Part of me wonders if we would SELL them to them because of the economy being the way it is.
I make this not so subtle distinction because previously (F-16s are the only ones I remember right now) we only license the plans for the planes to Japan and Mitsubishi actually builds them.
The Israelis tend to buy export versions of our stuff, then upgrade it locally to US or better specs with locally sourced parts. I seem to recall them grumbling about not being able to replace the avionics in the F-35 with their own.
Real world tests involving the F-35 had similar issues.
As stealthy as it may be, once the enemy had 'flaming datum' (one of their planes shot down) they looked for the F-35 visually and the F-35 went down faster than other non-stealth Air Superiority fighters.
In simulations run by RAND the F-35 is perfect, in every realistic exercise using an actual F-35 its not.
Choice will of course depend on if you are a V for Vendetta or Code Geass fan. It will aso decide which mask you should wear when the revolution comes.
ITs obvious the Lawyers, Warden and Judge have never played D&D.
DM: So there have been some incursions by a rival gang into your territory. You should go kill them and make an example out of them.
Player #1: What about the old mines outside town I heard there might be a lost treasure there.
DM: That's way outside your territory, if you leave, the rival gang would take it as a sign of weakness, move in and claim even more of your turf.
Player #2: That's ok, there hasn't been much to do here, its just a starting area we were going to have to leave soon anyway. Player #3: I vote we go to the mines. Player #4: So are we ordering Pizza or Chinese food?
DM: I'd split a pizza.
Players 1-6: Chinese it is.
Player #3: Did we level last time? Player #2: I'm buying provisions for the trip to the mines. Player #1: Don't forget rope, and torches.
DM: Sigh, you don't find any rope or torches. Through your contacts you hear the rival gang seems to have been hording supplies for some kind expedition, maybe you should investigate.
Player #2: GM's railroading us again. Player #4: Why do we even bother to show up or roll dice? maybe you should just tell us what happens.
3G coverage seems to fluctuate wildly just sitting at my desk or at home. I can try to download email and it will timeout, but while surfing the web, different websites will load immediately or sometimes not at all.
When I'm at home at least I can hop on the wifi and things improve somewhat.
I'd really like to have a network quality feedback app for Android like AT&T has for the iPhone. Actually I'd like to have a feedback app for a lot of the things on Android, including the Google Maps driving directions BETA won't be replacing my TomTom anytime soon.
I sign up for BETA programs, I've been a real QA tester, I don't mind using BETA software, but give me the ability to provide feedback right there when I'm using the phone.
Your assumptions are flawed in two ways, encryption doesn't equal security, and businesses don't report when they get hacked, or didn't until data breach privacy laws were enacted by individual states.
More than likely these attacks used the typical attack vectors, viruses, emails, trojaned websites, malicious javascript and flash to get in on some of the 'hacked workstations' google talked about. From there they will use their beachead behind the firewall to leapfrog or pivot to more sensitive resources possibly using the credentials of the hacked user.
As for who uses stronger encryption, businesses use what you can buy in the market, the military has crypto you can't get, search FAS and Wiki for some examples if you are really interested.
At an old job of mine 1998-2003 we had when I got there, a batch-job called Overnight.bat, while I was there we upgraded the servers, raid arrays, network from 10/100 to gigabit for data processing group, and spent some time figuring out which AMD/Intel chips and Intel/VIA chipsets were best for running our SAS jobs. By the time I left we could have called it Afternoon.bat
The inflection point there is if an overnight job fails, it can take days/nights to find out what went wrong and fix it. When the whole job can be run multiple times during core business hours that's a real benefit.
We also had an SPSS (Quantum) machine running on SCO OpenServer circa 1996, we had to be particular about the hardware we bought because it had to have a 1996 driver available for it. At one point I upgraded the machine to RedHat 9, and just the difference in performance on the same hardware from taking advantage of some new chipset features was a 4x increase in batch processing. We later upgraded the machine again to new hardware really optimized instead of slavishly devoted to 1996 specs and the user again got an increase in processing speeds. We also welcomed file sizes larger than 2GB, and other modern improvements. Quantum had only compiled the program for 16 bit at the time so our Ext3 File system didn't bring us any big wins and was a pain to troubleshoot until the vendor admitted they weren't 32 bit on the platform.
The SPSS (Quantum) jobs got so fast that the sales and marketing folks that actually used the data started asking for changes. They might want to see the same table 5 different ways, it might have lead to an improved product eventually, but from the programmers point of view her workload just went up 5 times. No more surfing the web on her windows machine while waiting for a job to finish.
Last optimization I did while I was there, our Quantum programmer dumped a text file of market share by brand, what went up, what went down, whether or not the change was statistically significant. A research assistant would take this every quarter and spend two weeks building XY Scatter charts, color coding and bolding brand names in one color for risen, one color for fallen, and standard black text for no change. I took about two weeks to write a VBA macro in PowerPoint that read the text file created the charts, populated the data tables, then plotted the scatter charts, color coded the brands. There were 32 charts in the deck, which would be pulled apart and moved into different Powerpoint presentations for each client. The macro executed in 30 seconds, research assistant guy got 2 weeks of his life back every quarter.
I never finished writing something similar for Excel, the PowerPoint snytax in VBA Office 2000 was decidely different from the one for Excel so I couldn't reuse any of my existing code.
Claudia Black was being interviewed for the new Farscape DVDs or Dragon Age or something and she was mentioning that they are trying to do new Farscape as Webisodes, but were still trying to figure out the financing.
Not looking to rationalize this, but its easy to forget 'Miranda, that poor place that got took over by the Reavers, and the Alliance didn't do anything about it'.
You could probably tell one season's worth of stories post Objects in Space and before Serenity.
Does anybody want to know what happened to Jubal Early?
The Reaver Kid is a really freaky form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Under the 1974 Privacy Act the US Government needs to notify we the people whenever they collect information about them.
So the FBI needs to know what IT people they can contact for different areas of expertise to help them with investigations. In order to put together so much as an Excel spreadsheet with names and phone numbers they need to examine the privacy considerations. A nationwide database has similar considerations, usually a Privacy Impact Assessment, and if the assessment warrants it, a System of Records Notice in the Federal Register. Under OMB Memo 06-16 this also means the data is Personally Identifiable Information and they should encrypt it on mobile media, and while in transmission. Which means if some Infragard member has hundreds or thousands of names and contact info on their laptop and it is lost or stolen, the information of self-selected members should be protected with a FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 197 compliant algorithm and certified implementation.
Lets hope they don't keep it on the Kingston thumb drives.
I once attended an Infragard meeting in Maryland right after SQL Slammer hit, there were tons of us standing in line to get in all talking about who hadn't bothered to install a 2 year old patch.
Subject says it all, DVD has had this feature for a long time, yet there aren't really a lot of people using it.
So what if I had these extra angles? I think the whole thing is probably one giant director's commentary so that is a given.
Deleted scenes? probably not
Alternate Endings? stay with me here, I don't necessarily mean the patient dies. But since they have 10 years of experience with this procedure, what are some of the complications they've seen, what are some things to avoid.
When one of my old employers wanted to hold me to an overly broad NDA, every lawyer I spoke with said tortious interference was the first place we'd go.
No but now it'll be acted upon by thousands of high frequency quants before the humans have even had a chance to read it.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if our only defense against truly outrageous claims in these computer generated press releases will be the corporate lawyers saying you can't say that.
Oh then start looking out for buffer overflows in press releases.
I saw one of the stocks I owned go up when Company A released a press release that Company A signed a deal with company B.
The stock of Company A spiked again 3 days later when Company B released a press release that it had just signed a deal with Company A.
If there are quant systems out there listing to the wire and trading on info like this, the system will surely be gamed. What is worse is that if a human were watching the blips come over the wire would he necessarily catch the problem?
They've been doing crap like this in their accounting for years, Enron charges X to company Y, and Y charges X back to Enron, both of them had 2X extra sales in the quarter, but no money or goods actually change hands, now it extends to journalism.
Seriously I think the delay might be a bit much for a Mars rover, but it might be nice to have one of thes to collect samples, turn over rocks or something with a rover.
The ISS has the Canadarm, but it also has a robot named Dextre to move along the Canadarm tracks on the ISS, it has different power tools it could use, this might be a nice new one.
If course the last question is are there direct kits without the glove that let the electrocdes in the brain guys tinker with its life-like hand movements?
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Replying to an AC here, If the government didn't bailout Chrysler and GM...
Ford, Toyota, Honda and everyone else would be in terrible shape right now because their suppliers would have gone bankrupt.
So Ford benefited from the AUTO INDUSTRY bailout, the same way Goldman Sachs benefited from the Financial Industry bailout.
But I guess that is too long for a pithy AC post.
Japan really wants the F-22,
Part of me wonders if we would SELL them to them because of the economy being the way it is.
I make this not so subtle distinction because previously (F-16s are the only ones I remember right now) we only license the plans for the planes to Japan and Mitsubishi actually builds them.
The Israelis tend to buy export versions of our stuff, then upgrade it locally to US or better specs with locally sourced parts. I seem to recall them grumbling about not being able to replace the avionics in the F-35 with their own.
Real world tests involving the F-35 had similar issues.
As stealthy as it may be, once the enemy had 'flaming datum' (one of their planes shot down) they looked for the F-35 visually and the F-35 went down faster than other non-stealth Air Superiority fighters.
In simulations run by RAND the F-35 is perfect, in every realistic exercise using an actual F-35 its not.
Hey buddy,
We've turned -another- century since then, so what did Germany do with their Healthcare in the 2000s?
We are all V
or
We are all Zero
Choice will of course depend on if you are a V for Vendetta or Code Geass fan. It will aso decide which mask you should wear when the revolution comes.
We could also use;
Ninjas (should Ninjas be blank?)
Pirates
ITs obvious the Lawyers, Warden and Judge have never played D&D.
DM: So there have been some incursions by a rival gang into your territory. You should go kill them and make an example out of them.
Player #1: What about the old mines outside town I heard there might be a lost treasure there.
DM: That's way outside your territory, if you leave, the rival gang would take it as a sign of weakness, move in and claim even more of your turf.
Player #2: That's ok, there hasn't been much to do here, its just a starting area we were going to have to leave soon anyway.
Player #3: I vote we go to the mines.
Player #4: So are we ordering Pizza or Chinese food?
DM: I'd split a pizza.
Players 1-6: Chinese it is.
Player #3: Did we level last time?
Player #2: I'm buying provisions for the trip to the mines.
Player #1: Don't forget rope, and torches.
DM: Sigh, you don't find any rope or torches. Through your contacts you hear the rival gang seems to have been hording supplies for some kind expedition, maybe you should investigate.
Player #2: GM's railroading us again.
Player #4: Why do we even bother to show up or roll dice? maybe you should just tell us what happens.
The guy Parent was arguing with was probably thinking of this link, scroll down to "See through clothing"
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ir.htm
The link specifically states what the camera sees through is cotton, at the time this camera was released I believe swimsuits got all the attention.
This happens on my Droid with Verizon as well.
3G coverage seems to fluctuate wildly just sitting at my desk or at home.
I can try to download email and it will timeout, but while surfing the web, different websites will load immediately or sometimes not at all.
When I'm at home at least I can hop on the wifi and things improve somewhat.
I'd really like to have a network quality feedback app for Android like AT&T has for the iPhone. Actually I'd like to have a feedback app for a lot of the things on Android, including the Google Maps driving directions BETA won't be replacing my TomTom anytime soon.
I sign up for BETA programs, I've been a real QA tester, I don't mind using BETA software, but give me the ability to provide feedback right there when I'm using the phone.
Your assumptions are flawed in two ways, encryption doesn't equal security, and businesses don't report when they get hacked, or didn't until data breach privacy laws were enacted by individual states.
More than likely these attacks used the typical attack vectors, viruses, emails, trojaned websites, malicious javascript and flash to get in on some of the 'hacked workstations' google talked about. From there they will use their beachead behind the firewall to leapfrog or pivot to more sensitive resources possibly using the credentials of the hacked user.
As for who uses stronger encryption, businesses use what you can buy in the market, the military has crypto you can't get, search FAS and Wiki for some examples if you are really interested.
At an old job of mine 1998-2003 we had when I got there, a batch-job called Overnight.bat, while I was there we upgraded the servers, raid arrays, network from 10/100 to gigabit for data processing group, and spent some time figuring out which AMD/Intel chips and Intel/VIA chipsets were best for running our SAS jobs. By the time I left we could have called it Afternoon.bat
The inflection point there is if an overnight job fails, it can take days/nights to find out what went wrong and fix it. When the whole job can be run multiple times during core business hours that's a real benefit.
We also had an SPSS (Quantum) machine running on SCO OpenServer circa 1996, we had to be particular about the hardware we bought because it had to have a 1996 driver available for it. At one point I upgraded the machine to RedHat 9, and just the difference in performance on the same hardware from taking advantage of some new chipset features was a 4x increase in batch processing. We later upgraded the machine again to new hardware really optimized instead of slavishly devoted to 1996 specs and the user again got an increase in processing speeds. We also welcomed file sizes larger than 2GB, and other modern improvements. Quantum had only compiled the program for 16 bit at the time so our Ext3 File system didn't bring us any big wins and was a pain to troubleshoot until the vendor admitted they weren't 32 bit on the platform.
The SPSS (Quantum) jobs got so fast that the sales and marketing folks that actually used the data started asking for changes. They might want to see the same table 5 different ways, it might have lead to an improved product eventually, but from the programmers point of view her workload just went up 5 times. No more surfing the web on her windows machine while waiting for a job to finish.
Last optimization I did while I was there, our Quantum programmer dumped a text file of market share by brand, what went up, what went down, whether or not the change was statistically significant. A research assistant would take this every quarter and spend two weeks building XY Scatter charts, color coding and bolding brand names in one color for risen, one color for fallen, and standard black text for no change. I took about two weeks to write a VBA macro in PowerPoint that read the text file created the charts, populated the data tables, then plotted the scatter charts, color coded the brands. There were 32 charts in the deck, which would be pulled apart and moved into different Powerpoint presentations for each client. The macro executed in 30 seconds, research assistant guy got 2 weeks of his life back every quarter.
I never finished writing something similar for Excel, the PowerPoint snytax in VBA Office 2000 was decidely different from the one for Excel so I couldn't reuse any of my existing code.
Season 4, last 2 hour episode about 1 hour in
Adama says Jump, anywhere
Kara puts in coordinates and hits the button...
Screen fades to credits
Claudia Black was being interviewed for the new Farscape DVDs or Dragon Age or something and she was mentioning that they are trying to do new Farscape as Webisodes, but were still trying to figure out the financing.
Not looking to rationalize this, but its easy to forget 'Miranda, that poor place that got took over by the Reavers, and the Alliance didn't do anything about it'.
You could probably tell one season's worth of stories post Objects in Space and before Serenity.
Does anybody want to know what happened to Jubal Early?
The Reaver Kid is a really freaky form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Under the 1974 Privacy Act the US Government needs to notify we the people whenever they collect information about them. So the FBI needs to know what IT people they can contact for different areas of expertise to help them with investigations. In order to put together so much as an Excel spreadsheet with names and phone numbers they need to examine the privacy considerations. A nationwide database has similar considerations, usually a Privacy Impact Assessment, and if the assessment warrants it, a System of Records Notice in the Federal Register. Under OMB Memo 06-16 this also means the data is Personally Identifiable Information and they should encrypt it on mobile media, and while in transmission. Which means if some Infragard member has hundreds or thousands of names and contact info on their laptop and it is lost or stolen, the information of self-selected members should be protected with a FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 197 compliant algorithm and certified implementation. Lets hope they don't keep it on the Kingston thumb drives. I once attended an Infragard meeting in Maryland right after SQL Slammer hit, there were tons of us standing in line to get in all talking about who hadn't bothered to install a 2 year old patch.
Subject says it all, DVD has had this feature for a long time, yet there aren't really a lot of people using it.
So what if I had these extra angles? I think the whole thing is probably one giant director's commentary so that is a given.
Deleted scenes? probably not
Alternate Endings? stay with me here, I don't necessarily mean the patient dies. But since they have 10 years of experience with this procedure, what are some of the complications they've seen, what are some things to avoid.
And yes, when can I add it to my Netflix queue?
Oh crap,
Sounds like somebody is going to port parts of Androind to RTEMS and then upgrade their Nexus One.
But are you 21 and is it your birthday?
I wonder where the "interfere with his contract" language came from.
I only wonder because "tortious interference with contracts" pretty much establishes the legal basis for a lawsuit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
When one of my old employers wanted to hold me to an overly broad NDA, every lawyer I spoke with said tortious interference was the first place we'd go.
Secret laws and policies are one of the most offensive concepts to a free society.
Transportation related security information is protected under the 1974 Air Transortation Security Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Security_Information
Its not Top Secret or National Security, and a lot of it is shared with the airlines, regional, state and local authorities.
Take a breath, not everything is a conspiracy.
Did Forbin put an ad in an obscure paper stating that he had died.
The computer read the obit and let its guard down.
Forbin comes back to the project under an assumed name and offs the computer.
Well its "buy the rumor, sell the news" so what we really need is computer generated rumors right?
No but now it'll be acted upon by thousands of high frequency quants before the humans have even had a chance to read it.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if our only defense against truly outrageous claims in these computer generated press releases will be the corporate lawyers saying you can't say that.
Oh then start looking out for buffer overflows in press releases.
I saw one of the stocks I owned go up when Company A released a press release that Company A signed a deal with company B.
The stock of Company A spiked again 3 days later when Company B released a press release that it had just signed a deal with Company A.
If there are quant systems out there listing to the wire and trading on info like this, the system will surely be gamed. What is worse is that if a human were watching the blips come over the wire would he necessarily catch the problem?
They've been doing crap like this in their accounting for years, Enron charges X to company Y, and Y charges X back to Enron, both of them had 2X extra sales in the quarter, but no money or goods actually change hands, now it extends to journalism.
Seriously I think the delay might be a bit much for a Mars rover, but it might be nice to have one of thes to collect samples, turn over rocks or something with a rover.
The ISS has the Canadarm, but it also has a robot named Dextre to move along the Canadarm tracks on the ISS, it has different power tools it could use, this might be a nice new one.
If course the last question is are there direct kits without the glove that let the electrocdes in the brain guys tinker with its life-like hand movements?
You can create OUs of users in your location, and only apply GPOs to those users.
You don't have to Bork all the field offices with a GPO. Now domain security policies I'd watch out for.