Now if it were Linux, you would probably be in the woods, in some commune, inside an abandoned high security military bunker, whith a lot of really smart people that don't socialize all that well.
Humorous, but you've probably never been to a LinuxCon.
Until someone creates something that can infect the various *nixes that is.
It's called a rootkit. They've been around for years.
Find a *ix server that's running a vulnerable process listening on an exposed port (DNS, ssh, ftp, http, pop, imap, smtp, whatever). Root that box and install your malware.
Just by the virtue of the large number of x86 Linux servers exposed to the Intarweb, there must be thousands of systems just waiting to be rooted.
Fortunately for "us", there are millions of exposed Windows client PCs running as Adminstator, begging to be owned.
They already send the data through a fiber cable to the main cable box for the block, whats an extra few hundred feet
Because there are 20-200 houses for every neighborhood fiber-cable router. It would cost a lot of money to run fiber to every house, which would probably include replacing all the boxes on the side of everyone's houses.
but the Falcon 9 series gives me a hard-on. Theoretically the Falcon 9-S5 will be able to launch almost 25 tons for $78 million. That is about half the cost of a Delta IV Heavy or the Ariane 5 ES ATV (not including the ATV of course). The Falcon 9 series is exactly what the space transportation business has needed for a long time: competition! Cheap heavy lift vehicles are going to make realistic space transportation possible in the future.
Does DNF also give you a woody?
Let's see a Falcon 1 successfully launch a satellite before dreaming about the F9, 'kay?
I once had a hard drive that wouldn't spin up if the computer had been off a few days. The only way was turning it by 90 degrees every time before booting the computer.
is that instead of getting a shrink wrapped document management app that works (i.e. Mambo, DocuShare, DB2 Document Manager), and customizing the working app, the FBI in all of its infinite wisdom decided to contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to write one from scratch.
Maybe the FBI's document management needs are sufficiently complex-specialized-arcane that modifying a shrink-wrapped system would be just as bad or worse (from a maintainability-extenability POV) that writing from scratch?
I certainly would not be surprised if that were the situation...
I agree that NetBurst failed to scale to the degree that Intel was hoping,
Did NB gigahertz not scale, or was the intense heat (and subsequent system design decisions that flow from such heat) the big problem, when AMD systems were not as hot?
Just what I want, a device to wireless sync to my computer
Dime to a dollar that 48 hours after the Zune in released that someone will have figured out how to use a Zune as a Yet Another Vector for infecting wi-fi enabled Windows machines with malware.
I don't know how the show did it, but real-time tracking has been around for at least 5 years. Maybe 10.
Yeah, but he was watching them on a map on his home system, which I'm not sure OnStar would allow you to do, who knows... the rest of your post I agree with though.
He was probably using the same kind of technology that trucking companies use.
Reminds me of that hulk hogan reality show when he was spying on his daughter's date by watching the GPS in her truck... (which, is that even possible? the way that was done in the show?)
I don't know how the show did it, but real-time tracking has been around for at least 5 years. Maybe 10.
All "18-wheel" tractors have GPS+tranceiver units on them, so that the company can locate them at any moment. And GM has had On-Star for about 5 years also.
even if it was staged, I think it's going too far. (well, to really do it is going too far, heh.)
Depends on how responsible your child has behaved in the past. The bar would have to be very high, though, I think.
OTOH, if my daughter grows up to be as pretty as genetics makes me hope she will be, and the boys who come sniffing around seem to warrant it, maybe I will follow them around with a GPS receiver and a shotgun...
I think that actually builds trust between a parent and a kid, having -some- freedom.. moreso than "where are you?" "I'm at ___'s house" "that's not what your GPS says!!"... How are you going to build trust on that?
We're not Borg, with computers and WAN links built into our brains.
Wanting to check on the kids means actually going and doing it.
Thus, trusting your children means not monitoring them, even though it is possible to do so.
When I was a kid, it was rare to see a parent drive their child to school. Kids walked, took the bus, or rode their bikes. Now, every morning when I drive by the same elementary school I went to, it is rare to see a parent not drive their kid. The bike rack that was always full when I went there now sits empty, not one single bike. Heck, it is rare to see a kid ride a bike period. My neighbor drives her 6th grade son the 1/4 mile to and from school everyday. I rode my bike the 2 miles to and from junior high every day. I guess I had bad parents.
How many children got snatched by pervs? (Probably some of this is sensationalism by the TV "news" making parents more afraid than they need to be.)
How many more cars are on the roads now? I live on the same street I grew up on 25-40 years ago, and there are many more cars now, and they drive faster.
I don't necessarily agree with that, active teens without a license rely entirely on others to get rides... do you really want your daughter stranded in the middle of nowhere without a way to call for help when her looser friends forget to pick her up?
You are right. Teenagers need (low-minutes) cell-phones.
I think you'd be best to make them pay for the phone service themselves, and if they don't want/can't afford it just make sure they keep a phone card in the wallet for emergency calls from a pay-phone (which seem to be getting pretty damn scarce since the widespread use of cell phones).
I, as parent, would definitely pay for their (low-minutes) cell-phone. And ensure that it's used only for valid purposes (i.e., not used during school hours, etc).
It doesn't matter if the server application is programmed to address four cores or more, can the OS itself handle that kind of process priority? Remember DEC Alpha and NT 4.0?
Once upon a time, the only people who had SMP machines had spent a huge amount of money on them. Licensing per CPU was simply a smart way to discriminate your customer base and figure out who had a high willingness to pay.
Specifically, mainframes. The bigger your company, the bigger your mainframe, the more concurrent users and/or batch jobs, the more you paid. Very simple.
I wonder if there's something that happens at 10k RPM. The 10k drives I have are a bit louder, though not terribly so, in my opinion. My 10k drives aren't Raptors.
The 15k drives that I have are very quiet. I'm only rarely more aware of them than my Seagate 7.2k drives, and those are pretty quiet too.
But it doesn't need to be. It's trivial to implement in any language with operator overloading. Doing so for BCD isn't exactly rocket science either.
Never said it was hard... Hell, COBOL did it 45 years ago.
Unfortunately, no "modern" languages have done it. While it's understandable that academic- and reasearch-designed languages have deigned to do it, I'm surprised that, for example, IBM hasn't tried to get it into Java.
Now, in this case, to stay on topic, these guys are delusional. If the military wants to use this software, and I have no idea if they do, they will. A silly little license agreement will not stop them.
US Government auditors are relatively strict about licenses.
Besides, why do they need GPU when they've had GPL-based Beowulf clusters for a decade?
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Humorous, but you've probably never been to a LinuxCon.
It's called a rootkit. They've been around for years.
Find a *ix server that's running a vulnerable process listening on an exposed port (DNS, ssh, ftp, http, pop, imap, smtp, whatever). Root that box and install your malware.
Just by the virtue of the large number of x86 Linux servers exposed to the Intarweb, there must be thousands of systems just waiting to be rooted.
Fortunately for "us", there are millions of exposed Windows client PCs running as Adminstator, begging to be owned.
Because there are 20-200 houses for every neighborhood fiber-cable router. It would cost a lot of money to run fiber to every house, which would probably include replacing all the boxes on the side of everyone's houses.
Does DNF also give you a woody?
Let's see a Falcon 1 successfully launch a satellite before dreaming about the F9, 'kay?
Sounds like the lubricant was solidifying.
Maybe the FBI's document management needs are sufficiently complex-specialized-arcane that modifying a shrink-wrapped system would be just as bad or worse (from a maintainability-extenability POV) that writing from scratch?
I certainly would not be surprised if that were the situation...
Did NB gigahertz not scale, or was the intense heat (and subsequent system design decisions that flow from such heat) the big problem, when AMD systems were not as hot?
Disagree.
Agree.
Argee.
Agree.
Agree.
NO. Patents are as needed now as they were 200 years ago.
But patent examiners perform such an economically critical job that they should not be butt-stupid about computers.
Dime to a dollar that 48 hours after the Zune in released that someone will have figured out how to use a Zune as a Yet Another Vector for infecting wi-fi enabled Windows machines with malware.
Please be specific.
He was probably using the same kind of technology that trucking companies use.
I don't know how the show did it, but real-time tracking has been around for at least 5 years. Maybe 10.
All "18-wheel" tractors have GPS+tranceiver units on them, so that the company can locate them at any moment. And GM has had On-Star for about 5 years also.
even if it was staged, I think it's going too far. (well, to really do it is going too far, heh.)
Depends on how responsible your child has behaved in the past. The bar would have to be very high, though, I think.
OTOH, if my daughter grows up to be as pretty as genetics makes me hope she will be, and the boys who come sniffing around seem to warrant it, maybe I will follow them around with a GPS receiver and a shotgun...
We're not Borg, with computers and WAN links built into our brains.
Wanting to check on the kids means actually going and doing it.
Thus, trusting your children means not monitoring them, even though it is possible to do so.
My neighbor drives her 6th grade son the 1/4 mile to and from school everyday. I rode my bike the 2 miles to and from junior high every day. I guess I had bad parents.
How many children got snatched by pervs? (Probably some of this is sensationalism by the TV "news" making parents more afraid than they need to be.)
How many more cars are on the roads now? I live on the same street I grew up on 25-40 years ago, and there are many more cars now, and they drive faster.
You obviously don't have children.
As for proneness to wandering, there are two (main?) reasons for that:
You are right. Teenagers need (low-minutes) cell-phones.
I think you'd be best to make them pay for the phone service themselves, and if they don't want/can't afford it just make sure they keep a phone card in the wallet for emergency calls from a pay-phone (which seem to be getting pretty damn scarce since the widespread use of cell phones).
I, as parent, would definitely pay for their (low-minutes) cell-phone. And ensure that it's used only for valid purposes (i.e., not used during school hours, etc).
Depends on where you lived and what things were like in that city/town at the time.
So, in other words, they did "monitor and analyze (your) whereabouts", given the level of technology available at the time...
I remember it. What (good or bad) about it?
And, very importantly, shrinking the transistor size.
Is AMD also working on internal CPU optimizations?
Specifically, mainframes. The bigger your company, the bigger your mainframe, the more concurrent users and/or batch jobs, the more you paid. Very simple.
The 15k drives that I have are very quiet. I'm only rarely more aware of them than my Seagate 7.2k drives, and those are pretty quiet too.
How hot are they? How much cooling is needed?
Never said it was hard... Hell, COBOL did it 45 years ago.
Unfortunately, no "modern" languages have done it. While it's understandable that academic- and reasearch-designed languages have deigned to do it, I'm surprised that, for example, IBM hasn't tried to get it into Java.
US Government auditors are relatively strict about licenses.
Besides, why do they need GPU when they've had GPL-based Beowulf clusters for a decade?