Funny, I also originally heard it from an ex-Navy guy despite being raised by Marines. In the version he told The Army never actuall went in the building, they just established a perimeter around it and blocked access; The marines assulted it in a far less descriptive manner (no duplication of methods in that version). But this was what came up in a Google search of "Secure the Building", so I went with it.
Keep in mind words aren't as precise as we'd like them to be, over the years they take on multiple meanings. Witness the following permutayions on a classic Military phrase, which you think would be very well defined:
One reason the Armed Services have trouble operating jointly is that they have very different meanings for the same terms.
The Joint Chiefs once told the Navy to "secure a building," to which they responded by turning off the lights and locking the doors.
The Joint Chiefs then instructed Army personnel to "secure the building," and they occupied the building so no one could enter.
Upon receiving the exact same order, the Marines assaulted the building, captured it, and set up defenses with suppressive fire & amphibious assault vehicles, established reconnaissance and communications channels, and prepared for close hand-to-hand combat if the situation arose.
But the Air Force, on the other hand, acted most swiftly on the command, and took out a three-year lease with an option to buy.
So its quite possible that both sides are telling the truth, there was no fire & there was a fire. If I asked you if there had ever been a fire in your house, you might truthfully tell me no, even though you had a gas stove, lit matches and candles, and maybe even flambe's some meals. Would that make you a liar?
Still, if the underlying OS is RHEL 3, they are not required to release the source, they can just provide a link to RHEL 3's sources (assuming RH allowed it). This still doesn't mean the vmkernel becomes GPL's
Every plate being scanned won't be tossed away but stored for future use. Once a warrant is issued on a plate, officers can pull up the previously scanned data, using coordinates on a map to pinpoint the exact location and time of the car when it was identified.
So what they are doing is creating a database of where all cars have been, whether they belong to the guilty or the innocent. When I read the summary I thought, "Wow, the ACLU has crossed the line here"; which made me suspicious, usually when folks want to vilify the ACLU they leave out key facts like this one. Read the article, this tidbit is buried in the second to last paragraph and is likely key to the ACLU's concerns.
While technically its not doing anything that crosses a line, noting plates and locations of cars in the public, technology is enabling some very concerning capabilities that need to be addressed. Distrust of the government isn't just a liberal thing, its an American thing.
I know Comcast has been calling, and has gone as far as holding a consumer panel in the area recently.
Comcast could win me back quicly with one simple change:
Release a Dual Tuner HD Tivo box that works similarly to the "DirecTivo" boxes of DirecTV. Dual tuners trhat are recording continuously (Not shut off when the box goes to sleep, not shut off when I'm not watching the other channel {I can mimic this behavior by leaving PIP on}. Has a sane way of determining what to record. So many little annoyances.)
The FIOS DVR does a lot of what I'm missing. I can search for programs by name. Five minutes of playing w/ the FIOS DVR and I was convinced. But then, it wouldn't take much, the Comcast unit is SO bad.
I don't really get what benefit they'd realize from pulling out, unless this is just a negotiating tactic (which certainly could be the case.) Even then, though, iTunes is probably approaching a scale at which they could weather the loss of revenue (albeit with difficulty)
This is definately a negotiating tactic, but its almost certain to backfire on them. When I decide to buy a song these days, unless its for some group I definately want several songs from, I automatically go to iTunes (even before I had a iPod, because I could burn a Mix CD so easily), I never even consider what label its on (even though I hate Sony records, it just doesn't cross my mind). So I'll wind up on iTunes discovering that the music I want isn't there? So Universal hope I'll then curse Apple for not licensing its DRM or being inflexible on their pricing (like I would believe they want to sell it to me for less than $.99 or protect my ability to exercise the fair use provisions of Copyright law). Instead I'll likely wind up buying some other song off iTunes, and likely wonder what kind of third world record company produced a song I can't buy from the most popular online music shop. (Yes, I'll know the DRM line Apple gives is a convenient, if true, excuse for doing something they don't want to do anyway. I'm OK with that. And I'll have the general knowledge the much like the Net Neutrality arguement, companies are using me as a club to get concessions from other companies, but as a former Cogent customer, I'm again on the side that has it right.)
The other posters have already said what Universal wants, a cut of every iPod and iPhone sold, they feel that if it is involved in playing music, they deserve a cut of it.
Yep, isn't it great that the one branch of government that should be completely apolitical has just become yet another neoconservative-controlled institution?
Nonsense. The lifetime appointment system merely evens out the spikes, its by definition a political body, has been since the early 1800's when it basically appointed itself the role it has now. (I forget the descision, IANAL). The conservatives have been in power for 18 of the last 26 years, why is it any surprise the court is leaning that way? Justices will choose to step down to allow a politically friendly president replace them on occasion, so that tends to stretch the swing time even longer.
I don't get what is so special about ZFS that makes this magically possible. Why not IBM's JFS? Or ReiserFS? Or the old reliable EXT2/3/4? or XFS? FreeNAS has been out there for a while, why not use it? Or a CentOS based OS in place of Solaris?
I'm actually very interested in such a project, but I see nothing compeling here.
I'm sad to see it happen, but maybe the experiment will fail.
I suspect it will fail because Dell is not set up to do returns, yet Walmart store policy typically requires it (I know there are exceptions, like CD's and software). Dell will see a flood of returns when people take the computer home, pull out the hard drive and Ram, then return it as not functioning (how many times I saw this at Computer City...). Dell officially takes returns, but generally fixes by repair rather than exchange on the consumer side. Wlamart like to fix by exchange and force the costs back on teh manufacturer becasue they can.
Biofuels produce CO2 when burned, which the article has labeled as a pollutants. The only non-polluting burnable substance is Hydrogen, which of course produces only H2O in a pure environment (but in atmospheric engine the heat and pressure can cause other compounds to be produced I believe)
As for the microbial system, I would state this IS a solar solution, since solar radiation is effectively the energy source growing the algae (energy has to come from somewhere). Cool stuff though.
BTW, if you look hard enough you'll find environmentalists with concerns about both wind, geothermal, and hydroelectic power.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a nuclear energy source that passes prominent environmentalists' litmus test.
Do what I do and ignore them, they spout as many lies as the other side. Ethanol IS cleaner, this study looked at greenhouse gasses (CO2) which are going to be about the same for any Hydrocarbon, however other pollutants are better (and CO2 has only recently been considered as a pollutant. Those dang environmentalists produce tons of pollutants by breathing, imagine if they all stopped?). Co-incedentally, growing plants consumes pollutants as they breath in CO2 and release they waste product, O2. Ethanol also breaks our dependance on a limited resource, crude oil. Imagine if we didn't care about mideast oil, except as it affected the price we earned for our own oil exports. We could leave Alaskan oil in the ground as a "strategic reserve" and let the wilderness alone.
Environmental extremists are waiting for a pipe dream, Hydrogen powered cars where all the H is produced by means of Solar power and the batteries consist of Hemp and seawater instead of metals and strong acids. Any intermidate steps distract from their long term goals
The competition appears to have done better in the experiments.
And yet the Comcast software is still light years behind the Tivo software which Comcast signed an agreement with years ago and they still show no signs of changing to a vastly superior solution.
More likely, its about money, and the fact they get the Guideworks software cheaper since they own a big chunk of it.
Halo isn't really even new. It's very much a lot like the game Marathon, only with better graphics and physics.
It is by and large Marathon 4/5/6, there's plenty of evidence it takes place in the same Universe, etc, and is only separated by a large amount of time. Since they also created Marathon, this isn't a huge shock. Marathon was groundbreaking mostly in that it brought an interesting storyline to a FPS game, other than that it was really Mac;s answer to Doom. Of course, Doom was just a revampled Castle Wolfenstien 3-D, which was a 3-D version of an old Apple II game, which probably traced its roots back to the old Bezerker game (which never bothered to explain why you were in a maze running from deadly robots), which probably draws inspiration from an old movie, which was inspired by an old story, which was...
1) It was a squirel
2) He clearly removed the "bow" on the praying squirel's head, making it a boy squirel.
3) He added his name, TODD, in big letters
4) His is in color
Be sure to check out TODD's next series of books, Where's Wanda? where you will be challenged to pick out the girl in a white and blue striped shirt from a crowd of people. An idea he came up with entirely on his own, because he doesn't have time for books.
The change request should include at the very least a benefit analysis (what's the benefit in making this change), risk analysis (what could happen if it goes wrong) and a rollback plan (what we do if it goes wrong).
And what if there was? What if, gasp, this software upgrade had an "unexpected" impact? Risk analysis almost certainly would not have listed "worldwide operations will grind to a halt, cats and dogs start sleeping together, all the molecules in your person fly apart in exciting ways", and the "unexpected impact" would not have been accounted for in the rollback plan.
I've yet to work for a company that had the resources to exactly replicate the production environment in QA, you look at the risk/reward, study your budget, and do the best you can. I saw a gaming website once that showed statistically someone rolls double's 6 times in a row about every 5 minutes. Freaky stuff happens and happens far more often than you think.
Now for the million dollar question, what real damage has been done by this outage. Millions of folks were unable to instantly read their email while away from their desks, something they were always unable to do prior to Blackberry. Its a small bruise to their rep, users Blackberries go off line all the time (god I hate supporting those things), this was just a first time it effected them ALL.
My interpretation: Congressmen need more than 6 figures to be bought off.
Wrong government body/Wrong Washington. This was a State action (not Washington DC), so State Legislators were the one's who needed to be bought off. If you insist on looking that cynically at it, remember its a body of people, 10-20 perhaps, so even if you focus on only 51% of them, its not THAT much.
In real life, most of the money went to adds and lobbyists, etc., maybe a few got campaign contributions but likely they already were against the ban.
If a command has the name "redhat" in it, it would be a functional difference because a script that called that command would fail. Likewise, a script that ran a check to verify it was running RHEL 3 would fail (cat/etc/redhat-release). Dell's Open Manage Install CD is an excellent example, it checks to verify the OS CD you are loading is RHEL release 0 (it even chokes on RHEL update CD's). Also, installers that use checksums can fail because the rebuilt files might vary on a random byte, changing the checksum.
Sort of like identical twins having different fingerprints. They are almost exactly the same, but not quite.
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The only functional difference between the two is the removal of the RedHat name and logo from all packages. redhat-config-network becomes system-config-network, etc; the rest is all artwork.
Fedora is a whole other beast. While Fedora rpms will often run fine on a RHEL system (and RHEL5 makes many of the FC6 packages available as unsupported extras), its goal is to be much faster moving and bleeding edge, at the cost of reliability and long term support.
I imagine self-destruct was the lure. If they had bothered to Encrypt the contents as well, bypassing the self-destruct would not have been the catostrophic failure it was. The crunchy on teh outside, chewy on the inside security model fails again!
Wrong, when audited, you can't compare a hidden benefit with a visible cost, no matter how positive it might eventually be.
Don't make it a hidden benefit. Quantify how much time it saves, you don't need big numbers. Can you demonstrate a 5 minute per day benefit? (10 seconds a windows switch, thats just 30 switches a day). Thats 100 minutes a month. In 6 months, thats 600 minutes, or 10 hours. Now your company almost certainly has an internal billing rate they use when considering your time (even better if they have an external rate), its likely at least 2x your current salary (it costs to hire you, house you, train you, etc. You are an expensive asset). Lets say you are a young average programmer, thats still a $50/hour internal billing rate. So long as your second monitor costs less than $500, it pays for itself in 6 months.
that Juniper wants the BLACK HAT hackers focusing on their hardware?
Not on their hardware, but hardware in general. Show folks that those Linksys firewalls aren't as good as the Netscreen product which cost 5x to 100x more. I'm sure they are unreasonably confident in the security of their own product.
Personnaly, I'm tempted to buy one to run VMware on it. I could have a whole test lab running on 1 box; 8 cores + 8 Gigs in a well built and stylish machine...
And the problem with "digital", or maybe more appropriately, "soft", controls is that you can't feel them
There's absolutely no reason soft controls can't give feedback, audio, visual, or tactile. The iPod (optionaly) clicks while you spin the wheel, many scroll wheels have "detents", and my video game steering wheel can drag, fight back, and rumble. These are implementation details.
GK didn't refuse to talk - he refused to license on terms IBM would accept.
The story thats been out there is that Bill Gates brought IBM around while Gary was having some sort of dinner party. Gary got ticked and threw them out loudly and obnoxiously enough that the IBM guys, working on the below the radar PC project w/o much budget, were considering giving up. Bill wildly claimed he could provide them with an OS (despite never having written one) and thus DOS was born.
Actually, he owes it to Gary Kildall refusing to talk to IBM when they asked him to port his dominant OS to their new computer. Bill got into the OS market to save his contract with IBM for Basic on the new PC.
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Funny, I also originally heard it from an ex-Navy guy despite being raised by Marines. In the version he told The Army never actuall went in the building, they just established a perimeter around it and blocked access; The marines assulted it in a far less descriptive manner (no duplication of methods in that version). But this was what came up in a Google search of "Secure the Building", so I went with it.
One reason the Armed Services have trouble operating jointly is that they have very different meanings for the same terms.
The Joint Chiefs once told the Navy to "secure a building," to which they responded by turning off the lights and locking the doors.
The Joint Chiefs then instructed Army personnel to "secure the building," and they occupied the building so no one could enter.
Upon receiving the exact same order, the Marines assaulted the building, captured it, and set up defenses with suppressive fire & amphibious assault vehicles, established reconnaissance and communications channels, and prepared for close hand-to-hand combat if the situation arose.
But the Air Force, on the other hand, acted most swiftly on the command, and took out a three-year lease with an option to buy.
So its quite possible that both sides are telling the truth, there was no fire & there was a fire. If I asked you if there had ever been a fire in your house, you might truthfully tell me no, even though you had a gas stove, lit matches and candles, and maybe even flambe's some meals. Would that make you a liar?
Still, if the underlying OS is RHEL 3, they are not required to release the source, they can just provide a link to RHEL 3's sources (assuming RH allowed it). This still doesn't mean the vmkernel becomes GPL's
So what they are doing is creating a database of where all cars have been, whether they belong to the guilty or the innocent. When I read the summary I thought, "Wow, the ACLU has crossed the line here"; which made me suspicious, usually when folks want to vilify the ACLU they leave out key facts like this one. Read the article, this tidbit is buried in the second to last paragraph and is likely key to the ACLU's concerns.
While technically its not doing anything that crosses a line, noting plates and locations of cars in the public, technology is enabling some very concerning capabilities that need to be addressed. Distrust of the government isn't just a liberal thing, its an American thing.
Comcast could win me back quicly with one simple change:
Release a Dual Tuner HD Tivo box that works similarly to the "DirecTivo" boxes of DirecTV. Dual tuners trhat are recording continuously (Not shut off when the box goes to sleep, not shut off when I'm not watching the other channel {I can mimic this behavior by leaving PIP on}. Has a sane way of determining what to record. So many little annoyances.)
The FIOS DVR does a lot of what I'm missing. I can search for programs by name. Five minutes of playing w/ the FIOS DVR and I was convinced. But then, it wouldn't take much, the Comcast unit is SO bad.
This is definately a negotiating tactic, but its almost certain to backfire on them. When I decide to buy a song these days, unless its for some group I definately want several songs from, I automatically go to iTunes (even before I had a iPod, because I could burn a Mix CD so easily), I never even consider what label its on (even though I hate Sony records, it just doesn't cross my mind). So I'll wind up on iTunes discovering that the music I want isn't there? So Universal hope I'll then curse Apple for not licensing its DRM or being inflexible on their pricing (like I would believe they want to sell it to me for less than $.99 or protect my ability to exercise the fair use provisions of Copyright law). Instead I'll likely wind up buying some other song off iTunes, and likely wonder what kind of third world record company produced a song I can't buy from the most popular online music shop. (Yes, I'll know the DRM line Apple gives is a convenient, if true, excuse for doing something they don't want to do anyway. I'm OK with that. And I'll have the general knowledge the much like the Net Neutrality arguement, companies are using me as a club to get concessions from other companies, but as a former Cogent customer, I'm again on the side that has it right.)
The other posters have already said what Universal wants, a cut of every iPod and iPhone sold, they feel that if it is involved in playing music, they deserve a cut of it.
Nonsense. The lifetime appointment system merely evens out the spikes, its by definition a political body, has been since the early 1800's when it basically appointed itself the role it has now. (I forget the descision, IANAL). The conservatives have been in power for 18 of the last 26 years, why is it any surprise the court is leaning that way? Justices will choose to step down to allow a politically friendly president replace them on occasion, so that tends to stretch the swing time even longer.
I'm actually very interested in such a project, but I see nothing compeling here.
I suspect it will fail because Dell is not set up to do returns, yet Walmart store policy typically requires it (I know there are exceptions, like CD's and software). Dell will see a flood of returns when people take the computer home, pull out the hard drive and Ram, then return it as not functioning (how many times I saw this at Computer City...). Dell officially takes returns, but generally fixes by repair rather than exchange on the consumer side. Wlamart like to fix by exchange and force the costs back on teh manufacturer becasue they can.
Biofuels produce CO2 when burned, which the article has labeled as a pollutants. The only non-polluting burnable substance is Hydrogen, which of course produces only H2O in a pure environment (but in atmospheric engine the heat and pressure can cause other compounds to be produced I believe)
As for the microbial system, I would state this IS a solar solution, since solar radiation is effectively the energy source growing the algae (energy has to come from somewhere). Cool stuff though.
BTW, if you look hard enough you'll find environmentalists with concerns about both wind, geothermal, and hydroelectic power.
Do what I do and ignore them, they spout as many lies as the other side. Ethanol IS cleaner, this study looked at greenhouse gasses (CO2) which are going to be about the same for any Hydrocarbon, however other pollutants are better (and CO2 has only recently been considered as a pollutant. Those dang environmentalists produce tons of pollutants by breathing, imagine if they all stopped?). Co-incedentally, growing plants consumes pollutants as they breath in CO2 and release they waste product, O2. Ethanol also breaks our dependance on a limited resource, crude oil. Imagine if we didn't care about mideast oil, except as it affected the price we earned for our own oil exports. We could leave Alaskan oil in the ground as a "strategic reserve" and let the wilderness alone.
Environmental extremists are waiting for a pipe dream, Hydrogen powered cars where all the H is produced by means of Solar power and the batteries consist of Hemp and seawater instead of metals and strong acids. Any intermidate steps distract from their long term goals
And yet the Comcast software is still light years behind the Tivo software which Comcast signed an agreement with years ago and they still show no signs of changing to a vastly superior solution.
More likely, its about money, and the fact they get the Guideworks software cheaper since they own a big chunk of it.
It is by and large Marathon 4/5/6, there's plenty of evidence it takes place in the same Universe, etc, and is only separated by a large amount of time. Since they also created Marathon, this isn't a huge shock. Marathon was groundbreaking mostly in that it brought an interesting storyline to a FPS game, other than that it was really Mac;s answer to Doom. Of course, Doom was just a revampled Castle Wolfenstien 3-D, which was a 3-D version of an old Apple II game, which probably traced its roots back to the old Bezerker game (which never bothered to explain why you were in a maze running from deadly robots), which probably draws inspiration from an old movie, which was inspired by an old story, which was...
2) He clearly removed the "bow" on the praying squirel's head, making it a boy squirel.
3) He added his name, TODD, in big letters
4) His is in color
Be sure to check out TODD's next series of books, Where's Wanda? where you will be challenged to pick out the girl in a white and blue striped shirt from a crowd of people. An idea he came up with entirely on his own, because he doesn't have time for books.
And what if there was? What if, gasp, this software upgrade had an "unexpected" impact? Risk analysis almost certainly would not have listed "worldwide operations will grind to a halt, cats and dogs start sleeping together, all the molecules in your person fly apart in exciting ways", and the "unexpected impact" would not have been accounted for in the rollback plan.
I've yet to work for a company that had the resources to exactly replicate the production environment in QA, you look at the risk/reward, study your budget, and do the best you can. I saw a gaming website once that showed statistically someone rolls double's 6 times in a row about every 5 minutes. Freaky stuff happens and happens far more often than you think.
Now for the million dollar question, what real damage has been done by this outage. Millions of folks were unable to instantly read their email while away from their desks, something they were always unable to do prior to Blackberry. Its a small bruise to their rep, users Blackberries go off line all the time (god I hate supporting those things), this was just a first time it effected them ALL.
Wrong government body/Wrong Washington. This was a State action (not Washington DC), so State Legislators were the one's who needed to be bought off. If you insist on looking that cynically at it, remember its a body of people, 10-20 perhaps, so even if you focus on only 51% of them, its not THAT much.
In real life, most of the money went to adds and lobbyists, etc., maybe a few got campaign contributions but likely they already were against the ban.
Sort of like identical twins having different fingerprints. They are almost exactly the same, but not quite.
Fedora is a whole other beast. While Fedora rpms will often run fine on a RHEL system (and RHEL5 makes many of the FC6 packages available as unsupported extras), its goal is to be much faster moving and bleeding edge, at the cost of reliability and long term support.
I imagine self-destruct was the lure. If they had bothered to Encrypt the contents as well, bypassing the self-destruct would not have been the catostrophic failure it was. The crunchy on teh outside, chewy on the inside security model fails again!
Don't make it a hidden benefit. Quantify how much time it saves, you don't need big numbers. Can you demonstrate a 5 minute per day benefit? (10 seconds a windows switch, thats just 30 switches a day). Thats 100 minutes a month. In 6 months, thats 600 minutes, or 10 hours. Now your company almost certainly has an internal billing rate they use when considering your time (even better if they have an external rate), its likely at least 2x your current salary (it costs to hire you, house you, train you, etc. You are an expensive asset). Lets say you are a young average programmer, thats still a $50/hour internal billing rate. So long as your second monitor costs less than $500, it pays for itself in 6 months.
Not on their hardware, but hardware in general. Show folks that those Linksys firewalls aren't as good as the Netscreen product which cost 5x to 100x more. I'm sure they are unreasonably confident in the security of their own product.
Personnaly, I'm tempted to buy one to run VMware on it. I could have a whole test lab running on 1 box; 8 cores + 8 Gigs in a well built and stylish machine...
There's absolutely no reason soft controls can't give feedback, audio, visual, or tactile. The iPod (optionaly) clicks while you spin the wheel, many scroll wheels have "detents", and my video game steering wheel can drag, fight back, and rumble. These are implementation details.
The story thats been out there is that Bill Gates brought IBM around while Gary was having some sort of dinner party. Gary got ticked and threw them out loudly and obnoxiously enough that the IBM guys, working on the below the radar PC project w/o much budget, were considering giving up. Bill wildly claimed he could provide them with an OS (despite never having written one) and thus DOS was born.
Actually, he owes it to Gary Kildall refusing to talk to IBM when they asked him to port his dominant OS to their new computer. Bill got into the OS market to save his contract with IBM for Basic on the new PC.