"Although some of the clients appearing most often seem to be financial institutions so possibly this is mainly analysis of investment data?"
Probably political information so the financial institutions can estimate the stability of the country, likelihood of disruptions, etc. Maybe stuff like the level of involvement of the military in the economy.
You realize that there are different kinds of security, don't you?
Being able to analyze the security situation of executives working in Colombia and advise on how to keep them safe from abduction doesn't mean you claim you are the NSA.
That Anonymous seems to have confused this issue is a big indicator that the hack was done by an ignorant script kiddie, not a competitor.
"I understand that Stratfor are probably 'evil' from some of their recent actions"
How do you figure? They're mostly an open-source (i.e. public source) intelligence analysis shop, who produce reports about geopolitical issues for customers. Stuff like "what are the odds of Jordan's government being toppled like other Middle Eastern states have been?"
It's pretty much like hacking the Economist. Or Jane's.
They're not a defense contractor, they're not like some kind of intelligence version of Blackwater.
The "Anonymous" people in this case are just idiots.
I think it's interesting in that Google's role is being taken over by their Chinese competitor. It's not just a phone vendor making Bing the search engine, it sounds like it's going to be marketed as a Baidu phone. Bing isn't selling Bing-branded phones that search Bing.
"Just like Google does. And GPL doesn't prevent any of that, while it's essentially the same. Google also improves upon GPL'd software, but just because it's server side they don't need to give it away."
Yes, and for simply following the terms of GPL and doing what it required, people like Stallman decided Google was being a bunch of rat bastards.
That kind of goalpost-moving is, I think, a significant factor in causing people to turn away from GPL. You never know when some ideologue might decide that it's time to tighten the screws again, to prevent some behavior that used to be okay but is now counter-revolutionary.
Granted, projects probably won't be required to adopt the latest version of the GPL. But projects that use GPL will likely have to spend the time to examine the new license, perhaps get legal advice, field likely questions about license compatibility, and deal with requests and fanatical demands that the project adopt the new license, etc.
GPUs may not be appropriate for the kind of processing that is required. Off the top of my head, perhaps GPUs aren't ideal for operations on decimal monetary values?
Presumably, they would have gone with GPUs if it was more advantageous. If they're spending more, on FPGAs, then chances are it's because FPGAs are better for the task.
Just like publishing Obama's birth certificate put an end to the birthers. Except it didn't. The worst birthers just moved the goalposts, demanded other documents, or pretended there was some flaw in the birth certificate.
If a simple legally-acceptable document like a birth certificate is insufficient to satisfy people skeptical of Obama's birth in Hawaii, there's no way that climate change skeptics are going to be satisfied by any release of data, software, or other information.
"What I saw was people very firmly convinced not simply that they were RIGHT, but that what they were doing was righteous and anyone who dared question it was either evil or a complete fool...which isn't precisely the mindset one would expect of a scientist for whom the data (alone) drives their decisions - or should."
I suspect you'd get a bit short-tempered as well, if your work were being questioned, every day, by ideological fanatics without a clue about your field.
If I were a paleontologist, and every day young-earth creationists were filing FOIA requests for my data and records, thinking they were going to "prove" that my work is a fraud, and lobbying the government to audit me, and generally *wasting my time* with harassment of this sort, I wouldn't have much time for them in email with colleagues, and certainly wouldn't speak kindly of them.
"Yeah, they've had a REAL hard time selling their products. That must be why PCs are such a niche market."
Not a niche market, but it is a low-profit one. PCs are commodities, so it can be difficult to differentiate your product from the competition. Competing on price is one approach, which leads to the low profit margins.
It's probably not B&N setting that price, it's probably some person who is 'publishing' the public domain text, and slapped a $1 price on it. A nook version of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, entirely public domain, is listed for $1, and is published by "Buki Editions". The Amazon kindle store is full of low-quality spam public domain works, 'published' by people this way.
Some public domain books *published* as e-books by B&N, *are* priced at $0. Other B&N-published PD ebooks, like Sun-Tzu, are a few bucks, but those apparently have new, non-public domain material such as translation or commentary, so a non-zero price is fair.
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"Although some of the clients appearing most often seem to be financial institutions so possibly this is mainly analysis of investment data?"
Probably political information so the financial institutions can estimate the stability of the country, likelihood of disruptions, etc. Maybe stuff like the level of involvement of the military in the economy.
You realize that there are different kinds of security, don't you?
Being able to analyze the security situation of executives working in Colombia and advise on how to keep them safe from abduction doesn't mean you claim you are the NSA.
That Anonymous seems to have confused this issue is a big indicator that the hack was done by an ignorant script kiddie, not a competitor.
"It just lacks the ability to defend itself, that's the job of it's mother."
Ah. So a woman is just an incubator. I assume you would sacrifice the mother to possibly save the fetus, if complications occur?
"If Stratfor is evil enough to have an angry mob want to punish all the members on that list"
This is like the English morons who threatened a pediatrician because they didn't know the difference between "pediatrician" and "pedophile".
"I understand that Stratfor are probably 'evil' from some of their recent actions" How do you figure? They're mostly an open-source (i.e. public source) intelligence analysis shop, who produce reports about geopolitical issues for customers. Stuff like "what are the odds of Jordan's government being toppled like other Middle Eastern states have been?" It's pretty much like hacking the Economist. Or Jane's. They're not a defense contractor, they're not like some kind of intelligence version of Blackwater. The "Anonymous" people in this case are just idiots.
I think it's interesting in that Google's role is being taken over by their Chinese competitor. It's not just a phone vendor making Bing the search engine, it sounds like it's going to be marketed as a Baidu phone. Bing isn't selling Bing-branded phones that search Bing.
People couldn't use it if Apple didn't include it. Anyway, you're moving goalposts.
Maybe people should get into retro-overclocking. How fast can you get that NeXTStation to run? Or an SGI Indy?
It's in OS X 10.7, server and non-server.
modok:~ jon$ apropos kerberos
kadmin(8) - Kerberos administration utility
kadmin.local(8) - compatiblity shim for MIT Kerberos kadmin.local
kadmind(8) - server for administrative access to Kerberos database
kdc(8) - Kerberos 5 server
klist(1) - list Kerberos credentials
kpasswd(1) - Kerberos 5 password changing program
kpasswdd(8) - Kerberos 5 password changing server
krb5.conf(5) - configuration file for Kerberos 5
ktutil(8) - manage Kerberos keytabs
Given that Stallman hates children and all they represent, he probably doesn't much care about the last one.
"You look at something like Kerberos. Who uses Kerberos? Hardly anybody"
Um, Apple?
"Just like Google does. And GPL doesn't prevent any of that, while it's essentially the same. Google also improves upon GPL'd software, but just because it's server side they don't need to give it away."
Yes, and for simply following the terms of GPL and doing what it required, people like Stallman decided Google was being a bunch of rat bastards.
That kind of goalpost-moving is, I think, a significant factor in causing people to turn away from GPL. You never know when some ideologue might decide that it's time to tighten the screws again, to prevent some behavior that used to be okay but is now counter-revolutionary.
Granted, projects probably won't be required to adopt the latest version of the GPL. But projects that use GPL will likely have to spend the time to examine the new license, perhaps get legal advice, field likely questions about license compatibility, and deal with requests and fanatical demands that the project adopt the new license, etc.
Who needs the hassle?
Do you really want to use floating point to work on decimal values?
GPUs may not be appropriate for the kind of processing that is required. Off the top of my head, perhaps GPUs aren't ideal for operations on decimal monetary values?
Presumably, they would have gone with GPUs if it was more advantageous. If they're spending more, on FPGAs, then chances are it's because FPGAs are better for the task.
The last serious Republican president was George H. W. Bush. WW2 Air Force pilot, ran the CIA, ambassador... he was a serious dude.
Just like publishing Obama's birth certificate put an end to the birthers. Except it didn't. The worst birthers just moved the goalposts, demanded other documents, or pretended there was some flaw in the birth certificate.
If a simple legally-acceptable document like a birth certificate is insufficient to satisfy people skeptical of Obama's birth in Hawaii, there's no way that climate change skeptics are going to be satisfied by any release of data, software, or other information.
Ether? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Forgive me if I don't take your opinions about climate seriously, you're practically into astrology.
No, the sort of morons who think Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich would make viable US presidents.
That's what they want you to think.
"What I saw was people very firmly convinced not simply that they were RIGHT, but that what they were doing was righteous and anyone who dared question it was either evil or a complete fool...which isn't precisely the mindset one would expect of a scientist for whom the data (alone) drives their decisions - or should."
I suspect you'd get a bit short-tempered as well, if your work were being questioned, every day, by ideological fanatics without a clue about your field.
If I were a paleontologist, and every day young-earth creationists were filing FOIA requests for my data and records, thinking they were going to "prove" that my work is a fraud, and lobbying the government to audit me, and generally *wasting my time* with harassment of this sort, I wouldn't have much time for them in email with colleagues, and certainly wouldn't speak kindly of them.
"Yeah, they've had a REAL hard time selling their products. That must be why PCs are such a niche market."
Not a niche market, but it is a low-profit one. PCs are commodities, so it can be difficult to differentiate your product from the competition. Competing on price is one approach, which leads to the low profit margins.
So it's Apple's fault that Wheaton didn't back up his music? WTF?
It's probably not B&N setting that price, it's probably some person who is 'publishing' the public domain text, and slapped a $1 price on it. A nook version of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, entirely public domain, is listed for $1, and is published by "Buki Editions". The Amazon kindle store is full of low-quality spam public domain works, 'published' by people this way.
Some public domain books *published* as e-books by B&N, *are* priced at $0. Other B&N-published PD ebooks, like Sun-Tzu, are a few bucks, but those apparently have new, non-public domain material such as translation or commentary, so a non-zero price is fair.
"BTW I'm 10 solo hours away from obtaining my private pilot license."
Well, no wonder you're such an expert on landing at Amundsen in October.
Why, I bet when you were learning to drive you were schooling the engineers at Ferrari.
If it was as easy as you suggest, I'm sure someone would have done it by now.
So it's probably not as easy as you suggest.