But seriously, there are therapists out there, they can find one, choose not to live like that anymore, cut people out of their life that are part of the old life so as not continue to create the same situations and make the same bad decisions over and over again.
What can you do? Its not about being Prince Charming, most of the time its about not being an ass. If you can do that, and it still doesn't work out, its not you.
Oddly enough, you know what also creates efficiencies, good security/IT practices.
One firm I was working with was already undergoing HIPAA and SAS 70 audits regularly because they work with medical data. My government agency customer needed them to get up to government IT standards for security (FISMA/NIST). We made them think about their Contingency planning and their policies a lot more than they ever had in the past.
The company is a small business but was making money and buying up other small businesses, each time they did they absorbed another irregular IT department. Instead of trying to continue with 8 different IT departments they re-used a lot of the work they did for us and standardized their IT practices across the company.
At some size level they would have reached that conclusion anyway. Other than the things I pointed out most of the effort involved with bringing them up to speed was documenting/taking credit for what they already did.
The thing you seem to be missing is that while there is an ISO 27001 standard covering IT, what reason do you have for the power company, water company, transportation or any other important industry to use it? Businesses won't self-regulate unless it costs them money.
As GP stated most of the regulatory frameworks are similar, all of them are step-children of the Common Criteria and all of them have requirements that can be mapped to each other.
Summary says go through the scanner or be banned from flying, why would you pat down someone banned from flying, you just send them home. Tell them to take a boat or something if they'd like to leave.
I agree with almost everything in the first paragraph. The enemy would eventually run out of magic bullets, and possibly locking the laser via a security code eliminates the other worries. For snipers this is just one possible tool in their toolbag.
However, as to limited battlefield use, I think rather the laser painter being able to call in precision munitions smaller than current laser guided munitions would be fantastic. There are lots of 25mm or smaller applications in the armory for close air support, that you just want one D-bag dead and not everyone unfortunate enough to be close to them.
I expect Drones to be pivotal with this tech to give you some support by loitering in the air until needed. Drones that are remotely controlled could fire the rounds and paint the targets at the same time.
To your first point standard infantry battles probably wouldn't change much because all of the mile long sniper shot records of the last 10 years have been due to high altitude fighting in the mountains.
To your sceond point, if I have the laser to paint somebody, I can direct fire on him with a.50 cal version of this, call in bunker busters, or artillery that will all follow the dot, if the guidance systems of all these systems are designed to work together.
Also Drones, if I can put these in 25mm, suddenly I can get A-10s, Cobras, and maybe someday soon a Drone to provide Close air support and I paint the bad guys with my laser.
The future of this technology is not entangling the laser with the rifle.
Well in this case, 4 inches long is important to the flight characteristics of the bullet.
Also while it means you could shoot it out of a.50 caliber weapon, you could not fire one out of a pump action or semi-automatic shotgun, only breach loaders as the round would be longer than even a 3.5 inch magnum shell.
You could even fire one of these out of a musket if you wanted, a laser designator equipped smoothbore musket.
I have commented twice in email to friends about this story already.
You could unscrew the barrel from the receiver of a modern.50 caliber rifle and substitute a smoothbore. The "you" being a gunsmith in this case. Then you either let your spotter paint the target with the laser, or you attach a laser to your rifle, get some kind of a laser designating scope.
What SHOULD happen is for them to develop a rifle where the entire purpose is to get this round to maximum velocity that the electronics can control. Then incorporate the laser designator into the scope and isolate the scope as much as possible from the recoil of the weapon, the scope would no longer need to be directly inline with the barrel as you only need to be in the general vicinty and the round will converge with the laser over time.
What should also happen is that they build an Unmanned Drone that loiters over battlefields for Ground Assault support armed with a.50 caliber or similar munition, load it with thousands of these rounds and allow soldiers on the ground to designate targets on the ground that they need eliminated without any civilian casualties. As the round has an 8 inch drift from target, you can assume a 16 inch group. If your badguy is at starbucks, nobody else at the same table would be harmed when you took him out. Compare that to the "we killed the whole wedding party to get one guy" and you'll see this is a marked improvement for bystanders.
Are you sure, what kind of car do you drive, do your kids teachers know that?
So if a silver minivan shows up every day to pick up your kid, and one day there are two silver minivans which one does your kid get into?
How hard is it for an adversary to leave spikes a few blocks from the school so that only one silver minivan shows up and it isn't yours?
How do you get your kid if the car is being towed by the autonomous-autoclub?
I like the promise of the technology, I think autonomous limos are going to have to be hosed out between engagements because people will be freaks if no one is watching them.
I also thought the idea of kids running away pushing the take me to grandma's house button was something to look into the last time/. talked about autonomous vehicles.
Nowhere does the patent say the magnetic part of the magnet is stronger. It says the material strength of the magnet is easier to machine and does not become embrittled.
I appreciate your simplification, but his method avoids deforming, embrittling, is easier to machine and uses cheaper materials. So there are efficiencies to be had in manufacturing costs and cost of raw materials.
Yeah, nowhere does it say they are more energy efficient, except possibly in making them.
Is it possible that Japan, under threat from China of not getting any Rare Earth shippments considers this guy's Iron-Nickel-Boron magnets to be less of a supply chain liability. I was reading somewhere that Tesla Motors stuck with induction motors specifically to get around the whole rare earth supply chain volatility nonsense, well before Japan was sanctioned by China.
DARPA has a mandate to ensure the US military has access to the latest technology. If the US is not producing that technology then the US military will probably not have access to it.
Same as they have an interest that the US can buy computers made from entirely US made parts with a supply chain they can verify.
So I have had half a dozen Tivos, lots of them have been networked on my home LAN. I have several 2 Tb drives on my home machine, after Tivo Desktop pulls the shows, I have VideoRedo automatically mark the commercials, cut them and then dump another file in MPEG format sans commercials for long term archiving.
Content Producers get paid by networks, networks get paid by advertisers. I pay Comcast a large sum of money every month for content, they in turn pay networks for access to that content. The Content Producer gets no cut of the Comcast money, but he's already been paid to produce a show carried on a major network. Whenever that stops being enough, the Producers will move to other businesses or start another business model like making content directly for Netflix for Amazon.
There is a very nice Pathfinder SRD document that has everything in it from the Pathfinder Core rules except the Product Identity (Setting Information) and artwork.
I own the core and lots of the sourcebooks in hardcopy as well as PDF for use on my iPad, but if you want to search for something fast the SRD PDF searches faster than the PDF of the Core Rulebook.
At least 2 of the guys in my Pathfinder group have the Pathfinder SRD app on their phones which is also fully searchable and the app is also cheaper than the Core Rulebook.
I like Paizo, I like how they actually put up Open Content on their website, and how much of a community has built up around them because of their openness. I like the fact they let the community look at some of the early playtest materials for new books.
I'm not a subscriber, I buy all of their stuff a la carte, but I do like what they are doing with the game. I probably won't play the MMO or read the comic book they've just announced.
I am chomping at the bit for my case of pre-painted minis to show up this week.
I am also developing a scifi setting/RPG based on a Pathfinderization of the D20 Modern SRD which has a lot of strange D&D 3.0 artifacts baked in.
I have a small network of friends and associates on LinkedIn, they know I am happy where I am at, but I always listen to new opportunities that's how I got where I am. Ususally I will pass on the info to someone else I know that's looking.
However if you never listen to opportunities, people never think of you as someone to talk to about them.
When the time comes that you need a job, your network has withered and you're stuck looking at official postings, half of which are already wired for a certain candidate but have to be announced for legal reasons.
There was a piece I saw somewhere talking about how the old violins from Stradivarius' times were made from trees grown in a more moderate climate and the wood was of a more consistent grain because of it.
And yes add in the agin the parent poster mentions and you get better sounding violins.
Grandparent doesn't/didn't understand that sometimes the function of something's use is related to its age and not just artificial scarcity.
I have a nice pocketwatch with crystal on both sides so you can watch the gears work, its not old or made with expensive materials. I like the function of it and it gives me more pleasure than a digital watch or more likely just the clock function on my smartphone. Would I buy an old pocketwatch made by an old timey craftsman years ago where the gears are hidden, probably not.
To bring this back on topic if I were a violinist would I buy an antique violin or maybe a carbon fiber new one, depends on my means and which ones sounds better.
I thought the point of the kinect was that it followed body motion and last time I checked hands were part of the body.
Now if the Kinect doesn't get pick up the brush and rotate the hand/wrist I guess I can understand.
However I think I'd like a Kinect and a Robosapien setup that let me have a mini-me running around the house virtually, though I think I'd use a footpedal on and off to move it forward instead of a treadmill.
When I first saw the image I thought it was a Robosapien, I'm not convinced its a $15,000 robot maybe the whole setup, but even that seems extreme. For $15,000 I want one of those Japanese pancake/omlet cooking robots.
Any of us can start a business, form a corporation, but personhood ends (should end) when you have limited liability and unlimited speech.
You shouldn't be simulatneously louder than everbody else, and less likely to get punched in the nose for being obnoxious.
That's how you get trolls on the internet.
The problem now is far worse than the proverbial people voting against their own interests, or people voting for whomever promises the most free stuff, there are usually enough sane voters to balance those out. Now it's corporate-persons voting for their own interests above the greater good, and no billionaires out there to balance them out.
Lawrence Lessig has a book on how to fix this, get a copy now.
Serious answer SpaceX, they have a really low cost per kilo to launch to LEO, and higher cost to launch to GEO. They will be doing a lot of satellite launches for Iridium to put up their satellite network.
So now the problem is really architecting your standardized satellite not using a standardized picosat or microsat designed for limited experiments, but something meant to be up there for years handling comms.
Then bundle them in a multiple satellite payload of some sort and have them spread to their final orbits from there using precious fuel, or get 50 kilos of payload reserved on a lot of other people's launches.
I re-read my post if the satellites are in Low Earth Orbit and transiting every 90 minutes or so, can you burst up all of your internet traffic, and receive your answers on the next pass?
Certainly you won't be streaming audio or video like this, but for email and web-surfing one page at a time it would work.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't know Scott Pilgrim read slashdot.
But seriously, there are therapists out there, they can find one, choose not to live like that anymore, cut people out of their life that are part of the old life so as not continue to create the same situations and make the same bad decisions over and over again.
What can you do? Its not about being Prince Charming, most of the time its about not being an ass. If you can do that, and it still doesn't work out, its not you.
Oddly enough, you know what also creates efficiencies, good security/IT practices.
One firm I was working with was already undergoing HIPAA and SAS 70 audits regularly because they work with medical data. My government agency customer needed them to get up to government IT standards for security (FISMA/NIST). We made them think about their Contingency planning and their policies a lot more than they ever had in the past.
The company is a small business but was making money and buying up other small businesses, each time they did they absorbed another irregular IT department. Instead of trying to continue with 8 different IT departments they re-used a lot of the work they did for us and standardized their IT practices across the company.
At some size level they would have reached that conclusion anyway. Other than the things I pointed out most of the effort involved with bringing them up to speed was documenting/taking credit for what they already did.
You could also look at the State Department's white paper on their new metrics based IT Security, and how they acheived greater control over their hundreds of independently operated embassies and saved money doing it.
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/12/state-department-it-security-pilot.aspx
I was a SANS class going over the Critical Security Controls methodolgy, same kind of methodolgy State used, a lot of private industry was there.
The thing you seem to be missing is that while there is an ISO 27001 standard covering IT, what reason do you have for the power company, water company, transportation or any other important industry to use it? Businesses won't self-regulate unless it costs them money.
As GP stated most of the regulatory frameworks are similar, all of them are step-children of the Common Criteria and all of them have requirements that can be mapped to each other.
Summary says go through the scanner or be banned from flying, why would you pat down someone banned from flying, you just send them home. Tell them to take a boat or something if they'd like to leave.
Assume I have a fully addressable LCD contact lens, its powered somehow and receives signals somehow.
Do contacts rotate once they are on your eyeball?
I agree with almost everything in the first paragraph. The enemy would eventually run out of magic bullets, and possibly locking the laser via a security code eliminates the other worries. For snipers this is just one possible tool in their toolbag.
However, as to limited battlefield use, I think rather the laser painter being able to call in precision munitions smaller than current laser guided munitions would be fantastic. There are lots of 25mm or smaller applications in the armory for close air support, that you just want one D-bag dead and not everyone unfortunate enough to be close to them.
I expect Drones to be pivotal with this tech to give you some support by loitering in the air until needed. Drones that are remotely controlled could fire the rounds and paint the targets at the same time.
Care to tell me what the difference between a 7.62x39 and 7.62x54 is then?
To your first point standard infantry battles probably wouldn't change much because all of the mile long sniper shot records of the last 10 years have been due to high altitude fighting in the mountains.
To your sceond point, if I have the laser to paint somebody, I can direct fire on him with a .50 cal version of this, call in bunker busters, or artillery that will all follow the dot, if the guidance systems of all these systems are designed to work together.
Also Drones, if I can put these in 25mm, suddenly I can get A-10s, Cobras, and maybe someday soon a Drone to provide Close air support and I paint the bad guys with my laser.
The future of this technology is not entangling the laser with the rifle.
Well in this case, 4 inches long is important to the flight characteristics of the bullet.
Also while it means you could shoot it out of a .50 caliber weapon, you could not fire one out of a pump action or semi-automatic shotgun, only breach loaders as the round would be longer than even a 3.5 inch magnum shell.
You could even fire one of these out of a musket if you wanted, a laser designator equipped smoothbore musket.
I have commented twice in email to friends about this story already.
You could unscrew the barrel from the receiver of a modern .50 caliber rifle and substitute a smoothbore. The "you" being a gunsmith in this case. Then you either let your spotter paint the target with the laser, or you attach a laser to your rifle, get some kind of a laser designating scope.
What SHOULD happen is for them to develop a rifle where the entire purpose is to get this round to maximum velocity that the electronics can control. Then incorporate the laser designator into the scope and isolate the scope as much as possible from the recoil of the weapon, the scope would no longer need to be directly inline with the barrel as you only need to be in the general vicinty and the round will converge with the laser over time.
What should also happen is that they build an Unmanned Drone that loiters over battlefields for Ground Assault support armed with a .50 caliber or similar munition, load it with thousands of these rounds and allow soldiers on the ground to designate targets on the ground that they need eliminated without any civilian casualties. As the round has an 8 inch drift from target, you can assume a 16 inch group. If your badguy is at starbucks, nobody else at the same table would be harmed when you took him out. Compare that to the "we killed the whole wedding party to get one guy" and you'll see this is a marked improvement for bystanders.
"We truly do not value education; and in the end get what we deserve."
Our children are not getting the education they need because we do not put enough emphasis on them getting it.
Are you sure, what kind of car do you drive, do your kids teachers know that?
So if a silver minivan shows up every day to pick up your kid, and one day there are two silver minivans which one does your kid get into?
How hard is it for an adversary to leave spikes a few blocks from the school so that only one silver minivan shows up and it isn't yours?
How do you get your kid if the car is being towed by the autonomous-autoclub?
I like the promise of the technology, I think autonomous limos are going to have to be hosed out between engagements because people will be freaks if no one is watching them.
I also thought the idea of kids running away pushing the take me to grandma's house button was something to look into the last time /. talked about autonomous vehicles.
Nowhere does the patent say the magnetic part of the magnet is stronger. It says the material strength of the magnet is easier to machine and does not become embrittled.
I appreciate your simplification, but his method avoids deforming, embrittling, is easier to machine and uses cheaper materials. So there are efficiencies to be had in manufacturing costs and cost of raw materials.
Yeah, nowhere does it say they are more energy efficient, except possibly in making them.
Is it possible that Japan, under threat from China of not getting any Rare Earth shippments considers this guy's Iron-Nickel-Boron magnets to be less of a supply chain liability. I was reading somewhere that Tesla Motors stuck with induction motors specifically to get around the whole rare earth supply chain volatility nonsense, well before Japan was sanctioned by China.
DARPA has a mandate to ensure the US military has access to the latest technology. If the US is not producing that technology then the US military will probably not have access to it.
Same as they have an interest that the US can buy computers made from entirely US made parts with a supply chain they can verify.
I mean come on that's been a problem for years right?
So I have had half a dozen Tivos, lots of them have been networked on my home LAN. I have several 2 Tb drives on my home machine, after Tivo Desktop pulls the shows, I have VideoRedo automatically mark the commercials, cut them and then dump another file in MPEG format sans commercials for long term archiving.
Content Producers get paid by networks, networks get paid by advertisers. I pay Comcast a large sum of money every month for content, they in turn pay networks for access to that content. The Content Producer gets no cut of the Comcast money, but he's already been paid to produce a show carried on a major network. Whenever that stops being enough, the Producers will move to other businesses or start another business model like making content directly for Netflix for Amazon.
There is a very nice Pathfinder SRD document that has everything in it from the Pathfinder Core rules except the Product Identity (Setting Information) and artwork.
I own the core and lots of the sourcebooks in hardcopy as well as PDF for use on my iPad, but if you want to search for something fast the SRD PDF searches faster than the PDF of the Core Rulebook.
At least 2 of the guys in my Pathfinder group have the Pathfinder SRD app on their phones which is also fully searchable and the app is also cheaper than the Core Rulebook.
I like Paizo, I like how they actually put up Open Content on their website, and how much of a community has built up around them because of their openness. I like the fact they let the community look at some of the early playtest materials for new books.
I'm not a subscriber, I buy all of their stuff a la carte, but I do like what they are doing with the game. I probably won't play the MMO or read the comic book they've just announced.
I am chomping at the bit for my case of pre-painted minis to show up this week.
I am also developing a scifi setting/RPG based on a Pathfinderization of the D20 Modern SRD which has a lot of strange D&D 3.0 artifacts baked in.
I have a small network of friends and associates on LinkedIn, they know I am happy where I am at, but I always listen to new opportunities that's how I got where I am. Ususally I will pass on the info to someone else I know that's looking.
However if you never listen to opportunities, people never think of you as someone to talk to about them.
When the time comes that you need a job, your network has withered and you're stuck looking at official postings, half of which are already wired for a certain candidate but have to be announced for legal reasons.
Duh, they're called followers, they would have went with the author creating the content even if he changed his twitter account.
There was a piece I saw somewhere talking about how the old violins from Stradivarius' times were made from trees grown in a more moderate climate and the wood was of a more consistent grain because of it.
And yes add in the agin the parent poster mentions and you get better sounding violins.
Grandparent doesn't/didn't understand that sometimes the function of something's use is related to its age and not just artificial scarcity.
I have a nice pocketwatch with crystal on both sides so you can watch the gears work, its not old or made with expensive materials. I like the function of it and it gives me more pleasure than a digital watch or more likely just the clock function on my smartphone. Would I buy an old pocketwatch made by an old timey craftsman years ago where the gears are hidden, probably not.
To bring this back on topic if I were a violinist would I buy an antique violin or maybe a carbon fiber new one, depends on my means and which ones sounds better.
I thought the point of the kinect was that it followed body motion and last time I checked hands were part of the body.
Now if the Kinect doesn't get pick up the brush and rotate the hand/wrist I guess I can understand.
However I think I'd like a Kinect and a Robosapien setup that let me have a mini-me running around the house virtually, though I think I'd use a footpedal on and off to move it forward instead of a treadmill.
When I first saw the image I thought it was a Robosapien, I'm not convinced its a $15,000 robot maybe the whole setup, but even that seems extreme. For $15,000 I want one of those Japanese pancake/omlet cooking robots.
Any of us can start a business, form a corporation, but personhood ends (should end) when you have limited liability and unlimited speech.
You shouldn't be simulatneously louder than everbody else, and less likely to get punched in the nose for being obnoxious.
That's how you get trolls on the internet.
The problem now is far worse than the proverbial people voting against their own interests, or people voting for whomever promises the most free stuff, there are usually enough sane voters to balance those out. Now it's corporate-persons voting for their own interests above the greater good, and no billionaires out there to balance them out.
Lawrence Lessig has a book on how to fix this, get a copy now.
Serious answer SpaceX, they have a really low cost per kilo to launch to LEO, and higher cost to launch to GEO. They will be doing a lot of satellite launches for Iridium to put up their satellite network.
So now the problem is really architecting your standardized satellite not using a standardized picosat or microsat designed for limited experiments, but something meant to be up there for years handling comms.
Then bundle them in a multiple satellite payload of some sort and have them spread to their final orbits from there using precious fuel, or get 50 kilos of payload reserved on a lot of other people's launches.
I re-read my post if the satellites are in Low Earth Orbit and transiting every 90 minutes or so, can you burst up all of your internet traffic, and receive your answers on the next pass?
Certainly you won't be streaming audio or video like this, but for email and web-surfing one page at a time it would work.