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  1. Re:SANS/ISC's take on the CNN infection on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global · · Score: 3, Funny

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  2. Re:sex sells on Games As The New Pub · · Score: 1

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  3. Re:SANS/ISC's take on the CNN infection on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global · · Score: 3, Funny

    Appalling security for these folks. Bucket-brigade virus infections. Now you know how to take one of these orgs out - drop a nasty on the lobby jacks.

  4. Re:I Don't Understand What All the Fuss is About on FCC Wants to Track Wireless · · Score: 1
    I want them to RFID turds.

    Then we can find out who's responsible for all this pollution shit I keep hearing about.

  5. Re:You Only Think You're Winning on Spammers on the Run · · Score: 1
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  6. Re:Very Deliberate on Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access · · Score: 1

    "Rome wasn't sacked in a day!" as I am wont to say!

  7. Re:You really are a nutburger huh? on Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access · · Score: 1

    See you in the Gulag, comerade!

  8. Very Deliberate on Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access · · Score: 3, Informative
    These are the incremental steps being taken, to turn the citezenry into a "snoop force." This is slow and deliberate. Remember the boil-a-frog analogy?

    Totalitarian control in the U.S. can't take place without turning the populace into its own jailers, a'la the GDR. DHS has had Yvgeny Primakov and Markus Wolf as consultants for creating "internal security measures."

    Ten years from now, one-third of you will be reporting on the rest, just to keep your rare and valued job in the cafeteria. - That BTW, is the agenda behind ruining the dollar and the U.S> job markets: scarce jobs and government payrolls == social control.

    Primakov said that this is one of the steps now being employed along with NICA and new identity upgrade features which are coming to your driver's license. It is being used to get the people used to new types of documentation and carrying new types of identity cards pursuant to the United States instituting a formal policy of internal passports. And he actually used the words "internal passports."

    It's like he said and he was pretty knowledgeable. When the NICA (National Identity Card Act) gets passed, the Posse Comitatus Act gets overturned, a few other pieces of legislation yet to be proffered get passed, the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed.

    What Primakov finds funny are what he calls these "right wing flag wavers" that were so anti-communist and now they're supporting a state policy of internal passports.

    Primakov continued by saying that he had been hired as a consultant and he was consulting on other "security" matters, an ongoing policy in various agencies of government (some of these offices haven't even been created yet) to consistently narrow the rights of the American people and to expand the power of government. He professed not to know why, the reason for all this was, other than he admitted that "it doesn't have much to do with 'fighting terrorism.'"

    Of the new jobs [created], 26,000 (about 13%) are tax-supported government jobs. That leaves 181,000 private sector jobs. Of these private sector jobs, 177,000, or 98%, are in the domestic service sector.

    Here is the breakdown of the major categories:

    30,000 food servers and bar tenders;
    28,000 health care and social assistance:
    12,000 real estate;
    6,000 credit intermediation;
    8,000 transit and ground passenger transportation;
    50,000 retail trade; and
    8,000 wholesale trade.

    (There were 7,000 construction jobs, most of which were filled by Mexicans immigrants.)

    Not a single one of these jobs produces a tradable good or service that can be exported or serve as an import substitute to help reduce the massive and growing US trade deficit. The US economy is employing people to sell things, to move people around, and to serve them fast food and alcoholic beverages. The items may have an American brand name, but they are mainly made off shore. For example, 70% of Wal-Mart's goods are made in China.

    Where are the jobs for the 65,000 engineers the US graduates each year? Where are the jobs for the physics, chemistry, and math majors? Who needs a university degree to wait tables and serve drinks, to build houses, to work as hospital orderlies, bus drivers, and sales clerks?

  9. Re:pardon? on More Mac OS X on Plain Old x86 Boxes · · Score: 1

    How about Sealab 2020? Gigantor?

  10. It's called i860 :-) on Intel Plans to Overhaul Chip Architecture · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Itanium will be re-christened "Xeon failure edition".

    Intel i860

    The Intel i860 (also 80860, and code named N10) was a RISC microprocessor from Intel, first released in 1989. The i860 was (along with the i960) one of Intel's first attempts at an entirely new, high-end ISA since the failed Intel i432 from the 1980s. It was released with considerable fanfare, and obscured the release of the Intel i960 which many considered to be a better design. The i860 never achieved commercial success and the project was terminated in the late 1980s. No known applications of the chip survive and it is no longer manufactured.

    Technical features

    Intel i860 MicroprocessorThe i860 combined a number of features that were unique at the time, most notably its VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture and powerful support for high-speed floating point operations. The design mounted a 32-bit ALU along with a 64-bit FPU that was itself built in three parts, an adder, a multiplier, and a graphics processor. The system had separate pipelines for the ALU, adder and multiplier, and could hand off up to three instructions per clock.

    One fairly unique feature of the i860 was that the pipelines into the functional units were program-accessible, requiring the compilers to carefully order instructions in the object code to keep the pipelines filled. This achieves some of the same goals as RISC microprocessor architectures, where complex microcode, a sort of on-the-fly compiler, was removed from the core of the CPU and placed in the compiler. This led to a simpler core, with more space available for other duties, but resulted in much larger code, with negative impact on cache hits, memory bandwidth, and overall system cost. As a result of its architecture, the i860 could run certain graphics and floating point algorithms with exceptionally high speed, but its performance in general-purpose applications suffered and it was difficult to program efficiently (see below).

    All of the buses were 64-bits wide, or wider. The internal memory bus to the cache, for instance, was 128-bits wide. Both units had thirty-two 32-bit registers, but the FPU used its set as sixteen 64-bit registers. Instructions for the ALU were fetched two at a time to use the full external bus. Intel always referred to the design as the "i860 64-Bit Microprocessor".

    The graphics unit was unique for the era. It was essentially a 64-bit integer unit using the FPU registers. It supported a number of commands for SIMD-like instructions in addition to basic 64-bit integer math. Experience with the i860 influenced the MMX functionality later added to Intel's Pentium processors.

    Performance (problems)

    Paper performance was impressive for a single-chip solution; however, real-world performance was anything but. One problem, perhaps unrecognized at the time, was that runtime code paths are difficult to predict, meaning that it becomes exceedingly difficult to properly order instructions at compile time. For instance, an instruction to add two numbers will take considerably longer if the data is not in the cache, yet there is no way for the programmer to know if it is or not. If you guess wrong the entire pipeline will stall, waiting for the data. The entire i860 design was based on the compiler efficiently handling this task, which proved almost impossible in practice. While theoretically capable of peaking at about 60MFLOPS for the XP versions, hand-coded assemblers managed to get only about up to 40MFLOPS, and most compilers had difficultly getting even 10.

    Another serious problem was the lack of any solution to quickly handle context switching. The i860 had several pipelines (for the ALU and FPU parts) and an interrupt could spill them and need them all to be re-loaded. This took 62 cycles in the best case, and almost 2000 cycles in the worst. The latter is 1/20000th of a second, an eternity for a CPU. This largely eliminated the i860 as a general purpose CPU.

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  11. SUMMARY: on Gov't.-published List of Computer Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Hey! It's CVE with an RSS feed!

  12. Let me tell you why on Google Gives Reason Why it is Built on Linux · · Score: -1, Troll
    I use AltaVista...

    Unhappy?
    Google is the biggest spyware company on the planet! They are just clever enough to use a search "honeypot", instead of invading your dinky system.

    "I Looove Google!"

  13. Re:self-destruct code on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    So, I have to remember some freakin' obscure chess move to save my player? I think BluRay is Corbamite.

  14. Re:Genetic Testing !Consent == Invasion of Privacy on Genetic Discrimination in the IT Workplace · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Terrorists Move to Cyberspace on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 2, Informative
    Crime occurs - from a forensic standpoint - when thre elements are in place.

    Motive

    Opportunity

    Willingness

    Using the motive and willingness of Perverts to justify the restriction of teh Internet at large is poor threat analysis, and does nothing fundamental in mitigating the criminal issue. It serves the ends of those who wish to restrict public thought and opinion. This is accomplished by enlisting the aid of those unjustafiably restricted, provoking their base, emotional concerns for saftey.

    If Al Qaeda is on the Internet, then the CIA and Mossad should stop sending money to the ISI for laptops.

  16. Re:Terrorists Move to Cyberspace on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 2, Insightful
    None of you buty this propaganda do you? This is so they can justfy "policing" and shutting down much of the Internet - especially th eso-called Blogosphere. There is a real probelem with uncontrolled messages from the point-of-view of those who spent trillions managing mainstream media and political opinion for the past 80 years.

    Child porn scares weren't enough. Now you will find use of evasive technologies soon to be classified as criminal offences. TOR? Even SSH, when they want an example, or to close down another "free-thinker".

    It's over. You traded your souls to these people, for a shot at buying a Lexus.

  17. Los Angeles Times: The myths of Hiroshima on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 2, Informative
    By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

    KAI BIRD and MARTIN J. SHERWIN are coauthors of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer," published earlier this year by Knopf.

    August 5, 2005

    SIXTY YEARS ago tomorrow, an atomic bomb was dropped without warning on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed, more than 95% of them women and children and other noncombatants. At least half of the victims died of radiation poisoning over the next few months. Three days after Hiroshima was obliterated, the city of Nagasaki suffered a similar fate.

    The magnitude of death was enormous, but on Aug. 14, 1945 just five days after the Nagasaki bombing Radio Tokyo announced that the Japanese emperor had accepted the U.S. terms for surrender. To many Americans at the time, and still for many today, it seemed clear that the bomb had ended the war, even "saving" a million lives that might have been lost if the U.S. had been required to invade mainland Japan.

    This powerful narrative took root quickly and is now deeply embedded in our historical sense of who we are as a nation. A decade ago, on the 50th anniversary, this narrative was reinforced in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution on the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first bomb. The exhibit, which had been the subject of a bruising political battle, presented nearly 4 million Americans with an officially sanctioned view of the atomic bombings that again portrayed them as a necessary act in a just war.

    But although patriotically correct, the exhibit and the narrative on which it was based were historically inaccurate. For one thing, the Smithsonian downplayed the casualties, saying only that the bombs "caused many tens of thousands of deaths" and that Hiroshima was "a definite military target."

    Americans were also told that use of the bombs "led to the immediate surrender of Japan and made unnecessary the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands." But it's not that straightforward. As Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has shown definitively in his new book, "Racing the Enemy" and many other historians have long argued it was the Soviet Union's entry into the Pacific war on Aug. 8, two days after the Hiroshima bombing, that provided the final "shock" that led to Japan's capitulation.

    The Enola Gay exhibit also repeated such outright lies as the assertion that "special leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities" warning civilians to evacuate. The fact is that atomic bomb warning leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities, but only after Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been destroyed.

    The hard truth is that the atomic bombings were unnecessary. A million lives were not saved. Indeed, McGeorge Bundy, the man who first popularized this figure, later confessed that he had pulled it out of thin air in order to justify the bombings in a 1947 Harper's magazine essay he had ghostwritten for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.

    The bomb was dropped, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, said in November 1945, on "an essentially defeated enemy." President Truman and his closest advisor, Secretary of State James Byrnes, quite plainly used it primarily to prevent the Soviets from sharing in the occupation of Japan. And they used it on Aug. 6 even though they had agreed among themselves as they returned home from the Potsdam Conference on Aug. 3 that the Japanese were looking for peace.

    These unpleasant historical facts were censored from the 1995 Smithsonian exhibit, an action that should trouble every American. When a government substitutes an officially sanctioned view for publicly debated history, democracy is diminished.

    Today, in the post-9/11 era, it is critically important that the U.S. face the truth about the atomic bomb. For one thing, the myths surrounding Hiroshima have made it possible for our defense establishment to argue that atomic bombs are legitimate weapons that belong

  18. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1
    I adhere to a kind of Unitarian thought - elements of Neo-Platonism and a distinct flavor of Asharite posititions.

    Whatever can be said of God is inherently inadequate, and is in error. God is incomprehensible in intellectual terms, including the approximation of parables.

    God is ultimate reality - no more understood by a single mind than a galaxy would be known by a single cell.

  19. Re:Best TCP-IP Stack? on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 2, Funny
    The OS is stacked, and that's a fact
    'Ain't holdin' nuthin' back!

    IP brick...
    HOUSE!
    IP brick...
    HOUSE!

  20. Re:And... on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    "She" doesn't need to stand...

  21. Re:Everybody hurts on Can Cell Phones Damage Our Eyes? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you see me now?
    O.K. Can you see me now?
    Just a sec'...
    Is that better? Can you see me now?

  22. Re:Gnome desktop artist on Interview with a Gnome artist, William Szilveszter · · Score: 1

    No. 'Tis but three palm's breadth from the garden a-growin'.

  23. Re:Better Things To Do... on House Calls for Investigation Into Rockstar Games · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Conservative?

    How about Pestilence, or "Wrath of God", or Vampires?

  24. Re:OSX on x86 on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1
    Do you know MoL? It doesn't virtualize in that sense.

    The virtualization in QEMU is at least near-equal anything going. The user interation with VM services is where rough edges are.

    Intel will destroy most of these issues, with in CPU partitioning and hypervisor. A year from now, VM will be like Hyperthreading.

  25. Re:OSX on x86 on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1

    Port MoL to Intel (no biggee).