maybe by tricking the ones who have the computers to shut them down , the way computerless Iranian Cyber Army did to Twitter and Baidu ? ( Hello Mrs Clinton )
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:43 PM, dave <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Watson may > never have > really said it, but it's currently right. (c.f. > http://www.perturb.org/images/1/dilbert-unix.png ) > > Here's the thing: If you're at Google, and you compile Hello World, it > tells you that > it takes about 80 cores. We're at the point where we need to define what a > real > computer is and what it can do in terms that makes what everyone has on > their desk > obsolete, if we want to solve real problems. The brain shift that happens > when you do > this is interesting - when you say "I have a problem that is parallel" and > your > solution is to run it all at once, without even thinking about how many > cores it > took. When for all parallel problems, O(n) == O(1) in your head, then > you've made the > shift. > > Steve Yegge has some notes on what makes a real system, but the only one I > like to > steal is this: Computers don't reboot. If you can reboot it, it's a > calculator. > Likewise, computers don't fit in a data center. And computers are general > purpose. > Google's can drive a car. If your computer can't drive a car down I-95, > then it's not > a computer. > > I mean, if you haven't read it, you should read it now: > http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/google-at-delphi > > But the simple thing is this: Google has a computer, Microsoft may have a > computer, > the NSA most likely does, Baidu might have one, Amazon probably has one. > That's five. > > And if you don't even have a computer, how are you going to win a > cyber-war? > - -- > INFILTRATE 2011 - April 16-17th > The world's first and best offensive information security conference > Call +1-786-220-0600 to sign up today! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAk2scTQACgkQZH6GP9oltEv2OwCfddqS9owPCZrjqIvzPM9uobIU > gFQAnRu+gHaFvoVuA0/aVwTjCrWcMxXu > =5TQE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave >
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