Jeez, I hope that doesn't get moderated up. Let me summarize the above poster:
Blah Blah Blah Windows Rulez Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
C'mon, they built a supercomputer, and I give them some credit. And the Windows price really does come into play when you're already spending that much money. Even with all the Harware, supercomputing is still a software issue.
Yes, it's neat that they didn't use Windows, but I'm so sick of hearing all these "Yay Windows" posts. Especially the ones saying how wonderful it is to run Windows on a Athlon 800. Have you guys ever run W2K on a 486? It could be worse, but seriously, it's not exactly a speedy solution. _________________________
This is an interesting number. Being over half changes things a lot. It makes Linux the majority, instead of the minority. Surley there must be some HTTP log studies done? _________________________
I'm pretty sure ..they're using . . the one the only ..often imitated, never duplicated ..the hostess with the mostess ..the king of all clients ..master of all domains ..it's all the buzz on wall street ..soon to go IPO ..Patent Pend. . . wait for it:
From the article: Alex Van Someren, president of nCipher in Cambridge, England, said the discovery of a method for retrieving encryption keys revolves around research conducted by his brother Nicko, chief technology officer and co-founder of nCipher, and Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, co-inventor of the RSA encryption system, the base for much current encryption technology.
This story reads pretty credible, but I have to wonder where the proof is. The article does draw an interesting analogy about submarines making themselvs more and more quiet untill the only way to "hear" them was to search for the "hole" in the water. They say that this same kind of aproach was used to find keys.
This tmethidology seems logical, but it's implementation soes not. Does the reasercher point to his finished work? _________________________
An interesting story. It bolsters my earlier post saying that disgreeing with a good mans views shouldn't call for wishing the man dead. People dissagree from time to time in this little globe of ours, and I feel that a healthy debate allows good ideas to float to the top. Moreover, it detracts from the (somewhat missguided and limited;) content of your response. _________________________
You still didn't address the callousness of GW Bush mocking a woman condemned to die. Was that part of his official duties as well?
I saw the interview and I didn't get the impression he was mocking her at all. My interpritation of his reaction is that perhaps, just maybe, a nationaly televised interview was not the forum to make her apeal for a stay. She did here deed, and went through all of the generous legal channels that texas law allows.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. He's leadership and willingness to take the political heat necisary to see that the states laws are caried out shows the kind of stand up guy that he is.
Did you want George W. to go on Oprah and cry like a baby while he told you about his new book? Would that make your bleeding-wallet liberal heart feel better? _________________________
He stood strong by the laws of the state he was elected to uphold. I know the idea of laws actually meaning something may come as a shock to most Clinton liberals, but it's that kind of leadership and willingness to take the political heat that make W. a good man. _________________________
oh! *that* 112 people. The 112 people who commited particularily horendous crimes againts society. The 112 people that were convicted by a jury of there peers. The 112 people who, were so guilty, they didn't have their cases over turned in apeal. The 112 people sentanced to die as societys punishment for their actions.
I would point out to the 'bleeding-wallet knee-jerk liberal' that posted the original comments that the death penelty was brought on by themselves.
blink ok umm I'm going to give you some latitude here and ask you to please point out what murders you speek of.
I hope you don't mind me asking for details. Ya se, W. is a good man, and does good work, so painting him as a some kind of killer is a little over the top. _________________________
he same GW Bush who said "There ought to be limits to freedom" is a bad thing? No, I think I'll look forward to the day he is buried. Disagreeing with a good mans viewpoints is no reason to call for his early demise. I think W. saw the light and understood that the web site parity is indeed a form of flattery.
and oh, btw, your freedom *does* have limits. _________________________
After your boy Bill blew his 2 terms by sticking it to monica, then sticking it to the nation. (read:puting his own 'desires' above the needs of a country) you can count on having more:(as you put it) "'Publican Christian fucks pushing their moral agendas"
When us Pubs retain the house and senate and take back the whitehouse, you can write a letter and thank Clinton. (assuming he has time to break away from cruising the local NY high school for chicks long enough to read your letter). _________________________
The more I see of George W. and his leadership the more I like him as a person, and as a president.
I'm looking forward to the day when George W. calls for laws making profiled personal information the property of the individual, not the person gathering it. _________________________
College is to late. The problem is in education, and education starts early.
These same funds would be better spent on the younger grades. If this spending was maintained for 20 years, The entire nation would be more educated on CS (and also well stocked with secutiry experts) and how use and apply what they've learned. _________________________
Re: your comment:I wanted meat, I wanted guts, I wanted science... and I got fluff. I think this should be on a Tshirt just above an MSNBC and ZDnet logo. We'de sell millions!
I wanted meat I wanted guts, I wanted science and I got fluff.
Automating this process: 1) check bugtrack. 2) pull the patch down to evaluate. 3) deploy the security patch. Is an interesting proposition if you consider the following example: Joe friendly hacker spends days chugging Mt. Dew and pizza while snifing around another system, sticking all kinds of things into every port he can find. He writes and rewites code to exploit an small and obscure security hole and gets root.
Joe friendly celebrates his successfull hack with an 'Xtra large meatsa trio' that night, and looks for another network to slip into. Much to his astonishment, everyother network has automagicly deployed a patch to the exploit he so painfully spent days to find, and furthur extortion of that security hole is prevented.
To quote a military tactic "speed kills".
By automating the reporting/testing/fixing/deploying process of keeping up with holes, our joe friendly hacker may indeed pull off one or two successfull breaches, but not to many after that.
This does, however shift the hacking from being directed at a netowrk, to the hacking on the reporting/testing/fixing/deploying system that everyone is using. _________________________
"Any significant advance in technology is indistinquishable from magic."
If you are shown a card trick, it's 'AI' until you're shown how it's done. If you put a caveman in front of an Imac, he's going to insist it's a deity. Thus, Any AI system (and I may be going out on a limb here by using the term ANY) is also an AI system, untill you read and understand the source code.
Now understand that automating a mundane decision process is what has made automation (in it's current industrial application) such a productivity booster. Afordabley automating physical processes (robots that weld car frames, robots that paint, ect.) has taken decads to come on-line, and continues to evolve. On this same liniage, Automating a decision process (i.e. automated trading systems) can and will also reap huge productivity rewards.
I would agree with you that it truly is automation at work here, and there's nothing artificial about it. Programers work long and hard to coax the code into doing what they want it to do. _________________________
I would first like to say that the above poster is spot on with his comments, and I found his comments facinating. I would, however, like to pose a question to fellow/.ers concerning the terminology around "Artificial".
IMNSHO, This term is very over used. Any time a system goes live on a network, it's deemed to be somehow "alive" by putting an Artificial in front of it. A good example of this was when IBMs deep blue beat the a grand master at chess (Kasparoff(sp?), it was hyped as a "giant leap forward for Artificial inteligence".
There's nothing artificial about it. It was the result of many of the greatest programs and chess master toiling for years to pull the project off.
Its more acurate name would be Automated Intelegance.
And this 'Artificial Immune System' is also just and automated series of self updating decisions. Taking the human out of the loop doesn't make it artificial, it just makes it more cost effective. _________________________
As worded in the famous finding of fact writen by judge Jckson, "Microsoft enjoys monopoly power". Once a company is deemed to have monopoly power over it's relivant market, the rules change to help the market open to compitition.
The key differance between the OS market and the cell phone market, is that nobody has the cell phone market locked up tight. _________________________
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Blah Blah Blah Windows Rulez Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
C'mon, they built a supercomputer, and I give them some credit. And the Windows price really does come into play when you're already spending that much money. Even with all the Harware, supercomputing is still a software issue.
Yes, it's neat that they didn't use Windows, but I'm so sick of hearing all these "Yay Windows" posts. Especially the ones saying how wonderful it is to run Windows on a Athlon 800. Have you guys ever run W2K on a 486? It could be worse, but seriously, it's not exactly a speedy solution.
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This is an interesting number. Being over half changes things a lot. It makes Linux the majority, instead of the minority. Surley there must be some HTTP log studies done?
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Beowulf Cluster!
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Alex Van Someren, president of nCipher in Cambridge, England, said the discovery of a method for retrieving encryption keys revolves around research conducted by his brother Nicko, chief technology officer and co-founder of nCipher, and Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, co-inventor of the RSA encryption system, the base for much current encryption technology.
This story reads pretty credible, but I have to wonder where the proof is. The article does draw an interesting analogy about submarines making themselvs more and more quiet untill the only way to "hear" them was to search for the "hole" in the water. They say that this same kind of aproach was used to find keys.
This tmethidology seems logical, but it's implementation soes not. Does the reasercher point to his finished work?
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A/S/L in the middle of the MAtrix. l o l
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Why is it that most consumers go just daffy over anything(read:IMac) shiny?
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An interesting story.
It bolsters my earlier post saying that disgreeing with a good mans views shouldn't call for wishing the man dead. People dissagree from time to time in this little globe of ours, and I feel that a healthy debate allows good ideas to float to the top. Moreover, it detracts from the (somewhat missguided and limited;) content of your response.
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..I still can't figure out the Bday tho. ;)
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Who ever your choice is, thank you for promising to vote 'Pub.
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I saw the interview and I didn't get the impression he was mocking her at all. My interpritation of his reaction is that perhaps, just maybe, a nationaly televised interview was not the forum to make her apeal for a stay. She did here deed, and went through all of the generous legal channels that texas law allows.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. He's leadership and willingness to take the political heat necisary to see that the states laws are caried out shows the kind of stand up guy that he is.
Did you want George W. to go on Oprah and cry like a baby while he told you about his new book? Would that make your bleeding-wallet liberal heart feel better?
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[applause] Your post brings up very interesting ideas, and is spot on! [/applause]
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He stood strong by the laws of the state he was elected to uphold. I know the idea of laws actually meaning something may come as a shock to most Clinton liberals, but it's that kind of leadership and willingness to take the political heat that make W. a good man.
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I would point out to the 'bleeding-wallet knee-jerk liberal' that posted the original comments that the death penelty was brought on by themselves.
Not George W.
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ok umm I'm going to give you some latitude here and ask you to please point out what murders you speek of.
I hope you don't mind me asking for details. Ya se, W. is a good man, and does good work, so painting him as a some kind of killer is a little over the top.
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Disagreeing with a good mans viewpoints is no reason to call for his early demise. I think W. saw the light and understood that the web site parity is indeed a form of flattery.
and oh, btw, your freedom *does* have limits.
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"'Publican Christian fucks pushing their moral agendas"
When us Pubs retain the house and senate and take back the whitehouse, you can write a letter and thank Clinton. (assuming he has time to break away from cruising the local NY high school for chicks long enough to read your letter).
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I'm looking forward to the day when George W. calls for laws making profiled personal information the property of the individual, not the person gathering it.
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I dunt undastand what ya meen by errors.
;)
my spilling and the grammar are realy best.
I like the microsoft.
Jello is good.
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The problem is in education, and education starts early.
These same funds would be better spent on the younger grades. If this spending was maintained for 20 years, The entire nation would be more educated on CS (and also well stocked with secutiry experts) and how use and apply what they've learned.
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I wanted meat
I wanted guts,
I wanted science
and I got fluff.
Give an Z!
Give me a D!
What's it spell?
FLUFF!
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1) check bugtrack.
2) pull the patch down to evaluate.
3) deploy the security patch.
Is an interesting proposition if you consider the following example: Joe friendly hacker spends days chugging Mt. Dew and pizza while snifing around another system, sticking all kinds of things into every port he can find. He writes and rewites code to exploit an small and obscure security hole and gets root.
Joe friendly celebrates his successfull hack with an 'Xtra large meatsa trio' that night, and looks for another network to slip into. Much to his astonishment, everyother network has automagicly deployed a patch to the exploit he so painfully spent days to find, and furthur extortion of that security hole is prevented.
To quote a military tactic "speed kills".
By automating the reporting/testing/fixing/deploying process of keeping up with holes, our joe friendly hacker may indeed pull off one or two successfull breaches, but not to many after that.
This does, however shift the hacking from being directed at a netowrk, to the hacking on the reporting/testing/fixing/deploying system that everyone is using.
_________________________
"Any significant advance in technology is indistinquishable from magic."
If you are shown a card trick, it's 'AI' until you're shown how it's done. If you put a caveman in front of an Imac, he's going to insist it's a deity. Thus, Any AI system (and I may be going out on a limb here by using the term ANY) is also an AI system, untill you read and understand the source code.
Now understand that automating a mundane decision process is what has made automation (in it's current industrial application) such a productivity booster. Afordabley automating physical processes (robots that weld car frames, robots that paint, ect.) has taken decads to come on-line, and continues to evolve. On this same liniage, Automating a decision process (i.e. automated trading systems) can and will also reap huge productivity rewards.
I would agree with you that it truly is automation at work here, and there's nothing artificial about it. Programers work long and hard to coax the code into doing what they want it to do.
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IMNSHO, This term is very over used. Any time a system goes live on a network, it's deemed to be somehow "alive" by putting an Artificial in front of it. A good example of this was when IBMs deep blue beat the a grand master at chess (Kasparoff(sp?), it was hyped as a "giant leap forward for Artificial inteligence".
There's nothing artificial about it. It was the result of many of the greatest programs and chess master toiling for years to pull the project off.
Its more acurate name would be Automated Intelegance.
And this 'Artificial Immune System' is also just and automated series of self updating decisions. Taking the human out of the loop doesn't make it artificial, it just makes it more cost effective.
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The key differance between the OS market and the cell phone market, is that nobody has the cell phone market locked up tight.
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the 400 free was just the Beta?!?!
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