The governor of New York just signed a law prohibiting use of drivers using cellphones except for emergencies. The sample size in New York just went to zero (not to mention the risks of using signal tracking as probable cause to stop you).
This technology is good at the moment, but what happens when it's obsolete, just like the '80's technology that's so outmoded today? At some point, cellphone technology may change drastically which would render all the maps obsolete within a few years. For instance, the frequencies of digital probably behave differently than analog, and analog phones are a dying breed.
The main bottlneck with MP machines is the message passing. It's rarely the memory or cpu speed, it's how fast one node can talk to another. TCP/IP has big problems when you have thousands of nodes, each filling the pipe as fast as possible. It's not that the messages won't get there, it's that the latency skyrockets once the pipes are near saturation. This behavior will prevent your code from reaching its theoretical max.
So, my question to you is, "Have YOU heard of the internet?" Because, if you think the Internet doesn't have scaling problems, where have you been the past 10 years? Under a rock?!
I didn't realize the Myrinet switches were custom made... maybe the lengths of the cables were custom. There are other gigabit switches that didn't exist when they were first building this machine, which might be better suited these days.
The experience for this was related to SunMOS, an OS for the paragon and maybe the nCUBE.
I'm not sure when the source was put up, but from what I can tell, the site hasn't been updated in almost a year
I sent in this: 2001-04-20 21:15:46 Sandia Labs Cplant software under GPL (articles,linux) (rejected) a while back. So, that web page was updated within 6 weeks. This was sent in about 3 days after the announcement of GPL went up.
... I've heard numbers for banner ads on porn sites isn't bad, 3-6 cents per. Serious. Plus click-through subscriptions are worth $30 each.
Of course, this isn't exactly the kind of thing you want to see on, say, Games For Kids Website.
In fact, it's even more of a pain! If someone forges your account name and spams, you get a bunch of hate mail and have to put in a.procmailrc to send off a response saying "It wasn't me."
But in this scenario, if someone uses YOUR phone number on registration and does anything illegal, suddenly the jackboot thugs are kicking in your door. The affidavit for a search warrant is only as good as the information contained, and if you have to rely on an ISP for that info, it's easily subverted through misinformation or cracking. Essentially, it's making the ISP a witness with no ability to confront them and argue it except AFTER all your computer equipment has been confiscated.
IBM tried this with their monster machines (e.g. vax 8650, etc). Found out that you get better performance with distributed systems.
In a smaller way, chip manufacturers found this out, too. They were doing it for a different reason, though -- speed of an electron slows things down. You want a short path from memory to CPU (like the on-die memory of Pentium Pro), but manufacturing wasn't up to par (thus the excessive failures of the P-Pro). Apparently, the tech hasn't advanced enough to produce such huge chips without excessive loss. For instance, slot-1 tech with cache stored external to cpu allows you to match working components, and toss only the failures.
The PS2 lost huge percentage of chips due to technical problems, and so will this if attempted without some new die manufacturing tech.
By definition, the good/bad ethics of cloning is societal. The word "clone" carries such bad connotations. So, we need a new word, which essentially means "an ethically-created clone" which the sheeple will accept. To be facetious, I propose "genetic sibling."
Actual problems with clones has everything to do with genetic diversity. If a couple loses their ability to reproduce, and subsequently loses their only child to some disease, a genetic sibling of that child will potentially have big problems with the same disease. Other problems are not necessarily ONE additional child, but MANY identical twins running around, plus the potential stigma attached. If it becomes accepted, thousands of parents will want their children to be just like that "Tall, Blue-eyed, Handsome Guy." If it becomes too common, the stigma will be on those that weren'tcreated in a laboratory.
In small quantities, cloning probably won't hurt anything, except socially. It will have everything to do with social aspects. But in large quanties, lack of genetic diversity (either immediately or the clone's children breeding with others from same clone) is indeed dangerous to the race as a whole. Genes will go to fixation, usually resulting in big genetic problems. cf: genetic diversity in cheetahs and inbreeding in humans.
According to the article, I inferred this:
1) He can't hold a job
2) He can't handle money (so much for support)
3) He's very clever, but doesn't care. I'd always have a nagging suspicion of intentional backdoors.
Just the opposite. Sandia labs has had several agreements with private corporations to help do research where the corporation didn't have the physical resources, but was able to share in the costs. It not only returns government dollars to civilian areas, but ensures that the technology does not end up only in "spook shops," plus it makes government research cheaper in taxes.
Most appliances like this will need to be reverse-engineered to get at the guts. Companies don't like to send it out open-source... which means you can't do maintenance or anything.
Carnivore is capable of capturing all unfiltered traffic that flows through it and archiving it for later investigation. That's a bad thing.... but then, we've all known that Carnivore was a bad thing the first time we heard about it.
Wrong.
Carnivore is a good thing. The bad things are: 1) the search string is not in the warrant ordering the tap, and 2) their is no accountability or prevention for overstepping this search string. The sole problems with Carnivore stem from the lack of oversight, and basically a "blank check" of stepping on privacy where the citizens are counting on the police to fill in the amount with only what they are allowed.
As was mentioned, the Sidewinder has the motion controls, unlike the Claw. The Sidewinder does NOT plug into the kb port. The claw does, which makes the claw portable between OS's, with no modifications. I don't know if there are kb port versions available, but the one I have plugs into the USB port, i.e. haven't gotten it running in Linux.
In Windows games, it is a Good Idea. I haven't wanted to get over the learning curve of a new input device yet, though.
Interesting that freebsd is used in asia-pacific so much. Want to know why? Most believe it's because MS is thought to be colluding with the US government, installing backdoors in its encryption software.... cf: _NSA crypto certificate in win95.
Our friends across the big pond don't like the idea of spying or crashing an entire government full of MS OS's. Why can't we seem to take a lesson from the Chinese?:)
Good thing/. hates me. I submitted this article a week ago. Next time I make a submission, I'll be sure to warn the websites quoted, so that they have a week to prepare to be boarded by nerds!
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The governor of New York just signed a law prohibiting use of drivers using cellphones except for emergencies. The sample size in New York just went to zero (not to mention the risks of using signal tracking as probable cause to stop you).
This technology is good at the moment, but what happens when it's obsolete, just like the '80's technology that's so outmoded today? At some point, cellphone technology may change drastically which would render all the maps obsolete within a few years. For instance, the frequencies of digital probably behave differently than analog, and analog phones are a dying breed.
I don't see why you can't use it as the base of a welding sculpture or something.
The main bottlneck with MP machines is the message passing. It's rarely the memory or cpu speed, it's how fast one node can talk to another. TCP/IP has big problems when you have thousands of nodes, each filling the pipe as fast as possible. It's not that the messages won't get there, it's that the latency skyrockets once the pipes are near saturation. This behavior will prevent your code from reaching its theoretical max.
So, my question to you is, "Have YOU heard of the internet?" Because, if you think the Internet doesn't have scaling problems, where have you been the past 10 years? Under a rock?!
The experience for this was related to SunMOS, an OS for the paragon and maybe the nCUBE.
I'm not sure when the source was put up, but from what I can tell, the site hasn't been updated in almost a year
I sent in this: 2001-04-20 21:15:46 Sandia Labs Cplant software under GPL (articles,linux) (rejected) a while back. So, that web page was updated within 6 weeks. This was sent in about 3 days after the announcement of GPL went up.
... I've heard numbers for banner ads on porn sites isn't bad, 3-6 cents per. Serious. Plus click-through subscriptions are worth $30 each.
Of course, this isn't exactly the kind of thing you want to see on, say, Games For Kids Website.
In fact, it's even more of a pain! If someone forges your account name and spams, you get a bunch of hate mail and have to put in a .procmailrc to send off a response saying "It wasn't me."
But in this scenario, if someone uses YOUR phone number on registration and does anything illegal, suddenly the jackboot thugs are kicking in your door. The affidavit for a search warrant is only as good as the information contained, and if you have to rely on an ISP for that info, it's easily subverted through misinformation or cracking. Essentially, it's making the ISP a witness with no ability to confront them and argue it except AFTER all your computer equipment has been confiscated.
Having your computer play for you still has to be programmed by you, which you could do by sitting at the computer.
Cheating is, say, subverting the channel to create objects, or crashing other players' connections.
Now, think of the cool systems you could have if you were able to program the AI of a monster or pet.
IBM tried this with their monster machines (e.g. vax 8650, etc). Found out that you get better performance with distributed systems.
In a smaller way, chip manufacturers found this out, too. They were doing it for a different reason, though -- speed of an electron slows things down. You want a short path from memory to CPU (like the on-die memory of Pentium Pro), but manufacturing wasn't up to par (thus the excessive failures of the P-Pro). Apparently, the tech hasn't advanced enough to produce such huge chips without excessive loss. For instance, slot-1 tech with cache stored external to cpu allows you to match working components, and toss only the failures.
The PS2 lost huge percentage of chips due to technical problems, and so will this if attempted without some new die manufacturing tech.
Actual problems with clones has everything to do with genetic diversity. If a couple loses their ability to reproduce, and subsequently loses their only child to some disease, a genetic sibling of that child will potentially have big problems with the same disease. Other problems are not necessarily ONE additional child, but MANY identical twins running around, plus the potential stigma attached. If it becomes accepted, thousands of parents will want their children to be just like that "Tall, Blue-eyed, Handsome Guy." If it becomes too common, the stigma will be on those that weren't created in a laboratory.
In small quantities, cloning probably won't hurt anything, except socially. It will have everything to do with social aspects. But in large quanties, lack of genetic diversity (either immediately or the clone's children breeding with others from same clone) is indeed dangerous to the race as a whole. Genes will go to fixation, usually resulting in big genetic problems. cf: genetic diversity in cheetahs and inbreeding in humans.
... when his firewall becomes open source.
According to the article, I inferred this:
1) He can't hold a job
2) He can't handle money (so much for support)
3) He's very clever, but doesn't care. I'd always have a nagging suspicion of intentional backdoors.
... because they're all petaphiles
Just the opposite. Sandia labs has had several agreements with private corporations to help do research where the corporation didn't have the physical resources, but was able to share in the costs. It not only returns government dollars to civilian areas, but ensures that the technology does not end up only in "spook shops," plus it makes government research cheaper in taxes.
Most appliances like this will need to be reverse-engineered to get at the guts. Companies don't like to send it out open-source... which means you can't do maintenance or anything.
*hates having his hands tied*
Wrong. Carnivore is a good thing. The bad things are: 1) the search string is not in the warrant ordering the tap, and 2) their is no accountability or prevention for overstepping this search string. The sole problems with Carnivore stem from the lack of oversight, and basically a "blank check" of stepping on privacy where the citizens are counting on the police to fill in the amount with only what they are allowed.
As was mentioned, the Sidewinder has the motion controls, unlike the Claw. The Sidewinder does NOT plug into the kb port. The claw does, which makes the claw portable between OS's, with no modifications. I don't know if there are kb port versions available, but the one I have plugs into the USB port, i.e. haven't gotten it running in Linux.
In Windows games, it is a Good Idea. I haven't wanted to get over the learning curve of a new input device yet, though.
Interesting that freebsd is used in asia-pacific so much. Want to know why? Most believe it's because MS is thought to be colluding with the US government, installing backdoors in its encryption software.... cf: _NSA crypto certificate in win95.
:)
Our friends across the big pond don't like the idea of spying or crashing an entire government full of MS OS's. Why can't we seem to take a lesson from the Chinese?
Good thing /. hates me. I submitted this article a week ago. Next time I make a submission, I'll be sure to warn the websites quoted, so that they have a week to prepare to be boarded by nerds!