I have a grudge against the company, as I personally do not like their tactics or schemes, but as a person (as in only the person, not the businessman), I have noting against Bill Gates and family. On the contrary, his act is extremely generous, and admirable. Well done BGates, signed: Linux fan.
What's it going to take for this thing to feed on mosquitoes? Live, preferably. And if its possible, where can I get about fifty thousand of these things?
Closely matched or not, Intel and AMD are going to have to change their processor frequencies... If you keep on calling them "seconds", any formula that is based on seconds suddenly gets screwed.
The article does say that they will only use it if their ennemies are using the system, but the difference between "using" and "about to use" is a very, very thin line...
I think that a couple of hundred thousand people in the skies in planes that no longer know where they are may well get very pissed off... And personally, I DO care what happens to them...
Yet another example of how the global internet isn't actually global. But what can you do? Have one server per country, and make sure that people only connect to the server in their country (if allowed at all)? Block incoming requests from abroad? Ask users politely to not download if their laws forbid it? The fact that they have this file on the Australian server and not the US server prooves that they are law-abiding, and yet they are still attacked.
I live in Europe and therefore I can't easily download strong-encryption PGP, but if I do, whose fault is it? Mine, or the server that hosts it in the US?
I work for a company that makes Linux "embedded" systems. First choice (and only choice) - Debian. One of our servers mirrors the Debian FTPs early in the morning, one hour later all the desktop machines sync with it. All the servers run Debian stable and rely on the security fixes. The systems that we sell all have stable on them too. The development platforms run on testing, and for the hardcore users, we also use unstable. Everything works fine. Sometimes an unstable machine will be, well, unstable, but I have never seen a "stable" give any problems whatsoever. In the beginning we made sure that the updates went well. 3 years later, we don't even bother looking. The installer is text, granted. dselect is a nightmare for beginners, granted. But the systems work, as in really, really work.
I'm surprised the military hasn't done this before. We already have drone planes that fly via remote. Granted, they have very little AI and only perform one task (reconaissance), but I would have thought that the military would have started off with a land robot/roomba/automated car. I can certainly see more uses for one, like if troops are pinned down in a dangerous environment, etc.
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I have a grudge against the company, as I personally do not like their tactics or schemes, but as a person (as in only the person, not the businessman), I have noting against Bill Gates and family. On the contrary, his act is extremely generous, and admirable. Well done BGates, signed: Linux fan.
What's it going to take for this thing to feed on mosquitoes? Live, preferably. And if its possible, where can I get about fifty thousand of these things?
Bloody mosquitoes...
Up the top on the right, "Legal Threats"... Otherwise the link to the actual text is here: http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response .txt
Closely matched or not, Intel and AMD are going to have to change their processor frequencies... If you keep on calling them "seconds", any formula that is based on seconds suddenly gets screwed.
Why disable when you can destroy? http://uplink.space.com/printthread.php?Cat=&Board =businesstech&main=74111&type=post
The article does say that they will only use it if their ennemies are using the system, but the difference between "using" and "about to use" is a very, very thin line...
I think that a couple of hundred thousand people in the skies in planes that no longer know where they are may well get very pissed off... And personally, I DO care what happens to them...
Reminds me of a phrase from the film Armageddon... It happened before... It will happen again. It's just a question of "when"...
Yet another example of how the global internet isn't actually global. But what can you do? Have one server per country, and make sure that people only connect to the server in their country (if allowed at all)? Block incoming requests from abroad? Ask users politely to not download if their laws forbid it? The fact that they have this file on the Australian server and not the US server prooves that they are law-abiding, and yet they are still attacked.
I live in Europe and therefore I can't easily download strong-encryption PGP, but if I do, whose fault is it? Mine, or the server that hosts it in the US?
I work for a company that makes Linux "embedded" systems. First choice (and only choice) - Debian. One of our servers mirrors the Debian FTPs early in the morning, one hour later all the desktop machines sync with it. All the servers run Debian stable and rely on the security fixes. The systems that we sell all have stable on them too. The development platforms run on testing, and for the hardcore users, we also use unstable. Everything works fine. Sometimes an unstable machine will be, well, unstable, but I have never seen a "stable" give any problems whatsoever. In the beginning we made sure that the updates went well. 3 years later, we don't even bother looking. The installer is text, granted. dselect is a nightmare for beginners, granted. But the systems work, as in really, really work.
Just did a little bit of googling... I stand corrected :)
I'm surprised the military hasn't done this before. We already have drone planes that fly via remote. Granted, they have very little AI and only perform one task (reconaissance), but I would have thought that the military would have started off with a land robot/roomba/automated car. I can certainly see more uses for one, like if troops are pinned down in a dangerous environment, etc.