Not strictly true, but not wrong either. Like all science, its a positivist model which we test against the data. It turns out you can fairly accurately simulate atomic nuclei as consisting of protons and neutrons trapped inside a potential well. Are they actually protons and neutrons in that state, or do they just behave that way under certain types of probing?
It really doesn't matter - in so far as long as prediction continues to match experiment.
I'm sure the way forward for the greatest nation on Earth is to revert huge sections of it's population to pre-industrial age subsistence farming. I mean, that couldn't possibly have negative consequences for a technological society dependent on specialization and education?
Or alternatively, they have so much demand that even at the additional cost and inconvenience of trucking they still can't meet it. It means continued investment in rail and powerlines is going to yield guaranteed growth.
I agree with the AC, and would point out that the OP doesn't explicitly say it though.
There's a big difference between dropping out to pursue a new idea you haven't yet developed, and dropping out to expand an already successful idea to something more large scale.
GConf really should've just been modeled on/proc and/sys where the file is the keyname and the value is the contents.
Of course, I don't really understand why any of this stuff was decoupled like this in the first place - Gnome is a collection of applications that work together, but they're not so closely tied that they shouldn't just have had their own config files stored logically.
You can easily design an LCD that fails and turns clear - in fact a modern LCD works exactly like this. They go dark when they lose power because the backlight turns off - but if it stayed on, they'd turn white from constant illumination. On a transparent screen, it would turn clear.
More likely, when driving - or just normally using them - you'd configure a hardware lockout for maximum opacity in advance. Or a clear channel - just turn off the power to the relevant pixels in the middle of the vision field.
Isn't it always invalid? If the NTP server does a correction between the first call and the second call, then you could still get time not moving forward.
Nonetheless, with open-source teams working on drivers for them, the problem here is not "it would require some careful thinking", the problem is "we have no idea how interfaces on the card were supposed to operate".
You do realize that if anyone gets access to your bank account, they then can use the details their to actually just walk into a branch pretending to be you, get a credit card issued in your name, then use that to transfer $10,000 in money you don't have to the aforementioned shady Russian bank.
People keep assuming that the internet is the only place cyber-criminals operate: identity theft was big business well before the net, what the net has done is decentralized it.
You can't be secure unless you control your egress. If you just let https streams go anywhere with no visibility into their content you might as well just set the firewall to allow all out bound connections. If there is ANY concern about information as an asset, you must intercept and decrypt https.
Really? So every company at all which considers information an asset has HTTPS proxied or blocked? I find that.. unlikely.
The cry of necessity is often one of tyrants, petty and otherwise.
Also the non-privacy invading, equally effective solution here is just to limit HTTPS outbound to websites you trust or are necessary, and block everything else. I mean, you do have secured DNS servers right? Problem solved.
They don't have to route packets to you. That's very different to routing packets to you after decrypting and inspecting their contents, without notifying either party that this is being done.
If I the user connect to a remote SSL website and login with my username and password, then the expectation of the site operator is that that secure channel terminates to that user.
This is not the situation with SSL interception though: instead, the companies proxy is masquerading as the remote website (without notifying me), and is then masquerading as the user to the remote website (without notifying it's operator) by passing in the user's credentials.
Exactly: you have to indicate that the call is being monitored - or that it may be monitored - to all parties involved.
Misrepresenting the secure nature of HTTPS is exactly analogous in this case: you're specifically taking steps to thwart indications of a man-in-the-middle.
Bingo. The company basically has all the power in the situation - or at least enjoys a perception to that effect when workers have to negotiate individually.
More importantly though, none of it is at all vital for the operation of society - it's exactly the type of thing governments should regulate. We as a society don't benefit from letting companies claim all the rights to individuals IP, or from letting them invade employee privacy or dictate employee private life.
The enterprise of "being a nation" should be more then just a very large armed encampment.
SSH is also a pretty razor-thin vulnerability anyway. Most of the stories I've heard of getting "hacked" by SSH are nothing more then leaving password login turned on, and a really weak (say, "root" "root") password on a well known user account name.
Turning off password authentication fixes that completely.
Any web service you run is always going to be the far bigger problem.
I'd say this is more or less the death of Skype, since it opens the window for someone to create an open-source alternative which doesn't have this annoying feature at all. Quite what form that will take is up in the air, but really we just need the motivation to put the pieces together in a friendly way.
Also, the needs of animal testing are generally reduced by the availability of high-performance computing anyway. Animal testing is expensive and difficult to get approval for - much of the goal of simulation (which is the type of thing you use HPC for) is to reduce your need for it.
Technically a 2-dimensional metallic sheet of atoms is an insulator (the number of paths the electron can take that close back on its original position increases quicker then the number which do not).
But a 1-dimensional line of atoms goes back to being an ordinary conductor.
More practically, Scanning Tunneling Microscopes are based on producing single atom sized features on their tips from where electrons tunnel from - but if you touch the tip to the surface they just start conducting normally.
Actually the big failure of my Toshiba Portege tablet was that it was unreliable. The digitizer kept breaking down, and then it took 2 weeks to be repaired even under warranty. Once it went out of warranty, that was that, and in the meantime I couldn't actually depend on tablet/pen computing because I wouldn't have it for a fairly long time.
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It also makes it harder to crack Windows and has the side-benefit of screwing over anyone who might be pliable to switching to Linux.
Sapphire you can make from alumina with a hydrogen flame - it's a fairly easy process, and you can pick color by adding the appropriate impurities.
Not strictly true, but not wrong either. Like all science, its a positivist model which we test against the data. It turns out you can fairly accurately simulate atomic nuclei as consisting of protons and neutrons trapped inside a potential well. Are they actually protons and neutrons in that state, or do they just behave that way under certain types of probing?
It really doesn't matter - in so far as long as prediction continues to match experiment.
At least this is honest, when the popular press is stating emphatically in its headlines that we 'found the God particle'...
The truth is, we found a dog in the street that may, or may not, belong to Mr Higgs. All we know at this point is it's just a dog.
Admittedly, it's a brand new particle: that's always exciting. If it's not the Higgs, then it'd be something entirely new and exciting.
I'm sure the way forward for the greatest nation on Earth is to revert huge sections of it's population to pre-industrial age subsistence farming. I mean, that couldn't possibly have negative consequences for a technological society dependent on specialization and education?
Or alternatively, they have so much demand that even at the additional cost and inconvenience of trucking they still can't meet it. It means continued investment in rail and powerlines is going to yield guaranteed growth.
I agree with the AC, and would point out that the OP doesn't explicitly say it though.
There's a big difference between dropping out to pursue a new idea you haven't yet developed, and dropping out to expand an already successful idea to something more large scale.
GConf really should've just been modeled on /proc and /sys where the file is the keyname and the value is the contents.
Of course, I don't really understand why any of this stuff was decoupled like this in the first place - Gnome is a collection of applications that work together, but they're not so closely tied that they shouldn't just have had their own config files stored logically.
You can easily design an LCD that fails and turns clear - in fact a modern LCD works exactly like this. They go dark when they lose power because the backlight turns off - but if it stayed on, they'd turn white from constant illumination. On a transparent screen, it would turn clear.
More likely, when driving - or just normally using them - you'd configure a hardware lockout for maximum opacity in advance. Or a clear channel - just turn off the power to the relevant pixels in the middle of the vision field.
Isn't it always invalid? If the NTP server does a correction between the first call and the second call, then you could still get time not moving forward.
Nonetheless, with open-source teams working on drivers for them, the problem here is not "it would require some careful thinking", the problem is "we have no idea how interfaces on the card were supposed to operate".
Better support for the hybrid graphics chips going into laptops would help a lot.
You do realize that if anyone gets access to your bank account, they then can use the details their to actually just walk into a branch pretending to be you, get a credit card issued in your name, then use that to transfer $10,000 in money you don't have to the aforementioned shady Russian bank.
People keep assuming that the internet is the only place cyber-criminals operate: identity theft was big business well before the net, what the net has done is decentralized it.
Really? So every company at all which considers information an asset has HTTPS proxied or blocked? I find that.. unlikely.
The cry of necessity is often one of tyrants, petty and otherwise.
Also the non-privacy invading, equally effective solution here is just to limit HTTPS outbound to websites you trust or are necessary, and block everything else. I mean, you do have secured DNS servers right? Problem solved.
They don't have to route packets to you. That's very different to routing packets to you after decrypting and inspecting their contents, without notifying either party that this is being done.
If I the user connect to a remote SSL website and login with my username and password, then the expectation of the site operator is that that secure channel terminates to that user.
This is not the situation with SSL interception though: instead, the companies proxy is masquerading as the remote website (without notifying me), and is then masquerading as the user to the remote website (without notifying it's operator) by passing in the user's credentials.
Exactly: you have to indicate that the call is being monitored - or that it may be monitored - to all parties involved.
Misrepresenting the secure nature of HTTPS is exactly analogous in this case: you're specifically taking steps to thwart indications of a man-in-the-middle.
Bingo. The company basically has all the power in the situation - or at least enjoys a perception to that effect when workers have to negotiate individually.
More importantly though, none of it is at all vital for the operation of society - it's exactly the type of thing governments should regulate. We as a society don't benefit from letting companies claim all the rights to individuals IP, or from letting them invade employee privacy or dictate employee private life.
The enterprise of "being a nation" should be more then just a very large armed encampment.
SSH is also a pretty razor-thin vulnerability anyway. Most of the stories I've heard of getting "hacked" by SSH are nothing more then leaving password login turned on, and a really weak (say, "root" "root") password on a well known user account name.
Turning off password authentication fixes that completely.
Any web service you run is always going to be the far bigger problem.
Mean Time To Libertarian on /. has fallen through the floor lately.
I'd say this is more or less the death of Skype, since it opens the window for someone to create an open-source alternative which doesn't have this annoying feature at all. Quite what form that will take is up in the air, but really we just need the motivation to put the pieces together in a friendly way.
Also, the needs of animal testing are generally reduced by the availability of high-performance computing anyway. Animal testing is expensive and difficult to get approval for - much of the goal of simulation (which is the type of thing you use HPC for) is to reduce your need for it.
Eh, the real problem is the benefits of PPI tend to aesthetic rather then practical.
Like, I'd much rather use all those extra pixels to increase my work area since I don't need all that many of them to resolve text.
What was the question?
Technically a 2-dimensional metallic sheet of atoms is an insulator (the number of paths the electron can take that close back on its original position increases quicker then the number which do not).
But a 1-dimensional line of atoms goes back to being an ordinary conductor.
More practically, Scanning Tunneling Microscopes are based on producing single atom sized features on their tips from where electrons tunnel from - but if you touch the tip to the surface they just start conducting normally.
Actually the big failure of my Toshiba Portege tablet was that it was unreliable. The digitizer kept breaking down, and then it took 2 weeks to be repaired even under warranty. Once it went out of warranty, that was that, and in the meantime I couldn't actually depend on tablet/pen computing because I wouldn't have it for a fairly long time.