Yeah I think we both know that is not true. I love open source, but know that is not some magical force field against hardware-level bugs, so stop claiming there is. The most common examples of these exploits are done IN LINUX.
These are brilliantly done exploites, and the Linux-x64 house is made of just as much glass as Windows.
Difference being, Microsoft and Intel actually have to report to shareholders, so there is some accountability.
I'm a little off the reservation on what the proper path is since all is currently properly fucked.
Airports skam240, it is mainly the airports. SJC and SFO, not to mention Moffett Field pretty much limit the development height in the South Bay. Not to mention the whole seismic thing which makes it vastly more expensive with each story added.
Yeah, there are some local gov't regs that limit how tall buildings are in Mountain View as an example, but that is partially to preserve said mountain view and limitations on infrastructure that isn't easily fixed.
You can't transition from 10,000 single family homes built in the 1950's to even medium-density housing without basically ripping everything apart. Ask PG&E what they would like the local bus voltage to look like vs is what it currently is. I personally exploded one of their 7.5 kVA transformers from the 1920's while turning on some fairly normal equipment.
I honestly very much await you our someone else with clever and viable solutions to these problems. I don't see an easy or popular clear path.
Preface: I love me some Linux and hate replying to A/C's.
However, this fanboi shit needs some reality . . .
Unix / Linux has been pretty much "hacked" into existence. To claim that there was some sort of collective forethought from a collective herd of strangers is, well, a blog-worthy utopian sentiment. Furthermore, Linux does not have a "blue screen" mainly because there is no central authority to detect / report when something is truly wrong. Sure when the kernel is shitting the bed, you'll get a kernel panic, but that is a 1-second pre-reboot screen dump to the console that only luck would enable you to see. Logging may or may not happen. Uptime is really the only reliable diagnostic. That extends to all platforms.
As for you comment on "mission critical" stuff - don't be so naive. In space stuff, mission critical things are done in orthogonal triplicate because you MUST assume that at some point, the hardware / software combination will screw up. With any luck, watchdog timers will reset stuff back to a responsible state before the next "event".
No reasonable person would trust their $2 billion space widget / industrial plant to software that was pulled from a CVS repository 15 minutes before implementation. THAT is how you get disasters.
Put some skin in the game next time you troll / post while high on ground-up Slackware install floppies.
Let's also not forget the upcoming Intel MIC. Sure it may be just a series of souped up vector processor, but it is "48+ cores" (whatever that even means in this context) worth of said processors. When Intel has a 4X advantage on density, it is hard to imagine how competitors will be able to effectively and responsibly scale until they catch up to that. From the looks of it, interconnect and lithographically, said competitors are several years back.
You know, I keep hearing this, but I do not understand how that is true. Were it true, you, being a slashdotter and thus years ahead would be composing this on a tablet. Apparently the soft-keyboard and such are no bother, nor is the lack of easy copy/paste functions.
Personally, I'm typing this on my workstation which will never, ever, ever leave my office. Nor should it. I create content and solve problems on it. People may later consume said content but if you want to actually get anything more serious than email done, you need a real computer.
Furthermore, could you imagine spending 8 hours a day on a tablet? That is a laughable suggestion. Given that unemployment is less than 50%, I suspect most people using computers for something other than leisure will still use a keyboard at some point during the day.
Yes but how then do unjust laws change? (Insert civil disobedience here). Just because it is "illegal" doesn't necessarily mean it is correct. That is supposed to be the cool part of democracy - ideally then we could change the law to fit the moral majority.
Perhaps they are not the most efficient for Mars travel, but much beyond that, give me a break (having not done the math for Mars, I don't know). Chemical rockets spit far too much of their inital mass out the back to be even *somewhat* considered for longer term missions (remember the rocket equation?). There are several differnt kinds of "ion" engines all of which exceed 50% efficiency. At this point it becomes a bit more important to define "efficiency" - (power in)/(power out) may not necessarly be relevent if (mass start)/(mass end is near zero [what is the point of accelerating all of your "80%" fuel if you fling the crap out the back in a somewhat effiecent matter?) I may be (ok I am) a bit baises since I'm a grad student working in Ion Propulsion but the field obviously has merit or I would not have funding.
Well, look at it this way . . . if you break down the cost across the entire population of the US, that amounts to about $1.37 each (compared to the $97 billion = $297.95 each for Iraq). So for less then the price of a beer at a bar, I get to see Mars. Works for me.
Yeah, but there would be one easy way to prevent the bugs from calling home at all: stick the whole car in a faraday cage. As simple mesh of chicken wire would do the trick and now you can disable all the bugs without having to worry about them calling anyone. Sure the average thief isn't going to know this, but I'd bet the pros sure as hell would.
I meant to post this with the article but SCOX closed today at $14.78 or down $1.41 or 9% and the trading volume was up 30% so it seems that at least SOME of the investors are beginning to get the big picture.
To say that the ESA is the first to put ion propulsion in space is not at all true. Remember back when NASA launched the DS1 (Deep Space 1) probe? Some information on it's Ion Engine is available here here and many more here.
Actually, Ion engines have been used in space since early 90's but primarly as station keeping thrusters for satilites.
You are correct that competition is good for NASA, but at this very moment, the Air Force is funding the Ion Space Propulsion Lab where I am currently doing my PhD research.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but down in the right hand corner of this screenshot the date says May 29th. Perhaps these screen shots are not as new as we think (or Microsoft just didn't bother to set the clock to the right date).
You know, I'm not sure that the whole slashdot crowd understands how hard it is to test these sort of things. I mean my university has been doing subcontracting for NASA and I have to say, these people there are really smart. I'm not talking business major to business major, I mean EE to Ph.D EE - these guys are dumb so please don't refer to them as such. Imagine though, any huge project, no matter how well constructed, basically comes down to a single person decieding or desidgning something (the so called single point failure). Do you think you could be that person?
Come one, by definition a pass through, DAC/ADC doesn't really exist. Either it converts it to analog or it doesn't. Passing through implies no change. The only difference between "Audio" and regular CD's is a bit on the CD's that the manufactures set at production.
It might be sly, it might even be misleading, but it isn't lying, or ignorance.
No, its defiantly ignorance. Digital is digital. Its not some magic form of communication; its merely the approximation of the analog word we live in. Nothing more and most certainly nothing less.
>Why do developers lie about features in a device The developers of the hardware usually aren't the ones who are lying. I work for a fairly large company and I can safely tell you that the engineers (that's me) don't sit around and plot to hide features. The way it usally goes down is that some guy in marketing gets a hold of technical documentation that is being developed along with the product. Once he gets it, he gives us a call and starts asking if feature so and so should really be documented. One thing is for certain though, marketing seems to get the final say as to what gets published and what doesn't.
The corperate benifit of some of this stuff is fairly easy to see. For instance, say we make a chip called the Wizbang 3900. Now, this chip is going to be released in the 3901, 3903 and 3909 flavors each with different features. Since a run through the fab can cost upwards of $500k, it is much easier to just make one version, then just label them differently. The same thing is true with the development boards. A lot of times the board is only populated with the parts to allow that feature set. By populating more/different parts of the board, different features can be achived with out requiring a different board spin. All of this saves money and development costs, but does lead to some documentation holes.
So in short, blame it not marketing not the engineers. We're the good guys.
I bet this will make some people mad, but I noticed a few days ago that my DSL ISP Means seems to have uncapped my upload speed. I'm not sure if someone just screwed up or if the gods are just smiling on me this week, but spreading around that new Eminem CD just got a whole lot quicker.
As callus as it may sound, perhaps we should consider the victims of these attacks as martyrs for the cause of freedom. Although they didn't choose to give their life (and that kind of sucks) but everything has a price. It is similar to the old credo of "I'd rather set free 1,000 guilty people then to imprison a single innocent person". To achieve freedom, it took the lives of many. There should be no surprise then that to maintain it, others too must make the ultimate sacrifice. However, recent legislation seems to be pushing us towards conformity (to those non-free nations who seek to destroy the US) rather then standing up and reaffirming why those people died. I for one would rather die young and free (whether it be in some unrelated political motivated attack like 9/11 or in a war) then to live out a long and "safe" government supervised life.
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These are brilliantly done exploites, and the Linux-x64 house is made of just as much glass as Windows.
Difference being, Microsoft and Intel actually have to report to shareholders, so there is some accountability.
I'm a little off the reservation on what the proper path is since all is currently properly fucked.
Yeah, there are some local gov't regs that limit how tall buildings are in Mountain View as an example, but that is partially to preserve said mountain view and limitations on infrastructure that isn't easily fixed.
You can't transition from 10,000 single family homes built in the 1950's to even medium-density housing without basically ripping everything apart. Ask PG&E what they would like the local bus voltage to look like vs is what it currently is. I personally exploded one of their 7.5 kVA transformers from the 1920's while turning on some fairly normal equipment.
I honestly very much await you our someone else with clever and viable solutions to these problems. I don't see an easy or popular clear path.
So, like most others, I assume Firefly will finally be coming back???
Preface: I love me some Linux and hate replying to A/C's. However, this fanboi shit needs some reality . . . Unix / Linux has been pretty much "hacked" into existence. To claim that there was some sort of collective forethought from a collective herd of strangers is, well, a blog-worthy utopian sentiment. Furthermore, Linux does not have a "blue screen" mainly because there is no central authority to detect / report when something is truly wrong. Sure when the kernel is shitting the bed, you'll get a kernel panic, but that is a 1-second pre-reboot screen dump to the console that only luck would enable you to see. Logging may or may not happen. Uptime is really the only reliable diagnostic. That extends to all platforms. As for you comment on "mission critical" stuff - don't be so naive. In space stuff, mission critical things are done in orthogonal triplicate because you MUST assume that at some point, the hardware / software combination will screw up. With any luck, watchdog timers will reset stuff back to a responsible state before the next "event". No reasonable person would trust their $2 billion space widget / industrial plant to software that was pulled from a CVS repository 15 minutes before implementation. THAT is how you get disasters. Put some skin in the game next time you troll / post while high on ground-up Slackware install floppies.
Let's also not forget the upcoming Intel MIC. Sure it may be just a series of souped up vector processor, but it is "48+ cores" (whatever that even means in this context) worth of said processors. When Intel has a 4X advantage on density, it is hard to imagine how competitors will be able to effectively and responsibly scale until they catch up to that. From the looks of it, interconnect and lithographically, said competitors are several years back.
You know, I keep hearing this, but I do not understand how that is true. Were it true, you, being a slashdotter and thus years ahead would be composing this on a tablet. Apparently the soft-keyboard and such are no bother, nor is the lack of easy copy/paste functions. Personally, I'm typing this on my workstation which will never, ever, ever leave my office. Nor should it. I create content and solve problems on it. People may later consume said content but if you want to actually get anything more serious than email done, you need a real computer. Furthermore, could you imagine spending 8 hours a day on a tablet? That is a laughable suggestion. Given that unemployment is less than 50%, I suspect most people using computers for something other than leisure will still use a keyboard at some point during the day.
"Iâ(TM)m sure you could write at least 69 academic papers about sexual behavior based on sexts alone." 6am, and already that made my day.
Yes but how then do unjust laws change? (Insert civil disobedience here). Just because it is "illegal" doesn't necessarily mean it is correct. That is supposed to be the cool part of democracy - ideally then we could change the law to fit the moral majority.
So, can someone please post an example of this? I'm really curious what it looks like.
Perhaps they are not the most efficient for Mars travel, but much beyond that, give me a break (having not done the math for Mars, I don't know). Chemical rockets spit far too much of their inital mass out the back to be even *somewhat* considered for longer term missions (remember the rocket equation?). There are several differnt kinds of "ion" engines all of which exceed 50% efficiency. At this point it becomes a bit more important to define "efficiency" - (power in)/(power out) may not necessarly be relevent if (mass start)/(mass end is near zero [what is the point of accelerating all of your "80%" fuel if you fling the crap out the back in a somewhat effiecent matter?) I may be (ok I am) a bit baises since I'm a grad student working in Ion Propulsion but the field obviously has merit or I would not have funding.
Well, look at it this way . . . if you break down the cost across the entire population of the US, that amounts to about $1.37 each (compared to the $97 billion = $297.95 each for Iraq). So for less then the price of a beer at a bar, I get to see Mars. Works for me.
Yeah, but there would be one easy way to prevent the bugs from calling home at all: stick the whole car in a faraday cage. As simple mesh of chicken wire would do the trick and now you can disable all the bugs without having to worry about them calling anyone. Sure the average thief isn't going to know this, but I'd bet the pros sure as hell would.
I meant to post this with the article but SCOX closed today at $14.78 or down $1.41 or 9% and the trading volume was up 30% so it seems that at least SOME of the investors are beginning to get the big picture.
Actually, Ion engines have been used in space since early 90's but primarly as station keeping thrusters for satilites. You are correct that competition is good for NASA, but at this very moment, the Air Force is funding the Ion Space Propulsion Lab where I am currently doing my PhD research.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but down in the right hand corner of this screenshot the date says May 29th. Perhaps these screen shots are not as new as we think (or Microsoft just didn't bother to set the clock to the right date).
You know, I'm not sure that the whole slashdot crowd understands how hard it is to test these sort of things. I mean my university has been doing subcontracting for NASA and I have to say, these people there are really smart. I'm not talking business major to business major, I mean EE to Ph.D EE - these guys are dumb so please don't refer to them as such. Imagine though, any huge project, no matter how well constructed, basically comes down to a single person decieding or desidgning something (the so called single point failure). Do you think you could be that person?
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So I don't see what the big fuss is about.
It might be sly, it might even be misleading, but it isn't lying, or ignorance.
No, its defiantly ignorance. Digital is digital. Its not some magic form of communication; its merely the approximation of the analog word we live in. Nothing more and most certainly nothing less.
The developers of the hardware usually aren't the ones who are lying. I work for a fairly large company and I can safely tell you that the engineers (that's me) don't sit around and plot to hide features. The way it usally goes down is that some guy in marketing gets a hold of technical documentation that is being developed along with the product. Once he gets it, he gives us a call and starts asking if feature so and so should really be documented. One thing is for certain though, marketing seems to get the final say as to what gets published and what doesn't.
The corperate benifit of some of this stuff is fairly easy to see. For instance, say we make a chip called the Wizbang 3900. Now, this chip is going to be released in the 3901, 3903 and 3909 flavors each with different features. Since a run through the fab can cost upwards of $500k, it is much easier to just make one version, then just label them differently. The same thing is true with the development boards. A lot of times the board is only populated with the parts to allow that feature set. By populating more/different parts of the board, different features can be achived with out requiring a different board spin. All of this saves money and development costs, but does lead to some documentation holes.
So in short, blame it not marketing not the engineers. We're the good guys.
Hey, its a whole lot better then Celine Dion.
I bet this will make some people mad, but I noticed a few days ago that my DSL ISP Means seems to have uncapped my upload speed. I'm not sure if someone just screwed up or if the gods are just smiling on me this week, but spreading around that new Eminem CD just got a whole lot quicker.
As callus as it may sound, perhaps we should consider the victims of these attacks as martyrs for the cause of freedom. Although they didn't choose to give their life (and that kind of sucks) but everything has a price. It is similar to the old credo of "I'd rather set free 1,000 guilty people then to imprison a single innocent person". To achieve freedom, it took the lives of many. There should be no surprise then that to maintain it, others too must make the ultimate sacrifice. However, recent legislation seems to be pushing us towards conformity (to those non-free nations who seek to destroy the US) rather then standing up and reaffirming why those people died. I for one would rather die young and free (whether it be in some unrelated political motivated attack like 9/11 or in a war) then to live out a long and "safe" government supervised life.