Standard example: WalMart logs every single purchase ever made in order to make data warehouse analyzations, like finding what items are often bought together so that they can also be put on display next to each other to get a few more people to buy them together. That's several million entries each day...
Ah sorry, I forgot the most important point of libertarian doctrine: whatever you dislike can be interpreted as "initiation of force" and gives you the right to shoot the perpetrator, while anything you yourself do is automatically not "initiation of force".
Of course, they also have their libertarian-approved right of self defense against your initiation of force by infringing on their intellectual proprty rights. And they have more money to afford better "sef defense"...
Guys, are you really idiots enough to believe that because nothing happened in the very few instances nuclear-powered space probes were used so far, nothing can ever happen?
So the Pioneer probes can still be contacted. Nice occasion for technophiles to get enthusiastic about, but of no practical value whatsoever, certainly not enough to justify that particular risk.
Fact is, nuclear power is serious shit, with incalculable risks. There is no such thing as total security, because people do really dumb things on occasion (remember Tokaimura?), and with a nuclear power plant, one mistake is all it takes to put thousands, if not millions of lives into danger.
it may be true that foosil fuels are even worse overall, but fossil fuel won't last very much longer anyway, and when it runs out, pray that we'll have a better alternative than fission reactors.
all the people making the fuss about NASA wanting to use nuclear power plants in its probes (and thus causing them instead to rely on overly complex solar arrays that probably contributed nontrivially to the recent Mars probe failures) to try to block the development of said bacteria. It's not natural! What if it goes off-course and crashes here on earth?! (Yeah, sure, in reality probably nothing would happen
Well, d'uh. "probably nothing will happen" just isn't the kind of risk you take when a failure means tens of thousands of people getting a dose of Plutonium.
In a very real way, one of the greatest threats to the continued existance of the human race is not lack of scientific knowledge, it's all the morons who can't get it into their heads that doing stuff because we can do it isn't good enough a reason to risk people's lives and do things we can't really predict the consequences of.
When I choose to install Latex or Emacs or gdb I don't expect these programs to be executed until I type their name into a command prompt. Why should I expect otherwise of apache, ftpd, or telnetd?
Because the latter are servers, and running without you explicitly having to start them is the point of a server?
When I'm installing linux, and I see the various programs to install, I don't think "which of these programs will I want to run as soon as I turn my computer on", but rather "which of these programs would I like to run SOMEDAY".
Even though I want it LATER rather than now (perhaps, after I have time to configure it), I'd like to INSTALL (not run) it now because, well, if the installation program is going to take care of it for me, why not?
If security is an issue, you don't install anything you don't actually need because it may still create local security holes. Besides, installing stuff when you actually need it isn't any different from installing it with the OS install. It's not the distro's fault if you have strange habits.
Actually, the game doesn't let you set it to more than 170, and 180 (and all beyond that) is mathematically impossible. As you get closer to 180, the texture pixels exactly at the edge of the 180 degree field would get closer and closer to taking up your entire screen.
For physics, this is definitely true, as it is for numerical calculus, but the majority of advanced math problems are of a symbolic nature, and a calculator is quite unnecessaty. Heck, half of the problems at a really advanced level begin with the word "prove", not "calculate".
The original statement is bullshit. The LOC of the kernel have increased almost exclusively to provide oodles of device drivers and support for more architectures, not because of bloat in the core parts of the kernel. All of it just increases the size of the full source download, not of the final compiled binary.
I seem to remember an option somewhere in the module support section that lets your modules run on different kernel versions without recompiling.
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it's also true that "strong encryption" is a matter of crunching more
numbers faster than the guys trying to crack your messages.
No, that's completely wrong. The computation power required for encryption grows linearly or with n*log(n) with the length of the key, while for brute-force cracking it's exponential. "strong encryption" is almost exclusively a matter of finding and using algorithms that maintain this discrepancy.
ndustry is dying trying to keep up with the kernel releases and from personal experience, a lot of the industry is
getting sick of supporting Linux because there is a new friggin' kernel every friggin' month, which wreaks havoc when a kernel
module needs to be released with a product...
Bull. The major kernel releases are more than a year apart, and the minor releases for user kernels are bugfixes, not "new kernels". If the bugfix breaks your module, you were doing something wrong.
The frequent minor releases are what makes the kernel *stable* because otherwise, not enough people could participate in debugging in the open environment.
No. Speed differences have nothing to do with platform independance. In fact, they are unavoidable since some platforms may support an operation at a low level and thus it's easy to code in the Java VM and very fast, while on another platform the same operation may require much more and more complex machine code and thus be slower.
Using petrol at first is a good thing because it allows for a gradual switchover. That this switchover will come is inevitable, and sooner than people would like to believe (the petrol reserves may last for over 100 years, but they will become difficult and expensive to exploit long before that). That the petrol companies are taking over that business is a smart move for both them and the consumer because it means continuity.
Um, if I were you I'd worry about the much looser US privacy laws concerning commercial enterprises (DoubleClick anyone?). At least the government is supposed to work towards the benefit of all citizens...
original copyrights only lasted 20 years then they were public domain, now, thanks the the late sonny bono and sony the copy
rights extend to the life span of the person who created the work plus 70 years
I think you may have something mixed up there. I'm pretty sure 70 years is the original copyright span. 20 years is for patents. Pipe of a different color.
So when you see a Coca-Coal ad on TV, dou you immediately go to the store and buy a Coke?
Didn't think so.
The truth is, "trademark ads" like these are not truly advertising the product itself. Instead, they want to achieve two things:
Hammer their name into your subconscious so that you will go with the name that's more familiar to you when it's time to decide between products that are virtually the same thing for the same price
Reinforce your already made decision to choose their product (i.e. the message is "You've bought Coke instead of Pepsi, and you did right!!"
A) If you pay 0.02 Euro per minute, you're using the wrong ISP. Try Callisa or ExpressNet, both of which cost only about 0.013 Euro per minute, and subscription-based offers are in many cases even cheaper.
B) To claim that T-Online drove all of its competitors out of business is totally ridiculous. There still are thousands of other ISPs, they just don't offer cheap flatrates (there still are expensive ones).
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Standard example: WalMart logs every single purchase ever made in order to make data warehouse analyzations, like finding what items are often bought together so that they can also be put on display next to each other to get a few more people to buy them together. That's several million entries each day...
Ah sorry, I forgot the most important point of libertarian doctrine: whatever you dislike can be interpreted as "initiation of force" and gives you the right to shoot the perpetrator, while anything you yourself do is automatically not "initiation of force".
Of course, they also have their libertarian-approved right of self defense against your initiation of force by infringing on their intellectual proprty rights. And they have more money to afford better "sef defense"...
So the Pioneer probes can still be contacted. Nice occasion for technophiles to get enthusiastic about, but of no practical value whatsoever, certainly not enough to justify that particular risk.
Fact is, nuclear power is serious shit, with incalculable risks. There is no such thing as total security, because people do really dumb things on occasion (remember Tokaimura?), and with a nuclear power plant, one mistake is all it takes to put thousands, if not millions of lives into danger.
it may be true that foosil fuels are even worse overall, but fossil fuel won't last very much longer anyway, and when it runs out, pray that we'll have a better alternative than fission reactors.
Well, d'uh. "probably nothing will happen" just isn't the kind of risk you take when a failure means tens of thousands of people getting a dose of Plutonium.
In a very real way, one of the greatest threats to the continued existance of the human race is not lack of scientific knowledge, it's all the morons who can't get it into their heads that doing stuff because we can do it isn't good enough a reason to risk people's lives and do things we can't really predict the consequences of.
Because the latter are servers, and running without you explicitly having to start them is the point of a server?
When I'm installing linux, and I see the various programs to install, I don't think "which of these programs will I want to run as soon as I turn my computer on", but rather "which of these programs would I like to run SOMEDAY". Even though I want it LATER rather than now (perhaps, after I have time to configure it), I'd like to INSTALL (not run) it now because, well, if the installation program is going to take care of it for me, why not?
If security is an issue, you don't install anything you don't actually need because it may still create local security holes. Besides, installing stuff when you actually need it isn't any different from installing it with the OS install. It's not the distro's fault if you have strange habits.
Well, D'uh. The question was how to make them understand that there is a serious problem without doing something illegal like that!!
Actually, the game doesn't let you set it to more than 170, and 180 (and all beyond that) is mathematically impossible. As you get closer to 180, the texture pixels exactly at the edge of the 180 degree field would get closer and closer to taking up your entire screen.
For physics, this is definitely true, as it is for numerical calculus, but the majority of advanced math problems are of a symbolic nature, and a calculator is quite unnecessaty. Heck, half of the problems at a really advanced level begin with the word "prove", not "calculate".
The original statement is bullshit. The LOC of the kernel have increased almost exclusively to provide oodles of device drivers and support for more architectures, not because of bloat in the core parts of the kernel. All of it just increases the size of the full source download, not of the final compiled binary.
I severely doubt they will be dual-layered, because that is a far more complex problem than single-layered DVD-R.
I don't have any data, but I'd wager that mySQL easily outperforms sapdb simply because it doesn't bother with transactions.
Who says it's poorly written?
I seem to remember an option somewhere in the module support section that lets your modules run on different kernel versions without recompiling.
No, that's completely wrong. The computation power required for encryption grows linearly or with n*log(n) with the length of the key, while for brute-force cracking it's exponential. "strong encryption" is almost exclusively a matter of finding and using algorithms that maintain this discrepancy.
Dried frog pills, most likely.
Bull. The major kernel releases are more than a year apart, and the minor releases for user kernels are bugfixes, not "new kernels". If the bugfix breaks your module, you were doing something wrong.
The frequent minor releases are what makes the kernel *stable* because otherwise, not enough people could participate in debugging in the open environment.
No. Speed differences have nothing to do with platform independance. In fact, they are unavoidable since some platforms may support an operation at a low level and thus it's easy to code in the Java VM and very fast, while on another platform the same operation may require much more and more complex machine code and thus be slower.
Using petrol at first is a good thing because it allows for a gradual switchover. That this switchover will come is inevitable, and sooner than people would like to believe (the petrol reserves may last for over 100 years, but they will become difficult and expensive to exploit long before that). That the petrol companies are taking over that business is a smart move for both them and the consumer because it means continuity.
Um, if I were you I'd worry about the much looser US privacy laws concerning commercial enterprises (DoubleClick anyone?). At least the government is supposed to work towards the benefit of all citizens...
I think you may have something mixed up there. I'm pretty sure 70 years is the original copyright span. 20 years is for patents. Pipe of a different color.
By these criteria, TV spots "don't work" either.
Didn't think so.
The truth is, "trademark ads" like these are not truly advertising the product itself. Instead, they want to achieve two things:
B) To claim that T-Online drove all of its competitors out of business is totally ridiculous. There still are thousands of other ISPs, they just don't offer cheap flatrates (there still are expensive ones).
Yeah, that would have worked, like, so much better than newspapers!!