Most of the TSC hardware is field-programmable, at least from what I've read. Factory-burned would be fine. Being able to say, "lock this boot configuration, I think the computer is secure", say before crossing a border checkpoint, would be really helpful.
This is NOT the first time an administration has said that.
Yeah, but now that Osama bin Laden is dead, he can't plan and launch any more attacks from his secret al'Qa'eda bases in Iraq, so it's OK to leave this time.
Maybe this is why Jobs was so ripped about outsourcing and factory building - he was forced to give 'his ideas' to companies he didn't trust:
"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.
Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year.
I doubt it had much to do with Palms ability to use their patents to defend themselves and more with the fact that they had no presonal grudge there, just business interests.
I think Steve still liked Jon Rubenstein too - that might have had something to do with it. And maybe why Jon got the job, I dunno.
The iPhone was the first device to realize that a smartphone should be smart first, and phone second.
Did you ever try to talk on a Handspring? Granted, iPhone had 10 years of technological progress to launch a better product.
Steve Jobs's hubris is that he thinks all his ideas are original. His execution was very good, don't get me wrong, but very few ideas are truly revolutionary.
Its a violation of your right to be secure in your own person. Frankly anyone who can't see that hates freedom.
That's absolutely true, and I support that 100%.
I simultaneously hold that anybody who won't take the risk upon themselves or their children hates their community.
The trouble is, in a general population something like 95% of vaccines are effective. The other 5% skates by on herd immunity. Reducing that fraction increases the chances of death or disability among the 5% to a degree greater than the risk to any one individual.
I won't force you to get the vaccine but I'll do everything I can to convince you to do so and shun you for not doing so.
So far, no credible study has ever shown a link between the vaccinations and autism.
I did read one interesting review that suggested that in a sub-population, consisting of infants with defective gut bacteria, and because of it intestinal distress, there may be some complicating factors from the ethylmercury. They suggested in a normal healthy baby, no problems would be found. Sometimes studies do find a false negative when they look at the wrong population.
Clearly a careful study would need to be done before making changes, and the correction may very well be repair of the gut bacteria, not elimination of ethylmercury if it does prove to be true.
We should always be open to new data while still proceeding according to the best available data.
Yeah, depends on your workload. IIRC I worked out a 24/7-busy 5-disk Raid-Z2 to cost about $9/mo in electricity here (counting cooling, 40% or so). If Sun's math is to be believed, SSD L2ARC and ZIL get that down to $2/mo or so.
If your disks are mostly idle most of the time, I can't see how the payback would be fast enough. I don't know of any reliable way to figure carbon load.
Buy a cheap SSD, partition it, and add part of it as a cache device to your RAID-Z - the L2ARC will be kept fresh and you'll make the cost back in electric costs. If you can buy two SLC's (~$115 each) make a mirror of two partitions and add that as a log device, to save on the write side too (but don't trust a single SSD as a zil, and MLC probably isn't great for constant writes).
I have more data on my laptop hard drive than is economically feasible for an SSD right now. Two more years, I figure. For now, I have a Momentus XT which has 4GB of MLC cache on it.
And in the next breath they'll say, "support the veterans, support the troops," as if they didn't fight and die to protect those freedoms (at least ostensibly). There's rampant ignorance and brainwashing among the populous, but not by accident, I think - heck, they make 5 year olds give a loyalty pledge to the government every day before they can start school (to defeat the communists, ya' know).
Perhaps you've seen the video of the Marine defending the OWS people from the NYPD? That would blow their minds, I bet.
In an anarchic state you might start off with more freedoms, but before long warlords will seize control and you will most likely be subjugated to their will. So a small number of people will abuse the extra freedom given to them to harm the majority.
Cite?
Counter example: medieval Iceland, stable for about 400 years before Catholicism took hold.
In any case, you also have the option to host your own Diaspora website.
I tried doing this on a Fedora 14 machine and the docs were all wrong and nothing worked right. I got stuck in gem hell. You know why Disaspora* has failed? Rails.
It would have been done last year if it were written in PHP or Perl. There, I've said it. I hate PHP, but Rails is worse, unless you're a full-time Rails shop. Ruby doesn't make up for Rails, and Ruby's VM has historically sucked (it seems to be OK now as long as you run it under Java).
Rails might be fine for the developers, but the point of Disapora* is that it's decentralized. If it's a pain in the ass for a sysadmin to deploy, it's a complete failure. If I can't 'yum install disapora-server' at some point, the network effect will never happen.
I now prepare for the onslaught of downmods from guys with thick-rimmed glasses who somehow figured out how to read Slashdot in TextMate on their MacBook Pros.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
Heck, I'd probably pay $200 for a 500GB SSD for my laptop. That's way more than a hard drive, but I'd get something more for it. That's forty cents a GB, these guys want triple that currently.
2. Proven track of reliability.
Yeah, I'm only using SSD's for caches now because of their failure mode, and write caches get mirrored. If OCZ wants to make that 500GB drive a 750GB drive, and put four controllers onboard with a SATA multilane interface so I can run RAIDZ on my laptop, they'd make this storage geek smile. There's plenty of room in a 2.5" drive.
OK, so I'm pretending the laptop's motherboard can support it (AHCI doesn't by default, right?).
TSA hasn't caught any terrorists and they've let through 65% of attempted smugglings. So, the airlines can't do much worse.
But, Southwest could require strip searches if it makes people feel better and Delta could allow everybody to be armed and train their stewardesses in Kung Fu.
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Most of the TSC hardware is field-programmable, at least from what I've read. Factory-burned would be fine. Being able to say, "lock this boot configuration, I think the computer is secure", say before crossing a border checkpoint, would be really helpful.
I don't disagree at all, but Jobs would. He insists Android stole his ideas. They can't steal his execution.
Peanuts are regarded as safe, but you won't mass apply it to everyone who is healthy because there are a few who would die.
What's the net overall benefit of mass application of peanuts?
When.? when else did he say that?
'He'? That's not what the GP said, but I guess Eisenhower would suffice.
This is NOT the first time an administration has said that.
Yeah, but now that Osama bin Laden is dead, he can't plan and launch any more attacks from his secret al'Qa'eda bases in Iraq, so it's OK to leave this time.
Technology in and of itself is not evil or wrong. It's the abuse of technology that we all need to be concerned about.
Back in the 90's the groupthink here was very tin-foily about trusted computing hardware. Now, a verified boot doesn't seem like a bad idea.
I'm sorry, I was reading two comments together and misunderstood. The reply wasn't appropriate.
Personally, I agree with their decisions. If something's going to be crap, don't release it until it's fixed.
It was OK for tablets, but crap for phones. So they released it for tablets.
Sounds like you wanted ICS to be done 9 months ago. And a puppy?
leaks on such walls
Maybe this is why Jobs was so ripped about outsourcing and factory building - he was forced to give 'his ideas' to companies he didn't trust:
I doubt it had much to do with Palms ability to use their patents to defend themselves and more with the fact that they had no presonal grudge there, just business interests.
I think Steve still liked Jon Rubenstein too - that might have had something to do with it. And maybe why Jon got the job, I dunno.
The iPhone was the first device to realize that a smartphone should be smart first, and phone second.
Did you ever try to talk on a Handspring? Granted, iPhone had 10 years of technological progress to launch a better product.
Steve Jobs's hubris is that he thinks all his ideas are original. His execution was very good, don't get me wrong, but very few ideas are truly revolutionary.
Nice try. You forgot chemtrails and FEMA camps.
Try to work Gary North into it next time too.
Its a violation of your right to be secure in your own person. Frankly anyone who can't see that hates freedom.
That's absolutely true, and I support that 100%.
I simultaneously hold that anybody who won't take the risk upon themselves or their children hates their community.
The trouble is, in a general population something like 95% of vaccines are effective. The other 5% skates by on herd immunity. Reducing that fraction increases the chances of death or disability among the 5% to a degree greater than the risk to any one individual.
I won't force you to get the vaccine but I'll do everything I can to convince you to do so and shun you for not doing so.
So far, no credible study has ever shown a link between the vaccinations and autism.
I did read one interesting review that suggested that in a sub-population, consisting of infants with defective gut bacteria, and because of it intestinal distress, there may be some complicating factors from the ethylmercury. They suggested in a normal healthy baby, no problems would be found. Sometimes studies do find a false negative when they look at the wrong population.
Clearly a careful study would need to be done before making changes, and the correction may very well be repair of the gut bacteria, not elimination of ethylmercury if it does prove to be true.
We should always be open to new data while still proceeding according to the best available data.
Yeah, depends on your workload. IIRC I worked out a 24/7-busy 5-disk Raid-Z2 to cost about $9/mo in electricity here (counting cooling, 40% or so). If Sun's math is to be believed, SSD L2ARC and ZIL get that down to $2/mo or so.
If your disks are mostly idle most of the time, I can't see how the payback would be fast enough. I don't know of any reliable way to figure carbon load.
Buy a cheap SSD, partition it, and add part of it as a cache device to your RAID-Z - the L2ARC will be kept fresh and you'll make the cost back in electric costs. If you can buy two SLC's (~$115 each) make a mirror of two partitions and add that as a log device, to save on the write side too (but don't trust a single SSD as a zil, and MLC probably isn't great for constant writes).
I have more data on my laptop hard drive than is economically feasible for an SSD right now. Two more years, I figure. For now, I have a Momentus XT which has 4GB of MLC cache on it.
And in the next breath they'll say, "support the veterans, support the troops," as if they didn't fight and die to protect those freedoms (at least ostensibly). There's rampant ignorance and brainwashing among the populous, but not by accident, I think - heck, they make 5 year olds give a loyalty pledge to the government every day before they can start school (to defeat the communists, ya' know).
Perhaps you've seen the video of the Marine defending the OWS people from the NYPD? That would blow their minds, I bet.
Awesome. Press the issue if they give you hell about the plate - more consciousness is better.
+1 on the flower power plate for the bug. :) Now if only we could grow hemp, it really could be.
That's sick (awsome maybe?). Now my laptops bottle neck is the bloody processor.
Awesome - in my opinion, that's where you always want to be.
but I thought he had actually just come from Mexico
Tempe Arizona to San Diego.
In an anarchic state you might start off with more freedoms, but before long warlords will seize control and you will most likely be subjugated to their will. So a small number of people will abuse the extra freedom given to them to harm the majority.
Cite?
Counter example: medieval Iceland, stable for about 400 years before Catholicism took hold.
They beat the hell out of a minister a couple years ago for asking the same questions on the same route.
In any case, you also have the option to host your own Diaspora website.
I tried doing this on a Fedora 14 machine and the docs were all wrong and nothing worked right. I got stuck in gem hell. You know why Disaspora* has failed? Rails.
It would have been done last year if it were written in PHP or Perl. There, I've said it. I hate PHP, but Rails is worse, unless you're a full-time Rails shop. Ruby doesn't make up for Rails, and Ruby's VM has historically sucked (it seems to be OK now as long as you run it under Java).
Rails might be fine for the developers, but the point of Disapora* is that it's decentralized. If it's a pain in the ass for a sysadmin to deploy, it's a complete failure. If I can't 'yum install disapora-server' at some point, the network effect will never happen.
I now prepare for the onslaught of downmods from guys with thick-rimmed glasses who somehow figured out how to read Slashdot in TextMate on their MacBook Pros.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
Heck, I'd probably pay $200 for a 500GB SSD for my laptop. That's way more than a hard drive, but I'd get something more for it. That's forty cents a GB, these guys want triple that currently.
2. Proven track of reliability.
Yeah, I'm only using SSD's for caches now because of their failure mode, and write caches get mirrored. If OCZ wants to make that 500GB drive a 750GB drive, and put four controllers onboard with a SATA multilane interface so I can run RAIDZ on my laptop, they'd make this storage geek smile. There's plenty of room in a 2.5" drive.
OK, so I'm pretending the laptop's motherboard can support it (AHCI doesn't by default, right?).
Heh, "hippymobile" is more right than you know -- my car isn't just a VW, it's a Beetle!
Custom license plate?
TSA hasn't caught any terrorists and they've let through 65% of attempted smugglings. So, the airlines can't do much worse.
But, Southwest could require strip searches if it makes people feel better and Delta could allow everybody to be armed and train their stewardesses in Kung Fu.