According to the homepage for HyperSCSI, it can support IDE (as well as USB and Fibre Channel) devices:
To put this in "ordinary" terms, it can allow one to connect to and use SCSI and SCSI-based devices (like IDE, USB, Fibre Channel) over a network as if it was directly attached locally.
The article does and abysmal job of covering this, but the homepage for HyperSCSI has a nice PDF presentation that covers just this topic. In short, it goes something like this:
The SCSI protocols already provide error checking
The HyperSCSI layer adds flow control and retransmits
Ethernet provides certain other checks
So, in total, you have the same reliabilty of iSCSI and FibreChannel with less overhead (i.e. significant overlapping of the protocols in terms of error detection/correction).
No, they said that the contested code included exact duplication of comments as well, so I suspect that the contested code is more like this one (taken from the string.c source):
/* * stupid library routines.. The optimized versions should generally be found * as inline code in <asm-xx/string.h> * * These are buggy as well.. * * * Fri Jun 25 1999, Ingo Oeser <ioe@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> * - Added strsep() which will replace strtok() soon (because strsep() is * reentrant and should be faster). Use only strsep() in new code, please. */
Now the wannabe computer criminals know that there is little to no danger in pulling off such computer crimes, because those that care enough to act are too small to be heard, and those that are large enough to be heard don't care enough to act.
It is quite sad that the ISP took no interest in a breach of its own security, which only encourages future breaches, since the perpetrators know that they will get away with it, not because they are 1337 h4x0rz, but because nobody will look into it.
It won't be long before such attacks become as common place as email viruses if the proper authorities don't act now, and, more importantly, the ISPs don't take heed of this danger. Lack of enforcement does indeed encourage crime.
Now I can commission my own private sub and become my own sovereign nation. Then I'd just have to find that hidden cave that connects Loch Ness to the ocean, and I'd be ready for a life of altered conciousness!
The folks at BTExact seem to be doing a great job. It is more interesting watching the posts on Slashdot after looking through this baby, because you can see their predictions happening. Anyway, the Cliff notes version is that they predict that all 1.5 Million currently known species will be listed online by 2005. This looks like a strong step in the right direction...
I've done more reading since a friend showed me some e-books on his Clie than I have in a long while. I had no desire to purchase a PDA (too expensive for keeping track of appointments and contacts) until I realized that I could keep a veritable mountain of reference and fiction works on there (and MP3 functionality was Icing on the cake). So now I own a Casio E-200 and listen to my MP3s while I read. BTW, the ClearText technology on the PocketPC 2002 handhelds is a vast improvement over the Palm handhelds...
If our society were to become stagnant, then the argument for natural selection stopping might be made, though I still think that there is still room for substantial genetic drift to adapt to our current clime.
However, evolution continues because the environment is not static. Much as the climate of our planet has continued to change and influence evolution, so does our society and the tools used in it. Current medical science and laws do not provide a means for us to significantly modify ourselves, and so our primary influence is still Darwinian evolution, though we obviously interfere as much as possible (laws protecting the weak, medicine allowing undesirable genes to be propagated, etc.). However, in 10 to 50 (or even 100) years, technology and societal pressure will influence law and we will begin tampering with our own genetic makeup, speeding up evolution to keep pace with the changes in our artificial climate - society. We will eliminate genes that describe physical and mental deficiencies, we will favor genes that describe intelligence, physical prowess, beauty, and general well being (a la GATTACA). I suspect that this should happen in plenty of time to save us from this "rising up" of the third world countries, not that it makes much difference.
If they were to "rise up", what then? Then they will have access to the same technologies that made us week, and then fail themselves, causing the cycle to repeat until we are capable of modifying ourselves effectively.
The under population is a small problem, but only a small one. In most of the "richer" countries, more people are born than die each year. Our technology, currently making us weak, also helps us live longer. The "poorer" countries may produce more offspring, but they have a much higher fatality rate. At any rate, most, if not all, of the countries of the world continue to increase their population. Even if the "richer" nations do eventually fail to replenish their populations by birth rate, they will still be able to select the best and brightest from the "poor" countries to replenish our ranks.
What I'm really trying to say here is that this isn't an "us vs. them" issue. All of humanity will have access to these technologies, some will just get there first. So how our society and technology affect evolution is of great concern to us all.
I guess it isn't just a joke band name anymore. At least we still have the Darwin Award winners giving their lives for the valiant cause of elevating our species, even against its own apparent downward momentum... I guess the Darwin Award is a dubious honor, and not a completely negative one as I had previously suspected...
It is from the Anime series Lain. An excellent watch and HIGHLY recommended. The philosophy alone will leave you in a stupor. Unless you work regularly with philosophy, in which case you might have a higher immunity. Imagine Matrix meets Neuromancer, with a female lead. And more externalised inner-conflict. Or something.
Actually, everybody knows that further out, from just the right angle, it all spells out a "very, very rude word".
He imagined for a moment his itinerary connecting up all the dots in the sky like a child's numbered dots puzzle. He hoped that from some vantage point in the Universe it might be seen to spell a very, very rude word.
- Wowbagger, from Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams.
You make the dangerous assumption that all terrorists have the same agenda, or indeed, that the trrrorists responsible for the 9/11 incedent have only one beef.
If you believe the US propaganda (which I neither deny nor condone), Al Qaeda is against all forms of personal freedom, and indeed against western culture and commerce (or even, simply, non-Muslims). If any of this were true, why not destroy such a pinnacle of Western technology? According to statements from various sources (Taliban and Al Qaeda sources as quoted by Afghani news sources), the triumph of the Sept 11 attacjs was that the world knows that America isn't invincible. The same point, in their mind, would need to be proven regularly, to set it in the mind of the citizens of the world that NO place was safe (and, by extension, that no act is unthinkable).
And that's just Al Qaeda. What about some other religious whackos that decide that this structure is an affront to God (a Tower of Babel, if you will)? Indeed, no matter who builds it, it will be a target, just on account of its prominence.
There are certainly ways to defend it, though they won't be foolproof. At least a one mile radius area around it will need to be a no fly zone, and fitted with sensors to deter unauthorized intrusion (since it will be in the middle of the ocean, this means sonar detectors able to detect people - indeed, probably some sort of underwater barrier around the whole mess). Costly, indeed. And yet, like most security in place currently, only as reliable as the people who operate it...
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According to the homepage for HyperSCSI, it can support IDE (as well as USB and Fibre Channel) devices:
The article does and abysmal job of covering this, but the homepage for HyperSCSI has a nice PDF presentation that covers just this topic. In short, it goes something like this: The SCSI protocols already provide error checking The HyperSCSI layer adds flow control and retransmits Ethernet provides certain other checks So, in total, you have the same reliabilty of iSCSI and FibreChannel with less overhead (i.e. significant overlapping of the protocols in terms of error detection/correction).
No, they said that the contested code included exact duplication of comments as well, so I suspect that the contested code is more like this one (taken from the string.c source):
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GNU HURD maybe? Of course, they maintain it's not production ready, but this might just be the impetus it needs to finally become so.
I smell a large divestment of stock by SCO upper brass now that the stock is as high as it is likely to get.
As a backup plan, HURD is coming along nicely...
Now the wannabe computer criminals know that there is little to no danger in pulling off such computer crimes, because those that care enough to act are too small to be heard, and those that are large enough to be heard don't care enough to act.
It is quite sad that the ISP took no interest in a breach of its own security, which only encourages future breaches, since the perpetrators know that they will get away with it, not because they are 1337 h4x0rz, but because nobody will look into it.
It won't be long before such attacks become as common place as email viruses if the proper authorities don't act now, and, more importantly, the ISPs don't take heed of this danger. Lack of enforcement does indeed encourage crime.
Now I can commission my own private sub and become my own sovereign nation. Then I'd just have to find that hidden cave that connects Loch Ness to the ocean, and I'd be ready for a life of altered conciousness!
According to this official post from sci-fi on the demise of The Chronicle, they will be doing a movie based on Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld.
Also, some 20 hour miniseries from Steve Spielberg called "Taken". Also, according to this post, they will be doing a 4 hour Myst mini-series.
The first 2 sound quite neat, but I'm not so sure about the Myst series...
The folks at BTExact seem to be doing a great job. It is more interesting watching the posts on Slashdot after looking through this baby, because you can see their predictions happening. Anyway, the Cliff notes version is that they predict that all 1.5 Million currently known species will be listed online by 2005. This looks like a strong step in the right direction...
I've done more reading since a friend showed me some e-books on his Clie than I have in a long while. I had no desire to purchase a PDA (too expensive for keeping track of appointments and contacts) until I realized that I could keep a veritable mountain of reference and fiction works on there (and MP3 functionality was Icing on the cake). So now I own a Casio E-200 and listen to my MP3s while I read. BTW, the ClearText technology on the PocketPC 2002 handhelds is a vast improvement over the Palm handhelds...
If our society were to become stagnant, then the argument for natural selection stopping might be made, though I still think that there is still room for substantial genetic drift to adapt to our current clime.
However, evolution continues because the environment is not static. Much as the climate of our planet has continued to change and influence evolution, so does our society and the tools used in it. Current medical science and laws do not provide a means for us to significantly modify ourselves, and so our primary influence is still Darwinian evolution, though we obviously interfere as much as possible (laws protecting the weak, medicine allowing undesirable genes to be propagated, etc.). However, in 10 to 50 (or even 100) years, technology and societal pressure will influence law and we will begin tampering with our own genetic makeup, speeding up evolution to keep pace with the changes in our artificial climate - society. We will eliminate genes that describe physical and mental deficiencies, we will favor genes that describe intelligence, physical prowess, beauty, and general well being (a la GATTACA). I suspect that this should happen in plenty of time to save us from this "rising up" of the third world countries, not that it makes much difference.
If they were to "rise up", what then? Then they will have access to the same technologies that made us week, and then fail themselves, causing the cycle to repeat until we are capable of modifying ourselves effectively.
The under population is a small problem, but only a small one. In most of the "richer" countries, more people are born than die each year. Our technology, currently making us weak, also helps us live longer. The "poorer" countries may produce more offspring, but they have a much higher fatality rate. At any rate, most, if not all, of the countries of the world continue to increase their population. Even if the "richer" nations do eventually fail to replenish their populations by birth rate, they will still be able to select the best and brightest from the "poor" countries to replenish our ranks.
What I'm really trying to say here is that this isn't an "us vs. them" issue. All of humanity will have access to these technologies, some will just get there first. So how our society and technology affect evolution is of great concern to us all.
I guess it isn't just a joke band name anymore. At least we still have the Darwin Award winners giving their lives for the valiant cause of elevating our species, even against its own apparent downward momentum... I guess the Darwin Award is a dubious honor, and not a completely negative one as I had previously suspected...
It is from the Anime series Lain. An excellent watch and HIGHLY recommended. The philosophy alone will leave you in a stupor. Unless you work regularly with philosophy, in which case you might have a higher immunity. Imagine Matrix meets Neuromancer, with a female lead. And more externalised inner-conflict. Or something.
Actually, everybody knows that further out, from just the right angle, it all spells out a "very, very rude word".
- Wowbagger, from Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams.
You make the dangerous assumption that all terrorists have the same agenda, or indeed, that the trrrorists responsible for the 9/11 incedent have only one beef.
If you believe the US propaganda (which I neither deny nor condone), Al Qaeda is against all forms of personal freedom, and indeed against western culture and commerce (or even, simply, non-Muslims). If any of this were true, why not destroy such a pinnacle of Western technology? According to statements from various sources (Taliban and Al Qaeda sources as quoted by Afghani news sources), the triumph of the Sept 11 attacjs was that the world knows that America isn't invincible. The same point, in their mind, would need to be proven regularly, to set it in the mind of the citizens of the world that NO place was safe (and, by extension, that no act is unthinkable).
And that's just Al Qaeda. What about some other religious whackos that decide that this structure is an affront to God (a Tower of Babel, if you will)? Indeed, no matter who builds it, it will be a target, just on account of its prominence.
There are certainly ways to defend it, though they won't be foolproof. At least a one mile radius area around it will need to be a no fly zone, and fitted with sensors to deter unauthorized intrusion (since it will be in the middle of the ocean, this means sonar detectors able to detect people - indeed, probably some sort of underwater barrier around the whole mess). Costly, indeed. And yet, like most security in place currently, only as reliable as the people who operate it...