does it also do the "diiiiiiing" when you start up? should not, as the usual PC has no built-in speaker. that will take away a big chunk from the experience....
now that we have thrown enough trash around planet earth, we have started to do the same on other planets such as mars. i wish all these missions would include a cleanup module...
i do not get redhat, are they dumb, or what??? fedora does not work properly, it has intrinsical flaws other linux distros managed to solve without a problem. redhat EL, while stable, runs ancient packages (e.g. 2.4 kernel) with backported newer stuff. this has the effect that RHEL is pretty much incompatible with external packages. are they really that dumb? or are they just catering to some tie-wearing morons who do not care? as far as i am concerned, the second i have enough time, i am switching. flaimbait? you bet!
depends where you place the art in a movie.... even though a documentary might not be "artsy" at first sight, it is quite an art to present things in such a way that you get a clear message over. clearly he won because of political reasons, but is it not time some says something to mr bush?
modern scanners send a slight current trough your skin when scanning. with this they can figure out that you are not just a glove or the finger of a dead guy, because, as far as i know, the resistance is measured and that tells you if it is a realf finger or a living human of not. clearly it is not foolproof, but nothing else is either, right?
the problem is again simple: you give people now a little card which spits out numbers. i bet you they do not know what this card does. therefore, if you offer a chocolate for the card, they will show it to you... it's the same problem. although i have to admit it makes things better to use tokens and it is way more secure...
keep in mind that many people have to remember many passwords. this has the effect that the home password might be mami23, whereas the work password might be mami32...
back when i was a sysadmin i once ran a test: we had asked all users to use DIFFERENT password for the 2 NT machines we had and all the other linux workstations. i started cracking passwords on the linux box and found some after 48h (~5% of user passwords). then i used L0phtcrack (awesome tool!) on the NT machine and had about 45% of the passwords after 24h. guess what: from those 45% about half worked also on the linux boxes...
for most internet users there is no real value attached to their computer accounts. it is not the same as the pin for your ATM card where, if shared, it would mean an empty account. hence it is understandable that they are willing to share this information.
this, i think, is a big problem and the onyl way to solve it is to re-educate people for them to understand that such a password is important and should not be shared. clearly an alternate solution would be to install fingerprint scanners on all computers (a viable option in the future), but that would not help overcome the erroneous attitute towards computer security. in fact, such scanners would work well as again people are used to the fact that their fingerprint makes them unique and should not be "shared".
finally, this will be an important concern in the future: already we are able to shop online and the future where all transactions go via the internet is near. one account (a la.NET) will be enough to deal with fueling up a car or buying a bunch of roses. probably then the attitute will change, when some smart scammers burn some people's fingers...
a) If the car repair industry requires IT gues, well heck, better for us hacker and hobbyists out there!
b) While the cars become more complex, the tools to fix them become better. Nowadays a mechanic plugs a laptop into your car and the car tells him/her "the fuel pump is 10% off, should I readjust?". 15 years ago mechanics would do something closely resembling forensics to figure out which wire was fried. This is done today in seconds.
Clearly some complex parts are hard to repair, but instead of dumping them, export them to third world countries where they will be miracolously repaired....
In fact, as you write the problem is that people do not know what to connect to what. People who use a limb and still have for example part of the arm, will be retrained with special prosthetics: if you think you want to raise your shoulder, your hand actually closes. It takes a while for this to be trained, but at some point it is automatic. I guess it is the same with these implant chips: you have to "map" the signals.
On another topic: the other problem with reattaching nerves is that it has failed so far. Nervecells are the only ones which do not gwo back. But here stem cell research might bring a breaktrough!
well, the math is not too hard: if we assume a (rather conservative) linear scaling of processor power, then back in 1994 I had a P133 MHz. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that is was 240 MHz. In other words 10 times slower. This means that you should multiply my CPU time by a factor 10 - 13 and then compare the numbers... A sparc1 has (as far as I recall -- I could be off) 25MHz. This means that his work, on a 2.4 GHz machine would take about 100 times less time. Doing a rather rough estimate and rescaling his work to today standards this means that he could run one 2.4GHz Xeon CPU for one month and get the same data. In my case, I run 150 CPUs for 6 months... insightful, huh?
1 Month on 100 sparcs? Peanuts! In my research
simulations usually take (depending on the problem) up to 6 months on an average of 150 workstations (and some runs on large clusters). You wonder what I do? Spin glasses!
Spin glasses are systems in with the interactions between magnetic moments are in conflict with each other. These competing interactions make these systems extremely hard to simulate at low enough temperatures. If you have a linux box sitting around idle which is fast enough, let me know and I will provide you with some samples to run. Current project: 100 - 300 samples, each takes ~ 10 days on a 2.4 GHz Xeon... For information on how to contact me, go to duamutef.ethz.ch.
Of course your name will be mentioned if you compute a considerable number of samples!
fortunately the system in europe at the moment makes it hard for such chips to be installed. at least for a while, this will not be an issue over here.
something interesting i notice is that the better the quality of the media (be it music, tv, movies) the harder their are being made to be copied. on one end this makes sense as quality and so resell value is better. on the other hand it becomes more and more a pain in the butt to actually enjoy your rightfully purchased art, be it tv, movies, music.
finally, i guess this will be the end of tivo, huh? after all broadcasters will now be able to block certain shows from being taped. or maybe there will be some deal for them to be taped, but you will be allowed to copy them to hard media only 3 times? we'll see what pain the future will bring...
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does it also do the "diiiiiiing" when you start up? should not, as the usual PC has no built-in speaker. that will take away a big chunk from the experience....
now that we have thrown enough trash around planet earth, we have started to do the same on other planets such as mars. i wish all these missions would include a cleanup module...
how can slashdot support such a breach of privacy? i am disgusted....
allright. that was funny. if i had some mderator points right now. you would get them.
i wish they would come up with the adapter for motorbikes as well.... : (
i do not get redhat, are they dumb, or what??? fedora does not work properly, it has intrinsical flaws other linux distros managed to solve without a problem. redhat EL, while stable, runs ancient packages (e.g. 2.4 kernel) with backported newer stuff. this has the effect that RHEL is pretty much incompatible with external packages. are they really that dumb? or are they just catering to some tie-wearing morons who do not care? as far as i am concerned, the second i have enough time, i am switching. flaimbait? you bet!
as for the text above:
perl -pi -e 's/moore/bush/g' post.efaust93
insightful, huh?
i guess you have a point there...
you should blame whoever gave him the award then. i do not think you can apply for a golden palm somewhere...
depends where you place the art in a movie.... even though a documentary might not be "artsy" at first sight, it is quite an art to present things in such a way that you get a clear message over. clearly he won because of political reasons, but is it not time some says something to mr bush?
I guess that's why he calls them "mockumentaries". Note that he has emphasized many times that they are not documentaries....
jacques custeau won the prize 1956 for his documentary "the silent world". but i guess this is the first time a "mockumentary" wins the golden palm!
now i wish only that in the "land of the free" the films hits the MAINSTREAM cinemas before the election... go bush... go away!
that SUCKS! the more time passes, the less I like redhat. grumble.
does anyone know when the fedore 2.6 kernel will make it into enterprise? i wish they would be a little faster with that...
modern scanners send a slight current trough your skin when scanning. with this they can figure out that you are not just a glove or the finger of a dead guy, because, as far as i know, the resistance is measured and that tells you if it is a realf finger or a living human of not. clearly it is not foolproof, but nothing else is either, right?
combine one-time password with an iris scan. then show me how to get someone elses iris... ouch...
the problem is again simple: you give people now a little card which spits out numbers. i bet you they do not know what this card does. therefore, if you offer a chocolate for the card, they will show it to you... it's the same problem. although i have to admit it makes things better to use tokens and it is way more secure...
.... for a big bar of chocolate. oh wait! his password is so easy, people might guess it without me telling them...
keep in mind that many people have to remember many passwords. this has the effect that the home password might be mami23, whereas the work password might be mami32...
back when i was a sysadmin i once ran a test: we had asked all users to use DIFFERENT password for the 2 NT machines we had and all the other linux workstations. i started cracking passwords on the linux box and found some after 48h (~5% of user passwords). then i used L0phtcrack (awesome tool!) on the NT machine and had about 45% of the passwords after 24h. guess what: from those 45% about half worked also on the linux boxes...
for most internet users there is no real value attached to their computer accounts. it is not the same as the pin for your ATM card where, if shared, it would mean an empty account. hence it is understandable that they are willing to share this information.
.NET) will be enough to deal with fueling up a car or buying a bunch of roses. probably then the attitute will change, when some smart scammers burn some people's fingers...
this, i think, is a big problem and the onyl way to solve it is to re-educate people for them to understand that such a password is important and should not be shared. clearly an alternate solution would be to install fingerprint scanners on all computers (a viable option in the future), but that would not help overcome the erroneous attitute towards computer security. in fact, such scanners would work well as again people are used to the fact that their fingerprint makes them unique and should not be "shared".
finally, this will be an important concern in the future: already we are able to shop online and the future where all transactions go via the internet is near. one account (a la
a) If the car repair industry requires IT gues, well heck, better for us hacker and hobbyists out there!
b) While the cars become more complex, the tools to fix them become better. Nowadays a mechanic plugs a laptop into your car and the car tells him/her "the fuel pump is 10% off, should I readjust?". 15 years ago mechanics would do something closely resembling forensics to figure out which wire was fried. This is done today in seconds.
Clearly some complex parts are hard to repair, but instead of dumping them, export them to third world countries where they will be miracolously repaired....
In fact, as you write the problem is that people do not know what to connect to what. People who use a limb and still have for example part of the arm, will be retrained with special prosthetics: if you think you want to raise your shoulder, your hand actually closes. It takes a while for this to be trained, but at some point it is automatic. I guess it is the same with these implant chips: you have to "map" the signals.
On another topic: the other problem with reattaching nerves is that it has failed so far. Nervecells are the only ones which do not gwo back. But here stem cell research might bring a breaktrough!
well, the math is not too hard: if we assume a (rather conservative) linear scaling of processor power, then back in 1994 I had a P133 MHz. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that is was 240 MHz. In other words 10 times slower. This means that you should multiply my CPU time by a factor 10 - 13 and then compare the numbers... A sparc1 has (as far as I recall -- I could be off) 25MHz. This means that his work, on a 2.4 GHz machine would take about 100 times less time. Doing a rather rough estimate and rescaling his work to today standards this means that he could run one 2.4GHz Xeon CPU for one month and get the same data. In my case, I run 150 CPUs for 6 months... insightful, huh?
1 Month on 100 sparcs? Peanuts! In my research simulations usually take (depending on the problem) up to 6 months on an average of 150 workstations (and some runs on large clusters). You wonder what I do? Spin glasses!
Spin glasses are systems in with the interactions between magnetic moments are in conflict with each other. These competing interactions make these systems extremely hard to simulate at low enough temperatures. If you have a linux box sitting around idle which is fast enough, let me know and I will provide you with some samples to run. Current project: 100 - 300 samples, each takes ~ 10 days on a 2.4 GHz Xeon... For information on how to contact me, go to duamutef.ethz.ch. Of course your name will be mentioned if you compute a considerable number of samples!
fortunately the system in europe at the moment makes it hard for such chips to be installed. at least for a while, this will not be an issue over here.
something interesting i notice is that the better the quality of the media (be it music, tv, movies) the harder their are being made to be copied. on one end this makes sense as quality and so resell value is better. on the other hand it becomes more and more a pain in the butt to actually enjoy your rightfully purchased art, be it tv, movies, music.
finally, i guess this will be the end of tivo, huh? after all broadcasters will now be able to block certain shows from being taped. or maybe there will be some deal for them to be taped, but you will be allowed to copy them to hard media only 3 times? we'll see what pain the future will bring...