.... are lost in the desert. They've been wandering for days, are horribly sunburned and are out of water.
All of a sudden, they stumble upon Archemides with a canteen full of water! Archemides says "One of you can have this canteen and you'll live, but only if you walk half way to it, stop, walk half way to it, etc., etc.
The mathematic, in anquish, lays his head in his arm and start to cry. "It can't be done" he rages.
The engineer looks at the mathematician in disgust, shrugs his shoulders, walks half way, stops, walks half way, stop, etc., etc. Finally he stops next to it, leans over, picks up the canteen and drinks.
Archemides and the mathematician both are in shock. Archemides exclaims "but how did you do that -- it's impossible!"
Again, the engineer shrugs. "I got close enough for practical purposes!"
These would be a good place for these, either with embedded slower x86 or non-x86 systems, Via C-3 processors, etc. It could provide an excellent way to reduce network bottlenecks and retain low environmental costs. Those are things that throwing money at faster CPUs can't touch.
Is there anyone left that doesn't think MS is slowly trying to push there way into large market share and/or dominance across most areas? You can read that a monopolization if you like.
1st it was the desktop OS (Windows), then it was applications (MS Office, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express); the development with VB, C++; Visual Studio (.net), etc.; then server OS and client server applications; and handhelds. With the exception of consoles, they have followed the model of make all the "soft" bits and let others build the box. They've been extraordinarily successful.
Currently, they are working on elbowing their way into: cell phones; other things I can't think of at the moment; and now virtualization software. No doubt the virutalization is based on their acquisition of Virtual PC. This is a very lucrative coming market considering how powerful high end gear is now and how expensive. They consistently used the dominance in a related field to pressure their way into something else. As long as they are allowed to continue unabated, they'll continue, despite what the law says.
CA stock soared on higher than expected sales of it's antivirus and security offerings. Other vendors reported similar increased sales because of scared users and the press reporting on this "immenent" attack.
They need to account for the environmental costs (as do consumers). Nobody seems interested in doing this upfront but it needs to be part of the accounting scenario.
Ultimately it's still going to be the consumer that pays because the costs will be passed on. It's more appropriate here than a consumer tax on purchase or, God forbid what we've been dealing with in the US, environmental polution and Super Fund clean up sites. In these situations, the cost has been unfairly spread out among all Americans citizens (not the companies) because it's tax dollars that go to clean it up.
By putting the cost into the manufacturing end, it's tracked and paid equitably by all involved in the actual manufacturing and use. In theory, this should provide for less impact on the environment (and the living creatures within it) because then manufacturers are likely to seek to have a lower environmental impact.
CRT will be here for a long time....
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...but their market share will slip.
While LCDs do a number of things well like use less electricity, take up less space, are in general terms easier on the eyes (radiation) and generally provide acceptable images, CRTs do a better job for high res, rapid display changes, etc.
I expect that the CRT will, as a previous poster suggest, evolve into a niche market. Something akin to, for example, BETAMAX. BETAMAX didn't completely go away even though most people didn't see that format tape any longer when VHS won "the war". It was still used for a longtime in broadcast (and in Japan) and videophiles paid a lot for highend BETAMAX tape decks and tapes that continued to be produced. BETA cost more but provided higher quality vido output than VHS while VHS was less expensive (and non-proprietary).
First let me say IANAL. I've been around them my whole life but that doesn't mean I am one. I have been told by some that I think like them though.
I don't think this quite protects like people seem to think it does.
I interpret Section 2a2D of the SPY Act to say it's okay to change security settings without the knowledge of the protected parties as long as you don't seek to do damage. Imagine a defensive claim that a change to weaken security settings is to make the computer easier to use and less confusing. Prove they had a different motive. That could be tough. No question that changing a settings of allowing ActiveX controls to always run makes it easier for a website targeting ActiveX capable browsers to run whatever they want "for the purpose" of serving their users and it's "easier" for their "customers" to use the site because then they don't have to bother with or know about changing browser security settings.
Additionally, has any one read Title 18,1030? This bill references another which goes to Title 18. Title 18,1030 reads:
(e) As used in this section--
(1) the term "computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device;
(2) the term "protected computer" means a computer--
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;
That *might* protect you buying something on eBay but I read that to mean it doesn't protect you regarding, for example, online banking necessarily. Phishing seems to prohibited in the SPY Act but I think this needs more analysis. I think the Act protects companies like Microsoft and others (Symantec?) that are using DRM and the like. A number of companies (*cough* Real Networks *cough*) get caught not infrequently sending off more information than they claim that they do; they apologize and do it again. So say they "encrypt" it in pig Latin because they aren't supposed to any longer. Now because you've decrypted it (as any American Kindergardener can do), you've now violated God knows how many other acts.
I'm not trying to say the sky is falling. These Acts could be a good start. But anyone who thinks this is the cure is a fool. Don't forget CAN-SPAM legitimized spam while being (mis-?)represented as outlawing it.
Frequently in the 3rd World, as us arrogant Westerners describe it, or the less developed world or whatever you call it, systems are shared. For example, a village will have one computer. When you spread the cost of this out between 50 families in a village in India that make far less than the per capita income, it becomes much more affordable. I suspect that this system with also be attractive to NGO's in regions like this and charitable foundations because they can spend less money and get greater distribution of technology and services.
Which is exactly why the speed limit when from 70 to 55 durring the oil crisis. Someone will correct me, but wind resistance is cubed every time you double your speed. Our old '84 caddilac with trip computer got 25mpg at 64mph, but got 17-19mpg at 70mph. Closer to 28mpg at 55mph.
Vehicle weight, shape, wheel weight, transmission gearing, differential, etc., all make a difference. I've driven a lot of different cars through the years, mainly VW's. I've had cars that got better mileage at 80MPG than at 55. I've had cars that I had to leave in 4th gear just to get decent mileage at 55MPG and cars where the 5th gear ratio was barely different than 4th.
I wouldn't call these comments informative or insightful except on a quite shallow basis.
I believe the date you mention is for the Apple that was sold as a kit. I received one of the first Apple ]['s, which came assembled and with a lot of upgrades over the kit version, through a Computerland store and was on the waiting list. It originally was to ship with 8kb or RAM but at the last minute Apple swithed them to 16kb. I believe I received mine in March/April 1978. Maybe May/June.
Hmmm. I wonder if a transparent caching proxy server benefits by having end users install this. Potentially less work for the transparent proxy. Time for some network analysis work.
Definitely. Not only to they try to sleeze their way into an upsell but I've received a lot of spam from them. Well, I used to until I started sending their mail to/dev/null.
And won't this be a Terms of Service violation for the P2P network? Open the vendor or those employing the device/services to lawsuits?
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Intentionally losing a lot of money when your are the largest player can be construed, at least in the US, as anti-competitive behaviour. And they are both US headquartered companies.
Less than a year ago, I was on the phone with the provisioning engineer for Adelphia for this area speaking to him for a few different clients. He stated that that link was carried back through Albany to Buffalo and confirmed that it was a single collision domain.
Unless something has changed in the past year, I'd say you are wrong, Anonymous Coward.
Additionally, I know several businesses that did in fact fact sign up for service. They don't have anyone on tap for support or security service. And they don't use a firewall but pay for public IPs or just have the one computer directly connected. And they ask why they see all these other computer, some well outside of Massachusetts and past Albany it the available documents indicate anything, in (take your pick of names) Network Neighborhood/My Network Places. One even showed me. In the past 6 weeks.
I'd say that constitutes a single collision domain.
Ronald Reagan and the conservative libertarians. No, that's not a flame-thrower attack. The Reagan presidency is when the Depression era protections began being stripped.
Not surprising. I had store clerks here in the good old US of A accuse me of trying to pass non-US currency with $ coins. Eventually, they took them but it took a little persuasion (that's some understatement, son).
But Christ on a crutch, this guy's not even going to need a good lawyer for the lawsuit he should have pending: possibly breech of contract or some other bad faith claim; making a false report; false arrest; and I'm sure it goes on and on! Not only will the store be liable, but the parent company, perhaps the individuals involved and the cops. And the stupidity!
No, I'm not a lawyer but this one's almost so good as to not need one.
Any of these can benefit too. Typically, drives use a lot of electricity. If one of these can go in an iPod, it can go in something else for storage. A RAID (pick your favorite type) of these could provide reasonably fast (fast enough anyway) storage for a SAN, NAS, file server, web server, etc. Since they are small, think of something like hot swap bays with these drives in a carrier like you get for a 3 1/2 drive. Except maybe 3 inches deep, each holding like 12 drives. Or as a standard 3 1/2" drive, a 1U chassic that normally takes 5 drives now can hold 6 TB...at todays ratio. At tomorrows, it probably would be substantially higher.
Electrical consumption in a data center is a big deal or for servers in a company is a big deal. Why else are many clusters looking to lower power consumption CPUs or blades? In a colo, sizing performance and power consumption properly results in less space needed for servers, smaller UPSes without loss of functionality, etc. Less space used means lower monthly charges in a colo and lower electric bills in a private data center.
Small physical size storage isn't just for unplugged devices anymore (if ever).
Just being sarcastic. This is kind of a vigilante tactic and it doubles the bandwidth consumption of spam, which IMHO, isn't a good thing. I recall a statistic published six or seven years ago that stated that roughly 40 percent of all internet traffic was AOL email. Sorry I don't recall the attribution. Extrapolate that to all email and the ration of real email to spam.
If IBM finds widespread adoption, the increase in bandwidth consumption would be huge. And just how do they propose to not spam innocents that are listed in forged headers? I supposed this could be coordinated with tcpdump or somesuch on a router or even implemented on a transparent mail proxy but again innocents will likely get bombarded or it could be used to DOS an innocent.
You just encrypt the passwords but not the data, if IIRC. Maybe think about something using the SSH protocol.
On Windows, the easiest solution/least expensive solution is probaby via Cygwin as another poster stated using SFTP from OpenSSH. If you need commercial software, I'd strongly recommed SecureFX from Van Dyke Software. Scriptable interface, supports FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL. From the command line, I believe it doesn't support FTP over SSL but I could be wrong.
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All of a sudden, they stumble upon Archemides with a canteen full of water! Archemides says "One of you can have this canteen and you'll live, but only if you walk half way to it, stop, walk half way to it, etc., etc.
The mathematic, in anquish, lays his head in his arm and start to cry. "It can't be done" he rages.
The engineer looks at the mathematician in disgust, shrugs his shoulders, walks half way, stops, walks half way, stop, etc., etc. Finally he stops next to it, leans over, picks up the canteen and drinks.
Archemides and the mathematician both are in shock. Archemides exclaims "but how did you do that -- it's impossible!"
Again, the engineer shrugs. "I got close enough for practical purposes!"
These would be a good place for these, either with embedded slower x86 or non-x86 systems, Via C-3 processors, etc. It could provide an excellent way to reduce network bottlenecks and retain low environmental costs. Those are things that throwing money at faster CPUs can't touch.
Is there anyone left that doesn't think MS is slowly trying to push there way into large market share and/or dominance across most areas? You can read that a monopolization if you like.
1st it was the desktop OS (Windows), then it was applications (MS Office, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express); the development with VB, C++; Visual Studio (.net), etc.; then server OS and client server applications; and handhelds. With the exception of consoles, they have followed the model of make all the "soft" bits and let others build the box. They've been extraordinarily successful.
Currently, they are working on elbowing their way into: cell phones; other things I can't think of at the moment; and now virtualization software. No doubt the virutalization is based on their acquisition of Virtual PC. This is a very lucrative coming market considering how powerful high end gear is now and how expensive. They consistently used the dominance in a related field to pressure their way into something else. As long as they are allowed to continue unabated, they'll continue, despite what the law says.
CA stock soared on higher than expected sales of it's antivirus and security offerings. Other vendors reported similar increased sales because of scared users and the press reporting on this "immenent" attack.
They need to account for the environmental costs (as do consumers). Nobody seems interested in doing this upfront but it needs to be part of the accounting scenario.
Ultimately it's still going to be the consumer that pays because the costs will be passed on. It's more appropriate here than a consumer tax on purchase or, God forbid what we've been dealing with in the US, environmental polution and Super Fund clean up sites. In these situations, the cost has been unfairly spread out among all Americans citizens (not the companies) because it's tax dollars that go to clean it up.
By putting the cost into the manufacturing end, it's tracked and paid equitably by all involved in the actual manufacturing and use. In theory, this should provide for less impact on the environment (and the living creatures within it) because then manufacturers are likely to seek to have a lower environmental impact.
...but their market share will slip.
While LCDs do a number of things well like use less electricity, take up less space, are in general terms easier on the eyes (radiation) and generally provide acceptable images, CRTs do a better job for high res, rapid display changes, etc.
I expect that the CRT will, as a previous poster suggest, evolve into a niche market. Something akin to, for example, BETAMAX. BETAMAX didn't completely go away even though most people didn't see that format tape any longer when VHS won "the war". It was still used for a longtime in broadcast (and in Japan) and videophiles paid a lot for highend BETAMAX tape decks and tapes that continued to be produced. BETA cost more but provided higher quality vido output than VHS while VHS was less expensive (and non-proprietary).
First let me say IANAL. I've been around them my whole life but that doesn't mean I am one. I have been told by some that I think like them though.
I don't think this quite protects like people seem to think it does.
I interpret Section 2a2D of the SPY Act to say it's okay to change security settings without the knowledge of the protected parties as long as you don't seek to do damage. Imagine a defensive claim that a change to weaken security settings is to make the computer easier to use and less confusing. Prove they had a different motive. That could be tough. No question that changing a settings of allowing ActiveX controls to always run makes it easier for a website targeting ActiveX capable browsers to run whatever they want "for the purpose" of serving their users and it's "easier" for their "customers" to use the site because then they don't have to bother with or know about changing browser security settings.
Additionally, has any one read Title 18,1030? This bill references another which goes to Title 18. Title 18,1030 reads:
(e) As used in this section--
(1) the term "computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device;
(2) the term "protected computer" means a computer--
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;
That *might* protect you buying something on eBay but I read that to mean it doesn't protect you regarding, for example, online banking necessarily. Phishing seems to prohibited in the SPY Act but I think this needs more analysis. I think the Act protects companies like Microsoft and others (Symantec?) that are using DRM and the like. A number of companies (*cough* Real Networks *cough*) get caught not infrequently sending off more information than they claim that they do; they apologize and do it again. So say they "encrypt" it in pig Latin because they aren't supposed to any longer. Now because you've decrypted it (as any American Kindergardener can do), you've now violated God knows how many other acts.
I'm not trying to say the sky is falling. These Acts could be a good start. But anyone who thinks this is the cure is a fool. Don't forget CAN-SPAM legitimized spam while being (mis-?)represented as outlawing it.
We don't but Netscape dialup customers are likely to install it.
You don't mention the type of instruments or data. Perhaps you could store it via syslog on a remote syslog server.
Frequently in the 3rd World, as us arrogant Westerners describe it, or the less developed world or whatever you call it, systems are shared. For example, a village will have one computer. When you spread the cost of this out between 50 families in a village in India that make far less than the per capita income, it becomes much more affordable. I suspect that this system with also be attractive to NGO's in regions like this and charitable foundations because they can spend less money and get greater distribution of technology and services.
Which is exactly why the speed limit when from 70 to 55 durring the oil crisis. Someone will correct me, but wind resistance is cubed every time you double your speed. Our old '84 caddilac with trip computer got 25mpg at 64mph, but got 17-19mpg at 70mph. Closer to 28mpg at 55mph.
Vehicle weight, shape, wheel weight, transmission gearing, differential, etc., all make a difference. I've driven a lot of different cars through the years, mainly VW's. I've had cars that got better mileage at 80MPG than at 55. I've had cars that I had to leave in 4th gear just to get decent mileage at 55MPG and cars where the 5th gear ratio was barely different than 4th.
I wouldn't call these comments informative or insightful except on a quite shallow basis.
first Apple II was sold on June 5, 1977
I believe the date you mention is for the Apple that was sold as a kit. I received one of the first Apple ]['s, which came assembled and with a lot of upgrades over the kit version, through a Computerland store and was on the waiting list. It originally was to ship with 8kb or RAM but at the last minute Apple swithed them to 16kb. I believe I received mine in March/April 1978. Maybe May/June.
Hmmm. I wonder if a transparent caching proxy server benefits by having end users install this. Potentially less work for the transparent proxy. Time for some network analysis work.
I was wondering how the members here at Slashdot feel about the security risks involved in submitting biometric data to small private companies?"
Tin foil hat aside, I don't feel comfortable in submitting biometric data to anyone or thing.
Definitely. Not only to they try to sleeze their way into an upsell but I've received a lot of spam from them. Well, I used to until I started sending their mail to /dev/null.
And won't this be a Terms of Service violation for the P2P network? Open the vendor or those employing the device/services to lawsuits?
Intentionally losing a lot of money when your are the largest player can be construed, at least in the US, as anti-competitive behaviour. And they are both US headquartered companies.
Less than a year ago, I was on the phone with the provisioning engineer for Adelphia for this area speaking to him for a few different clients. He stated that that link was carried back through Albany to Buffalo and confirmed that it was a single collision domain.
Unless something has changed in the past year, I'd say you are wrong, Anonymous Coward.
Additionally, I know several businesses that did in fact fact sign up for service. They don't have anyone on tap for support or security service. And they don't use a firewall but pay for public IPs or just have the one computer directly connected. And they ask why they see all these other computer, some well outside of Massachusetts and past Albany it the available documents indicate anything, in (take your pick of names) Network Neighborhood/My Network Places. One even showed me. In the past 6 weeks.
I'd say that constitutes a single collision domain.
If you are here in MA on Adelphia, your hub (collision domain) goes all the way to Buffalo. Mmm...arp spoofing...mmm....
Yea, I want to be connected to _THAT_ network...
Whatever happened to the Sherman anti-trust act?
Ronald Reagan and the conservative libertarians. No, that's not a flame-thrower attack. The Reagan presidency is when the Depression era protections began being stripped.
Not surprising. I had store clerks here in the good old US of A accuse me of trying to pass non-US currency with $ coins. Eventually, they took them but it took a little persuasion (that's some understatement, son).
But Christ on a crutch, this guy's not even going to need a good lawyer for the lawsuit he should have pending: possibly breech of contract or some other bad faith claim; making a false report; false arrest; and I'm sure it goes on and on! Not only will the store be liable, but the parent company, perhaps the individuals involved and the cops. And the stupidity!
No, I'm not a lawyer but this one's almost so good as to not need one.
Any of these can benefit too. Typically, drives use a lot of electricity. If one of these can go in an iPod, it can go in something else for storage. A RAID (pick your favorite type) of these could provide reasonably fast (fast enough anyway) storage for a SAN, NAS, file server, web server, etc. Since they are small, think of something like hot swap bays with these drives in a carrier like you get for a 3 1/2 drive. Except maybe 3 inches deep, each holding like 12 drives. Or as a standard 3 1/2" drive, a 1U chassic that normally takes 5 drives now can hold 6 TB...at todays ratio. At tomorrows, it probably would be substantially higher.
Electrical consumption in a data center is a big deal or for servers in a company is a big deal. Why else are many clusters looking to lower power consumption CPUs or blades? In a colo, sizing performance and power consumption properly results in less space needed for servers, smaller UPSes without loss of functionality, etc. Less space used means lower monthly charges in a colo and lower electric bills in a private data center.
Small physical size storage isn't just for unplugged devices anymore (if ever).
Okay, the subject sounds like I'm a troll.
Just being sarcastic. This is kind of a vigilante tactic and it doubles the bandwidth consumption of spam, which IMHO, isn't a good thing. I recall a statistic published six or seven years ago that stated that roughly 40 percent of all internet traffic was AOL email. Sorry I don't recall the attribution. Extrapolate that to all email and the ration of real email to spam.
If IBM finds widespread adoption, the increase in bandwidth consumption would be huge. And just how do they propose to not spam innocents that are listed in forged headers? I supposed this could be coordinated with tcpdump or somesuch on a router or even implemented on a transparent mail proxy but again innocents will likely get bombarded or it could be used to DOS an innocent.
You just encrypt the passwords but not the data, if IIRC. Maybe think about something using the SSH protocol.
On Windows, the easiest solution/least expensive solution is probaby via Cygwin as another poster stated using SFTP from OpenSSH. If you need commercial software, I'd strongly recommed SecureFX from Van Dyke Software. Scriptable interface, supports FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL. From the command line, I believe it doesn't support FTP over SSL but I could be wrong.
Yes, I'm going for an even split between funny and troll
You failed at both because your comment is insightful. Now I just want to cry.