Considering how many machines Google has to maintain, I'm surprised they just don't order motherboards and power supplies to their own spec, and then allow the mfrs to distribute the design to others who request it. They're big enough and have enough whuffie that they can start a trend all by their lonesomes.
What's the difference between letting the microwaves bounce around in a cavity and just shooting them out the back? Or if you must bounce them, just bounce them off a 45 degree reflector. What's the benefit of the multiple bounces?
I'm in the process of moving to a new house out in the boondocks. The amazing thing is that broadband is available there, in the form of DSL. The annoying thing is that the bandwidth is badly restricted, 512Kbps downstream max. I'll become so annoyed with performance there that I come back to my place in the city and do my multimedia surfing there.
I think part of the addictive effect the article describes is simply because of the volume and quantity of information available, as well as the interactivity permitted (400 channels and nothing good on!) and this drives me back to my cable broadband connection.
I'm probably going to wind up switching to WildBlue; they have higher bandwidth options, and latency doesn't bother me since I don't game.
There are good reasons for Microsoft to be careful with its patching, since it's so easy to break things. What if they adopted a strategy for, rather than patching out vulnerabilities, but instead filtering them out? Like an antivirus program, you'd scan media content for attacks and then disallow them if attacks are found. This strategy could result in an update cycle measured in days, or even hours, rather than weeks.
The book, "The Big Breach", is available on the site, although Cryptome's page is badly obsolete. (The domain "thebigbreach.com" is in the hands of a squatter and plg-gcie.com has no server.)
I'll have to disagree with you; while having to pay money every month, rather than at the onset of the game, may be t3h 3vi1 to you, games requiring servers need those servers paid for. And although I do think the prices demanded are rather high ($5/mo or lower seems to be more in line), I'm hoping eventually all the games themselves will be distributed for free, much like EVE Online is now.
Even if DES is tripled rather than doubled for their "128-bit crypto", I still don't like it much. The block size is still 64-bit, which means 2^64 possible combinations versus the 2^128 for ideal 128-bit. I say ideal, because typically attackers find ways of reducing the effective number of possible combinations for an algorithm. Original DES has been reduced significantly, so triple-DES was designed to improve it, and do so using the same encryption hardware. But while triple-DES may be closer to the ideal 64-bit, even a non-ideal 128-bit algorithm should exceed that number of effective bits.
This is why the RIAA isn't invading people's homes and going through their CDs and hard drives. Yet. They'd *like* to say that you are only entitled to one copy of each work you purchase, and if it's destroyed you'd need to buy another copy. But they're already raising tons of consumer discontent and if they push it much farther they risk a huge backlash.
If their bugaboo is support, they should pay the few dollars for a distro where support is already provided, like Linspire, and install that instead. I'm sure the Linspire folks would LOVE to further their foothold and would lower their prices to Lenovo for the privilege.
I'd never heard of a "backwards" sunspot before, but after RingTFA I understood that; that the sun's cycle is caused by flipping polarities. I thought this was very interesting.
What I didn't get was, how do they KNOW the polarity of the sunspot? There shouldn't be a pattern difference between the two poles, should there? They ought to be equal. Are they using a special sensor on one of the solar satellites? How would you possibly detect the magnetic polarity of even so large a phenomenon from a distance and among the other magnetic and electric fields the sun throws at you?
They do have to succeed to maintain their trademark. Question is... Do they really have to? Whether or not they are able to maintain their trademark, they can't take away Google's domain name for it; it's not like when everyone started putting "aspirin" on their bottles of acetylsalycilic acid, other search engines can't intercept google.com. Wouldn't it be more valuable to essentially have ownership of a verb?
It may not be coincidence that a little-known filter algorithm produces the best results; many spammers probably test their spew on the more popular filters to try and fool them. If this new filter becomes more popular you may see its reliability decay.
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Any links to the Google white paper detailing their reasons for this system architecture?
Considering how many machines Google has to maintain, I'm surprised they just don't order motherboards and power supplies to their own spec, and then allow the mfrs to distribute the design to others who request it. They're big enough and have enough whuffie that they can start a trend all by their lonesomes.
What's the difference between letting the microwaves bounce around in a cavity and just shooting them out the back? Or if you must bounce them, just bounce them off a 45 degree reflector. What's the benefit of the multiple bounces?
Grow them. (Just published on Wired's site.)
I'm in the process of moving to a new house out in the boondocks. The amazing thing is that broadband is available there, in the form of DSL. The annoying thing is that the bandwidth is badly restricted, 512Kbps downstream max. I'll become so annoyed with performance there that I come back to my place in the city and do my multimedia surfing there.
I think part of the addictive effect the article describes is simply because of the volume and quantity of information available, as well as the interactivity permitted (400 channels and nothing good on!) and this drives me back to my cable broadband connection.
I'm probably going to wind up switching to WildBlue; they have higher bandwidth options, and latency doesn't bother me since I don't game.
Don't consider them as "lost resources"; consider them a "job perk"...
There are good reasons for Microsoft to be careful with its patching, since it's so easy to break things. What if they adopted a strategy for, rather than patching out vulnerabilities, but instead filtering them out? Like an antivirus program, you'd scan media content for attacks and then disallow them if attacks are found. This strategy could result in an update cycle measured in days, or even hours, rather than weeks.
Thanks for the link.
The book, "The Big Breach", is available on the site, although Cryptome's page is badly obsolete. (The domain "thebigbreach.com" is in the hands of a squatter and plg-gcie.com has no server.)
I think the modern version of "arrh" is "dude."
I notice this machine was tested with XPSP2. Are the Macs able to run the 64-bit version of XP?
Why would China ban Wikipedia... When they can just edit it?
I'll have to disagree with you; while having to pay money every month, rather than at the onset of the game, may be t3h 3vi1 to you, games requiring servers need those servers paid for. And although I do think the prices demanded are rather high ($5/mo or lower seems to be more in line), I'm hoping eventually all the games themselves will be distributed for free, much like EVE Online is now.
The internet is for porn!
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Even if DES is tripled rather than doubled for their "128-bit crypto", I still don't like it much. The block size is still 64-bit, which means 2^64 possible combinations versus the 2^128 for ideal 128-bit. I say ideal, because typically attackers find ways of reducing the effective number of possible combinations for an algorithm. Original DES has been reduced significantly, so triple-DES was designed to improve it, and do so using the same encryption hardware. But while triple-DES may be closer to the ideal 64-bit, even a non-ideal 128-bit algorithm should exceed that number of effective bits.
This is why the RIAA isn't invading people's homes and going through their CDs and hard drives. Yet. They'd *like* to say that you are only entitled to one copy of each work you purchase, and if it's destroyed you'd need to buy another copy. But they're already raising tons of consumer discontent and if they push it much farther they risk a huge backlash.
Updated compiler or std libs?
If their bugaboo is support, they should pay the few dollars for a distro where support is already provided, like Linspire, and install that instead. I'm sure the Linspire folks would LOVE to further their foothold and would lower their prices to Lenovo for the privilege.
It means people are finding what they're looking for more directly, rather than having to gad around. This is a good thing.
I'd never heard of a "backwards" sunspot before, but after RingTFA I understood that; that the sun's cycle is caused by flipping polarities. I thought this was very interesting.
What I didn't get was, how do they KNOW the polarity of the sunspot? There shouldn't be a pattern difference between the two poles, should there? They ought to be equal. Are they using a special sensor on one of the solar satellites? How would you possibly detect the magnetic polarity of even so large a phenomenon from a distance and among the other magnetic and electric fields the sun throws at you?
They do have to succeed to maintain their trademark. Question is... Do they really have to? Whether or not they are able to maintain their trademark, they can't take away Google's domain name for it; it's not like when everyone started putting "aspirin" on their bottles of acetylsalycilic acid, other search engines can't intercept google.com. Wouldn't it be more valuable to essentially have ownership of a verb?
Let me guess... Toshiba sponsored this article?
I'll drop them an email.
I recommend these cases above all others, including Pelican and Samsonite. Highly impact resistant and waterproof.
It may not be coincidence that a little-known filter algorithm produces the best results; many spammers probably test their spew on the more popular filters to try and fool them. If this new filter becomes more popular you may see its reliability decay.