This. So many people whom developed an app for the iPhone or wrote a webpage that did something then spin themselves as a software architect or advanced developer, etc. Or you get the people whom compile Android for their phones calling themselves "developers" because they can get the build chain to work and perform some Git cherrypicks.
My other pet peeve is infrastructure people applying for development positions. I don't know how many applications I get whose biggest experience in "Configuring, Managing and Deploying Cisco routers" applying for my hardcore developer positions. I'd say it's at least 80% of my applicants.
I generally agree with your sentiment; it's a strategic call by the Europeans, theirs to make and they have a lot of good reasons. When discussing Galileo, I do often see this though:
Additionally, the accuracy of Galileo is better. That's a plus point in itself.
In it's base state the *proposed* Galileo system is more accurate than the *current* GPS system. By the time Galileo launches, enough of the new generation GPS satellites will be in orbit that GPS will be as or more accurate. Now, when all devices are upgraded to support blending of Glonass, GPS and Galileo solutions then everyone's positional fix will be that much more accurate and robust, which is awesome. I'm all for that:)
Anyone acting like Lotus is better than any other email client at anything is just incorrect. We actually have people switching to Linux and the running a Windows VM to do their actual work just so that they can use a Thunderbird or similar for email versus Lotus Notes. It's that bad. Earlier today I waited 35 minutes for my Inbox view to refresh so that I could actually see my inbox with only ~100 emails in it. We have a STOPNOTES.exe put on everyone's desktop by IT and that's the first thing they ask us to run if we call with a Lotus Notes problem. If by flexible you mean broke into a million pieces so technically you can make it any shape you want, then you would be correct.
We have/had a Cold Spray machine here at work. Not a lot of business for it, so it's not active right now. You could just mix in various titaniums, steels, aluminum and make all types of fun semi-alloys. You could even mix plastic or other materials in there to get some really interesting and crazy materials, but none of them really exhibited true alloy-like characteristics. The most practical thing I saw it do was a local machine shop botched the job on the final pass of this hugely expensive large precision titanium piece that would require them to junk it and start over. We cold-sprayed the gouge back in and then they re-machined it correctly, saving tons of time, money and effort.
Problem is that alloys or unique materials nearly always get their unique properties due to the unique circumstances with which they were formed. There's always interesting steps to ensure that the bonds are as expected, like extreme pressure or heat, being under various gas blankets or fluids when combining, etc.
This is just melty where Cold Spray was deformative.
I mean this is cool. You can make some really neat things, but exotic alloys or new materials is definitely not one of them.Yea, you could stack materials or "thread" them together, but we're already pretty good at that using massive presses.
This is really interesting in that lots of large name manufacturers have their own semi-customer versions of Android. Lots of them are just custom skins, but quite a few also alter the Android base some.
Now this is a different tact in it seems that Boost Mobile will have it's own version of Android. So, a carrier-specific version, which is very interesting. I think that this is a first in the Android world, and something that seemed somewhat inevitable. Definitely a way to potentially differentiate yourself, or at the very least have a lot more control. Also gives you the flexibility to keep your phones more up to date, not rely on manufacturers as much, etc. Definitely an interesting proposition. Eventually eveyr carrier may have a slightly tweak Android version (kind of like Linux distros. You have RedHat, Suse, etc).
This guy got a raw deal. Hell, at LAX I was running late for my plane with my family and had some luggage that had tested positively for bomb residue just a week earlier (I was working at an explosives facility...). I, of course, got stopped for more luggage swiping because I had recently tested positive. While in the plexiglass cube surrounded by TSA agents I yell at my wife to take all of my luggage, everything except my shoes and wallet because they're going to test positive for bomb residue. A TSA agent was literally standing next to me as I'm telling my wife to take my stuff because it has bomb residue on it, and no one cared.
Then they didn't even test me because it appeared that all I was travelling with was a wallet and flip flops. Shouldn't that also be some kind of warning sign?
Look, I'm one of those people that doesn't mind relevant, unobtrusive advertising. Yea, my mind is trained to just ignore and not even register online advertising, but sometimes when I'm looking for something or researching new products, I go down the advertiser link holes.
But right now with the third party tracking, I get *worse* advertisements than I used to. It's ridiculous. Just yesterday I went to Levenger.com and bought some refills for a notebook. Literally, over 90% of the ads that I see now are Levenger or Levenger's competitor's ads. There doesn't need to be any Levenger advertising, I just bought from them! I can actually do a search for computer motherboards right now and ads for Levenger paper come up.
If I click a link and look at a simple product on Amazon, that product's ads track me and stay by my side no matter where I am until I look at some other item. Right now, online ads are waaaay too far on the tracking side; I hardly ever get contextual ads any more. It's all about getting me to buy whatever was the last page with a buy button on it that I navigated to, even if I already bought it! Talk about dumb.
So, yea, I think that the state of internet advertising might actually get better without these trackers. They might have to actually detect what I'm interested in and serve up relevant ads, rather than plastering every page with a freakin' ad for paper that I already bought. Kudos Mozilla. I might just switch back from Chrome...
Mod parent up! Lots of super-cheap devices being sold with old versions of Android limited how modern an app can look if you wanted to target that audience because of their old API level. Now that google is backporting some of those features, apps can look modern while still running on ancient hardware. This was the primary fragmentation argument from developers and is now fixed.
My wife's RAZR MAXXXXXXXX routinely goes all weekend without needing to be recharged and it's two years old. It used to do better when first bought. She's a pretty heavy talker and casual game player too.
Well, considering that the US DOD is just about the only agency that tracks everything into orbit (other than Russia but we cooperate and share significantly with them, so it's about the same) pretty much everyone has to ask their permission first. Otherwise they risk slamming into some piece of space debris, micro satellite or other very bad thing. The Europeans have a pretty good system now, but they don't track as many objects or as many small objects as the US does.
So, really it's about practicality. No insurer and no sane person would put a space plane into orbit without first checking with the DOD that that orbit was safe. Given that most launches I've been party to have had to have their orbit adjusted some either in launch time or actual orbital trajectories due to the potential for collisions, I think that they would have a really, really hard time getting any insurance or any sane person to sign on if the DOD wasn't going to vet the trajectory before launch. Sure, a satellite could risk it, but not an orbital space tourism plane with people on board.
Interesting apocryphal story I heard once had to deal with the Bay of Pigs. The Russians were having to provide all sorts of manuals and technical detail to the Cubans in advance. At the time, pretty much only English and Russian had terms for things like "super-heterodyning receiver". Spanish was of no use, and the Cubans did not know Russian. Both knew English pretty well, so all technical interchange for the Bay of Pigs between the two sides was done in English. I expect that it's still the closest to a universal technical language, where all of the context does not get lost in translation (Exception text seems to get horribly mangled in translation).
The US government is selling off Upper L-Band TM, lower L-Band TM, and S-Band TM allocations within the next 5-10 years. Those are THE beachfront, prime spectrum bands that the US government owns that can be used for cell networks. The plan has been rolling for at least 5 years already now. It does take a while to upgrade every single test asset that the government uses to the new C-Band spectrum. It's going to take probably 75% of the money that the government will get from sale of this spectrum to pay for the upgrades (aka, tens of billions of dollars).
So, yea, they're working it. In fact, the push has become very, very sustained these last 3-4 years.
I thought that 802.11A was already in the 5Ghz band, and "everyone" went to 2.4Ghz (B/G) because it performs better inside due to the shorter waves penetrating walls better.
I could RTFA but that would be against the true spirit of/. so I will just ask. Is there something about the new 802.11ac standard that makes it better for use inside buildings and other structurally dense environments?
Forgot to add that it's the longer waves (lower frequency = longer wavelength) that penetrates walls and objects better.
It adds good, compatible MIMO to the spec. Nicer routers will actually dynamically point a more directional beam at devices that are having signal to noise problems to allow for a better connection. Not much, but that extra 3-5dB or so can really make a big difference in connection quality.
Well, if that's you're going in point, then for NK all he has to do is approve a plan also. The military already has their preferred scenarios planned out, Obama would just have to approve that one.
I mean, let's compare apples to apples here. There were significant potential for consequences in the Osama attack, and we've felt some with cooling of Pakistani relations, other small-time allies worried about us doing the same thing to them, etc. Furthermore, it could have been 1,000x worse had the operation gone horribly wrong (reference Jimmy Carter here).
You can't discharge student loans in bankruptcy. They're with you for the rest of your life. My guess is that they have a similar or better repayment rate than most corporations, which can discharge a lot of this in bankruptcy (not only Oracle uses this specific trick). Those student loans come form the same place as Oracle's borrowing, so it makes sense to ask why twice to three times the interest rate to invest in our workforce than the interest rate to invest in a corporation?
True, but if that password manager gets compromised by, say, Red October via capturing your keystrokes, everything is compromised for all sites until you take the time individually change each one,.
Currently, with Google Authenticator, I have it set up to authenticate me for a number of things, as if it gets compromised, simply telling it to re-sync again re-secures all of my credentials. Much, much better management. Single point control.
It really is. I love their current implementation. It's actually security done right. I use Google Authenticator on my phone. If I login from an unknown computer, it asks me for a pass code also, which I just bring up on my phone. I only need to remember the password to my phone/tablet. It's easily the most seamless and secure two-factor authentication I've ever used, and I've used a lot of them....
I also use it as a token to access a couple of other sites. I believe that Apache has a module that can sync to Authenticator. It's great two-factor.
It also comes with a list of one time codes that I can carry around for when I don't have access to my phone or tablet.
It's like a permanent key/password manager for all of Google. It'd be great to turn it into my whole life. Much easier to just de-sync the Authenticator, then re-sync rather than blow away passwords for all sites, then re-create them for all sites if something gets compromised.
TL;DR I trust Google to do this right because they're already miles ahead of everyone else.
The article mentions that it still has incredibly high textile strength, and shows a small fiber holding up a light (not much, but still).
I think that cost would scale down well since it's very similar to other material handling.
Right now, a large part of the cost and problems with data cables are the really thin wires -- we'd like them to be thinner, but can't make them any thinner without making the cable too brittle. I purposely buy extra-thick data cables merely to reduce problems in the field due to flex. If these flex well, that's a huge boon.....but then, do these survive soldering or crimping? Or am I going to have to teach my techs to sew?
Some people fly ~weekly for our jobs, and that pilots and workers are subject to it multiple times a day....so, yea. We probably should do the same type of research on these that we did with cell phones. Due diligence and all that.
Google just filed an brief, and brought along a couple of other heavy hitters asking the patent office to reform, and to scrub current patents for overarching generalities like "on the internet". From their brief, it even sounds like they're willing to pay the USPTO some of the cost associated with doing that patent scrub. They are putting their money where their mouth is, but in the meantime you don't win a thermonuclear war (current smartphone market) without some warheads of your own.
The spoofing doesn't work on the encrypted military GPS, it can only be jammed, so if they make that the only source for the location spoofing doesn't work either. Of course, their enemies could jam the encrypted GPS to prevent them firing, but such is the nature of these things.
But then we would have to give the rebels our GPS decryption keys for the check, which rotate often times unpredictably. Given that we don't even give those keys to most of our allies, or even our own soldiers on the ground that have a reasonable risk of being captured, I'd say that that idea is likely not going to fly.
and it matters not a whit if Motorola has made the same demands on other companies.
That's actually the only relevant part of ND in FRAND -- it matters greatly what other companies were offered and/or accepted in order to prove non-discriminatory pricing.
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This. So many people whom developed an app for the iPhone or wrote a webpage that did something then spin themselves as a software architect or advanced developer, etc. Or you get the people whom compile Android for their phones calling themselves "developers" because they can get the build chain to work and perform some Git cherrypicks.
My other pet peeve is infrastructure people applying for development positions. I don't know how many applications I get whose biggest experience in "Configuring, Managing and Deploying Cisco routers" applying for my hardcore developer positions. I'd say it's at least 80% of my applicants.
Additionally, the accuracy of Galileo is better. That's a plus point in itself.
In it's base state the *proposed* Galileo system is more accurate than the *current* GPS system. By the time Galileo launches, enough of the new generation GPS satellites will be in orbit that GPS will be as or more accurate. Now, when all devices are upgraded to support blending of Glonass, GPS and Galileo solutions then everyone's positional fix will be that much more accurate and robust, which is awesome. I'm all for that :)
Anyone acting like Lotus is better than any other email client at anything is just incorrect. We actually have people switching to Linux and the running a Windows VM to do their actual work just so that they can use a Thunderbird or similar for email versus Lotus Notes. It's that bad. Earlier today I waited 35 minutes for my Inbox view to refresh so that I could actually see my inbox with only ~100 emails in it. We have a STOPNOTES.exe put on everyone's desktop by IT and that's the first thing they ask us to run if we call with a Lotus Notes problem. If by flexible you mean broke into a million pieces so technically you can make it any shape you want, then you would be correct.
Already can do. Look at Cold Spray - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_dynamic_cold_spray
We have/had a Cold Spray machine here at work. Not a lot of business for it, so it's not active right now. You could just mix in various titaniums, steels, aluminum and make all types of fun semi-alloys. You could even mix plastic or other materials in there to get some really interesting and crazy materials, but none of them really exhibited true alloy-like characteristics. The most practical thing I saw it do was a local machine shop botched the job on the final pass of this hugely expensive large precision titanium piece that would require them to junk it and start over. We cold-sprayed the gouge back in and then they re-machined it correctly, saving tons of time, money and effort.
Problem is that alloys or unique materials nearly always get their unique properties due to the unique circumstances with which they were formed. There's always interesting steps to ensure that the bonds are as expected, like extreme pressure or heat, being under various gas blankets or fluids when combining, etc.
This is just melty where Cold Spray was deformative.
I mean this is cool. You can make some really neat things, but exotic alloys or new materials is definitely not one of them.Yea, you could stack materials or "thread" them together, but we're already pretty good at that using massive presses.
This is really interesting in that lots of large name manufacturers have their own semi-customer versions of Android. Lots of them are just custom skins, but quite a few also alter the Android base some.
Now this is a different tact in it seems that Boost Mobile will have it's own version of Android. So, a carrier-specific version, which is very interesting. I think that this is a first in the Android world, and something that seemed somewhat inevitable. Definitely a way to potentially differentiate yourself, or at the very least have a lot more control. Also gives you the flexibility to keep your phones more up to date, not rely on manufacturers as much, etc. Definitely an interesting proposition. Eventually eveyr carrier may have a slightly tweak Android version (kind of like Linux distros. You have RedHat, Suse, etc).
The same could be said about any laptop a decade or more ago, and how many docking stations get sold every year? ... [crickets] Yeah, that many.
I've worked at and been on site at a number of Fortune 500's that have shifted to laptop + docking station for every single employee. Lots get sold.
This guy got a raw deal. Hell, at LAX I was running late for my plane with my family and had some luggage that had tested positively for bomb residue just a week earlier (I was working at an explosives facility...). I, of course, got stopped for more luggage swiping because I had recently tested positive. While in the plexiglass cube surrounded by TSA agents I yell at my wife to take all of my luggage, everything except my shoes and wallet because they're going to test positive for bomb residue. A TSA agent was literally standing next to me as I'm telling my wife to take my stuff because it has bomb residue on it, and no one cared.
Then they didn't even test me because it appeared that all I was travelling with was a wallet and flip flops. Shouldn't that also be some kind of warning sign?
The advantages of being a white male I guess.
Look, I'm one of those people that doesn't mind relevant, unobtrusive advertising. Yea, my mind is trained to just ignore and not even register online advertising, but sometimes when I'm looking for something or researching new products, I go down the advertiser link holes.
But right now with the third party tracking, I get *worse* advertisements than I used to. It's ridiculous. Just yesterday I went to Levenger.com and bought some refills for a notebook. Literally, over 90% of the ads that I see now are Levenger or Levenger's competitor's ads. There doesn't need to be any Levenger advertising, I just bought from them! I can actually do a search for computer motherboards right now and ads for Levenger paper come up.
If I click a link and look at a simple product on Amazon, that product's ads track me and stay by my side no matter where I am until I look at some other item. Right now, online ads are waaaay too far on the tracking side; I hardly ever get contextual ads any more. It's all about getting me to buy whatever was the last page with a buy button on it that I navigated to, even if I already bought it! Talk about dumb.
So, yea, I think that the state of internet advertising might actually get better without these trackers. They might have to actually detect what I'm interested in and serve up relevant ads, rather than plastering every page with a freakin' ad for paper that I already bought. Kudos Mozilla. I might just switch back from Chrome...
Mod parent up! Lots of super-cheap devices being sold with old versions of Android limited how modern an app can look if you wanted to target that audience because of their old API level. Now that google is backporting some of those features, apps can look modern while still running on ancient hardware. This was the primary fragmentation argument from developers and is now fixed.
My wife's RAZR MAXXXXXXXX routinely goes all weekend without needing to be recharged and it's two years old. It used to do better when first bought. She's a pretty heavy talker and casual game player too.
Well, considering that the US DOD is just about the only agency that tracks everything into orbit (other than Russia but we cooperate and share significantly with them, so it's about the same) pretty much everyone has to ask their permission first. Otherwise they risk slamming into some piece of space debris, micro satellite or other very bad thing. The Europeans have a pretty good system now, but they don't track as many objects or as many small objects as the US does.
So, really it's about practicality. No insurer and no sane person would put a space plane into orbit without first checking with the DOD that that orbit was safe. Given that most launches I've been party to have had to have their orbit adjusted some either in launch time or actual orbital trajectories due to the potential for collisions, I think that they would have a really, really hard time getting any insurance or any sane person to sign on if the DOD wasn't going to vet the trajectory before launch. Sure, a satellite could risk it, but not an orbital space tourism plane with people on board.
Interesting apocryphal story I heard once had to deal with the Bay of Pigs. The Russians were having to provide all sorts of manuals and technical detail to the Cubans in advance. At the time, pretty much only English and Russian had terms for things like "super-heterodyning receiver". Spanish was of no use, and the Cubans did not know Russian. Both knew English pretty well, so all technical interchange for the Bay of Pigs between the two sides was done in English. I expect that it's still the closest to a universal technical language, where all of the context does not get lost in translation (Exception text seems to get horribly mangled in translation).
The US government is selling off Upper L-Band TM, lower L-Band TM, and S-Band TM allocations within the next 5-10 years. Those are THE beachfront, prime spectrum bands that the US government owns that can be used for cell networks. The plan has been rolling for at least 5 years already now. It does take a while to upgrade every single test asset that the government uses to the new C-Band spectrum. It's going to take probably 75% of the money that the government will get from sale of this spectrum to pay for the upgrades (aka, tens of billions of dollars).
So, yea, they're working it. In fact, the push has become very, very sustained these last 3-4 years.
I thought that 802.11A was already in the 5Ghz band, and "everyone" went to 2.4Ghz (B/G) because it performs better inside due to the shorter waves penetrating walls better.
I could RTFA but that would be against the true spirit of /. so I will just ask. Is there something about the new 802.11ac standard that makes it better for use inside buildings and other structurally dense environments?
Forgot to add that it's the longer waves (lower frequency = longer wavelength) that penetrates walls and objects better.
It adds good, compatible MIMO to the spec. Nicer routers will actually dynamically point a more directional beam at devices that are having signal to noise problems to allow for a better connection. Not much, but that extra 3-5dB or so can really make a big difference in connection quality.
Well, if that's you're going in point, then for NK all he has to do is approve a plan also. The military already has their preferred scenarios planned out, Obama would just have to approve that one.
I mean, let's compare apples to apples here. There were significant potential for consequences in the Osama attack, and we've felt some with cooling of Pakistani relations, other small-time allies worried about us doing the same thing to them, etc. Furthermore, it could have been 1,000x worse had the operation gone horribly wrong (reference Jimmy Carter here).
You can't discharge student loans in bankruptcy. They're with you for the rest of your life. My guess is that they have a similar or better repayment rate than most corporations, which can discharge a lot of this in bankruptcy (not only Oracle uses this specific trick). Those student loans come form the same place as Oracle's borrowing, so it makes sense to ask why twice to three times the interest rate to invest in our workforce than the interest rate to invest in a corporation?
But you still can't instantaneously revoke all of the passwords in that vault. That's the current problem.
True, but if that password manager gets compromised by, say, Red October via capturing your keystrokes, everything is compromised for all sites until you take the time individually change each one,.
Currently, with Google Authenticator, I have it set up to authenticate me for a number of things, as if it gets compromised, simply telling it to re-sync again re-secures all of my credentials. Much, much better management. Single point control.
It really is. I love their current implementation. It's actually security done right. I use Google Authenticator on my phone. If I login from an unknown computer, it asks me for a pass code also, which I just bring up on my phone. I only need to remember the password to my phone/tablet. It's easily the most seamless and secure two-factor authentication I've ever used, and I've used a lot of them....
I also use it as a token to access a couple of other sites. I believe that Apache has a module that can sync to Authenticator. It's great two-factor.
It also comes with a list of one time codes that I can carry around for when I don't have access to my phone or tablet.
It's like a permanent key/password manager for all of Google. It'd be great to turn it into my whole life. Much easier to just de-sync the Authenticator, then re-sync rather than blow away passwords for all sites, then re-create them for all sites if something gets compromised.
TL;DR I trust Google to do this right because they're already miles ahead of everyone else.
The article mentions that it still has incredibly high textile strength, and shows a small fiber holding up a light (not much, but still).
I think that cost would scale down well since it's very similar to other material handling.
Right now, a large part of the cost and problems with data cables are the really thin wires -- we'd like them to be thinner, but can't make them any thinner without making the cable too brittle. I purposely buy extra-thick data cables merely to reduce problems in the field due to flex. If these flex well, that's a huge boon.....but then, do these survive soldering or crimping? Or am I going to have to teach my techs to sew?
Some people fly ~weekly for our jobs, and that pilots and workers are subject to it multiple times a day....so, yea. We probably should do the same type of research on these that we did with cell phones. Due diligence and all that.
Google just filed an brief, and brought along a couple of other heavy hitters asking the patent office to reform, and to scrub current patents for overarching generalities like "on the internet". From their brief, it even sounds like they're willing to pay the USPTO some of the cost associated with doing that patent scrub. They are putting their money where their mouth is, but in the meantime you don't win a thermonuclear war (current smartphone market) without some warheads of your own.
The spoofing doesn't work on the encrypted military GPS, it can only be jammed, so if they make that the only source for the location spoofing doesn't work either. Of course, their enemies could jam the encrypted GPS to prevent them firing, but such is the nature of these things.
But then we would have to give the rebels our GPS decryption keys for the check, which rotate often times unpredictably. Given that we don't even give those keys to most of our allies, or even our own soldiers on the ground that have a reasonable risk of being captured, I'd say that that idea is likely not going to fly.
and it matters not a whit if Motorola has made the same demands on other companies.
That's actually the only relevant part of ND in FRAND -- it matters greatly what other companies were offered and/or accepted in order to prove non-discriminatory pricing.