Hell, if the 4% figure is right then we could eliminate ALL nuclear plants simply by eliminating standby mode! The US uses 3.3TW of electricity 4% of 3.3TW is 132,000MW or about 30% more than the total output of all nuclear power facilities in the US (99,988MWe source from this site.) Of course I would be much more in favor of shutting down an equivilant capacity in older coal fired plants since the environmental impact would be about an order of magnitude greater =)
Actually quite a few articles with much less information than bomb making instructions were quashed due to national security concerns. In fact on May 15th 1945 the Office of Censorship sent out a memo to editors and broadcasters stating
""Scientific experiments.--The Code of Wartime Practices requests that nothing be published or broadcast about 'new or secret military weapons...experiments.' In extension of this highly vital precaution, you are asked not to publish or broadcast any information whatever regarding war experiments involving: Production or utilization of atom smashing, atomic energy, atomic fission, atomic splitting, or any of their equivalents; the use for military purposes of radium or radioactive materials, heavy water, high voltage discharge equipment, cyclotrons; the following elements or any of their compounds--polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deutrium."
So official censorship does and has happened even in a Democracy. As the wikipedia article mentions some people are talking about bringing back the office of censorship for the undeclared war on terror which is an unwinnable war without a possible definitive end.
If you had bothered to read the fine article you would have noted that they are placing two reactors of the designed used in their icebreakers, that is a tested naval reactor design, so the comparison is very apt.
Care to share your method that is so successfull? I'm sure a lot of other admins would love to know a system that results in very little spam and has a low false positive rate.
Yes it is, because using modern transmission techniques all of NY City could operate on a couple channels the width of TV stations. Analog tv is about as inefficient as you can get for use of spectrum.
Actually they DID exist. The original social security act made it illegal to use the SSN for any purpose other than for the administration of taxes and social security benifits. The law would not have passed without this provision from the reasearch I have done. It was only in the mid 80's with years of unenforcement of the law and the explosion of computer tracking databases that an update to the act (changing benifits and retirement age) carried a rider striking the provision. Due to the way that modern information driven economies work it would be highly difficult to design a system without a unique key that exists across multiple systems, for better or worse that key is the SSN in the US.
You do know that 3D Studio Max is a toy to midrange product, and that the big boys like Maya and Lighwave run on Linux just fine thank you very much, right?
I'm talking about databases or middleware logic servers or non-trivial parallel scientific workloads like weather forcasting. Also the fact that double the cores only got you 50% more speed in many of those benchmarks proves that it (or the apps running on it) doesn't scale well. I just fundamentally think that Intel is going market driven instead of technology driven again on this one and that as Netburst proves that's not the smart way to go long term. Intel really needs to put their intelligent and talented engineers to work on making a scalable design or else they are going to have trouble in the next couple years as the performance gains from the Core2 architecture fade due to inability to feed additional cores.
Intel will be first to market with QC chips. At that time, Intel's product will be better...
No, it won't. Because their quad core will be so resource starved that for 90+% of real world application it won't perform any better than dual core and will consume significantly more power.
Apple and Microsoft would disagree with you. Both companies sit on large piles of cash relative to the value of the company yet I other than pre-Jobs Apple I don't hear a lot of complaining from the investment community.
If you run a DNS server, you can set it up to forward all requests for *.spamhaus.org to their DNS servers.
All of these are more complicated than putting an IP in your hosts file.
Actually if you run MS DNS it really is just as easy to add a Forwarder as it is to add a hosts entry. Simply fire up the DNS admin console, select your DNS server to manage, click on forwarders. Add the domain to forward requests for and add the ip address(es) of the DNS server(s) to answer for that domain.
I guess an economist would say how many people are killed directly and indirectly by the regulations? If tens of thousands of jobs are lost because the regulations are so severe that companies are forced to shut down then deaths from stress, increased domestic violence, malnutrition, etc among the laidoff workers might exceed the expected deaths from the polution. I know this was a big debate during the Alar scare of the late 80's, some economic analysis showed that 10-20 times more people would get cancer due to decreased fruit and vegtable consumption then from the expected ingestion of the Alar, not to mention the costs to farmers health from the ~$100 million sector wide losses from decreased demand for their product.
These are whole computers, I personally would be a lot more interested if I could just buy the ATX compliant cases and put my own components in, paying inflated prices for a cool case is one thing, paying uber inflated prices for a "custom" pc is not my thing.
Dual conversion in the UPS is a feature, not a problem. It allows you to build a natural boundry where power problems are filtered out by the active components used in the conversion steps. This is why an online UPS is superior to a line interactive or standby UPS.
Huh? Twofish/AES can handle 256 bit encryption in ~400K transistors with a speed of 104Mb/s, doing strong encryption doesn't have to take a lot of power or chip realestate.
Well, it's not really a BIOS but the PS2 has a GUI bootloader that comes up if you power it on without a disk in the dvd drive. This allows you to change system settings, launch a browser, or check the drive for a newly inserted disk.
Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money off of it.
Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, here on this web site.
SecureID only has an ~30 second window for each password. This means that you have to get the passphrase from the user and use it to login to the originating website in less than 15 seconds on average, not impossible but more difficult then a static password. As I said mutual authentication with password protected smartcards is really the way to go =)
It depends on which device has the better components, in many cases a relativly cheap DVD player can have much better scaler hardware then even an expensive display, so using component analog cables can give a better picture than DVI/HDMI because the analog signal loss with decent cables over a short run is less than the difference between the scaler hardware.
Until the banks use the best available security measures to secure their customers accounts they should be heald liable. Two factor authentication schemes are well understood and cheap enough to implement that failing to use them is negligence, or at least culpability in any online loss. Using a random character generator like SecureID prevents replay attacks and makes man in the middle attacks much harder, using password protected smartcards eliminates them altogether. Just as using photo's on physical cards would greatly reduce the occourance of credit card fraud in the physical realm these methods would reduce it online, the fact is that it costs the credit card company's more whereas fraud only costs the merchant, because the fraudulant purchase is charged to the merchant's account who accepted the card.
Actually SMP generally increases latency as the locking mechanims needed in an SMP kernel along with contect switching means that the process is more likely to be interrupted. Of course overall system latency with lots of plugins eating CPU time might decrease due to having more overall cpu cycles available, but theoretically an n-cycle single cpu running a non-smp OS should give better latency then an n/4-cycle smp system with 4 cpu's running an SMP OS.
Not necessarily. I've used Oracle's tools to find a bug in JD Edwards which I forwarded to support to fix. I'm a sysadmin by trade with a couple years of programming from college, but no experience in the tools JD Edwards is written in. Good debug tools can help even the people who aren't coding an app analyze it and get the information to the people who CAN fix it, this is most critical when a vendor can't reproduce a bug.
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Hell, if the 4% figure is right then we could eliminate ALL nuclear plants simply by eliminating standby mode! The US uses 3.3TW of electricity 4% of 3.3TW is 132,000MW or about 30% more than the total output of all nuclear power facilities in the US (99,988MWe source from this site.) Of course I would be much more in favor of shutting down an equivilant capacity in older coal fired plants since the environmental impact would be about an order of magnitude greater =)
Actually quite a few articles with much less information than bomb making instructions were quashed due to national security concerns. In fact on May 15th 1945 the Office of Censorship sent out a memo to editors and broadcasters stating
""Scientific experiments.--The Code of Wartime Practices requests that nothing be published or broadcast about 'new or secret military weapons...experiments.' In extension of this highly vital precaution, you are asked not to publish or broadcast any information whatever regarding war experiments involving: Production or utilization of atom smashing, atomic energy, atomic fission, atomic splitting, or any of their equivalents; the use for military purposes of radium or radioactive materials, heavy water, high voltage discharge equipment, cyclotrons; the following elements or any of their compounds--polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deutrium."
So official censorship does and has happened even in a Democracy. As the wikipedia article mentions some people are talking about bringing back the office of censorship for the undeclared war on terror which is an unwinnable war without a possible definitive end.
If you had bothered to read the fine article you would have noted that they are placing two reactors of the designed used in their icebreakers, that is a tested naval reactor design, so the comparison is very apt.
Care to share your method that is so successfull? I'm sure a lot of other admins would love to know a system that results in very little spam and has a low false positive rate.
Yes it is, because using modern transmission techniques all of NY City could operate on a couple channels the width of TV stations. Analog tv is about as inefficient as you can get for use of spectrum.
Actually they DID exist. The original social security act made it illegal to use the SSN for any purpose other than for the administration of taxes and social security benifits. The law would not have passed without this provision from the reasearch I have done. It was only in the mid 80's with years of unenforcement of the law and the explosion of computer tracking databases that an update to the act (changing benifits and retirement age) carried a rider striking the provision. Due to the way that modern information driven economies work it would be highly difficult to design a system without a unique key that exists across multiple systems, for better or worse that key is the SSN in the US.
You do know that 3D Studio Max is a toy to midrange product, and that the big boys like Maya and Lighwave run on Linux just fine thank you very much, right?
I'm talking about databases or middleware logic servers or non-trivial parallel scientific workloads like weather forcasting. Also the fact that double the cores only got you 50% more speed in many of those benchmarks proves that it (or the apps running on it) doesn't scale well. I just fundamentally think that Intel is going market driven instead of technology driven again on this one and that as Netburst proves that's not the smart way to go long term. Intel really needs to put their intelligent and talented engineers to work on making a scalable design or else they are going to have trouble in the next couple years as the performance gains from the Core2 architecture fade due to inability to feed additional cores.
Intel will be first to market with QC chips. At that time, Intel's product will be better...
No, it won't. Because their quad core will be so resource starved that for 90+% of real world application it won't perform any better than dual core and will consume significantly more power.
Apple and Microsoft would disagree with you. Both companies sit on large piles of cash relative to the value of the company yet I other than pre-Jobs Apple I don't hear a lot of complaining from the investment community.
If you run a DNS server, you can set it up to forward all requests for *.spamhaus.org to their DNS servers.
All of these are more complicated than putting an IP in your hosts file.
Actually if you run MS DNS it really is just as easy to add a Forwarder as it is to add a hosts entry. Simply fire up the DNS admin console, select your DNS server to manage, click on forwarders. Add the domain to forward requests for and add the ip address(es) of the DNS server(s) to answer for that domain.
I guess an economist would say how many people are killed directly and indirectly by the regulations? If tens of thousands of jobs are lost because the regulations are so severe that companies are forced to shut down then deaths from stress, increased domestic violence, malnutrition, etc among the laidoff workers might exceed the expected deaths from the polution. I know this was a big debate during the Alar scare of the late 80's, some economic analysis showed that 10-20 times more people would get cancer due to decreased fruit and vegtable consumption then from the expected ingestion of the Alar, not to mention the costs to farmers health from the ~$100 million sector wide losses from decreased demand for their product.
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Hehe, as always the lusers fail to take into account the TCO and instead fixate on the purchase (sales) price =)
These are whole computers, I personally would be a lot more interested if I could just buy the ATX compliant cases and put my own components in, paying inflated prices for a cool case is one thing, paying uber inflated prices for a "custom" pc is not my thing.
Dual conversion in the UPS is a feature, not a problem. It allows you to build a natural boundry where power problems are filtered out by the active components used in the conversion steps. This is why an online UPS is superior to a line interactive or standby UPS.
Huh? Twofish/AES can handle 256 bit encryption in ~400K transistors with a speed of 104Mb/s, doing strong encryption doesn't have to take a lot of power or chip realestate.
Well, it's not really a BIOS but the PS2 has a GUI bootloader that comes up if you power it on without a disk in the dvd drive. This allows you to change system settings, launch a browser, or check the drive for a newly inserted disk.
Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money off of it.
Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, here on this web site.
From the folding@home FAQ.
SecureID only has an ~30 second window for each password. This means that you have to get the passphrase from the user and use it to login to the originating website in less than 15 seconds on average, not impossible but more difficult then a static password. As I said mutual authentication with password protected smartcards is really the way to go =)
It depends on which device has the better components, in many cases a relativly cheap DVD player can have much better scaler hardware then even an expensive display, so using component analog cables can give a better picture than DVI/HDMI because the analog signal loss with decent cables over a short run is less than the difference between the scaler hardware.
Until the banks use the best available security measures to secure their customers accounts they should be heald liable. Two factor authentication schemes are well understood and cheap enough to implement that failing to use them is negligence, or at least culpability in any online loss. Using a random character generator like SecureID prevents replay attacks and makes man in the middle attacks much harder, using password protected smartcards eliminates them altogether. Just as using photo's on physical cards would greatly reduce the occourance of credit card fraud in the physical realm these methods would reduce it online, the fact is that it costs the credit card company's more whereas fraud only costs the merchant, because the fraudulant purchase is charged to the merchant's account who accepted the card.
Thanks for the laugh, that was the funniest thing I have seen in weeks.
Actually SMP generally increases latency as the locking mechanims needed in an SMP kernel along with contect switching means that the process is more likely to be interrupted. Of course overall system latency with lots of plugins eating CPU time might decrease due to having more overall cpu cycles available, but theoretically an n-cycle single cpu running a non-smp OS should give better latency then an n/4-cycle smp system with 4 cpu's running an SMP OS.
Not necessarily. I've used Oracle's tools to find a bug in JD Edwards which I forwarded to support to fix. I'm a sysadmin by trade with a couple years of programming from college, but no experience in the tools JD Edwards is written in. Good debug tools can help even the people who aren't coding an app analyze it and get the information to the people who CAN fix it, this is most critical when a vendor can't reproduce a bug.