Nice example. And I love charging more for 'secondhand' problems! I do see a serious security issue in letting an employee connect thier PERSONAL machine to the corp network. I sure hope you got some good virus and malware detection software.
NO. I don't know who or where you have worked or for how long, but you got it exactly BACKWARDS. As a consultant I've seen how the IT Help Desk works in many many companies and the user ALWAYS calls in the problem. Also having been a manager, I don't have TIME to be calling in every silly little problem you have with your PC. YOU figure it out and if you can't YOU call for help.
What you will get is 1)Containers 2) a kick ass fast TCP/IP stack 3) Mil-Spec Security and those are just off the top of mind. I used to work for Sun as an Architect so I used to get this question all the time.
What an idiot..You knew damn well what I meant. I don't have time for such childish discussions. You can't argue facts so you try to twist the context. Nice try, thanks for playing, collect your coat at the door.
The threat starts with EU businesses with no ethics selling parts and plans for nuclear reactors to extremist nations in the name of profit. I'm certainly not against profit but there has to be some things that are just wrong to do for money.
When someone sponsors those who say they hate you and have the goal of seeing your nation wiped out you have to take seriously the fact that nuclear weapons are one of the best ways to accomplish that goal.
Or are you a supporter of state sponsored Terrorism as long as it is against the "agressors" of the United States?
Dangerous Dick indeed, as he has very little brain...20K troops isn't enought to do anything, it's really just more to stablize the Baghdad area and maybe do some border patrol. Plus it is mostly reservists and National Guard which are NOT the top troops to use in any "invasion". There is just as much crap coming in from Syria as Iraq but no one ever mentions "invading" them. Anything that is being done now by the US in Iran is likely a black operation run by the CIA and you'll never hear about until 20 yrs later.
Iran is NOT a nuclear power..they DO NOT have "The Bomb". If Israel has anything to say about it they never will.
That 39M number is suspect with regards to the numbers n Africa. In Sub-Sahara Africa, if someone has any of a number of "AIDS related diseases" such as TB (which is rampant on it's own), dysentery, wasting (also caused by starvation!), etc. they are classifed has having AIDS/HIV. There is very little diagnosing of HIV/AIDS with testing in Africa so IMNSHO we can't place any faith in the accuracy (high or low) of these numbers. I've read several studies about how they got that number and it's basically a SWAG, a good enough SWAG to get lots of funding from the USA and other nations. And amazingly enough with all the money that has been sent there in the past 10 yrs if you look at the WHO figures there has been ZERO progress.
Thats true, but and ASIC with a CPU will be much more expensive. An 8-bit microcontroller is not enough, it can't do the signal processing and it can't address enough memory.
Some business cannot be conducted over the phone such as if it is sensitive or it is based onn relationships. I'm not buying millions of dollars worth of equipment or support from someone I only know via the Internet, email or Video. If it's an existing customer, it's probably OK to work remote like this but getting new customers will be hard. I have worked in Technical Sales in my career and I know the customers want to see you in person the first time and then only once in a while.
How is asking for my fingerprint to make sure I'm not scamming them with a bad check treating me like a criminal? It's protecting my account as well as the bank. If I'm a criminal I need to worry, not if I'm a law abiding person.
I suspect that the way this program would be implemented is similar to the "no-fly list" where the airlines fingerprint you when you buy a ticket or check in. It's SOOOOO easy to add a fingerprint scanner to the automated check-in machines, non-scanners get denied boarding, or maybe even to get yuour prints from your credit card company if you pay with the card (some cards are requiring biometric ID or will soon). First it will be US Flag carriers, then to get admission to US Airspace the foreign flag carriers will have to implement the same systems. If I go to my bank and they don't recognize me they make me put a fingerprint on my check to cash/deposit it, that practice is becoming common too. The horse has left the barn on this one, it is too easy to get fingerprints in the USA. Summation is you want to do business with the worlds largest consumer you follow the Security rules. Of course this opens the door for a "tit for tat" for US persons visiting foreign nations.
Maybe, maybe not. Firmware requires an actual CPU such as an ARM or DSP to run the code. Those devices, while not ultra expensive, are not as cheap as FPGAs or ASICs. The cost in ASICs and FPGAs for the "dedicated hardware" phone is in the initial design, the cost to manaufacture is low. The cost for a "firmware phone" is also up front in design and development, and then the CPUs cost is added. For basic phones that do very little, I think the specialized hardware approach would be cheapest, for PDAs and higher end phones probably the Software driven approach is cheaper as you can get more functionality into the phone (which helps sell it at higher prices). Higher end phones and PDAs are really a combination of both approaches, there is dedicated special hardware to handle the signal processing and then OSes and Applications to provide the other features.
Device drivers are the interfaces to the firmware from the OS. The firmware (such as on Graphics Cards) implements the basic functions and controls the operations of the device. Thier are hardware communication standards (USB, ATA, SCSI, VESA) but each card works in a slightly different way that its' mfg thinks is ideal. Unless every graphics card worked the same way each one needs it's own driver. If each card worked exactly the same way there would be no need for drivers as it could all be firmware that is called from the application code itself, of course there would be a lot less choices on the market to chose from.
You must be new here? Every article on/. has virtually useless comments, sometimes the articles themselves are too.
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Gutman is a computer security specialist, not a medical imaging person. He wrote his PhD thesis on Security Architecture. Go visit his homepage http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ and it's pretty clear he knows what he is talking about in IT Security.
I've had a microwave fixed by them twice (under warranty) and each time they did good work and did it on time. Each problem was different too. I don't and wouldn't buy anything computer related from them, it's overpriced and usually not the best models.
If your Sun system has been up 2+ years it is at least 3 chip generations old and comparing that to your new Linux box is unfair. Try running Linux on a SUN Quad Opteron and I bet you'll find it kicks ass. They have some awesome benchmarks with Solaris 10 x86 and Linux on the Opterons.
#4 Good Luck, first we got to get rid of the Ambulance Chasing Lawyers. We have too many of them so to "make a living" then invent things to sue about. They file dumbass suits they get disbarred AND pay court costs AND a fine. That'll stop them, but alas too many lawyers are legislators (in BOTH parties) so this is really dreaming.
Combine 5 & 6: everyone is covered but everyone must get regular checkups. Hypochondriacs are mental cases and should be treated as such.
#5a; If you work in the USA you pay the same taxes regardless of being a citizen, H1-B, or green card holder. Yea, in some cases crooked firms who knowingly hire illegals as employees or contractors (Wal-Mart) don't withhold taxes. I would say no taxes paid no access to health care or the legal system.
#7 Thats a dumb idea. The cost of the military "quality of life" goes up every year just due to inflation. Big ticket projects and R&D should be funded but we need to make sure we get the return. We can't weaken defense to the point we are vulnerable if some idiot in Iran or North Korea wants to attack our way of life. In your case the JSF is a fighter for AF and Navy and Marines, the F-22 is AF only. In this case we DID save money by each service NOT getting to run it's own program.
#7a I'll support that one, if due to lower staff they don't get to make up and enforce stupid laws that add to the cost of items.
#8 is just silly. I own shares of a Drug company via my 401K Mutual Funds..so how does that make me a criminal? Profit maxmization within the ethical bounds of the community is what business SHOULD do. They make money, they pay taxes, and dividends to investors large and small. What I would support is less years of patent protection AND there should be a way for the Gov't to "buy out" a drug for the public good in times of a health care crisis.
#9 is starting down an interesting path. I'd say if a drug company spends $1 of Gov't money on researching a drug then that drug patent belongs to the Gov't and it's citizens. The Defense Department should do that too. I know the laws are on the books to do that for DoD work but they are rarely enforced.
Maybe it was blackmail, but at that time Sun HAD to do it as IBM was Idemnifying customers who wanted to use Linux on IBM servers as was HP. If Sun didn't idemnify the lost market share they couldn't afford to lose. I suspect McNeally thought the cost of the "license" from SCO was pretty cheap comprted to lost market share and the stock might could be sold for a profit too. I have no idea what Sun's legal department said about the deal, but Scott was going to do what Scott was going to do everyone else be damned. I think that was why he was eventually pushed out as CEO. He still owns a hell of a lot of Sun stock so he wants Sun to grow, but it will NEVER be what it was in the dot com days. Twenty years from now Sun will be remembered for inventing Java not the SCO fiasco, in fact most people have already forgotten it!
There is not any explicit right to privacy in the USA. It's been written by case law over the last 30-40 yrs.
However, when the Government is concerned should you even expect you REALLY have privacy?? Come on, they have your name, address and phone in the Drivers License, IRS and Social Security systems. If you travel you are in the TSA database (and the airline database). If you own property the State & Local Gov't know the value and improvements. If you deposit/withdraw more than 10K in Cash the Government knows the details. If you associate with criminals or have ever been charged or filed a police report the Government knows. If you make any income the IRS knows how much, when and where. If you go to school and get Gov't loans or support that's on file. If you tithe to your church or another charity the Government (IRS) knows. If you have a library card the Gov't knows what you read. The Gov't knows what you drive from your car registration. However I don't think any one Gov't agency knows ALL of this together, it's very fragmented and pulling it together from 1000's of databases would be a huge IT project.
About the only thing the Gov't doesnt know about you is what you eat, what web sites you visit, and who your friends are. And Wal-Mart probably knows that about you.
Having worked for Sun I know more of the story. The money paid to SCO was a sort of "insurance" for Solaris so Sun could say they (like IBM) were able to indemnify thier customers. It was a move to keep Sun alive until the new servers and Solaris 10 came along. I still think it was a deal with the devil but Scott thought he couldn't NOT do it. Since Jonothan has taken the reins things are quite different.
Thats true, it's another hole IBM pointed out in request for Summary Judgement. Don't forget the wild-ass claim that even IF System V code isn't in Linux (we KNOW it's not) and even if it was OK for IBM to contribute own code to Linux (it is) SCO still "owns" the "methods and concepts" pertaining to the way Linux operates because the way it operates is "smiliar to System V and we own everything to do with System V". Linus has debunked that idea time and again as have other kernal developers. But SCO still persists. SCO is just crazy, I think in any other court in any other state they would have been tossed out a long time ago.
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Nice example. And I love charging more for 'secondhand' problems! I do see a serious security issue in letting an employee connect thier PERSONAL machine to the corp network. I sure hope you got some good virus and malware detection software.
NO. I don't know who or where you have worked or for how long, but you got it exactly BACKWARDS. As a consultant I've seen how the IT Help Desk works in many many companies and the user ALWAYS calls in the problem. Also having been a manager, I don't have TIME to be calling in every silly little problem you have with your PC. YOU figure it out and if you can't YOU call for help.
What you will get is 1)Containers 2) a kick ass fast TCP/IP stack 3) Mil-Spec Security and those are just off the top of mind. I used to work for Sun as an Architect so I used to get this question all the time.
What an idiot..You knew damn well what I meant. I don't have time for such childish discussions. You can't argue facts so you try to twist the context. Nice try, thanks for playing, collect your coat at the door.
The threat starts with EU businesses with no ethics selling parts and plans for nuclear reactors to extremist nations in the name of profit. I'm certainly not against profit but there has to be some things that are just wrong to do for money. When someone sponsors those who say they hate you and have the goal of seeing your nation wiped out you have to take seriously the fact that nuclear weapons are one of the best ways to accomplish that goal. Or are you a supporter of state sponsored Terrorism as long as it is against the "agressors" of the United States?
Dangerous Dick indeed, as he has very little brain...20K troops isn't enought to do anything, it's really just more to stablize the Baghdad area and maybe do some border patrol. Plus it is mostly reservists and National Guard which are NOT the top troops to use in any "invasion". There is just as much crap coming in from Syria as Iraq but no one ever mentions "invading" them. Anything that is being done now by the US in Iran is likely a black operation run by the CIA and you'll never hear about until 20 yrs later. Iran is NOT a nuclear power..they DO NOT have "The Bomb". If Israel has anything to say about it they never will.
That 39M number is suspect with regards to the numbers n Africa. In Sub-Sahara Africa, if someone has any of a number of "AIDS related diseases" such as TB (which is rampant on it's own), dysentery, wasting (also caused by starvation!), etc. they are classifed has having AIDS/HIV. There is very little diagnosing of HIV/AIDS with testing in Africa so IMNSHO we can't place any faith in the accuracy (high or low) of these numbers. I've read several studies about how they got that number and it's basically a SWAG, a good enough SWAG to get lots of funding from the USA and other nations. And amazingly enough with all the money that has been sent there in the past 10 yrs if you look at the WHO figures there has been ZERO progress.
Thats true, but and ASIC with a CPU will be much more expensive. An 8-bit microcontroller is not enough, it can't do the signal processing and it can't address enough memory.
Some business cannot be conducted over the phone such as if it is sensitive or it is based onn relationships. I'm not buying millions of dollars worth of equipment or support from someone I only know via the Internet, email or Video. If it's an existing customer, it's probably OK to work remote like this but getting new customers will be hard. I have worked in Technical Sales in my career and I know the customers want to see you in person the first time and then only once in a while. How is asking for my fingerprint to make sure I'm not scamming them with a bad check treating me like a criminal? It's protecting my account as well as the bank. If I'm a criminal I need to worry, not if I'm a law abiding person.
It's not a bad thing...it's a side effect. Some may see that as bad some may not.
I suspect that the way this program would be implemented is similar to the "no-fly list" where the airlines fingerprint you when you buy a ticket or check in. It's SOOOOO easy to add a fingerprint scanner to the automated check-in machines, non-scanners get denied boarding, or maybe even to get yuour prints from your credit card company if you pay with the card (some cards are requiring biometric ID or will soon). First it will be US Flag carriers, then to get admission to US Airspace the foreign flag carriers will have to implement the same systems. If I go to my bank and they don't recognize me they make me put a fingerprint on my check to cash/deposit it, that practice is becoming common too. The horse has left the barn on this one, it is too easy to get fingerprints in the USA. Summation is you want to do business with the worlds largest consumer you follow the Security rules. Of course this opens the door for a "tit for tat" for US persons visiting foreign nations.
Maybe, maybe not. Firmware requires an actual CPU such as an ARM or DSP to run the code. Those devices, while not ultra expensive, are not as cheap as FPGAs or ASICs. The cost in ASICs and FPGAs for the "dedicated hardware" phone is in the initial design, the cost to manaufacture is low. The cost for a "firmware phone" is also up front in design and development, and then the CPUs cost is added. For basic phones that do very little, I think the specialized hardware approach would be cheapest, for PDAs and higher end phones probably the Software driven approach is cheaper as you can get more functionality into the phone (which helps sell it at higher prices). Higher end phones and PDAs are really a combination of both approaches, there is dedicated special hardware to handle the signal processing and then OSes and Applications to provide the other features.
Device drivers are the interfaces to the firmware from the OS. The firmware (such as on Graphics Cards) implements the basic functions and controls the operations of the device. Thier are hardware communication standards (USB, ATA, SCSI, VESA) but each card works in a slightly different way that its' mfg thinks is ideal. Unless every graphics card worked the same way each one needs it's own driver. If each card worked exactly the same way there would be no need for drivers as it could all be firmware that is called from the application code itself, of course there would be a lot less choices on the market to chose from.
Sun's Opteron CPUs are not hot-swappable, only the 4/8 SPARC CPU boards in the E6xxx and above are that way.
You must be new here? Every article on /. has virtually useless comments, sometimes the articles themselves are too.
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Damn...wish I had mod points. I was going to say Months of prep for minutes of flight.
Gutman is a computer security specialist, not a medical imaging person. He wrote his PhD thesis on Security Architecture. Go visit his homepage http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ and it's pretty clear he knows what he is talking about in IT Security.
I've had a microwave fixed by them twice (under warranty) and each time they did good work and did it on time. Each problem was different too. I don't and wouldn't buy anything computer related from them, it's overpriced and usually not the best models.
If your Sun system has been up 2+ years it is at least 3 chip generations old and comparing that to your new Linux box is unfair. Try running Linux on a SUN Quad Opteron and I bet you'll find it kicks ass. They have some awesome benchmarks with Solaris 10 x86 and Linux on the Opterons.
Yes, it's called OpenSolaris. Eventually Solaris for the SPARC will also be open source.
#4 Good Luck, first we got to get rid of the Ambulance Chasing Lawyers. We have too many of them so to "make a living" then invent things to sue about. They file dumbass suits they get disbarred AND pay court costs AND a fine. That'll stop them, but alas too many lawyers are legislators (in BOTH parties) so this is really dreaming.
Combine 5 & 6: everyone is covered but everyone must get regular checkups. Hypochondriacs are mental cases and should be treated as such.
#5a; If you work in the USA you pay the same taxes regardless of being a citizen, H1-B, or green card holder. Yea, in some cases crooked firms who knowingly hire illegals as employees or contractors (Wal-Mart) don't withhold taxes. I would say no taxes paid no access to health care or the legal system.
#7 Thats a dumb idea. The cost of the military "quality of life" goes up every year just due to inflation. Big ticket projects and R&D should be funded but we need to make sure we get the return. We can't weaken defense to the point we are vulnerable if some idiot in Iran or North Korea wants to attack our way of life. In your case the JSF is a fighter for AF and Navy and Marines, the F-22 is AF only. In this case we DID save money by each service NOT getting to run it's own program.
#7a I'll support that one, if due to lower staff they don't get to make up and enforce stupid laws that add to the cost of items.
#8 is just silly. I own shares of a Drug company via my 401K Mutual Funds..so how does that make me a criminal? Profit maxmization within the ethical bounds of the community is what business SHOULD do. They make money, they pay taxes, and dividends to investors large and small. What I would support is less years of patent protection AND there should be a way for the Gov't to "buy out" a drug for the public good in times of a health care crisis.
#9 is starting down an interesting path. I'd say if a drug company spends $1 of Gov't money on researching a drug then that drug patent belongs to the Gov't and it's citizens. The Defense Department should do that too. I know the laws are on the books to do that for DoD work but they are rarely enforced.
Maybe it was blackmail, but at that time Sun HAD to do it as IBM was Idemnifying customers who wanted to use Linux on IBM servers as was HP. If Sun didn't idemnify the lost market share they couldn't afford to lose. I suspect McNeally thought the cost of the "license" from SCO was pretty cheap comprted to lost market share and the stock might could be sold for a profit too. I have no idea what Sun's legal department said about the deal, but Scott was going to do what Scott was going to do everyone else be damned. I think that was why he was eventually pushed out as CEO. He still owns a hell of a lot of Sun stock so he wants Sun to grow, but it will NEVER be what it was in the dot com days. Twenty years from now Sun will be remembered for inventing Java not the SCO fiasco, in fact most people have already forgotten it!
There is not any explicit right to privacy in the USA. It's been written by case law over the last 30-40 yrs. However, when the Government is concerned should you even expect you REALLY have privacy?? Come on, they have your name, address and phone in the Drivers License, IRS and Social Security systems. If you travel you are in the TSA database (and the airline database). If you own property the State & Local Gov't know the value and improvements. If you deposit/withdraw more than 10K in Cash the Government knows the details. If you associate with criminals or have ever been charged or filed a police report the Government knows. If you make any income the IRS knows how much, when and where. If you go to school and get Gov't loans or support that's on file. If you tithe to your church or another charity the Government (IRS) knows. If you have a library card the Gov't knows what you read. The Gov't knows what you drive from your car registration. However I don't think any one Gov't agency knows ALL of this together, it's very fragmented and pulling it together from 1000's of databases would be a huge IT project. About the only thing the Gov't doesnt know about you is what you eat, what web sites you visit, and who your friends are. And Wal-Mart probably knows that about you.
Having worked for Sun I know more of the story. The money paid to SCO was a sort of "insurance" for Solaris so Sun could say they (like IBM) were able to indemnify thier customers. It was a move to keep Sun alive until the new servers and Solaris 10 came along. I still think it was a deal with the devil but Scott thought he couldn't NOT do it. Since Jonothan has taken the reins things are quite different.
Thats true, it's another hole IBM pointed out in request for Summary Judgement. Don't forget the wild-ass claim that even IF System V code isn't in Linux (we KNOW it's not) and even if it was OK for IBM to contribute own code to Linux (it is) SCO still "owns" the "methods and concepts" pertaining to the way Linux operates because the way it operates is "smiliar to System V and we own everything to do with System V". Linus has debunked that idea time and again as have other kernal developers. But SCO still persists. SCO is just crazy, I think in any other court in any other state they would have been tossed out a long time ago.