PETA, through its kill shelters, is responsible for killing more pet animals than any other entity on earth. Their political stance is about gathering money, and nothing else.
It was quite amazing in the 1980's when we discovered that East Germany was beaming low powered microwaves at the American embassy in West Berlin. The thought was that they were attempting to slowly degrade the health of our diplomats. It turns out that there were cylinders buried in the walls that were passive under normal conditions but under microwave energy would sympathetically resonate with the microwave signal modulated by the ambient sound. Clever stuff that, 30 years ago.
This is nothing compared to Xerox providing copiers to the Soviet government that recorded on film a copy of every page to be retrieved only by an authorized Xerox technician called when the copier failed because the film was full. Ah, those were easy days of spy. We got a lot of good stuff out of that, and Xerox got some special privileges as well, including the ability to run their own experimental nuclear reactor.
If you think this isn't still going on, and has gotten more clever, you're in denial. That is part of the backlash about other countries driving tech. If Intel doesn't provide the chipsets for Iran's nuclear ambitions how are we going to know what they're up to? China's RockTech doesn't care to report that stuff. They just want to sell chips.
"the intrusion" - as if this found one were the only one. That's funny. It's likely this leak of plans is a false flag. That's what I would do if the knowledge about the plans was known to be general of the major powers: everybody we know has the plans, so leak them publicly and paint the blame of the leak on somebody even though we've all drunk from that well.
Yes, AU does share. The CIA and others still put their assets in to ensure what they're told is true. That's their job. They're quite serious about it. AU could put Google Glass on all their operatives streaming to Langley the POV of every field agent, and the CIA and various other US agencies would still put humint in place to ensure AU weren't gaming them. If I was their boss I'd make sure they did. It's one thing to honestly believe a thing from assertions of a loyal partner given in good faith. It's quite another thing to know it from observations of your own humint.
It's likely China has operatives working for the architect firm that designed the thing, and the construction sub and materials suppliers as well. It's certain that the American CIA did, and Israeli Mossad and whatever the KGB are calling themselves now as well. Other countries have spies too: South Korea and Argentina might give it a go, not with direct agents but secondary contacts that gather info from workers using the pillowtalk method. Hacking in remotely is just providing a plausible excuse for knowing the intel the Humint has already gathered. When such stuff is built it's almost comical how often the agents and double agents stumble over each other: it's a wonder they can get any actual design work done what with all the cloak and dagger shit going on. At this point they might as well do the design as a community collaboration wiki style.
Nobody's going to have a snit fit about this on the international incident level. If somebody puts to public bid a contract to build an intelligence HQ, network solution or datacenter then all the major powers are expected to try their best to get their spies and spy devices in. If they didn't try they wouldn't be doing their jobs. It's the responsibility of the main contractor to foil the attempts. Who was that this time? Bechtel again? I'm sure they're on it (wink, wink).
Let's not fault China specially for doing what we would do and did do as if that was some expression of dire intent making them evil. They're a global superpower and getting engaged in this activity is just a prerequisite of that role. Their activity here is evidence of nothing but that they fulfill their responsibility to be proactive in an uncertain world to the best of their ability, as we would do and actually do. And that's if we actually caught them doing it, which I find unlikely.
It's time to step down the tension. The Chinese agents didn't hurt anybody, kidnap or kill anybody - even if it was actually them. What with how global Internet works it's possible that the CIA or some other agent (even a commercial interest!) actually controls devices in the PRC from where such activity can be done, blaming China for acts committed by agents from elsewhere by their IP address - which we all know is faint cause. Certainly that's how I would do it. China has the biggest base of zombie computers there is what with their devotion to pirated Windows XP and sketchy pirated apps. These zombies are available for rent by the hour, day, week or month - or for sale outright. If you're a cyber spy what are you going to do: rent zombies from your own country, or one that causes a secondary benefit when discovered by IP address, shifting the blame to your adversary? What with all the malware going on there it's a wonder anyone in China can get their work done.
The problem you have is the software tools you use sap the power of the hardware. Windows is engineered to consume cycles to drive their need for recurrent license fees. Try a different OS that doesn't have this handicap and you'll find the full power of the equipment is available.
I'm thinking you don't understand. The whole "shared memory" thing is not exclusive to x86 cores. At some level it's a software abstraction relating to latency of storage. GPUs can have terabytes of RAM too as a sixth level cache.
Intel really needs some help here because the ground has shifted too much for them.
This is easy to say but all the top supercomputers are GPGPU based now. The CPU is a management appliance that dishes the computables to the compute cores.
This comment is off topic, and you may freely moderate it so.
Once upon a time long ago I was intrigued by the rapid absorption of domain names and their escalating value. Particularly short names. And so I wrote a perl script to permute all possible 4-letter domains and look them up in the hope of identifying some interesting names to squat. I'm not really proud of that, but it was long ago when such stuff wasn't as abhorrent as the current day. I was sipping Maker's Mark on the rocks all night. I identified and registered a few, and one came up - iran.com, which could have been lucrative with the runner community. I was placing the order for the iran.com domain on Christmas eve when just then my wife came up, stroked my neck and said "come to bed." I got some. That was the most expensive nookie I ever got.
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Frankly it appears that PETA has found an exemption to the Streisand effect.
PETA, through its kill shelters, is responsible for killing more pet animals than any other entity on earth. Their political stance is about gathering money, and nothing else.
It was quite amazing in the 1980's when we discovered that East Germany was beaming low powered microwaves at the American embassy in West Berlin. The thought was that they were attempting to slowly degrade the health of our diplomats. It turns out that there were cylinders buried in the walls that were passive under normal conditions but under microwave energy would sympathetically resonate with the microwave signal modulated by the ambient sound. Clever stuff that, 30 years ago.
This is nothing compared to Xerox providing copiers to the Soviet government that recorded on film a copy of every page to be retrieved only by an authorized Xerox technician called when the copier failed because the film was full. Ah, those were easy days of spy. We got a lot of good stuff out of that, and Xerox got some special privileges as well, including the ability to run their own experimental nuclear reactor.
If you think this isn't still going on, and has gotten more clever, you're in denial. That is part of the backlash about other countries driving tech. If Intel doesn't provide the chipsets for Iran's nuclear ambitions how are we going to know what they're up to? China's RockTech doesn't care to report that stuff. They just want to sell chips.
I'm guessing you're engaged in building government buildings in the Antarctic interior. Even then you would be wrong because: satellites.
"the intrusion" - as if this found one were the only one. That's funny. It's likely this leak of plans is a false flag. That's what I would do if the knowledge about the plans was known to be general of the major powers: everybody we know has the plans, so leak them publicly and paint the blame of the leak on somebody even though we've all drunk from that well.
Yes, AU does share. The CIA and others still put their assets in to ensure what they're told is true. That's their job. They're quite serious about it. AU could put Google Glass on all their operatives streaming to Langley the POV of every field agent, and the CIA and various other US agencies would still put humint in place to ensure AU weren't gaming them. If I was their boss I'd make sure they did. It's one thing to honestly believe a thing from assertions of a loyal partner given in good faith. It's quite another thing to know it from observations of your own humint.
I have mod points for once but unfortunately I've already posted in this thread. +1 insightful.
The problem with DNA targeted bioweapons: evolution. When the organisms run out of targeted DNA they evolve to target other DNA patterns.
It's likely China has operatives working for the architect firm that designed the thing, and the construction sub and materials suppliers as well. It's certain that the American CIA did, and Israeli Mossad and whatever the KGB are calling themselves now as well. Other countries have spies too: South Korea and Argentina might give it a go, not with direct agents but secondary contacts that gather info from workers using the pillowtalk method. Hacking in remotely is just providing a plausible excuse for knowing the intel the Humint has already gathered. When such stuff is built it's almost comical how often the agents and double agents stumble over each other: it's a wonder they can get any actual design work done what with all the cloak and dagger shit going on. At this point they might as well do the design as a community collaboration wiki style.
Nobody's going to have a snit fit about this on the international incident level. If somebody puts to public bid a contract to build an intelligence HQ, network solution or datacenter then all the major powers are expected to try their best to get their spies and spy devices in. If they didn't try they wouldn't be doing their jobs. It's the responsibility of the main contractor to foil the attempts. Who was that this time? Bechtel again? I'm sure they're on it (wink, wink).
Let's not fault China specially for doing what we would do and did do as if that was some expression of dire intent making them evil. They're a global superpower and getting engaged in this activity is just a prerequisite of that role. Their activity here is evidence of nothing but that they fulfill their responsibility to be proactive in an uncertain world to the best of their ability, as we would do and actually do. And that's if we actually caught them doing it, which I find unlikely.
It's time to step down the tension. The Chinese agents didn't hurt anybody, kidnap or kill anybody - even if it was actually them. What with how global Internet works it's possible that the CIA or some other agent (even a commercial interest!) actually controls devices in the PRC from where such activity can be done, blaming China for acts committed by agents from elsewhere by their IP address - which we all know is faint cause. Certainly that's how I would do it. China has the biggest base of zombie computers there is what with their devotion to pirated Windows XP and sketchy pirated apps. These zombies are available for rent by the hour, day, week or month - or for sale outright. If you're a cyber spy what are you going to do: rent zombies from your own country, or one that causes a secondary benefit when discovered by IP address, shifting the blame to your adversary? What with all the malware going on there it's a wonder anyone in China can get their work done.
In addition to geothermal heating, Natural fission reactors are known to occur.
Hopefully they will combine this with their whitespace wifi.
Well yeah, if we're polite and remind folk they need to be discreet about the link.
OK, fine. Pretend this isn't happening and see how that works out for you.
Frankly I agree with you. I'm thinking the average /. reader will find your post incoherent though.
Look, it's not like I would vote for him or anything. I like him flavoring the fringe.
The problem you have is the software tools you use sap the power of the hardware. Windows is engineered to consume cycles to drive their need for recurrent license fees. Try a different OS that doesn't have this handicap and you'll find the full power of the equipment is available.
I'm thinking you don't understand. The whole "shared memory" thing is not exclusive to x86 cores. At some level it's a software abstraction relating to latency of storage. GPUs can have terabytes of RAM too as a sixth level cache.
Intel really needs some help here because the ground has shifted too much for them.
These ARM cores are halfway between the extremely limited GPU cores and the extremely flexible X86 cores. They may be the "happy medium".
This is easy to say but all the top supercomputers are GPGPU based now. The CPU is a management appliance that dishes the computables to the compute cores.
No. That is not what this is.
Snakeoil salesmen aren't really proof of a need for their product.
You guys are digging kind of deep, aren't you?
Popularity is an indicator of popularity. It is what it is. In this case it is what it needs to be to be popular.
This comment is off topic, and you may freely moderate it so.
Once upon a time long ago I was intrigued by the rapid absorption of domain names and their escalating value. Particularly short names. And so I wrote a perl script to permute all possible 4-letter domains and look them up in the hope of identifying some interesting names to squat. I'm not really proud of that, but it was long ago when such stuff wasn't as abhorrent as the current day. I was sipping Maker's Mark on the rocks all night. I identified and registered a few, and one came up - iran.com, which could have been lucrative with the runner community. I was placing the order for the iran.com domain on Christmas eve when just then my wife came up, stroked my neck and said "come to bed." I got some. That was the most expensive nookie I ever got.
So... he's got the prereqs for a congressman.
OMFG - a politician might exploit an event to gain advantage. Let me get my log so I can record the miraculous event.