Mamma said Liberal Arts are the Debil!!!!1!!!ONE!!1!!!!
My majors were Philosophy and Math, and it was the same most of the time. Very little of my Calculus was memorization, in fact we received 20 points per problem of which 1 was the actual answer.
That said, the mindless droning on the so called News has an impact even if you were taught to critically think. As connected as we are, it's surprising how difficult it is to find any truth at all in medial.
Sorry, but you can't count GPU based systems as X86. You are using a RISC based chip as the workhorse in the cluster, with exceptional math co-processing of course. The X86 chips act as a bridge, which is what they can do best in my opinion.
What they don't talk about for supercomputing in this article is the interconnect. Because the X86 instruction sets are massive, it generally does not work very well. Piping that many large instructions scales poorly, hell it's hard to get 8 chips on a board let alone having an interconnect bundling 128 or so. This is the advantage that RISC has always had over architecture, and why every supercomputer up to date worth speaking of has used RISC over Intel X86.
I'm going to assume it's just a pipe dream until I see an interconnect that can operate over many CPUs on a X86 platform without choking itself to death. And hell, heavy duty computing requires Linux. I'm sure Balmer tried to work a deal though. Good job Intel!
FYI I have bench marked many solutions for Scientific work (CAE) and Windows is always the worst. Easier to develop Graphics code to see data, not for producing data.
I'm sure that this happens very often. Hotels are notorious for espionage, hence most companies require VPN and recommend you don't use a Hotel's service. When I worked at the DOD we had to use encrypted satellite cards on travel, using any public internet was strictly not allowed.
Outside of the DOD, cheap is the name of the game. Cheap is always far from secure.
You can find the same definition in numerous sources. It may not be in Websters or Oxford but it has been acceptable for nearly 2 decades as slang for the plural of virus.
For fuck's sake, Sheldon, the T and R are right next to each other. He's probably at work and forced to use IE 6 or 7, which don't have spell checkers.
Wow, must be way passed my bed time. '''It's very odd that a company that people talking about a company that has been found guilty of illegal monopolistic practices is considered FUD by you. Do you have any idea how many times they have been found guilty? ''' haha, sorry. Let me try that again with English
It's very odd that you believe it's FUD when people talk poorly of MS. They have been found guilty of abusing their monopoly power many many times. Any guess at how many times? It is a large number, look it up.
And you do realize that many of those theories came out to be correct right? Such is the nature of conspiracies, if theories are correct then they show themselves. Search for TCP ACK, Tread milling applications, and monopoly for a start. Then compare many of those posts to the US vs. MS, Iowa vs. MS, Novel vs. MS, etc.. etc...
Of course there is always some chatting and opinion tossing in threads as well, but that is the nature of any forum. It's very odd that a company that people talking about a company that has been found guilty of illegal monopolistic practices is considered FUD by you. Do you have any idea how many times they have been found guilty?
Sure, peoples opinions of MS can be harsh. Most people knowing their practices and damage to the environment (computing, not Green space) think it's deserving.
Wrong with your first statement, the majority of the worlds data is on Unix or Unix like systems. Desktop files (.doc,.xls, etc..) are an extremely small portion of the worlds data. The rest of your statement is agreeable.
3. Speculation is fact on Slashdot. This warrants an article, why? Is there NEWS here, or are we going to see "space aliens MAY HAVE dressed up like call-boys and 'anally probed' the editorial staff"?
-1. You do realize that Slashdot does not write the articles right? Discussion is Slashdot members, and your number 1 and number 2 have been stated a few dozen times.
Odd that you seemingly fail to grasp the basic concept of -1 and call others wankers.
Are you sure? Hell if I had a few trillion dollars like some of them guys and no real job, I'd probably sit around scheming all day. I have morals, so doubt my scheming would be in the same lines as theirs, but still..
You agreed with what I said about them possibly having spies, but no other input. Do you really think they would be there to infect the OS and devise espionage schemes? I found that extremely unlikely. More like, they are making sure certain things don't get fixed, and making sure that the good people at Microsoft don't behave in corrupt ways that they are not known to act (Corrupt for the US is good, corrupt for China not so much). Maybe watching to make sure foreign influences don't hack espionage in to the code as well.
I'm not even sure they would have to do that. The technical details in TFA are a bit scarce, but enough exists for a better theory than the TFA presents.
Someone with some hefty CPU power broke the MS cert, which allowed them to create their own at will and spoof a MS cert.
The Government has the access to MS source code, and their methods. If you know where hooks get applied and how priorities work, you don't need to be from MS to write good code. You just need to be a good coder.
Spoofing Windows Update server really would not be that hard. Hell you don't even need a real man in the middle attack if you have a forged Cert and know the structure. You just need to spoof a DNS answer, the client will do everything else for you.
Having the fake key is huge! Write an application, sign as Genuine MS, put on a faked Windows update server, reroute a DNS call. Shazam! Of course there is other knowledge required, such as evading AV detection, etc.. but they had that figured out very well also.
It would take a good team, and time, but no need to have a mole. I would not be surprised if the US Government had moles in MS, but if they did it would primarily be for reasons other than Stuxnet and Flame, or any other computer espionage program.
They (MSM) pretty much fixed that by stopping the reporting on how much time is taken away and how much it costs now. Unless some whistle blower publishes shit like the GSA Vegas party, you won't see it on MSM.
Fox, NBC and ABC even justified the GSA party claiming that "Private business do this sort of thing all the time.". It's a very obvious game of "don't look at this thing, go look at that shiny thing!". Unfortunately people happily frolic to the distraction, so your facts do no good. People don't want facts, they want shiny things to look at.
I don't think training is the question, it's how they are training. You did read the Air Force report where they were training in areas that picked up civilian activity, and they held that data for several months right?
As a former Military person, I can tell you we trained very often. At the same time, we never trained in civilian areas where there was a risk to civilians in any way. We don't sight bombers in civilian areas very intentionally. Doing so would be conditioning for bombing those areas, as well as other more obvious dangers.
Well, again like mentioned several times above there are many sources for the reports. You are not looking any further than what you think you know. NASA and GreenPeace are only two sources. There are numerous colleges and universities providing reports, as well as private groups outside of those which you may not recognize.
So if you say again "Why would X do something" knowing there are probably a hundred agencies supplying reports.. it becomes painfully obvious that you don't want an answer, you only want to bolster your opinion.
In those same lines, I simply won't buy a Microsoft product. Why do I have to suffer waiting for a fix and be locked in to what ever the nice people at Microsoft decide what I can and can't have on my phone?
FYI, I have an iPhone. I have a whole 3 applications on my phone, and no.. none of them are Angry Birds. But I at least have an opportunity to get applications and iOS works. Bug free? Mostly yes. I'm locked in to Apple for the phone OS, but not for any of the apps, and developers have a good amount of control of the phone with the tools Apple provides. Unlike MS who locks out developers to ensure that only they can write the "Good" applications and sell them to you with a 897489 page EULA.
I trust them less than I trust a turd not splashing in the toilet bowl, I don't buy anything from them unless I absolutely have to.
I have spent a lot of time on your statement lately. It is a bad thing, and it's easy to show that it's not "good".
1. The powers that are dismantling the US constitution are doing so while hiding. If there was a "good" plot, we would all be aware of this plot and be allowed to participate. You may say "it has to be hidden" but we all know that is a crock of shit. The founding of the US, while planned by very few was very vocal with the people that became subject. This has been the case with every "Good" government, and never the case with evil regimes.
2. The people pulling the strings are elitists, and most likely worse than that. You do realize that the same people pulling the strings have run eugenics science labs since shortly after WW I, many of the scientists worked directly in Nazi extermination camps. You could argue that this is all in the past, lessons learned, and all that. Again, you have people in hiding pulling strings. There has never been apology for those acts, and quite frankly DNA research has been used recently to argue genetics are required in order to hold offices. Or did you miss the article this week regarding Hungary, DNA and Jewish/Roma blood? No, I'm not going to Google that for you.
JFK had it correct when he stated that in a Republic, a government ruled by the people for the people, secret groups are repugnant. There is no "Good" there, and quite frankly the nature of the group makes it obvious that they are not working for the betterment of society but rather the benefit of their group.
These same people manipulate the reality of most of us every day, distorting truth and flat out lying. They obstruct justice and believe themselves to be above justice. Rules only apply to you and I, not to their group.
There is so much more to back the point that it's an evil thing, but if I got in to more you would just say "Oh noez, conspiracy theory". Most people have been brainwashed in to thinking that the word conspiracy equates to insanity, and will never bother to look in to any facts for themselves. What the media told them has to be true, and our politicians would never lie.
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Mamma said Liberal Arts are the Debil!!!!1!!!ONE!!1!!!!
My majors were Philosophy and Math, and it was the same most of the time. Very little of my Calculus was memorization, in fact we received 20 points per problem of which 1 was the actual answer.
That said, the mindless droning on the so called News has an impact even if you were taught to critically think. As connected as we are, it's surprising how difficult it is to find any truth at all in medial.
It's thousands of Math processors, like the old DX systems had. Not like the x86 chips. Yes, there is a big difference.
Sorry, but you can't count GPU based systems as X86. You are using a RISC based chip as the workhorse in the cluster, with exceptional math co-processing of course. The X86 chips act as a bridge, which is what they can do best in my opinion.
What they don't talk about for supercomputing in this article is the interconnect. Because the X86 instruction sets are massive, it generally does not work very well. Piping that many large instructions scales poorly, hell it's hard to get 8 chips on a board let alone having an interconnect bundling 128 or so. This is the advantage that RISC has always had over architecture, and why every supercomputer up to date worth speaking of has used RISC over Intel X86.
I'm going to assume it's just a pipe dream until I see an interconnect that can operate over many CPUs on a X86 platform without choking itself to death. And hell, heavy duty computing requires Linux. I'm sure Balmer tried to work a deal though. Good job Intel!
FYI I have bench marked many solutions for Scientific work (CAE) and Windows is always the worst. Easier to develop Graphics code to see data, not for producing data.
I'm sure that this happens very often. Hotels are notorious for espionage, hence most companies require VPN and recommend you don't use a Hotel's service. When I worked at the DOD we had to use encrypted satellite cards on travel, using any public internet was strictly not allowed.
Outside of the DOD, cheap is the name of the game. Cheap is always far from secure.
Why do coward tell lies? Virii
You can find the same definition in numerous sources. It may not be in Websters or Oxford but it has been acceptable for nearly 2 decades as slang for the plural of virus.
For fuck's sake, Sheldon, the T and R are right next to each other. He's probably at work and forced to use IE 6 or 7, which don't have spell checkers.
Since we're making corrections.. FTFY
Thanks for that correction, good gawd everyone knows that Al Gore invented punk rock right before the internet!
Wow, must be way passed my bed time. '''It's very odd that a company that people talking about a company that has been found guilty of illegal monopolistic practices is considered FUD by you. Do you have any idea how many times they have been found guilty? ''' haha, sorry. Let me try that again with English
It's very odd that you believe it's FUD when people talk poorly of MS. They have been found guilty of abusing their monopoly power many many times. Any guess at how many times? It is a large number, look it up.
And you do realize that many of those theories came out to be correct right? Such is the nature of conspiracies, if theories are correct then they show themselves. Search for TCP ACK, Tread milling applications, and monopoly for a start. Then compare many of those posts to the US vs. MS, Iowa vs. MS, Novel vs. MS, etc.. etc...
Of course there is always some chatting and opinion tossing in threads as well, but that is the nature of any forum. It's very odd that a company that people talking about a company that has been found guilty of illegal monopolistic practices is considered FUD by you. Do you have any idea how many times they have been found guilty?
Sure, peoples opinions of MS can be harsh. Most people knowing their practices and damage to the environment (computing, not Green space) think it's deserving.
I believe they are one of the biggest lobbyist companies, so in a way that would be correct.
Wrong with your first statement, the majority of the worlds data is on Unix or Unix like systems. Desktop files (.doc, .xls, etc..) are an extremely small portion of the worlds data. The rest of your statement is agreeable.
3. Speculation is fact on Slashdot. This warrants an article, why? Is there NEWS here, or are we going to see "space aliens MAY HAVE dressed up like call-boys and 'anally probed' the editorial staff"?
-1. You do realize that Slashdot does not write the articles right? Discussion is Slashdot members, and your number 1 and number 2 have been stated a few dozen times.
Odd that you seemingly fail to grasp the basic concept of -1 and call others wankers.
You are making it way way way to complex!
1. Develop virus
2. Break MS MD5 certs (NSA has enough compute power to have done this, but many others as well).
3. Set up server running web services mimicking MS Update. Really not that difficult with ASP pages.
4. Intercept clients DNS request for MS update, send IP of your fake server.
5. Send "Update" which contains Virus
The virus in this case was extremely complex, but the rest is really script kiddie territory.
That was clear, I was just extending a few thoughts to what you wrote :D
Read TFA, it states specifically that the Cert was broken so they could face MS certificates with ease.
Are you sure? Hell if I had a few trillion dollars like some of them guys and no real job, I'd probably sit around scheming all day. I have morals, so doubt my scheming would be in the same lines as theirs, but still..
You agreed with what I said about them possibly having spies, but no other input. Do you really think they would be there to infect the OS and devise espionage schemes? I found that extremely unlikely. More like, they are making sure certain things don't get fixed, and making sure that the good people at Microsoft don't behave in corrupt ways that they are not known to act (Corrupt for the US is good, corrupt for China not so much). Maybe watching to make sure foreign influences don't hack espionage in to the code as well.
I'm not even sure they would have to do that. The technical details in TFA are a bit scarce, but enough exists for a better theory than the TFA presents.
Someone with some hefty CPU power broke the MS cert, which allowed them to create their own at will and spoof a MS cert.
The Government has the access to MS source code, and their methods. If you know where hooks get applied and how priorities work, you don't need to be from MS to write good code. You just need to be a good coder.
Spoofing Windows Update server really would not be that hard. Hell you don't even need a real man in the middle attack if you have a forged Cert and know the structure. You just need to spoof a DNS answer, the client will do everything else for you.
Having the fake key is huge! Write an application, sign as Genuine MS, put on a faked Windows update server, reroute a DNS call. Shazam! Of course there is other knowledge required, such as evading AV detection, etc.. but they had that figured out very well also.
It would take a good team, and time, but no need to have a mole. I would not be surprised if the US Government had moles in MS, but if they did it would primarily be for reasons other than Stuxnet and Flame, or any other computer espionage program.
They (MSM) pretty much fixed that by stopping the reporting on how much time is taken away and how much it costs now. Unless some whistle blower publishes shit like the GSA Vegas party, you won't see it on MSM.
Fox, NBC and ABC even justified the GSA party claiming that "Private business do this sort of thing all the time.". It's a very obvious game of "don't look at this thing, go look at that shiny thing!". Unfortunately people happily frolic to the distraction, so your facts do no good. People don't want facts, they want shiny things to look at.
I don't think training is the question, it's how they are training. You did read the Air Force report where they were training in areas that picked up civilian activity, and they held that data for several months right?
As a former Military person, I can tell you we trained very often. At the same time, we never trained in civilian areas where there was a risk to civilians in any way. We don't sight bombers in civilian areas very intentionally. Doing so would be conditioning for bombing those areas, as well as other more obvious dangers.
Well, again like mentioned several times above there are many sources for the reports. You are not looking any further than what you think you know. NASA and GreenPeace are only two sources. There are numerous colleges and universities providing reports, as well as private groups outside of those which you may not recognize.
So if you say again "Why would X do something" knowing there are probably a hundred agencies supplying reports.. it becomes painfully obvious that you don't want an answer, you only want to bolster your opinion.
In those same lines, I simply won't buy a Microsoft product. Why do I have to suffer waiting for a fix and be locked in to what ever the nice people at Microsoft decide what I can and can't have on my phone?
FYI, I have an iPhone. I have a whole 3 applications on my phone, and no.. none of them are Angry Birds. But I at least have an opportunity to get applications and iOS works. Bug free? Mostly yes. I'm locked in to Apple for the phone OS, but not for any of the apps, and developers have a good amount of control of the phone with the tools Apple provides. Unlike MS who locks out developers to ensure that only they can write the "Good" applications and sell them to you with a 897489 page EULA.
I trust them less than I trust a turd not splashing in the toilet bowl, I don't buy anything from them unless I absolutely have to.
I have spent a lot of time on your statement lately. It is a bad thing, and it's easy to show that it's not "good".
1. The powers that are dismantling the US constitution are doing so while hiding. If there was a "good" plot, we would all be aware of this plot and be allowed to participate. You may say "it has to be hidden" but we all know that is a crock of shit. The founding of the US, while planned by very few was very vocal with the people that became subject. This has been the case with every "Good" government, and never the case with evil regimes.
2. The people pulling the strings are elitists, and most likely worse than that. You do realize that the same people pulling the strings have run eugenics science labs since shortly after WW I, many of the scientists worked directly in Nazi extermination camps. You could argue that this is all in the past, lessons learned, and all that. Again, you have people in hiding pulling strings. There has never been apology for those acts, and quite frankly DNA research has been used recently to argue genetics are required in order to hold offices. Or did you miss the article this week regarding Hungary, DNA and Jewish/Roma blood? No, I'm not going to Google that for you.
JFK had it correct when he stated that in a Republic, a government ruled by the people for the people, secret groups are repugnant. There is no "Good" there, and quite frankly the nature of the group makes it obvious that they are not working for the betterment of society but rather the benefit of their group.
These same people manipulate the reality of most of us every day, distorting truth and flat out lying. They obstruct justice and believe themselves to be above justice. Rules only apply to you and I, not to their group.
There is so much more to back the point that it's an evil thing, but if I got in to more you would just say "Oh noez, conspiracy theory". Most people have been brainwashed in to thinking that the word conspiracy equates to insanity, and will never bother to look in to any facts for themselves. What the media told them has to be true, and our politicians would never lie.
Sorry, have to go back further than that. By some accounts, WW I and by most others WW II. Still, relatively recent.