As someone who broke in in the 90s and is still in 'the shit', this is precisely how I've branded myself. It has served my quite well. Get that PMP, if you're lucky, whatever company you get a foot in the door with will help pay for it.
Exactly, either its stored (and therefore useful everywhere) which negates the purpose, or its stored in the cloud as a bunch of mappable bits. I just dont see any other way for this to work and not have you store everything you need on every device all the time (which of course is pointless).
does it just make an imaginary filesystem out of multiple filesystems (in which case you are limited by your upstream)?
This doesn't sound like a distributed de-dupe (ie shards/map/anyone can send you a bit that you own/you assemble on the client). So how does it work, that makes BitTorrent naturally better?
This is likely out of the hands of your sysadmins. Servers should not be running this POS, EOS. But you know, then some CIO reads about it in a magazine somewhere....
While chicken littles are running around screaming about some ghost in the machine, we ignore the real issue:
Our own energy security!!!!
What happens if this week the power goes out for 3 days in the middle of winter because of our doing (and not some imaginary systemic viral infection)? Will your gas furnace turn on? Outside my house right now its -27C with further windchill.
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Oh not you again! Does your fallacious "intelligence" position grant you highlevel access to sources such as the telegraph and wall street journal?
Look, if you've hooked up your command/control infrastructure to the Internet, all the DHS in the world is not going to save you. Stuxnet like viruses? Sure. Maybe. Unpreventable, by anything beyond quality engaged PHYSICAL security.
As for impact, if you recall, 10 years ago, power was down for up to 3 days across the NE. This was caused by something far less insidious and delibrate than a cyber attack. It's impact beyond the first grid affected was also completely mitigable and took several MANUAL command/control failures to become as pervasive as it did.
The WSJ, the bastion of journalistic integrity. At least this article succeeded in rousing simpletons to arms with FUD- just as it had intended.
There is not one iota of fact in here, the only fact being the number of weasel words, such as "could", "might", "in the event of", and other further unlikely prognostications based on a simplistic understanding of command and control infrastructure, how it is connected to the Internet, and just how interested some parties (aka frenemies) are in subverting it.
You accused them of planting logic bombs. The article claims they've been mapping our power grids.
You can bet the US has mapped their power grids to the best of their abilities to do so. Is this an example of American global pre-eminence or are you just going to admit that you are talking out of your ass, citing a Telegraph article which is also talking out of its ass?
>The games. Running modern commercial games consistently and in a relatively hassle-free manner is - and has for quite a long time - been one of the things you can do on Windows that you just can't do on other OSes
FTFY:
The games. Running modern commercial games consistently and in a relatively hassle-free manner is - and has for quite a long time - been one of the things you can do on STEAM that you just can't do on other OSes.
Anyone who has messed around with DRM on Windows in the last 10 years knows what I am talking about. Xbox is about getting a microsoft PC in your living room, that "just works", and in the living room of every person who 1) wouldn't touch windows with a 10 foot pole or 2) people who can't be bothered to figure out why the third game the purchased at brick and mortar last month, won't play (hint: SecureROM and btw, it's your fault the game won't run).
And you've highlighted the real reason Governments want to stop its citizens from not smoking.
Of course, any argument that smokers cost more is disingenuous. That revenue, is no longer needed to support them once they are dead. So basically government wants rich people to stop smoking, but the poor could hang for all they care.
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You mean resident anti-celebrity manufactured by /.'s own fragile ego?
Sure.
As someone who broke in in the 90s and is still in 'the shit', this is precisely how I've branded myself. It has served my quite well. Get that PMP, if you're lucky, whatever company you get a foot in the door with will help pay for it.
Exactly, either its stored (and therefore useful everywhere) which negates the purpose, or its stored in the cloud as a bunch of mappable bits. I just dont see any other way for this to work and not have you store everything you need on every device all the time (which of course is pointless).
does it just make an imaginary filesystem out of multiple filesystems (in which case you are limited by your upstream)?
This doesn't sound like a distributed de-dupe (ie shards/map/anyone can send you a bit that you own/you assemble on the client). So how does it work, that makes BitTorrent naturally better?
Any ideas?
Oh christ, when I'm looking to kill myself, please don't come to my aid.
I'm just glad they don't advertise "business solution" software in Skymall.
Sadly, they do. Not many, but just enough to drive your IT dept batty.
Here is an example:
http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=204348403&c=102961963
This is likely out of the hands of your sysadmins. Servers should not be running this POS, EOS. But you know, then some CIO reads about it in a magazine somewhere....
Anyway, my condolences to your build farm.
I can't remember the last time a developer had a workable, secure solution to my problems.
There's a reason you hear, 'fix your own code' a lot more than 'fix your servers' in a development environment.
This has been fully explored in Short Circuit, and Short Circuit 2.
You basically just need Fisher Stevens and you can get along fine anywhere (well, maybe with a little mayhem).
Indeed, here is something further to consider.
While chicken littles are running around screaming about some ghost in the machine, we ignore the real issue:
Our own energy security!!!!
What happens if this week the power goes out for 3 days in the middle of winter because of our doing (and not some imaginary systemic viral infection)? Will your gas furnace turn on? Outside my house right now its -27C with further windchill.
Oh not you again! Does your fallacious "intelligence" position grant you highlevel access to sources such as the telegraph and wall street journal?
Look, if you've hooked up your command/control infrastructure to the Internet, all the DHS in the world is not going to save you. Stuxnet like viruses? Sure. Maybe. Unpreventable, by anything beyond quality engaged PHYSICAL security.
As for impact, if you recall, 10 years ago, power was down for up to 3 days across the NE. This was caused by something far less insidious and delibrate than a cyber attack. It's impact beyond the first grid affected was also completely mitigable and took several MANUAL command/control failures to become as pervasive as it did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
You are conflating the brain with the nervous system, two systems which are not mutually exclusive and developed separately.
Thank you JDG, this should be modded up.
Anyone who knows Mr. Kurzweil, knows this is not what he is up to.
So what you are saying is the computer, like humans, will be boxed in by their own perception?
How is this metaphysically different from what we *do* know about our own intelligence?
The WSJ, the bastion of journalistic integrity. At least this article succeeded in rousing simpletons to arms with FUD- just as it had intended.
There is not one iota of fact in here, the only fact being the number of weasel words, such as "could", "might", "in the event of", and other further unlikely prognostications based on a simplistic understanding of command and control infrastructure, how it is connected to the Internet, and just how interested some parties (aka frenemies) are in subverting it.
You accused them of planting logic bombs. The article claims they've been mapping our power grids.
You can bet the US has mapped their power grids to the best of their abilities to do so. Is this an example of American global pre-eminence or are you just going to admit that you are talking out of your ass, citing a Telegraph article which is also talking out of its ass?
>The games. Running modern commercial games consistently and in a relatively hassle-free manner is - and has for quite a long time - been one of the things you can do on Windows that you just can't do on other OSes
FTFY:
The games. Running modern commercial games consistently and in a relatively hassle-free manner is - and has for quite a long time - been one of the things you can do on STEAM that you just can't do on other OSes.
Anyone who has messed around with DRM on Windows in the last 10 years knows what I am talking about. Xbox is about getting a microsoft PC in your living room, that "just works", and in the living room of every person who 1) wouldn't touch windows with a 10 foot pole or 2) people who can't be bothered to figure out why the third game the purchased at brick and mortar last month, won't play (hint: SecureROM and btw, it's your fault the game won't run).
Mod +5 insightful.
This is utter nonsense. Not the risks, just your rather specific description of the problem.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer FTW /Caveat emptor
And you've highlighted the real reason Governments want to stop its citizens from not smoking.
Of course, any argument that smokers cost more is disingenuous. That revenue, is no longer needed to support them once they are dead. So basically government wants rich people to stop smoking, but the poor could hang for all they care.
I don't see the problem, we've enjoyed these luxuries in Ottawa for a few years now.
http://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/ebook-and-audiobook-support
Ugh, what a Googlenozzle.
Fujitsu = rock solid