on the table. What would you rather lose, the human capital that took years of effort and good will to aggregate, or the overpriced storage infrastructure that is rapidly being commoditized? OK, don't answer that. If your reading Slashdot you can't possibly be in upper management...
The analogy I can think of is if a long haul truck driver refused to hand his keys over if he was fired, thereby denying the owner access to the equipment. In such a situation would the driver be jailed?
The SF IT Dept should have contingency plans for this, TACACS, for example.
I have come close to being in a Kafkaesque situation similar to this, almost fired because I was alleged to have overhead a coworker confess viewing confidential information. Its amazing how management with an agenda can create a shitstorm for a person without having any factual, legal, or moral substantiation.
I'm so tired of this shit. Mac's have a pretty UI but are proprietary as hell. It amazes me that a forum dedicated to open source/linux has so many fanbois. It's completely schizo.
I'm ready for Steve to take the dirt nap and see the company spiral down the tubes or dedicate itself completely to consumer products, i.e. ipods and iwhatever.
I would like to see Sun's storage technology emphasized. They have some good products, and good ideas. A little refinement would go a long way. It has been apparent to me for several years that storage is ripe for commoditization, all it is is disks, memory, and fibre channel ports. Whoever can deliver the I/O, reliability, and features without the huge cost of the incumbent enterprise storage vendors should do quite well.
Instead of News: Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession on Sunday August 23, @01:12AM.
I was about to start browsing Dice for New Mexico jobs.
Back when I first read Gibsons novels I realized that his vision of multinationals running the world is essentially correct. Made me kind of sad too. Since being laid in the financial services meltdown I am now working for an offshore outsourcing firm with the client being a Fortune 10 company.
These days I can relate more to Tom Joad than Adam Smith...
I am in my mid forties working in IT and I must say that my team members that are in their 20's really don't seem to have the motivation to learn the technology as I did 20 years ago, staying up all night on bulletin boards, spending every free moment tweaking my config.sys or netx stack for better performance. I see kids today that learn their core responsibilities but make no effort to progress further.
I don't mind though, I have noticed several local fortune 500 companies are targeting "older" people for open positions, stating that the younger aren't seasoned enough or lack the skillset needed to be successful in the data center.
Go ahead kids, keep on playing WOW and put your VMware books aside, that helps me stay relevant for the 15 years until I retire.
Diesel Electrics are acknowledged to be quieter than nukes, that is, they have advantages over nuke subs that make them very dangerous in the tactical snense. However, the fact that the sub surfaced indicates that the sub commander felt threatened and needed to disclose his location and nationality or risk having his ship attacked.
There will always be situations where diesel boats can lie in wait for a flotilla to pass by. They cannot make the speed required to keep up with a surface fleet without giving themselves away by charging batteries or running on the surface. Therefore they cannot reliably intercept a surface fleet without the advantage of luck or prior knowledge of the path. I would not like to rely on luck for the outcome of a major fleet action.
Also, it might be a moot point but what are the chances of a deisel sub getting away after an attack on an aircraft carrier? the remaining members of the battle group can be expected to do their utmost to kill the sub that attacked their CVN.
The submaarine may be undetctable until the point it launches torpedo's. One hit is unlikely to kill a CVN but it will give away it's position and will be in an unfavorable position of being unable to run away or outwait the surface ships. Lucky rolls of the dice happen and have to be accounted for but it seems that you would have to be lucky to get in position for an attack on a CVN battle group with this type of boat and then be very lucky to get away.
Reminds me of when I worked night shift electrical maintenance at a shitty industrial plant. The day shift guys would break into my toolbox all the time. They should have known better than to mess with me since I had all night to get into their toolboxes. I used two methods: The easiest was used on a cheap brass lock. I took a.010 piece of shim stock and slid it between the lock and the cylinder where the pins were, pushing up each tumbler with a straightened clip and advanceing the shim one pin at a time. When I got it in all the way I would use a small screwdriver to turn the cylinder and viola, I was in. The second method was to use a paper clip to rake the pins while using another clip as a tension wrench. It was really a lot of fun....
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There is no such thing as a tactical nuke. Any nation that uses "small" nukes in a limited fashion will be a pariah state in a matter of hours. The blowback from limited use will probably negate any gains. If you are going to use, go all out!
In 10 years I may regret posting this non-anonymously but the previous poster hit upon something I have been thinking about recently (in an abstract way!). Good people, loyal corporate drones at the end of their ropes after being on the wrong side of our winner take all system, finally lose it and act out in a spontaneous manner. The end is usually suicide by cop or killing a cop or some other non-productive result. I certainly do not advocate doing this but it would interesting if people that have lost everything and want to end it all and simultaneously strike back began to aim for the head the snake instead of the tail. It's unlikely due to the way people seem to suddenly crack but it seems a few days of research and a little road trip might make a an exponentially bigger statement without a corresponding increase in effort. Or maybe that amount of effort isn't required. Maybe publishing a dossier of the executives listing their addresses, time lines of their daily movements, pictures of them on the golf course might serve to moderate their behavior. Or maybe we will just get martial law earlier than otherwise... Again, I am not an advocate of this type of thing for moral reasons, I do not want blood on my hands, or the dystopia that would be sure to follow.
I think I would have preferred PKD to author Solaris instead of Stanislaw Lem. The novel would be worse but the movie would have been better.
That make sense to me, Everyone/everyplace already has POTS so it makes sense to take advantage of the existing infrastructure. And while they are at it lets get some decent bandwidth out of it. Say symmetrical 100Mb at least. This would let us save the bandwidth for other purposes.
It looks like the requirements are quite demanding, even for 2010. I would expect multiple mishaps before it reaches production status. As a side note: MILSPEC RFP's are generally quite aggressive and challenge the "state of the art" and requires correct operation in all conceivable environmental conditions. This accounts in part for the expense of military equipment.
I don't want to come off as cynical but am compelled to remark that "If you're not lying, you're not trying". HR attempts to game the hiring process (8yrs experience W2K8) which one must circumvent by gaming them back (9yrs experience W2K8) so that you can get the face to face interview that you need to get the gig. Maybe my approach works because I've been doing this a loong time. BTW, 3yrs ago I could almost assume that if I got an interview I would get an offer, these days its running more like one out of two or three. The economy does seem to be making things more competitive...might be time to color the gray hair a bit.
Only $90K? I'll pass.
I don't expect to have privacy while I am at work. The datacenter has cameras, my entering and leaving secure areas is logged, my internet traffic is monitored. I don't have a problem with it as it serves to protect me AND my employer. Police Officers, if you don't have anything to hide why is it a problem videotaping you? Policing is serious business, the stakes are high, and in the interest of fairness both parties should be able to document the transaction. Police already have the upper hand, they have legal powers and lethal force at their disposal.
Until recently I worked as an American employee of an Indian outsourcing firm at a Fortune 100 client in the US. One day I was in the break area with my Indian coworkers and they were commiserating with each about about recruiters exacting skillset demands, I joined in and added, "yeah, they want all that and want to pay $35K/yr!" All of the Indians there looked at me like I had said the dumbest thing imaginable. At that moment I realized they were probably making LESS than 35k in spite of the market rate being >$70K/yr for the described skillset. I thought H1B's had to be paid market rates, apparently the rules are being subverted and they are being paid far less. What we are seeing is the decimation of another good paying industry. In a few years IT architecture meetings will be conducted in Hindi and the remaining Americans will be frozen out. I don't blame Indians for pursuing their interests, I blame the multinational corporations for wanting it boths ways: They want the advantages of the American system AND the labor costs of third world countries. Corporations should display good citizenship and realize that if they want to enjoy the advantages of the developed worlds markets they need to pay developed world wages. The trends really suck...It used to be one citizen = one vote, now it has become one dollar = one vote. Corporations are selecting our political candidates, Democrat or Republican they have to suckle the corporate teat to be elected....
Novell...I didn't know they were still around. When someones says "Novell" I think of Lantastic, Banyan Vines, 100VGAnyLan, etc. NT4.0 ate their lunch and had freaky buttsex with their mom. My first NOS was a pirated copy of 3.11 (20 floppies) running on a 12MB 386DX 33 with a 90MB hard disk. Someone gave me two Arcnet cards (ARCNET!) and I was all set. The first time I saw that F: drive in Windows 3.11 I got so stoked I lived and breathed Netware and was CNA the next month and CNE about six months later. I was having a great time and these were the days when knowing a few DOS commands would get you a gig as sysadmin. I expect another graying veteran will point out that 3.11 needed (officially) 16MB to load. I spent hours tweaking the thing to get it going in 12MB. Now get off my lawn!
US standard of living vs India is an arbitrage opportunity for big US multinationals. When you smell shit and curry all the time you know parity has been achieved. I don't hold a grudge against the Indians, I hold a grudge against a government that doesn't respond to the majority of its citizens. Politicians should wear Nomex coveralls like race car drivers do, plastered with the logos of the companies that own them. That way we could make better informed voting decisions.
"I don't blame the school...it's the continued pussification of America that is the real problem at hand". Wish I had said that. WTF is going on with these school admin? Dude is staff a magnet school, got to expect to come across situations like this and be able to deal with it. I think the school staff needs counseling not the kid and his family. Pussies.....
Blaze is cool, storage is ripe for commoditization. but my experience has been that OpenFiler is overated, FreeNas crashes frequently. Suns storage offerings are a step in the right direction but the pricepoint isn't compelling yet. Nexenta on commodity hardware gets my vote. My take is: As our jobs are pushed down to the least common denominator, i.e. who can perform the same function at at the lowest cost, corporations will expect the same of their storage solutions. I would rather see a DMX or USP go off lease than than see another persons livelihood ruined by this race to the bottom. Lets throw out enterprise solutions and replace them with cheaper, possibly more manpower intensive solutions. OK, just kidding. But am bringing up the point that in these uncertain times all options are on the table. What would you rather lose, the human capital that took years of effort and good will to aggregate, or the overpriced storage infrastructure that is rapidly being commoditized? OK, don't answer that. If your reading Slashdot you can't possibly be in upper management...
The analogy I can think of is if a long haul truck driver refused to hand his keys over if he was fired, thereby denying the owner access to the equipment. In such a situation would the driver be jailed? The SF IT Dept should have contingency plans for this, TACACS, for example. I have come close to being in a Kafkaesque situation similar to this, almost fired because I was alleged to have overhead a coworker confess viewing confidential information. Its amazing how management with an agenda can create a shitstorm for a person without having any factual, legal, or moral substantiation.
I'm so tired of this shit. Mac's have a pretty UI but are proprietary as hell. It amazes me that a forum dedicated to open source/linux has so many fanbois. It's completely schizo. I'm ready for Steve to take the dirt nap and see the company spiral down the tubes or dedicate itself completely to consumer products, i.e. ipods and iwhatever.
I would like to see Sun's storage technology emphasized. They have some good products, and good ideas. A little refinement would go a long way. It has been apparent to me for several years that storage is ripe for commoditization, all it is is disks, memory, and fibre channel ports. Whoever can deliver the I/O, reliability, and features without the huge cost of the incumbent enterprise storage vendors should do quite well.
Instead of News: Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession on Sunday August 23, @01:12AM. I was about to start browsing Dice for New Mexico jobs.
Back when I first read Gibsons novels I realized that his vision of multinationals running the world is essentially correct. Made me kind of sad too. Since being laid in the financial services meltdown I am now working for an offshore outsourcing firm with the client being a Fortune 10 company. These days I can relate more to Tom Joad than Adam Smith...
I am in my mid forties working in IT and I must say that my team members that are in their 20's really don't seem to have the motivation to learn the technology as I did 20 years ago, staying up all night on bulletin boards, spending every free moment tweaking my config.sys or netx stack for better performance. I see kids today that learn their core responsibilities but make no effort to progress further. I don't mind though, I have noticed several local fortune 500 companies are targeting "older" people for open positions, stating that the younger aren't seasoned enough or lack the skillset needed to be successful in the data center. Go ahead kids, keep on playing WOW and put your VMware books aside, that helps me stay relevant for the 15 years until I retire.
Diesel Electrics are acknowledged to be quieter than nukes, that is, they have advantages over nuke subs that make them very dangerous in the tactical snense. However, the fact that the sub surfaced indicates that the sub commander felt threatened and needed to disclose his location and nationality or risk having his ship attacked. There will always be situations where diesel boats can lie in wait for a flotilla to pass by. They cannot make the speed required to keep up with a surface fleet without giving themselves away by charging batteries or running on the surface. Therefore they cannot reliably intercept a surface fleet without the advantage of luck or prior knowledge of the path. I would not like to rely on luck for the outcome of a major fleet action. Also, it might be a moot point but what are the chances of a deisel sub getting away after an attack on an aircraft carrier? the remaining members of the battle group can be expected to do their utmost to kill the sub that attacked their CVN. The submaarine may be undetctable until the point it launches torpedo's. One hit is unlikely to kill a CVN but it will give away it's position and will be in an unfavorable position of being unable to run away or outwait the surface ships. Lucky rolls of the dice happen and have to be accounted for but it seems that you would have to be lucky to get in position for an attack on a CVN battle group with this type of boat and then be very lucky to get away.
This happened in Columbus, GA. Not Ohio.
I have two Netware 4.x machines at work that have an uptime of over 800 days each, no kidding.
Reminds me of when I worked night shift electrical maintenance at a shitty industrial plant. The day shift guys would break into my toolbox all the time. They should have known better than to mess with me since I had all night to get into their toolboxes. .010 piece of shim stock and slid it between the lock and the cylinder where the pins were, pushing up each tumbler with a straightened clip and advanceing the shim one pin at a time. When I got it in all the way I would use a small screwdriver to turn the cylinder and viola, I was in. The second method was to use a paper clip to rake the pins while using another clip as a tension wrench. It was really a lot of fun....
I used two methods: The easiest was used on a cheap brass lock. I took a