Superb opportunity for headline sadly wasted.
"Tom Wolf" orders "Bonfire of Insanities" following review of project more than fifty percent over budget"
and assorted variations.
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I liked the guy.
From 1000 Hp super cars to a sounding rocket called The Stieg he was quite a hoot and how many wives know the way to their mans heart is a 5 axis CNC machine?
But he's lost the trade secrets case so he's y'know guilty of stealing stuff (and IIRC encouraging others to jump ship) from them. It would be strange if there wasn't a "no shares for you if try to steal our IP and/or staff" clause in the options contract. So no pudding for him.
Of course.
Because their great-great-great-grand father proved he was superior that naturally translates down to Junior. the attitude of the British upper classes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (as Michael Creighton pointed out on the subject of eugenics, a word I only knew from the Wrath of Khan episode of Star Trek).
Yeah.
Do Americans still bleat on about having a classless society?
The only ones I can believe who would still have that idea would be people capable of a very high level of self delusion or membership of the top 1% (or both).
I've worked for US companies whose stated aim was to eliminate any employee (or potential employee) who had smoked in the last 5 years.
I have peed into a cup to do so. The spectrum covered 12 major classes of drugs, but the tester said they can do about 24 (if a company pays of course). This is was not some kind of national security role, just a fairly normal service company.
Because in the US being able to die of preventable and treatable diseases is viewed as "Freedom."
Also thought to be some kind of alien comm system.
Since the sources are outside our galaxy the "fast" bit suggests it's us that are moving and the beam are just being glimpsed as we whizz across their path.
Of course it's bad news if this really is a drive system for a solar sail transport network.
That suggests that smarter minds than ours (working for a lot longer) have not come up with anything better than sub light travel.
No FTL liners plying their trade between the stars <sigh>
Funny I had assumed it already was given the number of SCADA systems that seem to communicate over it and the number of supply chains that depend on JIT ordering and delivery, never mind the ability of people to talk to each other.
BTW with this mandate would this put the internet properly under FCC regulation rather than shoe horning it in using the 1934 Telecomms Act?
Now that Booz Allan Hamilton contractor alleged to have lifted 50BT.....
I thought these guys worked quite closely with the NRO and don't like any kind of imagery (or information about imagery) from getting about.
Clearly we are expected to think the man has mental health issues but of course with a sealed report it's impossible to know if the result was he was sane or so barking mad he should have an election campaign
That's actually a pretty good question.
In production engineering the term "learning curve" actually means what's the cost to double production. In combat aircraft (in WWII where this stuff started to be studied) it was about a 15% reduction per doubling. With more aircraft made in large single pieces in more automated ways it's less effective. However satellites remain highly labor intensive.
NASA had a classic case of this. IIRC the Voyagers were going to be a single probe but for various reasons they ended up building two. The second was significantly cheaper.
What an astonishing idea.
Treat terrorists as criminals and catch them through the normal methods of criminal investigation IE Due process.
The NSA didn't catch the 9/11 bombers.
The NSA didn't catch the Boston Marathon bombers.
And let me remind people of the women engineer who wrote "Insisting on perfect safety is for people without the balls to live in the real world."
Looks like the amateur at Shadow Robotics was right all along. Theirs used rubber balloons in stocking bags as pneumatic muscles. Limited maximum strength but very high strength/weight ratio, so they did a complete set of muscles, like a real human forearm (somewhere around 60 actual muscles in there).
IIRC the SoA in conventional manipulators is one that can pick up a cherry from a mound of cherries and put them on top of a cake.
Used 2 soft(ish) rubber belts and probably a fair bit of fine tuning on the materials selection for the belts.
True. Just imagine what the world would be like if Toyota made pickup sized power boats. :-(
But, but BAe build a boat on time..
I mean, what are the odds???
And post Brexit they can start to compete on the world stage, offering their (literally) killer warez.
Oops.
That should of course have been 2 1/4 years to break even.
I'll take a wild stab and say it'll be a lot easier to merge some of these forces IT systems together then you'll have a 2-3 clusters left whose structures and way of doing things will be so different that merging them will be a serious PITA.
OTOH how "real time" do you need your data to be? "instant?", Every few minutes? Hourly? Nightly?
Apparently clumsy (but fully automated) linking existing, working systems may beat a new centralized super duper (but overdue and highly buggy) SoA package.
So the contracted result would have to work for about 1 1/4 years perfectly to pay for itself.
Instead it didn't work at all.
Hats off to Police Scotland (or should that be Polis Scotia as First Minister Sturgeon would like them rebranded ?)
I suspect that merging the 8 (?) forces in Scotland will be like the back offices of the various UK councils. It will need to be done gradually, with the consent of the various IT departments IE bottom up, not top down.
True enough.
But of course it helps if you keep all the patches on a package up to date first.
This just suggests even more strongly defensive and offensive network security operations should be separated. That way there's no "Oh should be reveal it or pass it to the offensive team" b**locks. Everyone knows where they stand.
The full text was quite common on the signatures of emails on the 12th of September 2001.
He and his ilk don't want a world free of crime.
They want a world free of due process where they can read what they like, when they like and store it forever.
This is the data fetishists manifesto.
"Give me 6 lines from an honest man, and I will find something with which to hang him."
A secret way into a system that only we know about. That only we can exploit...
Except.
IRL what's the chance of either of those statements being true?
Vulns threaten everyone.
Keeping cyber defense and offense combines sounds like a good idea but it's like having developers test their own code, which is now recognized to be a very bad idea.
perhaps some of their experiments will do something toward building these new fangled "quantum computers" people seem to be so excited about.
Maybe.
Perhaps.
Just saying.
Whatever happens it's a staggeringly tightly packed bit of kit and (I suspect) quite frugal electrically as well given the strictly limited power available to run the whole ISS.
So basically Transport aaS.
It offers a personal transport bubble but without the personalization of your own vehicle with the rollout costs of a bus rather than a rail service and the ongoing payments of a travel pass.
The future.
More "choice." Less individuality.
A regular business school experiment has been to run a share selection test against a bunch of shares selected by sticking a pin in a list of share names at random.
Quite offen the shares can produce quite reasonable returns.
Anyone whose read "Flash Boys" will understand the American stock market is highly stacked against anyone making any kind of large scale stock purchases.
The clue is that Hedge Funds do not make losses and have crashed when asked to honor actual stock purchase orders they have bought automatically. An organisation that does not make a loss, ever is a statistically impossibility in a fair market.
The fact they bought gave people confidence it wasn't a scam.
Otherwise it is indeed money for just existing and being big.
Morgan Stanley have tasted blood. I think they'll be wanting to do more of these. I hope they do. It expose the whole thing as a mix of scam and delusion.
As for voting rights. How many companies have gone down the pan while the majority investors (mostly pension funds) did FA because the management kept saying the right things while failing to deliver a turnaround (except in their personal finances of course).
And you can bet it's quite a bit more expensive than the usual mass market s**t.
It's quite amazing that the guts of a mobile phone can basically fit into the form factor of one of the smaller memory card formats.
Other potentially useful applications are monitoring street light failure for replacement (the SoA in replacing large numbers of street lights is a)Someone reports it has failed b)Man with van drives round after dark checking they are all working).
But you can bet if they succeed one of those ilk will be sniffing round to buy them up.
Actually it seems that UK councils with shared borders have (slowly) started to share things like payroll, personnel and some legal services.
If it's done locally and not imposed from central government it can work and can save money.
You've got to wonder is the Senator being rhetorical or does he genuinely not know?
Because I'm pretty sure that putting a lot of childrens data online with effectively no access control would breach their "online privacy" quite a lot.
In producing spiffy videos..
Although I do like the ambition.
Given the number of times it took for SX to get it right I suspect the barge landing will be the trickiest part to get right.
The smart money says get the grid fin design started now.
I think I know someone he'll get alone with just fine.
Personally I'd like Uber to die but that's just me.
They'll be another change-the-market-by-establishing-a-monopoly-using-the-internet-as-a-cover business along in a minute.
And with a 10KHz sample frequency that would give a system able to accept a component up to 5Khz or 100x nominal base line UK mains frequency.
Which sounds like it should be able to cope with a very nasty load indeed.
But.
Analog design is hard and y'know actually paying for a good analogue designer who knows WTF they are doing....