Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Hurray: Google's GMail has individual 10GB file size !
Now with Drive, you can insert files up to 10GB -- 400 times larger than what you can send as a traditional attachment.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Hurray: BAD code accelerate NVIDIA GPGPU !
Is Theory of relativity invented or discovered ?
Well, whmmmmm. Einstein is credited for the theory. Theory? I thought it is a fact ! Well, it is scientific law and a fact. Einstein was a physicist and not a mathematician. Theories are something mathematicians produce, isn't it? Thus, he had a help from maths in both famous theories: Relativity and gravity. !
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Licenced to kill: Flying 007
The US Navy's Northrop
Grumman X47B, a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), is
seen on display in July 2012 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River,
Maryland. Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission
from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned
before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned
Monday.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
The US Navy's Northrop
Grumman X47B, a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), is
seen on display in July 2012 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River,
Maryland. Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission
from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned
before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned
Monday.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
The US Navy's Northrop Grumman X47B, a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), is seen on display in July 2012 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned Monday.
See below bigger Stealth X47C (4500kg payload) tested over the Area51 (UFO) base.
The report "Losing
Humanity"—issued by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's
International Human Rights Clinic—raised the alarm over the ethics of
the looming technology.
Calling them "killer robots," the report urged "an international treaty
that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of
fully autonomous weapons."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
The report "Losing
Humanity"—issued by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's
International Human Rights Clinic—raised the alarm over the ethics of
the looming technology.
Calling them "killer robots," the report urged "an international treaty
that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of
fully autonomous weapons."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Fully autonomous robots
that decide for themselves when to fire could be developed within 20 to
30 years, or "even sooner," the 50-page report said, adding that weapon
systems that require little human intervention already exist.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Fully autonomous robots
that decide for themselves when to fire could be developed within 20 to
30 years, or "even sooner," the 50-page report said, adding that weapon
systems that require little human intervention already exist.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
The US Navy's Northrop
Grumman X47B, a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), is
seen on display in July 2012 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River,
Maryland. Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission
from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned
before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned
Monday.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
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Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-killer-robots-rights-group-urges.html#jCp
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Sony and Panasonic given junk ratings !
Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s. Its 'lost decade' is a historic warning for
countries struggling to recover from financial crises. Paul Donovan,
global economist at UBS, says there are few signs of Japan's zombie
company problem in the eurozone, but warns that Germany's tight
discipline is the wrong approach to the continent's travails, and says
Europe risks heading down Japan's route .
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Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
The problem with checkpointing, according to Fiala, is that as the
number of nodes grows, the amount of system overhead needed to do
checkpointing grows as well -- and grows at an exponential rate. On a
100,000-node supercomputer, for example, only about 35 percent of the activity will be involved in conducting work. The rest will be taken up
by checkpointing and -- should a system fail -- recovery operations,
Fiala estimated.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Odyssey 2010, Hal says I am perfect well. Well, the problem is not only in fault tolerance but mainly in communication bottlenecks and overheating.Thus only of 3% processing power is sustained the rest is peak computing power !. Modern supercomputers have for their internal use more fiber connections the the whole human world !.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Odyssey 2010, Hal says I am perfect well. Well, the problem is not only in fault tolerance but mainly in communication bottlenecks and overheating.Thus only of 3% processing power is sustained the rest is peak computing power !. Modern supercomputers have for their internal use more fiber connections the the whole human world !.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
RED ALLERT: The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office
The magazine reported late Tuesday that the computers of several close advisers to then-president Nicolas Sarkozy – including Chief of Staff Xavier Musca – were compromised in May by a computer virus that bears the hallmarks of Flame, which was allegedly created by a U.S.-Israeli team to target Iran's nuclear program. Anonymous French officials pointed the finger at the United States.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: C'mon cherie !. France is a nuclear force and president Sarkozy was in a (nuclear) charge !
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Intel delays 14nm node to 2014 !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 10 years later Globalfoundry reached Intel's leadership !
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Gulp:One Simple Trick Could Disable a City’s 4G Phone Network
One Simple Trick Could Disable a City’s 4G Phone Network
If LTE networks were to be compromised, existing 3G and 2G networks would still operate—but those older networks are gradually being phased out. !!
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If LTE networks were to be compromised, existing 3G and 2G networks would still operate—but those older networks are gradually being phased out. !!
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Google reveals seven years of evolving data-center strategy
Google opened up on its data center operations today at an industry event in Phoenix. It shared how its thinking and practices have changed
as it seeks to lower the costs and environment impact of its servers and
IT infrastructure.
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- 2005: This is when Google used containers in its data center, where IT hardware is integrated into the data center space.
- 2006: Google created a purpose-built data center where it moved from containers to its own data center design.
- 2007: Google addressed the supply chain issues with “modular at scale” to support the cost-effective and faster way to build out its data center capacity.
- 2008/2009: In this year, metrics like PUE and best practices are used and shared.
- 2010: Google launches its renewable energy efforts, spending over a billion dollars on the initiative. It has reached 260 MW of renewable energy acquired by 2012.
- 2011: A year for standards — the data center group meets ISO and OHSAS certifications.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Addressable 128MB eDram Scratchpad at Haswell?
Up to 128MB.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: I am interested in a low power version. No need for resident DRAM Win programs, but in a much faster e(mbedded)DRAM. XBox 360 like.
If the memory refresh controller is embedded along with the eDRAM memory, the remainder of the chip can treat the memory like a simple SRAM type. L4 128MB . eDRAM though requires additional fab process steps compared with embedded SRAM, which raises cost, but the 3X area savings of eDRAM memory offsets the process cost when a significant amount of memory is used in the design. Without eDRAM , L4 is only 40MB at Haswell. X
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: I am interested in a low power version. No need for resident DRAM Win programs, but in a much faster e(mbedded)DRAM. XBox 360 like.
If the memory refresh controller is embedded along with the eDRAM memory, the remainder of the chip can treat the memory like a simple SRAM type. L4 128MB . eDRAM though requires additional fab process steps compared with embedded SRAM, which raises cost, but the 3X area savings of eDRAM memory offsets the process cost when a significant amount of memory is used in the design. Without eDRAM , L4 is only 40MB at Haswell. X
Understanding Trusted Computing From The Ground Up
Understanding Trusted Computing From The Ground Up
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Wanted: Antivirus author becomes deadly
Stuxnet virus strikes world's main oil suppliers !
Best kept secret i now online. Beside Iran, Saudi companies and Qatar's RasGas , we leraned about Chevron too.
RasGas attack is here.
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RasGas attack is here.
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Friday, November 09, 2012
Top gun: Stealth AF Fleet should be invisible in the US budget too !
”Stealth technology demands significant trade-offs in range, security,
weapons carriage, sortie generation, and adaptability. Stealth provides
no advantage in conflicts such as those in Afghanistan or Iraq (since
2003), and (despite its obvious utility) it cannot guarantee success in
future struggles with a near-peer adversary.”
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Smaller, Simpler, Smarter: Romney won elections 2012 !!
His presidential strategy is financially restrictive, but technologically advanced !
Smaller, Simple, Smarter
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Thursday, November 08, 2012
Oh not again: NASA is serious about sending astronauts back to the moon's neighborhood
NASA is serious about sending astronauts back to the moon's neighborhood
and will likely unveil its ambitious plans soon now that President Barack Obama has been re-elected, experts say.
Exploration of Earth-moon L2 could get started as early as 2021 with the first manned flight of SLS and Orion, which NASA calls Exploration Mission 2. (Exploration Mission 1 is the initial, unmanned test launch of SLS, slated for late 2017.)
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: This time for real?
Exploration of Earth-moon L2 could get started as early as 2021 with the first manned flight of SLS and Orion, which NASA calls Exploration Mission 2. (Exploration Mission 1 is the initial, unmanned test launch of SLS, slated for late 2017.)
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: This time for real?
Best of both worlds, low power LCD displays !
In a similar way to e-ink, each pixel is able to retain its colour without requiring any more power.
"This display is a reflective type, but as it uses liquid crystal, it has electric circuits built in,” a Japan Display spokesman told DigInfo.tv.
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"This display is a reflective type, but as it uses liquid crystal, it has electric circuits built in,” a Japan Display spokesman told DigInfo.tv.
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Odyssey 2018 : Where’s the end of the line? 7 to 9 nanometers !
Where’s the end of the line? According to Bernie: 7 to 9 nanometers
“This is the first time that it has been demonstrated that this is a major problem” for nanoelectronic systems.”
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“This is the first time that it has been demonstrated that this is a major problem” for nanoelectronic systems.”
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Cray scales to over 100 petaflops with 'Cascade' XC30 behemoth
Cray scales to over 100 petaflops with 'Cascade' XC30 behemoth
Cray was going to take the work it had done on its multistreaming vector processors and massively multithreaded ThreadStorm processors and create a new processor of its own to go along with the Aries interconnect.
"We eventually made the tough decision to focus on the interconnect," says Bolding. And that has clearly paid off, and as it turns out, has made it easier for Cray to embrace GPU and x86 coprocessors like Nvidia's Tesla and Intel's Xeon Phi as adjunct and more efficient compute engines alongside x86 processors inside its systems.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
MIPS + ARM = Apple - Intel !
ARM purchased rights to all of the MIPS patents, so they have legal peace
MIPS + ARM = Apple - Intel !
This is one of the main important equations of the 21th century .
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MIPS + ARM = Apple - Intel !
This is one of the main important equations of the 21th century .
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$600B hole in the USA budget is waiting to show up in January
About $600 billion in government spending cuts and higher taxes will kick in early next year
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Oh not again: Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac !
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac
WHy? Tablet sales have already approached nearly 25 percent of PC sales. As computer sales are in decline, sales of tablets rose 49.5 percent from the same quarter in the prior year. That’s more bad news for traditional computer makers.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: ARM deal is finished !?
WHy? Tablet sales have already approached nearly 25 percent of PC sales. As computer sales are in decline, sales of tablets rose 49.5 percent from the same quarter in the prior year. That’s more bad news for traditional computer makers.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: ARM deal is finished !?
Dare to taste this: Coke Gets Hacked And Doesn’t Tell Anyone
Coke Gets Hacked And Doesn’t Tell Anyone
Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were
pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition
of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886),
according to three people familiar with the situation and an internal
company document detailing the cyber intrusion. The Huiyuan deal, which
collapsed three days later, would have been the largest foreign takeover
of a Chinese company at the time.
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Computer breaches in the name of Father and Son and the Holy spirit
Claudio Sciarpelletti, a 48-year-old computer programming analyst in the powerful office of Secretariat of State, was originally supposed to be tried with Gabriele earlier this fall. But his lawyer succeeded in having his client tried separately. Sciarpelletti is charged with aiding and abetting Gabriele.
Lawyer Gianluca Benedetti has said that his client is innocent and insisted that there were no confidential documents in a sealed envelope that Vatican police said was found in Sciarpelletti's desk.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Amen !
Lawyer Gianluca Benedetti has said that his client is innocent and insisted that there were no confidential documents in a sealed envelope that Vatican police said was found in Sciarpelletti's desk.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Amen !
Friday, November 02, 2012
Why Intel's 48 core mobile processor?
In the past 20 years mobile performance raised 700 times. In the next Intel should offer rise at least 30 times. Provided fastest smart phones use 4 core it would need 48 to gain performance 12 times.
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20%? : Windows 8 adoption rate lags early Windows 7 adoptions by a five-to-one margin
Windows 8 adoption rate lags early Windows 7 adoptions by a five-to-one margin
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Is the moon there when nobody looking at ?
Measurements retroactively force photons to be both wave and particle.
Temporal order and identity both get confused in the quantum world.
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Drill, baby, drill: Sandy + Katrina + Andrew damages = $250B
It's Global Warming, Stupid
Munich Re found “a nearly quintupled number of weather-related loss events in North America for the past three decades.” By contrast, there was “an increase factor of 4 in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe, and 1.5 in South America.” Human-caused climate change “is believed to contribute to this trend,” the report said, “though it influences various perils in different ways.”
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Drill baby, drill ! More drills, more oil and finally more damages. On the US soil primarily !
Munich Re found “a nearly quintupled number of weather-related loss events in North America for the past three decades.” By contrast, there was “an increase factor of 4 in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe, and 1.5 in South America.” Human-caused climate change “is believed to contribute to this trend,” the report said, “though it influences various perils in different ways.”
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Drill baby, drill ! More drills, more oil and finally more damages. On the US soil primarily !
Faster than light speed breakthrough: Oh, not again ?
"In certain materials, such as the atomic gases the team is studying,
this dispersion can cause pulses of light to travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum. This phenomenon is known as "fast-light,"
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Actually we have laser light pulse amplitude trade for its phase velocity. Thus ND materials can make gyroscopes up to 100 000 times more precise. Depending of course of gain obtained by pulse amplitude amplifier. Or alternatively, imagine only about 100 000 times shorter fiber optic path used in a miniaturized device with ordinary gyro precision.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Actually we have laser light pulse amplitude trade for its phase velocity. Thus ND materials can make gyroscopes up to 100 000 times more precise. Depending of course of gain obtained by pulse amplitude amplifier. Or alternatively, imagine only about 100 000 times shorter fiber optic path used in a miniaturized device with ordinary gyro precision.
