Its funny to see everyone arguing over what zero day means...
Back in my day, and yes, I'm an old geezer apparently, zero day meant... the first day it was discovered.
zero day warez releases were released the same day as the software hit the shelves or went on sale somewhere.
The next day, it was no longer zero day, it would be 1 day.
You also had pre-release warez of course, for things that were available on ftp sites or IRC before the public release, also commonly called zero day warez as well.
You wouldn't go to a 'zero day' warez site and expect to find something released 2 days ago, it would have been cycled out and off the site before then. Group distro sites and such being an entirely different beast as some hard larger archives and such.
Its amusing to me to see all the young'ens talk about zero day like they invented it and know exactly what it means, but I'm sorry to inform you that the way zero day is used this decade is much different than they way it was used a decade ago, mostly because of silly bloggers who don't know what it actually meant constantly referring to something new as zero day regardless of how long it had been known or public.
And for anyone who posts a link to wikipedia for a definition of zero day... keep in mind, I STOPPED using the term before wikipedia even EXISTED, and its hardly an authoritative source (neither am I for that matter of course) for anything. Just because its on wikipedia doesn't mean its true or that the page on wikipedia is accurate. Have we learned nothing about crowd sourced websites in the last 10 years?
Anyone, you guys go on and argue over your silliness about zero day, us old geezers will sit back and laugh about how you guys missed out on the good old days, and both groups will imagine how we're better than the other group... because.
When I got my Kinect and played with it for navigation of the dashboard for a while I immediately realized I wanted 2 things.
Kinect control of Windows Media Center, which powers all the TVs in my home via XBox 360 extenders
Kinect control of Netflix.
One down, hopefully it doesn't suck, but unless they've changed something major the biggest problem I can see is that the Kinect stops sensing me the instant I sit on the couch or the recliner in my living room. Seems to be ubiquitous and happens in Dance Central, Kinect Adventures, Your Shape Fitness and the dashboard, so while I haven't been home yet to actually test it out, I'm guessing this isn't really going to let me stop hunting for the WMC remote since I'll probably have to get out of my seat to get the kinect to listen to me.
Voice activation works, so if it allows good voice navigation than it'll probably be Ok.
I really hope they update the media center extender software for xbox with voice commands or make the gesture recognition work when seated. Its a little obnoxious at first but once you get used to it as a control interface its not entirely horrible for short periods of time. I certainly wouldn't want to do something like compose an email or text that way however.
haven't been home to test it out yet so I'm just guessing that is
10 gigabit ethernet is hard to run over any reasonable length of copper. The fiber would be for hooking up to the outside world.
15 years ago, 100mb over copper was hard to run over any reasonable length of copper as well. Technology improves, noise rejection gets better, fibre continues to stay on high end stuff rather than common stuff. When we first started rolling it out in the last building I was in, we had to rewire large portions of the network (left from the previous owners and installed improperly... laying directly on top of light ballists for instance) just to get a reliable connection... now days, those same old wires are carrying 100mb flawlessly. The cards and switches and their support equipment improved to the point that its pretty hard to screw up 100mb connections anywhere now, short of injecting an FM radio signal directly onto the line.
Fiber to a PC at a desk is a cunt unless the PC is tucked away and no one can get anywhere near the fiber itself. You don't want your secretary anywhere near fibre, he/she WILL break it, not intentionally, but simply because its fragile and to them its just another wire that they can run over with their chair. Copper handles that far better than fiber, and by the time he/she needs 10gb, copper will be more than capable of handling it just fine.
Its just insulation. It goes on exterior walls to help form a heat boundary. Its not even a little bit new, the observer is just a really shitty observer and never noticed it being put into every building thats been built in the last 40 or so years at least. Example, my cheap little home built in 1977 has it.
It doesn't go on interior walls, you don't generally insulate interior walls, as the air flow through open doors in your home and the fact that your duct system intentionally moves air into those rooms would defeat the point entirely.
Some people do choose to insulate their interior walls for sound dampening, but not with foil backed insulation, they use cheaper insulation without it or specific insulation for sound, which is what we did when remodeling our living room to prevent sound from the TV/stereo from bothering people sleeping in other rooms.
It won't effect your Wifi signal as its on the external walls only and no one would use it on interior walls (even if they wanted to insulate) because its more expensive and just a waste of money in those locations.
If you can't get a signal between the first floor and second floor of your home it has almost nothing to do with insulation and the fact that the antennas used on wifi routers are designed to radiate horizontally from the antenna (perpendicular to its orientation). It would be, in almost every case, a complete waste of RF energy to broadcast a signal upwards from a WAP when for most cases there will be no one above it or below it that its supposed to get too.
Finally... it has VERY LITTLE EFFECT on the signal. My home is completely wrapped in it, walls and attic, and we sit on a slab, yet I still have no problem picking up and connecting to any wifi access point within 2 houses of me (and we aren't talking about town homes 10 feet from each other, at least 100-150 feet between homes), though its not like I'm getting full speed out of 802.11g with it, though my workshop, which is about 75 feet from my home will consistently get 10mb out of it, and it is insulated with brand new (built 3 years ago) foil backed insulation as well.
Does it effect the signal, sure, everything does. Does it effect it enough to care about it over the massive energy savings for heating and cooling? No, not even a little.
The home owner is likely to be none the wiser about the size of the wiring in his home either, and wether its really designed to be used like many of us where we have several machines in one room functioning as servers/routers/firewalls for our home networks drawing way more power than the home was designed to deliver to a single outlet. As a general rule, if you don't know what that shiny material is, there are far more important things in your home that you should learn about first if your worried about how your technology is going to be effected. Wiring of the home would be top on my list. Clean power is far more of a concern than insulation. Nothing worse than wiring thats too small for the job causing your power supplies or UPSes to continually be fighting surges and spikes due to turning off and on other equipment. Older homes with shared runs using 14 gauge wire to power multiple outlets are far more damaging and problematic than the insulation, they are also considerably more dangerous in a modern world where 10 amps simply isn't enough power for some home appliances at startup (vacuum cleaner, microwave, big plasma TVs). You really want 12 gauge as a minimum, with individual runs from the breaker box to EACH outlet, 10 gauge if you can afford it is a much better choice and far safer. Considering how little it effects the cost of a new build, you'd be an idiot if you were given the option and didn't take it.
Cause its more of a place to get access to extra CPU power cheaply for a period of time rather than a place to host services as their primary location since it is ridiculously overpriced compared to... well everyone else? AWS may get used to host some services in their entirety for some companies other than Amazon, but not any smart ones. AWS is where you go when you want to run a massive set of number crunching or processing, or do a big release of something and utilize there content distribution network for a couple weeks until things get back to a level at which your standard hosting environment or datacenter can handle.
Who cares about Microsoft
Anyone more concerned about what using the right tools for the job at hand rather than being an ignorant flaming fanboy?
and who knew Google had a cloud offering.
Anyone who has been paying attention 'cloud computing' anytime within the last couple of years? And a ton of other developers who happen to use those cloud services for their own projects (rietveld, not google code), and all the companies who sell products running on Google's cloud (of which there are many) and all the companies which utilize products sold by companies using Google App Engine (of which there are more that probably anyone else other than AWS).
Perhaps you should get a Cloud Clue before talking about it?
Places like NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fransisco that just have huge numbers of really smart people
No, they hold huge numbers of people. Full stop. You can't be that bright to live in ridiculously over crowded metropolis, if nothing else due to the damage it causes from a long term environmental perspective and the raw inefficiency of a large city.
No, Foxconn makes parts for A LOT of technology companies, not just Apple, and they also do some assembly of devices as well.
I doubt you'll find a motherboard made that doesn't have Foxconn components on it like the back panel ports for instance are almost certainly Foxconn components regardless of who assembled your computer, yourself or Dell.
Its also possible to recover data from a drive after writing zeros to it just one time. Its going to cost enough to be cost prohibitive in most cases, but its not impossible to pull off, of course its also not very reliable to get useful data out of it either.
Rush and that douch bag guy from earth that gated in with the lucian alliance were both 'brought back to life' before they died, and were in the same show with their doubles, before the duplicate rush killed the duplicate douche and died himself as the duplicate Destiny fell into the star it was near.
Pretty much everyone died in the first iteration of the planet they found the kino on which recorded their future.
On SG-1 only general Landry died and was brought back via the Asgaard time dilation field reversing time. Jackson never died, only ascended which is not death. A few other characters came back to life during an alternate reality collision but that was only for that one episode until everyone went home.
Atlantis killed off Beckett, then they said they were 'bringing him back but not by cloning or time travel' only to bring him back as a clone. Shepard was drained of life to the point of death by a wraith, but rejuvenated by that same wraith. Ronan Dax was killed and brought back by a wraith, though he may not have technically been dead, just unconscious as there was a really short time between his being stabbed and his being restored.
SGU is a good example of how to make a great franchise into a steaming pile of shit.
You knew it was going to suck when they started taking on actors that would only do it 'if it was something entirely different'... robert carlyle is a good example of someone who should never be hired again. Anyone who wants to join a franchise but says the only why HE is going to be involved is if its completely different from its predecessors... with their multiple awards and longest running sci-fi series in history titles is a sure sign you don't want him.
He should just stick to daytime soaps where he belongs.
Stargate SG1 had 4 or 5 years of being told it was their last season... only to be renewed at the last minute. They were told 'you aren't coming back next year' and managed to do a great job of dealing with it year after year... it wasn't even a 'we haven't decided if you'll come back', it was 'you wont be coming back... JUST KIDDING!'
They get the right to use them and pays for the government enforcement and administrative processes to make sure no one else fucks up their usage of those airwaves. But thats not what happens. They don't buy SOME spectrum, they buy ALL the spectrum or buy the other owner of the spectrum out making them the owner (indirectly al la T-Mobile) of all the spectrum in a given area.
There was a recent story about a law being pushed that puts Cell phone data plans on the same level as voice calls. i.e. roaming is required by law, you have to play nicely with other providers if you want to stay in business since the spectrum is limited. This prevents a provider... like say... AT&T from buying out other providers and all the spectrum in a given area effectively cutting off even the potential for someone to start a wireless provider. So... if the law passes, AT&T won't be able to prevent GSM customers from roaming by charging ridiculous fees for competition to roam on their network.
Of course, the side problem to that is that we're not all using the same technology. AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM... so AT&T is GSM, verizon is cdma, sprint is ?. Even with a legal requirement to not rip people off for data roaming, you still won't really be able to do it.
suggest a UZI 100KV pen sized stungun run across all the I/O jacks in the back of the computer. ESD (electro-static discharge) damage leaves no telltale hammer marks or fingerprints, and can be concealed from the security cameras in the palm of your hand.
No, it'll leave scorch marks from the arcing which are equally telling.
I'm almost positive XP will refuse to boot in that situation because the HAL layer for a Uniprocess PC is entirely different than a multiprocessor PC. You can make a ACPI image that will run on both and will use both cores because its an using the ACPI HAL, but the older (can't remember the initials for it) HAL only supports uniprocessor anyway and simply won't work on multiprocessor machines period.
When you do that here, under my command (I'm in charge of all the technology stuffs) you get the benefit of the doubt the first time. Accidents happen and we're pretty forgiving even though its clearly HER fault.
The second time? Well you owe the company the money for the repairs to the laptop. You don't have to pay it, as clearly stated in your contract you can leave the company and we'll take it out of your last check for you.
We don't have a problem with people breaking machines to get a new one.
The court can also stipulate that the judgement can't be avoided by bankruptcy. And he simply may not qualify for bankruptcy even if they didn't.
Its not a get out of jail free card, some states have laws on the books that specifically state that court judgements are not part of bankruptcy hearings.
Its not a get out of jail free card. You don't get to simply give up and say you win I'm starting over and get out of your punishment. Bankruptcy isn't a given, a court has to grant you the option to do so, if you meet the requirements set forth by the law.
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Its funny to see everyone arguing over what zero day means ...
Back in my day, and yes, I'm an old geezer apparently, zero day meant ... the first day it was discovered.
zero day warez releases were released the same day as the software hit the shelves or went on sale somewhere.
The next day, it was no longer zero day, it would be 1 day.
You also had pre-release warez of course, for things that were available on ftp sites or IRC before the public release, also commonly called zero day warez as well.
You wouldn't go to a 'zero day' warez site and expect to find something released 2 days ago, it would have been cycled out and off the site before then. Group distro sites and such being an entirely different beast as some hard larger archives and such.
Its amusing to me to see all the young'ens talk about zero day like they invented it and know exactly what it means, but I'm sorry to inform you that the way zero day is used this decade is much different than they way it was used a decade ago, mostly because of silly bloggers who don't know what it actually meant constantly referring to something new as zero day regardless of how long it had been known or public.
And for anyone who posts a link to wikipedia for a definition of zero day ... keep in mind, I STOPPED using the term before wikipedia even EXISTED, and its hardly an authoritative source (neither am I for that matter of course) for anything. Just because its on wikipedia doesn't mean its true or that the page on wikipedia is accurate. Have we learned nothing about crowd sourced websites in the last 10 years?
Anyone, you guys go on and argue over your silliness about zero day, us old geezers will sit back and laugh about how you guys missed out on the good old days, and both groups will imagine how we're better than the other group ... because.
The blog linked in the summary actually points to:
http://majornelson.com/2011/04/14/kinect-support-for-netflix/
As its information source, if you'd like to skip all the blog slashvertisements and go to the source, the actual source info is at:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/Netflix/Home
When I got my Kinect and played with it for navigation of the dashboard for a while I immediately realized I wanted 2 things.
Kinect control of Windows Media Center, which powers all the TVs in my home via XBox 360 extenders
Kinect control of Netflix.
One down, hopefully it doesn't suck, but unless they've changed something major the biggest problem I can see is that the Kinect stops sensing me the instant I sit on the couch or the recliner in my living room. Seems to be ubiquitous and happens in Dance Central, Kinect Adventures, Your Shape Fitness and the dashboard, so while I haven't been home yet to actually test it out, I'm guessing this isn't really going to let me stop hunting for the WMC remote since I'll probably have to get out of my seat to get the kinect to listen to me.
Voice activation works, so if it allows good voice navigation than it'll probably be Ok.
I really hope they update the media center extender software for xbox with voice commands or make the gesture recognition work when seated. Its a little obnoxious at first but once you get used to it as a control interface its not entirely horrible for short periods of time. I certainly wouldn't want to do something like compose an email or text that way however.
haven't been home to test it out yet so I'm just guessing that is
10 gigabit ethernet is hard to run over any reasonable length of copper. The fiber would be for hooking up to the outside world.
15 years ago, 100mb over copper was hard to run over any reasonable length of copper as well. Technology improves, noise rejection gets better, fibre continues to stay on high end stuff rather than common stuff. When we first started rolling it out in the last building I was in, we had to rewire large portions of the network (left from the previous owners and installed improperly ... laying directly on top of light ballists for instance) just to get a reliable connection ... now days, those same old wires are carrying 100mb flawlessly. The cards and switches and their support equipment improved to the point that its pretty hard to screw up 100mb connections anywhere now, short of injecting an FM radio signal directly onto the line.
Fiber to a PC at a desk is a cunt unless the PC is tucked away and no one can get anywhere near the fiber itself. You don't want your secretary anywhere near fibre, he/she WILL break it, not intentionally, but simply because its fragile and to them its just another wire that they can run over with their chair. Copper handles that far better than fiber, and by the time he/she needs 10gb, copper will be more than capable of handling it just fine.
Its far more likely that someone gave him access after THEY broke in, or he simply got in via some scripted toolkit he downloaded from someone else.
$100 says he actually doesn't know how to get into anything, he road on someone elses coat tails.
Its just insulation. It goes on exterior walls to help form a heat boundary. Its not even a little bit new, the observer is just a really shitty observer and never noticed it being put into every building thats been built in the last 40 or so years at least. Example, my cheap little home built in 1977 has it.
It doesn't go on interior walls, you don't generally insulate interior walls, as the air flow through open doors in your home and the fact that your duct system intentionally moves air into those rooms would defeat the point entirely.
Some people do choose to insulate their interior walls for sound dampening, but not with foil backed insulation, they use cheaper insulation without it or specific insulation for sound, which is what we did when remodeling our living room to prevent sound from the TV/stereo from bothering people sleeping in other rooms.
It won't effect your Wifi signal as its on the external walls only and no one would use it on interior walls (even if they wanted to insulate) because its more expensive and just a waste of money in those locations.
If you can't get a signal between the first floor and second floor of your home it has almost nothing to do with insulation and the fact that the antennas used on wifi routers are designed to radiate horizontally from the antenna (perpendicular to its orientation). It would be, in almost every case, a complete waste of RF energy to broadcast a signal upwards from a WAP when for most cases there will be no one above it or below it that its supposed to get too.
Finally ... it has VERY LITTLE EFFECT on the signal. My home is completely wrapped in it, walls and attic, and we sit on a slab, yet I still have no problem picking up and connecting to any wifi access point within 2 houses of me (and we aren't talking about town homes 10 feet from each other, at least 100-150 feet between homes), though its not like I'm getting full speed out of 802.11g with it, though my workshop, which is about 75 feet from my home will consistently get 10mb out of it, and it is insulated with brand new (built 3 years ago) foil backed insulation as well.
Does it effect the signal, sure, everything does. Does it effect it enough to care about it over the massive energy savings for heating and cooling? No, not even a little.
The home owner is likely to be none the wiser about the size of the wiring in his home either, and wether its really designed to be used like many of us where we have several machines in one room functioning as servers/routers/firewalls for our home networks drawing way more power than the home was designed to deliver to a single outlet. As a general rule, if you don't know what that shiny material is, there are far more important things in your home that you should learn about first if your worried about how your technology is going to be effected. Wiring of the home would be top on my list. Clean power is far more of a concern than insulation. Nothing worse than wiring thats too small for the job causing your power supplies or UPSes to continually be fighting surges and spikes due to turning off and on other equipment. Older homes with shared runs using 14 gauge wire to power multiple outlets are far more damaging and problematic than the insulation, they are also considerably more dangerous in a modern world where 10 amps simply isn't enough power for some home appliances at startup (vacuum cleaner, microwave, big plasma TVs). You really want 12 gauge as a minimum, with individual runs from the breaker box to EACH outlet, 10 gauge if you can afford it is a much better choice and far safer. Considering how little it effects the cost of a new build, you'd be an idiot if you were given the option and didn't take it.
why was Amazon not named in the summary?
Cause its more of a place to get access to extra CPU power cheaply for a period of time rather than a place to host services as their primary location since it is ridiculously overpriced compared to ... well everyone else? AWS may get used to host some services in their entirety for some companies other than Amazon, but not any smart ones. AWS is where you go when you want to run a massive set of number crunching or processing, or do a big release of something and utilize there content distribution network for a couple weeks until things get back to a level at which your standard hosting environment or datacenter can handle.
Who cares about Microsoft
Anyone more concerned about what using the right tools for the job at hand rather than being an ignorant flaming fanboy?
and who knew Google had a cloud offering.
Anyone who has been paying attention 'cloud computing' anytime within the last couple of years? And a ton of other developers who happen to use those cloud services for their own projects (rietveld, not google code), and all the companies who sell products running on Google's cloud (of which there are many) and all the companies which utilize products sold by companies using Google App Engine (of which there are more that probably anyone else other than AWS).
Perhaps you should get a Cloud Clue before talking about it?
Places like NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fransisco that just have huge numbers of really smart people
No, they hold huge numbers of people. Full stop. You can't be that bright to live in ridiculously over crowded metropolis, if nothing else due to the damage it causes from a long term environmental perspective and the raw inefficiency of a large city.
Foxconn doesn't make parts for Apple.
No, Foxconn makes parts for A LOT of technology companies, not just Apple, and they also do some assembly of devices as well.
I doubt you'll find a motherboard made that doesn't have Foxconn components on it like the back panel ports for instance are almost certainly Foxconn components regardless of who assembled your computer, yourself or Dell.
And to be fair, usually his stories are at least worth looking at.
That was true a few years ago, now ... not so much.
Its also possible to recover data from a drive after writing zeros to it just one time. Its going to cost enough to be cost prohibitive in most cases, but its not impossible to pull off, of course its also not very reliable to get useful data out of it either.
You had multiple disk corruption due to a common firmware bug on the drives themselves? That seems like its going to be pretty damn rare.
Now if you had a single drive failure and it took our your stripped, non-redundant array, then thats not really a big shocker is it?
The only difference is that Zuckerberg hasn't been convicted yet, its not like he isn't a fraudster himself.
Rush and that douch bag guy from earth that gated in with the lucian alliance were both 'brought back to life' before they died, and were in the same show with their doubles, before the duplicate rush killed the duplicate douche and died himself as the duplicate Destiny fell into the star it was near.
Pretty much everyone died in the first iteration of the planet they found the kino on which recorded their future.
On SG-1 only general Landry died and was brought back via the Asgaard time dilation field reversing time. Jackson never died, only ascended which is not death. A few other characters came back to life during an alternate reality collision but that was only for that one episode until everyone went home.
Atlantis killed off Beckett, then they said they were 'bringing him back but not by cloning or time travel' only to bring him back as a clone. Shepard was drained of life to the point of death by a wraith, but rejuvenated by that same wraith. Ronan Dax was killed and brought back by a wraith, though he may not have technically been dead, just unconscious as there was a really short time between his being stabbed and his being restored.
SGU is a good example of how to make a great franchise into a steaming pile of shit.
You knew it was going to suck when they started taking on actors that would only do it 'if it was something entirely different' ... robert carlyle is a good example of someone who should never be hired again. Anyone who wants to join a franchise but says the only why HE is going to be involved is if its completely different from its predecessors ... with their multiple awards and longest running sci-fi series in history titles is a sure sign you don't want him.
He should just stick to daytime soaps where he belongs.
Stargate SG1 had 4 or 5 years of being told it was their last season ... only to be renewed at the last minute. They were told 'you aren't coming back next year' and managed to do a great job of dealing with it year after year ... it wasn't even a 'we haven't decided if you'll come back', it was 'you wont be coming back ... JUST KIDDING!'
Kara wasn't human.
They get the right to use them and pays for the government enforcement and administrative processes to make sure no one else fucks up their usage of those airwaves. But thats not what happens. They don't buy SOME spectrum, they buy ALL the spectrum or buy the other owner of the spectrum out making them the owner (indirectly al la T-Mobile) of all the spectrum in a given area.
For now.
There was a recent story about a law being pushed that puts Cell phone data plans on the same level as voice calls. i.e. roaming is required by law, you have to play nicely with other providers if you want to stay in business since the spectrum is limited. This prevents a provider ... like say ... AT&T from buying out other providers and all the spectrum in a given area effectively cutting off even the potential for someone to start a wireless provider. So ... if the law passes, AT&T won't be able to prevent GSM customers from roaming by charging ridiculous fees for competition to roam on their network.
Of course, the side problem to that is that we're not all using the same technology. AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM ... so AT&T is GSM, verizon is cdma, sprint is ?. Even with a legal requirement to not rip people off for data roaming, you still won't really be able to do it.
suggest a UZI 100KV pen sized stungun run across all the I/O jacks in the back of the computer. ESD (electro-static discharge) damage leaves no telltale hammer marks or fingerprints, and can be concealed from the security cameras in the palm of your hand.
No, it'll leave scorch marks from the arcing which are equally telling.
I'm almost positive XP will refuse to boot in that situation because the HAL layer for a Uniprocess PC is entirely different than a multiprocessor PC. You can make a ACPI image that will run on both and will use both cores because its an using the ACPI HAL, but the older (can't remember the initials for it) HAL only supports uniprocessor anyway and simply won't work on multiprocessor machines period.
If someone is breaking PCs intentionally, its much better to fire them, not give them a new PC.
When you do that here, under my command (I'm in charge of all the technology stuffs) you get the benefit of the doubt the first time. Accidents happen and we're pretty forgiving even though its clearly HER fault.
The second time? Well you owe the company the money for the repairs to the laptop. You don't have to pay it, as clearly stated in your contract you can leave the company and we'll take it out of your last check for you.
We don't have a problem with people breaking machines to get a new one.
He MIGHT be able to file for bankruptcy.
The court can also stipulate that the judgement can't be avoided by bankruptcy. And he simply may not qualify for bankruptcy even if they didn't.
Its not a get out of jail free card, some states have laws on the books that specifically state that court judgements are not part of bankruptcy hearings.
Its not a get out of jail free card. You don't get to simply give up and say you win I'm starting over and get out of your punishment. Bankruptcy isn't a given, a court has to grant you the option to do so, if you meet the requirements set forth by the law.
You also didn't see the fight he was facing.
Fighting the good fight is only logical if you have a chance of winning.
Suicide is ALWAYS stupid, regardless of why you donated money to him.