That's part of Musk and his team's brilliance. They understand that failure is as good a teacher, sometimes even a better teacher, than success. Those earlier rocket engineers blew up a lot of hardware in the quest for space. You cannot be afraid to take chances.
Yup. It takes a lot for me to cry, but watching that was, well, goddamit, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This is the beginning of the Second Space Age. You've got to give Musk credit. He may seem like a money-burning madman, but maybe that's what it takes.
It was a beautiful thing. Launches have been pretty dull for many years, but this felt just like the first Shuttle launch, like something new and amazing had happened.
So there are loud mouths. Big deal? Why should an entire movement, and a movement, I might add that by and large has seen women gain a great deal since the days when they were chattel with few political or legal rights independent of their fathers, brothers or husbands. So what if the odd kook gets on the nightly news? Is it fair to damn any movement by the cranks, because if it is, well, there's this minority of American conservatism that's awfully loud and hold ridiculous positions. Shall I be free to define all Republicans by Roy Moore, for instance?
Perhaps you should pay less attention to the attention whores in any movement, and look at what the majority of the movement is about. Unless your only interest is in damning the majority by the wingnuttery of a fringe.
It isn't covered up here in British Columbia either... except it sort of is. Anyone who "works with the public" gets one covered by government health care, and it's been so broadly interpreted by doctors and pharmacists that pretty much everyone gets one. At the end of the day, I have no idea why they don't just fold and just say "We're covering it for everyone." The costs to the economy of an influenza outbreak are so monumental that it can easily be justified.
Our program isn't mandatory, so it's not like there's a gun to your head. But people do take advantage of it, because not everyone is proud to be 80 pounds overweight.
Before you look, be sure to fix your hosts file. God knows what kind of skewed result you'll get otherwise. Why just yesterday, I was getting something out of the fridge, and it had gone bad! "Oh!" I cried. "Why didn't I put the chinese food in the hosts file, and it would have blocked those evil bacteria!"
Exactly. It's why my company sets aside some of professional development funds for exercise and wellness, because the healthier the employees are, the less sick leave they take and the more productive they are. In a tight labor market, it also can serve as good marketing to potential employees.
You do know that Uber is actually losing these case, because, as shocking as it may be, most taxation authorities have a set of tests to determine whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.
It isn't new, and has been around in one form or another for a long damned time. The problem is that a lot of networks have been set up with a lowest common denominator principle. "Oh we have that old XP box that communicates with that weird old Xerox plotter, so I guess we better leave SMBv1 enabled" or "Jeez, setting up a VPN for those machines in the annex connected by WiFi is such a pain in the ass, let's just turn off SID advertising and give it a real long password and plug the access point into the private intranet."
I've seen these sorts of "compromises" and many more over the years, and it very often is because either the IT department is filled with idiots, or they're perfectly sensible people who have been ordered by management to keep supporting awful legacy devices, and support them in a way that does cause the management team any difficulty ("What, I have to log in to some portal so I can get access because you've segregated it off the LAN!!! I just want to click on the icon that I've always clicked on!")
And that's where zero trust networking really runs into problems. It's not all that hard to set up systems that have that much rigor. It's having to get the users, and in particular your superiors, to accept the necessity and not push for "accommodations" that end up undermining security.
There are no lack of tools out there to help with this. Hire people that understand a certificate authority and can set up end to end encryption. It's a bit more complicated, but anyone coming out of any networking certification program who can't set up a CA and administer an IPsec network should be shown the door. And really, the hard part is just in the set up. Once you have the processes and systems in place, it's just a little bit of extra work every time you have to add new hardware. And then you can have some base level of confidence, not complete confidence, but at least some.
I mean, by your logic, if I just turn my whole network into a DMZ and turn off the firewall completely, why I should reap the rewards of all the time I've saved!
This isn't risk in the context of "If I buy a million dollars in corn futures, and there's flooding that wipes out 1/3 of this year's harvest, why I'll make shit tons of money", this is risk in the form "if I leave my doors and windows open and put out a big sign saying ROB ME". The former may be a sensible gamble, but even if it isn't sensible, at least one can identify some potential up side to it. Having your hardware p0wned, your data stolen and your network rendered useless has no upside.
Well, at the very least you've reduced your attack surface. It really is getting to the point where you need IPSec even on internal traffic out of fear that someone will just walk in and plug into the nearest RJ45 and start sniffing out your traffic or trying to penetrate you from within. It's going to create some overhead, and will inevitably be a lot more complicated to administer, but that's where we're at now. The Internet has proven itself to be a big bad wild place, and you can't even trust your own users and hardware, so crank up the paranoia to 11.
Are they still stuck with that shitty Kobo UI? I owned a Kobo for about three weeks, until the charger port croaked, and I ended up swapping it for a Nexus 7. The tablet was alright, but man oh man did I hate the UI it stuck on top of Android. It was buggy and more than a bit of a pain in the ass.
"Establishment filth"? Really, come on Ivan, you can do better than that. It must suck being stuck in St. Petersburg, chained to a country with a GDP less than Italy. I guess that's what makes you so angry.
Because of the Referendum. Though with new polling suggesting the British public turning decidedly away from a Hard Brexit, and maybe even away from Brexit entirely, there may be a change of heart among the Tory and Labour frontbenches.
I certainly had to do that when I wrote some financial software years ago. Floating point math, even at two decimals, was just way too error prone. Some some long ints did the trick and the decimal point was inserted when the number was formatted for display.
Maybe the real problem here is that when it comes to national security, it isn't really Republicans versus Democrats, but rather Hawks versus Doves. When it comes to the three letter agencies, the Hawks aren't really interested in liberal versus conservative, but rather, interested in making those agencies as powerful and emboldened as possible.
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That's part of Musk and his team's brilliance. They understand that failure is as good a teacher, sometimes even a better teacher, than success. Those earlier rocket engineers blew up a lot of hardware in the quest for space. You cannot be afraid to take chances.
Yup. It takes a lot for me to cry, but watching that was, well, goddamit, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This is the beginning of the Second Space Age. You've got to give Musk credit. He may seem like a money-burning madman, but maybe that's what it takes.
The technical term is "FUCKING AWESOME!"
It was a beautiful thing. Launches have been pretty dull for many years, but this felt just like the first Shuttle launch, like something new and amazing had happened.
Do you believe that the sexes should be treated equally, that women should have the same political, legal, social and economic rights as men?
Yes or no will do.
So there are loud mouths. Big deal? Why should an entire movement, and a movement, I might add that by and large has seen women gain a great deal since the days when they were chattel with few political or legal rights independent of their fathers, brothers or husbands. So what if the odd kook gets on the nightly news? Is it fair to damn any movement by the cranks, because if it is, well, there's this minority of American conservatism that's awfully loud and hold ridiculous positions. Shall I be free to define all Republicans by Roy Moore, for instance?
Perhaps you should pay less attention to the attention whores in any movement, and look at what the majority of the movement is about. Unless your only interest is in damning the majority by the wingnuttery of a fringe.
It isn't covered up here in British Columbia either... except it sort of is. Anyone who "works with the public" gets one covered by government health care, and it's been so broadly interpreted by doctors and pharmacists that pretty much everyone gets one. At the end of the day, I have no idea why they don't just fold and just say "We're covering it for everyone." The costs to the economy of an influenza outbreak are so monumental that it can easily be justified.
Our program isn't mandatory, so it's not like there's a gun to your head. But people do take advantage of it, because not everyone is proud to be 80 pounds overweight.
Before you look, be sure to fix your hosts file. God knows what kind of skewed result you'll get otherwise. Why just yesterday, I was getting something out of the fridge, and it had gone bad! "Oh!" I cried. "Why didn't I put the chinese food in the hosts file, and it would have blocked those evil bacteria!"
It's a true story!
Exactly. It's why my company sets aside some of professional development funds for exercise and wellness, because the healthier the employees are, the less sick leave they take and the more productive they are. In a tight labor market, it also can serve as good marketing to potential employees.
I'm more amused by the extreme irony of someone who posts AC mocking me for my handle.
Come now, it does make a vast difference
Yeah, grandparent neither!
Penrose, sadly, is a nut, speaking way out of his area of expertise
You do know that Uber is actually losing these case, because, as shocking as it may be, most taxation authorities have a set of tests to determine whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.
This is more about Uber fighting yet another losing fight in trying to call their employees "contractors".
It isn't new, and has been around in one form or another for a long damned time. The problem is that a lot of networks have been set up with a lowest common denominator principle. "Oh we have that old XP box that communicates with that weird old Xerox plotter, so I guess we better leave SMBv1 enabled" or "Jeez, setting up a VPN for those machines in the annex connected by WiFi is such a pain in the ass, let's just turn off SID advertising and give it a real long password and plug the access point into the private intranet."
I've seen these sorts of "compromises" and many more over the years, and it very often is because either the IT department is filled with idiots, or they're perfectly sensible people who have been ordered by management to keep supporting awful legacy devices, and support them in a way that does cause the management team any difficulty ("What, I have to log in to some portal so I can get access because you've segregated it off the LAN!!! I just want to click on the icon that I've always clicked on!")
And that's where zero trust networking really runs into problems. It's not all that hard to set up systems that have that much rigor. It's having to get the users, and in particular your superiors, to accept the necessity and not push for "accommodations" that end up undermining security.
There are no lack of tools out there to help with this. Hire people that understand a certificate authority and can set up end to end encryption. It's a bit more complicated, but anyone coming out of any networking certification program who can't set up a CA and administer an IPsec network should be shown the door. And really, the hard part is just in the set up. Once you have the processes and systems in place, it's just a little bit of extra work every time you have to add new hardware. And then you can have some base level of confidence, not complete confidence, but at least some.
I mean, by your logic, if I just turn my whole network into a DMZ and turn off the firewall completely, why I should reap the rewards of all the time I've saved!
This isn't risk in the context of "If I buy a million dollars in corn futures, and there's flooding that wipes out 1/3 of this year's harvest, why I'll make shit tons of money", this is risk in the form "if I leave my doors and windows open and put out a big sign saying ROB ME". The former may be a sensible gamble, but even if it isn't sensible, at least one can identify some potential up side to it. Having your hardware p0wned, your data stolen and your network rendered useless has no upside.
Well, at the very least you've reduced your attack surface. It really is getting to the point where you need IPSec even on internal traffic out of fear that someone will just walk in and plug into the nearest RJ45 and start sniffing out your traffic or trying to penetrate you from within. It's going to create some overhead, and will inevitably be a lot more complicated to administer, but that's where we're at now. The Internet has proven itself to be a big bad wild place, and you can't even trust your own users and hardware, so crank up the paranoia to 11.
Are they still stuck with that shitty Kobo UI? I owned a Kobo for about three weeks, until the charger port croaked, and I ended up swapping it for a Nexus 7. The tablet was alright, but man oh man did I hate the UI it stuck on top of Android. It was buggy and more than a bit of a pain in the ass.
"Establishment filth"? Really, come on Ivan, you can do better than that. It must suck being stuck in St. Petersburg, chained to a country with a GDP less than Italy. I guess that's what makes you so angry.
Because of the Referendum. Though with new polling suggesting the British public turning decidedly away from a Hard Brexit, and maybe even away from Brexit entirely, there may be a change of heart among the Tory and Labour frontbenches.
Thanks for that, Ivan. Always good to know what Putin's St Petersburg astroturf army is thinking
I certainly had to do that when I wrote some financial software years ago. Floating point math, even at two decimals, was just way too error prone. Some some long ints did the trick and the decimal point was inserted when the number was formatted for display.
Maybe the real problem here is that when it comes to national security, it isn't really Republicans versus Democrats, but rather Hawks versus Doves. When it comes to the three letter agencies, the Hawks aren't really interested in liberal versus conservative, but rather, interested in making those agencies as powerful and emboldened as possible.