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From the PDF in that page: "Feel the adrenaline rush of an intense, immersive, gamified experience with your entire cross-functional team." I get that when sending an OTA update to an entire fleet, and I am just using a 2012 laptop.
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While I do agree with you on the IBM truck remarks, I find myself heavily disagreeing with the "PGP / SMTP over TLS" is LARPing" gentleman. For one, he makes the argument that it's all a theater. Is it broken ? Yes. Does it provide some non-negligeable level of confidentiality ? Absolutely. Is it "broken" in some way or another ? Yes. But that doesn't mean we should just fall back to regular plain unencrypted email w…
You're probably aware, but the obvious counterargument people make to what you've said is that for some people such as activists under repressive regimes they would rather not be able to email than email under the mistaken belief what they were sending is highly secure. TFA on that article said the risk is non-technical users seeing technical users use PGP and assuming it's a good option when there are high stakes.
But I do agree that when the stakes are high, mistakes like these can mean life or death. But again, that can be solved by trying to better the general understanding of confidential communication systems.
rather offtopic but this rolling marketing gag is powered by a Peterbuilt 579 (why is the logo blacked out??) and only weighs 23 tons. The 579 can easily haul more than double this. https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/highway/model-579 this is a class 8 truck which retails for around $150,000 new and has a 12 liter PACCAR MX13 engine with ~450HP and 1800FP of torque. Collision mitigation, advanced cruise radar, and an a…
Disclaimer: I know nothing and this is an honest questions. I wonder if they intend to be able to use the tractor for power in situations where external power is lacking. Powering, and more importantly and power-hungry, cooling "23 tons" of equipment wouldn't be the lightest task.
if i had to guess, most of that 40 some kilowatts of power generated is going directly to HVAC. trailers are not insulated, so the heat from servers as well as the hot air from the X-Force sales team will need to be managed.
Ideally you'd park this thing in an arena outfitted with 480 3 phase hookups. Put the generator into bypass, and just use it to condition power you get from the venue. Alternatively, flood a parking lot with fresh hot diesel fumes and hope hypoxia works its magic to convince people IBM is serious.
what next, a cyber MRAP?
rather offtopic but this rolling marketing gag is powered by a Peterbuilt 579 (why is the logo blacked out??) and only weighs 23 tons. The 579 can easily haul more than double this. https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/highway/model-579 this is a class 8 truck which retails for around $150,000 new and has a 12 liter PACCAR MX13 engine with ~450HP and 1800FP of torque. Collision mitigation, advanced cruise radar, and an a…
For marketing to the US government, this kind of show-off and showmanship is standard.
I didn't believe it could be this dumb, but it was. Anyone who's technical knows you don't need this fluff to do "the cyber", and it's more likely to just get in the way, but everyone goes along with it because you can be getting paid 6 digits to sit around and do nothing all day for months at a cyber workstation of the future.
From the PDF in that page: "Feel the adrenaline rush of an intense, immersive, gamified experience with your entire cross-functional team." I get that when sending an OTA update to an entire fleet, and I am just using a 2012 laptop.
Set up the text only portable terminal in the hall of my parents house next to the phone line kick off the run and slowly see at 300 baud all the systems start to run hoping that they would all pass the initial stage and successfully start the mapping phase.
All the comments seem to be trashing IBM for this, but it's kinda cool! I mean sure, this is silly and impractical (a moving truck with a bunch of foldable chairs and laptops would do just fine) but that wasn't really the point, right? In theory, there may be someone somewhere that needs something like this but this is intended as a cool demonstration piece.