This is very ironic coming from a web-2.0 junkie who captains a site that is *constantly* having outages.
I think this may be semantics, but the Internet was not built wrong, it was *used* wrong. The original design perfectly met the needs of the time. Expectations change, and all we are seeing is that under our *present* needs the system can bend in some areas, and break in others. If we could go back and "fix" it we would do it a lot differently, of course. Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
I, for one, think it was put together pretty well. It's up to us to keep it working, the internet is always ready for re-invention.
These people know full well that GSM buzz has been around for years (even in the luddite, technology deprived United States) are merely playing off the iPhone hype (sorry, this statement was redundant.) What I find cool is that the GSM buzz is so well known it has made it's way into the metaverse, by way of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. If the player is riding in a car and he is about to get a call (in the game) there will be a few bits of buzz right before the ringing is heard. At first I thought it was a quirk in the music being played, but after it happened a few times I knew exactly what they were doing. There you have it, GSM buzz embedded in metaculture.
Isn't it hard to live up to "do no evil" when you have a strike-capable air force? This is a slippery slope, indeed. I think the next time the Yahoo! talks escalate, things just might go a little differently.
Are you really going to come to slashdot with a question including
"I have no idea what modern features are must haves and which brand's user interface is the most intuitive."
The clear answer to your dilemma is that the task should have fallen on someone else. Who is going to be using these things? If it's you, maybe you are best to stick with legacy HP scopes until you figure out what it is that you want.
If they are in fact only willing to spend $4000 (annually?) to protect their data, how in god's name can they have 4 TB of data that's worth backing up? Either they are severely over-leveraged on risk (hint: they are related to the subprime debacle) OR the data just isn't that important, like keeping around email archives from '90-'99 that should have been offlined a LONG time ago to make room on the routine backup system for more important things.
Here is why people are questioning your career choices: If you have $4000 you don't say "this is the best I can do to meet your needs of x amount of data", you say "$4000 will get you protection for y amount of data, if you want more you pay more."
The bigger the compiler, the bigger the places to hide malicious code. How hard would it be to construct a PERL interpreter (for example) that awaited a very specific set of instructions and manipulated them subtly. If the same person had access to the interpreter and the code, they could accomplish this easily. No amount of skilled inspection of the code would turn up wrongdoing, you would have to inspect every line of the interpreter as well. It's not safe to just assume they will be running a standard downloaded version from CPAN.
Are you kidding? This may be a phyrric argument (either way of doing it is fraud, and a real problem.) But, if you think it's hard to exploit a security hole (hint, they are in every piece of election software ever written) and dramatically change the voting results with little effort and even less evidence, you need to do some research on election systems. Paper voting means a physical paper trail, it absolutely IS harder to hide/destroy something that was once real (paper ballots) than to find something that you don't know is there (security holes in election software.)
I thought the first golden rule of the Internet was - be wary of strangers.
Would that it were! Alas, protection against Social engineering isn't just about being leery of strangers, it's about being leery of EVERYONE (given that identity is such a fragile thing.) Not everyone on the internet is cut out for that kind of paranoia, though.
Speaking as a resident of Slashdot, if you are coming here to post anonymously about your experience in an unnamed country, and expect to make a point of suggesting Americans are all xenophobic, we don't want you. Far too many Anonymous Cowards come to Slashdot to take advantage of the fact that it's popular to criticize the guys on top (Americans.) That's not how you contribute to a forum, regardless of how smug and self-assured you are.
It seems the brightest minds in the WORLD can't build a 17 mile superconducting mechanism that works reliably... How is it that this superconducting power grid is supposed to span hundreds of thousands of miles?
Not that there isn't a lot of truth to what you say but... The subject of this article, as well as key factor to deciding on Flash memory's fate, is SPEED. Cheap flash can read/write at 5-10 MB/s, whereas this new Blu-Ray laser has a stated read/write speed of 170 MB/sec. So, "cheap" Flash has a ways to go before it's competitive with optical media in strictly read/write performance, which for HD video is of utmost importance. The cost/benefit ratio changes for other purposes, but when speed is on the line it's disc or hard drive, flash just isn't there yet.
No, the money that was ripped off is long gone, with no one left to hold the bag. That's the problem. The $700 billion is essentially to subsidize the mortgages of the "wannabe-rich fuckers" who bought houses only to have them lose 30% or more of their value in a year, making selling or refinancing impossible and leaving default and bankruptcy on the table as very appealing options compared to dealing with mortgage payments that ballooned well beyond their expectations (whether they weren't diligent enough or were outright lied to about their mortgage is another story.)
When your WHOLE COUNTRY is behind a firewall? NAT the hell out of that! Flatten it to a/8 network in 10.0.0.0 and put it all behind one public IP. Problem solved!
It sounds to me like there is no actual solar cell, as of yet. Rather, he did some paper design work that demonstrated the capturing of extra energy in previously unused parts of the light spectrum, by way of nanotubes.
While I wish him the best of luck, the smart money is on this design proving completely implausible when it comes time to actually fabricate even a prototype.
How about this (according to Michael Kinsley, Larry Bartels, etc.): Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations.
Unless you are already independently wealthy, you will do better under a Democratic administration than a Republican one. Plain and simple. And if you are independently wealthy, well then you probably don't really care about a GDP percentage here or there. Bottom line, if you are voting "with your feet" on the economy, a Democratic vote is the clear choice, according to historic performance.
Did that have to do with the fact that the PS2 dvd laser was a horribly flawed design and could barely read discs on a GOOD day? I have three playstation 2 consoles that won't work anymore no matter how far they are from a magnetic source.
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This is very ironic coming from a web-2.0 junkie who captains a site that is *constantly* having outages.
I think this may be semantics, but the Internet was not built wrong, it was *used* wrong. The original design perfectly met the needs of the time. Expectations change, and all we are seeing is that under our *present* needs the system can bend in some areas, and break in others. If we could go back and "fix" it we would do it a lot differently, of course. Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
I, for one, think it was put together pretty well. It's up to us to keep it working, the internet is always ready for re-invention.
This sounds more like Research Triangle Park, Silicon Valley, CERN, or many other university backed commercial regions.
Call me when they have that invisible bridge thing working.
These people know full well that GSM buzz has been around for years (even in the luddite, technology deprived United States) are merely playing off the iPhone hype (sorry, this statement was redundant.) What I find cool is that the GSM buzz is so well known it has made it's way into the metaverse, by way of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. If the player is riding in a car and he is about to get a call (in the game) there will be a few bits of buzz right before the ringing is heard. At first I thought it was a quirk in the music being played, but after it happened a few times I knew exactly what they were doing. There you have it, GSM buzz embedded in metaculture.
Isn't it hard to live up to "do no evil" when you have a strike-capable air force? This is a slippery slope, indeed. I think the next time the Yahoo! talks escalate, things just might go a little differently.
Are you really going to come to slashdot with a question including
"I have no idea what modern features are must haves and which brand's user interface is the most intuitive."
The clear answer to your dilemma is that the task should have fallen on someone else. Who is going to be using these things? If it's you, maybe you are best to stick with legacy HP scopes until you figure out what it is that you want.
You should have SEEN what Linux and PHP were planning for the next release, right before the bubble burst. Let me just say two words: Flying Cars.
If they are in fact only willing to spend $4000 (annually?) to protect their data, how in god's name can they have 4 TB of data that's worth backing up? Either they are severely over-leveraged on risk (hint: they are related to the subprime debacle) OR the data just isn't that important, like keeping around email archives from '90-'99 that should have been offlined a LONG time ago to make room on the routine backup system for more important things.
Here is why people are questioning your career choices: If you have $4000 you don't say "this is the best I can do to meet your needs of x amount of data", you say "$4000 will get you protection for y amount of data, if you want more you pay more."
That's just it, google DOES charge for the hosted apps version of Gmail. See http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html for more info.
The bigger the compiler, the bigger the places to hide malicious code. How hard would it be to construct a PERL interpreter (for example) that awaited a very specific set of instructions and manipulated them subtly. If the same person had access to the interpreter and the code, they could accomplish this easily. No amount of skilled inspection of the code would turn up wrongdoing, you would have to inspect every line of the interpreter as well. It's not safe to just assume they will be running a standard downloaded version from CPAN.
Are you kidding? This may be a phyrric argument (either way of doing it is fraud, and a real problem.) But, if you think it's hard to exploit a security hole (hint, they are in every piece of election software ever written) and dramatically change the voting results with little effort and even less evidence, you need to do some research on election systems. Paper voting means a physical paper trail, it absolutely IS harder to hide/destroy something that was once real (paper ballots) than to find something that you don't know is there (security holes in election software.)
I thought the first golden rule of the Internet was - be wary of strangers.
Would that it were! Alas, protection against Social engineering isn't just about being leery of strangers, it's about being leery of EVERYONE (given that identity is such a fragile thing.) Not everyone on the internet is cut out for that kind of paranoia, though.
A statement blatantly stolen from NPR's Melissa Block.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95441421
Speaking as a resident of Slashdot, if you are coming here to post anonymously about your experience in an unnamed country, and expect to make a point of suggesting Americans are all xenophobic, we don't want you. Far too many Anonymous Cowards come to Slashdot to take advantage of the fact that it's popular to criticize the guys on top (Americans.) That's not how you contribute to a forum, regardless of how smug and self-assured you are.
Yes, you might call them *Presidential* standards...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy
It seems the brightest minds in the WORLD can't build a 17 mile superconducting mechanism that works reliably... How is it that this superconducting power grid is supposed to span hundreds of thousands of miles?
Just be careful, hitting 88 might result in you losing track of time. ALL of it.
Not that there isn't a lot of truth to what you say but... The subject of this article, as well as key factor to deciding on Flash memory's fate, is SPEED. Cheap flash can read/write at 5-10 MB/s, whereas this new Blu-Ray laser has a stated read/write speed of 170 MB/sec. So, "cheap" Flash has a ways to go before it's competitive with optical media in strictly read/write performance, which for HD video is of utmost importance. The cost/benefit ratio changes for other purposes, but when speed is on the line it's disc or hard drive, flash just isn't there yet.
"or dunked in a vat of whale spunk."
That's what I get for slacking off on /. when I'm supposed to be working. Thanks :(
No *that's* what you get for choosing to work at Whale Spunk Wholesalers, Inc.
And then what does it still have to do with YRO, unless he stole it over SSH under the guise of "free (as in computer parts) speech"...
No, the money that was ripped off is long gone, with no one left to hold the bag. That's the problem. The $700 billion is essentially to subsidize the mortgages of the "wannabe-rich fuckers" who bought houses only to have them lose 30% or more of their value in a year, making selling or refinancing impossible and leaving default and bankruptcy on the table as very appealing options compared to dealing with mortgage payments that ballooned well beyond their expectations (whether they weren't diligent enough or were outright lied to about their mortgage is another story.)
"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well... he eats you."
That kind of bar. I think.
When your WHOLE COUNTRY is behind a firewall? NAT the hell out of that! Flatten it to a /8 network in 10.0.0.0 and put it all behind one public IP. Problem solved!
It sounds to me like there is no actual solar cell, as of yet. Rather, he did some paper design work that demonstrated the capturing of extra energy in previously unused parts of the light spectrum, by way of nanotubes.
While I wish him the best of luck, the smart money is on this design proving completely implausible when it comes time to actually fabricate even a prototype.
How about this (according to Michael Kinsley, Larry Bartels, etc.): Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations.
Unless you are already independently wealthy, you will do better under a Democratic administration than a Republican one. Plain and simple. And if you are independently wealthy, well then you probably don't really care about a GDP percentage here or there. Bottom line, if you are voting "with your feet" on the economy, a Democratic vote is the clear choice, according to historic performance.
Did that have to do with the fact that the PS2 dvd laser was a horribly flawed design and could barely read discs on a GOOD day? I have three playstation 2 consoles that won't work anymore no matter how far they are from a magnetic source.