For a nation build on freedom of speech America sure doesn't seem that free nowadays. As an American I say in my defense that it sort of creeps up on you, and it usually seems OK at the time... and then you get used to it. I am just thankful "they" don't have a way of censorting the internet.
Many books on security are a double edged sword. For example a tutorial on creating protection mechanisms in your programs against disassembly at the same time tells you how to break those protections. A book on how to detect and remove virii gives you insight on how to make them. I could go on... I think the point is that the "bad guys" will leard this information anyways, so we might as well give the "good guys" the same information, especially since the "good guys" don't spend all of their time trying to compromise security.
From what I gather from the article the foremost problem at the moment for him is that they won't scan properly. I don't think a shell script will take care of that. Then of course he has to scan each one by hand. Then he can worry about doing a batch job on them. Of course if he fixes the problems with the scanner he may not even need to.
Crosstalk and heat problems affect anything with sufficiently small circuits, RAM included. Crosstalk is caused by currents in wires inducing currents in their nearby neighbors, and heat is caused by resistance in the wires. The registers in a CPU are a small kind of memory, and they are built using the same technology the CPU is made with, so you can get a feel for how small we can make RAM at our current technology by observing how much we can pack into a given size CPU.
I wonder if Google will in actuallity replace these kinds of services. It must (may) be possible to automate this kind of searching, and if you did you would turn up information about the personality and opinions of your subject, rather than just their official history. This may well turn out to be more relevant to those who use this service. (did you mean your post to be funny? It looks as if you are insightfully funny)
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I think the concern here is not about call centers, as you make a good point about them, but about programming jobs. Unlike call centers these employees do not interact with the customers, and I think it is the programming jobs that have many/. readers so worried.
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I think that experiance might also be key in getting a job. You might not get code monkey this way, but for most people that kind of job is a stepping stone anyways. However experianced people are what is needed for design and for project leads, as well as sufficiently large products. But if all the low level jobs are in India how will we get experiance? Through open source projects.
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This kind of protectionist economy hurts the indians more than it hurts us. After all if they aren't buying things with their american dolars (i.e. american goods or trading them with someone who will buy american goods) then they get no benefit from working for us.
for some reason I doubt the toaster would have much bandwidth... which reminds me of a talk I went to featuring one of the early creators of IPv4 (I forgot who it was) who said that one day he wanted his socks conencted to the internet so he could find them.. that is except when he was at the bar (so his wife couldn't find him)
The article says that each chip is running its own kernel. That seems like a lot of wasted energy to me. I agree that it could give a serious boost to performance. However what about the memory requirements (RAM specifically)? It sees to me that each micro-kernel is going to need some RAM of its own, and to get the promised performance you would need many of these micro-kernels. This technology may end up more limited by memory requirements than the speed of the chips.
Actually it sound more like parallel processing to me, where many CPUs are connected together to form one larger CPU. Perhaps you can remover CPUs from the network while active?? Or maybe it is just easier to expand. Their page seems to be full of hype (in my opinion), but no description of concrete benefits from this technology. Also why is this in the games section... seem more like hardware to me.
Well I don't mind volunteer advertizers because, unlike other advertizers, they actually believe in the product. Also they tend to know a good deal about it and are very informed. Even if you dont switch to what they are advertizing you can at least learn about it through them, and I would never turn down information. My only quibble here is that this tends to promote the big projects and crowd out the small ones. As an admin of a small open source project I would love if I could at least have more people check us out... but until more people check us out then we won't get any word of mouth press... sigh.
This seems like an awfully small number since 2/3 of the earth's surface is covered in water. I mean these robots will give us a start, but for more reliable data this number seems to need to be drastically increased. I wonder what their plans are for expansion. Or do they have some technique that can help extrapolate between the gaps. The ocean seems too complex and too unknown to cover with so few robots.
The question this raised in my mind was: can this be used to prevent alzheimers. Would a daily dose of this stuff (since it reputedly does not have any adverse effects on healthy nerves) help prevent degeneration in brain cells. Even if it couldn't cross the blood-brain barrier could older people get weekly or monthly injections as a preventive measure? Or would this have no effect? Perhaps someone should investigate this (now where is an email link to the researchers...)
I live in CA, so expect these houses to fold as soon as a quake hits. And heaven help you if you build one in a hurricane or tornado area. Or anywhere that has heavy rain or snow. So basically you can build them in the Sahara.
I know you will always be able to buy things from small struggling businesses without an ID. They will do whatever they can to attact customers, including protecting your provacy if it would be a draw. Plus they probably just wont want the hastle.
yes, exactly. Is the only thing different about this system from a drivers liscense is how often you will be asked for it. If so do you really think you will get asked for it that oftern. Small businesses for one probably woulnt want to expend the effor. Of sourse they will track your carear... but then what good is this for anti-terrorism? It would be easy for them to lie low, working for less than minimum wage, which since it already is illegal, i doubt will be asking for their information
Yes, but force how? I imagine that there might be either a way to dodge the system, spoof it, or provide it with false data. Any system that promises to be so universal is going to be huge, and thus less manageable, so it will be easier to dodge.
I have to say that after looking over the schedule there are quite a few talks I wish I could attend... except that it is too far away. Also the majority of the talks are in German, and I somehow doubt that there will be translators present. Now what would really rock is if someone made a transcript of the event so that I could read it at my leisure in the comfort of my tiny appartment. Perhaps someone should offer a conference transcript service, I know I would be willing to pay for it.
Hey many programming languages don't get much attention, especially new ones that don't have a large community yet. See my sig. for the newest upstart language.
Indeed this is a striking comparison to the previous story about spam sites suffering drom a DDoS attack. I for one had quite different reactions to them. Perhaps this shows that I am a hypocrite. However there is another component. Spammers target individuals, infact the maority of individuals. Corperations however are not people, despite how they may be treated by the law, and I think that Bittorrent is by far less damaging to corperations than spam is to the productivity of people (not to mention their happyness). SO perhaps I do have some justification for my differnt reactions to these articles.
I have to say despite all the M$ hatred we all feel for their many security flaws and and horrible software for once I think Microsoft may be acting in the best intrests of the community, with basically no direct benefit to them. Even if it doesn't kill spam (which I don't think anything has the possibility of doing) it might shut down a few or few hundred spammers, and that is a start. I have to say for once I have some nice feelings toward the evil monopoly.
Well it defnintely has competition form Outlook, and of course many other free third party clients. The difference is that, unlike FIrefox, Thunderbird does not incoperate many more features than outlook. Also it has few extensions and themes, which could make up for its lack of brilliance. I can give people planty of reason for people to switch from ie to Firefox, but from outlook to Thunderbird I can only pester people about security. And I have no way at all of "converting" users of other mail programs, like Eudora.
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For a nation build on freedom of speech America sure doesn't seem that free nowadays. As an American I say in my defense that it sort of creeps up on you, and it usually seems OK at the time ... and then you get used to it. I am just thankful "they" don't have a way of censorting the internet.
Many books on security are a double edged sword. For example a tutorial on creating protection mechanisms in your programs against disassembly at the same time tells you how to break those protections. A book on how to detect and remove virii gives you insight on how to make them. I could go on... I think the point is that the "bad guys" will leard this information anyways, so we might as well give the "good guys" the same information, especially since the "good guys" don't spend all of their time trying to compromise security.
From what I gather from the article the foremost problem at the moment for him is that they won't scan properly. I don't think a shell script will take care of that. Then of course he has to scan each one by hand. Then he can worry about doing a batch job on them. Of course if he fixes the problems with the scanner he may not even need to.
Crosstalk and heat problems affect anything with sufficiently small circuits, RAM included. Crosstalk is caused by currents in wires inducing currents in their nearby neighbors, and heat is caused by resistance in the wires. The registers in a CPU are a small kind of memory, and they are built using the same technology the CPU is made with, so you can get a feel for how small we can make RAM at our current technology by observing how much we can pack into a given size CPU.
yes, but how would canada enforce this law if they never set foot in Canada. extridition? I don't think that would sit well with other governments.
I wonder if Google will in actuallity replace these kinds of services. It must (may) be possible to automate this kind of searching, and if you did you would turn up information about the personality and opinions of your subject, rather than just their official history. This may well turn out to be more relevant to those who use this service. (did you mean your post to be funny? It looks as if you are insightfully funny)
I think the concern here is not about call centers, as you make a good point about them, but about programming jobs. Unlike call centers these employees do not interact with the customers, and I think it is the programming jobs that have many /. readers so worried.
I think that experiance might also be key in getting a job. You might not get code monkey this way, but for most people that kind of job is a stepping stone anyways. However experianced people are what is needed for design and for project leads, as well as sufficiently large products. But if all the low level jobs are in India how will we get experiance? Through open source projects.
This kind of protectionist economy hurts the indians more than it hurts us. After all if they aren't buying things with their american dolars (i.e. american goods or trading them with someone who will buy american goods) then they get no benefit from working for us.
for some reason I doubt the toaster would have much bandwidth ... which reminds me of a talk I went to featuring one of the early creators of IPv4 (I forgot who it was) who said that one day he wanted his socks conencted to the internet so he could find them .. that is except when he was at the bar (so his wife couldn't find him)
The article says that each chip is running its own kernel. That seems like a lot of wasted energy to me. I agree that it could give a serious boost to performance. However what about the memory requirements (RAM specifically)? It sees to me that each micro-kernel is going to need some RAM of its own, and to get the promised performance you would need many of these micro-kernels. This technology may end up more limited by memory requirements than the speed of the chips.
Actually it sound more like parallel processing to me, where many CPUs are connected together to form one larger CPU. Perhaps you can remover CPUs from the network while active?? Or maybe it is just easier to expand. Their page seems to be full of hype (in my opinion), but no description of concrete benefits from this technology. Also why is this in the games section ... seem more like hardware to me.
Well I don't mind volunteer advertizers because, unlike other advertizers, they actually believe in the product. Also they tend to know a good deal about it and are very informed. Even if you dont switch to what they are advertizing you can at least learn about it through them, and I would never turn down information. My only quibble here is that this tends to promote the big projects and crowd out the small ones. As an admin of a small open source project I would love if I could at least have more people check us out ... but until more people check us out then we won't get any word of mouth press ... sigh.
This seems like an awfully small number since 2/3 of the earth's surface is covered in water. I mean these robots will give us a start, but for more reliable data this number seems to need to be drastically increased. I wonder what their plans are for expansion. Or do they have some technique that can help extrapolate between the gaps. The ocean seems too complex and too unknown to cover with so few robots.
The question this raised in my mind was: can this be used to prevent alzheimers. Would a daily dose of this stuff (since it reputedly does not have any adverse effects on healthy nerves) help prevent degeneration in brain cells. Even if it couldn't cross the blood-brain barrier could older people get weekly or monthly injections as a preventive measure? Or would this have no effect? Perhaps someone should investigate this (now where is an email link to the researchers ...)
I live in CA, so expect these houses to fold as soon as a quake hits. And heaven help you if you build one in a hurricane or tornado area. Or anywhere that has heavy rain or snow. So basically you can build them in the Sahara.
I know you will always be able to buy things from small struggling businesses without an ID. They will do whatever they can to attact customers, including protecting your provacy if it would be a draw. Plus they probably just wont want the hastle.
yes, exactly. Is the only thing different about this system from a drivers liscense is how often you will be asked for it. If so do you really think you will get asked for it that oftern. Small businesses for one probably woulnt want to expend the effor. Of sourse they will track your carear ... but then what good is this for anti-terrorism? It would be easy for them to lie low, working for less than minimum wage, which since it already is illegal, i doubt will be asking for their information
Yes, but force how? I imagine that there might be either a way to dodge the system, spoof it, or provide it with false data. Any system that promises to be so universal is going to be huge, and thus less manageable, so it will be easier to dodge.
I have to say that after looking over the schedule there are quite a few talks I wish I could attend ... except that it is too far away. Also the majority of the talks are in German, and I somehow doubt that there will be translators present. Now what would really rock is if someone made a transcript of the event so that I could read it at my leisure in the comfort of my tiny appartment. Perhaps someone should offer a conference transcript service, I know I would be willing to pay for it.
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Hey many programming languages don't get much attention, especially new ones that don't have a large community yet. See my sig. for the newest upstart language.
Indeed this is a striking comparison to the previous story about spam sites suffering drom a DDoS attack. I for one had quite different reactions to them. Perhaps this shows that I am a hypocrite. However there is another component. Spammers target individuals, infact the maority of individuals. Corperations however are not people, despite how they may be treated by the law, and I think that Bittorrent is by far less damaging to corperations than spam is to the productivity of people (not to mention their happyness). SO perhaps I do have some justification for my differnt reactions to these articles.
I have to say despite all the M$ hatred we all feel for their many security flaws and and horrible software for once I think Microsoft may be acting in the best intrests of the community, with basically no direct benefit to them. Even if it doesn't kill spam (which I don't think anything has the possibility of doing) it might shut down a few or few hundred spammers, and that is a start. I have to say for once I have some nice feelings toward the evil monopoly.
Well it defnintely has competition form Outlook, and of course many other free third party clients. The difference is that, unlike FIrefox, Thunderbird does not incoperate many more features than outlook. Also it has few extensions and themes, which could make up for its lack of brilliance. I can give people planty of reason for people to switch from ie to Firefox, but from outlook to Thunderbird I can only pester people about security. And I have no way at all of "converting" users of other mail programs, like Eudora.