The 1970's called, it said you are low tech. Here's an example of a single TTL board from a VAX. There must be about 300 individual TTL chips from the 7400 series on it (where one chip has 4 nand on it, etc). The left 29 boards in this VAXare the cpu.
It is very noble to build your own CPU architecture with your own instruction set, however building CPUs out of gates in individual chips is just an exercise in wasting money when you can do the same thing on FPGAs, like the guy that built an entire Cray-1 on an FPGA development board. A more impressive project, the visual 6502 in javascript, made by scanning the actual chip and rebuilding the circuit out of individual transistors on the die, proves you don't even need hardware.
It would appear they are using the call routing/forwarding feature of Global Crossing's VoIP service, the phone number is their Harrisburg OH point of access. The clever bit is getting the phone number 614-LULZSEC, since 614-585-xxxx is a Global Crossing block.
Slashdot is nothing compared to the hordes of users uploading cat, fart, nut kicking and farting cat getting kicked in the nuts videos daily. I'm pretty sure the servers will perceive this slashdot effect as a slight tickle.
Wrong, slashdot just broke youtube:
500 Internal Server Error
Sorry, something went wrong.
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
And the author of the article (Lee Moran, unfortunate name) also says, "it has been revealed how the sophisticated cyber criminals made off with the staggering bounty of names." Hardly sophisticated: typing random stuff in the website URL gets you into other people's accounts. It's just non-obvious that a bank would be so inept.
Why does an exchange need a physical location, apart from some hosting or colocation? All they need is an electronic way to send and receive bitcoins (which hardly requires infrastructure), an electronic way to send and receive dollars, and a perception of trustworthiness so that buyers know they will get the currency they pay for when a trade between two exchange members is negotiated. Hey, I'll paypal you $1 per bitcoin you send me, and you paypal me $50 per bitcoin you want me to send you: there, I just set up an exchange.
This is a long time ago in a galaxy far away where Jedis can levitate spaceships with their thoughts (but are modest enough to not just fly around themselves), detect their children on ships in space (but not their sisters, even when they are sucking face with them), instantaneously feel people dying on distant planets, control people's thoughts, come back from the dead as ghosts and talk to people, and shoot frickin' lightning out of their hands. They even have the self-control not to murder giant rabbit retards. A world where explosions in space make an earth-shattering kaboom. Maybe it is enough to say light sabers are Jedi magic.
The problem is evolution of technology, and these Windows speedup "features" quickly becoming obsolete. A laptop with 6GB RAM is mainstream now - with this much hardware and a commit charge that never peaks 2GB, there is no need for even a page file and an OS should be optimized to do without instead of being so badly optimized that it still swaps to disk. My SSD drive is 10x faster than any USB flash drive, but Windows still thinks adding a USB stick as a Readyboost cache between DDR3 and a 600MB/s SSD RAID is a good idea.
Firefox should just keep an eye on system resources and be ready to dump it's cache in the bitbucket if it looks like another application is starting. After that it can start re-compressing or tossing data (think lots of pictures loaded in ignored old tabs) that it can reload. An option where you can choose if you want fast memory hog Firefox or limited RAM Firefox so your whole system sucks less.
What I don't get is the success that Groupon has had in getting their name out there. Maybe they have a cute buzzy name. A similar scamlike operation is already being run by restaurant.com: they have pushy salesmen come in to small businesses and sign them up for marketing services (for 'free'). People go to the restaurant.com site and pay half-price for gift certificates to restaurants. restaurant.com keeps all the money. Small businesses are forced to feed people for free and will have a hard time getting themselves off the site even after multiple attempts.
It sounds like Groupon is doing it better by having their pushy salesmen charge businesses for giving something away for free... this might be fine in a service industry like massage, where you are trying to charge $80 an hour for a skill worth about $8 in the open labor market, but if you are selling any goods you'd better steer clear of these offer sites!
I found the article. For further reading on how every nerd article quote you read is created for your consumption: Please Quote Me on That - How Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications vie for ink (1997).. It was hard to find because Wired themselves has become swamped with "research", so doing a site search for any of these company names will get you analyst quotes in hundreds of articles.
For reference, Gartner Group bought 1/3 of Jupiter a month after publication of this article. Jupiter was founded in 1986 by lucky wackjob Josh Harris as Jupiter Communications, going public in 1999, merging with Media Metrix in 2000, selling its syndicated research business to INT Media Group in 2002, a split and rename to Jupiter Research, being acquired by MCG Capital in 2006 and being http://web2.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,1220,00.html">acquired by Forrester in 2008. International Data Group (IDG) acquired Forrester Research, Inc in 2010. Feel free to investigate the acquisition history of any of those other companies I mentioned for a tangled web of ownership.
This is an immense business, providing "expert opinion" to print media, seminars, CEOs, and changing corporation names to hide corporation games.
Gartner and other market analyst companies are pay-per-talking-point companies. There was an interesting article in Wired around 2000 about how these companies actually operate. They get paid if their quotes appear in print. Their revenue stream is from large companies. They are run by former ad execs. As such, they are paid to make things that aren't true believable. Under analysis, their position generally fails, but nobody looks into the origin of all these tech quotes from analysts.
Reminds me of a story. There was a little startup that was trying to start a dialup/webmail thing a dozen years ago, they were handing around business cards to computer professionals for a free year signup with an auth code printed on them. They seemed pretty inept. When I went to sign up for my free account, I was able to sign up as root@crappy-startup.net. Resetting my email account reset their root password.
It sounds like you don't understand how periods work in gmail. first.last@gmail is the same account as firstlast@gmail. fir.stla.st@gmail is still the same account. Your email address is the one without any periods. The periods are ignored. There is no other person that has the other account, the senders have very wrong address information about the intended recipient.
Why techies are reluctant to become sales droids: they have professional responsibilities and ethics, such as this code of ethics for the Association for Computing Machinery.
Software engineers shall commit themselves to making the analysis, specification, design, development, testing and maintenance of software a beneficial and respected profession. In accordance with their commitment to the health, safety and welfare of the public, software engineers shall adhere to the following Eight Principles:
1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER - Software engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest.
3. PRODUCT - Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
4. JUDGMENT - Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5. MANAGEMENT - Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance.
6. PROFESSION - Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
7. COLLEAGUES - Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
These principals are at odds with the ethics that sales and marketing droids are rewarded for. If sales MBA types had their ethics codified, it would be more like: mis-specify, lie, overbill, cheat, defraud, profit, golden parachute.
Actually, all you have to do is ask 10 people with an IQ over 110. Sampled from a global population, of course; dissenters are more apt to be found as you pick your random 10 from decreasing non-representative pool, i.e The World > USA > The South > Mississippi > Chickasaw County.
If you want to harden the statistical integrity of such a question put to geniuses, ask the same question to a group with an IQ under 100. If they strongly agree with the high IQ position, it's definitely true. If they strongly disagree, it's still definitely true.
I always do my best to OCR cyrillic, diacritic, and punctuated captchas. If enough people input them, they can get promoted to be the test captcha, then everybody will have to figure out how to type in Greek and umlauts.
I got one that was upside down. Someone scanned the source document upside down. I'd like to see what the OCR result is when captcha users flip the document one word at a time...
Slashdot Mirror
Is that you, Chuck Peddle?
The 1970's called, it said you are low tech. Here's an example of a single TTL board from a VAX. There must be about 300 individual TTL chips from the 7400 series on it (where one chip has 4 nand on it, etc). The left 29 boards in this VAXare the cpu.
It is very noble to build your own CPU architecture with your own instruction set, however building CPUs out of gates in individual chips is just an exercise in wasting money when you can do the same thing on FPGAs, like the guy that built an entire Cray-1 on an FPGA development board. A more impressive project, the visual 6502 in javascript, made by scanning the actual chip and rebuilding the circuit out of individual transistors on the die, proves you don't even need hardware.
Hey the editors are now showing restraint, at least when the story is a guy getting $500,000 of bitcoins stolen....
It would appear they are using the call routing/forwarding feature of Global Crossing's VoIP service, the phone number is their Harrisburg OH point of access. The clever bit is getting the phone number 614-LULZSEC, since 614-585-xxxx is a Global Crossing block.
Slashdot is nothing compared to the hordes of users uploading cat, fart, nut kicking and farting cat getting kicked in the nuts videos daily. I'm pretty sure the servers will perceive this slashdot effect as a slight tickle.
Wrong, slashdot just broke youtube:
500 Internal Server Error
Sorry, something went wrong.
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
Only hackers would directly enter a URL. Legitimate consumers will just follow the link to their account from their Facebook page.
You mean by pushing the button for the internet?
And the author of the article (Lee Moran, unfortunate name) also says, "it has been revealed how the sophisticated cyber criminals made off with the staggering bounty of names." Hardly sophisticated: typing random stuff in the website URL gets you into other people's accounts. It's just non-obvious that a bank would be so inept.
It really works, up to the point that this fake phone lock software actually leaves your phone unlocked, all you have to do is quit the app.
Here's another walkthru of the release version, done two days ago.
Why does an exchange need a physical location, apart from some hosting or colocation? All they need is an electronic way to send and receive bitcoins (which hardly requires infrastructure), an electronic way to send and receive dollars, and a perception of trustworthiness so that buyers know they will get the currency they pay for when a trade between two exchange members is negotiated. Hey, I'll paypal you $1 per bitcoin you send me, and you paypal me $50 per bitcoin you want me to send you: there, I just set up an exchange.
This is a long time ago in a galaxy far away where Jedis can levitate spaceships with their thoughts (but are modest enough to not just fly around themselves), detect their children on ships in space (but not their sisters, even when they are sucking face with them), instantaneously feel people dying on distant planets, control people's thoughts, come back from the dead as ghosts and talk to people, and shoot frickin' lightning out of their hands. They even have the self-control not to murder giant rabbit retards. A world where explosions in space make an earth-shattering kaboom. Maybe it is enough to say light sabers are Jedi magic.
Grandparent's knowledge of geek lore is light-years ahead of yours...
On my system it's not as bad as IE but it's better than Chrome.
wat? This statement is not as good as gibberish but it's still worse than gobbledygook.
The problem is evolution of technology, and these Windows speedup "features" quickly becoming obsolete. A laptop with 6GB RAM is mainstream now - with this much hardware and a commit charge that never peaks 2GB, there is no need for even a page file and an OS should be optimized to do without instead of being so badly optimized that it still swaps to disk. My SSD drive is 10x faster than any USB flash drive, but Windows still thinks adding a USB stick as a Readyboost cache between DDR3 and a 600MB/s SSD RAID is a good idea.
Firefox should just keep an eye on system resources and be ready to dump it's cache in the bitbucket if it looks like another application is starting. After that it can start re-compressing or tossing data (think lots of pictures loaded in ignored old tabs) that it can reload. An option where you can choose if you want fast memory hog Firefox or limited RAM Firefox so your whole system sucks less.
What I don't get is the success that Groupon has had in getting their name out there. Maybe they have a cute buzzy name. A similar scamlike operation is already being run by restaurant.com: they have pushy salesmen come in to small businesses and sign them up for marketing services (for 'free'). People go to the restaurant.com site and pay half-price for gift certificates to restaurants. restaurant.com keeps all the money. Small businesses are forced to feed people for free and will have a hard time getting themselves off the site even after multiple attempts.
It sounds like Groupon is doing it better by having their pushy salesmen charge businesses for giving something away for free... this might be fine in a service industry like massage, where you are trying to charge $80 an hour for a skill worth about $8 in the open labor market, but if you are selling any goods you'd better steer clear of these offer sites!
If it is expected, you're not prepared...
- Public debt: debt to a government,
- Private debt: debt to a non-government entity,
- "or": either one of two options (both options also permitted in logic).
If you have a debt, public or private, the pennies are legal tender.
If you eat a meal at a restaurant, and get the bill, you have a debt.
If you get a power bill for electricity you used, you have a debt.
If you copy 50 reams of documents on the Alaska state clerk's photocopiers and take them up to the clerk to pay, you have a debt.
If you are at the Juneau airport and have to pay for three boxes of documents to be checked, you do not have a debt.
I found the article. For further reading on how every nerd article quote you read is created for your consumption: Please Quote Me on That - How Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications vie for ink (1997).. It was hard to find because Wired themselves has become swamped with "research", so doing a site search for any of these company names will get you analyst quotes in hundreds of articles.
For reference, Gartner Group bought 1/3 of Jupiter a month after publication of this article. Jupiter was founded in 1986 by lucky wackjob Josh Harris as Jupiter Communications, going public in 1999, merging with Media Metrix in 2000, selling its syndicated research business to INT Media Group in 2002, a split and rename to Jupiter Research, being acquired by MCG Capital in 2006 and being http://web2.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,1220,00.html">acquired by Forrester in 2008. International Data Group (IDG) acquired Forrester Research, Inc in 2010. Feel free to investigate the acquisition history of any of those other companies I mentioned for a tangled web of ownership.
This is an immense business, providing "expert opinion" to print media, seminars, CEOs, and changing corporation names to hide corporation games.
Gartner and other market analyst companies are pay-per-talking-point companies. There was an interesting article in Wired around 2000 about how these companies actually operate. They get paid if their quotes appear in print. Their revenue stream is from large companies. They are run by former ad execs. As such, they are paid to make things that aren't true believable. Under analysis, their position generally fails, but nobody looks into the origin of all these tech quotes from analysts.
Reminds me of a story. There was a little startup that was trying to start a dialup/webmail thing a dozen years ago, they were handing around business cards to computer professionals for a free year signup with an auth code printed on them. They seemed pretty inept. When I went to sign up for my free account, I was able to sign up as root@crappy-startup.net. Resetting my email account reset their root password.
It sounds like you don't understand how periods work in gmail. first.last@gmail is the same account as firstlast@gmail. fir.stla.st@gmail is still the same account. Your email address is the one without any periods. The periods are ignored. There is no other person that has the other account, the senders have very wrong address information about the intended recipient.
Why techies are reluctant to become sales droids: they have professional responsibilities and ethics, such as this code of ethics for the Association for Computing Machinery.
Software engineers shall commit themselves to making the analysis, specification, design, development, testing and maintenance of software a beneficial and respected profession. In accordance with their commitment to the health, safety and welfare of the public, software engineers shall adhere to the following Eight Principles:
1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER - Software engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest.
3. PRODUCT - Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
4. JUDGMENT - Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5. MANAGEMENT - Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance.
6. PROFESSION - Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
7. COLLEAGUES - Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
These principals are at odds with the ethics that sales and marketing droids are rewarded for. If sales MBA types had their ethics codified, it would be more like: mis-specify, lie, overbill, cheat, defraud, profit, golden parachute.
Actually, all you have to do is ask 10 people with an IQ over 110. Sampled from a global population, of course; dissenters are more apt to be found as you pick your random 10 from decreasing non-representative pool, i.e The World > USA > The South > Mississippi > Chickasaw County.
If you want to harden the statistical integrity of such a question put to geniuses, ask the same question to a group with an IQ under 100. If they strongly agree with the high IQ position, it's definitely true. If they strongly disagree, it's still definitely true.
I always do my best to OCR cyrillic, diacritic, and punctuated captchas. If enough people input them, they can get promoted to be the test captcha, then everybody will have to figure out how to type in Greek and umlauts.
I got one that was upside down. Someone scanned the source document upside down. I'd like to see what the OCR result is when captcha users flip the document one word at a time...
... Sony, a corporation that is, in many respects, just as evil as RIAA or MPAA
Remember, Sony is not just evil for the things Sony does - they are 1/4 of the RIAA and 1/6 of the MPAA. They hate you. They are your enemy.