Great Plains is starting to sound like a city you might like to move to....
The city council seem quite clued up about technical matters and the citizens (amazingly) seem to grasp that this stuff costs money, but the benefits are quite substantial.
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So "Must improve initial vacuum" gets added to the to do list.
Which is sort of the point of a "pathfinder" mission.
These are excellent results for a precursor mission but 2034? That said the US project of testing relativity with perfect glass spherical gyroscopes on orbit took more like 50 to get all the tech developed.
Well done.
But you can bet Facebook would like to do some of that as well.
As others have noted their should be some flga that says "yes, he/she is an active case" or "no, nothing else is happening."
Unless of course the ambiguity is deliberate.
Stuff like starting up a 27 engine vehicle (biggest since the Russian N-1, which never achieved a single full launch), guiding a payload about 5800x further than GEO, synchronizing the landings of 3 booster stages.
The big surprise is the claim the 3rd booster took out the landing barge, given all the other failed recoveries left the barge pretty much intact.
Apart from recording a copy of every email, text and phone call metadata for everyone in the UK forever?
How thoughtful.
And because every other bit of UK infrastructure seems to be owned by a foreign company (or even in the case of Thames Water a foreign state owned company) and therefor could not give a f**k about defending itself because it's not actually a legal requirement to do so.
f**kwitted stupid s**t from happening.
And I'd suggest a lot of the time it is the f**kwitted s**t that happens.
And as the Internet_of_Trouble grows more of it will accumulate with more core builds by code monkeys despite best practice reference builds being available.
Let's be real. Patching is always going to be a thing. It's a process, not an event. Get used to it and plan to do it. The test environment and the automation you will need to acquire can (and should) pay for itself in the various other tests you can run on new hardware for security, usability and compatibility. This is Systems Administration for adults, not running round like a headless chicken.
Tell your PHBs "Either we look for the holes in our security now, or let the Black hats find them first and f**k us (and by "us" I mean your bosses) up at their convenience." Because that's about the situation.
TBH....
Me too.
OTOH this is the open world.
If I were a Black hat I'd develop this for my personal toolkit to increase my "productivity." You'd not know I had it unless you got hold of personal development environment. You'd only be aware of it by the number of hits on the .io database and (possibly) the activity of a metasploit run if I'd hosted it on a (compromised) cloud account.
Think of it as the Black hat equivalent of constructing your own light saber.
So my suspicion* would be top grade Black hats have tools like this but they are smart enough to fly below the radar by keeping them to themselves.
*Just a deduction. I don't know any Black hats. I don't know how to talk to any and I don't know how to find them.
If you didn't ask for it (specifically, and in detail) you don't get it.
Now I might think that "S**t's accumulating in our offices" would be a flag to contact someone in the DoH and ask them "What do you want done with it?"
Did this happen?
Maybe and the DoH asked "What's it going to cost?" or maybe they were told "We're not sure as the guy who deals with that stuff was let go two months ago."
or maybe they didn't bother.
Remember the Golden Rule of Outsourcing.
"Everything the client forgets has to get done is another opportunity to charge for additional work. "
Historically "lint" existed because the Unix C compiler was (AIUI) fast but fairly loose in it's precision, assuming its users were all competent and were only violating the strict letter of the language (as far as there was one) for reasons it would not understand (like needing to trade speed for portability).
But to ensure tighter, more legal code Lint was developed.
However making a cross language "lint" is much harder.
What's are the "semantic primes" (to use a linguistics term) for all languages? What has to be checked in "language specific" modules? and so o.
However IIRC he had the prototype sorted before the ads started appearing.
So he had a design to with a parts list, board layouts etc, ready to go.
Not 2 years from estimated delivery date.
These guys just sound like scam merchants. *
*But of course they might deliver something in the end.
I don't mean could buy into but want to buy into.
That is that's well enough run they are happy to invest and gives the sort of return they expect on a long term basis.
I'm betting he's seeing this more from the "Health Insurance" end (BH started in insurance) than the IT stuff.
Is anyone else thinking "Carillion 2" ?
What's there cash flow like and have they been doing the whole
1) Wafer thin margins to get the business
2) Using the upfront payments to pay down creditors
3) Delaying payments on the rest of their creditors
4) Borrowing a shed load of cash while hoping interest rates don't rise very much.
Well, yes.
Good questions.
I thought these attack vectors were obsolete as the OS's they ran on.
Clearly these guys think it's enough of a thing to make their time and trouble worthwhile.
So what do they know that we don't?
But it's not.
It's about warrantless access to data.
all data
all the time
Forever.
Why you may ask?
Because
<gollum>
We wants it.
Because we can.
</gollum>
And that is all the "reason" any data fetishist has ever needed for this.
What makes you think Davis is in power?
With JRM already drawing up his charge sheet for the epic round of finger pointing and blame assignment that will happen when Brexit "completes" and people wake up to what an utter waste of time it was* for the UK.
*Although pretty good for D. Trump, V. Putin and R. Murdoch, who all backed it to the hilt.
As for comments about no archiving....
If all the probes you controlled with this stuff are accounted for and in either known orbits or en route for the next star system (very slowly) why bother? Not to mention yet another budget cut to the planetary programme. :-(.
Very well done for finding it, and getting a response out of it after what 13 years?
Note this is not a "secondary payload" bolted to the launcher. It's a secondary payload to the satellite.
IIRC some sats carry transponders for the SAT/SAR (satellite Search & Rescue) service that are distress beacons for anywhere on the planet.
I hope NASA does more more of these. Obviously it has to be something that is small enough for the commercial operators not to mind carrying and provide useful data from the orbit they want to operate in (which sounds a lot like GEO comm sats mostly). Logically they need about 3 of them to get full Earth coverage, and the sats have to be at latitudes far enough apart to get each one at least 120 degrees FoV.
BTW Some years ago JPL looked at doing probes to other planets launched as secondary payloads on Comm sat launches. The payoff was not waiting a decade to get the funding for their own LV. The downside was the very limited (by JPL standards) mass. So a couple of instruments, rather than the half a dozen or a dozen of their typical launch. So 1-2 instruments per launch, but maybe 3-4 launches a year.
This seems to use a similar approach. One really good (and quite heavy) instrument to get a lot of data.
Wrong.
He's as smart as a lawyer "formerly" paid by Big Cable companies to argue their effective monopolies were Good For America.
He's not stupid.
He's actively helping their interests.
The best we can hope for is his personality discorder blinds him to how widely hated he is and he (literally) won't see the hammer dropping on him. The "I thought they all loved me," self deluding BS of such people, despite their endless vicious behaviour toward others.
It's almost Presidential.
If you're talking Trump as the President of course.
And we are.
Americans can be so proud of their record on diversity here.
They have at least two people with serious personality disorders in positions of wielding substantial power and influence.
So a less official name would be
"The Office of Rubber Stamping WTF the Data Fetishists Want."
*Making it an "Office of" at the start really helps in making the rest a suitable sentence. A nice touch from the "Home" Civil Service.
So Gold, Bronze & Silver in the large project f**kup* awards then.
This also looks like earning points on the "Look, see, we tried to work with these SME's, like the Cabinet Office said, but they are just don't get it. Now if someone like Carilion had been available, because they really understand us" agenda.
*Silver for their Stirling display of work at the Olympics.
But don't you feel that the criminal has been punished?
Because AFAIK that's the core idea of the British system.
BTW IIRC the UK has both the highest proportion of its population (per 1000 head of population) and the highest repeat offending rates in Europe.
But no one likes a "Bad guy" and everyone loves governments "getting tough" on crime.
With a place at prison costing more than a place at a University (not even a good university) you could (literally) pay each repeat offender £20k/pa to not commit another crime*
Like farming "Set aside" for crims, not famers, which HMG seems to have no trouble doing.