I know you were being sarcastic but it probably has never been so challenging. Going all the way back to our own revolution a bunch of farmers with out data rifles managed to defeat British regular army, although with some French assistance. Its also true at the time there was less separation between a hunting rifle and an army rifle in terms of tech.
Here we are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting farmers with outdated rifles and help from Iran, Syria, and likely Pakistan. They have the benefit of history to know what works and what does not against a superior force and lots of them have experience fighting the Russian army. Their tech might be a little outdated but its also true a 35 year old Russian AK is still plenty lethal, as are left over Rocket propelled grenades and launchers we gave them. There are probably a fare number of single shot WWI and WWII era rifles we gave them to fight the Russians still floating about as well.
So yes it really has never been harder and asymmetric warfare has not really been easy for two centuries; with the possible exception of the Mexican War.
Once again the problem is the OS not the hardware. Admittedly Atom has a time pushing Windows 7 around. We had a number of them at the office for execs to play with. Put XP on them and they run great, so great I bought one. I am running Slackware 13 on mine with the XFCE desktop and its perfect and plenty fast. I can even use Codeblocks quite happily. Its good for watching online video as well 1366x768 native res screen. Once in a great while Atom might let a 720p mpeg4 video shudder just slightly, not a big deal. The only thing I ever wait on is compile jobs, and Its evident the bottle neck is disk IO there.
I maybe would not want to edit video on it or rip dvds but that is not the Netbooks purpose, it does not need to be as powerful as my desktop. It needs to be portable, and run for 6+ hours.
if you started with some prize money you will not know how to get more.
All VC is basically prize money, you had one of the best ideas they guy looking to do some investment saw so you get to use his money; its just not so clearly framed as a contest is all. I am sure Thiel means to pay attention to the *winners* he probably is either prepared to invest more himself or would assist in locating other investors if any of these projects shows real growth on that first 100K.
Ok but just about anyone can get loans for school. Its often really hard for some kid without a degree to convince someone to extend credit or venture cap to develop an idea. Justified or not their is quite a bit of ageism prejudice and an established view that you have to in most cases have a college degree to be effective. Theil seems to be saying that he will take the bet if the idea is solid.
My father once told me and this was like 20 years ago, that he always favored candidates with a degree over ones who did not when hiring even if that degree was not in a related field. To him having a degree showed that the candidate was either intelligent or if not at least a hard worker who could stick with something until its done. To this day I don't know if that practice was fair or justified, but I know its still quite common. It also makes me sad because it sort of reduces a college degree to a minor title of nobility.
1) they take the money
2) they work hard for 3 months
2a) or Succeed and go one to do whatever else you'd like
3) the money runs out
4) their idea is worthless
5) they have no education
5a) or Go back and finish school, you had some plan to finance it otherwise its probably still good
6) next 30 years they have no job
6a) or Take the experience and contacts you made working on the project and use them to get a related job.
If *you* really had a good idea and the talent to execute it, then this is a good offer. Most people kinda know if they truly have a solid idea. Lots of people have dubious ideas with trying out with other peoples money and many of them succeed in fact but many more fail. This even though its still someone else's money as you point out will have a major impact on your life no matter if you succeed or fail. There is lot of personal risk. Most know though in their gut if such a risk is worth taking. Its called decision making and this one would not be for the risk averse; but may be an great choice for some.
I am always amazed by how often nuclear arms turn up in day to day contracts. Both my home and auto policies have sections limiting the insurer in the even of nuclear attack. Somehow I feel if my home or car has been damaged in such an event filing an insurance claim, won't be high on my list of things to do, that is if I, my insurer, and the rule of law even exist after such an event.
Well unless that person from Bank of America had permission to give away the drive then they stole it and Assange revived stolen property. When you knowingly or in many places negligently (ie you should have suspected enough to check things out) receive stolen property its a crime.
Assange has effectively confessed to a crime here if Bank of America can show a drive missing from the inventory or some IT guy improperly disposing of one.
Easy enough solution to that. Just run a local 4to6 NAT. You can do SNAT from as many v4 192 addresses as you need to translate to the 6 hosts you want to connect to remotely. Then just use the 192 address in your app. It will be an extra step and you might have to set up the NAT on both the client and the server but it should work.
North Korea is not that big a place. I am sure we could if we were willing to kill indiscriminately destroy their capability to use their nukes with conventional weapons fast enough. Each of those, daisy-cutters, I think they call them vaporize six football fields. The issue as always is we have lots of ability to rain down destruction on our enemies but are we willing to kill thousands of innocent people and families in the process.
I suppose if the north was threatening to nuke the south or others in the region the answer might be a reluctant yes; but that would be the one day I would be glad Obama, rather than myself, is the President. Its not a call anyone would want to have to make.
I wounder if the cable leaks that should China is perhaps not as reliable a partner as the North thought is provoking them to even more extreme rhetoric and possible action. We can't afford in terms of blood or treasure to fight another ground war, and for social reasons doing that in Korea again is really untenable. I hope the north does not escalate things to the point of war, but if they do I guess I hope our President and Military leaders can in fact bite their lip and carpet bomb them into oblivion. What would be better still is if we could get the CIA in there while there is still time and put a bullet in the back of a few heads of state. I am sure the new powers there would be no better people but they might have the sense to not be self destructive.
I am not sure if this is true anymore or even if it were ever true; but I was told at the height of the cold war we had the capability to make the entire world uninhabitable in 8 seconds.
You might want to check out the common law definition of burglary, that is used in lots of places! One breaking into someone's house in the day time might just be "breaking and entering" a different crime. It depends on where you live. Generally burglary is considered more serious because its at night and the victim is more likely to be at home, in places that use that definition of burglary.
Riders are an appalling and ant-democratic in practice. All this talk about ear marks that people are up in arms over should really be focused on riders. They serve only one purpose and that is to confuse an issue with unrelated issues. They take advantage of the all or nothing system so that a minority of legislators can force through an issue that would not pass on its own merit.
The biggest problem in government we have to day is this practice of riders and omnibus bills. Legislation should not be thousands of pages! Legislative acts should be as atomic as possible.
Right burglary is considered a very serious crime, because of the potential for someone to get hurt or killed if the victim turns out to be home, its also usual done at night (must be done at night to meet some definitions of burglary) when people are usually home. Society wants people to feel safe in their homes as well which is another reason the crime is punished so strongly even when little of value is taken.
Most of the reason these cases are not solved as you say is often there is pretty little for a detective to work with. A picture of someone you know is probably both local and school aged though is a pretty easy lead to run down. All the cops got to do is stake out the local high schools for a while and they can probably nab this guy.
Well other than the fact there is no upward limit on the number of stories that can be posted to Slashdot. They really don't need to maximize the value of idle stories.
If they really felt the way you claim about idle they could post whatever junk to it and post good stories in other sections and then we could all just filter out idle in our user prefs. Right now I don't because often idle does have stories like this one I find interesting.
well its been my experience as time wares on that PMs, and BAs are getting farther and farther removed from the technical side. I have been in the industry about 10 years and when I started most of the BAs and PMs had at one time been programmers or admins themselves. They may have been doing the business side functions for awhile and might not have been educated in the latest technologies. They might have been COBOL programmers when we were using C++ and Java for instance, or former VAX guys while we were running Linux and Windows on x86, but they still understood how computers work, and how we work.
They performed the useful paper work functions and you know *managed* things pretty effectively. I agree with you that anyone who does not see the value of a GOOD project manager on a big project has not ever worked on one or has only experienced bad PMs. Lots of communication is needed on these collaborative efforts and that is where the best PMs spend most of the their time making sure the right people have the right information and expectations.
These former coders and admins turned PMs are great at this because they know how to talk to everyone they have learned the business side and they remember they types of questions developers and admins are going to need answered. They facilitate. Lately though there are more and more pure PMs, I will call them. They have never done the technical work and they think their role is entirely about setting schedules and arranging meetings. They don't understand the questions I am asking any better than business unit manager would unless I take the time to explain everything and deal with them the same was I would have to deal with the business unit manager. Sooner or later the pM decides hey I might as well just talk to the business myself and go to all the meetings, and they start setting that up, and at that point they are adding very little value.
OK but an MSA2000 is NOT a toy. It might not be the first class SAN solution for large caps but they certainly power lots of medium business with billion dollar a year bottom revenue lines. Those companies are big enough to care about security and big enough to employ at least one competent systems administrator even if they will then force him to use some second rate monkeys for help. That person one should NOT be forgetting the password, what if something happens to him? Well they way I did it is I wrote that stuff down. The sensitive passwords were kept in a safe deposit box on CD-ROM inside an AES encrypted zip file at the bank the CEO had the other key and knew the password to the zip as well. $25 dollars a year is a small investment to ensure that one of us will be able to obtain that information if needed. Anyone buying an MSA2000 can afford that and come up with a similar suitable arrangement.
If HP *needs* a backdoor for serving the units its 2010 they really should have some alternate log in method, perhaps a serial header on the controller system board or something so that you would have to give them physical access or an attacker would have to gain physical access and the credentials should be a certificate file so their will be no guessing the 4Kb password.
Its probably nothing like that. Some idiot on the service side of the house probably convinced some VP that a backdoor was needed so the support people could deal with customers who had lost the passwords or when they had to refurbish and RMA and wanted to be lazy and not have to replace any chips or flash the thing or whatever. That VP then made the software team add the backdoor. I think on the MSA15000 there is a check the make sure the password does not match the user name, which I might have run across when familiarizing myself with it with it prior to deployment. They developers probably wanted to make the password match the user name (its hidden after all) but also did not want to run into that test code somewhere even with the hard coded value.
That being said, admin was an aggressively stupid choice and hard coded back doors at least rank as very stupid to begin with.
I suspect they did not eat the bone. They probably were making broth with it just like we do today. You boil the bone and the marrow flavors the broth. The bone is removed before eating.
What they should call this is High Bandwidth, or High Speed Internet something along those lines. Broadband has nothing to do with speed or performance it implies symbols are used to send bits as opposed to baseband which would just be sending highs and lows to send the bits. Neither is a speed thing, I don't know why have to confuse and conflate technical terms in government and on tech sites were people should really know better.
Frankly most commercial targeted hardware has supported v6 for at least the past five years or so. In some situations it might need memory upgrades and the like but that is in the grand scheme of things cheap! Other things like VOIP, PC over IP, multimedia technologies have pushed the equipment much older than five years or so out of most shops that have a significant amount of investment in route/switch anyway.
If you ask me its legacy applications as usually that probably forces most orgs to go dual stack or holds them back, kinda like it keeps IE6 and that 3270 terminal emulator on the desktop.
No actually Ireland's public finances were looking pretty good until they made a really stupid promise. They promised to fully backstop their large banks. That was a black hole that in turn cased the governments credit worth to come into question. Given how many of the largest firms their or foreign they probably could have and should have let the banks fail with little collateral damage.; More specifically guaranteed only the deposits to keep money from fleeing the country and told the bond and equity holders your on your own after all you expected to enjoy the gains from your investment privately you get to experience the loses privately.
Had they done this their probably would have been no need for a bailout. So yea the real problem is they are governed like we are here in the USA where there is a certain protected class of old money that does not have to follow the same rules the rest of us do. Tax policy has almost nothing to do with it other than now like us their tax payers will have to chip in for the mistakes of others who are very wealthy to begin with.
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I know you were being sarcastic but it probably has never been so challenging. Going all the way back to our own revolution a bunch of farmers with out data rifles managed to defeat British regular army, although with some French assistance. Its also true at the time there was less separation between a hunting rifle and an army rifle in terms of tech.
Here we are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting farmers with outdated rifles and help from Iran, Syria, and likely Pakistan. They have the benefit of history to know what works and what does not against a superior force and lots of them have experience fighting the Russian army. Their tech might be a little outdated but its also true a 35 year old Russian AK is still plenty lethal, as are left over Rocket propelled grenades and launchers we gave them. There are probably a fare number of single shot WWI and WWII era rifles we gave them to fight the Russians still floating about as well.
So yes it really has never been harder and asymmetric warfare has not really been easy for two centuries; with the possible exception of the Mexican War.
Once again the problem is the OS not the hardware. Admittedly Atom has a time pushing Windows 7 around. We had a number of them at the office for execs to play with. Put XP on them and they run great, so great I bought one. I am running Slackware 13 on mine with the XFCE desktop and its perfect and plenty fast. I can even use Codeblocks quite happily. Its good for watching online video as well 1366x768 native res screen. Once in a great while Atom might let a 720p mpeg4 video shudder just slightly, not a big deal. The only thing I ever wait on is compile jobs, and Its evident the bottle neck is disk IO there.
I maybe would not want to edit video on it or rip dvds but that is not the Netbooks purpose, it does not need to be as powerful as my desktop. It needs to be portable, and run for 6+ hours.
if you started with some prize money you will not know how to get more.
All VC is basically prize money, you had one of the best ideas they guy looking to do some investment saw so you get to use his money; its just not so clearly framed as a contest is all. I am sure Thiel means to pay attention to the *winners* he probably is either prepared to invest more himself or would assist in locating other investors if any of these projects shows real growth on that first 100K.
Ok but just about anyone can get loans for school. Its often really hard for some kid without a degree to convince someone to extend credit or venture cap to develop an idea. Justified or not their is quite a bit of ageism prejudice and an established view that you have to in most cases have a college degree to be effective. Theil seems to be saying that he will take the bet if the idea is solid.
My father once told me and this was like 20 years ago, that he always favored candidates with a degree over ones who did not when hiring even if that degree was not in a related field. To him having a degree showed that the candidate was either intelligent or if not at least a hard worker who could stick with something until its done. To this day I don't know if that practice was fair or justified, but I know its still quite common. It also makes me sad because it sort of reduces a college degree to a minor title of nobility.
Or if you are smart and really have a good idea:
1) they take the money
2) they work hard for 3 months
2a) or Succeed and go one to do whatever else you'd like
3) the money runs out
4) their idea is worthless
5) they have no education
5a) or Go back and finish school, you had some plan to finance it otherwise its probably still good
6) next 30 years they have no job
6a) or Take the experience and contacts you made working on the project and use them to get a related job.
If *you* really had a good idea and the talent to execute it, then this is a good offer. Most people kinda know if they truly have a solid idea. Lots of people have dubious ideas with trying out with other peoples money and many of them succeed in fact but many more fail. This even though its still someone else's money as you point out will have a major impact on your life no matter if you succeed or fail. There is lot of personal risk. Most know though in their gut if such a risk is worth taking. Its called decision making and this one would not be for the risk averse; but may be an great choice for some.
I am always amazed by how often nuclear arms turn up in day to day contracts. Both my home and auto policies have sections limiting the insurer in the even of nuclear attack. Somehow I feel if my home or car has been damaged in such an event filing an insurance claim, won't be high on my list of things to do, that is if I, my insurer, and the rule of law even exist after such an event.
Well unless that person from Bank of America had permission to give away the drive then they stole it and Assange revived stolen property. When you knowingly or in many places negligently (ie you should have suspected enough to check things out) receive stolen property its a crime.
Assange has effectively confessed to a crime here if Bank of America can show a drive missing from the inventory or some IT guy improperly disposing of one.
Better question, what to do about admins that don't test policies on devices they support before deployment?
Easy enough solution to that. Just run a local 4to6 NAT. You can do SNAT from as many v4 192 addresses as you need to translate to the 6 hosts you want to connect to remotely. Then just use the 192 address in your app. It will be an extra step and you might have to set up the NAT on both the client and the server but it should work.
North Korea is not that big a place. I am sure we could if we were willing to kill indiscriminately destroy their capability to use their nukes with conventional weapons fast enough. Each of those, daisy-cutters, I think they call them vaporize six football fields. The issue as always is we have lots of ability to rain down destruction on our enemies but are we willing to kill thousands of innocent people and families in the process.
I suppose if the north was threatening to nuke the south or others in the region the answer might be a reluctant yes; but that would be the one day I would be glad Obama, rather than myself, is the President. Its not a call anyone would want to have to make.
I wounder if the cable leaks that should China is perhaps not as reliable a partner as the North thought is provoking them to even more extreme rhetoric and possible action. We can't afford in terms of blood or treasure to fight another ground war, and for social reasons doing that in Korea again is really untenable. I hope the north does not escalate things to the point of war, but if they do I guess I hope our President and Military leaders can in fact bite their lip and carpet bomb them into oblivion. What would be better still is if we could get the CIA in there while there is still time and put a bullet in the back of a few heads of state. I am sure the new powers there would be no better people but they might have the sense to not be self destructive.
I am not sure if this is true anymore or even if it were ever true; but I was told at the height of the cold war we had the capability to make the entire world uninhabitable in 8 seconds.
You might want to check out the common law definition of burglary, that is used in lots of places! One breaking into someone's house in the day time might just be "breaking and entering" a different crime. It depends on where you live. Generally burglary is considered more serious because its at night and the victim is more likely to be at home, in places that use that definition of burglary.
Riders are an appalling and ant-democratic in practice. All this talk about ear marks that people are up in arms over should really be focused on riders. They serve only one purpose and that is to confuse an issue with unrelated issues. They take advantage of the all or nothing system so that a minority of legislators can force through an issue that would not pass on its own merit.
The biggest problem in government we have to day is this practice of riders and omnibus bills. Legislation should not be thousands of pages! Legislative acts should be as atomic as possible.
Right burglary is considered a very serious crime, because of the potential for someone to get hurt or killed if the victim turns out to be home, its also usual done at night (must be done at night to meet some definitions of burglary) when people are usually home. Society wants people to feel safe in their homes as well which is another reason the crime is punished so strongly even when little of value is taken.
Most of the reason these cases are not solved as you say is often there is pretty little for a detective to work with. A picture of someone you know is probably both local and school aged though is a pretty easy lead to run down. All the cops got to do is stake out the local high schools for a while and they can probably nab this guy.
Well other than the fact there is no upward limit on the number of stories that can be posted to Slashdot. They really don't need to maximize the value of idle stories.
If they really felt the way you claim about idle they could post whatever junk to it and post good stories in other sections and then we could all just filter out idle in our user prefs. Right now I don't because often idle does have stories like this one I find interesting.
so you mean everything is bonds checked, no wonder the universe is so slow.
well its been my experience as time wares on that PMs, and BAs are getting farther and farther removed from the technical side. I have been in the industry about 10 years and when I started most of the BAs and PMs had at one time been programmers or admins themselves. They may have been doing the business side functions for awhile and might not have been educated in the latest technologies. They might have been COBOL programmers when we were using C++ and Java for instance, or former VAX guys while we were running Linux and Windows on x86, but they still understood how computers work, and how we work.
They performed the useful paper work functions and you know *managed* things pretty effectively. I agree with you that anyone who does not see the value of a GOOD project manager on a big project has not ever worked on one or has only experienced bad PMs. Lots of communication is needed on these collaborative efforts and that is where the best PMs spend most of the their time making sure the right people have the right information and expectations.
These former coders and admins turned PMs are great at this because they know how to talk to everyone they have learned the business side and they remember they types of questions developers and admins are going to need answered. They facilitate. Lately though there are more and more pure PMs, I will call them. They have never done the technical work and they think their role is entirely about setting schedules and arranging meetings. They don't understand the questions I am asking any better than business unit manager would unless I take the time to explain everything and deal with them the same was I would have to deal with the business unit manager. Sooner or later the pM decides hey I might as well just talk to the business myself and go to all the meetings, and they start setting that up, and at that point they are adding very little value.
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
OK but an MSA2000 is NOT a toy. It might not be the first class SAN solution for large caps but they certainly power lots of medium business with billion dollar a year bottom revenue lines. Those companies are big enough to care about security and big enough to employ at least one competent systems administrator even if they will then force him to use some second rate monkeys for help. That person one should NOT be forgetting the password, what if something happens to him? Well they way I did it is I wrote that stuff down. The sensitive passwords were kept in a safe deposit box on CD-ROM inside an AES encrypted zip file at the bank the CEO had the other key and knew the password to the zip as well. $25 dollars a year is a small investment to ensure that one of us will be able to obtain that information if needed. Anyone buying an MSA2000 can afford that and come up with a similar suitable arrangement.
If HP *needs* a backdoor for serving the units its 2010 they really should have some alternate log in method, perhaps a serial header on the controller system board or something so that you would have to give them physical access or an attacker would have to gain physical access and the credentials should be a certificate file so their will be no guessing the 4Kb password.
Its probably nothing like that. Some idiot on the service side of the house probably convinced some VP that a backdoor was needed so the support people could deal with customers who had lost the passwords or when they had to refurbish and RMA and wanted to be lazy and not have to replace any chips or flash the thing or whatever. That VP then made the software team add the backdoor. I think on the MSA15000 there is a check the make sure the password does not match the user name, which I might have run across when familiarizing myself with it with it prior to deployment. They developers probably wanted to make the password match the user name (its hidden after all) but also did not want to run into that test code somewhere even with the hard coded value.
That being said, admin was an aggressively stupid choice and hard coded back doors at least rank as very stupid to begin with.
Its because whoever would use that login is obviously not the admin.
I suspect they did not eat the bone. They probably were making broth with it just like we do today. You boil the bone and the marrow flavors the broth. The bone is removed before eating.
What they should call this is High Bandwidth, or High Speed Internet something along those lines. Broadband has nothing to do with speed or performance it implies symbols are used to send bits as opposed to baseband which would just be sending highs and lows to send the bits. Neither is a speed thing, I don't know why have to confuse and conflate technical terms in government and on tech sites were people should really know better.
Frankly most commercial targeted hardware has supported v6 for at least the past five years or so. In some situations it might need memory upgrades and the like but that is in the grand scheme of things cheap! Other things like VOIP, PC over IP, multimedia technologies have pushed the equipment much older than five years or so out of most shops that have a significant amount of investment in route/switch anyway.
If you ask me its legacy applications as usually that probably forces most orgs to go dual stack or holds them back, kinda like it keeps IE6 and that 3270 terminal emulator on the desktop.
No actually Ireland's public finances were looking pretty good until they made a really stupid promise. They promised to fully backstop their large banks. That was a black hole that in turn cased the governments credit worth to come into question. Given how many of the largest firms their or foreign they probably could have and should have let the banks fail with little collateral damage.; More specifically guaranteed only the deposits to keep money from fleeing the country and told the bond and equity holders your on your own after all you expected to enjoy the gains from your investment privately you get to experience the loses privately.
Had they done this their probably would have been no need for a bailout. So yea the real problem is they are governed like we are here in the USA where there is a certain protected class of old money that does not have to follow the same rules the rest of us do. Tax policy has almost nothing to do with it other than now like us their tax payers will have to chip in for the mistakes of others who are very wealthy to begin with.