" agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors, communications radios and antennas, signal processors, wearable displays, and health-monitoring systems."
And low observable - infrared, RF, you know.
Oh, wait. That is gonna be harder.
How long before the battlefield is cluttered with little RF bots crawling around pretending to be communicating with themselves and Central Command, attracting DIY drones and quadcopters spewing hostile fire? And of course lighting themselves up to be found and neutralized by other drones loitering for just such a chance, to strike anything afloat in the 100'-1000' range, doing less than say 50 knots that doesn't ping back IFF that is recognized?
The coming battlefield will be full of autonomous machines looking for opportunities to deal with obvious, plain threats, stuff in kill boxes and even in more fluid spaces. And countermeasures. At some point, visible spectrum or even infrared video-based drones may be blinded by a bright source, just left there to deny surveillance over a certain area as troops etc move through. By the time the drone(s) clear their vision, the troops are through. The visible/IR 'jammer' may even be smart enough to shut down, hide, and then catch up with its owners, to repeat the cycle. Other handy devices may just crawl along behind carrying supplies and being close enough to be helpful, far enough away to survive an attack or give away positioning.
What a mess. You will need sensors, mapping, etc, just to keep track of your friends.
Around here, security rules. Adds and changes to apps go through security review, separate standards are published and enforced, and all this lives inside a secured perimeter that is well monitored and regularly improved.
My own workstation refuses most removable media, and if I can get one attached, my senior and not-so-senior managers get email alerts that this was done. Yes, this impacts an old app that expects to save to a floppy, even the SUBST command trips this alert. Flash drives etc don't work any more.
Besides full disk encryption and the usual passwords and signons, only one of my current passwords lives for more than 15 days.
I regularly do battle with app teams to accommodate our users needs to enter valid and accurate data despite restrictions on characters etc. Since SQL injection attacks still succeed, they need to jump through the hoops to sanitize data. And they do, with much grumbling. They would rather point to security and refuse us, but people do have apostrophes in their names occasionally, for instance.
Before this, I did work with small businesses. They are sensitive to cost, and it seems there is just no way to be well-secured without spending a lot. I left that business just as SAAS started to gain traction. We call that the Cloud now. I'm glad I don't do Cloud. It was bad enough when I screwed up, but to explain it wasn't me? The boss wasn't interested, I was responsible, even if I didn't approve of the provider. But that's par for small business, and a lot of mid-sized also.
Security is just impossible now, a losing game if you can't sign on with a massive provider or hire yourself a few PhDs.
It's hard of you're treating crisises as a growth industry. As, say, virtually every branch and division of our current political leadership in the U.S. seems to be.
Imagine building all this to keep the sea out, and then to find that the wave you weren't expecting is coming from the shore. After the Big One. Tsunami. Crushing your system from the other side.
At least it won't have a thousand miles to travel. Traffic around LA is a beast.
Our Government has decreed that health insurance companies must pay out at least 85% of the premiums they collect towards their subscribers' benefits. perhaps we could reform tort law to require class-action attorneys to pay at least 85% of the settlements they negotiate to the class members?
Naw. That's just crazy talk. These lawyers are SERVING us. Their profit motive is above reproach.
Cronyism. The New Left, same as The Old left, just without the encumberances of restraint, and in league with the Old Guard Incumbent Right, who are desperate to save their current jobs.
That is not outside the realm of possible. The U.S. spent more than that in Iraq for a lot less effect.
I suspect the real price needs another zero. And then you're talking relatively impossible,
Oh, and current technology would not permit this to be self-sufficient. We still need minions down here. I'll be looking for work sending stuff up, ans there will always be that need in my lifetime.
There may be a nuclear plant that relies on a public water system for cooling water, but I bet not. Most are located near reliable water sources such as rivers, oceans, you know...
Assuming you both can find or figure out or guess each device's existence.
Without a current inventory, you are probably doomed. Something will be missed.
I've left a couple of positions on bad terms, but never, never refused any information. I've inherited several positions, and at least half of them were give to me with the incumbent angry as hell. Anyone remember the Emergency Boot CD? I used EBCDs during the NT era lots of times to hijack the Administrator's account on PDCs and BDCs after hostile dismissals. Windows Servers presented bigger challenges. Novell Servers were lots o fun, but doable.
Cisco stuff was the worst to get into in the absence of the previous admin. Most of the time I got lucky and had running.config files hanging around, and I got so I would scan for common config files right up front. Wireshark and other protocol analyzers came in handy to literally scope out networks and links to see what was going where. Once I rummaged through purchase histories to find out what was actually at a coloc and get prepared for going in to figure it out.
But I've never held up a former client. I've taken calls 2+ years after a gig and answered questions. It's unprofessional to do otherwise.
But that's the crux of this. The police don't really have to 'pay for' all this location data. It;'s already collected, and the incremental cost is negligible.
So they ask for it ONLY because it exists, and is EASY to get.
One solution to this may be to make it cost-prohibitive for government to retrieve this data. Maybe set fairly low pricing on a limited number of retrievals, and then crank up the fees to both reflect the true cost of staffing the function, and most important, compensate ME for taking MY data.
Unless my cell company asserts it is theirs, which they probably do, and then we can start the campaign to assert ownership. And that solves the Fourth Amendment problem, maybe.
Again, another case of government doing it merely because it CAN, and it is technically feasible. We must either explicitly define this data as our own, or specifically limit government that refuses to apply the Fourth Amendment in our favor, but relies upon complex arguments and willing courts.
We're stuck with all three branches of government working against our interests. Not good. Even one branch would be enough, but the courts are dominated by the Executive, and the Legislative is impotent. Doomed, I fear we are.
Sure, cranking up the thermostat in Phoenix is really helpful. We keep ours at 80F already, my friend.
But I recall that my first telephone bill was $14.74/month. I now pay $96/mo for cell phone and unlimited voice/data/texts. My wife pays $120/mo for similar service. My cable bill is about $120/mo not counting Internet service. When I complain about expenses, I promptly shut up until I control these.
We won't discuss eating at restaurants. At one time that was a true luxury, What Americans think of as BAU is surprisingly not necessary at all, is it?
Politicians generally have some minimal residency requirements. They probably would have to be brought in under some other program.
Which is surprising similar to the current H1-B program in some instances, where candidates go through any visa program to get here, then go through any available program to STAY here.
I see H1-B applications published at work regularly. the skill sets they are looking for are commonly web dev, CSS, HTML (yes, these are broken out), Java, CSS, SQL, CMS such as Websphere, and C++. Finding someone expert in all these fields at once seems to be pretty darned hard. Who knew?
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Why I still go to the movies. Bigger is, in fact, better.
What you said.
A transcription would be great, but a talking head spewing advice works just as well in print as in /.TV.
Right tool for the job, world. Try it.
Ok, do drones don't use batteries. Ground haulers are already in test.
Yes, if troops carry fewer supplies with a mule handy, they carry other things.
This is all possible - just need the money.
Drone tech is already here.
Ground carriers require batteries, but they have the horsepower to haul them.
Troops ditto.
What's needed is a generator that is battle ready, quiet enough, and can be hauled by the carrier. Not impossible. 2 years.
" agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors, communications radios and antennas, signal processors, wearable displays, and health-monitoring systems."
And low observable - infrared, RF, you know.
Oh, wait. That is gonna be harder.
How long before the battlefield is cluttered with little RF bots crawling around pretending to be communicating with themselves and Central Command, attracting DIY drones and quadcopters spewing hostile fire? And of course lighting themselves up to be found and neutralized by other drones loitering for just such a chance, to strike anything afloat in the 100'-1000' range, doing less than say 50 knots that doesn't ping back IFF that is recognized?
The coming battlefield will be full of autonomous machines looking for opportunities to deal with obvious, plain threats, stuff in kill boxes and even in more fluid spaces. And countermeasures. At some point, visible spectrum or even infrared video-based drones may be blinded by a bright source, just left there to deny surveillance over a certain area as troops etc move through. By the time the drone(s) clear their vision, the troops are through. The visible/IR 'jammer' may even be smart enough to shut down, hide, and then catch up with its owners, to repeat the cycle. Other handy devices may just crawl along behind carrying supplies and being close enough to be helpful, far enough away to survive an attack or give away positioning.
What a mess. You will need sensors, mapping, etc, just to keep track of your friends.
Around here, security rules. Adds and changes to apps go through security review, separate standards are published and enforced, and all this lives inside a secured perimeter that is well monitored and regularly improved.
My own workstation refuses most removable media, and if I can get one attached, my senior and not-so-senior managers get email alerts that this was done. Yes, this impacts an old app that expects to save to a floppy, even the SUBST command trips this alert. Flash drives etc don't work any more.
Besides full disk encryption and the usual passwords and signons, only one of my current passwords lives for more than 15 days.
I regularly do battle with app teams to accommodate our users needs to enter valid and accurate data despite restrictions on characters etc. Since SQL injection attacks still succeed, they need to jump through the hoops to sanitize data. And they do, with much grumbling. They would rather point to security and refuse us, but people do have apostrophes in their names occasionally, for instance.
Before this, I did work with small businesses. They are sensitive to cost, and it seems there is just no way to be well-secured without spending a lot. I left that business just as SAAS started to gain traction. We call that the Cloud now. I'm glad I don't do Cloud. It was bad enough when I screwed up, but to explain it wasn't me? The boss wasn't interested, I was responsible, even if I didn't approve of the provider. But that's par for small business, and a lot of mid-sized also.
Security is just impossible now, a losing game if you can't sign on with a massive provider or hire yourself a few PhDs.
It's hard of you're treating crisises as a growth industry. As, say, virtually every branch and division of our current political leadership in the U.S. seems to be.
Imagine building all this to keep the sea out, and then to find that the wave you weren't expecting is coming from the shore. After the Big One. Tsunami. Crushing your system from the other side.
At least it won't have a thousand miles to travel. Traffic around LA is a beast.
So lawyers require a higher gross margin than heath insurance companies?
Perhaps lawyers would negotiate fees as part of the settlement. Which is a slick ready around the 85% rule.
Lawyers, you're welcome. Glad to be of assistance.
Our Government has decreed that health insurance companies must pay out at least 85% of the premiums they collect towards their subscribers' benefits. perhaps we could reform tort law to require class-action attorneys to pay at least 85% of the settlements they negotiate to the class members?
Naw. That's just crazy talk. These lawyers are SERVING us. Their profit motive is above reproach.
Cronyism. The New Left, same as The Old left, just without the encumberances of restraint, and in league with the Old Guard Incumbent Right, who are desperate to save their current jobs.
Indefinite habitation in space is an unknown.
"$828.11 billion"?
That is not outside the realm of possible. The U.S. spent more than that in Iraq for a lot less effect.
I suspect the real price needs another zero. And then you're talking relatively impossible,
Oh, and current technology would not permit this to be self-sufficient. We still need minions down here. I'll be looking for work sending stuff up, ans there will always be that need in my lifetime.
The Dark Lord uses SAP to interact with our world. You know nothing?
There may be a nuclear plant that relies on a public water system for cooling water, but I bet not. Most are located near reliable water sources such as rivers, oceans, you know...
Assuming you both can find or figure out or guess each device's existence.
Without a current inventory, you are probably doomed. Something will be missed.
I've left a couple of positions on bad terms, but never, never refused any information. I've inherited several positions, and at least half of them were give to me with the incumbent angry as hell. Anyone remember the Emergency Boot CD? I used EBCDs during the NT era lots of times to hijack the Administrator's account on PDCs and BDCs after hostile dismissals. Windows Servers presented bigger challenges. Novell Servers were lots o fun, but doable.
Cisco stuff was the worst to get into in the absence of the previous admin. Most of the time I got lucky and had running.config files hanging around, and I got so I would scan for common config files right up front. Wireshark and other protocol analyzers came in handy to literally scope out networks and links to see what was going where. Once I rummaged through purchase histories to find out what was actually at a coloc and get prepared for going in to figure it out.
But I've never held up a former client. I've taken calls 2+ years after a gig and answered questions. It's unprofessional to do otherwise.
TFA didn't say they *bought* anything.
But that's the crux of this. The police don't really have to 'pay for' all this location data. It;'s already collected, and the incremental cost is negligible.
So they ask for it ONLY because it exists, and is EASY to get.
One solution to this may be to make it cost-prohibitive for government to retrieve this data. Maybe set fairly low pricing on a limited number of retrievals, and then crank up the fees to both reflect the true cost of staffing the function, and most important, compensate ME for taking MY data.
Unless my cell company asserts it is theirs, which they probably do, and then we can start the campaign to assert ownership. And that solves the Fourth Amendment problem, maybe.
Again, another case of government doing it merely because it CAN, and it is technically feasible. We must either explicitly define this data as our own, or specifically limit government that refuses to apply the Fourth Amendment in our favor, but relies upon complex arguments and willing courts.
We're stuck with all three branches of government working against our interests. Not good. Even one branch would be enough, but the courts are dominated by the Executive, and the Legislative is impotent. Doomed, I fear we are.
Though I do hang my gym shorts and towel on a rack in the garage, and some things I like air dried better.
Of course. I'm not interested in dusty clothes.
Stop with the gibberish. Nothing you wrote apple's to me. And yes, I have a job. 40 hours a week, vacation when I want to. Stuff it.
Sure, cranking up the thermostat in Phoenix is really helpful. We keep ours at 80F already, my friend.
But I recall that my first telephone bill was $14.74/month. I now pay $96/mo for cell phone and unlimited voice/data/texts. My wife pays $120/mo for similar service. My cable bill is about $120/mo not counting Internet service. When I complain about expenses, I promptly shut up until I control these.
We won't discuss eating at restaurants. At one time that was a true luxury, What Americans think of as BAU is surprisingly not necessary at all, is it?
First World Problems.
The unions would be happy to be part of the H1-B program. More members = more influence.
Yeah, unions would be happy. Trust me.
Politicians generally have some minimal residency requirements. They probably would have to be brought in under some other program.
Which is surprising similar to the current H1-B program in some instances, where candidates go through any visa program to get here, then go through any available program to STAY here.
I see H1-B applications published at work regularly. the skill sets they are looking for are commonly web dev, CSS, HTML (yes, these are broken out), Java, CSS, SQL, CMS such as Websphere, and C++. Finding someone expert in all these fields at once seems to be pretty darned hard. Who knew?
Fun stuff.
Consequences. They're cute when they say that.
Fremen live in Sweden?
I bet they think so...