Comment Re:Relativity of Simultaneity (Score 1) 195
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Just like these claw crane games that you find in vide arcades or amusement parks: those with a joystick to control a crane to grab stuffed animals or whatnot. Curious, one day I browsed the web to find operator's manuals, and they are programmed to make it look like the crane accidentally drops objects. The operator can enter parameters to define the average price of prizes, the average winning rate, etc so that in the end, just like slot machines, the payout percentage can be controlled very precisely. For more info read Machine configuration and chances of winning.
Knowing this completely takes the fun out of it, doesn't it ?
Disabling javascript is not sufficient. The malicious site could very well redirect to the malicious page after a long period of time, say 10min, with:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600;url=http://example.com/malicious-gmail-login-page"
/>
Although it is a little less sophisticated, it would work. Personally I have always been using 2 browsers for other reasons (to defend myself against CSRF vulnerabilities) and it turns out that doing so also protects me from 'tabnapping', even though CSRF and tabnapping are 2 completely different attacks. I described my setup here. This is a good example of defense-in-depth: using a security policy that ends up preventing future attacks that were unknown at the time the policy was implemented
First link: author is vague and incorrect; OpenSolaris supports most common onboard SATA controllers. I have personally run it on nVidia MCP55 and above, Intel ICH7 and above, AMD SB600 and above, and OpenSolaris usually support all these very common chipsets/onboard SATA controllers.
Second link: the author is using unsupported dev builds of OpenSolaris.
Third link: the post is 2 years old and evidence suggests unreliable hardware.
Fourth link: the author complains about FreeBSD, not OpenSolaris.
Fifth link: the author concluded corruption was caused by unreliable hardware.
Search for "$NAME_OF_TECHNOLOGY unreliable" and google will always return thousands of results.
Personally I have a rather pleasant experience with ZFS. I have been using it for 3+ years at work and at home on 5-6 machines with about 50 drives total. It has been rock solid so far. And it has saved my life a couple times when drives died.
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ATI are about to become the leader? They are already the leader in all categories: perf/$, perf/W, absolute perf, and at all price points. See list below. For gaming performance, the GFLOPS rating are a roughly (+/- 30%) good enough approximation to compare ATI vs. Nvidia. For GPGPU performance, the GFLOPS rating is actually unfair to ATI because Nvidia's GT200 microarchitecture causes it to be artificially inflated (they assume a MUL+MAD pair executing 3 floating-point op per cycle, whereas ATI assumes a regular fused MAD executing 2 floatting-point ops per cycle). Meaning that an ATI GPU rated 200 GFLOPS actually executes ALU-bound workloads as fast as an Nvidia GPU rated 300 GFLOPS. ATI's lead is such that it's not even funny anymore. There are rumors of Nvidia killing the high-end (GTX 285, 295) to focus only on the extreme entry-level segment (sub-$100). And GT300 (Fermi) will not enter mass production before the end of Q1 2010. I am concerned by the lack of competition... ATI is free to impose whatever price structure they want.
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