Probably going to get modded down for asking such a simple(stupid?) question.. I've never been able to find this answer though.

From the article:

However, DuckDuckGo is using SSL encryption. Without DuckDuckGo's private SSL certificate, your search queries (but not your location) are invisible.

Can someone clarify this for me? I want to make sure I understand this. If I search for "Star Trek" in Google then I get redirected to

https://www.google.com/search?q=star%20trek&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp.

Naturally, "star trek" is the search if you are only provided that address. It also clearly shows that I am using firefox. Does SSL protect the actual web address from being sniffed without Google's SSL master cert?

If so, then its safe to assume that my cable internet provider could see that I'm using google(based on the IP address of the traffic) but can't tell that I might be a hardcore Trekkie or that I'm using Firefox(at least from the link.. surely they could sniff traffic from elsewhere and determine my user agent string). Is this correct?

So how do I determine what actually is protected by SSL and what isn't? Is there a cheat sheet somewhere? I've always been curious about this but I don't want a 4 year degree in network design...

I agree with your logic. And while I don't share this opinion, but aren't these large companies wanting to raise the H-1B visa limits because of allegedly poorly trained/inexperienced programmers? If this is truly the case then I could see why raising the visa limit AND screening applicants via hiring contests would still be a logical solution.

The entire trading market is a zero sum game. My gain is your loss. So naturally, having computers auto sell at low values and buy at high is a gain for those that choose to use it..and for the rest of us a loss.

But I read this article first on Slashdot today and I thought that this might actually be somewhat based on real theory, until I read the article.

Maybe I'm too much into Star Trek, but I have to think there's a way to cheat(or at least bend) the speed-of-light limitations. I was interested in how they would deal with potential clock issues.. but bah.. April 1 got me. :(

Come on! Provide company data.. I might be interested in applying. I've given up on finding a job locally and I'm not against moving. I did almost 9 years in the Navy, so I know what moving is all about.

I bet they said that 50 years ago when the first generation nuclear power plants were being built. Right now I'm not expecting that in the next 50 years we'll have thorium worked out either. So how long are we going to keep telling ourselves that thorium is "only 100 years away"?

Yes, I work in the nuclear industry and read up on this stuff because I find it exciting. But I don't find the rate at which mankind develops technology that could potentially change our civilization for the better too exciting :(

So are we saying that if I go surfing the net everywhere claiming to be a 12 year old that I'll have a safer internet experience than being an adult?

You are also failing to consider that if it hadn't been for the flood, would likely have continued the downward slope from where they where. Just because we are at pre-flood doesn't mean the market has recovered. 3TB drives would be about $90 each right now based on the trajectory of price if it hadn't been for the flood. I haven't seen $90 3TB drives anywhere except for "1 per household" and "only 100 at this price" sales.

Whoops!

I wonder how many of these vulnerabilities will be found and identified before the top brass at Oracle starts questioning the logic in buying Sun. Could Oracle realistically just come out and say "you know what.. we're done with Java"? Is Oracle really this inept at making stuff secure?

I mean, fixing security vulnerabilities is never good for business.. at all. You spend money fixing something that doesn't affect you directly but definitely affects your customers(which indirectly affects you). It's developer time that could have been spent on the next version's new shiny feature. Not to mention you aren't going to sell your product by saying 'We fixed XYZ vulnerabilities in the last 2 years". Anytime a company name is used in the same sentence with "new vulnerabilities discovered" is also not good for said company.

When the last topic about these vulnerabilites was posted I mentioned how I don't trust companies with my security any more than I have to and mentioned that my firewall is now pfsense since Linksys, Netgear, and Dlink don't seem to be interested in security without buying a new router every 2 years. Naturally I got modded down. Let's see how this goes this time...

And its BS like this that I do not trust other companies any more than I have to for security.

So my router was made by me with wifi and all for less than $200 and uses pfsense. If there's a security risk I'm sure there will be a patch unlike some dlink and linksys problems. What happened when my last dlink router had a 0day exploit? dlink's public answer was "I'm sorry, we don't support your 2.3 year old router anymore, but if you buy our new shiniest router ever it has the firmware update to fix that exploit". So you're telling me you expect me to buy your product again when you've proven to me that you expect me to buy a new router from you every two years like clockwork? Heck no.

Besides, now that my Atom is all setup I've noticed latency on gaming is 1/2 of what it used to be and download speeds actually went up! Can't beat that!

Unfortunately there isn't any good open source Windows antivirus that I know of.

I bookmarked their FreeBSD donation page so I could watch the thermometer go up(and hopefully reach the top). I made a donation too since I use FreeNAS and I'm going to solicit a friend to donate since he uses FreeNAS as well.

I haven't read the article yet. I'm about to .. but let me guess what the whole story summed up will say:

"You need to look at cost for the unit and the expected lifespan of the device as well as the expected load and and cost of the electricity to determine if you can save any money by purchasing a more efficient power supply."

I've had some machines that it makes sense to upgrade, and others that it doesn't.

Of course, if you are all about saving the planet then you'll buy the most power efficient power supply on the market regardless of price because you think its saving the planet. Of course, it may not be doing such thing since you expended more resource materials to manufacture the power supply, etc. Not to mention it might cost you more in the long run than the less expensive less efficient power supplies.

I wouldn't bet on that.

My guess is there's no laws that protect from this kind of BS because the gov't wouldn't acknowledge they are possible of that kind of stupidity. Not to mention if it goes to court do you expect a jury to actually find someone guilty because the FBI issued a warrant to do it? If I were on a jury I'd not only disregard that "evidence" but I'd start looking REALLY deeply at the evidence presented and start questioning the FBI's entire case.

So there may be no protections because it's expect that no situation would arise where this would benefit anyone. Except because of how screwed up our laws are now the FBI doesn't have to get a guilty verdict. They just have to keep it tied up in the courts long enough to screw with everything related to the name "Megauploads".

You have a serious lack of understanding of what "quad core" means. And even more of a lack of understanding of what "hyperthreading" does and how it works.

In your context, "quad core" means that you should be able to run 4 different threads at FULL speed. Not ClockSpeed/4, not ClockSpeed*4, ClockSpeed. In theory, if optimized to 100% efficiency, you SHOULD be able to do almost as much work as a 12Ghz CPU(if it is a quad core CPU without HT) and maybe a little more than a 12Ghz CPU. But the reality is that very few processes can be optimized to 100%, but you will NEVER run any program at less than 3Ghz(excluding power saving features).

Hyperthreading decreases the penalty associated with cache misses and minimizes idle CPU time.

It sure is a crappy job, but hey, for $450k salary for LIFE, wouldn't you do a crappy job for 4 years? I sure as hell would. I'd even lie and tell everyone how awesome it was for that kind of pay! I don't know too many people that wouldn't be dishonest for 4 years for that kind of money, and that's the crappy reality of it.

As much as I'd like to think I'm an honest and trustworthy person who would do the right thing, I think Presidents try to do the right thing. But at the same time there's limits(especially on your time).

We as Americans need to actually realize that the President is more of a figurehead than anything and start holding the Congress responsible.