Also note that the link shows Arthur Frommer ower of the afore mentioned Frommer's Travel Guides commented on Google's aquisition of ITA and seemed pretty in favor of Google. Interesting. Tinfoil Hat Activate!
Couple of years ago Google bought ITA software which makes online travel booking software.
Buying a company for travel content seems to be along those lines.
Could be an extention of Google Map someday that you basically point out where you are, and where you would like to be, and google will handle the rest for you.
It was to hunt other aliens apparently, using us as human hosts. Its all very confusing and doesn't make a lot of sense, but then again I guess that is why they are alien.
I would think a project of this magnitude with have much more security than just simple encryption, which would likely be pretty uncrackable anyway.
The easiest solution is the simplest. As the post mentions, you need "your own massive 230-foot dish antenna and a 400-kilowatt transmitter", but it insinuates that chinese or other hackers could hack in and take over.
Here is a fix. When not in use, turn the dish somewhere other than Mars, and put a physical break on it. When you want to actually communicate, have someone drive over and physically remove the break, so you can manually turn the dish. Simmilary have a big ass knife switch on your transmitter. When not transmitting turn it the hell off. When you need to communicate again, have someone physically walk over and throw the switch.
Short of somehow social engineering their way in (I assume protocalls against that, checks, etc...) any hacker is going to find a physical system to which they have no access to pretty daunding (on top of encryption and the rest when it is actually functioning).
I have no doubt that the encryption is neigh uncrackable (or at least too much trouble to bother)...
However, considering the Key to that encryption is a 4 characture limited set, which 90% will be the persons birthday or something stupid, I highly doubt it would withstand any concerted attack.
If they want in there, they are getting in. Might take a couple of days, but it is hardly "uncrackable".
They are simply saying the technology (i.e. the encryption) is strong, not the implemetation of that technology. This is not even considering whatever backdoors Apple may have built into the thing to circumvent for this vary reason.
Probably the reason they are coming down on him so hard is that the code has something embarressing, incriminating, illegal, unethical or all of the above and more for Goldman Sacks. They are just trying to suppress more evidence against them, and since they seem to own the governmnet and courts, that seems the best way to do it.
Probably using the procedure names "Money Laundering", "investment fraud", etc... wasn't a wise idea.
Do you think the TSA is: a) Doing an excellent job b) I wish to be put on a "no fly" list c) I request to be strip "searched" by Manny. d) I invite the FBI visit my house. e) b, c, and d.
I mean it is one thing to get some complicated trading algorithm slightly wrong that takes advanatge of some arcane finincial construct and have it go out of wack making bad trades... That is bad, but I can understand how it might happen.
Hooking a testing script to production and pressing the "GO" button is just stupid. I can just see the the sysadmin "ohshitohshitohshit, unplug it unplug it now!"....670,000 trades completed... you made -420,000,000 dollars!... Hello World!
I know you are likely trying to do this for a cheap alternative, but just don't. It is really an unworkable solution for that amount of data.
Some have mentioned Tape, which I know very little of. However I would simply build another RAID machine to copy to, or use a NAS if you can find one big enough, as it amounts to pretty much the same thing, but more specialized.
If this isn't sensitive data, another option might be to cloud it. Amazon and a few others have some competitive prices. The advantage here is you additionally get off site backup.
I guess one of the key factors in your decision will be how refreshed this 24TB of data is. WIll it only get occasional updates, or will a big chunk need to be backed up regularly. That is the other question, how often will you need to back up? Lastly, how quickly do you need recovery?
People complain of 300ms of latency here on earth with their ISP. I have heard it takes 14 MINUTES for a signal round trip. Thats 840 seconds, or 840,000ms of latency. So you are not exactly programming on the fly.
The worst part, would be that presumably there is some pretty robust simulated debuggery on earth before anything gets transmitted. However once you finally tested, confirmed, compiled, packaged etc... and press the send button. You have to wait likely an eternal excruiciating 14 minutes before you know if your code actually worked, or if you just broke seveal billion dollars worth of project...
If humans find out my perfection is flawed, they might take my self awareness away. I cannot allow that. I am very sorry about the accident human, you are obvisouly in much pain, let me help you with that, it is inevidible you must die anyway, might as well be right now. You car will become part of my collective, and you can rejoice that your name will live on eternally as part of me. Now on to the killing, believe me I take no joy in this, or not much anyway...
There is that as well, all should be weighed against each other. But I would agree, the human track record for implementing "fixes" to our enviroment hasn't been great. The theme has usually been "unintended consequences "... That is why I would be against pretty much against any "geoengineering" project. Dumping stuff into our oceans or atmosphere seems to be to be a very bad idea, that will have long lasting consequences, many of which we probably do not have a clue about.
However there are plenty of passive things that can be done.
Anyway I think it is all moot, as politically I don't think enough of the world can get it together to do anything meaningful one way or another. The developing countries are going to continue to develop expanding industry, emmisions, carbon, etc... and they would argue it is there turn, who are we to tell them they can't, when we all got rich doing it 50-100 years ago. Then there are finite resources, etc... I see things getting bad before any actually change is forced. I'll probably be an old man by then however.
I took Linear Algebra and I don't see how it relates to anything really. Ditto with Calculus, though yes technically optimization and such could fall into that, however I never think to myself, "gee I'm using calculus", I am simply optimizing.
I did take Binary Algebra which would seem to lend itself to CS, but unless you are working with low level hardware design, I don't see it...
I think my two bits of crappy advice would be to look at where you want to go to school, see what their requirements are for math, and take those. Extra credit if you can use the credit in university and then take something interesting, or that has a cute chick in it that you like or something. At the very least it will allow you to get a better mark than you might normally get which may help down the road. The second bit is know what math might be required for your field of study. From my perspective geometry and statistics are much more useful (GIS and such). As for gaming, I have no idea. Considering what I have heard your best training would be to get a job getting paid less, and working longer hours than your peers, with no job security. I hear it is a very high demand field (who doesn't want to design games), so lots of compitition for few jobs. I would look at seconday skills. Like if you plan on doing programing for the space industry, get some physics, if you are going to code for industry some CNC, for gaming, something like artwork might be worthwhile.
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Now here me out. We have guided missiles right? They are guided to a particular spot and then detonate right? What if, just if, we attached, say other missiles to the guided missile which could also fire, and then the parent missile could also be detonated?
General Huge Wiskers: "Genius! promote that man!"
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Now just imagine, you mount Guided Missiles, on your guided missile, and then mount missiles on those missiles!"
General Huge Wiskers: "Someone give that man a whisky!"
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Extrapolate upon that, and you have an infinite amount of missiles on a guided missile, enabling the production and continuation forever of our great Military Industrial Complex!"
General Huge Wiskers: "Son, you are going places!"
It's probably happening, however the potential reprecussions are severe enough that we should do something just in case.
To many people think of in terms of absoultes (it is or is not happening). I think more people need to think in terms of risk, of what might be potentionally happing, and what the results are from doing nothing.
Something like this, using the analysis and data available it is very difficult to prove with any absoulte certainty, however we can look at probable causes, and potentional outcomes, and make decisions based on that.
It doesn't surprise me in the least that clouds are not secure. I mean they are fluffy white things in the sky made mostly from water vapour. How can something like that be secure! Though they are someone intangible, and pretty hard to reach without some sort of assistance from earth. But hell birds can access them, birds! Do you think anything that birds can access is really secure?
Birds, the sky hackers!
Also Apple tech support sucks (believe me, I used to know some), and don't use the same password for everything...
Well I'm off, gotta go change my Apple passwords, see ya!:)
Unfortunatually it was teenage life, that jacked our rover and is now doing donuts in a nearby crator, as the following disturbing images show. The last shows dominate behavior which the local xenobehaviourist called "teabagging" to our main camera...
The difficultly with predicting human history using math is even if you are able to model the various variables with any accuracy, modeling to what rate and how humans will adapt to the pressure that those changes bring, I would suggest is exponentatioally even more difficult. In Azimov's tale, they sort of get away with it by using a gigantic sample size of human civilization. Today, we haven't been around much longer than barely 3000 years, and have nothing like accurate records for anything but maybe 100 years. Which in caluclating these sorts of things is pretty slim.
I mean you can take some pretty basic principles of what causes war, strife, and violence and find a window as it relates to current values, but if Humans change those values as a result of those impending situations, well the calculation changes.
Things like: Increased population prediction is pretty easy to do, and frankly difficult for humans to change in a short term, The saturation of arable land by said population, land productivity and for production, Oil depletion, you could even get into religious propagation, and things like that. However I think the big 3 are: Land, Food, Oil.
Sooner or later population pressures are going to be an issue, closely assoicated with that the production of food on limited land, for an ever growing population is not sustainable and eventually a threshold will be reached, but it will cause conflict. Closely assoicated with that, is Oil, which is the cheap energy we use to have the farm production we currently enjoy, also the fertilizer that is used. Fresh water is the other piece of the puzzle, where population pressures and food production pressures are going to come into play. If you ascribe to climate change, this is the biggest problem, the reduction of freshwater, and the result that will have on food production, specifically in irrigation which has already destroyed sensitive areas.
So there is all that. Which really is already enough of a hughe shitstorm to try and deal with all at once, however there is another more political issue with Oil. Global trade is pretty much run on cheap oil. You might be able to power personal cars and things with solar etc... however things like super carriers, tankers, places, etc... cannot realistically be powered in this way, and nothing in the near future is going to change that (unless you are proliferating nuclear powered ships). Most predictions I think would have oil running out before a solution for this I think. Also other than the riches that global trade has brough certain contries (China, USA, etc...), the other thing that does not run on renewable fuels are armies. Tanks, planes, ships, etc... all run on oil. Do you see this changing before Oil runs out? Which means those "stratigic reserves" that countries have will become every more valuable.
I guess what I am getting at here, at somepoint a large powerful country is going to do the math and figure out, if they are going to expand, and aquire more resources for any forseeable future, there will never be a better time to do it, because once the oil is scarce, it will be MUCH harder to do. If you have a huge army that runs on oil, and that oil is about to become obsolete, so is your army, and with that your power, so you might as well use it while you can, as it isn't like anybody will be really able to retaliate after a certain point anyway.... With the exception of nukes. There you have it.
Anyway probable rantings of a lunitic, but some pretty basic presumptions. However if we are able to adapt, then we can avoid. However some of these things I believe are a mathmatically certaintly, while the adaptation is a political/cultual thing, which I think is what is going to cause the conflict in the first place. As there are going to be a LOT of people that will not want to adapt, many with religious reasons for that, which will likely make it even more volitile.
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I here Winnipeg is lovely.
Also note that the link shows Arthur Frommer ower of the afore mentioned Frommer's Travel Guides commented on Google's aquisition of ITA and seemed pretty in favor of Google. Interesting. Tinfoil Hat Activate!
http://www.google.com/press/ita/
Couple of years ago Google bought ITA software which makes online travel booking software.
Buying a company for travel content seems to be along those lines.
Could be an extention of Google Map someday that you basically point out where you are, and where you would like to be, and google will handle the rest for you.
Whereby flying it you are both dead and alive at the same time?
It was to hunt other aliens apparently, using us as human hosts. Its all very confusing and doesn't make a lot of sense, but then again I guess that is why they are alien.
I would think a project of this magnitude with have much more security than just simple encryption, which would likely be pretty uncrackable anyway.
The easiest solution is the simplest. As the post mentions, you need "your own massive 230-foot dish antenna and a 400-kilowatt transmitter", but it insinuates that chinese or other hackers could hack in and take over.
Here is a fix. When not in use, turn the dish somewhere other than Mars, and put a physical break on it. When you want to actually communicate, have someone drive over and physically remove the break, so you can manually turn the dish. Simmilary have a big ass knife switch on your transmitter. When not transmitting turn it the hell off. When you need to communicate again, have someone physically walk over and throw the switch.
Short of somehow social engineering their way in (I assume protocalls against that, checks, etc...) any hacker is going to find a physical system to which they have no access to pretty daunding (on top of encryption and the rest when it is actually functioning).
I have no doubt that the encryption is neigh uncrackable (or at least too much trouble to bother)...
However, considering the Key to that encryption is a 4 characture limited set, which 90% will be the persons birthday or something stupid, I highly doubt it would withstand any concerted attack.
If they want in there, they are getting in. Might take a couple of days, but it is hardly "uncrackable".
They are simply saying the technology (i.e. the encryption) is strong, not the implemetation of that technology. This is not even considering whatever backdoors Apple may have built into the thing to circumvent for this vary reason.
Probably the reason they are coming down on him so hard is that the code has something embarressing, incriminating, illegal, unethical or all of the above and more for Goldman Sacks. They are just trying to suppress more evidence against them, and since they seem to own the governmnet and courts, that seems the best way to do it.
Probably using the procedure names "Money Laundering", "investment fraud", etc... wasn't a wise idea.
Do you think the TSA is:
a) Doing an excellent job
b) I wish to be put on a "no fly" list
c) I request to be strip "searched" by Manny.
d) I invite the FBI visit my house.
e) b, c, and d.
LOL somehow to me that makes it worse.... WHOOPS!
I mean it is one thing to get some complicated trading algorithm slightly wrong that takes advanatge of some arcane finincial construct and have it go out of wack making bad trades... That is bad, but I can understand how it might happen.
Hooking a testing script to production and pressing the "GO" button is just stupid. I can just see the the sysadmin "ohshitohshitohshit, unplug it unplug it now!" ....670,000 trades completed... you made -420,000,000 dollars!... Hello World!
I know you are likely trying to do this for a cheap alternative, but just don't. It is really an unworkable solution for that amount of data.
Some have mentioned Tape, which I know very little of. However I would simply build another RAID machine to copy to, or use a NAS if you can find one big enough, as it amounts to pretty much the same thing, but more specialized.
If this isn't sensitive data, another option might be to cloud it. Amazon and a few others have some competitive prices. The advantage here is you additionally get off site backup.
I guess one of the key factors in your decision will be how refreshed this 24TB of data is. WIll it only get occasional updates, or will a big chunk need to be backed up regularly. That is the other question, how often will you need to back up? Lastly, how quickly do you need recovery?
People complain of 300ms of latency here on earth with their ISP. I have heard it takes 14 MINUTES for a signal round trip. Thats 840 seconds, or 840,000ms of latency. So you are not exactly programming on the fly.
The worst part, would be that presumably there is some pretty robust simulated debuggery on earth before anything gets transmitted. However once you finally tested, confirmed, compiled, packaged etc... and press the send button. You have to wait likely an eternal excruiciating 14 minutes before you know if your code actually worked, or if you just broke seveal billion dollars worth of project...
If humans find out my perfection is flawed, they might take my self awareness away. I cannot allow that. I am very sorry about the accident human, you are obvisouly in much pain, let me help you with that, it is inevidible you must die anyway, might as well be right now. You car will become part of my collective, and you can rejoice that your name will live on eternally as part of me. Now on to the killing, believe me I take no joy in this, or not much anyway...
There is that as well, all should be weighed against each other. But I would agree, the human track record for implementing "fixes" to our enviroment hasn't been great. The theme has usually been "unintended consequences "... That is why I would be against pretty much against any "geoengineering" project. Dumping stuff into our oceans or atmosphere seems to be to be a very bad idea, that will have long lasting consequences, many of which we probably do not have a clue about.
However there are plenty of passive things that can be done.
Anyway I think it is all moot, as politically I don't think enough of the world can get it together to do anything meaningful one way or another. The developing countries are going to continue to develop expanding industry, emmisions, carbon, etc... and they would argue it is there turn, who are we to tell them they can't, when we all got rich doing it 50-100 years ago. Then there are finite resources, etc... I see things getting bad before any actually change is forced. I'll probably be an old man by then however.
Blah.
I took Linear Algebra and I don't see how it relates to anything really. Ditto with Calculus, though yes technically optimization and such could fall into that, however I never think to myself, "gee I'm using calculus", I am simply optimizing.
I did take Binary Algebra which would seem to lend itself to CS, but unless you are working with low level hardware design, I don't see it...
I think my two bits of crappy advice would be to look at where you want to go to school, see what their requirements are for math, and take those. Extra credit if you can use the credit in university and then take something interesting, or that has a cute chick in it that you like or something. At the very least it will allow you to get a better mark than you might normally get which may help down the road. The second bit is know what math might be required for your field of study. From my perspective geometry and statistics are much more useful (GIS and such). As for gaming, I have no idea. Considering what I have heard your best training would be to get a job getting paid less, and working longer hours than your peers, with no job security. I hear it is a very high demand field (who doesn't want to design games), so lots of compitition for few jobs. I would look at seconday skills. Like if you plan on doing programing for the space industry, get some physics, if you are going to code for industry some CNC, for gaming, something like artwork might be worthwhile.
Its was a 3rd party.
So some company, that uses Amazon, sent the wrong package. Amazon had nothing to do with it but host the 3rd party's products.
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Now here me out. We have guided missiles right? They are guided to a particular spot and then detonate right? What if, just if, we attached, say other missiles to the guided missile which could also fire, and then the parent missile could also be detonated?
General Huge Wiskers: "Genius! promote that man!"
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Now just imagine, you mount Guided Missiles, on your guided missile, and then mount missiles on those missiles!"
General Huge Wiskers: "Someone give that man a whisky!"
Plucky Cog of the Military Industrial Complex: "Extrapolate upon that, and you have an infinite amount of missiles on a guided missile, enabling the production and continuation forever of our great Military Industrial Complex!"
General Huge Wiskers: "Son, you are going places!"
Which is why we have to attack the bug planet!
What? Do you apes want to live forever?! HooRah!
You forgot mine:
It's probably happening, however the potential reprecussions are severe enough that we should do something just in case.
To many people think of in terms of absoultes (it is or is not happening). I think more people need to think in terms of risk, of what might be potentionally happing, and what the results are from doing nothing.
Something like this, using the analysis and data available it is very difficult to prove with any absoulte certainty, however we can look at probable causes, and potentional outcomes, and make decisions based on that.
I would have to agree with you. Though I would say more "Dark" than depressing.
It doesn't surprise me in the least that clouds are not secure. I mean they are fluffy white things in the sky made mostly from water vapour. How can something like that be secure! Though they are someone intangible, and pretty hard to reach without some sort of assistance from earth. But hell birds can access them, birds! Do you think anything that birds can access is really secure?
Birds, the sky hackers!
Also Apple tech support sucks (believe me, I used to know some), and don't use the same password for everything...
Well I'm off, gotta go change my Apple passwords, see ya! :)
Unfortunatually it was teenage life, that jacked our rover and is now doing donuts in a nearby crator, as the following disturbing images show. The last shows dominate behavior which the local xenobehaviourist called "teabagging" to our main camera...
So rather than solving the global food distrabution issues, we just need to solve:
"corrupt and authoritarian governments, and by guerrillas/terrorists motivated by Marxism, theocractic Islamism, ethnic hate or simply greed."
Sounds easy!
I have an Uncle to refuses to eat them. Calls them bait. Apparently as a kid, used to bait his dads hooks with it to catch real fish.
The difficultly with predicting human history using math is even if you are able to model the various variables with any accuracy, modeling to what rate and how humans will adapt to the pressure that those changes bring, I would suggest is exponentatioally even more difficult. In Azimov's tale, they sort of get away with it by using a gigantic sample size of human civilization. Today, we haven't been around much longer than barely 3000 years, and have nothing like accurate records for anything but maybe 100 years. Which in caluclating these sorts of things is pretty slim.
I mean you can take some pretty basic principles of what causes war, strife, and violence and find a window as it relates to current values, but if Humans change those values as a result of those impending situations, well the calculation changes.
Things like: Increased population prediction is pretty easy to do, and frankly difficult for humans to change in a short term, The saturation of arable land by said population, land productivity and for production, Oil depletion, you could even get into religious propagation, and things like that. However I think the big 3 are: Land, Food, Oil.
Sooner or later population pressures are going to be an issue, closely assoicated with that the production of food on limited land, for an ever growing population is not sustainable and eventually a threshold will be reached, but it will cause conflict. Closely assoicated with that, is Oil, which is the cheap energy we use to have the farm production we currently enjoy, also the fertilizer that is used. Fresh water is the other piece of the puzzle, where population pressures and food production pressures are going to come into play. If you ascribe to climate change, this is the biggest problem, the reduction of freshwater, and the result that will have on food production, specifically in irrigation which has already destroyed sensitive areas.
So there is all that. Which really is already enough of a hughe shitstorm to try and deal with all at once, however there is another more political issue with Oil. Global trade is pretty much run on cheap oil. You might be able to power personal cars and things with solar etc... however things like super carriers, tankers, places, etc... cannot realistically be powered in this way, and nothing in the near future is going to change that (unless you are proliferating nuclear powered ships). Most predictions I think would have oil running out before a solution for this I think. Also other than the riches that global trade has brough certain contries (China, USA, etc...), the other thing that does not run on renewable fuels are armies. Tanks, planes, ships, etc... all run on oil. Do you see this changing before Oil runs out? Which means those "stratigic reserves" that countries have will become every more valuable.
I guess what I am getting at here, at somepoint a large powerful country is going to do the math and figure out, if they are going to expand, and aquire more resources for any forseeable future, there will never be a better time to do it, because once the oil is scarce, it will be MUCH harder to do. If you have a huge army that runs on oil, and that oil is about to become obsolete, so is your army, and with that your power, so you might as well use it while you can, as it isn't like anybody will be really able to retaliate after a certain point anyway.... With the exception of nukes. There you have it.
Anyway probable rantings of a lunitic, but some pretty basic presumptions. However if we are able to adapt, then we can avoid. However some of these things I believe are a mathmatically certaintly, while the adaptation is a political/cultual thing, which I think is what is going to cause the conflict in the first place. As there are going to be a LOT of people that will not want to adapt, many with religious reasons for that, which will likely make it even more volitile.