Speaking of which, I think that means cable boxes are carbon neutral, since they are apparently powered by four giant nuclear reactors. So, I can finally stop buying carbon credits for my cable box carbon footprint! Hooray.

Because a C&D is somehow damaging to the "IkeaHackers.net" brand beyond the obviously untenable position regarding their name? If IkeaHackers is serious about operating in good faith they will choose a similar but un-infringing name and go on with their lives. The wrong way would be a C&D followed the next day by a court order and the day after by a subpoena and lawsuit.

I believe (but am not an expert) that the mining pool concept is what accounts for this. The pool (one main server assigning jobs) runs on a nice fat, multi-homed system with plenty of bandwidth in every direction. Then, the ASIC-based miners sign on to the pool and do the crunching for it. This has the effect of both allowing the pool to maintain constant operations, and to hide the ASIC miners from public view.

Custom made ASICs are so much more powerful than GP CPUs that no, I doubt all the rentable cloud capacity currently in existence (if you could manage to muster it) would compare to the mining capacity in use via ASICs.

Postulate 3 (split the pool up) raises a very interesting question: if the operators are anonymous, can the pool ever be split in such a way that we are sure the same group doesn't control both pools? With clandestine collaboration, two pools totalling over 50% of the total could perform the same treachery that a single pool would. Since we don't know who controls it, how do we know who *doesn't* control it, or does it matter?

The less you spend per core (by having them less concentrated) the more you will spend on interconnecting them in a way befitting a supercomputer (i.e. massive parallelism). A pile of machines totaling 600 cores on a gigabit switch is of very little use compared to a few mega-core machines on a better, smaller network. And you don't want to know how much all the fabric would cost to properly integrate all of those 8 core systems.

$10,000 barely gets you ONE modern well-equipped 20 core server system (I am thinking in particular of the Dell R820/R920 platforms) so no, while you could probably heap together 100 or so ARM cores for $10/core and get something to run on it, a supercomputer it is not.

Your average [either party] voter is already mined and targeted at _every_ election, whether they know/like it or not. And somehow there hasn't been a revolt. The difference in this particular effort is really just the story's presence on Slashdot.

Ah but the assertion was not about ISPs at all, was it? Try reading.

FTFY.

To that end, "good faith" doesn't have a history in patent law; he could take anyone who was using the patents to seriously compete or encroach on Tesla's existing market share as lacking it, and there would be no recourse.

Rather, aside from maintaining competitive positioning, they are probably looking for anything novel that hasn't been patented yet, so they can copy it (and perhaps patent it themselves). Not every invention is patented or even patent worthy but it still could be valuable.

Even better! Really if that's true then the VAR was clearly given too much trust in who it decides to sell pre-release products to. They should go to established customers with a good history of cooperation, not just anyone who asks. All I can say about this story is "and I bet Juniper is doing the same thing".

That's an assertion so dubious it's hard to know where to start. I suppose that it would be fair for lawmakers to mandate a lie detector feature in your car when you are driving for Uber, to ascertain if you are really driving of your own direct will, or acting based on the guy in the back seat who just agreed to pay you by the minute.

ACM seems like a reputable publication so I was going in to it thinking I was about to read some interesting stuff, and then this happened:

lolwut. The time of day was not exploited, not even a little. The boneheaded "Feature" of having a command to recall a large chunk of data via unauthenticated UDP was exploited. They go on to explain a basic denial of service attack and finish it off by misusing a term as basic as TCP/IP (it doesn't matter what protocol you are using when you are the target of a DDOS, your pipe is blocked period). I will go ahead and stop reading now.