You are quite right. It's like watching a line of cars driving slowly in the fast lane when the slow lane is nearly empty. I wasn't missing your point; your point led me to a different one.
The goal of a dirty bomb is not to kill people. That is just a means to an end. The goal is to strike fear into the heart of "the enemy", i.e. to terrorize.
Why do it on the interstate? Because it is security theatre. The bigger the audience, the better; the more people they are justifying their paycheck to.
It really quite simple. Smart people have figured out that being an asshole is counter-productive. Smart people have likely also figured out how to maintain their systems. Most assholes are stupid and stupid people are the ones who need the most support. Additionally, stupid people who buy Macs are most likely to buy them for the wrong reasons, e.g. as a status symbol. There is a whole mindset out there that smart people (and computer geeks) just don't understand; it makes no sense to them because its based on bullshit.
The reason for this rabidity is simple. We spent so many years, in the pre-OSX days, having to listen to stupid shit from lame PC users. Even without protected memory and preemptive multitasking, our computing experience was still better for us on a Mac than it was on a PC. As with any large enough group of people who are feeling picked upon, there will be some number who will just go virtual-columbine on your ass. There are only so many unsolicited comments about toy computers that one can take.
As to why it continues? I don't know. Why do PC (now Windows) user still feel the need to give us shit? It happens less and less often, but it still happens.
Security and crypto are not branches of computer science. They both existed before CS and are widely application outside of CS.
not being James Bond... I went into security after college... not that glamorous You sound bitter. Life's a bitch, and then you die. (This being/. you can skip the "marry one" part) Get over it.
What has he ever done ? He outs crap crypto every month on his blog. Are you in his doghouse?
one of a MILLION symmetric crypto systems and approximately 999,900 of those are utter crap. Good crypto is not easy; if you think it is, you probably are in his doghouse.
What? Why? I run a bunch of Parallels VM's and none of them have AV. None of them are exposed to the world. Most of them don't even have networking. Half of them are just used for testing and have all changes thrown away when they are shutdown. The rest are backed up daily. I don't even store any of my work files on them (I don't trust Windows). Should one of them get infected, I would just delete it and restore from backup. It would take me two minutes tops.
Everyone on the site seems concerned with privacy, doesn't it make you all incredible hipocrites to say that businesses and government aren't entitled to that too? There is no contradiction here. Government, and government officials when operating in their official capacity, are not entitled to privacy; they are beholden to the people. With businesses, it depends. A sole proprietor is entitled to nearly as much privacy as any other person; he is beholden to himself and his customers. A huge corporation is entitled to much less; it is beholden to all of its shareholders, who may number in the thousands.
How do I use Visual Studio on Linux/Mac? How do I use Photoshop on Linux? How do I use AutoCAD on Linux/Mac?
Both Parallels and VMware have products that will do this on either platform. I use Visual Studio on my Mac through Parallels daily; works like a champ. As a bonus, it lets me target and test as many configurations of Windows as I would like.
I don't believe this is correct. Apple wants no interpreters other than those that they approve/install. To quote the iPhone SDK Agreement
No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s). emphasis added
I hope Ballmer squirts some education into the summary writer's mail box. I am so not going to RTFA.
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You, Sir, have made beer come out my nose. I bow before your exquisite hilarity.
That's hilarious. I wonder what took you guys so long. Back on topic...
I really expected, that when I clicked on this article, to see something about a photonic data-compression chip. That would have been interesting. I am usually the first person to mod down BS posts as over-rated, but this article is just disappointing. A more efficient inter-connect is useful, but I'm sure that, in a few months, an even more efficient one will come along. This article is barely news, even for nerds like me.
High-speed networking takes a non-trivial amount of power to drive the signals, be they electrical or optical. Especially for optical devices, the efficiency in getting that power onto the transmission medium is low. At high enough speeds, there are also a lot of high speed transistors switching in the control logic that use power for the same reasons as your CPU. So, they've improved the power consumption in these and other areas.
My quibble is with "IBM Optical Chip Zips Huge Files". Made me think IBM had some specialized compression photonic chips.
Off-topic, my drunken ass! There are, at this moment, five other posts at zero or less that should be at one or more. Do you late-nighters just dislike AC's that much?
we'd have seen it's effects on the outer planets decades ago
Perhaps not. According to the summary and the article, the effect dies down the closer you get to the ecliptic plane (i.e. where the planets are).
One could imagine that the local dark matter field (or whatever) has been swept up, in the ecliptic, by the sun and the planets.</handwave>
I'm think it's more something like atmospheric drag, but maybe they already accounted for this.
The satellites appear to gain velocity, so wouldn't that be atmospheric anti-drag.
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Sorry dude, looks like you posted to the wrong discussion.
You are quite right. It's like watching a line of cars driving slowly in the fast lane when the slow lane is nearly empty. I wasn't missing your point; your point led me to a different one.
The goal of a dirty bomb is not to kill people. That is just a means to an end. The goal is to strike fear into the heart of "the enemy", i.e. to terrorize.
Why do it on the interstate? Because it is security theatre. The bigger the audience, the better; the more people they are justifying their paycheck to.
It really quite simple. Smart people have figured out that being an asshole is counter-productive. Smart people have likely also figured out how to maintain their systems. Most assholes are stupid and stupid people are the ones who need the most support. Additionally, stupid people who buy Macs are most likely to buy them for the wrong reasons, e.g. as a status symbol. There is a whole mindset out there that smart people (and computer geeks) just don't understand; it makes no sense to them because its based on bullshit.
The reason for this rabidity is simple. We spent so many years, in the pre-OSX days, having to listen to stupid shit from lame PC users. Even without protected memory and preemptive multitasking, our computing experience was still better for us on a Mac than it was on a PC. As with any large enough group of people who are feeling picked upon, there will be some number who will just go virtual-columbine on your ass. There are only so many unsolicited comments about toy computers that one can take.
As to why it continues? I don't know. Why do PC (now Windows) user still feel the need to give us shit? It happens less and less often, but it still happens.
one of a MILLION symmetric crypto systems and approximately 999,900 of those are utter crap. Good crypto is not easy; if you think it is, you probably are in his doghouse.
This bill would make it a crime to operate an open wireless access point. The AP's broadcast of its ssid and open status would be solicitation.
What? Why? I run a bunch of Parallels VM's and none of them have AV. None of them are exposed to the world. Most of them don't even have networking. Half of them are just used for testing and have all changes thrown away when they are shutdown. The rest are backed up daily. I don't even store any of my work files on them (I don't trust Windows). Should one of them get infected, I would just delete it and restore from backup. It would take me two minutes tops.
I wouldn't keep a "friend" who was that annoying.
Both Parallels and VMware have products that will do this on either platform. I use Visual Studio on my Mac through Parallels daily; works like a champ. As a bonus, it lets me target and test as many configurations of Windows as I would like.
I don't believe this is correct. Apple wants no interpreters other than those that they approve/install. To quote the iPhone SDK Agreement No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s). emphasis added
LOL LOL LOL ROFL
You, Sir, have made beer come out my nose. I bow before your exquisite hilarity.
That's hilarious. I wonder what took you guys so long.
Back on topic...
I really expected, that when I clicked on this article, to see something about a photonic data-compression chip. That would have been interesting. I am usually the first person to mod down BS posts as over-rated, but this article is just disappointing. A more efficient inter-connect is useful, but I'm sure that, in a few months, an even more efficient one will come along. This article is barely news, even for nerds like me.
My quibble is with "IBM Optical Chip Zips Huge Files". Made me think IBM had some specialized compression photonic chips.
Please, Mr. Ballmer, don't squirt me!...
YUCK!
The mental image of Sweaty MonkeyBoy and the work squirt should never be in the vicinity of each other. It is an abomination.
Off-topic, my drunken ass! There are, at this moment, five other posts at zero or less that should be at one or more. Do you late-nighters just dislike AC's that much?
What's with the moderation in this article? The parent is at least funny.
A hundred watts, that's all good and well, but what does it have to do with zipping huge files? Or am I reading impaired?
Perhaps not. According to the summary and the article, the effect dies down the closer you get to the ecliptic plane (i.e. where the planets are).
One could imagine that the local dark matter field (or whatever) has been swept up, in the ecliptic, by the sun and the planets.</handwave>
The satellites appear to gain velocity, so wouldn't that be atmospheric anti-drag.