That's probably the best piece of advice you could ever give any kid embarking on his/her career. My son is still in middle school, and he's free of any delusions about employer-employee relationships.
In a sense we're all just prostitutes peddling our time and assets to sleazy, uncaring creeps.
This is in no way meant to be insulting to prostitutes. I can respect a good honest hooker.
I love to read the little young snerts sounding so clever in their cock-sure certainty that in their Peter Pan worlds they can ridicule and mock those of greater age with impunity.
Guess what, snotty? You are nothing but a geezer in training, awaiting your inevitable turn. The only escape? Premature death.
Somebody mod up. This explanation makes much more sense than the bullshit racist competition of euro-centrists and afro-centrists we see so much of in this debate.Quantitative difference != qualitative difference.
Have we not been repeatedly assured by the UN and the US government that our bestie friend China is a paragon of environmental awareness? Don't all the charts show China with a lower carbon footprint than Switzerland? Surely the pollution must be the US's own being recirculated. After being partially cleansed by the pristine skies of China, of course./sarcasm
SCADAS are just networks like any other. The controllers doing the actual work do fail safe, assuming they're fairly modern intrinsically-safe Level 4 machines. However, no matter how well Emerson, Honeywell, Allen-Bradley or Siemens secure their network architecture, somebody (usually an untrained IT SysAdmin who has no idea of the havoc an open SCADA network can wreak) will inevitably port the control network out to the whole world out of sheer ignorance. Thankfully, just getting in isn't enough to pose much danger to life or property.
Remote monitoring and data collection appliances should always be buffered away from the controls platform via an encrypted data base or other technique. If they're not, somebody needs to get fired.
Granted, no network anywhere is crack-proof given infinite cracking resources. Someone wanting to do serious harm on a Delta V, FactoryTalk, or Honeywell Distributed network is going to need the platform software and expertise in using it to do any real damage beyond, say, a temporary outage. The danger isn't from script kiddies or common criminals. The resources required for dangerous industrial hacking primarily reside with a) government and government-sponsored entities and b) nefarious controls engineers (competitors?) and there isn't much defense against these major-league threats except air walls.
It isn't as though controls engineers don't build a modicum of fault tolerance and controlled reaction to system anomalies into our systems. We do. However, if what we're chasing is iron-clad Fort Knox security in distributed SCADA systems, you might as well put a tooth under your pillow and wish for it.
In case you haven't noticed, medical science (which is primarily undertaken in the US by pharmaceutical companies and universities receiving large corporate endowments), is primarily concerned with treatments, not cures.
A cured patient is no longer a paying customer. A patient under treatment (and his/her insurer) can be milked indefinitely.
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Radio, streamed or OTA, like the BBC World Service and NPR, are all I need for breaking news. For depth, when wanted, I'll research it myself.
I'm not even remotely interested in the crappola that passes for main-stream media these days.
That's probably the best piece of advice you could ever give any kid embarking on his/her career. My son is still in middle school, and he's free of any delusions about employer-employee relationships.
In a sense we're all just prostitutes peddling our time and assets to sleazy, uncaring creeps.
This is in no way meant to be insulting to prostitutes. I can respect a good honest hooker.
The DEA exists for three reasons:
1. Present a "tough on crime" Potemkin village to the drooling voter masses.
2. Provide a clandestine conduit for diplomatic/economic ties to certain unsavory groups/persons.
3. Pork-barrel make-work for the buzz-cut Wyatt Earp types and their cronies in the legal and prison systems.
Everything else is bullshit.
Single-payer universal nationalized healthcare is right around the corner.
Just a few more insurance rate hikes and government regulatory fiascos should do the trick.
I used to be against it. Now it looks like a blessing.
It was Rainier beer.
The Olympia running gag about "them Artesians" was funnier.
I seen 'em!
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I love to read the little young snerts sounding so clever in their cock-sure certainty that in their Peter Pan worlds they can ridicule and mock those of greater age with impunity.
Guess what, snotty? You are nothing but a geezer in training, awaiting your inevitable turn. The only escape? Premature death.
How's that aging thing working for ya?
Scientist: I can mathematically predict a vacuum > 29 in/Hg
Engineer: I can prove it with your lips on my manometer.
Proof that evolution favors success.
Somebody mod up. This explanation makes much more sense than the bullshit racist competition of euro-centrists and afro-centrists we see so much of in this debate.Quantitative difference != qualitative difference.
It probably wouldn't even cost very much
Remember, we're talking NASA here.
Mod up. The voice of experience.
Oh, sure, easy for you to blather about Mr. Smarter-Than-Einstein AC.
Put up your research, with a name, or shut up.
I seem to remember an axiom from E-school: "Gravity always works."
Have we not been repeatedly assured by the UN and the US government that our bestie friend China is a paragon of environmental awareness? Don't all the charts show China with a lower carbon footprint than Switzerland? Surely the pollution must be the US's own being recirculated. After being partially cleansed by the pristine skies of China, of course. /sarcasm
1. Federal licensing and "oversight" for businesses = tax$
2. Exemptions for "national security" = hello FBI/TSA/NSA/DEA
3. Strong, enforceable privacy policy = Private use prohibited.
Watch for it.
Yup. Controls guy here.
SCADAS are just networks like any other. The controllers doing the actual work do fail safe, assuming they're fairly modern intrinsically-safe Level 4 machines. However, no matter how well Emerson, Honeywell, Allen-Bradley or Siemens secure their network architecture, somebody (usually an untrained IT SysAdmin who has no idea of the havoc an open SCADA network can wreak) will inevitably port the control network out to the whole world out of sheer ignorance. Thankfully, just getting in isn't enough to pose much danger to life or property.
Remote monitoring and data collection appliances should always be buffered away from the controls platform via an encrypted data base or other technique. If they're not, somebody needs to get fired.
Granted, no network anywhere is crack-proof given infinite cracking resources. Someone wanting to do serious harm on a Delta V, FactoryTalk, or Honeywell Distributed network is going to need the platform software and expertise in using it to do any real damage beyond, say, a temporary outage. The danger isn't from script kiddies or common criminals. The resources required for dangerous industrial hacking primarily reside with a) government and government-sponsored entities and b) nefarious controls engineers (competitors?) and there isn't much defense against these major-league threats except air walls.
It isn't as though controls engineers don't build a modicum of fault tolerance and controlled reaction to system anomalies into our systems. We do. However, if what we're chasing is iron-clad Fort Knox security in distributed SCADA systems, you might as well put a tooth under your pillow and wish for it.
No.
Of course.
State security services == domestic terrorism. That's the whole point.
A frightened population is a docile population. The only matter is who the people fear more.
Given the academic climate in Texas, it won't be long till we hear a local peer issue a biblical creationist refutation.
Gee, big invisible force doing mysterious things in the heavens? Gotta be Jeebuz!
Actually, we already have inhibitors, but not arrestors.
In case you haven't noticed, medical science (which is primarily undertaken in the US by pharmaceutical companies and universities receiving large corporate endowments), is primarily concerned with treatments, not cures.
A cured patient is no longer a paying customer. A patient under treatment (and his/her insurer) can be milked indefinitely.
They did, however, find L. Ron Hubbard, Blackadder, and the Easter Bunny. Well worth the research!
It was labeled as such. That's what an editorial is.
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