...and allow us to acquire the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner!

  Now, I should emphasize that such an approach is purely theoretical. So far, no one has been able to accomplish such constructions, yet..

There is already some people using tech to break into cars in California.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/high-tech-car-thieves-break-into-vehicles-without-leaving-a-trace
http://jalopnik.com/whats-the-secret-device-thieves-in-california-are-usin-471782175

Always wanted to make an application called cloud burst, that lets you move all cloud providers, move your resources with a touch of a button.

Amazon throws tons of money in the shorter term to own cloud computing in the long term. Openstack is still green and needs support. If they embraced AWS/Rackspace they might get more support and become a perfect fit those times when AWS isn't the best option. Want to run a lab? A 1500 dollar blade is works just fine. Want to run a few heavy duty load balancers, hit the cloud provider. Want 1 app to manage it? AWS has a bunch of 3rd party desktop managers for billing, reporting and maintenance. Openstack could come in and clean up.

Problem I've always had with openstack was its complex design, extra network and view of hardware resources is just fugly. I used puppet/kvm with a few scripts and it was much easier for me to maintain. I deployed almost a thousand VM's from a puppetserver with cobbler on multiple location with hundreds of blades.
I spent most the time in Excel working with devs on hardware requires on cpu/memory/disk usage and node count and network design. This is what I need automated.

I was looking at Openstack to replace the excel spreadsheet that keeps all my configurations. Make it simple. I wanted a vmware like interface on top of well known linux technologies with an configuration import button. But that never happened. No way am I manually typing in configurations, and I dont want another network for openstack management.

So now, I'm using AWS. Still using puppet, but ec2tools work mostly for me. Still dont have a good configuration management tool, EC2 desktop is lacking basics. Could Openstack fill the need? Maybe, but it needs to think of its users needs not its devs fun programing projects.

Yup, 2560x1440 for 350-450 on ebay, brand new, drop shipped from Korea, Got mine in 27 hours by fedex for 70 bux.
No dead pixel options also.

Cant wait for 4K.

Whenever I try to convert part-15 geeks into part-97 geeks, they're interested in high power, they're interested in DIY equipment, they're interested in satellites, they're interested in propagation, and as soon as I mention that you can't swear or encrypt, they walk away.

"If I can't send useful traffic over it, why would I bother?"

Ham radio is losing a generation of geeks who've grown up on a more-free network and aren't interested in a restricted one. Should we just let them go?

Actually, those women who sell pharmaceuticals to doctors or telecom services to engineers kinda disprove your theory that its not an industry wide issue.
Public relation groups and special interest groups are full of ex-cheerleaders and attractive men and women.

Not saying its right, just saying its not just E3 and Boat/Car shows.

While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.

The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.

Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.

To be fair, NASA already "burned" quite a bit of karma on previous Mars missions. It just seems like the last few have been exceptionally successful in comparison.

When I dream of a juicy hamburger its sure the hell ain't cultured meat.

Reminds me of all the self righteous blog posts by industry insiders about how average person just don't understand the elegance, and the future direction of the GUI.

The said the vocal outspoken are just loud cry babies that don't know anything, don't contribute, and just waste everyone's times.

As if removing the start button and window themes and ridding the world of "archaic" features like a program list and mouse will enlighten the common man to GUI nirvana.

Yeah, didn't happen did it.

A warranty is insurance against the replacement cost of a product. Every consumer product has a lifespan, either the time it will take before it fails, or the time it will take until it's no longer of any value to you. You probably won't be using the same computer 10 years from now. Your fridge will probably last 15. Other household appliances, maybe 15-20 years. At some point they're going to break or become obsolete. Researching the products you purchase, either the specific product or the quality control history of the company that produced it should give you an indication of how long the product will last before it needs repairs or replacement, and how much it's going to cost over its lifetime to maintain.

Now, how much does that warranty cost? Chances are good it's going to cost somewhere around 20% of the purchase price of the product. This is only a good deal if the product is EXPECTED to break within the next 5 years. Note that it won't protect against obsolescence, only replacement/repair of the original product. Of course, the next question is, why would you WANT to purchase a product that is expected to fail in less than 5 years? Therefore, if the product doesn't need the warranty, you shouldn't buy the warranty. If it DOES need the warranty, you shouldn't buy the product.

So what happens if that new TV dies 2 years in. You're out the money, right? Well, yes, there is a statistical chance that some consumer products are going to fail before their average expected lifespan. It happens. However, it's a low chance, and if you purchase 20 different products of relatively equal value, 1 of them might die before their time. So purchase 20 gadgets worth $500 each one of which breaks halfway through its lifespan, then out of $10000 worth of purchases, you lose $250. Extended warranties on all of those products would have cost you $2000, and the warranty period is still unlikely to cover the whole expected lifespan of the product. You could just as easily purchase your own "extended warranty" by putting 10% of the value of the product into savings at the time of purchase, and over the lifetime of all of your products you can expect to use maybe half of it.

Warranties start to make sense (maybe) when you're purchasing a single large purchase, with large repair expenses and pseudo warranty savings with other consumer products won't be sufficient to make up for it. Something like a car or purchase of similar magnitude. Again, if you purchase 20 cars at a time (probably only if you're a business), warranties probably no longer make sense as repair costs over ALL of the vehicles is likely to be less than the price of all of the extended warranties.

So, in summary, for something really expensive, yes. For anything reasonably less, no.

-Restil

/sigh

I always push for the ISO 8601 time formats. I like seeing YYYY-MM-DD on my time stamps. Wish this was the industry standard for logging, file systems, etc.

What I hate how the US has Saturday/Sunday split on the weekend. Who really thinks, Oh its Sunday start of the week!
Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END, and that's how I like my calendars displayed. Monday thru Sunday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Plea bargains make people plead guilty all the time. I remember when Wennatchee sex ring scandal happened. The whole population wanted justice, hang the child rapists! The state went for life sentences for all 40+ people accused.
Many of the people pleaded guilty when they faced life in prison. Only after years of litigation did it come out the entire thing was a hoax. No child was raped.

The stresses this young man faced shouldn't be the norm. Obama was suppose to be the voice the people, the people who work in his administration should echo his values.

I can only hope that a 3rd party takes off someday, we really need to vote the bastards out, not vote pretend in a 2 party system.

I cant wait to stream used games...

Oh.