Does the Athlon even support multiprocessor configurations? Don't forget that the processor itself needs some modifications in order to run more then one (cache coherency protocols, etc...). All of the Intel chips since the Pentium Pro have had this capability, but I'm not sure about the Athlon.
I have to disagree with you on a few points. Not ALL encryption is public-key based and even if it WAS public-key based there is a difference between excrypting a message and a digital signiture on a message. Hell, anyone could take my public-key and send me a message... The only thing we know for sure then is that I received a message from "someone" with this content. This "someone" is presumed from the senders email, but we all know how useless that really is. Now if the email in encrypted AND signed, then we can start to talk about guaranteed authenticity. As long as the passphrases weren't compromized... I wonder what a lawyer could do with the fact that say, RSA, isn't TRULY secure. It is only secure based on the idea that we THINK that factoring large prime numbers is really hard...So the digital signiture is also just PRESUMED to be authentic.
So, does anybody know what sort of security this kind of memory would afford? Would I be able to "read" your memory from out side of the system by putting some device within some distance of the magnetic memory and watching the magnetic fields? (ok, so they're real small and weak, but i'm sure some real sensitive equipment could be built) Seems like it could make Echelon's job a little easier;)
You know, even though you probably just meant that as a joke, it makes sense to me... I guess embedded systems will need to be realtime in many cases. I still stand by the fact that they are also two seperate ideas though.
There is a difference between realtime and embedded systems... Last I check realtime had nothing to do with fridges, toasters, or any embedded hardware. Realtime is all about dealing with actual time, embedded deal with non-standard platforms. What am I missing here?
Maybe you're onto something here.... Perhaps one of the states will be smart enough to stay out of this. Create a tax-free internet zone (sortof like vegas where everything illegal is legal). Then they can attract all of the e-business and rake in the money... Nevada? are you listening to this?? Or else everyone will just go offshore to some internet friendly country where they can bury their money anyway.
The developers were probably doing this to avoid someone mucking up their billing scheme. If they bill some of the sites based on how many hits they got from users with their software, they needed a way to count unique hits. what's better than a unique id for each user? Any better idea? My guess (and just a guess!) would be that the marketing department didn't even know this data was available.
The big issue with Lockheed Martin was that while the data was not necesarilly sensitive or proprietary, it may have violated insider trading and securities laws. This has been a story circulating around LM for weeks now. Some employees have been posting alot of information that really shouldn't be public. By making it public it distorts the minds of those who make big stock deals. For the most part making the stock a "do not buy" rating because of the bad publicity.
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So how does this PTPMP you are suggesting differ from a NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) setup?
Does the Athlon even support multiprocessor configurations? Don't forget that the processor itself needs some modifications in order to run more then one (cache coherency protocols, etc...). All of the Intel chips since the Pentium Pro have had this capability, but I'm not sure about the Athlon.
I have to disagree with you on a few points. Not ALL encryption is public-key based and even if it WAS public-key based there is a difference between excrypting a message and a digital signiture on a message. Hell, anyone could take my public-key and send me a message... The only thing we know for sure then is that I received a message from "someone" with this content. This "someone" is presumed from the senders email, but we all know how useless that really is. Now if the email in encrypted AND signed, then we can start to talk about guaranteed authenticity. As long as the passphrases weren't compromized... I wonder what a lawyer could do with the fact that say, RSA, isn't TRULY secure. It is only secure based on the idea that we THINK that factoring large prime numbers is really hard...So the digital signiture is also just PRESUMED to be authentic.
So, does anybody know what sort of security this kind of memory would afford? Would I be able to "read" your memory from out side of the system by putting some device within some distance of the magnetic memory and watching the magnetic fields? (ok, so they're real small and weak, but i'm sure some real sensitive equipment could be built) Seems like it could make Echelon's job a little easier ;)
You know, even though you probably just meant that as a joke, it makes sense to me... I guess embedded systems will need to be realtime in many cases. I still stand by the fact that they are also two seperate ideas though.
There is a difference between realtime and embedded systems... Last I check realtime had nothing to do with fridges, toasters, or any embedded hardware. Realtime is all about dealing with actual time, embedded deal with non-standard platforms. What am I missing here?
Maybe you're onto something here.... Perhaps one of the states will be smart enough to stay out of this. Create a tax-free internet zone (sortof like vegas where everything illegal is legal). Then they can attract all of the e-business and rake in the money... Nevada? are you listening to this?? Or else everyone will just go offshore to some internet friendly country where they can bury their money anyway.
The developers were probably doing this to avoid someone mucking up their billing scheme. If they bill some of the sites based on how many hits they got from users with their software, they needed a way to count unique hits. what's better than a unique id for each user? Any better idea?
My guess (and just a guess!) would be that the marketing department didn't even know this data was available.
The big issue with Lockheed Martin was that while the data was not necesarilly sensitive or proprietary, it may have violated insider trading and securities laws. This has been a story circulating around LM for weeks now. Some employees have been posting alot of information that really shouldn't be public. By making it public it distorts the minds of those who make big stock deals. For the most part making the stock a "do not buy" rating because of the bad publicity.