Having worked on many projects involving various levels of government regulation and compliance, and seeing all the different facets of security and what-not, I can state for a fact that a case like this will be looked at like "It was only a $50k fine? This security hardening project is costing us well over $200k and we still might have a breach that would lead to such a fine. Why are we even bothering?"
We had a project that was basically just a fuzzy match for numbers that looked like credit card or social security numbers and delete them if it found them, just in case they got into a part of the database they shouldn't (like a customers stuck their social security number into their address, and yes, it's happened before) That project cost us $22,000. It ended up being a single line of SQL that ran as part of a service every hour. $50k is laughable. Security breaches like this should nearly bankrupt a company, there is no other way they'll be taken seriously. I'm involved in 5 different projects right now, each of them billing out at over $100k each, 3 of them revolve around privacy issues and government compliance. The fines issued for such breaches aren't even in our paperwork as a concern. The cost of a breach in regards to public image however has a very specific, very large number near the top of the chart. But we're in a business where people are paying attention to such things. These fines should START in the millions because preventing them costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is the problem with the public. You want to end spending but because this is a republican and he has some agenda revolving around the law he introduced (probably just to make the president look bad) you denounce it. Instead, support legislation that achieves your goals. I'll vote for anyone that'll lower taxes and spend less. Unfortunately that amounts to pretty much no-one in either party and I'm only allowed to vote for those 2 parties so I'm screwed.
This makes me wonder if the new USB3 could be used as a replacement?
No
How long can the cables be and still maintain 10Gbps speeds?
About 10feet. Unless you had a powered cable or repeater... then about 20 feet.
And could one just connect two computers via USB3 without any additional equipment required in-between?
No, as stated above, you'd need a repeater.
Will someone come up with some USB3-based network routing solution before 10Gbps ethernet - solution become cheap enough for general consumer use?
There already is. You'll have to look around but there are such things. It'd be much easier however, to load balance multiple connections or switch to fiber.
I would have use for higher speeds as 1Gbps just ain't good enough.
That's because you're doing it wrong. Unless you're processing data from your basement super collider, there's no way you need faster than 1Gig. Most likely you have your network setup improperly and are NOT getting 1gig per second. Does your switch support Jumbo frames? Are they turned on? What are you transgering? What speed are your NICs? What speed is your buss? What speed are your hard drives.
The most likely problem that would cause transferring of files from one computer to another over a network is the hard drives. Their transfer rates are no where near 1gig per second. Your buss likely can't support that speed either. Last thing I'd check is your jumbo frames setting.
Are there ANY devices out there that would need even 1gig transfer rates? Much less 10? I'm sure there's some obscure shit out there that might, but is it worth a new standard? The only thing I can think of is maybe a RAM drive or SSD... but Sata would be a far superior choice for those devices. So again, why do we keep getting faster USB ports when there's nothing to plug into them?
Yes, we have huge swaths of production code that was written years, even decades ago... and we have no idea what it's for. It's hard to get a project approved that involves cleaning it up when there's no one inside the company pushing for it and it's benefit to the users is, at best, completely transparent. I'd love to go through there with an axe some weekend, but the potential that portions of it are still needed makes it a terrifying project to just do on my own.
I don't like Al Gore, but I'm not under any delusions about "The right" either. It's all the same political organization with the same goal: Retain Power
That's same BS as saying the Occupy guys were hypocrites for using apple products - as if they should cripple themselves into ineffectiveness by not using any and all tools available to them. Following the law and simultaneously wanting to change the law for everybody including yourself is not a case of "do as I say, not as I do."
They are hypocrites. Should I cripple myself by allowing them to tax the business I work for knowing full well that would lead to a reduction in pay? If they're not willing to sacrifice their mobile Facebook, but want others to sacrifice literally billions in revenue, fuck them.
The jet plane which uses fuel that is priced above market to cover the carbon-offsets he thinks out to be made mandatory? How exactly is that hypocritical?
If you want to critize the guy, at least be intellectually honest about it - you only make the guy look better if the worst thing you can say about him is a misrepresentation of the truth. What's next? Accusing him of claiming to have invented the internet?
Carbon credits/offsets are the biggest load of bullshit of the past decade. I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks that just because gas costs more that makes it less dangerous to the environment. Most carbon offset companies have been show to be ineffective at best and often scams at worst. If he wanted to be green, he wouldn't go... or at least fly coach. The fact that he doesn't shows that his convenience outweighs the need for carbon reduction. Something most of the rest of us agree on.
The funniest part of this whole deal is that Al Gore pushed the sale to get completed prior to the new year to avoid Obamas tax increases. Not that I wouldn't do the same... but it's more of Al Gores "Do as I say, not as I do" nonsense. I wonder if he was the sole passenger on a private jet that took him to sign the deal.
Yes, but over the past 50 years or so, physicists have started using a lot of wording like that. The problem is there are a lot more crackpots out there than their are reasoned intelligent individuals. You, being a physicist don't generally run into these people. I, on the other hand, have to deal with them daily. They know I have an interest in such things so they like to bounce their insane ideas off of me, and it's hard to argue logic with them when you use shitty wording like that. What that sentence implys to many laymen is intelligent design. And I'd never steer someone away from such a belief, it's theirs to have. But they need to argue their point rationally and with real data. Not some nonsense they cooked up because scientists can't explain things properly.
DRM is the world we live in. Complaining about steam is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We're never going to get a service like steam without DRM. The publishers would never agree to it. Steam has everything I want, with the exception of the DRM bit. I'll take it. It's the least annoying DRM system to date, so if I'm going to have to deal with one, I'd rather it be steam.
22-30mpg is crap. I've had better mileage than that for over a decade even on US made autos.
It may be crap, but it's still far better than the gas millage a poorly maintained vehicle will get. I've worked on cars that were getting between 1 and 5MPG for years before I ran into the owner and offered to check it out for them. Replacing a simple sensor or plug can suddenly gain the car 10 to 15mpg in some cases. Improving your millage from 25 to 35 is a nice 40% improvement but not that big of a deal. Going from 2mpg to 15 is a 650% improvement.
No you don't. You're believing the MPG on the sticker, which is complete horse-shit. Not only does it report overly efficient on some cars, on others it reports that they are less efficient than they really are. It's a 40+ year old standard that needs to be revised. For decent millage estimates check out consumer reports "Actual MPG ratings" on their site. They actually drive the cars on a set course of half highway, half city driving and then post the numbers. They vary wildly from what's on the sticker.
Yes, that's the pro gun argument. We should all own nukes. And your argument boils down to banning guns, knives, rolling pins, hammers, and government funding for padding the sharp corners of coffee tables.
In many parts of the world, those 99% of gun owners do something wrong with their gun: owning it. (yes, in many parts of the world gun ownership itself is forbidden, except very few specific exceptions...)
No... they do something illegal. Being illegal doesn't make something wrong. In many parts of the world owning a bible is illegal.
You dont have to kill them... just grief them. If you have an organized group of players hell-bent on making you have no fun, I'm pretty sure that's what'll happen. So in WOW there's no PVP. But lets say they, instead, invite you to group... then ditch you in a raid zone? Maybe they have dozens of different accounts all spamming him for group requests? Maybe they just find out his IP and DDOS him every time he starts doing well. They don't have to kill him, they just have to make the game no fun.
We have hundreds of NOCs all over the country and power isn't our problem. Heat, however, definitely is. But, most of the equipment we have does not have Intel chips in them. I think most of the heat comes from Cisco stuff. A large cisco core router puts out magnitudes more heat than any Intel chip could possibly put out. When our guys bring those things up to do testing on their desk, the fans sound like large vacuum cleaners or something.
SUVs are not the gas guzzlers many make them out to be. Newer ones are getting 22 to 30mpg. Most vehicles that use a lot of gas are older cars owned by the poor. Gas taxes, which are quickly turning into the modern vice tax, do just what other vice taxes do: Tax the poor. The people you want to tax, who drive $60k suvs could give a shit less what gas costs.
The point of petitions is to allow an organized group to make a point. Finding out what the statistical majority of people want is not the goal. We already have a process for doing that, it's call an election. These petitions are there so people that may not be a majority can still organize and make their collective viewpoint on a topic known.
4chan did have a point with this petition. It was not meaningless. It's sad that people can't see that. They were showing the intrinsic weakness in this type of system. You can always get a lot of people together and get them to sign a petition. Petitions are meaningless in that regard and should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when the topic is highly partisan. Also, it was funny. And if there's anything our political system could use, it's a little humor and humility.
If anything the president can hire 1 extra PR guy to make funny replies to these funny fake petitions.
"We're sorry but the estimated cost of a Death-star is 894 trillion dollars. At this time, even with the help of all other countries on earth, we would not have the economic or material resources to begin production. Furthermore we do not have any device capable of destroying a planet, nor any idea how to build one. We are also very short on planets in this system and destroying one wouldn't be in our best interest. Lastly, it's been calculated that accelerating a death-star to a simple 1 meter per second would consume all of the fissile material on earth, at which point we'd have no way of stopping it and it would likely fall into our gravity well killing us all and substantially speeding up the current global warming trend as all the cities on earth would burn. We recommend that you re-submit your petition in approximately 250 years when technological advancements would make it more feasible. Keep in mind however that we did not address diplomatic concerns in this reply and they may very well prevent such a project irrelevant of its cost or feasibility.
That's my point. It should have a single connector that the Stick PC plugs into and then you're done with it. The TV would have its own controls, and maybe USB hub. The TVs remote could have buttons that affect the PC via USB... etc... Monitor/HID/Audio should be in the TV realm and then whatever processing power you want to plug in should be your own. Apple TV sucks? unplug it, plug in Google TV... dont like that? Go with a media portal stick. Etc...
We have these contracts with vendors all the time. They get breached from time to time and it's generally not a big deal. It's all about customer relations and keeping them happy. Or vice verse. Once that business relationship is clearly ending, no one really cares anymore. It's very rare that one of these situations turns into a lawsuit. The fact that HP is doing it is a very bad sign for HP. They have no business reason for pursuing this, and it says to their vendors "We'll be spiteful, angry and may sue you if you leave" It's not a good way to get new customers.
What these stick PCs need is a new connector that carrys full HD, 7.1 audio, power to the stick, mouse, keyboard, and remote control commands. Then TVs could include this format, you plug in your CPU stick and viola... your TV can run anything you want. Anyone could write their own TV OS or whatever. Ok kickstarter, kickstart this.
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Having worked on many projects involving various levels of government regulation and compliance, and seeing all the different facets of security and what-not, I can state for a fact that a case like this will be looked at like "It was only a $50k fine? This security hardening project is costing us well over $200k and we still might have a breach that would lead to such a fine. Why are we even bothering?"
We had a project that was basically just a fuzzy match for numbers that looked like credit card or social security numbers and delete them if it found them, just in case they got into a part of the database they shouldn't (like a customers stuck their social security number into their address, and yes, it's happened before) That project cost us $22,000. It ended up being a single line of SQL that ran as part of a service every hour. $50k is laughable. Security breaches like this should nearly bankrupt a company, there is no other way they'll be taken seriously. I'm involved in 5 different projects right now, each of them billing out at over $100k each, 3 of them revolve around privacy issues and government compliance. The fines issued for such breaches aren't even in our paperwork as a concern. The cost of a breach in regards to public image however has a very specific, very large number near the top of the chart. But we're in a business where people are paying attention to such things. These fines should START in the millions because preventing them costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is the problem with the public. You want to end spending but because this is a republican and he has some agenda revolving around the law he introduced (probably just to make the president look bad) you denounce it. Instead, support legislation that achieves your goals. I'll vote for anyone that'll lower taxes and spend less. Unfortunately that amounts to pretty much no-one in either party and I'm only allowed to vote for those 2 parties so I'm screwed.
This makes me wonder if the new USB3 could be used as a replacement?
No
How long can the cables be and still maintain 10Gbps speeds?
About 10feet. Unless you had a powered cable or repeater... then about 20 feet.
And could one just connect two computers via USB3 without any additional equipment required in-between?
No, as stated above, you'd need a repeater.
Will someone come up with some USB3-based network routing solution before 10Gbps ethernet - solution become cheap enough for general consumer use?
There already is. You'll have to look around but there are such things. It'd be much easier however, to load balance multiple connections or switch to fiber.
I would have use for higher speeds as 1Gbps just ain't good enough.
That's because you're doing it wrong. Unless you're processing data from your basement super collider, there's no way you need faster than 1Gig. Most likely you have your network setup improperly and are NOT getting 1gig per second. Does your switch support Jumbo frames? Are they turned on? What are you transgering? What speed are your NICs? What speed is your buss? What speed are your hard drives.
The most likely problem that would cause transferring of files from one computer to another over a network is the hard drives. Their transfer rates are no where near 1gig per second. Your buss likely can't support that speed either. Last thing I'd check is your jumbo frames setting.
Are there ANY devices out there that would need even 1gig transfer rates? Much less 10? I'm sure there's some obscure shit out there that might, but is it worth a new standard? The only thing I can think of is maybe a RAM drive or SSD... but Sata would be a far superior choice for those devices. So again, why do we keep getting faster USB ports when there's nothing to plug into them?
Yes, we have huge swaths of production code that was written years, even decades ago... and we have no idea what it's for. It's hard to get a project approved that involves cleaning it up when there's no one inside the company pushing for it and it's benefit to the users is, at best, completely transparent. I'd love to go through there with an axe some weekend, but the potential that portions of it are still needed makes it a terrifying project to just do on my own.
I don't like Al Gore, but I'm not under any delusions about "The right" either. It's all the same political organization with the same goal: Retain Power
That's same BS as saying the Occupy guys were hypocrites for using apple products - as if they should cripple themselves into ineffectiveness by not using any and all tools available to them. Following the law and simultaneously wanting to change the law for everybody including yourself is not a case of "do as I say, not as I do."
They are hypocrites. Should I cripple myself by allowing them to tax the business I work for knowing full well that would lead to a reduction in pay? If they're not willing to sacrifice their mobile Facebook, but want others to sacrifice literally billions in revenue, fuck them.
The jet plane which uses fuel that is priced above market to cover the carbon-offsets he thinks out to be made mandatory? How exactly is that hypocritical?
If you want to critize the guy, at least be intellectually honest about it - you only make the guy look better if the worst thing you can say about him is a misrepresentation of the truth. What's next? Accusing him of claiming to have invented the internet?
Carbon credits/offsets are the biggest load of bullshit of the past decade. I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks that just because gas costs more that makes it less dangerous to the environment. Most carbon offset companies have been show to be ineffective at best and often scams at worst. If he wanted to be green, he wouldn't go... or at least fly coach. The fact that he doesn't shows that his convenience outweighs the need for carbon reduction. Something most of the rest of us agree on.
Windows has become harder to pirate? Really? I don't think you've ever tried if you think that's true.
The funniest part of this whole deal is that Al Gore pushed the sale to get completed prior to the new year to avoid Obamas tax increases. Not that I wouldn't do the same... but it's more of Al Gores "Do as I say, not as I do" nonsense. I wonder if he was the sole passenger on a private jet that took him to sign the deal.
Yes, but over the past 50 years or so, physicists have started using a lot of wording like that. The problem is there are a lot more crackpots out there than their are reasoned intelligent individuals. You, being a physicist don't generally run into these people. I, on the other hand, have to deal with them daily. They know I have an interest in such things so they like to bounce their insane ideas off of me, and it's hard to argue logic with them when you use shitty wording like that. What that sentence implys to many laymen is intelligent design. And I'd never steer someone away from such a belief, it's theirs to have. But they need to argue their point rationally and with real data. Not some nonsense they cooked up because scientists can't explain things properly.
China - This concludes my counter argument.
DRM is the world we live in. Complaining about steam is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We're never going to get a service like steam without DRM. The publishers would never agree to it. Steam has everything I want, with the exception of the DRM bit. I'll take it. It's the least annoying DRM system to date, so if I'm going to have to deal with one, I'd rather it be steam.
22-30mpg is crap. I've had better mileage than that for over a decade even on US made autos.
It may be crap, but it's still far better than the gas millage a poorly maintained vehicle will get. I've worked on cars that were getting between 1 and 5MPG for years before I ran into the owner and offered to check it out for them. Replacing a simple sensor or plug can suddenly gain the car 10 to 15mpg in some cases. Improving your millage from 25 to 35 is a nice 40% improvement but not that big of a deal. Going from 2mpg to 15 is a 650% improvement.
No you don't. You're believing the MPG on the sticker, which is complete horse-shit. Not only does it report overly efficient on some cars, on others it reports that they are less efficient than they really are. It's a 40+ year old standard that needs to be revised. For decent millage estimates check out consumer reports "Actual MPG ratings" on their site. They actually drive the cars on a set course of half highway, half city driving and then post the numbers. They vary wildly from what's on the sticker.
Yes, that's the pro gun argument. We should all own nukes. And your argument boils down to banning guns, knives, rolling pins, hammers, and government funding for padding the sharp corners of coffee tables.
In many parts of the world, those 99% of gun owners do something wrong with their gun: owning it. (yes, in many parts of the world gun ownership itself is forbidden, except very few specific exceptions...)
No... they do something illegal. Being illegal doesn't make something wrong. In many parts of the world owning a bible is illegal.
You dont have to kill them... just grief them. If you have an organized group of players hell-bent on making you have no fun, I'm pretty sure that's what'll happen. So in WOW there's no PVP. But lets say they, instead, invite you to group... then ditch you in a raid zone? Maybe they have dozens of different accounts all spamming him for group requests? Maybe they just find out his IP and DDOS him every time he starts doing well. They don't have to kill him, they just have to make the game no fun.
We have hundreds of NOCs all over the country and power isn't our problem. Heat, however, definitely is. But, most of the equipment we have does not have Intel chips in them. I think most of the heat comes from Cisco stuff. A large cisco core router puts out magnitudes more heat than any Intel chip could possibly put out. When our guys bring those things up to do testing on their desk, the fans sound like large vacuum cleaners or something.
SUVs are not the gas guzzlers many make them out to be. Newer ones are getting 22 to 30mpg. Most vehicles that use a lot of gas are older cars owned by the poor. Gas taxes, which are quickly turning into the modern vice tax, do just what other vice taxes do: Tax the poor. The people you want to tax, who drive $60k suvs could give a shit less what gas costs.
Useful for calculations? no... useful for learning how to use and program for super computers? Definitely.
Give me his email address.
The point of petitions is to allow an organized group to make a point. Finding out what the statistical majority of people want is not the goal. We already have a process for doing that, it's call an election. These petitions are there so people that may not be a majority can still organize and make their collective viewpoint on a topic known.
4chan did have a point with this petition. It was not meaningless. It's sad that people can't see that. They were showing the intrinsic weakness in this type of system. You can always get a lot of people together and get them to sign a petition. Petitions are meaningless in that regard and should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when the topic is highly partisan. Also, it was funny. And if there's anything our political system could use, it's a little humor and humility.
If anything the president can hire 1 extra PR guy to make funny replies to these funny fake petitions.
"We're sorry but the estimated cost of a Death-star is 894 trillion dollars. At this time, even with the help of all other countries on earth, we would not have the economic or material resources to begin production. Furthermore we do not have any device capable of destroying a planet, nor any idea how to build one. We are also very short on planets in this system and destroying one wouldn't be in our best interest. Lastly, it's been calculated that accelerating a death-star to a simple 1 meter per second would consume all of the fissile material on earth, at which point we'd have no way of stopping it and it would likely fall into our gravity well killing us all and substantially speeding up the current global warming trend as all the cities on earth would burn. We recommend that you re-submit your petition in approximately 250 years when technological advancements would make it more feasible. Keep in mind however that we did not address diplomatic concerns in this reply and they may very well prevent such a project irrelevant of its cost or feasibility.
Thank you,
The White House"
That's my point. It should have a single connector that the Stick PC plugs into and then you're done with it. The TV would have its own controls, and maybe USB hub. The TVs remote could have buttons that affect the PC via USB... etc... Monitor/HID/Audio should be in the TV realm and then whatever processing power you want to plug in should be your own. Apple TV sucks? unplug it, plug in Google TV... dont like that? Go with a media portal stick. Etc...
We have these contracts with vendors all the time. They get breached from time to time and it's generally not a big deal. It's all about customer relations and keeping them happy. Or vice verse. Once that business relationship is clearly ending, no one really cares anymore. It's very rare that one of these situations turns into a lawsuit. The fact that HP is doing it is a very bad sign for HP. They have no business reason for pursuing this, and it says to their vendors "We'll be spiteful, angry and may sue you if you leave" It's not a good way to get new customers.
What these stick PCs need is a new connector that carrys full HD, 7.1 audio, power to the stick, mouse, keyboard, and remote control commands. Then TVs could include this format, you plug in your CPU stick and viola... your TV can run anything you want. Anyone could write their own TV OS or whatever. Ok kickstarter, kickstart this.