I think I can say with little exageration that Alan Turing won the Second World War, invented the computer and was killed by the British Government for being gay. When he died, his work was considered so important that it was kept secret for decades after. Is this how we reward our heroes? Every allied soldier and sailor had Alan Turing behind him supplying enemy locations and intentions. If you don't know what a Turing Machine is, you are illiterate. If anyone deserves the highest honors Britain has to offer, it is Alan Turing.
$100 mil is like cab fare. With the kind of money that Apple or Microsoft has, you can litigate someone out of business even if you know that ultimately you're going to lose.
Late in the formation of the solar system it was filled with objects colliding, merging, being blasted apart, etc. The gas giants were rotating around the sun faster. Saturn at one time may have circled at exactly 1/2 the rate of Jupiter. When they came around together, their combined gravity perturbed the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, which are not where they should and may have switched places as #7 & #8. The giants slowed as the result of collisions with and absorbtion of, lots of asteroid type material still bouncing around. Something hit Uranus hard enough to knock it on it's side where it now rotates as opposed to all the other planets. The gas giants may not have rocky cores from birth but a lot of rocky material has dropped in since. We watched a comet plunge into Jupiter just a few years ago. Just another drop in the bucket, but it builds up over time.
What maintains our atmosphere is the magnetic field generated by the liquid mantle rotating around the core. The magnetic field deflects the solar wind which would blow it off. It's thought by some that Mars lost it's atmosphere and surface water when the liquid mantle cooled and solidified. Mars has no magnetic field.
I worked in the Electrical Engineering Dept of an Electric Utility (Eventually Eng Systems Admin). We did everything sooner, faster and better than they did. We strung the first lans - after they heard we got a memo from the IT VP "No one can buy LAN equip without my approval". We were under the VP of engineering so we tore it up. This was a while back so if someone in a remote location had no email, the system would automatically FAX a copy of the email to them. The backup system not only backed up our servers but backed up the hard drive on every individual computer. For a friend I wrote a program on the mainframe that would parse a COBOL program and create a structure chart. It became the most executed piece of code in IT. They'd code the program, create the chart go for approval and if there was a change they'de change the code and create a new chart - just the reverse of what they were supposed to do. Budget? Every time they built a transmission line or substation (I wrote a 3D substation design system) - fairly costly items, we would specify what hardware and software would be required (using the term loosely) to build it. It would be capititalized into the structure and depreciated over time. IT was pure expense. Now it's C++ (which Linus Torvalds calls "a horrible language" and Java (C++--)). Real men code in C.
Give them the address, tell them you want you want your computer back and they can have everything else in the place. What's the thief going to do? Call the police and tell them someone stole all his stolen stuff?
There are good number of idiots in the world. Some even have PhDs. Sometimes they are put into positions where they can do stupid things. This is an instance of this. It could have been much worse.
On August 11, 1942, US Patent 2,292,387 was granted to George Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Heddy Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. It was never implemented at the time. Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as Wi-Fi.
Antheil was pianist who wrote some Hollywood film music and performed. He was one brick short of a load and was known to come out to perform and lay a pistol on the piano implying that he would shoot anyone who disturbed the performance. In 1933 Heddy Lamarr became famous (or infamous) for making the film "Ecstasy" in which she appeared nude and was depicted having an orgasm. It was banned pretty much everywhere. When promoting war bonds she offered to kiss any man who bought at least $250K. She raised $7 million in one night.
President Obama has ordered an overhaul of the patent system. Currently 500,000 patent applications haven't even been opened. I'm personally considering a patent on "selling things for money". If you have an algorithm you want to patent, consider programming that piece of code into an FPGA using VHDL and patent the circuit. Patents on circuits hold up very well in court.
Intel's chips have been running on a RISC core for quite a while. The rest of the CISC instruction set is converted by microcode into RISC instructions. Just noticed the person before me said the same thing.
I'm 62. Learning languages is fairly easy. They're almost all like C except maybe LISP and a couple others. Someone mentioned PL/SQL which is straightforward and based on Ada. C is currently the most widely used language with Java losing market share and Objective-C skyrocketing (Mac, iPhone, iPad). Bjarne Stroustrup said he's he's sorry he developed C++ ("C lets you shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder but if you do you blow your whole leg off"). With multi-core processors and stagnant clock speeds, nothing runs any faster unless you code you code for multi-core. This is not easy. I've been using the Intel compilers & Intel Parallel Studio which integrates with Visual Studio on Windows and Eclipse on Linux. Learning this will give you a leg up over guys who continue to churn out sequential code as 4 -processor/10-core servers hit the market. Also, take a look at NVidia's Parallel NSight for CUDA programming (Massively Parallel Programming). The fastest supercomputer in the world uses multicore Intel & NVidia Fermi processors (as do several others in the top ten). Security is fascinating! Read about hacking, kernel exploits, web application obfuscation, cryptovirology, rootkits, social engineering and everything else you can get your hands on. Learn Metasploit. Most companies are incredibly vulnerable and don't know it. Using CUDA (above) you can access any hashed password system in a few days - max. You can become a wizard. But none of this will guarantee you a job if you're 60 and not a sniveling corporate weasel. If you're lucky, some startup will realize your worth. Or go into business for yourself.
Any techie with real security know-how (from either side - both is better) and who has read Sun Tzu (therefore knowing better than the military how to conduct a war) could handle anything given the manuals. You want the best in cyber warfare and that is someone who eats, sleeps and shits the stuff. You're going to throw an Air Force pilot at a security breach? Would you have your pole-vaulter run the 1,000 meter for your team?
Same guy that stole the plans to defend South Korea from attack by the North with a thumb drive? There are solutions guys and they're not very difficult. How about this one, which I stole from "Cryptanomicon": Anything electronic going in or out goes through security. Personnel drop such things off at the entrance and then walk through a very large, strong magmetic field. Same thing leaving. Just like the airport only if you forget to drop off your watch, it gets fried.
First of all, there is no such thing as a "permanent" job anymore. If you think a salary gives you some kind of security, you're nuts. When the pager goes off or the phone rings, the meter is running. Minimum 15 minutes, 15 minute increments. And for God's sake have someone doing 1st level support. "That's not a database error, it's a network problem. Call this number..."
What the article points out is that while the number of ALUs per chip has increased, memory to processor throughput has not. If you are working with large amounts of data (i.e. not factoring numbers) the processor is unable to keep the cores fed. Most supercomputer applications today involve large data sets. In one situation examined an 8-core CPU performed about the same as a dual core and with more cores the processor degraded quickly to less than that of a dual core with 16-64 cores.
This is the memory bottleneck and is likely to be the case for database systems and other systems processing large data sets. The bottleneck needs a name. Any ideas?
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If anyone thought there was any sort of privacy on Facebook they were incredibly naive.
I think I can say with little exageration that Alan Turing won the Second World War, invented the computer and was killed by the British Government for being gay. When he died, his work was considered so important that it was kept secret for decades after. Is this how we reward our heroes? Every allied soldier and sailor had Alan Turing behind him supplying enemy locations and intentions. If you don't know what a Turing Machine is, you are illiterate. If anyone deserves the highest honors Britain has to offer, it is Alan Turing.
$100 mil is like cab fare. With the kind of money that Apple or Microsoft has, you can litigate someone out of business even if you know that ultimately you're going to lose.
Late in the formation of the solar system it was filled with objects colliding, merging, being blasted apart, etc. The gas giants were rotating around the sun faster. Saturn at one time may have circled at exactly 1/2 the rate of Jupiter. When they came around together, their combined gravity perturbed the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, which are not where they should and may have switched places as #7 & #8. The giants slowed as the result of collisions with and absorbtion of, lots of asteroid type material still bouncing around. Something hit Uranus hard enough to knock it on it's side where it now rotates as opposed to all the other planets. The gas giants may not have rocky cores from birth but a lot of rocky material has dropped in since. We watched a comet plunge into Jupiter just a few years ago. Just another drop in the bucket, but it builds up over time.
What maintains our atmosphere is the magnetic field generated by the liquid mantle rotating around the core. The magnetic field deflects the solar wind which would blow it off. It's thought by some that Mars lost it's atmosphere and surface water when the liquid mantle cooled and solidified. Mars has no magnetic field.
I worked in the Electrical Engineering Dept of an Electric Utility (Eventually Eng Systems Admin). We did everything sooner, faster and better than they did. We strung the first lans - after they heard we got a memo from the IT VP "No one can buy LAN equip without my approval". We were under the VP of engineering so we tore it up. This was a while back so if someone in a remote location had no email, the system would automatically FAX a copy of the email to them. The backup system not only backed up our servers but backed up the hard drive on every individual computer. For a friend I wrote a program on the mainframe that would parse a COBOL program and create a structure chart. It became the most executed piece of code in IT. They'd code the program, create the chart go for approval and if there was a change they'de change the code and create a new chart - just the reverse of what they were supposed to do. Budget? Every time they built a transmission line or substation (I wrote a 3D substation design system) - fairly costly items, we would specify what hardware and software would be required (using the term loosely) to build it. It would be capititalized into the structure and depreciated over time. IT was pure expense. Now it's C++ (which Linus Torvalds calls "a horrible language" and Java (C++--)). Real men code in C.
Give them the address, tell them you want you want your computer back and they can have everything else in the place. What's the thief going to do? Call the police and tell them someone stole all his stolen stuff?
There are good number of idiots in the world. Some even have PhDs. Sometimes they are put into positions where they can do stupid things. This is an instance of this. It could have been much worse.
On August 11, 1942, US Patent 2,292,387 was granted to George Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Heddy Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. It was never implemented at the time. Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as Wi-Fi. Antheil was pianist who wrote some Hollywood film music and performed. He was one brick short of a load and was known to come out to perform and lay a pistol on the piano implying that he would shoot anyone who disturbed the performance. In 1933 Heddy Lamarr became famous (or infamous) for making the film "Ecstasy" in which she appeared nude and was depicted having an orgasm. It was banned pretty much everywhere. When promoting war bonds she offered to kiss any man who bought at least $250K. She raised $7 million in one night. President Obama has ordered an overhaul of the patent system. Currently 500,000 patent applications haven't even been opened. I'm personally considering a patent on "selling things for money". If you have an algorithm you want to patent, consider programming that piece of code into an FPGA using VHDL and patent the circuit. Patents on circuits hold up very well in court.
Intel's chips have been running on a RISC core for quite a while. The rest of the CISC instruction set is converted by microcode into RISC instructions. Just noticed the person before me said the same thing.
At a party back in the 70's. John Lennon was there. He saw it too.
I'm 62. Learning languages is fairly easy. They're almost all like C except maybe LISP and a couple others. Someone mentioned PL/SQL which is straightforward and based on Ada. C is currently the most widely used language with Java losing market share and Objective-C skyrocketing (Mac, iPhone, iPad). Bjarne Stroustrup said he's he's sorry he developed C++ ("C lets you shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder but if you do you blow your whole leg off"). With multi-core processors and stagnant clock speeds, nothing runs any faster unless you code you code for multi-core. This is not easy. I've been using the Intel compilers & Intel Parallel Studio which integrates with Visual Studio on Windows and Eclipse on Linux. Learning this will give you a leg up over guys who continue to churn out sequential code as 4 -processor/10-core servers hit the market. Also, take a look at NVidia's Parallel NSight for CUDA programming (Massively Parallel Programming). The fastest supercomputer in the world uses multicore Intel & NVidia Fermi processors (as do several others in the top ten). Security is fascinating! Read about hacking, kernel exploits, web application obfuscation, cryptovirology, rootkits, social engineering and everything else you can get your hands on. Learn Metasploit. Most companies are incredibly vulnerable and don't know it. Using CUDA (above) you can access any hashed password system in a few days - max. You can become a wizard. But none of this will guarantee you a job if you're 60 and not a sniveling corporate weasel. If you're lucky, some startup will realize your worth. Or go into business for yourself.
Any techie with real security know-how (from either side - both is better) and who has read Sun Tzu (therefore knowing better than the military how to conduct a war) could handle anything given the manuals. You want the best in cyber warfare and that is someone who eats, sleeps and shits the stuff. You're going to throw an Air Force pilot at a security breach? Would you have your pole-vaulter run the 1,000 meter for your team?
Same guy that stole the plans to defend South Korea from attack by the North with a thumb drive? There are solutions guys and they're not very difficult. How about this one, which I stole from "Cryptanomicon": Anything electronic going in or out goes through security. Personnel drop such things off at the entrance and then walk through a very large, strong magmetic field. Same thing leaving. Just like the airport only if you forget to drop off your watch, it gets fried.
The actual location of the papers mentioned in the article is in the middle of the link string - trim the two ends.
First of all, there is no such thing as a "permanent" job anymore. If you think a salary gives you some kind of security, you're nuts. When the pager goes off or the phone rings, the meter is running. Minimum 15 minutes, 15 minute increments. And for God's sake have someone doing 1st level support. "That's not a database error, it's a network problem. Call this number..."
What the article points out is that while the number of ALUs per chip has increased, memory to processor throughput has not. If you are working with large amounts of data (i.e. not factoring numbers) the processor is unable to keep the cores fed. Most supercomputer applications today involve large data sets. In one situation examined an 8-core CPU performed about the same as a dual core and with more cores the processor degraded quickly to less than that of a dual core with 16-64 cores.
This is the memory bottleneck and is likely to be the case for database systems and other systems processing large data sets. The bottleneck needs a name. Any ideas?
a exabyte. A Yottabyte, as mentioned, is a few orders of magnitude more.