The American Thinker is conservative. But it is an undisputed fact that the Corps has been playing politics with their river management policies for decades. This does need to be reviewed.
Whole cities aren't in the flood plain, but the gp post is correct. In the past 20 years there has been a real boom in development in the flood plain. Those developments should not have been given the approval to be built.
Infrastructure is not the problem here. These dams are engineering marvels. True, they were built in the 60's, but they are working today exactly as designed. This has nothing to do with our issues with regards to infrastructure funding. It has everything to do with years of above expected rainfall in the plains, and the Corps failure to account for that. Now it could be that rainfall has increased so much that this was really unavoidable, but in the wake of this an investigation into what the Corps policies should be is absolutely required.
Wow, the Malthusian liberal line is out in force today.
South and North Dakota's use of federal money has nothing whatsoever to do with welfare moms and to high a birth rate.
Federal funds come into the Midwest in the form of farm subsidies and or the Dakotas, in the form of money going to Indian reservations. Those reservations are a prime example of how federal handouts don't work, but are the last spending that the liberal elites in the states you mentioned would end.
Very good arguments to end farm subsides do exist, though.
Your comments however are standard costal elitist verbal vomit.
The gist of this story asks whether the Corps could have avoided the unmitigated devastation they're raining down on these communities.
As an engineer myself, I do have some spathy as to their predicament. They're faced with some hard challenges. But as a South Dakotan, I know for a fact that management of the dams has become much more about politics than it is about science. Figuring out what the policy needs to be to prevent being in this situation again must be a top priority.
I really believe that there are engineering solutions that will prevent this happening again in the future. I fear that there are political solutions that will guarantee that this happens again in the future.
But getting back to your comment. Your comment is hateful bile that is of no value at all to anyone.
Are you a fucking idiot? Do you know the population densities of the areas being flooded? Some of these towns are literally in the middle of nowhere. But these towns, small as they may be are getting hammered by a flood that was avoidable if the Corps had stayed true to their mission of flood control.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with population, and everything to do with environmental whack jobs showing how truly stupid they are.
The Corps needs to be included in the dictionary alongside the term "epic fail".
Where I used to work SOX was used as a club by the IT department to enforce doing things "their way". It was amazing the twists and turns they would do to link any and all systems to finances in order to make them need to be SOX compliant. It was sickening.
Wind and Solar at their current technology levels have absolutely no hope of filling a void that would be created by abandoning nuclear power.
Hopefully there will be a huge breakthrough in either Solar or tidal power generation in the near future that will really change the game. Notice I didn't say wind. I don't think there's much more effiency to be gained in wind power generation. I do think that wind will likely be able to cover a good chunk of our future power needs but would never be able to get even close to 50%. So the solar and tidal breakthroughs are absolutely essential, or nuclear it will have to be.
This was a discussion on/. so I'm not going to put a lot of research into this;-) But the facts are out there to support what I just said if you look for them.
Admittedly my initial post was flippant, but I do believe that nuclear power is the only truly feasible way to replace a large chunk of our power generation with a zero carbon solution.
Ah, you've failed to set your constraints correctly. Set N to a very low number and the traveling salesman problem can be solved. Of course that system isn't very useful, but hey;-)
Also, sub-optimal solutions can be created that might work fine.
The biggest problem in IT has for a very long time been adequately setting customer expectations.
But for the scenario you presented, I agree with the other posts. Leaving is the best option.
When the IT department says NO to something that is a core part of executing the companies business they DESERVE to be cut out.
Too many IT departments think there job is to stop things from happening.
Security is important, very important, but is is ABSOLUTELY NOT more important than running the business. That is the only job of the company.
If the IT department says no to a new system, the only thing left to do for a business that really needs that system is to try to do it some other way. And the cloud represents one option.
Now, before people flame me too much. There is another way. The best case is for the SA's and Security folks to work with the app developers to create the most secure, stable, and usable systems possible. Problem is, I can count the number of SA's and security folk I've met who act this way on less than one hand. Most seem to really love just saying NO.
I have to concur with this sentiment. NASA data policy states that they give quite a bit of their data away freely.
I appears that ASAR data is freely available. So this could be as simple as this hacker logging into the ftp server that distributes the data, which, as you've show is not exactly a "hack".
Wouldn't you be upset if you found out that you were carrying around a location logger for the last year?
Nope.
I honestly can't think of a time in the last year where I'd be really concerned about someone knowing where I was.
Also, I point to facebook and foursquare as an example that others aren't very concerned either. I never post my location to foursquare or facebook but millions of people do.
Also, we're talking about a local cache here, not a public site where someone can search a time and date and see where I've been.
It comes down to this. In order to do any of the nefarious things mentioned in all the sensationalist media coverage of this, I have to lose physical security over my device. And as anyone well versed in security knows, if you lose physical security, you don't have any security.
Yes, yes, it will probably be prudent for Apple to cut back the amount of data cached, and possibly encrypt it on the phone (however even with the data encrypted on the phone, you've already lost physical control of the device in most scenarios, so decryption is just a matter of time anyway).
I forsee an opt-in for location caching coming in the next iOS update and I plan on saying, "ok, track my location".
Ok, sure. But there is a valid reason that Dilbert depicts their IT guy as someone named Mordac the Preventer.
While I agree that the department head may need to be chewed out for putting non-sanctioned equipment on the network, if the IT guy leaves the meeting without at least promising to look into providing a solution for this departments needs, he's a failure too.
Modern IT departments have IMHO have become far too obsessed in preventing things from happening that they have forgotten that their ONLY reason for existing at all is to help the business get things done faster and better than before....
Being that one of the other leaks was about their new authentication scheme, I'd say that more likely than not they will bust people with unlicensed versions of windows when they try to run the app store.
You know, your example makes me wonder if even Microsoft itself could clear these hurdles.
What about the suppliers to the factories that make the CDs/DVDs they use for their hardware?
What about the suppliers of components for the x-box?
What about the box makers that make the boxes their software comes in? What about their suppliers?
Now you could say that Microsoft wouldn't care if _their_ suppliers pirated Microsoft software, but what if they pirated Apple software or pirated IBM software?
This law us utterly, completely, and totally stupid.
If it is passed the easiest logical choice for a company in the US would be to verify that all of their suppliers use exclusively open source software!!
Microsoft deserves to have a big company like GE, Boeing, or someone else switch their entire operation over to non-MS software over this bullshit.
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My guess is that your insurance is hoping the Feds will bail out everyone an thus, they won't have to pay you.
The American Thinker is conservative. But it is an undisputed fact that the Corps has been playing politics with their river management policies for decades. This does need to be reviewed.
Whole cities aren't in the flood plain, but the gp post is correct. In the past 20 years there has been a real boom in development in the flood plain. Those developments should not have been given the approval to be built.
Infrastructure is not the problem here. These dams are engineering marvels. True, they were built in the 60's, but they are working today exactly as designed. This has nothing to do with our issues with regards to infrastructure funding. It has everything to do with years of above expected rainfall in the plains, and the Corps failure to account for that. Now it could be that rainfall has increased so much that this was really unavoidable, but in the wake of this an investigation into what the Corps policies should be is absolutely required.
Wow, the Malthusian liberal line is out in force today.
South and North Dakota's use of federal money has nothing whatsoever to do with welfare moms and to high a birth rate.
Federal funds come into the Midwest in the form of farm subsidies and or the Dakotas, in the form of money going to Indian reservations. Those reservations are a prime example of how federal handouts don't work, but are the last spending that the liberal elites in the states you mentioned would end.
Very good arguments to end farm subsides do exist, though.
Your comments however are standard costal elitist verbal vomit.
The gist of this story asks whether the Corps could have avoided the unmitigated devastation they're raining down on these communities.
As an engineer myself, I do have some spathy as to their predicament. They're faced with some hard challenges. But as a South Dakotan, I know for a fact that management of the dams has become much more about politics than it is about science. Figuring out what the policy needs to be to prevent being in this situation again must be a top priority.
I really believe that there are engineering solutions that will prevent this happening again in the future. I fear that there are political solutions that will guarantee that this happens again in the future.
But getting back to your comment. Your comment is hateful bile that is of no value at all to anyone.
Are you a fucking idiot? Do you know the population densities of the areas being flooded? Some of these towns are literally in the middle of nowhere. But these towns, small as they may be are getting hammered by a flood that was avoidable if the Corps had stayed true to their mission of flood control.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with population, and everything to do with environmental whack jobs showing how truly stupid they are.
The Corps needs to be included in the dictionary alongside the term "epic fail".
What pisses me off most is that these new laws will be bad for ALL users of the Internet.
It would be hard for me to convinced that there won't be more harm than good that will come from their actions.
You just reminded me of why I hate SOX soo much.
Where I used to work SOX was used as a club by the IT department to enforce doing things "their way". It was amazing the twists and turns they would do to link any and all systems to finances in order to make them need to be SOX compliant. It was sickening.
Wind and Solar at their current technology levels have absolutely no hope of filling a void that would be created by abandoning nuclear power.
Hopefully there will be a huge breakthrough in either Solar or tidal power generation in the near future that will really change the game. Notice I didn't say wind. I don't think there's much more effiency to be gained in wind power generation. I do think that wind will likely be able to cover a good chunk of our future power needs but would never be able to get even close to 50%. So the solar and tidal breakthroughs are absolutely essential, or nuclear it will have to be.
This was a discussion on /. so I'm not going to put a lot of research into this ;-) But the facts are out there to support what I just said if you look for them.
Admittedly my initial post was flippant, but I do believe that nuclear power is the only truly feasible way to replace a large chunk of our power generation with a zero carbon solution.
Correct. Truly great admins are literally worth their weight in gold.
Ah, you've failed to set your constraints correctly. Set N to a very low number and the traveling salesman problem can be solved. Of course that system isn't very useful, but hey ;-)
Also, sub-optimal solutions can be created that might work fine.
The biggest problem in IT has for a very long time been adequately setting customer expectations.
But for the scenario you presented, I agree with the other posts. Leaving is the best option.
When the IT department says NO to something that is a core part of executing the companies business they DESERVE to be cut out.
Too many IT departments think there job is to stop things from happening.
Security is important, very important, but is is ABSOLUTELY NOT more important than running the business. That is the only job of the company.
If the IT department says no to a new system, the only thing left to do for a business that really needs that system is to try to do it some other way. And the cloud represents one option.
Now, before people flame me too much. There is another way. The best case is for the SA's and Security folks to work with the app developers to create the most secure, stable, and usable systems possible. Problem is, I can count the number of SA's and security folk I've met who act this way on less than one hand. Most seem to really love just saying NO.
Maybe truth on the ballot might have helped a bit:
A) Fix global warming
B) Stop using nuclear power
Please choose one.
I have to concur with this sentiment. NASA data policy states that they give quite a bit of their data away freely.
I appears that ASAR data is freely available. So this could be as simple as this hacker logging into the ftp server that distributes the data, which, as you've show is not exactly a "hack".
Ouch. Damn I wish I had some mod points.
CLASSIC post.
It does appear in the picture that the USB hub is connected to power, so it could be powering the device.
Nah, not robotic machines. Clones.
Clones would definitely be the way to mining operations on the moon.
Couldn't agree more.
EVERYTIME /. upgrades the first thing I do is go back and turn classic discussion mode back on.
Wouldn't you be upset if you found out that you were carrying around a location logger for the last year?
Nope.
I honestly can't think of a time in the last year where I'd be really concerned about someone knowing where I was.
Also, I point to facebook and foursquare as an example that others aren't very concerned either.
I never post my location to foursquare or facebook but millions of people do.
Also, we're talking about a local cache here, not a public site where someone can search a time and date and see where I've been.
It comes down to this. In order to do any of the nefarious things mentioned in all the sensationalist media coverage of this, I have to lose physical security over my device. And as anyone well versed in security knows, if you lose physical security, you don't have any security.
Yes, yes, it will probably be prudent for Apple to cut back the amount of data cached, and possibly encrypt it on the phone (however even with the data encrypted on the phone, you've already lost physical control of the device in most scenarios, so decryption is just a matter of time anyway).
I forsee an opt-in for location caching coming in the next iOS update and I plan on saying, "ok, track my location".
It would be fun to see Apple explain this at the congressional hearings they're going to inevitably be dragged into.
Oh, congress, thank you for protecting my rights from BIG BAD APPLE!!
Wait, you've given a mandate to the cellular companies to collect this same data and hand it over to law enforcement whenever they ask.
What exactly are you upset at Apple about again?
Ok, sure. But there is a valid reason that Dilbert depicts their IT guy as someone named Mordac the Preventer.
While I agree that the department head may need to be chewed out for putting non-sanctioned equipment on the network, if the IT guy leaves the meeting without at least promising to look into providing a solution for this departments needs, he's a failure too.
Modern IT departments have IMHO have become far too obsessed in preventing things from happening that they have forgotten that their ONLY reason for existing at all is to help the business get things done faster and better than before....
Being that one of the other leaks was about their new authentication scheme, I'd say that more likely than not they will bust people with unlicensed versions of windows when they try to run the app store.
Odd thing is, I know who she is only because Apple gave away one of her songs for free.
Which is good because that let me know that I definitely wouldn't wan to pay for her music.
And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?
This story is from a sysadmin blog!!!
If your Sysadmin is editing photos, video, or audio at work, you probably need to get a different Sysadmin!
You know, your example makes me wonder if even Microsoft itself could clear these hurdles.
What about the suppliers to the factories that make the CDs/DVDs they use for their hardware?
What about the suppliers of components for the x-box?
What about the box makers that make the boxes their software comes in? What about their suppliers?
Now you could say that Microsoft wouldn't care if _their_ suppliers pirated Microsoft software, but what if they pirated Apple software or pirated IBM software?
This law us utterly, completely, and totally stupid.
If it is passed the easiest logical choice for a company in the US would be to verify that all of their suppliers use exclusively open source software!!
Microsoft deserves to have a big company like GE, Boeing, or someone else switch their entire operation over to non-MS software over this bullshit.