Re:Why is military IT not as good as it could be?
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True, the military pay is lower in absolute terms (especially early on), but consider the following scenarios:
Geek 1: 1. Go to college for CS for 4 years 2. Graduate with 30K student loan debt 3. Spend months looking for job 4. Working at Walmart at 62 to work off the effects of said student loans, several medical bills incurred during breaks between jobs with no health insurance, and no retirement savings 5. ??? 6. Profit
Geek 2: 1. Enlist at 17 (or commission after college at 21-22) 2. Military medical care for you+dependents during active duty 3. Military paid education (college for enlisted, grad school/ROTC/both for officers) 4. Retire after 20 years at 37 for enlisted, 41-2 for officer 5. Retiree TRICARE health benefits 6. Several K/month retirement pay with cost of living increases for *life* (50% of average salary for last 3 years in military) (avg ~2k for enlisted, more for officers) 7. Start new high paid civilian career 8. ??? 9. Retire again/Profit
DC power supplies are usually distributed because resistive (heat) losses in wires are proportional to current^2. Since power supplies consume a relatively contstant amount of power=voltage*current, a higher voltage will result in a lower current, which means less power given off as heat; if DC was produced in the basement, thick (and expensive) copper wires/busses would be needed to distribute it. In fact, the reason AC was chosen over DC for the power grid was because AC could be stepped up to higher voltages and therefore produced at a far away central location.
Airman 2: W00t! All your missile bases are belong to us! Airman 1(as security guards come down stairs): We have no chance to survive! Make some time. Airman 2: For great justi@#$@#$NO CARRIER
Also, the AF uses officers not enlisted(Airmen/sergeants) as missile crews (minor correction)
difference between one rouge psycho Oh, I see rouge psychos all the time - people shouldn't put on makeup, yak on their phone, and cut people off in traffic at the same time.
Qtopia, by the way, has the SDK free to download if you are making your mobile apps GPL - you only have to pay for it if you are writing closed source apps; this "free as in beer" may push corporations toward making their apps GPL because they don't have to license the devkit.
No more moving projects off-shore to try to hide their obvious criminal nature. (If you want the law changed, lobby Congress.)
Other countries are other countries for a reason - they have different laws than us. Sorry to be pedantic, but if a project is not in violation of the law overseas, it is therefore not criminal there.
Umm... no. While it is true that the FCC says "this device must accept interference", this is more of a technical approval measure - manufacturers would ideally be required to build their devices to be resistant to other unlicensed/licensed uses of the band, in orfer to prevent interference under normal conditions. The FCC has held that *deliberately* interfering with radio communications would be illegal, even if it is against a part 15 (unlicensed ) service. The part 15 designation means that these devices have lowest priority - i.e, they couldn't complain if a 2.4Ghz amateur radio satellite were transmitting over them, not that John Q. Pedophile could set up a broken microwave oven for a few hours as cover without getting in trouble.
FPGAs are reprogrammed with internal switches; some of them use actual fuses that are blown/fused to make connections. In any case, they probably do not reconfigure as fast as this chip; in addition, IIRC, FPGAs have a limit to how many times they can be reprogrammed.
From the article:
Several studios and record labels, including Universal Music Group, have begun to standardize the tags at the bottom of their takedown notices into XML, code that allows data to be used seamlessly in various contexts.
The digital tags contain the name of the copyrighted material that's been comprised, the copyright holder's name, date and time stamp, and the Internet Protocol address of the infringer. Receipt of this tag triggers the internal notification process at a university or ISP using the system.
So, if there's some college student they don't like, would hackers start creating these "standard" XML tags and sending them to university IT departments?
1) They know that what they are asking for now are "purple squirrels". What this means is that they are asking for something they know is very hard, if not impossible to get.
You could mix up some chemicals, use your electric power source to put some current into them to cause a complex electrochemical reaction. Call this wireless energy reaction "charging", for example. Then when you want to power your toy, just put the chemicals into a sealed metal container in the toy (such as a "cell"). If you need more power, you could even use a group or "battery" of these "cells" to increase the voltage available to your toy. Then when you need more power, simply remove the chemical containers from the toy, "charge" them again, and put them back in.
Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core.
This motivation is even more present for commercial apps; developers are asked to add every feature that somebody suggests in a focus group, etc. for better advertising - e.g, We have this feature and $COMPETITOR doesn't! Many of the Windows security scares have been due to poorly thought out features becoming bugs; for example, using ActiveX or VBScript to "spice up" web pages or Outlook's tendency to "enhance" emails by displaying HTML
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True, the military pay is lower in absolute terms (especially early on), but consider the following scenarios:
Geek 1:
1. Go to college for CS for 4 years
2. Graduate with 30K student loan debt
3. Spend months looking for job
4. Working at Walmart at 62 to work off the effects of said student loans, several medical bills incurred during breaks between jobs with no health insurance, and no retirement savings
5. ???
6. Profit
Geek 2:
1. Enlist at 17 (or commission after college at 21-22)
2. Military medical care for you+dependents during active duty
3. Military paid education (college for enlisted, grad school/ROTC/both for officers)
4. Retire after 20 years at 37 for enlisted, 41-2 for officer
5. Retiree TRICARE health benefits
6. Several K/month retirement pay with cost of living increases for *life* (50% of average salary for last 3 years in military) (avg ~2k for enlisted, more for officers)
7. Start new high paid civilian career
8. ???
9. Retire again/Profit
Geek 2
Umm... the fact that FEMA/DHS/etc. will probably be using amateurs communicating through this satellite as a comm resource in case of emergency?
DC power supplies are usually distributed because resistive (heat) losses in wires are proportional to current^2. Since power supplies consume a relatively contstant amount of power=voltage*current, a higher voltage will result in a lower current, which means less power given off as heat; if DC was produced in the basement, thick (and expensive) copper wires/busses would be needed to distribute it. In fact, the reason AC was chosen over DC for the power grid was because AC could be stepped up to higher voltages and therefore produced at a far away central location.
You forgot:
Airman 2: W00t! All your missile bases are belong to us!
Airman 1(as security guards come down stairs): We have no chance to survive! Make some time.
Airman 2: For great justi@#$@#$NO CARRIER
Also, the AF uses officers not enlisted(Airmen/sergeants) as missile crews (minor correction)
difference between one rouge psycho
Oh, I see rouge psychos all the time - people shouldn't put on makeup, yak on their phone, and cut people off in traffic at the same time.
Posting a question about security cameras on Slashdot! We know that only the Big Bad Government(tm) uses them.
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you could just come up with a new name for all other applications. ("federated", perhaps?)
...welcome our new federation of TCP overlords!
its a MP3 player article where I get to yell WHERE IS THE ACC SUPPORT instead of everyone yelling where is the ODD support.
And I get to yell WHERE IS THE SPELL CHECKER?
Qtopia, by the way, has the SDK free to download if you are making your mobile apps GPL - you only have to pay for it if you are writing closed source apps; this "free as in beer" may push corporations toward making their apps GPL because they don't have to license the devkit.
Yes, but if it hits, how many VW Beetles worth of damage will it cause?
No more moving projects off-shore to try to hide their obvious criminal nature. (If you want the law changed, lobby Congress.)
Other countries are other countries for a reason - they have different laws than us. Sorry to be pedantic, but if a project is not in violation of the law overseas, it is therefore not criminal there.
...perfectly legal denial of service...
Umm... no. While it is true that the FCC says "this device must accept interference", this is more of a technical approval measure - manufacturers would ideally be required to build their devices to be resistant to other unlicensed/licensed uses of the band, in orfer to prevent interference under normal conditions. The FCC has held that *deliberately* interfering with radio communications would be illegal, even if it is against a part 15 (unlicensed ) service. The part 15 designation means that these devices have lowest priority - i.e, they couldn't complain if a 2.4Ghz amateur radio satellite were transmitting over them, not that John Q. Pedophile could set up a broken microwave oven for a few hours as cover without getting in trouble.
FPGAs are reprogrammed with internal switches; some of them use actual fuses that are blown/fused to make connections. In any case, they probably do not reconfigure as fast as this chip; in addition, IIRC, FPGAs have a limit to how many times they can be reprogrammed.
But OS/2 didn't run most of the internet's servers and one of the world's largest distributed server farms.
...prevents Americans from briding people in other countries...
I know a lot of people who have married foreigners, and I dont think any of them have disappeared/gotten arrested.
Advocating outsourcing on Slashdot... please report to reprogramming site immediately :-)
In the article, it said the judge ordered them to turn over all copies, recordings, etc. of the documents not yet published.
. the mind of the enemy. That is where the battles are won or lost.
Quite true - if enough 5.6mm rounds are placed in the minds of your enemies, you will have a much easier time winning.
It appears to be a variant of AAC.
From the article:
Several studios and record labels, including Universal Music Group, have begun to standardize the tags at the bottom of their takedown notices into XML, code that allows data to be used seamlessly in various contexts. The digital tags contain the name of the copyrighted material that's been comprised, the copyright holder's name, date and time stamp, and the Internet Protocol address of the infringer. Receipt of this tag triggers the internal notification process at a university or ISP using the system.
So, if there's some college student they don't like, would hackers start creating these "standard" XML tags and sending them to university IT departments?
by British scientists!
1) They know that what they are asking for now are "purple squirrels". What this means is that they are asking for something they know is very hard, if not impossible to get.
Hard to get? Maybe kind of expensive though: purplesquirrel.com
I apologize in advance for following up your joke with a serious post.
:-)
Apology accepted
IIRC the tiny RC cars use a large capacitance capacitor to store their energy, which is why they can be charged quickly by the controllers.
You could mix up some chemicals, use your electric power source to put some current into them to cause a complex electrochemical reaction. Call this wireless energy reaction "charging", for example. Then when you want to power your toy, just put the chemicals into a sealed metal container in the toy (such as a "cell"). If you need more power, you could even use a group or "battery" of these "cells" to increase the voltage available to your toy. Then when you need more power, simply remove the chemical containers from the toy, "charge" them again, and put them back in.
Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core.
This motivation is even more present for commercial apps; developers are asked to add every feature that somebody suggests in a focus group, etc. for better advertising - e.g, We have this feature and $COMPETITOR doesn't! Many of the Windows security scares have been due to poorly thought out features becoming bugs; for example, using ActiveX or VBScript to "spice up" web pages or Outlook's tendency to "enhance" emails by displaying HTML