It will take longer than 10 years because the USAF / NASA cannot depend on a single contractor if multiple viable companies exist. US Govt is required to encourage competition with DoD having the most scrutiny due to having the biggest single chunk of the budget.
ULA had a monopoly prior to SpaceX because there weren't any other viable launch companies (also probably why DoD contractors created ULA as opposed to Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop / Raytheon competing), with Roscosmos "not counting" for security reasons. Once SpaceX came along with a viable platform that business plan went tits up and both Space X and the USAF (political appointees excluded) have been smiling uncontrollably since*.
I am not surprised that funding has been allocated to keep competition up, however it is (personally) concerning that the funding has been allocated so unequally to the various parties.
*-(based on limited personal discussions I have had with USAF personnel on this and the "Space Service")
I'll wager that once a larger portion of the population had to move to find work after the Great Recession most people who weren't already disenfranchised with "stuff" became as such. As the job market improved there may have been 1-2 more moving days which reinforced that shift in thinking.
Motorcycles should not use engine oil equivalent to most new cars. Modern auto oils have friction modifiers that affect clutch performance in motorcycles. You either have to use very cheap car oils (which have other shortcomings), motorcycle engine oils (which are very expensive) or some types of diesel oils that are outside recommended weights but work great (in my experience) and are not expensive.
Topmost among this last group are Rotella 15w40 and the synthetic Rotella 5w40 "T6".
If they only hacked one pump, then all 10 cars should have been in line for one pump--even when other pumps were available for use. This should be verifiable with the security camera.
It should also be pointed out that a 3/4 ton / 1 ton pick up can have a 40 gallon tank plus one or more 100 gallon service/transfer tanks in the bed. Anything more than one service tank would look--odd.
There are two types of power, base and peak. Base is usually something big and steady that doesn't change easily, like nuclear, large coal, etc. Peak is used when the grid has temporary (4 hour duration to minutes) demands. This is usually a gas turbine which is kept at idle until demand increases ("spinning reserve").
The gas turbine is much more expensive per kWh than base load plants. This has driven energy storage development (such as pumping water uphill at night and running a hydro turbine off of it during peak) because it would be much cheaper to have a larger amount of base load and just store the extra until it's needed. Unfortunately, most of the pump-drain solutions have low efficiencies.
I'm guessing the Tesla Industrial Powerwall whatever eliminated a lot of those inefficiencies and reduced the mega-engineering investment required for pump-drain storage, which is where the cost savings come from.
Riddle me this, because anything we produce has a tendency to be spilled.
If that's so, then why would we want to be producing hydrogen? Isn't loss of hydrogen from atmosphere to space one of the contributing factors to why Venus is, well, Venus? No hydrogen, no ability to create water from all that CO2, or some such argument.
It just seems like scaling H2 as a fuel to a global, every-farmer-and marketing-executive-can-use-it level may have severe consequences eventually
I would agree in part. The knowledge to review the entire Linux kernel code base does exist in the DoD, but not in enough people exist to do the work needed internally and accomplish all the other work they need to do before the next kernel version comes out. At least it's only a technical hurdle. The additional legal hurdle of copyright to the code base is no longer present.
IMHO the NSA should have a mission funded line item in its budget for a group to make and uphold a linux distro (thresh base distro w/ core packages for DoD, obj entire distro for whole US Govt, US companies, and US citizens in the 50 states) for secure Govt computing (a la SELinux "plus plus"). I _think_ this is in line with their defensive strategic objectives and probably best accomplished with a portage (i.e. code only) like delivery platform / package manager.
DoD has promised to use open source (and IPv6) since prior to 2010. There is a very split mentality inside. Most of us who deal is cybersecurity, safety, acquisition (engineering), and other areas HATE closed source items because of the inherent lack of ability to test it for risk reduction, future proofing, and optimization. It also (IMHO) creates situations of vendor lock in much more easily, which costs the DoD (and thus the taxpayer) more. There is still a _lot_ of animosity in systems acquisition over the forced move from XP to 7 (which cost DoD 100s of M of dollars). Many are fearing another forced move from 7 to 10 which is only 3* years past the XP to 7 move.
(*--Some systems are still [2016] executing actions from the XP to 7 move)
On the other side, there are a lot of enterprise users who just like Windows and hate everything else (and in their defense a switch would reduce their productivity as they acclimate to the new computing environment with debates as to whether that would be a short or long term decrease). There are also items that rely on Windows because they run some piece of software that cant run on anything else (usually because of custom hardware with Windows only drivers). LAstly DoD has those business processes that someone 10+ years ago made a VB script to do a lot of work and retired. Now no one knows how to fix / replace it (as happens in a lot of corporate environments) or even that it is a VB script (and could be migrated to Linux with the open sourcing of VB /.NET)--but if it goes down they can't do their jobs. I suspect even if they wanted to "update" it, they would have to have the funding to do so and know how to set up a contract with someone (which requires a contracting officer--something hard to find for some smaller shops in the US Govt). *--Most US Govt employees avoid COR training like the plague due to the number of extra ways you can get sent to jail for doing it wrong.
Contrary to popular belief, the DoD in not made of money and continuing resolutions mean work like this doesn't get funded, since DoD has to execute last years budget.
I'm hesitant as to how thoroughly DoD can do this. USAF enterprise IT love Microsoft pretty hard, and I don't think the Navy can be moved off of Windows for enterprise applications without huge costs added to the NMCI contract (which was created via Congress directly--not the USN). On the other hand, formal acquisition is a huge percent of DoD spending (and the source of tactical computing system requirements) and has been moving away from Windows due to all the stuff listed above for half a decade or more. Further, Office (esp Outlook and Project) are things some people can't live without for scheduling both their own and their projects work / meetings. I can't think of another Outlook-like client that include the integration of CAC [SmartCard] based private keys and Govt PKI infrastructure into a simple message signing and encryption of email and calendar with the other beyond-email functionality that Outlook has.
In short, Congress would have to mandate it for it to truly happen. In the past Microsoft has dropped buckets of money (usually in training or change requests--short term stuff) on keeping the DoD just hooked enough to not have it switch. My guess is MS is developing a coordinated response / lobbying effort now and will respond formally in the coming days.
Yes, but not as much anymore. If you get a refrigerator or an HVAC unit more often than not it comes with wifi now as a free option. The problem is the wireless / IP interface is also good for maintenance, so manufacturers are just putting it in.
Before long when you say "no wifi" it will still have wifi, just not one you can configure. Is that really better?
I tried this and had issues when certain devices couldn't connect to the TV. The better solution was rather than putting the TV on the "untrusted / less trusted" network segment to lock down the trusted segment to only allow very specific items (my & wife's computers) to go out. This also contains the traffic of other objects to the trusted network (printers, hdhomerun, future IoT items, NAS media server, UbiFi's extra chatty wifi devices, etc.).
All cell phones, windows computers, and visiting family & friends devices all sit on the untrusted network segment, including a separate wifi AP for the untrusted network. They can't see the trusted side (just the internet)
Stuff like this has limited value due to the delivery mechanism, particularly when your thinking at the level of "by a nation-state against a nation -state". It would feasibly be worthwhile to let the small stuff go through to build reputation while not disclosing larger / more widespread / network direct access exploits.
I'm not saying anyone is innocent or guilty, just that something like this does not disprove any of the investigations.
You also have the option for crouton, which with the chrome browser extension is much more useful. If Google would make Crouton install-able to USB (without command line switches) and more integrated in terms of setup (no need to enter dev mode and less complicated but still "hidden" as an install) then it could better fill those niches. I suspect that most people would still use chrome for 90% of everything they do, meaning google looses little of their cloud computing and advertising agenda's via the chromebook. Meanwhile power users and admins are happy because they can use full linux features under the hood for themselves or administrative / diagnostic functions without as much hassle.
Cobalt is 100% carcinogenic. The depleted uranium rounds used by the military are less toxic than the replacement tungsten-cobalt alloy ones. It's bad enough that it's the reason why Cobalt tipped tools have completely gone away over the last 5 years.
Sorry to reply to self, but part of the reason why the command authority is so strict is is because USCYBERCOM is currently under USSTRATCOM (Strategic Combatant Command). The news articles stating that USCYBERCOM gets "elevated" means that USCYBERCOM basically take it out of this position and is elevated to a peer. This should allow USCYBERCOM to better alter its rules of engagement.
The absence of counterclaims is because we don't attack very often. The command chain authority for a cyber offensive (OCO) is similar to that for a nuclear strike. Further, US legal definitions of cyber attacks require physical loss or human disability or death. This is a much higher bar than other countries.
Go back 5-10 years and look at how VB was used and abused by self defined "programmers" who were accountants, MBA, engineering managers, and even some VP's. Their applications sometimes "worked", but usually under the umbrella of "just because you could doesn't mean you should".
I'd wager.NET is just v2.0 of this issue. Easy to use programming languages do not make people _good_ programmers. Just as a new cheap motorcycle doesn't make people good riders, or a new type of firearm doesn't make an untrained user more likely to hit a(n intended) target.
Opting out also inherently skews the data. By providing that opt-out, data will only represent users that don't know or understand opting out. This means the sample of the population your are sampling may not be representative of the population. Psychologists have this issue very thoroughly studied.
In this case, I would argue that only the legally or technically savvy users will understand, thus meaning the data you get will be biased towards luddites.
(This comment does not pertain to the morality or other aspects of this ToS change)
In both cases include the externally and internally libraries and helper applications that go with it--not just the items written by the prime developer for the primary product.
Self discharge is directly related to oxygen (or water) contact with zinc. The better you can seal out the zinc from atmosphere and spills when not in use the longer it'll last. Self discharge in zinc air is exactly the same reaction as preventing zinc metal from corroding--the electrons just take a longer path
I don't think this works that way, at least from what I was able to determine with some limited research
If you have multiple account within a single bank, all account are usually linked via overdraw protection and most banks wont let you cancel the overdraw protection because it covers the banks butts from unforeseen "credit" (being overdrawn).
If you use multiple banks there is usually a transfer/wire or advance fee which is small but not ignore-able (~$20-25 US). This gets expensive per month per bank, meaning you need to transfer more money or reduce the number of different banks you have for bills (or both). You are also now managing more credit accounts which means more opportunities to impersonate you physically or electronically to access your finances
Both are right. Protons are deflected in the atmosphere and neutrons have no charge and no (almost no) magnetic oment so don't interact with things unless they hit a nucleas head-on (elastic interaction).
That being said, if a high energy neutron hits something the energy my be sufficient to create other particles (like protons and gamma rays). So in a way both theories in this thread are correct (protons produced in lower atmosphere from neutrons from space).
If you have the equipment, cosmic ray bit flips in memory can be determined. For this, one must map the status of every memory cell in the affected region to it's physical location in the chip and have a mirrored (RAID 1 like) data set with appreciable physical separation from the data under investigation. If there are many bit flips following a physical straight line path through the memory device, that is likely a cosmic ray.
-They are doing constant stop and go (very hard an a combustion engine, very power conservative for electrical vehicle with regenerative braking). There are additional savings in electrical vehicle for extended intervals for brake pad / shoe replacement, lack of a transmission & tranny maintenance / fluids for the low speeds involved, and being able to make a speed limiter for the driver that is much more robust.
-Buses stop at very specific places like bus stops. China is already having trials with recharging pads under / over the stops. (Bus kneels, bus gets energy). This has the added benefit of keeping the driver from wandering too far off course or they "run out of gas" is designed as such. I believe this was in a/. article 12+ months ago for buses with supercaps, but should be easily applied to batteries (with a longer charging time for a partial charge)
-The other points already mentioned (lost of battery space on a bus, less noise, better center of gravity for low mounted batteries, more space for people to sit, etc.
Hell, with the low CoG maybe we'll see double decker buses in the US...or even a bus / light rail hybrid (drive around a neighborhood, go to the rails for longer range travel.
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Didn't RedHat offer the open source community some kind of inside deal on stock for their IPO? I remember something about it.
If true, it's not Red Hat's fault if you sold early
(Disclaimer, I work in DoD)
It will take longer than 10 years because the USAF / NASA cannot depend on a single contractor if multiple viable companies exist. US Govt is required to encourage competition with DoD having the most scrutiny due to having the biggest single chunk of the budget.
ULA had a monopoly prior to SpaceX because there weren't any other viable launch companies (also probably why DoD contractors created ULA as opposed to Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop / Raytheon competing), with Roscosmos "not counting" for security reasons. Once SpaceX came along with a viable platform that business plan went tits up and both Space X and the USAF (political appointees excluded) have been smiling uncontrollably since*.
I am not surprised that funding has been allocated to keep competition up, however it is (personally) concerning that the funding has been allocated so unequally to the various parties.
*-(based on limited personal discussions I have had with USAF personnel on this and the "Space Service")
Moving is the great equalizer.
I'll wager that once a larger portion of the population had to move to find work after the Great Recession most people who weren't already disenfranchised with "stuff" became as such. As the job market improved there may have been 1-2 more moving days which reinforced that shift in thinking.
Motorcycles should not use engine oil equivalent to most new cars. Modern auto oils have friction modifiers that affect clutch performance in motorcycles. You either have to use very cheap car oils (which have other shortcomings), motorcycle engine oils (which are very expensive) or some types of diesel oils that are outside recommended weights but work great (in my experience) and are not expensive.
Topmost among this last group are Rotella 15w40 and the synthetic Rotella 5w40 "T6".
If they only hacked one pump, then all 10 cars should have been in line for one pump--even when other pumps were available for use. This should be verifiable with the security camera.
It should also be pointed out that a 3/4 ton / 1 ton pick up can have a 40 gallon tank plus one or more 100 gallon service/transfer tanks in the bed. Anything more than one service tank would look--odd.
Thanks. I'm curious how this differs from the electroshock therapy of the 19th century
Do they have to pay themselves to remove their own mugshots?
There are two types of power, base and peak. Base is usually something big and steady that doesn't change easily, like nuclear, large coal, etc. Peak is used when the grid has temporary (4 hour duration to minutes) demands. This is usually a gas turbine which is kept at idle until demand increases ("spinning reserve").
The gas turbine is much more expensive per kWh than base load plants. This has driven energy storage development (such as pumping water uphill at night and running a hydro turbine off of it during peak) because it would be much cheaper to have a larger amount of base load and just store the extra until it's needed. Unfortunately, most of the pump-drain solutions have low efficiencies.
I'm guessing the Tesla Industrial Powerwall whatever eliminated a lot of those inefficiencies and reduced the mega-engineering investment required for pump-drain storage, which is where the cost savings come from.
Riddle me this, because anything we produce has a tendency to be spilled.
If that's so, then why would we want to be producing hydrogen? Isn't loss of hydrogen from atmosphere to space one of the contributing factors to why Venus is, well, Venus? No hydrogen, no ability to create water from all that CO2, or some such argument.
It just seems like scaling H2 as a fuel to a global, every-farmer-and marketing-executive-can-use-it level may have severe consequences eventually
I would agree in part. The knowledge to review the entire Linux kernel code base does exist in the DoD, but not in enough people exist to do the work needed internally and accomplish all the other work they need to do before the next kernel version comes out. At least it's only a technical hurdle. The additional legal hurdle of copyright to the code base is no longer present.
IMHO the NSA should have a mission funded line item in its budget for a group to make and uphold a linux distro (thresh base distro w/ core packages for DoD, obj entire distro for whole US Govt, US companies, and US citizens in the 50 states) for secure Govt computing (a la SELinux "plus plus"). I _think_ this is in line with their defensive strategic objectives and probably best accomplished with a portage (i.e. code only) like delivery platform / package manager.
Disclaimer: Have worked in the DoD
DoD has promised to use open source (and IPv6) since prior to 2010. There is a very split mentality inside. Most of us who deal is cybersecurity, safety, acquisition (engineering), and other areas HATE closed source items because of the inherent lack of ability to test it for risk reduction, future proofing, and optimization. It also (IMHO) creates situations of vendor lock in much more easily, which costs the DoD (and thus the taxpayer) more. There is still a _lot_ of animosity in systems acquisition over the forced move from XP to 7 (which cost DoD 100s of M of dollars). Many are fearing another forced move from 7 to 10 which is only 3* years past the XP to 7 move.
(*--Some systems are still [2016] executing actions from the XP to 7 move)
On the other side, there are a lot of enterprise users who just like Windows and hate everything else (and in their defense a switch would reduce their productivity as they acclimate to the new computing environment with debates as to whether that would be a short or long term decrease). There are also items that rely on Windows because they run some piece of software that cant run on anything else (usually because of custom hardware with Windows only drivers). LAstly DoD has those business processes that someone 10+ years ago made a VB script to do a lot of work and retired. Now no one knows how to fix / replace it (as happens in a lot of corporate environments) or even that it is a VB script (and could be migrated to Linux with the open sourcing of VB / .NET)--but if it goes down they can't do their jobs. I suspect even if they wanted to "update" it, they would have to have the funding to do so and know how to set up a contract with someone (which requires a contracting officer--something hard to find for some smaller shops in the US Govt). *--Most US Govt employees avoid COR training like the plague due to the number of extra ways you can get sent to jail for doing it wrong.
Contrary to popular belief, the DoD in not made of money and continuing resolutions mean work like this doesn't get funded, since DoD has to execute last years budget.
I'm hesitant as to how thoroughly DoD can do this. USAF enterprise IT love Microsoft pretty hard, and I don't think the Navy can be moved off of Windows for enterprise applications without huge costs added to the NMCI contract (which was created via Congress directly--not the USN). On the other hand, formal acquisition is a huge percent of DoD spending (and the source of tactical computing system requirements) and has been moving away from Windows due to all the stuff listed above for half a decade or more. Further, Office (esp Outlook and Project) are things some people can't live without for scheduling both their own and their projects work / meetings. I can't think of another Outlook-like client that include the integration of CAC [SmartCard] based private keys and Govt PKI infrastructure into a simple message signing and encryption of email and calendar with the other beyond-email functionality that Outlook has.
In short, Congress would have to mandate it for it to truly happen. In the past Microsoft has dropped buckets of money (usually in training or change requests--short term stuff) on keeping the DoD just hooked enough to not have it switch. My guess is MS is developing a coordinated response / lobbying effort now and will respond formally in the coming days.
Yes, but not as much anymore. If you get a refrigerator or an HVAC unit more often than not it comes with wifi now as a free option. The problem is the wireless / IP interface is also good for maintenance, so manufacturers are just putting it in.
Before long when you say "no wifi" it will still have wifi, just not one you can configure. Is that really better?
I tried this and had issues when certain devices couldn't connect to the TV. The better solution was rather than putting the TV on the "untrusted / less trusted" network segment to lock down the trusted segment to only allow very specific items (my & wife's computers) to go out. This also contains the traffic of other objects to the trusted network (printers, hdhomerun, future IoT items, NAS media server, UbiFi's extra chatty wifi devices, etc.).
All cell phones, windows computers, and visiting family & friends devices all sit on the untrusted network segment, including a separate wifi AP for the untrusted network. They can't see the trusted side (just the internet)
Stuff like this has limited value due to the delivery mechanism, particularly when your thinking at the level of "by a nation-state against a nation -state". It would feasibly be worthwhile to let the small stuff go through to build reputation while not disclosing larger / more widespread / network direct access exploits.
I'm not saying anyone is innocent or guilty, just that something like this does not disprove any of the investigations.
You also have the option for crouton, which with the chrome browser extension is much more useful. If Google would make Crouton install-able to USB (without command line switches) and more integrated in terms of setup (no need to enter dev mode and less complicated but still "hidden" as an install) then it could better fill those niches. I suspect that most people would still use chrome for 90% of everything they do, meaning google looses little of their cloud computing and advertising agenda's via the chromebook. Meanwhile power users and admins are happy because they can use full linux features under the hood for themselves or administrative / diagnostic functions without as much hassle.
Cobalt is 100% carcinogenic. The depleted uranium rounds used by the military are less toxic than the replacement tungsten-cobalt alloy ones. It's bad enough that it's the reason why Cobalt tipped tools have completely gone away over the last 5 years.
Sorry to reply to self, but part of the reason why the command authority is so strict is is because USCYBERCOM is currently under USSTRATCOM (Strategic Combatant Command). The news articles stating that USCYBERCOM gets "elevated" means that USCYBERCOM basically take it out of this position and is elevated to a peer. This should allow USCYBERCOM to better alter its rules of engagement.
The absence of counterclaims is because we don't attack very often. The command chain authority for a cyber offensive (OCO) is similar to that for a nuclear strike. Further, US legal definitions of cyber attacks require physical loss or human disability or death. This is a much higher bar than other countries.
Look up:
https://law.yale.edu/system/fi...
If you have access to Joint Knowledge Online (DoD), find the class on Cyber legal framework (unclass) which will lay all this out in gory detail.
Go back 5-10 years and look at how VB was used and abused by self defined "programmers" who were accountants, MBA, engineering managers, and even some VP's. Their applications sometimes "worked", but usually under the umbrella of "just because you could doesn't mean you should".
I'd wager .NET is just v2.0 of this issue. Easy to use programming languages do not make people _good_ programmers. Just as a new cheap motorcycle doesn't make people good riders, or a new type of firearm doesn't make an untrained user more likely to hit a(n intended) target.
Opting out also inherently skews the data. By providing that opt-out, data will only represent users that don't know or understand opting out. This means the sample of the population your are sampling may not be representative of the population. Psychologists have this issue very thoroughly studied.
In this case, I would argue that only the legally or technically savvy users will understand, thus meaning the data you get will be biased towards luddites.
(This comment does not pertain to the morality or other aspects of this ToS change)
In both cases include the externally and internally libraries and helper applications that go with it--not just the items written by the prime developer for the primary product.
Self discharge is directly related to oxygen (or water) contact with zinc. The better you can seal out the zinc from atmosphere and spills when not in use the longer it'll last. Self discharge in zinc air is exactly the same reaction as preventing zinc metal from corroding--the electrons just take a longer path
I don't think this works that way, at least from what I was able to determine with some limited research
If you have multiple account within a single bank, all account are usually linked via overdraw protection and most banks wont let you cancel the overdraw protection because it covers the banks butts from unforeseen "credit" (being overdrawn).
If you use multiple banks there is usually a transfer/wire or advance fee which is small but not ignore-able (~$20-25 US). This gets expensive per month per bank, meaning you need to transfer more money or reduce the number of different banks you have for bills (or both). You are also now managing more credit accounts which means more opportunities to impersonate you physically or electronically to access your finances
Both are right. Protons are deflected in the atmosphere and neutrons have no charge and no (almost no) magnetic oment so don't interact with things unless they hit a nucleas head-on (elastic interaction).
That being said, if a high energy neutron hits something the energy my be sufficient to create other particles (like protons and gamma rays). So in a way both theories in this thread are correct (protons produced in lower atmosphere from neutrons from space).
If you have the equipment, cosmic ray bit flips in memory can be determined. For this, one must map the status of every memory cell in the affected region to it's physical location in the chip and have a mirrored (RAID 1 like) data set with appreciable physical separation from the data under investigation. If there are many bit flips following a physical straight line path through the memory device, that is likely a cosmic ray.
City buses in particular are excellent because
-They are doing constant stop and go (very hard an a combustion engine, very power conservative for electrical vehicle with regenerative braking). There are additional savings in electrical vehicle for extended intervals for brake pad / shoe replacement, lack of a transmission & tranny maintenance / fluids for the low speeds involved, and being able to make a speed limiter for the driver that is much more robust.
-Buses stop at very specific places like bus stops. China is already having trials with recharging pads under / over the stops. (Bus kneels, bus gets energy). This has the added benefit of keeping the driver from wandering too far off course or they "run out of gas" is designed as such. I believe this was in a /. article 12+ months ago for buses with supercaps, but should be easily applied to batteries (with a longer charging time for a partial charge)
-The other points already mentioned (lost of battery space on a bus, less noise, better center of gravity for low mounted batteries, more space for people to sit, etc.
Hell, with the low CoG maybe we'll see double decker buses in the US...or even a bus / light rail hybrid (drive around a neighborhood, go to the rails for longer range travel.