You're already in the sun's gravity well. And every little bit of matter in your body has been happily falling into the sun for 5 billion years.
Orbiting is very much like flying in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: it's the art of falling towards a celestial body with enough speed that you miss it every time. You want to hit the sun? You've got to slow yourself down by about 60,000mph, otherwise you're just going to keep missing it every time.
It's only slightly harder to fling yourself out of the solar system than it is to hit the sun and we've only managed that five times, I think.
To spoil your joke, if an element was named after China, I don't think this would be a big problem. For example, Americium is Am, and the USA's ISO country code is US.
On one side of the aisle you have the scummy rent-seeking corporatists. And on the other side you have the anti-corporate socialist 'progressives.' Neither side of the political debate want a free market. Both sides want the government to set rules to benefit special interests. The only difference is which. And so the free market is strangled to death. Crushed under the weight of regulations, subsidies, fat government contracts and handouts.
The only times the free market has ever truly reigned is when it explodes and outpaces, for a short time, the long arm of political meddling.
Can we please never hear this idea ever again? Every time a hard waste disposal problem comes up, someone suggests throwing the nuclear waste, or decaying space debris into the sun.
Throwing something into the sun would require a truly staggering amount of energy. It will never be a practical means of waste disposal.
However it's interesting to note that Randall Kennedy was one of the standard bearers in the public campaign against Vista. If you go through the most egregious condemnations of Vista posted to/., you'll find that a disproportionate number were sourced to Randall Kennedy at Infoworld. Many of which were about as truthful as the Windows 7 memory article.
Kennedy has been an extraordinarily biased source about Microsoft for a long time, and over the past few years I've lost a lot of karma pointing this out. For me this feels like vindication.
Or e) you're using an operating system which learns your common usage habits, and preloads applications and data it predicts you'll probably want into otherwise unused memory
I want to emphasize the parent poster. I've been a member of the ACM in the past, but SIAM is a much better organization for the serious engineer, just poorly marketed.
No, you are misunderstanding the problem. None of these features: virtual WiFi, connection sharing and bridging, are turned on by default.
The GP is exactly right. If someone wants to 'attack' your network this way, it's no different from walking in with a laptop and an extra usb wifi device. Windows 7 makes it slightly less expensive, that's all.
I hope you realize that outside of NASCAR, most race driving is not constant high speed. It involves a great deal of braking and acceleration, when maneuvering through corners. This is why track cars have really, really good brakes, and being able to reclaim that kinetic energy lost is potentially an enormous benefit.
They haven't been popular to date because of the impact on vehicle dynamics, but it's just a matter of time until the engineering issues are solved.
Except Microsoft supports old operating systems for 10 years. Apple only supports the current and previous versions, so anybody on Tiger or older is screwed.
And for a lot of Tiger and even some Leopard users there is no upgrade option. Snow Leopard doesn't support hardware that's barely three years old, so you have an expensive hardware upgrade on top of those software upgrades.
Fair enough... but I'm more concerned about applications. If you're really on top of the ball then maybe this service might work.
But generally people run servers for a reason. And just applying patches to kernels in-memory isn't really going to help you when your software stack needs a security update. You've still got to take the application down to get that fix into memory... and god help you if the patch was to a library.
I just don't see how it's worth the effort. How much extra time does it take to do a reboot and be guaranteed that you've got all the vulnerabilities excised from memory? If you're really competent you can do it the hard way and save a few seconds of actual downtime... but it just strikes me that if you're in that kind of position redundancy would be better. And if you're not, this kind of technology encourages dangerous practices.
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And if you'd RTFA too, you'd know that wasn't the case.
99% of people I've seen bragging about long up-times tend to have perfectly patched and up-to-date OS installations on disk, and a dozen vulnerabilities still loaded into memory. And I'm not talking just about the OS kernel.
If you don't know exactly what an update touches, just reboot.
How could we tell? The predictions being made are far off in the future. And the predictions made to date have been, in fact, wrong.
It's fine to explore a world beyond what is visibly apparent. This occurs all the time in mathematics and theoretical physics. But when we leave the realm of immediate testability, we must rely upon strict rigor to ensure that our results are still correct. Looking at the source-code is a critical step in validating rigor.
And you'd think posters would try reading the article before sounding smarmy and dismissing the abilities of others. Funny that.
Given that the first step of the "attack" is physically dissolving the chip's outer packaging in an acid bath... I'm guessing this won't be showing up in script-kiddie toolchains any time soon.
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You're already in the sun's gravity well. And every little bit of matter in your body has been happily falling into the sun for 5 billion years.
Orbiting is very much like flying in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: it's the art of falling towards a celestial body with enough speed that you miss it every time. You want to hit the sun? You've got to slow yourself down by about 60,000mph, otherwise you're just going to keep missing it every time.
It's only slightly harder to fling yourself out of the solar system than it is to hit the sun and we've only managed that five times, I think.
Nuclear. Fucking. Weapons. There's no problem that cannot be made to go away with sufficient use of nuclear weapons.
Even nuclear proliferation! Set enough of 'em off and bam, no more problem.
To spoil your joke, if an element was named after China, I don't think this would be a big problem. For example, Americium is Am, and the USA's ISO country code is US.
Seriously, NASA. Anybody who's ever eaten at a bad Mexican restaurant knows enchiladas are hospitable to all forms of microscopic life.
The problem is, there aren't many free marketers.
On one side of the aisle you have the scummy rent-seeking corporatists. And on the other side you have the anti-corporate socialist 'progressives.' Neither side of the political debate want a free market. Both sides want the government to set rules to benefit special interests. The only difference is which. And so the free market is strangled to death. Crushed under the weight of regulations, subsidies, fat government contracts and handouts.
The only times the free market has ever truly reigned is when it explodes and outpaces, for a short time, the long arm of political meddling.
Can we please never hear this idea ever again? Every time a hard waste disposal problem comes up, someone suggests throwing the nuclear waste, or decaying space debris into the sun.
Throwing something into the sun would require a truly staggering amount of energy. It will never be a practical means of waste disposal.
How are you going to enforce a monetary penalty against a bunch of broke college students?
Yes, as we all know XP was 40% faster than Vista!
Oh wait...
However it's interesting to note that Randall Kennedy was one of the standard bearers in the public campaign against Vista. If you go through the most egregious condemnations of Vista posted to /., you'll find that a disproportionate number were sourced to Randall Kennedy at Infoworld. Many of which were about as truthful as the Windows 7 memory article.
Kennedy has been an extraordinarily biased source about Microsoft for a long time, and over the past few years I've lost a lot of karma pointing this out. For me this feels like vindication.
Exactly. And it's important to bear in mind the source of this editorial: Roughly Drafted.
If Steve Jobs said all Apple users should throw themselves off a cliff, Roughly Drafted would provide a semi-spirited defense of suicide.
Or e) you're using an operating system which learns your common usage habits, and preloads applications and data it predicts you'll probably want into otherwise unused memory
I want to emphasize the parent poster. I've been a member of the ACM in the past, but SIAM is a much better organization for the serious engineer, just poorly marketed.
No, you are misunderstanding the problem. None of these features: virtual WiFi, connection sharing and bridging, are turned on by default.
The GP is exactly right. If someone wants to 'attack' your network this way, it's no different from walking in with a laptop and an extra usb wifi device. Windows 7 makes it slightly less expensive, that's all.
Er, no. In this case, Linux has features Q and R, which aren't anything like X, but chances are nobody will notice.
The ISS is truly an international endeavour. Witness a fine contribution from the Polish Space Agency!
Zune Pass over the air streaming.
Well played Microsoft. Well played.
I hope you realize that outside of NASCAR, most race driving is not constant high speed. It involves a great deal of braking and acceleration, when maneuvering through corners. This is why track cars have really, really good brakes, and being able to reclaim that kinetic energy lost is potentially an enormous benefit.
They haven't been popular to date because of the impact on vehicle dynamics, but it's just a matter of time until the engineering issues are solved.
Except Microsoft supports old operating systems for 10 years. Apple only supports the current and previous versions, so anybody on Tiger or older is screwed.
And for a lot of Tiger and even some Leopard users there is no upgrade option. Snow Leopard doesn't support hardware that's barely three years old, so you have an expensive hardware upgrade on top of those software upgrades.
Ironically, Xenix was Microsoft's UNIX product, SCO was just a reseller.
Fair enough... but I'm more concerned about applications. If you're really on top of the ball then maybe this service might work.
But generally people run servers for a reason. And just applying patches to kernels in-memory isn't really going to help you when your software stack needs a security update. You've still got to take the application down to get that fix into memory... and god help you if the patch was to a library.
I just don't see how it's worth the effort. How much extra time does it take to do a reboot and be guaranteed that you've got all the vulnerabilities excised from memory? If you're really competent you can do it the hard way and save a few seconds of actual downtime... but it just strikes me that if you're in that kind of position redundancy would be better. And if you're not, this kind of technology encourages dangerous practices.
And if you'd RTFA too, you'd know that wasn't the case.
Which isn't what happened. Nice straw man.
99% of people I've seen bragging about long up-times tend to have perfectly patched and up-to-date OS installations on disk, and a dozen vulnerabilities still loaded into memory. And I'm not talking just about the OS kernel.
If you don't know exactly what an update touches, just reboot.
How could we tell? The predictions being made are far off in the future. And the predictions made to date have been, in fact, wrong.
It's fine to explore a world beyond what is visibly apparent. This occurs all the time in mathematics and theoretical physics. But when we leave the realm of immediate testability, we must rely upon strict rigor to ensure that our results are still correct. Looking at the source-code is a critical step in validating rigor.
And you'd think posters would try reading the article before sounding smarmy and dismissing the abilities of others. Funny that.
Given that the first step of the "attack" is physically dissolving the chip's outer packaging in an acid bath... I'm guessing this won't be showing up in script-kiddie toolchains any time soon.