A few seconds later we got a glimpse through gaps in the clouds as it passed overhead, about the same time we could hear it. Hit the cloud cover right after the roll maneuver.
It's also a Monday after a two week delay. I ran into a family from Australia at Jetty Park for the Atlas 5 launch last week. The Atlas was their consolation launch after missing the space shuttle. Unfortunately for them a stray cloud scrubbed that one as well and they were on their way home in the morning.
They must have been the launch jinx because the Atlas went the next day.
Hotels still have rooms and there doesn't seem to be the normal influx of people this time. I have a pretty good view here, but if I get up early enough, I may wander down to the JC Penny parking lot and see how many show up.
Fear tomorrow is cross winds at the shuttle landing facility. Amazing that an ocean breeze can keep billions in hardware on the ground.
With our near total lack of security and privacy, Chinese and Indian companies will be moving their data centers over here.
I think it's sad that two countries, not exactly poster children for their defense of human rights, are pushing the security and privacy laws one would have thought should have originated here.
To me it's more of a sad testimony on us than them.
I assume Facebook is being back-doored by the feds, assume they sell information to advertisers, so the only difference here is that it was unintentional. So I keep my FB profile loaded with inaccurate, out of date information. Just seems like the best way to hide a tree is in a forest of misleading information.
the idea that the media would then subsequently blame the internet for this is laughable and pathetic.
Exactly. Those rumors and criticisms are being started by people being paid a lot of money to skew the news. There's nothing accidental about it. Just because the dumbest fraction of society doesn't want to give up the lies isn't the fault of the internet, it's a failure of our educational system.
The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean...
When you look at the twisted mass of wreckage the flight recorder came from, finding the data unit is a miracle. Thousands of feet underwater, working remotely in a pile of twisted metal and they find a little memory unit. I have trouble finding my car keys some days.
The new system precisely measures the deflection of the barrel relative to the sight and then electronically makes the necessary corrections.
It would seem like there would be many other variables besides barrel deflection. Wind, humidity, minor differences in the powder load, slight imperfections in how the powder burns, microscopic differences in the bullets themselves.
I'm wondering how barrel imperfections compare to other factors?
Their average weekly print circulation is around 877,000. The 100K figure doesn't include free access with the print version or the iPhone/iPad applications. What's not entirely clear is if the 100K includes the Kindle and Nook ereaders. Because they all of a sudden switch to percentages, stating that ereader versions are up 4.5%. They were so clear everywhere else but all of a sudden get ambiguous.
Slashdot and Digg have one day traffic surges because Reddit is down. I'm getting way too much done today not being distracted by the GoneWild girls. This productivity must cease at once!
Does go to show what can happen when your business depends on an outsource provider. Everyone has to depend on service providers to some extent, but sometimes it's a good exercise to see how many of your company eggs are in one basket. Redundancy is expensive, but so is losing business. Even Google has had Gmail interruptions, lost some customer data and experienced slow downs.
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One of the most pervasive and powerful lobbies in Washington is the sugar lobby. They're worse than the oil companies going after climate research when it comes to attacking anyone who raises questions about their product.
They started the PR push back in advance of the story. Expect more in the days to come.
Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
And I've seen IT so risk adverse and arrogant that user rebellions like this were the only way new services ever got added.
Give them a user account with no privileges. They can look at the command prompt all day if it makes them happy.
Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
Would the Chinese or other governments take the opportunity to create back doors into western IT networks?
Let's face it, if a government is trying to spy on pc's around the world, they can do it without the need for someone to purchase a specific software product. The interesting question is if they even need to bother? Big corporations send your personal information and other sensitive data all over the planet. Server farms in India, Pakistan, Singapore and other low rent parts of the globe have your credit card records, medical records, anything they could want is just sitting right there. Wells Fargo might not backup your transaction records in Singapore, but what about the outsource provider they hire? There's no downside for them picking the low bidder, no encryption standards, no auditing.
Another big risk area is the potential for back doors in hardware components. Circuit boards, chips, things that might go into satellites, drone aircraft, or other military hardware. Supposedly the US makes those components locally, but what about all the defense contractors? None of them ever tempted to cut corners and buy components from overseas suppliers? Don't count on it. A hardware back door in mass produced PC's would be a much better spy tool than a software solution.
Our whimsical attitude toward data security is an IT Pearl Harbor just waiting for the sneak attack.
It wouldn't be terribly difficult to set up a booster for the house. If a cell signal booster is the price for more energy efficient homes, that seems like a fair trade.
We used to live in a steel house and would have to stand in front of the upstairs window to get a cell signal. It was pretty funny announcing to people they had to go upstairs to make a call.
I used to provide tech support for doctors offices and hospitals and I can tell you for a fact that their computer security ranges from "bad" to "OMFG!!". Seriously, there were places I wanted to take a shower after leaving because their workstations were so riddled with spyware and trojans.
>For a start, this really is on vault.fbi.gov servers, so either it's real or a VERY risky hoax.
Maybe start by thinking it through for a second. The investigator took a statement from an Air Force officer, nothing more. At the bottom they recommended no further investigation, which tells me the subject didn't have any proof and the investigator didn't really buy it. If you have to drive all the way from the nearest field office to Roswell, you have to put something in the report.
I've worked with a wide sample of military personnel, officers and enlisted, as a contractor and I've heard a lot of strange things. One enlisted person claimed there were assassination teams that "erased" people digging too deeply into UFO reports, and that he was formerly attached to that unit. Officers were less likely to parrot complete nonsense, but I was still frequently shocked at the level of ignorance and near complete lack of intellectual curiosity some people displayed after years in the US educational system.
>Just tax junk food like is done with cigarettes, alcohol, etc.
Okay, so then fat people and smokers want to tax your motorcycle. After all, they do have a higher injury rate (though not a higher accident rate) than cars. So we can tax them and sky divers. And don't forget rock climbers, dirt bike riders, skateboarders, bicycle riders, and roller bladers.
Almost everyone has some high risk behavior we could tax. I'm not sure AZ is a really good model for anything.
>According to your own post it got the guy responsible a promotion. How is that not getting you more?
It speaks more to the competence of management and the quality of leadership. This person producing poor results got promoted. The manager that produced the actual working system, at a fraction of the cost, got forced out. That's exactly how companies end up spending $40 million on a web site that doesn't work, how contractors continue to fleece the taxpayers through government contracts. Because there's no accountability in management. Just look at CEO pay. Company does well, they get rich. Company does poorly, they still get rich. Some company bilks the government out of $27 million dollars on a project they bid at $5 million (fixed price) and the government project manager gets promoted.
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The 10.2 kilometer tunnel is 14.4 meters in diameter. Big Becky ate through 1.6 million cubic meters of rock to reach her goal.
Those sneaking Canadians digging a drug smuggling tunnel. It's either that or they plan to sneak their armies across the border and invade.
One of those.
"There it is!"
"Where?"
"Oh, it's gone."
A few seconds later we got a glimpse through gaps in the clouds as it passed overhead, about the same time we could hear it. Hit the cloud cover right after the roll maneuver.
a Monday launch may mean a smaller crowd.
It's also a Monday after a two week delay. I ran into a family from Australia at Jetty Park for the Atlas 5 launch last week. The Atlas was their consolation launch after missing the space shuttle. Unfortunately for them a stray cloud scrubbed that one as well and they were on their way home in the morning.
They must have been the launch jinx because the Atlas went the next day.
Hotels still have rooms and there doesn't seem to be the normal influx of people this time. I have a pretty good view here, but if I get up early enough, I may wander down to the JC Penny parking lot and see how many show up.
Fear tomorrow is cross winds at the shuttle landing facility. Amazing that an ocean breeze can keep billions in hardware on the ground.
With our near total lack of security and privacy, Chinese and Indian companies will be moving their data centers over here.
I think it's sad that two countries, not exactly poster children for their defense of human rights, are pushing the security and privacy laws one would have thought should have originated here.
To me it's more of a sad testimony on us than them.
"Microsoft released data today showcasing that Windows 7's malware infection rate has climbed by more than 30% during the second half of 2010...
In fairness it was the most secure Windows ever. It lasted longer than XP.
I assume Facebook is being back-doored by the feds, assume they sell information to advertisers, so the only difference here is that it was unintentional. So I keep my FB profile loaded with inaccurate, out of date information. Just seems like the best way to hide a tree is in a forest of misleading information.
the idea that the media would then subsequently blame the internet for this is laughable and pathetic.
Exactly. Those rumors and criticisms are being started by people being paid a lot of money to skew the news. There's nothing accidental about it. Just because the dumbest fraction of society doesn't want to give up the lies isn't the fault of the internet, it's a failure of our educational system.
The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean...
When you look at the twisted mass of wreckage the flight recorder came from, finding the data unit is a miracle. Thousands of feet underwater, working remotely in a pile of twisted metal and they find a little memory unit. I have trouble finding my car keys some days.
The new system precisely measures the deflection of the barrel relative to the sight and then electronically makes the necessary corrections.
It would seem like there would be many other variables besides barrel deflection. Wind, humidity, minor differences in the powder load, slight imperfections in how the powder burns, microscopic differences in the bullets themselves.
I'm wondering how barrel imperfections compare to other factors?
The United Corporations of America don't appreciate you talking down to their cronies on the Supreme Corporate Court.
Their average weekly print circulation is around 877,000. The 100K figure doesn't include free access with the print version or the iPhone/iPad applications. What's not entirely clear is if the 100K includes the Kindle and Nook ereaders. Because they all of a sudden switch to percentages, stating that ereader versions are up 4.5%. They were so clear everywhere else but all of a sudden get ambiguous.
Slashdot and Digg have one day traffic surges because Reddit is down. I'm getting way too much done today not being distracted by the GoneWild girls. This productivity must cease at once!
Does go to show what can happen when your business depends on an outsource provider. Everyone has to depend on service providers to some extent, but sometimes it's a good exercise to see how many of your company eggs are in one basket. Redundancy is expensive, but so is losing business. Even Google has had Gmail interruptions, lost some customer data and experienced slow downs.
One of the most pervasive and powerful lobbies in Washington is the sugar lobby. They're worse than the oil companies going after climate research when it comes to attacking anyone who raises questions about their product.
They started the PR push back in advance of the story. Expect more in the days to come.
Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
And I've seen IT so risk adverse and arrogant that user rebellions like this were the only way new services ever got added.
Give them a user account with no privileges. They can look at the command prompt all day if it makes them happy.
Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
Would the Chinese or other governments take the opportunity to create back doors into western IT networks?
Let's face it, if a government is trying to spy on pc's around the world, they can do it without the need for someone to purchase a specific software product. The interesting question is if they even need to bother? Big corporations send your personal information and other sensitive data all over the planet. Server farms in India, Pakistan, Singapore and other low rent parts of the globe have your credit card records, medical records, anything they could want is just sitting right there. Wells Fargo might not backup your transaction records in Singapore, but what about the outsource provider they hire? There's no downside for them picking the low bidder, no encryption standards, no auditing.
Another big risk area is the potential for back doors in hardware components. Circuit boards, chips, things that might go into satellites, drone aircraft, or other military hardware. Supposedly the US makes those components locally, but what about all the defense contractors? None of them ever tempted to cut corners and buy components from overseas suppliers? Don't count on it. A hardware back door in mass produced PC's would be a much better spy tool than a software solution.
Our whimsical attitude toward data security is an IT Pearl Harbor just waiting for the sneak attack.
I can't see the world magically switching over to anything voluntarily.
>It calls Microsoft's FUD 'irresponsible.'
Compared to their responsible FUD which is much better.
It wouldn't be terribly difficult to set up a booster for the house. If a cell signal booster is the price for more energy efficient homes, that seems like a fair trade.
We used to live in a steel house and would have to stand in front of the upstairs window to get a cell signal. It was pretty funny announcing to people they had to go upstairs to make a call.
>Santiam Memorial Hospital in Stayton, Ore.
I used to provide tech support for doctors offices and hospitals and I can tell you for a fact that their computer security ranges from "bad" to "OMFG!!". Seriously, there were places I wanted to take a shower after leaving because their workstations were so riddled with spyware and trojans.
>For a start, this really is on vault.fbi.gov servers, so either it's real or a VERY risky hoax.
Maybe start by thinking it through for a second. The investigator took a statement from an Air Force officer, nothing more. At the bottom they recommended no further investigation, which tells me the subject didn't have any proof and the investigator didn't really buy it. If you have to drive all the way from the nearest field office to Roswell, you have to put something in the report.
I've worked with a wide sample of military personnel, officers and enlisted, as a contractor and I've heard a lot of strange things. One enlisted person claimed there were assassination teams that "erased" people digging too deeply into UFO reports, and that he was formerly attached to that unit. Officers were less likely to parrot complete nonsense, but I was still frequently shocked at the level of ignorance and near complete lack of intellectual curiosity some people displayed after years in the US educational system.
>How does the laser work?
Who cares? How awesome would it be to be the first Captain to call down to the combat center and say, "Scotty, I need that laser cannon!"
>Threatening people is against the law
Then why aren't Glenn Beck and half the hate speech jocks on am radio in jail?
>Just tax junk food like is done with cigarettes, alcohol, etc.
Okay, so then fat people and smokers want to tax your motorcycle. After all, they do have a higher injury rate (though not a higher accident rate) than cars. So we can tax them and sky divers. And don't forget rock climbers, dirt bike riders, skateboarders, bicycle riders, and roller bladers.
Almost everyone has some high risk behavior we could tax. I'm not sure AZ is a really good model for anything.
>According to your own post it got the guy responsible a promotion. How is that not getting you more?
It speaks more to the competence of management and the quality of leadership. This person producing poor results got promoted. The manager that produced the actual working system, at a fraction of the cost, got forced out. That's exactly how companies end up spending $40 million on a web site that doesn't work, how contractors continue to fleece the taxpayers through government contracts. Because there's no accountability in management. Just look at CEO pay. Company does well, they get rich. Company does poorly, they still get rich. Some company bilks the government out of $27 million dollars on a project they bid at $5 million (fixed price) and the government project manager gets promoted.
Where's the accountability? Anywhere?
> the new person costs say 5000$ a month, the client is billed for 6000$
ROFL! Where do you work? If the new person costs $5000/month then they most likely get billed at $275/hour.