...is sadly dying. But it's ok because if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide right? Gaaarh, you'll get my Viagra from my cold dead, uh, thingy !
Well except that there is no proof that this is true. That story is kinda short on any proof at all. email? Does anybody think that email is private? It is sent in clear text so I would say that it is as private as a postcard. Not only is the above true, but you should never do this and post a line from an incriminating email in a public forum:
So, that would mean that the societies with the most surveillance were the most secure, right? Sadly not, look at the mess British based terrirists made in Germany a mere sixty years ago.
I'd imagine this will be used more for something like connecting all your stereo components together (including video switching) without connecting any wires between them, etc...
Think '3cm', the maximum coupling distance according to the article. Definitely not a stereo hookup alternative. 3cm is plenty for lots of people... Um, do ants and mites buy lots of stereo equipment ? It could make a killing in that market segment.
Well Sauron's Ring of Power had some positive features for the user too. Invisibility, Kick Assitude, Frothing Megalomania to name but three, but that doesn't alter the fact its primary purpose was to bind people in the darkness. Same with Cocaine really. Wow, all this time people have been telling me that cocaine was bad but if it makes you invisible, the side effects might be worth it after all... (hmmm...)
Nearly every sport has a doping and non-doping league already. The problem is, people will only pay to see the non-doping leagues at the moment. Which means all the money is in the non-doping league. Which means all the dopers try to cheat and compete in the non-doping league. This problem seems unlikely to ever go away. It seemed to me it was the other way around. But then I don't really follow the sports.
Alien Invasion because of Orson Welles war of the worlds radio broadcast. Damn I had completely forgotten the alien invasion... It's been ages since I last played a SimCity. I'm glad I should soon be able to remedy to that:)
The plane crash disaster has been removed as a result of 9/11 This is ridiculous. I hope fires have also been removed as a result of California fires, tornadoes as a result of the Indian ocean tsunami and the big monster invasion as a result of Cmdr Taco. Other wise it wouldn't be very respectful for the victims you know.
If they can't teach evolution, then they shouldn't be able to teach about gravity or anything else. I've long wondered why they focus on evolution and don't try to fight heliocentrism. After all the Earth should be at the centre of creation, it probably says so in the bible somewhere. Shouldn't that be taught in science class somewhere during astrology^Wastronomy courses ?
Because, according to Romans 1, everyone knows of God's existence, especially through the natural world. Right, and acording to Marvel, everyone knows of SpiderMan's existence, especially in New York.
The big downside is the difficulty of managing Firefox, especially in comparison to administering IE, according to the CIO. For example, he said that the IT department can patch IE via automated central updates. On the other hand, "we have to send an e-mail and have users manually download Firefox updates, which is not ideal," he said.
Doesn't Firefox do that by itself since 2.0 ?
Granted using an internal repository might be more rational in a large organisation (although that's presumably hackable) but from what I've seen Firefox just updates itself (In Windows and Mac OS at least IIRC).
When I was young, all the computers at school ran MacOS. My entire introduction to computing was done on Apple IIs and Macintoshes. However, when it came time to buy a computer for home, our family bought a Windows machine because it had better specs. Starting these kids out on Linux doesn't necessarily mean that they'll stay with Linux.
Why not, Linux is widely recognised as having better specs.
Better specs don't sell though. Marketing and subsequent mindshare do (case in point : Windows - various incarnations).
"Either hand counted ballots, or optical scan vote counting machines."
You mean I can just look at the candidate I want to vote for, and the retina scan vote counting machine will register my vote? What if I'm looking at the cute little blonde in the parking lot? Then maybe people would start getting interested in politcal debates again.
"Tonight with us, the little blonde from the parking lot and the hot brunette from the voting queue who took pollers by surprise and now seem to be the strongest contenders for the post of governor of New Hampshire. But first a word from our sponsors !"
In Seattle, WA we have Diebold voting machines which do have a paper tape, though most people don't use them still. It's the machine that writes to that paper tape, not the voter. Unless the machine runs audited and public code, and is tamper proof, the paper tape cannot be trusted. It is trivial to modify the code to write anything on it.
Electronic voting has way too many dark areas and failure points, especially when marketed by companies who believe in security through obscurity and who have already been involved in several suspicious incidents.
Besides, I think a practical application of this would be as a laptop dock with no electrical connection. Place your laptop on the charging pad, and your laptop will start charging without having to plug in! At least if there's one thing we can be sure of judging from the last century or so of appliances is that each and every gizmo will have its own charging pad which will be absolutely incompatible with any other gadget you own. Those charging pads will also have "wall wart" transformers that only work with the pad they came with.
So you are saying taking out a window would be a good thing? Good thing ? Most likely there'd just be a bullet hole in the window. Even removing all the layers of the window wouldn't do much. The pressure would go down although probably not catastrophically, but the plane might have to descend.
The main risk IMO (beyond hitting passengers) would indeed be hitting a critical component where the redundancy couldn't kick in, or possibly starting a cabin fire (maybe possible if an oxygen tank is ruptured although the cabin stuff isn't very combustible). The airframe isn't part of the critical components where handguns are concerned.
A. Airplanes are pressurized. B. Shooting a small hole in the side of the plane is a bad thing.
Your idea works wonderfully in lollipop land, but unfortunately we have to deal with the laws of physics. If you make small holes in a plane nothing much happens. The plane already has a fairly large hole in it (sometimes several) and the pressurisation system copes without trouble. It would take a lot of small holes before anything interesting happened, at which point the plane would just have to descend.
You're confusing the laws of physics and the laws of Hollywood.
My point being that under windows prety much any piece of hardware is guaranteed to work, under linux most do, but some still don't and "YMMV" is just not enough. In ancient times, a good part of Corel's business was selling SCSI drivers...
I didn't know anyone still did that kind of thing. Although I know some companies sell printer filters, which you can consider "drivers".
Some time ago my brand new computer with a mainstream motherboard (gigabyte) based on a mainstream chipset (intel) was complitely impossible to install linux on as the kernel would either see the IDE CD OR the SATA HD, depending on bios settings but never both at once. It took about 4 months and a couple kernel versions until it was fixed. I've had that setup for a while on several systems with a number of revisions and never had that problem, nor have I ever heard of something similar... but I guess that doesn't help when it happens to you;)
On the very same computer it is STILL impossible to get 5.1 audio without manually doing arcane tweaking to ALSA configs The Alsa drivers don't evolve very fast and are poorly documented. There are lots of "you can try this and that option and see what happens" but basically the sound subsystem still sucks. I have a laptop where sound *sometimes* works. Quite frustrating although apparently fairly typical of Intel sound on laptops unfortunately...
Now notice that i'm not talking about some more obscure devices like GPSes, phones, webcameras, tuner cards - i'm talking about hardware that milions of other users have besides me, and it still doesn't work right, atleast without tweaking. I don't know what a "smart" thumbdrive is and the PATA/SATA issue is fairly odd but all in all I've had few hardware issues through the years. All in all the most troublesome class of hardware for me has been webcams. When I look at the peripherals on my desktop (home assembled) machine : nVidia, integrated sound (I only use 2 channels but it appears to support more without tweaking), Logitech joystick, MS wireless mouse (proprietary radio protocol), dLink BlueTooth dongle, Canon USB scanner, Wacom tablet, flash card reader integrated in my Dell monitor, everything pretty much worked "out of the box". I had to enable more buttons on the mouse (by editing xorg.conf) but that was pretty much it.
I've been using Linux on the desktop since 95 and have helped lots of people make the switch and regarding hardware support I've had very little trouble lately (especially with the advent of the bootable CDs which help pinpoint potentially troublesome stuff early on). The "obscure" devices you refer to are the ones that can of course be showstoppers if a user already relies on one or more of those. If not he'll just have to shop carefully as most/all of them have supported models.
All in all while I can't really say that the last 10 years have been a completely smooth ride, I've never really missed Windows (although I have a gaming partition that comes and goes). Even my one year foray in Mac land got me going back to Linux on my desktop. So while it's of course a matter of taste and individual needs, the system certainly works on the desktop for some of us.
True. Besides, the idea that Java is damaging to students is pure bullshit anyway. If the students are learning the Java way to do things, and nothing else, then they have horrible professors. I learned CS from good profs (well... one good and one bad), and surprise, even though I got my start in Java, I am perfectly capable of doing things in other ways. It really shows in the article. The crux of the problem seems to be that the Java teachers aren't very good, other than that there's nothing wrong with it as a teaching language.
Or maybe they should use something like INTERCAL or Malboge to teach programming so that the students get overjoyed with how easy and friendly C is when they get to it.
Hello World in INTERCAL:
DO,1 <- #13 PLEASE DO,1 SUB #1 <- #234 DO,1 SUB #2 <- #112 DO,1 SUB #3 <- #112 DO,1 SUB #4 <- #0 DO,1 SUB #5 <- #64 DO,1 SUB #6 <- #194 DO,1 SUB #7 <- #48 PLEASE DO,1 SUB #8 <- #22 DO,1 SUB #9 <- #248 DO,1 SUB #10 <- #168 DO,1 SUB #11 <- #24 DO,1 SUB #12 <- #16 DO,1 SUB #13 <- #214 PLEASE READ OUT,1 PLEASE GIVE UP
Talk about narrow minds. You start complaining about elitism in science, and how engineers supposedly make fun of humanities. Oh, lay off him, he has to read *books* already !
Yeah right, as if you could get Barry Manilow on P2P... Um, on the other hand, never mind. Moderating myself as redundant or irrelevant as I hadn't scroled down before responding.:-/
(note to self, there are some sick people on those P2P networks)
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...is sadly dying.But it's ok because if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide right? Gaaarh, you'll get my Viagra from my cold dead, uh, thingy !
email? Does anybody think that email is private? It is sent in clear text so I would say that it is as private as a postcard. Not only is the above true, but you should never do this and post a line from an incriminating email in a public forum
Nobody is safe nowadays !
Think '3cm', the maximum coupling distance according to the article. Definitely not a stereo hookup alternative. 3cm is plenty for lots of people... Um, do ants and mites buy lots of stereo equipment ? It could make a killing in that market segment.
Water extract from premium graded soyabeans, sucrose, glucose, non-hydrogenated vegetable oils, emulsifiers: mono- and di-glycerides from vegetable oils, stabilisers: carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, salt, vanilla flavouring. Wow, mine just says
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Water, Stuff (Note: peoportions may vary).
I'm glad I should soon be able to remedy to that
Doesn't Firefox do that by itself since 2.0 ?
Granted using an internal repository might be more rational in a large organisation (although that's presumably hackable) but from what I've seen Firefox just updates itself (In Windows and Mac OS at least IIRC).
When I was young, all the computers at school ran MacOS. My entire introduction to computing was done on Apple IIs and Macintoshes. However, when it came time to buy a computer for home, our family bought a Windows machine because it had better specs. Starting these kids out on Linux doesn't necessarily mean that they'll stay with Linux.
Why not, Linux is widely recognised as having better specs.Better specs don't sell though. Marketing and subsequent mindshare do (case in point : Windows - various incarnations).
You mean I can just look at the candidate I want to vote for, and the retina scan vote counting machine will register my vote? What if I'm looking at the cute little blonde in the parking lot? Then maybe people would start getting interested in politcal debates again.
"Tonight with us, the little blonde from the parking lot and the hot brunette from the voting queue who took pollers by surprise and now seem to be the strongest contenders for the post of governor of New Hampshire. But first a word from our sponsors !"
Electronic voting has way too many dark areas and failure points, especially when marketed by companies who believe in security through obscurity and who have already been involved in several suspicious incidents.
Ah, progress, it's so exciting !
Most likely there'd just be a bullet hole in the window. Even removing all the layers of the window wouldn't do much. The pressure would go down although probably not catastrophically, but the plane might have to descend.
The main risk IMO (beyond hitting passengers) would indeed be hitting a critical component where the redundancy couldn't kick in, or possibly starting a cabin fire (maybe possible if an oxygen tank is ruptured although the cabin stuff isn't very combustible). The airframe isn't part of the critical components where handguns are concerned.
A. Airplanes are pressurized.
B. Shooting a small hole in the side of the plane is a bad thing.
Your idea works wonderfully in lollipop land, but unfortunately we have to deal with the laws of physics. If you make small holes in a plane nothing much happens. The plane already has a fairly large hole in it (sometimes several) and the pressurisation system copes without trouble. It would take a lot of small holes before anything interesting happened, at which point the plane would just have to descend.
You're confusing the laws of physics and the laws of Hollywood.
My point being that under windows prety much any piece of hardware is guaranteed to work, under linux most do, but some still don't and "YMMV" is just not enough. In ancient times, a good part of Corel's business was selling SCSI drivers...
I didn't know anyone still did that kind of thing. Although I know some companies sell printer filters, which you can consider "drivers".
PATA/SATA issue is fairly odd but all in all I've had few hardware issues through the years. All in all the most troublesome class of hardware for me has been webcams. When I look at the peripherals on my desktop (home assembled) machine : nVidia, integrated sound (I only use 2 channels but it appears to support more without tweaking), Logitech joystick, MS wireless mouse (proprietary radio protocol), dLink BlueTooth dongle, Canon USB scanner, Wacom tablet, flash card reader integrated in my Dell monitor, everything pretty much worked "out of the box". I had to enable more buttons on the mouse (by editing xorg.conf) but that was pretty much it.
I've been using Linux on the desktop since 95 and have helped lots of people make the switch and regarding hardware support I've had very little trouble lately (especially with the advent of the bootable CDs which help pinpoint potentially troublesome stuff early on). The "obscure" devices you refer to are the ones that can of course be showstoppers if a user already relies on one or more of those. If not he'll just have to shop carefully as most/all of them have supported models.
All in all while I can't really say that the last 10 years have been a completely smooth ride, I've never really missed Windows (although I have a gaming partition that comes and goes). Even my one year foray in Mac land got me going back to Linux on my desktop. So while it's of course a matter of taste and individual needs, the system certainly works on the desktop for some of us.
YMMV, it goes without saying.
Or maybe they should use something like INTERCAL or Malboge to teach programming so that the students get overjoyed with how easy and friendly C is when they get to it.
Hello World in INTERCAL
Um, on the other hand, never mind. Moderating myself as redundant or irrelevant as I hadn't scroled down before responding.
(note to self, there are some sick people on those P2P networks)
Non-paying people get a BETTER product all-round than paying consumers. Yeah right, as if you could get Barry Manilow on P2P...
Um, on the other hand, never mind.