It depends on the application which to select right now, but in the long run the SSD drives will have an advantage.
So soon we may no longer need those noisy hard disks at all.
And when a storage is built on flash memories it may be possible to work with it in segments where parts of the disk isn't powered in order to save power and generate less heat. The latter is a huge advantage in datacenters where cooling is expensive.
The ruggedness is also an advantage, but not in datacenters. What you usually want in a datacenter is good performance to a low cost, but you also want reliability.
Interesting question, but the need of adblock tools have originated from the excessive ads that takes over all resources and makes the ads the primary content and the page the secondary content.
If the ads weren't so bad and stressing then the need for adblockers would be small.
I would say that your list should be the other way around and the most important factor is to understand and communicate not with the people that are paying you. They are often just accountants and similar people with little insight in how the customer actually behaves.
The essential point here is that if you can understand the need of the customer really well then you are already ahead of the crowd. Every customer has their own semantics, business language and methods no matter how similar their products are to their competitors products.
If you can't understand the customer you can produce something completely and utterly useless or even something that's harmful for the customers business. That regardless of how good code you write.
But writing good code is of course also important. And if you select the right languages you can get a lot of help on the way to write good code. For Java you have FindBugs and a lot of other tools.
And if you can communicate with the people that are paying you it's an added bonus, but if they consider you a grumpy and obnoxious nerd that still is able to do a good job and actually takes good care of the customer you may have your ways. A satisfied customer is good for the business.
And even if you don't directly communicate with the customer in day to day work it's not wasted time to actually try to understand their case. Don't be afraid to check out what they actually do, and get a sense of their situation. Most customers aren't starting from zero, but have a long history of how things are done.
But be very careful with cases where the application requirements are passed through several layers before reaching you as a developer because that is How Shit Happens.
Just make sure that you have a reference site to point to for the Wikipedia entry.
Add some usenet postings too just for the sake of it. But I suspect that very few today does read usenet, so it may be better to put a reference in your sig here at Slashdot and then comment articles like a maniac for a while.
If Robert Anson Heinlein still was alive you could have asked him since he did put the concept of the water bed into public domain.
Anyway that was described back in 1934 and the publication of it in three of his books was enough to consider it prior art.
So even a limited spread of the data has to be considered prior art.
I suspect that if you read enough Science Fiction books you will be able to invalidate a huge amount of patents. Things may not be named the same, but they may be described sufficiently to work as prior art.
No - a data center shall be filled with an inert gas like Argon from the beginning and an airlock. Any works there shall require breathing equipment.
And all data servers shall be assembled with tamper-proof screws where the screw head breaks off when you have assembled the computer so it's only possible to move the computer rack as a whole unit with a weight of at least half a ton.
Using the TPM module on the motherboard to control the encryption of the data on the hard disks will make it impossible to re-assemble the disks in a different disk array.
Oh how evil a data center can be set up to make a raid from law enforcement rendered useless or at least very impractical.
I also suspect that it will be temporary and that the methods will change over time.
Let's see what it is in a month from now. However - it's spring time so you may get lower traffic if the weather is good and people starts to spend time outdoors. Some hackers may even have a life!
They are likely to ban it for economic reasons. The lost man-hours that problems with Vista imposes can become significant.
From an administrators point of view Vista is a big slime blob where it's almost impossible to figure out what's really happening because it's hidden under too many layers of "user-friendliness". Another issue is that the performance of Vista makes work go slower. And it's not only computer performance, it's usage performance too - in which case it doesn't matter how good your computer are.
Add to this license costs for upgrades and also cost of upgrading insufficient hardware because having a mixed Vista/XP environment is *CENSORED* insane to work with. The user profiles aren't compatible and if people move around between different computers it can be really messy.
This may be a late April fools joke by government standard, but it sure contains plausible concerns.
Concerning the document, I would say that it isn't a joke, but you may have to express some concerns about if the proposed methods are causing more problems than they are solving.
If you shut down a whole network, then you also cut off the owners of possible infected computers from the services that may help them to clean them up. This has been tried before within larger companies which just ended in a deadlock, nothing was done at all until the network was up again. In effect - you got an ultimate D.o.S attack!
If anything - put more effort into hunting down and apprehending the perpetrators. This will give a much better result in the long term. In effect - follow the money.
Another approach would be to put more effort into hardening of operating systems and tools for operating system management. SELinux is one good example, but unfortunately this only works to some extent and it only covers one area of security measures.
One detail that also is cause for concern is ISP:s that migrates from several routed segments to a large segment where switches are used instead. It makes sense from an economic perspective, but it's not making sense from a security perspective. This means that more computers can be joined into dark nets using private IP addresses for internal communication, which in turn can make attacks even better coordinated.
Large switched segments where private IP addresses propagates can also result in new intriguing ways of obscuring file sharing traffic and other traffic that is to be masked. This can result in the funny effect of making a whole town suspected of possession of child pornography.
Finnish is definitely not very similar to much else than Hungarian. I think that there may be some area in the former Soviet Union that also shares that heritage, but I'm not sure.
The other Scandinavian languages Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are a lot closer to English in structure and shares a lot of similar words, but there are also differences in both words and pronunciation.
Learning by experience. If you lack the experience of something then you don't know it's bad or good.
Of course - there are things that are so bad that a punishment is needed instead of gaining the experience, but going out in the cold and realizing that clothes helps aren't one of them.
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It's just a way of trying to make software patents more valid.
I would say that any patent that lacks hardware (chemical compound or physical device) wouldn't be valid.
It depends on the application which to select right now, but in the long run the SSD drives will have an advantage.
So soon we may no longer need those noisy hard disks at all.
And when a storage is built on flash memories it may be possible to work with it in segments where parts of the disk isn't powered in order to save power and generate less heat. The latter is a huge advantage in datacenters where cooling is expensive.
The ruggedness is also an advantage, but not in datacenters. What you usually want in a datacenter is good performance to a low cost, but you also want reliability.
Patent trolling as usual. Nothing new...
Interesting question, but the need of adblock tools have originated from the excessive ads that takes over all resources and makes the ads the primary content and the page the secondary content.
If the ads weren't so bad and stressing then the need for adblockers would be small.
It's not a question of "if" but "when", and the "when" may already have happened.
Any information that can be abused will be abused.
As it turns out - he was a filter maintainer, one of the first, but AdBlock Plus is likely to remain.
AdBlock Plus is one of the best add-ons that has been created for web browsers ever.
So now we have copyright trolls too in addition to the patent trolls that we have had earlier.
The penalties for abusing the law aren't severe enough.
I would say that your list should be the other way around and the most important factor is to understand and communicate not with the people that are paying you. They are often just accountants and similar people with little insight in how the customer actually behaves.
The essential point here is that if you can understand the need of the customer really well then you are already ahead of the crowd. Every customer has their own semantics, business language and methods no matter how similar their products are to their competitors products.
If you can't understand the customer you can produce something completely and utterly useless or even something that's harmful for the customers business. That regardless of how good code you write.
But writing good code is of course also important. And if you select the right languages you can get a lot of help on the way to write good code. For Java you have FindBugs and a lot of other tools.
And if you can communicate with the people that are paying you it's an added bonus, but if they consider you a grumpy and obnoxious nerd that still is able to do a good job and actually takes good care of the customer you may have your ways. A satisfied customer is good for the business.
And even if you don't directly communicate with the customer in day to day work it's not wasted time to actually try to understand their case. Don't be afraid to check out what they actually do, and get a sense of their situation. Most customers aren't starting from zero, but have a long history of how things are done.
But be very careful with cases where the application requirements are passed through several layers before reaching you as a developer because that is How Shit Happens.
That seems to be an interesting concept.
Just make sure that you have a reference site to point to for the Wikipedia entry.
Add some usenet postings too just for the sake of it. But I suspect that very few today does read usenet, so it may be better to put a reference in your sig here at Slashdot and then comment articles like a maniac for a while.
If Robert Anson Heinlein still was alive you could have asked him since he did put the concept of the water bed into public domain.
Anyway that was described back in 1934 and the publication of it in three of his books was enough to consider it prior art.
So even a limited spread of the data has to be considered prior art.
I suspect that if you read enough Science Fiction books you will be able to invalidate a huge amount of patents. Things may not be named the same, but they may be described sufficiently to work as prior art.
Consider that in France there will probably be a different mandate forcing the use of French in video games soon.
No - a data center shall be filled with an inert gas like Argon from the beginning and an airlock. Any works there shall require breathing equipment.
And all data servers shall be assembled with tamper-proof screws where the screw head breaks off when you have assembled the computer so it's only possible to move the computer rack as a whole unit with a weight of at least half a ton.
Using the TPM module on the motherboard to control the encryption of the data on the hard disks will make it impossible to re-assemble the disks in a different disk array.
Oh how evil a data center can be set up to make a raid from law enforcement rendered useless or at least very impractical.
And then there are other apps that will follow in the wake.
Just waiting for the dam to burst when it comes to Apple and their crippled world.
However - this isn't limited to Apple, many other manufacturers and telcos are working together to cripple the user experience.
I also suspect that it will be temporary and that the methods will change over time.
Let's see what it is in a month from now. However - it's spring time so you may get lower traffic if the weather is good and people starts to spend time outdoors. Some hackers may even have a life!
They are likely to ban it for economic reasons. The lost man-hours that problems with Vista imposes can become significant.
From an administrators point of view Vista is a big slime blob where it's almost impossible to figure out what's really happening because it's hidden under too many layers of "user-friendliness". Another issue is that the performance of Vista makes work go slower. And it's not only computer performance, it's usage performance too - in which case it doesn't matter how good your computer are.
Add to this license costs for upgrades and also cost of upgrading insufficient hardware because having a mixed Vista/XP environment is *CENSORED* insane to work with. The user profiles aren't compatible and if people move around between different computers it can be really messy.
Hello "H" - missing your sunglasses today?
Now I'm just waiting for crime investigation groups to take on using robots for solving crimes.
This may be a late April fools joke by government standard, but it sure contains plausible concerns.
Concerning the document, I would say that it isn't a joke, but you may have to express some concerns about if the proposed methods are causing more problems than they are solving.
If you shut down a whole network, then you also cut off the owners of possible infected computers from the services that may help them to clean them up. This has been tried before within larger companies which just ended in a deadlock, nothing was done at all until the network was up again. In effect - you got an ultimate D.o.S attack!
If anything - put more effort into hunting down and apprehending the perpetrators. This will give a much better result in the long term. In effect - follow the money.
Another approach would be to put more effort into hardening of operating systems and tools for operating system management. SELinux is one good example, but unfortunately this only works to some extent and it only covers one area of security measures.
One detail that also is cause for concern is ISP:s that migrates from several routed segments to a large segment where switches are used instead. It makes sense from an economic perspective, but it's not making sense from a security perspective. This means that more computers can be joined into dark nets using private IP addresses for internal communication, which in turn can make attacks even better coordinated.
Large switched segments where private IP addresses propagates can also result in new intriguing ways of obscuring file sharing traffic and other traffic that is to be masked. This can result in the funny effect of making a whole town suspected of possession of child pornography.
Evil thought: Wouldn't that be "rantdroid"?
Which is why you should use Truecrypt on your laptop if you possess sensitive data.
B.t.w. Since it was a reference to LM Ericsson AB, it has a April's fools taste of the whole thing.
And Opera scores 85/100 on Acid3.
Finnish is definitely not very similar to much else than Hungarian. I think that there may be some area in the former Soviet Union that also shares that heritage, but I'm not sure.
The other Scandinavian languages Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are a lot closer to English in structure and shares a lot of similar words, but there are also differences in both words and pronunciation.
OK, go learn the programming language Fjölnir, that will require the knowledge of Icelandic.
You can find those people everywhere, not only in Finland.
No conversation at all unless some vodka (or whatever with some strength) is added, and then you get conversation without meaning instead.
Thanks! - I first thought that it was a misspelling of OpenGL.
Learning by experience. If you lack the experience of something then you don't know it's bad or good.
Of course - there are things that are so bad that a punishment is needed instead of gaining the experience, but going out in the cold and realizing that clothes helps aren't one of them.