No, all we are saying is that if you are going to *publish* as an authority on the matter. I.E. *as* a scientist, that you know WTF you are talking about. <p> Missing an important underlying correlation, and implying a causation where one does not exist is beyond irresponsible.
As someone who has worked for 10 years as a network admin, the answer is NO.
Yes, there are special cases out there. But they are special cases. By default, the only policy that works is to lock down a machine and grant access as needed. Too many people treat an unrestricted machine like a "rental." They abuse it. They don't take simple precautions because, hey, it's the company's machine. Given a chance, they will treat it as a personal plaything.
To deny these truths is to deny basic sociology. And as I said, 10 years of first hand experience that is amplified by every competent admin I know.
Certain reactions require an intense burst of energy to pull off, but once you do pull it off it's hard for nature to undo it.
Materials, as someone else posted, is one principle use for this. Another would be to generate the temperatures required for fusion. I don't think this guy gets close (first cup of coffee, too lazy to check) but a powerful enough laser can heat material up to a plasma. And with the electrons stripped off an atom, you can try to squeeze them together to do the nuclear nasty.
The advantage of this tiny laser is that the reaction would be cute and pocket sized.
I register my indignation that Perl should be subject of "WTF?" in regards to application. I can assure you the Tcl is used in everything from telescopes to routers to the ad splicing system for all of the NBC television network.
And in fact, I'm composing this from a browser I wrote in Tcl. It's a ni#$%@#$^H^H^H ***NO CARRIER***
4) Realize that it's the terrorists who are to blame when shit blows up. And, get this, shit happens. And anyone who want the government to protect them from everything under the sun is an idiot, and not worthy of being included in the numbers of those who we call "Society."
You expect people without a fundimental understanding of chemistry of basic physics to give you a realisitic threat assesment? These are the same folks who have conflated an urban legend about mixing two chemicals, and managed to make it so I can't take a bottle of gatoraid on a flight. And you remember right after 9/11, all of the guardsmen with guns at the airport? Well they all had empty clips.
The real problem is these idiots are in charge. When we start to respect knowledge and wisdom, and elevate those posessing both in abundance, only then will this crap end.
Actually my suspicion is a piss poor I/O implementation that involves the CPU in what SHOULD be DMA transfers. Whoever is assigned a higher priority will interrupt the CPU, forcing it to address the event, with all of the overhead required to switch gears.
It's a fundimental design flaw that anyone who sat through a computer architecture course should have seen coming from a mile away.
Well part of that has to do with the fact that most of the companies writing software for the Mac 10 years ago are still in business and still writing new versions of the software.
Apple has a less of a tendency of gobbling up, smothering, or otherwise competing with their customers.
Well if you can name a comperable product I'm more than happy to consider it. In the meantime you can take the 10% you are saving (and spending by replacing 3 times as often) and I'll sit here, smug as can be with my happy Macbook, with apeloads of iTunes tracks on it, and a Nano leashed to my side happily living in utter bliss of the whole mess working together.
Which is completely, but not entirely, unlike my experience with Windows, Linux, etc.
And I HAVE experience with Windows, Linux, etc.
I'm not a blind Apple fanboy. I'm a hard won Apple fanboy.
Saying that storage requirements can be solved by simply buying a bigger hard drive is like saying you can fix your supply chain problems by throwing up more shelves.
And if you need me to explain the analogy you reek of FAIL.
Actually I had a couple of Apple sales reps in yesterday.
They have conferences, sales meetings, and everything all ready to roll for the iPhone on the days and weeks after the official release date. They were dead serious that the iPhone was a go.
First off, you have to understand that the Western World has ALWAYS been suckers for the media. Hitler's regime didn't invent propaganda. They simply picked up the same textbooks that Chuchill and Roosevelt were reading on the subject. We have "freedom of the press" built into the constitution for a damn good reason. The guys who wrote it knew damnwell how to play the media like a cheap instrument. Go as far back as the Romans, and Government knew all about how to get the press to cover what you want them to cover.
Maichiavelli wrote in the 17th century. There is no reason to suspect his work was anything but a compilation of what was already known.
My brother used to work for UPS back in high school, and they would regularly do theft audits. One of the best techniques was to simply open a bag of M&Ms at the start of the sorting line, and can anyone who ate some as the goodies made their way down the line. Similarly with other small, easily grabbed items that employees damnwell better have known better about.
Despite iron-clad policies, stories of this happening in the past, and giant signs on the wall, they snagged folks all the time.
In this case, leak a memo internally that is SO tasty that it would get past someone's better senses. Then just follow the path of destruction.
No the only reason they haven't done it would be the terabytes of extra space that would be required to store the same music twice or three times. True, with a little imagination and a small supercomputing cluster they could rip music on demand to a different format......Or just throw the music out there in the lowest-common denominator format and know that audio-snobs will order the CD, and everyone else will either deal with the music in it's present form, rip it into the flavor of their choosing, or be content to post snarky comments on Slashdot.
This is a really fun and juicy story. It's just a shame they are talking about "later this year'. Assuming someone doesn't throw a monkey wrench into the works, and assuming this isn't some marketing guy's pipe dream, they still have to actually do it. And they have to do it well.
Apple's iTunes has several things going for it. For starters, if you are showing up you've already got the iPod, the iTunes, etc. The iTunes store has a massive catalogue of music, so much so that I have yet to find something I wanted that it doesn't have. (And I have some WEIRD tastes in music.) And the store sells nothing but music. (Ok, some video too.) But searching for Kraftwerk on iTunes is going to find me Albums from the band. Searching for Kraftwerk in Amazon... well I'll get kitchen appliances.
The prices are also, noticeably, absent from the announcement.
You assume of course that most of the people buying houses in the $220K-$300K range CAN actually afford them. Considering that median household income is on the order of $48k, most of these mortgages are leveraged enough to make Archemedes proud.
Let me put it another way. I will count off the number of people I personally know who make $100K or above: (crickets)
Lots of folks I know are close. But the cases are either double incomes, or someone in a business executive role.
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No, all we are saying is that if you are going to *publish* as an authority on the matter. I.E. *as* a scientist, that you know WTF you are talking about.
<p>
Missing an important underlying correlation, and implying a causation where one does not exist is beyond irresponsible.
Hmm. Well with iron and woods on the moon, throw in a putter...
In our shop everything is either Bash or Tcl, dude.
Even the webservers.
I was expecting them to announce a boycott of Linux too
As someone who has worked for 10 years as a network admin, the answer is NO.
Yes, there are special cases out there. But they are special cases. By default, the only policy that works is to lock down a machine and grant access as needed. Too many people treat an unrestricted machine like a "rental." They abuse it. They don't take simple precautions because, hey, it's the company's machine. Given a chance, they will treat it as a personal plaything.
To deny these truths is to deny basic sociology. And as I said, 10 years of first hand experience that is amplified by every competent admin I know.
Certain reactions require an intense burst of energy to pull off, but once you do pull it off it's hard for nature to undo it.
Materials, as someone else posted, is one principle use for this. Another would be to generate the temperatures required for fusion. I don't think this guy gets close (first cup of coffee, too lazy to check) but a powerful enough laser can heat material up to a plasma. And with the electrons stripped off an atom, you can try to squeeze them together to do the nuclear nasty.
The advantage of this tiny laser is that the reaction would be cute and pocket sized.
I register my indignation that Perl should be subject of "WTF?" in regards to application. I can assure you the Tcl is used in everything from telescopes to routers to the ad splicing system for all of the NBC television network.
And in fact, I'm composing this from a browser I wrote in Tcl. It's a ni#$%@#$^H^H^H
***NO CARRIER***
Thanks for the info, and even greater thanks for serving.
4) Realize that it's the terrorists who are to blame when shit blows up. And, get this, shit happens. And anyone who want the government to protect them from everything under the sun is an idiot, and not worthy of being included in the numbers of those who we call "Society."
You expect people without a fundimental understanding of chemistry of basic physics to give you a realisitic threat assesment? These are the same folks who have conflated an urban legend about mixing two chemicals, and managed to make it so I can't take a bottle of gatoraid on a flight. And you remember right after 9/11, all of the guardsmen with guns at the airport? Well they all had empty clips.
The real problem is these idiots are in charge. When we start to respect knowledge and wisdom, and elevate those posessing both in abundance, only then will this crap end.
Actually my suspicion is a piss poor I/O implementation that involves the CPU in what SHOULD be DMA transfers. Whoever is assigned a higher priority will interrupt the CPU, forcing it to address the event, with all of the overhead required to switch gears.
It's a fundimental design flaw that anyone who sat through a computer architecture course should have seen coming from a mile away.
Buy it at a corner store and smoke it, it's teh evil!!!!one!!!
Extract the same stuff, put it in pills and tablets, and sell it for a bajillion more, it's medicine.
Well part of that has to do with the fact that most of the companies writing software for the Mac 10 years ago are still in business and still writing new versions of the software.
Apple has a less of a tendency of gobbling up, smothering, or otherwise competing with their customers.
Well that fast forwards my plans for world domination up... oh about 5 years.
Say have you selected a scripting language, and if not would you consider Tcl/Tk?
Apple fanboy?
Well if you can name a comperable product I'm more than happy to consider it. In the meantime you can take the 10% you are saving (and spending by replacing 3 times as often) and I'll sit here, smug as can be with my happy Macbook, with apeloads of iTunes tracks on it, and a Nano leashed to my side happily living in utter bliss of the whole mess working together.
Which is completely, but not entirely, unlike my experience with Windows, Linux, etc.
And I HAVE experience with Windows, Linux, etc.
I'm not a blind Apple fanboy. I'm a hard won Apple fanboy.
Go back an play in your sandbox son.
Saying that storage requirements can be solved by simply buying a bigger hard drive is like saying you can fix your supply chain problems by throwing up more shelves.
And if you need me to explain the analogy you reek of FAIL.
Never had the problems you described.
And I use quicktime on both the Mac and PC.
(Why the hell would you use a quicktime clone?)
Actually I had a couple of Apple sales reps in yesterday.
They have conferences, sales meetings, and everything all ready to roll for the iPhone on the days and weeks after the official release date. They were dead serious that the iPhone was a go.
Why have we become suckers?
First off, you have to understand that the Western World has ALWAYS been suckers for the media. Hitler's regime didn't invent propaganda. They simply picked up the same textbooks that Chuchill and Roosevelt were reading on the subject. We have "freedom of the press" built into the constitution for a damn good reason. The guys who wrote it knew damnwell how to play the media like a cheap instrument. Go as far back as the Romans, and Government knew all about how to get the press to cover what you want them to cover.
Maichiavelli wrote in the 17th century. There is no reason to suspect his work was anything but a compilation of what was already known.
My brother used to work for UPS back in high school, and they would regularly do theft audits. One of the best techniques was to simply open a bag of M&Ms at the start of the sorting line, and can anyone who ate some as the goodies made their way down the line. Similarly with other small, easily grabbed items that employees damnwell better have known better about.
Despite iron-clad policies, stories of this happening in the past, and giant signs on the wall, they snagged folks all the time.
In this case, leak a memo internally that is SO tasty that it would get past someone's better senses. Then just follow the path of destruction.
It's evil! It's diabolical! It's lemon scented!
No the only reason they haven't done it would be the terabytes of extra space that would be required to store the same music twice or three times. True, with a little imagination and a small supercomputing cluster they could rip music on demand to a different format... ...Or just throw the music out there in the lowest-common denominator format and know that audio-snobs will order the CD, and everyone else will either deal with the music in it's present form, rip it into the flavor of their choosing, or be content to post snarky comments on Slashdot.
This is a really fun and juicy story. It's just a shame they are talking about "later this year'. Assuming someone doesn't throw a monkey wrench into the works, and assuming this isn't some marketing guy's pipe dream, they still have to actually do it. And they have to do it well.
Apple's iTunes has several things going for it. For starters, if you are showing up you've already got the iPod, the iTunes, etc. The iTunes store has a massive catalogue of music, so much so that I have yet to find something I wanted that it doesn't have. (And I have some WEIRD tastes in music.) And the store sells nothing but music. (Ok, some video too.) But searching for Kraftwerk on iTunes is going to find me Albums from the band. Searching for Kraftwerk in Amazon... well I'll get kitchen appliances.
The prices are also, noticeably, absent from the announcement.
You assume of course that most of the people buying houses in the $220K-$300K range CAN actually afford them. Considering that median household income is on the order of $48k, most of these mortgages are leveraged enough to make Archemedes proud.
Let me put it another way. I will count off the number of people I personally know who make $100K or above:
(crickets)
Lots of folks I know are close. But the cases are either double incomes, or someone in a business executive role.
I don't care about the emails themselves.
Give me access to he logs on the machine.
Then and only then can I prove to you what happened and how.