Here's a true story: my girlfriend has bought into one of those worthless LifeLock plans. Feels secure, and has sterling credit (over 800 score). Through some small-time credit transactions finds out that some guy with a Hispanic name has been using her soc number, but with HIS OWN NAME, to get credit cards. LifeLock, now knowing there is an "issue" alerts her every time her number is used to access credit. She tells several jurisdictions about the issue as well. After several go-arounds on the phone with banks, institutions, and precincts the end result is NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. The best she can do is call the issuing institution when she finds out about it and they MAY close the account, etc.
This has been ongoing for the last 5 years. The situation is laughable if not so serious.
Well, I suppose you're going to see some differences between countries with a total population of 25 Million to one with well over 350 million, but hey, its your point. You run with it.
People running away from their debt, this is why the country goes to shit.
No. I don't think that's a leading factor. Debt collectors not following the rules, that's not a reason for the country "going to shit either", but it doesn't help.
I know. Those are the fact. The reasons for cancelling the Apache given were the funds were needed for the Osprey. Go figure. It had nothing to do with "replacing" the apache. And I do believe cruise missiles can replace bombers. You haven't convinced me.
Indeed. Bought a jeep wrangler from a "group", they have dealerships all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Most independent dealers (with one lot) look to get bought out by these consortiums. Leaving dealer's like "Fast Bubba's quality cars" trying to sell you a pacer with mis-match panels and primer all over the body. Well, who can blame them? A big pay out for your business is a very attractive offer.
We have a huge homeless population in San Francisco, I can attest to that. They have shelters here, but apparently those are a horror show in and of themselves. A lot of the homeless refuse to use them.
Its all true, I was there. Sun was the mightiest company in the land once, the whole internet ran on Solaris machines. Then Linus Torvalds came with his x86 based unix-like thingie, and once mighty Sun toppled like a house of chips.
Its all moot. In a world conflict surely the first target will be the satellite array. The US defence forces have mitigating factors and some redundant systems but once you take out the satellites. its pretty much over.
Here's sense: if I were king of the land, I'd stop all F-35 production. Its hugely expensive and not necessary. It doesn't even dog fight. The A-10 is the single most effective machine against ground troops. Upgrade those. And the V-22? Gone. Replace those with the Apache program that it killed. Bombers are passe, we don't need 'em. Replace those with cruise missiles which can be carried by subs, ships, and other planes, and at 1/10th the cost of a bomber, or less. Put the money in those and drones and you have a highly effective air power at a fraction of the cost. We DO NOT NEED A NEW BOMBER. We have an array of technological new weapons that can completely replace any notion of a bomber. They're simply not necessary.
I take public transportation, so bulky and heavy workstation type laptops are not particularly desirable.
Right, so now you carry two tablets, one this kangaoo thing, the other a tablet so you can see what you're doing with it while on the bus. Very convenient.
So you carry with you a small spray can of instant screen; spray on any flat surface and the nanomachines released by the spray assemble into an instant lcd, and connect to the unit by radio (would have to be better than bluetooth). When you're done the nanoparticles disassemble, dissolving the screen. Just need that part.
I rather have a hard time with this myself, having dabbled in the FPGA world. All the mainline manufacturers have their own tool chain, and the languages employed (Verilog, VHDL, C, proprietary and in-house) make it a world I would think they would find difficult to pick up after a few weeks in a trade school. If you're hiring people to do something repetitive like board bring up, we usually had images we would write to the firmware as soon as the boards came in-house, and they were ready for prototyping when we started a design., unless we needed a special or off-main line driver. And THAT required us, the engineers. Not sure how a $5/hour (or whatever) toady from a diploma mill fits in there.
We did have guys in receiving that weren't "engineers" per se that wrote our images to firmware when those boards came in, but they didn't get paid $5 an our either. Anyone who met certain minimum standards (warehouse experience, shipping/receiving, minimal electronics education) were used to staff receiving. Could we have paid them that? Doubt it. And we had very low turnover. Those guys valued those jobs.
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This is the only way to go.
Another (or really, the only) not to have a ssh port exposed to the world. People who do that are asking for trouble. Tunnel in through a VPN people!
Here's a true story: my girlfriend has bought into one of those worthless LifeLock plans. Feels secure, and has sterling credit (over 800 score). Through some small-time credit transactions finds out that some guy with a Hispanic name has been using her soc number, but with HIS OWN NAME, to get credit cards. LifeLock, now knowing there is an "issue" alerts her every time her number is used to access credit. She tells several jurisdictions about the issue as well. After several go-arounds on the phone with banks, institutions, and precincts the end result is NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. The best she can do is call the issuing institution when she finds out about it and they MAY close the account, etc.
This has been ongoing for the last 5 years. The situation is laughable if not so serious.
Pay my bills, no problems. Some one starts using my good name and soc; problems. What should I have done differently?
Well, I suppose you're going to see some differences between countries with a total population of 25 Million to one with well over 350 million, but hey, its your point. You run with it.
If you truly understood how debt collection really works, you might not be so passé about it.
People running away from their debt, this is why the country goes to shit.
No. I don't think that's a leading factor. Debt collectors not following the rules, that's not a reason for the country "going to shit either", but it doesn't help.
Are you being serious?
I know. Those are the fact. The reasons for cancelling the Apache given were the funds were needed for the Osprey. Go figure. It had nothing to do with "replacing" the apache. And I do believe cruise missiles can replace bombers. You haven't convinced me.
Indeed. Bought a jeep wrangler from a "group", they have dealerships all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Most independent dealers (with one lot) look to get bought out by these consortiums. Leaving dealer's like "Fast Bubba's quality cars" trying to sell you a pacer with mis-match panels and primer all over the body. Well, who can blame them? A big pay out for your business is a very attractive offer.
We have a huge homeless population in San Francisco, I can attest to that. They have shelters here, but apparently those are a horror show in and of themselves. A lot of the homeless refuse to use them.
Good luck with that.
That's what IBM said about AIX, then they became a "services" company.
Its all true, I was there. Sun was the mightiest company in the land once, the whole internet ran on Solaris machines. Then Linus Torvalds came with his x86 based unix-like thingie, and once mighty Sun toppled like a house of chips.
Its all moot. In a world conflict surely the first target will be the satellite array. The US defence forces have mitigating factors and some redundant systems but once you take out the satellites. its pretty much over.
After experiencing first hand what armed forces radars can do I don't think land-based has the edge you think it does.
Here's sense: if I were king of the land, I'd stop all F-35 production. Its hugely expensive and not necessary. It doesn't even dog fight. The A-10 is the single most effective machine against ground troops. Upgrade those. And the V-22? Gone. Replace those with the Apache program that it killed. Bombers are passe, we don't need 'em. Replace those with cruise missiles which can be carried by subs, ships, and other planes, and at 1/10th the cost of a bomber, or less. Put the money in those and drones and you have a highly effective air power at a fraction of the cost. We DO NOT NEED A NEW BOMBER. We have an array of technological new weapons that can completely replace any notion of a bomber. They're simply not necessary.
I love that phrase: "(X) isn't possible on my particular brand of poison."
Its so easy to get the bit width of an int on any hardware it makes me cringe when embedded programmers don't do it.
Its not that bad, I do it. Rather have my one device that does what I need than two.
I take public transportation, so bulky and heavy workstation type laptops are not particularly desirable.
Right, so now you carry two tablets, one this kangaoo thing, the other a tablet so you can see what you're doing with it while on the bus. Very convenient.
So you carry with you a small spray can of instant screen; spray on any flat surface and the nanomachines released by the spray assemble into an instant lcd, and connect to the unit by radio (would have to be better than bluetooth). When you're done the nanoparticles disassemble, dissolving the screen. Just need that part.
It seems unlikely the Russians would risk peacetime exposure of such an act of sabotage...
Indeed, and they aren't stupid. I don't think sabotage (or as Shatner would say: 'Sabatage') is what they have in mind.
I rather have a hard time with this myself, having dabbled in the FPGA world. All the mainline manufacturers have their own tool chain, and the languages employed (Verilog, VHDL, C, proprietary and in-house) make it a world I would think they would find difficult to pick up after a few weeks in a trade school. If you're hiring people to do something repetitive like board bring up, we usually had images we would write to the firmware as soon as the boards came in-house, and they were ready for prototyping when we started a design., unless we needed a special or off-main line driver. And THAT required us, the engineers. Not sure how a $5/hour (or whatever) toady from a diploma mill fits in there. We did have guys in receiving that weren't "engineers" per se that wrote our images to firmware when those boards came in, but they didn't get paid $5 an our either. Anyone who met certain minimum standards (warehouse experience, shipping/receiving, minimal electronics education) were used to staff receiving. Could we have paid them that? Doubt it. And we had very low turnover. Those guys valued those jobs.
Prolly not gonna replace my MacBookPro 13" Retina running Mint any time soon, this thing is awesome.
Well, there's a huge surprise.