A more realistic statement is that people will tell everything they know to prevent $BAD_THING from happening, and once they run out of the truth, they will start making things up.
And how will you know the difference? You won't. If you're intelligence gathering is so bad you have to rely on torture, you don't belong in the intelligence business.
No one provides credible information when they face imminent death/extreme pain. They'll say whatever it takes not to have $BAD_THING happen, hence why torture doesn't work.
On another Discovery show program regarding airline incidents, there was one where a piece of debris destroyed the hydraulic lines running to the rudder, and the plane was landed with a passenger pilot simulating rudder with engine thrust. The failure case was not expected before, and this ability was built into future versions of the code. I believe this is the code you're referring to. I don't recall the airline name or flight number, but some googling should find it.
My 2008 Tundra, covered under the recall due to the mechanical pedal, can dump into neutral at 6000rpm (right below red line) without a problem (with several hundred ft-lbs of torque on the transmission). Automatic transmission. In our Camry Hybrid, the solution is to hold the power button for 3 seconds to shut the car down in the event the transmission refuses to shift to neutral, which I have yet to see.
True. Most of the best gov. workers end up leaving to better positions in the private sector, leaving the folks behind who can't hack it in the private sector. Don't believe me? I've seen this first-hand at a DOE lab and a state's IT dept.
But the main problem is, your argument is nothing more than "TooMuchToDo" says so. If you got too much to do, slow down a bit and take the time to enlighten us, not just preach.
Actually, my argument is based on what is written into US Federal Law. Now, you may be able to make some sort of vague argument that "life", or rather consciousness begins at some point before birth. And I'd agree with you. But until you can scientifically observe the moment consciousness and self-awareness begin/occur in an embryo, I believe for most purposes (abortion, medical research, law) birth is going to be considered when you become a person. This of course doesn't take into the states where they have coded in law that a fetus is a person.
http://www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/Health/FetalHomicideLaws/tabid/14386/Default.aspx
I have to agree. If the FDA is there to protect me, I should be able to sign on the dotted line to accept treatment that may kill me or may heal me (as long as I waive the right to sue, etc).
I'm one of these folks. I use solar-spectrum bulbs in my bedroom that are on a timer to come on early in the morning. This puts me on a normal sleep schedule with the rest of US Central Time when I need to be. Otherwise, I sleep in until 10-11am and don't go to bed until 3-4am.
Where have you seen the dividing line materialize for the decision to keep it in house versus move it offsite?
When your costs are lower having it offsite than from supporting it internally, whether it's with internal IT staff or outsourced support. Just run total costs both ways. Don't forget to take intangibles into account though as well.
I was referring to parent's idea that you have the TV listen on Bluetooth's spectrum (which it shared with 802.11b/g and key up the BT chipset when activity is detected on the 2.4ghz spectrum.
Doesn't bluetooth work on 2.4ghz with 802.11b/g? Love your idea, but I think it dies if there is a wireless network around (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
Why distributed FS and not something like live mirroring/shadow copy? I wonder also... what do you consider an "expensive disk system"?
Distributed file systems are great because your limitations are (almost) always going to be hardware. Want 1000 boxes serving up your content? Get 1000 commodity boxes with disk. Need 10000? Also, not a problem. A box filled with raw disk is WAY cheaper than an EMC, Nexsan, etc (i.e. expensive disk system).
Serving over Ethernet should be fine, as you can always bond network connections together to increase throughput from your storage boxes to whatever boxes are processing the data (or even process the data *on* the storage boxes). I've bonded 8 gigabit ports together on some of our storage boxes without problems (Linux Kernel 2.6). I'm not a fan of fiber solutions. They're expensive, and I can get gigabit networking gear cheaper.
In short, stick to commodity hardware and open source distributed file systems. I know you're a little far along for that, since we had the opportunity to build from the ground up.
Even having the machine exist in it's safe is a security threat. Destroy the machine and figure out how only you can recover the data from the entropy in the universe. Best of luck!
Almost forgot to add. Never pay for expensive disk systems. Put the intelligence into your application instead. It'll scale faster and much cheaper. You also aren't locked into a technology (and instead, can enjoy the falling costs of storage, both spinning and SSD).
Either MogileFS, Lustre, or possible Hadoop (depending on the type and size of the data). Any sort of distributed file system where multiple chunks, replicas, etc (3 is a good number, more is better if you have cheap disk and deduping at the filesystem level) are constantly available.
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If you're that bad of a programmer that your app can't test the environment at startup and adapt accordingly, you don't belong near code.
A more realistic statement is that people will tell everything they know to prevent $BAD_THING from happening, and once they run out of the truth, they will start making things up.
And how will you know the difference? You won't. If you're intelligence gathering is so bad you have to rely on torture, you don't belong in the intelligence business.
No one provides credible information when they face imminent death/extreme pain. They'll say whatever it takes not to have $BAD_THING happen, hence why torture doesn't work.
+1 Excellent Idea
Lettuce wrap? Cuts down on calories too.
+1 for Snow Crash reference =)
On another Discovery show program regarding airline incidents, there was one where a piece of debris destroyed the hydraulic lines running to the rudder, and the plane was landed with a passenger pilot simulating rudder with engine thrust. The failure case was not expected before, and this ability was built into future versions of the code. I believe this is the code you're referring to. I don't recall the airline name or flight number, but some googling should find it.
My 2008 Tundra, covered under the recall due to the mechanical pedal, can dump into neutral at 6000rpm (right below red line) without a problem (with several hundred ft-lbs of torque on the transmission). Automatic transmission. In our Camry Hybrid, the solution is to hold the power button for 3 seconds to shut the car down in the event the transmission refuses to shift to neutral, which I have yet to see.
True. Most of the best gov. workers end up leaving to better positions in the private sector, leaving the folks behind who can't hack it in the private sector. Don't believe me? I've seen this first-hand at a DOE lab and a state's IT dept.
Android Lag? Check out a Nexus One. I had an iPhone user today try mine out and literally order one 10 minutes later. Thanks Snapdragon!
But the main problem is, your argument is nothing more than "TooMuchToDo" says so. If you got too much to do, slow down a bit and take the time to enlighten us, not just preach.
Actually, my argument is based on what is written into US Federal Law. Now, you may be able to make some sort of vague argument that "life", or rather consciousness begins at some point before birth. And I'd agree with you. But until you can scientifically observe the moment consciousness and self-awareness begin/occur in an embryo, I believe for most purposes (abortion, medical research, law) birth is going to be considered when you become a person. This of course doesn't take into the states where they have coded in law that a fetus is a person. http://www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/Health/FetalHomicideLaws/tabid/14386/Default.aspx
Simply to say that embryos aren't people is to apply the same logic used to pardon the continuation of slavery.
Please do not compare a mass of cells to a human being. They are not the same thing.
I have to agree. If the FDA is there to protect me, I should be able to sign on the dotted line to accept treatment that may kill me or may heal me (as long as I waive the right to sue, etc).
I'm one of these folks. I use solar-spectrum bulbs in my bedroom that are on a timer to come on early in the morning. This puts me on a normal sleep schedule with the rest of US Central Time when I need to be. Otherwise, I sleep in until 10-11am and don't go to bed until 3-4am.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
This. I'm most productive in the middle of the night when I can rack equipment at our datacenter, write code, etc. without being bothered by anyone.
Where have you seen the dividing line materialize for the decision to keep it in house versus move it offsite?
When your costs are lower having it offsite than from supporting it internally, whether it's with internal IT staff or outsourced support. Just run total costs both ways. Don't forget to take intangibles into account though as well.
I was referring to parent's idea that you have the TV listen on Bluetooth's spectrum (which it shared with 802.11b/g and key up the BT chipset when activity is detected on the 2.4ghz spectrum.
Sir! Who told you how I power my G1 between outlets!? =)
Doesn't bluetooth work on 2.4ghz with 802.11b/g? Love your idea, but I think it dies if there is a wireless network around (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
Gigabit Ethernet. Looked at Infiniband, but we're holding out for cheap(er) 10GE
Why distributed FS and not something like live mirroring/shadow copy? I wonder also... what do you consider an "expensive disk system"?
Distributed file systems are great because your limitations are (almost) always going to be hardware. Want 1000 boxes serving up your content? Get 1000 commodity boxes with disk. Need 10000? Also, not a problem. A box filled with raw disk is WAY cheaper than an EMC, Nexsan, etc (i.e. expensive disk system).
Serving over Ethernet should be fine, as you can always bond network connections together to increase throughput from your storage boxes to whatever boxes are processing the data (or even process the data *on* the storage boxes). I've bonded 8 gigabit ports together on some of our storage boxes without problems (Linux Kernel 2.6). I'm not a fan of fiber solutions. They're expensive, and I can get gigabit networking gear cheaper.
In short, stick to commodity hardware and open source distributed file systems. I know you're a little far along for that, since we had the opportunity to build from the ground up.
Even having the machine exist in it's safe is a security threat. Destroy the machine and figure out how only you can recover the data from the entropy in the universe. Best of luck!
Almost forgot to add. Never pay for expensive disk systems. Put the intelligence into your application instead. It'll scale faster and much cheaper. You also aren't locked into a technology (and instead, can enjoy the falling costs of storage, both spinning and SSD).
Feel free to ask more questions.