Some systems can store large quantities of energy but cannot release it quickly (diesel fuel -barely burns), while others contain relatively little energy but can release it very quickly (gun powder). The quantity of storage is less important than the characteristics of the energy storage system.
Complilation != encryption. If decompilation, modification and redistribution were legal it would be trivial to locate the sources of any common proprietary application. There would be plenty of other problems, but availability of source and fixing a bug wouldn't be one of them.
I am a customer of two banks. One has a *maximum* password length of 8 characters for online services (actually trunks the password at 8 if you enter a longer one and gives no warning). The other bank regularily calls customers and asks for sensitive information (the same information that can be used to reset the online password). They call from, and request call-backs to phone numbers that are *not* the number on the bank card.
I have a feeling Canadian Banks have so much insurance that they disregard IT security entirely.
Overselling works. It worked for the phone companies for decades. It makes things massively cheaper for the end user and wastes less resources. Of course, it only works well when the ratio of overselling is sufficient that things work under normal peak demand. ISPs are overselling to the point where they can't handle daily peak demand and that's where the problem comes from.
I bet you would find a rather large number of people who think that, for example, making a mix tape is entirely ethical and should be legal. Lots of people don't agree that artists should have ultimate control over their work. Also, who is being *forced*? not giving artists the privilege of ultimate control over the use of their published creations is not *forcing* them to do anything.
I hate that GPL argument. Sure it's technically correct, but the GPL was written with the intent of subverting copyright using it's own rules. The GPL would be unnecessary, and would most definitely not be common had the copyright system been much more lax during the last few decades.
Misaligned clip-less pedals don't cause mis-alignment of bones, just inflammation, no different from any other form of repetitive use strain (like people get when they don't type properly). The bike shop easily fixed the problem.
I love the logic: I had a problem and had the bike shop fix it, and saw a chiropractor. My problem went away, so the chiropractor helped!
Precisely. This is an anxiety disorder pure and simple. Their reaction to a ringing cell phone is exactly the same as a person with spider phobia's reaction to spiders. We don't try exterminating all spiders, we treat the individual with the problem.
The description in the story smells like a severe psychological problem that is being ignored. Some people faint at the sight of spiders or even large groups of people -this person faints when he notices a cell phone. Anxiety disorders can be treated, often very effectively. People debiting whether the spider is somehow magically damaging the victim's brain doesn't help anyone.
Umm... So there's a tiny gremlin changing LCD pixels inside? The iPad is a computer by any definition of a computer. It is however, locked down using a limited firmware instead of a flexible operating system. Buy it if you want a device that is entirely controlled by a third party. There is no shame in that, but saying it is not a computer just to excuse it's designed-in deficiencies is disingenuous.
I'm sure noone in the mid 19th century would have considered the gardening notes of some priest at a monestary in Brno would be something to hang onto.
Predicting which 1% will be valuable to historians of the future *is* predicting the future. And we all know how accurately people can predict the future. -messege sent from my VR sunglasses in my flying car.
You are talking about files that you have personally retained a couple decades. I can go to the library and find transcripts of Darwin's, Galileo's or Da Vinci's notes and letters.
Exactly. It's not a technological problem it's a legal problem. The institutions that preserve printed material (mostly libraries) would be happy to help preserve digital information -if it was possible. Unfortunately nearly all digital content cannot be copied legally, and thus cannot be effectively archived by libraries. It takes a team of lawyers to do what archive.org does with web pages, and forget anything multimedia.
There is no reason this type of thing couldn't be done for self-signed certificates. The bank prints the SSL fingerprint on the back of your card. When you go to the site for the first time, instead of a big scary message, the browser says "Accessing site with fingerprint: 1700:D1B2:ADF1:38AE:2598:EC5D:6F60:4A81:FE05:E0E8, please check... Is this the same as you have?" You check once and the browser remembers the certificate.
No need for a certificate authority, no need for big scary messages, reasonably easy to understand for the user.
Of course, were talking about banks here. My bank has a *maximum* password length of 8 characters. They pay their insurance and don't concern themselves with security.
Linux does swap some applications to disk, even when there is plenty of free ram. That is because it can be better to use the ram for cache then use it for an application that hasn't done anything for days.
The xpnet site does say they factor in "how often it relies on virtual memory", but not how they do this
Even that isn't ideal. It makes sense to swap out some library that hasn't been used in hours or days. The more ram available for disk cache the better. The only solution is to look at Memory used minus disk cache (like the 'free' command on Linux does).
May be so, but any reasonable effort at gauging the current externalities of private vehicle use would require way more than a 10% increase. Cheap vs. somewhat less cheap (10% increase) doesn't result in much motivation to change behavior, when it becomes expensive, then people look to cheaper alternatives.
Except that people are sensitive to certain things like sea level rise or sudden changes in local climate (doubt, floods, storms, etc.) Just because there *can* be naturally high CO2 levels on earth doesn't mean we should make it that way suddenly. While it will be no Armageddon and few Americans will lose more than farmland or shoreline property, many people in other places will die from these changes. Population displacement also leads to war and economic instability, something Americans are fighting and losing lives and resources to now.
Utah is taking a short-sighted approach in light of the fact that they produce 95% of their electricity from cheap, dirty coal and plan to build more. Now who is motivated by greed??
Any business offering such a grant would be massively targeted with protests, ads, etc by the left-wing lunatic fringe. Actively sponsoring such research would instantly, since most of the "scientists" are on government dole, mean that honest scientists who came up with the opposite conclusion would be kept out of publishing due to collusion (actually has happened if you read the CRU emails yourself).
There are tons of corporate funded scientists. In fact, there is easily more corporate funded science than public (much easier to get a job after grad school in the commercial sector than it is in academia). Nearly all the corporate science, however, is short-term practical research and not basic science like climatology. There are a bunch of privately funded scientists weighing in on the climate debate, but they are almost entirely mouthpieces who do regular public "talks" and no actual research.
Increase the cost of fuel to represent diving's true cost (instead of subsidising private vehicle ownership with property and other taxes), and you will see a sudden and sharp decline in miles driven. Sure people will wine, but sometimes you just need to rip off the band-aid.
That caught my eye too. They think a referendum deciding the keywords would be better? I don't think a countries Internet access should be hamstrung by whatever religious movement enjoys popularity at the moment.
Slashdot Mirror
Likely the same business model that allowed networks to broadcast free content over the airwaves for half a century, though, there are other models.
Some systems can store large quantities of energy but cannot release it quickly (diesel fuel -barely burns), while others contain relatively little energy but can release it very quickly (gun powder). The quantity of storage is less important than the characteristics of the energy storage system.
Complilation != encryption. If decompilation, modification and redistribution were legal it would be trivial to locate the sources of any common proprietary application. There would be plenty of other problems, but availability of source and fixing a bug wouldn't be one of them.
I am a customer of two banks. One has a *maximum* password length of 8 characters for online services (actually trunks the password at 8 if you enter a longer one and gives no warning). The other bank regularily calls customers and asks for sensitive information (the same information that can be used to reset the online password). They call from, and request call-backs to phone numbers that are *not* the number on the bank card.
I have a feeling Canadian Banks have so much insurance that they disregard IT security entirely.
Overselling works. It worked for the phone companies for decades. It makes things massively cheaper for the end user and wastes less resources. Of course, it only works well when the ratio of overselling is sufficient that things work under normal peak demand. ISPs are overselling to the point where they can't handle daily peak demand and that's where the problem comes from.
I bet you would find a rather large number of people who think that, for example, making a mix tape is entirely ethical and should be legal. Lots of people don't agree that artists should have ultimate control over their work. Also, who is being *forced*? not giving artists the privilege of ultimate control over the use of their published creations is not *forcing* them to do anything.
I hate that GPL argument. Sure it's technically correct, but the GPL was written with the intent of subverting copyright using it's own rules. The GPL would be unnecessary, and would most definitely not be common had the copyright system been much more lax during the last few decades.
Misaligned clip-less pedals don't cause mis-alignment of bones, just inflammation, no different from any other form of repetitive use strain (like people get when they don't type properly). The bike shop easily fixed the problem.
I love the logic: I had a problem and had the bike shop fix it, and saw a chiropractor. My problem went away, so the chiropractor helped!
Precisely. This is an anxiety disorder pure and simple. Their reaction to a ringing cell phone is exactly the same as a person with spider phobia's reaction to spiders. We don't try exterminating all spiders, we treat the individual with the problem.
The description in the story smells like a severe psychological problem that is being ignored. Some people faint at the sight of spiders or even large groups of people -this person faints when he notices a cell phone. Anxiety disorders can be treated, often very effectively. People debiting whether the spider is somehow magically damaging the victim's brain doesn't help anyone.
Umm... So there's a tiny gremlin changing LCD pixels inside? The iPad is a computer by any definition of a computer. It is however, locked down using a limited firmware instead of a flexible operating system. Buy it if you want a device that is entirely controlled by a third party. There is no shame in that, but saying it is not a computer just to excuse it's designed-in deficiencies is disingenuous.
I'm sure noone in the mid 19th century would have considered the gardening notes of some priest at a monestary in Brno would be something to hang onto.
Predicting which 1% will be valuable to historians of the future *is* predicting the future. And we all know how accurately people can predict the future.
-messege sent from my VR sunglasses in my flying car.
You are talking about files that you have personally retained a couple decades. I can go to the library and find transcripts of Darwin's, Galileo's or Da Vinci's notes and letters.
Exactly. It's not a technological problem it's a legal problem. The institutions that preserve printed material (mostly libraries) would be happy to help preserve digital information -if it was possible. Unfortunately nearly all digital content cannot be copied legally, and thus cannot be effectively archived by libraries. It takes a team of lawyers to do what archive.org does with web pages, and forget anything multimedia.
Especially considering Wikileaks is currently offline and looking for financial support to continue paying the bills.
There is no reason this type of thing couldn't be done for self-signed certificates. The bank prints the SSL fingerprint on the back of your card. When you go to the site for the first time, instead of a big scary message, the browser says "Accessing site with fingerprint: 1700:D1B2:ADF1:38AE:2598:EC5D:6F60:4A81:FE05:E0E8, please check... Is this the same as you have?" You check once and the browser remembers the certificate.
No need for a certificate authority, no need for big scary messages, reasonably easy to understand for the user.
Of course, were talking about banks here. My bank has a *maximum* password length of 8 characters. They pay their insurance and don't concern themselves with security.
jay@myhost:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2007 1900 107 0 208 722
-/+ buffers/cache: 968 1038
Swap: 4055 7 4048
Linux does swap some applications to disk, even when there is plenty of free ram. That is because it can be better to use the ram for cache then use it for an application that hasn't done anything for days.
The xpnet site does say they factor in "how often it relies on virtual memory", but not how they do this
Even that isn't ideal. It makes sense to swap out some library that hasn't been used in hours or days. The more ram available for disk cache the better. The only solution is to look at Memory used minus disk cache (like the 'free' command on Linux does).
May be so, but any reasonable effort at gauging the current externalities of private vehicle use would require way more than a 10% increase. Cheap vs. somewhat less cheap (10% increase) doesn't result in much motivation to change behavior, when it becomes expensive, then people look to cheaper alternatives.
Except that people are sensitive to certain things like sea level rise or sudden changes in local climate (doubt, floods, storms, etc.) Just because there *can* be naturally high CO2 levels on earth doesn't mean we should make it that way suddenly. While it will be no Armageddon and few Americans will lose more than farmland or shoreline property, many people in other places will die from these changes. Population displacement also leads to war and economic instability, something Americans are fighting and losing lives and resources to now.
Utah is taking a short-sighted approach in light of the fact that they produce 95% of their electricity from cheap, dirty coal and plan to build more. Now who is motivated by greed??
Any business offering such a grant would be massively targeted with protests, ads, etc by the left-wing lunatic fringe. Actively sponsoring such research would instantly, since most of the "scientists" are on government dole, mean that honest scientists who came up with the opposite conclusion would be kept out of publishing due to collusion (actually has happened if you read the CRU emails yourself).
There are tons of corporate funded scientists. In fact, there is easily more corporate funded science than public (much easier to get a job after grad school in the commercial sector than it is in academia). Nearly all the corporate science, however, is short-term practical research and not basic science like climatology. There are a bunch of privately funded scientists weighing in on the climate debate, but they are almost entirely mouthpieces who do regular public "talks" and no actual research.
Increase the cost of fuel to represent diving's true cost (instead of subsidising private vehicle ownership with property and other taxes), and you will see a sudden and sharp decline in miles driven. Sure people will wine, but sometimes you just need to rip off the band-aid.
Better idea. Order pizza online and send it to the Australian protests.
That caught my eye too. They think a referendum deciding the keywords would be better? I don't think a countries Internet access should be hamstrung by whatever religious movement enjoys popularity at the moment.
Don't worry, we could always black out the sky. The machines wouldn't have any power then...