You realize the SSL is specifically designed to twart man-in-the-middle attacks, don't you?
The only danger here is if someone has a for pay account with a wi-fi service, and he/she surrenders their password to a phony logon screen.
All other encryption doesn't trust the data path, or any steps in between, farther than they can throw them. This is no different than a hostile party controlling a router or having a promiscous connection to a switch.
Sorry, I talked to Zartrax1411 about that. He is really horrible about getting a proper fix on space-time coordinates for leaking stories to guide human development.
I think he was hoping to get the jump on everyone else for "First Post", but screwed up the insertion into the submission queue.
You gotta do things in chronological order if you are going to avoid confusion. I keep telling people that.
Then again, who cares about bodies? I could see one form of immortality take off that uploads us to a giant Virtual Reality playground...
Well, until some future generation revives you into a clone of your old self to answer some deep philosphical question about an obscure invention of yours that has now become the main driver of civilization.
Being able to tell your "Back when I was your age, we had to write our own games. On computers with 64k and not hard drive..." and it be a segment on the History channel.
Watching tobacco come back into fashion, as a population control mechanism.
If you can work on a laptop for more than 8 hours straight, without needing to take a break, eat, shit, nap, or smoke, bully for you.
The rest of us use the sleep function on the machine. Yes, you only have 6 hours of computer usage. But I can usually run my laptop for an entire weekend on a single charge because I only use the thing for an hour or two at a time.
Depends on the price of the servers. At $0.03/kW hour those servers better be pretty damn cheap.
And if your data center has 5000 machines, you have to ask yourself "why don't we own a mainframe." It you are running a rendering farm, that's one thing. If you have new database servers sprouting out like Kudzu vines a z series mainframe is going to save you on licenses, KVM equipment, backup equipment, and electricity.
Sure, a mainframe uses a lot of juice. But it uses a hell of a lot less than the equivilent fleet of PC's it displaces.
And no, docking stations are not the solution. They just cause more problems that they are worth. What I think we really need is a Mac Mini type of machine that can be docked onto a laptop frame.
My principle computer at work has been a laptop for the past 4 years, and let me tell you, docking stations are a good thing. And while my new iBook doesn't have a docking station, it does have a really nice keyboard and an external monitor jack.
If you haven't experienced screen spanning, you haven't lived. Bluetooth mice are nice too.
To REALLY compare performance you have to define what the computer is going to do. A high performance laptop should be lightweight, not require a ton of cooling, and get pretty far on a battery charge. A high-performance server should be able to bolt onto any number of enterprise technologies, support hotplugging of components, and not run so hot that a spent fan will lead to the processor melting down. Desktop users have measures of performance from quietness, to polygon count, to cost...
And despite all this information, one fact seems to elude most extreme permance seekers. Unless you are modeling nuclear explosions, rendering animations, or sequencing DNA, just about anything faster than 800Mhz will do the job for you. Despite Microsoft's best intentions, Internet Explorer and Office can only consume so many clock cycles.
Everything beyond that is like having a spedometer in your car marked to go up to 160mph. Nice to know, but your are never going to go much past 70.
If you use a magnetic inductor to carry the signal, you can generally pull about 500Kb a second, with the bandwidth falling in proportion to the square of the distance.
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The only danger here is if someone has a for pay account with a wi-fi service, and he/she surrenders their password to a phony logon screen.
All other encryption doesn't trust the data path, or any steps in between, farther than they can throw them. This is no different than a hostile party controlling a router or having a promiscous connection to a switch.
I prefer the term "Imposter Gateway." (Cough)
Whose there?
Damn, you forgot me already!
And the iPod pico. 1mm square, with a direct nueral feed to the brain, and you STILL can't swap out the battery.
Is anyone else seeing a large game board with geriatric patrons taking the place of the Zombies and demons?
The only human that stays consistant all the time is a dead one, jammed with some really good preservative. Change is part of life.
A river's banks shift, and the droplets of water pass down stream every second, yet it lives for countless years.
I think he was hoping to get the jump on everyone else for "First Post", but screwed up the insertion into the submission queue.
You gotta do things in chronological order if you are going to avoid confusion. I keep telling people that.
Isaac Newton, was that you?
Well, until some future generation revives you into a clone of your old self to answer some deep philosphical question about an obscure invention of yours that has now become the main driver of civilization.
(Ok, now I do feel old.)
Being able to tell your "Back when I was your age, we had to write our own games. On computers with 64k and not hard drive..." and it be a segment on the History channel.
Watching tobacco come back into fashion, as a population control mechanism.
After all, why else would your teeth and bones need a blood supply?
His description of the world resembles what the Internet has become in so many ways it is scary.
Any of are not nearly as dumb as All of us.
You mean the scene where Deedee starts stuffing her brazeer full of chocolates to keep them from falling off the convayer belt was done before?!
Almost as much fun as removing the doors, and sending the new guy into cook dinner.
*Burnination Ensues*
The rest of us use the sleep function on the machine. Yes, you only have 6 hours of computer usage. But I can usually run my laptop for an entire weekend on a single charge because I only use the thing for an hour or two at a time.
And if your data center has 5000 machines, you have to ask yourself "why don't we own a mainframe." It you are running a rendering farm, that's one thing. If you have new database servers sprouting out like Kudzu vines a z series mainframe is going to save you on licenses, KVM equipment, backup equipment, and electricity.
Sure, a mainframe uses a lot of juice. But it uses a hell of a lot less than the equivilent fleet of PC's it displaces.
My principle computer at work has been a laptop for the past 4 years, and let me tell you, docking stations are a good thing. And while my new iBook doesn't have a docking station, it does have a really nice keyboard and an external monitor jack.
If you haven't experienced screen spanning, you haven't lived. Bluetooth mice are nice too.
And despite all this information, one fact seems to elude most extreme permance seekers. Unless you are modeling nuclear explosions, rendering animations, or sequencing DNA, just about anything faster than 800Mhz will do the job for you. Despite Microsoft's best intentions, Internet Explorer and Office can only consume so many clock cycles.
Everything beyond that is like having a spedometer in your car marked to go up to 160mph. Nice to know, but your are never going to go much past 70.
In case that changes your mind about them any.
If you use a magnetic inductor to carry the signal, you can generally pull about 500Kb a second, with the bandwidth falling in proportion to the square of the distance.
It just so happens that most of my leads include "Userfriendly", Fark.com, and /.
I do wonder if the new satellite implements the "Evil Bit" properly.
Don't you read your Spam. There are any number of pills available to harden things up.