Northrop Grumman designed and specced out the hardware. If they designed a network with a known death date due to a proprietary GPS it was a poor design. Even if it was an accident that they messed up and it was a human error in design, they still had years to research a replacement part to keep it viable, when they went and looked at the hardware in advance of the epoch change (what they get paid to do). This looks to me like they were caught flat footed (northrop grumman) with the failure to design/build/plan for the future and or a failure to maintain what they were paid to support operations viability and up-time of a network.
Sorry my math was confused. But my larger point stands;\ that ten days of a critical response network is not a prepared response. If it was possible that this was going to occur they should have spent months prior to alerting all parties and this news cycle would have been easily avoidable.
I didn't say this was absurd to have downtime. This isn't a planned outage for maintenance either. To be clear this isn't 1% down time. This issue began on Sunday the 6th, and the network has been down for at least nine or ten days. At this point the network has been down for about 3.6 % of the year, and that percentage is increasing.
What I said quite clearly, they have known (northrop grumman) about the epoch changing for 20 years. This shouldn't be a surprise. They had they designed the network properly would have been aware of this absolute unavoidable reality and been able to pre-emptively planned for and fixed the underlying causes.
They clearly did not, so the question becomes what exactly do they do for the 40 million dollar contract, if not maintain what they built and marketed as a safe alternative and reliable and viable critical information network.
They pay 45 million a year in support for that network to Northrop Grumman. GPS being the root of that downtime should have been easily fixable. The GPS epoch that ended was the second one since it's origin in 1980. It was entirely predictable down to day dates minutes and they had 20 years to prepare for it. Hell they even have 20 or so or more satellites with atomic clocks whose sole purpose for being built is calculating the time.
From what I had read earlier last week, the issue was affecting an emergency response network where they pay Northrop Grumman 40 million a year to maintain. Maintaining it each year is as much as building it should have cost.
one more bit from some post comment reading. The from the copyright act has an explicit statement that offers some guidance here:
Creativity Finally, copyright requires some minimal amount of creativity. All that is required is for the work to possess some creative spark, no matter how crude, humble, or obvious it might be. Creativity is the big question here. The Next Rembrandt was not painted by a human, but by a computer, and computers aren’t creative, at least until we have sentient artificial intelligence. The Copyright Act explicitly addresses the issue of non-humans and copyright protection:
503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author.
In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable.
If two algorithms come up with similar tracks can one sue the other for similarities? If math is the influence can an algorithm claim rights to sound and other distinct elements?
Microsoft was already caught selling identifiable data to politicians back in 2012. When did this newer softer Microsoft come into being? This was back in their days of trying to make google look bad for gmail man. Now that they have doubled down on data collection you're suggesting this is all for your benefit not Microsoft?
I don't own a Chromebook as I don't have a use case for one. I have however consulted for educational software/technology companies. You can do your own TCO analysis without being a pedant. It effectively reduces suport costs and TCO by 61-71% over a three year life-cycle. I based my comment off of the direct feedback from those who administrate and use Chromebooks in their school/teaching districts, as well as direct conversation with VAR's in the field.
The cost savings come from reducing support costs to effectively zero. (chromebooks) By not paying for more, better educated support techs to help with administrating the Apple machines they are saving money and staff and time.
Is there some magical new high speed way for end users to cost effectively upload data to these satellites? Maybe my technology understanding is rusty, but one way internet doesn't allow for things such as uploading video evidence of police abuse, or government abuse of citizen rights or similar. How does the end user get his query to that satellite without going through the oppressive regional regime of choice?
This is the third significant outage to occur (impacting bulk users)in the three months since my company has been migrated to O365. There were some affected users last week as well with being prompted for repeated log ins to the servers.
I believe you are incorrect. the room that you are discussing is one of many (there are similar ones in NYC) and the intent is to duplicate all data (PRISM) into a separate pipeline for "collection" in bulk.
No one is claiming we don't do this.... In this case the NSA seems like it would enjoy the ability to capture this data in whole. There is no incentive for them to stop this from occurring because now they can legally siphon it up as foreign data and spy on US citizens with hat they claim is less Constitutional rights abusive. In fact there is no evidence that this isn't being encouraged.
Your comment is incorrect. By definition of this being an unmanned drone; this is not direct interaction. It was done through a proxy of a DRONE, which is neither direct interaction with or interaction with a human. Audibly the bear heard the drone. That is the extent of the interaction. He wasn't spoken to, fed, tranquilized, played music, grabbed, raped, molested, or shot.
Have you ever been surprised or scared by a bear or a mountain lion? They can and do scare humans. Should they be treated as vile mammals for such heinous activities? Would you demand an apology from the mountain lion that scared you and made you uncomfortable and was your instinct to put your children out of harms way? DO you write off the species for menacing innocent humans walking through a slot canyon? Are humans an outbreak species?
Black bears scare easily. Human noises, breaking branches, and or talking loudly/yelling could all have had a similar affect. In fact making noises while walking in bear country to startle and alert any bears in the area is considered the safe thing to do. It is a survival instinct that helps them not be hunted by humans or other large predators. To the people so worried about inflicting horror on these mammals, they should avoid going into the woods entirely.
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They didn't have to prepare. The preparation was paying 40 million a year to northrop grumman to maintain and be prepared for them.
Northrop Grumman designed and specced out the hardware. If they designed a network with a known death date due to a proprietary GPS it was a poor design. Even if it was an accident that they messed up and it was a human error in design, they still had years to research a replacement part to keep it viable, when they went and looked at the hardware in advance of the epoch change (what they get paid to do). This looks to me like they were caught flat footed (northrop grumman) with the failure to design/build/plan for the future and or a failure to maintain what they were paid to support operations viability and up-time of a network.
Sorry my math was confused. But my larger point stands;\ that ten days of a critical response network is not a prepared response. If it was possible that this was going to occur they should have spent months prior to alerting all parties and this news cycle would have been easily avoidable.
I didn't say this was absurd to have downtime. This isn't a planned outage for maintenance either. To be clear this isn't 1% down time. This issue began on Sunday the 6th, and the network has been down for at least nine or ten days. At this point the network has been down for about 3.6 % of the year, and that percentage is increasing.
What I said quite clearly, they have known (northrop grumman) about the epoch changing for 20 years. This shouldn't be a surprise. They had they designed the network properly would have been aware of this absolute unavoidable reality and been able to pre-emptively planned for and fixed the underlying causes.
They clearly did not, so the question becomes what exactly do they do for the 40 million dollar contract, if not maintain what they built and marketed as a safe alternative and reliable and viable critical information network.
They pay 45 million a year in support for that network to Northrop Grumman. GPS being the root of that downtime should have been easily fixable. The GPS epoch that ended was the second one since it's origin in 1980. It was entirely predictable down to day dates minutes and they had 20 years to prepare for it. Hell they even have 20 or so or more satellites with atomic clocks whose sole purpose for being built is calculating the time.
From what I had read earlier last week, the issue was affecting an emergency response network where they pay Northrop Grumman 40 million a year to maintain.
Maintaining it each year is as much as building it should have cost.
The cars are autonomous not "autimatic". perhaps you are overestimating what you bring to the table vs autonomous vehicles.
I know you posted this earlier, however it seems now the US is claiming "computer hacking of US servers" by Assange are grounds for extradition.
one more bit from some post comment reading. The from the copyright act has an explicit statement that offers some guidance here:
Creativity
Finally, copyright requires some minimal amount of creativity. All that is required is for the work to possess some creative spark, no matter how crude, humble, or obvious it might be. Creativity is the big question here. The Next Rembrandt was not painted by a human, but by a computer, and computers aren’t creative, at least until we have sentient artificial intelligence. The Copyright Act explicitly addresses the issue of non-humans and copyright protection:
503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author.
In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable.
I was thinking along similar lines, but didn't want to give anyone more bad ideas.
If two algorithms come up with similar tracks can one sue the other for similarities? If math is the influence can an algorithm claim rights to sound and other distinct elements?
creatives don't want N-Trig.
Microsoft was already caught selling identifiable data to politicians back in 2012. When did this newer softer Microsoft come into being? This was back in their days of trying to make google look bad for gmail man. Now that they have doubled down on data collection you're suggesting this is all for your benefit not Microsoft?
I don't own a Chromebook as I don't have a use case for one. I have however consulted for educational software/technology companies. You can do your own TCO analysis without being a pedant. It effectively reduces suport costs and TCO by 61-71% over a three year life-cycle.
I based my comment off of the direct feedback from those who administrate and use Chromebooks in their school/teaching districts, as well as direct conversation with VAR's in the field.
The cost savings come from reducing support costs to effectively zero. (chromebooks) By not paying for more, better educated support techs to help with administrating the Apple machines they are saving money and staff and time.
Is there some magical new high speed way for end users to cost effectively upload data to these satellites? Maybe my technology understanding is rusty, but one way internet doesn't allow for things such as uploading video evidence of police abuse, or government abuse of citizen rights or similar. How does the end user get his query to that satellite without going through the oppressive regional regime of choice?
The lie that you can't have freedom and safety is older than America.
only an idiot would trust open source code they can see/manipulate? Is that how this works now?
This is the third significant outage to occur (impacting bulk users)in the three months since my company has been migrated to O365. There were some affected users last week as well with being prompted for repeated log ins to the servers.
if you use any cellular phone your data is monetized.
it is well documented. His legal court case was quite revealing.
I believe you are incorrect. the room that you are discussing is one of many (there are similar ones in NYC) and the intent is to duplicate all data (PRISM) into a separate pipeline for "collection" in bulk.
No one is claiming we don't do this.... In this case the NSA seems like it would enjoy the ability to capture this data in whole. There is no incentive for them to stop this from occurring because now they can legally siphon it up as foreign data and spy on US citizens with hat they claim is less Constitutional rights abusive. In fact there is no evidence that this isn't being encouraged.
Your comment is incorrect. By definition of this being an unmanned drone; this is not direct interaction. It was done through a proxy of a DRONE, which is neither direct interaction with or interaction with a human. Audibly the bear heard the drone. That is the extent of the interaction. He wasn't spoken to, fed, tranquilized, played music, grabbed, raped, molested, or shot.
Have you ever been surprised or scared by a bear or a mountain lion? They can and do scare humans. Should they be treated as vile mammals for such heinous activities? Would you demand an apology from the mountain lion that scared you and made you uncomfortable and was your instinct to put your children out of harms way? DO you write off the species for menacing innocent humans walking through a slot canyon? Are humans an outbreak species?
Black bears scare easily. Human noises, breaking branches, and or talking loudly/yelling could all have had a similar affect. In fact making noises while walking in bear country to startle and alert any bears in the area is considered the safe thing to do. It is a survival instinct that helps them not be hunted by humans or other large predators. To the people so worried about inflicting horror on these mammals, they should avoid going into the woods entirely.