If you read the original article on it, what was launched was a roughly half-sized model. It had enough cockpit space for a small kid, that's about it.
Again, you're STILL talking about 30x the land mass that needs to be serviced.
My point is, Japan going more or less universal fiber is similar to, say the NY metroplex going all fiber (less, since areas of the NY metroplex's infrastructure is such a tangled mess).
"Because again if you weren't a dumb american you would know that the US has a fiber network, this story is about the last mile."
Gosh. A hostile little git aren't you?
Yes, the US has a major fiber network.
Most of it is concentrated in large cities and backhauls.
And yes, I understand the problem is last-mile considerations.
And while you acknowledge the fact that Japan might have remote areas that are underserviced, you still neglect the fact that the US has far MORE of this "remote area" than Japan does.
Going "Japan is rolling out a fiber network" is like saying "The New York metroplex is rolling out a fiber network".
Additionally, I'd as that you stop reading stuff into my words that wasn't there.
I didn't say "Because we can't roll out universal last-mile fiber EVERYWHERE, high-density areas should get it". In your rush to be a flamer, YOU added that.
I merely said that doing a "universal" roll-out like Japan is, while nice, isn't nearly the achievement it would be in other places.
Oh yes, and Sweden? Again, the country's only about the size of California. The US is around 25 times the size of this country.
But then again, you're too busy flaming people for fun and ??? to worry about pesky little things like economies of scale.
"Japan is claiming that it is not being done to realise immediate profit."
That's great and all, but I suggest this is somewhat disingenious.
The profit may not be immediate, but it will happen eventually.
In the US, blanketing the country isn't a viable option. Because in many of the areas they'd service there would NEVER be a profit. And worse, these low-density area would always be a money-losing proposition.
Do areas of Japan have this problem? Sure! But with their lower landmass, and higher total population density, their problem is orders of magnitude less significant than what would happen in the US.
Of course, if you want to be the one to volunteer the billions to lay and provision all this fiber, and the billions more to keep it provisioned and for upkeep, go ahead.
Come on. We're talking about Japan. A few small islands with a relatively dense population.
Compare to the US with roughly 30 times the landmass. Yes, we have dense population centers. But outside the major cities, the population is incredibly diffuse.
It's far easier and less costly to cover Japan in Fiber than would ever be possible in the US.
If you did the same thing in the US, the amount of underutilized fiber would grossly dwarf what was actually in use.
* Undetectability based on current technology and the fact that nothing about a given vector of attack has been defined or studied in depth yet. Claim subject to change once the phenomenon has been studied, quantified, and dissected in a rational, forensic manner.
Translation: You can't detect it because you aren't looking for it (yet).
Translation 2: This new attack can't be defeated because nobody's tried yet!
That's what so many of these "security researchers" and pretty much ALL of the tech-press forgets.
Like any other system security compromise, the amount of time these things remain "compromising" depends largely on how long it takes to define it.
The memory on a video card is used for more than just simple frame buffering.
Notice how some of the newer games see less performance degradation on some of the 640MB nVidia cards than equivallently clocked 320MB versions of the same card.
With multi-core support, I don't think that's really going to change. You're not necessarily going to see a huge "performance boost" from massively parallel processing.
However, you'll still have the luxury of running multiple processor intensive apps without bringing the whole system to a standstill.
I'm not talking about an XBox. I'm talking about a PC.
An XBox has half a gig of memory, half of which is dedicated to graphics at a relatively low-res output.
I'm talking about a gaming PC with 2+GB of RAM in it and how graphics cards with multiple gigs of memory are detrimental to overall system performance (including gaming) in a 32-bit memory map.
No. I mean that since this memory has to be mapped within a 32-bit address space, you wind up wasting space that could be better allocated to system memory.
Sure, for anything that remains strictly on the graphics card, it's great. But for anything else (functions besides raw graphics in a game (like AI) or for non-gaming application), stealing that memory allocation space degrades overall system performance.
Most of the stuff I've seen in the last 15 years or so shuffles between two categories.
1: Highly technical and scientifically accurate as far as information is available, but written in such a way that stereo instructions (in Japanese no less) are more intelligible to the common man.
2: Written to the understanding level of the common man (or slightly above if they don't use crayon), but woefully inaccurate and filled with assumptions and self-fulfilled hypotheses. Stuff that a generation ago, would have been laughed out of most scientific journals. An "in depth" study that winds up within a 15 percent confidence? Sorry, but 5% used to be considered shaky, but publishable. Lax standards and sensationalism now rule the roost.
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If you read the original article on it, what was launched was a roughly half-sized model. It had enough cockpit space for a small kid, that's about it.
It was launched unmanned.
Again, you're STILL talking about 30x the land mass that needs to be serviced.
My point is, Japan going more or less universal fiber is similar to, say the NY metroplex going all fiber (less, since areas of the NY metroplex's infrastructure is such a tangled mess).
The problem with your argument is that Norway is roughly the size of our state of New Mexico.
The US is roughly 30x as big.
As said, the problem in the US is a COMBINATION of population density in rural areas and sheer land mass.
"Because again if you weren't a dumb american you would know that the US has a fiber network, this story is about the last mile."
Gosh. A hostile little git aren't you?
Yes, the US has a major fiber network.
Most of it is concentrated in large cities and backhauls.
And yes, I understand the problem is last-mile considerations.
And while you acknowledge the fact that Japan might have remote areas that are underserviced, you still neglect the fact that the US has far MORE of this "remote area" than Japan does.
Going "Japan is rolling out a fiber network" is like saying "The New York metroplex is rolling out a fiber network".
Additionally, I'd as that you stop reading stuff into my words that wasn't there.
I didn't say "Because we can't roll out universal last-mile fiber EVERYWHERE, high-density areas should get it". In your rush to be a flamer, YOU added that.
I merely said that doing a "universal" roll-out like Japan is, while nice, isn't nearly the achievement it would be in other places.
Oh yes, and Sweden? Again, the country's only about the size of California. The US is around 25 times the size of this country.
But then again, you're too busy flaming people for fun and ??? to worry about pesky little things like economies of scale.
"Japan is claiming that it is not being done to realise immediate profit."
That's great and all, but I suggest this is somewhat disingenious.
The profit may not be immediate, but it will happen eventually.
In the US, blanketing the country isn't a viable option. Because in many of the areas they'd service there would NEVER be a profit. And worse, these low-density area would always be a money-losing proposition.
Do areas of Japan have this problem? Sure! But with their lower landmass, and higher total population density, their problem is orders of magnitude less significant than what would happen in the US.
Of course, if you want to be the one to volunteer the billions to lay and provision all this fiber, and the billions more to keep it provisioned and for upkeep, go ahead.
I'm not opposed to not storing CC data.
HOWEVER, bitching about PCI at this late a date is simply bullshit.
Come on. We're talking about Japan. A few small islands with a relatively dense population.
Compare to the US with roughly 30 times the landmass. Yes, we have dense population centers. But outside the major cities, the population is incredibly diffuse.
It's far easier and less costly to cover Japan in Fiber than would ever be possible in the US.
If you did the same thing in the US, the amount of underutilized fiber would grossly dwarf what was actually in use.
I say "tough".
PCI has been coming for a while now.
Why are these people "only now" realizing what this entails?
Oh yeah. Because they ignored it until they couldn't ignore it anymore.
Now they're bitching about how HARD it's going to be to implement or retrofit?
Boo fucking hoo.
They had the opportunity to ammortize the cost out over a longer period of time. Now they get bit because they tripped over a dollar to save a dime.
As I said.
You can forbid all you like.
Sooner or later, it's STILL going to happen
"On the other hand, we could solve this problem tomorrow by forbidding any user-installed or user-downloaded program to run with root privileges."
Pedestrian to a jumper on a ledge: "I forbid you to jump."
Jumper: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! *SPLAT!*
You can forbid all you want.
You can codify it in corporate rules.
You can come up with all sorts of intricate technical controls to enforce it.
Some idiot is STILL going to find a way around it.
Nothing is ever, EVER going to be idiot-proof.
Because idiots are both highly prolific and highly creative.
Unless the world standardizes on a single platform, and never, EVER changes it again, this is always going to happen.
It's a matter of "that's not how I learned it" or "I never learned it", and they wind up making the systems do things they aren't supposed to.
It does, however, go to show you that even hordes of security professionals can't be collectively omniscient.
As always, "security" is a PROCESS, not an endpoint, not a product.
Getting off drugs, both him and his assistants. VERY Cool.
Helping out schools. Cool
Helping the environment. Cool (though some in the "movement" would gripe about the electricity consumed).
Linux. Uber cool!
I, for one, am glad that this huge shitstorm over a minor licensing issue has been resolved amicably (or at least until Theo has his say...)
This is undetectable*!
That is undetectable*!
* Undetectability based on current technology and the fact that nothing about a given vector of attack has been defined or studied in depth yet. Claim subject to change once the phenomenon has been studied, quantified, and dissected in a rational, forensic manner.
Translation: You can't detect it because you aren't looking for it (yet).
Translation 2: This new attack can't be defeated because nobody's tried yet!
That's what so many of these "security researchers" and pretty much ALL of the tech-press forgets.
Like any other system security compromise, the amount of time these things remain "compromising" depends largely on how long it takes to define it.
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Happy Birthday Dear Slashdot! (*HOT GRITS AND GOATSE!*)
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English follows other languages down dark alleys, hit them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
If I hadn't started this sub-thread, I'd have modded that up for funny. ;-)
The memory on a video card is used for more than just simple frame buffering.
Notice how some of the newer games see less performance degradation on some of the 640MB nVidia cards than equivallently clocked 320MB versions of the same card.
With multi-core support, I don't think that's really going to change. You're not necessarily going to see a huge "performance boost" from massively parallel processing.
However, you'll still have the luxury of running multiple processor intensive apps without bringing the whole system to a standstill.
That's great. No. Really!
I'm not talking about an XBox. I'm talking about a PC.
An XBox has half a gig of memory, half of which is dedicated to graphics at a relatively low-res output.
I'm talking about a gaming PC with 2+GB of RAM in it and how graphics cards with multiple gigs of memory are detrimental to overall system performance (including gaming) in a 32-bit memory map.
No. I mean that since this memory has to be mapped within a 32-bit address space, you wind up wasting space that could be better allocated to system memory.
Sure, for anything that remains strictly on the graphics card, it's great. But for anything else (functions besides raw graphics in a game (like AI) or for non-gaming application), stealing that memory allocation space degrades overall system performance.
Note: Wasn't talking about for ME. I'm already running 64-bit, as I've chosen hardware that's fairly well supported driver-wise.
These cards are ridiculous. ESPECIALLY in Crossfire installs.
Wow! Now that 4GB of main system memory I installed has been pared back down to a more manageable 2GB!
WHEE!
Until 64-bit becomes more mainstream, cards like this will only become more and more detrimental to the systems they're installed in.
"It is important to publish all studies"
Okay. I just completed a study. It proves, conclusively, that aliens are vacuuming off our ozone layer.
Lemme publish it...
The problem isn't that other people can't get their hands on the data. They can.
It's that they're publishing these papers as unarguable, unalterable "fact".
If it bleeds, it leads? A terrible way to conduct science.
"This is why it is important that a scientist always publish their results, even if the results don't support the hypothesis"
Even if they fudge facts.
Even if their underlying science is known crap.
Even if they fail to disclose their statistics.
If you're going to publish (PUBLISH) a scientific paper, make sure that's it's based on science, not science fiction.
Does anyone actually DO it anymore?
Not as far as I can tell.
Most of the stuff I've seen in the last 15 years or so shuffles between two categories.
1: Highly technical and scientifically accurate as far as information is available, but written in such a way that stereo instructions (in Japanese no less) are more intelligible to the common man.
2: Written to the understanding level of the common man (or slightly above if they don't use crayon), but woefully inaccurate and filled with assumptions and self-fulfilled hypotheses. Stuff that a generation ago, would have been laughed out of most scientific journals. An "in depth" study that winds up within a 15 percent confidence? Sorry, but 5% used to be considered shaky, but publishable. Lax standards and sensationalism now rule the roost.