I actually have family members working with a well-known auto maker on this very problem. They'll be using users' public keys signed by a certificate authority once a day to validate. Think that hackers could crack RSA256 once a day just to cause havoc?
Nope, that's not the only reason for 64 bit native. Where I work we do a lot of financials. To do that accurately, we typically count pennies in an integer type. It's very easy to go over 2.1 gigapennies, so we try to use a 64 bit type. In a 64 bit archetecture, we don't incur thunking overhead.
Patents aren't stupid -- the patent office is. It seems to me that they're taking the approach that if the applicant can hold a reasonable argument for a process they don't understand, they issue the patent under the assumption that the courts will sort out the garbage fromt the useful patents.
I say that it's time for an examination of the whole patent application/approval process.
Minors don't own anything. Ergo, money she "earned" would be considered the property of her parents, who allowed her to buy them a computer with "her" money. Therefore, the computer is still "owned" by the parents, and the parents allowed the offence to occur.
Remarkably, I've experienced far fewer *undocumented* bugs in gcc than in Xlc (IBM's vendor provided c compiler for AIX). Of course, you might notice that the gcc build includes about 40,000 regression tests, both positive and negative...
Not really. Their job is to interpret law. Most laws are very oblique; they must in order to survive the beaurocratic process. When there's a disagreement in interpretation or a question of conflect the judges are called in to weigh the arguments and decide which interpretation is right. There is no room for a judge to "change a law".
Courts don't decide "what people want"... They decide what's legal or not. Obviously this freak thought that, for whatever reason, the do-not-call list interfered with some other federal laws. Oh well.
"Our aim here is not cost-driven," he said. "It's to build a 24/7 follow-the-sun model for development and support. When a software engineer goes to bed at night in the U.S., his or her colleague in India picks up development when they get into work. They're able to continually develop products."
Holy moly! This is going to cause a buttload of BAD code! I have a hard enough time in weekly meetings with my collagues trying to figure out what requriements are and making sure we don't step on each other's toes.
If people in say that blogs are offensive to them and anyone who runs a blog is subject to some sort of fine or tax on blogs, then Slashdot and various users that have journals on Slashdot could end up having to pay said fine or tax to people that locality. It sounds far-fetched, but it's laws like this that slowly erode away individual rights that will eventually lead to the death of the 'Net as we know it.
Fortunately, the First Amendment would probably keep this kind of flippant taxation from ever working. Becides, perhaps I could put a disclaimer on my blog: "Do not read if you are in the following locales: x, y, z".
This law only directly affects businesses doing business in the state. There is a long and cherished history of local governments restricting buisinesses to a degree in their state.
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An interesting concept, but no.. what they're pointing out is that the video would be run ALL THE TIME, and discarded after 5 minutes. When the cop presses "record" the machine would save the video from 5 minutes before the record button was pressed in addition to all the current video until the "stop recording" command is sent.
What is code and what is data? I can send you a word document that will screw your windows box six ways from Sunday. It's the decision to make untrusted data (emails, et al) able to execute turing-complete languages that has brought on the onslaught of internet virii.
Yah well... SMTP was great in the early days of the internet. Why, if I wanted to send an email to my prof, i just did it. There was no point in forging headers -- I had nothing to sell. There were no websites or commercial venture on the 'net at all. It existed solely for idea echange between acedemics and acedemic wannabes. We definately need a micro-payment/postage system a-la this.
First of all, you're right to ignore Larry, but mostly because he's the only guy spewing this krap. As we all know, "Deferral to Authority" is an argumentative fallacy.
Secondly, the 3rd world country outsourcing is a passing fad, IMHO. Larger software houses won't do this because of unstable political, economic and educational conditions. It will cost (a lot?) more to debug code written with Hindi variables when the outsourcing company goes bust.
For all the whining about latency times, I don't see anyone looking for solutions! Check this out: Quantum Networking. By using photons with quantum entanglement, it's possible to transmit data from Earth to Mars with nearly no latency.
Of course, we need a few good engineers to make it practical...
I have similar beef, but I see lots of cool things about a mac becides the nifty case...
I can run MS Office to do work-related documentation in formats my place of business prefers. (Don't get me started on OpenOffice -- it's a great start, but not yet robust enough to handle some of MS's weirdnesses).
I can develop unix software for work on it without having a seperate machine. As an added bonus the poorly written library code at my company will work on it (we run AIX).
Motorola is a better platform. Sure, it's not 1ghz (yet) but the silly things are krazy fast for most operations
After googling for Joe Job and reading about it, I can say that whitelisting wouldn't -- can't -- play into this kind of game.
You see, with a whitelist, you never see spam -- ever -- unless it's been propogated by a "trusted" contact -- someone you've explicitly said you will recieve email from.
Email from unknown senders, even legitimate ones, will be bounced immedately, requiring the sender to prove (by responding to the bounce) that they are indeed a legitimate sender before you even get all worked up about recieving spam.
Why hasn't any large ISP or enterprise seriously considered whitelisting mail? The traditional blacklist idea -- when I see spammers I'll no longer accept their mail -- is so easily overcome that many spammers don't even wait one generation to change addresses. Instead, bounce all mail you don't recognize, with a note to the sender on how to inform the system that you are a real user. Nearly all spammers loose their incoming account immedately, so this seems the natural choice. There's some more detail on this method at the TMDA project.
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I actually have family members working with a well-known auto maker on this very problem. They'll be using users' public keys signed by a certificate authority once a day to validate. Think that hackers could crack RSA256 once a day just to cause havoc?
Yes. It keeps geeks like myself employed.
Perhaps they should consider applying this research to their webserver, which appears to be having dififculties keeping up with requests ATM...
Nope, that's not the only reason for 64 bit native. Where I work we do a lot of financials. To do that accurately, we typically count pennies in an integer type. It's very easy to go over 2.1 gigapennies, so we try to use a 64 bit type. In a 64 bit archetecture, we don't incur thunking overhead.
Patents aren't stupid -- the patent office is. It seems to me that they're taking the approach that if the applicant can hold a reasonable argument for a process they don't understand, they issue the patent under the assumption that the courts will sort out the garbage fromt the useful patents.
I say that it's time for an examination of the whole patent application/approval process.
Minors don't own anything. Ergo, money she "earned" would be considered the property of her parents, who allowed her to buy them a computer with "her" money. Therefore, the computer is still "owned" by the parents, and the parents allowed the offence to occur.
I built a department webserver for my company. They insisted on using vendor X, whose 2x PIII Xeon 1.7 system cost $15000.
No, price is not usually the issue in corporate america.
Remarkably, I've experienced far fewer *undocumented* bugs in gcc than in Xlc (IBM's vendor provided c compiler for AIX). Of course, you might notice that the gcc build includes about 40,000 regression tests, both positive and negative...
Not really. Their job is to interpret law. Most laws are very oblique; they must in order to survive the beaurocratic process. When there's a disagreement in interpretation or a question of conflect the judges are called in to weigh the arguments and decide which interpretation is right. There is no room for a judge to "change a law".
Courts don't decide "what people want"... They decide what's legal or not. Obviously this freak thought that, for whatever reason, the do-not-call list interfered with some other federal laws. Oh well.
Holy moly! This is going to cause a buttload of BAD code! I have a hard enough time in weekly meetings with my collagues trying to figure out what requriements are and making sure we don't step on each other's toes.
Fortunately, the First Amendment would probably keep this kind of flippant taxation from ever working. Becides, perhaps I could put a disclaimer on my blog: "Do not read if you are in the following locales: x, y, z".
This law only directly affects businesses doing business in the state. There is a long and cherished history of local governments restricting buisinesses to a degree in their state.
An interesting concept, but no.. what they're pointing out is that the video would be run ALL THE TIME, and discarded after 5 minutes. When the cop presses "record" the machine would save the video from 5 minutes before the record button was pressed in addition to all the current video until the "stop recording" command is sent.
What is code and what is data? I can send you a word document that will screw your windows box six ways from Sunday. It's the decision to make untrusted data (emails, et al) able to execute turing-complete languages that has brought on the onslaught of internet virii.
Yah well... SMTP was great in the early days of the internet. Why, if I wanted to send an email to my prof, i just did it. There was no point in forging headers -- I had nothing to sell. There were no websites or commercial venture on the 'net at all. It existed solely for idea echange between acedemics and acedemic wannabes. We definately need a micro-payment/postage system a-la this.
No -- the source is available BEFORE the program was installed...
The fact we can't do this yet shouldn't be a problem since we don't need to be doing TCP/IP (interplanetary) for a while.
Previously we've needed many molecules.
First of all, you're right to ignore Larry, but mostly because he's the only guy spewing this krap. As we all know, "Deferral to Authority" is an argumentative fallacy.
Secondly, the 3rd world country outsourcing is a passing fad, IMHO. Larger software houses won't do this because of unstable political, economic and educational conditions. It will cost (a lot?) more to debug code written with Hindi variables when the outsourcing company goes bust.
grr, link was lost: Quantum Networking
For all the whining about latency times, I don't see anyone looking for solutions! Check this out:
Quantum Networking. By using photons with quantum entanglement, it's possible to transmit data from Earth to Mars with nearly no latency.
Of course, we need a few good engineers to make it practical...
Of course, I still haven't bought one....
Guess somebody has their priorities straight...
You see, with a whitelist, you never see spam -- ever -- unless it's been propogated by a "trusted" contact -- someone you've explicitly said you will recieve email from.
Email from unknown senders, even legitimate ones, will be bounced immedately, requiring the sender to prove (by responding to the bounce) that they are indeed a legitimate sender before you even get all worked up about recieving spam.
Why hasn't any large ISP or enterprise seriously considered whitelisting mail? The traditional blacklist idea -- when I see spammers I'll no longer accept their mail -- is so easily overcome that many spammers don't even wait one generation to change addresses. Instead, bounce all mail you don't recognize, with a note to the sender on how to inform the system that you are a real user. Nearly all spammers loose their incoming account immedately, so this seems the natural choice. There's some more detail on this method at the TMDA project.