Seeing as TFA is too vague for anyone to begin to conjecture on specifications it is presumptive of you to assume that ASICs are required.
Google, the algorithms, runs on commodity hardware and seems to be doing fine.. They don't need 8-way HP or IBM equipment to run their code.
While I agree with you that front-end routers with multiple gigabit connections handling full BGP tables would probably need the performance only an ASIC can provide, I'm sure google has thousands of internal routers that perform rudimentary network separation, route failover, and maybe some packet filtering. A meticulously tuned Vyatta-esque implementation would work and be a internal build they could take ownership of.
I can't believe nobody has made mention of Vyatta. It's an excellent appliance-like distro based on, I believe, Debian. All the bells and whistles you'd expect from a high-end device at a fraction (by which I mean ~1/3) of the cost relative to a Cisco purchase.
All management is handled via an IOS-like command mode which makes setup, backups, and everything else quite easy. Wire speed all the way.
That would imply a SYN flood. There is no way to asynchronously spoof an address and establish an SSH session by sending my "half of the connection with delays."
The mW needed to transmit the cell signal? Or the power needed to illuminate the 2x2" full color screen with real-time GPS positioning, speakerphone, and fluid game play?
The former.. possible. The latter.. only if you put the phone in a paint mixer.
DenyHosts has a default memory time for failed logins of something like 5 days by default. Are you suggesting that a botnet would have enough members to make a meaningful brute force attack when each member can only make three tries in a five-day span? Seems not so plausible.
You can only spoof a given source if you're in the same subnet or if you have control over the routing between yourself and the target. The article deals with botnet threats, not insider attacks.
The biggest thing keeping AMD down in the mobile world is the systems.
Speaking beyond just the mobile market, it's important to keep in mind that Intel is facing anti-trust suits around the world. And has already been found guilty in S. Korea with Europe getting increasingly annoyed at their delays. If the accusations are true, Intel's unlimited R&D budget is ill-gotten via illegal, exclusory business practices.
Frankly I'm all but blown away at how a company with a smaller market cap than either NVIDIA or Intel can continue to compete and sometimes win.
"I'll live forever!! (read my book)" "One day machines will rival human intelligence!! (read my book)"
I suppose it's easy to lose track of current progress when bopping around the halls of MIT where the next super-substance, ultra-efficient, free-energy widget is always just around the corner. I don't mean to poop on his parade but his views on near-term technology push the limits of optimism and border on scifi. With MIT.edu at the end of his email address, however, he gets heralded as a prescient futurist.
Kurzweil - you're going to die. I don't care how many injections of thiamine you take a week and how many glasses of organic carrot juice you put down. You'll die maybe with maybe a slightly longer life span than the average healthy person but 150 years of age you will not see. If pharma companies can pour hundreds of millions into studying a single drug, to interact with a single pathway, and then have to recall the same drug later due to unexpected side effects... what makes you think you have unlocked the gift of the gods? "respirocytes" to boost your oxygen exchange 100x that of red blood cells? please. They'd probably tangle in your brain in five minutes.
He'll have the last laugh though.. Another big burst of press when he dies. "Man who claimed immortality found dead on exercise bike at home."
As to his consciousness argument, I see nothing new in there relative to any inclusive book on the subject.
Everyone knows you're supposed to sit perfectly still, holding your breath, squeezing your sphincter while any BIOS update goes through. Anything less than that shows disrespect resulting in consequences like yours.
I don't often ride to the rescue of MSFT but if people are going to ignore updates and continue to run unpatched IE5 on Windows 2000.. what would you have them do? Force patches on people with no disable option? That'd go over real well with the/. crowd.
Probably the best thing that could happen would be for major web sites to start rejecting IE5. That would oblige a significant chunk of the slackasses out there to upgrade and visit windowsupdate in the process. Not that this would really improve the already infected machines out there but it's a start.
Funny how nobody has stopped to ask... but WTF is this story doing on Slashdot? If I wanted useless partisan bickering over a news story (about news stories) I would go to Yahoo's message boards.
Oh wait, even they figured out that hosting an open forum on the Internet about politics is like giving angry monkeys a bucket of poop. That's why there's no more comments section on articles.
Intel is in a unique position in that its R&D and fab budgets are, relatively speaking, limitless. With a lion's share of the market, Intel can afford to upgrade some of their fabs to 32nm at enormous expense with the comfort of knowing that the volumes will almost assuredly be there to make back the investment.
AMD had to play a much nimbler and dangerous game of trying to crank out volume while simultaneously playing catch-up on the fab side. It was wise of them to recognize this as a losing game. My assumption is that the AMD/IBM, et al alliance of gate research and the like will be fed into these fabs with some sort of preferential production rights to the contributors of the R&D budget.
Also, let's not forget that Intel is the subject of numerous international anti-trust suits.
IMHO, AMD has had some costly slipups but they have otherwise done an outstanding job of keeping pace with NVIDIA and Intel while on a fractional R&D allowance. In NVIDIA's case, they are pulling ahead.
Yeesh, I'd rather they repackage XP with a new look and SP4 and sell me the stack as Windows Mohave. Just guarantee support for another 5 years and I might actually pay!
Facile, absolutely facile understanding of the situation.
Human nature might never change vis-a-vis greed/fear, but it's silly to claim something like "tell-tale sign of a recession is falling commodities prices."
Commodities may well trade in a spastic fashion but that is the norm of any system that is transitioning from surplus capacity to deficit. We've eaten / burned / mined / and otherwise trashed the juiciest bits of the planet. Peak oil is just the most most alarming and near-term "peak." "peak everything" is forming as well.
Copper, silver, uranium, palladium, oil, and more are all maxing out. Too many people. Too many BRIC people wanting a TV and a hamburger. The US is, each and every day, a smaller part of the global economy.
"Red states, on the other hand, big producers of food and fuel, are doing rather well."
Oh dear Lord.. Farmers are hugely subsidized (and this should END given the high prices for wheat and corn), and ethanol has yet to demonstrate scalable energy gains versus inputs. Money flows from blue states into the government and then to the red states. That's a fact. Grossly simplified but true.
"The future is passing from Chicago where the corn is traded, to the belts where the corn is made, from New York where the cars are traded, to the south where the cars are made."
No, the future is passing the point where the average American *consumer* is out of cash and credibility. The real estate boom was the last (enormous) hurrah and now the fool government is jumping in to make a Herculean trillion-dollar effort at priming the pump just... one.. last... time.. Like Bush said after 9/11 - the most important thing is to get out there and shop.
In skim reading your post I thought you had penned, "those people.. are surprisingly high and they get away with it."
I sort of figured if you're going to tile a big kitchen or paint a living room you may as well put some music on and be stoned. Just take care not to tile the living room.
I'm sure it's a technical answer but why can't, with 700mb of space available, one lousy kilobyte be reserved for metadata? If older players wouldn't like it, I should think it could be "hidden" after the last track.
It just seems silly that my CD player can't scroll the title of the track being played. Or that my computer can't pull titles and even album art without an Internet connection.
âoePeople that use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.â
â"Steve Ballmer
âoeWe believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.â
â"Steve Ballmer
âoeThereâ(TM)s no company called Linux, thereâ(TM)s barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, itâ(TM)s free.â
I greatly disagree with your conclusion that available education would "destroy the gap between the haves and have nots." There has never been a time like today when so much education is available for free. Not even close. Big city libraries are dwarfed by the amount of educating material that is available to someone sitting at a computer in Nowhere, Alaska. MIT and many other.edus have their syllabus (and sometimes full streaming video of each class!) online for free.
I could arguably give myself a master's level education in most fields without leaving home. But too bad it won't give me the connections and other leg-ups that attending a $50k/yr brick and mortar will. (Think an MBA candidate learns all that much at Harvard Business School?) And too bad a diploma means more to most companies than know-how.
Close the gap? Sorry, but each and every day, more and more wealth consolidates with the wealthiest. IMHO, it's a bug in our implementation of capitalism.
But back to the article - I'd love to see open source textbooks as I think they'd stand a greater chance of being lucid. I remember the garbage book by professor had us buy for assembly class. It was barely relevant to the course.
You don't know you have known plaintext. Sure, you have *some*, in the form of the stored value, but that stored value could be padded on either side with pseudo-random junk. Even if it stores the time of transaction at the sub-second level you are basically faced with random data for all intents and purposes.
And even if you did know the plaintext, wouldn't that would only help you to identify weaknesses in the algorithm? To my knowledge, a strong algorithm will not meaningfully reduce your effort from that of brute force. Also keep in mind, each time you change the plaintext, you spend a $1.50 so don't plan on having thousands of samples to work with.
All-in-all, like everyone here, I'm amazed we still have these issues. The Charlie Card system is very new (a couple of years). Tried and trusted ciphers abound.
It all seems a bit careless on the MBTA's part to have to resort to an injunction when there has pretty clearly been no major breakthrough in cryptoanalysis.
Which is why I wonder what would have happened if Richard Reid had gotten up and, oh, tried to light his shoe-bomb in the bathroom instead of his chair, right next to other passengers..?
And now I'm surely on some watchlist. "Engaged in explosives discussion on Internet chat board with other social deviants."
Ah well, summer is wrapping up and Guantanamo is sunny year-round.
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Seeing as TFA is too vague for anyone to begin to conjecture on specifications it is presumptive of you to assume that ASICs are required.
Google, the algorithms, runs on commodity hardware and seems to be doing fine.. They don't need 8-way HP or IBM equipment to run their code.
While I agree with you that front-end routers with multiple gigabit connections handling full BGP tables would probably need the performance only an ASIC can provide, I'm sure google has thousands of internal routers that perform rudimentary network separation, route failover, and maybe some packet filtering. A meticulously tuned Vyatta-esque implementation would work and be a internal build they could take ownership of.
I can't believe nobody has made mention of Vyatta. It's an excellent appliance-like distro based on, I believe, Debian. All the bells and whistles you'd expect from a high-end device at a fraction (by which I mean ~1/3) of the cost relative to a Cisco purchase.
All management is handled via an IOS-like command mode which makes setup, backups, and everything else quite easy. Wire speed all the way.
That would imply a SYN flood. There is no way to asynchronously spoof an address and establish an SSH session by sending my "half of the connection with delays."
At least that I am aware of.
The mW needed to transmit the cell signal? Or the power needed to illuminate the 2x2" full color screen with real-time GPS positioning, speakerphone, and fluid game play?
The former.. possible. The latter.. only if you put the phone in a paint mixer.
DenyHosts has a default memory time for failed logins of something like 5 days by default. Are you suggesting that a botnet would have enough members to make a meaningful brute force attack when each member can only make three tries in a five-day span? Seems not so plausible.
You can only spoof a given source if you're in the same subnet or if you have control over the routing between yourself and the target. The article deals with botnet threats, not insider attacks.
The biggest thing keeping AMD down in the mobile world is the systems.
Speaking beyond just the mobile market, it's important to keep in mind that Intel is facing anti-trust suits around the world. And has already been found guilty in S. Korea with Europe getting increasingly annoyed at their delays. If the accusations are true, Intel's unlimited R&D budget is ill-gotten via illegal, exclusory business practices.
Frankly I'm all but blown away at how a company with a smaller market cap than either NVIDIA or Intel can continue to compete and sometimes win.
That'll do.. Can we resume our Magic game now please?
How much fun academia must be.
"I'll live forever!! (read my book)"
"One day machines will rival human intelligence!! (read my book)"
I suppose it's easy to lose track of current progress when bopping around the halls of MIT where the next super-substance, ultra-efficient, free-energy widget is always just around the corner. I don't mean to poop on his parade but his views on near-term technology push the limits of optimism and border on scifi. With MIT.edu at the end of his email address, however, he gets heralded as a prescient futurist.
Kurzweil - you're going to die. I don't care how many injections of thiamine you take a week and how many glasses of organic carrot juice you put down. You'll die maybe with maybe a slightly longer life span than the average healthy person but 150 years of age you will not see. If pharma companies can pour hundreds of millions into studying a single drug, to interact with a single pathway, and then have to recall the same drug later due to unexpected side effects... what makes you think you have unlocked the gift of the gods? "respirocytes" to boost your oxygen exchange 100x that of red blood cells? please. They'd probably tangle in your brain in five minutes.
He'll have the last laugh though.. Another big burst of press when he dies. "Man who claimed immortality found dead on exercise bike at home."
As to his consciousness argument, I see nothing new in there relative to any inclusive book on the subject.
Hah! that's priceless about the power strip.
Everyone knows you're supposed to sit perfectly still, holding your breath, squeezing your sphincter while any BIOS update goes through. Anything less than that shows disrespect resulting in consequences like yours.
I don't often ride to the rescue of MSFT but if people are going to ignore updates and continue to run unpatched IE5 on Windows 2000.. what would you have them do? Force patches on people with no disable option? That'd go over real well with the /. crowd.
Probably the best thing that could happen would be for major web sites to start rejecting IE5. That would oblige a significant chunk of the slackasses out there to upgrade and visit windowsupdate in the process. Not that this would really improve the already infected machines out there but it's a start.
Funny how nobody has stopped to ask... but WTF is this story doing on Slashdot? If I wanted useless partisan bickering over a news story (about news stories) I would go to Yahoo's message boards.
Oh wait, even they figured out that hosting an open forum on the Internet about politics is like giving angry monkeys a bucket of poop. That's why there's no more comments section on articles.
"News for nerds." Let's stick with that.
Hmm, yes, having read a few more comments.. go ahead and mark previous redundant, troll, etc.
Bah, curl is the only browser for real men. Render in your head!
Intel is in a unique position in that its R&D and fab budgets are, relatively speaking, limitless. With a lion's share of the market, Intel can afford to upgrade some of their fabs to 32nm at enormous expense with the comfort of knowing that the volumes will almost assuredly be there to make back the investment.
AMD had to play a much nimbler and dangerous game of trying to crank out volume while simultaneously playing catch-up on the fab side. It was wise of them to recognize this as a losing game. My assumption is that the AMD/IBM, et al alliance of gate research and the like will be fed into these fabs with some sort of preferential production rights to the contributors of the R&D budget.
Also, let's not forget that Intel is the subject of numerous international anti-trust suits.
IMHO, AMD has had some costly slipups but they have otherwise done an outstanding job of keeping pace with NVIDIA and Intel while on a fractional R&D allowance. In NVIDIA's case, they are pulling ahead.
I predict they will be as successful as they were with Unbreakable Linux!!
(not very)
Yeesh, I'd rather they repackage XP with a new look and SP4 and sell me the stack as Windows Mohave. Just guarantee support for another 5 years and I might actually pay!
Facile, absolutely facile understanding of the situation.
Human nature might never change vis-a-vis greed/fear, but it's silly to claim something like "tell-tale sign of a recession is falling commodities prices."
Commodities may well trade in a spastic fashion but that is the norm of any system that is transitioning from surplus capacity to deficit. We've eaten / burned / mined / and otherwise trashed the juiciest bits of the planet. Peak oil is just the most most alarming and near-term "peak." "peak everything" is forming as well.
Copper, silver, uranium, palladium, oil, and more are all maxing out. Too many people. Too many BRIC people wanting a TV and a hamburger. The US is, each and every day, a smaller part of the global economy.
"Red states, on the other hand, big producers of food and fuel, are doing rather well."
Oh dear Lord.. Farmers are hugely subsidized (and this should END given the high prices for wheat and corn), and ethanol has yet to demonstrate scalable energy gains versus inputs. Money flows from blue states into the government and then to the red states. That's a fact. Grossly simplified but true.
"The future is passing from Chicago where the corn is traded, to the belts where the corn is made, from New York where the cars are traded, to the south where the cars are made."
No, the future is passing the point where the average American *consumer* is out of cash and credibility. The real estate boom was the last (enormous) hurrah and now the fool government is jumping in to make a Herculean trillion-dollar effort at priming the pump just... one.. last... time.. Like Bush said after 9/11 - the most important thing is to get out there and shop.
"Bush's economic policies have worked"
Man. I just don't know what to say.
In skim reading your post I thought you had penned, "those people .. are surprisingly high and they get away with it."
I sort of figured if you're going to tile a big kitchen or paint a living room you may as well put some music on and be stoned. Just take care not to tile the living room.
That's what the drinking bird on top of your monitor is for.
I'm sure it's a technical answer but why can't, with 700mb of space available, one lousy kilobyte be reserved for metadata? If older players wouldn't like it, I should think it could be "hidden" after the last track.
It just seems silly that my CD player can't scroll the title of the track being played. Or that my computer can't pull titles and even album art without an Internet connection.
In case you had any doubts as to his thinking..
âoePeople that use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.â
â"Steve Ballmer
âoeWe believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.â
â"Steve Ballmer
âoeThereâ(TM)s no company called Linux, thereâ(TM)s barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, itâ(TM)s free.â
â"Steve Ballmer
I greatly disagree with your conclusion that available education would "destroy the gap between the haves and have nots." There has never been a time like today when so much education is available for free. Not even close. Big city libraries are dwarfed by the amount of educating material that is available to someone sitting at a computer in Nowhere, Alaska. MIT and many other .edus have their syllabus (and sometimes full streaming video of each class!) online for free.
I could arguably give myself a master's level education in most fields without leaving home. But too bad it won't give me the connections and other leg-ups that attending a $50k/yr brick and mortar will. (Think an MBA candidate learns all that much at Harvard Business School?) And too bad a diploma means more to most companies than know-how.
Close the gap? Sorry, but each and every day, more and more wealth consolidates with the wealthiest. IMHO, it's a bug in our implementation of capitalism.
But back to the article - I'd love to see open source textbooks as I think they'd stand a greater chance of being lucid. I remember the garbage book by professor had us buy for assembly class. It was barely relevant to the course.
You have several assumptions there.
You don't know you have known plaintext. Sure, you have *some*, in the form of the stored value, but that stored value could be padded on either side with pseudo-random junk. Even if it stores the time of transaction at the sub-second level you are basically faced with random data for all intents and purposes.
And even if you did know the plaintext, wouldn't that would only help you to identify weaknesses in the algorithm? To my knowledge, a strong algorithm will not meaningfully reduce your effort from that of brute force. Also keep in mind, each time you change the plaintext, you spend a $1.50 so don't plan on having thousands of samples to work with.
All-in-all, like everyone here, I'm amazed we still have these issues. The Charlie Card system is very new (a couple of years). Tried and trusted ciphers abound.
It all seems a bit careless on the MBTA's part to have to resort to an injunction when there has pretty clearly been no major breakthrough in cryptoanalysis.
Which is why I wonder what would have happened if Richard Reid had gotten up and, oh, tried to light his shoe-bomb in the bathroom instead of his chair, right next to other passengers..?
And now I'm surely on some watchlist. "Engaged in explosives discussion on Internet chat board with other social deviants."
Ah well, summer is wrapping up and Guantanamo is sunny year-round.