The real question is: Will this ever actually be deployed? The market for submarines is small, at best, and there's a lot of ocean floor to cover before this would be generally useful. Also, in wartime, it's rather easier to take out a tethered buoy, even a submerged one, than the GPS satellite system. I'd rate the as a 2 out of 3 of never happening beyond a Proof of Concept stage.
And how secure is it if you hibernate, rather than shut down, your system? Does all the crook have to do is keep it powered, or do you need to re-enter your password each time you raise the lid? If so, I suspect the password is going to be rather short, and easily guessable.
The real problem is not designing effective security, but getting people to use it properly. You can start on this by banning PostIt notes from the corporate environment -- or at least make them self-destruct.
Meanwhile, the corporate Clear Channels pay just $550 Million for broadcasting the same songs we've all heard before. Hardly a fair deal."
This just illustrates that Clear Channel is stupid, careless with their shareholder's money, or knows they'll still come out ahead on advertising revenue because we're stupid and continue to listen to the same music over and over again on the radio, rather than on our iPods.
"Absolutely...The former exists, the latter does not."
Such advocacy for an issue does not belong in a Slashdot summary, regardless of if it is just a quote of someone else. We should be about open and even discussion here, and not stating one's conclusions right from the get-go. That's what TFA is all about, not the Slashdot summary.
Apple has a long way to go before Macs will be ready for widespread enterprise use.
While Apple has a ways to go, I wouldn't call it a long way. You are completely correct in you listing of their corporate-important deficiencies, however these are fixable, if Apple wishes to fix them, in relatively short order. Apple has to want to fix them, and that's the real battle.
(The article dismisses Linux desktops in the enterprise in a single bullet item.)
And just how is a Linux desktop different than a PC desktop (e.g. Dell/HP) different than an Apple desktop. While this article seems to talk about the hardware, the real answer is: THE OPERATING SYSTEM! With Apple, when you talk about the line-up you can't really separate the hardware from the software, yet Linux and Windows are run on current Macs, and OS-X is successfully (albeit illegally) ported to Dells. So what is special about Apple? The hardware, or the software, and why would Linux even be mentioned in any discussion of the hardware -- except that it runs on a lot more hardware than OS-X, and costs less. All this makes this article, and generally this whole discussion, hard to take seriously.
Or, you could run power in alongside the lines that you laid when connecting the cell towers to the wired network. Somewhere down the way is a plug you could use.
Rather than ship hybrid drives now with flash chips good for a few thousand cycles, why not wait until the end of this year and ship them with Intel PRAM or equivalent. PRAM is expected to be faster, non-volatile, and handle many times more R/W cycles. Or is the lifetime of the rest of the drive no longer than for the flash itself? This seems to be to be just a bit ahead of its time, and has the potential for either problems, or performance degradation, over a relatively short timespan.
It was said some time ago that the fastest way to transfer data was in a station wagon full of backup tapes traveling down the Interstate. I guess we now update that now to a mini-van full of hard drives...
James Bond jumps after the plane, falls faster than the (more aerodynamic, even ignoring engine force...) aircraft, catches up with it, gets into the cockpit and gains control just in time...
Perhaps the pitch of the props had been reversed on the plane -- completely possible for most prop planes -- because it was already trying to slow down and not crash.
When the RIAA claimed in court that one of the people it sued had wiped his hard drive and reinstalled the operating system, the court found in the RIAA's favor despite the sheer lack of any evidence on the hard drive. They claimed that the lack of evidence proved his guilt.
When a government contractor returned the notebook computer he'd been given to perform his job with only the files on it that had been there when it had been given to him (government claiming that he was setting up his own competing business during the time he worked for the government, and they expected to find evidence on the notebook once they got it back, but he used, IIRC, a legal secure delete program) they maintainted that the LACK OF data was proof of his guilt.
Does this just happen to the little guy, or should the court now find fully in AMD's favor here? And in the process, send a strong message to all of big business?
After all, this is the same government being pushed to make ISPs retain even more of your personal Internet activities. Shouldn't the punishments be spread around more equally?
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But when it's posted for free, as in beer, they sue.
There's something rotten in more than Denmark here.
But they'll settle for $3,500, and a promise to not infringe again.
The real question is: Will this ever actually be deployed? The market for submarines is small, at best, and there's a lot of ocean floor to cover before this would be generally useful. Also, in wartime, it's rather easier to take out a tethered buoy, even a submerged one, than the GPS satellite system. I'd rate the as a 2 out of 3 of never happening beyond a Proof of Concept stage.
The real problem is not designing effective security, but getting people to use it properly. You can start on this by banning PostIt notes from the corporate environment -- or at least make them self-destruct.
Where do you even find 67,890 digits of Pi to memorize in the first place?
Would this be a story at all if it was named anything other than Skynet?
This just illustrates that Clear Channel is stupid, careless with their shareholder's money, or knows they'll still come out ahead on advertising revenue because we're stupid and continue to listen to the same music over and over again on the radio, rather than on our iPods.
Such advocacy for an issue does not belong in a Slashdot summary, regardless of if it is just a quote of someone else. We should be about open and even discussion here, and not stating one's conclusions right from the get-go. That's what TFA is all about, not the Slashdot summary.
Second this! And when MS starts deleting Thunderbird files "by accident", sue them!
While Apple has a ways to go, I wouldn't call it a long way. You are completely correct in you listing of their corporate-important deficiencies, however these are fixable, if Apple wishes to fix them, in relatively short order. Apple has to want to fix them, and that's the real battle.
And just how is a Linux desktop different than a PC desktop (e.g. Dell/HP) different than an Apple desktop. While this article seems to talk about the hardware, the real answer is: THE OPERATING SYSTEM! With Apple, when you talk about the line-up you can't really separate the hardware from the software, yet Linux and Windows are run on current Macs, and OS-X is successfully (albeit illegally) ported to Dells. So what is special about Apple? The hardware, or the software, and why would Linux even be mentioned in any discussion of the hardware -- except that it runs on a lot more hardware than OS-X, and costs less. All this makes this article, and generally this whole discussion, hard to take seriously.
Or, you could run power in alongside the lines that you laid when connecting the cell towers to the wired network. Somewhere down the way is a plug you could use.
Today: Hey, Mom. I just put my beer through the Big Screen. Buy me another one.
He is from Duke, right?
The first improvement will be to make it voice activated.
Hey, Bitch. Toss me a cold one!
About those reserved blocks 224.. thru 255..., that seems excessive in today's world. Are any of those reclaimable for normal use?
Microsoft should be made to pay, and I don't mean some slap on the wrist, over this one. Where are the people who are supposed to be protecting us???
Rather than ship hybrid drives now with flash chips good for a few thousand cycles, why not wait until the end of this year and ship them with Intel PRAM or equivalent. PRAM is expected to be faster, non-volatile, and handle many times more R/W cycles. Or is the lifetime of the rest of the drive no longer than for the flash itself? This seems to be to be just a bit ahead of its time, and has the potential for either problems, or performance degradation, over a relatively short timespan.
My Living Doll
The Outer Limits (most recent version)
My Favorite Robot Story Authors:
DB_Story (StoriesOnline.org)
Ken Macleod (The Stone Canal)
My Favorite Robot Movie:
Such a movie has yet to be made, but I'm still hoping for a good one.
Did anybody notice -- except us?
It was said some time ago that the fastest way to transfer data was in a station wagon full of backup tapes traveling down the Interstate. I guess we now update that now to a mini-van full of hard drives...
Perhaps the pitch of the props had been reversed on the plane -- completely possible for most prop planes -- because it was already trying to slow down and not crash.
1 Law of Computers That Doesn't Apply in Hollywood: Computer passwords cannot always be guessed in 3 tries.
When a government contractor returned the notebook computer he'd been given to perform his job with only the files on it that had been there when it had been given to him (government claiming that he was setting up his own competing business during the time he worked for the government, and they expected to find evidence on the notebook once they got it back, but he used, IIRC, a legal secure delete program) they maintainted that the LACK OF data was proof of his guilt.
Does this just happen to the little guy, or should the court now find fully in AMD's favor here? And in the process, send a strong message to all of big business?
After all, this is the same government being pushed to make ISPs retain even more of your personal Internet activities. Shouldn't the punishments be spread around more equally?
Wasn't that P. T. Barunm?
Pentium FDIV bug?