I believe it's spelled moron. But regardless, the whole concept of this system is to keep a consistent flow of traffic a high speeds. Slowing down for turns would break that model and could create congestion. Hence me question.
Science Fiction and reality. I like the idea of Hyperloop, but what happens with a 600mph crash? How do you elevate tubes across thousands of miles and through Cities without A) creating curve that have g-forces too high to survive a 600mph turn or B) becoming so incredibly expensive for right of access rights that it becomes impossible? With cars holding a limited number of people, how do you address the mass populations? Jets carry hundreds and they're routinely overbooked. How does economies of scale fit in? Oh, I'm sure the realities could be vast on this idea... Hats off to Elon though, because there are those that do and there are those that do not. If he didn't do, we wouldn't have Tesla showing how electric cars can work.
If you read the regulations on what various classifications mean (top secret meaning, exceptional harm to the US) you can get a grasp of why some content is classified the way it is. Given the Snowden leaks, the administration is quick to point out how those disclosures cause exceptional harm because our adversaries will change their communication techniques to mask our ability to find them..... True enough this indicates exceptional harm to our Government... But harm to our businesses and our citizens is also harm. Seems reasonable to assume that $180 Billion dollars would be a pretty significant amount of harm... Hero or not, and wrong or not, there was a reason those programs were classified, and it wasn't just to protect the Government. Food for thought.
To be honest, it would probably been a lot smarter of Microsoft to adopt HTML5 in their Youtube App, trademark the implementation of it, and then license that back to Google and Apple.
Google asked Microsoft to move away from Flash as the delivery mechanism for video on it's Youtube app and to embrace HTML 5, a technology that has been under development by a whole lot of folks for a long time as an alternate method to employ flash like technologies in an open standards manner, and Microsoft refused because Android and Apple aren't doing it yet (even though they probably are).... And Google decided to block Microsoft for not following industry standards?
And we see a problem here because why exactly?
Well, in the US, if an officer in the military criticizes the administration, they can be fired or even charged under the UCMJ. So we're not that far off from the Aussies...
We saw this effect earlier this year with Game of Thrones. The decision of the producers to not release it through legal channels (such as iTunes or Amazon) caused a huge spike in piracy. I guess the rule of thumb here is that unless you're trying to peak notoriety of a show, then the window for profit on the sale of a show is short. If you offer it to purchase, folks will buy it, but if you don't, they'll steal it.
I am not exactly sure what's scarier in the fact that General Hayden is worried about 20 somethings that haven't talked to the opposite sex in 5 or 6 years. Barring that the 20 somethings are at least 24, then I suppose that's a good thing, but a 21 year old? If they have talked to the opposite sex (implying a sexual relationship), then I guess we have bigger problems... Oh wait, take that down the rabbit hold further... Why would General Hayden be concerned about underage sex?... And with the NSA sharing Intel with the FBI... Oh wait, and with the FBI infiltrating Tor.... Oh my... Plot thickens... dawning aluminum foil hat...
Guess it depends on the definition, because the Horn of Africa according to the US Military also includes the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, which makes it significantly bigger. So I suppose we're both right on that front.
The belief that "nobody cares enough about Africa" would be a mistake. Africa has many developing technological sectors and many developing industries. Furthermore, Africa is poised to have one of the largest population explosions in modern history. As a result, there's a very good chance that Africa will be a much more significant player on the field in the decades to come.... The entire US fits in the Horn of Africa. You really don't get an idea of how big Africa is until you try to fly across it. And with a pending massive population explosion pending, they'll out populate the US several times over as well.
There seems to be a lot of attention to lump Manning and Snowden together into the same group as other well known whistle blowers. There are serious and very distinct differences between these different people. Manning is NOT a whistle blower. He did not expose Government wrongdoing. He did not have a purpose to expose the classified information except to do so in mass. The fact that some of his information MAY have pointed to some wrongdoing is coincidental. Snowden on the other hand was a bit more methodical at his release of classified information. Snowden might be able to be considered a whistle blower because of the narrow focus of the documents he exposed, but even he wouldn't be "safe" from prosecution. When you work in a position dealing with classified information like these gentlemen, you are required by law to protect that information. And there are proper processes and procedures to address wrong doings that are classified. In fact, many times, if the proper procedures are followed, that information can be declassified and corrected. A number of NSA employees have blown the whistle on the issues that Snowden reported on, albeit in lesser detail, but the major difference between them and him is that they followed the process. They aren't facing espionage charges. The EFF and others have still sued the Government as a result of their disclosures. There are right ways, and there are wrong ways. Neither Snowden nor Manning did the right ways. And Manning, dear lord, stock wholesaling classified information in mass to foreign nationals during an active military engagement against enemy forces? The boy's lucky he wasn't shot.
@Rabtech: "Once you understand these things, you realize that Sprint is a good play, albeit somewhat risky. The market just goes off headlines (often completely bogus ones, see every Apple story ever) and freaks out. Those are excellent buying opportunities if you understand what is really going on with a company."
I've been waiting for this miracle to play out that you mentioned here for 3 years. All the while faithfully paying $10 a month for 4G service per phone when WiMax (let alone LTE) was no where to be seen in my area. Every time I called Sprint or went to a Sprint store, I was always given the line, "upgrades are underway and we expect to see 4G service in your area in a few months."... It got to the point where the non-Sprint owned Sprint stores staff started saying, "honestly, I can't give you a straight answer."
So while I appreciate the great information you posted here and would really love to be with Sprint still because it is the company I felt most comfortable with, I am firmly aware that unless they do change something in a big way, statements like the ones you posted are vaporware. I certainly didn't write this article because I was reading headlines. The headlines are a reflection of the service those millions of customers have had to endure. Not the other way around.
Yeah... I'm still waiting for the WiMax I was paying $10 a month extra for with my 4G phone that was promised about 3 years ago. It is interesting that they changed the $10 a month fee from a 4G fee to a "smartphone" fee. Think that even spawned a class action suit as a result.
Actually, I hate fox news. Too biased. But that's not the point. My point was that the US attempted to address healthcare by creating a Universal system. That got turned into something completely different. So if in the future, the UK puts together a firewall for blocking the unacceptable social content (be it porn, or anorexia, or whatever). So then the US says, "we need that too!" And what do we end up with? Seems that every time we decide to implement something that solves plagues within society, we miss the mark.
As for the UK friends, I already mentioned to some that I have I wouldn't be surprised if a few years down the road that they get exploited. For instance, say there is a rape and the suspect is unknown. How hard would it be to pull up the list of exceptions of folks who enjoy porn and to start there?
So Canada and the UK have universal health care... And soon we (USA) will too, sorta. We've already had bills like COPA that have failed, but if the UK does succeed at implementing this, how long will it be before we have it too, sorta?
Seems to me that when I'm working on a build with security in mind, I start with a bare build that is the barest of essentials to boot the system and use the hardware. From then, we add on the packages we need to get just what we need. And as we layer those packages on, we focus on the hardening of the individual services. As time has gone on, in a virtualized environment, it's very easy to build "default" systems that fill certain roles and are sized for different resource levels. It would seem to me that these standardized baselines would serve well for an installation model. Fedora does that to some extent (loosely) but that could be built upon more I would think.
So if I want a firewall, I could get a bare boned installation with enhanced iptables rules and hardening provisions commonly used. Or if I want a web server, perhaps a slightly less bareboned installation with the needed scripting tools (PHP, Perl, etc?), etc...
It seems the biggest questions I've dealt with when building new systems is, role, size, and whether or not it's for development. Outside of that, the builds are rather typical.
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Q: How do you elevate?
A: you place them under ground
And if you think it's expensive to elevate it over the highways (proposed idea) just imagine how much it will cost to go underground.
I believe it's spelled moron. But regardless, the whole concept of this system is to keep a consistent flow of traffic a high speeds. Slowing down for turns would break that model and could create congestion. Hence me question.
Science Fiction and reality. I like the idea of Hyperloop, but what happens with a 600mph crash? How do you elevate tubes across thousands of miles and through Cities without A) creating curve that have g-forces too high to survive a 600mph turn or B) becoming so incredibly expensive for right of access rights that it becomes impossible? With cars holding a limited number of people, how do you address the mass populations? Jets carry hundreds and they're routinely overbooked. How does economies of scale fit in? Oh, I'm sure the realities could be vast on this idea. .. Hats off to Elon though, because there are those that do and there are those that do not. If he didn't do, we wouldn't have Tesla showing how electric cars can work.
Fair enough, but why wouldn't Microsoft adopt the open industry standards of HTML5?
If you read the regulations on what various classifications mean (top secret meaning, exceptional harm to the US) you can get a grasp of why some content is classified the way it is. Given the Snowden leaks, the administration is quick to point out how those disclosures cause exceptional harm because our adversaries will change their communication techniques to mask our ability to find them. .... True enough this indicates exceptional harm to our Government... But harm to our businesses and our citizens is also harm. Seems reasonable to assume that $180 Billion dollars would be a pretty significant amount of harm ... Hero or not, and wrong or not, there was a reason those programs were classified, and it wasn't just to protect the Government. Food for thought.
To be honest, it would probably been a lot smarter of Microsoft to adopt HTML5 in their Youtube App, trademark the implementation of it, and then license that back to Google and Apple.
Google asked Microsoft to move away from Flash as the delivery mechanism for video on it's Youtube app and to embrace HTML 5, a technology that has been under development by a whole lot of folks for a long time as an alternate method to employ flash like technologies in an open standards manner, and Microsoft refused because Android and Apple aren't doing it yet (even though they probably are). ... And Google decided to block Microsoft for not following industry standards?
And we see a problem here because why exactly?
Well, in the US, if an officer in the military criticizes the administration, they can be fired or even charged under the UCMJ. So we're not that far off from the Aussies...
We really need to re-evaluate the definition of pirated.
I could fill that role. If they're seriously looking for someone in that role, I can pass on credentials to boot.
We saw this effect earlier this year with Game of Thrones. The decision of the producers to not release it through legal channels (such as iTunes or Amazon) caused a huge spike in piracy. I guess the rule of thumb here is that unless you're trying to peak notoriety of a show, then the window for profit on the sale of a show is short. If you offer it to purchase, folks will buy it, but if you don't, they'll steal it.
Actually it's someone who knows more about it than you think but thank you for playing. It was a typo.
Ouch... cross checking my spellchecker for accuracy...
I am not exactly sure what's scarier in the fact that General Hayden is worried about 20 somethings that haven't talked to the opposite sex in 5 or 6 years. Barring that the 20 somethings are at least 24, then I suppose that's a good thing, but a 21 year old? If they have talked to the opposite sex (implying a sexual relationship), then I guess we have bigger problems... Oh wait, take that down the rabbit hold further... Why would General Hayden be concerned about underage sex? ... And with the NSA sharing Intel with the FBI... Oh wait, and with the FBI infiltrating Tor. ... Oh my... Plot thickens... dawning aluminum foil hat...
Guess it depends on the definition, because the Horn of Africa according to the US Military also includes the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, which makes it significantly bigger. So I suppose we're both right on that front.
I'm pretty sure you're making shit up, since the US is almost 5 times larger than the horn of Africa.
African Continent: 30.2 million km (11.7 million sq mi)
United States of America: 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2)
You were saying?
Keep in mind that a bulk of the Arab Spring happened in Northern Africa. As too did the Benghazi attack.
The belief that "nobody cares enough about Africa" would be a mistake. Africa has many developing technological sectors and many developing industries. Furthermore, Africa is poised to have one of the largest population explosions in modern history. As a result, there's a very good chance that Africa will be a much more significant player on the field in the decades to come. ... The entire US fits in the Horn of Africa. You really don't get an idea of how big Africa is until you try to fly across it. And with a pending massive population explosion pending, they'll out populate the US several times over as well.
There seems to be a lot of attention to lump Manning and Snowden together into the same group as other well known whistle blowers. There are serious and very distinct differences between these different people. Manning is NOT a whistle blower. He did not expose Government wrongdoing. He did not have a purpose to expose the classified information except to do so in mass. The fact that some of his information MAY have pointed to some wrongdoing is coincidental. Snowden on the other hand was a bit more methodical at his release of classified information. Snowden might be able to be considered a whistle blower because of the narrow focus of the documents he exposed, but even he wouldn't be "safe" from prosecution. When you work in a position dealing with classified information like these gentlemen, you are required by law to protect that information. And there are proper processes and procedures to address wrong doings that are classified. In fact, many times, if the proper procedures are followed, that information can be declassified and corrected. A number of NSA employees have blown the whistle on the issues that Snowden reported on, albeit in lesser detail, but the major difference between them and him is that they followed the process. They aren't facing espionage charges. The EFF and others have still sued the Government as a result of their disclosures. There are right ways, and there are wrong ways. Neither Snowden nor Manning did the right ways. And Manning, dear lord, stock wholesaling classified information in mass to foreign nationals during an active military engagement against enemy forces? The boy's lucky he wasn't shot.
Just in time for the iPhone 10! (Or perhaps the iPhone 15?)
@Rabtech: "Once you understand these things, you realize that Sprint is a good play, albeit somewhat risky. The market just goes off headlines (often completely bogus ones, see every Apple story ever) and freaks out. Those are excellent buying opportunities if you understand what is really going on with a company."
I've been waiting for this miracle to play out that you mentioned here for 3 years. All the while faithfully paying $10 a month for 4G service per phone when WiMax (let alone LTE) was no where to be seen in my area. Every time I called Sprint or went to a Sprint store, I was always given the line, "upgrades are underway and we expect to see 4G service in your area in a few months." ... It got to the point where the non-Sprint owned Sprint stores staff started saying, "honestly, I can't give you a straight answer."
So while I appreciate the great information you posted here and would really love to be with Sprint still because it is the company I felt most comfortable with, I am firmly aware that unless they do change something in a big way, statements like the ones you posted are vaporware. I certainly didn't write this article because I was reading headlines. The headlines are a reflection of the service those millions of customers have had to endure. Not the other way around.
Yeah... I'm still waiting for the WiMax I was paying $10 a month extra for with my 4G phone that was promised about 3 years ago. It is interesting that they changed the $10 a month fee from a 4G fee to a "smartphone" fee. Think that even spawned a class action suit as a result.
Actually, I hate fox news. Too biased. But that's not the point. My point was that the US attempted to address healthcare by creating a Universal system. That got turned into something completely different. So if in the future, the UK puts together a firewall for blocking the unacceptable social content (be it porn, or anorexia, or whatever). So then the US says, "we need that too!" And what do we end up with? Seems that every time we decide to implement something that solves plagues within society, we miss the mark. As for the UK friends, I already mentioned to some that I have I wouldn't be surprised if a few years down the road that they get exploited. For instance, say there is a rape and the suspect is unknown. How hard would it be to pull up the list of exceptions of folks who enjoy porn and to start there?
So Canada and the UK have universal health care... And soon we (USA) will too, sorta. We've already had bills like COPA that have failed, but if the UK does succeed at implementing this, how long will it be before we have it too, sorta?
Seems to me that when I'm working on a build with security in mind, I start with a bare build that is the barest of essentials to boot the system and use the hardware. From then, we add on the packages we need to get just what we need. And as we layer those packages on, we focus on the hardening of the individual services. As time has gone on, in a virtualized environment, it's very easy to build "default" systems that fill certain roles and are sized for different resource levels. It would seem to me that these standardized baselines would serve well for an installation model. Fedora does that to some extent (loosely) but that could be built upon more I would think. So if I want a firewall, I could get a bare boned installation with enhanced iptables rules and hardening provisions commonly used. Or if I want a web server, perhaps a slightly less bareboned installation with the needed scripting tools (PHP, Perl, etc?), etc... It seems the biggest questions I've dealt with when building new systems is, role, size, and whether or not it's for development. Outside of that, the builds are rather typical.