1234 chicks birthday. (may have done DD/MM and MM/YY can't remember)
I guess what I am trying to say, is the the amount of time it takes is directly proportional to the information I know about you. Which given social media, and the like is a lot.
Thinking some evil empire is going to "brute force" your 2048 bit encrypted pass phrase is stupid. It is more likely going to be some jerk that either phishes it, spoofs it, keylogs it, social engineers, etc... whereby basically it takes zero seconds to crack your code, because you just gave it to someone willingly.
This isn't some Russian hacker with a nuclear powered pentium 5 linux RISC chip out to crack your codes. Much more likely, no codes will be broken, a security vulnerability will be taken advantage of giving access to yours and 2.2 million other passwords.
I'm pretty sure they have been doing Geosynchronous Orbit with satellites for some time. If you want to talk about loiter time, that is pretty much continuous for however long the satellite is up there.
The problem with satellites, is A) they are a long way up, despite what you may have seen in Hollywood, that means less detail and things like clouds and the like can sometimes get in the way, and B) it is also much more difficult to make changes in position.
The only thing this seems to be able to do that is different is land, which I am not sure why that might be a requirement for that purpose. I mean back in the day before there was the bandwidth for imagery, I believe some satellites actually may have used film, and then did physical drops of the film to be retrieved for analysis, but today, I am not sure what purpose it would serve. Retrofit and re-purpose/reuse perhaps as a cost saving measure. Though I would think the cost of the actual launch would be +95% of the actual cost anyway, so I am not sure what benefit that would really be.
Anyway I agree with your assessment, spy satellite doesn't seem to fit the bill for that regard. Your guess is as good as mine. Though I would expand the premise of why the military would want it back, to the only reason would be what is it physically *bringing* back. Either it brought something up there for some sort of modification or experiment, or it collected something up there (dust, debris, something physical, small satellite...), and is bringing it back for analysis. Could be that they are testing materials or methods, like radiation hardening, or particular designs, etc... and want to inspect the results.
They could be worried about communication interception by enemies, but I would assume they could use some pretty good encryption, and if they can break that, then spy satellites are probably the least of their worries (also physical retrieval I would think would be more risky for interception anyway).
Who knows maybe it is just a proof of concept of some principle or technology, a "there see we can do that now" sort of thing.
We are probably the only people who intentionally automate their duties and tasks so they don't have to do them anymore. Most other people and positions would put themselves out of a job by doing so.
Why waste hours of my day every day (or whatever cycle) doing something I can write a script for and when needed press a button and more less do the same thing.
Wanting to do less work, is not Lazy, it is about being efficient. I tell this to friends and they seriously think I am joking.
Just because someone says something, doesn't make it so. Companies have been trying to put all sorts of stupid unenforceable things in EULA's for years. They know they will not work. However it does two things: One is that it may fool some people into not doing the said activity, even if they have a perfect right to, it costs them nothing to do so. Two is that while likely stuff like this will be thrown out, it strengthens some arguments, and starts building a history to call on later.
Basically stuff like this would be likely thrown out as a bad contract, and also as you cannot just supersede other rights/laws simply by "agreeing" to it. I can make you sign a contract that if you don't pay me back my 20$ in 30 days I get to murder you without penalty. However after 30 days, you haven't paid, and I go murder you, well that contract is not going to protect me from the law. It may be considered in some way, but it does not supersede laws. Just like if you go sky diving, or white water rafting, you will sign all sorts of garbage saying under no circumstances are they liable for anything, and you will not sue no matter what. Those pieces of paper are mostly useless. If there has been negligence (which is really the only time a person is going to sue to begin with), those contracts/disclaimers do nothing. However they may still be considered, things like they were made aware of the risks involved, etc... which may give them some leverage or advantage in a case, but it is by no means a get out of jail free card.
You joke, but the RIAA seriously are suing limewire in real court for 72 Trillion dollars.
Really. They are actually suing someone for more money than exist in the entire world. They are presumably not trying to make fun or of parody themselves that I am aware. (Though perhaps not doing a good job of it)
1) As soon as he steps foot in Sweden he will be extradited to the US. 2) The charges in Sweden will drop, and two bank accounts will become fatter. 3) Once in the US he will be thrown in a hole next to the other guy who has been imprisoned without charge or trial. (US seems to love doing this the last while) 4) There the two will sit in legal limbo for some extended period of time (10 years?) 5) After a suitable period of time has passed when know one remembers or cares who these guys are they will be quietly charged and found guilty. 6) They will then sit in a hole for a very long time. 7) Perhaps eventually someone will make issue when they are old men, they will be released, and sue the government for millions in taxpayer money. 8) US will gladly pay, as they got their message across which was, "Mess with us and we will effectively ruin what is left of your miserable life".
One being excretions are some other beings air. That is actually the cycle. Plants consume CO2, and produce O2. Animals consume O2, and produce CO2. That is the whole point.
It is all about balance in the system. I guess you might classify pollution as any substances that is out of balance with a particular system.
That said there are plenty of fundamental crazies out there, particularly in the US it seems (when did that happen anyway)... I once heard of a "professional" geologist, who was also a creationist. I am not sure how someone would be able to segregate their belief that the world was created 5,000 years ago while at the same time have formal training in things like geologic time spans etc...
Seriously, buy a desktop, and a smartphone or tablet.
Unless you are really doing a lot of work on the road you don't need a laptop. If you do work at home, but want to browse email or web while having coffee at a trendy cafe, then get a tablet or smart phone.
Probably cost less also.
The big question other that the stupid requirements that were listed, is what is the damn thing going to be used for. Unless you can tell someone that, their buying advice is going to be useless.
My advice to you it you are set to this course, go down to your local BesyBuy/Futureshop/Source whatever ask someone there, and they will fix you up with something you want. Also what is with your budget? 2k with no dedicated video? Are you kidding me? Go get an i5 whatever from the above places with whatever screen size you want for about 5-700$.
Oh and please don't do the apple fanboi's a favor... ugh.
From my experience the problem isn't with the program (other than the fact that it can't integrate with anything, without a COBOL pro of course), but with the fact that many of these programs are still running on their original hardware, which is usually beyond even what we would consider obsolete. Many of these systems are the "don't f-ing touch it" or even look at it too hard as everyone that knew exactly what it does, did, or continues to do are long gone. Put it in a locked closet or room, and throw away the key.
But eventually something on them just break, then systems go down, and related systems, etc...
And then they hire a COBOL guy, and are probably willing to pay decent money at that point.
Which really has absolutely NOTHING to do with COBOL and everything to do with poor systems management.
The last HD I bought was a 2TB for 65$. The exact same HD goes for 120$ as of today.That was over a year ago. One would expect given normal progression that the 3TB HD would be about the same as the 2TB about a year later, a 3TB costs 165$ right now.
Anyway you look at it, *right now* you are paying for over 2 year old technology (which is a lot, as it was on sale even then, and being replaced) at a premium of +84%, which is still significant. Sure its not the ridiculous prices of 384% during the height of the flood, but still. If you consider where we should be, which is something around 65$ for a 3TB, we are still at a +253% over nominal prices pre-flood.
So I still consider their prices to be very over inflated. I have not purchased another HD since, and I will not until they wish to become reasonable. I would rather look at alternatives than pay want they are asking (clean up data, delete stuff of low importance). If enough people are like me, then they will start to compete again, as they are not going to be making money off unsold HD.
SSD is another matter entirely. That also has to come down in price however. I would buy an SSD in the near future however, but even if I built a new PC I would "make do" with what current HD storage I have. I refuse to pay that BS.
"Yo Dawg I Herd U Don't people Messing With Your Moon Stuff so I put an camera in your lunar buggy so you can watch people going to the moon while you sit at home not going to the moon!"
The fact that it took all of 30 minutes to decide I think really speaks to the frivolity of this sort of case.
Judge: "Does the jury have a verdict?" Foreman: "Yes your honour. We find that Oracle is guilty of 1st degree retarded."
Sort of like the RIAA suing Limewire for 72 TRILLION dollars.
I hope the "decision" of that case, is that they get to hold down each RIAA exec and the Judge gets to punch each one in the fact once, for every trillion dollars they sued for...
The problem with outsourcing is you gut any local knowlege. So yeah it might be cheaper to outsource your development, but when something goes wrong, or needs to be changed, you are now stuck outsourcing, as no one in your organization will know how to fix, change, update anything. Guess what, when those consultants realize that they have you over a barrel, it isn't going to be so cheap anymore.
Real problem is no one really looks long term to the total costs associated with anything, only the short term, in how much will it cost me this year, so that some manager looks good on his budget. They might be screwed for years to come, but so long as the initial cost makes them look good, what is the incentive to do the right thing?
I have to keep IE6 around because we have a ton of corporate apps that work on nothing but. I don't chalk that up to MS fault, but poor development. Transition should be interesting.
I have head AMD is very competitive in the server market. I doubt anyone would make a argument otherwise.
Typically when we talk about this stuff, we are all talking about "Consumer Products"...
That does not include embedded. Many of these low power chips are one degree separation from embedded chips.
I would not call some of these devices a "computer" strictly speaking insofar as modern computing devices are concerned.
Is an iPhone a computer? How about a Tablet? How about an ultralight laptop with a low power cpu?
Limited functionality, and slow, while might be acceptable or OK for some, but it is apples and oranges.
Its like saying, well I can make do with my old 286, it does everything I want it to do, it has totally kept up with that Intel 2500k cpu, I don't need anything more.
Well good for you, but that would be stupid argument to make.
So to be clear (as a lot of this is just assumed knowlege), sure AMD has kept up in certain segments, however in the Mainstream and up consumer markets they have not kept up in many many years.
Hell VIA or ARM can have said to have kept up in specific segments, but am I going to buy a VIA mainstream CPU? No. Last I recall off the top of my head I think was the C3 which was a flop.
WTF are the spending 30 MILLION dollars on maintaining a Facebook profile? Most people do it for nothing. Heck even if you hired one person, and that's all they did, all day (which is what some people seem to do anyway), and paid them say 50,000$ for the privilege, where does the rest of the money go?
At 50,000$ dollars salary, you could hire 600 people for 30,000,000$ to update your Facebook for you. 600! Its ludicrous.
Then I would say that is a bureaucratic problem with obtaining a warrant. Fix the problem with obtaining a warrant, don't try and create a law to simply bypass the system. That is lazy and stupid, and wrong.
I am not a cop, however I find it VERY hard to believe that it takes a 600 page report to acquire your average wiretap warrant. I would say either you cop friend is full of bullshit, or if indeed that is true, then the system of obtaining warrants needs to be examined in detail and streamlined.
However neither is justification of simply creating a law to circumvent due process.
Not to mention how unreasonable it would be to actually implement as well as the inherent risk that any such system would be fraught with.
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You look unhappy Dave...
Also makes me think of the robot from the movie "Moon".
Waiting for next generation psychological software now...
In the future everyone will wear privacy masks.
If only they built the Falcon 12 years ago!
We be legally downloadin' yer music?
Yar, we never get to pillage anymore... :(
Seriously what country has more beards and coastline than Canada? We must be pirates!
It took us two tries to crack an iPhone.
1234
chicks birthday. (may have done DD/MM and MM/YY can't remember)
I guess what I am trying to say, is the the amount of time it takes is directly proportional to the information I know about you. Which given social media, and the like is a lot.
Thinking some evil empire is going to "brute force" your 2048 bit encrypted pass phrase is stupid. It is more likely going to be some jerk that either phishes it, spoofs it, keylogs it, social engineers, etc... whereby basically it takes zero seconds to crack your code, because you just gave it to someone willingly.
This isn't some Russian hacker with a nuclear powered pentium 5 linux RISC chip out to crack your codes. Much more likely, no codes will be broken, a security vulnerability will be taken advantage of giving access to yours and 2.2 million other passwords.
People need to get their perspective corrected.
I'm pretty sure they have been doing Geosynchronous Orbit with satellites for some time. If you want to talk about loiter time, that is pretty much continuous for however long the satellite is up there.
The problem with satellites, is A) they are a long way up, despite what you may have seen in Hollywood, that means less detail and things like clouds and the like can sometimes get in the way, and B) it is also much more difficult to make changes in position.
The only thing this seems to be able to do that is different is land, which I am not sure why that might be a requirement for that purpose. I mean back in the day before there was the bandwidth for imagery, I believe some satellites actually may have used film, and then did physical drops of the film to be retrieved for analysis, but today, I am not sure what purpose it would serve. Retrofit and re-purpose/reuse perhaps as a cost saving measure. Though I would think the cost of the actual launch would be +95% of the actual cost anyway, so I am not sure what benefit that would really be.
Anyway I agree with your assessment, spy satellite doesn't seem to fit the bill for that regard. Your guess is as good as mine. Though I would expand the premise of why the military would want it back, to the only reason would be what is it physically *bringing* back. Either it brought something up there for some sort of modification or experiment, or it collected something up there (dust, debris, something physical, small satellite...), and is bringing it back for analysis. Could be that they are testing materials or methods, like radiation hardening, or particular designs, etc... and want to inspect the results.
They could be worried about communication interception by enemies, but I would assume they could use some pretty good encryption, and if they can break that, then spy satellites are probably the least of their worries (also physical retrieval I would think would be more risky for interception anyway).
Who knows maybe it is just a proof of concept of some principle or technology, a "there see we can do that now" sort of thing.
Not Lazy, Efficient.
We are probably the only people who intentionally automate their duties and tasks so they don't have to do them anymore. Most other people and positions would put themselves out of a job by doing so.
Why waste hours of my day every day (or whatever cycle) doing something I can write a script for and when needed press a button and more less do the same thing.
Wanting to do less work, is not Lazy, it is about being efficient. I tell this to friends and they seriously think I am joking.
Just because someone says something, doesn't make it so. Companies have been trying to put all sorts of stupid unenforceable things in EULA's for years. They know they will not work. However it does two things: One is that it may fool some people into not doing the said activity, even if they have a perfect right to, it costs them nothing to do so. Two is that while likely stuff like this will be thrown out, it strengthens some arguments, and starts building a history to call on later.
Basically stuff like this would be likely thrown out as a bad contract, and also as you cannot just supersede other rights/laws simply by "agreeing" to it.
I can make you sign a contract that if you don't pay me back my 20$ in 30 days I get to murder you without penalty. However after 30 days, you haven't paid, and I go murder you, well that contract is not going to protect me from the law. It may be considered in some way, but it does not supersede laws. Just like if you go sky diving, or white water rafting, you will sign all sorts of garbage saying under no circumstances are they liable for anything, and you will not sue no matter what. Those pieces of paper are mostly useless. If there has been negligence (which is really the only time a person is going to sue to begin with), those contracts/disclaimers do nothing. However they may still be considered, things like they were made aware of the risks involved, etc... which may give them some leverage or advantage in a case, but it is by no means a get out of jail free card.
You joke, but the RIAA seriously are suing limewire in real court for 72 Trillion dollars.
Really. They are actually suing someone for more money than exist in the entire world. They are presumably not trying to make fun or of parody themselves that I am aware. (Though perhaps not doing a good job of it)
1) As soon as he steps foot in Sweden he will be extradited to the US.
2) The charges in Sweden will drop, and two bank accounts will become fatter.
3) Once in the US he will be thrown in a hole next to the other guy who has been imprisoned without charge or trial. (US seems to love doing this the last while)
4) There the two will sit in legal limbo for some extended period of time (10 years?)
5) After a suitable period of time has passed when know one remembers or cares who these guys are they will be quietly charged and found guilty.
6) They will then sit in a hole for a very long time.
7) Perhaps eventually someone will make issue when they are old men, they will be released, and sue the government for millions in taxpayer money.
8) US will gladly pay, as they got their message across which was, "Mess with us and we will effectively ruin what is left of your miserable life".
One being excretions are some other beings air. That is actually the cycle. Plants consume CO2, and produce O2. Animals consume O2, and produce CO2. That is the whole point.
It is all about balance in the system. I guess you might classify pollution as any substances that is out of balance with a particular system.
Who cares? It's all just a simulation anyway!
That said there are plenty of fundamental crazies out there, particularly in the US it seems (when did that happen anyway)... I once heard of a "professional" geologist, who was also a creationist. I am not sure how someone would be able to segregate their belief that the world was created 5,000 years ago while at the same time have formal training in things like geologic time spans etc...
I'm sure they have a few rinks in Beijing.
I don't know if China has a National Hockey team, but they should.
Certainly youth programs at least.
OK I only kid a bit.
Seriously, buy a desktop, and a smartphone or tablet.
Unless you are really doing a lot of work on the road you don't need a laptop. If you do work at home, but want to browse email or web while having coffee at a trendy cafe, then get a tablet or smart phone.
Probably cost less also.
The big question other that the stupid requirements that were listed, is what is the damn thing going to be used for. Unless you can tell someone that, their buying advice is going to be useless.
My advice to you it you are set to this course, go down to your local BesyBuy/Futureshop/Source whatever ask someone there, and they will fix you up with something you want. Also what is with your budget? 2k with no dedicated video? Are you kidding me? Go get an i5 whatever from the above places with whatever screen size you want for about 5-700$.
Oh and please don't do the apple fanboi's a favor... ugh.
From my experience the problem isn't with the program (other than the fact that it can't integrate with anything, without a COBOL pro of course), but with the fact that many of these programs are still running on their original hardware, which is usually beyond even what we would consider obsolete. Many of these systems are the "don't f-ing touch it" or even look at it too hard as everyone that knew exactly what it does, did, or continues to do are long gone. Put it in a locked closet or room, and throw away the key.
But eventually something on them just break, then systems go down, and related systems, etc...
And then they hire a COBOL guy, and are probably willing to pay decent money at that point.
Which really has absolutely NOTHING to do with COBOL and everything to do with poor systems management.
The last HD I bought was a 2TB for 65$. The exact same HD goes for 120$ as of today.That was over a year ago. One would expect given normal progression that the 3TB HD would be about the same as the 2TB about a year later, a 3TB costs 165$ right now.
Anyway you look at it, *right now* you are paying for over 2 year old technology (which is a lot, as it was on sale even then, and being replaced) at a premium of +84%, which is still significant. Sure its not the ridiculous prices of 384% during the height of the flood, but still. If you consider where we should be, which is something around 65$ for a 3TB, we are still at a +253% over nominal prices pre-flood.
So I still consider their prices to be very over inflated. I have not purchased another HD since, and I will not until they wish to become reasonable. I would rather look at alternatives than pay want they are asking (clean up data, delete stuff of low importance). If enough people are like me, then they will start to compete again, as they are not going to be making money off unsold HD.
SSD is another matter entirely. That also has to come down in price however. I would buy an SSD in the near future however, but even if I built a new PC I would "make do" with what current HD storage I have. I refuse to pay that BS.
I look forward to the pimping of the lunar buggy.
"Yo Dawg I Herd U Don't people Messing With Your Moon Stuff so I put an camera in your lunar buggy so you can watch people going to the moon while you sit at home not going to the moon!"
Its ability to outrun opponents has proven to be valuable in battle.
The fact that it took all of 30 minutes to decide I think really speaks to the frivolity of this sort of case.
Judge: "Does the jury have a verdict?"
Foreman: "Yes your honour. We find that Oracle is guilty of 1st degree retarded."
Sort of like the RIAA suing Limewire for 72 TRILLION dollars.
I hope the "decision" of that case, is that they get to hold down each RIAA exec and the Judge gets to punch each one in the fact once, for every trillion dollars they sued for...
Though to his credit it seems they might not touch the R&D which would be contrary to what you are talking about. That is of course if it is true...
The problem with outsourcing is you gut any local knowlege. So yeah it might be cheaper to outsource your development, but when something goes wrong, or needs to be changed, you are now stuck outsourcing, as no one in your organization will know how to fix, change, update anything. Guess what, when those consultants realize that they have you over a barrel, it isn't going to be so cheap anymore.
Real problem is no one really looks long term to the total costs associated with anything, only the short term, in how much will it cost me this year, so that some manager looks good on his budget. They might be screwed for years to come, but so long as the initial cost makes them look good, what is the incentive to do the right thing?
I have to keep IE6 around because we have a ton of corporate apps that work on nothing but. I don't chalk that up to MS fault, but poor development. Transition should be interesting.
I have head AMD is very competitive in the server market. I doubt anyone would make a argument otherwise.
Typically when we talk about this stuff, we are all talking about "Consumer Products"...
That does not include embedded. Many of these low power chips are one degree separation from embedded chips.
I would not call some of these devices a "computer" strictly speaking insofar as modern computing devices are concerned.
Is an iPhone a computer? How about a Tablet? How about an ultralight laptop with a low power cpu?
Limited functionality, and slow, while might be acceptable or OK for some, but it is apples and oranges.
Its like saying, well I can make do with my old 286, it does everything I want it to do, it has totally kept up with that Intel 2500k cpu, I don't need anything more.
Well good for you, but that would be stupid argument to make.
So to be clear (as a lot of this is just assumed knowlege), sure AMD has kept up in certain segments, however in the Mainstream and up consumer markets they have not kept up in many many years.
Hell VIA or ARM can have said to have kept up in specific segments, but am I going to buy a VIA mainstream CPU? No. Last I recall off the top of my head I think was the C3 which was a flop.
Seriously. First thought I had at the headline...
WTF are the spending 30 MILLION dollars on maintaining a Facebook profile? Most people do it for nothing. Heck even if you hired one person, and that's all they did, all day (which is what some people seem to do anyway), and paid them say 50,000$ for the privilege, where does the rest of the money go?
At 50,000$ dollars salary, you could hire 600 people for 30,000,000$ to update your Facebook for you. 600! Its ludicrous.
Then I would say that is a bureaucratic problem with obtaining a warrant. Fix the problem with obtaining a warrant, don't try and create a law to simply bypass the system. That is lazy and stupid, and wrong.
I am not a cop, however I find it VERY hard to believe that it takes a 600 page report to acquire your average wiretap warrant. I would say either you cop friend is full of bullshit, or if indeed that is true, then the system of obtaining warrants needs to be examined in detail and streamlined.
However neither is justification of simply creating a law to circumvent due process.
Not to mention how unreasonable it would be to actually implement as well as the inherent risk that any such system would be fraught with.
I hope he sues them for a Bazillions dollars!
Oh wait that's my money.... sigh.