There are no absolutist Socialists in America, at least not any with political power, media attention or even an inkling of popular support
Even Bernie Sanders is many degrees away from suggesting that government should own the means of production, with his most 'Socialist' doctrine acting as an advocate of single-payer medicine.
The things that he comes through strongest on are a progressive taxation system and access to education, which are long-held American aspirations
I do not know any Anarchists, but the so-called Socialists that I know in America have been more than willing to accept incremental change and have seen their position shift greatly towards the center (or what used to be called the center before the gop went extremely far right on the country) over time
"the IBM punch card and card sorting system-a precursor to the computer. IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler's Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before-the automation of human destruction. More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout German-dominated Europe" https://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
Not really any more corrupted than the for-profit space, where the proponent would build out a cost-benefit scenario that would have to demonstrate how they would leverage some advantageous market position to gain control over some consumer desire and... $profit$
In the non-profit space yo have to demonstrate that there is some unbelievably horrible outcome if the organization does not spend horrendous amounts of money on your project. In my last job the bad outcome was usually "widespread death and disease", so the BOD would pony up the dough
It is hard to call any of these interactions corrupt unless you are willing to indict most of humanity
But the Sergeant really does not want another hard drive on the existing PC
He wants to force a situation where they consider 'long term needs' and end up with multiple image processing workstations, a central server, terabytes of SAN storage and a searchable metadata database
He will only get this by killing the current system and then driving through a study on future needs, meeting current needs with an inexpensive hard drive will not procure the millions of dollars that he wants
An old COBOL programmer that I worked with early in my career described how he got tired of the keypunch operators making mistakes entering his code, so he would do the keypunch himself.
Eventually he said that he just started programming off of the top of his head at the keypunch terminal
He ended up writing most of the programs used at the local department of transportation with little or no documentation
The director allowed it and was stuck with it when he was forced to retire by the local government HR rules
He was back at work a week later as a consultant making three times what he had been at the top of his pay grade
A significant amount of the effort on a medical device is the 510k submission
What is the market value of a person who is familiar with this process?
Normally it is looked at as a niche market with little demand, but it seems to me that an independent group that does 510k submission for multiple device developers would have an opportunity
Just as likely somebody identified an incorrectable zero-day flaw in their system and was 'nice' enough to give them time to fix it or shut down before revealing it
I have worked at more than a couple of places where the Oracle database and application passwords were all the default from installation
It can take a lot of work to identify every dependency on the defaults once that they have been in use for a few years and way too many admins just do not want to deal with it
Oracle used to have a sense of humor about it with one of the key default passwords being 'change_on_install', now they force you into a password generation cycle at the end of any install
Moreover, never trust your users (consider admins as users), they can defeat any security scheme that you set up.
The only way to be certain is to consistently test for simple attack vectors before assuming that you have to deal with complex situations
Some admins want to spin far-out webs of security when their pants are down around their ankles, in many cases it is just so that they do not have to do their jobs
If we are going to make additional forays into the Oort cloud, then we are going to need more fuel for the RTGs to power them.
Most use Pu 238, which is in relatively short supply. There is a current proposal to use Am (Americenium) on an interstellar probe, but I do not know if they even have a working model yet
When Alpha was introduced they laid out thirty years of growth for the platform, primarily because they designed for the long run. When HP was replacing Alpha with Itanium, they had to suppress Alpha benchmarks because it made their 'enterprise' chip look like the garbage that it was
FWIW all RISC chips sucked at integer division, to quote: "When integer multiplication is cheaper than integer division, it is beneficial to substitute a multiplication for a division." https://gmplib.org/~tege/divcn...
Yes, I had a couple of Sparc Stations in the 90's and admined SunOS and Solaris on those and some enterprise server systems, but
Fuck Sun, they favored proprietary server systems that lined their sales-reps' pockets with cash while the world changed around them and then sold all of their knowledge lock stock and barrel to Oracle, simply because Oracle users were their largest remaining customer base
I feel the same way about DEC, who flushed thirty years of Alpha architectural superiority down the drain because they couldn't sell their way out of a wet paper sack
We get what we deserve because we let the free market reign supreme where the most cut throated business-people win and the rest go down the drain
Hanford is a military processing facility, it does not store commercial nuclear waste
Currently commercial nuclear waste is stored on-site, until a national repository can get through all of the legal hoops that it has been forced to jump through
The constant lawsuits against the national repository has limited the amount of safety available for waste storage, but it is still much safer than living downwind of a coal power plant
I notice that you post a lot of opinion about nuclear power, you are either a magnificent troll, or horribly misinformed
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I thought that was what their little Motorola adventure was about
Eff Interstellar, it's Intergalactic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are no absolutist Socialists in America, at least not any with political power, media attention or even an inkling of popular support
Even Bernie Sanders is many degrees away from suggesting that government should own the means of production, with his most 'Socialist' doctrine acting as an advocate of single-payer medicine.
The things that he comes through strongest on are a progressive taxation system and access to education, which are long-held American aspirations
I do not know any Anarchists, but the so-called Socialists that I know in America have been more than willing to accept incremental change and have seen their position shift greatly towards the center (or what used to be called the center before the gop went extremely far right on the country) over time
Historically China has demonstrated the ability to grow substantially by keeping the value of their currency low compared to the US dollar
They would seem to have already refuted your position
"the IBM punch card and card sorting system-a precursor to the computer. IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler's Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before-the automation of human destruction. More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout German-dominated Europe"
https://www.jewishvirtuallibra...
cite, or stfu
The expedient thing about torture is that you get to punish somebody, look like a hero and satisfy the fear of the people
It is not about 'justice' or the 'truth' it is about public display, might as well be apes beating our chest and hooting
"Those who fail to plan, plan to fail"
-Sphinx
Yes, Alaska and Canada will be water suppliers to the lower 48
Not really any more corrupted than the for-profit space, where the proponent would build out a cost-benefit scenario that would have to demonstrate how they would leverage some advantageous market position to gain control over some consumer desire and... $profit$
In the non-profit space yo have to demonstrate that there is some unbelievably horrible outcome if the organization does not spend horrendous amounts of money on your project. In my last job the bad outcome was usually "widespread death and disease", so the BOD would pony up the dough
It is hard to call any of these interactions corrupt unless you are willing to indict most of humanity
Ahhh...
But the Sergeant really does not want another hard drive on the existing PC
He wants to force a situation where they consider 'long term needs' and end up with multiple image processing workstations, a central server, terabytes of SAN storage and a searchable metadata database
He will only get this by killing the current system and then driving through a study on future needs, meeting current needs with an inexpensive hard drive will not procure the millions of dollars that he wants
An old COBOL programmer that I worked with early in my career described how he got tired of the keypunch operators making mistakes entering his code, so he would do the keypunch himself.
Eventually he said that he just started programming off of the top of his head at the keypunch terminal
He ended up writing most of the programs used at the local department of transportation with little or no documentation
The director allowed it and was stuck with it when he was forced to retire by the local government HR rules
He was back at work a week later as a consultant making three times what he had been at the top of his pay grade
I use the keypad with num lock on
A significant amount of the effort on a medical device is the 510k submission
What is the market value of a person who is familiar with this process?
Normally it is looked at as a niche market with little demand, but it seems to me that an independent group that does 510k submission for multiple device developers would have an opportunity
Just as likely somebody identified an incorrectable zero-day flaw in their system and was 'nice' enough to give them time to fix it or shut down before revealing it
I have worked at more than a couple of places where the Oracle database and application passwords were all the default from installation
It can take a lot of work to identify every dependency on the defaults once that they have been in use for a few years and way too many admins just do not want to deal with it
Oracle used to have a sense of humor about it with one of the key default passwords being 'change_on_install', now they force you into a password generation cycle at the end of any install
Moreover, never trust your users (consider admins as users), they can defeat any security scheme that you set up.
The only way to be certain is to consistently test for simple attack vectors before assuming that you have to deal with complex situations
Some admins want to spin far-out webs of security when their pants are down around their ankles, in many cases it is just so that they do not have to do their jobs
Worthless server logs???
Sure, nothing that would aid an intruder in server logs...
If we are going to make additional forays into the Oort cloud, then we are going to need more fuel for the RTGs to power them.
Most use Pu 238, which is in relatively short supply. There is a current proposal to use Am (Americenium) on an interstellar probe, but I do not know if they even have a working model yet
When Alpha was introduced they laid out thirty years of growth for the platform, primarily because they designed for the long run. When HP was replacing Alpha with Itanium, they had to suppress Alpha benchmarks because it made their 'enterprise' chip look like the garbage that it was
FWIW all RISC chips sucked at integer division, to quote:
"When integer multiplication is cheaper than integer division, it is beneficial to substitute a multiplication for a division."
https://gmplib.org/~tege/divcn...
Larry doesn't want to sell, he wants a percentage of the action
Darl is the equivalent of Larry's inbred idiot second cousin
Do not predict Larry's failure because Darl failed
Yes, I had a couple of Sparc Stations in the 90's and admined SunOS and Solaris on those and some enterprise server systems, but
Fuck Sun, they favored proprietary server systems that lined their sales-reps' pockets with cash while the world changed around them and then sold all of their knowledge lock stock and barrel to Oracle, simply because Oracle users were their largest remaining customer base
I feel the same way about DEC, who flushed thirty years of Alpha architectural superiority down the drain because they couldn't sell their way out of a wet paper sack
We get what we deserve because we let the free market reign supreme where the most cut throated business-people win and the rest go down the drain
Yes, and what exactly did Sun do with that?
Oh yeah, there is JavaFX, which still requires an OS to run on
That is where the disconnect is
1. The nuclear plant that I live downwind from is in the US, regulated by the NRC and not used for experiments at the whims of bureaucrats
2. It is nowhere near a seaside (or even an active fault zone) where an earthquake could cause a tsunami to foul its diesel generator fuel supply
Naval nuclear reactors do not need to be right side up in order to go through a proper shut down
Hanford is a military processing facility, it does not store commercial nuclear waste
Currently commercial nuclear waste is stored on-site, until a national repository can get through all of the legal hoops that it has been forced to jump through
The constant lawsuits against the national repository has limited the amount of safety available for waste storage, but it is still much safer than living downwind of a coal power plant
I notice that you post a lot of opinion about nuclear power, you are either a magnificent troll, or horribly misinformed