Posts by Cipher 463 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012
The Cloud is just a remote server you have no real control over. No privacy. No proper management.
So why would anyone with critical data have it all in the hands of some third party outfit, thousands of miles away, with no control of how their data is managed and protected?
But hey, I'm still waiting for the Flying cars too. Surface roads were to be obsolete by now, remember?
Drama. Richards could have turned around and told them to shut up. Her reason for the public outing of these two numbnuts doesn't hold water: No little girl was ever gonna be denied a chance to be a programmer because of an off-color joke. Never. I suspect that her motivation lies elsewhere: Fame and Fortune.
Richards herself has made jokes of a sexual nature online before, and in the words of an editor at one of the tech rags : "Regardless of her previous behavior online (which quite frankly, seems to be a little racist at times)..." Her hands are not clean. Women are ill served by double standard advocates such as her...
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"Please someone officially attribute it to somewhere other than the NORKs
If only to make FOX look like the utter twats they are."
So you want some network to report incorrect information just to sate your adolescent dislike of Fox?
Really?
Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.
The unique collaboration involved heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary science divisions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and resulted in the first successful demonstration of the Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass (STORM) instrument and a never-before-flown X-ray focusing technology called lobster-eye optics.
Scientists first discovered the charge-exchange effect in the mid-1990s while observing comet Hyakutake. They found an intense source of soft X-rays at the comet's head, which was unusual because comets are cold objects and soft X-rays are associated with hot objects. How could balls of ice emit X-rays?
Scientists soon discovered that the X-ray emission was caused by the solar wind, a constantly flowing stream of charged particles that sweeps across the solar system at about a million miles per hour. When highly charged heavy ions in the solar wind collide with neutral atoms found in space, the heavy ions "steal" an electron from the neutrals -- an exchange that puts the heavy ions in a short-lived excited state. As they relax, they emit soft X-rays.
STORM potentially holds the answer for obtaining a more complete understanding of the physical process, giving scientists insights currently impossible with existing instruments, the scientists said. STORM gave scientists a global view. The wide-field-of-view camera imaged processes near Earth's magnetosphere, which until now was impossible.
Making the imagery possible was an emerging technology called lobster-eye optics. As the technology's name implies, the optics mimic the structure of a lobster's eyes, which are made up of long, narrow cells that each captures a tiny amount of light, but from many different angles. Only then is the light focused into a single image.
Pioneered by researchers at the United Kingdom's University of Leicester, a partner in STORM's development, lobster X-ray optics work the same way. Its eyes are a microchannel plate, a thin curved slab of material dotted with tiny tubes across the surface. X-ray light enters these tubes from multiple angles and is focused through grazing-incident reflection, giving the technology a wide-field-of-view necessary for globally imaging the emission of soft X-rays in Earth's exosphere.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/wide-xray.html
And short of a Linux solution, how about not working in an admin account as most windows users do. Enterprise computers are typically locked down to the user for installs and changes, and therefore a bit more secure than joe user at home.
You can always tell a Windows user coming over to try Linux: One of the very first questions they ask is how to log in as root. Sudo and a password protect many a machine...
Anonymous Coward
Re: Nice upgrade but.......
"Install Windows then, not some amateur written OS intended for hobbyists."
The "hobbyist" line is used by better MS employees everywhere. Can't you guys insert a little original thought in your posts? Or does Redmond have a script you must follow?
"You'll find all the driver support you need with a professional OS."
Not having any problems with Mint, in fact the install took care of everything. 1998 is calling, you should answer that phone....
the J to the C
"Linux as a desktop is a failure, its time to move on"
Your perceptions and wishes do not equal reality.
"Really guys, its over, will someone tell the others, as a server, it has lots of merits"
It freakin' rules the server world, far beyond "lots of merits...
"but a desktop OS it is an. utter failure."
Works fine for me, and many others I suspect...
" its been fun to play with but today I dont have a linux build working and dont see a place for it as a desktop OS. Mac OS or Windows pick one and do something rather that fix the OS"
Try some of the help forums, just like windows users do when it eventually breaks on them. There are thousands of people seeking Windows help everyday because it doesn't always "just work."
People who know what they're doing help them, and Linux users will help you. I am sorry you cannot seem to get a major distro to work. makes me wonder how you would do if handed a blank computer and had to install windows on it the same way. Probably be beyond your reach as well...
Google Glass: The opposition grows
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57574607-93/google-glass-the-opposition-grows/
"Stop The Cyborgs" http://stopthecyborgs.org/about/ is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we'll all be walking round with Google's outer brain strapped to our faces."
mmeier
Re: More dire news for Microsoft
"Unlike other groups the Windows fans read the article and shake the head about the quality of journalism. The headline says Windows and the article says Win/RT and Windows Phone. Not a single negative word about Windows 8 or the two Win8 tablet pc in there."
What is the market share for Win 8? 6%?
Don't count the OEM licenses paid for, just what is on the street.
Why is Win 8 behind where even Vista was at this stage?
People don't want a mobile OS on their desktop. And despite the mantra that the desktop is dead, people seem to want both. I'll grant that 8 is the best and fastest ever made by Microsoft, but perception often becomes reality. And the perception is that 8 is hard to use and sucks. Yeah, there are workarounds, but the average user doesn't want to have to fiddle with it to see a desktop or a start button.
All Microsoft haters should pray every night that Ballmer stays on...
Exactly.
Oil Barons want to make money, they don't particularly have some love affair with oil. They will simply start investing in this if they think it will return a good profit. At some point they will become Nuke Barons...
Another upside of not having to use fossil fuels for electricity is that the dwindling supply can be used for agriculture and medicine to a greater degree...
RT tablet inscribed:
"It is ridiculous how this web page is anti-microsoft."
Maybe this has something to do with it:
Catastrophic Microsoft auto updates of 2012
https://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/82741/5-microsoft-windows-automatic-updates-hell-211180
5 major patch fails in one year.
When scientists the same left leaning politics as today predicted another Ice Age.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3213/Dont-Miss-it-Climate-Depots-Factsheet-on-1970s-Coming-Ice-Age-Claims
The second URL debunks the current revisionist nonsense that the New Ice Age wasn't a widespread theory back then. No less than NASA, and the National Academy of Sciences predicted as much.
To show you how politics supplants science these days, consider:
New York Times: Obama's global warming promoting science czar Holdren 'warned of a coming ice age' in 1971 – September 29, 2009 – By John Tierney – Excerpt: In the 1971 essay, “Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide,” Dr. Holdren and his co-author, the ecologist Paul Ehrlich, warned of a coming ice age. They certainly weren't the only scientists in the 1970s to warn of a coming ice age, but I can't think of any others who were so creative in their catastrophizing. Although they noted that the greenhouse effect from rising emissions of carbon dioxide emissions could cause future warming of the planet, they concluded from the mid-century cooling trend that the consequences of human activities (like industrial soot, dust from farms, jet exhaust, urbanization and deforestation) were more likely to first cause an ice age. (See also: Obama Science 'Czar' John Holdren's 1971 warning: A 'New Ice Age' likely – September 23, 2009)
Add to this the fact that the excuse for the lack of raw data from the University of East Anglia was blamed on the fact that they didn't have room for the raw data when they moved to larger quarters with more and bigger computers, more filing cabinets, more shelves, etc. To think that Real Scientists would ever put their raw data into the ash can at all, much less for the pathetic reason given, is incredible.
The ClimateGate emails prove that data was destroyed when the public began to question their nonsense:
The University of East Anglia had flouted the rules in its handling of an FOI request in May 2008.
Days after receiving the request for information from the British climate change scientist David Holland, Jones asked Prof Mike Mann of Pennsylvania State University in the United States: "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith [Briffa] re AR4? Keith will do likewise.
"Can you also email Gene [Eugene Wahl, a paleoclimatologist in Boulder, Colorado] and get him to do the same ... We will be getting Caspar [Ammann, also from Boulder] to do the same."
It is bullshit people... Designed to alter the political landscape and make the elites, i.e. Gore, richer...
Whitespace quoted and then inquired:
" I would be very uncomfortable being breast anyone wearing a pair."
Freudian slip or predictive text snafu?
If predictive text wtf were you trying to type?
"Abreast" as in "Abreast of"
a·breast
adverb, adjective
1. side by side; beside each other in a line: They walked two abreast down the street.
"The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation did not "later become Unisys". It first became Univac, which underwent various changes in name and ownership, finally merging with Burroughs in 1986 to form Unisys."
So it did emerge as Unisys...
Note the author said "later" not "Instantaneous"
@David Hicks
Re: Totally missing the point
I think you're wrong. I use Linux. Love it. But Linux forums are full of two kinds of answers for the most part:
1. "Learn Linux before you come here to ask questions" type replies...
2. Questions with no answers, sometimes after the asker restates the question the respondent thought was something else.
An aside here: the answer to "How do I fix my brand A stove" is NOT "You're using the wrong brand stove."
I'm talking about intermediate level questions, everyone wants to answer the real easy stuff. I'll gladly provide examples by the bushel if asked, but that is the way of most Linux forums. They are mostly useless for the newbie, and are full of esoteric debate clearly above their heads. I was left with the opinion that they really don't want Linux to spread beyond the "1337s" who know it...
IE 10 preparation update KB 2670838 BSOD.
https://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-pushes-another-botched-automatic-update-213802
Hardware affected:
HP, Dell, Sony, Compaq, Gateway, and Lenovo computers running GeForce, Radeon, Intel, and AMD graphics chips, among others.
Microsoft, covering its ass for lacking a testing department that shows up to work to do the testing required, sez:
Microsoft is aware of an issue some customers are experiencing when installing KB2670838 on certain laptop systems with hybrid graphics. We are looking into the situation and are considering blocking the update for systems that could be affected. Customers who are experiencing issues on systems that already have installed the update should consider uninstalling KB2670838.
Sadly, this is more the norm than the exception for Microsoft Updates. So when we speak of "it just works" maybe in Microsoft's case we should restate that as: "it just breaks."
You're kidding, right? Window users fill web forums with pleas for help when Windows fails. Some times it is Microsoft updates causing the problems.
"Technical elites" are out there fixing Aunt Martha's windows computer every minute of every day! When they read about Java not being needed for most users, and about the security issues, do you think most of them know how to completely uninstall it themselves? Or which of the dozens of windows patches are unnecessary and may actually cause problems for them? Or how to make Windows behave as they want it to?
They also turn to "technical elites." Major Geeks, Bleeping Computer, Seven Forums, Tom's hardware, all these sites are busy as hell fixing Windows for the non-geek user. This doesn't count the friend everyone bothers to death for support.
Hell, there is a cottage industry in showing people how to use Win 8 since it is so different from what they're used to. Another reason why 8 is so slow to be adopted. And don't start with number of licenses sold. The OEMs bought those, they are not on the street...
We use 'em here to deter red light runners. And it has to be fairly clear cut to stick in court. That said, the number of T-Bone (read high fatality/serious injury) accidents declines sharply where they are installed. Conversely, the number of rear end accidents rises. Not nearly the number of fatalities or serious injuries from those however and the blame is easy to assign...
I used to think that the red light cameras were Orwellian, but have changed my opinion of them. They save lives, demonstrably. They run the video at court and guilt is undeniable. Either the driver comes forward or the registered owner pays...
There are far too many inebriated drivers and self-absorbed morons out there, society has the absolute right to protect itself from these menaces...
I guess my question is why even hook these devices up to ANY net. Not to sound too much the Ludditte, but mankind has prospered for centuries without remote control of air conditioners. I understand that there may be some savings involved, but the first time a successful attack occurs, you may find yourself doing a realistic cost analysis of what that cost versus manual control of those systems. And take into account Total Cost of Operation of them, personnel, hardware, electricity, software and then whatever the attack cost you. I dare say a trained person at the control panel would be a hell of a lot less...
Everything doesn't need to be plugged in. I have a Rolodex with all my contacts/numbers, for example. Not only does it *never* fail, it is faster than looking them up via software...
Vint Cerf: He cited the use of internet-equipped air-conditioning systems. If a hacker could get control of the nation's aircon units, and cycle between shutting them down and whacking them up to full, you might be able to crash the US power grid, Cerf suggested.
Why would you ever put them on a publically accessed net? Aren't there personnel on station to adjust the settings? Like 24/7 at a power plant?
Is he making a problem so he can sell us the solution?
nanchatte spewed forth:
Why does everything bad come down to "lefties" liberals and commies in the Reg? I am certainly NOT right winged and I DO support nuclear power wholeheartedly, even though I live not that far from Fukushima...
Because the politics of the world, which ultimately decides policy for us all, is split along these lines.
Please don't tar us all with the same brush, you effing, George Bush dick-sucking, gun-toting, right-winged neo nazi. (as an example of stereotyping, you understand... Nothing personal).
When you have something besides vulgarity and crude ad hominem, please come come back and try again.
Clue: Reason and Facts combined with a civil tone. Try it next time...
I really have to stop reading Lewis Page articles' comments.
Yes, no need to let facts confuse you, you have your mind made up...
JDX:
As a poster here has already said, 3000 - 10000 years of fuel remain. While we look for an alternative.
Waste containment/disposal is the issue we need to get a grip on. I understand the French have opted not to call it "disposal" but rather "Storage." They have their boffins working on ways to use it or render it safe, a good course IMO, and it makes for a new career track for the boffins... :-)
France has 56 working nuclear plants, generating 76% of her electricity. She gets 12% from hydroelectric.
All the reactors are American Pressurized Water Reactors designed by American Westinghouse.
What do the French know that the rest of the world doesn't? Why aren't they afraid of it?
A perfect example regarding the use of "sticky bits".
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=34691
In the next to last post, a user is non-plused by the attempt to not answer his question.
He/she restates the question details what he/she has done on their own to find an answer.
This results in End of Thread. No one even tries to explain practical use of "sticky bits" to them...
And this is in a Mint forum, among the better ones out there. Isolated case? Not even close, you can find these abandoned threads everywhere...
goats in pajamas typed for posterity:
<snippage>
"So brainwashed are they, that even when the same scientists say "actually, we have got it wrong, there hasn't been any warming for 15 or so years", people cannot let go of their belief that we're cooking Mother Earth.
And yes, such is the level of madness that now pervades the media and it's so called "journalists" that they're starting to question whether or not extra-terrestrial events are CO2 driven."
This is what happens when Reason is abandoned for political expediency. People down voting a post that cites the IPCC's recent acknowledgement of the halt in the rise of global temperature demonstrate this "Reason Denial."
Fill in the blank with any excuse you like, but the fact remains this was a simple thing to look after and totally avoidable. Its not like Microsoft doesn't have the resources to make sure the simple things are taken care of. Apologists be damned, Microsoft is poorly managed to allow this t happen...
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