infrastructures.org looks interesting, but then I see they mention things like 'NetSaint' which was renamed to be Nagios about 7 years ago, and references to "LISA '98".
Some of this information looks old. Am I right? These days, shouldn't we be thinking more about virtualization and cloud infrastructure?
That said, they do touch upon many good ideas. It seems that many mid-sized shops do follow some similar ideas.
I'm on a long drive. The passenger in my car is bored and wants to browse the Internet. There are kids in the back who are bored with their books and want to play on pbskids.org . I'm driving, my wife has a laptop and wants to check the Traffic on Google Maps. We want to stream Pandora.com through our car stereo.
Yes, there are other options for some of these issues but a Mobile Hotspot seems better and cheaper then many of the alternatives.
I'm not sure why Slashdot has an article on this. Mobile 3G Hotspots for cars have been around for a couple years now, but they seem really expensive. Crutchfeld.com had one for about $300.
That doesn't change the fact that we remain a nation of wasteful asses...
A couple shirts doesn't mean much, in the grand scheme of things - but if 350 million American made a similar decision each and every day, our economy would begin to turn around.
I'm not disputing that. In fact, I think we agree.
I was disputing the parent post's believe that the US doesn't "make anything itself". This is a pessimistic and uneducated belief.
I pointed out that the US *does* make many things, and we still export many, many goods.
Although the Federal Register notice also indicates that a decision has not been made on the need for a GPS backup, the announcement apparently brings to a close a seemingly interminable process of preserving and upgrading the terrestrial radionavigation system to provide an enhanced Loran (eLoran) capability that could serve as a multimodal backup to failures or interference to the Global Positioning System.
That process spanned several years, two administrations, and the expenditure of $160 million over the last 10 years to partially modernize a network of Loran stations that now will be phased out. It also flies in the face of an independent assessment team’s unanimous recommendation to establish eLoran as a GPS backup, as well as the efforts of navigation counterparts in other nations, notably the United Kingdom, to implement eLoran.
Hey, this administration dismantled LORAN-C, the backup system in case of GPS satellite spoofing or jamming.....
President Obama is influential, but he isn't capable of time travel. President Bush scheduled the dismantling, President Obama continued that recommendation. Both the Coast Guard and the DHS said they didn't need LORAN-C, so why maintain it? It smells like pork.
This dismantling was already scheduled by the previous administration, according to the FA.
The Department of Homeland Security last year started a painful upgrade to LORAN-C, adding modern electronics and solid-state transmitters, despite the fact that in 2008 President George W. Bush signed a law that scheduled the system's dissolution.
The Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 allowed for termination of the LORAN-C signal on January 4, 2010, after certification from the Commandant of the Coast Guard that it was not needed for maritime navigation and from the Secretary of DHS that it is not needed as a backup for GPS.
I would say a portscan followed by attempts to login to various services with public interfaces without proper credentials not meant to be public could be considered an attack...
Is this an intentional cyberwarfare, or is a botnet simply doing what it's programed to do? In many of these cases, I doubt that the human controller behind the botnet cares about most of this activity. Your target isn't juicy enough, yet.
Last I heard, and I'm only being mildly partisan here, the Republican plan was to remove restrictions on medical and insurance industries. I can agree that some regulations are getting in the way of doing things more cheaply, but I don't think that's the real reason we don't have universally affordable health care.
I'm sure that streamlining the regulations will help a little, but I'm not convinced that regulations have contributed to the cost significantly.
My real question is why didn't the Republicans propose these changes when they had more power and when they had a friendly president? They saw the problem, and what did they try to do to help to contain costs back then?
This isn't exactly a new problem. My health insurance premiums have been rising by $1000 a year for a long time. The average health care plan costs $14,000 a year for a family. Eventually my employers will be unable to pay for this coverage.
Each year the insurance companies cover less and less (My family has typical needs).
The grass on the other side of the Atlantic doesn't seem green at all. Looks more like rotten.
The grass was denied individual insurance due to pre-existing conditions, and the employer had to drop coverage because the costs of premiums increased from $5000 in year 2000 to over $16000 this year.
Meanwhile, Congress sat on it's hands and did almost nothing to help deal with the costs which were spiraling out of control.
If you think the use of the word 'cyber' is bad, check out this video promoting "Cyber ShockWave". It's produced by Bipartisan Policy Center, the organizers of the event.
The video is like something out of a bad action movie.
Devil's advocate, why won't older workers work at that price point?
Because there is often another employer willing to hire at a higher price point.
I hear many people complaining about H1B workers, but I have yet to run into a conflict myself after 13 years in this industry (I'm also not over 40).
I could be wrong, but H1B workers seem to work in many of the low-level and entry positions. Workers over age 40 often aren't applying for those positions.
most of it looks like a low-budget sci-fi from the 80's
I'd like to see if you can make anything better.
Most of this stuff *IS* low-budget sci-fi. Much of this stuff is designed, stitched, welded & hammered at home or a shared studio. You make do with the materials that you can fit into your time and budget. Not everyone has the time or money to build high-budget factory in their garage.
Homebuilt stuff may not look as cool as the shiny stuff you can buy at the store, but it will look better as the maker's skill improves-- that's one of the major drivers behind the DIY movement.
Hrm, it appears that the author of shwatchr hasn't updated it since 2001.
I do like Mike Rash ( Cipherdyne.com ) and have used some of his software (psad will analyze my firewall logs using Snort fingerprints, to help determine the type of attack).
But I would hesitate to use any software which has not been updated in nine years.
Did he mention a disaster? No. Did he mention Haiti? No.
Your snide comments are not helpful.
The poster wants to volunteer his technical skills abroad in an area with need. I'm sure there are plenty of places in the world who could use some professional expertise. You yourself suggest that he can help at home, but perhaps he'd like the experience to help abroad.
Unless you have an expertise in food distribution/agriculture, medicine, or communication... you will probably just be excess baggage.
Really? The Peace Corp seems to be very active in building schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. They aren't excess baggage.
There are multiple interpretations of the Interstate Commerce Clause. By some interpretations, States do have limited rights to regulate commerce with other states. Also, there seem to be additional interpretations of the law for state-owned services (See the paragraph on "In United Haulers Assoc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority (2007)".
See the following site a good summary of some of the debates.
"The Commerce Clause is a grant of power to Congress, not an express limitation on the power of the states to regulate the economy. At least four possible interpretations of the Commerce Clause have been proposed. First, it has been suggested that the Clause gives Congress the exclusive power to regulate commerce. Under this interpretation, states are divested of all power to regulate interstate commerce. Second, it has been suggested that the Clause gives Congress and the states concurrent power to regulate commerce. Under this view, state regulation of commerce is invalid only when it is preempted by federal law. Third, it has been suggested that the Clause assumes that Congress and the states each have their own mutually exclusive zones of regulatory power. Under this interpretation, it becomes the job of the courts to determine whether one sovereign has invaded the exclusive regulatory zone of the other. Finally, it has been suggested that the Clause by its own force divests states of the power to regulate commerce in certain ways, but the states and Congress retain concurrent power to regulate commerce in many other ways. This fourth interpretation, a complicated hybrid of two others, turns out to be the approach taken by the Court in its decisions interpreting the Commerce Clause."
From one of the articles "one of the developers spoke about the game seems to cover this. Virtual Heroes, the producer of American's Army, is providing this game. It seems like they have already produced a couple space sims ("Race to Mars" and "Virtual Astronaut"), but I might be wrong.
Except in the US it has to be a doctor who does it, because nobody would settle for a nurse.
Blue Shield/Blue Cross of California and Kaiser Permanente both have a nurse available on the phone, 24/7. I've used it a couple times and it worked out well... many simple things can be diagnosed over the phone with a simple questionnaire. If not, they'll tell you to come and see the doctor, often with a priority appointment the next morning.
Yes, everyone has heard of ZFS on FUSE. I'm not sure I would call that a 'port'-- a port would run natively on a filesystem. ZFS on FUSE is a hack, and would probably never be trustworthy enough to run a Production or Enterprise storage system, or host backup data, or anything outside the hobbyist realm.
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infrastructures.org looks interesting, but then I see they mention things like 'NetSaint' which was renamed to be Nagios about 7 years ago, and references to "LISA '98".
Some of this information looks old. Am I right? These days, shouldn't we be thinking more about virtualization and cloud infrastructure?
That said, they do touch upon many good ideas. It seems that many mid-sized shops do follow some similar ideas.
Our thumper has 32.5GB alonep>
Did you mean 32.5TB, not GB?
I'm on a long drive. The passenger in my car is bored and wants to browse the Internet. There are kids in the back who are bored with their books and want to play on pbskids.org . I'm driving, my wife has a laptop and wants to check the Traffic on Google Maps. We want to stream Pandora.com through our car stereo.
Yes, there are other options for some of these issues but a Mobile Hotspot seems better and cheaper then many of the alternatives.
I'm not sure why Slashdot has an article on this. Mobile 3G Hotspots for cars have been around for a couple years now, but they seem really expensive. Crutchfeld.com had one for about $300.
That doesn't change the fact that we remain a nation of wasteful asses...
A couple shirts doesn't mean much, in the grand scheme of things - but if 350 million American made a similar decision each and every day, our economy would begin to turn around.
I'm not disputing that. In fact, I think we agree.
I was disputing the parent post's believe that the US doesn't "make anything itself". This is a pessimistic and uneducated belief.
I pointed out that the US *does* make many things, and we still export many, many goods.
The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated.
The United States still makes many things, and is still one of the worlds largest exporters, with over $1 Trillion in exports in 2009.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres10_e/pr598_e.htm
It appears that cars accounted for 11% of those exports:
http://www.trademap.org/tradestaz/Country_SelProductCountry_TS.aspx
Yes, sometimes I'm immature. But it's fun to find Easter eggs like this:
guest@xkcd:/$ go left
You cannot go left.
guest@xkcd:/$ go right
You cannot go right.
guest@xkcd:/$ go forward
You cannot go forward.
guest@xkcd:/$ kill
Terminator deployed to 1984
guest@xkcd:/$ fuck
I have a headache.
guest@xkcd:/$ help fuck
That would be cheating!
How do you know that I'm not a replicant? Maybe you are just dreaming, and we're all just figments of your imagination.
Blade Runner: Re-imagined, by J. J. Abrams
Blade Runner 2: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Blade Runner Prequel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Prequel
Here's an article that describes another reason for the cuts. There does seem to be alot of back and forth regarding this system.
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1806
Although the Federal Register notice also indicates that a decision has not been made on the need for a GPS backup, the announcement apparently brings to a close a seemingly interminable process of preserving and upgrading the terrestrial radionavigation system to provide an enhanced Loran (eLoran) capability that could serve as a multimodal backup to failures or interference to the Global Positioning System.
That process spanned several years, two administrations, and the expenditure of $160 million over the last 10 years to partially modernize a network of Loran stations that now will be phased out. It also flies in the face of an independent assessment team’s unanimous recommendation to establish eLoran as a GPS backup, as well as the efforts of navigation counterparts in other nations, notably the United Kingdom, to implement eLoran.
Hey, this administration dismantled LORAN-C, the backup system in case of GPS satellite spoofing or jamming.....
President Obama is influential, but he isn't capable of time travel. President Bush scheduled the dismantling, President Obama continued that recommendation. Both the Coast Guard and the DHS said they didn't need LORAN-C, so why maintain it? It smells like pork.
This dismantling was already scheduled by the previous administration, according to the FA.
The Department of Homeland Security last year started a painful upgrade to LORAN-C, adding modern electronics and solid-state transmitters, despite the fact that in 2008 President George W. Bush signed a law that scheduled the system's dissolution.
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/Loran/default.htm
The DHS and Coast Guard both said they didn't need LORAN-C. From http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/Loran/default.htm :
The Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 allowed for termination of the LORAN-C signal on January 4, 2010, after certification from the Commandant of the Coast Guard that it was not needed for maritime navigation and from the Secretary of DHS that it is not needed as a backup for GPS.
And shortly afterward, plants surrounding the funeral began to wither and die from a exotic new fungus.
I would say a portscan followed by attempts to login to various services with public interfaces without proper credentials not meant to be public could be considered an attack...
Is this an intentional cyberwarfare, or is a botnet simply doing what it's programed to do? In many of these cases, I doubt that the human controller behind the botnet cares about most of this activity. Your target isn't juicy enough, yet.
Last I heard, and I'm only being mildly partisan here, the Republican plan was to remove restrictions on medical and insurance industries. I can agree that some regulations are getting in the way of doing things more cheaply, but I don't think that's the real reason we don't have universally affordable health care.
I'm sure that streamlining the regulations will help a little, but I'm not convinced that regulations have contributed to the cost significantly.
My real question is why didn't the Republicans propose these changes when they had more power and when they had a friendly president? They saw the problem, and what did they try to do to help to contain costs back then?
This isn't exactly a new problem. My health insurance premiums have been rising by $1000 a year for a long time. The average health care plan costs $14,000 a year for a family. Eventually my employers will be unable to pay for this coverage.
Each year the insurance companies cover less and less (My family has typical needs).
The grass on the other side of the Atlantic doesn't seem green at all. Looks more like rotten.
The grass was denied individual insurance due to pre-existing conditions, and the employer had to drop coverage because the costs of premiums increased from $5000 in year 2000 to over $16000 this year.
Meanwhile, Congress sat on it's hands and did almost nothing to help deal with the costs which were spiraling out of control.
If you think the use of the word 'cyber' is bad, check out this video promoting "Cyber ShockWave". It's produced by Bipartisan Policy Center, the organizers of the event.
The video is like something out of a bad action movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpV5JjnEdE
Devil's advocate, why won't older workers work at that price point?
Because there is often another employer willing to hire at a higher price point.
I hear many people complaining about H1B workers, but I have yet to run into a conflict myself after 13 years in this industry (I'm also not over 40).
I could be wrong, but H1B workers seem to work in many of the low-level and entry positions. Workers over age 40 often aren't applying for those positions.
most of it looks like a low-budget sci-fi from the 80's
I'd like to see if you can make anything better.
Most of this stuff *IS* low-budget sci-fi. Much of this stuff is designed, stitched, welded & hammered at home or a shared studio. You make do with the materials that you can fit into your time and budget. Not everyone has the time or money to build high-budget factory in their garage.
Homebuilt stuff may not look as cool as the shiny stuff you can buy at the store, but it will look better as the maker's skill improves-- that's one of the major drivers behind the DIY movement.
More power to them.
Hrm, it appears that the author of shwatchr hasn't updated it since 2001.
I do like Mike Rash ( Cipherdyne.com ) and have used some of his software (psad will analyze my firewall logs using Snort fingerprints, to help determine the type of attack).
But I would hesitate to use any software which has not been updated in nine years.
Did he mention a disaster? No. Did he mention Haiti? No.
Your snide comments are not helpful.
The poster wants to volunteer his technical skills abroad in an area with need. I'm sure there are plenty of places in the world who could use some professional expertise. You yourself suggest that he can help at home, but perhaps he'd like the experience to help abroad.
Unless you have an expertise in food distribution/agriculture, medicine, or communication ... you will probably just be excess baggage.
Really? The Peace Corp seems to be very active in building schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. They aren't excess baggage.
There are multiple interpretations of the Interstate Commerce Clause. By some interpretations, States do have limited rights to regulate commerce with other states. Also, there seem to be additional interpretations of the law for state-owned services (See the paragraph on "In United Haulers Assoc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority (2007)".
See the following site a good summary of some of the debates.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/statecommerce.htm
"The Commerce Clause is a grant of power to Congress, not an express limitation on the power of the states to regulate the economy. At least four possible interpretations of the Commerce Clause have been proposed. First, it has been suggested that the Clause gives Congress the exclusive power to regulate commerce. Under this interpretation, states are divested of all power to regulate interstate commerce. Second, it has been suggested that the Clause gives Congress and the states concurrent power to regulate commerce. Under this view, state regulation of commerce is invalid only when it is preempted by federal law. Third, it has been suggested that the Clause assumes that Congress and the states each have their own mutually exclusive zones of regulatory power. Under this interpretation, it becomes the job of the courts to determine whether one sovereign has invaded the exclusive regulatory zone of the other. Finally, it has been suggested that the Clause by its own force divests states of the power to regulate commerce in certain ways, but the states and Congress retain concurrent power to regulate commerce in many other ways. This fourth interpretation, a complicated hybrid of two others, turns out to be the approach taken by the Court in its decisions interpreting the Commerce Clause."
From one of the articles "one of the developers spoke about the game seems to cover this. Virtual Heroes, the producer of American's Army, is providing this game. It seems like they have already produced a couple space sims ("Race to Mars" and "Virtual Astronaut"), but I might be wrong.
Except in the US it has to be a doctor who does it, because nobody would settle for a nurse.
Blue Shield/Blue Cross of California and Kaiser Permanente both have a nurse available on the phone, 24/7. I've used it a couple times and it worked out well... many simple things can be diagnosed over the phone with a simple questionnaire. If not, they'll tell you to come and see the doctor, often with a priority appointment the next morning.
Yes, that one. Apparently it's been giving me all your mod points. Most weeks, I get more mod points then I can have time for.
Yes, everyone has heard of ZFS on FUSE. I'm not sure I would call that a 'port'-- a port would run natively on a filesystem. ZFS on FUSE is a hack, and would probably never be trustworthy enough to run a Production or Enterprise storage system, or host backup data, or anything outside the hobbyist realm.
That project looks abandoned (No releases in over a year, no news or updates on the blog in over a year). I wish people would stop referring to it until the project becomes active again.
There are Linux ports of ZFS that distance themselves far enough from the GPLd kernel not to be an issue, but they need work.
Got some links or references for any of these Linux ports? These projects can't just 'port' the ZFS code and change the license.
Still, why exclude Macs and Windows? Any system can have ZFS in theory.
He's referring to Vendor supported options. Microsoft doesn't support ZFS, and Apple dropped ZFS support a couple months ago.