You might want to read / view these slides:An Introduction to Modern GPU Architecture Especially slide 42.

Modern GPUs are massively parallel in their execution. Yes they work "only" on one image, but when rendering one scene the sharers work in parallel. For example a fragment (aka per pixel) shader will be run in parallel for each pixel, limited by the number of available shader units (aka core). THIS is why you get the awesome performance: small, self contained programs running in parallel.

I am not sure if this is an attempt at censorship. This smells more like a case of the government helping out with corporate interests.

age of consent != age to publish pornographic content

AFAIK almost everywhere you have to be an adult (18/21) to view and publish pornographic content.

If you look at how good / bad the YouTube content-id system works you can infer how this system works. Probably the same tech, which has some leeway for fuzzy mapping.

Hope that it is just some characteristics, such as file hashes. Because the DB with actual pictures, even "not searchable", would probably be illegal at least as the laws are spelled out currently.

Although I think that people abusing children should be outright shot. I have trouble following the logic of the above statement. There used to be a under the counter market for such material and big bucks could be made with it. (The internet basically killed that market, hopefully.) Here there was a real economic incentive to produce material and demand encouraged production. But now, thanks to police work, there is little to no commercial trade of the material. Because the material is such a hot potato, people searching and distributing the material are forced to use means of strong anonymisation and thus no economic transaction can occur. I think most CP created nowadays is distributed along the same lines are people uploading their private videos to porn sharing sites.

The service by Google is very useful to prevent from services hosting the stuff. Since hosting stuff, even for a very short period of time is always bad PR. What Google builds is basically for PR, for Google and everybody using it.

Not much better if they start a cooperation with Motorola. (Solutions vs. Mobility)

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The technology is nothing new as mentioned and disagreed in the AllThingD article "We’ve been doing this since the 80s.". The new thing is the business model of operating a data center, rending out the hardware and combine it with visualization and automation software. But if you already have a data center you are and if you don't you should be using some form of automated provisioning.

The only real change I have seen in the space is that (visualized) hardware is not rented by the hour instead of a 12 month contract. But that is not what either articles are about... Nothing new under the sun.

You can, but do you want to? My experience is that cloud computing, especially EC2 is quite expensive. The only benefit you get is elasticity (the E in EC2), that is you can react to radical load changes. But most enterprise applications have very predicable use patterns and are mostly flat (9-5 Mo-Fr). In almost all cases having your own servers is the cheaper solution and WAY simpler to deploy. (If you are paranoid you may still use virtual machines are servers for quit failover.)

Actually NO! Keep voting for your third party of choice! The third party vote is NOT a vote wasted. If you don't vote your vote is wasted. If you vote for the lesser evil your vote is wasted. We need to break the cycle of the two party system in the US. Actually any third party would help shake up the situation.

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Except for DDOS this analogy falls on it's nose. If you have the ability to hack (DDOS != hack) you know about computer systems and security well enough to prevent basically all hacks. Third party software being a trouble stop, but nothing you can't mitigate.

Which is pure and simple bad. Have you ever pondered at how much energy is stored in a driving car and how much damage that can do. It is just like with weapons... oh wait...

And yet you see people flying at low altitudes at 200 km/h (125 mph) in the rain. Driving 200 km/h may be legal in Germany under certain circumstances, but never bad weather conditions is not one of them. The high requirements are there, but it does not keep morons from driving.