No, It's not out until I can buy it at the Apple Store in the mall. My bet is that Apple will beat Newegg.
Either way this is really just an increment. 20% faster at best. You can't see it without a stopwatch.
But for anyone who is not already running the top of the line CPU they can get 20% more speed today just by moving to a faster Core 2. This new CPU should only be news for people who are already running Intel's best processors.
"for an organization the size of the air force, and with the mandate it has, there is nothing laughable or overly ambitious about say, creating and implementing your own supersecure protocol, and supporting it within its subnet"
Yes, All we have to do is look at history. The term "Internet". Meant a network that connected networks. Back when the term was coined networks did not use TCP/IP. "IP" was designed as "Internet Protocol" or literally the protocal to be used BETWEEN networks. Only later did almost all of those networks themselves begin to use TCP/IP internally.
So it is reasonable that the US Air Force could simply abandon the use of TCP/IP within the entire service and connect to the public Internet via a gateway. After all that is how everyone did it back in the 70's
There are a few things they might use that already exist and are already in use. They really need a network that is fully end to end encrypted and has strong authentication. TCP/IP is not that.
Yes that is pretty much the first rule. any machine with senitive data is not hooked up to the Internet. Not even via a firewall. They call it an "air gap" but today with wireless the term is an anachronism but still you get the idea "no connection at all".
Computers that handle REALLY sensitive stuff can't even be connected to normal AC power systems or even to normal building ground wires.
Many of the computers have removable disk drives. That is where ALL of the drives can be removed without tools. The rule requires the drives to be removed and stored in a safe when not in use.
Believe me they do have a few smart people who understand security and they have a decent educational system in place where people have to go to class and read some papers before they can use systems that handle sensitive information. And they are required to re-take the classes periodically
But then there are always ideots and weven normal people forget and make mistakes. But then typically some guard is assigned the task to walk around a pull on safe handles and check that desks are clear and so on. Hell likely catch most of the mistakes
How would you notice a 60 second email outage unless you were running synthetic tests designe only to detect an outage. In normal use all you would see is a 60 second delay in email delivery.
One could even define email as a service that deliveres messages in a "short" time of about 5 minutes. If you accept this definition of email then a 60 second outage is not even an outage as long as emails do get delivered wthout a "short" time.
So I think Google is OK to not count such sort drop outs. email was never a contiously connected service. It is always done by periodically polling. Heck, most polling takes place on a longer interval than 60 seconds.
You are 100% right. In the case where you are armed and the other guy is not, if yo use the gun you are going to jail. If he is armed and you are not, your best best is to run out the back door. If you both are armed in almost every case he will shoot first. Work out the numbers, runing out the back door with a cell phone is always the best option.
If you REALLY DO live in a place where you need both a dog and a gun. I'd say "move". Why stay in a place the has armed thugs roaming the streets?
If I'm an armed thug and know you have a gun and a dog and a really, really want in. my best plan would be to bring two buddies with me. Step one: cut the phone line and jam the cellphones. Step two: Shoot the dog through the window. Step three: bust in through three doors all at once and shot anything that moves without warning.
We have some very good locks here in the office. They are required because government clasified documents are stored in these rooms. The only locks that can be approaved are high quality combination locks the operate a kind of steel dead bolt. They are nice locks. But now andthen there will be a fire alarm that goes off inside and the local FD comes and they need to get inside. Typically a security guard will walk with the firemen. None of them have the combination. The fireman carry with them a big sledge hammer, about 10 pounds. It does not take long before even these nice locks are broken.
I've seen the cops use a two man baterning ram. one hit on the lock and that's it. the lock does not break but the side of the door frame splinters.
All any lock does is keep out people who really don't want in very bad.
"The best antitheft device on my car is the manual transmission.;)"
Didn't work for me. So far I've had three trucks with manual transmissions stolen. Well OK only two relly as the first truck I got back and was stolen again, so only two trucks gone but three thefts.
I talked to the cops a few times to ask what to do. They said "insurance". If someone wants to take a car they just get a tow truck.
Sun, right now will tell you otherwise. They are pushing what is really just "software RAID" and are getting good cost performance. So I think what performance you get depends a LOT on what hardware and software you are using. If it is a generic PC running Linux I'd expect so-so midle of the road performance but if you bought both better hardware and better software you could get better performance out of software RAID. I've seen software RAID be able to "flood" two Gigabit ethernet ports. The advantages of software is that it is so much more flexible. Just compare Solaris' ZFS to anything else. You have to on the hardware side buy some very expensive products (like going with NetApp) if you need features like point in time snapshots and to be able to reconfigure on the fly and all the other stuff that ZFS gives you.
"Odds are high that the default servers in sources.list are going to be taxed pretty heavily today."
Just in case you all need someone to hate, I'll let it be me.... My company has a local mirror and I'm connected to in with Gigabit Ethernet. I can NFS mount the mirror.
"It's cool that Bond films at least partially stick close enough to the near future that the gadgets are cool but we can look back 40 years and yawn."
From a story/plot point of view the trchnology has to be very close to what we have but just a little bit past it. Because the viewers do have to understand what the gadget does and also if the gadget was to "powerful" then 007's job would be to easy. For example we can't give hiom a gadget that can read minds that are on the other side of the earth and then teleport the bad guys into jail. No, the gadgets can only operate within a small range or it kind of ruins the story.
"At no point does the accepting site get your user name and password. You can verify this by looking at your address bar."
I bet I could get thousands of user name/password combos be putting up a web page that simply asked users to enter their user name and password. They call this "phishing". It would work.
Using any kind of login that is shared over multiple places is always not-secure. Best practice is to compartmentalize potential damage. So that if some one figures out my password for (say) this website they can't then get into my bacnk account and email. If common logins do become popular then "phishing" will become very popular.
"Note that the above is not my personal opinion, but after I graduate I won't have any more basements to live in and I will be hungry."
I finished school in 1982 studied CS. In the time between then and now I've written a lot of non-free code. Most would be useless as Open Source as it did things like control a radar system and handle data comming from spacecraft, not the kinds of things that most people need to do. But I've also written some softare that I've given away as GPL. Some for the astronomy comunity, some driver level stuff for Linux a few fixes to a DBMS and so on.
OK, My point is that VERY few Open Source programmers do it full time. Most have day jobs to pay the bills. Only very infrequently have I been able to work on Open source wile getting paid. The two times whaen I did it was correcting bugs in free software that we were using at work. I did those bug fixes on the clock but that amonts to about 20 hours over 20 years. Mostly I'd work at home after dinner rather than watch TV.
"and MPEG/WMV/AVI/Quicktime videos are easily openable..."
Some of the files will be "DRM'd". That means encrypted and once the DRM servers are gone the files will never be openable again. Ok this is mostly movies and music and comercial media.
But in genal encrypted backups are becomming more common. All the on-line servise use encryption and as security education gets more comon people athome will use encryption. Then the person who knws the key dies and the data is gone.
Given enough time and money you can read "anything". But if the data is gone, no amount of effort can recover it. What's happing today is most people simply do not do any kind of backup, none at all. You can argue that maybe the world in 200 years will not care if it has a picture of your kid at the beach. But the world can't care. People do, one of them at a time.
For example I'm working on collecting some old family photos, many of them shot at the turn of the last century, around 1900. They hold some history and put faces on names. But in 2108, a hundred years from now will there be any hundred year old photos? Forget about not being able to read a file format. They WILL be able to read anything they want to. But will the file be there? I doubt it.
"unpaid open source developers could have done a better job."
In many cases the "unpaid" and the "paid" are the very same exact people. At work their boss tells them what they have to do. At home after work they can do as they please. I write software both ppaid and not. I'm not alone. Most people who write free software also do it for a living.
I've spent so time on the ocean sailing and you know what I see many times on the weekends. Comercial fishermen using sport fishing equipment on their "day off". LIkely happens in other industries other then just software and fishing. People who like to do stuff do it.
MUCH MUCH more quickly than operating systems are getting slower.
What is the "operating systems" thing. I mean why the "s". There is only one operating system that gets slower with each release. All of the others gain performance with each release. OK, sorry, maybe not ALL the others, my experiance is limited to only BSD, Solaris, Mac OS x and Linux.
Get a calculator and do 36^32 and that's the number of different hashes you can get.
That is the number of POSSABLE hashes but are you sure MD5 actually uses ALL of the hash space? Can you prove it. How do you know that there are not a billion hashes that are imposable for the algorithm to compute. If you don't know this how do you know there are not 36^30 imposable hashes?
Don't design around a any phone that is on the market today. design around some standard interface. the you program whatever phone is popular this month to use that interface.
When you add returning crew to the cycling craft you have to first push them so they match it's speed. If you do that they will return home evenif they never enter the cycling craft. So why have it? Just so they can be less cramped and stretch out I guess. but the idea does not save any energy or fuel.
You have to ask how large is the rocket that will lift you off the surface of Mars? How big will the lander need to be if itis to carry the very large return vehicle and the food and supplies needed on the surface. What pushes them to Mars? It was to push the lander and it's cargo.
Contiune this and then how much mass has to be lifted oof the surface of the Earth. Could a reasonable US space program lift that much mass in a year's time? in two years or ten years? Some people do the math and say "no" that you can't launch two big rockets a month for 24 months and worse is that you can't test the full up system so you have to double up on everything.
A one way trip cuts the mass that needs to be launch from Earth to a small fraction. Cost is always proportional to weight
There are only two ways to do it. Either you do an Apollo style trip where you send some guy there to plant a flag then go home the next day, mostly for "show" and then you don't go back for 50 years, if ever. Or you commit to continuous missions launched ever 2.5 years that continue "forever". Maybe we might do the Apollo type thing just to show off but if you desife to do the continous thing then yes sending supplies every 2.5 years is cheaper then sending a crew every 2.5 years.
What you save is never having to send the "Mars to Earth launch complex" to Mars.
I've always thought that the best way to go to Mars was tofirst spend many missions sends "infrastructure". That is redundant living space, redudant surface transportationand labortory equipment and food and fuel and so on. Only after this is in place send people.
The reason is once you are there.. Then going home means launched a Mars the earth rocket. Going from mars the Earth is just as complex as Earth to Mars except you are using vehicles that have been in space for a long time and you lack all the support people and all the spare parts that would be on Earth. So even if you did intend to bring them home you would need a "plan B" for if the return rocket had a problem and the return launch could not go. They would have to wait on mars, for at least 18 months and likey 2.5 years. So you may as well plan the mission a a POSSABLE one way trip.
Bottom line is you have to have the one-way idea at least as a backup plan no mater what.
There a many, many good things about COBOL. No it's not good at all for wrinng web based apps and device drivers. But there are features built into the language for DBMS interface and forreport writing. For example to write a report that has breaks and subheader andcolums change you don't have to write the logic, just specify how it should work. Soyou are wrinting at a level of 'what to do" rather then "how to do". Complex print formatting is the same. COBOL can use a "picture" rather than C's format codes. With a picture you in effect give an example of how a number is to be printed like say (from 20 year old memory) "$$$,$$#.##" which means float the $ sign and use a comma if needed and print at least the ones colum even if the value is less than 1.0. As I said. COBOL works at a high level is a well suited to the tasks for which it was designed.
COBOL can also do "exact" math. This is needed for business. For example say yo have $13,543,657,345.00 and you want to take 12.543530 percent of it and not have to worry about round off errors. COBOL can represend numbers as strings (well BCD) C,FRTRAN and the like would try to do this in floating point and you'd loose pennies, Accountants don't like losing pennies.
Basically COBOL was designed for dealing with data that is in a complex format both input and output. You more or les describe the format and let the compiler do the logic part, very much unlike C/C++/Java and so on.
But COBOL is not a "structured" language and is not suited for complex computation.
"...If they could have ramped up to where they were stealing 3% or 4% of every broker's business, they'd have been able to live very comfortably"
This is how the "mob" or organized crime or even street gangs work. They don't rob the businesses of everything. They take a cut. Take to big of a cut and the victims go broke or just leave. Dumb criminal are the greedy ones.
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"It's not out until I can buy one from Newegg"
No, It's not out until I can buy it at the Apple Store in the mall. My bet is that Apple will beat Newegg.
Either way this is really just an increment. 20% faster at best. You can't see it without a stopwatch.
But for anyone who is not already running the top of the line CPU they can get 20% more speed today just by moving to a faster Core 2. This new CPU should only be news for people who are already running Intel's best processors.
"for an organization the size of the air force, and with the mandate it has, there is nothing laughable or overly ambitious about say, creating and implementing your own supersecure protocol, and supporting it within its subnet"
Yes, All we have to do is look at history. The term "Internet". Meant a network that connected networks. Back when the term was coined networks did not use TCP/IP. "IP" was designed as "Internet Protocol" or literally the protocal to be used BETWEEN networks. Only later did almost all of those networks themselves begin to use TCP/IP internally.
So it is reasonable that the US Air Force could simply abandon the use of TCP/IP within the entire service and connect to the public Internet via a gateway. After all that is how everyone did it back in the 70's
There are a few things they might use that already exist and are already in use. They really need a network that is fully end to end encrypted and has strong authentication. TCP/IP is not that.
Yes that is pretty much the first rule. any machine with senitive data is not hooked up to the Internet. Not even via a firewall. They call it an "air gap" but today with wireless the term is an anachronism but still you get the idea "no connection at all".
Computers that handle REALLY sensitive stuff can't even be connected to normal AC power systems or even to normal building ground wires.
Many of the computers have removable disk drives. That is where ALL of the drives can be removed without tools. The rule requires the drives to be removed and stored in a safe when not in use.
Believe me they do have a few smart people who understand security and they have a decent educational system in place where people have to go to class and read some papers before they can use systems that handle sensitive information. And they are required to re-take the classes periodically
But then there are always ideots and weven normal people forget and make mistakes. But then typically some guard is assigned the task to walk around a pull on safe handles and check that desks are clear and so on. Hell likely catch most of the mistakes
How would you notice a 60 second email outage unless you were running synthetic tests designe only to detect an outage. In normal use all you would see is a 60 second delay in email delivery.
One could even define email as a service that deliveres messages in a "short" time of about 5 minutes. If you accept this definition of email then a 60 second outage is not even an outage as long as emails do get delivered wthout a "short" time.
So I think Google is OK to not count such sort drop outs. email was never a contiously connected service. It is always done by periodically polling. Heck, most polling takes place on a longer interval than 60 seconds.
You are 100% right. In the case where you are armed and the other guy is not, if yo use the gun you are going to jail. If he is armed and you are not, your best best is to run out the back door. If you both are armed in almost every case he will shoot first. Work out the numbers, runing out the back door with a cell phone is always the best option.
If you REALLY DO live in a place where you need both a dog and a gun. I'd say "move". Why stay in a place the has armed thugs roaming the streets?
If I'm an armed thug and know you have a gun and a dog and a really, really want in. my best plan would be to bring two buddies with me. Step one: cut the phone line and jam the cellphones. Step two: Shoot the dog through the window. Step three: bust in through three doors all at once and shot anything that moves without warning.
We have some very good locks here in the office. They are required because government clasified documents are stored in these rooms. The only locks that can be approaved are high quality combination locks the operate a kind of steel dead bolt. They are nice locks. But now andthen there will be a fire alarm that goes off inside and the local FD comes and they need to get inside. Typically a security guard will walk with the firemen. None of them have the combination. The fireman carry with them a big sledge hammer, about 10 pounds. It does not take long before even these nice locks are broken.
I've seen the cops use a two man baterning ram. one hit on the lock and that's it. the lock does not break but the side of the door frame splinters.
All any lock does is keep out people who really don't want in very bad.
"The best antitheft device on my car is the manual transmission. ;)"
Didn't work for me. So far I've had three trucks with manual transmissions stolen. Well OK only two relly as the first truck I got back and was stolen again, so only two trucks gone but three thefts.
I talked to the cops a few times to ask what to do. They said "insurance". If someone wants to take a car they just get a tow truck.
Sun, right now will tell you otherwise. They are pushing what is really just "software RAID" and are getting good cost performance. So I think what performance you get depends a LOT on what hardware and software you are using. If it is a generic PC running Linux I'd expect so-so midle of the road performance but if you bought both better hardware and better software you could get better performance out of software RAID. I've seen software RAID be able to "flood" two Gigabit ethernet ports. The advantages of software is that it is so much more flexible. Just compare Solaris' ZFS to anything else. You have to on the hardware side buy some very expensive products (like going with NetApp) if you need features like point in time snapshots and to be able to reconfigure on the fly and all the other stuff that ZFS gives you.
"Odds are high that the default servers in sources.list are going to be taxed pretty heavily today."
Just in case you all need someone to hate, I'll let it be me .... My company has a local mirror and I'm connected to in with Gigabit Ethernet. I can NFS mount the mirror.
"It's cool that Bond films at least partially stick close enough to the near future that the gadgets are cool but we can look back 40 years and yawn."
From a story/plot point of view the trchnology has to be very close to what we have but just a little bit past it. Because the viewers do have to understand what the gadget does and also if the gadget was to "powerful" then 007's job would be to easy. For example we can't give hiom a gadget that can read minds that are on the other side of the earth and then teleport the bad guys into jail. No, the gadgets can only operate within a small range or it kind of ruins the story.
"At no point does the accepting site get your user name and password. You can verify this by looking at your address bar."
I bet I could get thousands of user name/password combos be putting up a web page that simply asked users to enter their user name and password. They call this "phishing". It would work.
Using any kind of login that is shared over multiple places is always not-secure. Best practice is to compartmentalize potential damage. So that if some one figures out my password for (say) this website they can't then get into my bacnk account and email. If common logins do become popular then "phishing" will become very popular.
"Note that the above is not my personal opinion, but after I graduate I won't have any more basements to live in and I will be hungry."
I finished school in 1982 studied CS. In the time between then and now I've written a lot of non-free code. Most would be useless as Open Source as it did things like control a radar system and handle data comming from spacecraft, not the kinds of things that most people need to do. But I've also written some softare that I've given away as GPL. Some for the astronomy comunity, some driver level stuff for Linux a few fixes to a DBMS and so on.
OK, My point is that VERY few Open Source programmers do it full time. Most have day jobs to pay the bills. Only very infrequently have I been able to work on Open source wile getting paid. The two times whaen I did it was correcting bugs in free software that we were using at work. I did those bug fixes on the clock but that amonts to about 20 hours over 20 years. Mostly I'd work at home after dinner rather than watch TV.
"and MPEG/WMV/AVI/Quicktime videos are easily openable..."
Some of the files will be "DRM'd". That means encrypted and once the DRM servers are gone the files will never be openable again. Ok this is mostly movies and music and comercial media.
But in genal encrypted backups are becomming more common. All the on-line servise use encryption and as security education gets more comon people athome will use encryption. Then the person who knws the key dies and the data is gone.
Given enough time and money you can read "anything". But if the data is gone, no amount of effort can recover it. What's happing today is most people simply do not do any kind of backup, none at all. You can argue that maybe the world in 200 years will not care if it has a picture of your kid at the beach. But the world can't care. People do, one of them at a time.
For example I'm working on collecting some old family photos, many of them shot at the turn of the last century, around 1900. They hold some history and put faces on names. But in 2108, a hundred years from now will there be any hundred year old photos? Forget about not being able to read a file format. They WILL be able to read anything they want to. But will the file be there? I doubt it.
"unpaid open source developers could have done a better job."
In many cases the "unpaid" and the "paid" are the very same exact people. At work their boss tells them what they have to do. At home after work they can do as they please. I write software both ppaid and not. I'm not alone. Most people who write free software also do it for a living.
I've spent so time on the ocean sailing and you know what I see many times on the weekends. Comercial fishermen using sport fishing equipment on their "day off". LIkely happens in other industries other then just software and fishing. People who like to do stuff do it.
MUCH MUCH more quickly than operating systems are getting slower.
What is the "operating systems" thing. I mean why the "s". There is only one operating system that gets slower with each release. All of the others gain performance with each release. OK, sorry, maybe not ALL the others, my experiance is limited to only BSD, Solaris, Mac OS x and Linux.
Get a calculator and do 36^32 and that's the number of different hashes you can get.
That is the number of POSSABLE hashes but are you sure MD5 actually uses ALL of the hash space? Can you prove it. How do you know that there are not a billion hashes that are imposable for the algorithm to compute. If you don't know this how do you know there are not 36^30 imposable hashes?
Don't design around a any phone that is on the market today. design around some standard interface. the you program whatever phone is popular this month to use that interface.
Look on eBay. Good Tek scope from the 1980's sell for just over $100. I bought a dual channel 100Mhz scope for about $120.
When you add returning crew to the cycling craft you have to first push them so they match it's speed. If you do that they will return home evenif they never enter the cycling craft. So why have it? Just so they can be less cramped and stretch out I guess. but the idea does not save any energy or fuel.
Of course you could just come home. But....
You have to ask how large is the rocket that will lift you off the surface of Mars? How big will the lander need to be if itis to carry the very large return vehicle and the food and supplies needed on the surface. What pushes them to Mars? It was to push the lander and it's cargo.
Contiune this and then how much mass has to be lifted oof the surface of the Earth. Could a reasonable US space program lift that much mass in a year's time? in two years or ten years? Some people do the math and say "no" that you can't launch two big rockets a month for 24 months and worse is that you can't test the full up system so you have to double up on everything.
A one way trip cuts the mass that needs to be launch from Earth to a small fraction. Cost is always proportional to weight
There are only two ways to do it. Either you do an Apollo style trip where you send some guy there to plant a flag then go home the next day, mostly for "show" and then you don't go back for 50 years, if ever. Or you commit to continuous missions launched ever 2.5 years that continue "forever". Maybe we might do the Apollo type thing just to show off but if you desife to do the continous thing then yes sending supplies every 2.5 years is cheaper then sending a crew every 2.5 years.
What you save is never having to send the "Mars to Earth launch complex" to Mars.
I've always thought that the best way to go to Mars was tofirst spend many missions sends "infrastructure". That is redundant living space, redudant surface transportationand labortory equipment and food and fuel and so on. Only after this is in place send people.
The reason is once you are there.. Then going home means launched a Mars the earth rocket. Going from mars the Earth is just as complex as Earth to Mars except you are using vehicles that have been in space for a long time and you lack all the support people and all the spare parts that would be on Earth. So even if you did intend to bring them home you would need a "plan B" for if the return rocket had a problem and the return launch could not go. They would have to wait on mars, for at least 18 months and likey 2.5 years. So you may as well plan the mission a a POSSABLE one way trip.
Bottom line is you have to have the one-way idea at least as a backup plan no mater what.
There a many, many good things about COBOL. No it's not good at all for wrinng web based apps and device drivers. But there are features built into the language for DBMS interface and forreport writing. For example to write a report that has breaks and subheader andcolums change you don't have to write the logic, just specify how it should work. Soyou are wrinting at a level of 'what to do" rather then "how to do". Complex print formatting is the same. COBOL can use a "picture" rather than C's format codes. With a picture you in effect give an example of how a number is to be printed like say (from 20 year old memory) "$$$,$$#.##" which means float the $ sign and use a comma if needed and print at least the ones colum even if the value is less than 1.0. As I said. COBOL works at a high level is a well suited to the tasks for which it was designed.
COBOL can also do "exact" math. This is needed for business. For example say yo have $13,543,657,345.00 and you want to take 12.543530 percent of it and not have to worry about round off errors. COBOL can represend numbers as strings (well BCD) C,FRTRAN and the like would try to do this in floating point and you'd loose pennies, Accountants don't like losing pennies.
Basically COBOL was designed for dealing with data that is in a complex format both input and output. You more or les describe the format and let the compiler do the logic part, very much unlike C/C++/Java and so on.
But COBOL is not a "structured" language and is not suited for complex computation.
"...If they could have ramped up to where they were stealing 3% or 4% of every broker's business, they'd have been able to live very comfortably"
This is how the "mob" or organized crime or even street gangs work. They don't rob the businesses of everything. They take a cut. Take to big of a cut and the victims go broke or just leave. Dumb criminal are the greedy ones.