Back in the day when Microsoft was advertising Windows NT 3.51 was C2-certified, we looked into the docs and one of the requirements on whatever PS/2 it was that was certified was that the floppy disk drive be removed. And off the network.
The thing here is Manning brought a RW cd inside his CD player, and only then snuck it into his PC. Then, he snuck it out in his CD player. I suppose if he was smart he burned track 1 with music so he could 'prove' it was a music CD.
The problem here is that a random private in Iraq had access to State Department cables from (e.g.) Honduras. Need-to-know-basis isn't a new idea, this was a major FU by the governing security body.
Okay, we have proven we can orbit the Earth successfully for the past 37 years. NOW we have to move on to landing back on the Moon and Mars. Whatever happened to our pioneering spirit in space? Are we just going to build un-manned shuttles and satellites for the next 50 years?
NASA/US Government, yes, done, out of the game. They'll say otherwise, but look at behaviors, not rhetoric.
Enter SpaceX... private industry will now make the manned advances. Elon Musk can now fund Moon R&D with revenues from commercial launches and government gigs.
If they had any kind of spine, then a National Security Letter telling them to take down Wikileaks would have, you know, leaked. I think there's a website for that...
Since xanthopterin converts light directly into electricity, according to the research, what exactly does the wasp do with the electricity produced?
The article speculates that it gives them digging energy. I'm going to be more conservative here, and postulate that it only gives them an innate sense of direction and sun intensity. All bees/wasps need to be good navigators, and since these guys dig, they'll be better off digging when the ground is somewhat dry so they don't get buried in mud tunnel collapses.
what is to stop an ISP from just doing things as SOP (flat-rate) and making hand over fist when all the streamers, gamers, downloaders jump ship of the ISPs bilking them from the new model?
Well, the right answer is 'competition' but the States and Localities have granted monopolies to these corporations. In turn, the Public Utilities Commissions are supposed to get to set all those rates. But they're often corrupt.
Do you see the kind of money being pumped[sic] into New Orleans?
It would have been cheaper (somebody worked the numbers) to build a new city and build high speed trains to the ports and not charge for those trains than to rebuild the sunken part of the city as-is.
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What's wrong with PS/2 connectors? I prefer them, unlike USB they don't require polling as they are interrupt driven. When I can choose, I take PS/2 over USB for keyboards and mice. Saves USB ports too for other duties.
Gosh, back when USB wasn't so common, there was an article here talking about the relative work Linux needed to do to handle both. The PS/2 port needed to be sampled at 200Hz, while USB was doing hardware offloading of the work, so the computer could have more interrupts for other (server-type) work. So, the recommendation was to use USB for servers when possible (and turn of video, etc.) I found that result unexpected at the time.
15 days after initial telecast doesn't seem that "quickly" to me when they're competing against the Scene which releases new episodes within a few hours of initial telecast -- sometimes even 15 minutes after. If they're asking for money they better think about same day releases.
Different audience. People are regularly DVR'ing shows and watching them two weeks later - it's fine for a large subset of the viewership. If somebody has to talk about the new episode of whatever at the office the next day, those people can both get a life and pay for cable.
Actually, I had some reindeer jerky in Alaska, and it's the best jerky I've ever had, by far. Ostrich comes in a respectable second, with everything else far behind.
If there's anything Hollywood could like more as a movie option than remakes, it would be remakes using the same actors.
They like remakes because they're not taking a chance on a new (unproven) story. Now they can do the same for actors, potentially avoiding disasters like Dukes of Hazard.
Then there is the question how much more work it would have been if there were no actors in Avatar?
Hand-animating puppets is a bitch. Avatar (and most CG) uses motion capture (of real actors) to get most of the acting done. Their acting is modulated and tweaked, but the bulk is done at that point.
A partial-AI would be needed to make the process easier than using actors. But they can be ugly, cheap actors.
assomoe who needs to use all caps as part of his work, I find a caps lock key very effective.
Yeah, people typing legal documents and using old-fashioned computer systems are going to dislike(-1 Googles?) this. I predict somebody will start selling a $10 USB 'keyboard' that's just the shape of a bluetooth dongle and will have one switch for caps lock if this become prevalent. It should be trivial for a USB developer to map one switch to whatever the keycode is in the USB HID class.
What's more likely, that these tech companies received National Security Letters and can't talk about them under threat of theft, caging or worse, or that these tech companies all just fell over and made up legally and technically bogus excuses because they're idiots?
The only positive result that can come out of these attacks is that the next tech companies might push back against the government harder, but if there's a chance you're taking out innocent bystanders you're doing wrong - end of story.
When it comes to virtualisation, RAM is nearly always more important than either core count or speed, unless you're doing something unusual.
Obviously it depends on your workload. Any job that will benefit from CPU cache coherency will appreciate dedicated cores. Something as simple as MySQL replication benefits handsomely. Any kind of compute farm or compile cluster will demand it. If you're doing filesharing and terminal apps, it's definitely overkill.
Also, remember that we need to have ECC RAM for servers, and with AMD that's built in to the on-chip memory controller. You can have a 6-core cpu+mobo with 8GB of ECC RAM for about 500 bucks @125W in AMD-land. Just the Intel CPU is a thousand bucks - you're at $1500 if you shop wisely for the rest. The Xeon solution needs to thus do 3x better per-clock to break even on the economics (though it gains a little bit back with consolidation through moderately more work-per-cycle and a tiny bit less power consumption (95W for the CPU, but the chipset is hotter).
Adding HDMI would be ideal, but then again a packetized technology (maybe DisplayPort, LightPeak, 802.11?) is going to outmode HDMI fairly soon. On the other hand, most netbooks will be recycled before that happens.
AMD's 6 Core stuff underperforms the same clock frequency i7 quad core by enough that real power users dont choose AMD right now.
For values of 'power user' that don't include low-end high-volume virtualization where core-count is paramount. AMD's 12-core part is nice too (I use it on 'real' servers), but spendy per-core. Getting 6 or 12 cores in an Intel box is far more expensive.
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Back in the day when Microsoft was advertising Windows NT 3.51 was C2-certified, we looked into the docs and one of the requirements on whatever PS/2 it was that was certified was that the floppy disk drive be removed. And off the network.
The thing here is Manning brought a RW cd inside his CD player, and only then snuck it into his PC. Then, he snuck it out in his CD player. I suppose if he was smart he burned track 1 with music so he could 'prove' it was a music CD.
The problem here is that a random private in Iraq had access to State Department cables from (e.g.) Honduras. Need-to-know-basis isn't a new idea, this was a major FU by the governing security body.
Will you fucks please learn the difference between "site" and "sight"?
For example, the "sight" of your blatant fucking stupidity could fill up an Internet site. See?
A psychiatrist could probably help with your issues. Consider it.
However an unrestricted total dump is irresponsible, and to me Assange looks like a paparazzi of politics.
Wait, are you the guy from the New York Times Glen Greenwald was arguing with or are you one of his comrades?
So far WikiLeaks has released 1/2 of 1 percent of the cables it has, after carefully vetting them with five of the world's largest newspapers.
Disinformation troll is disinformative.
Back on topic, awesome achievement! kudos to the SpaceX guys
If ever there was an achievement on Slashdot to deserve two stories, this would be it.
Okay, we have proven we can orbit the Earth successfully for the past 37 years. NOW we have to move on to landing back on the Moon and Mars.
Whatever happened to our pioneering spirit in space? Are we just going to build un-manned shuttles and satellites for the next 50 years?
NASA/US Government, yes, done, out of the game. They'll say otherwise, but look at behaviors, not rhetoric.
Enter SpaceX... private industry will now make the manned advances. Elon Musk can now fund Moon R&D with revenues from commercial launches and government gigs.
Give the man his cookie, he earned it.
You missed the part where she didn't want to have sex without a condom. So far no one has claimed that that is untrue.
And so far only one party has claimed it is true. At this point, it's textbook he-said, she-said.
You can say anything you like, and will never be arrested.
Sadly, no. Hate crimes, criminal threatening, leaking government data, etc.
If they had any kind of spine, then a National Security Letter telling them to take down Wikileaks would have, you know, leaked. I think there's a website for that...
They tried, but the websites were down. ;)
Since xanthopterin converts light directly into electricity, according to the research, what exactly does the wasp do with the electricity produced?
The article speculates that it gives them digging energy. I'm going to be more conservative here, and postulate that it only gives them an innate sense of direction and sun intensity. All bees/wasps need to be good navigators, and since these guys dig, they'll be better off digging when the ground is somewhat dry so they don't get buried in mud tunnel collapses.
what is to stop an ISP from just doing things as SOP (flat-rate) and making hand over fist when all the streamers, gamers, downloaders jump ship of the ISPs bilking them from the new model?
Well, the right answer is 'competition' but the States and Localities have granted monopolies to these corporations. In turn, the Public Utilities Commissions are supposed to get to set all those rates. But they're often corrupt.
Do you see the kind of money being pumped[sic] into New Orleans?
It would have been cheaper (somebody worked the numbers) to build a new city and build high speed trains to the ports and not charge for those trains than to rebuild the sunken part of the city as-is.
What's wrong with PS/2 connectors? I prefer them, unlike USB they don't require polling as they are interrupt driven. When I can choose, I take PS/2 over USB for keyboards and mice. Saves USB ports too for other duties.
Gosh, back when USB wasn't so common, there was an article here talking about the relative work Linux needed to do to handle both. The PS/2 port needed to be sampled at 200Hz, while USB was doing hardware offloading of the work, so the computer could have more interrupts for other (server-type) work. So, the recommendation was to use USB for servers when possible (and turn of video, etc.) I found that result unexpected at the time.
15 days after initial telecast doesn't seem that "quickly" to me when they're competing against the Scene which releases new episodes within a few hours of initial telecast -- sometimes even 15 minutes after. If they're asking for money they better think about same day releases.
Different audience. People are regularly DVR'ing shows and watching them two weeks later - it's fine for a large subset of the viewership. If somebody has to talk about the new episode of whatever at the office the next day, those people can both get a life and pay for cable.
yeah, replying to my own comment.
I just realized what this means is that Lucas will be able to keep re-making Episode I until somebody likes it (or he dies first).
Win. Can you get extra-large maraschino cherries?
Actually, I had some reindeer jerky in Alaska, and it's the best jerky I've ever had, by far. Ostrich comes in a respectable second, with everything else far behind.
If there's anything Hollywood could like more as a movie option than remakes, it would be remakes using the same actors.
They like remakes because they're not taking a chance on a new (unproven) story. Now they can do the same for actors, potentially avoiding disasters like Dukes of Hazard.
Then there is the question how much more work it would have been if there were no actors in Avatar?
Hand-animating puppets is a bitch. Avatar (and most CG) uses motion capture (of real actors) to get most of the acting done. Their acting is modulated and tweaked, but the bulk is done at that point.
A partial-AI would be needed to make the process easier than using actors. But they can be ugly, cheap actors.
assomoe who needs to use all caps as part of his work, I find a caps lock key very effective.
Yeah, people typing legal documents and using old-fashioned computer systems are going to dislike(-1 Googles?) this. I predict somebody will start selling a $10 USB 'keyboard' that's just the shape of a bluetooth dongle and will have one switch for caps lock if this become prevalent. It should be trivial for a USB developer to map one switch to whatever the keycode is in the USB HID class.
What's more likely, that these tech companies received National Security Letters and can't talk about them under threat of theft, caging or worse, or that these tech companies all just fell over and made up legally and technically bogus excuses because they're idiots?
The only positive result that can come out of these attacks is that the next tech companies might push back against the government harder, but if there's a chance you're taking out innocent bystanders you're doing wrong - end of story.
The US government now has another excuse for an internet-wide crackdown. Thanks assholes.
What makes you think this isn't a false-flag operation? Duck, signed comms coming this way.
When it comes to virtualisation, RAM is nearly always more important than either core count or speed, unless you're doing something unusual.
Obviously it depends on your workload. Any job that will benefit from CPU cache coherency will appreciate dedicated cores. Something as simple as MySQL replication benefits handsomely. Any kind of compute farm or compile cluster will demand it. If you're doing filesharing and terminal apps, it's definitely overkill.
Also, remember that we need to have ECC RAM for servers, and with AMD that's built in to the on-chip memory controller. You can have a 6-core cpu+mobo with 8GB of ECC RAM for about 500 bucks @125W in AMD-land. Just the Intel CPU is a thousand bucks - you're at $1500 if you shop wisely for the rest. The Xeon solution needs to thus do 3x better per-clock to break even on the economics (though it gains a little bit back with consolidation through moderately more work-per-cycle and a tiny bit less power consumption (95W for the CPU, but the chipset is hotter).
Many TV's, most monitors, every projector.
This isn't a blu-ray player, it's a netbook.
Adding HDMI would be ideal, but then again a packetized technology (maybe DisplayPort, LightPeak, 802.11?) is going to outmode HDMI fairly soon. On the other hand, most netbooks will be recycled before that happens.
Who is going to want to plug a crippled laptop into an old monitor or projector?
Just about everything has a VGA port. Sorry, it's least-common-denominator.
AMD's 6 Core stuff underperforms the same clock frequency i7 quad core by enough that real power users dont choose AMD right now.
For values of 'power user' that don't include low-end high-volume virtualization where core-count is paramount. AMD's 12-core part is nice too (I use it on 'real' servers), but spendy per-core. Getting 6 or 12 cores in an Intel box is far more expensive.
Gosh, somebody who really gets it. Sorry, no mod points today.