How long do you think it will be before they sue these guys or force them to add copy protection of some sort?
There are cable/sat channels (HBO for example) that broadcast feature length movies in HDTV, and with this card you can make perfect digital recordings. Sure you need 15 gigs a movie when you first record them but can can always compress them using DivX or some other codec.
There shouldn't be a blanket rule for security disclosure. If some thing is broken in Word fine post that up in 45 days if it not fixed by then the company might get a little bad press. But if there is something broken in a medical database (you notice that medical computers are always used to curry favor in these examples?) and they can't get it fixed in 45 days should the exploit be released anyway?
I say email the manufacturer, read what they have to say and if it seems like they are just sitting on their butts make the information public. But if doing so would endanger public safty maybe a different rule needs to be applied then "release after 45 days"
The
so-called
H-1B
visas are
critical to
the high-tech industry because of a shortage
of trained workers in the United States,
companies say
I've been interviewing programers and DBAs for the past 2 weeks and there doesn't seem to be a shortage, in Los Angeles atleast. I get a steady stream of resumes.
Was the database encrypted? Or did they store thousands of people credit card information in the clear on a system that was online?
Who was the system designer who let that get through? When are people going to learn that even though nothing is totally secure, there are many steps you can take so that you don't end up looking like an ass (CDNOW! comes to mind)
Encryption! Encryption! Encryption!
Get some and use it... (especially if you run a large finacial database.)
Most of these bills seems OK. But there seems to be alot of government intervention in the internet's future. And like with most laws they sound good to start (Save the children, protect the enviroment and such) but as time time goes by I think the law makers (and the people) forget the true intention of the original laws and start inacting laws like banning material to "save the children", making you buy and drive approved cars to "save the planet".
It just seems like a lot of laws are passed just so the congressmen can say that they are aware of the technology and doing something about it.
It seems you can buy a samples of carbon nanotubes from Rice.
(Google cached mirror) So who is going to be first to stick this on a computer. Be the first on your block with a nanotube cooled processor. I'm sure a Pentium IV could really use one. Not sure how your going to mount fans on a bunch of single-wall nanotubes... but someone who really wants to cool their comp will work it out
I think the whole Open Source thing has a few more good decades in it. It's just now gotten back on it's feet. The 60's and early 70's had some great free software. Then we had the Unix wars, late 70's and 80's were somewhat mediocre. But the mid to late 90's saw a huge surge in open source popularity.
And now there are a whole generation of students who have always had free OS's, dev tools, and all sorts of software. When they get out of school and in to the business world they will bring some of that with them. Much like students past brought Unix from the campus to the work place.
And it's more likely to happen now because there are so many young execs (usally coder turned suit) that aren't afraid to use open source porducts at the enterprise level (Yahoo! is a great example)
Mario contains 16 vector processors, each capable of 1 GFLOP performance, main
memory amounting to 512 MegaWords (4GB), and a 512MW (4GB) Solid-state
Storage Device (SSD) serving as an extension to memory. He comes with raid
controllers and disks providing over 130GB of high-speed disk storage.
4GB Solid-state drive... WOW! I wonder if they will just sell me that part. So how fast is this thing? How many RC5-64 blocks could this thing go through in a day? And will it run Quake?
At $35K i can imagine this going to a private buyer... though the wiring and cooling of this thing is going to cost a fortune.
The first distributed computing company to strike up a deal with Tivo, WebTV, and all the other consumer appliances wins.
Just ship the devices already signed up for the distributed client... how would the user know that the process is running in the background? The app can pick-up/send the work packets when the device calls in to sync (or for webtv when they logon).
Now that I think about it... how do we know that they aren't already doing this???
Also in the case of the medical research they can make it a selling point, "Buy Tivo and help cure AIDS."
Too bad it's Opera and Nano-X not Gecko and XFree. It would be nice if they could give some code back to the community. It seems that we will get some wireless drivers (if not the supporting apps) out of this. All though I don't get DECT DMAP here in the US. Oh well... still nice to see linux making in roads into the consumer market.
While most California retailers collect taxes online, some retailers that have created out-of-state subsidiaries
for their Internet divisions claim exemption from state tax laws.
Well I guess there are going to be alot of companies moving out of California. If I were Barnes & Noble, Borders or Sam Good I would just reincorporate my non-internet divisions in Nevada.
It's not as if L0pht started out as a bunch of angels.
So Abene was surprised when the company, which was apparently ignorant of his history
when asking him to join its budding New York office, abruptly withdrew its offer in the final
phases of hiring.
Also a computer security company that wasn't aware of this Phiber Optik's past kinda worries me.
The organizers are taking every
precaution they can to ensure that their broadcast partners, which have paid $1.32 billion for
exclusive TV rights, don't get scooped by the Net.
The networks should get better journalists... ones that know how to find information on the web so their networks can be the first with the information on TV. So what if some obscure website has the piece... the journalist should take that (give credit) and report it if they find it 'newsworthy'. And then people who want more then just what the major TV networks feel is 'newsworthy' can read the websites. ...or something...
I guess a 1 pound heat sink mean there won't be any laptops in the near future. But there aren't any P4s in the near future from what I understand... so I guess it all works out.
In the same timeframe, I
expect Linux to continue to expand it's dominance in the
handheld and embedded sphere where it currently enjoys a
roughly 80% market share vs WinCE!
If that figure is correct this is great! I haven't seen a linux based handheld computer yet (atleast not in the wild), but I love my Tivo (which runs a linux kernel). It's good to see a open source project, some may say _the open source project_ prospering in the free market.
There sure seems to be alot of hate towards Rambus... the way I see it, the company has a crappy product (not fully developed at best). And they got alot of other large companies to buy in to their idea and now those other companies (Hitachi and Toshiba to name a few) are pissed off because the product isn't all it was advertised to be.
This isn't a case of a little old lady being sold bunk stock in a gold mine in the Yucatan. It's a couple of hightech corps that should have done their due diligence. If anything I'm mad at Hitachi, Toshiba, Intel et al for falling for this all this Rambus bullshit and then trying to make us pay them for their mistake.
4.3.1 High priority is given to authoritative(12) publications with long term research
value(13). The National Library will preserve scholarly online publications (indicated in
the case of e journals by peer review) without physical format equivalents, whether or not
they are preserved elsewhere.
It's seems that the kind of things they are placing in the collection are things that get archived by default. Most publications that go through any kind of peer review are probably back up else where. But this sounds like a good idea... Libary of Congress for the internet. And once we have a cheap stable high density storage medium it might even work.
Of the estimated five million software programmers
worldwide, Mr. Behlendorf figures that fewer than 50,000
participate in open-source projects. "The goal is to bring
what works from open source into this other 99 percent of
the programming community," he said.
Is that number (50,000) low? Or is that about right? Is that counting just coders? How about people who document and all the other things that need to be done to have a sucessful project.
Electric cars are still machines and are going to require periodic maintenance. And depending on the energy source a major over haul when the power source runs down.
Slashdot Mirror
Novatel even has a PC card version.
Another good reason to read /.
If this is attached by the IDE connector wouldn't that mean you have to reboot the machine everytime you want to add song to the machine?
I guess nice thing is that it is a IDE connector so you wont need any special drivers
The MPAA is going to love this...
How long do you think it will be before they sue these guys or force them to add copy protection of some sort?
There are cable/sat channels (HBO for example) that broadcast feature length movies in HDTV, and with this card you can make perfect digital recordings.
Sure you need 15 gigs a movie when you first record them but can can always compress them using DivX or some other codec.
I smell law suit.
Anyone else have a hard time reading http://www.simonsingh.com/cipher.htm in X with netscape?
There shouldn't be a blanket rule for security disclosure. If some thing is broken in Word fine post that up in 45 days if it not fixed by then the company might get a little bad press. But if there is something broken in a medical database (you notice that medical computers are always used to curry favor in these examples?) and they can't get it fixed in 45 days should the exploit be released anyway?
I say email the manufacturer, read what they have to say and if it seems like they are just sitting on their butts make the information public. But if doing so would endanger public safty maybe a different rule needs to be applied then "release after 45 days"
I've been interviewing programers and DBAs for the past 2 weeks and there doesn't seem to be a shortage, in Los Angeles atleast. I get a steady stream of resumes.
CNET Article
For those who dont want to cut & paste
Was the database encrypted? Or did they store thousands of people credit card information in the clear on a system that was online?
Who was the system designer who let that get through? When are people going to learn that even though nothing is totally secure, there are many steps you can take so that you don't end up looking like an ass (CDNOW! comes to mind)
Encryption! Encryption! Encryption!
Get some and use it... (especially if you run a large finacial database.)
Most of these bills seems OK. But there seems to be alot of government intervention in the internet's future. And like with most laws they sound good to start (Save the children, protect the enviroment and such) but as time time goes by I think the law makers (and the people) forget the true intention of the original laws and start inacting laws like banning material to "save the children", making you buy and drive approved cars to "save the planet".
It just seems like a lot of laws are passed just so the congressmen can say that they are aware of the technology and doing something about it.
Thats enough big gov rant for a Sat. morning
It seems you can buy a samples of carbon nanotubes from Rice. (Google cached mirror)
So who is going to be first to stick this on a computer. Be the first on your block with a nanotube cooled processor. I'm sure a Pentium IV could really use one. Not sure how your going to mount fans on a bunch of single-wall nanotubes... but someone who really wants to cool their comp will work it out
I think the whole Open Source thing has a few more good decades in it. It's just now gotten back on it's feet. The 60's and early 70's had some great free software. Then we had the Unix wars, late 70's and 80's were somewhat mediocre. But the mid to late 90's saw a huge surge in open source popularity.
And now there are a whole generation of students who have always had free OS's, dev tools, and all sorts of software. When they get out of school and in to the business world they will bring some of that with them. Much like students past brought Unix from the campus to the work place.
And it's more likely to happen now because there are so many young execs (usally coder turned suit) that aren't afraid to use open source porducts at the enterprise level (Yahoo! is a great example)
I think we are just getting started.
4GB Solid-state drive... WOW! I wonder if they will just sell me that part. So how fast is this thing? How many RC5-64 blocks could this thing go through in a day? And will it run Quake?
At $35K i can imagine this going to a private buyer... though the wiring and cooling of this thing is going to cost a fortune.
The first distributed computing company to strike up a deal with Tivo, WebTV, and all the other consumer appliances wins.
Just ship the devices already signed up for the distributed client... how would the user know that the process is running in the background? The app can pick-up/send the work packets when the device calls in to sync (or for webtv when they logon).
Now that I think about it... how do we know that they aren't already doing this???
Also in the case of the medical research they can make it a selling point, "Buy Tivo and help cure AIDS."
Too bad it's Opera and Nano-X not Gecko and XFree.
It would be nice if they could give some code back to the community. It seems that we will get some wireless drivers (if not the supporting apps) out of this. All though I don't get DECT DMAP here in the US. Oh well... still nice to see linux making in roads into the consumer market.
Well I guess there are going to be alot of companies moving out of California. If I were Barnes & Noble, Borders or Sam Good I would just reincorporate my non-internet divisions in Nevada.
Also a computer security company that wasn't aware of this Phiber Optik's past kinda worries me.
The networks should get better journalists... ones that know how to find information on the web so their networks can be the first with the information on TV. So what if some obscure website has the piece... the journalist should take that (give credit) and report it if they find it 'newsworthy'. And then people who want more then just what the major TV networks feel is 'newsworthy' can read the websites.
I guess a 1 pound heat sink mean there won't be any laptops in the near future. But there aren't any P4s in the near future from what I understand... so I guess it all works out.
If that figure is correct this is great! I haven't seen a linux based handheld computer yet (atleast not in the wild), but I love my Tivo (which runs a linux kernel). It's good to see a open source project, some may say _the open source project_ prospering in the free market.
There sure seems to be alot of hate towards Rambus... the way I see it, the company has a crappy product (not fully developed at best). And they got alot of other large companies to buy in to their idea and now those other companies (Hitachi and Toshiba to name a few) are pissed off because the product isn't all it was advertised to be.
This isn't a case of a little old lady being sold bunk stock in a gold mine in the Yucatan. It's a couple of hightech corps that should have done their due diligence. If anything I'm mad at Hitachi, Toshiba, Intel et al for falling for this all this Rambus bullshit and then trying to make us pay them for their mistake.
It's seems that the kind of things they are placing in the collection are things that get archived by default. Most publications that go through any kind of peer review are probably back up else where.
But this sounds like a good idea... Libary of Congress for the internet. And once we have a cheap stable high density storage medium it might even work.
So how long before med students are downloading "Principles of Internal Medicine" at the krad super 'leet med text warez site?
Click here for Hot Teen Action
Click here for Sanford's Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy
Click here for QuakeV
Can't wait
Is that number (50,000) low? Or is that about right? Is that counting just coders? How about people who document and all the other things that need to be done to have a sucessful project.
Damn! I just got Dolby 5.1 and now I have to upgrade again!
Atleast this should make placing speaker on the wall a lot easier.
Electric cars are still machines and are going to require periodic maintenance. And depending on the energy source a major over haul when the power source runs down.