This is reminiscent of a discussion I once took part in regarding security and threats. One bright spark said we could solve the problem by going back to every machine only doing one thing. Wonderful idea...except that it is difficult to get the fighter plane off the deck and ship out of port if it a hodgepodge of single purpose, but damn secure, systems. Oh, and those communication lines? Piffle, those are easy to secure just as they did in the old days, ran dedicated wires. Ah, the good old days, it was always better back then...errr..unless you we're talking dentistry and weapon systems understandable by a garage mechanic.
This sounds perfect for Agile, just use some bubble gum and stick that new thingy here as a micro-service. What, no one understands the overall structure? Ah Grasshopper, you have not imbibed enough of the kool-aid, now go back to your corner and think up a new sprint deliverable. And if we must understand how it fits into the entire system, you've done it wrong. Get ready....Sprint, Scrum, Scrum,.... , Scrum, Sprint, Scrum, Scrum,... , Sprint, Scrum, Scrum....hey, I didn't get a harrrumph outta that guy.
There is a story on NYT or Wash Post (I forget which) that bears this out, manufacturing companies in the mid-west cannot find qualified help. One doesn't just walk into a machine shop and start working, all those machines are now computer controlled, you'll be learning the computer system first. And just to eliminate another layer, you'll also be laying out collection of instructions the machine will be doing for the part you are making. And you'll be doing it for fewer benefits which means it is harder to pay off your school loans for the training you took just to get in the door.
Ah, but if companies would only pay more, then they'd get those qualified workers. Nope, some company in China or India will eat their lunch before they get to sit down at the table.
Trump isn't owned by corporations; rather it is their allegiance he craves for two reasons: (1) he is needy and has never been accepted by other corporations and so he figures being prez will win him their respect, (2) he has a brain-dead idea of unemployment and figures the big corporations do all the hiring, so he figures giving them and their owners more money will make them hire more and thus he can claim that.
With Trump, there are two rules: (1) everything he does he does for himself, (2) he destroys everything he touches.
Bingo. In the animal kingdom, el Presidentie Tweetie would be pissing in all the corners a rival visited once before. He's about as sophisticated as a 12 year old.
Free market judges will make Americans love the extra pollution? Freeing burdensome regulations like those preventing the for-profit colleges from screwing ex-military? Pushing for Keystone which will have a negligible effect on employment...except if they get an oil spill and foul watersheds? Off-shore drilling in an era of a world awash in oil? No one's curtailed fracking except Oklahoma where it is causing earthquakes. The Paris Treaty was voluntary, all that idiot needed to do was not volunteer, but it still made his supporters think it was a great achievement while the rest of the world looked at him like he was just too stupid for words. Getting out to the TPP will turn the Pacific Ocean into the Sea of China, the countries bordering China now know not to count on the U.S.
So, this prowess in self-promotion led him to having a North Korea style cabinet meeting where his department heads exclaimed what an honor it was to serve him? All that did was make him look like pompous ass he is.
No, the goal was to promise $1 Trillion over 10 years. El Presidentie Tweetie knows Americans will remember the $1 Trillion, not the 10 years.
His modus operandi is to promise and predict with wild abandon. The stuff that doesn't come true is lost on the voters, the stuff that miraculously does come true, in spite of el Presidentie Tweetie, he'll trumpet. He took credit for Ford saving all those Ford Focus jobs and keeping them in America. Ford just announced it was moving production to China. Wanna bet we hear either (1) nothing from that bozo, or (2) some whiny tweet claiming he was snookered. Great deal maker? In his dreams and only there.
Move on? Right now he cannot even recall the meeting. That was yesterday. Today is entirely new ready for a fresh load of unsupported innuendo, conspiracy theories, and denial of science.
No, Agile won't allow security to be built in. Agile builds dirty snowballs with little integration other than slapping feature on top of another. There is no mechanism for going back and developing a model for how the features are integrating together to produce security holes. DevOps is no better.
Continuous delivery will always outpace security integration.
...I wonder if this patent could be considered a restraint of trade, maybe the FTC should have go at it....oh, forgot, the administration doesn't believe in regulations.
Just in general, the regular pop. does not get statistics. When a street light pops as a person walks under it, frequently they attribute it to some dark force. The number of street lights popping intersected with the number of people walking under them will lead to a great number of dark forces at work.
I agree we ought to be more accommodating to neurological differences...but we'd have to jettison much of the Western religions to do it.
Academia tends to be more accommodating to neurological differences than the commercial world. The downside of that is when quirky individuals teach rather than confine themselves to research, they can sometimes be very disruptive. I've seen many graduate students ruined by professors who were quirky to the point of obnoxious.
More to the point, it aids the farm lobby, which, in a rarely photographed mating ritual, causes three-way co-recursive "backscratching" between farmers, lobbyists, and congress people. The bastard sproggs of this unholy activity include higher food prices, higher energy prices, bad land management, never dis-elected congress people, and extra congressional aids to keep track on ledgers of who is doing what to whom and how good it feels.
nah, he stole all their bullets...at least that was the conspiracy "theory" floating about 1 or 2 years before the election. I wonder what he did with them all...
Prisons were never set up for rehabilitating prisoners. You are barking up the wrong tree. What needs to happen are changes in sentencing laws and more dough ploughed into programs outside prison. Well, that was starting until Sessions decided to stick in his tiny wee-wee at the federal level.
Well, Podesta didn't fail to click the phishing scam. If officials at his level are that clueless, it doesn't matter how good the hired help is. Those kinds of officials will still lead their organizations into cul-de-sacs of stupidity.
Because any company who runs electric infrastructure has parts of it scattered geographically about. Modern grids have at least two "networks", the power network you see as transmission lines, and the control gird used to integrate the pieces as it is impossible to run them efficiently or probably at all as autonomous pieces. SneakerNet is not an option.
So, you can set up your own network and be on the hook for its maintenance, as it too will have maintenance issues, or you can piggyback off the internet. Running a network is expensive and you must find the right people and pay them well enough to keep institutional knowledge of how it all works. You'll also be wanting to recruit new people as older ones retire, and keep your workforce up to speed on the latest technology. That alone will not prevent attacks as your network can get tapped into just as the internet can. All it takes it getting access to some of the equipment at remote sites. So you'll be wanting to implement guards against that...just like you should do if you are piggybacking. Oh, and since you have your own network, it is essentially a one-off, able to generate new and never before seen problems.
That said, grid infrastructure companies could do a lot more to harden their stuff.
More to the point, Trump acting as he always has. His supporters claim he's not a politician, so we must look past his faults. All his faults are faults that various politicians have, he simply has them all in one body.
Another point his supporters make is that he's a businessman, rebounded from several bankruptcies, and made his money on his own. Nope, not even close. He ran a Ma and Pa Kettle operation of a business that was rife with nepotism. He screwed countless investors out of money, he's screwed countless contractors out of money after they performed work on contracts he signed. He accepted Russian "loans" to promote himself.
Trump is businessman in the sense that Championship Wrestling is a business, or to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams, Trump is above reproach in the same sense that a brick is above the Sargasso Sea. When asked, people who watch wrestling know it is fake, one wag said he recognized it was fake, but it was real for him. Trump supporters are no better.
Executive orders and actions are cheap, as Trump is showing with Obama's. Even with a Republican congress of dolts, he's still not got any legislative bills, which are what is really necessary to make lasting changes. Pulling out the Paris Agreement is small ball, it was voluntary anyhow and many cities and states are going to stay in. If anything, he's re-energized the green energy movement in the U.S. And it turns out the red states are already the biggest movers towards green energy, something about cost. Even Brownbackistan is a large wind energy generator. Texas produces more wind energy of all the states. The only thing holding them back now are transmission lines, and those are being planned.
Sessions rolling back guidelines can only go so far. When the bill for an increase in federal prison appropriations comes up, Congress might just roll them back by simply not funding the increase. Many conservatives and liberals on the state level and in congress have been arguing for rollbacks in sentencing for a few years and states are starting to respond. The biggest reason: cost, them prisoners are expensive and it isn't stopping recidivism rates either.
One rule of Trump: he destroys everything he touches, including his own initiatives.
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Yep, and U.S. allies (Israel) won't be briefing His Bigliness anytime soon.
Stop watching TV, it is bad for people like you.
This is reminiscent of a discussion I once took part in regarding security and threats. One bright spark said we could solve the problem by going back to every machine only doing one thing. Wonderful idea...except that it is difficult to get the fighter plane off the deck and ship out of port if it a hodgepodge of single purpose, but damn secure, systems. Oh, and those communication lines? Piffle, those are easy to secure just as they did in the old days, ran dedicated wires. Ah, the good old days, it was always better back then...errr..unless you we're talking dentistry and weapon systems understandable by a garage mechanic.
This sounds perfect for Agile, just use some bubble gum and stick that new thingy here as a micro-service. What, no one understands the overall structure? Ah Grasshopper, you have not imbibed enough of the kool-aid, now go back to your corner and think up a new sprint deliverable. And if we must understand how it fits into the entire system, you've done it wrong. Get ready....Sprint, Scrum, Scrum, .... , Scrum, Sprint, Scrum, Scrum, ... , Sprint, Scrum, Scrum....hey, I didn't get a harrrumph outta that guy.
There is a story on NYT or Wash Post (I forget which) that bears this out, manufacturing companies in the mid-west cannot find qualified help. One doesn't just walk into a machine shop and start working, all those machines are now computer controlled, you'll be learning the computer system first. And just to eliminate another layer, you'll also be laying out collection of instructions the machine will be doing for the part you are making. And you'll be doing it for fewer benefits which means it is harder to pay off your school loans for the training you took just to get in the door.
Ah, but if companies would only pay more, then they'd get those qualified workers. Nope, some company in China or India will eat their lunch before they get to sit down at the table.
Trump isn't owned by corporations; rather it is their allegiance he craves for two reasons: (1) he is needy and has never been accepted by other corporations and so he figures being prez will win him their respect, (2) he has a brain-dead idea of unemployment and figures the big corporations do all the hiring, so he figures giving them and their owners more money will make them hire more and thus he can claim that.
With Trump, there are two rules: (1) everything he does he does for himself, (2) he destroys everything he touches.
Bingo. In the animal kingdom, el Presidentie Tweetie would be pissing in all the corners a rival visited once before. He's about as sophisticated as a 12 year old.
Free market judges will make Americans love the extra pollution?
Freeing burdensome regulations like those preventing the for-profit colleges from screwing ex-military?
Pushing for Keystone which will have a negligible effect on employment...except if they get an oil spill and foul watersheds?
Off-shore drilling in an era of a world awash in oil?
No one's curtailed fracking except Oklahoma where it is causing earthquakes.
The Paris Treaty was voluntary, all that idiot needed to do was not volunteer, but it still made his supporters think it was a great achievement while the rest of the world looked at him like he was just too stupid for words.
Getting out to the TPP will turn the Pacific Ocean into the Sea of China, the countries bordering China now know not to count on the U.S.
So, this prowess in self-promotion led him to having a North Korea style cabinet meeting where his department heads exclaimed what an honor it was to serve him? All that did was make him look like pompous ass he is.
No, the goal was to promise $1 Trillion over 10 years. El Presidentie Tweetie knows Americans will remember the $1 Trillion, not the 10 years.
His modus operandi is to promise and predict with wild abandon. The stuff that doesn't come true is lost on the voters, the stuff that miraculously does come true, in spite of el Presidentie Tweetie, he'll trumpet. He took credit for Ford saving all those Ford Focus jobs and keeping them in America. Ford just announced it was moving production to China. Wanna bet we hear either (1) nothing from that bozo, or (2) some whiny tweet claiming he was snookered. Great deal maker? In his dreams and only there.
Move on? Right now he cannot even recall the meeting. That was yesterday. Today is entirely new ready for a fresh load of unsupported innuendo, conspiracy theories, and denial of science.
Screw it, we need a Great Wall to protect the country from Trump.
No, Agile won't allow security to be built in. Agile builds dirty snowballs with little integration other than slapping feature on top of another. There is no mechanism for going back and developing a model for how the features are integrating together to produce security holes. DevOps is no better.
Continuous delivery will always outpace security integration.
...I wonder if this patent could be considered a restraint of trade, maybe the FTC should have go at it....oh, forgot, the administration doesn't believe in regulations.
Just in general, the regular pop. does not get statistics. When a street light pops as a person walks under it, frequently they attribute it to some dark force. The number of street lights popping intersected with the number of people walking under them will lead to a great number of dark forces at work.
I agree we ought to be more accommodating to neurological differences...but we'd have to jettison much of the Western religions to do it.
Academia tends to be more accommodating to neurological differences than the commercial world. The downside of that is when quirky individuals teach rather than confine themselves to research, they can sometimes be very disruptive. I've seen many graduate students ruined by professors who were quirky to the point of obnoxious.
I thought autism was caused by blond actresses who saw something on TV and then convinced like-minded dolts to stop vaccinating their sproggs.
More to the point, it aids the farm lobby, which, in a rarely photographed mating ritual, causes three-way co-recursive "backscratching" between farmers, lobbyists, and congress people. The bastard sproggs of this unholy activity include higher food prices, higher energy prices, bad land management, never dis-elected congress people, and extra congressional aids to keep track on ledgers of who is doing what to whom and how good it feels.
nah, he stole all their bullets...at least that was the conspiracy "theory" floating about 1 or 2 years before the election. I wonder what he did with them all...
Prisons were never set up for rehabilitating prisoners. You are barking up the wrong tree. What needs to happen are changes in sentencing laws and more dough ploughed into programs outside prison. Well, that was starting until Sessions decided to stick in his tiny wee-wee at the federal level.
Well, Podesta didn't fail to click the phishing scam. If officials at his level are that clueless, it doesn't matter how good the hired help is. Those kinds of officials will still lead their organizations into cul-de-sacs of stupidity.
Because any company who runs electric infrastructure has parts of it scattered geographically about. Modern grids have at least two "networks", the power network you see as transmission lines, and the control gird used to integrate the pieces as it is impossible to run them efficiently or probably at all as autonomous pieces. SneakerNet is not an option.
So, you can set up your own network and be on the hook for its maintenance, as it too will have maintenance issues, or you can piggyback off the internet. Running a network is expensive and you must find the right people and pay them well enough to keep institutional knowledge of how it all works. You'll also be wanting to recruit new people as older ones retire, and keep your workforce up to speed on the latest technology. That alone will not prevent attacks as your network can get tapped into just as the internet can. All it takes it getting access to some of the equipment at remote sites. So you'll be wanting to implement guards against that...just like you should do if you are piggybacking. Oh, and since you have your own network, it is essentially a one-off, able to generate new and never before seen problems.
That said, grid infrastructure companies could do a lot more to harden their stuff.
And the most useless.
More to the point, Trump acting as he always has. His supporters claim he's not a politician, so we must look past his faults. All his faults are faults that various politicians have, he simply has them all in one body.
Another point his supporters make is that he's a businessman, rebounded from several bankruptcies, and made his money on his own. Nope, not even close. He ran a Ma and Pa Kettle operation of a business that was rife with nepotism. He screwed countless investors out of money, he's screwed countless contractors out of money after they performed work on contracts he signed. He accepted Russian "loans" to promote himself.
Trump is businessman in the sense that Championship Wrestling is a business, or to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams, Trump is above reproach in the same sense that a brick is above the Sargasso Sea. When asked, people who watch wrestling know it is fake, one wag said he recognized it was fake, but it was real for him. Trump supporters are no better.
Executive orders and actions are cheap, as Trump is showing with Obama's. Even with a Republican congress of dolts, he's still not got any legislative bills, which are what is really necessary to make lasting changes. Pulling out the Paris Agreement is small ball, it was voluntary anyhow and many cities and states are going to stay in. If anything, he's re-energized the green energy movement in the U.S. And it turns out the red states are already the biggest movers towards green energy, something about cost. Even Brownbackistan is a large wind energy generator. Texas produces more wind energy of all the states. The only thing holding them back now are transmission lines, and those are being planned.
Sessions rolling back guidelines can only go so far. When the bill for an increase in federal prison appropriations comes up, Congress might just roll them back by simply not funding the increase. Many conservatives and liberals on the state level and in congress have been arguing for rollbacks in sentencing for a few years and states are starting to respond. The biggest reason: cost, them prisoners are expensive and it isn't stopping recidivism rates either.
One rule of Trump: he destroys everything he touches, including his own initiatives.