There is a real breakdown in logic here...
To lock someone out (and escort them off of the premises as some commenters have discussed) aims to prevent vandalism since the employment relationship has been severed. What is illogical is that the employee knew they were going to give notice for an undefined period of time before they gave notice, and therefor could have reaped all of the havoc that they cared to reap before giving notice. It just doesn't make any sense to me. A company is always vulnerable to their emplyees and employees are always vulnerable to getting fired by their company. Its a symbiotic relationship. Its very interesting how the element of time and the imminent end of the relationship suddenly changes it.
So, if this is yet another crack pot with a perpetual motion machine then why post this to slashdot? Further, why did slashdot accept the article? Doesn't this just encourage news sources to print garbage science? I think we should be working to increase the scientific integrity of popular science articles rather than giving the bunk ones creedence.
So, why don't you bight the bullet and just make a backup of the disk to an external drive and then reinstall Vista from the DVDs that came with the computer. You can then reinstall Gentoo. It seems like less work than fighting the man.
Finding a security hole isn't necesarily a "bad thing". Its just information, which can be used by the company to fix the vulnerability or by unsavory people to exploit the software.
Who cares how many times they sell it? The point is that Microsoft can buy it and then fix it, thus elliminating the market value of the exploit. If someone can sell it to other people then good for them. Its still in Microsoft's best interest to buy it as early as possible and fix it as early as possible.
Though there are many very good parallel programmers who make excellent use of the Message Passing Interface, we are entering a new era of parallel computing where MPI will soon be unusable. Consider when the switch was made from assembly language to a programming language - when the "processor" contained too many components to be effectively programmed with machine language. That same threshold has long since passed with parallel computers. Now that we have computers with more than 100 thousand processors and are working to build computers with more than a million processors, MPI has become the assembly language of parallel programming. It hence, needs to be replaced with a new parallel language that can controll great numbers of processors.
Site a story from the regular press corp and then refute its contents and site a friggin web site as proof? WTF? Show me some peer reviewed original research. Electric fields that cause magnetic fields? Anyone whos taken undergraduate electrodynamics knows that plasma dynamics act to elliminate magnetic fields.
Funny Story: Henrico County in Virginia ended their laptop program in the schools. They were selling them to the public for $50. They anounced the sale date and time in advance and it caused a stampede where a number of people were injured. After living in Richmond for 4 years it doesn't surprise me that this occured here. The story is available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973616/
Bad choice of name. The Z-Machine, which is short for Z-Pinch Machine is a fusion confinement machine that has been around for five and a half decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Pinch
Numerous experimental devices have been built around the world in government labs and universities.
I think the 30 years joke is a bit passe. In realilty, the funding for fusion has suffred some major hits in the last 30 years after the big spike in the 70's. To measure a field's achievment in years is somewhat nieve, as total funding dollars is more realistic. If 1970 funding dollars had continued for the next 40 years, I think we would be there now, but alas we will have to wait for the money to trickle in. Iter is a great step forward, but work in innovative concepts that are alternatives to the tokamak are also good in looking for economically viable fusion schemes.
I find it somewhat amusing that everyone keeps refering to Wikipedia as taking the high road as apposed to Google and Cisco. Isn't the only example of succesfully bringing down an iron curtain from the Soviet Union? And aren't Google and Cisco effectively following that doctrine e.g. glasnost?
I was half asleep when I first saw the trailor for this film and fully expected an Energizer bunny to walk accross the screen at some point. I was truly amazed to see the trailer end without the revelation of a gag. What will the sequel be called "Lizzards on a Bus"?
What really amazes me is that a company that has a dead end business model is still publically traded! Who on earth owns stock in AOL? Why would anyone own stock in a company that is desdined to die. Remember Netzero and a host of other add supported dial up companies that switched to a pay model? AOL is just flopping around a few more times before it finally dies.
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Hunter gatherer societies in Africa only have to work 3-4 hours a day and spend the rest of the day relaxing and socializing. This is an increase in work as resources in Africa were much more plentifull a hundred years ago. If I compare this to the 9-11 hours that I work five days a week and the 10-15 hours that I spend working on my house on the weekends, I'm not too optimistic about a future of leasure. All of this technology is just making us work harder to maintain the status quo of possesing more technology.
Wow: A) if his conclusion is correct then its correctness requires that it be wrong due to the recursive nature of the fact that it is a published scientific paper (.499 to the power of infinity) and B) if his conclusion is incorrect then its incorrctness allows for the possibility of it being either i) correct or ii) incorect. A and B:i are illogical so his paper must be wrong!
I'm a computational physicist and I have always marveled at the fact that computer scientists are incredibly useful, but don't have an implicit reason to use computers. They just use computers when they are told to use them for a specific reason! Its the scientists, business people, and educators, etc that have a need to solve a specific problem for which computers can aid. I just don't get the allure of training oneself to be a tool for someone else. Again, I find CS people extremely usefull and value them greatly, but just couldn't imagine having no greater goal than to solve a problem for which someone else is the expert/specialist.
1) Will it go into an autoclave for dissinfection the same way that a commercial scope does? It would be pretty nasty if other peoples poop builds up in the nooks and crannies of the device.
2) What happens when you see a pollup? Most commercial devices have cutting tools and coterizing devices attached to the scope. Its pretty worthless to see a tumor if you can't cut it out or at least biopsy is for the pathology lab. (yes, even third world countries have microscopes to identify pathalogical tumors)
Sorry, but I've never really understood the allure of grid computing. I am a parallel computer user (Sciborg at NERSC, the Earth Simulator in Japan, Klondike at ARSC) and I've never had the need for empty processor cycles on a network with a lousy backbone. Except for embarisingly parallel codes that farm out domain space and don't require processor communication, the whole bottle neck in parallel computing is the backbone of the network and not usually the lack or power of the processors. I guess it might be a novel tool for solving some 10-D integral via monte-carlo integration, but it doesn't do much for everyone else (e.g. the majority of us don't run embarisingly parallel codes).
bacause Sun must've had their heads up their asses while they were designing them. Apple has a hard enough time selling their 64 bit laptops for $1200-$1500, and they have integrated ease of use, stability, open source functionality and even offer microsoft applications. Why would anyone buy one of these things?
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There is a real breakdown in logic here... To lock someone out (and escort them off of the premises as some commenters have discussed) aims to prevent vandalism since the employment relationship has been severed. What is illogical is that the employee knew they were going to give notice for an undefined period of time before they gave notice, and therefor could have reaped all of the havoc that they cared to reap before giving notice. It just doesn't make any sense to me. A company is always vulnerable to their emplyees and employees are always vulnerable to getting fired by their company. Its a symbiotic relationship. Its very interesting how the element of time and the imminent end of the relationship suddenly changes it.
Where was Al Gore when Mars needed him? Guess it is too late to bring back the glaciers now. Damn Martian SUVs!
vimdiff - the widescreen is essential!
"He needed a workstation with 8GB of memory and around 1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz."
Can someone teach this guy MPI or at least OpenMP? This could have read "One hour on a modest supercomputer!"
So, if this is yet another crack pot with a perpetual motion machine then why post this to slashdot? Further, why did slashdot accept the article? Doesn't this just encourage news sources to print garbage science? I think we should be working to increase the scientific integrity of popular science articles rather than giving the bunk ones creedence.
So, why don't you bight the bullet and just make a backup of the disk to an external drive and then reinstall Vista from the DVDs that came with the computer. You can then reinstall Gentoo. It seems like less work than fighting the man.
Finding a security hole isn't necesarily a "bad thing". Its just information, which can be used by the company to fix the vulnerability or by unsavory people to exploit the software.
Who cares how many times they sell it? The point is that Microsoft can buy it and then fix it, thus elliminating the market value of the exploit. If someone can sell it to other people then good for them. Its still in Microsoft's best interest to buy it as early as possible and fix it as early as possible.
Though there are many very good parallel programmers who make excellent use of the Message Passing Interface, we are entering a new era of parallel computing where MPI will soon be unusable. Consider when the switch was made from assembly language to a programming language - when the "processor" contained too many components to be effectively programmed with machine language. That same threshold has long since passed with parallel computers. Now that we have computers with more than 100 thousand processors and are working to build computers with more than a million processors, MPI has become the assembly language of parallel programming. It hence, needs to be replaced with a new parallel language that can controll great numbers of processors.
Site a story from the regular press corp and then refute its contents and site a friggin web site as proof? WTF? Show me some peer reviewed original research. Electric fields that cause magnetic fields? Anyone whos taken undergraduate electrodynamics knows that plasma dynamics act to elliminate magnetic fields.
Funny Story: Henrico County in Virginia ended their laptop program in the schools. They were selling them to the public for $50. They anounced the sale date and time in advance and it caused a stampede where a number of people were injured. After living in Richmond for 4 years it doesn't surprise me that this occured here. The story is available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973616/
Bad choice of name. The Z-Machine, which is short for Z-Pinch Machine is a fusion confinement machine that has been around for five and a half decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Pinch Numerous experimental devices have been built around the world in government labs and universities.
I think the 30 years joke is a bit passe. In realilty, the funding for fusion has suffred some major hits in the last 30 years after the big spike in the 70's. To measure a field's achievment in years is somewhat nieve, as total funding dollars is more realistic. If 1970 funding dollars had continued for the next 40 years, I think we would be there now, but alas we will have to wait for the money to trickle in. Iter is a great step forward, but work in innovative concepts that are alternatives to the tokamak are also good in looking for economically viable fusion schemes.
The NSF data miners might not like that you used "crash" and "flight" in the same sentence.
"Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System"
I find it somewhat amusing that everyone keeps refering to Wikipedia as taking the high road as apposed to Google and Cisco. Isn't the only example of succesfully bringing down an iron curtain from the Soviet Union? And aren't Google and Cisco effectively following that doctrine e.g. glasnost?
I was half asleep when I first saw the trailor for this film and fully expected an Energizer bunny to walk accross the screen at some point. I was truly amazed to see the trailer end without the revelation of a gag. What will the sequel be called "Lizzards on a Bus"?
What really amazes me is that a company that has a dead end business model is still publically traded! Who on earth owns stock in AOL? Why would anyone own stock in a company that is desdined to die. Remember Netzero and a host of other add supported dial up companies that switched to a pay model? AOL is just flopping around a few more times before it finally dies.
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As the legal representative of "PatentRight" a conglomerate of over fifty major multinational companies that have organized to protect their joint legal rights against patent and copyright violation, we hereby inform you that your April 23, 2006 posting to Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/ is in violation of five of our clients patent and copyright holdings. Please remove your post immediately: "Well, it seems that after some 50 years or so, we wont be able to use any shape, image, saying, metaphor or the like without consulting an intellectual property expert and acquiring appropriate rights, the way things going." Violations include:
1) The use of "Well" in this context is owned by the American Groundwater Corporation.
2) Bicentenial Celebrations Inc. owns a copyright for the use of "50 years".
3) While "shape, image, saying, metaphor" is not explicitly governed by previous copyright or patent filings, SISM (Systemically Integrated Seismology Measurments, LLC) does own rights to the SISM acronym and has the legal right to slogans which attempt to infringe on this acronym.
4) Several patent law firms are currently in arbitration to decide the legal owners of "Intellectual Property Experts" and your use of this phrase here will not be tolerated.
5) "apropriate rights" is held by Planned Parenthood.
Hunter gatherer societies in Africa only have to work 3-4 hours a day and spend the rest of the day relaxing and socializing. This is an increase in work as resources in Africa were much more plentifull a hundred years ago. If I compare this to the 9-11 hours that I work five days a week and the 10-15 hours that I spend working on my house on the weekends, I'm not too optimistic about a future of leasure. All of this technology is just making us work harder to maintain the status quo of possesing more technology.
Wow: A) if his conclusion is correct then its correctness requires that it be wrong due to the recursive nature of the fact that it is a published scientific paper (.499 to the power of infinity) and B) if his conclusion is incorrect then its incorrctness allows for the possibility of it being either i) correct or ii) incorect. A and B:i are illogical so his paper must be wrong!
I'm a computational physicist and I have always marveled at the fact that computer scientists are incredibly useful, but don't have an implicit reason to use computers. They just use computers when they are told to use them for a specific reason! Its the scientists, business people, and educators, etc that have a need to solve a specific problem for which computers can aid. I just don't get the allure of training oneself to be a tool for someone else. Again, I find CS people extremely usefull and value them greatly, but just couldn't imagine having no greater goal than to solve a problem for which someone else is the expert/specialist.
Two questions:
1) Will it go into an autoclave for dissinfection the same way that a commercial scope does? It would be pretty nasty if other peoples poop builds up in the nooks and crannies of the device.
2) What happens when you see a pollup? Most commercial devices have cutting tools and coterizing devices attached to the scope. Its pretty worthless to see a tumor if you can't cut it out or at least biopsy is for the pathology lab. (yes, even third world countries have microscopes to identify pathalogical tumors)
Sorry, but I've never really understood the allure of grid computing. I am a parallel computer user (Sciborg at NERSC, the Earth Simulator in Japan, Klondike at ARSC) and I've never had the need for empty processor cycles on a network with a lousy backbone. Except for embarisingly parallel codes that farm out domain space and don't require processor communication, the whole bottle neck in parallel computing is the backbone of the network and not usually the lack or power of the processors. I guess it might be a novel tool for solving some 10-D integral via monte-carlo integration, but it doesn't do much for everyone else (e.g. the majority of us don't run embarisingly parallel codes).
Einstein reported in later years that he had no knowledge of Michelson Morley when he began working on special relativity... Even more impressive!
bacause Sun must've had their heads up their asses while they were designing them. Apple has a hard enough time selling their 64 bit laptops for $1200-$1500, and they have integrated ease of use, stability, open source functionality and even offer microsoft applications. Why would anyone buy one of these things?