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1. Comment - AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon

   (Jul 15, 2009 - 12:39 AM)

   This is the leap frog effect, and AMD will enjoy a temporary lead in the 4-socket (not mainstream 2-socket) space for one quarter while Intel prepares to release Nehalem-EX as a replacement for their nearly year-old X7460 Dunnington processors which are pre-Nehalem architecture.
   
   When Nehalem-EX comes out around Q4, it will likely hit a SPECint_rate2006 score of around 1000 which is more than double the performance of an Istanbul system.

2. Comment - Electrically 'allergic' group seeks a ban on Wi-Fi

   (May 29, 2008 - 7:24 AM)

   Your information is wrong. Wi-Fi is a narrow band in the 2.4 GHz range and a narrow band in the 5.3 and 5.8 GHz range though 5 GHz is rarely used. Wi-Fi typically in the 0.01 to 0.1 watt transmit power range.

3. Comment - Dueling approaches to net neutrality clash in US House

   (May 13, 2008 - 9:42 PM)

   Biased huh? Yeah, I'm biased towards common sense based on my network engineering background. What's your bias?
   
   It's fairly clear that the reason you attack me on a personal level is because can't discredit anything I've said or written.

4. Comment - Outcry over BitTorrent blocking stretches to Canada

   (May 13, 2008 - 9:38 PM)

   There is no question that P2P users use a disproportionately large amount of bandwidth. This has been confirmed by Government agencies in Japan http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=1063. Japan has 100 Mbps fiber to the home which is probably 10 times faster than what we have on average here but they're being slammed by P2P-induced congestion. The data from Japan suggests that just 10% of users (using P2P) account for 60% to 90% of all Internet traffic.
   
   The problem is that TCP congestion control is inadequate and something has to be done to fix this imbalance. This is why there are proposals before the IETF to fix TCP http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=1078. In the mean time, anything that throttles the bandwidth hogs means a fairer distribution of bandwidth.

5. Comment - Ou's Low-tech Vista Exploit

   (Feb 2, 2007 - 1:35 AM)

   You said:
   "That is a bit severe of a definition. After all, an inept user can cause a computer to do exactly what it is supposed to do, without intending for the computer to actually do what they told it, simply by not really understanding what it was they were telling the computer to do."
   
   No, the computer is NOT doing what YOU told it to do; the computer is doing what some hacker is telling it to do from a webpage. There's a BIG difference there and there are two things Microsoft forgot to implement which is feedback cancellation and user-defined secret to activate Voice.
   
   The first time you load Vista Speech Recognition it will set itself to auto load with Vista. When it loads, it's in sleep mode but that doesn't help since the phrase "start listening" will wake it up regardless of the source. Heck if the TV or Radio or some truck blasting loud speakers down the street said it then it would get picked up.
   
   The problem here is that Microsoft "extended" speech to be able to control the Operating System and Applications without considering the full implications. If they merely assigned a user-defined password it would make the generic attack impossible but they didn't do that.