"The investigation has been detailed and has included all relevant staff and processes that handle confidential information, as well as technical security," said Thomas Ahlerup, Head of Corporate and Investor relations of Intentia International AB.
While most everyone here will agree that Reuters at worst could have their actions describe as exploiting Intentia's utter stupidity, quotes like this show how little some people know about computers. This guy obviously thinks that just because they didn't provide an explicit hyperlink that the data on their server is "confidential." What I fear is that some non-technology savvy judge will actually follow this same train of thought and rule against Reuters. Is this ridiculous? Yes. Is it unfortunately all too real of a possibility? Yes as well.
PS - I checked Netcraft and they are running Windows 2000. Is it any surprise that their security guys would believe that data freely available on their server is secure if they also think a server on Win2k is secure in the first place?
Now if only they'd port the whole OS for more hardware, Microsoft might start losing sleep...
For the billionth time, they would lose more sleep than M$ would. Yes, M$ makes a good chunk of money off OS sales, but they also make an assload off other sales (especially Office). Apple makes 90%+ of their money from hardware sales last time I checked. For Apple to release an OS X build for generic x86 hardware would be economic suicide. Steve knows where his bread is buttered.
The PowerPC 970 has other potential customers as well, though, not the least of which is IBM itself who, with its large investments in Linux, would love to see a high-performance, 970-based 4-way or 8-way SMP Linux desktop workstation halt the steady flow of former 64-bit *NIX workstation users who began switching to Wintel hardware in the late 90's.
Before all my fellow Mac users start A) thinking about going to Linux B) drooling C) wondering about Darwin or D) some combination of the above, let me remind you that Darwin scales very well. You can now return to your previous state of awe.
PS - How much you want to bet good ol Steve is already having wet dreams about doing the traditional Photoshop test at a Macworld with 4-way SMP?
One of the more eye-catching examples of this sorry trend occurred earlier this year, when a member of California Gov. Gray Davis' administration issued rules that required state employees to place Davis' picture on every single one of the approximately 100 home pages run by the state, ranging from the home page for the Department of Motor Vehicles to that of the State Energy Commission. (bold by me)
Is it just me, or do any of my fellow Calfornians find all too much irony in Gray Davis trying to promote himself on a website of what is commonly referred to as the bane of his governorship?
If you are able to pick out a voice from bad 70's Swedish porno films, shouldn't you be more worried about what that says about you and not what that says about Blizzard?
What is it with all these bastards relating simple, enjoyable, time-wasting games with math? First I heard Minesweeper was NP-Hard. No problem, I don't use Windows so my goofing off wasn't affected. Now Tetris is NP-Hard. No big deal, I haven't played Gameboy snce I was 8 probably. (I can see it now... "When I was a kid, we played Gameboy in black and white after walking 15 miles in the snow, uphill, with no shoes on...") But I swear on my geekhood that if someone dares to ever apply math to Snood I will have their head.
It's well known that any logic function can be constructed from NOR gates.
Now I'm only midway through my intro to digital logic class this semester, but from my current understanding can't you massage any logic function to be implemented with any sort of gates you want? It may not be pretty, but it always seems possible.
but if you were living off an organ from a pig, how could you honestly ever eat bacon, pork, ribs, etc. again? And honeslty, is life really worth living without bacon and ribs?
I believe the reason why some apps will run under 10.0.x and 10.1.x but not Jaguar is the change to a new version of gcc. I think before Jaguar it was gcc 2.9.something and now it's gcc 3.1(.1?). In reality, the fact that Apple was able to pull off such a switch relatively flawlessly is amazing and most people don't realize it.
I'm convinced the reason behind it is that the typical Mac user is someone who is not very technical and was perhaps intimidated by using a computer, so when they figured out how to use their Mac they get a certain sense of pride and accomplishment which they in turn morph into zealotry.
Hate to break it to you, but the Mac zealots are generally the Mac users who know the most about computers.
A lot of my family and friends use Macs, so I have seen all ends of the spectrum. At the low end of the tech savvy spectrum, you have the users who enjoy using a Mac because of its ease of use and elegance. For the most part, these aren't the hardcore Apply loyalists. They usually prefer using Macs much more than Windows, but they won't have a seizure if they have to work on Windows for a while.
At the other end of the spectrum is people who are pretty knowledgeable and wouldn't trade their Macs for the world. I know because I am one of them, and you couldn't pry my TiBook from my cold dead hands. I'll be the first to admit I'm an Apple zealot; you couldn't pay me to own a non-Apple computer. However, this has absolutely nothing to do with not having the knowledge to use other computers. I'm probably more proficient with Windows than a good majority of the Windows users out there (a testament to the stupidity of Windows users) and since the release of OS X I have slowly been becoming a *nix geek. But in the end, I will always be loyal to Apple because I want a computer that not only "just works," but works elegantly and efficiently.
From the.doc on M$'s site: Microsoft will not share the information you provide with third parties without your permission except where necessary to complete the services or transactions you have requested, or as required by law.
Yeah, and they most definitely won't distribute a Word document to a half million geeks on Slashdot that shows among other things your name, your email address, your website (for which the whois provides all your information), and the fact that you wrote the article about switching to Windows using Office X on Mac OS X.
See, the great part is that Microsoft tried doing A and B *together*! Now that's novelty.
If you think M$ trying to do two things that are mutually exclusive is a novelty, just wait till someone tells you that M$ tried to combine Windows with stability or security.
...is that all of Visual Studio was outside the gates and not allowed to join the party because the stupid punks weren't compatible and didn't get along well with their counterparts.
(No, this isn't just blatant anti-M$ hatred, but rather the ranting of a student who is mad that his class is using Visual C++ and wants to just be able to use gcc and not deal with Windows)
Well seeing as how this got modded up for being informative, I would like to karma whore and inform my fellow slashdotters that BSD is dying, Apple is the "gay" computer, and.... oh yeah, FP FP FP BWAHAHA I RULE.
*mutters something about how Taco needs to update the FAQ and just link to the parent as an explanation of why meta-moderation is needed*
I'm guessing you have never used an iPod. In iTunes you can delete songs, make and delete playlists, and copy songs from your computer to the iPod. The only thing that you can't do is copy songs from the iPod to iTunes.
There is nothing wrong with making backup copies and putting them on other machines, but your mp3 player (the iPod) is not the tool to do it with. That's like asking that your discman can burn CD-Rs; it's not what it was intended to do. Lucky for you, there are hacks that allow you to take the songs off you iPod and transfer them to your hard drive, but you shouldn't get mad at Apple because they don't support this. They sold you an mp3 player, and lo and behold it plays your mp3's for you. Anything else is a bonus.
And at the same time, Apple implements a form of DRM by crippling the iPod - you can copy songs onto it, but you can't copy them off. I'm an Apple fan, but this kind of BS undermines my faith in them.
What is the purpose of an mp3 player? To transfer mp3s to it so that they can be played back later. The purpose of an mp3 (at least for legal uses) is not to take mp3s from one machine and move them to another machine. You mistake Apple's decision to not make piracy easy for a decision to implement unfair DRM against owners manipulating the music they legally own.
Besides, if you want, there are many ways you can transfer songs from your iPod to another computer. There are hacks that allow you to do this. I know they have some for OS X; I'm not sure about the Windows version though.
When Apple received an award at the Grammy's, Steve Jobs said, ""If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own." (More info here) So as far as we are concerned, Apple has publicly stated that people have the right to manipulate data, be it music, movies, or whatnot, that they own the rights to.
Why? I can, for instance, look at a picture of my wife and identify her as my wife in a fraction of a second. The best image-recognition software in the world can't reliably do even that simple task.
Why? There are so many different things computers can do better than us, just as there are so many things that we can do better. I thought that by now computers would be able to win at chess merely by going deep enough through all potential trees to find the most advantageous move combination.
Or maybe it's all just because GNU Chess always kicks my ass, heh.
First off, I believe Deep Fritz has beaten Deep Blue head to head.
Second, the program and the computer it runs on are two different things even if they are closely tied together. In fact, I'm kinda surprised Deep Fritz doesn't run on a more powerful computer. I would imagine that if it scaled well to 8 processors they would at least be able to scale to 16 or 32.
While this isn't man vs machine as the casual observer may think, but chess playing man vs programming man, how long until programming man is able to win soundly all the time? I don't mean to offend the chess players out there, but I find it very hard to believe that the advances in both processing power and programming knowledge will eventually catch up to chess knowledge. According to Moore's law processing powers is doubling every 18 months, and I would venture that programming knowledge of AI's is progressing faster than chess knowledge given the youth of the former's frield and the extensive history of the latter's.
That said, even while as a programmer I'm somewhat rooting for Deep Fritz, as a fellow man I can't help but be in awe of the fact that Kramnik is able to think better than a machine that "thinks" millions of times faster than him.
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"The investigation has been detailed and has included all relevant staff and processes that handle confidential information, as well as technical security," said Thomas Ahlerup, Head of Corporate and Investor relations of Intentia International AB.
While most everyone here will agree that Reuters at worst could have their actions describe as exploiting Intentia's utter stupidity, quotes like this show how little some people know about computers. This guy obviously thinks that just because they didn't provide an explicit hyperlink that the data on their server is "confidential." What I fear is that some non-technology savvy judge will actually follow this same train of thought and rule against Reuters. Is this ridiculous? Yes. Is it unfortunately all too real of a possibility? Yes as well.
PS - I checked Netcraft and they are running Windows 2000. Is it any surprise that their security guys would believe that data freely available on their server is secure if they also think a server on Win2k is secure in the first place?
Now if only they'd port the whole OS for more hardware, Microsoft might start losing sleep...
For the billionth time, they would lose more sleep than M$ would. Yes, M$ makes a good chunk of money off OS sales, but they also make an assload off other sales (especially Office). Apple makes 90%+ of their money from hardware sales last time I checked. For Apple to release an OS X build for generic x86 hardware would be economic suicide. Steve knows where his bread is buttered.
The PowerPC 970 has other potential customers as well, though, not the least of which is IBM itself who, with its large investments in Linux, would love to see a high-performance, 970-based 4-way or 8-way SMP Linux desktop workstation halt the steady flow of former 64-bit *NIX workstation users who began switching to Wintel hardware in the late 90's.
Before all my fellow Mac users start A) thinking about going to Linux B) drooling C) wondering about Darwin or D) some combination of the above, let me remind you that Darwin scales very well. You can now return to your previous state of awe.
PS - How much you want to bet good ol Steve is already having wet dreams about doing the traditional Photoshop test at a Macworld with 4-way SMP?
One of the more eye-catching examples of this sorry trend occurred earlier this year, when a member of California Gov. Gray Davis' administration issued rules that required state employees to place Davis' picture on every single one of the approximately 100 home pages run by the state, ranging from the home page for the Department of Motor Vehicles to that of the State Energy Commission. (bold by me)
Is it just me, or do any of my fellow Calfornians find all too much irony in Gray Davis trying to promote himself on a website of what is commonly referred to as the bane of his governorship?
If you are able to pick out a voice from bad 70's Swedish porno films, shouldn't you be more worried about what that says about you and not what that says about Blizzard?
What is it with all these bastards relating simple, enjoyable, time-wasting games with math? First I heard Minesweeper was NP-Hard. No problem, I don't use Windows so my goofing off wasn't affected. Now Tetris is NP-Hard. No big deal, I haven't played Gameboy snce I was 8 probably. (I can see it now... "When I was a kid, we played Gameboy in black and white after walking 15 miles in the snow, uphill, with no shoes on...") But I swear on my geekhood that if someone dares to ever apply math to Snood I will have their head.
It's well known that any logic function can be constructed from NOR gates.
Now I'm only midway through my intro to digital logic class this semester, but from my current understanding can't you massage any logic function to be implemented with any sort of gates you want? It may not be pretty, but it always seems possible.
but if you were living off an organ from a pig, how could you honestly ever eat bacon, pork, ribs, etc. again? And honeslty, is life really worth living without bacon and ribs?
I believe the reason why some apps will run under 10.0.x and 10.1.x but not Jaguar is the change to a new version of gcc. I think before Jaguar it was gcc 2.9.something and now it's gcc 3.1(.1?). In reality, the fact that Apple was able to pull off such a switch relatively flawlessly is amazing and most people don't realize it.
What is this 1962 you speak of? I thought the world started on January 1, 1970...
I'm convinced the reason behind it is that the typical Mac user is someone who is not very technical and was perhaps intimidated by using a computer, so when they figured out how to use their Mac they get a certain sense of pride and accomplishment which they in turn morph into zealotry.
Hate to break it to you, but the Mac zealots are generally the Mac users who know the most about computers.
A lot of my family and friends use Macs, so I have seen all ends of the spectrum. At the low end of the tech savvy spectrum, you have the users who enjoy using a Mac because of its ease of use and elegance. For the most part, these aren't the hardcore Apply loyalists. They usually prefer using Macs much more than Windows, but they won't have a seizure if they have to work on Windows for a while.
At the other end of the spectrum is people who are pretty knowledgeable and wouldn't trade their Macs for the world. I know because I am one of them, and you couldn't pry my TiBook from my cold dead hands. I'll be the first to admit I'm an Apple zealot; you couldn't pay me to own a non-Apple computer. However, this has absolutely nothing to do with not having the knowledge to use other computers. I'm probably more proficient with Windows than a good majority of the Windows users out there (a testament to the stupidity of Windows users) and since the release of OS X I have slowly been becoming a *nix geek. But in the end, I will always be loyal to Apple because I want a computer that not only "just works," but works elegantly and efficiently.
From the .doc on M$'s site:
Microsoft will not share the information you provide with third parties without your permission except where necessary to complete the services or transactions you have requested, or as required by law.
Yeah, and they most definitely won't distribute a Word document to a half million geeks on Slashdot that shows among other things your name, your email address, your website (for which the whois provides all your information), and the fact that you wrote the article about switching to Windows using Office X on Mac OS X.
In fact, it'll cure of everything!! Except your mortality, that is.
Pff, n00b. Obviously you aren't that skilled with duct tape.
See, the great part is that Microsoft tried doing A and B *together*! Now that's novelty.
If you think M$ trying to do two things that are mutually exclusive is a novelty, just wait till someone tells you that M$ tried to combine Windows with stability or security.
...is that all of Visual Studio was outside the gates and not allowed to join the party because the stupid punks weren't compatible and didn't get along well with their counterparts.
(No, this isn't just blatant anti-M$ hatred, but rather the ranting of a student who is mad that his class is using Visual C++ and wants to just be able to use gcc and not deal with Windows)
Worst moderation ever.
Well seeing as how this got modded up for being informative, I would like to karma whore and inform my fellow slashdotters that BSD is dying, Apple is the "gay" computer, and.... oh yeah, FP FP FP BWAHAHA I RULE.
*mutters something about how Taco needs to update the FAQ and just link to the parent as an explanation of why meta-moderation is needed*
You think they would at least play another game and the score would be different before the chess match got mentioned again in another slashback.
I'm guessing you have never used an iPod. In iTunes you can delete songs, make and delete playlists, and copy songs from your computer to the iPod. The only thing that you can't do is copy songs from the iPod to iTunes.
There is nothing wrong with making backup copies and putting them on other machines, but your mp3 player (the iPod) is not the tool to do it with. That's like asking that your discman can burn CD-Rs; it's not what it was intended to do. Lucky for you, there are hacks that allow you to take the songs off you iPod and transfer them to your hard drive, but you shouldn't get mad at Apple because they don't support this. They sold you an mp3 player, and lo and behold it plays your mp3's for you. Anything else is a bonus.
And at the same time, Apple implements a form of DRM by crippling the iPod - you can copy songs onto it, but you can't copy them off. I'm an Apple fan, but this kind of BS undermines my faith in them.
What is the purpose of an mp3 player? To transfer mp3s to it so that they can be played back later. The purpose of an mp3 (at least for legal uses) is not to take mp3s from one machine and move them to another machine. You mistake Apple's decision to not make piracy easy for a decision to implement unfair DRM against owners manipulating the music they legally own.
Besides, if you want, there are many ways you can transfer songs from your iPod to another computer. There are hacks that allow you to do this. I know they have some for OS X; I'm not sure about the Windows version though.
When Apple received an award at the Grammy's, Steve Jobs said, ""If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own." (More info here) So as far as we are concerned, Apple has publicly stated that people have the right to manipulate data, be it music, movies, or whatnot, that they own the rights to.
Why? I can, for instance, look at a picture of my wife and identify her as my wife in a fraction of a second. The best image-recognition software in the world can't reliably do even that simple task.
Why? There are so many different things computers can do better than us, just as there are so many things that we can do better. I thought that by now computers would be able to win at chess merely by going deep enough through all potential trees to find the most advantageous move combination.
Or maybe it's all just because GNU Chess always kicks my ass, heh.
First off, I believe Deep Fritz has beaten Deep Blue head to head.
Second, the program and the computer it runs on are two different things even if they are closely tied together. In fact, I'm kinda surprised Deep Fritz doesn't run on a more powerful computer. I would imagine that if it scaled well to 8 processors they would at least be able to scale to 16 or 32.
While this isn't man vs machine as the casual observer may think, but chess playing man vs programming man, how long until programming man is able to win soundly all the time? I don't mean to offend the chess players out there, but I find it very hard to believe that the advances in both processing power and programming knowledge will eventually catch up to chess knowledge. According to Moore's law processing powers is doubling every 18 months, and I would venture that programming knowledge of AI's is progressing faster than chess knowledge given the youth of the former's frield and the extensive history of the latter's.
That said, even while as a programmer I'm somewhat rooting for Deep Fritz, as a fellow man I can't help but be in awe of the fact that Kramnik is able to think better than a machine that "thinks" millions of times faster than him.
Cluster Overview:
* 2050 Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors
Now when people complain about the United States government being responsible for global warming they will have some good hard facts to use.