Okay, I was home, and my phone was on the "personal" partition. Now I have to restart the phone to get to the "business" partition. So I'll hang up and call you back.
No. The point of this is to do better than what you described (which amounts to just having two different sim cards for your phone):
During the demo, if the phone was displaying the private user interface and a phone call came in from a person listed in the phone's corporate contact list, the device automatically changed interfaces to the business instance. The phone smoothly moved between the two distinct interfaces.
Virtualization will allow tailoring the execution environment to make it so dumbed-down it only meets the minimal requirements for the particular application.
Of course, this assumes the hypervisor itself earns trust, which will probably take years to get right.
Arguing about Asimov's Laws is precisely as silly as arguing that the 10 Commandments or Sharia Law would "solve everything" if adopted as the law of the land. (In fact, Asimov's first two laws amount to "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and "Honor Thy Father and Mother"... the third is self-preservation, which is something humans already have. Why no prohibition against lying in Asimov's Laws? That one seems like a keeper.)
As a plot device for Sci Fi the 3 laws are fine.
In the real world a few nebulous guidelines don't get you that far.
Datagram owns and operates two data centers. In addition to the 16,000 square foot facility on the 25th floor of 33 Whitehall, the company also has a facility in Bethel, Connecticut, as well as colocation space at major New York and New Jersey data hubs. Many of Datagramâ(TM)s customers, especially those in financial services, are âoedouble-homedâ and can operate their infrastructure from either location. The Datagram staff focused on helping those customers maintain their operations.
The news was less promising for customers with single-homed servers at 33 Whitehall, who were facing days of downtime.
So, they did offer distributed replication (which is FAR more effective, and cost effective, than all the bizarre ideas about diesel tanks being thrown around in here). But some customers decided to save some bucks and risk it. A gamble they lost.
It's interesting that the government is more jealous in protecting the interests large corporations (e.g. the article to which we are responding) than defending the solvency of the government itself:
Using complex schemes to shift U.S. revenue overseas, Microsoft was able to avoid paying taxes on $21 billion in revenue between 2009 and 2011, amounting to about half its total U.S. sales, according to the subcommittee report. The company avoided paying $4.5 billion in taxes, or about $4 million per day, during that time, according to the report.
Using similar schemes, Levin said, Apple avoided taxes on $34.5 billion between 2009 and 2011, and Google has dodged taxes on $24 billion.
Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, used a series of constantly revolving short-term loans between itself and its subsidiaries that have helped it avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes since at least 2008, according to Levin. Though he didn't say how much money H-P has avoided paying, Levin did say that H-P has kept billions of dollars in cash offshore -- more than $17 billion in 2010, for example -- that it would then "lend" to its U.S. parent company in a steady stream.
Forget a few jerseys, we're talking about billions of dollars here. Clearly it's not that the government is being bamboozled, rather it has been bought out or intimidated. I think it is time to put our foot down; if these companies really think they can do better from Bahrain, let them move there and try.
Heh. Although, "counterfeit" does not necessarily imply inferior quality. Sometimes it is nothing but an unlicensed extra production run on the same assembly line that makes the "real" thing. Or, sometimes it is simple arbitrage; "grey imports" of brand-name goods that were supposed to be sold for less profit in poorer markets.
That line of argument would make a lot more sense if they'd been pursuing a particular criminal organization and then moved to take down their illegal source of income, which happened to be trademark violation.
That's not to say global intellectual property rights should go unprotected; only that it should not be rolled into "national security." For that matter, I wouldn't mind seeing it accounted for separately, so that whiny companies and CEOs can be reminded why they deserve to pay a tax rate above 0%.
You can see from the numbers in the article the results are about what you'd expect from improved hardware (as opposed to actually solving the problem)
"As opposed to actually solving the problem"? You brain has about 86 billion neurons and around 100 trillion synapses. It accounts for 2% of body weight and 20% of energy consumed. Do you think these numbers would be large if they didn't need do be?
I think the emphasis in computer science on focusing so exclusively on polynomial-time algorithms has really stunted it. Maybe most of the essential tasks for staying alive and reproducing don't happen to have efficient solutions, but the constants of proportionality are small enough to brute-force with several trillion neurons.
I am 16 years into my marriage, and can say without question that it is good. But I am not so sure about the leap from "my marriage is good," to "marriage is good." After all, I've been at the same company for 12 years and in the same home for 10. Maybe I'm just an inherently stable, some would say boring type of guy. How can any of us know what it's like inside somebody else's mind?
Oh yes, that's true. Well, a quick search didn't show me when optical sensors were first used for the x/y axes. But (again from Wikipedia) it looks like optical sensors on the two internal wheels were adopted in the mid 1980's:
It's so old it doesn't even use an optical sensor: instead it has some sort of endless potentiometer with its spindle in contact with the ball.
Is this a joke? All mice were mechanical until just a little over 10 years ago: "The first commercially successful optical computer mice were the Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye and IntelliMouse Explorer, introduced in 1999." (wikipedia) If you've never popped the ball out of a mouse to pick out the belly button lint you are just a young pup:)
'Tis true. But the obsession with thin has gone too far IMHO. After "switching" to a MacBook Pro a couple years ago, I've just ordered a loaded-up Dell and am switching back. Partially this is because I need MS Office and the Mac version doesn't cut it for me, so I was always running a Windows VM anyways. But secondly, I wanted a swappable battery again. I wanted an expansion bay where I could put a second hard drive, or a second battery, or of course the CD ROM. I wanted a docking station (and weirdly the Thunderbolt still hasn't really provided equivalent options like I expected). Apple systems are just so integrated now that you can't reconfigure, upgrade, or repair them. (I do regret not getting to upgrade to a "retinal" display though. In fact the i7 processor, screen resolution, and 256 GB hardware-encrypted SSD on the Dell are all no better than I got on the Mac 2 years ago. Blah!)
Maybe he asked a similar question about this year's hot outside toys on some other website that's about that. But then we wouldn't know, would we? Because we're websurfing a tech website. On Thanksgiving. That includes you.
Having a game console (or two) isn't necessarily bad and this is a perfectly good place to ask about them.
My understanding is this would allow you to send bits ensured that nobody else had seen them. But every router / repeater must do exactly that, to send them on the next hop. So really, this is just for when you believe you have one continuous fiber strand and want to make sure... correct? If so it does not allow individuals to communicate securely over the Internet, since there is no un-interrupted strand connecting the endpoints. For a truly private network, like connecting missile launch sites to a command center, or helping a domestic telco ensure its undersea hops aren't being spied on by a foreign power between repeaters, then I can see the utility.
This sounds like a potentially fun, cheap device. Does Ubuntu for ARM have all the same packages as x86? (From a check of the Ubuntu ARM web page it appears a lot of the focus for ARM is on the Server distro?)
Give Gaza modern attack aircraft and precision weapons, and I'm sure they'll be happy to assassinate Israeli leaders (more or less) "surgically," just as Israel has done and is doing to them.
In this particular case I think both sides know exactly what to expect each time the drone goes out, so let's put that aside.
Usually, the odds of success in a random process, and whether there are variables capable of significantly changing the outcome, are the exact things you don't get to know in advance. I am talking about complex issues like raising a troubled child, or what to do about the Iraq war in 2006, or whether repeated drone-shootdowns a the gun club are swaying public opinion. The Einstein quote is just an overly long way of claiming to know the answer, without the useful part, which would be a convincing argument of why some action is doomed to fail.
Despite being overly folksy, l really like this saying, "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,
courage to change the things we can,
and wisdom to know the difference." I don't agree with the attribution of God as the source of answers, but other than that, this gets right to the central issues of free will vs determinism.
Need I remind the tree-huggers that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results?
Maybe you should remind the hunters of that, since they keep shooting despite the drones keep coming back. You'd think they'd learn.
Actually I don't think this particular Einstein quote is particularly clever in the first place, since it's not clear when to apply it, vs. "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Unfortunately nature doesn't tell us in advance whether we're "persevering" or "being stubborn."
You are taking his story at face value? Listen to his blog:
"She has also helped me evade detection by grabbing me and kissing me, in public, in a fashion that causes passerby's to feel embarrassment at the thought of staring and by creating emotional scenes that cause the curious to momentarily forget what they were looking for," he wrote. "She is acutely aware of her surroundings and is as street smart as a sober hobo."
I think he is delusional. That's not to say he can't evade the authorities in Belize for a while, but to what end?
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No. The point of this is to do better than what you described (which amounts to just having two different sim cards for your phone):
Of course, this assumes the hypervisor itself earns trust, which will probably take years to get right.
As a plot device for Sci Fi the 3 laws are fine. In the real world a few nebulous guidelines don't get you that far.
Yeah, dumb question, but why would they choose to share it? Are they building on GPL code?
So, they did offer distributed replication (which is FAR more effective, and cost effective, than all the bizarre ideas about diesel tanks being thrown around in here). But some customers decided to save some bucks and risk it. A gamble they lost.
Forget a few jerseys, we're talking about billions of dollars here. Clearly it's not that the government is being bamboozled, rather it has been bought out or intimidated. I think it is time to put our foot down; if these companies really think they can do better from Bahrain, let them move there and try.
Heh. Although, "counterfeit" does not necessarily imply inferior quality. Sometimes it is nothing but an unlicensed extra production run on the same assembly line that makes the "real" thing. Or, sometimes it is simple arbitrage; "grey imports" of brand-name goods that were supposed to be sold for less profit in poorer markets.
That's not to say global intellectual property rights should go unprotected; only that it should not be rolled into "national security." For that matter, I wouldn't mind seeing it accounted for separately, so that whiny companies and CEOs can be reminded why they deserve to pay a tax rate above 0%.
When you talk about O() you're talking about the worst case for finding an exact solution. Brains don't find exact solutions to anything.
"As opposed to actually solving the problem"? You brain has about 86 billion neurons and around 100 trillion synapses. It accounts for 2% of body weight and 20% of energy consumed. Do you think these numbers would be large if they didn't need do be?
I think the emphasis in computer science on focusing so exclusively on polynomial-time algorithms has really stunted it. Maybe most of the essential tasks for staying alive and reproducing don't happen to have efficient solutions, but the constants of proportionality are small enough to brute-force with several trillion neurons.
I am 16 years into my marriage, and can say without question that it is good. But I am not so sure about the leap from "my marriage is good," to "marriage is good." After all, I've been at the same company for 12 years and in the same home for 10. Maybe I'm just an inherently stable, some would say boring type of guy. How can any of us know what it's like inside somebody else's mind?
Is this a joke? All mice were mechanical until just a little over 10 years ago: "The first commercially successful optical computer mice were the Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye and IntelliMouse Explorer, introduced in 1999." (wikipedia) If you've never popped the ball out of a mouse to pick out the belly button lint you are just a young pup :)
'Tis true. But the obsession with thin has gone too far IMHO. After "switching" to a MacBook Pro a couple years ago, I've just ordered a loaded-up Dell and am switching back. Partially this is because I need MS Office and the Mac version doesn't cut it for me, so I was always running a Windows VM anyways. But secondly, I wanted a swappable battery again. I wanted an expansion bay where I could put a second hard drive, or a second battery, or of course the CD ROM. I wanted a docking station (and weirdly the Thunderbolt still hasn't really provided equivalent options like I expected). Apple systems are just so integrated now that you can't reconfigure, upgrade, or repair them. (I do regret not getting to upgrade to a "retinal" display though. In fact the i7 processor, screen resolution, and 256 GB hardware-encrypted SSD on the Dell are all no better than I got on the Mac 2 years ago. Blah!)
I wonder how much wardriving it took to discover the nearest McDonald's or Starbucks where WiFi is available for free.
Having a game console (or two) isn't necessarily bad and this is a perfectly good place to ask about them.
My understanding is this would allow you to send bits ensured that nobody else had seen them. But every router / repeater must do exactly that, to send them on the next hop. So really, this is just for when you believe you have one continuous fiber strand and want to make sure... correct? If so it does not allow individuals to communicate securely over the Internet, since there is no un-interrupted strand connecting the endpoints. For a truly private network, like connecting missile launch sites to a command center, or helping a domestic telco ensure its undersea hops aren't being spied on by a foreign power between repeaters, then I can see the utility.
The lack of successful attacks is more impressive than the number of so-called failed attacks.
Since video acceleration doesn't work, how bad are youtube and DVDs? I don't suppose 1920x1080 tv captures would play too smoothly?
Also my kids play a lot of flash games which I guess are out. Too bad Java didn't take over :(
This sounds like a potentially fun, cheap device. Does Ubuntu for ARM have all the same packages as x86? (From a check of the Ubuntu ARM web page it appears a lot of the focus for ARM is on the Server distro?)
Give Gaza modern attack aircraft and precision weapons, and I'm sure they'll be happy to assassinate Israeli leaders (more or less) "surgically," just as Israel has done and is doing to them.
Anybody know if facebook is using any hardware SSL acceleration? Or is throwing more commodity CPUs at it the better choice?
Usually, the odds of success in a random process, and whether there are variables capable of significantly changing the outcome, are the exact things you don't get to know in advance. I am talking about complex issues like raising a troubled child, or what to do about the Iraq war in 2006, or whether repeated drone-shootdowns a the gun club are swaying public opinion. The Einstein quote is just an overly long way of claiming to know the answer, without the useful part, which would be a convincing argument of why some action is doomed to fail.
Despite being overly folksy, l really like this saying, "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference." I don't agree with the attribution of God as the source of answers, but other than that, this gets right to the central issues of free will vs determinism.
Maybe you should remind the hunters of that, since they keep shooting despite the drones keep coming back. You'd think they'd learn.
Actually I don't think this particular Einstein quote is particularly clever in the first place, since it's not clear when to apply it, vs. "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Unfortunately nature doesn't tell us in advance whether we're "persevering" or "being stubborn."
I think he is delusional. That's not to say he can't evade the authorities in Belize for a while, but to what end?