It sure will make sense if the energy spent in keeping the line superconductive is less than the energy lost if they used a copper or aluminum cable instead.
BTW, I didn't RTFA (this is Slashdot, after all) and I don't know about redundancy. What happens if some section of the system heats up and becomes non-conductive? What if an earthquake hits and the cable is broken? How hard would it be to repair it? What if a bunker-buster bomb destroys part of the cable?
Lots of government officials stand to gain by using ISO-sanctioned standards that cannot be correctly implemented and that won't be readable in a couple decades.
As for most things IT, there is a body of standards, fully documented and with free, accessible and royalty-free reference implementations. I am using such an embodiment right now to write this e-mail.
ISO is useful for connectors, naming conventions and mechanical parts specifications. Its role in defining open data-exchange standards is obsolete.
While they are certainly not connected to the public internet, there may be some pressure to include network ports and a TCP/IP stack so that they can all be monitored from a central position. This network should, of course, be treated as a secure network and no uncertified computer should be allowed to be plugged in.
All it would take is to plug an infected (and contagious) box into the wrong network and you could end up with lots of zombies, spam and otherwise.
Brazil (yes, I live there) seems it will pass "cybercrime" legislation so broad, ill-conceived and generally poorly written that just about every citizen will be committing a crime just by watching someone else browsing. I am not following that very closely, but it seems it has cleared the senate and the only way to get rid of it will be to shot it down completely.
Makes me wonder where did I put my passport... Are there any sensible countries looking for migrating geeks?
You don't have to pop-up security messages every time the user wants to do something stupid. You can have a big "unlock" button on every "dangerous" window and dialog box and let that pop-up password prompts and security warnings.
As for the "install ActiveX prompts", making them silently fail will only help Microsoft pushing Silverlight as soon as it gets pushed as required in the next Windows Update.
If dropping ActiveX granted any real market advantage (people who know what is ActiveX are less than 2% of the overall computer-using population and people who know how bad ActiveX really is doesn't reach 1%), they would screw the South Koreans all over.
They are every bit against the wall as Apple. Their power comes from their dominance of the desktop and server markets. If their market-share starts eroding, nothing will stop it from collapsing. Every 1% of early adopters and power users that switches away from windows has a reverse network effect that decreases the value of Windows and all related products.
For them, it's a disaster when the coolest program in any given segment is not Windows only. It makes people consider they have options to Vista.
They have a huge problem and if Windows 7 fails to captivate people away from Ubuntu Narcoleptic Newt or MacOS X 10.7 Saber-tooth, Microsoft is doomed. As soon as desktop share erodes, server share will follow as there will be little advantage in upgrading servers when desktops are no longer Windows-only. Exchange users will take longer as it will be a Royal Pain to migrate away from it, but someone will inevitably find a way to suck the data out of it.
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How about those who own the right to privacy?
Oops... "message".
That's what I was about to ask.
It sure will make sense if the energy spent in keeping the line superconductive is less than the energy lost if they used a copper or aluminum cable instead.
BTW, I didn't RTFA (this is Slashdot, after all) and I don't know about redundancy. What happens if some section of the system heats up and becomes non-conductive? What if an earthquake hits and the cable is broken? How hard would it be to repair it? What if a bunker-buster bomb destroys part of the cable?
Shouldn't you be able to point to the source? The girl is guilty of defamation, not the papers.
The fact there is corruption and fraud elsewhere do not make this one a tiny bit more tolerable.
Lots of government officials stand to gain by using ISO-sanctioned standards that cannot be correctly implemented and that won't be readable in a couple decades.
It will save a lot of reputations.
Starting embrace, extend and suffocate maneuvers in 3... 2... 1...
As for most things IT, there is a body of standards, fully documented and with free, accessible and royalty-free reference implementations. I am using such an embodiment right now to write this e-mail.
ISO is useful for connectors, naming conventions and mechanical parts specifications. Its role in defining open data-exchange standards is obsolete.
BTW, is A/UX considered abandonware? I would love to load it on one of my ancient Macs.
I remember A/UX on a big IIfx with a 21" Radius behemoth on top. The IIfx case was dangerously close to structural failure.
But that was _the_ Unix workstation to have.
What you see as a lack of offer, others may see as an solid business opportunity. ;-)
While they are certainly not connected to the public internet, there may be some pressure to include network ports and a TCP/IP stack so that they can all be monitored from a central position. This network should, of course, be treated as a secure network and no uncertified computer should be allowed to be plugged in.
All it would take is to plug an infected (and contagious) box into the wrong network and you could end up with lots of zombies, spam and otherwise.
You could do your package fingerprinting over https. That would take care of the fake DNS attack.
Brazil (yes, I live there) seems it will pass "cybercrime" legislation so broad, ill-conceived and generally poorly written that just about every citizen will be committing a crime just by watching someone else browsing. I am not following that very closely, but it seems it has cleared the senate and the only way to get rid of it will be to shot it down completely.
Makes me wonder where did I put my passport... Are there any sensible countries looking for migrating geeks?
I would rather die of cancer at 200 than of anything else at 70.
I am not afraid of dying. I would just find it a major nuisance.
"Just because you're not the flavor-of-the-month search engine"
What a long month has this been...
Why TeraTerm if you already have ssh and scp in Cygwin?
Sorry. You missed the tags
You don't have to pop-up security messages every time the user wants to do something stupid. You can have a big "unlock" button on every "dangerous" window and dialog box and let that pop-up password prompts and security warnings.
As for the "install ActiveX prompts", making them silently fail will only help Microsoft pushing Silverlight as soon as it gets pushed as required in the next Windows Update.
+1 Funny. Too bad I am out of modpoints
Why the hell were IE7 and MSN Search your first options to getting some information?!
If dropping ActiveX granted any real market advantage (people who know what is ActiveX are less than 2% of the overall computer-using population and people who know how bad ActiveX really is doesn't reach 1%), they would screw the South Koreans all over.
BTW, it seems they already screwed SK pretty bad.
I'm fine with it as far as, if and when you request it, they unblock it for your PPPoE login.
That would pretty much do away with the spam zombie problem.
They are every bit against the wall as Apple. Their power comes from their dominance of the desktop and server markets. If their market-share starts eroding, nothing will stop it from collapsing. Every 1% of early adopters and power users that switches away from windows has a reverse network effect that decreases the value of Windows and all related products.
For them, it's a disaster when the coolest program in any given segment is not Windows only. It makes people consider they have options to Vista.
They have a huge problem and if Windows 7 fails to captivate people away from Ubuntu Narcoleptic Newt or MacOS X 10.7 Saber-tooth, Microsoft is doomed. As soon as desktop share erodes, server share will follow as there will be little advantage in upgrading servers when desktops are no longer Windows-only. Exchange users will take longer as it will be a Royal Pain to migrate away from it, but someone will inevitably find a way to suck the data out of it.