Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running? They don't dare.
and earlier he says -
Some say that Pd is, in fact, Microsoft's attempt to preempt the TCPA spec.) TCPA is the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an organization with just under 200 corporate members
So does he think for a moment that Linux is a "corporate member"? Linux is by it's definition a community, not a corporation and thus cannot "be a member" of the TCPA, of course corporations who sell Linux can be members, but as the corporations involved with Linux are a fraction of what Linux actually is, Linux as a community could be damaged severely if this comes to pass.
Additionally, a new chip is required: a tamper-resistant secure processor.
And who's going to upgrade all those old machines that don't have the chip? And what of all those old machines donated at the end of their corporate or home lives to schools and charities? How much of the data swirling around the data buses is encrypted? Do we need new memory / I/O buses that are deemed "secure"? Are there requirements for sheilding the buses from electromagnetic surveilence? Or are they mandated to be open to some mandated authority? So many questions, and NO answers, if they really have been working on Pd since 1997 and there are no answers to these fundemental questions then I call BS.
Pd provides protection against two broad classes of attacks. Automatic software attacks (viruses, Trojans, network-mounted exploits) are contained because an exploited flaw in one part of the system can't affect the rest of the system.
Or *nix as it's usually called. Given that MS software has been and continues to be highly insecure does anyone really think that they can pull this off? The paragraph continues -
And local software-based attacks (e.g., using debuggers to pry things open) are protected because of the separation between parts of the system.
So how much will I have to pay MS to run a debugger? And will there be any other debuggers allowed to run other than MS ones?
There are security features that tie programs and data to CPU and to user, and encrypt them for privacy.
Does that mean that every user (member of family, freind, co-worker, etc) that uses a machine will require a seperate licence to get a seperate key or is it all encrypted with the owners rather than users key? And how are data and keys moved from machine to machine? What happens if keys (like the Regiistry before hand) become corrupt?
Your computer will have several partitions, each of which will be able to read and write its own data.
And what if a partition becomes corrupted? Do we have some sort of digital reciept if we got something from the Net so that we can get back from the Net what was lost locally? If so who enforces the contractual obligations of the digital seller? What if the seller ceases trading?
There's nothing in Pd that prevents someone else (MPAA, Disney, Microsoft, your boss) from setting up a partition on your computer and putting stuff there that you can't get at.
So the MPAA could just DoS me by using up all my drive space so I don't have any room to put MP3s on my machine?
Microsoft has repeatedly said that they are not going to mandate DRM, or try to control DRM systems, but clearly Pd was designed with DRM in mind.
They also say that they arent an abusive monopoly or that they arent hiding anything by not decaring share optionson their balance sheet.
There seem to be good privacy controls, over and above what I would have expected.
So no dial in to MS then to give up your blood type and sexual preference then??
And Microsoft has claimed that they will make the core code public, so that it can be reviewed and evaluated.
When? 2010? 2050?
It's hard to sort out the antitrust implications of Pd.
Why would they care? Hasnt Bruce been following the current case? Doesnt he realise that MS 0wnz the DoJ?
Will it take standard Internet protocols and replace them with Microsoft-proprietary protocols? I don't think so.
The word Halloween comes to mind...
Will Microsoft enforce its Pd patents as strongly as it can? Almost certainly.
Except in countried where software patents arent recognised
Lots of information about Pd will emanate from Redmond over the next few years, some of it true and some of it not.
Whoa! Some of it "true"?
1. A "trusted" computer does not mean a computer that is trustworthy. The DoD's definition of a trusted system is one that can break your security policy; i.e., a system that you are forced to trust because you have no choice. Pd will have trusted features; the jury is still out as to whether or not they are trustworthy.
Didnt NT have a C5 rating? Hehe...
I doubt that you or I could, and still enjoy the richness of the Internet. Microsoft really doesn't care about what you think; they care about what the RIAA and the MPAA think. Microsoft can't afford to have the media companies not make their content available on Microsoft platforms, and they will do what they can to accommodate them.
Yeah I mean it's not like people are ripping CDs and DVDs all the time and making them available over the Net with downloads in the billions per month or anything.... DOH!
3. Like everything else Microsoft produces, Pd will have security holes large enough to drive a truck through. Lots of them. And the ones that are in hardware will be much harder to fix. Be sure to separate the Microsoft PR hype about the promise of Pd from the actual reality of Pd 1.0.
At last! Pd is right now a big PR exercise with a bit of crappy MS code behind it that probably has hundreds of obvious holes (buffer overflow anyone?)
4. Pay attention to the antitrust angle. I guarantee you that Microsoft believes Pd is a way to extend its market share, not to increase competition.
and -
There's also a lot I don't like, and am scared of. My fear is that Pd will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Pd facilitates that reality, it's bad for society. I don't mind companies selling, renting, or licensing things to me, but the loss of the power, reach, and flexibility of the computer is too great a price to pay.
Pd is about the control of information, where/how you get it and how you use it, usually the perview of media companies, governments, religous leaders etc for most people on this planet, as opposed to some of us/.ers who rely on ourselves and open sources of information. Your wallet is only the tip of the iceburg, they want your mind, Pd is The Matrix with nightly reboots.
Have you considered combining Alice with RDF/DAML and an inference engine?
[OT] Some of us think you've been treated very shabbily by the mainstream academic community, I for one do appreciate your work, please keep it going, Signed A Big Fan
A standardised way for describing metadata just looks nice. Unless you're planning on operating corporate-wide or intercorporate-wide, XML, RDF and DAML are just buzzwords.
True, major benefits accrue from being a cross-boundary (team/dept/organisation/nation) system, then you can use the same technology implementation both inside and outside, I think that's what marketroids refer to as "a big win". The point is that with straight XML the apps have to make sense of the tags, RDF is a semantic description and so relationships are explicitly defined allowing for a different level of program logic to be applied without the app having to understand a particular schema other than RDF. There are other ways the same thing can be done, everything could be described semantically in Lisp and then just give everyone Lisp interpreters, RDF was chosen because it is easy to understand, you don't have all the old associations of expert systems and other such failures, and being serialised as XML means interpreters are easy to build, and so are query stores. XML is useful as a tool and so is RDF, but there are differences in where the line between syntax and semantics lie, that was my point, I hope I've explained it better now.
Unless a "God" starts defining ontologies, and of course borrowing from others that already exist, plus it's a much smaller step from RDF to DAML than from XML to RDF...think of the possibilities... and there's some compression and encryption involved to get to the wireline data, I guess it's good my ontologies start with the most important forms of data... MP3 tags:) I don't think perhaps you realise the significance of RDF, XML is about tags RDF is about semantic content and one up from there, DAML enables logic deductions, as TBL named it "The Semantic Web", far more useful than typographical web we have at the moment. As for >1MLOC, well you need other services like authentication, gateways to translate the content of other systems into RDF etc, you get there very quickly. As for China, and other counties, we can just batter them with the WTO rules as they will be hurting our business, they might even fall foul other laws regarding network and computer security if they interfer, anyhow nice to know you got my email and that it inspired a response.
"If there were no state-sponsored censorship of the Internet, if Cisco et al weren't crack hoes for hire, if there were no democracy activists screaming for help -- hell, we could be off having fun instead of working long hours after our day jobs," Hacktivismo member and occasional Reg contributor Oxblood Ruffin told us
No but Fox is making a series called Crack Valley High...to be serious for a second perhaps they have had help from the CIA, as they are heavily involved in the drug trade
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Well it was originally going to be called MS HotAir(tm), but the spinmeisters at M$ HQ didnt like that, to give an example from the article - The Xbox console isn't profitable for the Redmond, Wash., company and its costs are believed to be higher than Sony's, partly because of the hard drive and a version of its powerful Windows operating system included with each machine. While the Xbox is a full-feature BMW, the PS2 is a Toyota says Bruno Bonnell, chairman and chief executive of French game maker Infogrames Entertainment SA.
Note that there is an implicit assumption that Windows is a powerful operating system andtherefore we should all be willing to pay more for it. I thought the XBox was more expensive because M$ built uneconomic hardware that doesnt sell as well as the competition and they need to heavily subsidise so that people will buy it? Plus some quote from a M$ crony doesnt mean squat. So much for that puff piece... NEXT!
I see you've had your trip to the Ministry of Truth, but on a more serious note, given that no warrent has to be issued and the lack of judicial review this is a very very Bad Thing, here's the story on The Register
AMD CPUs are fine for me, just pick a good mobo, I have a dual MP 1800+ sitting here using a Tyan 2466N mobo with 1GB ECC registered DDR, and it is rock solid, $1000 or so less than an equivalent Prestonia box, and plenty fast enough. The fact that AMD is producing MP processors that I am happy to use in servers is a testament to how far they have come, Intel IMHO seem to be more and more driven by ad campaigns than delivering great technology to customers, which is pretty sad.
Actually it was Harry S. Trumans idea, this was to placate Jews for two reasons, first the US government and the media were aware of The Holocaust, and used to refer to WWII as "The European War" before Pearl Harbour (get copies of newspapers from the time and check for yourself) and second that the US actually took in alot of Nazis as someone mentioned in another post somewhere in the thread so they could boost the US technology programs. The other groups that had genocide committed against them by the Nazis such as the Romany gipsies, gays, and mentally and psychically disabled didnt have the same political voice, so got nothing.
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Capitalism exists to employ capital in the creation of yet more capital
Money is one form of capital, so is labour and so is technology (non-human labour), money is merely the easiest form to quantify and so is used to "keep score". This is not something that we usually think about and therefore is taken as read that money is the only possible goal and therefore deviates from what Adam Smith actually said in The Wealth of Nations. I'd suggest reading Adam Smiths entire work as well as others such as Goerge Soros, who constantly ruminates on how we value things. Also consider the question of scope, there's my capital, and my corporations capital, there is also shared capital, like the environment which supports our ability to create such a system to begin with, it's actually a very interesting and deep question, which I cannot hope to answer, I'm sure you're able to consider it for yourself, as Bill Hicks once said "I'm just planting seeds".
Well IBM made a killing, if you'll excuse the sick pun, helping the Nazis to mechanise mass murdered, there is an excellent book on the subject called, IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go sell guns to school children.
You obviously don't have an MBA, selling formulaic movies, throwaway pop-bands and psychoactive drugs to children is much more profitable, if you really feel like being in the arms business I suggest you sell weapons to whoever is the favourate CIA client at the moment, sadly you missed out on supplying Bin Laden, Saddam Hussien, and many other US backed psychopaths, but Israel is still good for lots of American dollars, see your local DoD / new-improved-cointelpro brigade for more information or drop into The School of The Americas which trains generations of Latin American murderous military and police officers
Let me have a look, ah, yes, you must be Mr. Ford Prefect, 1 Towel Drive, birthday, May 25th, or is it last Friday of May? There seems to be some confusion here
Simulations use sparse matrix math, go look at the source code for SPICE, so I would name the movies Fill and Non-fill, or is that just too geeky, even for/.?
Yeah, you suddenly find it's self modifying code for Itanium complete with undocumented API calls to Win64, or possibly worse, self modifying code for a Connection Machine or other massively parrallel boxen, my bet is that the binary file will be the same size as the database for the Human Genome project, now do they use MySQL 3 or 4??
The Promise SuperTrak SX6000 supports up to 6 drives all on independent channels, and the Escalade 7810/7850 support 8 drives on seperate channels, put 2 of those in your machine and have 16 drives in a nice RAID 5 array and have ~2TB for ~$4K
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Just one slight point, one has to have "a carefully controlled experiment" AKA The Matrix, sadly for those who wish to bound the experiment AKA politicians, religious leaders, etc, we, those that they seek to control keep discovering and inventing new things, so the experiment is only bounded at a specific time by whatever contraints they foist on us at that moment, as we evolve faster and they have to try to keep up we are actually becoming freer as the gap between THEM and US widens. Unfortunately without a corresponding change in the psychology of the population we have people who believe in the Old Ways using the New Tools, so we get 9/11 and Aum Shinkro, these are things that cannot be simulated, as we don't know whats coming next until it arrives. My own view is that eventually if we don't change peoples psychology we'll be looking at extinction.
Pfft! My watch, that I've had for 12 years is a Longines VIP in titanium and gold, I suppose I was an Early Adopter, oh and it has great geek appeal, as it is the most accurate quartz watch ever made, it even compensates for temperature variation, I've only ever met two other people with the same model, both self made millionaire geeks, anyway it's nice to see some of the laggards catching up.
That is so 2001... try Gnucleus (Gnutella client) inc. source, the latest version of PERL and gcc inc. some nice tutorials, so we can encourage the next generation of geeks, and of course point the browsers homepage to/. can you imagine 34 million AOLers/.ing/.??
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Yes and no here's my take on it
/.ers who rely on ourselves and open sources of information. Your wallet is only the tip of the iceburg, they want your mind, Pd is The Matrix with nightly reboots.
I disagree with Schneier on several points -
Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running? They don't dare.
and earlier he says -
Some say that Pd is, in fact, Microsoft's attempt to preempt the TCPA spec.) TCPA is the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an organization with just under 200 corporate members
So does he think for a moment that Linux is a "corporate member"? Linux is by it's definition a community, not a corporation and thus cannot "be a member" of the TCPA, of course corporations who sell Linux can be members, but as the corporations involved with Linux are a fraction of what Linux actually is, Linux as a community could be damaged severely if this comes to pass.
Additionally, a new chip is required: a tamper-resistant secure processor.
And who's going to upgrade all those old machines that don't have the chip? And what of all those old machines donated at the end of their corporate or home lives to schools and charities? How much of the data swirling around the data buses is encrypted? Do we need new memory / I/O buses that are deemed "secure"? Are there requirements for sheilding the buses from electromagnetic surveilence? Or are they mandated to be open to some mandated authority? So many questions, and NO answers, if they really have been working on Pd since 1997 and there are no answers to these fundemental questions then I call BS.
Pd provides protection against two broad classes of attacks. Automatic software attacks (viruses, Trojans, network-mounted exploits) are contained because an exploited flaw in one part of the system can't affect the rest of the system.
Or *nix as it's usually called. Given that MS software has been and continues to be highly insecure does anyone really think that they can pull this off? The paragraph continues -
And local software-based attacks (e.g., using debuggers to pry things open) are protected because of the separation between parts of the system.
So how much will I have to pay MS to run a debugger? And will there be any other debuggers allowed to run other than MS ones?
There are security features that tie programs and data to CPU and to user, and encrypt them for privacy.
Does that mean that every user (member of family, freind, co-worker, etc) that uses a machine will require a seperate licence to get a seperate key or is it all encrypted with the owners rather than users key? And how are data and keys moved from machine to machine? What happens if keys (like the Regiistry before hand) become corrupt?
Your computer will have several partitions, each of which will be able to read and write its own data.
And what if a partition becomes corrupted? Do we have some sort of digital reciept if we got something from the Net so that we can get back from the Net what was lost locally? If so who enforces the contractual obligations of the digital seller? What if the seller ceases trading?
There's nothing in Pd that prevents someone else (MPAA, Disney, Microsoft, your boss) from setting up a partition on your computer and putting stuff there that you can't get at.
So the MPAA could just DoS me by using up all my drive space so I don't have any room to put MP3s on my machine?
Microsoft has repeatedly said that they are not going to mandate DRM, or try to control DRM systems, but clearly Pd was designed with DRM in mind.
They also say that they arent an abusive monopoly or that they arent hiding anything by not decaring share optionson their balance sheet.
There seem to be good privacy controls, over and above what I would have expected.
So no dial in to MS then to give up your blood type and sexual preference then??
And Microsoft has claimed that they will make the core code public, so that it can be reviewed and evaluated.
When? 2010? 2050?
It's hard to sort out the antitrust implications of Pd.
Why would they care? Hasnt Bruce been following the current case? Doesnt he realise that MS 0wnz the DoJ?
Will it take standard Internet protocols and replace them with Microsoft-proprietary protocols? I don't think so.
The word Halloween comes to mind...
Will Microsoft enforce its Pd patents as strongly as it can? Almost certainly.
Except in countried where software patents arent recognised
Lots of information about Pd will emanate from Redmond over the next few years, some of it true and some of it not.
Whoa! Some of it "true"?
1. A "trusted" computer does not mean a computer that is trustworthy. The DoD's definition of a trusted system is one that can break your security policy; i.e., a system that you are forced to trust because you have no choice. Pd will have trusted features; the jury is still out as to whether or not they are trustworthy.
Didnt NT have a C5 rating? Hehe...
I doubt that you or I could, and still enjoy the richness of the Internet. Microsoft really doesn't care about what you think; they care about what the RIAA and the MPAA think. Microsoft can't afford to have the media companies not make their content available on Microsoft platforms, and they will do what they can to accommodate them.
Yeah I mean it's not like people are ripping CDs and DVDs all the time and making them available over the Net with downloads in the billions per month or anything.... DOH!
3. Like everything else Microsoft produces, Pd will have security holes large enough to drive a truck through. Lots of them. And the ones that are in hardware will be much harder to fix. Be sure to separate the Microsoft PR hype about the promise of Pd from the actual reality of Pd 1.0.
At last! Pd is right now a big PR exercise with a bit of crappy MS code behind it that probably has hundreds of obvious holes (buffer overflow anyone?)
4. Pay attention to the antitrust angle. I guarantee you that Microsoft believes Pd is a way to extend its market share, not to increase competition.
and -
There's also a lot I don't like, and am scared of. My fear is that Pd will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Pd facilitates that reality, it's bad for society. I don't mind companies selling, renting, or licensing things to me, but the loss of the power, reach, and flexibility of the computer is too great a price to pay.
Pd is about the control of information, where/how you get it and how you use it, usually the perview of media companies, governments, religous leaders etc for most people on this planet, as opposed to some of us
Have you considered combining Alice with RDF/DAML and an inference engine?
[OT]
Some of us think you've been treated very shabbily by the mainstream academic community, I for one do appreciate your work, please keep it going, Signed A Big Fan
A standardised way for describing metadata just looks nice. Unless you're planning on operating corporate-wide or intercorporate-wide, XML, RDF and DAML are just buzzwords.
True, major benefits accrue from being a cross-boundary (team/dept/organisation/nation) system, then you can use the same technology implementation both inside and outside, I think that's what marketroids refer to as "a big win". The point is that with straight XML the apps have to make sense of the tags, RDF is a semantic description and so relationships are explicitly defined allowing for a different level of program logic to be applied without the app having to understand a particular schema other than RDF. There are other ways the same thing can be done, everything could be described semantically in Lisp and then just give everyone Lisp interpreters, RDF was chosen because it is easy to understand, you don't have all the old associations of expert systems and other such failures, and being serialised as XML means interpreters are easy to build, and so are query stores. XML is useful as a tool and so is RDF, but there are differences in where the line between syntax and semantics lie, that was my point, I hope I've explained it better now.
RDF will only be effective inside big companies
:) I don't think perhaps you realise the significance of RDF, XML is about tags RDF is about semantic content and one up from there, DAML enables logic deductions, as TBL named it "The Semantic Web", far more useful than typographical web we have at the moment. As for >1MLOC, well you need other services like authentication, gateways to translate the content of other systems into RDF etc, you get there very quickly. As for China, and other counties, we can just batter them with the WTO rules as they will be hurting our business, they might even fall foul other laws regarding network and computer security if they interfer, anyhow nice to know you got my email and that it inspired a response.
Unless a "God" starts defining ontologies, and of course borrowing from others that already exist, plus it's a much smaller step from RDF to DAML than from XML to RDF...think of the possibilities... and there's some compression and encryption involved to get to the wireline data, I guess it's good my ontologies start with the most important forms of data... MP3 tags
One word to clients... "Outsource"
<real world>
PHB: Our Anderson Consultants have recommended we should outsource to WorldCom...
</real world>
Don't joke, Gene Kan, well known for his work on Gnutella died on Jun 29 at the age of 25, check
the news.com story
here
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"If there were no state-sponsored censorship of the Internet, if Cisco et al weren't crack hoes for hire, if there were no democracy activists screaming for help -- hell, we could be off having fun instead of working long hours after our day jobs," Hacktivismo member and occasional Reg contributor Oxblood Ruffin told us
No but Fox is making a series called Crack Valley High...to be serious for a second perhaps they have had help from the CIA, as they are heavily involved in the drug trade
Well it was originally going to be called MS HotAir(tm), but the spinmeisters at M$ HQ didnt like that, to give an example from the article -
The Xbox console isn't profitable for the Redmond, Wash., company and its costs are believed to be higher than Sony's, partly because of the hard drive and a version of its powerful Windows operating system included with each machine. While the Xbox is a full-feature BMW, the PS2 is a Toyota says Bruno Bonnell, chairman and chief executive of French game maker Infogrames Entertainment SA.
Note that there is an implicit assumption that Windows is a powerful operating system andtherefore we should all be willing to pay more for it. I thought the XBox was more expensive because M$ built uneconomic hardware that doesnt sell as well as the competition and they need to heavily subsidise so that people will buy it? Plus some quote from a M$ crony doesnt mean squat. So much for that puff piece... NEXT!
I see you've had your trip to the Ministry of Truth, but on a more serious note, given that no warrent has to be issued and the lack of judicial review this is a very very Bad Thing, here's the story on The Register
AMD CPUs are fine for me, just pick a good mobo, I have a dual MP 1800+ sitting here using a Tyan 2466N mobo with 1GB ECC registered DDR, and it is rock solid, $1000 or so less than an equivalent Prestonia box, and plenty fast enough. The fact that AMD is producing MP processors that I am happy to use in servers is a testament to how far they have come, Intel IMHO seem to be more and more driven by ad campaigns than delivering great technology to customers, which is pretty sad.
Actually it was Harry S. Trumans idea, this was to placate Jews for two reasons, first the US government and the media were aware of The Holocaust, and used to refer to WWII as "The European War" before Pearl Harbour (get copies of newspapers from the time and check for yourself) and second that the US actually took in alot of Nazis as someone mentioned in another post somewhere in the thread so they could boost the US technology programs. The other groups that had genocide committed against them by the Nazis such as the Romany gipsies, gays, and mentally and psychically disabled didnt have the same political voice, so got nothing.
Middle East: Mind your language
Arab-Israeli partition: a Middle East milestone
Capitalism exists to employ capital in the creation of yet more capital
Money is one form of capital, so is labour and so is technology (non-human labour), money is merely the easiest form to quantify and so is used to "keep score". This is not something that we usually think about and therefore is taken as read that money is the only possible goal and therefore deviates from what Adam Smith actually said in The Wealth of Nations. I'd suggest reading Adam Smiths entire work as well as others such as Goerge Soros, who constantly ruminates on how we value things. Also consider the question of scope, there's my capital, and my corporations capital, there is also shared capital, like the environment which supports our ability to create such a system to begin with, it's actually a very interesting and deep question, which I cannot hope to answer, I'm sure you're able to consider it for yourself, as Bill Hicks once said "I'm just planting seeds".
Well IBM made a killing, if you'll excuse the sick pun, helping the Nazis to mechanise mass murdered, there is an excellent book on the subject called, IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/25539.html
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go sell guns to school children.
You obviously don't have an MBA, selling formulaic movies, throwaway pop-bands and psychoactive drugs to children is much more profitable, if you really feel like being in the arms business I suggest you sell weapons to whoever is the favourate CIA client at the moment, sadly you missed out on supplying Bin Laden, Saddam Hussien, and many other US backed psychopaths, but Israel is still good for lots of American dollars, see your local DoD / new-improved-cointelpro brigade for more information or drop into The School of The Americas which trains generations of Latin American murderous military and police officers
Let me have a look, ah, yes, you must be Mr. Ford Prefect, 1 Towel Drive, birthday, May 25th, or is it last Friday of May? There seems to be some confusion here
I'd suggest reading AffectiveComputing by Rosalind Picard from MIT Press, her homepage is here and interview on First Monday and the MIT homepage at MIT
Simulations use sparse matrix math, go look at the source code for SPICE, so I would name the movies Fill and Non-fill, or is that just too geeky, even for /.?
Yeah, you suddenly find it's self modifying code for Itanium complete with undocumented API calls to Win64, or possibly worse, self modifying code for a Connection Machine or other massively parrallel boxen, my bet is that the binary file will be the same size as the database for the Human Genome project, now do they use MySQL 3 or 4??
The Promise SuperTrak SX6000 supports up to 6 drives all on independent channels, and the Escalade 7810/7850 support 8 drives on seperate channels, put 2 of those in your machine and have 16 drives in a nice RAID 5 array and have ~2TB for ~$4K
Just one slight point, one has to have "a carefully controlled experiment" AKA The Matrix, sadly for those who wish to bound the experiment AKA politicians, religious leaders, etc, we, those that they seek to control keep discovering and inventing new things, so the experiment is only bounded at a specific time by whatever contraints they foist on us at that moment, as we evolve faster and they have to try to keep up we are actually becoming freer as the gap between THEM and US widens. Unfortunately without a corresponding change in the psychology of the population we have people who believe in the Old Ways using the New Tools, so we get 9/11 and Aum Shinkro, these are things that cannot be simulated, as we don't know whats coming next until it arrives. My own view is that eventually if we don't change peoples psychology we'll be looking at extinction.
Pfft! My watch, that I've had for 12 years is a Longines VIP in titanium and gold, I suppose I was an Early Adopter, oh and it has great geek appeal, as it is the most accurate quartz watch ever made, it even compensates for temperature variation, I've only ever met two other people with the same model, both self made millionaire geeks, anyway it's nice to see some of the laggards catching up.
That is so 2001... try Gnucleus (Gnutella client) inc. source, the latest version of PERL and gcc inc. some nice tutorials, so we can encourage the next generation of geeks, and of course point the browsers homepage to /. can you imagine 34 million AOLers /.ing /.??
I think you'll be needing the Printer Freindly version of the article to start with...