Comment Re:This isn't about social networking (Score 1) 135
Very much so.
I would expect the head of Google+ using mainly Google+ for his social networking needs, not the network of a competitor. He should not even need to be told that explicitly.
Very much so.
I would expect the head of Google+ using mainly Google+ for his social networking needs, not the network of a competitor. He should not even need to be told that explicitly.
I'm afraid to admit that it looks very much like it
This event dates from late September. As far as I know he was caught, before he could sell anything.
But, the Swiss Secret Service was lucky: The guy was caught because his bank became suspicious when he wanted to set up bank accounts to receive the future price for the loot.
The guy essentially walked out of the place with disk drives full of data. As he was the IT maintenance guy, he could pull this off without anybody getting suspicious. If your IT guy replaces 'broken' disk drives, everything is ok, other employees thought. As Switzerland is small, that department was small too, so there was a lack of resources.
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I agree, DVD renting as business is on the way out. in the not-too-far future there will be too few customers to keep him in business.
If he wants to stay in retail he has to start selling/renting things customer want to buy/rent in a brick and mortar store.
You don't say what your desired outcome is.
If this was my data I would proceed as this:
There will be a lot of manual cleanup, I think.
For an European, getting a work and residency permit is a formality so you'll have no problems there. You can get by in English initially and pick the local language up later (French / German / Italian, depending where you go).
This looks to me to be similar to Bluegene supercomputers. A Bluegene essentially consists of packaged PowerPC processors with a scalable high-performance switch interface on board. The two first current generation Bluegenes were using 32bit CPUs as well.
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This Google experiment proves that you can build a self driving car who can drive safely for thousands of miles on actual public roads. Yes, there are some additional conditions which are not practical (like the driving the path manually before to record a precise map), but it has been done.
Most drivers are not very much 'observing', I just read somewhere that the Blackberry outage caused vehicle accidents to drop by 20-40% in some Gulf states. Observing drivers, Ha !
Just compare how many accidents are caused by trees falling onto the street compared to texting.
The biggest problems to solve are the cultural, legal and liability issues.
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I'm very much in favor of my car driving instead of me. I'm sure it will drive safer and better. For me the daily commute is a chore and I'd be very happy to leave it to a machine.
I'm sure there will be viruses/sabotage. But I'm also sure human drives cause more accidents than viruses/sabotage will.
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You can buy this from IBM since >20 years. It is called 'System/38', 'AS/400' or 'iSeries'. The system has a flat 64-bit address space and memory essentially serves as cache for disk.
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Such projects are always based on estimated performance numbers. It looks to me like the estimated (and contractually signed) target performance was higher than what IBM could deliver in the budget envelope and the target timeframe. Probably the technology advance was not delivering as expected. As the U of Illinois was not ready to soften on some aspects to make it fit IBM had the choice of either delivering much more hardware at a loss or to pull out.
From my (limited) search it looks like the project was signed in 2008, so back then IBM estimated they can deliver a PetaFLOP for $200M in 2011. It looks like they were wrong.
I witnessed similar situation where the machine could deliver the promised performance using a benchmarking program, but real apps were unable to get to similar numbers. Improving the software stack made the performance available to apps, but it took 2 years to get there. The hardware was performing well, but immature software was spoiling it.
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That is exactly what will not happen.
The ones who should tell their Customers about the problem is Siemens. But they will play the problem down because it might affect the sales of the next batch of stuff.
The evil hacker will just buy a bunch of systems, analyze it and find the vulnerabilities. This completely independent of the disclosure. Stuxnet was developed before this disclosure and I think the vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet are still there.
This is why security by obscurity does not work in the real world.
I alway think defending against such lasers is quite easy and low-cost: Just put up a good-quality mirror and the beam gets reflected. If you aim well, you could even attack the ship with its own laser-beam.
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