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To: Galirayo who wrote (16612)	3/24/2006 7:17:56 AM
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You remember Captain Nemo? Now he can run all his engineering stuff and special algorithms to build that magic bomb and super duper sub eh? The spooks wont like that will they? What if he is a rich multinational and protein folds the cure for aids - sucking up all those "unlimited" cycles SUN promises? Here we will introduce an even GREATER divide between the digital haves and have nots perhaps. What if MERCK doesn't want to sell me the aids cure they have found and buy up all the CPU cycles from SUN GRID so that me or other competitors can't get it?! They are already talking about a future's market in trading CPU cycles: Message 22099949 we see great potential in building an exchange for trading CPU usage cycles On the positive side though this "over provisioning" can be a really good thing. Sun is offering a test drive of a Text-to-Speech application developed by Cepstral. Users can render their text or selected blogs to mp3 ready for podcast. speaktext.com demo.acapela-group.com cepstral.com Cepstral has pretty good text to speech - most think the ATT natural voice is the best. They already pulled this though - less than a day on the net and it was abused! hehe slashdot.org Sun Grid DOS'd Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 23, @01:46PM from the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dept. feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. " ( Read More... 84 of 113 comments )

To: Galirayo who wrote (16612)	3/24/2006 9:28:49 AM
From: Galirayo	Respond to of 23958

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