Actual scientists are the most likely to mess these kinds of stuff up. They often weren't trained in the nuances of calculation. I actually head a bunch of physicists at Los Alamos arguing about whether computer science was a science!
I believe that it's a lawyer and not a developer that needs to be consulted in this case as there are legal precedents. Just try googling for uniform commercial code software development
I'm blowing a couple Mod points but. . . Take a look at www.brickwall.com for surge suppressors. These are not whole house units but they are not damaged by 1000 consecutive surges at the maximum energy at which IEEE tests. They also have panel mounted ones that can be used to protect a whole circuit. They are basically an analog lowpass filter on steroids and as a result suffer no damage from surges that would completely destroy a MOV based surge protector. I've got one on my stereo. I've never looked at the results with an o-scope or anything but the engineering principle on which they are based is sound.
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Hey I once had a software bug report on a military system I was working on that said: "Turning on master power causes cockpit to fill with smoke: Must be Resolved Immediately". Too bad we weren't in charge of the hardware.
Why? It's conceptually equivalent to operate a thermoelectric module in reverse to get electrical energy and feed it into an LED to make light. In essence, you have made a heat pump with the LED.
The security researchers inside the conference are no doubt very aware of security. The security hacks that implement the security for such conferences: not so much. Same problem with security everywhere.
I seem to remember our company had an agreement with IBM that we just had to report that the drive was bad and perhaps show evidence that it had been destroyed or something to get a replacement. I can't remember. I can remember my admins very firmly telling me to remove all drives before sending any company machines back to the vendor for repairs.
You checksum memory with all processor cycles that are not dedicated to a specific task. If you detect a failure, you reload the system from read-only memory. . .
When I worked in the test equipment industry, we had a term for the lowest grade of parts that still worked when binning components: The radio shack bin. I once built part of an emergency prototype for a test equipment cooling system with radio shack parts. The prototype was sent to Taiwan where it failed prematurely due to the marginal components. Never Again!
I served on a grand jury a few years back. Based on the cases before us, the police in this area of Alabama have no interest in property crime whatsoever. The entire proceeding was laregely indicting people for drug crimes and the associated murder and mayhem. The way it works out, there is effectively no penalty for property crime thus the rash of them.
There is also the point that the dangers of Bisphenol-A are so incredibly minute as to be largely insignficant. Everybody posting here probably grew up with plastic containing bisphenol-A including plastic cups etc. Compared to any of the others items on the gawker list or any actual dangerous items, the inclusion of playmobil stuff as dangerous due to the normal BPA content in some plastics is pretty much absurd.
I saw this problem in school. One of the clinic project teams was given a 1/10 scale or so model of the piping in a copper smelter. They did a semester of research before somebody figured out that Reynolds number did not scale properly for the model. Different Reynolds number meant different flow characteristics and thus a model providing useless results. The project had to be cancelled.
I never had any trouble looking up where the location of the local FedEx Ground office was. I've also never had a problem with the hours. I think I was in there at 10:00PM on Christmas Eve a couple years back trying to locate half a dozen boxes of Hazardous Materials that were shipped to my business address when I was out.
I've had the reverse. The FedEx Ground guy knows I'm not always at my office and if he doesn't see me, he will call me and wait for me to drive over and sign for the package. That saved me many times.
Ahhh. . . In most cases, even using the approved zeroizing procedure only reduces the classification by one level. DOD also requires the use of approved zeroizing software to get that reduction. DBAN was not approved last time I checked. Important stuff must be physically destroyed; usually by an approved destruction facility that sands the magnetic layer off of the drive platters and reduces it to dust.
I went to a class on Federal Contracts and we were taught that only about 15% of contracts are really open for competition. The rest are wired for the incumbent and surviving in the industry is based on identifying which contracts are wired and not bothering to bid on them.
The reason nuclear weapons are under DOE instead of DOD is that we probably wouldn't have them if DOD had been left to develop them. The security cultures of the organizations are very different. DOE operates under an open culture where the smart folks are allowed to see most all of the information except for select areas which are very compartmentalized. The DOD works by trying to keep everything on a need to know basis resulting in mass duplication of effort and the people capable of solving a problem typically not being allowed to do so.
The scientists on the Manhattan project largely prevented the paranoid security culture from slowing their work during the second world war. Once the bomb was developed and the affair no longer results-oriented, General Leslie Groves pulled Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance because Military culture was incapable of handling someone whose ideology did not fit with their own. Why they never pulled Edward Teller's clearance is a mystery but I suspect it is because Teller was still needed in H-bomb development. Even in his later years, Teller, in a speech he gave to a group I was in, said that the security rules at DOE were a bunch of bunk. Some old DOE hands at the speech said this was one of the first time they heard Teller mutter at the end that the security rules also must be followed (around 1992).
DOE has some great programs but now that it has been run by defense contractors for the most part rather than University of California, for the last 5 or 10 years, DOE is a much poorer place and bound to be plagued by the same inefficiencies that DOD is. A large group of scientists openly sharing information in what was definitely a collegial setting in the late 1990's is almost certainly being replaced by DOD type folks with a bunker mentality.
For me, the DOE should probably should remain doing energy research and the weapons function could be transferred to DOD. Unfortunately, most of the technical capabilities in the national labs are based on having gold plated everything and top rate people trained to produce and analyze anything, especially the odd kinds of things encountered designing nuclear weapons. Budgets are such that most of these facilities probably could not be maintained for peaceful work if all of the equipment, supplies and technicians weren't being paid for from a bottomless defense budget. If all the nuclear weapon budget at DOD went away, there is a good chance that the useful civilian science would also stop unless a large amount of funding was added to civilian science programs to make up for the lost support of the first rate infrastructure.
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Actual scientists are the most likely to mess these kinds of stuff up. They often weren't trained in the nuances of calculation. I actually head a bunch of physicists at Los Alamos arguing about whether computer science was a science!
The clinicians using it may have been honest and competent but the people designing it were anything but.
Trying to mod insightful and accidentally modded redundant. Posting to cancel
I believe that it's a lawyer and not a developer that needs to be consulted in this case as there are legal precedents. Just try googling for uniform commercial code software development
I'm blowing a couple Mod points but. . . Take a look at www.brickwall.com for surge suppressors. These are not whole house units but they are not damaged by 1000 consecutive surges at the maximum energy at which IEEE tests. They also have panel mounted ones that can be used to protect a whole circuit. They are basically an analog lowpass filter on steroids and as a result suffer no damage from surges that would completely destroy a MOV based surge protector. I've got one on my stereo. I've never looked at the results with an o-scope or anything but the engineering principle on which they are based is sound.
And it is clear as Mudd to me!
Hey I once had a software bug report on a military system I was working on that said: "Turning on master power causes cockpit to fill with smoke: Must be Resolved Immediately". Too bad we weren't in charge of the hardware.
Tried to mod you funny but missed the click. oops.
Electric cars new? Ha. See this article from the Toronto Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/tom-hawthorn/100-year-old-electric-car-offers-trip-back-in-time/article2391288/
Why? It's conceptually equivalent to operate a thermoelectric module in reverse to get electrical energy and feed it into an LED to make light. In essence, you have made a heat pump with the LED.
The security researchers inside the conference are no doubt very aware of security. The security hacks that implement the security for such conferences: not so much. Same problem with security everywhere.
I seem to remember our company had an agreement with IBM that we just had to report that the drive was bad and perhaps show evidence that it had been destroyed or something to get a replacement. I can't remember. I can remember my admins very firmly telling me to remove all drives before sending any company machines back to the vendor for repairs.
You checksum memory with all processor cycles that are not dedicated to a specific task. If you detect a failure, you reload the system from read-only memory. . .
When I worked in the test equipment industry, we had a term for the lowest grade of parts that still worked when binning components: The radio shack bin. I once built part of an emergency prototype for a test equipment cooling system with radio shack parts. The prototype was sent to Taiwan where it failed prematurely due to the marginal components. Never Again!
I've also seen cases where it can be very good when implementing a state machine.
I served on a grand jury a few years back. Based on the cases before us, the police in this area of Alabama have no interest in property crime whatsoever. The entire proceeding was laregely indicting people for drug crimes and the associated murder and mayhem. The way it works out, there is effectively no penalty for property crime thus the rash of them.
There is also the point that the dangers of Bisphenol-A are so incredibly minute as to be largely insignficant. Everybody posting here probably grew up with plastic containing bisphenol-A including plastic cups etc. Compared to any of the others items on the gawker list or any actual dangerous items, the inclusion of playmobil stuff as dangerous due to the normal BPA content in some plastics is pretty much absurd.
AFAIK, it is illegal to possess an Erlenmeyer Flask in Texas without a license.
And of course the statistics doesn't sit well with actual researchers either. Just look at the recent scandals involving psychology research.
I saw this problem in school. One of the clinic project teams was given a 1/10 scale or so model of the piping in a copper smelter. They did a semester of research before somebody figured out that Reynolds number did not scale properly for the model. Different Reynolds number meant different flow characteristics and thus a model providing useless results. The project had to be cancelled.
I never had any trouble looking up where the location of the local FedEx Ground office was. I've also never had a problem with the hours. I think I was in there at 10:00PM on Christmas Eve a couple years back trying to locate half a dozen boxes of Hazardous Materials that were shipped to my business address when I was out.
I've had the reverse. The FedEx Ground guy knows I'm not always at my office and if he doesn't see me, he will call me and wait for me to drive over and sign for the package. That saved me many times.
Ahhh. . . In most cases, even using the approved zeroizing procedure only reduces the classification by one level. DOD also requires the use of approved zeroizing software to get that reduction. DBAN was not approved last time I checked. Important stuff must be physically destroyed; usually by an approved destruction facility that sands the magnetic layer off of the drive platters and reduces it to dust.
I went to a class on Federal Contracts and we were taught that only about 15% of contracts are really open for competition. The rest are wired for the incumbent and surviving in the industry is based on identifying which contracts are wired and not bothering to bid on them.
The reason nuclear weapons are under DOE instead of DOD is that we probably wouldn't have them if DOD had been left to develop them. The security cultures of the organizations are very different. DOE operates under an open culture where the smart folks are allowed to see most all of the information except for select areas which are very compartmentalized. The DOD works by trying to keep everything on a need to know basis resulting in mass duplication of effort and the people capable of solving a problem typically not being allowed to do so.
The scientists on the Manhattan project largely prevented the paranoid security culture from slowing their work during the second world war. Once the bomb was developed and the affair no longer results-oriented, General Leslie Groves pulled Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance because Military culture was incapable of handling someone whose ideology did not fit with their own. Why they never pulled Edward Teller's clearance is a mystery but I suspect it is because Teller was still needed in H-bomb development. Even in his later years, Teller, in a speech he gave to a group I was in, said that the security rules at DOE were a bunch of bunk. Some old DOE hands at the speech said this was one of the first time they heard Teller mutter at the end that the security rules also must be followed (around 1992).
DOE has some great programs but now that it has been run by defense contractors for the most part rather than University of California, for the last 5 or 10 years, DOE is a much poorer place and bound to be plagued by the same inefficiencies that DOD is. A large group of scientists openly sharing information in what was definitely a collegial setting in the late 1990's is almost certainly being replaced by DOD type folks with a bunker mentality.
For me, the DOE should probably should remain doing energy research and the weapons function could be transferred to DOD. Unfortunately, most of the technical capabilities in the national labs are based on having gold plated everything and top rate people trained to produce and analyze anything, especially the odd kinds of things encountered designing nuclear weapons. Budgets are such that most of these facilities probably could not be maintained for peaceful work if all of the equipment, supplies and technicians weren't being paid for from a bottomless defense budget. If all the nuclear weapon budget at DOD went away, there is a good chance that the useful civilian science would also stop unless a large amount of funding was added to civilian science programs to make up for the lost support of the first rate infrastructure.