Provided other firms are even allowed to enter the market. One major characteristic of the way the cable and DSL-based internet was that only one or two entrants were even allowed to obtain a business license and the necessary building/installation permits. The politicians got to pocket, both individually and the local government entities, several tons of money. They still are contributing, via your cable/telephone bill. Just those little charges tacked on the end that go to special interests. You really don't need to read the bill that far, just pay it./sarcasm.
No other entrants (competitors), the situation will not behave properly as we all will see when this plays out.
I support a lot of businesses that have little to no interest in the latest hardware or ripping out and replacing their software. That came about due to them putting all their (financial) eggs in a DOS/Windows/... basket and a total commitment that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I have no idea why you are using WINE when Dosbox does a pretty damn wonderful job of running the legacy (antique) software, especially games and productivity software. I just spent the day here segregating software by category and one of the major ones is legacy Microsoft.
I'm running Windows 3.11 over DOS 6.22 here with no problems on a latest and greatest Z77 motherboard which I selected precisely due to the fact that it seems to be last machine with both floppy disk and IDE drive plugs on the motherboard. It's a weird job, but someone's got to be able to do it. Oh, and Turbo C++ runs on all versions of Windows to date here. Real handy for a quick filter/translate hack.
Actually this goes beyond your security clearance. To be around and handle nukes you are subject to the Personnel Reliability Program. There are a whole manual's worth of things that can get you knocked out of PRP but don't mean anything concerning your Nuclear security clearance. A gambling addiction? Yeah that'd get you knocked off. Being treated by steroids, or any drug that has psychiatric effects will do it too. As I well know from personal experience. Still have the clearance, can't work even under the two-man rule.
United Fruit Co. That brings back a historical factoid. In the period 1919 to 1929, the US Marines invaded central and south american countries over 100 times to put down unrest against the company. Things haven't changed much, have they.
Don't forget to mention the evils of the country of manufacture; China. All kinds of nastiness there, which might explain why Applle's CEO is anxious about getting manufacturing returned to the (slightly less evil) US for some things.
I've played since the original table-top minitures Chainmail rules came out quickly followed by the original 3 D&D books and guess what, there are no ten-sided dice. Twenty, yes. Twenty often with one number underlined or otherwise marked to do the d20 roll. Sit down and count them sometime, marking each side off with a permanent marker just to be sure.
Actually it isn't suddenly out of left-field. I been looking at QM since my early teens and the only model which was consistent with "reality" incorporates this naturally. Whatever. Nice to see some real movement.
I've argued with my fellow economists about "diminishing returns to scale" and so far the jury is still out, but seriously leaning my way as some of my colleagues have conceded . Significantly, so long as Moore's Law still applies, we have increasing returns to scale when it comes to capital investments, especially when factoring in intellectual capital. Each generation of tools gives us significantly better capabilities for any particular level of capital investment in a (virtuous?) positive feedback loop.
I've been using SSD's since the first generation and I like them. Each generation is cheaper, more capable, and more reliable, not that I've ever had one fail (knock on wood) despite using refurbished drives for my throw-away scratch. And given that they are used in a scratch configuration (VM's from golden images, large/big data,...), they should have a significant failure rate here. OTOH, hard drive failures are fairly common which is why I get the extended warranties for them, not the SSD's. Anecdotal evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
Sorry, the population count doesn't change the statistic for large population numbers, say greater than a thousand or so. And even then, you're given a very small error band, plus or minus. That's (extremely) basic statistics. [Population vs. T-test in case you don't know.]
Sadly, many (most) of the people that do work on emulators aren't a mile deep in the hardware, software, system, etc., engineering disciplines. With today's multi-core, multi-threaded architectures, it's quite a bit easier to do it right even to a fine level of detail. It helps if you weren't wedded to any particular architecture to begin and can draw from a raft of different ways of doing things in hardware, software, and especially how to substitute one for another, why, and at what expense. Being adept at blended solutions helps.
I've been using emulation and virtualization for 3 1/2+ decades, 2 1/2+ for PC/Mac/*nix alone, but I was blessed with good teachers, especially in thinking about constraints, at a very early age followed with a lot of time having to work with less that adequate budgets of anything except my time while not attending to other duties. Then again, I was usually only called in for major disasters so time wasn't such a limiting factor after all and having it as a hobby...;-).
I think not. I've found that I blend the touch interface option into all the others that are available. I don't know about other content creators (yeah, right!), but multiple screens is where it's at here and they are not all the same screen size, nor even DPI. Affordable, usable touch-screens are almost in reach and having one to one (or both!) sides would be a "nice to have" option tossed into the mix of multiple up-front screens. Unfortunately, any such setup is going to run right into the solid block of iridium that seems to be put in front of such a "maestro" configuration by all the operating machines. [Ars Technica has a really nice piece on this topic right now. Can't miss it.]
Giving content-creators more options is almost never a bad thing. And I for one can't think of any of us that strictly approach things in exactly the same way. Which gets to the crux of the Ars article, in my not so humble opinion. This consumerization thang ain't so gud for we ars-tist-tick types. That could be worrying if the strict limitations of iOS pisses in the OS X pool. Going the other way... could be nice for off-the-cuff mods. Which is why I had deja-vu when I read that 4 GB ggggGP remark. Didn't someone allegedly say something about 640K, sometime?
Aside: Content creation, while usually thought of in the media sense, isn't strictly just that. Given that I work in multiple schools of engineering, fields of science, yada, yada, content creation extends to those areas as well. Modeling and manipulation and visualization are essential points even before blending across applications. And flicking around manipulating multiple screens using multiple input methods (keyboard, mouse, pen, voice (yes, voice), and touch) are just starting points for the high end. Until direct-thought-controlled machines come along....
Or every damn one of us is in the electronic breach (12+ million as I recall). And yes, I've been breached several times and the disgusting part is that whenever you even think about looking at anything in my records, you get presented with a restricted access screen with all sorts of extra cautions and steps since I was a VA employee in the past (and my be again, who knows). I do understand what they are driving at here, most of these breach notices are really minimal patient hazard incidents. It's just when they do make a mistake, and invariably it's a piece of lost IT equipment with exactly the wrong stuff that shouldn't even be on it in the first place, that hits the headlines and extra expenses, and overtime everywhere, become required as a result until the heat dies down and everyone can go back to sleep.
OTOH, I do not like the attempt here to conflate electronic with paper breach incidents. Paper has weight and requires rather more energy to transfer information from one place to another. Electronic records do not, not even close. Nor is paper as easy to dispense in terms of speed (records/sec). This is the same sort of misrepresentation we are seeing from all levels of the Executive Branch from the President on down, especially the DNI, NSA, and every damn company out there that's rolled over around the surveillance scandals.. (Prolly where this VA type learned it from) I am not the least bit amused.
And the likelihood of ever being employed by the VA just went to zero;-).
No, Ireland, and every other country with these kind of tax structures and which is most every fucking country on the planet, is using tax policy to entice Apple to do business inside their borders. If the EU countries were dead set against as a whole or even a requisite treaty majority, then why are such tax havens allowed? Because it's good business!
'Sides, those politicians are the best money can buy, and the corps gots a lot of money to donate, or slip under the table on legal way or another, so corps can get countries to compete for their bidness. Look at how the US states do the same dirty deal to one another in the name of attracting a Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Genentech, &c. ad nauseum.
So for all those people that are bitching about corps not paying their taxes, well go look at what exemptions were slipped into the various pieces of law and by whom. It ain't (just) the Republicans, or whichever parties are considered pro-business in whatever country you are in right now.
No, you need 100 trustworthy sysadmins to protect your data. However, the sad fact is that when you are running a concern where the very rank-and-file can't trust you due to the fact that you are untrustworthy on your face.... Trust: That condition necessary for betrayal. Trustworthy: That condition that prevents same.
With this "modest proposal" we finally see who is trustworthy and who is not.
Frankly, the notion of 900 sysadmins in the same prison even if it were Pelican Bay should frighten the hell out of any sane warden. Although sane and warden, perhaps even sane and sysadmin, shouldn't be in the same sentence.
Good luck with that. In the context of trillion dollar budgets, how many billions are you willing to spend for such monitoring. We're only looking at $150 million a year in operational expenses, $4 billion in capex, for just two very capable monitoring facilities. The federal government, and especially the receivers of government largess, are more than willing to tack a zero or two on that, easy.
I've been involved in a lot of IT greenfield projects, all but the very first as project manager. and my budgets were always dead on. While it may seem easy to get ahead of the problem here, I'm don't share your confidence.
Assuming the military goes along with it. Not a chance. At best, we'd stand by and I'd seriously doubt that. The military oath tyhat we are required to regularly study was written, in a very exact manner to make sure that we are not robots. Nuremburg put paid to that notion. [And yes, the other restriction, Posse Commitatus was rewritten courtesy of (ex-) Sen. John Warner. Still no go.]
On a brighter note: any asshole officer/civilian that gave me such an order better have his/her will made out. I'm supposed to make sure that no one else obeys it either.
Yep, it is different when it's not just you that would be risking, and losing, a lot. I get that. That's they lever they have on the people in any society. We fit that straight-jacket on ourselves coming into the Post-WWII Baby-Boomj/suburbia/American Dream). Now it can be used against you to create a nightmare.
I have absolutely nothing to lose here. I wouldn't mind twitting the Man's nose but I'm more interested in driving Comcast and the other megacorps up the wall, first. A two-fer would be most excellent. Give'em something to remember me by when I'm gone. [Which be soon enough. Terminal.]
Handling blowback is going to be the real cast iron bitch. I don't mind me suffering, I don't want to see bystanders getting nailed for my very uncivil disobedience.
Sorry, but TOR has already been compromised and it wasn't really that hard. Not when a government can connect in and become entry and exit nodes to the network. GP has it right, the problem is very political. When the State can marshall resources at a large enough scale, our dispersed peer-to-peer networks can be readily compromised. And here, peer-to-peer includes our encryption keys and other certificate chains.
At its most basic level, this is the very same problem any network (torrent, terrorist, espionage, underground, pick'em). It become a problem in damage control/mitigation (something else the guv'mint trained me in.) I can give you best practices, but not anything that will work at necessary scale. Attack definitely has the edge at this time in the history of warfare.
Actually I've got that cite covered ("Fundamental Structures of Algebra" by Mostow and/or Frege's definition of Number are good places to start.) Since our dipshit AC is either innumerate (a graduate of Harvard) or illiterate (a graduate of MIT), I don't expect anything but the parroted line. Wonder if it likes crackers? Hmm.... {Do watch the beak, it bites the hands that feed it.]
You do realize that service members could be found training "freedom fighters" around the world and a TM on improvised explosive devices would be right handy. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that the CIA had slipped some copies to the Jihadists' fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
On to more practical matters, I don't seem to have TM 31-210 but I haven't completely sorted that end of the library out here. I keep that kind of stuff in a survival bundle. I don't seem to have missed much else complete down to various encyclopediae and handbooks, in addition to various FM's and TM's for the militarily minded, as well as the budding chemical and/or military-engineer. Do I get bonus points for creating a web site and uploading all this? I'm not worried about the gov't knowing I know this stuff or having it for reference. [Yes, I'm serious.] They trained me in more kinds of engineering that you can count on two hands. That much is obvious to them. Now about sharing.... I can't imagine that I'm the only military-nerd around about here.
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Provided other firms are even allowed to enter the market. One major characteristic of the way the cable and DSL-based internet was that only one or two entrants were even allowed to obtain a business license and the necessary building/installation permits. The politicians got to pocket, both individually and the local government entities, several tons of money. They still are contributing, via your cable/telephone bill. Just those little charges tacked on the end that go to special interests. You really don't need to read the bill that far, just pay it. /sarcasm.
No other entrants (competitors), the situation will not behave properly as we all will see when this plays out.
I support a lot of businesses that have little to no interest in the latest hardware or ripping out and replacing their software. That came about due to them putting all their (financial) eggs in a DOS/Windows/... basket and a total commitment that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I have no idea why you are using WINE when Dosbox does a pretty damn wonderful job of running the legacy (antique) software, especially games and productivity software. I just spent the day here segregating software by category and one of the major ones is legacy Microsoft.
I'm running Windows 3.11 over DOS 6.22 here with no problems on a latest and greatest Z77 motherboard which I selected precisely due to the fact that it seems to be last machine with both floppy disk and IDE drive plugs on the motherboard. It's a weird job, but someone's got to be able to do it. Oh, and Turbo C++ runs on all versions of Windows to date here. Real handy for a quick filter/translate hack.
Actually this goes beyond your security clearance. To be around and handle nukes you are subject to the Personnel Reliability Program. There are a whole manual's worth of things that can get you knocked out of PRP but don't mean anything concerning your Nuclear security clearance. A gambling addiction? Yeah that'd get you knocked off. Being treated by steroids, or any drug that has psychiatric effects will do it too. As I well know from personal experience. Still have the clearance, can't work even under the two-man rule.
United Fruit Co. That brings back a historical factoid. In the period 1919 to 1929, the US Marines invaded central and south american countries over 100 times to put down unrest against the company. Things haven't changed much, have they.
Don't forget to mention the evils of the country of manufacture; China. All kinds of nastiness there, which might explain why Applle's CEO is anxious about getting manufacturing returned to the (slightly less evil) US for some things.
I've played since the original table-top minitures Chainmail rules came out quickly followed by the original 3 D&D books and guess what, there are no ten-sided dice. Twenty, yes. Twenty often with one number underlined or otherwise marked to do the d20 roll. Sit down and count them sometime, marking each side off with a permanent marker just to be sure.
Actually it isn't suddenly out of left-field. I been looking at QM since my early teens and the only model which was consistent with "reality" incorporates this naturally. Whatever. Nice to see some real movement.
I've argued with my fellow economists about "diminishing returns to scale" and so far the jury is still out, but seriously leaning my way as some of my colleagues have conceded . Significantly, so long as Moore's Law still applies, we have increasing returns to scale when it comes to capital investments, especially when factoring in intellectual capital. Each generation of tools gives us significantly better capabilities for any particular level of capital investment in a (virtuous?) positive feedback loop.
...), they should have a significant failure rate here. OTOH, hard drive failures are fairly common which is why I get the extended warranties for them, not the SSD's. Anecdotal evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
I've been using SSD's since the first generation and I like them. Each generation is cheaper, more capable, and more reliable, not that I've ever had one fail (knock on wood) despite using refurbished drives for my throw-away scratch. And given that they are used in a scratch configuration (VM's from golden images, large/big data,
Sorry, the population count doesn't change the statistic for large population numbers, say greater than a thousand or so. And even then, you're given a very small error band, plus or minus. That's (extremely) basic statistics. [Population vs. T-test in case you don't know.]
Sadly, many (most) of the people that do work on emulators aren't a mile deep in the hardware, software, system, etc., engineering disciplines. With today's multi-core, multi-threaded architectures, it's quite a bit easier to do it right even to a fine level of detail. It helps if you weren't wedded to any particular architecture to begin and can draw from a raft of different ways of doing things in hardware, software, and especially how to substitute one for another, why, and at what expense. Being adept at blended solutions helps.
... ;-).
I've been using emulation and virtualization for 3 1/2+ decades, 2 1/2+ for PC/Mac/*nix alone, but I was blessed with good teachers, especially in thinking about constraints, at a very early age followed with a lot of time having to work with less that adequate budgets of anything except my time while not attending to other duties. Then again, I was usually only called in for major disasters so time wasn't such a limiting factor after all and having it as a hobby
I think not. I've found that I blend the touch interface option into all the others that are available. I don't know about other content creators (yeah, right!), but multiple screens is where it's at here and they are not all the same screen size, nor even DPI. Affordable, usable touch-screens are almost in reach and having one to one (or both!) sides would be a "nice to have" option tossed into the mix of multiple up-front screens. Unfortunately, any such setup is going to run right into the solid block of iridium that seems to be put in front of such a "maestro" configuration by all the operating machines. [Ars Technica has a really nice piece on this topic right now. Can't miss it.]
Giving content-creators more options is almost never a bad thing. And I for one can't think of any of us that strictly approach things in exactly the same way. Which gets to the crux of the Ars article, in my not so humble opinion. This consumerization thang ain't so gud for we ars-tist-tick types. That could be worrying if the strict limitations of iOS pisses in the OS X pool. Going the other way... could be nice for off-the-cuff mods. Which is why I had deja-vu when I read that 4 GB ggggGP remark. Didn't someone allegedly say something about 640K, sometime?
Aside: Content creation, while usually thought of in the media sense, isn't strictly just that. Given that I work in multiple schools of engineering, fields of science, yada, yada, content creation extends to those areas as well. Modeling and manipulation and visualization are essential points even before blending across applications. And flicking around manipulating multiple screens using multiple input methods (keyboard, mouse, pen, voice (yes, voice), and touch) are just starting points for the high end. Until direct-thought-controlled machines come along....
Or every damn one of us is in the electronic breach (12+ million as I recall). And yes, I've been breached several times and the disgusting part is that whenever you even think about looking at anything in my records, you get presented with a restricted access screen with all sorts of extra cautions and steps since I was a VA employee in the past (and my be again, who knows). I do understand what they are driving at here, most of these breach notices are really minimal patient hazard incidents. It's just when they do make a mistake, and invariably it's a piece of lost IT equipment with exactly the wrong stuff that shouldn't even be on it in the first place, that hits the headlines and extra expenses, and overtime everywhere, become required as a result until the heat dies down and everyone can go back to sleep.
;-).
OTOH, I do not like the attempt here to conflate electronic with paper breach incidents. Paper has weight and requires rather more energy to transfer information from one place to another. Electronic records do not, not even close. Nor is paper as easy to dispense in terms of speed (records/sec). This is the same sort of misrepresentation we are seeing from all levels of the Executive Branch from the President on down, especially the DNI, NSA, and every damn company out there that's rolled over around the surveillance scandals.. (Prolly where this VA type learned it from) I am not the least bit amused.
And the likelihood of ever being employed by the VA just went to zero
Hmm... argumentum non cognant? If I have the Latin right, and I'll admit I probably mangled it badly.
No, Ireland, and every other country with these kind of tax structures and which is most every fucking country on the planet, is using tax policy to entice Apple to do business inside their borders. If the EU countries were dead set against as a whole or even a requisite treaty majority, then why are such tax havens allowed? Because it's good business!
'Sides, those politicians are the best money can buy, and the corps gots a lot of money to donate, or slip under the table on legal way or another, so corps can get countries to compete for their bidness. Look at how the US states do the same dirty deal to one another in the name of attracting a Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Genentech, &c. ad nauseum.
So for all those people that are bitching about corps not paying their taxes, well go look at what exemptions were slipped into the various pieces of law and by whom. It ain't (just) the Republicans, or whichever parties are considered pro-business in whatever country you are in right now.
No, you need 100 trustworthy sysadmins to protect your data. However, the sad fact is that when you are running a concern where the very rank-and-file can't trust you due to the fact that you are untrustworthy on your face.... Trust: That condition necessary for betrayal. Trustworthy: That condition that prevents same.
With this "modest proposal" we finally see who is trustworthy and who is not.
Actually, yes. In the US Navy and later working for the VA.
Frankly, the notion of 900 sysadmins in the same prison even if it were Pelican Bay should frighten the hell out of any sane warden. Although sane and warden, perhaps even sane and sysadmin, shouldn't be in the same sentence.
Exactly. Funny how that works, err doesn't work. It's part and parcel of the MBA and many a consultants' bag of tricks.
Good luck with that. In the context of trillion dollar budgets, how many billions are you willing to spend for such monitoring. We're only looking at $150 million a year in operational expenses, $4 billion in capex, for just two very capable monitoring facilities. The federal government, and especially the receivers of government largess, are more than willing to tack a zero or two on that, easy.
I've been involved in a lot of IT greenfield projects, all but the very first as project manager. and my budgets were always dead on. While it may seem easy to get ahead of the problem here, I'm don't share your confidence.
Assuming the military goes along with it. Not a chance. At best, we'd stand by and I'd seriously doubt that. The military oath tyhat we are required to regularly study was written, in a very exact manner to make sure that we are not robots. Nuremburg put paid to that notion. [And yes, the other restriction, Posse Commitatus was rewritten courtesy of (ex-) Sen. John Warner. Still no go.]
On a brighter note: any asshole officer/civilian that gave me such an order better have his/her will made out. I'm supposed to make sure that no one else obeys it either.
Yep, it is different when it's not just you that would be risking, and losing, a lot. I get that. That's they lever they have on the people in any society. We fit that straight-jacket on ourselves coming into the Post-WWII Baby-Boomj/suburbia/American Dream). Now it can be used against you to create a nightmare.
I have absolutely nothing to lose here. I wouldn't mind twitting the Man's nose but I'm more interested in driving Comcast and the other megacorps up the wall, first. A two-fer would be most excellent. Give'em something to remember me by when I'm gone. [Which be soon enough. Terminal.]
Handling blowback is going to be the real cast iron bitch. I don't mind me suffering, I don't want to see bystanders getting nailed for my very uncivil disobedience.
Sorry, but TOR has already been compromised and it wasn't really that hard. Not when a government can connect in and become entry and exit nodes to the network. GP has it right, the problem is very political. When the State can marshall resources at a large enough scale, our dispersed peer-to-peer networks can be readily compromised. And here, peer-to-peer includes our encryption keys and other certificate chains.
At its most basic level, this is the very same problem any network (torrent, terrorist, espionage, underground, pick'em). It become a problem in damage control/mitigation (something else the guv'mint trained me in.) I can give you best practices, but not anything that will work at necessary scale. Attack definitely has the edge at this time in the history of warfare.
Actually I've got that cite covered ("Fundamental Structures of Algebra" by Mostow and/or Frege's definition of Number are good places to start.) Since our dipshit AC is either innumerate (a graduate of Harvard) or illiterate (a graduate of MIT), I don't expect anything but the parroted line. Wonder if it likes crackers? Hmm.... {Do watch the beak, it bites the hands that feed it.]
Thank ye, kindly. Internet archive is your friend!
You do realize that service members could be found training "freedom fighters" around the world and a TM on improvised explosive devices would be right handy. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that the CIA had slipped some copies to the Jihadists' fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
On to more practical matters, I don't seem to have TM 31-210 but I haven't completely sorted that end of the library out here. I keep that kind of stuff in a survival bundle. I don't seem to have missed much else complete down to various encyclopediae and handbooks, in addition to various FM's and TM's for the militarily minded, as well as the budding chemical and/or military-engineer. Do I get bonus points for creating a web site and uploading all this? I'm not worried about the gov't knowing I know this stuff or having it for reference. [Yes, I'm serious.] They trained me in more kinds of engineering that you can count on two hands. That much is obvious to them. Now about sharing.... I can't imagine that I'm the only military-nerd around about here.