For the first time I can ever remember I have a PC that's about to turn 2 years old and it's not obsolete. They have no choice but to cut prices. Maybe I'll jump in and spring for a replacement motherboard for my Dell 8400 which I saw surplused last week for $50. If the P4 3.2 GHz - I think it's a Prescott - drops low enough it will make a nice system-in-waiting for when this one croaks. I'll be able to fend off the DMA nasties a while longer.
The bugs are in the software. I had to think back to what the problem was exactly, but a google search for "disable hyperthreading" turns up various recommendations to turn off hyperthreading for
Windows Virtual Server 2005 Photoshop Adobe Premiere AutoCAD BF2 Firefox
Hyperthreaded processors are not full-blown multi-processor machines, but the basic idea is the same. I don't think any mainstream software publishers have got the multi-processor thing down yet. Specialized software, mostly for servers, seems to have matured.
I have a P4 running at 3.2 GHz right here right now. It will be 2 years old in October. For the first time I can ever remember, a PC is going to reach its birthday and NOT be obsolete. Something's going on, I tell ya. Normally there would be at least a 6.4 GHz machine out there somewhere begging me to buy it.
Multipl cores are nice but really need software to evolve more before they will hit their stride. Multithreaded programming separates the men from the boys and an entire segment just doesn't "get it". IMO that's because a well-designed multithreaded program can't be developed by sitting down and banging on the keys. It is no longer enough to say "the documentation is in the code" because there are architectural aspects of the code as it relates to multiprocessing and multithreading that don't lend themselves to being documented that way.
Outside of server apps can anyone point to a software package that really needs more than one processor? Even my 2-year-old P4 has 2 logical processors inside it but I recall there is more than one software package out there that won't run properly unless that feature is turned off. Nice job.
I wouldn't mind WiFi on a plane nearly as much as cell phones. Putting aside VOIP, that is. There will be nothing worse than allowing cell phones to be used on planes. That would be the ultimate and final indignity to whatever remains of what used to be a high-quality experience. First they stopped the good food. Then they stopped all the food. Now cell phones? Please, no. Not that.
But it will happen eventually. There's no real technical reason to ban the use of cell phones in the air. There never really was. All that remains to be done is for someone with a big enough bag full of money to arrive at FAA and FCC HQ and it's a done deal. I remember when flying used to be a great experience. *sigh*
Not. Look around for usage statistics and you'll see that USENET traffic and messags are up, and that doesn't include the binary groups. You are right about the "average" internet user not using usenet, but that's a good thing IMO.
I've used gopher. Gopher was actually replaced by the web and HTTP. When web browsers and HTTP came along, they started to do the job Gopher was doing and doing it better than Gopher itself. That's why gopher went away.
The nntp situation is different. There's something to be said about groups of messages organized in a heierarchical category that are primarily text based. Usenet fills a need that no web service can match, and that goes for the alt groups as well. Don't kid yourself, there's a lot of good stuff on the alt groups - you just need to know where to look. Let me say right here that none of my comments are meant with an eye toward the binary groups. Sometimes I wish they would go away just because of the bandwidth and disk space concerns.
"If you can't find a lawyer willing to represent you, it usually means you don't have a case."
That may be true for this case, but more often than not it means you can't afford the lawyer's fees whether you've got a case or not. Justice and the legal process are things that are for sale in the United States these days. If you've got a small business there are any number of silly lawsuits your enemies can bring against you that will bleed you dry in legal fees alone. And that's for DEFENDING yourself against a bogus complaint, never mind prosecuting a case where you know you're in the right.
There are already many laws on the books that basically say to the people: you don't have any right to know about (fill_in_the_blank). What's one more? Want to know why you're on a do not fly list? Sorry, can't tell you that. Want your congressman to investigate exactly how far the president's seceret domestic program goes? Sorry, you're not allowed to know that. Want to know why gubmint investigators are snooping around your life? Sorry, can't tell you that. Want to know what crime they are going to charge you with? Sorry, that's none of your business. Want to know why the feel the Constitution doesn't apply anymore? Sorry, none of your business. Want to know exactly who they consider a terrarist? Sorry, you don't need to know that. Want to know if the gubmint has broken into your home looking to plant evidence against you? Sorry, you don't have a right to that information.
Well fuck that. If Americans are willing to cede so much control to the gubmint and don't give a damn enough to see to it that the people who say "trust us" can actually be trustes then they deserve every single damn thing that happens to them, and I count myself among them, unfortunately. Democracy and freedom. Government of the people, for the people and BY the people. It was nice while it lasted. Now, back to a century or 2 of tyrrany I guess.
You could not have picked a worse analogy than the 2 baseball teams in NYC. While there are a number of frontrunner bandwagon fans there, they are few and far between as compared to a place like Dallas or Los Angeles. No self respecting Met OR Yankee fan would be caught DEAD wearing the other team's jersey. It appears as though your lack of fashion sense is only exceeded by your complete inability to gague quality-of-life issues re. sports in the Big Apple.
On my patched FC3 boxes I get an error after trying to run the Linux client. "Server terminated prematurely". Now I'm going to download and run the Windows cient.
Blaming Microsoft for broken promises is like blaming water for being wet. When, exactly, has all the initial hype about any release of Windows actually been fulfilled? Never as far I can remember.
As a poster said at TFA, why did they reveal this attack so soon? It would have been much better to wait another few months until HDCP displays and video cards were shipping in larger numbers. That being said, who's comes up with these lame cryptosystems anyway? First CSS, which was a joke, now this, and you know the Advanced CSS will have holes in it big enough to drive a truck through. The bad news is that some day they will start hiring people who know what they're doing with cryptosystems and then we're all screwed.
I also know a few good reasons why someone would want an account in a tax haven, that have nothing to do with taxes. I'd tell you what they were except, quite frankly, it's none of your business.
TFA slashdotted after being up for less than 10 minutes on/.? There's got to be a better site for Firefox extensions. Not exactly making my bookmark list.
For the first time ever my home desktop PC turned a year old without being totally obsolete. No, 3.2 GHz is not the fastest, but it's not like a 6.4 GHz machine is available today eitehr. 10 or 15 years ago it was no uncommon to see your machine be trumped by one that ran at least twice as fast a year later. Thank, Intel!
I manage cookies too. I set Firefox to ask me every time a site wants to set a cookie. It's a pain in the neck at first, but I'm used to it now. Whenever I go to a new site I will usually let it set up to 3 cookies, as long as the words "media", "ads" or "marketing" aren't in the site URL or cookie name. Regardless, after 3 I usually select "No" and then "Remember this setting for this site".
I wish Firefox had a cookie function where I could right-click on a page and enable/disable/remove cookies for the underlying site. That would rock.
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not a hard-core PS2 gamer, but I thought the problem of software piracy was firmly under control on the PS2 console. The DVDs use some sort of secret encoding technique ("wobbling" signal, non-standard sectors, etc.) that make it nearly impossible to burn copies, don't they?
How much in sales are really lost due to modchips vis-a-vis the entire sales numbers? I think game manufacturers are much more affected by video game rental stores, of which there are many. Anyplace you can go and rent a game for a couple of bucks sure beats paying full price to buy one - er, ummmm... I mean "license" - play it for a few days and then throwing it into a drawer where it will stay forever. The rental outfits have got to be raking it in. I'm surprised the game publishers haven't tried to get them outlawed yet. OTOH maybe they HAVE been unsuccessfully trying to shut them down and I just haven't heard about it.
Now that Linksys is abandoning Linux completely there aren't many SOHO routers for hackers out there anymore. My electric bill here in the northeast USA is running almost $150 a month this winter - and it's been warm. Can't wait for air-conditioner season. But I digress... Passive cooling = no fan, right? If these things are quiet AND efficient they might really have something there, although 2 GHz for a router seems excessive. Maybe not once you add in network storage, a web server, a Radius server and a few CPU-hungry VPN protocols.
I agree with the thinking behind hate crime laws: people who are nasty curs should be smacked down hard. The problem I have is these laws elevate certain people over others. A crime against a person of religion X is worse than a crime against a person of religion Y. A crime against an immigrant from Mexico is worse than a crime against your American neighbor.
This is just wrong. Like the money laundering laws. They were meant with good intent but are now fraught with loopholes and gotchas and they hurt more innocent people than they ever help.
The problem with all this is where do you draw the line? These laws become tools to advance a prosecutor's career, rather than deterring or punishing crimes. These are the laws they hit you with when they need to "make an example" out of you.
Everyone is a criminal now. Or soon will be. So the only real crime is getting caught. Unless you can buy yourself some American Justice. For the record, only public officials with lots of influence or mega-rich corporations can do that. SO start sucking up and pray they don't come after you. Because you're guilty.
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For the first time I can ever remember I have a PC that's about to turn 2 years old and it's not obsolete. They have no choice but to cut prices. Maybe I'll jump in and spring for a replacement motherboard for my Dell 8400 which I saw surplused last week for $50. If the P4 3.2 GHz - I think it's a Prescott - drops low enough it will make a nice system-in-waiting for when this one croaks. I'll be able to fend off the DMA nasties a while longer.
The bugs are in the software. I had to think back to what the problem was exactly, but a google search for "disable hyperthreading" turns up various recommendations to turn off hyperthreading for
Windows Virtual Server 2005
Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
AutoCAD
BF2
Firefox
Hyperthreaded processors are not full-blown multi-processor machines, but the basic idea is the same. I don't think any mainstream software publishers have got the multi-processor thing down yet. Specialized software, mostly for servers, seems to have matured.
I have a P4 running at 3.2 GHz right here right now. It will be 2 years old in October. For the first time I can ever remember, a PC is going to reach its birthday and NOT be obsolete. Something's going on, I tell ya. Normally there would be at least a 6.4 GHz machine out there somewhere begging me to buy it.
Multipl cores are nice but really need software to evolve more before they will hit their stride. Multithreaded programming separates the men from the boys and an entire segment just doesn't "get it". IMO that's because a well-designed multithreaded program can't be developed by sitting down and banging on the keys. It is no longer enough to say "the documentation is in the code" because there are architectural aspects of the code as it relates to multiprocessing and multithreading that don't lend themselves to being documented that way.
Outside of server apps can anyone point to a software package that really needs more than one processor? Even my 2-year-old P4 has 2 logical processors inside it but I recall there is more than one software package out there that won't run properly unless that feature is turned off. Nice job.
I wouldn't mind WiFi on a plane nearly as much as cell phones. Putting aside VOIP, that is. There will be nothing worse than allowing cell phones to be used on planes. That would be the ultimate and final indignity to whatever remains of what used to be a high-quality experience. First they stopped the good food. Then they stopped all the food. Now cell phones? Please, no. Not that.
But it will happen eventually. There's no real technical reason to ban the use of cell phones in the air. There never really was. All that remains to be done is for someone with a big enough bag full of money to arrive at FAA and FCC HQ and it's a done deal. I remember when flying used to be a great experience. *sigh*
Not. Look around for usage statistics and you'll see that USENET traffic and messags are up, and that doesn't include the binary groups. You are right about the "average" internet user not using usenet, but that's a good thing IMO.
I've used gopher. Gopher was actually replaced by the web and HTTP. When web browsers and HTTP came along, they started to do the job Gopher was doing and doing it better than Gopher itself. That's why gopher went away.
The nntp situation is different. There's something to be said about groups of messages organized in a heierarchical category that are primarily text based. Usenet fills a need that no web service can match, and that goes for the alt groups as well. Don't kid yourself, there's a lot of good stuff on the alt groups - you just need to know where to look. Let me say right here that none of my comments are meant with an eye toward the binary groups. Sometimes I wish they would go away just because of the bandwidth and disk space concerns.
"If you can't find a lawyer willing to represent you, it usually means you don't have a case."
That may be true for this case, but more often than not it means you can't afford the lawyer's fees whether you've got a case or not. Justice and the legal process are things that are for sale in the United States these days. If you've got a small business there are any number of silly lawsuits your enemies can bring against you that will bleed you dry in legal fees alone. And that's for DEFENDING yourself against a bogus complaint, never mind prosecuting a case where you know you're in the right.
There are already many laws on the books that basically say to the people: you don't have any right to know about (fill_in_the_blank). What's one more? Want to know why you're on a do not fly list? Sorry, can't tell you that. Want your congressman to investigate exactly how far the president's seceret domestic program goes? Sorry, you're not allowed to know that. Want to know why gubmint investigators are snooping around your life? Sorry, can't tell you that. Want to know what crime they are going to charge you with? Sorry, that's none of your business. Want to know why the feel the Constitution doesn't apply anymore? Sorry, none of your business. Want to know exactly who they consider a terrarist? Sorry, you don't need to know that. Want to know if the gubmint has broken into your home looking to plant evidence against you? Sorry, you don't have a right to that information.
Well fuck that. If Americans are willing to cede so much control to the gubmint and don't give a damn enough to see to it that the people who say "trust us" can actually be trustes then they deserve every single damn thing that happens to them, and I count myself among them, unfortunately. Democracy and freedom. Government of the people, for the people and BY the people. It was nice while it lasted. Now, back to a century or 2 of tyrrany I guess.
You could not have picked a worse analogy than the 2 baseball teams in NYC. While there are a number of frontrunner bandwagon fans there, they are few and far between as compared to a place like Dallas or Los Angeles. No self respecting Met OR Yankee fan would be caught DEAD wearing the other team's jersey. It appears as though your lack of fashion sense is only exceeded by your complete inability to gague quality-of-life issues re. sports in the Big Apple.
On my patched FC3 boxes I get an error after trying to run the Linux client. "Server terminated prematurely". Now I'm going to download and run the Windows cient.
Not.
Blaming Microsoft for broken promises is like blaming water for being wet. When, exactly, has all the initial hype about any release of Windows actually been fulfilled? Never as far I can remember.
Interesting point. Why make it as AC? I wouldn't have even seen it except I wanted to read the replies to my post.
As a poster said at TFA, why did they reveal this attack so soon? It would have been much better to wait another few months until HDCP displays and video cards were shipping in larger numbers. That being said, who's comes up with these lame cryptosystems anyway? First CSS, which was a joke, now this, and you know the Advanced CSS will have holes in it big enough to drive a truck through. The bad news is that some day they will start hiring people who know what they're doing with cryptosystems and then we're all screwed.
I agree PayPal should be treated like a bank.
I also know a few good reasons why someone would want an account in a tax haven, that have nothing to do with taxes. I'd tell you what they were except, quite frankly, it's none of your business.
TFA slashdotted after being up for less than 10 minutes on /.? There's got to be a better site for Firefox extensions. Not exactly making my bookmark list.
We are one.
Screw you, Fatass.
Heh, screw YOU!
That's one of the dumbest comments I ever read here at /. And you posted as AC to boot.
No, he's a sock puppet. Benn on my 'foes' list for quite awhile now.
For the first time ever my home desktop PC turned a year old without being totally obsolete. No, 3.2 GHz is not the fastest, but it's not like a 6.4 GHz machine is available today eitehr. 10 or 15 years ago it was no uncommon to see your machine be trumped by one that ran at least twice as fast a year later. Thank, Intel!
I manage cookies too. I set Firefox to ask me every time a site wants to set a cookie. It's a pain in the neck at first, but I'm used to it now. Whenever I go to a new site I will usually let it set up to 3 cookies, as long as the words "media", "ads" or "marketing" aren't in the site URL or cookie name. Regardless, after 3 I usually select "No" and then "Remember this setting for this site".
I wish Firefox had a cookie function where I could right-click on a page and enable/disable/remove cookies for the underlying site. That would rock.
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not a hard-core PS2 gamer, but I thought the problem of software piracy was firmly under control on the PS2 console. The DVDs use some sort of secret encoding technique ("wobbling" signal, non-standard sectors, etc.) that make it nearly impossible to burn copies, don't they?
How much in sales are really lost due to modchips vis-a-vis the entire sales numbers? I think game manufacturers are much more affected by video game rental stores, of which there are many. Anyplace you can go and rent a game for a couple of bucks sure beats paying full price to buy one - er, ummmm... I mean "license" - play it for a few days and then throwing it into a drawer where it will stay forever. The rental outfits have got to be raking it in. I'm surprised the game publishers haven't tried to get them outlawed yet. OTOH maybe they HAVE been unsuccessfully trying to shut them down and I just haven't heard about it.
They announced it a few months ago. They killed it off already. They're not making any more of them so when the supply chain dries up it's "Adios!"
Now that Linksys is abandoning Linux completely there aren't many SOHO routers for hackers out there anymore. My electric bill here in the northeast USA is running almost $150 a month this winter - and it's been warm. Can't wait for air-conditioner season. But I digress... Passive cooling = no fan, right? If these things are quiet AND efficient they might really have something there, although 2 GHz for a router seems excessive. Maybe not once you add in network storage, a web server, a Radius server and a few CPU-hungry VPN protocols.
I agree with the thinking behind hate crime laws: people who are nasty curs should be smacked down hard. The problem I have is these laws elevate certain people over others. A crime against a person of religion X is worse than a crime against a person of religion Y. A crime against an immigrant from Mexico is worse than a crime against your American neighbor.
This is just wrong. Like the money laundering laws. They were meant with good intent but are now fraught with loopholes and gotchas and they hurt more innocent people than they ever help.
The problem with all this is where do you draw the line? These laws become tools to advance a prosecutor's career, rather than deterring or punishing crimes. These are the laws they hit you with when they need to "make an example" out of you.
Everyone is a criminal now. Or soon will be. So the only real crime is getting caught. Unless you can buy yourself some American Justice. For the record, only public officials with lots of influence or mega-rich corporations can do that. SO start sucking up and pray they don't come after you. Because you're guilty.
- concluded there were WMD in Iraq
- says global warming is fiction
- said the air in NYC was fine after 911
- is destroying NASA by wasting billions on a program that will be cancelled by the next president
Expecting these clowns to come up with a valid result is like expecting Jesus (D) Nazareth to return tomorrow in his holy tardis.Some corporation and their lobbyists are behind this study - probably Microsoft - and the result is already bought and paid for.