Not uninhabitable for sure.... but tell that to the farmers who worked the land and used to live there. They can't farm there anymore, or at least, even if the produce was safe it would be viewed with suspicion enough to make selling it painfully difficult.
This is a 50 billion dollar (or yen equivalent) public relations exercise. The government wants to look like it is actually doing something about an issue it has zero control over now.
The Japanese government doesn't want to admit the truth that these areas are going to remain uninhabitable for hundreds, if not, thousands of years - because it promised the Japanese people that they would be able to return to their homes. The technology doesn't exist to clean up all this contaminated land. TEPCO continues to cover up how bad the situation is at the plant, just like they did from day 0 of the disaster.... and the mass media in Japan continues to sweep all the depressing problems under the carpet and out of view of the public as if the nuclear contamination can be cleaned up with a big enough vacuum cleaner and enough time.
They don't want to admit the ugly truth, and want to keep perpetuating this lie that people will be able to safely return to their homes..... one day. If they ever return, they'll all get higher risk of cancers and the government and TEPCO will disavow that the reactors had anything to do with it because they "decontaminated" the area.... most likely. Just an excuse to try and dodge legal culpability.
I don't want my data in the cloud I don't want my data in a crowd I don't want my data on the net I don't want my data on diskette I don't want my data over there I don't want my data everywhere I know the spooks don't give a damn I do not trust you Uncle Sam!
Well for starters, ditch Sendmail, use Exim, and then implement DRBD with linux HA, Dovecot, and Perdition. If by enterprise grade, you mean "good enough for an ISP to use", then open source does just fine with a bit of tweaking and fine tuning.
So spamassassin uses a lot of CPU? Have you seen the resources an exchange DAG requires? Granted, exchange has a nice calendar system and the extra goodies that businesses want, but that's a real cost/benefit analysis given licensing and the amount of hardware you have to throw at it.
Once it has worth of its own (the ability to receive a salary and to buy bread and pay rent w/o relying on converting to an outside currency) then it will be a currency. Right now it's a digital commodity, much like gold or gemstones.
And that will never happen, because governments will want to be paid tax in the currency of the land. That means that conversion will always have to exist, and whilst it always exists, they will regulate it.
Governments and the banks will fight tooth and nail to maintain the monopoly over their money that they enjoy. They won't stand for a second to have all their assets devalued because nobody wants to trade with them.
Well that would prevent users from running "Other OS" on the PS4... but to lift the OS off the PS4 and import it elsewhere?
I suppose you could simply encrypt the entire OS on the drive, and have that encryption key signed in Secure Boot inaccessible to the casual user. Sony would then want a cert revocation and update mechanism though, to prevent what happened to the PS3....
So how trivial will it be to slurp the OS out onto a AMD card enabled PC and have our own "HackStation4"? Or... how would one modify FreeBSD to run PS4 software?
I'm sure there'll be encryption up the wazoo anyway... and potentially software could specifically check that the graphics chip is not some off-the-shelf AMD card......but it begs the question.
Well if the NSA have their dirty way, they'll manage to maintain an archive of every piece of electronic communication for years and years to leave behind for archeaologists to dig up and discover what happened to the NSA.
Some of these vendor-ware boxes are so hard to install, patch and maintain, that quite often they are left alone to run for years in production until the hardware dies. If it gets hacked... it's the hacker's fault. When the hardware dies,... it's the hardware vendor's fault. If it's left unmaintained, the company saves money If it is maintained, the admins won't be allowed to do anything when the company won't give them an update window, out of fear of breaking it. So the admin's sit on their hands and spin in their chairs every day.
It's always someone else's fault when the server goes balls-up, and when that happens, they get someone in to reinstall the server on new hardware. (after lengthy outages)
He's got money for this, but no money to give me contact with an Oracle support engineer on my continent who speaks English, and can reach me in a timely fashion.
I'm not running a client trading terminal that deals with thousands of dollars on anything unsupported... even though it tends to work OK-ish under Wine.
Just because we never used a particular function doesn't mean other people might want to. (which is why I don't get why comparing the Sony to what Apple could presumably do got shouted down as being offtopic. Yes, some people have to, or prefer to use Apple products in their daily work and won't get this Sony laptop.)
But support for 4K for the video editors sounds pretty cool in TB2 My bet is that the new Mac Pro redesign will get it too.
Given Haswell's power saving credentials and the retina MacPros are mainly just battery under the hood, it should get interesting. (also thunderbolt 2 coming around the corner)
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...and then the Sun will be bought out by Oracle.
Someone's got to write the story of the Queen's WW3 speech during Thatcher's Britain, throw Ronald Regan in, and somehow include zombies in the plot.
Not uninhabitable for sure.... but tell that to the farmers who worked the land and used to live there.
They can't farm there anymore, or at least, even if the produce was safe it would be viewed with suspicion enough to make selling it painfully difficult.
This is a 50 billion dollar (or yen equivalent) public relations exercise. The government wants to look like it is actually doing something about an issue it has zero control over now.
The Japanese government doesn't want to admit the truth that these areas are going to remain uninhabitable for hundreds, if not, thousands of years - because it promised the Japanese people that they would be able to return to their homes. The technology doesn't exist to clean up all this contaminated land. TEPCO continues to cover up how bad the situation is at the plant, just like they did from day 0 of the disaster.... and the mass media in Japan continues to sweep all the depressing problems under the carpet and out of view of the public as if the nuclear contamination can be cleaned up with a big enough vacuum cleaner and enough time.
They don't want to admit the ugly truth, and want to keep perpetuating this lie that people will be able to safely return to their homes..... one day.
If they ever return, they'll all get higher risk of cancers and the government and TEPCO will disavow that the reactors had anything to do with it because they "decontaminated" the area.... most likely. Just an excuse to try and dodge legal culpability.
To those who talk about this encouraging mining remember, the more you have a something the less valuable it tends to be.
Don't beat up on mining, or you'll force it underground.
I bet he'll do that by throwing them
I do not trust you Uncle Sam!
I don't want my data in the cloud
I don't want my data in a crowd
I don't want my data on the net
I don't want my data on diskette
I don't want my data over there
I don't want my data everywhere
I know the spooks don't give a damn
I do not trust you Uncle Sam!
I assume this is the same Jeri Ellisworth that designed the Commodore 64 Direct to TV unit?
Land of the free, home of the brave. LOL.
Land of all greed, and home of deranged
Well for starters, ditch Sendmail, use Exim, and then implement DRBD with linux HA, Dovecot, and Perdition.
If by enterprise grade, you mean "good enough for an ISP to use", then open source does just fine with a bit of tweaking and fine tuning.
So spamassassin uses a lot of CPU? Have you seen the resources an exchange DAG requires?
Granted, exchange has a nice calendar system and the extra goodies that businesses want, but that's a real cost/benefit analysis given licensing and the amount of hardware you have to throw at it.
Remember what happened to Jesus after he kicked around the Money Changers?
Once it has worth of its own (the ability to receive a salary and to buy bread and pay rent w/o relying on converting to an outside currency) then it will be a currency. Right now it's a digital commodity, much like gold or gemstones.
And that will never happen, because governments will want to be paid tax in the currency of the land. That means that conversion will always have to exist, and whilst it always exists, they will regulate it.
Governments and the banks will fight tooth and nail to maintain the monopoly over their money that they enjoy. They won't stand for a second to have all their assets devalued because nobody wants to trade with them.
You misused an entire post in an attempt to sound like a total anal-retentive. Carry on....
Well that would prevent users from running "Other OS" on the PS4... but to lift the OS off the PS4 and import it elsewhere?
I suppose you could simply encrypt the entire OS on the drive, and have that encryption key signed in Secure Boot inaccessible to the casual user.
Sony would then want a cert revocation and update mechanism though, to prevent what happened to the PS3....
Exactly. I would imagine this would be the first vector of attack.
So how trivial will it be to slurp the OS out onto a AMD card enabled PC and have our own "HackStation4"?
Or... how would one modify FreeBSD to run PS4 software?
I'm sure there'll be encryption up the wazoo anyway... and potentially software could specifically check that the graphics chip is not some off-the-shelf AMD card... ...but it begs the question.
Well if the NSA have their dirty way, they'll manage to maintain an archive of every piece of electronic communication for years and years to leave behind for archeaologists to dig up and discover what happened to the NSA.
Some of these vendor-ware boxes are so hard to install, patch and maintain, that quite often they are left alone to run for years in production until the hardware dies.
If it gets hacked... it's the hacker's fault.
When the hardware dies,... it's the hardware vendor's fault.
If it's left unmaintained, the company saves money
If it is maintained, the admins won't be allowed to do anything when the company won't give them an update window, out of fear of breaking it. So the admin's sit on their hands and spin in their chairs every day.
It's always someone else's fault when the server goes balls-up, and when that happens, they get someone in to reinstall the server on new hardware.
(after lengthy outages)
He's got money for this, but no money to give me contact with an Oracle support engineer on my continent who speaks English, and can reach me in a timely fashion.
Well, did it?
I'm not running a client trading terminal that deals with thousands of dollars on anything unsupported... even though it tends to work OK-ish under Wine.
Just because we never used a particular function doesn't mean other people might want to.
(which is why I don't get why comparing the Sony to what Apple could presumably do got shouted down as being offtopic. Yes, some people have to, or prefer to use Apple products in their daily work and won't get this Sony laptop.)
But support for 4K for the video editors sounds pretty cool in TB2
My bet is that the new Mac Pro redesign will get it too.
It's the "obligatory Apple reference" (tm)
Given Haswell's power saving credentials and the retina MacPros are mainly just battery under the hood, it should get interesting.
(also thunderbolt 2 coming around the corner)
Let's see what Apple can get away with in their next MacBook refresh...