the infrastructure that frames these these spy machines generally points in one of two directions: one group’s infrastructure points back to Shanghai, the other to Beijing.
“There have to be hundreds of people involved, just to maintain this amount of infrastructure and this much activity and this many spear phishes, collecting so many documents, and writing this much malware,” Stewart said
I would like to know your thoughts on muon fusion for mars and trips to mars. muon fusion is a great alternative to nuclear fission if muons are available, and outside of earth atmosphere there are a lot of muons although I admit I don't know if there are enough to provide adequate power. upside is safety, simplicity, need to protect against radiation anyway.
The trend line in the Register article is down. Unfortunately the line is only extended up to about 200 years ago, The last little blip of data is left out of the trend line, and would be the blade of a hockey stick, if taken by itself, or would negate the claimed downward trend if included in the rest of the data used to calculate the line.
I'll try to read the Nature article too, because this is hokey schtick
thinking about it some more, stay at home while car goes to mcdonalds for me and gets my stuff, paid for electronically, food bag and drink holder placed in a tray where the driver's seat used to be, send it to walmart without me and use robot shopper service or interactive video on cart, take kids to and from soccer
In this case they are directing the thing to crawl around in the least likely area to find life. There are lots of people who want to be able to say 'we looked and didn't find any current life' so they can proceed to endanger any life in the (more likely) places we never looked in, with impunity, for the value of the huge contracts, the dead heroes, and the retro approach: blast everything that goes to Mars from the surface of the Earth (such 20th century thinking!) , instead of learning to build ion-drive spaceships on the Moon and launch them with rail guns from there.
1. Programmers want to do a few quick tweaks to the software just before landing the thing. Normally this type of thinking would be quashed by management...
2. Mission fatcats who have known for years that the thing would crash now have a scapegoat.
3. Space profiteers with a vested interest in proving robots do not work, eager to get funding for hugely expensive human missions.
4. People with a vested interest in Biblical teachings not being refuted, who may or may not inhabit the NASA bureaucracy, or who may be allied with group 3 (after humans land on Mars who is to say that any life we find didn't originate here and hitchhike along?) (P.S. I know they didn't sanitize this rover, possibly for the same reason).
From the political end this is either the Republicans setting up the current administration for a big pre-election failure, or the Administration eager to get the rover onto the mountain before election day, call it either way, there is a lot of nasty politics on both sides unfortunately. (For example: "The first shuttle disaster was caused by launching in the cold on the day of the State of the Union address, and the second may well have been caused by using a steeper-than-necessary glide slope due to Cold War-era constraints on overflying enemy territory.")
Regardless, it will be fantastic if we find fossil life in the mountain, that will throw the bible belt into a big enough tizzy. The mountain has the least atmosphere and the highest radiation, so is about the least likely place to look for living things on Mars. Landing in a deep depression, akin to the bottom of the ocean if Mars had any, gives you the highest atmospheric pressure, making landing easier, and puts you closer to whatever habitable zone Mars may have today. Presumably the higher up the side of the mountain you try to land, the less margin you have for sufficient atmospheric drag, and the closer you are to hitting something hard before you have slowed down enough.
Definitely stay in the public eye. Substitute teaching is a valuable service to the community, and gives you an outlet for your skills.
Anyone who has survived on their technical merits as long as you have is probably outside the norm of the crop of twentysomethings and an employer would be a fool not to hire you. (Note to employers who have NOT hired me over the past year: THIS MEANS YOU).
You have to do things to disguise the old-guy smell. I recommend trying to win government contracts, taking a crack at winning challenges such as at innicentive or zintro, and definitely snarfing up a few of the free, excellent, topical courses online from places like coursera and others, the possibilities are growing exponentially right now.
Work on open source if you are adept at something, or learn something and then contribute if you are not.
So you want a CISSP but don't want to relocate from your comfortable home? Get on Dice first and search for CISSP within commuting distance of your home. Alternatively, just set up a daily Dice search for jobs in your area and continually pester the headhunters about any job you feel qualified for, specifying in your resume or cover letter EXACTLY how your skillset covers the job requirements.
Look for opportunities to suggest to an employer that he is better off hiring you AND that recent grad, so you can mentor the kid in all the things he doesn't know anything about (UNIX, SQL, security, perl?) while he backs up your lack of front end development expertise. The employer will end up with two skilled employees for the price of one.
Oh yes, did I mention? Offer to work for a lot less than at your previous job, since you are pretty well set anyway. It will keep you from going crazy and fend off the honeydews. Keep working on something, whether paid or unpaid. Use and reference your web site to hone your web skills and provide a visible first impression.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
