That's because SemiAccurate never found an actual bug. Charlie was just concerned about the capabilities of the ME, and that there could be a bug one day. He tried for years to get Intel to just get rid of the ME not to fix any specific bug. You can decide if he was right or not based on this bug.
It is important to note that based on what has been released so far, you had to opt into to using ME in its full mode to be affected. If you just bought a random PC your system isn't vulnerable.
I used to run a couple of the distributed computing programs years back, but I don't anymore. The main reason is that computers have advanced. 10 years ago, a computer sitting idle and a computer under a heavy work load used almost the same amount of power. Therefore, as long as your were going to leave the computer on anyway, it didn't hurt to run one of these programs. However, newer CPUs use much less power when they are idle compared to running a heavy work load. I wish CERN the best of luck, but it seems like the whole distributed computing idea is starting to come to a close due to increased power efficiency.
The company I work for is begrudgingly moving to IE8 starting a couple weeks from now. The only reason they are moving to it is because they are also starting to role out Windows 7, and IE6 isn't available for Windows 7.
Therefore they have had no choice but to go through all of the internal sites and fix the numerous ones that only support IE6. Which was the only thing holding them back from pushing IE7/8 onto the XP machines. The good side effect of this is that for the most part all of the internal sites that have been upgraded to support IE8 also support Firefox now.
You are missing one important fact. The usage stats you quoted are only for visitors to w3cshools.com. At the bottom of the page they even admit that the actual market share for IE is close to 80%.
That said, I agree with your main points about the EU being completely ridiculous.
Exactly the opposite actually. By exempting churches from taxes the government gets to chose what is and isn't a religion. That sounds much more dangerous and risky to me.
b. Apple's switching to ARM. However, could Intel get XScale to, umm, scale?
You do know that the current Xscale tops out at 800Mhz and isn't super scalar, right? Also the Xscale CPUs don't even have FPUs. Xscale CPUs are designed to be super low power(and therefore low performance) compared to their X86 cousins, so there is pretty much no chance that Apple will be switch to ARM based Xscale chips.
They must become the anti-google and take on the motto of "Do No Good." Sure most of the people on Slashdot may prefer Good over Evil, but I think there is a large enough population to support a company that takes a firm stance against all that is good in the world.
I grab the latest episode of Enterprise every week. If you know where to look it isn't really that much trouble. All I have to do is open suprnova.org on Saturday morning scroll half-way down the page, click on the right link, and hour or so later I have a HDTV rip of the show.
At my work if you get caught with an unpatched machine on the network, your port gets turned off and your group charged $100. If you get caught twice teh fine is $2500. How about we insitute something like that on the internet as a whole? We could also fine people who open up virus e-mails and who foward every stupid e-mail they get to every one they know or ever knew.
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I am more concerned about phones that have built in cameras. I have worked for two different companies now who both have a very strict no cameras on the premises rule. This also means no cell-phones with cameras built in. It is starting to get to the point where you can't get a high end phone without a camera. I want to see one of the phone manufactures make a phone that is as small, has a color screen, but doesn't have a camera built in. Is that too much to ask?
"Given that, wrecking a car takes a willful act of destruction. Getting a M$ box full of spyware only requires browsing the web."
Ever heard of a thing called a car "accident"? I don't know many people who have intentionally wrecked a car. But I do know a bunch of have accidentally wrecked one. Getting in a car accident only requires normal driving.
When I purchased a new phone about 6 months ago, one of the features I was looking for was a phone WITHOUT a camera. The problem was, that all of the high end(ie small) phones had cameras built in. I finally found one, but this is going to be a problem for many employers/employees. Where I interned last summer (a major defense contractor), cameras of any kind were not allowed on site. This means that if I had purchased a camera phone I would not have been able to take it to work with me. Many people were already starting to bring camera phones to work, and this was last summer. This is where the problem for the employer begins. Does the employer fire an employee that brings a camera phone to work? In the case of defense contractors this can get really ugly, because the company can get in big trouble if they find out that there are unauthorized camera going to and leaving the plant site every day. This puts the employee and the employer in a bind because it is very reasonable for an employee to want to bring a cell phone with him to work, but even if they leave it in their car while they are working, if it is a camera phone it is still illegal.
Can I use the space bar to pause a video clip? That feature mystereously disappeared around Media Player 8 for some reason, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out why the damn subtitle bar kept appearing randomly.
Before we can go to Mars, however, there are some issues we need to figure out. A Mars mission (round trip) is expected to be somehwere in the neighborhood of 2 years. Thats 2 years without the possibility resupply from Earth, or the ability to quickly return to Earth should a serious problem arise, not to mention you simply can't land on Mars and expect to live off the land.
The craft could be re-supplied from Earth while it is in orbit (or on the surface) of Mars. All NASA would have to do is send a supply ship (or two) towards Mars shortly after the launch of the manned space craft. Then once the astronauts got to Mars, they could completely restock their craft, or even switch over to the already stocked second craft for the return trip.
Because CPUs are limited to running instructions (for the most part) in serial. GPUs get to run a large number of instructions in parallel. As some above posts mentioned, a lot of the stuff the GPU can do is vector and matrix multiplication, therefore the GPU is really good at multiplying a lot of numbers times a lot of numbers at once. But in everyday life you aren't multiplying a bunch of number times a bunch of numbers at once, you are multiplying one number time another, then multiplying the result times a number, and so on. GPUs are built to a specific task, and at that task they are very fast, but outside that task they won't be able to compete with a real CPU. And on top of all of that I can buy 3 2.4Ghz P4s for the price of a Geforce FX5950.
Most major worm outbreaks have been caused by people not applying patches that have been out for a month plus. I have always run MS operating systems and mail clients, but I have yet to catch a virus or a worm. What saves me is not that I actually apply the patches that are released for the products that I own. If keep your system patched and don't do stuff like opening.exe attachments, you don't even need virus protection.
I just think that it was really cool that an intern came up with the idea. I wish that the ideas that I come up with at my internship would end up on the front page of slashdot.
The point of using inkblots, is that you don't have to memorize them. Generally a person's first reaction to an inkblot will be the same every time they see it. In terms of the keyspace, even if there are only 50 possible words that people can come up with for each inkblot, with a 5 inkblot(10 character) password, there are still 50^5 possible passwords. This may be less than the 36^8 that you would get from a 8 character alpha numeric password, but you are guarunteed a random password, which will make it much much much harder to crack even with a lower keyspace that a human created 8 character password.
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That's because SemiAccurate never found an actual bug. Charlie was just concerned about the capabilities of the ME, and that there could be a bug one day. He tried for years to get Intel to just get rid of the ME not to fix any specific bug. You can decide if he was right or not based on this bug.
It is important to note that based on what has been released so far, you had to opt into to using ME in its full mode to be affected. If you just bought a random PC your system isn't vulnerable.
Dark matter is invisible to our current detection methods. That is not the same as being truly invisible.
I used to run a couple of the distributed computing programs years back, but I don't anymore. The main reason is that computers have advanced. 10 years ago, a computer sitting idle and a computer under a heavy work load used almost the same amount of power. Therefore, as long as your were going to leave the computer on anyway, it didn't hurt to run one of these programs. However, newer CPUs use much less power when they are idle compared to running a heavy work load. I wish CERN the best of luck, but it seems like the whole distributed computing idea is starting to come to a close due to increased power efficiency.
The company I work for is begrudgingly moving to IE8 starting a couple weeks from now. The only reason they are moving to it is because they are also starting to role out Windows 7, and IE6 isn't available for Windows 7.
Therefore they have had no choice but to go through all of the internal sites and fix the numerous ones that only support IE6. Which was the only thing holding them back from pushing IE7/8 onto the XP machines. The good side effect of this is that for the most part all of the internal sites that have been upgraded to support IE8 also support Firefox now.
You are missing one important fact. The usage stats you quoted are only for visitors to w3cshools.com. At the bottom of the page they even admit that the actual market share for IE is close to 80%.
That said, I agree with your main points about the EU being completely ridiculous.
Exactly the opposite actually. By exempting churches from taxes the government gets to chose what is and isn't a religion. That sounds much more dangerous and risky to me.
b. Apple's switching to ARM. However, could Intel get XScale to, umm, scale?
You do know that the current Xscale tops out at 800Mhz and isn't super scalar, right? Also the Xscale CPUs don't even have FPUs. Xscale CPUs are designed to be super low power(and therefore low performance) compared to their X86 cousins, so there is pretty much no chance that Apple will be switch to ARM based Xscale chips.
Its intended to be representative of Debian developers.
Maybe that is the problem.....
Maybe we should only let politicians vote in the next presidential election.....
They must become the anti-google and take on the motto of "Do No Good." Sure most of the people on Slashdot may prefer Good over Evil, but I think there is a large enough population to support a company that takes a firm stance against all that is good in the world.
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4. Messed with MythTV for a month trying to get it to actually work and be usefull, and then ditched it for Windows MCE.
ISPs tend to have pretty good webservers.....
I grab the latest episode of Enterprise every week. If you know where to look it isn't really that much trouble. All I have to do is open suprnova.org on Saturday morning scroll half-way down the page, click on the right link, and hour or so later I have a HDTV rip of the show.
At my work if you get caught with an unpatched machine on the network, your port gets turned off and your group charged $100. If you get caught twice teh fine is $2500. How about we insitute something like that on the internet as a whole? We could also fine people who open up virus e-mails and who foward every stupid e-mail they get to every one they know or ever knew.
I am more concerned about phones that have built in cameras. I have worked for two different companies now who both have a very strict no cameras on the premises rule. This also means no cell-phones with cameras built in. It is starting to get to the point where you can't get a high end phone without a camera. I want to see one of the phone manufactures make a phone that is as small, has a color screen, but doesn't have a camera built in. Is that too much to ask?
"Given that, wrecking a car takes a willful act of destruction. Getting a M$ box full of spyware only requires browsing the web."
Ever heard of a thing called a car "accident"? I don't know many people who have intentionally wrecked a car. But I do know a bunch of have accidentally wrecked one. Getting in a car accident only requires normal driving.
When I purchased a new phone about 6 months ago, one of the features I was looking for was a phone WITHOUT a camera. The problem was, that all of the high end(ie small) phones had cameras built in. I finally found one, but this is going to be a problem for many employers/employees. Where I interned last summer (a major defense contractor), cameras of any kind were not allowed on site. This means that if I had purchased a camera phone I would not have been able to take it to work with me. Many people were already starting to bring camera phones to work, and this was last summer. This is where the problem for the employer begins. Does the employer fire an employee that brings a camera phone to work? In the case of defense contractors this can get really ugly, because the company can get in big trouble if they find out that there are unauthorized camera going to and leaving the plant site every day. This puts the employee and the employer in a bind because it is very reasonable for an employee to want to bring a cell phone with him to work, but even if they leave it in their car while they are working, if it is a camera phone it is still illegal.
Can I use the space bar to pause a video clip? That feature mystereously disappeared around Media Player 8 for some reason, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out why the damn subtitle bar kept appearing randomly.
" Removable memory cards inside the machine can be tampered with if a lock is picked or if one of thousands of keys is stolen." - From the Article
If I could pick the lock or steal a key to the paper ballot box, I could tamper with the votes too.
Before we can go to Mars, however, there are some issues we need to figure out. A Mars mission (round trip) is expected to be somehwere in the neighborhood of 2 years. Thats 2 years without the possibility resupply from Earth, or the ability to quickly return to Earth should a serious problem arise, not to mention you simply can't land on Mars and expect to live off the land.
The craft could be re-supplied from Earth while it is in orbit (or on the surface) of Mars. All NASA would have to do is send a supply ship (or two) towards Mars shortly after the launch of the manned space craft. Then once the astronauts got to Mars, they could completely restock their craft, or even switch over to the already stocked second craft for the return trip.
Maybe this is what the Orange Alert is about.....
Because CPUs are limited to running instructions (for the most part) in serial. GPUs get to run a large number of instructions in parallel. As some above posts mentioned, a lot of the stuff the GPU can do is vector and matrix multiplication, therefore the GPU is really good at multiplying a lot of numbers times a lot of numbers at once. But in everyday life you aren't multiplying a bunch of number times a bunch of numbers at once, you are multiplying one number time another, then multiplying the result times a number, and so on. GPUs are built to a specific task, and at that task they are very fast, but outside that task they won't be able to compete with a real CPU. And on top of all of that I can buy 3 2.4Ghz P4s for the price of a Geforce FX5950.
Most major worm outbreaks have been caused by people not applying patches that have been out for a month plus. I have always run MS operating systems and mail clients, but I have yet to catch a virus or a worm. What saves me is not that I actually apply the patches that are released for the products that I own. If keep your system patched and don't do stuff like opening .exe attachments, you don't even need virus protection.
I just think that it was really cool that an intern came up with the idea. I wish that the ideas that I come up with at my internship would end up on the front page of slashdot.
The point of using inkblots, is that you don't have to memorize them. Generally a person's first reaction to an inkblot will be the same every time they see it. In terms of the keyspace, even if there are only 50 possible words that people can come up with for each inkblot, with a 5 inkblot(10 character) password, there are still 50^5 possible passwords. This may be less than the 36^8 that you would get from a 8 character alpha numeric password, but you are guarunteed a random password, which will make it much much much harder to crack even with a lower keyspace that a human created 8 character password.
having sex with a member of the opposite sex will require Windows.