The only ways I can dimly imagine a half pound payload being able to elevate it's own orbit replies on multiple technologies enjoying at least a couple of orders of magnitude in improvement.
Too many layers of magic would be required to make this even a fun mental exercise.
Do you seriously think that the average DefCon attendee is more disenchanted with government than were people like me?
I was a stoner high school drop out who was also a Mensan, It was either the military, or living in my parents' basement.
The culture shock was huge.
Finding holes in security systems controlling Polaris missile systems was fun, but only an intellectual exercise.
I found several different ways in which it would be trivial for one person with no special access to destroy (not detonate) all the missiles on board in such a way that the only option would be to scuttle the boat.
I also found out that lots of other people before me had found those same holes.
In every steaming pile there lies a grain of truth.
despite what you find pretty to believe, the military as a whole goes to great lengths to minimize collateral damage.
The fact of the matter is that every action has the risk of collateral damage.
and yeah - killing a certain percentage of innocents has always been, and always will be acceptable once the decision to prosecute a war has been made.
The logical extension of your statements is that all armed conflict will fail, which is demonstrably not the case.
You seriously need to breathe some fresh air into your view of the military.
The picture you have in your head of basic training was out of date when I went - and that was over 30 years ago.
The Air Farce has no DI's.
What boot camp does is teach people how to operate within a large hierarchical system.
It also puts a person through a mild physical fitness regimen.
I benefited greatly from basic training, though I wouldn't realize it for years.
A lot of the stuff seems silly at the time, like being inspected for one's ability to fold one's clothes exactly as instructed.
The actual lesson being taught by that exercise is that breaking a routine function down to basics, and standardizing it, has value in a complex system.
Hackers recruited for the military will still go through basic -they have to in order to speak the same language and fit in at all.
We had plenty of out of shape people who still managed to pass.
The numbers don't add up no matter how I turn them. He claims to be getting 14% more performance from each graphics card than from each PS3.
No. He didn't say that. The performance difference was the cluster of 12 pc's with 24 cards, to the cluster of 215 PS3's
So, how are the numbers supposed to be interpreted?
Why are you interpreting them? They seem pretty clear as written.
I don't understand why anybody still finds it newsworthy when somebody come up with faster collision attacks against MD5.
It was newsworthy in January when it was first presented to the CA's. It's newsworthy now because it's a significant per processor performance increase. If you had read the article and not interjected your flawed interpretation, that would be obvious.
We already know, that collisions can be generated for MD5, and they can be generated fast enough, that we have to worry about it. It no longer matters exactly how fast they can be generated. If somebody managed to come up with a practical second preimage attack against MD5, then it would be newsworthy.
It's newsworthy due to the application to certain mathematical processes. No one said this was "zomg - the internet is falling."
I understand where you're going with this, and I've pointed out for years that most technological advancements in media and distribution are directly traceable to porn loving old men in their basements.
And you definitely have a point with high speed internet.
I need it at work as we need to send our own company-generated media around without people twiddling their expensive thumbs waiting for it to arrive. (No, I don't work for a media company - we just have an artsy ethos and generate a lot of pretty pictures and video in support of our tangible product.)
I really would have no need for a cable connection at home, except for downloading large media from the internet.
If I wanted a better gaming experience I would shelve my very fast cable connection for a slower, lower latency dsl line.
I can't remember the last time I was able to actually saturate my connection downloading from a legit site.
Cable internet *is* very much piracy driven.
Drive sales - no so much.
Most people don't archive what they download - they watch it, and with the exception of a few rare "keepers" delete them to make room for the next download.
There is a concept in law often phrased as "knew or should have known."
It applies to both Bays.
If ebay were suddenly inundated with brand new $50 dollar laptops and did not investigate, they would be guilty of facilitating sales of stolen property.
Similarly, the operators of TBP knew, or should have known that the service they operated was facilitating copy write violation.
Whether or not they actually host the files is irrelevant, as they are aware of the illegal behavior, do not prevent it, encourage it, and profit from it through sales of advertising.
There is a clear difference long established in law between these scenarios.
TPB has always been about piracy. They knew what was going on, and took no action to prevent it, as well as benefiting from it. Ads on TBP generate revenue, and the revenue is based on site traffic. Track only non-infringing torrents and TPB would cease to exist, and so would the revenue stream. They do not enjoy common carrier status. Snarky comments do not negate the simple truth of the matter.
1st, no one ever said it's a natural right. It's a derived right, which the majority have agreed is an overall benefit to society. The fact that intellectual property is not a physical thing doesn't negate it's existence. Your position is ignorant and lacks even internal consistency.
When I was a kid in North Florida, we had drive through liquor stores.
You could get not only a few cases of beer without leaving your car, you could get a mixed drink in a cup though the drive up window (a plastic cup, of course - for safety.)
Good drivers don't really need any other law in order to comply with the above.
They observe what's going on around them, and adapt accordingly - whether it's slowing down, stopping for a nap, adding following distance, or refraining from phone use.
What we actually need is enforcement of the above.
Involved in an accident?
The burden is on you to prove you did everything a reasonable person would to prevent it.
Currently, I can pull out from an intersection and deliberately t-bone someone and suffer no serious repercussions, unless I'm proven impaired, or some other gross act.
"Oops - I didn't seem him" gets people out of what should have been criminal charges all the time.
I blame mandatory insurance for some of this.
Everyone looks at accidents like "you were insured? no harm - no foul.
I see people every day who should be locked up for the lack of common care they put into their driving.
The usual metal and auto shops, including advanced mig/tig welding. The welding program was good enough that my cousin who majored in welding went straight to a $12/hr job - and that was about 25 years ago.
Hydraulics Shop.
Aviation Shop - with a working Pratt Whitney in a not-remotely-sound-proof room.
Foundry - where they would cast a 10 foot diameter iron skillet every year.
Construction - senior project was building a house in the parking lot which was later raffled off. (No not the parking lot...)
and you had to take 4 years of math and science too.
It was one of the last of the public all boys schools - and was very selective. This was a public school that placed a dozen students a year into Serious Schools like RPI, MIT and Stanford.
They admitted 40 girls the year I left.
Within 4 years, all of the shop programs were discontinued, and replaced with 'medical arts.'
Top graduates competed for their choice of 2nd tier schools, or $3/hr CNA positions - actually NA at first..
The recruiters from the power schools no longer visit.
It's a lot more diverse, and that was the stated goal, but why did they think they had to completely neuter the program?
I use an HTC - ATT Tilt branded smartphone. I'd like to point out that the testing methodology is not remotely suited to use in selecting a carrier.
Average is useless.
Verizon's has coverage that is far and away the fastest in areas not within major metropolitan areas, whereas ATT does not.
Sprint has traditionally been known as Highway Wireless, meaning that they tend to have excellent coverage along interstate highways, but when veering more than a mile or two from the highway in search of a late night fuel up, you'll lose signal much more frequently than with Verizon.
In the Portland Oregon metro area. Verizon does have the most granular coverage, and ATT has the fastest HSPDA speeds. It should be noted that hspda speeds are significantly higher than vanilla 3g, and if speed is your primary criterion, 3g only phones are out of the running.
Granular coverage notwithstanding, ATT has the best voice and data coverage in my employer's physical locations in Portland.
However, my experiences do agree with the report with respect to ATT data dropouts. The reason for the dropsouts seems to be prioritization of voice traffic over data at peak times.
ALL of the carriers have issues with capacity during peak times - like 5pm rush hour. Because of the tight convergence of cell using driver along major arterials, and the towers that serve them, it's not unusual to drop a call when moving from cell to cell. Data is no different in this regard, but added is the fact that consumers are more sensitive to inability to place a call than they are to data not flowing, hence the prioritization of voice.
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Or summary executions of all involved - flip a coin.
IE on OS X FTW!
That's assuming you were born into the Apple Hegemony.
I personally find OS X to be user unfriendly.
Finder is the chief offender in making for a User Hostile interface.
not a hivemind, which implies purposeful order, but a disorderly group of herd followers that shit where they eat.
I'm betting that if you tried that at the Capitol Building, you'd be dead before the egg hit the floor.
The only ways I can dimly imagine a half pound payload being able to elevate it's own orbit replies on multiple technologies enjoying at least a couple of orders of magnitude in improvement.
Too many layers of magic would be required to make this even a fun mental exercise.
Quite a lot of people actually.
I've never heard of a shortage of applicants for social worker positions.
Or teachers, for that matter.
I guess that means that either they are working under duress, or are not actually underpaid.
The problem as I see it, is that once in these positions, few positive results are obtained.
And yet, that's never happened.
Do you seriously think that the average DefCon attendee is more disenchanted with government than were people like me?
I was a stoner high school drop out who was also a Mensan,
It was either the military, or living in my parents' basement.
The culture shock was huge.
Finding holes in security systems controlling Polaris missile systems was fun, but only an intellectual exercise.
I found several different ways in which it would be trivial for one person with no special access to destroy (not detonate) all the missiles on board in such a way that the only option would be to scuttle the boat.
I also found out that lots of other people before me had found those same holes.
You conjecture from the vacuum of ignorance.
You just have to seek the level at which you are comfortable.
Government work, whether military of civilian is really no different than non-government work.
You gradually reinvent your position as your employer reinvents you.
You eventually reach a stable symbiotic relationship.
Or you become a disgruntled /. poster.
No need, when they lead a group of people who collectively are culturally primitive, and only marginally literate.
People who would think Sharia Law is something to be desired really aren't fit to eat at the Big People's Table.
It's a backward culture, fools led by hucksters.
In every steaming pile there lies a grain of truth.
despite what you find pretty to believe, the military as a whole goes to great lengths to minimize collateral damage.
The fact of the matter is that every action has the risk of collateral damage.
and yeah - killing a certain percentage of innocents has always been, and always will be acceptable once the decision to prosecute a war has been made.
The logical extension of your statements is that all armed conflict will fail, which is demonstrably not the case.
You seriously need to breathe some fresh air into your view of the military.
The picture you have in your head of basic training was out of date when I went - and that was over 30 years ago.
The Air Farce has no DI's.
What boot camp does is teach people how to operate within a large hierarchical system.
It also puts a person through a mild physical fitness regimen.
I benefited greatly from basic training, though I wouldn't realize it for years.
A lot of the stuff seems silly at the time, like being inspected for one's ability to fold one's clothes exactly as instructed.
The actual lesson being taught by that exercise is that breaking a routine function down to basics, and standardizing it, has value in a complex system.
Hackers recruited for the military will still go through basic -they have to in order to speak the same language and fit in at all.
We had plenty of out of shape people who still managed to pass.
The numbers don't add up no matter how I turn them. He claims to be getting 14% more performance from each graphics card than from each PS3.
No. He didn't say that.
The performance difference was the cluster of 12 pc's with 24 cards, to the cluster of 215 PS3's
So, how are the numbers supposed to be interpreted?
Why are you interpreting them? They seem pretty clear as written.
I don't understand why anybody still finds it newsworthy when somebody come up with faster collision attacks against MD5.
It was newsworthy in January when it was first presented to the CA's.
It's newsworthy now because it's a significant per processor performance increase.
If you had read the article and not interjected your flawed interpretation, that would be obvious.
We already know, that collisions can be generated for MD5, and they can be generated fast enough, that we have to worry about it. It no longer matters exactly how fast they can be generated. If somebody managed to come up with a practical second preimage attack against MD5, then it would be newsworthy.
It's newsworthy due to the application to certain mathematical processes.
No one said this was "zomg - the internet is falling."
I understand where you're going with this, and I've pointed out for years that most technological advancements in media and distribution are directly traceable to porn loving old men in their basements.
And you definitely have a point with high speed internet.
I need it at work as we need to send our own company-generated media around without people twiddling their expensive thumbs waiting for it to arrive.
(No, I don't work for a media company - we just have an artsy ethos and generate a lot of pretty pictures and video in support of our tangible product.)
I really would have no need for a cable connection at home, except for downloading large media from the internet.
If I wanted a better gaming experience I would shelve my very fast cable connection for a slower, lower latency dsl line.
I can't remember the last time I was able to actually saturate my connection downloading from a legit site.
Cable internet *is* very much piracy driven.
Drive sales - no so much.
Most people don't archive what they download - they watch it, and with the exception of a few rare "keepers" delete them to make room for the next download.
There is a concept in law often phrased as "knew or should have known."
It applies to both Bays.
If ebay were suddenly inundated with brand new $50 dollar laptops and did not investigate, they would be guilty of facilitating sales of stolen property.
Similarly, the operators of TBP knew, or should have known that the service they operated was facilitating copy write violation.
Whether or not they actually host the files is irrelevant, as they are aware of the illegal behavior, do not prevent it, encourage it, and profit from it through sales of advertising.
There is a clear difference long established in law between these scenarios.
TPB has always been about piracy.
They knew what was going on, and took no action to prevent it, as well as benefiting from it.
Ads on TBP generate revenue, and the revenue is based on site traffic.
Track only non-infringing torrents and TPB would cease to exist, and so would the revenue stream.
They do not enjoy common carrier status.
Snarky comments do not negate the simple truth of the matter.
1st, no one ever said it's a natural right.
It's a derived right, which the majority have agreed is an overall benefit to society.
The fact that intellectual property is not a physical thing doesn't negate it's existence.
Your position is ignorant and lacks even internal consistency.
A library purchases X copies of a work to loan to their members.
Piracy involves buying one or zero copies, then replicating them.
Do you really not see the difference?
funny how things change.
When I was a kid in North Florida, we had drive through liquor stores.
You could get not only a few cases of beer without leaving your car, you could get a mixed drink in a cup though the drive up window (a plastic cup, of course - for safety.)
It called Maintaining Control of Your Vehicle.
Good drivers don't really need any other law in order to comply with the above.
They observe what's going on around them, and adapt accordingly - whether it's slowing down, stopping for a nap, adding following distance, or refraining from phone use.
What we actually need is enforcement of the above.
Involved in an accident?
The burden is on you to prove you did everything a reasonable person would to prevent it.
Currently, I can pull out from an intersection and deliberately t-bone someone and suffer no serious repercussions, unless I'm proven impaired, or some other gross act.
"Oops - I didn't seem him" gets people out of what should have been criminal charges all the time.
I blame mandatory insurance for some of this.
Everyone looks at accidents like "you were insured? no harm - no foul.
I see people every day who should be locked up for the lack of common care they put into their driving.
We were amazed that our old POS 20 year old Dodge Spirit was stolen from a shopping center parking lot.
It was found later parked (in two space) in the lot of some subsidized apartments.
I was expecting to find a destroyed ignition lock from someone using a screwdriver or dent puller on it.
It was unscathed.
I know the key wasn't left in it, as we still had the only key for it.
Or so we thought...
I then remembered my experience with motorcycles in the late 70's early 80's.
The 78 Yamaha 400 Special only had 5 or 6 keys made for it.
It was a trivial matter to wander around with your own key until you found a matching lock.
With the exception of the uber secure electronic keys, the same is still true to an extent.
My High School had....
The usual metal and auto shops, including advanced mig/tig welding.
The welding program was good enough that my cousin who majored in welding went straight to a $12/hr job - and that was about 25 years ago.
Hydraulics Shop.
Aviation Shop - with a working Pratt Whitney in a not-remotely-sound-proof room.
Foundry - where they would cast a 10 foot diameter iron skillet every year.
Construction - senior project was building a house in the parking lot which was later raffled off.
(No not the parking lot...)
and you had to take 4 years of math and science too.
It was one of the last of the public all boys schools - and was very selective.
This was a public school that placed a dozen students a year into Serious Schools like RPI, MIT and Stanford.
They admitted 40 girls the year I left.
Within 4 years, all of the shop programs were discontinued, and replaced with 'medical arts.'
Top graduates competed for their choice of 2nd tier schools, or $3/hr CNA positions - actually NA at first..
The recruiters from the power schools no longer visit.
It's a lot more diverse, and that was the stated goal, but why did they think they had to completely neuter the program?
I did something similar, except we were grab assing and I was vaulting my workbench.
My hand landed on the hot iron with my weight fully, though briefly on the hot iron.
Did you immediately jam the burned flesh into your mouth to cool it?
People still look at me oddly when I tell them that fried human flesh tastes a lot more like sauteed mushrooms than pork.
That was my first thought as well.
Way back when the Navy was teaching me basic electronics, they had us design and build these from compoonents.
They were then used in further labs demonstrating basic logic circuits.
It was very useful conceptually, and I still remember the exercise fondly.
I was less fond of the analog relay computers we used for missile testing, but that's another story.
I use an HTC - ATT Tilt branded smartphone.
I'd like to point out that the testing methodology is not remotely suited to use in selecting a carrier.
Average is useless.
Verizon's has coverage that is far and away the fastest in areas not within major metropolitan areas, whereas ATT does not.
Sprint has traditionally been known as Highway Wireless, meaning that they tend to have excellent coverage along interstate highways, but when veering more than a mile or two from the highway in search of a late night fuel up, you'll lose signal much more frequently than with Verizon.
In the Portland Oregon metro area. Verizon does have the most granular coverage, and ATT has the fastest HSPDA speeds.
It should be noted that hspda speeds are significantly higher than vanilla 3g, and if speed is your primary criterion, 3g only phones are out of the running.
Granular coverage notwithstanding, ATT has the best voice and data coverage in my employer's physical locations in Portland.
However, my experiences do agree with the report with respect to ATT data dropouts.
The reason for the dropsouts seems to be prioritization of voice traffic over data at peak times.
ALL of the carriers have issues with capacity during peak times - like 5pm rush hour.
Because of the tight convergence of cell using driver along major arterials, and the towers that serve them, it's not unusual to drop a call when moving from cell to cell.
Data is no different in this regard, but added is the fact that consumers are more sensitive to inability to place a call than they are to data not flowing, hence the prioritization of voice.
On my commute route,