You are pretty close to the truth I'm afraid. I've always found Susan Greenfield to be sensationalist, full of her own self-importance and with very little if any evidence to back up what she claims. She points to something and claims that's what it is. Her TV programmes here in the UK have always disturbed me and she is a perfect example of why the general population is so distrustful of so called scientists. She doesn't do them any more because she was pushed off by the Royal Institution.
Sadly, there are other 'scientists' who have followed her. When people challenge them on what they say and claim they think they can hide behind the cloak of being a scientist.
So, when a production server refuses to boot after you've just done a P2V migration, who do you call for support?
Errr, yourself. Your the one who's supporting it. You find out why it isn't booting and fix it. Assuming you mean P2V as in physical to virtual you also should have been doing a dry run and several tests before any live migration.
You are not stupid enough to do a migration, have it fail and then wait on VMware's answer, are you?
Ahhh, the old car analogy. Let's put it this way, if Ford felt they could get away with that they would do it.
The rest of your post really is crap, especially the stuff about Linux. Microsoft simply doesn't care about it.
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I think it's more of a case of developers having to now do a lot of sys admin work, not wanting to do it, not having the expertise to do it, but trying to make out that they can 'develop' things away and it will all be easy. Small companies have this problem, and small IT companies like to believe they can just hire in sys admins and farm crap out to places like Heroku and Engine Yard.
In my last job I pointed out to our developer when the development work dried up, as it does, that our clients paid for their applications to be kept running and live and it was the sys admin they were paying for. He was most upset.
Development writes the code that set up the DNS, the firewalls, even the kickstart files (or whatever your local equivalent is) that control OS installation. If development's code doesn't work, developers' dev VMs and QA's environments break first, because they're configured just the same way.
Development does that? So developers know all about DNS, firewalls and OS installation? Errrr, no. They think they do and they think it's easy, but they simply don't. Those that do get burned. Badly.
Backup? Development writes the code that automates it.
Backup as well? How fabulous.
In reality it's sys admins who should be encroaching on developer turf, not the other way around, and the reason why this Devops cargo cult crap has come into existence is because developers now need to know about it, they don't want to and as such they want to pretend it's something they can take over. Why? Because it doesn't matter how many lines of code you write, if it doesn't work in production no one cares and you won't get paid.
UEFI Secure Boot allows you (the user/owner of the machine) to choose to verify that what you are truly booting is what you think it is.
NO, you do not understand what the current situation is. Secure boot allows the OEM of the machine to verify what it thinks should be booting. The user/owner is absolutely nowhere in this process.
In other news, users petition to have Firewalls disabled, Microsoft force all users to have admin privs, and the removal of passwords.
These things can be controlled for obvious reasons. What's being discussed here is what you can actually run on your computer from the start. An entirely different ball game.
When interviewing these users they had these things to say: "I love malware, someone has to"
Right.............
"Pressing F12 at boot and disabling secure boot is too much work
If you'd done some reading then you'd know that this F12 option will not always be there, nor is there any guarantee that it won't be removed.
If you want to stand up for the rights of malware and rootkit creators everywhere, please help support this cause. Because.. "Someone has to love them"
This will not help prevent malware or rootkits in any way over and above what is already done. Stop hiding behind the security reasoning, because it's crap. It still won't prevent vulnerabilities in the OS once it is running, which is where it is all happening anyway.
Certs can be managed if your OEM doesn't suck.
They will all suck. The EFI spec does not currently allow you to add your own keys. It's Microsoft or the OEM.
Win8 doesn't require secure boot to work
Future versions will once the hardware is widespread. This argument always makes me chuckle.
Secure boot can be disabled, again assuming your OEM doesn't suck
They will suck. See above.
IT would have a shit storm if they couldn't manage this
They will accept what they've been given, as always.
Server admins would have a shit storm if they couldn't manage this
See above.
Someone would lose a job at Dell/HP/Gateway/etc if the end user couldn't manage this
Utter crap.
This effectively makes it impossible, with current malware, to ever take over a PC
No, that is not the case because there will still be vulnerabilities in the OS. However, in order to do that we want it to make sure you cannot install anything but Windows? Interesting.
We haven't even got into the ramifications for virtualisation, or how this might work in terms of individual hardware working on a motherboard in the future.......... It's a right mess.
The point that the OP was making was that the target market for these chips is terribly small. The big market is for ever bigger single tasks and threads to be completed in less and less time. The fact that they've had to come up with this halfway-house tells you that this is unlikely to save SPARC as a platform.
I've had countless calls from various companies based in India saying they're calling on behalf of Microsoft who have detected a virus on one of my computers and are offering to 'clean' it up. I don't even say anything now. The phone gets put straight down. It's been getting steadily worse these past few months.
There is no "safe distance" really. As I stated in my previous post, one of those aircraft could conceivably travel up to 100 miles or more in any direction.
Like I've already said, when you've got a plane going that far off course you've got a problem. Whether it be because of unsafe distances between planes and crowd or an incompetently maintained aircraft, there is a problem here.
You don't understand the thorough testing those pilots must pass.
It doesn't matter how many tests he passes. Racing those kind of aircraft is extremely physically intensive that demands a great deal of your neck muscles and your core fitness. No test is going to recreate that, and if he had to pass a Formula 1 driver test which is the only thing close enough in terms of what's required he'd fail straight away. Fitness is everything.
You're opining out of ignorance here.
I'm not I'm afraid. The ignorance here is assuming that anyone of any age and experience can jump in these types of aircraft and race.
You're *much* more likely to die or be critically injured on the drive to or from the air race than spectating.......With the level of fear and risk-aversion you demonstrate by your comments I'm surprised you're able to leave your residence. Or get out of bed.
Like I said, I'm not interested in this kind of nonsense because it's basically an excuse to do nothing and tell everyone that nothing was wrong so you can carry on as normal. That's called ignorance.
Like I've already said, it doesn't matter how many tests he passes. The physical nature of racing in such an event just cannot be underestimated. Racing these planes is very physically intensive and it demands a huge amount of your neck muscles and your core fitness.
People getting heart attacks and strokes in their 20s is irrelevant. More people get those problems in their 70s.
Well, you can add mechanical incompetence to the list because a plane should not be doing that of its own accord. No matter what way you cut it this was not simply an 'accident'.
I'm sorry, but racing those kinds of planes at those speeds with the G forces involved is not something to be done by a 80 or a 74 year old so getting his exact age right is a bit pointless. This is not a sedate, formulaic air display he was taking part in and you need to be exceptionally fit with reaction times as good as you can have. There is every likelihood that he could have passed out as a result of the forces involved during the problem.
These aircraft travel at well over 400MPH. They can travel a long way in a very short time. There's also no way to determine which direction an aircraft might travel in the case of mechanical/control failure or pilot incapacitation.
Yes, there is and minimum safe distances account for that. If a plane and pilot veers that for off course then you have got something very, very wrong going on - extreme pilot error or a plane that is not fit for purpose. Either way, there was some incompetence here and the way the plane came down just raises the suspicions.
The poor guy probably sacrificed his own life by staying with the aircraft and not bailing out/ejecting in a last-ditch attempt to try to avoid hitting the stands.
Given that he was 74 years old the odds of him passing out due to the forces involved were quite high. He would have done himself a favour had he stayed at home. You need an exceptional level of fitness to fly those planes with the forces involved and you don't do it at 74 years old. I certainly wouldn't race planes at that age.
You may want to re-think your rant. The world cannot be made toddler-safe, and nobody would like living in it, even if it were possible.
I'm afraid this kind of idiotic attitude is just designed to paint over the issues so nothing has to be done. In the 21st century people should be doing better than Waldo's Flying Circus, it's as simple as that.
That only works if the aircraft crashes under the planned flight path. If it veers off course due to a control problem this is moot.
That's why you have minimum safe distances to account for strange off-course diversions. Those distances are quite large for a reason. Something incredibly exceptional must have happened to that aircraft or rules and guidelines were simply not being followed.
Either way, something is very wrong here and the way the plane came down just adds fuel to the fire.
Additionally, given that this is a race and not a sedate, formulaic air display, where you are pushing yourself physically with the G forces involved I am lost for words that someone this old is being passed to fly in it...... It's plain stupidity.
No, he certainly isn't the only one who thinks it's strange. No matter how many tests he passes reaction times and ability to withstand extreme G forces diminish as you get older and flying these kinds of planes is very physically intensive. It's a fact of life and there is no way of knowing whether lives could have been saved had he been a younger, fitter pilot could have avoided the crowd - but you account for that anyway. Leeward could well have passed out as a result of the forces involved.
However, only in America, as they say. It really still is Waldo's Flying Circus.
the windows market will make a lot of people a lot of money before critical mass lands.
No, they won't. When Android was catching up to iOS no money was made by anyone until critical mass was reached. Most users on mobile platforms do not pay for any applications which makes critical mass very important.
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You are pretty close to the truth I'm afraid. I've always found Susan Greenfield to be sensationalist, full of her own self-importance and with very little if any evidence to back up what she claims. She points to something and claims that's what it is. Her TV programmes here in the UK have always disturbed me and she is a perfect example of why the general population is so distrustful of so called scientists. She doesn't do them any more because she was pushed off by the Royal Institution.
Sadly, there are other 'scientists' who have followed her. When people challenge them on what they say and claim they think they can hide behind the cloak of being a scientist.
So, when a production server refuses to boot after you've just done a P2V migration, who do you call for support?
Errr, yourself. Your the one who's supporting it. You find out why it isn't booting and fix it. Assuming you mean P2V as in physical to virtual you also should have been doing a dry run and several tests before any live migration.
You are not stupid enough to do a migration, have it fail and then wait on VMware's answer, are you?
It was 50, then went down to 10. You can still run a small business on it though.
Space is a endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Ahhh, but. Miniturisation Jack. That's he ticket. That's the edge that everyone's been looking for.
Ahhh, the old car analogy. Let's put it this way, if Ford felt they could get away with that they would do it. The rest of your post really is crap, especially the stuff about Linux. Microsoft simply doesn't care about it.
I think it's more of a case of developers having to now do a lot of sys admin work, not wanting to do it, not having the expertise to do it, but trying to make out that they can 'develop' things away and it will all be easy. Small companies have this problem, and small IT companies like to believe they can just hire in sys admins and farm crap out to places like Heroku and Engine Yard.
In my last job I pointed out to our developer when the development work dried up, as it does, that our clients paid for their applications to be kept running and live and it was the sys admin they were paying for. He was most upset.
Development writes the code that set up the DNS, the firewalls, even the kickstart files (or whatever your local equivalent is) that control OS installation. If development's code doesn't work, developers' dev VMs and QA's environments break first, because they're configured just the same way.
Development does that? So developers know all about DNS, firewalls and OS installation? Errrr, no. They think they do and they think it's easy, but they simply don't. Those that do get burned. Badly.
Backup? Development writes the code that automates it.
Backup as well? How fabulous. In reality it's sys admins who should be encroaching on developer turf, not the other way around, and the reason why this Devops cargo cult crap has come into existence is because developers now need to know about it, they don't want to and as such they want to pretend it's something they can take over. Why? Because it doesn't matter how many lines of code you write, if it doesn't work in production no one cares and you won't get paid.
Take a look at your history, once something has reached a critical mass.
Someone lied to you or you misheard. Go read the original article by Havoc Pennington.
You don't read what someone writes, you look at their actions. The behaviour of the Gnome project over the years says otherwise.
UEFI Secure Boot allows you (the user/owner of the machine) to choose to verify that what you are truly booting is what you think it is.
NO, you do not understand what the current situation is. Secure boot allows the OEM of the machine to verify what it thinks should be booting. The user/owner is absolutely nowhere in this process.
In other news, users petition to have Firewalls disabled, Microsoft force all users to have admin privs, and the removal of passwords.
These things can be controlled for obvious reasons. What's being discussed here is what you can actually run on your computer from the start. An entirely different ball game.
When interviewing these users they had these things to say: "I love malware, someone has to"
Right.............
"Pressing F12 at boot and disabling secure boot is too much work
If you'd done some reading then you'd know that this F12 option will not always be there, nor is there any guarantee that it won't be removed.
If you want to stand up for the rights of malware and rootkit creators everywhere, please help support this cause. Because.. "Someone has to love them"
This will not help prevent malware or rootkits in any way over and above what is already done. Stop hiding behind the security reasoning, because it's crap. It still won't prevent vulnerabilities in the OS once it is running, which is where it is all happening anyway.
Certs can be managed if your OEM doesn't suck.
They will all suck. The EFI spec does not currently allow you to add your own keys. It's Microsoft or the OEM.
Win8 doesn't require secure boot to work
Future versions will once the hardware is widespread. This argument always makes me chuckle.
Secure boot can be disabled, again assuming your OEM doesn't suck
They will suck. See above.
IT would have a shit storm if they couldn't manage this
They will accept what they've been given, as always.
Server admins would have a shit storm if they couldn't manage this
See above.
Someone would lose a job at Dell/HP/Gateway/etc if the end user couldn't manage this
Utter crap.
This effectively makes it impossible, with current malware, to ever take over a PC
No, that is not the case because there will still be vulnerabilities in the OS. However, in order to do that we want it to make sure you cannot install anything but Windows? Interesting. We haven't even got into the ramifications for virtualisation, or how this might work in terms of individual hardware working on a motherboard in the future.......... It's a right mess.
This got modded insightful? Jesus.............
The point that the OP was making was that the target market for these chips is terribly small. The big market is for ever bigger single tasks and threads to be completed in less and less time. The fact that they've had to come up with this halfway-house tells you that this is unlikely to save SPARC as a platform.
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I've had countless calls from various companies based in India saying they're calling on behalf of Microsoft who have detected a virus on one of my computers and are offering to 'clean' it up. I don't even say anything now. The phone gets put straight down. It's been getting steadily worse these past few months.
Far, far, far too close.
There is no "safe distance" really. As I stated in my previous post, one of those aircraft could conceivably travel up to 100 miles or more in any direction.
Like I've already said, when you've got a plane going that far off course you've got a problem. Whether it be because of unsafe distances between planes and crowd or an incompetently maintained aircraft, there is a problem here.
You don't understand the thorough testing those pilots must pass.
It doesn't matter how many tests he passes. Racing those kind of aircraft is extremely physically intensive that demands a great deal of your neck muscles and your core fitness. No test is going to recreate that, and if he had to pass a Formula 1 driver test which is the only thing close enough in terms of what's required he'd fail straight away. Fitness is everything.
You're opining out of ignorance here.
I'm not I'm afraid. The ignorance here is assuming that anyone of any age and experience can jump in these types of aircraft and race.
You're *much* more likely to die or be critically injured on the drive to or from the air race than spectating.......With the level of fear and risk-aversion you demonstrate by your comments I'm surprised you're able to leave your residence. Or get out of bed.
Like I said, I'm not interested in this kind of nonsense because it's basically an excuse to do nothing and tell everyone that nothing was wrong so you can carry on as normal. That's called ignorance.
Like I've already said, it doesn't matter how many tests he passes. The physical nature of racing in such an event just cannot be underestimated. Racing these planes is very physically intensive and it demands a huge amount of your neck muscles and your core fitness. People getting heart attacks and strokes in their 20s is irrelevant. More people get those problems in their 70s.
Well, you can add mechanical incompetence to the list because a plane should not be doing that of its own accord. No matter what way you cut it this was not simply an 'accident'.
I'm sorry, but racing those kinds of planes at those speeds with the G forces involved is not something to be done by a 80 or a 74 year old so getting his exact age right is a bit pointless. This is not a sedate, formulaic air display he was taking part in and you need to be exceptionally fit with reaction times as good as you can have. There is every likelihood that he could have passed out as a result of the forces involved during the problem.
These aircraft travel at well over 400MPH. They can travel a long way in a very short time. There's also no way to determine which direction an aircraft might travel in the case of mechanical/control failure or pilot incapacitation.
Yes, there is and minimum safe distances account for that. If a plane and pilot veers that for off course then you have got something very, very wrong going on - extreme pilot error or a plane that is not fit for purpose. Either way, there was some incompetence here and the way the plane came down just raises the suspicions.
The poor guy probably sacrificed his own life by staying with the aircraft and not bailing out/ejecting in a last-ditch attempt to try to avoid hitting the stands.
Given that he was 74 years old the odds of him passing out due to the forces involved were quite high. He would have done himself a favour had he stayed at home. You need an exceptional level of fitness to fly those planes with the forces involved and you don't do it at 74 years old. I certainly wouldn't race planes at that age.
You may want to re-think your rant. The world cannot be made toddler-safe, and nobody would like living in it, even if it were possible.
I'm afraid this kind of idiotic attitude is just designed to paint over the issues so nothing has to be done. In the 21st century people should be doing better than Waldo's Flying Circus, it's as simple as that.
That only works if the aircraft crashes under the planned flight path. If it veers off course due to a control problem this is moot.
That's why you have minimum safe distances to account for strange off-course diversions. Those distances are quite large for a reason. Something incredibly exceptional must have happened to that aircraft or rules and guidelines were simply not being followed.
Either way, something is very wrong here and the way the plane came down just adds fuel to the fire.
Additionally, given that this is a race and not a sedate, formulaic air display, where you are pushing yourself physically with the G forces involved I am lost for words that someone this old is being passed to fly in it...... It's plain stupidity.
No, he certainly isn't the only one who thinks it's strange. No matter how many tests he passes reaction times and ability to withstand extreme G forces diminish as you get older and flying these kinds of planes is very physically intensive. It's a fact of life and there is no way of knowing whether lives could have been saved had he been a younger, fitter pilot could have avoided the crowd - but you account for that anyway. Leeward could well have passed out as a result of the forces involved.
However, only in America, as they say. It really still is Waldo's Flying Circus.
I might be showing my age by saying that I've noticed that too.
Really?
Yes, really.
the windows market will make a lot of people a lot of money before critical mass lands.
No, they won't. When Android was catching up to iOS no money was made by anyone until critical mass was reached. Most users on mobile platforms do not pay for any applications which makes critical mass very important.