So, skip the article and go direct to the order; note that this isn't just a motion from Apple but an order of the court. Samsung definitely have some questions to answer.
How does some random guy get access to the "main server"? Any bank worth its salt would have massive security just to get near to it
Most bank branches are fairly small operations these days; 3-4 desktops and probably a branch server out the back. A couple of tellers and that's it. Besides, it sounds like the police were onto th plot in advance; just waiting for the gang to incriminate themselves.
And the thing to remember about all storage is that it will fail. If you have a single disk in a machine, and that machine is not backed up properly, then you will lose that data in the next 5 years.
The trouble is, you're probably wrong. Sure, storage will fail eventually but it's generally good enough to last the working lifetime of the machine. Plenty of home users still run XP because their machines are older than that.
Some days, I do get bit nostalgic for the days when hard drives were like that and backup/replace failed drive/restore were routine operations. Nowdays, it's a little bit more like DR: 90% chance you won't need it but then you *really* need it.
On average the Alpha was able to do more work per clock. period!
GP is not entirely wrong. The early Alphas, like the 21064 did relatively few operations per MHz; later on when they got to 4-way out of order instruction issue, not so much. By the end of it's life, I think Intel was clocking faster then Alpha but getting less per clock cycle.*
*Depending on whether you were talking Int or FP, and all sort of other things. YMMV.
The anti nukes seem to love bigging up the true technical measures by splitting them into smaller units (i.e. turning 1Sv into 1000 mSv). Exaggeration without actually exaggerating anything. It's rather clever actually.
You're reaching a little here; you have a point with the trillion Bq thing but doses are usually quoted in mSv, because it's a convenient size. 1mSv is the recommend maximum annual dose for members of the public, for example. I don't see quoting doses in mSv as any more unusual than an engineer giving a length as 1200mm.
They use the becquerel in the news because it gives much larger units than the curie. It's not as nice a headline if they said Fukishima had released 1100 curies of radiation.
Becquerel is the standard SI unit; the BBC would generally use those unless the non-standard unit is widely used. Although quoting GBq or TBq rather than the big scary numbers would be best IMHO.
Why do we still even need ethernet? How often do you need something other than IPv4/6 which could be done as its own layer since no one uses a bus topology anymore (did that ever get faster than a total shared 10 megabit capacity?).
The question doesn't make much sense to me. You could invent a new physical layer and not call it Ethernet (HP already did this with 802.12 and it never flew). As for what I use as well as IPv4/6, apart from the legacy stuff that I won't bore you with: I find ARP useful, VLANs, spanning tree, LLDP.
IIRC in the UK there have also been questions about when the samples/information could be kept, at first for those who were acquitted or had charges dropped, and later for those who weren't even arrested but submitted DNA (as "requested" by the police) to exonerate themselves of any suspicion.
"astronauts on even the shortest roundtrips to Mars would get radiation doses of about 662 millisieverts"
That is simply *not* the "huge amount of radiation" the article claims. It won't even cause any effects that can be tied to the radiation...it'll increase the long-term risk of fatal cancer by a few percent (for the 1000 mSv, 5% increase in cancer risk limit, that means you're still 20 times more likely to die of cancer from something else), provided the models are even accurate for such low exposures.
The problem is that the radiation levels can vary by several orders of magnitude depending on what the sun is up to. If you're unlucky, you get 10 or 100 times that; if you're really unlucky, lethal levels. It's a significant problem even if most of the time you aren't getting much of a dose.
10base5 was quite a bit more challenging to install, given that each cable tap had to be at a precise location
Well, sort of. There were markers on the cable, so you didn't install taps too close together and screw the transmission line characteristics. There weren't dead spots between them though.
These aren't short prison terms by UK standards. It's uncommon to get sentenced to more than two years for computer crime. Ryan Cleary, who got the longest sentence, apparently ran a large botnet for hire, when he wasn't doing it for the lulz. Bot herders tend to get treated relatively severely (rightly so IMHO).
There should be an authority that can prevent Slashdot from being trolled by a summary that seems to have no basis in the original story. We could call this hypothetical super-being an editor.
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So, skip the article and go direct to the order; note that this isn't just a motion from Apple but an order of the court. Samsung definitely have some questions to answer.
Quoting a post on the Daily Paul:
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
Who cares how long Leonardo took to paint the Mona Lisa?
Captain Tancredi?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24127999
A man was hit with a brick and stabbed before being robbed of the much awaited Grand Theft Auto V video game in north London.
How does some random guy get access to the "main server"? Any bank worth its salt would have massive security just to get near to it
Most bank branches are fairly small operations these days; 3-4 desktops and probably a branch server out the back. A couple of tellers and that's it. Besides, it sounds like the police were onto th plot in advance; just waiting for the gang to incriminate themselves.
And the thing to remember about all storage is that it will fail. If you have a single disk in a machine, and that machine is not backed up properly, then you will lose that data in the next 5 years.
The trouble is, you're probably wrong. Sure, storage will fail eventually but it's generally good enough to last the working lifetime of the machine. Plenty of home users still run XP because their machines are older than that.
Some days, I do get bit nostalgic for the days when hard drives were like that and backup/replace failed drive/restore were routine operations. Nowdays, it's a little bit more like DR: 90% chance you won't need it but then you *really* need it.
On average the Alpha was able to do more work per clock. period!
GP is not entirely wrong. The early Alphas, like the 21064 did relatively few operations per MHz; later on when they got to 4-way out of order instruction issue, not so much. By the end of it's life, I think Intel was clocking faster then Alpha but getting less per clock cycle.*
*Depending on whether you were talking Int or FP, and all sort of other things. YMMV.
Sigh, read it again and try to comprehend before posting.
All it takes is one single person to get hit by one of these and they're illegal in 50 states.
You may be right but I doubt that would make a significant difference by the time they're ready for the mass market.
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The anti nukes seem to love bigging up the true technical measures by splitting them into smaller units (i.e. turning 1Sv into 1000 mSv). Exaggeration without actually exaggerating anything. It's rather clever actually.
You're reaching a little here; you have a point with the trillion Bq thing but doses are usually quoted in mSv, because it's a convenient size. 1mSv is the recommend maximum annual dose for members of the public, for example. I don't see quoting doses in mSv as any more unusual than an engineer giving a length as 1200mm.
They use the becquerel in the news because it gives much larger units than the curie. It's not as nice a headline if they said Fukishima had released 1100 curies of radiation.
Becquerel is the standard SI unit; the BBC would generally use those unless the non-standard unit is widely used. Although quoting GBq or TBq rather than the big scary numbers would be best IMHO.
No we don't have a Bill of Rights
Er, yes we do. We had it first.
As far as I'm aware, there are two batteries, but the rear one isn't that far back.
That appears to be the case: http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/dreamliner-problems/
Looking at the photos, it appears that the sensor units were the right way up. It was the rest of the rocket that was upside down.
Draft 0 was SPDY. It's usually the way that standards evolve from one proposal; cut and shut standards don't often work out.
That's assuming the criminals don't use said gun to shoot the unarmed officers in the first place.
It does happen sometimes but it's a pretty small number compared to the number of cops in the US that get shot with their own gun.
Why do we still even need ethernet? How often do you need something other than IPv4/6 which could be done as its own layer since no one uses a bus topology anymore (did that ever get faster than a total shared 10 megabit capacity?).
The question doesn't make much sense to me. You could invent a new physical layer and not call it Ethernet (HP already did this with 802.12 and it never flew). As for what I use as well as IPv4/6, apart from the legacy stuff that I won't bore you with: I find ARP useful, VLANs, spanning tree, LLDP.
IIRC in the UK there have also been questions about when the samples/information could be kept, at first for those who were acquitted or had charges dropped, and later for those who weren't even arrested but submitted DNA (as "requested" by the police) to exonerate themselves of any suspicion.
It went to the European Court of Human Rights and the UK lost; since then the retention periods have been reduced.
Do what Starbucks does. Use portals to other dimensions.
I thought that was just to avoid tax.
Are they really endangered?
No. However they are protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. It's more to do with trying to prevent badger baiting than rarity.
"astronauts on even the shortest roundtrips to Mars would get radiation doses of about 662 millisieverts"
That is simply *not* the "huge amount of radiation" the article claims. It won't even cause any effects that can be tied to the radiation...it'll increase the long-term risk of fatal cancer by a few percent (for the 1000 mSv, 5% increase in cancer risk limit, that means you're still 20 times more likely to die of cancer from something else), provided the models are even accurate for such low exposures.
The problem is that the radiation levels can vary by several orders of magnitude depending on what the sun is up to. If you're unlucky, you get 10 or 100 times that; if you're really unlucky, lethal levels. It's a significant problem even if most of the time you aren't getting much of a dose.
10base5 was quite a bit more challenging to install, given that each cable tap had to be at a precise location
Well, sort of. There were markers on the cable, so you didn't install taps too close together and screw the transmission line characteristics. There weren't dead spots between them though.
That's not really true. Prior to buying Sun, Oracle probably didn't give two shits about MySQL.
Well, they bought InnoDB well before Sun, so that's not entirely true.
These aren't short prison terms by UK standards. It's uncommon to get sentenced to more than two years for computer crime. Ryan Cleary, who got the longest sentence, apparently ran a large botnet for hire, when he wasn't doing it for the lulz. Bot herders tend to get treated relatively severely (rightly so IMHO).
There should be an authority that can prevent Slashdot from being trolled by a summary that seems to have no basis in the original story. We could call this hypothetical super-being an editor.