Wouldn't you think that, in the 10 or so years he's been maintaining the kernel, he already evaluated it? Just because there was never a press release doesn't mean he rejected CVS out of hand and has never tinkered with it in his spare time.
> No, I still get an electric bill every month,
> and they don't hesitate to turn it off if I
> miss a payment
Bzzt, check local regulation. It's different from state to state but in a couple places I've lived, "basic" utilities are required to grant a grace period before deactivating service. Power is one of them. I think it was in Oregon where they were not allowed to shut off your power for 15 days after serving you a warning that you hadn't paid the bill.
Note this would be a period in addition to the normal "detection" period, that month or two it takes them to realize they aren't getting money from you.
Certain utilities are considered a basic "right". Though I do agree that internet access is not one of them.;)
Two freakin' comments in this thread when I view it, and wininformant is already refusing connections. Shame too, cuz I got plenty to say on the subject but it's kinda hard to make informed statements when you can't even read the link.
Suppose I could just base my post off the story submission like most other readers do, but nah, that'd be irresponsible.;)
> and is frustrating a lot of people who are
> involved in the kernel with the risk of losing
> them.
The thing I don't get is why these people are goofing around with the kernel to begin with. Isn't one of the biggest virtues of kernel modules the ability to plug 'em in to a running system. New version? Build a new one, unuse & unload the current, and load the new one.
Why can't people who write drivers distribute them under their OWN energy? Why must the kernel be monolithic? Why not trim down the kernel to little more than a core, let linus distribute/patch THAT.
It's worked for windows for a decade now; maybe M$'s method isn't ideal either but being able to go to a vendor website, getting a driver, and dropping it into the system seems a hell of a lot more convenient than waiting for a lone man to include something in a source tree.
Seems to me the kernel is pushing into the future in all the wrong areas, when some of it's features are still living in the dark ages.
Most systems use a mere fraction of the drivers included in the kernel. This wastes bandwidth, configuration time, possibly memory, definetly disk space.
The "research" paper this article is based on has been earning some decent discussion in EQ communities the past week or so. In the ones I participate in, some interesting discredits came to light:
1) The survey was self-selecting. Hardly a valid research tool.
2) Poorly worded survey questions. They were geared towards provoking a specific response.
3) Time. This person played the game for an immensely short amount of time. People have been playing this game for two YEARS. The researcher put in around a week.
There's more, like how his favorite city was Qeynos (definetly not a place anyone sticks around to enjoy, Qeynos is at the butt end of Norrath), but you get the point.
I find it appalling that a "reputable" source like new scientist is actually giving this guy's poor research this kind of air time.
MAC address. The mac address remains the same inside the packet regardless of what the IP's are. If they notice multiple mac addresses coming from your direction, indications are pretty strong you're using nat.
Gonna be expensive on their routers, but it's probably trivial to implement some kind of alarm system that tracks bandwidth usage, and flags people for later inspection by a flesh and blood.
Don't think you can just rewrite packets to mask the mac address, since I believe the nat gateway uses the address to map packets back to the real destination host.
As interesting as chess is, "action" is a pretty piss-poor word to describe the game.
Suspense, maybe. Action, not unless steven segal burst in and sprayed the place down with a machine gun.
Pick yourself up a set of baoding balls. Other popular hand excercisers work, like those squishy things or even playing with a deck of cards, but these balls are immediatley recognizable to a lot of people and are a lot of fun to play with to boot.
There's no reason to even let CTS become an issue to you; work out your hand while you're sitting there mulling over a piece of code and not only will it make your hands feel a lot more nimble, it'll sooth the inflammation that causes that numb feeling.
I have no personal investment in these things, this isn't a plug. Just something I started doing once my fingers got numb one day and the effect was nearly immediate, my hand felt better within a few hours.
For the link dependent, here is another person saying pretty much the same thing (with some other ideas, which I'm not exactly prepared to try out;).
These guys basically just reinvented Windows then, right?
They advertise that this program has the ability (given proper plugins) to read any content type, modify it, and keep everything in a tidy package to present a uniform interface to a user. You could seriously modify their product description and replace "plug-in" with "application" and you could describe pretty much any OS in existence.
Maybe I'm just hard to impress. But it seems to me the last thing anyone needs is yet another monolithic application that tries to do everything.
> but blackbox is the screamer lightweight favorite
> Window Manager.
Maybe in the current pantheon of "modern" window managers, but it still ranks pretty low against some ancestors.
The fvwm breed, including afterstep 1.0, are immensely easy on the memory (heck I ran as 1.0 just fine on my 486 with four megs of ram all those years ago), and support a greater feature set than blackbox.
BB suffers from a serious case of "my way or no way" from the programmer. The manager is tuned to his tastes strictly and without deviation, which makes it hard to tune things to satisfy.
afterstep 1.0 otoh supports images (bb doesn't), key bindings (bb doesn't without added modules), and when I tested afterstep actually used less memory than bb. bb also does some other odd wheel-reinventings, like the bsetroot command.. why isn't xsetroot good enough? bb also has an odd homegrown config/theme setup, while fvwm and afterstep benefit from a very old and very documented configuration scheme.
Incidentially I did this testing earlier today.. heh, quiet day at work.
Moral of the story being, afterstep 1.0 may be 4-5 years old now but it can still give blackbox a run for it's money.
> and only connect the machine to any network
> (internal and external)
If you're unable to do this (due to staggered billing or something) the "next best" option is a heavily restricted network.
Give your machine with the personal information precisely one network connection and plug it into precisely one machine that can talk to the secured machine on precisely one port. Have your border firewall or equivalent drop any outgoing packets from either of these machines. Only let people do work on this machine from the console. Also use a straight cable between the machines.. ethernet port to ethernet port, crossover cable.
Then you have your webserver talk to the intermediate machine to handle transactions. Process submits authorization or billing request to intermediary, intermediary talks with the database, and issues a "yes" or "no" to the querying program. At some point you'll probably have to actually transmit user data to actually do the billing, so obviously everything in this chain will be encrypted.
Then install the best intrusion detection tools you can find/afford on all these machines and hire alert people to monitor logs. Treat any unexpected traffic as an attack and have someone walk over to your machines and physically unplug the machine from the intermediary until the situation can be identified/resolved.
This obviously assumes one believes that physical separation is important and effective, which I happen to do.;) This also kinda relies on a security through obscurity standpoint, which contrary to popular belief can actually be useful as long as you don't let it lull you into complacency.
If server theft is a concern you'll also want to yank out floppy drives, physically secure the server somehow, look the bios, and if you absolutely require being able to copy data to this machine give it a read-only cdrom drive.
IMO, I wouldn't back up the server except for a hard drive image you can use to reinstall everything to a known state. Were I joe online shopper, I'd much rather re-enter cc info than worry that tapes were floating around the country with my data on it.
If you did even half of this, you'd have several times the level of safety than I've personally seen on some other online merchants, and I've been through a good number of data centers.
This link appears to be the "internet source" of the guy who fried himself on the power line. Criteria being, most pages I found relating to this event pointed to this link.
I seem to recall seeing other pictures from this event at some point in the past, but they're turning up really hard to find.
Turns out the guy that did this ended up surviving.. crazy stuff. Wish there was more info on it cuz these sorts of things always facinate me.;)
They're not really ignoring the order, as presented in the news post.
More like they're trying to squirm out of the deal by either claiming they can't shut it down (being de-centralized and all that), or that doing so would violate previous court orders. They're not ignoring by any means, they're attempting to squirm.
Redundant, probably, but it's posted with the intent of staving off some of the "woohoo stick it to the man!" posts.
> I bet you drank sugary drinks as a child, didn't you?
Well duh, what kid exists that doesn't make it through childhood without a bit of kool-aid? My parents were never big soda drinkers, either. Anything we did have around the house was diet soda. And it was never with meals; was either fruit juice or milk at our house.
> I didn't say that every case is strictly lifestyle-related.
Well if 5-10 percent of all cases of diabetes are the childhood type 1 kind, that still leaves about 1.2 million people who develop the disease through no significant fault of their own (or as the case may be, their parents).
So if you're going to make accusatory statements about lifestyle you need to take care to specify quantities better than by using the term "nearly always".
> Diabetes, now reaching epidemic proportions in
> adults and children, is nearly always caused by
> a poor diet.
Dude, feel free to talk about your eczema however you want because you probably know a fair a bit about it but don't EVEN go spouting this crap about diabetics unless you're going to get your facts straight.
There's two types of diabetes. While I'll grant that one of them is triggered by lifestyle (but that's not all there is to it, else EVERY obese person in the world would be diabetic, which obviously isn't the case), the other is strictly hereditery.
It usually hits kids just as they start going into puberty; sixth grade and around in there. It has nothing to do with lifestyle; I spent easily half my time tearing around the neighrbood with friends and I was within a few pounds of "average" weight, yet fate still plucked me out and gave me the disease.
Unless of course you're prepared to claim that having an active childhood causes diabetes..
Diabetes is hereditary. Fact, end of story. If I sound pissed off, it's because I am.
> It sure does seem overpriced for only a 40G hard drive.
I dunno, if the audio out is as high quality as they claim in the press release, 1500 seems about par for the course for good home stereo equipment. Especially for stuff in the "early adopter" category, it's always marked up a large percentage over what the price would be in a year or two.
I mean if someone can shell out 500 bucks for some floor standing speakers and another grand on an amp/cd/radio reciever(s), that much cash for something state of the art shouldn't be too much of a shock.
At least, it wouldn't be in that fantasy land I heard about once where worthless websites got sold for millions of dollars, so who knows how it'll pan out these days.
> You are to expect bugs and problems with the
> 2.5.x series and generally it is not
> recommended that you install it UNLESS you can
> program and debug kernel stuff
They shoulda stuck this warning to the 2.4.x kernels too.;)
Sure it's gotten better in 2.4.16, but man it was a rocky road up to that point. Way it seems to me, if there's so little effective difference between a "beta" kernel and a "stable" one, warning about status is kind of irrelevant.
1) don't use grocery store swipe cards
2) don't use these televisions
3) don't watch tv.
That's what I did anyways. I do all my grocery shopping in cash, don't swipe any cards, and I haven't turned my tv on in months. I'm not particularily paranoid, I just don't like people mining me for data unless there's some tangible benefit I get out of it, and I don't consider targeted advertising a benefit.;)
> How in the hell does it know how he responds to
> the humorous commercials?
Simple. Joe watches a funny commercial about margarine. Joe goes to the store a few days later, picks up some margarine. Since the funny commercial is fresh in his mind, he's more inclined to pick up the margarine that made him laugh.
So he goes to the checkout line, swipes that handy card the store gave him to get discounts on certain items, and the computer promptly inserts into a database somewhere every item you just bought.. including the funny margarine.
So now the TV people and the grocery store people link up their databases, and discover that Joe started buying brand X margarine three days after they ran this new funny commercial.
It's not a direct connection, and probably not even terribly accurate, but if enough people respond to an advertisement this way and margarine guys end up selling 1% more product, that is a major deal to them. So even if they miss a few times, they come out ahead.
> These files routinely are mailed on tape rather
> than transmitted electronically. "FedEx is a
> hell of a lot more reliable than FTP when
> you're running 20 Mbytes,"
Having worked in the industry they mention, I'd hazard that they don't use ftp more because of the illusion of security than anything else. People in the EDA world (which is where I worked, and has a close relationship with chip manufacturers) are immensely paranoid about people getting ahold of their chip designs, because if someone steals that.. you not only lose your next chip, you enable someone else to make it for you.
These people just don't trust firewalls and ftp yet, but they do trust putting a tape in an envelope and snail mailing it. At the very least it makes someone liable if the letter gets stolen, which you can't do with electronic transfers..
At any rate, ftp is plenty reliable for transfering 20mb files.. I do it every time a new game demo comes out.:P Maybe they meant 20gb. Cuz I've seen chip designs + noise analysis + whatever take dozens of gigs.
It's pretty obvious that the main stumbling block is getting new connections into houses. Houses are traditionally built with two wire based connections; power and phone. In the past couple decades it's included cable, which is another market that's developing (developed?) a strong monopoly over their local domains.
Remember when cable started coming in back in the 80's? They had to send trucks down every road in every neighborhood burying a cable to get into your building.
That's obviously what these guys are doing, but doing it by loopholing themselves around regulations to cut some of the costs.
I see these "ADCo's" going through a struggling uphill climb, again, a lot like cable companies did twenty years ago. Robots and sewer lines are nice, but I think they'd be much better served to just duplicate the cable company business model instead of looking for instant gratification type solutions, because it's proven to work.
IMO, when construction companies start realizing that people need more than three wires into a house, they'll start laying fiber under neighborhoods and selling it to local companies. Now *that* would be a moneymaker; laying extra lines would be dirt cheap if you already have the ground torn up.
It's your car. You can do what you want with it. If you don't wanna put out the effort to hack in the features you want with a level of security that you want, that's not the manufacturer's fault, it's your fault for being lazy.;)
Your alternative option is to buy a car thirty years old (air cooled VW's come highly reccomended) and just set up a servo to short circuit the wires you need short circuited, and presto, instant remote start.
Just don't leave the car in gear when to go to bed at night; use the emergency brake.;)
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> Does anyone know how much heat each if these
> blades will generate?
My guess is that the people who these things will be marketed for won't care how much heat they generate.
Think about it.. you're some struggling dotcom who's managed to survive the blowout and are just barely keeping your head above water. All your servers are located at a hosting firm where they charge an assload of cash for rackspace.
Here's the caveat.. they DON'T charge you for excessive power consumption or heat output. At least, they didn't a while back when I still worked in the area, I admit it could be different now. But the point is, your goal is to get as many CPU's into as few rack units as possible, and if it starts melting the rack cuz yer making so much heat, you don't care. That's the ISP's issue, because they don't charge you for cold air.
Now obviously part of the air conditioning is covered in your monthly fee, but they don't scale it based on how much heat you're making. All hosting firms worry about is ethernet drops and rack units.
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Wouldn't you think that, in the 10 or so years he's been maintaining the kernel, he already evaluated it? Just because there was never a press release doesn't mean he rejected CVS out of hand and has never tinkered with it in his spare time.
> No, I still get an electric bill every month,
;)
> and they don't hesitate to turn it off if I
> miss a payment
Bzzt, check local regulation. It's different from state to state but in a couple places I've lived, "basic" utilities are required to grant a grace period before deactivating service. Power is one of them. I think it was in Oregon where they were not allowed to shut off your power for 15 days after serving you a warning that you hadn't paid the bill.
Note this would be a period in addition to the normal "detection" period, that month or two it takes them to realize they aren't getting money from you.
Certain utilities are considered a basic "right". Though I do agree that internet access is not one of them.
Two freakin' comments in this thread when I view it, and wininformant is already refusing connections. Shame too, cuz I got plenty to say on the subject but it's kinda hard to make informed statements when you can't even read the link.
;)
Suppose I could just base my post off the story submission like most other readers do, but nah, that'd be irresponsible.
/rant off
> and is frustrating a lot of people who are
> involved in the kernel with the risk of losing
> them.
The thing I don't get is why these people are goofing around with the kernel to begin with. Isn't one of the biggest virtues of kernel modules the ability to plug 'em in to a running system. New version? Build a new one, unuse & unload the current, and load the new one.
Why can't people who write drivers distribute them under their OWN energy? Why must the kernel be monolithic? Why not trim down the kernel to little more than a core, let linus distribute/patch THAT.
It's worked for windows for a decade now; maybe M$'s method isn't ideal either but being able to go to a vendor website, getting a driver, and dropping it into the system seems a hell of a lot more convenient than waiting for a lone man to include something in a source tree.
Seems to me the kernel is pushing into the future in all the wrong areas, when some of it's features are still living in the dark ages.
Most systems use a mere fraction of the drivers included in the kernel. This wastes bandwidth, configuration time, possibly memory, definetly disk space.
The "research" paper this article is based on has been earning some decent discussion in EQ communities the past week or so. In the ones I participate in, some interesting discredits came to light:
1) The survey was self-selecting. Hardly a valid research tool.
2) Poorly worded survey questions. They were geared towards provoking a specific response.
3) Time. This person played the game for an immensely short amount of time. People have been playing this game for two YEARS. The researcher put in around a week.
There's more, like how his favorite city was Qeynos (definetly not a place anyone sticks around to enjoy, Qeynos is at the butt end of Norrath), but you get the point.
I find it appalling that a "reputable" source like new scientist is actually giving this guy's poor research this kind of air time.
MAC address. The mac address remains the same inside the packet regardless of what the IP's are. If they notice multiple mac addresses coming from your direction, indications are pretty strong you're using nat.
Gonna be expensive on their routers, but it's probably trivial to implement some kind of alarm system that tracks bandwidth usage, and flags people for later inspection by a flesh and blood.
Don't think you can just rewrite packets to mask the mac address, since I believe the nat gateway uses the address to map packets back to the real destination host.
> watch the action.
As interesting as chess is, "action" is a pretty piss-poor word to describe the game.
Suspense, maybe. Action, not unless steven segal burst in and sprayed the place down with a machine gun.
There's no reason to even let CTS become an issue to you; work out your hand while you're sitting there mulling over a piece of code and not only will it make your hands feel a lot more nimble, it'll sooth the inflammation that causes that numb feeling.
I have no personal investment in these things, this isn't a plug. Just something I started doing once my fingers got numb one day and the effect was nearly immediate, my hand felt better within a few hours.
For the link dependent, here is another person saying pretty much the same thing (with some other ideas, which I'm not exactly prepared to try out ;).
These guys basically just reinvented Windows then, right?
They advertise that this program has the ability (given proper plugins) to read any content type, modify it, and keep everything in a tidy package to present a uniform interface to a user. You could seriously modify their product description and replace "plug-in" with "application" and you could describe pretty much any OS in existence.
Maybe I'm just hard to impress. But it seems to me the last thing anyone needs is yet another monolithic application that tries to do everything.
> but blackbox is the screamer lightweight favorite
> Window Manager.
Maybe in the current pantheon of "modern" window managers, but it still ranks pretty low against some ancestors.
The fvwm breed, including afterstep 1.0, are immensely easy on the memory (heck I ran as 1.0 just fine on my 486 with four megs of ram all those years ago), and support a greater feature set than blackbox.
BB suffers from a serious case of "my way or no way" from the programmer. The manager is tuned to his tastes strictly and without deviation, which makes it hard to tune things to satisfy.
afterstep 1.0 otoh supports images (bb doesn't), key bindings (bb doesn't without added modules), and when I tested afterstep actually used less memory than bb. bb also does some other odd wheel-reinventings, like the bsetroot command.. why isn't xsetroot good enough? bb also has an odd homegrown config/theme setup, while fvwm and afterstep benefit from a very old and very documented configuration scheme.
Incidentially I did this testing earlier today.. heh, quiet day at work.
Moral of the story being, afterstep 1.0 may be 4-5 years old now but it can still give blackbox a run for it's money.
> than the passwords most people choose (usually
> their significant other's name)
So does this mean that the harder a person's password is to crack, the less likely they are to have a sex life?
You misread.
If you drew a line from the satellite to the sun, earth would be somewhere on that line between the two.
> and only connect the machine to any network
;) This also kinda relies on a security through obscurity standpoint, which contrary to popular belief can actually be useful as long as you don't let it lull you into complacency.
> (internal and external)
If you're unable to do this (due to staggered billing or something) the "next best" option is a heavily restricted network.
Give your machine with the personal information precisely one network connection and plug it into precisely one machine that can talk to the secured machine on precisely one port. Have your border firewall or equivalent drop any outgoing packets from either of these machines. Only let people do work on this machine from the console. Also use a straight cable between the machines.. ethernet port to ethernet port, crossover cable.
Then you have your webserver talk to the intermediate machine to handle transactions. Process submits authorization or billing request to intermediary, intermediary talks with the database, and issues a "yes" or "no" to the querying program. At some point you'll probably have to actually transmit user data to actually do the billing, so obviously everything in this chain will be encrypted.
Then install the best intrusion detection tools you can find/afford on all these machines and hire alert people to monitor logs. Treat any unexpected traffic as an attack and have someone walk over to your machines and physically unplug the machine from the intermediary until the situation can be identified/resolved.
This obviously assumes one believes that physical separation is important and effective, which I happen to do.
If server theft is a concern you'll also want to yank out floppy drives, physically secure the server somehow, look the bios, and if you absolutely require being able to copy data to this machine give it a read-only cdrom drive.
IMO, I wouldn't back up the server except for a hard drive image you can use to reinstall everything to a known state. Were I joe online shopper, I'd much rather re-enter cc info than worry that tapes were floating around the country with my data on it.
If you did even half of this, you'd have several times the level of safety than I've personally seen on some other online merchants, and I've been through a good number of data centers.
I seem to recall seeing other pictures from this event at some point in the past, but they're turning up really hard to find.
Turns out the guy that did this ended up surviving.. crazy stuff. Wish there was more info on it cuz these sorts of things always facinate me. ;)
They're not really ignoring the order, as presented in the news post.
More like they're trying to squirm out of the deal by either claiming they can't shut it down (being de-centralized and all that), or that doing so would violate previous court orders. They're not ignoring by any means, they're attempting to squirm.
Redundant, probably, but it's posted with the intent of staving off some of the "woohoo stick it to the man!" posts.
> I bet you drank sugary drinks as a child, didn't you?
Well duh, what kid exists that doesn't make it through childhood without a bit of kool-aid? My parents were never big soda drinkers, either. Anything we did have around the house was diet soda. And it was never with meals; was either fruit juice or milk at our house.
> I didn't say that every case is strictly lifestyle-related.
Well if 5-10 percent of all cases of diabetes are the childhood type 1 kind, that still leaves about 1.2 million people who develop the disease through no significant fault of their own (or as the case may be, their parents).
So if you're going to make accusatory statements about lifestyle you need to take care to specify quantities better than by using the term "nearly always".
1.2 million people is not "nearly always".
> Diabetes, now reaching epidemic proportions in
> adults and children, is nearly always caused by
> a poor diet.
Dude, feel free to talk about your eczema however you want because you probably know a fair a bit about it but don't EVEN go spouting this crap about diabetics unless you're going to get your facts straight.
There's two types of diabetes. While I'll grant that one of them is triggered by lifestyle (but that's not all there is to it, else EVERY obese person in the world would be diabetic, which obviously isn't the case), the other is strictly hereditery.
It usually hits kids just as they start going into puberty; sixth grade and around in there. It has nothing to do with lifestyle; I spent easily half my time tearing around the neighrbood with friends and I was within a few pounds of "average" weight, yet fate still plucked me out and gave me the disease.
Unless of course you're prepared to claim that having an active childhood causes diabetes..
Diabetes is hereditary. Fact, end of story. If I sound pissed off, it's because I am.
> It sure does seem overpriced for only a 40G hard drive.
I dunno, if the audio out is as high quality as they claim in the press release, 1500 seems about par for the course for good home stereo equipment. Especially for stuff in the "early adopter" category, it's always marked up a large percentage over what the price would be in a year or two.
I mean if someone can shell out 500 bucks for some floor standing speakers and another grand on an amp/cd/radio reciever(s), that much cash for something state of the art shouldn't be too much of a shock.
At least, it wouldn't be in that fantasy land I heard about once where worthless websites got sold for millions of dollars, so who knows how it'll pan out these days.
> You are to expect bugs and problems with the
;)
> 2.5.x series and generally it is not
> recommended that you install it UNLESS you can
> program and debug kernel stuff
They shoulda stuck this warning to the 2.4.x kernels too.
Sure it's gotten better in 2.4.16, but man it was a rocky road up to that point. Way it seems to me, if there's so little effective difference between a "beta" kernel and a "stable" one, warning about status is kind of irrelevant.
The obvious solutions, then, are:
;)
1) don't use grocery store swipe cards
2) don't use these televisions
3) don't watch tv.
That's what I did anyways. I do all my grocery shopping in cash, don't swipe any cards, and I haven't turned my tv on in months. I'm not particularily paranoid, I just don't like people mining me for data unless there's some tangible benefit I get out of it, and I don't consider targeted advertising a benefit.
> How in the hell does it know how he responds to
> the humorous commercials?
Simple. Joe watches a funny commercial about margarine. Joe goes to the store a few days later, picks up some margarine. Since the funny commercial is fresh in his mind, he's more inclined to pick up the margarine that made him laugh.
So he goes to the checkout line, swipes that handy card the store gave him to get discounts on certain items, and the computer promptly inserts into a database somewhere every item you just bought.. including the funny margarine.
So now the TV people and the grocery store people link up their databases, and discover that Joe started buying brand X margarine three days after they ran this new funny commercial.
It's not a direct connection, and probably not even terribly accurate, but if enough people respond to an advertisement this way and margarine guys end up selling 1% more product, that is a major deal to them. So even if they miss a few times, they come out ahead.
> These files routinely are mailed on tape rather
:P Maybe they meant 20gb. Cuz I've seen chip designs + noise analysis + whatever take dozens of gigs.
> than transmitted electronically. "FedEx is a
> hell of a lot more reliable than FTP when
> you're running 20 Mbytes,"
Having worked in the industry they mention, I'd hazard that they don't use ftp more because of the illusion of security than anything else. People in the EDA world (which is where I worked, and has a close relationship with chip manufacturers) are immensely paranoid about people getting ahold of their chip designs, because if someone steals that.. you not only lose your next chip, you enable someone else to make it for you.
These people just don't trust firewalls and ftp yet, but they do trust putting a tape in an envelope and snail mailing it. At the very least it makes someone liable if the letter gets stolen, which you can't do with electronic transfers..
At any rate, ftp is plenty reliable for transfering 20mb files.. I do it every time a new game demo comes out.
It's pretty obvious that the main stumbling block is getting new connections into houses. Houses are traditionally built with two wire based connections; power and phone. In the past couple decades it's included cable, which is another market that's developing (developed?) a strong monopoly over their local domains.
Remember when cable started coming in back in the 80's? They had to send trucks down every road in every neighborhood burying a cable to get into your building.
That's obviously what these guys are doing, but doing it by loopholing themselves around regulations to cut some of the costs.
I see these "ADCo's" going through a struggling uphill climb, again, a lot like cable companies did twenty years ago. Robots and sewer lines are nice, but I think they'd be much better served to just duplicate the cable company business model instead of looking for instant gratification type solutions, because it's proven to work.
IMO, when construction companies start realizing that people need more than three wires into a house, they'll start laying fiber under neighborhoods and selling it to local companies. Now *that* would be a moneymaker; laying extra lines would be dirt cheap if you already have the ground torn up.
It's your car. You can do what you want with it. If you don't wanna put out the effort to hack in the features you want with a level of security that you want, that's not the manufacturer's fault, it's your fault for being lazy. ;)
;)
Your alternative option is to buy a car thirty years old (air cooled VW's come highly reccomended) and just set up a servo to short circuit the wires you need short circuited, and presto, instant remote start.
Just don't leave the car in gear when to go to bed at night; use the emergency brake.
> Does anyone know how much heat each if these
> blades will generate?
My guess is that the people who these things will be marketed for won't care how much heat they generate.
Think about it.. you're some struggling dotcom who's managed to survive the blowout and are just barely keeping your head above water. All your servers are located at a hosting firm where they charge an assload of cash for rackspace.
Here's the caveat.. they DON'T charge you for excessive power consumption or heat output. At least, they didn't a while back when I still worked in the area, I admit it could be different now. But the point is, your goal is to get as many CPU's into as few rack units as possible, and if it starts melting the rack cuz yer making so much heat, you don't care. That's the ISP's issue, because they don't charge you for cold air.
Now obviously part of the air conditioning is covered in your monthly fee, but they don't scale it based on how much heat you're making. All hosting firms worry about is ethernet drops and rack units.