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Guys, I was asking after "practical density". Of course the chip density is insane, just look at a 256 or 512GB micro SD card!!!!

There must be some practical issues getting in the way, whether it's heat, interconnects, or just plain dumb cost. However, what I was pondering, was when will we be able to buy a 10TB 3.5" form factor SSD? Just as we can for spinning rust.

People aren't voting for Trump because they are amazed at his policies. They're voting for Trump because he's the only one (aside from Bernie) actually speaking about issues people want addressed instead of dismissing their concerns.

Except they're actually voting for trump because they are fucking stupid. I know, that's precisely the kind of attitude that chases them off in droves, but you cannot reason with these people anyway. The only thing you can hope to do is mobilize people who will vote with their head, heart, or conscience. These people are voting with their hurt butts. Trump doesn't give one-tenth of one fuck about the things he says he does, and people who believe that he does are certifiable fuckheads. Trump's clothes are made in another country because nobody with any class would want to buy them in the first place, but also because he doesn't give one tenth of one shit about the American worker. Trump's real-estate deals consistently shit on the everyman, and frequently fail, but somehow they're an example of how he's the best presidential candidate?

If progressives/liberals actually began addressing the concerns of people.

Oh, you mean like Bernie Sanders? See, this is the problem. You're inventing things that never happened (actually, you're un-inventing things that happened) so that you can be mad about them. Just like any Trump supporter, basically. Low-information voters are willfully low-information, like you're being right now. That's why you can't reason with them, and why I can't reason with you. Because you're willfully ignorant to support your argument. Frame theory and cognitive dissonance leading to an inability to think.

It's still reverse engineering, known as the "clean room" or "Chinese wall" technique:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585652/app-development/reverse-engineering.html

Yeah, the m.2 SSDs are pretty cool, but the general market ones you see are generally significantly slower. You have to go high end to match the Apple MBPs of which the current crop actually use slot M M.2 drives. :) Those use 4 PCIe lanes for 1400+ MB/s. MBPs were ahead of the pack again, my 2014 has the 2 lane SSDs with 700MB/s transfers, which explains the huge speed improvement over my RAID0 850 SATA III setup on the desktop, even 2 850s just can't pump through more than about 400MB/s continuous. I'd have to go with 4 in a RAID 0 configuration, or buy faster drives, which I'm sure some exist by now as the last upgrade was over a year ago.

Now I bought my mid 2014 15" MBP on sale from B&H with AppleCare, 16GB RAM and 500GB storage, and it ran me about $2200, minus another $300 or so trade in for the flaky 2009 (I just didn't feel right selling it to someone knowing the root issue, so I recycled it) The 2015s are twice as fast disk speed wise, but I doubt I'd notice at this point :) I do notice when I have to use one of the 40MB/s (disk I/O) dev boxes I have lying around. Those things crawl.

Lastly, I'd 100% agree if gaming was my focus. It's not. So for non-game non-GPU specific loads I just don't notice a difference. BTW, you keep mentioning rMBP... exactly how OLD is that MBP? It hasn't been known as a rMBP since early 2013, IIRC, when they stopped selling non retina MBPs. Yes, marketing keeps the "MBP with Retina Display" going on their web site, but no one I know expects to see anything but a retina screen when someone says "I have a MBP". For my 2006, which is a MBP, I'd never say "oh yeah, use my MBP" and hand them that machine... :-D

I haven't tried back-porting SL to my MBP, I know it runs on the desktop, because I still have a SL image somewhere. It ran ML fine, which in its last iteration was somewhat stable, but 10.10.5 runs fine. Note: this is on an intel 980x LGA-1366 which is still standard BIOS, running currently with a substandard AMD card in it as I haven't bothered upgrading to a nVidia 960 or higher. 10.11 is supposed to run ok, but I haven't upgraded any of my daily systems to it yet as I'm not sure it is stable enough. I know why GCD was implemented in 10.6, and they've been continuing to migrate more and more subsystems to the GCD system with each release, but 10.11 wasn't smooth, same with all of 10.7 and the first couple releases of 10.8, 10.10, and 10.11. 10.11 is still having some issues even with 10.11.4. Once GCD is fully incorporated, I'll bet you $1 that you're going to see massive core counts on Apple products. 10, 20, 100+. Because a message passing paradigm greatly increases the ability to parallel process things over the old threading model and core clock speed is no longer increasing.

a very slight chance of making it in "the Cloud".

It's hard to believe but they are rocking in the cloud; the cloud and server division is the biggest revenue maker for Microsoft. Here are better numbers.

Here's how the cloud landscape is shaping up: AWS (and to a smaller degree Google's cloud) is getting popular among startup types, and people with deeper technical knowledge. IBM's cloud is getting popular among giant fortune 500 companies that don't care about technology and just want someone else to take care of it. Microsoft's cloud is gaining popularity among boring, mid-sized businesses who just want something easy (and who frankly, probably don't need a cloud). HP is dead in the water.

This is what happens when you don't build the Yucca Mountain (or equivalent) long-term waste-storage facility. The waste just sits somewhere else, even more vulnerable and more at risk of damaging the environment in both the short and long term.

You're right, but I also feel this approach is ultimately wrong, as in 'was never a good solution'. Why do we have nuclear waste that will not be walk away safe for a hundred thousand years... instead of a smaller volume of waste that would be walk-away safe in a few hundred?

Because the we broke the promises we had made to help solve the problem. First by halting reprocessing in the United States, then failing to find off-plant storage, then ultimately shutting down the last fast neutron reactor, having never even begun to use this technology to render waste into electricity and a much smaller volume of short-lived actinides. In short, left the job unfinished.

We live in a world where mean people people love to blow things up, unfortunately. This means even Yucca Mountain is a bad idea. For once you create any single point of failure, such as collapsing its entrance, the meanest people steer history and paralyze the waste storage process indefinitely. Contrast that 'bury deep and forget it' approach to a number of well-constructed but shallower storage areas, where even a worst case scenario leaves the waste remains accessible for cleanup and re-use or subsequent processing. I'd even be wary of people who push 'bury and forget it' solutions, for deep down they are counting on this disaster to happen, and they know some day someone will make it happen.

Consider the hypothetical town of TBA who welcomes the safe storage of nuclear waste and ask yourself, what kind of future would you rather?

Must be a slow solar news day.

"As if Google, with Eric Schmidt at the helm, who also works for the DoJ, would really allow you to to get private and practically unbreakable end-to-end-encryption."

Google seems to be rapidly destroying itself. One article: Google investors sue Page, Schmidt over $500M settlement with DOJ

Another: Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees.

I don't know the details for Apple

Let me help you out... :)

On average, you get between 3 and 4 years of support for each version of OS X.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

The security clock is ticking down for Apple's OS X Mountain Lion, which will probably be retired from support this fall before the Cupertino, Calif. company releases El Capitan.

Mountain Lion, also known as OS X 10.8, debuted in July 2012, and was the last Mac operating system to come with a price tag: The now-unreasonable $19.99.

PCM won't kill flash (3D NAND has some cost benefits), it will displace DRAM in some applications.

And I would not count HD out as well, there has been some impressive advances published lately by SanDisk and the like.

Computerworld published recently a nice article on the Memory landscape

Wow, funny, I didn't have to look far to even expose what you said as incorrect:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

-Comes from the official app store
-Does not require a jailbroken phone
-Enterprise certificates are not security, it only costs $299 to get one, or just steal one to abuse

Another
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/...

-came in through the official app store
-phished user credentials
-doesn't require jailbroken phones
-used the developer's own cert, so no cert required

http://researchcenter.paloalto...

Another

Now, show me examples of Android malware available on the official app store, that doesn't require developer mode being enabled (like jailbreaking for android, but built in), and isn't a parental control app (which I would exclude as well...we aren't talking about apps designed to be used by the user this way).

Windows is dying. Microsoft is pivoting towards the cloud. See here for lots of supporting information.

They're not even unique:
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Windows isn't a major segment of Microsoft's revenue anymore. Because of that, they have gotten complacent, and don't really care much anymore. Remember how things went with IE when that happened? Expect roughly the same for Windows.

They care about app developers. Remember they sell Visual Studio and notice how it is very multiplatform friendly now. Without Universal Windows Apps they lose out on mobile to Apple and Google. They want that revenue from the playstore as well which is how Apple beat Microsoft. 15 years ago I would be laughed at an oblivion at my last sentence. But, Steve Jobs won over Bill Gates with the simple store. Guess which legacy OS doesn't support it? Windows 7

Oh, with the server, yeah the cloud with Azure so they make money whether you run SQL Server under Server 2012R2 or Linux either way.

Windows isn't a major segment of Microsoft's revenue anymore. Because of that, they have gotten complacent, and don't really care much anymore. Remember how things went with IE when that happened? Expect roughly the same for Windows.

But not worth more than it was. So you agree 100%, but in the most disagreeable way possible. What a prick.

Well, I don't know that. What I do know is that the January 10, 2000 price would not have lasted even three months due to the subsequent dot com burst which started two months later. Time Warner bought AOL at an all time high, making it one of the biggest scores for a dot com company and not coincidentally one of the dumbest moves by an established company during that time.

My view is that a stock rising on an announcement is an indicator that the market consensus is that share holders in that business will do well. A stock falling is market consensus to the contrary. The AOL-Time Warner situation indicated that AOL's side was advantageous. That plus the easily foreseen future collapse of AOL's stock price meant that AOL made an incredible deal at the expense of Time Warner shareholders. AOL who instigated this merger did amazingly well which what you'd want with a merger.

But now look at the HP-Compaq merger. First, we have the negative indicator that both stocks dropped in price on the merger. Second, we took the Compaq server and PC business which has been alleged in this thread as the driver for the merger from the more successful competitor and gave it to the worse one. A collapse in combined market share followed which I don't think was coincidence.

It's worth noting too that a lot of acrimony and further dumbing down of the HP board of directors happened during this time with the eventual departure of the Hewlett and Packard family representatives in protest of the merger which I think goes a long way to explaining the subsequent series of really dumb decisions by the board (who had lost the last people with a long term interest in the company).

In summary, not many people benefited from the HP-Compaq merger. The person at the top of that short list was Carly Fiorina. Then some bankers handling te merger. That's probably most of the beneficiaries right there.While in the case of the AOL-Time Warner merger, we can point to the entire AOL side doing really well as a result of the merger.

"The chip maker also plans to focus on chips and technologies for IoT devices"

Before connecting 'things' to the Internet, how about fixing the defective MMU that comes in most WinTEL personal computers.

http://www.dshield.org/diary/G...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.networkworld.com/ne...
http://www.computerworld.com/s...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/g...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://www.dshield.org/diary/S...
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/...

APK

P.S.=> Next is DNS serving up malware & abused by malware to do it (acting as C&C data transfer + more etc.)... apk

I'd like to know what spectrum they plan on using

I would imagine that they're thinking about using some old television broadcast spectrum. It's able to travel long distances and penetrate walls.
The FCC’s upcoming broadcast-TV spectrum auction

...is not this one. This one seeks to curtail privacy, remove encryption, punish whistleblowers, and use the Espionage Act and Treason against any and all (except their own David Petraeous and Hillary Clinton).

Their own OPM was the subject of the worst hack of its time. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

This administration and our government in general have NO CLUE how to protect systems, and the word 'cyber' isn't used by anyone who isn't ripping off the government for money. The word used to mean 'sex'. http://io9.gizmodo.com/today-c...

I have great faith that if the Obama Administration wanted to do something useful that they would have come out AGAINST the Feinstein draft bill, that they would have come out against forced decryption of iPhones; that they would not charge Edward Snowded with treason, or in the alternative charge Hillary Clinton with treason.

Absent all those, this is hardly more than pissing in the wind.

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Is that a machine you need the latest browser on, though?

Probably not. Like Windows XP, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" is no longer supported. Security updates to a web browser won't help if the operating system itself has forever-day vulnerabilities.

2 words. Aaron. Swartz. cite

Funnily enough they were recently graded F - http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Interesting, also notice the carrier locked models are the problem not the unlocked models directly purchased from Motorola. This might be related to the carriers being reluctant to distribute the upgrades not Motorola's willingness to release.

Will have to keep an eye on Lenovo.

Funnily enough they were recently graded F - http://www.computerworld.com/a...

If a hardware designer is that motivated to snoop on you, then they probably wouldn't bother installing a fake physical kill switch. After all, the current status quo is no hardware switch at all. Do you seriously imagine that they're going to add a hardware kill switch, but then secretly add a method for software to bypass it? It really doesn't make a lot of sense.

For me, I'm more concerned about the actual, documented cases of spy software, malware, or simply badly designed systems used to snoop on people surreptitiously. I'm pretty sure a simple on/off switch would work wonders in these cases. And hey, if you don't trust the switch, there's always the old "piece of tape over the camera" fallback.

Linux will eventually win on the Desktop because the profits derived (by Microsoft) for maintaining your own OS will be so small, that Microsoft will stop trying. Think of what happened with IE: Microsoft neglected it and lost when they should have won.

The same thing will happen with Windows, as Windows becomes less and less of a profit zone for Microsoft.

Which is why the H-1B visa issue is a bi-partisian one. Both sides support increasing it. It has been about the only controversial thing Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has supported. Sadly she really wants to expand this program. Why does Amy Klobuchar hate high skilled well paid workers? I bring up Klobuchar because she is one of my senators and her supports don't believe that she supports such things even when I have shown them her official senate web site where in her own words she says she supports these things.

I believe Clinton has already said she would support more H1B's. Only Trump and Sanders have even criticized the program.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Windows provides around 10% of Microsoft revenue now. Source. At that point, it's just not the cash cow it used to be. Their CEO is heavily focused on building up their cloud offerings, and doesn't seem to care about the desktop much.

So yeah, by the end of the decade, Windows could be essentially on life support.

Uber stated last July it was interested in buying every single autonomous car Tesla could build.

I sympathize, but don't get in no accident. I remember my little rocket from '94, fun but no sun-roof, no power windows, no power locks, had to jury-rig a chirp-chirp alarm/kill-switch, no side-airbags, no anti-lock brakes. Fast, but it did NOT crash well.

Not quite the suicide machine as my college car, a '72 Olds with NON-POWER DRUMS on ALL WHEELS (you had to stand on the pedal to stop hard... if it worked at all due to a flaky master cylinder), but still, by today's standards, even my '94 was a death trap.

Now, we're going to see all cars with automatic braking in six years. More electronics, more complexity. But if it works, it will save lives. Shit, I used to think anti-lock brakes were too complex to mass-produce and work well, like I didn't want some jiggy contraption getting between me and my brakes. Sho' nuff, it's 2016 and they work great. They even got 'em on motorcycles.

So, particularly if you got kids, you're way better off in a new car then taking your chances in some old bolt bucket. Maybe car hacks raise the risk of theft, but older cars are child's play to break into. Maybe some monster hack might tinker with your car while you're driving, and that would be bad, but I'll warrant the BEST ODDS of that happening to you are TINY compared to being T-boned by a drunk. So, you're WAY better off in a new car, hackable or no.

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http://www.computerworld.com/a...

...Trend Micro wrote about the same attack on Monday. Segura said he delayed publishing a blog post while he contacted major advertising networks, including Google's DoubleClick, Rubicon, AOL and AppNexus, to get the malicious advertisements removed. He published a post on Tuesday. ...

Previously, they hitched that all on the premise that a target market adopts Windows as the leverage point to get in. Now they are (seemingly) accepting that many market segments won't go that way (server and mobile particularly) and trying to tap into those markets.

A lot has changed, Windows is a small part of Microsoft's revenue, and the cloud is now the biggest part. CEO Nadella sees the cloud as a huge cash cow, and wants a part of (seriously, read the article).

So they probably have complaints like, ".net sucks because you can only develop for it on Windows." I'm sure they've heard it, because I've heard it. So they are trying to remove all barriers any pesky developers might tell their managers, preventing them from using the technology (as you pointed out).

Gary Thuerk sent the first spam email in 1978. It was an ad promoting DEC computers in ALL CAPS. In 2004, when he was asked if he feels guilty for sending the first spam, he said: "I never feel guilty. Someone would have done it..." He is on LinkedIn and offers this: "You can have the Father of E-spam be a speaker at your company function. You can watch people line up at your technology conference booth to meet the Father of eMarketing."

Other people who worked hard on killing the usefulness of the internet include Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, the first (and relentless) commercial Usenet spammers, as well as Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, prolific spammer in many ways, including email, who is known for going to great lengths to circumvent anti-spam measures.

Of these fine individuals, so far only Martha Siegel is deceased. She died of cancer in 2000.

So it's a good thing that Trump brought up this issue; it'll force the other candidates to address it

There's also the small fact that Bernie Sanders has already been addressing it -- long before Trump brought it up, in fact -- and conveniently has none of Trump's racist baggage either.

Google is now saying they were following the "spirit of the road" when the crash happened and that they've reviewed the incident, as well as thousands of variations on it, in a driving simulator and made refinements to its AV software.

That's not true at all. IoT simply means an embedded device connected to Internet.

That's a definition, not a principle.

Now in an ideal world, this simple device would be under your control, secure, and the limit of phoning home would be checking for updates (under your control) and sending diagnostics when requested, and also under your control.

But is that what these devices are doing? We don't even know why they are seeking out other cameras. We do know that they phone home even when told not to. So right away, not as simple as you claim. No security, doing odd things.

Nest Thermostats phoning home with unencrypted data http://mashable.com/2016/01/20...

Are you talking in front of your smart TV? Better watch what you say. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

And what could be cuter than a IoT teddy bear for your kids? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

So then we move on to the established Internet of things. Hospital equipment. That's a hot steaming mess and going to get worse. already hacked multiple times, and ransom paid in at least one case. Or are you going to deny like some, that the embedded systems that hospitals use are magically not part of the IoT?

POS systems,

but I actually agree with Ted Cruz on something.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

His H1B reform bill wants to set a minimum salary on H1B's to make sure it's used to fill vacancies and not cut costs, as well as outlawing "disparagement clauses" in severance agreements that prevent employees from saying anything bad about their ex-employer.

I am pro H1B in general, and the majority of companies in the Bay Area are not using it to replace US workers (there are hundreds of thousands of openings companies are trying to fill, and the starting salaries of many of those are easily in the 6 figures). But clearly there are some companies in the US that abuse the program and there are things that can be done to fix that without throwing it out altogether.

New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack

Snowden files reveal NSA had 'major problems' tracking Tor dark web users and cracking encryption

Snowden docs show Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped NSA's 'most wanted' list in '12

The red herring in all this is that these cars can't handle weather or other road conditions very well. Potholes would be a major concern because avoiding them with oncoming traffic and other factors, with maybe a dash of weather, say ice on the road, etc. makes them not so much the great white hope that all to many seem to claim that they will be. Speaking in general terms, humans actually do a pretty good job of driving a car. Unfortunately, instead of using rational thinking in curbing distracted driving we see a push for something that is ripe for abuse and intrusion.


Throw in things like this and I find it odd that anyone would be "all in" on self driving cars.

I am sorry, but if it was fixed in few days, it was not found in few days. This bug existed for many versions of OpenSSL before being finally discovered. That's not quite true to say it was discovered in days.

Microsoft had a flaw in Windows that lasted for almost 20 years before being fixed, and they also had one that took 17 years to fix, and another one that took 15 years to fix. There are many, many more with shorter lifespans but are just as severe in terms of how much they compromise. Heartbleed was in use for 2, being introduced in March 2012 and fixed April 2014.

My point here is that open source software has a better track record for security, and you don't seem to be really disputing that.

The point of the article How are students learning programming in a post-Basic world? isn't that we should all use Basic. The point is that there's a need for a single 'starter' language so that people who have no experience can get started using something. That language should come with practically all computers, should be portable enough so that you can write programs that port to many computers, should be immediately accessible so beginners can quickly learn some basics, and should be useful enough so that beginners can create useful programs.

There are a number of reasonable contenders, including Python, Ruby, and Java. A version of Ruby comes with MacOS, but none of these 'just comes' with the computer regardless of what OS you run - so in most cases, before you even get started, you have to explain how to download and install something. Not ideal. Java is what a lot of people use professionally, but it does take more time to get started when you know nothing. Python has many advantages for simplicity, but you need to install it in many cases.

Perhaps the dark horse here is Javascript ES6. Javascript is available almost everywhere, and people can get started quickly. As a first language Javascript's unusual approach to OO programming (with prototyping) has probably held it back, but ES6 adds standard class notation, and that might make it much easier to use as a starter language.

This is pretty much what the article is about. It's talking about Storage Class Memory which is a fairly new development. See: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2990809/data-storage-solutions/hp-sandisk-partner-to-bring-storage-class-memory-to-market.html

Whenever the question of management arises for programmers, I always return to the same manual. This single document is answers many of the questions regarding failure of IT projects in general.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

OP speaks the truth. Electrical Engineering is dead

If we change from "biggest danger is trojans and password-file hacks anywhere in the world" to "biggest danger is someone physically stealing my phone and cracking my PIN", that seems like a really, really big win. Especially if you like Hello Kitty.

Vote for the only politician who knows the h1b program is bullshit: Bernie Sanders.

Now you too can read all of itwbennett's Slashdot postings before he posts! Better yet you can ignore them on the original sites and know what to ignore on Slashdot! Remember kids, if it says "bennett" you've already stopped paying attention.

http://www.csoonline.com/about/rss/

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http://www.itworld.com/about/rss/

http://www.computerworld.com/about/rss/

Here! Here! I only upgraded because of the security "updates." I'm sick of the adware bloatware and shovelware for its 'monetized partners' that Mozilla foundation keeps trying to shovel down our throats, their Pocket and Adobe deals. They call themselves a non-profit, they act like a corporation and have millions, and want more. We are not the customers. We are the product they are selling! http://www.computerworld.com/a... http://forums.mozillazine.org/...

Here's a tiny amount of information about Bernie Sanders' thoughts on the subject of the H-1B visas:
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

dangerously close to handing the next presidency over to Bernie

Bernie Sanders wants to raise wages of H-1B workers - Nov 25, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to reform the H-1B program, in part, by "substantially" raising prevailing wages.

The difference is that Bernie has been after H-B Visa abuse since at least 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc , unlike Ted.

So this isn't something new, it's not pandering to get the nomination, it's what he's been doing for years.