> So you are looking forward to being required to get a license for your Web site and a permit for your mail server?
I know it's bad to restrict people like that, but DAMN that would make the internet a paradise (if regulated properly) especially the 'permit for your mail server'.
My car has a permit, I have a driver's license. Anybody who tries to tell me the California road system is paradise is off his rocker.
A few idiots will almost always be able to ruin things for everybody else.
This does require some interaction from the operating system in order to work. Hopefully AMD will release enough information to allow this feature to be implemented in Linux.
Well, no-execute-pages has been fully documented in the publicly-available x86-64 (now AMD64) Programmer's Manuals for two years now.
Now, if I could only get some documentation on that new-fangled Win2K operating system...
Boies and his team kicked microsoft's tail in court. Only afterwards, the gov't decided that a friendly handshake was punishment enough for the software company. It's been suggested that the change in presidency (and DOJ) had something to do with the 'punishment'.
How much it would cost to have yourself and a group of people publicly indexed by your penis size.
Fifty men have their members examined by a doctor and their length recorded. You then get brought out in Times Square and the doctor puts you in order by smallest to largest. I wonder how much money it would take for the average person to participate.
An architecture with 32-bits of address space can directly address 2^32 or approximately 4 billion bytes of memory. There are many applications where that just isn't enough. More importantly, an architecture whose registers are 32-bits wide is far less efficient when it comes to dealing with values that require more than 32 bits to express.
Absolutely correct, but:
Many floating point values use 64 bits and being able to directly manipulate these in a single register is a lot more efficient than doing voodoo to combine two 32-bit registers.
So, if you have an problem where you're dealing with astronomical quantities of very large (or precise) values, then a 64-bit implementation is going to make a very big difference.
When doing math, the size of the floating-point registers has little to do with the size of cpu. Today's 32-bit x86 processors (and yesterday's 16-bit x86 processors) use 80-bit x87 (floating point) registers, for very precice math on very large values. But they're still 32-bit (and 16-bit) processors.
That's great. Raise internet prices for everyone for no apparent reason to the consumer.
Then in the monthly bill, maybe ISP's should make it clearer, with just a hint of ambiguity on the implications:
"$1.85 music-distribution fee, to be distributed among RIAA member companies, as compensation for downloading copyrighted songs over the internet.
RIAA member companies distribute music from artists
including Brittany Peares, the Backstreek Boys, and 50-cent Peace."
If you see someone get mugged, are you legally bound to report it to the police?
If you see someone giving money to someone else, are you legally bound to exhaustively research the matter to see if it was, in fact, a mugging?
To think a crime took place, either the ISP employee would have to assume a domain name like mp3s4free.net must be trouble (though mp3's aren't illegal in themselves), or the ISP employee would be responsible for checking questionable sites/traffic (which the ISP would be responsible for, not one employee. and which would only happen if a technophobe judge gave a court order).
Non of three motherboards supports more than (max) 3G memory, what is the purpose of using 64bit cpu?
So you can't have more than 3G physical memory, but the OS can allocate any amount of virtual memory, as long as only 3GB is paged in at any one time. This sounds really useful for some tasks, such as managing files on the hard disk.
Plus, some algorithms (encryption for one) work much better in 64-bit mode, because of things like a wider multiplier and more general-purpose and SSE registers.
At first I thought the slashdot title was "Smart Sofa Reorganizes Occupants by Weight." I imagined it telling me "hey lard-butt! Why don't you move on down where the structural reinforcements are better?"
The difference is that all the existing apps would need to be recompiled to fully use the 64bit. Even lowly DOS can use performance improvements with a larger cache.
When's the last time you thought to yourself "you know, DOS is pretty good, but if it ran just a little bit faster on my multi-gigahertz processor..." ?
So, if an app has the Holy Seal, it is trustworthy? Going to have interesting repercussions if said software gets hacked into, or a major exploit is found...or will they label that as an act of terrorism (since with The Seal, the software can not be liable.)
Opteron has the no-execute-pages feature, so does Athlon64. On both cpu's, the feature can be enabled in PAE paging mode, so both 32-bit operating systems and 64-bit operating systems can use it.
Of course, the operating system has to enable the feature, and has to actively mark pages no-execute.
Not at all. Slashdot continually reminds us how the innocent guy can get hosed by the system.
Alleged writer. Innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt.
But in jail just the same. Either charged with a crime, or held as a "material witness"
Based on this report, the evidence so far is one witness of unknown competence. "Testing the infection"? I "tested the infection" yesterday by making sure that AVG can contain Blaster.
Don't underestimate the value of an unknowledgable witness. "The witness is a Teacher? (S)he Must know what (s)he's talking about"
Oh, I'm sure that the FBI aren't (quite) dumb enough to announce this without doing some investigation, but the fact that they're announcing it as a fait accompli before they've even made the arrest indicates that this is a PR exercise.
True. But the "arrest" may be just a formality after the guy is already being held as a material witness.
But that's irrelevant speculation, because whatever their or my or your opinion on it, this guy is innocent... pause for breath... until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Let's drop the tabloid press pack mentality here.
If he didn't do it, I hope they let him go quickly. But I wouldn't be surprised if they got the right guy.
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I think we're overlooking one very important question here...
Why the hell was someone carrying around $1000, mostly in 20s, in their wallet?
Well, he was at a truck stop, so maybe he's a truck Driver? In which case he needs money to pay for gas, tolls, and food while on the road.
> So you are looking forward to being required to get a license for your Web site and a permit for your mail server?
I know it's bad to restrict people like that, but DAMN that would make the internet a paradise (if regulated properly) especially the 'permit for your mail server'.
My car has a permit, I have a driver's license. Anybody who tries to tell me the California road system is paradise is off his rocker.
A few idiots will almost always be able to ruin things for everybody else.
This does require some interaction from the operating system in order to work. Hopefully AMD will release enough information to allow this feature to be implemented in Linux.
...
Well, no-execute-pages has been fully documented in the publicly-available x86-64 (now AMD64) Programmer's Manuals for two years now.
Now, if I could only get some documentation on that new-fangled Win2K operating system
Let's see, he's:
Prosecuted Microsoft (Antitrust)
Boies and his team kicked microsoft's tail in court. Only afterwards, the gov't decided that a friendly handshake was punishment enough for the software company. It's been suggested that the change in presidency (and DOJ) had something to do with the 'punishment'.
Could this be behind the slowness of 64bit windows for Opterons?
Maybe it's due to the beta-ness of 64bit windows for Opterons?
Fluorescent and LED lights do not get hot.
Apparently you've never held a single LED between your fingers, and carefully pressed the leads onto a 9-volt battery.
Ouch. Hot. Ouch.
How much it would cost to have yourself and a group of people publicly indexed by your penis size.
Fifty men have their members examined by a doctor and their length recorded. You then get brought out in Times Square and the doctor puts you in
order by smallest to largest. I wonder how much money it would take for the average person to participate.
Enough money to,umm, rectify the situation?
An architecture with 32-bits of address space can directly address 2^32 or approximately 4 billion bytes of memory. There are many applications where that just isn't enough. More importantly, an architecture whose registers are 32-bits wide is far less efficient when it comes to dealing with values that require more than 32 bits to express.
Absolutely correct, but:
Many floating point values use 64 bits and being able to directly manipulate these in a single register is a lot more efficient than doing voodoo to combine two 32-bit registers.
So, if you have an problem where you're dealing with astronomical quantities of very large (or precise) values, then a 64-bit implementation is going to make a very big difference.
When doing math, the size of the floating-point registers has little to do with the size of cpu. Today's 32-bit x86 processors (and yesterday's 16-bit x86 processors) use 80-bit x87 (floating point) registers, for very precice math on very large values. But they're still 32-bit (and 16-bit) processors.
If we all to 30 minutes per day to fight spam, I think we would be far better off.
I think you mean if we all took 30 minutes per day to fight spammers.
There's a baseball bat at home. I'll whack some spammer for 30 minutes per day, if it'll help.
If you are being paid to plow a street, shouldn't the state be allowed to audit whether you've done the work or not?
Can't they already tell by, say, looking at the street to see if it's plowed?
That's great. Raise internet prices for everyone for no apparent reason to the consumer.
Then in the monthly bill, maybe ISP's should make it clearer, with just a hint of ambiguity on the implications:
"$1.85 music-distribution fee, to be distributed among RIAA member companies, as compensation for downloading copyrighted songs over the internet.
RIAA member companies distribute music from artists including Brittany Peares, the Backstreek Boys, and 50-cent Peace."
If you see someone get mugged, are you legally bound to report it to the police?
If you see someone giving money to someone else, are you legally bound to exhaustively research the matter to see if it was, in fact, a mugging?
To think a crime took place, either the ISP employee would have to assume a domain name like mp3s4free.net must be trouble (though mp3's aren't illegal in themselves), or the ISP employee would be responsible for checking questionable sites/traffic (which the ISP would be responsible for, not one employee. and which would only happen if a technophobe judge gave a court order).
How many Libraries of Congress is an "Assload"? Is the data easily retrievable?
Yeah, but you probably won't like the interface...
Non of three motherboards supports more than (max) 3G memory, what is the purpose of using 64bit cpu?
So you can't have more than 3G physical memory, but the OS can allocate any amount of virtual memory, as long as only 3GB is paged in at any one time. This sounds really useful for some tasks, such as managing files on the hard disk.
Plus, some algorithms (encryption for one) work much better in 64-bit mode, because of things like a wider multiplier and more general-purpose and SSE registers.
I wondering if this is too good to be true
If someone has to ask, it probably is.
Ban telemartketing unless people explicitely opt-in.
..."
Half the spam I get already says "you chose to receive this mail when you
Opt-in laws will just make sure the other half of the spam says this also.
At first I thought the slashdot title was "Smart Sofa Reorganizes Occupants by Weight." I imagined it telling me "hey lard-butt! Why don't you move on down where the structural reinforcements are better?"
The pdf's on the web were updated today for the launch (bunch of typos fixed, FFXSR feature added).
Doesn't that figure?
Even scarier, we're several thousand years past due on the next ice age.
Yes, so now mother nature is reposessing an ice shelf. We better pay up before the repo guys take back a glacier or two.
No, it's NOT auto-downloaded, just yet.
No it's NOT sandwiched with other patches, just yet.
Yes, you CAN uninstall it, for now.
The difference is that all the existing apps would need to be recompiled to fully use the 64bit. Even lowly DOS can use performance improvements with a larger cache.
..." ?
When's the last time you thought to yourself "you know, DOS is pretty good, but if it ran just a little bit faster on my multi-gigahertz processor
If you're in the UK; you can register your name / address combination with CIFAS:
...
Registration costs 12 quid for 12 months.
They charge money? Tell you what- send me your name and address, and I'll, umm, take care of the identity theft for free.
So, if an app has the Holy Seal, it is trustworthy? Going to have interesting repercussions if said software gets hacked into, or a major exploit is found...or will they label that as an act of terrorism (since with The Seal, the software can not be liable.)
liable and reliable are two different things...
Opteron has the no-execute-pages feature, so does Athlon64. On both cpu's, the feature can be enabled in PAE paging mode, so both 32-bit operating systems and 64-bit operating systems can use it.
Of course, the operating system has to enable the feature, and has to actively mark pages no-execute.
Or have we forgotten how the system works?
Not at all. Slashdot continually reminds us how the innocent guy can get hosed by the system.
Alleged writer. Innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt.
But in jail just the same. Either charged with a crime, or held as a "material witness"
Based on this report, the evidence so far is one witness of unknown competence. "Testing the infection"? I "tested the infection" yesterday by making sure that AVG can contain Blaster.
Don't underestimate the value of an unknowledgable witness. "The witness is a Teacher? (S)he Must know what (s)he's talking about"
Oh, I'm sure that the FBI aren't (quite) dumb enough to announce this without doing some investigation, but the fact that they're announcing it as a fait accompli before they've even made the arrest indicates that this is a PR exercise.
True. But the "arrest" may be just a formality after the guy is already being held as a material witness.
But that's irrelevant speculation, because whatever their or my or your opinion on it, this guy is innocent... pause for breath... until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Let's drop the tabloid press pack mentality here.
If he didn't do it, I hope they let him go quickly. But I wouldn't be surprised if they got the right guy.