Re: Watson was right.

[Mohammad Hosein <mhtajik () gmail com>]

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 <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:

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> "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?
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