Talk about an invasion of your privacy and a HUGE hole to reveal corporate IP. It won't be long until someone invents an hack or virus to exploit this and capture all of what you are working on. I'm supposed to trust that MS won't use any of my info they captured to debug thier software?
Looking at the Army pay grades online, at 59K you must be an O-4 (Major).
Army pay sucks, at my years of service (22) and comparing my private sector grade (equal to an 0-6) my pay would be about 20-25% below what I make. I suppose allowances which are non taxable would make up some of that but not all. I now see why Officers are leaving the military ASAP, they can make a lot more in the private sector using the same skills. And they don't have to put up with the MPs calling at 2AM about the drunken E-1 who is in the brig!
Last time I worked at NASA, Shuttle was called STS and Station was ISS. When did the insiders start using SSP?
Other than that I agree, more paperwork goes on than real work. In fact if you do some real work your paperwork goes up!:(
I sure hope you are doing the Integration testing in a TEST environment and not using your production machines! Large DataCenter and Windows is an oxymoron anyhow. Most very large datacenters are running a mix of boxes, a mainframe or two, Linux/Unix boxes and Windows boxes where it makes sense. Personally I think running VM on a mainframe and then running Linux in VM partitions will be far more cost effective than trying to run Linux under VS. I don't see how you can support a large # of Windows boxes in a datacenter with "limited" resources unless you guys are working 60 hours a week to keep up with things.
Yes, but Mr Hatch is prinary sponsor, he keeps trying to get things thru after getting shut down by the Supreme Court.
Notice the typical/. over-reaction as well. Reading the text of the bill it allows for jail time, a fine, or both. But jail time is NOT mandatory. It also says that the Sentencing Guidelines have to be developed.
Being a Manager (but also having been an Enterprise IT Architect too) I don't think you have to do anything but present a solid business case nothing too technical:) Then if they don't get THAT you proceed to the hit them over the head approach! I have a few Managers above me that I have to use an aluminum bat on once in a while.
There are add-in cards for Sun boxes that do the encryption in hardware. It is VERY fast. In the DOD world we used to have cipher-processors that were basically ASICs dedicated to endcode/decode data with special encryption.
Yes, they look out for number one which is why they SHOULD encrypt. If they are not then someone obviously has NOT explained to the CXO level the possible finacial aspects of "data loss" verus the fact that encrypting backups costs basically nothing (something like PGP costs about $2K) Think about the lost staff time trying to fix problems with compromised accounts or the lost revenue of lost customers. If any of your customers were from CA you have to notify them in writing of the loss and let them make changes. Postage isn't exactly free ya know! Not to mention if this keeps up Congress might decide to enact fines. Think of encryption as insurance, and the data as an asset. Most companies insure assets such as Buildings, Equipment, etc. so why not data too?
Several errors here. The GPL is NOT "viral", you must have gotten that from either MS or SCO.
Nikon protects theire proprietary method of reading the "white balance" on the camera. It is CONFIGURATION information that is not part of the picture. The info is useful when digitally editing the photograph. It is transmitted along with the photograph when the photos are downloaded from the camera. It isn't a very smart idea IMHO, I suspect those who are familiar with the CCDs in the camera could work out a plugin for Adobe that would figure out about what the white balance was, and professional photogs know what balance settings they are using anyhow. I think it is an attempt by Nikon to force Adobe to pay a license fee. They shouldn't. These pro photogs are not the sweet spot of the market for Photoshop, it makes no business sense to pay a large fee to license something that maybe 1% of your users would benefit from. As for the DCMA stuff, I think Adobe is just throwing rocks back at Nikon trying to get them some back press. It's a corporate p*ssing contest held in the tech press. It's really not even a good DCMA case pro or con!
LOL..I wish I had mod points today. Seriously I would think some system that over-rides the Nav system in the car and takes it to the nearest police station where you pay the fines or the car won't fly until you do. But then we get the version with the "hacked" Nav system that won't respond to the pull over request. So, perhaps your solution is not so bad after all!
And what about International Borders? I can just see Mexicans crashing into houses in CA or AZ or TX (or vice versa). We already have problems with uninsured aliens and cars, adding planes would be even worse! Plus would we need SkyCops to make sure the regs were followed? If so how do you "pull them over" and give a ticket??
Good answer but it still doesn't explain the price difference. The process of DNA typing is the same. AKC requires DNA typing on any dog that sires more than 5 litters a year or is a parent at age 12 or more I think (I just read the rules last weekend at a show but it didn't stick). Many vet's can do this for you or have it done at a lab for $60. The "Free" test is subsidized by a dog food company as part of thier contribution to the Canine Genome Project.
DNA typing in law enforcement has been around a while, its nothing new. I seem to recall it was even used in the OJ case, but was poorly described and the jury didn't buy it.
I ass-u-me the diseases you are interested in are poly-genic(otherwise Mendel has covered that ground)) and we can Identify the DNA sequence(s) that codes (mis-codes?) that set of genes (which we can't do yet) what usefulness is it to know a disease runs in a population with a certain geography or such? And assuming we FIND the "mistake" in the genome what do we do about it? Far as I know genetic medicine works on the patient but does not alter the Chromonsomes which are passing on the "mistake" genes. Am I missing something here..IANABiologist?
$100 bucks? You gotta be kidding. I can have my dog DNA typed (same process) for only about $60 and if it is a rarer breed for FREE. And the same kind of historical genetic analysis is going on with the Canine Genome. The process of DNA typing is the same for any animal, so why do hoo-mans cost more than K-9s? Sounds like a nice revenue source for someone. With some research and some dicussion with your relatives you can trace your roots back pretty darn far. I mean who cares that your 1,000 times great grandparents were from some part of Africa? What value does this information add to society?
Everyone knows the most beautiful women are at the Texas Universities, excepting Texas A&M;)
As for MIT babes..I've been to the MIT area of Boston several times and never seen a lovely lass. Maybe I should have been looking in the Labs not the Bars ?
We can't do that! Changing DST to be year-around would be an economic disaster!! The drug companies Anti-depressant Sales (A-D's are the #1 prescription drug in the USA) are required to meet Wall Street's expectations or the stock crashes. If Wal-Mart and CVS (the store not the software package) don't sell as many prescriptions they don't make as many mega-millions and their stock goes down. And so on and so on until we have a dammed economic crash all because the goofballs in Congress wanted to get in 18 holes after work instead of 9!:)
Nope. Last plane trip I took (to LA) I sat next to the pilot from the next leg of the trip (LA to Hawaii). He was in uniform and his stripes indicated he was a Captain so we struck up an convo about what we each did. Then we discussed the topic of technology in airplanes and if electronic devices really are a problem and if so how. What I learned was that Instrument landing systems such as MLS (Microwaves) and GPS can land a plane VERY accurately but they can be susceptible to interference which is why they ask devices to be OFF for Landing. The only thing a pilot really HAS to do these days is taxi the plane to the gate/runway and make all the announcements. Of course the pilot's unions are getting kinda upset about the reduced workload.
". In order to make flying cars practical for mass-audiences (like they promise in PopSci), cars have to basically fly on their own. That sort of automation isn't all that practical today. GPS is helping, though..."
Not true. Autopilots fly planes today, the pilots are now the "backup" systems. GPS just makes the flying more accurate. With collision avoidance technology available now (some high end SUVs have it so of something is behind the vehicle it warns you if you back up) and autopilots that don't need a lot of CPU it's IS possible to have flying cars today. The average home PC can do the flying tasks for a small plane. There could even be AI that warns the pilot he/she is Bingo on fuel and diverts the carplane to the nearest gas station. I wouldn't be cheap, and the reliability of some components would need to increase but it is certainly doable. IMNSHO, the reason it has not been done at least on a small scale is 1) the traffic control infrastructure is not there to control the flow and 2) Insurance costs would be very high and 3) liablility lawsuits against the carplane mfgs would have the sharks..ooops..lawyers salivating.
Will they be the next big space nation and out-do the "modern" world (US, Europe, Russia,...) in a decade or two?..
NO. China will. They already have plans for a Moon Mission. They are using technology and know how they stole from the US and Russians. They have the money and they have the "national pride" factor as well. How far along they are in the program is questionable as it is run by the Chinese military and thus is off limits to reporters. If China does it India won't be far behind.
Everyone bitches that basic science is being ignored in the Mars Mission and that is just not true. Many new technologies coming from basic science (Chem, Physics, Bio) will have to be researched and developed (by Engineers) to make the misssion a success and (hopefully) those can be used on Earth as well. If someone will tell me what "basic science" that Voyager is still doing and how that might benefit society I might have a different view of keeping it alive.
Bill Gates funds so many other charities, why not start a 501(c)(3) and tell him you'll rename Voyager to Windows Voyager is he puts up the money to keep the data collection going to 2015!!;) Hmmm...naming rights to Space Missions! And thne Product Placements on board the mission..what a great way for NASA to make money to fund these things.
I've taken them out of SECRET areas after being wiped by Security. However they didn't leave the project and I was unable to take them home.
I have seen tapes degaussed but then they were also shredded.
LOL..Gotta agree with you on the guy getting his "five minutes of fame".
Wrong, there is a DOD level file wipe utility that wipes the file three times, writes random data over the sectors and wipes that yet again then does a low level format. Thats the ONLY way data disks are allowed out of a classified area. He could also sledgehammer the disks that would be terminal to the data.
Oh, and if the FBI wanted something on his server, as much of a n00b as this guy is they have probably already been there, took it and he doesn't know it. The subpeona is just to make the data they know is there and they have admissable, or to pressure him to rollover. If he is true to his cause he says "Bring it on" and meets them at the door with a trash bag of shattered disks.(after dumping the data to an offshore location in at least 128 bit encryption)
Me thinks the "Press Release" is BS. If I was his lawyer and he went behind my back to a place like/. he's be my EX-Client.
If the mfg defect rate is more than 1/X^R then the screen will have bad pixels. It's a max/min problem, maximize screen productio/minimize bad pixels. There is a cost associated with each ratio and of course you have to drive costs down.
True, but you gotta keep it from being swapped out as well and hide it from prying eyes. Not impossible, you simply tell the system is has X amount less memory to use and store the program in the area above X and the top of memory.
Thermite works well;) It burns paper and melts computers. Non-toxic too. You'd be hard pressed to totally destroy a hard drive in a gasoline fire. Of course CD's would melt so you can do that. Removable hard drives and "John Henry" still work the best.
"As the user base becomes more educated with the program and how it functions, we certainly retain the ability to make it more visible."
MORE visible? If it's supposed to be hidden and not removed why make it easier to find? Maybe a dummy? You remove this and it activates the REAL program. If users are given Admin rights they can find out what's running and kill it, assuming the SS hasn't got a backdoor into the OS to run a process w/o it showing up or flashing the disk busy light.
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Talk about an invasion of your privacy and a HUGE hole to reveal corporate IP. It won't be long until someone invents an hack or virus to exploit this and capture all of what you are working on. I'm supposed to trust that MS won't use any of my info they captured to debug thier software?
Looking at the Army pay grades online, at 59K you must be an O-4 (Major). Army pay sucks, at my years of service (22) and comparing my private sector grade (equal to an 0-6) my pay would be about 20-25% below what I make. I suppose allowances which are non taxable would make up some of that but not all. I now see why Officers are leaving the military ASAP, they can make a lot more in the private sector using the same skills. And they don't have to put up with the MPs calling at 2AM about the drunken E-1 who is in the brig!
Last time I worked at NASA, Shuttle was called STS and Station was ISS. When did the insiders start using SSP? Other than that I agree, more paperwork goes on than real work. In fact if you do some real work your paperwork goes up! :(
I sure hope you are doing the Integration testing in a TEST environment and not using your production machines! Large DataCenter and Windows is an oxymoron anyhow. Most very large datacenters are running a mix of boxes, a mainframe or two, Linux/Unix boxes and Windows boxes where it makes sense. Personally I think running VM on a mainframe and then running Linux in VM partitions will be far more cost effective than trying to run Linux under VS. I don't see how you can support a large # of Windows boxes in a datacenter with "limited" resources unless you guys are working 60 hours a week to keep up with things.
Yes, but Mr Hatch is prinary sponsor, he keeps trying to get things thru after getting shut down by the Supreme Court. Notice the typical /. over-reaction as well. Reading the text of the bill it allows for jail time, a fine, or both. But jail time is NOT mandatory. It also says that the Sentencing Guidelines have to be developed.
Being a Manager (but also having been an Enterprise IT Architect too) I don't think you have to do anything but present a solid business case nothing too technical :) Then if they don't get THAT you proceed to the hit them over the head approach! I have a few Managers above me that I have to use an aluminum bat on once in a while.
There are add-in cards for Sun boxes that do the encryption in hardware. It is VERY fast. In the DOD world we used to have cipher-processors that were basically ASICs dedicated to endcode/decode data with special encryption.
Yes, they look out for number one which is why they SHOULD encrypt. If they are not then someone obviously has NOT explained to the CXO level the possible finacial aspects of "data loss" verus the fact that encrypting backups costs basically nothing (something like PGP costs about $2K) Think about the lost staff time trying to fix problems with compromised accounts or the lost revenue of lost customers. If any of your customers were from CA you have to notify them in writing of the loss and let them make changes. Postage isn't exactly free ya know! Not to mention if this keeps up Congress might decide to enact fines. Think of encryption as insurance, and the data as an asset. Most companies insure assets such as Buildings, Equipment, etc. so why not data too?
OK, sorry if I got confused. Just one of them PHB things I guess! ;)
Several errors here. The GPL is NOT "viral", you must have gotten that from either MS or SCO. Nikon protects theire proprietary method of reading the "white balance" on the camera. It is CONFIGURATION information that is not part of the picture. The info is useful when digitally editing the photograph. It is transmitted along with the photograph when the photos are downloaded from the camera. It isn't a very smart idea IMHO, I suspect those who are familiar with the CCDs in the camera could work out a plugin for Adobe that would figure out about what the white balance was, and professional photogs know what balance settings they are using anyhow. I think it is an attempt by Nikon to force Adobe to pay a license fee. They shouldn't. These pro photogs are not the sweet spot of the market for Photoshop, it makes no business sense to pay a large fee to license something that maybe 1% of your users would benefit from. As for the DCMA stuff, I think Adobe is just throwing rocks back at Nikon trying to get them some back press. It's a corporate p*ssing contest held in the tech press. It's really not even a good DCMA case pro or con!
LOL..I wish I had mod points today. Seriously I would think some system that over-rides the Nav system in the car and takes it to the nearest police station where you pay the fines or the car won't fly until you do. But then we get the version with the "hacked" Nav system that won't respond to the pull over request. So, perhaps your solution is not so bad after all!
And what about International Borders? I can just see Mexicans crashing into houses in CA or AZ or TX (or vice versa). We already have problems with uninsured aliens and cars, adding planes would be even worse! Plus would we need SkyCops to make sure the regs were followed? If so how do you "pull them over" and give a ticket??
Good answer but it still doesn't explain the price difference. The process of DNA typing is the same. AKC requires DNA typing on any dog that sires more than 5 litters a year or is a parent at age 12 or more I think (I just read the rules last weekend at a show but it didn't stick). Many vet's can do this for you or have it done at a lab for $60. The "Free" test is subsidized by a dog food company as part of thier contribution to the Canine Genome Project. DNA typing in law enforcement has been around a while, its nothing new. I seem to recall it was even used in the OJ case, but was poorly described and the jury didn't buy it. I ass-u-me the diseases you are interested in are poly-genic(otherwise Mendel has covered that ground)) and we can Identify the DNA sequence(s) that codes (mis-codes?) that set of genes (which we can't do yet) what usefulness is it to know a disease runs in a population with a certain geography or such? And assuming we FIND the "mistake" in the genome what do we do about it? Far as I know genetic medicine works on the patient but does not alter the Chromonsomes which are passing on the "mistake" genes. Am I missing something here..IANABiologist?
$100 bucks? You gotta be kidding. I can have my dog DNA typed (same process) for only about $60 and if it is a rarer breed for FREE. And the same kind of historical genetic analysis is going on with the Canine Genome. The process of DNA typing is the same for any animal, so why do hoo-mans cost more than K-9s? Sounds like a nice revenue source for someone. With some research and some dicussion with your relatives you can trace your roots back pretty darn far. I mean who cares that your 1,000 times great grandparents were from some part of Africa? What value does this information add to society?
Everyone knows the most beautiful women are at the Texas Universities, excepting Texas A&M ;)
As for MIT babes..I've been to the MIT area of Boston several times and never seen a lovely lass. Maybe I should have been looking in the Labs not the Bars ?
We can't do that! Changing DST to be year-around would be an economic disaster!! The drug companies Anti-depressant Sales (A-D's are the #1 prescription drug in the USA) are required to meet Wall Street's expectations or the stock crashes. If Wal-Mart and CVS (the store not the software package) don't sell as many prescriptions they don't make as many mega-millions and their stock goes down. And so on and so on until we have a dammed economic crash all because the goofballs in Congress wanted to get in 18 holes after work instead of 9! :)
Nope. Last plane trip I took (to LA) I sat next to the pilot from the next leg of the trip (LA to Hawaii). He was in uniform and his stripes indicated he was a Captain so we struck up an convo about what we each did. Then we discussed the topic of technology in airplanes and if electronic devices really are a problem and if so how. What I learned was that Instrument landing systems such as MLS (Microwaves) and GPS can land a plane VERY accurately but they can be susceptible to interference which is why they ask devices to be OFF for Landing. The only thing a pilot really HAS to do these days is taxi the plane to the gate/runway and make all the announcements. Of course the pilot's unions are getting kinda upset about the reduced workload.
". In order to make flying cars practical for mass-audiences (like they promise in PopSci), cars have to basically fly on their own. That sort of automation isn't all that practical today. GPS is helping, though..." Not true. Autopilots fly planes today, the pilots are now the "backup" systems. GPS just makes the flying more accurate. With collision avoidance technology available now (some high end SUVs have it so of something is behind the vehicle it warns you if you back up) and autopilots that don't need a lot of CPU it's IS possible to have flying cars today. The average home PC can do the flying tasks for a small plane. There could even be AI that warns the pilot he/she is Bingo on fuel and diverts the carplane to the nearest gas station. I wouldn't be cheap, and the reliability of some components would need to increase but it is certainly doable. IMNSHO, the reason it has not been done at least on a small scale is 1) the traffic control infrastructure is not there to control the flow and 2) Insurance costs would be very high and 3) liablility lawsuits against the carplane mfgs would have the sharks..ooops..lawyers salivating.
Will they be the next big space nation and out-do the "modern" world (US, Europe, Russia, ...) in a decade or two?..
;) Hmmm...naming rights to Space Missions! And thne Product Placements on board the mission..what a great way for NASA to make money to fund these things.
NO. China will. They already have plans for a Moon Mission. They are using technology and know how they stole from the US and Russians. They have the money and they have the "national pride" factor as well. How far along they are in the program is questionable as it is run by the Chinese military and thus is off limits to reporters. If China does it India won't be far behind.
Everyone bitches that basic science is being ignored in the Mars Mission and that is just not true. Many new technologies coming from basic science (Chem, Physics, Bio) will have to be researched and developed (by Engineers) to make the misssion a success and (hopefully) those can be used on Earth as well. If someone will tell me what "basic science" that Voyager is still doing and how that might benefit society I might have a different view of keeping it alive.
Bill Gates funds so many other charities, why not start a 501(c)(3) and tell him you'll rename Voyager to Windows Voyager is he puts up the money to keep the data collection going to 2015!!
I've taken them out of SECRET areas after being wiped by Security. However they didn't leave the project and I was unable to take them home. I have seen tapes degaussed but then they were also shredded. LOL..Gotta agree with you on the guy getting his "five minutes of fame".
Wrong, there is a DOD level file wipe utility that wipes the file three times, writes random data over the sectors and wipes that yet again then does a low level format. Thats the ONLY way data disks are allowed out of a classified area. He could also sledgehammer the disks that would be terminal to the data. Oh, and if the FBI wanted something on his server, as much of a n00b as this guy is they have probably already been there, took it and he doesn't know it. The subpeona is just to make the data they know is there and they have admissable, or to pressure him to rollover. If he is true to his cause he says "Bring it on" and meets them at the door with a trash bag of shattered disks.(after dumping the data to an offshore location in at least 128 bit encryption) Me thinks the "Press Release" is BS. If I was his lawyer and he went behind my back to a place like /. he's be my EX-Client.
If the mfg defect rate is more than 1/X^R then the screen will have bad pixels. It's a max/min problem, maximize screen productio/minimize bad pixels. There is a cost associated with each ratio and of course you have to drive costs down.
True, but you gotta keep it from being swapped out as well and hide it from prying eyes. Not impossible, you simply tell the system is has X amount less memory to use and store the program in the area above X and the top of memory.
Thermite works well ;) It burns paper and melts computers. Non-toxic too. You'd be hard pressed to totally destroy a hard drive in a gasoline fire. Of course CD's would melt so you can do that. Removable hard drives and "John Henry" still work the best.
"As the user base becomes more educated with the program and how it functions, we certainly retain the ability to make it more visible." MORE visible? If it's supposed to be hidden and not removed why make it easier to find? Maybe a dummy? You remove this and it activates the REAL program. If users are given Admin rights they can find out what's running and kill it, assuming the SS hasn't got a backdoor into the OS to run a process w/o it showing up or flashing the disk busy light.