How about aerogel? Then use rf/ir or lasers instead of wires to control motors. Then there would be absolutely nothing to hit in the tail except motors and battery packs and a few other odds n ends in the electronics department.
In the end there's probably always something that's target-able by a laser to disable the uav enough to make it worthless, so I'm sure something that can either reflect or bend the laser beams enough to protect those parts is the better approach.
SAP can handle payroll, and some organizations actually use that functionality. Let me know who you've found that kept their job after messing up payroll (who isn't also sleeping with the boss).
I can play the same game... Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech succeed. It's hurts when it doesn't pays off, but almost always it is under budget and satisfies the unique requirements of the business. If the CEO got unlucky, too bad for him, but his CIO shouldn't be sitting in the big chair if he didn't at least recommend doing it in house.
Unfortunately statements like these are easy to reword the exact opposite and not sound crazy. If you look at Gartner's statistics, they have a pretty even split between successful and failed implementations. From my experience, the outcome is completely dependent on the personnel. If you get people that are intelligent and want it to succeed in leadership roles (and they get along with each other), you'll have a lot better chance than having people who are coming for a huge paycheck and flying home on a Thursday afternoon.
Since Tesla probably has a pretty intelligent staff, I'm not surprised that they would succeed.
It's pretty difficult to keep good talent at organizations. Especially when you get into the grind of a single goal and day in and day out it's the same thing. Having a boss that might step in 1 day that and say hey, instead of working on that problem you've been on for a while, how about you work on making this car into a submarine. Thanks. That would be awesome, adds spice into the mix, and helps make people reconsider ever wanting to leave their organization.
Hopefully that's the motivation behind this moreso than the I'm farting so much money now I can't find enough ways to spend it kind of thing!
The problem with undeploying would be the whole 20/20 hindsight. I wouldn't be able to tell you what would have happened if the troops weren't there. I can say, though, when things get real bad and the U.S. doesn't get involved, then it get's dissed by other countries for not doing anything. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. In the end though, you'd look more horrible for considering finances over lives.
Not only was the long weekend blamed, but also poor internet connection availability. I had flashbacks during the whole article of people claiming their dog ate their homework. It was just a spewfest of any possible explanation that could avoid saying "You know what? We're sorry. We knee-jerked a reaction and that wasn't appropriate."
Instead of the Steisand effect, we'll need a Mariette effect. That's when you just make up implausible excuses to diminish an improperly handled situation.
The interwebs are getting clogged, I think a squirrel is gnawing on my telephone wires... cable modem cutting out... space debris is starting to block satellite reception... Gardener cut the power to my house... Swamp gas...
My rule is that I'm fine with contradictions being pointed out, or straw man arguments. What I'm not fine with is Slashdot being used as a soap box for a select set of individuals that are trying to excite some type of discussion through spreading of opinions as if they're an authority on the matter. That can be left to the comment section of the news much the same as this comment. My personal preference is that I would never submit a story, which is really just an opinion article of my own, to a site such as this. That activity is better left off to a blog and then someone else can submit my blog to this site.
I'd like to rate this story down. There's no reason this person's perspective is of any stature to warrant being put on the front page of a site like this.
It seems to me you just fell into the same pitfall you were arguing against. Your 3rd party real alternative must be better than the 2 or 3 fake parties... why? If you're talking about Ron Paul... he was the one I was alluding to as bat$4:^ crazy. I haven't come across a presidential candidate yet that I've really thought.. now that's the guy/gal that can get us to where we need to be. Those people don't run for office, because they aren't politicians.
None of those parties are ones that I think would improve the situation at all. We'd trade 1 set of problems for another. I'd rather see scientists and professors (non-law) start running for office. Independents, no parties.
A shuttle is 4 and a half million pounds. and is fighting Earth's gravity. If the largest rock in the summary was picked, it'd weight less than 1 million pounds on Earth (more like half a million). Changing its velocity by 58m/s is actually technologically trivial. Rotation isn't so bad either, you just pulse your burners. The article just says single burn to give you a nice number. More than likely, they'd send up 3 - 6 rockets for redundancy and to stabilize the rock's rotation in a few bursts. Then they'd do controlled bursts to change it's velocity. It's rocket science to actually accomplish, but quite trivially done with today's technology.
There's stuff whizzing past us all the time with the gravitational attractive force that these rocks will have. It's not going to impact tidal patterns until we start capturing relatively large objects... like relative to the moon kind of size.
You know you only have to stand about 6 feet away from somebody to have the same gravitational pull on them as Mars has on you when it's closest to earth? Mars already impacts our tidal patterns more than these rocks.
The incumbent will know what to teach you if you only have a week. If they are leaving on good terms, they probably won't be adverse to having some questions asked by email after they leave, so it's not the end of the world after 7 days.
I've left jobs almost a decade ago and still get an occasional question once or twice a year. It's not that it wasn't documented or couldn't be solved through a few hours of investigation, it's just that a 2 minute email and a 2 minute response later you get your answer and move on. Much more efficient. Sooner or later, the questions stop, and they are self sufficient.
Locking them up for 5 years without access to computers would ensure that when they get out their hacking skills would be so redundant they could never do it again.
I'm pretty sure the analogy to riding a bike applies to hacking. It might take a weekend to catch up on any syntax/language changes. SQL has been around for almost 40 years, and I'm pretty sure experts could catch up real quick if they were locked up in a box for the last 30.
If someone steals my credentials, I'd expect that kind of punishment. I don't think he's being made an example, he's actually getting off light. There's a lot of other things that he could potentially do, or has exposed those students to by capturing their passwords. It's not that he was caught trying to rig an election, it's that he was impersonating other individuals, stealing their identities.
Most of the time when people complain about political correctness, it's because they the self-discipline or the intelligence necessary to compose a polite reply.
Citation Needed
Clearly Linus is not lacking in intelligence, but he seems short on common sense here
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Political correctness, when done well, is a more effective weapon than boorishness.
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Calling someone a fool is easy, but crass and wasteful.
Citation Needed
In the eyes of the audience it lowers you to the level of the fool, and you have to work harder to prove you aren't. Giving someone else the opportunity to open their own mouth and prove themselves a fool, now that's economical.
Citation Needed
They'll happily blather out their inanity on their own, if you let them.
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...Of course, it would laso probably push up the rates for competent software developers.
I think you just made a case for proceeding with the article's proposal. At least, you just sold me on that idea!
How about aerogel? Then use rf/ir or lasers instead of wires to control motors. Then there would be absolutely nothing to hit in the tail except motors and battery packs and a few other odds n ends in the electronics department.
In the end there's probably always something that's target-able by a laser to disable the uav enough to make it worthless, so I'm sure something that can either reflect or bend the laser beams enough to protect those parts is the better approach.
SAP can handle payroll, and some organizations actually use that functionality. Let me know who you've found that kept their job after messing up payroll (who isn't also sleeping with the boss).
Enterprise or not... you're toast.
I can play the same game...
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech succeed. It's hurts when it doesn't pays off, but almost always it is under budget and satisfies the unique requirements of the business. If the CEO got unlucky, too bad for him, but his CIO shouldn't be sitting in the big chair if he didn't at least recommend doing it in house.
Unfortunately statements like these are easy to reword the exact opposite and not sound crazy. If you look at Gartner's statistics, they have a pretty even split between successful and failed implementations. From my experience, the outcome is completely dependent on the personnel. If you get people that are intelligent and want it to succeed in leadership roles (and they get along with each other), you'll have a lot better chance than having people who are coming for a huge paycheck and flying home on a Thursday afternoon.
Since Tesla probably has a pretty intelligent staff, I'm not surprised that they would succeed.
It's pretty difficult to keep good talent at organizations. Especially when you get into the grind of a single goal and day in and day out it's the same thing.
Having a boss that might step in 1 day that and say hey, instead of working on that problem you've been on for a while, how about you work on making this car into a submarine. Thanks.
That would be awesome, adds spice into the mix, and helps make people reconsider ever wanting to leave their organization.
Hopefully that's the motivation behind this moreso than the I'm farting so much money now I can't find enough ways to spend it kind of thing!
It must be encrypted and the only way for the nsa to get it is to have it unencrypted and sent over the wire via ssl!!!
The problem with undeploying would be the whole 20/20 hindsight. I wouldn't be able to tell you what would have happened if the troops weren't there. I can say, though, when things get real bad and the U.S. doesn't get involved, then it get's dissed by other countries for not doing anything. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. In the end though, you'd look more horrible for considering finances over lives.
Not only was the long weekend blamed, but also poor internet connection availability. I had flashbacks during the whole article of people claiming their dog ate their homework. It was just a spewfest of any possible explanation that could avoid saying "You know what? We're sorry. We knee-jerked a reaction and that wasn't appropriate."
Instead of the Steisand effect, we'll need a Mariette effect. That's when you just make up implausible excuses to diminish an improperly handled situation.
The interwebs are getting clogged, I think a squirrel is gnawing on my telephone wires... cable modem cutting out... space debris is starting to block satellite reception... Gardener cut the power to my house... Swamp gas...
My rule is that I'm fine with contradictions being pointed out, or straw man arguments. What I'm not fine with is Slashdot being used as a soap box for a select set of individuals that are trying to excite some type of discussion through spreading of opinions as if they're an authority on the matter. That can be left to the comment section of the news much the same as this comment. My personal preference is that I would never submit a story, which is really just an opinion article of my own, to a site such as this. That activity is better left off to a blog and then someone else can submit my blog to this site.
If Slashdot is a blog, I'll stop visiting.
I'd like to rate this story down. There's no reason this person's perspective is of any stature to warrant being put on the front page of a site like this.
That also just lowers the credibility of Yahoo. They have to have their own employees pay for things in order to operate... Sounds like a startup.
It seems to me you just fell into the same pitfall you were arguing against. Your 3rd party real alternative must be better than the 2 or 3 fake parties... why? If you're talking about Ron Paul... he was the one I was alluding to as bat$4:^ crazy.
I haven't come across a presidential candidate yet that I've really thought.. now that's the guy/gal that can get us to where we need to be. Those people don't run for office, because they aren't politicians.
3D Universe?... I'm not sure how I can type this message without at least some time :(
Either that or it's because the 3rd party is bat$4:^ crazy as well.
I'll see you're isolated networks and raise you this:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218214/Government_tests_show_security_s_people_problem?pageNumber=1
As for write protecting... If it has ram, it'll be written to.
None of those parties are ones that I think would improve the situation at all. We'd trade 1 set of problems for another.
I'd rather see scientists and professors (non-law) start running for office. Independents, no parties.
A shuttle is 4 and a half million pounds. and is fighting Earth's gravity. If the largest rock in the summary was picked, it'd weight less than 1 million pounds on Earth (more like half a million).
Changing its velocity by 58m/s is actually technologically trivial. Rotation isn't so bad either, you just pulse your burners. The article just says single burn to give you a nice number.
More than likely, they'd send up 3 - 6 rockets for redundancy and to stabilize the rock's rotation in a few bursts. Then they'd do controlled bursts to change it's velocity. It's rocket science to actually accomplish, but quite trivially done with today's technology.
There's stuff whizzing past us all the time with the gravitational attractive force that these rocks will have. It's not going to impact tidal patterns until we start capturing relatively large objects... like relative to the moon kind of size.
You know you only have to stand about 6 feet away from somebody to have the same gravitational pull on them as Mars has on you when it's closest to earth?
Mars already impacts our tidal patterns more than these rocks.
I won't vote for him next time!
The incumbent will know what to teach you if you only have a week. If they are leaving on good terms, they probably won't be adverse to having some questions asked by email after they leave, so it's not the end of the world after 7 days.
I've left jobs almost a decade ago and still get an occasional question once or twice a year. It's not that it wasn't documented or couldn't be solved through a few hours of investigation, it's just that a 2 minute email and a 2 minute response later you get your answer and move on. Much more efficient. Sooner or later, the questions stop, and they are self sufficient.
Process it like a hamburger or a hotdog and there will be a lot less resistance.
Locking them up for 5 years without access to computers would ensure that when they get out their hacking skills would be so redundant they could never do it again.
I'm pretty sure the analogy to riding a bike applies to hacking. It might take a weekend to catch up on any syntax/language changes. SQL has been around for almost 40 years, and I'm pretty sure experts could catch up real quick if they were locked up in a box for the last 30.
If someone steals my credentials, I'd expect that kind of punishment. I don't think he's being made an example, he's actually getting off light.
There's a lot of other things that he could potentially do, or has exposed those students to by capturing their passwords. It's not that he was caught trying to rig an election, it's that he was impersonating other individuals, stealing their identities.
When did civility become a disease?
Most of the time when people complain about political correctness, it's because they the self-discipline or the intelligence necessary to compose a polite reply.
Citation Needed
Clearly Linus is not lacking in intelligence, but he seems short on common sense here
Citation Needed
Political correctness, when done well, is a more effective weapon than boorishness.
Citation Needed
Calling someone a fool is easy, but crass and wasteful.
Citation Needed
In the eyes of the audience it lowers you to the level of the fool, and you have to work harder to prove you aren't. Giving someone else the opportunity to open their own mouth and prove themselves a fool, now that's economical.
Citation Needed
They'll happily blather out their inanity on their own, if you let them.
Citation Needed
Doctor Obvious