Great! Now Cheney can practice virtual torture without black sites, seeing how far he can push the suspect so that he doesn't die until after they have a false confession in hand.
You're really getting 100% bandwidth... it's just that the worm Microsoft installed with Vista is busy sending your hard drive contents to Fort Meade, Maryland while you're toking to your bootleg MP3 rips of Pink Floyd.
(Disclaimer: I own stocks in large tinfoil producers.)
Naturally, Bush was on the scene of the accident posing in front of the surviving child stars and blaming American heroism for getting through the crisis.
Outperforming humans isn't the problem. If we handed TSA agents a flipbook with 1,500 terrorists' faceshots and asked them to identify them among the passengers, arresting them on sight, we'd have a civil liberties nightmare. The only difference with using face recognition technology is to what degree is that nightmare is beyond the principles we founded this country over.
Just because the false positive rate is lower doesn't mean you can treat the technology as safe on an innocent population, the same way you shouldn't randomly tazer non-resisting suspects because it's deemed "safe."
Coming from someone working for a company with around 1,000 employees, ~90% running Linux, OS migrations are always tricky. A migration from 2000/XP to Vista can even be almost as problematic and will keep costing your company years later.
Sometimes a heterogenous environment can be cheaper than a homogenous one. Some users will naturally be able to use a cheaper, open source OS while others are more expensive or undesirable to migrate. For our company, it made more sense to dump IRIX support than Windows to keep our number of supported platforms down.
I really doubt that that Republican, free market perspective is a mainstream, right wing view. Considering the censorship of online media to be a form of free speech sounds like something straight out of a George Orwell novel. Ending network neutrality and charging a premium for someone else's content is not speech.
Does anyone bother reading before commenting anymore? The feature will be able to be switched off at will, even on a site-by-site basis, and they will toss out source IPs at Opera if you choose to use it. The main reason they do it this way instead of downloading lists like mozilla and IE is that lists can be obsolete and phishers can be onto promoting their next scam by the time the lists are updated on clients. Besides, Opera is in Norway and outside Department of Justice jurisdiction for spying requests.
If you don't like it or are sophisticated enough that you don't need it, turn it off.
Ok, so who is representing the guy who lives paycheck to paycheck and would be homeless (along with his wife and children) if his job got outsourced? I don't know of a single lobbyist who works for free, do you?
Good point, but I do. They're called interns and students. I was a student environmental lobbyist and we actually managed to move bills. The major problem isn't lobbyists, who are technically supposed to simply educate legislators about bills and their impact on the clients of the lobbyist, but the flow of campaign money and gifts that so often seems to be tied to lobbyist demands. If the system worked, the most a lobbyist could afford to do is take a legislator out for a burger to talk shop and his clients wouldn't be able to tie big sums of money to the bills.
Enough to implicate him?
If this amount of evidence was brought against George W. Bush, there would be an arrest warrant out for the cop already and pundits on every station talking about treason and how the officer assists Al Qaeda with evil roofing projects on weekends. They'd say it was suicide and how she dumped her own body and hid the car to make him look especially guilty.
On the basis of Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:
Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Empire are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [ habeas corpus ], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Oops, was that Hitler's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_DecreeReichstag Fire Decree of 1933? Excuse me. I just googled for shameless abuses of power and that bill text reads the same anyway.
"The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne."
Domestic use?! No wonder it would help avoid questions. Now there are no more telltale black and blue marks for Mrs. Wynne to show her allies at the battered military wives' shelter when she wakes up with a headache.
Here's an explanation. Keep this in mind whenever you read PR about vapor hardware...
Most likely the confusion between FLOPS and "calculations per second" is not unlike the confusion between peak PR numbers, peak Linpack results, sustained Linpack results, and sustained application FLOPS. For example, no Cell processor ever reaches the impossible speed of 360 GFLOPS on any real world scientific application because of the real world problems of a slow interface to memory, storage, network, etc. which all chips have to contend with. When numbers are being used in a press release, all vendors in the industry benefit greatly from using whichever number is the largest and most impressive to the reader, even if it is completely impractical to a supercomputer user. Also, there can only be theoretical Linpack numbers for a machine that isn't built yet, so they have a rationale to explain such behavior.
Because quite a few of them do use liquid cooling, but they don't order hobbyist solutions. Many Crays still use 3M Fluorinert, which doesn't damage sensitive electronics when you spray it right on a processor.
Cray was spun off from SGI back in 2000 along with many of SGI's profitable enterprises. Tera, the company who bought it, took the brand with them. SGI today still has some supercomputer technology and know-how and the Altix was one of their few products making revenue for some quarters.
Cascade is expected to include heterogeneous processing at the node level, with fast serial, vector and highly multithreaded capability, all in the same cabinet.
They could've probably been more clear, since it was a bit of a dry read. The idea is a steady progression from heterogenous computing between nodes of different types to a tightly-coupled, single system with coprocessors on the same bus during Phase 3 for the government's Cascade research program due in 2009/2010. I believe that's nothing at all like hpfortran or SGI's program. I can't say any more because I'm on their compiler team.
Did you RTFA at all?! The article is NOT about automatic parallelization by some special language. Most supercomputer customers are fully aware that writing applications which perform well for their supercomputer requires writing some form of parallel code. The issue at hand is that some specialized problems perform MUCH faster on one platform than another whether it's primarily scalar, vector, threading (hundreds, not two), and even FPGA. The goal is an intelligent compiler that can recognize code segments that perform much better in another architecture and utilize it across a single application in a hybrid system. That's no small task!
It's most definitely a bubble!
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If there's one thing many economists are starting to understand, it's that the rampant abuse of credit in America and the trade deficit are preparing us for a hard landing in the next year or two. The biggest debate is what kind of hard landing... Bond holders believe banks and consumers will hit a credit limit first at which they finally start conserving and some people think foreign investors will decide they're saturated with American credit and stop buying it. I agree with the bond holders, China will never pull out as long as they're profiting. The whole economy is riding a bubble created by home equity credit-driven consumer spending. It's not tech speculation anymore, but when this housing bubble bursts, all of the other countries (hint: Taiwan matters a lot to tech companies) heavily dependent upon our imports will also suffer.
Tell me with a straight face anyone seriously expects the NSA get a warrant ahead of time in a world of disposable cell phones.
No, not even FISA does. FISA allows 72 hours to get a warrant AFTER the wiretap is done. They never even bothered to make use of that ability in spite of the fact that FISA almost never turns down warrants (about three times in four years) and is a secret court. One of the convienient fictions conservative pundits have been using to justify this is that FISA wouldn't allow the NSA to tap all numbers in a terrorist's cellphone. However, having a number in a terrorist's cellphone is an obvious example of probable cause and FISA would have to allow it.
Perhaps the greatest harm here to the whole debate is the TV series 24. It propagates the myths that torture yields useful and accurate results and that unlimited piles of information make it easier to protect us. The reality is that torture conditions people to lie to stop the pain and too much information outside of a context makes investigations more difficult. Consider, for example, how the NSA intercepted (non-domestic) cryptic communications about 9/11 the day before it happened, but couldn't have it translated and analyzed in a context where it made sense until the day after it happened.
Like this story says, the NSA has released documents to federal court admitting to spying on domestic peace groups. Since I've walked in peace rallies, I know I am their target, not simply jihad-bent "terrorists." The argument, "I am not their target, so it doesn't matter" is reprehensible and silly anyway. This sort of rationalization allowed the persecution of the Jews and many others in Nazi Germany. If the slippery slope gets any worse, dove Republicans will be called terrorists, too. They've already labeled peace groups as such.
Never forget that the first action that allowed Hitler to take dictatorial powers "above the law" was the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933 that was blamed on Communist terrorists, but perpetrated by the Nazi party. History has a way of repeating itself.
The Reichstag Fire Decree read: "Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Empire are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [ habeas corpus ], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed." Sound familiar?
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Wouldn't it be more effective to blast them with 24-7 FOX News at high volumes?
Great! Now Cheney can practice virtual torture without black sites, seeing how far he can push the suspect so that he doesn't die until after they have a false confession in hand.
You're really getting 100% bandwidth... it's just that the worm Microsoft installed with Vista is busy sending your hard drive contents to Fort Meade, Maryland while you're toking to your bootleg MP3 rips of Pink Floyd. (Disclaimer: I own stocks in large tinfoil producers.)
Naturally, Bush was on the scene of the accident posing in front of the surviving child stars and blaming American heroism for getting through the crisis.
Outperforming humans isn't the problem. If we handed TSA agents a flipbook with 1,500 terrorists' faceshots and asked them to identify them among the passengers, arresting them on sight, we'd have a civil liberties nightmare. The only difference with using face recognition technology is to what degree is that nightmare is beyond the principles we founded this country over. Just because the false positive rate is lower doesn't mean you can treat the technology as safe on an innocent population, the same way you shouldn't randomly tazer non-resisting suspects because it's deemed "safe."
Coming from someone working for a company with around 1,000 employees, ~90% running Linux, OS migrations are always tricky. A migration from 2000/XP to Vista can even be almost as problematic and will keep costing your company years later. Sometimes a heterogenous environment can be cheaper than a homogenous one. Some users will naturally be able to use a cheaper, open source OS while others are more expensive or undesirable to migrate. For our company, it made more sense to dump IRIX support than Windows to keep our number of supported platforms down.
I really doubt that that Republican, free market perspective is a mainstream, right wing view. Considering the censorship of online media to be a form of free speech sounds like something straight out of a George Orwell novel. Ending network neutrality and charging a premium for someone else's content is not speech.
Obviously these folks either have a sense of humor or they don't count most of the staff at Nike. Nike Sweatshop Air: Just do it, now b*tch!
Does anyone bother reading before commenting anymore? The feature will be able to be switched off at will, even on a site-by-site basis, and they will toss out source IPs at Opera if you choose to use it. The main reason they do it this way instead of downloading lists like mozilla and IE is that lists can be obsolete and phishers can be onto promoting their next scam by the time the lists are updated on clients. Besides, Opera is in Norway and outside Department of Justice jurisdiction for spying requests. If you don't like it or are sophisticated enough that you don't need it, turn it off.
Enough to implicate him? If this amount of evidence was brought against George W. Bush, there would be an arrest warrant out for the cop already and pundits on every station talking about treason and how the officer assists Al Qaeda with evil roofing projects on weekends. They'd say it was suicide and how she dumped her own body and hid the car to make him look especially guilty.
I can't wait for all the bugs... Kernel panic: Virtual memory location 0x010000000 reported "Thank you! Come again."
Here's an explanation. Keep this in mind whenever you read PR about vapor hardware... Most likely the confusion between FLOPS and "calculations per second" is not unlike the confusion between peak PR numbers, peak Linpack results, sustained Linpack results, and sustained application FLOPS. For example, no Cell processor ever reaches the impossible speed of 360 GFLOPS on any real world scientific application because of the real world problems of a slow interface to memory, storage, network, etc. which all chips have to contend with. When numbers are being used in a press release, all vendors in the industry benefit greatly from using whichever number is the largest and most impressive to the reader, even if it is completely impractical to a supercomputer user. Also, there can only be theoretical Linpack numbers for a machine that isn't built yet, so they have a rationale to explain such behavior.
You mean Space: 1999 was real? Omigod, WTF! Quick, someone bomb the Russians to keep the moon safe from terrorists.
Because quite a few of them do use liquid cooling, but they don't order hobbyist solutions. Many Crays still use 3M Fluorinert, which doesn't damage sensitive electronics when you spray it right on a processor.
Cray was spun off from SGI back in 2000 along with many of SGI's profitable enterprises. Tera, the company who bought it, took the brand with them. SGI today still has some supercomputer technology and know-how and the Altix was one of their few products making revenue for some quarters.
Did you RTFA at all?! The article is NOT about automatic parallelization by some special language. Most supercomputer customers are fully aware that writing applications which perform well for their supercomputer requires writing some form of parallel code. The issue at hand is that some specialized problems perform MUCH faster on one platform than another whether it's primarily scalar, vector, threading (hundreds, not two), and even FPGA. The goal is an intelligent compiler that can recognize code segments that perform much better in another architecture and utilize it across a single application in a hybrid system. That's no small task!
If there's one thing many economists are starting to understand, it's that the rampant abuse of credit in America and the trade deficit are preparing us for a hard landing in the next year or two. The biggest debate is what kind of hard landing... Bond holders believe banks and consumers will hit a credit limit first at which they finally start conserving and some people think foreign investors will decide they're saturated with American credit and stop buying it. I agree with the bond holders, China will never pull out as long as they're profiting. The whole economy is riding a bubble created by home equity credit-driven consumer spending. It's not tech speculation anymore, but when this housing bubble bursts, all of the other countries (hint: Taiwan matters a lot to tech companies) heavily dependent upon our imports will also suffer.
Perhaps the greatest harm here to the whole debate is the TV series 24. It propagates the myths that torture yields useful and accurate results and that unlimited piles of information make it easier to protect us. The reality is that torture conditions people to lie to stop the pain and too much information outside of a context makes investigations more difficult. Consider, for example, how the NSA intercepted (non-domestic) cryptic communications about 9/11 the day before it happened, but couldn't have it translated and analyzed in a context where it made sense until the day after it happened.
Never forget that the first action that allowed Hitler to take dictatorial powers "above the law" was the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933 that was blamed on Communist terrorists, but perpetrated by the Nazi party. History has a way of repeating itself.
The Reichstag Fire Decree read: "Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Empire are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [ habeas corpus ], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed." Sound familiar?