This looks like a bigger, faster, beter computer like the ones that are used to simulate bombs which is the primary job of Sandia labs and the DOE's research. This box does not look like it will be all that fast for the types of things needed for geome matching.
Geome matching needs a nice long word (65k bits?) registers and a fast word sized barrel shifter/comparator. That is what is need to search for sequences that appear in several places.
Cray computer company (not Cray Research) were building a device like this for the nice spooks at the NSA when they decided they didn't need it anymore an cancled the contract. That box looked like it was designed from the ground up to do research on very long bit streams (say RSA type keys) but they canceled the project after paying something like 90% of the box and the bits that had been built were distroyed. Too bad that machine didn't see the light of day, it would have been great for finding patterns in DNA sequences.
MAPS blocks the entire address range of the spamer network not the domain. They don't do anything with domain names (except use the reverse dns system).
If you don't like what MAPS has done to your isp change providers because I like what they do and will continue to use their service.
Maybe this could turn out to be a good idea. Give the spamers the run around by poluting all the search engines with fake bulk mailer compaines. If the people doing this all link to each other then they get higher rankings at the search engines.
Most prepaid stuff won't get delivered if its not standard size. It just gets dropped in the local garbage dump after being checked for letter bombs and the like. If you want to send stuff, it has to look and feel like a standard reply.
I'm currently in Australia and it looks like the US post office has a 9 digit zip code for Melbourne. Anyone want to play with the post office to verify this theory? On a side note, at Christmas time, cards with US$.33 in postage got here 3 to 5 days faster than cards with the correct postage.
I think he was talking about the equipment of the junk mailer, not the post office.
However, in the US the junk mailers get a better rate than everyone else since the 1st class mail subsidizes the junk mail. That would make the US post office a target of the gillter idea. If they find out enough people are going to take out their million dollar machines every few days due to this junk mail, It might get a point accross but most likely would lead to arrest.
Don't kill them with robots.txt, kill them with the Referal line. When someone hits your page from www.altavista.com redirect them to a page saying "Altavista are assholes, please try your search again using google" and redirect them there with their search. If you have decent content, they will be back at your site quickly.
Victoria has just about the same population as the state of Missouri. Its got the same number of people living in cities, the same number living in small towns and the same number living in rural areas. Its got the same population desnity. Missouri has two major cities and 4 minor ones. Vic has 1 melbourne which is about the size of St Louis and three minor ones. The density of Melbourne is such that public transport can work. That isn't true in St Louis or Kansas City.
There are areas like Nother Ter. No one is there. Its just empty ('cept Darwin and mineing villages). The US does not have places like that in the lower 49 states. If there are no people, there is no need for serivces. Most of NT isn't even covered with roads. In the US you would be hard pressed to find anywhere that isn't 10km from some sort of road.
Basicly it comes down to
1) the populated areas of Australia are more dense than most populated places in the US
2) There a bunch of nothing that won't need connections
3) Oz is a long way away from everwhere ('cept kiwi sheep)
4) Telstra's profit margin would make Billy Gates cry. Which I think is the whole point of this discussion. Hes jelous of Telstra.
Most of the aruments I hear about why stuff is more expensive here don't take the density/population into account properly and most aruments are just winging.
If the safty net works, why does Australia have the highest rate of breakins in non-thrid world countries? Right now the stats show that houses in Melbourne have a 1 in 10 chance of being burgled this year.
Walk down Smith St and see how the safty net works. Oz has more beggers than anywhere I have ever been.
What I do find interesting is that guys seem to have less problem with being on the dole (aka welfare) than women. I wonder if thats why there are more women at the universitys than men.
Don't forget that the ash is also radio active. Quite a bit of coal is radioactive but that would scare people 'cause only nuke plants are radio active. Ever take a giger counter to a banana? There are lots of radio active things in the real world.
I think its funny that the anti-nuke greenies that have stopped research in nuke plants are in for a dose of reality. That nice russian plant that went boom is going to be replaced by two new brand new 30 year old design unsafe plants. If the research had continued, the new plants could be the safest in the world.
The next time your talking to someone non-technical that took a loss with the tech stocks, mention the real reason for the loss was the DMCA. Get enough prople calling their congresscritters blaming them for loosing their shirts because of this silly law may be the only way to get rid of it. I know they are mostly unrelated but the same is true the busty girl and the beer in the beer ads.
They only way to revive the application software industry is to break M$ into a company per product so one company does word and a different one does excel and require that any communications between the two be via some public way like on the web. That would allow a someone to compete with excel. As long as the same company does both, there will be no competition. All the propsed splits will do is make a new OS monoploy and a new application monopoloy and there isn't anything keeping them from talking privately.
I don't know where you get your shirts but if you wash the new ones with a slight amount of bleach (1 table spoon or so) you will quickly find out if its color is going to come out. If the shirt changes colors, take it back since its dyes are defective. Most mens stores (in the US) will take back shirts without question within a week with a reciept. So far I only find less than 1 in 10 peices of clothing have defect. If I'm asked for a reason for the return, I put down "unreasonable cleaning requirements". Chemist worked hard to make permanent press and non-fading colors. Why reward the cheap knockoffs?
What I want is a dryer that won't let clothes wrinkle. I've almost got one now but the damn thing beeps every 3 minutes and gives up after 2 hours.
Has anyone else noticed that laundy cleaning technology hasn't gone anywhere in the last 40 years? The current line of dryers work the same way as my mothers 30+ year old speed queen but the new models have more curves in their desing and don't looke like a big white box. Something that I've wondered about for quite a long time is can a dryer be made to use flash evaporation? Just have a strong box that will hold clothes and suck all the air out till it gets below the water vaporization pressure. It seems like today that might be cheaper than the current approach which is to riase the temperature and use lots of air.
They aren't even good for a HVAC use. The typical problem with the HVAC system is the feeling of chills. The thermostat will have things under control but some people just feel like the air is colder than it actualy is. It may be the result of the rapid cooling or the blower fan being on or the humitidy. A neural net could learn to avoid the chill factor if it had input for thouse other variable but so would a 4 bit cpu if given the right sensors.
This story gets better every year...
The license fees for Betamax were much higer than VHS and the VHS fees were tied the price of the unit so cheaper units could be made a the prices could be lowered.
A recent study showed something like 85% of all accidents invovle the slowest 15% of vehicles. The fastest 15% of vehicles were involved with something like 5% of the accidents. People just talking with other passengers where a higer risk that the speeders. Accident rates per mile driven have dropped sharply since the intoduction of higer speed limits in midwest states.
while grepping through the linux source it appears that it sets the prot_exec bit only if the vm_exec bit is set. I'll have to check what the intel chip acutal does (I never liked the things, too much of a hack design) but from the source it looks like if any data or stack segments were not marked vm_exec then they wouldn't allow code to run at all.
For thouse that don't understand what I'm talking about....
Stack overflows take some simple data like this:
char name[25];
something_broken_like_gets(name);
Now when you feed in a string like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", it goes on the stack and if the stack is built the wrong way, it over writes the return area on the stack. So if you play your cards right an replace the 'A' with a properly calculated stack frame you can have the return from teh function return to your code which you just happened to supply. The CPU pops the stack pointer and runs user supplied code and that is how most exploits happen. There are tools tha t will help generate the proper strings that have been mentioned in places like bugtraq.
If I remember right, the power connector looks like one of these standard IEC type plugs but its larger and hooked to 220V. There are two for each rack but there is a common power manament center and I expect that is what got tripped which would take the big box down. I used to sysadmin a few servers near one of the E10K and I don't see how you could trip over any cords. The cord isn't like the big blue power stuff which is quite impressive.
There are some interesting bits that have been left out. For example table 3-1 Talks about an emantion source that isn't tunable and has a censored escape medium. Now I'm curious and want to know more.
so far every fingerprint scanner I have ever seen uses IR so if the finger isn't the right temp, it won't work. Sad part about this is that it doesn't appear to part of the design, its just a constraint of the imaging systems they use.
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This looks like a bigger, faster, beter computer like the ones that are used to simulate bombs which is the primary job of Sandia labs and the DOE's research. This box does not look like it will be all that fast for the types of things needed for geome matching.
Geome matching needs a nice long word (65k bits?) registers and a fast word sized barrel shifter/comparator. That is what is need to search for sequences that appear in several places.
Cray computer company (not Cray Research) were building a device like this for the nice spooks at the NSA when they decided they didn't need it anymore an cancled the contract. That box looked like it was designed from the ground up to do research on very long bit streams (say RSA type keys) but they canceled the project after paying something like 90% of the box and the bits that had been built were distroyed. Too bad that machine didn't see the light of day, it would have been great for finding patterns in DNA sequences.
MAPS blocks the entire address range of the spamer network not the domain. They don't do anything with domain names (except use the reverse dns system).
If you don't like what MAPS has done to your isp change providers because I like what they do and will continue to use their service.
Maybe this could turn out to be a good idea. Give the spamers the run around by poluting all the search engines with fake bulk mailer compaines. If the people doing this all link to each other then they get higher rankings at the search engines.
Most prepaid stuff won't get delivered if its not standard size. It just gets dropped in the local garbage dump after being checked for letter bombs and the like. If you want to send stuff, it has to look and feel like a standard reply.
I'm currently in Australia and it looks like the US post office has a 9 digit zip code for Melbourne. Anyone want to play with the post office to verify this theory? On a side note, at Christmas time, cards with US$.33 in postage got here 3 to 5 days faster than cards with the correct postage.
I think he was talking about the equipment of the junk mailer, not the post office.
However, in the US the junk mailers get a better rate than everyone else since the 1st class mail subsidizes the junk mail. That would make the US post office a target of the gillter idea. If they find out enough people are going to take out their million dollar machines every few days due to this junk mail, It might get a point accross but most likely would lead to arrest.
Don't kill them with robots.txt, kill them with the Referal line. When someone hits your page from www.altavista.com redirect them to a page saying "Altavista are assholes, please try your search again using google" and redirect them there with their search. If you have decent content, they will be back at your site quickly.
Victoria has just about the same population as the state of Missouri. Its got the same number of people living in cities, the same number living in small towns and the same number living in rural areas. Its got the same population desnity. Missouri has two major cities and 4 minor ones. Vic has 1 melbourne which is about the size of St Louis and three minor ones. The density of Melbourne is such that public transport can work. That isn't true in St Louis or Kansas City.
There are areas like Nother Ter. No one is there. Its just empty ('cept Darwin and mineing villages). The US does not have places like that in the lower 49 states. If there are no people, there is no need for serivces. Most of NT isn't even covered with roads. In the US you would be hard pressed to find anywhere that isn't 10km from some sort of road.
Basicly it comes down to
1) the populated areas of Australia are more dense than most populated places in the US
2) There a bunch of nothing that won't need connections
3) Oz is a long way away from everwhere ('cept kiwi sheep)
4) Telstra's profit margin would make Billy Gates cry. Which I think is the whole point of this discussion. Hes jelous of Telstra.
Most of the aruments I hear about why stuff is more expensive here don't take the density/population into account properly and most aruments are just winging.
If the safty net works, why does Australia have the highest rate of breakins in non-thrid world countries? Right now the stats show that houses in Melbourne have a 1 in 10 chance of being burgled this year.
Walk down Smith St and see how the safty net works. Oz has more beggers than anywhere I have ever been.
What I do find interesting is that guys seem to have less problem with being on the dole (aka welfare) than women. I wonder if thats why there are more women at the universitys than men.
Don't forget that the ash is also radio active. Quite a bit of coal is radioactive but that would scare people 'cause only nuke plants are radio active. Ever take a giger counter to a banana? There are lots of radio active things in the real world.
I think its funny that the anti-nuke greenies that have stopped research in nuke plants are in for a dose of reality. That nice russian plant that went boom is going to be replaced by two new brand new 30 year old design unsafe plants. If the research had continued, the new plants could be the safest in the world.
The next time your talking to someone non-technical that took a loss with the tech stocks, mention the real reason for the loss was the DMCA. Get enough prople calling their congresscritters blaming them for loosing their shirts because of this silly law may be the only way to get rid of it. I know they are mostly unrelated but the same is true the busty girl and the beer in the beer ads.
I wonder if the name was picked to add to confusion over X.
IBM and others are proposing a new USB connector for Point of Sale equipment that will support +12V and +24 Volts as well as the standard stuff.
Too bad google isn't helping me find a link.
They only way to revive the application software industry is to break M$ into a company per product so one company does word and a different one does excel and require that any communications between the two be via some public way like on the web. That would allow a someone to compete with excel. As long as the same company does both, there will be no competition. All the propsed splits will do is make a new OS monoploy and a new application monopoloy and there isn't anything keeping them from talking privately.
I know lots of people who spend so much time in their Sports Utility Cars (SUC) that they can call them home.
I don't know where you get your shirts but if you wash the new ones with a slight amount of bleach (1 table spoon or so) you will quickly find out if its color is going to come out. If the shirt changes colors, take it back since its dyes are defective. Most mens stores (in the US) will take back shirts without question within a week with a reciept. So far I only find less than 1 in 10 peices of clothing have defect. If I'm asked for a reason for the return, I put down "unreasonable cleaning requirements". Chemist worked hard to make permanent press and non-fading colors. Why reward the cheap knockoffs?
What I want is a dryer that won't let clothes wrinkle. I've almost got one now but the damn thing beeps every 3 minutes and gives up after 2 hours.
Has anyone else noticed that laundy cleaning technology hasn't gone anywhere in the last 40 years? The current line of dryers work the same way as my mothers 30+ year old speed queen but the new models have more curves in their desing and don't looke like a big white box. Something that I've wondered about for quite a long time is can a dryer be made to use flash evaporation? Just have a strong box that will hold clothes and suck all the air out till it gets below the water vaporization pressure. It seems like today that might be cheaper than the current approach which is to riase the temperature and use lots of air.
They aren't even good for a HVAC use. The typical problem with the HVAC system is the feeling of chills. The thermostat will have things under control but some people just feel like the air is colder than it actualy is. It may be the result of the rapid cooling or the blower fan being on or the humitidy. A neural net could learn to avoid the chill factor if it had input for thouse other variable but so would a 4 bit cpu if given the right sensors.
This story gets better every year...
The license fees for Betamax were much higer than VHS and the VHS fees were tied the price of the unit so cheaper units could be made a the prices could be lowered.
A recent study showed something like 85% of all accidents invovle the slowest 15% of vehicles. The fastest 15% of vehicles were involved with something like 5% of the accidents. People just talking with other passengers where a higer risk that the speeders. Accident rates per mile driven have dropped sharply since the intoduction of higer speed limits in midwest states.
Powerhouse has a trs-80 model one display thats running an apple program. I wonder how that happned.
The new butt ugly Melbourne Museum isn't fully open yet. Their sci/tech section is still closed but admission is 1/2 price for the 1/3 that is open.
If you have a need to be close to the oldest surving computer, I've got a room for rent across the street from the butt ugly building.
while grepping through the linux source it appears that it sets the prot_exec bit only if the vm_exec bit is set. I'll have to check what the intel chip acutal does (I never liked the things, too much of a hack design) but from the source it looks like if any data or stack segments were not marked vm_exec then they wouldn't allow code to run at all.
A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", it goes on the stack and if the stack is built the wrong way, it over writes the return area on the stack. So if you play your cards right an replace the 'A' with a properly calculated stack frame you can have the return from teh function return to your code which you just happened to supply. The CPU pops the stack pointer and runs user supplied code and that is how most exploits happen. There are tools tha t will help generate the proper strings that have been mentioned in places like bugtraq.
For thouse that don't understand what I'm talking about....
Stack overflows take some simple data like this:
char name[25];
something_broken_like_gets(name);
Now when you feed in a string like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
If I remember right, the power connector looks like one of these standard IEC type plugs but its larger and hooked to 220V. There are two for each rack but there is a common power manament center and I expect that is what got tripped which would take the big box down. I used to sysadmin a few servers near one of the E10K and I don't see how you could trip over any cords. The cord isn't like the big blue power stuff which is quite impressive.
There are some interesting bits that have been left out. For example table 3-1 Talks about an emantion source that isn't tunable and has a censored escape medium. Now I'm curious and want to know more.
try running "strings" on the file.
so far every fingerprint scanner I have ever seen uses IR so if the finger isn't the right temp, it won't work. Sad part about this is that it doesn't appear to part of the design, its just a constraint of the imaging systems they use.