Yup... 2010 27" i7 iMac that I had planned on upgrading in late 2015, but really no compelling reason to do it. I had to replace my desk and re-arrange my office in order to make the screen reflections bearable, along with buying a quasi-industrial swing-arm VESA mount for the awful ergonomics... which also required a special adapter from Apple.
I am afraid of what kind of "holding it wrong" a new machine will introduce, and I like my new desk.
Certain routes have too much congestion, especially in LA where there are far too many surface intersections. Software optimization only gets you so far. You really need bypass tunnels/bridges for through traffic, and limit the surface lights to turning traffic. From SpaceX, getting under the 105 and a few miles north would help. So would a bridge to the Green Line metro.
Some people just don't get math, and they pay a price for it. Some people that do get the basic math just don't have the critical thinking skills on how to review the problem.
Typical car salesman con: how much can you afford per month.
You have to use a separate domain for recovery, otherwise what do you do when there is a domain-level issue? Granted, you should do something like admin@university-recovery.space ideally, which is separately administered, hosted, and registered from the main domain... but few places have the foresight for that...
But, the issue would not have been a problem if two people had administrator rights to the domain, even if one was a second ghost account in a safe... ideally with one-time pad recovery codes as well.
That is kind of the right way to do it, but the reality is the "escort out the door" policy on firing people. (There is no rational way around that which adequately protects the employer both in terms of damage and liability.)
The established process for this type of thing, which works pretty well, is a password escrow system where ultimate passwords reside (root and the like). I have seen digital and dead-tree versions of these systems, and personally prefer the dead tree variant: seal password book in envelope signed by senior system administrator who wrote down the passwords, place that envelope in a second envelope signed by legal counsel, and then place it in the president's safe. A third witness level is a nice to have on both envelopes. When the senior administrator is fired, quits, or dies, all the passwords need to be changed, so you open the escrow and validate the signatures, and get to work.
The weakness is that as you update the keys-to-the-kingdom you have no proper means of redundancy or control.
Yes, I have several and do love them. Being greedy though, I would love some closer to the $45-50 price range. Oh well, I guess the pretty plastic is worth a little extra... and that fancy semi-rigid patch cable...
The problem is that individuals are miopic, and we really need to have long term strategies for solving problems, rather than just reacting to current issues. Planning and construction take time, and you must project ahead to make the project useful for its life when complete.
Slick, hadn't seenthe OLinuXino, and my off the cuff response would have been because it makes it more expensive... but I was wrong!
Personally, I am still looking for a 802.1af single board computer for stupid little tasks. POE switches have come down in cost to the point that it is an ideal solution for a number of use cases.
For the record, expanding LAX, BUR, OAK, SFO, OAK, SJC to accommodate 30% more passengers would be pretty close to $100B. For 50% more, $150B is likely. There is a limit to how well airports scale, and that limit gets hit quickly when people start complaining about the noise.
But without bids that are on budget, the project dies. If you do realistic budgets, the voters reject it.
So, what do you do if the project needs to be done? Unfortunately I am not Glorious Dictator of USA... so there are limits as to what I can do myself.
The only H1B we ever considered hiring was a foreign born new masters grad working in a position that paid ~$65k, and would. E 3-5 years before he hit the $100k threshold. That is the only kind of person I see being hurt. We had hired him not because of outsourcing or trying to find low cost labor, but because he was (ostensibly) qualified for the job.
While municipal should be the best solution, I am beginning to think that a co-op provides a better balance. You just need to find ways for the city to help the co-op. It is easy to be apathetic up to the point that it just doesn't work anymore. This happens no matter who owns the infrastructure.
But really, nothing under 50Mb today should be considered broadband.
I happen to have not only one, but two natural gas power plants within a mile or so (along with a refinery). While I know enough to not be too worried about what comes off the cooling towers, stand around the fence for a while... ask yourself why you now have a bloody nose, itchy eyes, and shortness of breath. The joy of NOx.
Yes, things get diluted pretty quickly as long as wind is blowing things away from you, but I am only talking about short-term effects. The level of adult-onset asthma in the community is also very high. Treatment is only done to get levels down to be reliably at the regulatory threshold... otherwise you are wasting money.
Bottom line is we are better off with nothing going up the smokestack.
The thing is, there is a big range of options between "do nothing" and "spend trillion$”. Some money should be put into fighting it (here and abroad), but likely no more than what is put into watching China or Russia. We should train the military to deal with the new threats , and be ready for them to jump in where they can make a difference.
Right now, a whole hell of a lot of money is being spent without making a difference. Better than eight years ago, but still not where it needs to be.
I'll make a prediction: in the next 5 years in the US there will be a terrible act of terrorism that will kill 10,000 people and injure many more. Maybe a single act, maybe many smaller acts.
So, how much would you spend to reduce its probability of happening by 50%?
Where I live, Taxis must be 7 years old or less, and most drivers buy them with 2-3 years and 100k miles on them.
Uber has an age limit of five years; I don't think I have ridden in more than a couple that seemed "used", and most were fairly new.
But yes, if you buy a 3-4 year old car to drive 50k miles per year you might be able to keep your costs around $0.25/paid mile, earning $0.60 net after self employment taxes, or about $30k for about 1,00-1,500 hours behind the wheel with the app on... best case scenario. Talking to drivers I ride with, the most active ones have the app on about 60 hours per week and get 60-65k paid miles per year. Unless a lot of those hours have high surcharges, they are only making $12/hour.
Yes, they could save a whole lot of pain for end users by doing this, but I just wish they formally embraced a REST API... so many things that it could do that go beyond simple use-cases...
FWIW though, IGMP-Proxy can be your friend if you let it...
But, the enterprise systems are becoming very economical-- ubiquiti and the like. Maybe still need some time to be as easy to set up... and limit wires... but getting there.
While I am generally in the same camp, when you look at the slick design Samsung has integrating the communications between the phone, washer/dryer, TV, and Fridge... it opens up interesting possibilities. The display showing the interior of the fridge the last time it was closed is great; the multiple cameras do a good job of sticking together the interior. It is cool that you can "keep watching the game" from the fridge, or know exactly how long the washing machine has left.
For many people, the idea that more milk arrives on your doorstep when you need it is nice as well.
I am at peace with the LAN of Things... just hate the WAN and WLAN of Things... I don't want Things to use wireless communications where I cannot unplug/filter the content reliably.
Kidding aside, historically it came down to if you had a legal presence in a place then you needed to comply with the laws of the place. Now things are much more muddled.
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Yup... 2010 27" i7 iMac that I had planned on upgrading in late 2015, but really no compelling reason to do it. I had to replace my desk and re-arrange my office in order to make the screen reflections bearable, along with buying a quasi-industrial swing-arm VESA mount for the awful ergonomics... which also required a special adapter from Apple.
I am afraid of what kind of "holding it wrong" a new machine will introduce, and I like my new desk.
SpaceX is at a railroad right-of-way... you could tunnel under and likely be within the railroad's land rights.
Certain routes have too much congestion, especially in LA where there are far too many surface intersections. Software optimization only gets you so far. You really need bypass tunnels/bridges for through traffic, and limit the surface lights to turning traffic. From SpaceX, getting under the 105 and a few miles north would help. So would a bridge to the Green Line metro.
Some people just don't get math, and they pay a price for it. Some people that do get the basic math just don't have the critical thinking skills on how to review the problem.
Typical car salesman con: how much can you afford per month.
It sounds more like indentured servitude for people that are bad at math.
You have to use a separate domain for recovery, otherwise what do you do when there is a domain-level issue? Granted, you should do something like admin@university-recovery.space ideally, which is separately administered, hosted, and registered from the main domain... but few places have the foresight for that...
But, the issue would not have been a problem if two people had administrator rights to the domain, even if one was a second ghost account in a safe... ideally with one-time pad recovery codes as well.
Suggest you read Future Shock and The Third Wave for better perspective.
That is kind of the right way to do it, but the reality is the "escort out the door" policy on firing people. (There is no rational way around that which adequately protects the employer both in terms of damage and liability.) The established process for this type of thing, which works pretty well, is a password escrow system where ultimate passwords reside (root and the like). I have seen digital and dead-tree versions of these systems, and personally prefer the dead tree variant: seal password book in envelope signed by senior system administrator who wrote down the passwords, place that envelope in a second envelope signed by legal counsel, and then place it in the president's safe. A third witness level is a nice to have on both envelopes. When the senior administrator is fired, quits, or dies, all the passwords need to be changed, so you open the escrow and validate the signatures, and get to work. The weakness is that as you update the keys-to-the-kingdom you have no proper means of redundancy or control.
Yes, I have several and do love them. Being greedy though, I would love some closer to the $45-50 price range. Oh well, I guess the pretty plastic is worth a little extra... and that fancy semi-rigid patch cable...
The problem is that individuals are miopic, and we really need to have long term strategies for solving problems, rather than just reacting to current issues. Planning and construction take time, and you must project ahead to make the project useful for its life when complete.
Slick, hadn't seenthe OLinuXino, and my off the cuff response would have been because it makes it more expensive... but I was wrong! Personally, I am still looking for a 802.1af single board computer for stupid little tasks. POE switches have come down in cost to the point that it is an ideal solution for a number of use cases.
For the record, expanding LAX, BUR, OAK, SFO, OAK, SJC to accommodate 30% more passengers would be pretty close to $100B. For 50% more, $150B is likely. There is a limit to how well airports scale, and that limit gets hit quickly when people start complaining about the noise.
The channel is only what, 11 miles? Most of the right-of-way between London and Paris was existing...
But without bids that are on budget, the project dies. If you do realistic budgets, the voters reject it. So, what do you do if the project needs to be done? Unfortunately I am not Glorious Dictator of USA... so there are limits as to what I can do myself.
The only H1B we ever considered hiring was a foreign born new masters grad working in a position that paid ~$65k, and would. E 3-5 years before he hit the $100k threshold. That is the only kind of person I see being hurt. We had hired him not because of outsourcing or trying to find low cost labor, but because he was (ostensibly) qualified for the job.
While municipal should be the best solution, I am beginning to think that a co-op provides a better balance. You just need to find ways for the city to help the co-op. It is easy to be apathetic up to the point that it just doesn't work anymore. This happens no matter who owns the infrastructure. But really, nothing under 50Mb today should be considered broadband.
I happen to have not only one, but two natural gas power plants within a mile or so (along with a refinery). While I know enough to not be too worried about what comes off the cooling towers, stand around the fence for a while... ask yourself why you now have a bloody nose, itchy eyes, and shortness of breath. The joy of NOx.
Yes, things get diluted pretty quickly as long as wind is blowing things away from you, but I am only talking about short-term effects. The level of adult-onset asthma in the community is also very high. Treatment is only done to get levels down to be reliably at the regulatory threshold... otherwise you are wasting money.
Bottom line is we are better off with nothing going up the smokestack.
The thing is, there is a big range of options between "do nothing" and "spend trillion$”. Some money should be put into fighting it (here and abroad), but likely no more than what is put into watching China or Russia. We should train the military to deal with the new threats , and be ready for them to jump in where they can make a difference.
Right now, a whole hell of a lot of money is being spent without making a difference. Better than eight years ago, but still not where it needs to be.
I'll make a prediction: in the next 5 years in the US there will be a terrible act of terrorism that will kill 10,000 people and injure many more. Maybe a single act, maybe many smaller acts.
So, how much would you spend to reduce its probability of happening by 50%?
Where I live, Taxis must be 7 years old or less, and most drivers buy them with 2-3 years and 100k miles on them. Uber has an age limit of five years; I don't think I have ridden in more than a couple that seemed "used", and most were fairly new. But yes, if you buy a 3-4 year old car to drive 50k miles per year you might be able to keep your costs around $0.25/paid mile, earning $0.60 net after self employment taxes, or about $30k for about 1,00-1,500 hours behind the wheel with the app on... best case scenario. Talking to drivers I ride with, the most active ones have the app on about 60 hours per week and get 60-65k paid miles per year. Unless a lot of those hours have high surcharges, they are only making $12/hour.
Most are happy until they go to sell their cars and learn there is no equity left after a few years. The more you drive, the more you loose.
Yes, they could save a whole lot of pain for end users by doing this, but I just wish they formally embraced a REST API... so many things that it could do that go beyond simple use-cases...
FWIW though, IGMP-Proxy can be your friend if you let it...
It isn't arbitrary... it is being cheap.
But, the enterprise systems are becoming very economical-- ubiquiti and the like. Maybe still need some time to be as easy to set up... and limit wires... but getting there.
Your parents must be young... I'm afraid of the "can you remind me how to back up the fridge again" requests.
While I am generally in the same camp, when you look at the slick design Samsung has integrating the communications between the phone, washer/dryer, TV, and Fridge... it opens up interesting possibilities. The display showing the interior of the fridge the last time it was closed is great; the multiple cameras do a good job of sticking together the interior. It is cool that you can "keep watching the game" from the fridge, or know exactly how long the washing machine has left.
For many people, the idea that more milk arrives on your doorstep when you need it is nice as well.
I am at peace with the LAN of Things... just hate the WAN and WLAN of Things... I don't want Things to use wireless communications where I cannot unplug/filter the content reliably.
Have you heard of Uber?
Kidding aside, historically it came down to if you had a legal presence in a place then you needed to comply with the laws of the place. Now things are much more muddled.