If you'd have read a little more on the article, they only have a male, ie Mammoth sperm. The article suggest creating a Mammoth-Elephant hybrid using intact sperm, or cloning the existing mammoth with Elephant reproductive parts.
I think the main reason for this re introductio of a species is for one, to prove we can do it, and two, to provide mankind with another beast of burdon. Sure I think animals should be free to do as they please, but some countries depend on things like this (Note that story about the elephant that stepped on a landmine in Cambodia).
Regardless, I'd like to see the follow ups on this at it is a useful challenge for "infant technology"
Forget the battery life and other whining. It's about portable storage.
Imagine the possibilities this opens for;
An integration consultant. Client "Do you have and documentation on that?" IT guy *whips out his PalmVII* "Can I use a printer? I have 300MB of PDF's on this card" Client thinks 'Wow, that's cool. We should go with this mob'
Or for an engineer, no more lugging 40,000 pages in manuals around, etc.
The portable storage of information (forget music and MP3) is far more usefull that a lot of you people are giving cred to. 340MB can store an entire encyclopaedia (if you cut down on the pictures), and for a bit over $300, that's damn good value.
Remeber when ordering a manual set (for a large vehicle or machine) meant waiting for a 50kg box to arrive? Not anymore, they come on CD. Now when you're doing an on-siter You can keep all the infomation, litereally, in your shirt pocket.
"Since you are the richest guy on the planet and you know you can't live forever, have you considered investing heavily in medical science?
Serious research in to cell reconstruction (anti-aging, you can't become younger) is hindered by lack of funding. Do you beleive this would be a worthwhile pursuit for mankind should you decide to bless some team of research medico's with a grant?"
Now, let's see if Rob can organise a '20 questions' for the man to answer.
Ever cruise by the NASA site lately. Check up on the probes designed to sail on the solar winds. I'm sure the story was on here a coule of weeks/months ago. If deployed today, it would overtake Voyager in about 2 years.
The whole problem here seems to be one or two (thousand) misinformed individuals using their email the only way they've ever done before.
I'd like to see some people read this in to the whole story:
"It's all Microsoft's fault. They try to make it so easy for total newbies to use a PC and Windoze that that at least one of the uneducated fools is bound to f*ck up from time to time, and every now and then, in a very big way".
Because basically that's how I see it. That MS guy said "I wan't my mother to be able to use it" when reviewing the W95 OS. Quite frankly I wouldn't trust my mother on my PC. Why? because there is too much that can go wrong when left in uneducated hands.
Same goes here. A little bit of education can prevent a whole lot of trouble.
Excellent question! I imagined each layer would have to be manufacured individually, then pressed together, but that would involve some pretty serious alignment hardware. It costs about 2-20c to press CD's (dependant on volume) so I doubt this form of media will be going the way of the 8-track for some time now.
...As no company is going to press a 10GB mini-C3D for you full of MP3s/personal files/etc.
Agreed that the 1.44 floppy is still the only pocketable standard even to this day, but look at the alternatives Zip/Jaz/LS120. It's not like the industry is trying already to up the size of readily transportable media.
So my two cents is simply, tech like this is only for mass distribution, not storage.
I've simply got to reply to all the "It was a spoof" posts (about 13 when I counted). My God you people speculate a lot! Read the article, It literally says we traced it back as far as possible and it landed in an IP range that is associated with the particular US military base.
Now, chances are the would be cracker targeted the ASX, believing it to be inferior, for personal gains or whatever, but failed.
The fact that it seemed to have come from another source, after originating from the Military base would indicate that the 'owned' box was where the guy was going to have his trail end. I would say he was literally 'caught in the act' before he covered his path at this point. Routers pass a lot of information on and it is oh so possible to link back spoofed IP's to the source route. On a wide area scale, spoofed IP's do not return to the host very easily. If the connection is open, the trace can be made to the source IP.
Now for my 2c worth: It would not surprise me one bit if he just dialed-in to a MIL server that he just 'happened' to have a number for, so was designated an IP in their adress range. If this guy was any good though, he would have removed any evidence of ever actually having dialed in though. IMO, this is about the only plausible explaination.
You can break the law all you like -- until you're caught. Remeber one thing. It is only the dumb criminals that are in jail.
Who the hell would sue anyone for a $2,000,000 libel claim? You'd have to have some pretty slanderous and widely puplished garbage other than "Microft is Crap" to get sued.
It is a very, very easy to install piece of OS. I had no trouble installing it on my dual PPro200 (OC) but do you know how long it took?
Three whole bloody hours.
I don't care what you say, even with all the dicking around it does not take that long to install any other OS, Linux included. The fact that W2k asks about one question and then goes "Please wait" is good, but jeez, I reckon they could warn you that you may as well go and watch "The Matrix" while you wait.
Easy installation is one thing, but trying to detect over a thousand devices over a two hour period is another.
It gives me the shits that I can't moderate and post. I've already posted, so I can't say "Shit yeah!" and give this guy a point. Dang! will someone else?
You know what would be great? To document all the tech calls such as this, so when Micro$oft do release their 'findings', there is an abundance of support issues and follow ups, fully documented and ready for rebuttal in a professional, yet "up ya bum" kinda way.
It will be, as you said, for a *nix vs. W2k study and there would be nothing better than releasing the rebuttal before the conjured up findings. So...
All you Linux techies get your facts straight on each of these calls, document them and be prepared for another X vs. M$ fiasco.
Well, I'm a Melbournite and I can basically talk all the way from Melbourne to Sydney and most of the way to Brisbane. The Eastern Sea board is much more populated than the west, which is why most of the cells are over here.
It was interesting to read that a lot of the article related around the use of mobile phones, or cellphones as you Yanks call them. 65% of the population is a staggering number of people to own a mobile phone. In Australia, we're pretty in to mobile communications with over 95% of the population covered by some form of mobile network. That's not bad for a country with 1 square kilometre per capita.
Also interesting to note was the way in which phones along with the 'net were changing society. I send roughly 100 emails a day, make about 10 phone calls and use snail mail only to send objects, not documents. After hours, I'd be lost without my mobile phone. To think that 10 years ago, we only had land lines, and email was *just* making it out of universities.
Just to think that society used to take at least ageneration to change, and is now changing inside a decade is a sign that our entire planet and biosocieconomics are accelerating in nearly every little thing we do, at an exponential rate.
And you thought keeping up with technology was difficult. Breakthroughs in all fields of Science are becoming more common. I doubt it will be long before what was science fiction 10 years ago, becomes a reality in 10 years time.
I'm sure that's the best civillian res we get to use, but...
There was a project called 'keyhole' from memory where it was claimed that a satellite could read a number plate on the ground. Don't recall how substatiated the rumors were though. Still, that's a fair resolution considering all the atmoshpere the light has to go through.
Ok, now remove the stick from your arsehole and talk nicely.
Moore's law will max out when the silicone hits the 5 atom barrier. That is, when silicone is only 5 atoms thick, it loses some of it's properties. That does not mean a) we can't use something else and b) we're at the 5 atom barrier yet, although we will be soon.
BTW, seen any rumors on 1-2GHz processors yet? Gee let me quickly calculate, yup they'll be her in under 18 months, hey gee they're twice as fast as the ones we got now. Gee, how about that.
What crap! Video cards have some pretty different RAM standards but none of them are using RAMBUS. And I think you'll find it's waaay different from both EDO and SDRAM.
but the average end user doesn't buy Pentium III's or Xeon's either!
Yes, they do. If you look in a catalogue, you'll find that about 60-70% of all fully configured sytems will be PIII, and the rest Celeron for the cheepo systems. The odd one will have a Xeon but hese are marketed at the enthusiest/power user.
It's really weird that everyone assumes that access is through the internet. One would think Banks are not connected to the net for any other purpose except to advertise themselves. On some occasions however, this is not true.
Many worldwide banks offer NetBanking as a way of allowing customers access to their account, bill payments, loan payments, etc over the net. The way this is done is not through a browser, but through a secure on-line client terminal, developed by the bank (which is not open source;-) ).
I imagine what the crackers are doing, is using this client, a bit of reverse engineering and some other unscrupulous methods to do the do. Otherwise, the only other way in is via a remote dial in.
I used to work for a co. that processed data records for a bank on to microfiche. Initially the data came on tapes, then a dedicated secure connection to the bank was connected for more efficient data transfer. There were some very, very, tight restrictions on our network and external connection before that thing went in.
Don't forget Moore's law - 18 months, double the power. The good thing is though, the prices are dropping while the power goes up. RAMBUS tech is new and not yet fully explored.
I will garantee that next month they'll be rethinking their cut back stategy.
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If you'd have read a little more on the article, they only have a male, ie Mammoth sperm. The article suggest creating a Mammoth-Elephant hybrid using intact sperm, or cloning the existing mammoth with Elephant reproductive parts.
I think the main reason for this re introductio of a species is for one, to prove we can do it, and two, to provide mankind with another beast of burdon. Sure I think animals should be free to do as they please, but some countries depend on things like this (Note that story about the elephant that stepped on a landmine in Cambodia).
Regardless, I'd like to see the follow ups on this at it is a useful challenge for "infant technology"
Of course if F. It's an American comment. Don't you know they re the only ones that still use that silly imperial system...
Imagine the possibilities this opens for;
An integration consultant.
Client "Do you have and documentation on that?"
IT guy *whips out his PalmVII* "Can I use a printer? I have 300MB of PDF's on this card"
Client thinks 'Wow, that's cool. We should go with this mob'
Or for an engineer, no more lugging 40,000 pages in manuals around, etc.
The portable storage of information (forget music and MP3) is far more usefull that a lot of you people are giving cred to. 340MB can store an entire encyclopaedia (if you cut down on the pictures), and for a bit over $300, that's damn good value.
Remeber when ordering a manual set (for a large vehicle or machine) meant waiting for a 50kg box to arrive? Not anymore, they come on CD. Now when you're doing an on-siter You can keep all the infomation, litereally, in your shirt pocket.
And cool bikes to get around on quickly
"Since you are the richest guy on the planet and you know you can't live forever, have you considered investing heavily in medical science?
Serious research in to cell reconstruction (anti-aging, you can't become younger) is hindered by lack of funding. Do you beleive this would be a worthwhile pursuit for mankind should you decide to bless some team of research medico's with a grant?"
Now, let's see if Rob can organise a '20 questions' for the man to answer.
Ever cruise by the NASA site lately. Check up on the probes designed to sail on the solar winds. I'm sure the story was on here a coule of weeks/months ago. If deployed today, it would overtake Voyager in about 2 years.
The whole problem here seems to be one or two (thousand) misinformed individuals using their email the only way they've ever done before.
I'd like to see some people read this in to the whole story:
"It's all Microsoft's fault. They try to make it so easy for total newbies to use a PC and Windoze that that at least one of the uneducated fools is bound to f*ck up from time to time, and every now and then, in a very big way".
Because basically that's how I see it. That MS guy said "I wan't my mother to be able to use it" when reviewing the W95 OS. Quite frankly I wouldn't trust my mother on my PC. Why? because there is too much that can go wrong when left in uneducated hands.
Same goes here. A little bit of education can prevent a whole lot of trouble.
So how do you mass-prouce them?
Excellent question! I imagined each layer would have to be manufacured individually, then pressed together, but that would involve some pretty serious alignment hardware. It costs about 2-20c to press CD's (dependant on volume) so I doubt this form of media will be going the way of the 8-track for some time now.
Actually, I'm waiting for DVD-RW. It has a lot of potential, even if ou do have to flip the thing manually.
...As no company is going to press a 10GB mini-C3D for you full of MP3s/personal files/etc.
Agreed that the 1.44 floppy is still the only pocketable standard even to this day, but look at the alternatives Zip/Jaz/LS120. It's not like the industry is trying already to up the size of readily transportable media.
So my two cents is simply, tech like this is only for mass distribution, not storage.
I've simply got to reply to all the "It was a spoof" posts (about 13 when I counted). My God you people speculate a lot! Read the article, It literally says we traced it back as far as possible and it landed in an IP range that is associated with the particular US military base.
Now, chances are the would be cracker targeted the ASX, believing it to be inferior, for personal gains or whatever, but failed.
The fact that it seemed to have come from another source, after originating from the Military base would indicate that the 'owned' box was where the guy was going to have his trail end. I would say he was literally 'caught in the act' before he covered his path at this point. Routers pass a lot of information on and it is oh so possible to link back spoofed IP's to the source route. On a wide area scale, spoofed IP's do not return to the host very easily. If the connection is open, the trace can be made to the source IP.
Now for my 2c worth: It would not surprise me one bit if he just dialed-in to a MIL server that he just 'happened' to have a number for, so was designated an IP in their adress range. If this guy was any good though, he would have removed any evidence of ever actually having dialed in though. IMO, this is about the only plausible explaination.
You can break the law all you like -- until you're caught. Remeber one thing. It is only the dumb criminals that are in jail.
You must be kidding!
Who the hell would sue anyone for a $2,000,000 libel claim? You'd have to have some pretty slanderous and widely puplished garbage other than "Microft is Crap" to get sued.
Pfhft.
...install 5.5GB of software from a single floppy disk
Is there a typo in there?
Won't bother writing this twice
It is a very, very easy to install piece of OS. I had no trouble installing it on my dual PPro200 (OC) but do you know how long it took?
Three whole bloody hours.
I don't care what you say, even with all the dicking around it does not take that long to install any other OS, Linux included. The fact that W2k asks about one question and then goes "Please wait" is good, but jeez, I reckon they could warn you that you may as well go and watch "The Matrix" while you wait.
Easy installation is one thing, but trying to detect over a thousand devices over a two hour period is another.
It gives me the shits that I can't moderate and post. I've already posted, so I can't say "Shit yeah!" and give this guy a point. Dang! will someone else?
You know what would be great? To document all the tech calls such as this, so when Micro$oft do release their 'findings', there is an abundance of support issues and follow ups, fully documented and ready for rebuttal in a professional, yet "up ya bum" kinda way.
It will be, as you said, for a *nix vs. W2k study and there would be nothing better than releasing the rebuttal before the conjured up findings. So...
All you Linux techies get your facts straight on each of these calls, document them and be prepared for another X vs. M$ fiasco.
Well, I'm a Melbournite and I can basically talk all the way from Melbourne to Sydney and most of the way to Brisbane. The Eastern Sea board is much more populated than the west, which is why most of the cells are over here.
It was interesting to read that a lot of the article related around the use of mobile phones, or cellphones as you Yanks call them. 65% of the population is a staggering number of people to own a mobile phone. In Australia, we're pretty in to mobile communications with over 95% of the population covered by some form of mobile network. That's not bad for a country with 1 square kilometre per capita.
Also interesting to note was the way in which phones along with the 'net were changing society. I send roughly 100 emails a day, make about 10 phone calls and use snail mail only to send objects, not documents. After hours, I'd be lost without my mobile phone. To think that 10 years ago, we only had land lines, and email was *just* making it out of universities.
Just to think that society used to take at least ageneration to change, and is now changing inside a decade is a sign that our entire planet and biosocieconomics are accelerating in nearly every little thing we do, at an exponential rate.
And you thought keeping up with technology was difficult. Breakthroughs in all fields of Science are becoming more common. I doubt it will be long before what was science fiction 10 years ago, becomes a reality in 10 years time.
I'm sure that's the best civillian res we get to use, but...
There was a project called 'keyhole' from memory where it was claimed that a satellite could read a number plate on the ground. Don't recall how substatiated the rumors were though. Still, that's a fair resolution considering all the atmoshpere the light has to go through.
Ok, now remove the stick from your arsehole and talk nicely.
Moore's law will max out when the silicone hits the 5 atom barrier. That is, when silicone is only 5 atoms thick, it loses some of it's properties. That does not mean a) we can't use something else and b) we're at the 5 atom barrier yet, although we will be soon.
BTW, seen any rumors on 1-2GHz processors yet? Gee let me quickly calculate, yup they'll be her in under 18 months, hey gee they're twice as fast as the ones we got now. Gee, how about that.
Video cards have used RAMBUS crap for some time.
What crap! Video cards have some pretty different RAM standards but none of them are using RAMBUS. And I think you'll find it's waaay different from both EDO and SDRAM.
but the average end user doesn't buy Pentium III's or Xeon's either!
Yes, they do. If you look in a catalogue, you'll find that about 60-70% of all fully configured sytems will be PIII, and the rest Celeron for the cheepo systems. The odd one will have a Xeon but hese are marketed at the enthusiest/power user.
It's really weird that everyone assumes that access is through the internet. One would think Banks are not connected to the net for any other purpose except to advertise themselves. On some occasions however, this is not true.
;-) ).
Many worldwide banks offer NetBanking as a way of allowing customers access to their account, bill payments, loan payments, etc over the net. The way this is done is not through a browser, but through a secure on-line client terminal, developed by the bank (which is not open source
I imagine what the crackers are doing, is using this client, a bit of reverse engineering and some other unscrupulous methods to do the do. Otherwise, the only other way in is via a remote dial in.
I used to work for a co. that processed data records for a bank on to microfiche. Initially the data came on tapes, then a dedicated secure connection to the bank was connected for more efficient data transfer. There were some very, very, tight restrictions on our network and external connection before that thing went in.
Like all other PC hardware, They'll get cheaper.
Don't forget Moore's law - 18 months, double the power. The good thing is though, the prices are dropping while the power goes up. RAMBUS tech is new and not yet fully explored.
I will garantee that next month they'll be rethinking their cut back stategy.