records before this century are a joke. thermometers weren't accurate. if you actually look at them some just have am or pm recording "time", and gaps of years....they're useless. putting them into a computer and running stats on them doesn't change that.
starshot project and similar, preliminary designs of tiny probes less than a gram, in a swarm of hundreds to thouands accelerated to sizeable fraction (10-20%) of the speed of light seem like the only plausible way to explore other "nearby" star systems for the next century.
no, only 300 million years or so due to expansion of the Sun, at which point the Earth's surface will be too hot for life. Global warming is inevitable. The article's summary above is ignorant alarmist nonsense, we won't and can't make a Venus by burning fossil fuel.
eh, the descendants of the products of those acquisitions are still around. Tandem is HP's Nonstop, Compaq the servers (which still have compaq on components inside and in many firmware/drivers). The tech from DEC was sold to various companies, the most notable being various processor system designs sold to Intel and which you're using right now
but the prerequisite for this particular waste of time exercise was allowing the installation of malicious code. You can secure all you want, and then if you allow someone to do that final step of putting in bad code, well guess what..
you're confused, the problem here is allowing installation of malicious code. If that happens of course there is no security and all bets are off. Report for your beating.
Of course, if I am allowed to install software on an "air-gapped" computer, I can make it transfer information by anything on it that makes noise or can be lit or even via power supply. Speakers, various fans, hard drive heads, retractable optical drive tray, locator blue LED, LCD display, even the power draw....I can manipulate all of those.
There is no point to these studies, they only belabor the obvious.
Any manager that makes some security policy based on such studies should be beaten.
You are confused, models of reality are *useful* or they are not. QM and GR are very useful under most conditions in this universe, and a better model might have both as limits of conditions that apply to the majority of the universe
Nope, most languages are just rehashes of same old ideas. java is warmed over C++ and gives NOTHING more, for example.
JavaSCRIPT on the other hand is a step backwards giving somewhat less power.
In fact let's just skip the other languages and say the "improvements" to the most languages are just additions that make them slightly more approach the power LISP had decades ago.
None of the widely acknowedged unknown questions in physics means the "ground is shaky". Just that better models and experiments to verify them are needed and that is what is being done. Even experiments to look at "unpopular alternatives" are funded and done, such as for "fifth force", quantization of space, antigravity by antimatter, etc.
General Relativity and quantum mechanics are the two most useful models of reality we have, and various means are being explored to either unify them or prove which dominates at smallest scale. That is not a failing of anything, physicists are not ignoring the issue, there are experiments in progress and many alternative theories being made
learn a bit about a field before criticizing it it total ignorance. you know almost nothing
what culture? lots of cultures and subcultures in the USA already. Latin american culture already here by plenty of legal citizens. Work getting done for pay and people then spending that money is how the economy functions.
Do you work for a living or are you a parasite on someone else?
very nice, raising straw man for issues of tech that don't exist.
Instead we can grow spare organs on people like you, because you care. What? You're not willing? Tell that to the patients waiting for organs why they must be allowed to die. You selfish bastard you.
not with this metaphor, they can be "paying" (create wealth by working, help economy by spending), but undesirable because they talk funny and are brown
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Your "advice' is completely and utterly useless for businesses that are targeted, they must answer unknown calls because they want new business.
zetabyte per year perhaps? zetabyte to date since ARPANET invented?
usually traffic not measured as a number of bytes. a number of bytes per time period, yes
nope.
MATE and CINNAMON have that. KDE is a relic of bygone era, smarter people have moved on
not true, their are good desktops that have taken over from the archaic relics of the past decades (GNOME, KDE).
MATE and CINNAMON is where it's at. XFCE4 is quite good too
records before this century are a joke. thermometers weren't accurate. if you actually look at them some just have am or pm recording "time", and gaps of years....they're useless. putting them into a computer and running stats on them doesn't change that.
leading physicists are working on it and believe it technically possible.
so you know more than they do?
1W laser doing comm in very short bursts
read the real project description, the dumbed-down popular ones leave a lot of details out
starshot project and similar, preliminary designs of tiny probes less than a gram, in a swarm of hundreds to thouands accelerated to sizeable fraction (10-20%) of the speed of light seem like the only plausible way to explore other "nearby" star systems for the next century.
no, only 300 million years or so due to expansion of the Sun, at which point the Earth's surface will be too hot for life. Global warming is inevitable. The article's summary above is ignorant alarmist nonsense, we won't and can't make a Venus by burning fossil fuel.
as long as it plays solitaire with itself that's fine, if there's a human down there needing supplies from the surface that's a possible security hole
eh, the descendants of the products of those acquisitions are still around. Tandem is HP's Nonstop, Compaq the servers (which still have compaq on components inside and in many firmware/drivers). The tech from DEC was sold to various companies, the most notable being various processor system designs sold to Intel and which you're using right now
it would need to have its own power supply, if malicious code installed beforehand the power draw can be used to communicate.
By the way, what function does this isolated computer perform? how do people use it?
but the prerequisite for this particular waste of time exercise was allowing the installation of malicious code. You can secure all you want, and then if you allow someone to do that final step of putting in bad code, well guess what..
you're confused, the problem here is allowing installation of malicious code. If that happens of course there is no security and all bets are off. Report for your beating.
problem is this things are too trivial to code to even be "cool"
Of course, if I am allowed to install software on an "air-gapped" computer, I can make it transfer information by anything on it that makes noise or can be lit or even via power supply. Speakers, various fans, hard drive heads, retractable optical drive tray, locator blue LED, LCD display, even the power draw....I can manipulate all of those.
There is no point to these studies, they only belabor the obvious.
Any manager that makes some security policy based on such studies should be beaten.
You are confused, models of reality are *useful* or they are not. QM and GR are very useful under most conditions in this universe, and a better model might have both as limits of conditions that apply to the majority of the universe
the thing Orwell missed was the big banks and other large corporations with government in its pocket. there is a certain cartel behind this
Nope, most languages are just rehashes of same old ideas. java is warmed over C++ and gives NOTHING more, for example.
JavaSCRIPT on the other hand is a step backwards giving somewhat less power.
In fact let's just skip the other languages and say the "improvements" to the most languages are just additions that make them slightly more approach the power LISP had decades ago.
you're clueless
None of the widely acknowedged unknown questions in physics means the "ground is shaky". Just that better models and experiments to verify them are needed and that is what is being done. Even experiments to look at "unpopular alternatives" are funded and done, such as for "fifth force", quantization of space, antigravity by antimatter, etc.
General Relativity and quantum mechanics are the two most useful models of reality we have, and various means are being explored to either unify them or prove which dominates at smallest scale. That is not a failing of anything, physicists are not ignoring the issue, there are experiments in progress and many alternative theories being made
learn a bit about a field before criticizing it it total ignorance. you know almost nothing
what culture? lots of cultures and subcultures in the USA already. Latin american culture already here by plenty of legal citizens. Work getting done for pay and people then spending that money is how the economy functions.
Do you work for a living or are you a parasite on someone else?
very nice, raising straw man for issues of tech that don't exist.
Instead we can grow spare organs on people like you, because you care. What? You're not willing? Tell that to the patients waiting for organs why they must be allowed to die. You selfish bastard you.
not with this metaphor, they can be "paying" (create wealth by working, help economy by spending), but undesirable because they talk funny and are brown
yahoo news and abcnews hate dissenting non-SJW type viewpoints and label them "abuse"
If we build a wall on its deck, we can keep the undesirable passengers out!