... ensuring security and privacy of customer data is.
I always thought that the stupidest things that Eric Schmidt ever did were all those blase comments about how we had to learn to live without privacy, etc. (check google for eric schmidt quotes).
I'm not saying that they don't care about these issues, but in the past they have sounded like they don't care.
I reckon that they should instead make security and privacy of data their top priority, and let their customers know about it too (instead of the opposite) - so this "red team" sounds like a good idea. They should write it into their company constitution and make it clear in their contract with their users. We all know that google will track our internet use to improve our search results/target their ads, so we need to trust them that this data is not misused, right? I'm surprised they don't push more that concept of "data untouched by human hand", as I think a lot of people are quite comfortable with that.
So I reckon they need to make sure that we know we can trust them, and people won't fully embrace their range of products unless there is trust there, but once you commit (yourself and your data) to the google product range you are likely to remain a loyal user/customer.
When I installed nx the reason for the nx user is the wierdest thing about the installation - I still don't think I understand the rationale here. It doesn't seem like good design to me.
Added to that you have the necessity to do a full xdm login session - that also seems overkill as usually I just want a single xclient running remotely. I think you maybe can do a single client at a time, but I don't understand how to do it.
Otherwise, though, I have to say, though, that NX is fantastic - it does the job it is designed for amazingly well. It seems much better than VNC to me because it deals with the X protocol itself, rather than just redrawing patches of screen. I qualify this with the fact I am only interested in *nix.
I wonder what constraints there would be on developing the open-source version of nx - e.g. to throw out the nx user and make it simple to launch xclients a client at a time? I don't know how much better version 4 is than version 3, but version 3 is still 2-orders of magnitude better than doing x "directly" over ssh for slow connections.
This is not so surprising. If you've ever played Tetris for any amount of time, you'll know that for hours afterward you'll have flashbacks of falling shapes. That leaves no time for traumatic flashbacks.
Fur sure - there was a time back at college when I was playing a lot, and I kept getting recurring tetris dreams.
Therefore, ACPI suspend features are really not as important to Linux users as maybe they are to Windows users
I don't think that's true.
I would be most upset if I couldn't suspend this linux laptop. It only takes a few seconds to return from suspend, but quite a few minutes to boot and start apps.
I may be atypical here, but for the linux on this Dell Inspiron laptop, sleep works fine, but when I use vista it goes completely AWOL if I stop using the computer for 15 min (I assume it's a power-saving issue).
Maybe it will be a bit like the RedHat/CentOS relationship - if you want to redistribute it (modified or otherwise) then you have to remove all the trademarks/graphics, etc.
I.e. only google will get to call what they distribute "chromeOS", and everyone else will have to call their compilation "slightlyshineyOS" or somesuch. "chromeOS" will enforce the no hard-drive rule, and "slightlyshineyOS" will not have to.
If it is true that fake reviews are easy to spot, then it should be possible to get a computer to spot them too, you might think.
I find that online reviews are usually pretty worthless when there are, say, less than 5 contributors. Either the reviews are so good they must be employees, etc, or they are angry diatribes from disgruntled customers.
Try looking at reviews for almost any electrical item (even items you own and know to be good) - what you usually find is that all the reviews will be negative because the users are so angry when their device fails they are motivated to let out their frustration somewhere. On the other hand, when things tick along as normal then they can't be bothered to contribute to an online review system.
I think you would be nuts to bother with old hardware.
You can probably make simple TCP/IP devices for less than $5-10 a piece that would consume hardly any power. Embedded, low-power, low-footprint devices, which you can mass-produce.
Not sure how you manage to distribute these around the internet though - I expect this is where most of the cost would lie.
I have no fear of being hit on the head by a falling empty plastic soda bottle from ANY height.
Then, sir, you have no fear at all. The fins tend to give the pop-bottle a stable orientation, reducing the air resistance compared with, say, one of your friends flinging a similar finless bottle at your head.
Someone was demonstrating these pop-bottle rockets (the regular kind, not the kevlar version!) at a school fair near where I live, in a somewhat unsafe manner.
He was letting the children run after the rocket to return it too him.
On one occasion though, one of the kids was fast enough to work out where it was going to land. He put up his hands to catch it, but somewhat misjudged the speed it was going and to gasps from the crowd was hit squarely in the face and knocked to the ground.
Still, it's preferable to a brick.
I'd didn't stick around to assess the injuries inflicted, but it was clear the boy was still concious at least (just a bit of a bloody nose).
I use old VHS tapes quite a lot still, and I can tell you, there are big advantages:
they remember the point you were last watching, even when you take them out
no "clockwork-orange"-style-compulsory-viewing copyright theft rant each time you put one in (see IT crowd - v. funny - "Would you steal a baby?")
no having to hang around waiting for the silly pointless menu clip, so that you can press "start" (I have to hang around to start DVDs for my kids)
that warm fuzzy non-widescreen poor screen quality glow.
One of our DVD players is really cheap - it basically reboots every time you take it out of standby, so you have to watch all that copyright stuff yet again if you interrupt your viewing.
You do get the feeling that DVDs were invented just to irritate and control you - and going back to VHS is a good feeling after that. I can't see this new step forward to be very popular!
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... ensuring security and privacy of customer data is.
I always thought that the stupidest things that Eric Schmidt ever did were all those blase comments about how we had to learn to live without privacy, etc. (check google for eric schmidt quotes).
I'm not saying that they don't care about these issues, but in the past they have sounded like they don't care.
I reckon that they should instead make security and privacy of data their top priority, and let their customers know about it too (instead of the opposite) - so this "red team" sounds like a good idea.
They should write it into their company constitution and make it clear in their contract with their users.
We all know that google will track our internet use to improve our search results/target their ads, so we need to trust them that this data is not misused, right?
I'm surprised they don't push more that concept of "data untouched by human hand", as I think a lot of people are quite comfortable with that.
So I reckon they need to make sure that we know we can trust them, and people won't fully embrace their range of products unless there is trust there, but once you commit (yourself and your data) to the google product range you are likely to remain a loyal user/customer.
Above post is informative.
When I installed nx the reason for the nx user is the wierdest thing about the installation - I still don't think I understand the rationale here. It doesn't seem like good design to me.
Added to that you have the necessity to do a full xdm login session - that also seems overkill as usually I just want a single xclient running remotely. I think you maybe can do a single client at a time, but I don't understand how to do it.
Otherwise, though, I have to say, though, that NX is fantastic - it does the job it is designed for amazingly well. It seems much better than VNC to me because it deals with the X protocol itself, rather than just redrawing patches of screen. I qualify this with the fact I am only interested in *nix.
I wonder what constraints there would be on developing the open-source version of nx - e.g. to throw out the nx user and make it simple to launch xclients a client at a time? I don't know how much better version 4 is than version 3, but version 3 is still 2-orders of magnitude better than doing x "directly" over ssh for slow connections.
This is not so surprising. If you've ever played Tetris for any amount of time, you'll know that for hours afterward you'll have flashbacks of falling shapes. That leaves no time for traumatic flashbacks.
Fur sure - there was a time back at college when I was playing a lot, and I kept getting recurring tetris dreams.
That is not healthy!
Therefore, ACPI suspend features are really not as important to Linux users as maybe they are to Windows users
I don't think that's true.
I would be most upset if I couldn't suspend this linux laptop. It only takes a few seconds to return from suspend, but quite a few minutes to boot and start apps.
I may be atypical here, but for the linux on this Dell Inspiron laptop, sleep works fine, but when I use vista it goes completely AWOL if I stop using the computer for 15 min (I assume it's a power-saving issue).
So maybe it's not just linux with issues.
Maybe it will be a bit like the RedHat/CentOS relationship - if you want to redistribute it (modified or otherwise) then you have to remove all the trademarks/graphics, etc.
I.e. only google will get to call what they distribute "chromeOS", and everyone else will have to call their compilation "slightlyshineyOS" or somesuch. "chromeOS" will enforce the no hard-drive rule, and "slightlyshineyOS" will not have to.
Maybe they'll use this:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courgette
Maybe "C", "D" and "C++" are not so bad, as they don't intersect with a very common word in plain english text.
However, they are still pretty poor choices, I agree. And having symbols in the name is the work of the devil.
Not sure what compiler you are using - I make it 2940 bytes when compiling C after doing a "gcc helloworld.c" and "strip a.out".
If I use "gcc -static hi.c", then it's up with the go version at about 500kB.
Hmm. Must remember to get a life.
From TFA:
all of the Lithium is located in countries that are hostel [sic] towards the U.S. - which is a bit of a problem ...
... which I guess means that they only reserve substandard accommodation for their US visitors, whereas everyone else gets 5-star. Rough deal.
To me 100 years sounds like a precursor argument to cutting funding.
As fusion seems to be the only single approach that is capable of solving the energy/climate/etc crisis by itself, we should be doubling the funding.
For the promised benefits, nuclear fusion research funding seems disproportionately small to me.
I'm Anonymous, and so is my Dad.
...imagining a Beowulf cluster of these?
Aww - nevermind.
Neat idea, but how do they get rid of the heat of 1000 suns? Does the IR escape because it isn't reflected the same way?
From their website describing a (not-yet-available) product (http://www.morgansolar.com/sunsimba-features.php):
The materials use block infrared radiation, preventing it from concentrating at the PV cell.
Heating does occur, however the aluminum spine is cooled by convection which allows hot air to escape up and through air gaps in the solar modules.
If it is true that fake reviews are easy to spot, then it should be possible to get a computer to spot them too, you might think.
I find that online reviews are usually pretty worthless when there are, say, less than 5 contributors. Either the reviews are so good they must be employees, etc, or they are angry diatribes from disgruntled customers.
Try looking at reviews for almost any electrical item (even items you own and know to be good) - what you usually find is that all the reviews will be negative because the users are so angry when their device fails they are motivated to let out their frustration somewhere. On the other hand, when things tick along as normal then they can't be bothered to contribute to an online review system.
That is, of course, for the company shills...
Much like with coding: planning is everything
I thought iterative optimization was everything.
Usually I start with
compare it with my customer's needs, and go from there.
Or when are MS going to release the BSD code in Windows, including all enhancements?
Yeah, then we could all use WSAGetLastError().
We could ask Bill, but EWOULDBLOCK it.
While its true that SATA had very low sights set (unfortunately), its not like PATA's limitations.
...like losing all your nails when you try to unplug the little bastards :-)
Trouble with RAM is that it disappears when the power fails.
Ooops - obviously I mean you lose the information stored in the RAM, and not the RAM itself!
Trouble with RAM is that it disappears when the power fails.
Even with the iRAM you lose it after 16 hours if I understand correctly.
So SSD has a real advantage there by the sound of things (in being more like a real hard disk).
Or is it because it will only "nearly double", rather than double outright?
Or is it because they are quoting just the "double" part of Cisco's report?
Seems like unwarranted accuracy to me for predicting events 2 years hence. Also seems like an underestimate too.
I think you would be nuts to bother with old hardware.
You can probably make simple TCP/IP devices for less than $5-10 a piece that would consume hardly any power. Embedded, low-power, low-footprint devices, which you can mass-produce.
Not sure how you manage to distribute these around the internet though - I expect this is where most of the cost would lie.
Then, sir, you have no fear at all. The fins tend to give the pop-bottle a stable orientation, reducing the air resistance compared with, say, one of your friends flinging a similar finless bottle at your head.
Someone was demonstrating these pop-bottle rockets (the regular kind, not the kevlar version!) at a school fair near where I live, in a somewhat unsafe manner.
He was letting the children run after the rocket to return it too him.
On one occasion though, one of the kids was fast enough to work out where it was going to land. He put up his hands to catch it, but somewhat misjudged the speed it was going and to gasps from the crowd was hit squarely in the face and knocked to the ground.
Still, it's preferable to a brick.
I'd didn't stick around to assess the injuries inflicted, but it was clear the boy was still concious at least (just a bit of a bloody nose).
One of our DVD players is really cheap - it basically reboots every time you take it out of standby, so you have to watch all that copyright stuff yet again if you interrupt your viewing.
You do get the feeling that DVDs were invented just to irritate and control you - and going back to VHS is a good feeling after that. I can't see this new step forward to be very popular!
Bah - you deserve everything you get.