I know that is not enough to securely wipe a traditional hd. the current standard is 7 passes of random 1s and 0s. even worse than that, I have had people who formerly worked nsa tell my that really sensitive data is only considered gone when they have dismantled the drive and melted the platters in acid.
it seems that it will first ask if you if you are lost. if you say no it will try to talk you into going into the neighboring store because they helped pay for it. though, if you say yes, it will probably still try to talk you into going into said neighboring store while walking with you to your destination and looking for its next victim.
I agree. I know I will be called out on anecdotal data here but I have known more than one person with alcohol problems or who are smokers who are actually quite bright. everyone knows of the archetypal substance abusing tortured genius. I'm not saying that alcoholism is a sign of intelligence but rather that it is a poor indicator of stupidity, in this case shown through repetitive poor decisions.
take a look at alcatel-lucent's long haul microwave equipment. its not cheap, but there is a market for building your own high availability secure long distance wireless backbone. I personally know of 2 projects that have done just that. even if that weren't the case, one look at our defense budget in america should prove any "affordability" arguments are not really valid. I'm sure some general's minesweeper/email client at his desk is on the internet, but they are not sending the "big red button" codes over the internet.
a long long time ago darpa was the only entity on the internet. then universities came on, and now its everybody. if you think darpa still has their mission critical systems on the internet you are mistaken. rolling out your own backbone has become simple and cheap enough that its worth it for them for the increased security that keeping their data out of the internet cloud provides.
I am thinking these centralized computers would be maintained by professionals, assuring they will be virus free.[don't laugh too hard yet... the jokes not over] if that is the case I think the telcos would love the reduced bandwith requirements of *only* having to pass every byte of every app I decide to use down the "tubes" instead of all that botnet traffic they need to deal with now.
it may not make a replacement for everything, but unless I am mistaken I have already seen electric toothbrushes that use something similar over very short distances. the advantage is they don't have to insulate any leads or connectors from the water it will inevitably be exposed to. a sealed case is always better than a sealed case with a rubber plug over the one opening where you give it power. range is not an issue because you are still dropping it into a charging dock [sitting it right on the transmitter] when the time comes to charge.
I also think another great idea would be to make the surface of a desk the transmitter, that way anyone can walk up and sit a laptop on it and their batteries never die. it would also have the nifty feature of powering you wireless mouse, or even speakers a monitor and a external keyboard on your desk at home with one power line to the wall.
not at all, it could be done. but it would piss off the public. not many people are as technology obsessed as most/.ers, and that means they don't have tv's that are capable of working without a converter after the switch is done. my understanding is that the subsidizing of converters is supposed to cost less than the revenue generated by the auction of non public safety portions of the newly freed spectrum.
does the network you work on have backup power? working on one of these "new" emergency systems I can assure you the critical "centralized intelligence" has backup power that allows it to stay up for weeks at a time without power from the traditional power grid. neither 9/11 or katrina had the type of emergency radio, "new" as you put it, that the 700 mhz band is going to be used to create. so questioning the service there is evidence that we need this new spectrum and new style of network to improve the service these critical agencies can provide.
yeah its terrible to see this money wasted on tv. if you did a little bit of reading on this you would find out that this is a small part of a major fcc rebanding. the tv aspect in particular will create newly freed frequencies for use by emergency services radio. ["Block D of the spectrum will be used for a national public safety network" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_Mhz_wireless_spectrum_auction%5D so you sound cool to the anti government crowd, but I personally am glad to see money being spent to improve our safety here in america in a very real way.
actually I am going to have to second gpp here. think for just a moment about the vision of an eagle compared to ours. their vision is developed similarly to ours only with more "sensors". I've never even seen any indication that eagles are at the high end of what an eye of similar basic design can do. if we were to conjecture that they might have vision based on an eye of superior design, it becomes downright stupid to make assumptions about what the world looks like to them. from where we sit its nearly impossible to comprehend what the world looks like to the eagle. I think there is far more room for variations in life within the laws of physics than you are willing to imagine because you are limited by things like that and have never been without those limits.
the thing is, are we talking about the $10k to $25k servers here again? because I don't see how getting peripheral support for that is ever going to help improve the 50 meg driver for my hp color laserjet. even linux on their vostro line is going to be using very different peripherals that a home user. unless I am mistaken the support for those business class peripherals is already better than home user parts and peripherals. I don't care to argue which one of those is most important to increase linux's foothold, or even if that is what is best for the community. I just wanted to point out that I don't think that dell's small number of linux offerings is enough to make a dent in the linux hardware support issue, especially across all real world applications.
those with the initiative to pick up after the puppy, to follow your analogy, probably were willing to work to pay for the puppy. [stretching here] that is to say they probably built a custom server. I know that is a big task for a fortune 500 type enterprise server, but most of dells server market is smaller servers than that from what I have seen. if they really wanted to just duck the "ms tax" they would have been asking for clean HDs out of the box. less work for dell and gives them a clean slate to install their own linux. it seems pretty clear the "please preinstall linux" crowd was planning to snowball it to "please support linux" when you look at it that way.
I didn't think anyone intended this for the main pipes of a SAN. I thought it was for bringing those individual spindles back the the FC switch. then using fiber for the big links. though to be honest my understanding of FC SANs is poor, I am honestly posting more to get someone to explain it to me because I said something wrong than to try to enlighten others.
I am not too sure about the latency, but I don't know of any storage solution that can saturate 10 Gb sustained speeds. except maybe something like gigabytes array of ram as a hd system. simply reducing the number of drives on a daisy chain should keep you running happily as far as throughput goes.
actually it was tagged wireless, then the wireless tag disappeared for a while, then the !wireless tag appeared. fortunately for me those with mod points were on when my joke was still relevant, no wasting of my "excellent" karma.
I actually gave opera a try yesterday because of this articles first round on the/. mainpage. nothing to do with the politics, just wanted to try it out because its free [as in beer] and cross platform. the browser itself seemed pretty solid compared to other browsers out of the box capabilities. it was fast and lightweight and the phonebook is kinda cool. however I found "content blocker" to be an annoyance now that I am used to adblock plus keeping its list up to date for me. the ability to control scripts on a domain by domain basis like noscript allows seemed not very intuitive if its even possible. the ability to transparently force all gmail links to use https is nonexistant. for those 3 reasons I am back to firefox after only an hour or so. if you are using IE or no plugins in firefox its much better. I however am addicted to noscript, adblock plus, and customize google and couldn't find a way to mimic the features in those plugins that I use regularly.
the bureaucracy and red tape of getting two companies that size to coordinate even something as simple as sending an email would probably take them longer to get the information that either of those security products could hold them up for.
if mcaffee is the only thing we have protecting us we might as well just give them an email address they can send their requests to and hire a team of people to promptly respond with whatever they want to know.
This is a very very good point in a humorous tone some might miss. there is a lot of discussion about the privacy/access to knowledge aspects of the great firewall of China. no one seems to be drawing the correlation that much of this "cyber cold war" traffic is coming from or going to China, makes one wonder if those aspects of this firewall are really strawmen to keep people from talking about it really being a defense from other governments trying to track and retaliate against Chinas outgoing "cyber cold war" attacks.
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actually gp was quoting south parks mockery of the RIAA's claims that artists make lots of money from album sales.
built into the device? now that is cool! personally I've always wanted to watch one of the thermite grenade emergency data "deletions"
I know that is not enough to securely wipe a traditional hd. the current standard is 7 passes of random 1s and 0s. even worse than that, I have had people who formerly worked nsa tell my that really sensitive data is only considered gone when they have dismantled the drive and melted the platters in acid.
it seems that it will first ask if you if you are lost. if you say no it will try to talk you into going into the neighboring store because they helped pay for it. though, if you say yes, it will probably still try to talk you into going into said neighboring store while walking with you to your destination and looking for its next victim.
I agree. I know I will be called out on anecdotal data here but I have known more than one person with alcohol problems or who are smokers who are actually quite bright. everyone knows of the archetypal substance abusing tortured genius. I'm not saying that alcoholism is a sign of intelligence but rather that it is a poor indicator of stupidity, in this case shown through repetitive poor decisions.
take a look at alcatel-lucent's long haul microwave equipment. its not cheap, but there is a market for building your own high availability secure long distance wireless backbone. I personally know of 2 projects that have done just that. even if that weren't the case, one look at our defense budget in america should prove any "affordability" arguments are not really valid. I'm sure some general's minesweeper/email client at his desk is on the internet, but they are not sending the "big red button" codes over the internet.
a long long time ago darpa was the only entity on the internet. then universities came on, and now its everybody. if you think darpa still has their mission critical systems on the internet you are mistaken. rolling out your own backbone has become simple and cheap enough that its worth it for them for the increased security that keeping their data out of the internet cloud provides.
I am thinking these centralized computers would be maintained by professionals, assuring they will be virus free.[don't laugh too hard yet... the jokes not over] if that is the case I think the telcos would love the reduced bandwith requirements of *only* having to pass every byte of every app I decide to use down the "tubes" instead of all that botnet traffic they need to deal with now.
it may not make a replacement for everything, but unless I am mistaken I have already seen electric toothbrushes that use something similar over very short distances. the advantage is they don't have to insulate any leads or connectors from the water it will inevitably be exposed to. a sealed case is always better than a sealed case with a rubber plug over the one opening where you give it power. range is not an issue because you are still dropping it into a charging dock [sitting it right on the transmitter] when the time comes to charge.
I also think another great idea would be to make the surface of a desk the transmitter, that way anyone can walk up and sit a laptop on it and their batteries never die. it would also have the nifty feature of powering you wireless mouse, or even speakers a monitor and a external keyboard on your desk at home with one power line to the wall.
my view-blocking lane-filling massive-accident-causing CO2-belching monster SUV is a Toyota and gets 18 mpg you insensitive clod!
not at all, it could be done. but it would piss off the public. not many people are as technology obsessed as most /.ers, and that means they don't have tv's that are capable of working without a converter after the switch is done. my understanding is that the subsidizing of converters is supposed to cost less than the revenue generated by the auction of non public safety portions of the newly freed spectrum.
does the network you work on have backup power? working on one of these "new" emergency systems I can assure you the critical "centralized intelligence" has backup power that allows it to stay up for weeks at a time without power from the traditional power grid. neither 9/11 or katrina had the type of emergency radio, "new" as you put it, that the 700 mhz band is going to be used to create. so questioning the service there is evidence that we need this new spectrum and new style of network to improve the service these critical agencies can provide.
yeah its terrible to see this money wasted on tv. if you did a little bit of reading on this you would find out that this is a small part of a major fcc rebanding. the tv aspect in particular will create newly freed frequencies for use by emergency services radio. ["Block D of the spectrum will be used for a national public safety network" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_Mhz_wireless_spectrum_auction%5D so you sound cool to the anti government crowd, but I personally am glad to see money being spent to improve our safety here in america in a very real way.
actually I am going to have to second gpp here. think for just a moment about the vision of an eagle compared to ours. their vision is developed similarly to ours only with more "sensors". I've never even seen any indication that eagles are at the high end of what an eye of similar basic design can do. if we were to conjecture that they might have vision based on an eye of superior design, it becomes downright stupid to make assumptions about what the world looks like to them. from where we sit its nearly impossible to comprehend what the world looks like to the eagle. I think there is far more room for variations in life within the laws of physics than you are willing to imagine because you are limited by things like that and have never been without those limits.
I've been googling myself at a pretty steady frequency since about the time I turned 13!
the thing is, are we talking about the $10k to $25k servers here again? because I don't see how getting peripheral support for that is ever going to help improve the 50 meg driver for my hp color laserjet. even linux on their vostro line is going to be using very different peripherals that a home user. unless I am mistaken the support for those business class peripherals is already better than home user parts and peripherals. I don't care to argue which one of those is most important to increase linux's foothold, or even if that is what is best for the community. I just wanted to point out that I don't think that dell's small number of linux offerings is enough to make a dent in the linux hardware support issue, especially across all real world applications.
those with the initiative to pick up after the puppy, to follow your analogy, probably were willing to work to pay for the puppy. [stretching here] that is to say they probably built a custom server. I know that is a big task for a fortune 500 type enterprise server, but most of dells server market is smaller servers than that from what I have seen. if they really wanted to just duck the "ms tax" they would have been asking for clean HDs out of the box. less work for dell and gives them a clean slate to install their own linux. it seems pretty clear the "please preinstall linux" crowd was planning to snowball it to "please support linux" when you look at it that way.
I didn't think anyone intended this for the main pipes of a SAN. I thought it was for bringing those individual spindles back the the FC switch. then using fiber for the big links. though to be honest my understanding of FC SANs is poor, I am honestly posting more to get someone to explain it to me because I said something wrong than to try to enlighten others.
I am not too sure about the latency, but I don't know of any storage solution that can saturate 10 Gb sustained speeds. except maybe something like gigabytes array of ram as a hd system. simply reducing the number of drives on a daisy chain should keep you running happily as far as throughput goes.
actually it was tagged wireless, then the wireless tag disappeared for a while, then the !wireless tag appeared. fortunately for me those with mod points were on when my joke was still relevant, no wasting of my "excellent" karma.
what moron tagged a story about fire"wire" "wireless"?
I actually gave opera a try yesterday because of this articles first round on the /. mainpage. nothing to do with the politics, just wanted to try it out because its free [as in beer] and cross platform. the browser itself seemed pretty solid compared to other browsers out of the box capabilities. it was fast and lightweight and the phonebook is kinda cool. however I found "content blocker" to be an annoyance now that I am used to adblock plus keeping its list up to date for me. the ability to control scripts on a domain by domain basis like noscript allows seemed not very intuitive if its even possible. the ability to transparently force all gmail links to use https is nonexistant. for those 3 reasons I am back to firefox after only an hour or so. if you are using IE or no plugins in firefox its much better. I however am addicted to noscript, adblock plus, and customize google and couldn't find a way to mimic the features in those plugins that I use regularly.
the bureaucracy and red tape of getting two companies that size to coordinate even something as simple as sending an email would probably take them longer to get the information that either of those security products could hold them up for.
if mcaffee is the only thing we have protecting us we might as well just give them an email address they can send their requests to and hire a team of people to promptly respond with whatever they want to know.
This is a very very good point in a humorous tone some might miss. there is a lot of discussion about the privacy/access to knowledge aspects of the great firewall of China. no one seems to be drawing the correlation that much of this "cyber cold war" traffic is coming from or going to China, makes one wonder if those aspects of this firewall are really strawmen to keep people from talking about it really being a defense from other governments trying to track and retaliate against Chinas outgoing "cyber cold war" attacks.