I was thinking about doing this for myself and starting a business with neon lights in computers. One of the first things I was concerned about was the heat these lights produce. The cases shown here appear to be using StreetGlow lights... This is bad. I wrote to StreetGlow and asked about their heat production, and they advised against using them indoors or in a computer case. If you want to put one in your case, you probably want to add several more fans...
The government doesn't use Windows, Linux or xBSD for its truly sensitive documents. Instead, the DoD uses Wang's XTS-300, which is tested more extensively than the OpenBSD project and is the highest security rated operating system in existence, as seen here. One thing I thought was cool about this system is that you can't tell with 100% certainty disk space because users could in theory devise a scheme where they could pass messages encoded in changes in availability. For the same reason, if you time a process, some margin is added to the value you would get, which makes message passing take extremely long. The full specs of the Common Critera, an updated "Orangebook" are here.
400 million transistors on the same size chip that we know today will probably have the same problem but to a larger degree: interference. That many transistors so close together and so small means interference is going to be a mean factor. 3 atom thick transistors side by side just lowers the hurdle from current designs... I agree, doing a chip design to calculate not only the equations for the transistors but also the forces and fields of them all would be a bitch and a half. Personally, I'm against Moore's law.
If you think about it, $1000 for 100Mbps makes starting an isp of your own somewhat viable. Assume 100 customers per line, each with 1Mbps (125kB/s), each paying $40 per month and you've got $4000 for your $1000 investment. Of course, this doesn't factor in last mile installation or staff wages, but I don't know enough about that to make an estimate. Still, with a price like this, I could hook up my neighborhood and get that new porche I've had my eye on.
The problem with the grey hat community is the audience to which they announce their discoveries and their own tools. There are only other grey hats and black hats reading about it. Normal folks don't read security pages/newsgroups/lists, so the "public announcement" doesn't do them any good. If it gets as public as ILOVEYOU, a much greater fraction of the population actually does something about it. By then, it's too late of course.
I don't mean this to be a media rant, but they can't really keep up with every development, and even if they could, people's attention spans would dry up after seeing so many warnings and only one or two superpublic exploits. So even if there were a medium for communicating possible holes to average people, they wouldn't care anyway.
Public disclosure: damned if you do, damned if you don't
These anecdotes suggest all kinds of genomic dangers, from honest mistakes to medical mishaps to genetic terrorism. All of which, as genomic manipulation becomes accessible and common, could make their way into fertility clinics and sperm banks and into the general population.
The anecdotes specified here do not represent dangers of the use of genomics. They tell of the dangers of not using it as a precaution or as an extra qualification in the case of sperm donors. The reults of these tests mean the two daughters have a good chance of catching their developing breast cancer while it's still treatable. Because of the testing, they'll know to be on the lookout.
If these were meant to be counterarguments to the fruits of genomics, then they were poorly chosen.
We can geneticaly engineer mice to have skin like the face of a teenager, and hook them up to an oil harvesting machine....
Yeah but that's not as cool because it's not mutually beneficial. Mice don't care about their faces... at least they say they don't when I ask them and, though they do have the mental capacity to communicate with me, I don't think they know how to lie.
I got that email too... about the costs of various other liquids like Snapple, Evian, milk, mouthwash, sodas, cough syrup and Pepto Bismol. It's true, but it doesn't consider cheaper liquids like sewage.
I say, invent a device that harvests the oil off a teenager's face... Sell it to old people as a moisturizer, and refine it for feul. What kid would turn down money for a cleaner complexion? Or just give the device away; have it pay for itself. There is a capacity to production but the source is inexaustible.
The business is not usurping the power of the government. If it were, we'd see the business doing the same things government does and we'd be no better off. Defying government would be more accurate here and has been done frequently when laws of questionable constitutionality. If you want to challenge the constitutionality of a law, you can either break the law and then fight the prosecution or you can try and fight it before it has been tested. But the former method has already more or less been done in committee. They debated over it (and its response to constituents) and already made their decision. So, once a person or business breaks this law, he can be prosecuted and then fight it better than the congresspeople do. Refusal to comply takes money and balls. Lets hope Earthlink has plenty and big ones.
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I was thinking about doing this for myself and starting a business with neon lights in computers. One of the first things I was concerned about was the heat these lights produce. The cases shown here appear to be using StreetGlow lights... This is bad. I wrote to StreetGlow and asked about their heat production, and they advised against using them indoors or in a computer case. If you want to put one in your case, you probably want to add several more fans...
The government doesn't use Windows, Linux or xBSD for its truly sensitive documents. Instead, the DoD uses Wang's XTS-300, which is tested more extensively than the OpenBSD project and is the highest security rated operating system in existence, as seen here. One thing I thought was cool about this system is that you can't tell with 100% certainty disk space because users could in theory devise a scheme where they could pass messages encoded in changes in availability. For the same reason, if you time a process, some margin is added to the value you would get, which makes message passing take extremely long. The full specs of the Common Critera, an updated "Orangebook" are here.
400 million transistors on the same size chip that we know today will probably have the same problem but to a larger degree: interference. That many transistors so close together and so small means interference is going to be a mean factor. 3 atom thick transistors side by side just lowers the hurdle from current designs... I agree, doing a chip design to calculate not only the equations for the transistors but also the forces and fields of them all would be a bitch and a half. Personally, I'm against Moore's law.
If you think about it, $1000 for 100Mbps makes starting an isp of your own somewhat viable. Assume 100 customers per line, each with 1Mbps (125kB/s), each paying $40 per month and you've got $4000 for your $1000 investment. Of course, this doesn't factor in last mile installation or staff wages, but I don't know enough about that to make an estimate. Still, with a price like this, I could hook up my neighborhood and get that new porche I've had my eye on.
I don't mean this to be a media rant, but they can't really keep up with every development, and even if they could, people's attention spans would dry up after seeing so many warnings and only one or two superpublic exploits. So even if there were a medium for communicating possible holes to average people, they wouldn't care anyway.
Public disclosure: damned if you do, damned if you don't
The anecdotes specified here do not represent dangers of the use of genomics. They tell of the dangers of not using it as a precaution or as an extra qualification in the case of sperm donors. The reults of these tests mean the two daughters have a good chance of catching their developing breast cancer while it's still treatable. Because of the testing, they'll know to be on the lookout.
If these were meant to be counterarguments to the fruits of genomics, then they were poorly chosen.
Yeah but that's not as cool because it's not mutually beneficial. Mice don't care about their faces... at least they say they don't when I ask them and, though they do have the mental capacity to communicate with me, I don't think they know how to lie.
I say, invent a device that harvests the oil off a teenager's face... Sell it to old people as a moisturizer, and refine it for feul. What kid would turn down money for a cleaner complexion? Or just give the device away; have it pay for itself. There is a capacity to production but the source is inexaustible.
The business is not usurping the power of the government. If it were, we'd see the business doing the same things government does and we'd be no better off. Defying government would be more accurate here and has been done frequently when laws of questionable constitutionality. If you want to challenge the constitutionality of a law, you can either break the law and then fight the prosecution or you can try and fight it before it has been tested. But the former method has already more or less been done in committee. They debated over it (and its response to constituents) and already made their decision. So, once a person or business breaks this law, he can be prosecuted and then fight it better than the congresspeople do. Refusal to comply takes money and balls. Lets hope Earthlink has plenty and big ones.