For real ?
Er, doesn't the Linux Kernel have about 15000 developers already ? Facebook advertises for one more ? And this is a story ? I must be getting old.
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I don't know if IOT will improve the character of citizens in the way described in the later parts of the article. The internet so far hasn't exactly brought out the best in us (?). But it could indeed be a boon for the old or infirm or disabled, and maybe those who look after them.
Technically though, once your house has, say, 50 connected devices, it will have some admin overhead. Oops - time to update the firmware in that cat litter monitor. It fixes a bug where the data has the wrong urine Ph level for your breed of cat, then on to the automatic curtains, dammit they are on the wrong timezone again I am sitting in the dark here...
TLDR. But does any company put core compute into the cloud ? Putting a project in there is one thing, but if you cloudify a compute function your business can't afford to lose, and the provider goes down/bankrupt/whatever, you cease trading 3 days later. It's no good bleating about your contract or SLA, you are are out of business already. I must be missing something.
I'm looking forward to the new tech, but the problem with wireless isn't just the speed so much as the way it changes all the time. Use a monitor app and you will see the wireless (n class) strength waver wildly up and down every few seconds. It might be good to stream 4 movies at once now, but in 15 seconds ? Not so much. Wired is just stress free.
It would have been useful to know the features of each router, eg which ones have gigabit wired ports. Interesting article nonetheless.
Sure, but cops and g-men could re-program any firmware, they might even have their very own code in your Haswell quad core, garage door opener or sat-nav. The only thing that makes this USB back door more dangerous is that USB devices often get interchanged between computers.
It is also risky for the hackers. It is harder to remain anonymous when passing around an infected thumb drive, than it is when, say, launching a virus on your botnet. If malware is suspected there is a physical chain of supply to follow.
Well any code can be hacked and infected. All that SR have proved is that hacking embedded firmware takes a big budget, months of research and special equipment. We knew that already. Not to disparage their effort but what has it achieved?
Big corps and governments have the resources for this kind of thing, but if they wanted to do it they would be doing it already.
Everyday hackers and black hats will continue to cast their net widely, waiting for that one password which is set to "apple" or whatever.
...Jewish ...gay, liberals,... Nazis... elites......etc
Lol. A top quality rant. Fact-free, prejudice packed, explosive delivery. Complete with obligatory Nazi comparison.
March 12, 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee switches on the first web site
March 13, 1989 - Cern scientists go online, disagree about something, call each other "Nazis"
Unrelated, but there seems to be a widespread botnet attack on Wordpress blogs' "xmlrpc" feature in the last few days. People are reporting bots with up to 30,000 members trying to guess usernames and passwords. In the last 4 days my own low traffic blog has received 24,000 attempts from over 8000 bit IPs.
Interesting stuff here, especially about the chair. I might be doing the Herman Miller thing after reading the above.
I have chronic back pain which 18 months ago suddenly became nerve/sciatic pain, after I spent Christmas sitting on somebody's knackered sofa. made basic life functions difficult.
1. Doctor visit. Prescribed powerful drug for 28 days. Doc said it might fix my back by enabling me to walk and move normally for a month. It did. Removed all pain and the nerve pain did not return after the drug stopped. It was Naproxen. Pain free for 8 months. Interesting that the drug did not fix my back, just removed the pain, which enabled normal movement, which fixed the back.
2. "Normal" back pain returned (not nerve/sciatic pain). Obtained prescription again. Worked again but not quite as well. Little pain for 2 months.
3. "Normal" back pain returned. Obtained same prescription. This time it did not relieve the pain much or help. Visited local chiropractor on recommendation. Two visits later all pain was gone.
4. Two months later, dreaded nerve/sciatic pain came on. This can be hard to shift. Eventually visited a highly regarded sports Physiotherapist. What he did was similar to the chiropractor but more rigorous, and more vigorous and extensive. He appeared to know exactly what the vertebrae were doing and where they were misplaced. Also he gave me stretches to do every day and good advice. After 2 visits to him the pain was gone. That was about a month ago. I was going to arrange a 3rd visit but no need so far.
So now I am 90% pain free, doing the stretches every day and continuing to to my Alexander technique/semi supine position for 20 minutes each day. This works wonders with "normal" back pain but does not touch nerve pain, I need the Physio for that. If you have medium "normal" back pain I can recommend it for pain relief.
Stuff I tried that did not work
- rented another car for 2 weeks. A big car with soft suspension, rather than my low sports car with its very hard springs. Made no difference.
3. Weeks later nerve pain came on. Prescribed Chropractor visit did not help.
@Alan Brown One thing that has failed to track Moore's law is network speeds, I think. It took roughly 20 years to go from 10 mb/s to 1000mb/s, an increase of only a hundred fold. Over 20 years, Moore's law should increase a quantity 1024 times, very roughly.
All of which has not made backing up these large disks very easy.
So the average person (with savings) can't afford $50,000 of storage? Unless £1=$2.5
The post was a wild conjecture on the next 40 years' storage prices, designed primarily for amusement. The figures in it are hugely approximated and not designed as financial advice. But yes, I was aware of the small disparity. Welsh football pitches.
With these disks, 1 petabyte would cost $50830. The average person (with savings) can now afford 1 petabyte of storage. Several petabytes if they have a house to sell.
An Exabyte would still set you back 1024 times that, about $52 million. Moore's law says that will fall back to about $50,000 by 2034.
20 years after that, the average person will be able to afford 1 zettabyte of storage, more than all of the data in the world today.
Interesting discussion above about the traceability BT Fon connections. A stranger connecting to your BT router gets a separate channel and an internal IP on a separate range (default 10.x.x.x). However I am guessing they get the same internet facing IP. Can't test it just at the moment tho.
As others have said, an investigation would be brutal for you, even if found innocent. The loss of all IT kit, for months, stigma, job worries, stress. A chap who went through it himself wrote a Reg article a couple of months ago. He was found innocent, but the experience was not pretty.
Article asserts that big companies don't create jobs, small ones do. Can't agree. If the author had said: growing companies create jobs, static ones don't - that would be more likely.
Small firms should be subject to less red tape than large companies. However in the UK and elsewhere, it is a similar level for both. As soon as you become Ltd and employ 1 other person, you have to follow almost the same rules as Ford or BP. This provides a huge barrier to entry and means it is very hard to start a successful business unless you have huge supplies of cash to begin with (to spend on the rules and administration of them). Nice bit of protection for the big companies.
We should have a new limited liability entity for small companies, up to say 1.5 million turnover a year.
Agree with author re gov lobbying. Big companies and their ceaseless and powerful lobbying (taking ministers to dinner) warp and damage the competitive fabric of the economy.
Abrahams should construct the new plot so as to tear the ****hole out of the plots of the 3 prequels, if possible.
Maybe that is a bit harsh. Luke should wake up to find that the 3 prequels were just a nightmare following a hangover from too much Janx spirit or whatever.
Or Alec Guinness should build a DeLorean time machine to take us all back to 1985 before the prequels happened. And we could all see some film with stills from the prequels sort of disappearing or whatever. For the lulz
...and an actual traffic stop is the only way to catch someone doing this.
I dunno. Don't forget, every aspect of our lives is now committed to MPEG. Including your commute, your stop at the petrol station, your buying sweets,... basically any urban road or motorway, you are a film star. They probably even see which number you dialed.
Interesting. My Buffalo Linkstation live tops out at 15 megabytes a sec, despite being having a gigabit NIC. At this speed the ARM cpu is 100% utilized. In other words, it is only about twice as fast as fast ethernet, not 10 times. Impressive you get 22 megabytes/s out of 400 Mhz.
Who remembers the space themed game that was also similar as a 4 player with health requiring constant 10p input? I forget it's name but in Swindon the local arcade had this and Gauntlet.
Sounds awfully like Quartet, a game I am often banging on about in here. Out at the same time as Gauntlet, was a 4 player sideways scroller with a space/monster theme. Boss at the end of every level. 4 players with different weapons. Also top fun on MAME.
I just start typing a word (such as "excel" or "sql") then the apps will appear and I can quickly create shortcuts
The auto type-find thing is incorporated in many (non windows) desktops now. Even MATE, the minimal successor of Gnome 2, has it by default. Although you have to click the menu first, to get the smart search bar.