Bang for the buck is seriously in question here. Lets say there are 12M new cars sold each year (some estimates are higher) and go with the cost estimate from the article of $400/vehicle average. By this calculation, cost would be nearly $5B. That's MORE THAN $10M per life saved AND $100,000 per injury avoided.
Wow! An NPRM has to pass a number of thresholds for cost-effectiveness, alternatives, etc to make it into law. These numbers seem WAY too high to pass muster. What are the relative costs would be for back-up sensors (vice cameras)? The relative safety beneifts? Honestly, this smells like poorly done homework.
Another benefit is the update rate of ADS-B. The sweep for en route radar is 11s. So the closure rate for two aircraft heading in opposite directions could be as much as 20 miles per sweep. In contrast, ADS-B could provide position updates to the controller every second.
In the terminal area, the sweep rate is ~5 seconds, and aircraft are of course going more slowly. Still, there are potentially significant benefits for the final approach, especially for parallel runways where a big potential concern is aircraft blundering off of their approach and into an aircraft on the parallel approach.
When I was doing PC techie stuff, we had about a 75% failure rate on the stinkpad hinge joints over 1-2 years of use. This would have been ~1995, the 760 series IIRC. A couple years later we were doing a vendor eval, and invited IBM to send us a demo.
"why must I use the arcane and shitty SQL language to save my web objects in a datafile"
- You musn't, get one of the half-dozen ORM's people have built for you. Some are even *gasp* open source. *Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone.
"the datatable and datagrid isn't useful for anything more than displaying a raw table, something that a webapp usually shouldn't do, anyways"
- Um... a brochure-ware web site doesn't usually, but a web app??!? I'm thinking... a table showing shopping cart items, a table showing employees, a table of properties in your neighboorhood, a... surely you get the idea by now? Your misunderstanding stems from the word raw. (Not that I am standing on the mountaintop proclaiming the datatable the one true way.)
Yeah, that's nice, but I'm gonna have to go with RTFA again. I copied specific lines because it seemed pointless to quote the whole thing. Nevertheless the subtext of the whole section subsequent to "Call For Help" suggests that he sued them. And before you attack the notion of subtext, here's some more specific text:
"On May 1, 2006, (DPMA HBSS) defense lawyers filed Motions to Strike the entirety of my case"
MY case - HIS case - RTFA.
"The defense teams filed 'demurrers' against my filings which state"
MY filings - HIS filings: HIS suit - RTFA.
"They also filed an Anti-SLAPP motion against me and my claims "
MY claims- HIS claims: HIS suit- RTFA.
"Their malpractice defense law teams scheduled me for deposition"
Can a lawyer preemptively file a malpractice defense suit?
"Given the gravity of the situation I was facing, I had to hire a law firm to protect myself, clear my name and set the record straight"
"(DPMA HBSS) when contacted by my lawyers, did not even offer to correct any of their press releases. Not even an official apology was offered."
"Then (DPMA HBSS) each hired professional defense law firms to fight against me."...
DEFENSE firms.... as in DEFENDANT not PLANTIF.
So, he sued them, they hired defense firms to fight his suit (Lawyers hire defense team? INCONCEIVABLE!). Their defense firms are making motions, digging & delaying (Defense lawyers play dirty? INCONCEIVABLE!). These motions could cost him thousands of dollars, stress, etc. etc. etc. (Lawsuits cost money and take time? INCONCEIVABLE!).
Do DPMA & HBSS sound like scumbags?
Yes. Does the slashdot article title reflect the content or meaning of the linked site?
No. INCONCEIVABLE! Is this guy an idiot if he thought suing a lawfirm would be free and stress-free?
He's been slandered enough by the scumbags, I'll leave it to you to answer for yourself.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Has everyone forgotten what news is? Whether or not this guy Ahern makes some good points, (and I agree he makes a couple) this newsforge story hardly seems to rise above a Veranopress release! Ahern is CEO of Verano, a control systems provider. He's arguably an expert on Control Systems, but not on the root causes of the blackout, or Open Source. Boo. Hiss.
That's part of the reason why M$ so insecure, Bill Gate$ has made it too easy to use
While I agree with the general security-mindedness of this comment, it seems naive to blame 'Bill' for making the systems too easy to use. It begs the question: If he hadn't, wouldn't somebody else have? In other words, I think the issue is not so much msft, as the general user culture. Msft is a moderately responsive company, if users had requested greater security earlier, there would be better security today.
Having family in SE Michigan, I tried to check on the details of the blackout in that area. The Detroit Free Press, a Knight-Ridder newpaper has this story which would have been appropriate for just about any paper nationwide. In contrast, the independent Toledo Blade actually offers a local account of the goings-on, with relevant information like when the power is expected back. Is one-size-fits-all news good enough?
Computer-illiterate power plant manager + Blaster = Blackout
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Bang for the buck is seriously in question here. Lets say there are 12M new cars sold each year (some estimates are higher) and go with the cost estimate from the article of $400/vehicle average. By this calculation, cost would be nearly $5B. That's MORE THAN $10M per life saved AND $100,000 per injury avoided.
($10M*292 + $100,000*18,000 = $4.72B vice $4.8B cost).
Wow! An NPRM has to pass a number of thresholds for cost-effectiveness, alternatives, etc to make it into law. These numbers seem WAY too high to pass muster. What are the relative costs would be for back-up sensors (vice cameras)? The relative safety beneifts? Honestly, this smells like poorly done homework.
Another benefit is the update rate of ADS-B. The sweep for en route radar is 11s. So the closure rate for two aircraft heading in opposite directions could be as much as 20 miles per sweep. In contrast, ADS-B could provide position updates to the controller every second. In the terminal area, the sweep rate is ~5 seconds, and aircraft are of course going more slowly. Still, there are potentially significant benefits for the final approach, especially for parallel runways where a big potential concern is aircraft blundering off of their approach and into an aircraft on the parallel approach.
When I was doing PC techie stuff, we had about a 75% failure rate on the stinkpad hinge joints over 1-2 years of use. This would have been ~1995, the 760 series IIRC. A couple years later we were doing a vendor eval, and invited IBM to send us a demo.
The hinge joint on the demo was cracked.
Buhbye.
Not for dummies, but it will get you there... http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Traffic-Control -Michael-Nolan/dp/0534393888/ref=sr_1_1/002-462251 2-2728863?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185276890&sr=8-1
"why must I use the arcane and shitty SQL language to save my web objects in a datafile"
... surely you get the idea by now? Your misunderstanding stems from the word raw. (Not that I am standing on the mountaintop proclaiming the datatable the one true way.)
- You musn't, get one of the half-dozen ORM's people have built for you. Some are even *gasp* open source. *Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone.
"the datatable and datagrid isn't useful for anything more than displaying a raw table, something that a webapp usually shouldn't do, anyways"
- Um... a brochure-ware web site doesn't usually, but a web app??!? I'm thinking... a table showing shopping cart items, a table showing employees, a table of properties in your neighboorhood, a
Yeah, that's nice, but I'm gonna have to go with RTFA again. I copied specific lines because it seemed pointless to quote the whole thing. Nevertheless the subtext of the whole section subsequent to "Call For Help" suggests that he sued them. And before you attack the notion of subtext, here's some more specific text:
... ah you get the point.
"On May 1, 2006, (DPMA HBSS) defense lawyers filed Motions to Strike the entirety of my case"
MY case - HIS case - RTFA.
"The defense teams filed 'demurrers' against my filings which state"
MY filings - HIS filings: HIS suit - RTFA.
"They also filed an Anti-SLAPP motion against me and my claims "
MY claims- HIS claims: HIS suit- RTFA.
"Their malpractice defense law teams scheduled me for deposition"
Can a lawyer preemptively file a malpractice defense suit?
RT
From the article:
...
"Given the gravity of the situation I was facing, I had to hire a law firm to protect myself, clear my name and set the record straight"
"(DPMA HBSS) when contacted by my lawyers, did not even offer to correct any of their press releases. Not even an official apology was offered."
"Then (DPMA HBSS) each hired professional defense law firms to fight against me."
DEFENSE firms.... as in DEFENDANT not PLANTIF.
So, he sued them, they hired defense firms to fight his suit (Lawyers hire defense team? INCONCEIVABLE!). Their defense firms are making motions, digging & delaying (Defense lawyers play dirty? INCONCEIVABLE!). These motions could cost him thousands of dollars, stress, etc. etc. etc. (Lawsuits cost money and take time? INCONCEIVABLE!).
Do DPMA & HBSS sound like scumbags?
Yes.
Does the slashdot article title reflect the content or meaning of the linked site?
No. INCONCEIVABLE!
Is this guy an idiot if he thought suing a lawfirm would be free and stress-free?
He's been slandered enough by the scumbags, I'll leave it to you to answer for yourself.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Read and apply the Pragmatic Programmer.
3yr old personal Dell Lattitude CS
Hinge Cover: $5
Keyboard: $30
Time spent on phone: 20 minutes.
Buying a laptop from a quality company: priceless.
Has everyone forgotten what news is? Whether or not this guy Ahern makes some good points, (and I agree he makes a couple) this newsforge story hardly seems to rise above a Veranopress release! Ahern is CEO of Verano, a control systems provider. He's arguably an expert on Control Systems, but not on the root causes of the blackout, or Open Source. Boo. Hiss.
That's part of the reason why M$ so insecure, Bill Gate$ has made it too easy to use
While I agree with the general security-mindedness of this comment, it seems naive to blame 'Bill' for making the systems too easy to use. It begs the question: If he hadn't, wouldn't somebody else have? In other words, I think the issue is not so much msft, as the general user culture. Msft is a moderately responsive company, if users had requested greater security earlier, there would be better security today.
Having family in SE Michigan, I tried to check on the details of the blackout in that area. The Detroit Free Press, a Knight-Ridder newpaper has this story which would have been appropriate for just about any paper nationwide. In contrast, the independent Toledo Blade actually offers a local account of the goings-on, with relevant information like when the power is expected back. Is one-size-fits-all news good enough?
Computer-illiterate power plant manager + Blaster = Blackout