Like it says, though, this is years away from your pocket Cray.
Agreed, but this would not be the case if we built computers for one specific purpose - which is exactly what most Crays do. The cheap and abundant processors today have a redundant instruction set with a lot of flaws, and are not made for any specific app.
If we had RISC processors made for very specific purposes, I'm sure we'd be able to walk around a cray in our pocket:-)
Dude, I agree with what you say, but I think you are missing a few important points.
This bombing will affect a whole lot of other things - not everyone in Afghanistan is a terrorist. And secondly, I completely agree that this region is difficult to handle. But again, something like this attack has more potential to cause unwanted damages in more ways than one, the crashing of the stock markets being one.
Here in India, most of the IT companies get outsourced projects from US/Europe. Already this attack has dealt a bad blow to the economy. With the impending doom of the attack, stocks have been bloody jittery for the past one month.
And do not forget the oil producing nations! You never know which side they are on, and given the falling oil prices, you never know how they will react.
And as always, the nations in this regions will have to endure more than anywhere else, given the geographical locations.
In 1994, a 2-year-old boy named Jamie Bulger was kidnapped and murdered by two 10-year-old schoolboys, and surveillance cameras captured a grainy shot of the killers leading their victim out of a shopping center. Bulger's assailants couldn't, in fact, be identified on camera -- they were caught because they talked to their friends -- but the video footage, replayed over and over again on television, shook the country to its core.
In most cases, this is what would happen! The captured images would mostly serve the media.
At any point, it is the human element that is the weakest. No amount of technology can replace that part, whichever way you look at it. Networking people takes on a whole new perspecive here =)
There is this site that teaches you to build SMP Linux workstations using Slot 1 BX motherboards at http://www.linuxenvy.com/gened/projects/smplinux.h tml. Pretty neat.
I'm sorry to say this, but in many ways US deserves this 100%
You see, when Pakistan attacked India, or when Palestines bombed Israel, your govt. was talking about bilateral talks and all that crap.
Now I'd like to see how you ppl would "talk it out".
When terrorist nations like Pakistan and Afghanistan are housing a million terrorist groups like Hizbul Mujahideen, Lakshar-e-Taiba etc, and when these guys openly bombed New Delhi, the US Govt self righteously proclaimed that it has "faith" in Pakistan and other fundamentalist countries, and it would contain further such incidents.
Infact, despite a lot of evidence, US refuses to declare Pakistan and a host of other nations as terrorist nations.
I'd like to see you people "talk it out." I really would.
And hey, if any of the moderators think of this as a troll, I'm very sorry. You are just being hypocritical.
Remember this - a lot of countries - esp. India and Israel did the mistake of letting "freedom" movements out of hands that blew into enormous explosions right on their faces. Just ensure that this does not happen to you. Please.
From the site -
Howdy guys! I'm happy to report I've been Slashdotted!
LoL! That must be one of the few guys in this world who'd be happy on a fancy DoS attack;-)
...I wanted to audit my network? Wanted to check my firewall, and use something like SATAN or Nessus? Would that be illegal? And I suppose I cannot do it remotely? That is stupid, since most sysadmins have to fix problems remotely, and sometimes we have to be in the shoes of the cracker.
This reminds of an incident that happened recently. One of my colleague's linux server box was hacked into, and had some data snffed from. We also found a couple of root kits and a few other things. After so much pain, he'd cleaned the system, but we still couldn't find the exploit the cracker had used.
Anyway, we had given up hope and he took me to the server (we were exploring it remotely) room. Only to find that one of the developers had looged on as root and left the system as such.
What I mean to say is that when you have developers, the so-called programmers and 'elite' computer literates being so reckless, the security system ceases to matter altogether. Because the fault would ultimately happen at the human end.
All this technology is great, but then the ppl using it should be careful enough. No use having a quantum encryptor and then sticking a printout of your private key on your table.
"...an Internet connection costs next to nothing, long distance costs next to nothing..."
I wish it were so for everybody, but for those of us in developing and third world countries, it is far from the truth. Here you have to slog it out, with limited resources till you see the light of the day. And the place is seething with bureacrats, and conservative politicians and rampant corruption.
Perhaps I should remind you that US/Europe!=World.
Do you know that the telephone bills for reasonable usage of internet in India comes to Rs.4000, and with about Rs.80,000 a year, student can comfortably live paying for his/her education.
It's not easy spending that sort of money, plus connectivity. Do you know that cable connections come to Rs.24,000 a year? 1/4th of the amount required. Also, an upper middle class Indian family earns Rs.300,000 a year. And oh, long distance calls. For a minute, you could spend upto Rs.4000. Which is 1/20th of the amount a student would need an entire year.
I wouldn't call these rates "next to nothing". I work to pay my own college fees, and I know what it is to pay up heavy telephone charges and net charges. Maybe all you ppl living in your "elitist" developed nations may find it cheap, but for us access to knowledge does not come cheaply.
Very true. For example, down in south India, states like Kerala have almost 100% literacy, and the state of Tamil Nadu produces more than 30,000 engineers yearly, and most of these ppl are from rural background.
The engineer son learns, goes back to his rural place, and helps out his Dad. Agreed, it doesn't always happen, but when it does happen, something like this definitely helps!
Slashdot Mirror
Distributed downloads? :-D
A 10mbps connection at our end is great, but there is always the bottleneck at the other side.
That is not to say that this is not useful, it is just that what is the use of having a 10Mbps line when the servers run on lower bandwidths?
Think of this, even if I have a T2, I really don't make use of my bandwidth when downloading a 100MB file from a 64K ISDN line.
Now we will have a 20GHz processor which will tell us that 4+4 is 7.9999999999 approximately :-D
...your bits would burst into flames...
:-P
No way! Because according to Intel, 1 bit is approximately 0.999999999999 bits which is a mathematical impossibility!
Like it says, though, this is years away from your pocket Cray.
:-)
Agreed, but this would not be the case if we built computers for one specific purpose - which is exactly what most Crays do. The cheap and abundant processors today have a redundant instruction set with a lot of flaws, and are not made for any specific app.
If we had RISC processors made for very specific purposes, I'm sure we'd be able to walk around a cray in our pocket
Dude, I agree with what you say, but I think you are missing a few important points.
This bombing will affect a whole lot of other things - not everyone in Afghanistan is a terrorist. And secondly, I completely agree that this region is difficult to handle. But again, something like this attack has more potential to cause unwanted damages in more ways than one, the crashing of the stock markets being one.
Here in India, most of the IT companies get outsourced projects from US/Europe. Already this attack has dealt a bad blow to the economy. With the impending doom of the attack, stocks have been bloody jittery for the past one month.
And do not forget the oil producing nations! You never know which side they are on, and given the falling oil prices, you never know how they will react.
And as always, the nations in this regions will have to endure more than anywhere else, given the geographical locations.
The markets in the Asian region (India/Pakistan) are gonna plummet now.
I hope the US realises that this is going to impact more than just one country, given the existing state of recession.
Infact, the markets here (Bombay Stock Exchange) seem to respond more to NSE & Dowjones than anyother indices =)
NASA Personal Satellite Assistant?
;-)
Why do I get the feeling that this is a Microsoft conspiracy
In 1994, a 2-year-old boy named Jamie Bulger was kidnapped and murdered by two 10-year-old schoolboys, and surveillance cameras captured a grainy shot of the killers leading their victim out of a shopping center. Bulger's assailants couldn't, in fact, be identified on camera -- they were caught because they talked to their friends -- but the video footage, replayed over and over again on television, shook the country to its core.
In most cases, this is what would happen! The captured images would mostly serve the media.
At any point, it is the human element that is the weakest. No amount of technology can replace that part, whichever way you look at it. Networking people takes on a whole new perspecive here =)
Sensiva is a nice tool for mouse gesturing, prety efficient too.
Esp. useful for keyboard-repellant people =)
There is this site that teaches you to build SMP Linux workstations using Slot 1 BX motherboards at http://www.linuxenvy.com/gened/projects/smplinux.h tml. Pretty neat.
I'm sorry to say this, but in many ways US deserves this 100%
You see, when Pakistan attacked India, or when Palestines bombed Israel, your govt. was talking about bilateral talks and all that crap.
Now I'd like to see how you ppl would "talk it out".
When terrorist nations like Pakistan and Afghanistan are housing a million terrorist groups like Hizbul Mujahideen, Lakshar-e-Taiba etc, and when these guys openly bombed New Delhi, the US Govt self righteously proclaimed that it has "faith" in Pakistan and other fundamentalist countries, and it would contain further such incidents.
Infact, despite a lot of evidence, US refuses to declare Pakistan and a host of other nations as terrorist nations.
I'd like to see you people "talk it out." I really would.
And hey, if any of the moderators think of this as a troll, I'm very sorry. You are just being hypocritical.
Remember this - a lot of countries - esp. India and Israel did the mistake of letting "freedom" movements out of hands that blew into enormous explosions right on their faces. Just ensure that this does not happen to you. Please.
Thank you.
From the site - ;-)
Howdy guys! I'm happy to report I've been Slashdotted!
LoL! That must be one of the few guys in this world who'd be happy on a fancy DoS attack
Absolutely. But remember, Linux always requires some effort on your part. You can check out nice tut. sorta thing here -
w orkGateway.html
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNet
Hope that helped.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Or Windows :-)
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
...I wanted to audit my network? Wanted to check my firewall, and use something like SATAN or Nessus? Would that be illegal? And I suppose I cannot do it remotely? That is stupid, since most sysadmins have to fix problems remotely, and sometimes we have to be in the shoes of the cracker.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
This reminds of an incident that happened recently. One of my colleague's linux server box was hacked into, and had some data snffed from. We also found a couple of root kits and a few other things. After so much pain, he'd cleaned the system, but we still couldn't find the exploit the cracker had used.
Anyway, we had given up hope and he took me to the server (we were exploring it remotely) room. Only to find that one of the developers had looged on as root and left the system as such.
What I mean to say is that when you have developers, the so-called programmers and 'elite' computer literates being so reckless, the security system ceases to matter altogether. Because the fault would ultimately happen at the human end.
All this technology is great, but then the ppl using it should be careful enough. No use having a quantum encryptor and then sticking a printout of your private key on your table.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
What if by some freak chance our DNA's mutated? Like in Crichton's book Andromeda Strain? That would be something.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
He'd have a tough time deciding it this guy should be a toad or a stone :-)
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
"...an Internet connection costs next to nothing, long distance costs next to nothing ..."
I wish it were so for everybody, but for those of us in developing and third world countries, it is far from the truth. Here you have to slog it out, with limited resources till you see the light of the day. And the place is seething with bureacrats, and conservative politicians and rampant corruption.
Perhaps I should remind you that US/Europe!=World. Do you know that the telephone bills for reasonable usage of internet in India comes to Rs.4000, and with about Rs.80,000 a year, student can comfortably live paying for his/her education. It's not easy spending that sort of money, plus connectivity. Do you know that cable connections come to Rs.24,000 a year? 1/4th of the amount required. Also, an upper middle class Indian family earns Rs.300,000 a year. And oh, long distance calls. For a minute, you could spend upto Rs.4000. Which is 1/20th of the amount a student would need an entire year.
I wouldn't call these rates "next to nothing". I work to pay my own college fees, and I know what it is to pay up heavy telephone charges and net charges. Maybe all you ppl living in your "elitist" developed nations may find it cheap, but for us access to knowledge does not come cheaply.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Yeah, it appeared in the 'Illuminatus!' trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Huh? What do you mean by Hindu? I'm a Hindu in the sense that it's my religion man, not a language!!!
Perhaps you meant Hindi? Remember, the former is a faith and the latter a language.
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Actually, making a.d is easy, all you need to do is make him say "huh?", "can I have some tea?", "this tea does not taste good enough"....
But, to make a troll, you need Gene Roddenberry himself....
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Hasn't anybody told them about Wingates, even if it is for accessing pr0n?
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Very true. For example, down in south India, states like Kerala have almost 100% literacy, and the state of Tamil Nadu produces more than 30,000 engineers yearly, and most of these ppl are from rural background.
The engineer son learns, goes back to his rural place, and helps out his Dad. Agreed, it doesn't always happen, but when it does happen, something like this definitely helps!
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"