USD can be printed because it's backed by something. That something just happens to be oil
Yeah, that's why everybody is using Saudi Riyals for international trade.
I'm stupid. I agree with superwiz, but apparently one confirmation button is not safe enough for me and I submitted before finishing writing.... resulting in my post saying the opposite of what I wanted to say. Sorry:(
All components of fitness (Strength, Power, Agility, Balance, etc.) are highly dependent on the nervous system's training (with the possible exception of flexibility). For instance, say you are totally untrained, go to the gym one day and make 15 press ups. Next week most likely you'll be able to complete 22 or 25. Your muscles didn't change in one week, what happened is that you "learned" how to make press ups; your muscle's cells are more coordinated, and therefore achieve a higher output
I am not into kung fu at all, but I do climb, and you can bet technique, muscular memory and of course psychology (fear of falling to dead is somewhat instinctive, even when tied) are orders of magnitude more important than physical condition. Kung fu is also highly technical, so most likely the same applies in that case.
The article says the laser is a defensive weapon to be used against small boats, and they actually say that its going to work together with, and not as a substitution to "kinetic energy weapon systems". I don't think you need to defend yourself against a small boat which is too far to be seen, if nothing else because there is probably no way to know if they are hostile or not.
OS in ROM - no Virus worries or update hell
BASIC (replaced with something modern) in ROM - make it easy and attractive to program.
Applications in ROM - Build in OpenOffice, FireFox
AKA permanently vulnerable. Back in the days of the Commodore 64 virus were practically non existent, and they were made only to show off how 133t the coders were. Today Malware is a huge business, a large industry, and with the population increasingly using the computers for stuff like buying online, checking the bank account, etc. this can only go worse. I do think that we need to figure out how to make things easy again, but just locking ourselves to vulnerable software is almost suicidal.
Agree. if my headers say "accept-language:en-gb,en" then I want pages in british english, and if not avaliable then in any other variation of english. That's how things are supposed to work. It's not rocket science.
You certainly make a point in that "framework" is a buzzword, but there still are differences. Frameworks use mainly the "Hollywood Principle" (don't call us, we'll call you), whilst libraries are called directly by the programmer. Sometimes libraries are called frameworks, but certainly nobody calls ESMF a library. Besides, I don't understand your point on web development (like frameworks are not massively used for non-web applications)
Takes 6 hours to pump that many joules of excess electrons.
That's not the main issue: You could even leave the battery recharging, pick another one and fly, like we do with electric model aeroplanes. The real problem is power to weight ratio, which is critical on aeroplanes and which, on electrical systems, is orders of magnitude lower than a equivalent combustion system due to the low energy density of batteries compared to fuel.
I think most of the world uses the original long scale (1 billion = 10^12), dating back to the XV century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales Curiously, both meanings (1 billion = 10^12 and 1 billion = 10^9) originated on France
This is why no fiat currency has ever lasted more than about 60 years
The split tally lasted in Brittany about seven centuries (XII to XIX centuries, if I recall correctly). More recently, both the Canadian Dollar and the British Pound have been fiat since 1931 according to wikipedia and the bank of Canada, respectively, which makes them both exactly 80 years old so far.
How can you be so confident that you have no malware not having and antivirus? Also malware!=virus. But let's go back to the topic:
I know no virus in the wild right now for Mac OS X, but you can bet I see malware on macs quite often. This week for instance I found this: http://ithreats.net/2011/02/25/rat-blackhole/, and also reports on jnanabot (a multi-platform trojan) say that roughly 16% of all infected computers are macs. Of course, when I show this to appleboys they just go: "bah, you just made up those numbers" or "that trojan doesn't really work with mac" and on and on (Of course, pointing out that apple wouldn't have "security updates" if there were no "security issues" doesn't help)
So that's when I have to bring the heavy stuff: Until this september there was a vulnerability allowing a remote attacker to access your shared folders(similar to the issue of windows sharing C$ by default, if you remember that). If you haven't updated, have a link here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1105
An here there's no possibility for bullshit: you can try it yourself.
One of the biggest issues is that denying a problem makes it impossible to solve it. False sense of security is the main problem in itself, and I know a thing or two about false sense of security: I use linux;).. One example of this:you can easily go to shodanhq.com, search for "Apple Embedded Web Server" (the one used by Mac XServers), and chances are you are going to find some SERVERS using default passwords, so you can access them with no problem: http://www.elladodelmal.com/2010/11/tengo-un-xserve-y-te-comparto-mi-raid.html ( in spanish, but google translator is your friend;) Cheers
But that does seem to be YOUR position when it comes to most other countries
You have no right to play the straw man on me. Don't put words on my lips. You DID criticise the intervention based solely on what "we" did on similar situations, hence my comment: to point out that you didn't enter on the debate of whether or not "we" should intervene in Libya.
But then, you came and started throwing all that BS about my "position when it comes to most other countries" and I cannot help but be pissed, as I never made an statement on Slashdot about such a thing, and for sure you don't even know what my country is to start with.
I call orange to the squares with color #ff6200 (equivalent to 10mSv), and yellow those with color #ffc700 (eq. to 50 Sv). I guess you call red the former and orange the latter. With the rest of your comment, I obviously agree, as the graph I linked to illustrates the situation you described.
Good point.
My 2 cents: The radiation at the plant gates was about 12 mSv/hour (~one orange square per hour) after explosion at reactor n2 according to (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/20110316-japan-quake-radiation.html), apparently the highest level detected. It's still not the same measurement as that given for Chernobyl (radiation next to the core), but we get closer. Would be cool to check more info, if anyone has links.
So true... recently a friend of mine asked on Facebook for advise on buying a new computer because hers was always giving her problems. Many people advised her to buy a mac. She then asked if macs have no kind of problems, crashes or malware, and people unanimously answered "not at all". As I used a mac at work for many years, I wanted to add my two cents, and I commented that macs, as every computer, do have problems, malware and security issues, but are in general great computers. Surprisingly I was crucified by the applebois, even though I provided links to every issue I referred to (most of it directly from apple.com), and even though I said apples are great computers. They will accept not even the least criticism. It's a religion.
Moore's law is only about the number of transistors, not the efficiency. There's *A LOT* of improvement to be made in that area, regardless of whether or not we continue with miniaturization. We heard on slashdot a few examples, such as probabilistic pruning and others I don't remember. 300 W now doesn't mean we'll need 300 W for the same thing tomorrow. On the contrary, just check the energy consumption of your cell phone today vs a computationally equivalent computer 20 years ago
Still, we have some limits, such as Amdahl's law (basically, you can only speed up using parallelism the segments of code that are... well, parallelizable).
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USD can be printed because it's backed by something. That something just happens to be oil
Yeah, that's why everybody is using Saudi Riyals for international trade.
I'm stupid. I agree with superwiz, but apparently one confirmation button is not safe enough for me and I submitted before finishing writing.... resulting in my post saying the opposite of what I wanted to say. Sorry :(
USD can be printed because it's backed by something. That something just happens to be oil
Yeah, that's why everybody is using Saudi Riyals for international trade.
I cannot mod you up because of the weird changes on slashdot's already weird moderation system. But I totally agree
Kiddie porn, on the other hand, will work just dandidly :/
You perv!
All components of fitness (Strength, Power, Agility, Balance, etc.) are highly dependent on the nervous system's training (with the possible exception of flexibility). For instance, say you are totally untrained, go to the gym one day and make 15 press ups. Next week most likely you'll be able to complete 22 or 25. Your muscles didn't change in one week, what happened is that you "learned" how to make press ups; your muscle's cells are more coordinated, and therefore achieve a higher output
I am not into kung fu at all, but I do climb, and you can bet technique, muscular memory and of course psychology (fear of falling to dead is somewhat instinctive, even when tied) are orders of magnitude more important than physical condition. Kung fu is also highly technical, so most likely the same applies in that case.
The article says the laser is a defensive weapon to be used against small boats, and they actually say that its going to work together with, and not as a substitution to "kinetic energy weapon systems". I don't think you need to defend yourself against a small boat which is too far to be seen, if nothing else because there is probably no way to know if they are hostile or not.
OS in ROM - no Virus worries or update hell
BASIC (replaced with something modern) in ROM - make it easy and attractive to program.
Applications in ROM - Build in OpenOffice, FireFox
AKA permanently vulnerable. Back in the days of the Commodore 64 virus were practically non existent, and they were made only to show off how 133t the coders were. Today Malware is a huge business, a large industry, and with the population increasingly using the computers for stuff like buying online, checking the bank account, etc. this can only go worse. I do think that we need to figure out how to make things easy again, but just locking ourselves to vulnerable software is almost suicidal.
I just installed "modify headers" for Firefox on my laptop today for similar reasons
Agree. if my headers say "accept-language:en-gb,en" then I want pages in british english, and if not avaliable then in any other variation of english. That's how things are supposed to work. It's not rocket science.
4 Registration and Account Security:
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Facebook considers an user the same thing as an account. Plus, resorting to "ad hominem" says little about yourself.
Plus, there is more than one game.
My fallacy detector just exploded. I *do* have many things to hide, but they are not illegal. I call that privacy.
You certainly make a point in that "framework" is a buzzword, but there still are differences. Frameworks use mainly the "Hollywood Principle" (don't call us, we'll call you), whilst libraries are called directly by the programmer. Sometimes libraries are called frameworks, but certainly nobody calls ESMF a library. Besides, I don't understand your point on web development (like frameworks are not massively used for non-web applications)
Takes 6 hours to pump that many joules of excess electrons.
That's not the main issue: You could even leave the battery recharging, pick another one and fly, like we do with electric model aeroplanes.
The real problem is power to weight ratio, which is critical on aeroplanes and which, on electrical systems, is orders of magnitude lower than a equivalent combustion system due to the low energy density of batteries compared to fuel.
I think most of the world uses the original long scale (1 billion = 10^12), dating back to the XV century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Curiously, both meanings (1 billion = 10^12 and 1 billion = 10^9) originated on France
This is why no fiat currency has ever lasted more than about 60 years
The split tally lasted in Brittany about seven centuries (XII to XIX centuries, if I recall correctly). More recently, both the Canadian Dollar and the British Pound have been fiat since 1931 according to wikipedia and the bank of Canada, respectively, which makes them both exactly 80 years old so far.
How can you be so confident that you have no malware not having and antivirus? Also malware!=virus. ;).. ;)
But let's go back to the topic: I know no virus in the wild right now for Mac OS X, but you can bet I see malware on macs quite often. This week for instance I found this: http://ithreats.net/2011/02/25/rat-blackhole/, and also reports on jnanabot (a multi-platform trojan) say that roughly 16% of all infected computers are macs. Of course, when I show this to appleboys they just go: "bah, you just made up those numbers" or "that trojan doesn't really work with mac" and on and on (Of course, pointing out that apple wouldn't have "security updates" if there were no "security issues" doesn't help)
So that's when I have to bring the heavy stuff: Until this september there was a vulnerability allowing a remote attacker to access your shared folders(similar to the issue of windows sharing C$ by default, if you remember that). If you haven't updated, have a link here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1105
An here there's no possibility for bullshit: you can try it yourself.
One of the biggest issues is that denying a problem makes it impossible to solve it. False sense of security is the main problem in itself, and I know a thing or two about false sense of security: I use linux
One example of this:you can easily go to shodanhq.com, search for "Apple Embedded Web Server" (the one used by Mac XServers), and chances are you are going to find some SERVERS using default passwords, so you can access them with no problem: http://www.elladodelmal.com/2010/11/tengo-un-xserve-y-te-comparto-mi-raid.html ( in spanish, but google translator is your friend
Cheers
But that does seem to be YOUR position when it comes to most other countries
You have no right to play the straw man on me. Don't put words on my lips. You DID criticise the intervention based solely on what "we" did on similar situations, hence my comment: to point out that you didn't enter on the debate of whether or not "we" should intervene in Libya.
But then, you came and started throwing all that BS about my "position when it comes to most other countries" and I cannot help but be pissed, as I never made an statement on Slashdot about such a thing, and for sure you don't even know what my country is to start with.
Yes, and actually the exponential decay is very well visible on the graph. However, the graph on wikipedia is much more comprehensive.
I call orange to the squares with color #ff6200 (equivalent to 10mSv), and yellow those with color #ffc700 (eq. to 50 Sv). I guess you call red the former and orange the latter. With the rest of your comment, I obviously agree, as the graph I linked to illustrates the situation you described.
Good point.
My 2 cents: The radiation at the plant gates was about 12 mSv/hour (~one orange square per hour) after explosion at reactor n2 according to (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/20110316-japan-quake-radiation.html), apparently the highest level detected. It's still not the same measurement as that given for Chernobyl (radiation next to the core), but we get closer. Would be cool to check more info, if anyone has links.
Any link to the updated levels of radiation on Fukushima?
So true... recently a friend of mine asked on Facebook for advise on buying a new computer because hers was always giving her problems. Many people advised her to buy a mac. She then asked if macs have no kind of problems, crashes or malware, and people unanimously answered "not at all".
As I used a mac at work for many years, I wanted to add my two cents, and I commented that macs, as every computer, do have problems, malware and security issues, but are in general great computers. Surprisingly I was crucified by the applebois, even though I provided links to every issue I referred to (most of it directly from apple.com), and even though I said apples are great computers. They will accept not even the least criticism. It's a religion.
Moore's law is only about the number of transistors, not the efficiency. There's *A LOT* of improvement to be made in that area, regardless of whether or not we continue with miniaturization. We heard on slashdot a few examples, such as probabilistic pruning and others I don't remember. 300 W now doesn't mean we'll need 300 W for the same thing tomorrow. On the contrary, just check the energy consumption of your cell phone today vs a computationally equivalent computer 20 years ago
Still, we have some limits, such as Amdahl's law (basically, you can only speed up using parallelism the segments of code that are... well, parallelizable).
Even if Moore's law come to an end, we can still improve the performance of the systems via parallelism.