I'm not naive enough to think that proprietary commercial operating system software doesn't have the same sort of vulnerability, but the barriers to implementing them are much higher, because the source is better protected."
Oh the irony! The very next slashdot story is about Windows NT and 2000 source code being leaked to the net.
This was true before HDD parts got so cheap, faulty caps were passed of in Taiwan, and the industry decided to go to a new "enviornmentally friendly" packaging method that reduced chip life to ~12-18 months for some chips. I don't know if Mac's are affected by any of the aforementioned maldies but as computers become cheaper at least part of that reduced cost has to come from quality.
I guess I see things a little differently since my mother and two of my aunts are teachers. My aunts both work in poorer school districts (despite living in very nice neighborhoods) and things are so bad that they are buying basic supplies out of their measly salery and trying to beg places to donate things like multiple copies of books so they can use them in study groups. Not to mention things like the gym roof that collapsed at one of their schools a couple years back. Disciplinary problems CAN eat a lot of a teachers time frivilously and you are right that lack of parental involvement is probably the biggest problem but lack of funds definitly makes it much more difficult then it needs to be.
Sure they can. I've seen plenty of arrays that can keep up with 250MB/s. In fact anything attached to a decent database server or used as central storage for a number of servers better be able to keep up that kind of throughput. For instance Netapp's FAS960C cluster solution can push 2.5GB/s on a synthetic benchmark
To extend the stupid analogy =) It's more like they diverted the road by several hundred feet every couple of miles to bring it closer to property they own, thus lowering the effectiveness of the road to line their own pockets and causing the majority of users of the road unnecessarily long commutes to get to their destination.
The U.S. post-secondary system is the best in the world without question. Not only by quality (9/10 of the worlds best institutions in any subject area will be in the U.S.) but by quantity. In the state I live in no student is more than 20 miles from a college, university, or branch location. This makes it easy for anyone who wants to get an eduction to get one. As a good example of how the worlds best come here one of our state schools that I wouldn't have even considered as a backup school has students from 157 nations!!!! Our secondary eduction may be lacking in some regards but we make up for it. Besides most comparisons are not on level grounds, a large percentage of the nations we are compared against do not have universally guarenteed secondary eduction. For instance both Japan and Germany have a system where only the top percentage of students will enter the college track eduction, these are the students that take the standardized tests, not the entirity of the population where in the U.S. every student who has not dropped out takes them.
Finally I would point out that the U.S. has largest percentage of the population in postsecondary education:
Per 100K population:
Korea 4,955
Japan 3,139
U.S. 5,398
U.K 3,126
France 3,617 Source In fact the U.S. has nearly as many students in postsecondary education as the rest of the first world combined at over 15 million!
Because 51% of R&D dollars are spent in the U.S. Just like we were the center of industrial capacity in the early 20th century so are we the leaders in the idea capacity in the early part of the 21st. Near universal post-secondary eduction along with programs that encourage the brightest from around the world to flock here are what is keeping America afloat in the world economy. That's why Republican's desire to defund education is so scary, if we lose this edge we will fall as the worlds leading power.
Actually you can think of that as a "feature". This way you get average system load over time without having to do any funky math, the temperature curve is smooth so little blips will average themselves out. I knew studying programming would work out some day =)
Actually my favorite potential future technology is flat CRT's, REALLY flat CRT's, like plasma flat. What these units do is place an array of small electron guns behind a flat glass plate coated like a traditional CRT. The manufacturing stuff is well understood and producing the large panels of electron guns is cheap because precision isn't so important. The downsides are weight (to some extent) and power usage. The upside is no burn in, no expiration of the panel, and it is an emmiter light source so brightness, and of course nothing beats CRT's for black levels.
Besides 10K records is piddly squat! What was the quote from the recent Slashdot linked article, oh yes
"One way to trace just how bad the situation has gotten: track the price for a million credit card numbers. Just a few years ago, Dave saw prices of $100 or more for a million stolen credit card numbers. Now? Pennies. Stealing credit cards is so easy, and so rampant, that prices have dropped precipitously, in a grotesque parody of capitalist supply and demand. "
So 100X the number of records you have has a value of pennies according to an FBI cyber security expert. Basically anyone working in DB or as an analyst for a telemarketer which has a bank or credit card company as a client has access to many times that many records and crooks who break into ecommerce sites DB's do as well.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is EXACTLY the kind of thoughts which HIPPA et al are supposed to foster. Real patient data should never be acessible except by people whos jobs it is to use that data. The people whos job it is to track and store the data have no need to see it. Now if only we could get an anti-PATRIOT act passed that forbade the government from accessing an private database for purposes of following its citizenry.
Poor pigment life has killed them commercially until a new generation of longer life ones can be developed (if at all). While people complain about plasma the avg life of older units is 30K hours and the newer generation is 60K, thats a LONG time. Lamp based units have fairly expensive bulbs to replace but at least you aren't scrapping the whole tv.
10% is a bit of an exageration! Sony's 19" LCD (model DM-HX93) uses 60W Max Power vs 130W max power for their 19" Trinitron (model HMD-A440). Sure that's a savings, but at even a very expensive 10 cents per KWh it would still take more than the expected life of the LCD to make up for the difference in price ($1K vs $300). Btw unless that Sony is a decade old it isn't going to look dim.
Because they DID already solve it, duh. Good plasma displays will shift the image by a couple pixels every so often if the image remains static, or they will change the color values slowly over time so that pigments recieve different amount of energy, they will also soften focus. These are all tricks that the major manufacturers use to combat burn-in.
Yep, unless you are part of the small minority of people who are bothered by the wire holding the shadow mask on the Sony Trinitron based monitors are about the best displays for a PC. They are bright, crisp, and have GREAT electronics. They are also very, very configurable. Plus Sony backs em with great support, I've returned monitors no questions asked several months after getting em. I'm currently using a KDS 19" flat square monitor that doesn't come near the quality of the Sony's I've used at work. Of course it cost about 1/4th of what the Sony's cost at the time but now that the patent on Trinitron has expired and the market for large CRT's has contracted somewhat they are MUCH more reasonably priced.
You modify the document and initial the changes, then have an empowered respresentative do likewise. The last time I modified a contract like this (striking a particular clause) the person doing the hiring said they were not empowered to countersign the changes, I had him get someone who was. The CEO looked at me a bit strangly at first but once I presented my position he countersigned without comment. My real question that went unanswered was why was my future boss not empowered to countersign a contract for his employees?
No, he called me and the OP a putz for no reason, and his posting history shows him to be a troll. Btw I'm not exactly the only one to call large SGI systems big iron as you can see with a simple google search, also SGI has a white paper entitled Bringing big iron to Linux.
By that definition there hasn't been any big iron since the mid 80's =) IBM Z Series nee S/390 are the quintisential big iron and modern ones are a single rack sized cabinet without DASD. Btw I think a 1,024 CPU SGI cluster would require a special building and some interesting cooling solutions =) Oh yes, how did a troll get a +1 posting bonus?
The claims enumerated in patent 6,598,148 describe nothing more than an SMP system where the cache ram takes up at least 51% of the core and where the clock is variable. This is nothing unique and any idiot trained in the arts would have seen it as a trivial invention (SMP, variable clock, and large caches have all existed for quite some time) and therefore not worthy of a patent. Furthermore I don't see where Intel or their clients could be violating it except for the speed throttling overheat protection in the P4 and family processors. I know it's been said many times before but as far as the IT industry is concerned the USPTO needs to be scrapped or seriously funded because the way things work now are NOT acceptable, it's too easy for a bogus, stupid, or overbroad patent to slip through.
Get a modern car with dual stage airbags. My mom is small and sits very close to the steering column but I have very little fear of her being hurt by it because her chair contains a sensor that notifies the airbag deployment circuitry of this and so it will go off with apropriate force.
Most of the anti-ABS whacko's shut up when Car and Driver had some of the worlds top racecar drivers do a shootout with a vehicle which had ABS factor, they had one of their editors do a 0-60-0 run with ABS, then had 5 drivers try to beat his distance with the ABS disabled, only Michael Schumaker was able to do it, if only one of five pro drivers can beat ABS what does that tell you about mere mortals?
As to the OP, TiO2 is ALREADY in almost all paint. Most paints sold anymore are latex polymer (much better than oil based paints with volatile organics if you are worried about cancer) and calcium carbonate isn't going to cause anything cancer.
That's funny, I managed to have plenty of good experinces there. Of course I hung out with the guys from TKE and the girls from the soccer and field hockey teams. Also the Comp Sci house and Photo house are pretty geeky places with a healthy dose of social interaction thrown in.
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I'm not naive enough to think that proprietary commercial operating system software doesn't have the same sort of vulnerability, but the barriers to implementing them are much higher, because the source is better protected."
Oh the irony! The very next slashdot story is about Windows NT and 2000 source code being leaked to the net.
This was true before HDD parts got so cheap, faulty caps were passed of in Taiwan, and the industry decided to go to a new "enviornmentally friendly" packaging method that reduced chip life to ~12-18 months for some chips. I don't know if Mac's are affected by any of the aforementioned maldies but as computers become cheaper at least part of that reduced cost has to come from quality.
I guess I see things a little differently since my mother and two of my aunts are teachers. My aunts both work in poorer school districts (despite living in very nice neighborhoods) and things are so bad that they are buying basic supplies out of their measly salery and trying to beg places to donate things like multiple copies of books so they can use them in study groups. Not to mention things like the gym roof that collapsed at one of their schools a couple years back. Disciplinary problems CAN eat a lot of a teachers time frivilously and you are right that lack of parental involvement is probably the biggest problem but lack of funds definitly makes it much more difficult then it needs to be.
Sure they can. I've seen plenty of arrays that can keep up with 250MB/s. In fact anything attached to a decent database server or used as central storage for a number of servers better be able to keep up that kind of throughput. For instance Netapp's FAS960C cluster solution can push 2.5GB/s on a synthetic benchmark
To extend the stupid analogy =)
It's more like they diverted the road by several hundred feet every couple of miles to bring it closer to property they own, thus lowering the effectiveness of the road to line their own pockets and causing the majority of users of the road unnecessarily long commutes to get to their destination.
blah, blah, blah, blah.
The U.S. post-secondary system is the best in the world without question. Not only by quality (9/10 of the worlds best institutions in any subject area will be in the U.S.) but by quantity. In the state I live in no student is more than 20 miles from a college, university, or branch location. This makes it easy for anyone who wants to get an eduction to get one. As a good example of how the worlds best come here one of our state schools that I wouldn't have even considered as a backup school has students from 157 nations!!!! Our secondary eduction may be lacking in some regards but we make up for it. Besides most comparisons are not on level grounds, a large percentage of the nations we are compared against do not have universally guarenteed secondary eduction. For instance both Japan and Germany have a system where only the top percentage of students will enter the college track eduction, these are the students that take the standardized tests, not the entirity of the population where in the U.S. every student who has not dropped out takes them.
Finally I would point out that the U.S. has largest percentage of the population in postsecondary education:
Per 100K population:
Korea 4,955
Japan 3,139
U.S. 5,398
U.K 3,126
France 3,617
Source
In fact the U.S. has nearly as many students in postsecondary education as the rest of the first world combined at over 15 million!
Because 51% of R&D dollars are spent in the U.S. Just like we were the center of industrial capacity in the early 20th century so are we the leaders in the idea capacity in the early part of the 21st. Near universal post-secondary eduction along with programs that encourage the brightest from around the world to flock here are what is keeping America afloat in the world economy. That's why Republican's desire to defund education is so scary, if we lose this edge we will fall as the worlds leading power.
Actually you can think of that as a "feature". This way you get average system load over time without having to do any funky math, the temperature curve is smooth so little blips will average themselves out. I knew studying programming would work out some day =)
Actually my favorite potential future technology is flat CRT's, REALLY flat CRT's, like plasma flat. What these units do is place an array of small electron guns behind a flat glass plate coated like a traditional CRT. The manufacturing stuff is well understood and producing the large panels of electron guns is cheap because precision isn't so important. The downsides are weight (to some extent) and power usage. The upside is no burn in, no expiration of the panel, and it is an emmiter light source so brightness, and of course nothing beats CRT's for black levels.
What about the John Doe suits, would they be able to withdraw the suit once the identity became known without it looking REALLY bad?
Besides 10K records is piddly squat! What was the quote from the recent Slashdot linked article, oh yes
"One way to trace just how bad the situation has gotten: track the price for a million credit card numbers. Just a few years ago, Dave saw prices of $100 or more for a million stolen credit card numbers. Now? Pennies. Stealing credit cards is so easy, and so rampant, that prices have dropped precipitously, in a grotesque parody of capitalist supply and demand. "
So 100X the number of records you have has a value of pennies according to an FBI cyber security expert. Basically anyone working in DB or as an analyst for a telemarketer which has a bank or credit card company as a client has access to many times that many records and crooks who break into ecommerce sites DB's do as well.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is EXACTLY the kind of thoughts which HIPPA et al are supposed to foster. Real patient data should never be acessible except by people whos jobs it is to use that data. The people whos job it is to track and store the data have no need to see it. Now if only we could get an anti-PATRIOT act passed that forbade the government from accessing an private database for purposes of following its citizenry.
Poor pigment life has killed them commercially until a new generation of longer life ones can be developed (if at all). While people complain about plasma the avg life of older units is 30K hours and the newer generation is 60K, thats a LONG time. Lamp based units have fairly expensive bulbs to replace but at least you aren't scrapping the whole tv.
10% is a bit of an exageration! Sony's 19" LCD (model DM-HX93) uses 60W Max Power vs 130W max power for their 19" Trinitron (model HMD-A440). Sure that's a savings, but at even a very expensive 10 cents per KWh it would still take more than the expected life of the LCD to make up for the difference in price ($1K vs $300). Btw unless that Sony is a decade old it isn't going to look dim.
Because they DID already solve it, duh. Good plasma displays will shift the image by a couple pixels every so often if the image remains static, or they will change the color values slowly over time so that pigments recieve different amount of energy, they will also soften focus. These are all tricks that the major manufacturers use to combat burn-in.
Yep, unless you are part of the small minority of people who are bothered by the wire holding the shadow mask on the Sony Trinitron based monitors are about the best displays for a PC. They are bright, crisp, and have GREAT electronics. They are also very, very configurable. Plus Sony backs em with great support, I've returned monitors no questions asked several months after getting em. I'm currently using a KDS 19" flat square monitor that doesn't come near the quality of the Sony's I've used at work. Of course it cost about 1/4th of what the Sony's cost at the time but now that the patent on Trinitron has expired and the market for large CRT's has contracted somewhat they are MUCH more reasonably priced.
You modify the document and initial the changes, then have an empowered respresentative do likewise. The last time I modified a contract like this (striking a particular clause) the person doing the hiring said they were not empowered to countersign the changes, I had him get someone who was. The CEO looked at me a bit strangly at first but once I presented my position he countersigned without comment. My real question that went unanswered was why was my future boss not empowered to countersign a contract for his employees?
No, he called me and the OP a putz for no reason, and his posting history shows him to be a troll. Btw I'm not exactly the only one to call large SGI systems big iron as you can see with a simple google search, also SGI has a white paper entitled Bringing big iron to Linux.
By that definition there hasn't been any big iron since the mid 80's =) IBM Z Series nee S/390 are the quintisential big iron and modern ones are a single rack sized cabinet without DASD. Btw I think a 1,024 CPU SGI cluster would require a special building and some interesting cooling solutions =) Oh yes, how did a troll get a +1 posting bonus?
64 CPU's in one cabinet and up to 1,024 CPU's in a single system image qualifies as big iron for most people =)
Speedstep doesn't work on SMP setups.
The claims enumerated in patent 6,598,148 describe nothing more than an SMP system where the cache ram takes up at least 51% of the core and where the clock is variable. This is nothing unique and any idiot trained in the arts would have seen it as a trivial invention (SMP, variable clock, and large caches have all existed for quite some time) and therefore not worthy of a patent. Furthermore I don't see where Intel or their clients could be violating it except for the speed throttling overheat protection in the P4 and family processors. I know it's been said many times before but as far as the IT industry is concerned the USPTO needs to be scrapped or seriously funded because the way things work now are NOT acceptable, it's too easy for a bogus, stupid, or overbroad patent to slip through.
Yes indeed.
Get a modern car with dual stage airbags. My mom is small and sits very close to the steering column but I have very little fear of her being hurt by it because her chair contains a sensor that notifies the airbag deployment circuitry of this and so it will go off with apropriate force.
Most of the anti-ABS whacko's shut up when Car and Driver had some of the worlds top racecar drivers do a shootout with a vehicle which had ABS factor, they had one of their editors do a 0-60-0 run with ABS, then had 5 drivers try to beat his distance with the ABS disabled, only Michael Schumaker was able to do it, if only one of five pro drivers can beat ABS what does that tell you about mere mortals?
As to the OP, TiO2 is ALREADY in almost all paint. Most paints sold anymore are latex polymer (much better than oil based paints with volatile organics if you are worried about cancer) and calcium carbonate isn't going to cause anything cancer.
That's funny, I managed to have plenty of good experinces there. Of course I hung out with the guys from TKE and the girls from the soccer and field hockey teams. Also the Comp Sci house and Photo house are pretty geeky places with a healthy dose of social interaction thrown in.