All so called technology cult religions all have one thing in common, what is that? They are all formed around hatred of Microsoft. Apple, Java, IBM, Google, you name it, they all have a strong driving force because of hatred for Microsoft. A Microsoft Cult would be an oxymoron.
I'm honestly trying to figure out if your comment is satirical or not. The Supreme Court didn't in any way decide Bush won, they decided that Gore counting the votes more then 2 extra times was wasting everyone's time and after 3 confirmations of Bush winning Florida, to stick with that.
As for the real topic...
THIS IS A PRIMARY. The different parties are companies, they are run like such and completely exist as such. The democrat party can chose whatever it wants to do for how it will decide it's candidate, the primary is a party voting, not a government one. If they decided it would be best to play beer pong until there was only one candidate left standing, that would be an equally valid way of doing it vs the current convention.
Whatever will I do without 10cm resolution aerial photos of nuclear power plants? Honestly, when the time comes up that i need that, that's when I'll bitch, not now.
Not really - this is the whole point of SSL. If you trust both endpoints, you don't much care about what's in the middle.
Thus the problem with SSL, anyone can insert themselves and spoof as an endpoint. If I spoof as VeriSign and man in the middle attack you with the bank, there is no good way to protect against this. It's like intercepting someone's mail, except in the SSL model you're shipping safes. I can spoof the mailman and give you my safe, and then play as you to the bank. If neither of you actually see each other I can just pretend I'm the bank to you, and you to the bank. It requires a slightly sophisticated attack, but it's easy enough to implement to make it worth it.
I'm nowhere near understanding the complexities of the current intellectual property legal codes in the USA, let alone how they actually apply in this situation. All I see is hysteria. It just so turns out there is no statue on anything like this, i would point to the Wikipedia article on Illegal Primes
The first illegal prime to be announced, when interpreted a particular way, describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes on some DVDs. Because that program has been found illegal by courts in the United States of America, this has produced debate about whether the number itself could be considered illegal.
I imagine the same thing holds true for a decryption key, that no one actually knows until there is some kind of ruling on it.
Vote totals in two separate databases that should have been identical had different totals. Although Diebold explained that this was part of the system design for separate vote tables to get updated at different times during the tabulation process, the team questioned the wisdom of a design that creates non-identical vote totals. That actually doesn't scare me at all, after working with DBs and knowing how they work you commonly fix problems by doing things such as that, but what does scare me is this...
Tables in the database contained elements that were missing date and time stamps that would indicate when information was entered.
Entries that did have date/time stamps showed a January 1, 1970 date.
TFA didn't say, but does anyone know if it is possible to get an accurate, tally? Would it make a difference?
Another interesting point, if this is the worst of the corruption then it's likely to be possible to retrieve a 'very accurate' tally. But why the hell did they use the JET engine, to save a few pennies? The JET engine is one of the WORST things ever to come out of M$, I would put it even in front of WinME on that list. I've seen database corruption with only one user doing very minimal read/write/modify to it before.
Breaking from a paradigms is always hard, but breaking from a paradigm like this one will be near impossible. People don't naturally calculate out what is the best for the amount of time they believe they will own the printer, they don't ever realize that they're tied into buying HPs ink for the rest of thier lives. Kodak will have to have one hell of a marketing team to pull this off.
According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 - 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. OF COURSE THEY DO, THEY'RE A FUCKING HOSTING SERVICE! Check out their webpage. They also host a lot of other things besides a bunch of RNC run websites.
You do know this is part of a settlement for criminal activity right? You might as well argue that just because a cat food manufacturer put poison in their cat food, the government should not be allowed to mandate that they enact stricter testing measures as part of their punishment for breaking the law in the first place. Well, you'd be adding to the government in ways it was never intended to, and by doing so increasing the government moving it slowly, but surely closer to statism/fascism. I'm reminded of a Ben Franklin quote that went something like this:
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
You mean just like those quad-proc Voodoo cards saved 3DFX? Oh, wait...
That brings up an interesting point, which is that better design isn't what is going to win, MARKETING is. 3dfx at the time they filed chapter 11 had all the top 3 after market gfx cards. Yet, nVidia on just selling to PC distributors like HP, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, for OEM boxes was bringing in more revenue then 3dfx could dream of. The problem was 3dfx lost sight of the whole market, something AMD hasnt seem to. I've seen more boxes with AMD now then ever before and a lot people recognize their name. So i don't believe they will end up another 3dfx.
RTFA, the US government was the ones that where getting scammed.
Effectively with government contracts all the companies would agree to estimate far higher then it would ever take to fill the order. Step two, the contract winner would take the amount of money for the contract, subtract how much it really would have taken(this being raw "bonus" profit) and split that amongst the group since it involved the entire group to go along with it for it to work. Wait for the next contract and do it all over again, scamming millions if not billions from the US government who thought that it was getting a good deal off of each company fighting for the deal when really it was getting scammed by a pseudo-monopoly.
Remember OO has had its share of exploits as well. Why would you ever open anything not from a source you know if you where in the State Department? All this really shows is the ignorance of our government(and I can say OUR because every government shares in ignorance). I'm sure the guy who opened it had someone behind him saying "It's only a Word document, how could that do anything? See what it is."
The article links to a wikia article on the subject, which provides a very nice summary of the arguments. My question is how is this stuff even patentable?
Patent 6,282,574 clearly states that no one except Verizon can legally translate an IP to a telephone number and vice versa. The rest of the patents are basically saying Verizon owns the only right to transmit other various phone communications over TCP/IP.
WTF? How can someone be awarded a patent for their idea for an application layer protocol that depends on something like TCP/IP to even opperate?
I actually thought of making a instant refrigerator like that once, like a microwave speed but a freezer. My goals where of course shot down when I did research into how the limitations(thing to work really have to me microscopic), as well as the Microsoft had already patented it. Go figure.
Maybe... but I'm sure that the power PC and Intel Mac percentages are likely both under the percent error too, but I'm not going to argue that there are zero Macs, or possibly even negative Macs.
FTA:Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement.
I always find it amusing when a virus that requires the user to activate it is considered news. By definition it's more social engineering then a vulnerability. If people weren't so stupid I assume nearly 100% of all computer virus' wouldn't exist, or wouldn't be a problem.
I honestly have never had a problem with any of the 3 "broadband" services I've used. First it was ISDN(Verizon i think but don't actually remebemer), which at the time was considered broadband, talking close to 10 years ago. Second was Adelphia Cable, 4Mb/s down 128KB/s up. Never had a problem with either of those two services, although Adelphia might have been more worried about other things, if you know anything about their scandal/bankruptcy. Now its Time Warner Cable, 6Mb/s down, and I've seen as high as 1Mb/s up. I've used this service with no problem, pulling in likely about 1-2TB/month of bandwidth. I myself am convinced that the incidents that get/.ed are highly localized or are usually some kind of mistake on the ISP end, of course its also possible I've just had extremely good luck.
Um video editing, composting effects, CGI, 3d rendering, etc....
that is what hose computers are designed for. Apple pretty much owns video and TV production now.
Are you forgetting about Digital Domain, Disney, DreamWorks, ILM, and Pixar? All of those use primarily Linux based systems. Amature video they may hold still, but they lost the professional base a long time ago. So that leaves an 8-core Mac for what again...?
NBC airs a piece about how anybody can edit any article on Wikipedia, and errors creep in as a result. (Duh.) But what's most frustrating about all these controversies surrounding Wikipedia is that news reports describe these incidents as if they are a permanent, unsolvable problem with any type of community-built encyclopedia, when in fact there seems to be a straightforward solution.
Actually sounds to me like NBC is scared of losing their own audience. I remember back when Steve Irwin died the only place to get all the information you wanted on it and in a reasonable amount of time was Wikipedia, and I never found a single inaccuracy about all the accounts on his death. The coupled with NBC's very poor network ratings makes me think this may actually be partly trying to discredit Wikipedia to take down their growing market share.
...and the Survey that 29% of US households dont see a need for an internet connection couldnt have been better timed. Anyone else find this slightly ironic?
The major factor here is the compleate lack of calculating in other ways of retail. iTunes, Wal-Mart, and hand full of other stores have launched non-CD sales. The article even mentions this. That coupled with the fact that there is very little new good music being released.
We're not even 3 months into the year yet, anyone else think they're crying wolf?
In other words, show me an analyst that predicted the Zune would be a success, and then we'll talk.
That is very true. I remeber reading an interview with the team leader of the Zune, he didn't even predict a success. His words where something close to "the phrase 'ipod killer' is a misnomer, i mean the pmp market is huge, we'll be happy with as little as 5-10% of it." Don't go preaching "A Microsoft Failure" when thier attempt wasnt even to kill the ipod, but simply increase thier revenue on a growing market.
As for "Apple vs PC"... Mac holds a very powerful niche in the PC market, they may only hover arround 5% of total market share, but they make some nice money doing it. Secondly why is Apple trying to say Macs anrt PCS? If they're not "personal computers" then wtf are they?
Anyways, a blog that's whole purpose is anti-M$ and pro-Mac, might be fun for/. readers, but really holds no ground. For thier "PC vs Mac: Cost" page they include things like:
Seven years of AntiVirus 2000 $50, plus $30 for six annual updates = $230
"Spyware and security cleaning by Geek Squad: a $200 annual servicing over seven years = $1400" and for mac:
No antivirus needed
No spyware cleaning needed
Now I dont know about you, but i've never seen a Mac without Symantec installed on it, and I dont know of a single person who has ever used Geek Squad, IMHO if you need Geek Squad you dont deserve to opperate a computer anyways, and that $1400 you blow on them is your own fault.
people eventually go for the Easy Button. That kind of mentality does not historically* mix well with nuclear power.
That is not exactly true, both of those accidents where caused by human error, Chernobyl mostly because the plant was terribly managed. Three mile is an interesting thing to bring up because it was started by a crew using candles to test for air leaks, which i hope most people would think is not the way you want to test for them inside such a facility. Anyways, it eventually caught an electrical fire which locked the core open. The plant crews held off firefighters for hours while the core continued to heat until they finally let the fire crews handle it and got the fire controlled in under an hour. The major disaster of Three Mile was the level of incompatance of the workers who worked there, and the lack of regulations of what to do once an emergency happened.
Both of those are much better now, 9-mile nuclear facility in Oswego NY was commissioned for ~3 million under the old 3-mile island regulations, after the incident and before the plant was finished(they had to incoorperate the new regulations into 9-mile, roughly a 10^3 multiplier in safety regulations), 9-mile held a ~3-billion dollar price tag, and was still profitable. People equate nuclear power to nuclear bombs too much, you can have a controlled nuclear reaction, just as your car relies on a controlled conventional explosive. If maintaned correctly nuclear both is very safe and very efficient, although plant building costs have drove it to a very long term investment. NY has still benefited from the 9-mile plant despite its building costs.
Something to keep in mind is Humans + Anything will lead to disaster at some point. Coal plants have problems all the time, partly because of the very large amount of them, partly because they arnt really any safer. The fact still lies that US Coal Plants each year kill more people then projected deaths off ALL nuclear plant disasters.
The way to virtually eliminate the disposal and much of the transportation problem of the waste is to build breeder reactors with on-site storage and refinement, but international treaties and pressure has made this nearly impossible.
That's what it comes down to between these two systems really. With the money saved on the AMD Live they got a better graphics card (Much better then the integrated on the Intel box).
Gaming: AMD -> money saved == more money to GFX
Real Work: Intel -> dual core == more efficient at multi-threaded tasks
I'm curious as to what a comparison with a AMD x64 Dual-Core would be though with embeded GFX, that would be much closer to comparing apples to apples.
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All so called technology cult religions all have one thing in common, what is that? They are all formed around hatred of Microsoft. Apple, Java, IBM, Google, you name it, they all have a strong driving force because of hatred for Microsoft. A Microsoft Cult would be an oxymoron.
I'm honestly trying to figure out if your comment is satirical or not. The Supreme Court didn't in any way decide Bush won, they decided that Gore counting the votes more then 2 extra times was wasting everyone's time and after 3 confirmations of Bush winning Florida, to stick with that.
As for the real topic...
THIS IS A PRIMARY. The different parties are companies, they are run like such and completely exist as such. The democrat party can chose whatever it wants to do for how it will decide it's candidate, the primary is a party voting, not a government one. If they decided it would be best to play beer pong until there was only one candidate left standing, that would be an equally valid way of doing it vs the current convention.
Whatever will I do without 10cm resolution aerial photos of nuclear power plants? Honestly, when the time comes up that i need that, that's when I'll bitch, not now.
Not really - this is the whole point of SSL. If you trust both endpoints, you don't much care about what's in the middle.
Thus the problem with SSL, anyone can insert themselves and spoof as an endpoint. If I spoof as VeriSign and man in the middle attack you with the bank, there is no good way to protect against this. It's like intercepting someone's mail, except in the SSL model you're shipping safes. I can spoof the mailman and give you my safe, and then play as you to the bank. If neither of you actually see each other I can just pretend I'm the bank to you, and you to the bank. It requires a slightly sophisticated attack, but it's easy enough to implement to make it worth it.
The first illegal prime to be announced, when interpreted a particular way, describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes on some DVDs. Because that program has been found illegal by courts in the United States of America, this has produced debate about whether the number itself could be considered illegal.
I imagine the same thing holds true for a decryption key, that no one actually knows until there is some kind of ruling on it.
Entries that did have date/time stamps showed a January 1, 1970 date.
TFA didn't say, but does anyone know if it is possible to get an accurate, tally? Would it make a difference?
Another interesting point, if this is the worst of the corruption then it's likely to be possible to retrieve a 'very accurate' tally. But why the hell did they use the JET engine, to save a few pennies? The JET engine is one of the WORST things ever to come out of M$, I would put it even in front of WinME on that list. I've seen database corruption with only one user doing very minimal read/write/modify to it before.
Breaking from a paradigms is always hard, but breaking from a paradigm like this one will be near impossible. People don't naturally calculate out what is the best for the amount of time they believe they will own the printer, they don't ever realize that they're tied into buying HPs ink for the rest of thier lives. Kodak will have to have one hell of a marketing team to pull this off.
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
You mean just like those quad-proc Voodoo cards saved 3DFX? Oh, wait...
That brings up an interesting point, which is that better design isn't what is going to win, MARKETING is. 3dfx at the time they filed chapter 11 had all the top 3 after market gfx cards. Yet, nVidia on just selling to PC distributors like HP, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, for OEM boxes was bringing in more revenue then 3dfx could dream of. The problem was 3dfx lost sight of the whole market, something AMD hasnt seem to. I've seen more boxes with AMD now then ever before and a lot people recognize their name. So i don't believe they will end up another 3dfx.
*Cues West Side Story finger snapping*
RTFA, the US government was the ones that where getting scammed.
Effectively with government contracts all the companies would agree to estimate far higher then it would ever take to fill the order. Step two, the contract winner would take the amount of money for the contract, subtract how much it really would have taken(this being raw "bonus" profit) and split that amongst the group since it involved the entire group to go along with it for it to work. Wait for the next contract and do it all over again, scamming millions if not billions from the US government who thought that it was getting a good deal off of each company fighting for the deal when really it was getting scammed by a pseudo-monopoly.
Remember OO has had its share of exploits as well. Why would you ever open anything not from a source you know if you where in the State Department? All this really shows is the ignorance of our government(and I can say OUR because every government shares in ignorance). I'm sure the guy who opened it had someone behind him saying "It's only a Word document, how could that do anything? See what it is."
The article links to a wikia article on the subject, which provides a very nice summary of the arguments. My question is how is this stuff even patentable?
Patent 6,282,574 clearly states that no one except Verizon can legally translate an IP to a telephone number and vice versa. The rest of the patents are basically saying Verizon owns the only right to transmit other various phone communications over TCP/IP.
WTF? How can someone be awarded a patent for their idea for an application layer protocol that depends on something like TCP/IP to even opperate?
I actually thought of making a instant refrigerator like that once, like a microwave speed but a freezer. My goals where of course shot down when I did research into how the limitations(thing to work really have to me microscopic), as well as the Microsoft had already patented it. Go figure.
Maybe... but I'm sure that the power PC and Intel Mac percentages are likely both under the percent error too, but I'm not going to argue that there are zero Macs, or possibly even negative Macs.
FTA: Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement.
I always find it amusing when a virus that requires the user to activate it is considered news. By definition it's more social engineering then a vulnerability. If people weren't so stupid I assume nearly 100% of all computer virus' wouldn't exist, or wouldn't be a problem.
I honestly have never had a problem with any of the 3 "broadband" services I've used. First it was ISDN(Verizon i think but don't actually remebemer), which at the time was considered broadband, talking close to 10 years ago. Second was Adelphia Cable, 4Mb/s down 128KB/s up. Never had a problem with either of those two services, although Adelphia might have been more worried about other things, if you know anything about their scandal/bankruptcy. Now its Time Warner Cable, 6Mb/s down, and I've seen as high as 1Mb/s up. I've used this service with no problem, pulling in likely about 1-2TB/month of bandwidth. I myself am convinced that the incidents that get /.ed are highly localized or are usually some kind of mistake on the ISP end, of course its also possible I've just had extremely good luck.
Um video editing, composting effects, CGI, 3d rendering, etc....
that is what hose computers are designed for. Apple pretty much owns video and TV production now.
Are you forgetting about Digital Domain, Disney, DreamWorks, ILM, and Pixar? All of those use primarily Linux based systems. Amature video they may hold still, but they lost the professional base a long time ago. So that leaves an 8-core Mac for what again...?
Actually sounds to me like NBC is scared of losing their own audience. I remember back when Steve Irwin died the only place to get all the information you wanted on it and in a reasonable amount of time was Wikipedia, and I never found a single inaccuracy about all the accounts on his death. The coupled with NBC's very poor network ratings makes me think this may actually be partly trying to discredit Wikipedia to take down their growing market share.
...and the Survey that 29% of US households dont see a need for an internet connection couldnt have been better timed. Anyone else find this slightly ironic?
The major factor here is the compleate lack of calculating in other ways of retail. iTunes, Wal-Mart, and hand full of other stores have launched non-CD sales. The article even mentions this. That coupled with the fact that there is very little new good music being released.
We're not even 3 months into the year yet, anyone else think they're crying wolf?
That is very true. I remeber reading an interview with the team leader of the Zune, he didn't even predict a success. His words where something close to "the phrase 'ipod killer' is a misnomer, i mean the pmp market is huge, we'll be happy with as little as 5-10% of it." Don't go preaching "A Microsoft Failure" when thier attempt wasnt even to kill the ipod, but simply increase thier revenue on a growing market.
As for "Apple vs PC"... Mac holds a very powerful niche in the PC market, they may only hover arround 5% of total market share, but they make some nice money doing it. Secondly why is Apple trying to say Macs anrt PCS? If they're not "personal computers" then wtf are they?
Anyways, a blog that's whole purpose is anti-M$ and pro-Mac, might be fun for
"Spyware and security cleaning by Geek Squad: a $200 annual servicing over seven years = $1400" and for mac: No antivirus needed No spyware cleaning needed
Now I dont know about you, but i've never seen a Mac without Symantec installed on it, and I dont know of a single person who has ever used Geek Squad, IMHO if you need Geek Squad you dont deserve to opperate a computer anyways, and that $1400 you blow on them is your own fault.
people eventually go for the Easy Button. That kind of mentality does not historically* mix well with nuclear power.
That is not exactly true, both of those accidents where caused by human error, Chernobyl mostly because the plant was terribly managed. Three mile is an interesting thing to bring up because it was started by a crew using candles to test for air leaks, which i hope most people would think is not the way you want to test for them inside such a facility. Anyways, it eventually caught an electrical fire which locked the core open. The plant crews held off firefighters for hours while the core continued to heat until they finally let the fire crews handle it and got the fire controlled in under an hour. The major disaster of Three Mile was the level of incompatance of the workers who worked there, and the lack of regulations of what to do once an emergency happened.
Both of those are much better now, 9-mile nuclear facility in Oswego NY was commissioned for ~3 million under the old 3-mile island regulations, after the incident and before the plant was finished(they had to incoorperate the new regulations into 9-mile, roughly a 10^3 multiplier in safety regulations), 9-mile held a ~3-billion dollar price tag, and was still profitable. People equate nuclear power to nuclear bombs too much, you can have a controlled nuclear reaction, just as your car relies on a controlled conventional explosive. If maintaned correctly nuclear both is very safe and very efficient, although plant building costs have drove it to a very long term investment. NY has still benefited from the 9-mile plant despite its building costs.
Something to keep in mind is Humans + Anything will lead to disaster at some point. Coal plants have problems all the time, partly because of the very large amount of them, partly because they arnt really any safer. The fact still lies that US Coal Plants each year kill more people then projected deaths off ALL nuclear plant disasters.
The way to virtually eliminate the disposal and much of the transportation problem of the waste is to build breeder reactors with on-site storage and refinement, but international treaties and pressure has made this nearly impossible.
That's what it comes down to between these two systems really. With the money saved on the AMD Live they got a better graphics card (Much better then the integrated on the Intel box).
Gaming: AMD -> money saved == more money to GFX
Real Work: Intel -> dual core == more efficient at multi-threaded tasks
I'm curious as to what a comparison with a AMD x64 Dual-Core would be though with embeded GFX, that would be much closer to comparing apples to apples.