Fine, the car's battery/alternator would short, destroying the wiring. Just like an electric.
There's something called dielectric gel that works quite well on the marine battery's terminals to waterproof the connections (with some rubber covers). I suspect they work the same way with other battery-utilizing vehicles.
For a cheap 100 bucks tablet that can do word, excel, powerpoint, and outlook? That actually sounds like a great deal if I can do simple stuff without whipping out my full-size laptop (and not having to wait for the corporate boot-up time).
Who actually thinks this is a good idea, besides our filthy government?
By dropping the mail to USPS with the external address information you gave them explicit permission to use that external information. Once it is in their system there is nothing you can do to refuse that piece of information being used, at least for now. Unless a specific laws designate the limit of "how" such information should be used they are not part of the coverage of the 4th Amendment.
You are already depending on the ground controllers to keep the planes from slamming into one another. To say they have no "skin in the game" is only true if they are sociopaths. Most people would not recover from the mental anguish of killing hundreds of innocent people.
Pilots can refuse the instructions by the tower by announcing their inability of compliance. Ultimately the pilots have the final say on the plane, not the ground controller.
You know. Given the availability of hardware to run Linux I don't think holding on a PS3 to your dear life to run Linux is as good of an option as before. It is relly cheap to run Linux on Resberry Pi. If you want more processing power other hardware options are available. Unlocked phone is just another device to run Linux/Andriod. If you need to run Linux, there are plenty of hardware to run on.
Unfortunately as it is, game console is increasing becoming a splurge. I agree I won't necessarily going out there to buy a console now. The priority to buy a game console is dropping steadily as the years goes on. I still play games here and there but Apple really knows where gaming is going: to the phones and tablets.
ummm, so you are just lazy? and should be rewarded for that!?
If I am a fleet manager I would not want to spend a lot of time negotiating per vehicle, or per order. Rather it is to all parties advantage to have a set fleet price and order at the negotiated price. And yes, the negotiation is between the car manufactures and the buyers. Dealers are just there to fulfill the orders.
My Humble prediction: By the end of this century, Bill Gates will be remembered as a Nobel Prize winning humanitarian while Steve Jobs will be relegated to the dustbin of douchebags
That might be true. But for many of us that might live until 3/4 of this century We will continue to write how much they respect one another. That should be enough to keep Steve's reputation as a tech genius and Bill as a prodigy turn hard-driving tech executive turn philanthropist. You can probably equate Bill and Steve's relationship to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Plenty of people after them will be intrigued by their personal relationship with one another.
I hate to say this but for a hospital in a group of some sorts there has to be a way to get a volume licensing work out with all the hospitals in the same group. Also for upwards over a thousand machines in your hospitals (quick quesstimate), the annual license cost of a few hundreds of thousands of dollars might not be as outrageous as you think. There are technology cost associated with running an institution. All the medium to large/enterprise size company deals with it. It's simply a cost of running a business.
Looks like government needs to put forward a consortium on the approved code base to limit liabilities. Then the cost of software package will go down significantly for the specialty software, when dealing with compliance issues.
Prob not the most popular idea with the conservatives, but hey, someone has to decide we need to drive on the "right" side of the road instead of the left.
Adding to that common practice is the out-of-date software cannot be rid of due to old hardware still in service. There are still DOS based software running around. The only good thing about it is that a, script kiddies don't know DOS very well these days (not saying they cannot learn fast), b. they are limited in their usage, and c. most of the DOS based software lack ability to connect to a network, and so do the device the software to be used with.
The relay is the device in question, and they haven't released enough information for anybody outside to know what happened. It looks to me that a relay was installed and it either was setup up at the wrong trip point, or it wasn't tested properly.
Tested? Who tests anything?
In my line of work. If you don't properly commission your stuff, it has high consequences. Both in casualty and in economic consequences.
As a result, if someone works for me and not properly test/commission the equipment, I will make sure they don't work for me ever again, period. If they fuss then I will see to it that the rest of the company knows how incompetent you are and why your company/affiliate tolerate such unprofessional attitude and conduct. It's a fairly small circle in my line of work that eventually no one will hire them unless their attitudes change.
This is illegal in my country. And the rest of Europe, I believe. Why do you Americans waste so much time and money on bullshit like this?
Geesh! You mean I can't watch a commercial on ABC with my wife late at night? Is the birth rate in Europe so low they have to resort to regulate couple's "late night activities" to promote population growth?
For everyone of you who claim that vaccines saves lives, tell that to the parents of children who develop autism for no reason and within days of getting a vaccination shot.
Are you 100% certain that the vaccine shot that you are willing to take, or that you are willing to give your children is really safe enough to put into your body?
Another thing, why is it that vaccinations that are given to children are the same dose that are given to adults? Is that really safe for children?
The last thing, do you really think that the companies that make these really care if you have ANY health problems from whatever vaccine they make for you when in the US they are protected by law from harming you?
I don't usually make such direct and opinionated comment but you sir, is an idiot. Many vaccinations in discussion here are well proven with plenty of track records on their effectiveness and potential side effects. This records spans multiple DECADES and all over the globe. The United States Congress is running a race to the bottom while the rest of the world is trying to vaccinate every kids in their country to improve their public health. Yet someone like you is standing behind a position with very little proven science and are very much in a position to prevent the stability of public health.
We are not just talking about funding studies here on the side effect, which most would agree to be a beneficial thing (even if they don't agree with it). In fact we are talking about STOPPING current vaccination programs, which has been proven to be HIGHLY effective as far as public health goes. This goes a farther than than the individual expression. Public health at large must be properly protected with programs well run and supported by the professionals with good knowledge and experience. Right now the majority of the experts says vaccination is a good thing. We need to trust their ability in their field. There are very little reason why would majority of medical professionals would lie together on issues such as this.
I also don't normally make this request but some with mod points please mod this post down to negative (I don't mind if you do mod mine down as well). This post has zero benefit to the readers and is nothing but flame bite.
For the record I took all the vaccination required and it has no ill effect on me.
As long as you realize that air-gapping is a weak form of security in itself, air-gapping is ok. One break in the gap and it folds. Too many wireless devices out there these days to ever be sure that your system is really isolated. If your plant network isn't monitored for aberrant traffic patterns and firewalled from internal threats, you'll never know if your air-gap is working.
Hence it is a standard practice to have ZERO wireless devices within the air-gapped secure network to start. You are correct the traffic monitoring and strict firewall (on an air-gapped network) are still necessary. They should be standard practice in a critical network today, even in SCADA/Control application. There are very little reason not to do so today.
IF you plan to see Skyfall read no further.
The current Bond is pretty much nothing but a SCADA horror story.
Yup the new Q should have been fired on the spot if he was still a network engineer grunt at MI6 for making a rookie mistake!!! Why is he putting a non-secured machine from a hostile party into a secure network in the first place???
Bluescreens still happen... My work HP laptop running Windows 7 could be relied upon to provide a couple each hour it was running a skype conference. Sound driver, I believe.
I'm sorry to hear this. My latest HP laptop running Windows XP (corporate build, sorry) manage to be stable after daily stand-by (not shutting down like I suppose to do) for quite awhile (a few months). Every once awhile I shutdown and reboot, but then again, I think I am suppose to do shutdown, I just don't care to. Knock on wood this will be all right for a while. I think it has more to do with the quality of the hardware than the OS itself, unfortunately. So MS is really not to be blamed.
I work in Gov't, state level. EVERY SINGLE laptop is encrypted. You plug in a USB, before you can move data to it, it has to be encrypted (you can move data off to computer without encrypting). You burn CD it get's encrypted.
They just this year started encrypting desktops also.
What I don't understand is why is it not a Fed Gov't rule that every agency that has portable media (tablets/laptops/usb/etc) has to be encrypted? This should just be standard now. Esp after having 48 incidents in 3 years? WTF, after first incident they should have started working on a plan to encrypt stuff.
Because like so many trivial things in life, it gets political. Worse for federal government, since not only do they have to deal with office politics, they also have to deal with the OTHER politics when it comes to how to run an agency with the appropriate ideology, down to if it fits the ideological view of certain people whether to encrypt a stupid harddrive or not.
I am sad to say my prediction is very minimal compromise in the short term and further purges of moderates, especially moderate Republicans, for the next 4 years. Eventually the Republicans will have to change course, they just can’t/won’t that soon.
For the sake of our country I sincerely hope your prediction is not our future. As a moderate Republican I will have no choice but to keep voting for Democrates, straight down the ballot. I will keep on doing this until more Republican leaders emerges (and survives). I think many moderates (Republican or Democrats) in this country share my point of view.
The Left didn't win because of organization. The Left won because the Right is intolerant of the Moderate (at least the hard-core Left learned to keep quiet, for the most part), making Left looks like more accommodating to the Moderate than the Right. And Moderate don't like being push out of the circle.
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Why is this post not +5 already for being funny?!
Fine, the car's battery/alternator would short, destroying the wiring. Just like an electric.
There's something called dielectric gel that works quite well on the marine battery's terminals to waterproof the connections (with some rubber covers). I suspect they work the same way with other battery-utilizing vehicles.
For a cheap 100 bucks tablet that can do word, excel, powerpoint, and outlook? That actually sounds like a great deal if I can do simple stuff without whipping out my full-size laptop (and not having to wait for the corporate boot-up time).
But I gave them no permission to log everything.
Who actually thinks this is a good idea, besides our filthy government?
By dropping the mail to USPS with the external address information you gave them explicit permission to use that external information. Once it is in their system there is nothing you can do to refuse that piece of information being used, at least for now. Unless a specific laws designate the limit of "how" such information should be used they are not part of the coverage of the 4th Amendment.
You are already depending on the ground controllers to keep the planes from slamming into one another. To say they have no "skin in the game" is only true if they are sociopaths. Most people would not recover from the mental anguish of killing hundreds of innocent people.
Pilots can refuse the instructions by the tower by announcing their inability of compliance. Ultimately the pilots have the final say on the plane, not the ground controller.
If you can afford to buy an electric car at $80k, I don't think a parking space with charging capacity is going to be a problem
You know. Given the availability of hardware to run Linux I don't think holding on a PS3 to your dear life to run Linux is as good of an option as before. It is relly cheap to run Linux on Resberry Pi. If you want more processing power other hardware options are available. Unlocked phone is just another device to run Linux/Andriod. If you need to run Linux, there are plenty of hardware to run on.
Unfortunately as it is, game console is increasing becoming a splurge. I agree I won't necessarily going out there to buy a console now. The priority to buy a game console is dropping steadily as the years goes on. I still play games here and there but Apple really knows where gaming is going: to the phones and tablets.
ummm, so you are just lazy? and should be rewarded for that!?
If I am a fleet manager I would not want to spend a lot of time negotiating per vehicle, or per order. Rather it is to all parties advantage to have a set fleet price and order at the negotiated price. And yes, the negotiation is between the car manufactures and the buyers. Dealers are just there to fulfill the orders.
My Humble prediction: By the end of this century, Bill Gates will be remembered as a Nobel Prize winning humanitarian while Steve Jobs will be relegated to the dustbin of douchebags
That might be true. But for many of us that might live until 3/4 of this century We will continue to write how much they respect one another. That should be enough to keep Steve's reputation as a tech genius and Bill as a prodigy turn hard-driving tech executive turn philanthropist. You can probably equate Bill and Steve's relationship to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Plenty of people after them will be intrigued by their personal relationship with one another.
Judge Otis Wright needs to write a book. And start a thinktank. And appear on the View. And the Daily Show. And 60 Minutes.
Better yet, we need him to remain as a federal court judge. He's pretty good at what he does. We need more good judges, not more of 15 min celebrity.
I hate to say this but for a hospital in a group of some sorts there has to be a way to get a volume licensing work out with all the hospitals in the same group. Also for upwards over a thousand machines in your hospitals (quick quesstimate), the annual license cost of a few hundreds of thousands of dollars might not be as outrageous as you think. There are technology cost associated with running an institution. All the medium to large/enterprise size company deals with it. It's simply a cost of running a business.
Looks like government needs to put forward a consortium on the approved code base to limit liabilities. Then the cost of software package will go down significantly for the specialty software, when dealing with compliance issues.
Prob not the most popular idea with the conservatives, but hey, someone has to decide we need to drive on the "right" side of the road instead of the left.
Adding to that common practice is the out-of-date software cannot be rid of due to old hardware still in service. There are still DOS based software running around. The only good thing about it is that a, script kiddies don't know DOS very well these days (not saying they cannot learn fast), b. they are limited in their usage, and c. most of the DOS based software lack ability to connect to a network, and so do the device the software to be used with.
The relay is the device in question, and they haven't released enough information for anybody outside to know what happened. It looks to me that a relay was installed and it either was setup up at the wrong trip point, or it wasn't tested properly.
Tested? Who tests anything?
In my line of work. If you don't properly commission your stuff, it has high consequences. Both in casualty and in economic consequences.
As a result, if someone works for me and not properly test/commission the equipment, I will make sure they don't work for me ever again, period. If they fuss then I will see to it that the rest of the company knows how incompetent you are and why your company/affiliate tolerate such unprofessional attitude and conduct. It's a fairly small circle in my line of work that eventually no one will hire them unless their attitudes change.
This is illegal in my country. And the rest of Europe, I believe. Why do you Americans waste so much time and money on bullshit like this?
Geesh! You mean I can't watch a commercial on ABC with my wife late at night? Is the birth rate in Europe so low they have to resort to regulate couple's "late night activities" to promote population growth?
What if China were to, I don't know, just not export the 5A00* to the US in the first place? It was built there.
I dunno, maybe not order these phone being built in China in the first place? Apple is a US company after all.
Stupid typical slashdot science fundie article.
For everyone of you who claim that vaccines saves lives, tell that to the parents of children who develop autism for no reason and within days of getting a vaccination shot.
Are you 100% certain that the vaccine shot that you are willing to take, or that you are willing to give your children is really safe enough to put into your body?
Another thing, why is it that vaccinations that are given to children are the same dose that are given to adults? Is that really safe for children?
The last thing, do you really think that the companies that make these really care if you have ANY health problems from whatever vaccine they make for you when in the US they are protected by law from harming you?
I don't usually make such direct and opinionated comment but you sir, is an idiot. Many vaccinations in discussion here are well proven with plenty of track records on their effectiveness and potential side effects. This records spans multiple DECADES and all over the globe. The United States Congress is running a race to the bottom while the rest of the world is trying to vaccinate every kids in their country to improve their public health. Yet someone like you is standing behind a position with very little proven science and are very much in a position to prevent the stability of public health.
We are not just talking about funding studies here on the side effect, which most would agree to be a beneficial thing (even if they don't agree with it). In fact we are talking about STOPPING current vaccination programs, which has been proven to be HIGHLY effective as far as public health goes. This goes a farther than than the individual expression. Public health at large must be properly protected with programs well run and supported by the professionals with good knowledge and experience. Right now the majority of the experts says vaccination is a good thing. We need to trust their ability in their field. There are very little reason why would majority of medical professionals would lie together on issues such as this.
I also don't normally make this request but some with mod points please mod this post down to negative (I don't mind if you do mod mine down as well). This post has zero benefit to the readers and is nothing but flame bite.
For the record I took all the vaccination required and it has no ill effect on me.
As long as you realize that air-gapping is a weak form of security in itself, air-gapping is ok. One break in the gap and it folds. Too many wireless devices out there these days to ever be sure that your system is really isolated. If your plant network isn't monitored for aberrant traffic patterns and firewalled from internal threats, you'll never know if your air-gap is working.
Hence it is a standard practice to have ZERO wireless devices within the air-gapped secure network to start. You are correct the traffic monitoring and strict firewall (on an air-gapped network) are still necessary. They should be standard practice in a critical network today, even in SCADA/Control application. There are very little reason not to do so today.
IF you plan to see Skyfall read no further. The current Bond is pretty much nothing but a SCADA horror story.
Yup the new Q should have been fired on the spot if he was still a network engineer grunt at MI6 for making a rookie mistake!!! Why is he putting a non-secured machine from a hostile party into a secure network in the first place???
Bluescreens still happen... My work HP laptop running Windows 7 could be relied upon to provide a couple each hour it was running a skype conference. Sound driver, I believe.
I'm sorry to hear this. My latest HP laptop running Windows XP (corporate build, sorry) manage to be stable after daily stand-by (not shutting down like I suppose to do) for quite awhile (a few months). Every once awhile I shutdown and reboot, but then again, I think I am suppose to do shutdown, I just don't care to. Knock on wood this will be all right for a while. I think it has more to do with the quality of the hardware than the OS itself, unfortunately. So MS is really not to be blamed.
I work in Gov't, state level. EVERY SINGLE laptop is encrypted. You plug in a USB, before you can move data to it, it has to be encrypted (you can move data off to computer without encrypting). You burn CD it get's encrypted.
They just this year started encrypting desktops also.
What I don't understand is why is it not a Fed Gov't rule that every agency that has portable media (tablets/laptops/usb/etc) has to be encrypted? This should just be standard now. Esp after having 48 incidents in 3 years? WTF, after first incident they should have started working on a plan to encrypt stuff.
Because like so many trivial things in life, it gets political. Worse for federal government, since not only do they have to deal with office politics, they also have to deal with the OTHER politics when it comes to how to run an agency with the appropriate ideology, down to if it fits the ideological view of certain people whether to encrypt a stupid harddrive or not.
I am sad to say my prediction is very minimal compromise in the short term and further purges of moderates, especially moderate Republicans, for the next 4 years. Eventually the Republicans will have to change course, they just can’t/won’t that soon.
For the sake of our country I sincerely hope your prediction is not our future. As a moderate Republican I will have no choice but to keep voting for Democrates, straight down the ballot. I will keep on doing this until more Republican leaders emerges (and survives). I think many moderates (Republican or Democrats) in this country share my point of view.
Thanks AC and I think you just made a valid point.
The Left didn't win because of organization. The Left won because the Right is intolerant of the Moderate (at least the hard-core Left learned to keep quiet, for the most part), making Left looks like more accommodating to the Moderate than the Right. And Moderate don't like being push out of the circle.
The fact that it is using Windows 8 (A desktop level OS?) means it may fill the void about software.
Except that Windows RT can't run x86 Windows apps since it uses an ARM processor.
Yes and I have yet to see anything useful released on the Surface Pro to know how things would work with a full-function OS on a tablet.