This is a serious contender in the most non-understandable posts on slashdot ever. Aren't you supposed to be able to understand what it's about without reading the linked article?
I've never tried a Blackberry myself, but I've heard from someone that Email is the only thing it does right. Is that the general consensus? I'm using my Treo 650 for my (very) occasional mobile email needs, and SnapperMail is working great for me. And as a Palm, I find it a great PDA.
There's a subtle but interesting difference here, though. Whether the stock market is or isn't gambling is obviously a question in and of itself. But, by "adding a level of indirection", as you might say, you're "gambling" on people's reaction to how the stock will perform.
Same with the slot machine. Indeed, a slot machine is supposed to be (nearly) completely random in its outcome. But how a player behaves at a slot machine is anything but random! So you're not betting on the same thing... It becomes very very interesting;)
The cable operators include Adelphia, Bright House, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Insight, Mediacom, and Time Warner (or as it was known until recently, AOL Time Warner, bwahahaha!). Comcast was missing from the list for reasons not fully explained at the press conference.
Err? What I missing here? Proofreading is so underrated...
Great: first of all there's no link in the NY times article to find where this guy's homepage is. Then I go to google, and the first link is a guy named "Eric Brown" who's an FBI top ten wanted person. But hey, this Eric Brown has published a guide to all Eric Browns on the net. Thank you!
You're right in saying that the Virgina Tech cluster is the 3rd fastest supercomputer (LINPACK tests). I think that for some other tasks however, it would be slower. Sure, they use infiniband as an interconnect (very fast & low latency), but that doesn't change the fact that it's many separate nodes, each with its own memory. So if one processor were to access some memory on a different node, it would slow down things a little.
So depending on the task at hand, the cluster might perform very well, or perhaps a little less well. Cray supercomputers are a big number of processors all in the same machine, and more importantly all sharing the same memory. Each processor has the same delay to access any memory content.
The argument in favor of clusters, however, is that it's still cheaper to throw more computers in than to buy a Cray that would perform the same task in less time.
In the end, there's a lot of marketing involved in all of this...
Hope this helps (and that I'm not completely wrong!),
Maan
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And what do you do when you want "normal" cruise control?
This begs the question: Is it better for security researchers to avoid publicly criticizing e-voting flaws? Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?
Is this really a question that needs to be asked? Are you asking that for the sake of democracy, is it better if the people don't know everything? At first I thought this question was ironically posed, but now I'm fearing that it's not.
I really don't see why in the world the people responsible would want to shush the researchers, other than to hide something they don't want uncovered. As hard as it is for the people that are trying to get the message out that these voting machines can't be trusted, I hope they continue doing it until this whole mess is over and a reliable voting system is put in place.
I remember an argument being made at the height of the fight on music sharing was that the only reason today's file sharing is illegal is because you get a perfect digital copy. No degradation of quality. Recording a radio channel on tape, however, gives you a far lesser quality sound. So people (I forgot exactly whom) said that this was OK, but sharing MP3s was bad.
So under the same arguments, the MIT's system is legal, since they're giving you an analog stream. Even if you redigitize the analog stream, you have a worse file than what the server has on disk.
I have 2 17" screens at 1280x1024, and I think I'd still like it better than one screen at equivalent total resolution. The seam down the middle doesn't bother me. On the contrary, it's a nice "logical" separation. I maximize my windows to occupy one full screen, so I have my editor on one screen, and a browser+email on the second one, for example.
On one screen, I don't think I'd manage to keep myself organized in the same way.
Unless Google is purposely doing this (which I highly highly doubt), this is typically called a bug...
If this is as widepsread as it seems to be, then it could be pretty bad. Testing for bugs is always difficult (and a pain), but I'm sure that testing new releases of the google search engine is very hard, especially for peculiar issues like this one.
I've been told, though I haven't encountered it myself, that they've been counting searches made by individuals for a long time, and that they've even banned some people/IP addresses from doing more than X searches per day.
This happened before the web services API when people would write robots to do specific searches. Obviously, if the robot starts making a search every 5 seconds, that'd be a problem...
I don't know about NiftyTelnet, but if you're on OS X, the plain command line ssh (openssh) should do it. If it doesn't work at first, try ssh -X to force X tunneling.
SSH tunnels at the IP level and can tunnel any connection. It sets up a listening socket on a specified port on one side, and repeats everything it hears on that port to the other side. X tunneling is just one specific application of this feature.
Doesn't matter how you connect to the machine that'll run the program, it'll tunnel all your X stuff over the existing ssh connection, so you don't have to worry about anything. I was stuck on Windows machines sometimes with an X server, and putty handled X tunneling perfectly. Just a checkbox to click and then it worries about the rest.
Stop messing with "export DISPLAY=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:0" already...
>> Why is it that nowadays, any new cool thing is invented either for military or advertising use?
> Porn...
What, you mean to tell me that porn doesn't depend/use advertising for its own existence?? No...I couldn't believe it!
Porn has stopped using new innovations (and pushing for more) compared to a few years ago. It essentially only advertises like mad (hasn't stopped), and of course sites cross-advertise for each other...
(As a side note: I'm sure the military "use" porn too...;)
The jews that run Hollywood? You mean the Jews that run the US! Obviously, the palestinians have no real reason to like or even respect the US. Of course that's a kick at them... They'll do what they can against their enemy.
I agree that opcode compatibility is crucial (after all, that's what has allowed companies like AMD to strive, and in turn, brought down the prices of mainstream x86 processors). But if there isn't pin compatibility, then this means that you can't use one motherboard designed for Intel with a Via chip.
Now, it's true that this isn't the case anyway: you can't buy single Via processors anyway, and it has essentially always been the case that you have motherboards for AMD procs, and motherboards for Intel procs. But it's really too bad. Think of how convenient it is that you can take an IDE hard-drive and plug it in anywhere (even Macs nowadays!) Why can't you have simple "plug'n play" processors? Then you'd have real competition among all the companies...any processor on any mobo!
I hadn't heard about this form factor before, but a quick search on newegg.com shows that it's incredibly cheap! A VIA motherboard with a 1Ghz processor is only 170 something bucks!! Add 40-50$ for memory, 80$ for a decent sized hard drive, and 50-100$ for a case, and you have a complete and small computer. I'm thinking that you add a small lcd screen and a remote control (stick the IR receiver on the front of the case), and this is a perfect and incredibly cheap divx/mp3 player, connected to a TV and stereo system.
Yes, public ftp servers require a valid email address. But default configurations in browsers, including IE and mozilla send "fake" email addresses, including if I remember right command line ftp clients, such as ncftp. So I don't think that's very wrongful behavior of them. And certainly, not suable under DMCA. Otherwise, we're all (at least, most of us) guilty... Giving a fake email address is not circumventing a protection measure. I mean, public ftp servers don't ask for that email address as a protection measure. It's more for logging purposes. But any ftp operator knows that it's no use logging those addresses, since they're probably 90% fake.
Again, I'm not trying to defend the BSA, but I think accessing an FTP server and looking at what files are on there is not wrong. What they did after that, however, was wrong, but they retracted their accusation and apologized. If they indeed fix their spider, I think it's very correct of them.
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This is a serious contender in the most non-understandable posts on slashdot ever. Aren't you supposed to be able to understand what it's about without reading the linked article?
Maan
I've never tried a Blackberry myself, but I've heard from someone that Email is the only thing it does right. Is that the general consensus? I'm using my Treo 650 for my (very) occasional mobile email needs, and SnapperMail is working great for me. And as a Palm, I find it a great PDA.
Maan
It's me... (no comment)
There's a subtle but interesting difference here, though. Whether the stock market is or isn't gambling is obviously a question in and of itself. But, by "adding a level of indirection", as you might say, you're "gambling" on people's reaction to how the stock will perform.
;)
Same with the slot machine. Indeed, a slot machine is supposed to be (nearly) completely random in its outcome. But how a player behaves at a slot machine is anything but random! So you're not betting on the same thing... It becomes very very interesting
Maan
I wish I was...but sadly, this wasn't intended...
Maan
Maan
Oops, my bad...it's right there... For anyone else, the site is here.
Maan
Great: first of all there's no link in the NY times article to find where this guy's homepage is. Then I go to google, and the first link is a guy named "Eric Brown" who's an FBI top ten wanted person. But hey, this Eric Brown has published a guide to all Eric Browns on the net. Thank you!
Maan
You're right in saying that the Virgina Tech cluster is the 3rd fastest supercomputer (LINPACK tests). I think that for some other tasks however, it would be slower. Sure, they use infiniband as an interconnect (very fast & low latency), but that doesn't change the fact that it's many separate nodes, each with its own memory. So if one processor were to access some memory on a different node, it would slow down things a little.
So depending on the task at hand, the cluster might perform very well, or perhaps a little less well. Cray supercomputers are a big number of processors all in the same machine, and more importantly all sharing the same memory. Each processor has the same delay to access any memory content.
The argument in favor of clusters, however, is that it's still cheaper to throw more computers in than to buy a Cray that would perform the same task in less time.
In the end, there's a lot of marketing involved in all of this...
Hope this helps (and that I'm not completely wrong!),
Maan
And what do you do when you want "normal" cruise control?
This begs the question: Is it better for security researchers to avoid publicly criticizing e-voting flaws? Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?
Is this really a question that needs to be asked? Are you asking that for the sake of democracy, is it better if the people don't know everything? At first I thought this question was ironically posed, but now I'm fearing that it's not.
I really don't see why in the world the people responsible would want to shush the researchers, other than to hide something they don't want uncovered. As hard as it is for the people that are trying to get the message out that these voting machines can't be trusted, I hope they continue doing it until this whole mess is over and a reliable voting system is put in place.
Maan
I remember an argument being made at the height of the fight on music sharing was that the only reason today's file sharing is illegal is because you get a perfect digital copy. No degradation of quality. Recording a radio channel on tape, however, gives you a far lesser quality sound. So people (I forgot exactly whom) said that this was OK, but sharing MP3s was bad.
So under the same arguments, the MIT's system is legal, since they're giving you an analog stream. Even if you redigitize the analog stream, you have a worse file than what the server has on disk.
Maan
BUT...they run it on linux! Check out http://lamp.mit.edu/lamp-aup.pdf where they detail the setup and mention that it runs on linux.
Maan
I have 2 17" screens at 1280x1024, and I think I'd still like it better than one screen at equivalent total resolution. The seam down the middle doesn't bother me. On the contrary, it's a nice "logical" separation. I maximize my windows to occupy one full screen, so I have my editor on one screen, and a browser+email on the second one, for example.
On one screen, I don't think I'd manage to keep myself organized in the same way.
Maan
Unless Google is purposely doing this (which I highly highly doubt), this is typically called a bug...
If this is as widepsread as it seems to be, then it could be pretty bad. Testing for bugs is always difficult (and a pain), but I'm sure that testing new releases of the google search engine is very hard, especially for peculiar issues like this one.
Anyway, that's my 5 centimes.
Maan
I've been told, though I haven't encountered it myself, that they've been counting searches made by individuals for a long time, and that they've even banned some people/IP addresses from doing more than X searches per day.
This happened before the web services API when people would write robots to do specific searches. Obviously, if the robot starts making a search every 5 seconds, that'd be a problem...
Maan
I don't know about NiftyTelnet, but if you're on OS X, the plain command line ssh (openssh) should do it. If it doesn't work at first, try ssh -X to force X tunneling.
SSH tunnels at the IP level and can tunnel any connection. It sets up a listening socket on a specified port on one side, and repeats everything it hears on that port to the other side. X tunneling is just one specific application of this feature.
Gotta love ssh...
Maan
One simple answer: ssh.
Doesn't matter how you connect to the machine that'll run the program, it'll tunnel all your X stuff over the existing ssh connection, so you don't have to worry about anything. I was stuck on Windows machines sometimes with an X server, and putty handled X tunneling perfectly. Just a checkbox to click and then it worries about the rest.
Stop messing with "export DISPLAY=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:0" already...
Maan
>> Why is it that nowadays, any new cool thing is invented either for military or advertising use?
;)
> Porn...
What, you mean to tell me that porn doesn't depend/use advertising for its own existence?? No...I couldn't believe it!
Porn has stopped using new innovations (and pushing for more) compared to a few years ago. It essentially only advertises like mad (hasn't stopped), and of course sites cross-advertise for each other...
(As a side note: I'm sure the military "use" porn too...
To this day I still can't forget the comment Taco made when he posted the initial IPod announcement:
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Oh well, I guess opinions change.
Seriously though, the ipod is great...
Maan
The jews that run Hollywood? You mean the Jews that run the US! Obviously, the palestinians have no real reason to like or even respect the US. Of course that's a kick at them... They'll do what they can against their enemy.
I agree that opcode compatibility is crucial (after all, that's what has allowed companies like AMD to strive, and in turn, brought down the prices of mainstream x86 processors). But if there isn't pin compatibility, then this means that you can't use one motherboard designed for Intel with a Via chip.
Now, it's true that this isn't the case anyway: you can't buy single Via processors anyway, and it has essentially always been the case that you have motherboards for AMD procs, and motherboards for Intel procs. But it's really too bad. Think of how convenient it is that you can take an IDE hard-drive and plug it in anywhere (even Macs nowadays!) Why can't you have simple "plug'n play" processors? Then you'd have real competition among all the companies...any processor on any mobo!
Maan
Do you have any sources for models that have IR built in? It would make things even more easier... Are you talking about the case or the mobo? Thanks,
Maan
I hadn't heard about this form factor before, but a quick search on newegg.com shows that it's incredibly cheap! A VIA motherboard with a 1Ghz processor is only 170 something bucks!! Add 40-50$ for memory, 80$ for a decent sized hard drive, and 50-100$ for a case, and you have a complete and small computer. I'm thinking that you add a small lcd screen and a remote control (stick the IR receiver on the front of the case), and this is a perfect and incredibly cheap divx/mp3 player, connected to a TV and stereo system.
Maan
Yes, public ftp servers require a valid email address. But default configurations in browsers, including IE and mozilla send "fake" email addresses, including if I remember right command line ftp clients, such as ncftp. So I don't think that's very wrongful behavior of them. And certainly, not suable under DMCA. Otherwise, we're all (at least, most of us) guilty... Giving a fake email address is not circumventing a protection measure. I mean, public ftp servers don't ask for that email address as a protection measure. It's more for logging purposes. But any ftp operator knows that it's no use logging those addresses, since they're probably 90% fake.
Again, I'm not trying to defend the BSA, but I think accessing an FTP server and looking at what files are on there is not wrong. What they did after that, however, was wrong, but they retracted their accusation and apologized. If they indeed fix their spider, I think it's very correct of them.
Maan