How about selling the scrap to Iran? They can add this to their existing "state-of-the-art" nuclear arsenal (which the country that literally floats in oil will only use for energy production purposes...) and justifiably claim that they now also have one of the pioneering pieces of nuclear tech in their arsenal...
America spends so much (and many times way too much) in defending Americans within US against dirty bombs...but it is not exactly news that the Iranians or whoever it is in the Middle East who wish to harm Americans with dirty bombs will have no need to take the trouble of travelling such long distances to do this...they just cross the border and hey, there are some 150,000 Americans for the taking!
"By mid 1987, computer scientist Van Jacobson who is one of the prime contributors to the TCP/IP stack created a client-side patch for TCP that saved the day. Every computer on the Internet - roughly 30,000 in those days - was quickly patched by their system administrators."...
It must have really been a nice little Internet village at that time.
Arthur Clarke, in his last interview with IEEE Spectrum - "I'm often asked why I didn't try to patent the idea of communications satellites. My answer is always, 'A patent is really a license to be sued.' "
"...developing technology to detect players brainwaves and use them in next-gen video games". So will dumb guys with little brains (and presumably brainwaves) be able to lift nothing?
Well, even if it were to be true that quantum computing algos can break the existing encryption algos, I think it is being paranoid for two reasons: (1) Quantum computing is not yet mainstream and I doubt if mischief mongers (aka thieves who wish to break into financial sustems) have the wherewithal today to work with quantum computing algos, and (2) By the time QC moves to anywhere near mainstream, I have little doubt that encryption methods would have handsomely moved along too.
While these attacks are going on, the Chinese govt appears to have employed a mass of people to act as online trolls. Anyone visiting popular news sites such as Telegraph, Guardian etc., will see the unlikely spectacle of a very large % (in some cases almost all the) messages throwing mud on the Dalai Lama and calling him a terrorist.
It is a no-brainer to figure out that these folks are employed by the Chinese...but this is what is difficult to understand: don't the Chinese authorities (the posters' / commentators' paymasters) understand that if 95% of the comments to an anti-China article is in favor of China and against Dalai Lama, it will be obvious to the world that the hand of China is behind these postings?
Is it that the trolls became over-enthusiastic or the Chinese govt is so brainwashed in its own demagougery skills that it believes the entire world will believe their ridiculous propaganda?
The world seems to be perfectly at peace without knowing the complicated explanations behind the dominating presence of matter over anti-matter. I mean, all is well that ends well, so what's the matter!
I request the entire world's media to put a blanket freeze on all Olympic events that take place in China this year...let the Chinese government know that it can work both ways.
We do most all php app development on Windows but we use Linux for our web servers...a good chunk of folks known to me do the same - development on W and run on L. Frankly, I'm yet to come across anyone in my acquaintances who runs the programs online on Windows servers...but then I and most folks known to me run bootstrapped companies with little money (VCs yet to smile on us)...
It is difficult to consider an action responsible when it goes against the grain of the domain in which the action takes place. That is, teaching is supposed to be about spreading widsom and accumulated intelligence, so how can one consider teaching obviously incorrect stuff like intelligent design or creationism as responsible?
Do the anti-virus co CEOs also have poor handwriting? These days, whenever I read anti-virus (or anti-spyware or anti-malware or anti-trojan) articles, I am reminded of (not very good) doctors who always use difficult and confusing words to befuddle me and deprive me of the little money I have - Microsoft certainly did not invent FUD, though it mastered it better than its oringial inventors (doctors), and now the AV industry is gleefully following these bozos...
"...have found the link between what we expect to see, and what our brain tells us we actually saw"
Isn't it the brain that does the "expectation" part as well? If yes, the brain expects to see something, and the same brain tells itself that it saw something it had been expecting all along? Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy
Or is our subconscious "not part" of our brain?
Just curious...
At the same Black Hat conference, a chap presented on how easy it is to hack a smart-chip enabled credit card - "As part of his presentation Wednesday, Laurie asked for someone from the audience to volunteer a smart card. Without taking the card out of the volunteer's wallet, Laurie both read and displayed its contents on the presentation screen--the person's name, account number, and expiration clearly visible" - http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9875961-57.html
"In an exascale computer, data might be tens of thousands of processors away from the processor that wants it," says Sandia computer architect Doug Doerfler. "But until that processor gets its data, it has nothing useful to do. One key to scalability is to make sure all processors have something to work on at all times."
This sounds a very interesting OR optimization problem, but I am not sure what are the variables...If a processor is working on a particular piece of a problem and the data required to solve this will be made available by some other processor located away from the processor, I guess we are really talking wait times and not distance, am I right?
Apologies for having a rather dubious title, but I mean it. I live in India, so obviously the specifics of my experience might not be exactly relevant to you, but I hope the concept is.
Yes: If I am going to be travelling a lot and plan to use the mobile broadband primarily while traveling, why yes, it is indeed a good option especially given that in India we do not have too many places where I can reliably plug in my laptop physically but where WiFi connection appears more secure.
No: Within our offices, we had a difficult time with the PC cards and the funny "antennas" the vendors gave us. There appeared to be some problem always with the alignment of the antennas and it became so much of a hassle we shifted to wired broadband completely within our office.
You might ask whether the antenna issues did not creep up while travelling...they did, but the alternatives available for me while on travel were much less palatable! So I still use the mobile broadband while on travel, but plug my laptop into the cable broadband when in office...
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Well done laddie
How about selling the scrap to Iran? They can add this to their existing "state-of-the-art" nuclear arsenal (which the country that literally floats in oil will only use for energy production purposes...) and justifiably claim that they now also have one of the pioneering pieces of nuclear tech in their arsenal...
Now who's gonna bell the cat?
America spends so much (and many times way too much) in defending Americans within US against dirty bombs...but it is not exactly news that the Iranians or whoever it is in the Middle East who wish to harm Americans with dirty bombs will have no need to take the trouble of travelling such long distances to do this...they just cross the border and hey, there are some 150,000 Americans for the taking!
Talk of misplaced priorities...
"By mid 1987, computer scientist Van Jacobson who is one of the prime contributors to the TCP/IP stack created a client-side patch for TCP that saved the day. Every computer on the Internet - roughly 30,000 in those days - was quickly patched by their system administrators."...
It must have really been a nice little Internet village at that time.
Arthur Clarke, in his last interview with IEEE Spectrum - "I'm often asked why I didn't try to patent the idea of communications satellites. My answer is always, 'A patent is really a license to be sued.' "
Will the result of refactoring code using the PGW method be as funny as his books that the users of the code will laugh till they cry?
"...developing technology to detect players brainwaves and use them in next-gen video games". So will dumb guys with little brains (and presumably brainwaves) be able to lift nothing?
Well, even if it were to be true that quantum computing algos can break the existing encryption algos, I think it is being paranoid for two reasons: (1) Quantum computing is not yet mainstream and I doubt if mischief mongers (aka thieves who wish to break into financial sustems) have the wherewithal today to work with quantum computing algos, and (2) By the time QC moves to anywhere near mainstream, I have little doubt that encryption methods would have handsomely moved along too.
While these attacks are going on, the Chinese govt appears to have employed a mass of people to act as online trolls. Anyone visiting popular news sites such as Telegraph, Guardian etc., will see the unlikely spectacle of a very large % (in some cases almost all the) messages throwing mud on the Dalai Lama and calling him a terrorist.
It is a no-brainer to figure out that these folks are employed by the Chinese...but this is what is difficult to understand: don't the Chinese authorities (the posters' / commentators' paymasters) understand that if 95% of the comments to an anti-China article is in favor of China and against Dalai Lama, it will be obvious to the world that the hand of China is behind these postings?
Is it that the trolls became over-enthusiastic or the Chinese govt is so brainwashed in its own demagougery skills that it believes the entire world will believe their ridiculous propaganda?
The world seems to be perfectly at peace without knowing the complicated explanations behind the dominating presence of matter over anti-matter. I mean, all is well that ends well, so what's the matter!
I request the entire world's media to put a blanket freeze on all Olympic events that take place in China this year...let the Chinese government know that it can work both ways.
We do most all php app development on Windows but we use Linux for our web servers...a good chunk of folks known to me do the same - development on W and run on L. Frankly, I'm yet to come across anyone in my acquaintances who runs the programs online on Windows servers...but then I and most folks known to me run bootstrapped companies with little money (VCs yet to smile on us)...
It is difficult to consider an action responsible when it goes against the grain of the domain in which the action takes place. That is, teaching is supposed to be about spreading widsom and accumulated intelligence, so how can one consider teaching obviously incorrect stuff like intelligent design or creationism as responsible?
Do the anti-virus co CEOs also have poor handwriting? These days, whenever I read anti-virus (or anti-spyware or anti-malware or anti-trojan) articles, I am reminded of (not very good) doctors who always use difficult and confusing words to befuddle me and deprive me of the little money I have - Microsoft certainly did not invent FUD, though it mastered it better than its oringial inventors (doctors), and now the AV industry is gleefully following these bozos...
Putting a shine on trash will still make it trash, so I'm wondering using what metric NewTube is selecting the videos to be re-encoded
Isn't it the brain that does the "expectation" part as well? If yes, the brain expects to see something, and the same brain tells itself that it saw something it had been expecting all along? Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy
Or is our subconscious "not part" of our brain? Just curious...
At the same Black Hat conference, a chap presented on how easy it is to hack a smart-chip enabled credit card - "As part of his presentation Wednesday, Laurie asked for someone from the audience to volunteer a smart card. Without taking the card out of the volunteer's wallet, Laurie both read and displayed its contents on the presentation screen--the person's name, account number, and expiration clearly visible" - http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9875961-57.html
This sounds a very interesting OR optimization problem, but I am not sure what are the variables...If a processor is working on a particular piece of a problem and the data required to solve this will be made available by some other processor located away from the processor, I guess we are really talking wait times and not distance, am I right?
Yes: If I am going to be travelling a lot and plan to use the mobile broadband primarily while traveling, why yes, it is indeed a good option especially given that in India we do not have too many places where I can reliably plug in my laptop physically but where WiFi connection appears more secure.
No: Within our offices, we had a difficult time with the PC cards and the funny "antennas" the vendors gave us. There appeared to be some problem always with the alignment of the antennas and it became so much of a hassle we shifted to wired broadband completely within our office.
You might ask whether the antenna issues did not creep up while travelling...they did, but the alternatives available for me while on travel were much less palatable! So I still use the mobile broadband while on travel, but plug my laptop into the cable broadband when in office...
Hope this helps...