1. What happens when a publisher includes auto-updating code, but not specific attack code, like the DDoS software in the mentioned examples? If discovered it will appear to be a security risk, but not specifically malicious...
2. What happens when a software developer produces some completely innocuous software, gets into the repositories - and then months down the road, produces an update with DDoS capability, and has the update pushed into the repositories and automatically distributed?
It's an "open design" for a reason. Perhaps switch "open design" for "easy licensing options". Further, unless a big company forks the project, the originator usually has some control over the progress of the project, which means their smaller product becomes a "reference platform" with some added value even if the bigger company has a somewhat cheaper version.
'The FBI could not comment on this specific case, but said if child pornography is ever downloaded accidentally, the user needs to call authorities immediately.'
At which point you've just confessed to trafficking in child porn. No, the proper thing to do is have a secure file deletion utility to nuke all evidence on your system.
I wonder how many of these swaps were corporate users finally dumping their very old XP machines after having avoided Vista for so long? If so, I hope they like their pre-SP1 OS...
1. Why did they have to use 15:9 displays? I think 4:3 displays would be better for this sort of use.
2. I'd rather they start selling portable LCD monitors, with stands that fold flat so the monitor will fit in your laptop bag. I could set up the second monitor in a hotel room, but not have to deal with it when I'm going portable.
You are correct, sir, but I'm sure Microsoft is feeling angry at the retailer and embarrassed their attempt to find their customers the best price is going awry. Their attempt to suppress the article is even more amusing.
Beware of load balancing, because it will tempt you into getting too little capacity for mission-critical work. You need enough capacity to handle the entire load with multiple nodes down, or you will be courting a cascade failure. Load balancing is better than fallback, because you will be constantly testing all of the hardware and software setups and will discover problems before an emergency strikes; but do make sure you've got the overcapacity needed to take up the slack when bad things happen.
Umm... This would be hydrogen + hydrogen = deuterium + positron? That makes sense... Though to be generating enough positrons to show detectable levels of gammas from space, that would be a huge discovery.
then for that energy we would need 2 electrons, not one.
511 KeV is the mass-equivalent energy of a single electron or positron, and annihilation results in two gamma photons heading off in different directions.
well isn't fusion a way of matter-to-energy conversion power generator?
Yes, but it's not as clean as direct annihilation would be. It generates neutrons which make the materials used for containment radioactive.
The article isn't clear about what they say they've detected. If it's the 511 KeV signature of electron-positron annihilation, then yes, it could mean the presence of antimatter; it could also mean the direct conversion of electrons to energy by some other unexplained means.
Either way, it would be a hell of a discovery, potentially leading to matter-to-energy conversion power generation. To hell with fusion power, this is better!
I disagree, it is entirely possible to get malware when downloading music or movies. Use caution when retrieving torrent files from sites you do not trust. This includes indexing engines. BitTorrent is very safe when used with torrents from trustworthy sites; ubuntu.com, openoffice.org, no problem.
Shutting down specific high-traffic web sites would IMO not be a good idea; people would simply surf elsewhere. In fact, when those heavily loaded sites start lagging, many people will wait for them to load rather than jump elsewhere, reducing the total load.
It's been reported that these cores will be relatively underpowered, though both the total processing power and cost per watt will be quite impressive. This makes the chip appropriate for putting in a server but not so much a desktop machine, where CPU-intensive single-threads may bog things down.
So what about one of these in combination with a 2-, 3- or 4-core AMD/Intel chip? The serious threads can be run on the faster chip, while all the background stuff can be spread among the slower cores? Does Windows have the ability to prioritize like that? Does Linux?
Yeah, it's possible for an OS to slow down your computer by improperly handling tasks, but you can't depend on finding and correcting them. (They may not even be there.) It's understandable to be annoyed if an OS update slows down your system; it's something else to expect a speed-up from out of nowhere.
Also, Windows 7 users are reporting a subjective improvement in response much like you report in OS X's progression.
...permitting Windows 7 to scale up to 256 processors without performance penalty, but delivering little performance gains for systems with only a few processors...
So you're disappointed Microsoft doesn't magically speed up your single or dual-core PC? Maybe you're expecting too much.
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How can you re-examine the original data when it's all been erased?
If it's *that* much more expensive, perhaps the "open company" ought to get into some other business. :-P
Okay, this scares me.
1. What happens when a publisher includes auto-updating code, but not specific attack code, like the DDoS software in the mentioned examples? If discovered it will appear to be a security risk, but not specifically malicious...
2. What happens when a software developer produces some completely innocuous software, gets into the repositories - and then months down the road, produces an update with DDoS capability, and has the update pushed into the repositories and automatically distributed?
It's an "open design" for a reason. Perhaps switch "open design" for "easy licensing options". Further, unless a big company forks the project, the originator usually has some control over the progress of the project, which means their smaller product becomes a "reference platform" with some added value even if the bigger company has a somewhat cheaper version.
http://opensource.palm.com/1.3.1/index.html
http://palm.cdnetworks.net/opensource/1.3.1/mupdf-1.0.tar
http://palm.cdnetworks.net/opensource/1.3.1/mupdf-1.0.tar-patches.tgz
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Umm, don't you think that is probably something they checked before filing the lawsuit?
You never know. :-P
I don't suppose someone here with a Pre would mind checking out that folder and seeing if the source for the PDF viewer is there?
'The FBI could not comment on this specific case, but said if child pornography is ever downloaded accidentally, the user needs to call authorities immediately.'
At which point you've just confessed to trafficking in child porn. No, the proper thing to do is have a secure file deletion utility to nuke all evidence on your system.
I wonder how many of these swaps were corporate users finally dumping their very old XP machines after having avoided Vista for so long? If so, I hope they like their pre-SP1 OS...
1. Why did they have to use 15:9 displays? I think 4:3 displays would be better for this sort of use.
2. I'd rather they start selling portable LCD monitors, with stands that fold flat so the monitor will fit in your laptop bag. I could set up the second monitor in a hotel room, but not have to deal with it when I'm going portable.
You are correct, sir, but I'm sure Microsoft is feeling angry at the retailer and embarrassed their attempt to find their customers the best price is going awry. Their attempt to suppress the article is even more amusing.
Beware of load balancing, because it will tempt you into getting too little capacity for mission-critical work. You need enough capacity to handle the entire load with multiple nodes down, or you will be courting a cascade failure. Load balancing is better than fallback, because you will be constantly testing all of the hardware and software setups and will discover problems before an emergency strikes; but do make sure you've got the overcapacity needed to take up the slack when bad things happen.
Step 1: Get a Dremel Moto-Tool and a few carbide cutting blades.
Step 2: Cut the antenna jack(s) off the back of the TV set.
Step 3: Watch people try and fail to pipe the DTV signal into the TV.
Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines
Give them time, a brazilian is a lot of machines!
Ba-doom-boom-tss.
Umm... This would be hydrogen + hydrogen = deuterium + positron? That makes sense... Though to be generating enough positrons to show detectable levels of gammas from space, that would be a huge discovery.
then for that energy we would need 2 electrons, not one.
511 KeV is the mass-equivalent energy of a single electron or positron, and annihilation results in two gamma photons heading off in different directions.
well isn't fusion a way of matter-to-energy conversion power generator?
Yes, but it's not as clean as direct annihilation would be. It generates neutrons which make the materials used for containment radioactive.
The article isn't clear about what they say they've detected. If it's the 511 KeV signature of electron-positron annihilation, then yes, it could mean the presence of antimatter; it could also mean the direct conversion of electrons to energy by some other unexplained means.
Either way, it would be a hell of a discovery, potentially leading to matter-to-energy conversion power generation. To hell with fusion power, this is better!
I disagree, it is entirely possible to get malware when downloading music or movies. Use caution when retrieving torrent files from sites you do not trust. This includes indexing engines. BitTorrent is very safe when used with torrents from trustworthy sites; ubuntu.com, openoffice.org, no problem.
How unfortunate for the RIAA that their biggest target can't leak information like that.
Shutting down specific high-traffic web sites would IMO not be a good idea; people would simply surf elsewhere. In fact, when those heavily loaded sites start lagging, many people will wait for them to load rather than jump elsewhere, reducing the total load.
Of course, it also means the vendor gets a copy of whatever is on the drive... Confidential company information, personal data, furry pr0n...
It's been reported that these cores will be relatively underpowered, though both the total processing power and cost per watt will be quite impressive. This makes the chip appropriate for putting in a server but not so much a desktop machine, where CPU-intensive single-threads may bog things down.
So what about one of these in combination with a 2-, 3- or 4-core AMD/Intel chip? The serious threads can be run on the faster chip, while all the background stuff can be spread among the slower cores? Does Windows have the ability to prioritize like that? Does Linux?
It's so delicious and moist! :-)
Yeah, it's possible for an OS to slow down your computer by improperly handling tasks, but you can't depend on finding and correcting them. (They may not even be there.) It's understandable to be annoyed if an OS update slows down your system; it's something else to expect a speed-up from out of nowhere.
Also, Windows 7 users are reporting a subjective improvement in response much like you report in OS X's progression.
...permitting Windows 7 to scale up to 256 processors without performance penalty, but delivering little performance gains for systems with only a few processors...
So you're disappointed Microsoft doesn't magically speed up your single or dual-core PC? Maybe you're expecting too much.