Virgina Tech are claiming 12.25 teraflops for their 1100 xserves...and Sony are claiming 1 teraflops for a single PS3, so if you believe the hype we'll all be able to outrank these guys at a lan-party in a year or so.
I took the phrases "so obscure as to be meaningless", "completely out of context ", "make mountains out of every molehill" and the fact that he;'s complaining about it on Slashdot to mean that the author really is having a problem with the report.
Your example has 20% false positives, the author is seeing 100%, so you ae in very different situations.
As for "Look, *any* vulnerability scanner is going to have false positives.", if a company "pays the big bucks", then they should be getting clean, useful, data, not raw output from free software. If it needs to be manually tidied up before management see it, then that should be done by the auditors, shoddy presentation and scaremongering are not what "big bucks" should get you.
"Showing that the report didn't take any significant amount of time to create isn't as effective an argument.". I'm not intending this to be an argument that the report isn't useful, I'm showing that it's an argument for doing it in house next time, and therefore saving "big bucks". In my experience, saving your manager "big bucks" is always an excellent position to be in when your competentce is being called into question!
" If it was so damn easy to make that why hasn't it been done before? "
Because it's full of false positives of course. If you don't point out that the consultants are ripping your company off with a worthless report, not only are you letting your company be defrauded, but you are open to accusations of complicity if it later gets uncovered that you spent company time and money on a pointless paper exercise documenting it just to look good. Either of those are grounds for being sacked in my book.
Apple are a collective, since they are comprised of many divisions and of many employees. It's correct english to say (for example) "Apple's recently acquired E-Magic division is no longer supporting PCs as Apple are committed to their own platform", or "Apple are experiencing better stock market returns now Steve Jobs is back in charge."
These consultants are trying to rip your company off. Grab the same piece of open source software and run off your own report, making a note of how long it took you. Show it to the boss, and explain that if he wanted such a report, you could have done it for free in only x amount of time. This will put you in a good position to say it's worthless, when you have demonstrated that it's not the result of any serious expenditure of time/effort. Once you've saved the company $x in consultancy fees by kicking the fraudsters out, bring up the small matter of the expenditure of $x/2 on additional hardware you got turned down for a few months back, or something involving a bonus.
The other attacking option, if you are only working there for the money, is to push hard for the doubling of staff and hardware budgets you desperately need to fix all the 'holes', and the regular security conferences in Hawaii that you really need to attend to keep up with things, now you have the proof that it's necessary. Now is your big chance to stab in the back anyone who's ever cut your budget.
So, Apple are making big money selling a sub $500 power-pc box to home users, and Microsoft are going to be losing a fortune doing the same?
Of course it's a very strange comparison, as one is supposed to get the brand into new markets and the other is supposed to make money by getting a cut from 3rd party games, but I can't help thinking Apple have come up with a better business plan than Microsoft's console division.
Make an example of the person you caught. Sack them, give them bad references, and sue them for breach of contract... you did put a clause about this into their employment contract, didn't you?
I don't know what your local copyright laws are like, but surely they couldn't do anything commerical with the IP without violating them?
I'll believe otherwise when.tv sites start being about the island of Tuvalu.
Here in the uk, (where.co.uk is the normal domain for businesses) we've suffered years and years of the company that owns the (supposedly invalid according to ICANN's rules uk.com domain selling worthless 3rd level domains to people, who unsurprisingly find lots their traffic going to the 'co.uk' with the same name.
99% of my spam comes from people who work for foo.uk.com (where foo is my company's domain) who sign up for junk and get their own address wrong. ICANN doesn't want to know about this flagrant abuse of the system, presumably because there is no financial gain to be had by closing down.uk.com
How can you tell? I doubt that compromised machines drop off the net more often than everyone else on NTL does. I have friends tied ito a 12 month contract with NTL who were told that a 7-day outage was 'normal', as was 30% packet loss.
The longer they waited to launch, the better the launch titles would be, and hardware improvements will mean they could either make the machine better, or reduce their losses for the same spec.
If they do go early, they are trading off just one christmas as the only next-gen console in the shops against 4 years of being the least modern console when the other 2 arrive.
There are only 2 ways this strategy is going to be cost effective: If they can get a contolling market share over that first holiday season or; If they have the processor power/locked in developers needed to compete on the quality of games for the next 4 years, or however long this generation lasts, despit the others having more hardweare development time.
Given that Nintendo already tried the second option and pretty much failed to set the world on fire with the Gamecube, and Sega tried the first option with the Dreamcast and got burnt to a crisp, I really don't know what Microsoft are thinking.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox2 strategy was a quick cash-grab before folding the home gaming divison, especially if Sony's cell chips deliver the computing power they are promising in a usable form.
Last time I checked, the tax on software upgrades was a lot less than 160%
Factoring in the 17.5% 'value added tax', we are being overcharged by 17USD on the normal upgrade, and the recent customer price is still more than double what US customers are being charged.
US upgrade price 130 USD British upgrade price 89 UKP = 167.775 USD at today's rates
US upgrade for recent orders 9.95 USD British upgrade for recent orders 13.99 UKP = 26.3726 USD (Yes, that's OVER TWO AND A HALF TIMES the price, for exactly the same thing!)
Do Apple really think we don't notice this sort of rip-off over here?
Isn't reaching escape velocity in the smallest possible time the most energy efficient way of leaving the vicinity of a gravity well? If so, requiring infinite energy to reach a lightspeed escape velocity from below the event horizon implies that you would need even more energy to leave slowly.
Incidentally, the concept of a slow rocket was used in the humorous 1963 film "The Mouse on the Moon", where a lone scientist from the country of Grand Fenwick beat the Russians and Americans to landing on the moon by building skipping he difficult bit of building a rocket powerful enough to reach escape velocity. He builds a less powerful one that can only go up fairly slowly, but it keeps going up until it eventually gets to the moon.
"We thought we could get away with loads of dead pixels, but it turns out that people don't want broken PSPs. Please wait while we find a supplier of LCDs that can make good ones for the same price we were paying for the rejects."
To buy 51% of a company, you need 51% of the shareholders to be willing to sell to you. The share price quoted on the stock exchange is actually the price of a very small percentage of a company's shares, those that people are currently trying to sell.
The other people will only sell their shares when they are happy with the price offered, they are under no obligation to sell at the stock exchange price.
As soon as it becomes clear that someone is trying to buy a large number of shares, supply and demand kicks in, and the price starts to rise, and everyone becomes a lot less keen to sell, since they now own an investment that is rapidly increasing in value, which makes it very, very expensive to purchase a company this way.
That's exactly what I was thinking when they announced the PS3 would have 4 cell chips, each with 8 vector processors. Is there anything other than ray tracing that's suitable for such a highly parallel architecture?
I'd take a once a month (if you are lucky) gem like Sexylosers over something that's updated just for the sake of it. Clay (aka Hard) sends a mail out when he's finished a comic, and it's always a pleasant surprise. Be warned it's the least work-safe comic imaginable - the warning says If you are offended at all by full nudity (both sexes), images of sex involving consenting adults, images of sex involving only one person, risque humour or human secretions of any kind, this is NOT the site for you.
Wigu does manage to be good every weekday, but it takes something special to keep that work rate up, which might be why Wigu has just reinvented itself for the 2nd time, becoming "Magical Adventures in Space", now that the Wigu Tinkle storyline has reached it's natural conclusion... still full of topatoey goodness though!
The other one I check every day apart from the usual Dilbert (ocassionally very funny - but a lot less often these days) User Friendly (thank goodness for ad blocking!) and Diesel Sweeties is Scary Go Round which is beautifully crafted, and has a quirky English humour that appeals to me, being a quirky Englishman.
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Virgina Tech are claiming 12.25 teraflops for their 1100 xserves ...and Sony are claiming 1 teraflops for a single PS3, so if you believe the hype we'll all be able to outrank these guys at a lan-party in a year or so.
I took the phrases "so obscure as to be meaningless", "completely out of context ", "make mountains out of every molehill" and the fact that he;'s complaining about it on Slashdot to mean that the author really is having a problem with the report.
Your example has 20% false positives, the author is seeing 100%, so you ae in very different situations.
As for "Look, *any* vulnerability scanner is going to have false positives.", if a company "pays the big bucks", then they should be getting clean, useful, data, not raw output from free software. If it needs to be manually tidied up before management see it, then that should be done by the auditors, shoddy presentation and scaremongering are not what "big bucks" should get you.
"Showing that the report didn't take any significant amount of time to create isn't as effective an argument.". I'm not intending this to be an argument that the report isn't useful, I'm showing that it's an argument for doing it in house next time, and therefore saving "big bucks". In my experience, saving your manager "big bucks" is always an excellent position to be in when your competentce is being called into question!
" If it was so damn easy to make that why hasn't it been done before? "
Because it's full of false positives of course. If you don't point out that the consultants are ripping your company off with a worthless report, not only are you letting your company be defrauded, but you are open to accusations of complicity if it later gets uncovered that you spent company time and money on a pointless paper exercise documenting it just to look good. Either of those are grounds for being sacked in my book.
You is a grammar Nazi!
Apple are a collective, since they are comprised of many divisions and of many employees. It's correct english to say (for example) "Apple's recently acquired E-Magic division is no longer supporting PCs as Apple are committed to their own platform", or "Apple are experiencing better stock market returns now Steve Jobs is back in charge."
These consultants are trying to rip your company off. Grab the same piece of open source software and run off your own report, making a note of how long it took you. Show it to the boss, and explain that if he wanted such a report, you could have done it for free in only x amount of time. This will put you in a good position to say it's worthless, when you have demonstrated that it's not the result of any serious expenditure of time/effort. Once you've saved the company $x in consultancy fees by kicking the fraudsters out, bring up the small matter of the expenditure of $x/2 on additional hardware you got turned down for a few months back, or something involving a bonus.
The other attacking option, if you are only working there for the money, is to push hard for the doubling of staff and hardware budgets you desperately need to fix all the 'holes', and the regular security conferences in Hawaii that you really need to attend to keep up with things, now you have the proof that it's necessary. Now is your big chance to stab in the back anyone who's ever cut your budget.
So, Apple are making big money selling a sub $500 power-pc box to home users, and Microsoft are going to be losing a fortune doing the same?
Of course it's a very strange comparison, as one is supposed to get the brand into new markets and the other is supposed to make money by getting a cut from 3rd party games, but I can't help thinking Apple have come up with a better business plan than Microsoft's console division.
Are you an Indian employment lawyer, or are you just guessing?
Make an example of the person you caught. Sack them, give them bad references, and sue them for breach of contract... you did put a clause about this into their employment contract, didn't you?
I don't know what your local copyright laws are like, but surely they couldn't do anything commerical with the IP without violating them?
...simply "let's get rich quick"?
.tv sites start being about the island of Tuvalu.
.co.uk is the normal domain for businesses) we've suffered years and years of the company that owns the (supposedly invalid according to ICANN's rules uk.com domain selling worthless 3rd level domains to people, who unsurprisingly find lots their traffic going to the 'co.uk' with the same name.
.uk.com
I'll believe otherwise when
Here in the uk, (where
99% of my spam comes from people who work for foo.uk.com (where foo is my company's domain) who sign up for junk and get their own address wrong. ICANN doesn't want to know about this flagrant abuse of the system, presumably because there is no financial gain to be had by closing down
How can you tell? I doubt that compromised machines drop off the net more often than everyone else on NTL does. I have friends tied ito a 12 month contract with NTL who were told that a 7-day outage was 'normal', as was 30% packet loss.
Pure FUD. We don't have any tariffs on software, and we don't have any tariffs on imports from Ireland, where Apple's local HQ is.
The longer they waited to launch, the better the launch titles would be, and hardware improvements will mean they could either make the machine better, or reduce their losses for the same spec.
If they do go early, they are trading off just one christmas as the only next-gen console in the shops against 4 years of being the least modern console when the other 2 arrive.
There are only 2 ways this strategy is going to be cost effective:
If they can get a contolling market share over that first holiday season or;
If they have the processor power/locked in developers needed to compete on the quality of games for the next 4 years, or however long this generation lasts, despit the others having more hardweare development time.
Given that Nintendo already tried the second option and pretty much failed to set the world on fire with the Gamecube, and Sega tried the first option with the Dreamcast and got burnt to a crisp, I really don't know what Microsoft are thinking.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox2 strategy was a quick cash-grab before folding the home gaming divison, especially if Sony's cell chips deliver the computing power they are promising in a usable form.
Last time I checked, the tax on software upgrades was a lot less than 160%
Factoring in the 17.5% 'value added tax', we are being overcharged by 17USD on the normal upgrade, and the recent customer price is still more than double what US customers are being charged.
US upgrade price 130 USD
British upgrade price 89 UKP = 167.775 USD at today's rates
US upgrade for recent orders 9.95 USD
British upgrade for recent orders 13.99 UKP = 26.3726 USD (Yes, that's OVER TWO AND A HALF TIMES the price, for exactly the same thing!)
Do Apple really think we don't notice this sort of rip-off over here?
Isn't reaching escape velocity in the smallest possible time the most energy efficient way of leaving the vicinity of a gravity well? If so, requiring infinite energy to reach a lightspeed escape velocity from below the event horizon implies that you would need even more energy to leave slowly.
Incidentally, the concept of a slow rocket was used in the humorous 1963 film "The Mouse on the Moon", where a lone scientist from the country of Grand Fenwick beat the Russians and Americans to landing on the moon by building skipping he difficult bit of building a rocket powerful enough to reach escape velocity. He builds a less powerful one that can only go up fairly slowly, but it keeps going up until it eventually gets to the moon.
"We thought we could get away with loads of dead pixels, but it turns out that people don't want broken PSPs. Please wait while we find a supplier of LCDs that can make good ones for the same price we were paying for the rejects."
Who is going to get mugged, robbed or held hostage in a foreign country, someone the bad guys can tell is carrying a US passport, or someone else?
"The idiot with the law degree is a symptom of a MUCH bigger problem."
as is the idiot with the knife?
To buy 51% of a company, you need 51% of the shareholders to be willing to sell to you. The share price quoted on the stock exchange is actually the price of a very small percentage of a company's shares, those that people are currently trying to sell.
The other people will only sell their shares when they are happy with the price offered, they are under no obligation to sell at the stock exchange price.
As soon as it becomes clear that someone is trying to buy a large number of shares, supply and demand kicks in, and the price starts to rise, and everyone becomes a lot less keen to sell, since they now own an investment that is rapidly increasing in value, which makes it very, very expensive to purchase a company this way.
It won't be long before people switch to TCP/IP over VoIP.
Here in Britain, $60 US would practically be a price drop.
Gran Turismo 4 for PS2 has a recommended price of UKP39.99 ($76.9219 US) and the lowest shop price I found on launch day was £29.99 ($57.6761 US).
That's exactly what I was thinking when they announced the PS3 would have 4 cell chips, each with 8 vector processors. Is there anything other than ray tracing that's suitable for such a highly parallel architecture?
It's advert supported, not free. Around 10% of the audio will be adverts, just like Virgin's conventional radio station.
I'd take a once a month (if you are lucky) gem like Sexylosers over something that's updated just for the sake of it. Clay (aka Hard) sends a mail out when he's finished a comic, and it's always a pleasant surprise. Be warned it's the least work-safe comic imaginable - the warning says If you are offended at all by full nudity (both sexes), images of sex involving consenting adults, images of sex involving only one person, risque humour or human secretions of any kind, this is NOT the site for you.
Wigu does manage to be good every weekday, but it takes something special to keep that work rate up, which might be why Wigu has just reinvented itself for the 2nd time, becoming "Magical Adventures in Space", now that the Wigu Tinkle storyline has reached it's natural conclusion... still full of topatoey goodness though!
The other one I check every day apart from the usual Dilbert (ocassionally very funny - but a lot less often these days) User Friendly (thank goodness for ad blocking!) and Diesel Sweeties is Scary Go Round which is beautifully crafted, and has a quirky English humour that appeals to me, being a quirky Englishman.