One thing that perplexes me is why VLIW is not more popular.
x86 is here to stay because people want to run legacy code reliably and efficiently. Intel tried to get rid of x86 architecture with Itanium, but just watch how they'll eventually have to release a version with the crosslicensed AMD's (horror of horrors!) x86-64 instruction set.
Intense lobbying, FUD and outright threats from the diamond industry have managed to suppress any large scale production of perfect diamonds (you can't do chips using crude industrial grade diamonds).
You see, diamonds are seriously overpriced luxury items. Although it is possible to manufacture cheap diamonds that are indistinguishable from the natural ones, it has never been done. Why? It would ruin the entire business model of De Beers & co. which is based on artificial scarcity. That's why they'd fight such projects to the bitter end.
It might be a good idea to discourage him not to put any pictures on the net by himself. I'm quite sure a 10-year old kid interested in computers could figure out a way if he really wanted to.
The amount of spam I receive every day has clearly been steadily growing for the last few months. Looks like the spammers are winning the war by DoSing spam fighters and hiring mercenary hackers with 450000 trojaned systems.
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Try writing a short, to-the-point letter (a real one, e-mail is useless) to the editor thanking them for the story but pointing politely out that it could have been more thorough in this aspect.
We have an auditable mail protocol, headers are written in plain english.
As long as the headers can be forged, they're as good as useless. Forging them should be made illegal and a stechnically difficult as possible. I'm sure technology exists already and all we need is political will.
Every person using the net should also have an offical e-ID granted by his/her nation and it should be embedded in e-mail headers (possibly in every packet). Think of it as a passport: it's an official document, you can be uniquely identified by it and using a falsified passport is a serious crime all over the world.
You make some very good points, but I am still sceptical when it comes to a private organization handling the transactions. The recent and still ongoing (?) ICANN/Verizon mess comes first to my mind.
You can vote out a government, but you can't vote out a corporation (unless you can buy them out).
Instead of a tax (why do some people always look to government for everything), why not use a micropayment system
And how do you implement such a system without backing it up with government-level machinery such as laws, law enforcement and judicial process? No, it's better to make it a government controlled operation from the start so that the standards are set the same for everyone.
Even if spam doesn't show up in your mailbox it doesn't mean that the spam aimed at you doesn't exist. ISPs and the net infrastructure in general is getting more and more clogged by spam.
An auditable mail protocol (each mail would leave a trail) and some sort of an e-mail tax (few cents per mail) wouldn't hurt a normal user but it would hit spammers.
Well written, pretty consistent and sufficiently evasive not to get caught with outright lies. Smells like a university project by some political/social sciences students...
I disagree. That approach means that instead of going after the real bastards, spammers and scammers, we give up and embrace cynicism and absolute, "trust no-one" kind of mistrust as a normal way of life.
The latest violence comes amid increasingly bleak assessments from Washington, where the latest attacks have been compared in the media to Vietnam's 1968 Tet Offensive against US forces
That is, actually, an interesting quote although in a different context than the author of the article intended.
The Tet Offensive was an unmitigated military disaster by the NVA. All attacks were repulsed by the US troops at a horrible cost to the attackers. It was also a major disaster when it came to politics. North Vietnamese leaders wished to raise a nationwide popular uprising that would drive the capitalists and their South Vietnamese "puppets" into the sea.
Why was it such a turning-point then? Because of the media - both international and US. The Vietnam war was the first televised war. When the audience saw young soldiers exibiting the signs of combat stress, crawling in dirt and dying, it gave the impression that the US forces were losing the war. In fact, the reverse was true. Before the Tet offensive the NVA was almost smashed and the casualties inflicted by the Americans during Tet made it even worse.
What broke was the morale at home and it was broken by the sensationalistic media. Even worse, something similar is certainly happening in Iraq as we speak.
Of course it is about competition and not about sharing. What's your point? I agree that the common defense is a pipe dream, but an satellite navigation system independent of US is a practical venture politically, militarily and economically.
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Agreed. Even worse, it's incredibly bad taste to leak out information like this now before her wedding.
I'm rather sure that soon-to-be-husband does not want to see the media discussing how his young and pretty bride was ass-raped in Iraq.
Yeah, but those songs don't come with fries but free subpoenas.
This is good. Anything of this size and promotes on-line music trading makes the position of the luddites in RIAA/MPAA weaker.
Don't bash the Republicans, please.
Actually, I think we can measure sun's activity over thousands of years based on the barium levels in arctic/antarctic ice.
It's been like that for a few years already with the earpiece cellphone speakers?
Why download them? I'm sure that pretty soon there will be a collector's set of all three movies on DVDs with extra material.
They need spammers too.
They don't have enough visibility or scale, yet.
x86 is here to stay because people want to run legacy code reliably and efficiently. Intel tried to get rid of x86 architecture with Itanium, but just watch how they'll eventually have to release a version with the crosslicensed AMD's (horror of horrors!) x86-64 instruction set.
You see, diamonds are seriously overpriced luxury items. Although it is possible to manufacture cheap diamonds that are indistinguishable from the natural ones, it has never been done. Why? It would ruin the entire business model of De Beers & co. which is based on artificial scarcity. That's why they'd fight such projects to the bitter end.
Cray tried it in the 1990s, failed and went bankrupt.
It might be a good idea to discourage him not to put any pictures on the net by himself. I'm quite sure a 10-year old kid interested in computers could figure out a way if he really wanted to.
Stuffed goatse-turkey, of course.
The amount of spam I receive every day has clearly been steadily growing for the last few months. Looks like the spammers are winning the war by DoSing spam fighters and hiring mercenary hackers with 450000 trojaned systems.
Try writing a short, to-the-point letter (a real one, e-mail is useless) to the editor thanking them for the story but pointing politely out that it could have been more thorough in this aspect.
You mean the "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal"-Diebold?
As long as the headers can be forged, they're as good as useless. Forging them should be made illegal and a stechnically difficult as possible. I'm sure technology exists already and all we need is political will.
Every person using the net should also have an offical e-ID granted by his/her nation and it should be embedded in e-mail headers (possibly in every packet). Think of it as a passport: it's an official document, you can be uniquely identified by it and using a falsified passport is a serious crime all over the world.
You can vote out a government, but you can't vote out a corporation (unless you can buy them out).
And how do you implement such a system without backing it up with government-level machinery such as laws, law enforcement and judicial process? No, it's better to make it a government controlled operation from the start so that the standards are set the same for everyone.
An auditable mail protocol (each mail would leave a trail) and some sort of an e-mail tax (few cents per mail) wouldn't hurt a normal user but it would hit spammers.
Well written, pretty consistent and sufficiently evasive not to get caught with outright lies. Smells like a university project by some political/social sciences students...
I disagree. That approach means that instead of going after the real bastards, spammers and scammers, we give up and embrace cynicism and absolute, "trust no-one" kind of mistrust as a normal way of life.
That is, actually, an interesting quote although in a different context than the author of the article intended.
The Tet Offensive was an unmitigated military disaster by the NVA. All attacks were repulsed by the US troops at a horrible cost to the attackers. It was also a major disaster when it came to politics. North Vietnamese leaders wished to raise a nationwide popular uprising that would drive the capitalists and their South Vietnamese "puppets" into the sea.
Why was it such a turning-point then? Because of the media - both international and US. The Vietnam war was the first televised war. When the audience saw young soldiers exibiting the signs of combat stress, crawling in dirt and dying, it gave the impression that the US forces were losing the war. In fact, the reverse was true. Before the Tet offensive the NVA was almost smashed and the casualties inflicted by the Americans during Tet made it even worse.
What broke was the morale at home and it was broken by the sensationalistic media. Even worse, something similar is certainly happening in Iraq as we speak.
Of course it is about competition and not about sharing. What's your point? I agree that the common defense is a pipe dream, but an satellite navigation system independent of US is a practical venture politically, militarily and economically.