Very few people run red lights on purpose. The majority do it by mistake. If you're doing 35mph and the light turns red when you're 10 feet from the intersection, the SAFE thing to do is blow the red light... not lock up your breaks and go careening into the next lane to avoid breaking a silly ordinance. The time delay between when your light turns red and the intersecting traffic light turning green is supposed to compensate for mistakes like these. The best ting they could do to make intersections safer is rip out the lights and install round-abouts which, while they have a slightly higher accident rate have almost 0% injurious or fatal accidents.
Who cares? I think everyones missing the real reason Chrome fails and that's it's sole purpose is to entice people away from firefox and adblock+
I can control what I see in my browser, Google should know better than anyone that once this kind of Genie is out of it's bottle there's no putting it back in.
I don't understand why people will spend five grand on a laptop, get pissed about its lack of features but at home still have an 8 year old computer that they relay on for all of their real work and data backup. Get a $500 desktop, it will outclass your laptop easily if you build it yourself and skip the microsoft tax. As far as speed and utility are concerned it'll blow any laptop away... then get a netbook for travel. If you're trying to rip 8tracks to MP3 while sitting in Starbucks, you're doing it wrong.
The more customers they drive to pirate their software, the better as far as I'm concerned. Then we'll see them in front of congress wining how the evil bit torrent is steeling their monies!
Because they hate progress, not nuclear power. If the general public could understand who really apposes Nuclear power and their reasons are simply that they want to return us to some mythical agrarian society where everyone lives off vegetables they grow in their back yards and spends the evening reading books and listening to bluegrass, I think we might have a chance. But as-is they just associate any nuclear reaction with BOMB and all the sheep get scared.
Illegal and Evil are two entirely separate things. Anything that hurts the current media industrial complex is a good and righteous act as far as I'm concerned.
Leave the politics out of it. Nasa is a drop in the bucket. Lets not argue about Iraq or Afghanistan and instead pull troops out of somewhere we can all agree on, like Korea or Germany. Or ban political contributions ALL TOGETHER. Or how about passing an amendment that bars the federal government from bailing out ANY failing company or industry? There are thousands of places the government is sending our money that we can unanimously agree are things we do not want to pay for, why argue about the ones we can't agree on?
Being someone that works for a major ISP in the department in which we receive and act on copyright complaints, I can tell you... we hate it.
Think of it this way, when the DMCA was passed we suddenly had to create an entire department that produced no profits. In fact, it sometimes forces us to disconnect customers and LOSE money.
I know that managent rutinely goes to our legal department to find out if they can just stop enforcing DMCA all together.
Now, throttling the bandwidth of torrent users? Yea... they're all over that. What ISPs want are little old ladies paying $100/month for 10MB service and only using it to check their mail once a day.
as if you need wiretapping to get all this info. Have you been paying attention lately? We gave away our right to privacy at least 5 years ago. It's gone.
My guess would be one of the first experiments the military would want to run would be to un-anonymize the samples.
Why is it that in this country, a business can own a DNA sequence by doing nothing more than "Discovering it", but a the person that is born of that sequence has no inherent birthright to it.
Seriously, if there was ever something that should be covered by an open source license, it's DNA.
I didnt see anything in those videos that I can't find in most modern games.
Also, they say its rendering in real time... So what? You can sit and optimize a scene for weeks before releasing it. It's when you get half a dozen real players running in unpredictable directions and in unpredictable patterns that an engine either shines or fails.
Exactly right... My company is in this boat. We've got dozens of shit webapps that will not work outside of IE6. It would cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to rewrite them all and most of the people involved in the originals are long gone.
I'll say it yet again... these "Scientist" don't have a fucking clue. I'm not saying we aren't warming the planet. Without a doubt, us digging up shit that's been buried for millions of years, burning it, and dumping it's byproducts into the atmosphere, simply HAS to be a bad thing. But for these supposed experts to pretend like they have a fucking clue what's really going on is ridiculous.
You guys can argue about the semantics all you want... but this will be the end of the US space program. It's done, gone... we'll likely never go into space again. If that's cool with you, fine. But if you think there's any business that's going to actually risk the kind of cash that's needed for REAL space travel, you're deluding yourself. We'll have cheap, sub-orbital tourist trips while India and China build real, legitimate space programs.
And don't forget, India was mostly unaffected by our recent economic downturn because of their draconian economic laws. For decades they were criticized for their over regulation of their financial markets but after the fall, India was seen as a model for how markets could survive wide-scale economic collapse.
A vulnerability in the kernel or the modules would be apparent in the code. We have no idea how secure this services equipment is. By using it you are explicitly trusting their network.
in the environment I work, we have duplicates of everything we run sitting in a lab. When there's a patch, it goes on the duplicate... runs there for 2 weeks... then we swap the entire piece of equipment out. To just let something like this go live without any testing just seems reckless to me.
Color me stupid but wouldn't any application in which you'd rather not be rebooting (i.e. Router, firewall, file server, etc...) be the exact same application in which you'd NEVER want some 3rd party having access to your kernel? I mean, if a large percent of distros were using this I can just imagine it would be the A#1 target for every malicious coder in the world.
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Very few people run red lights on purpose. The majority do it by mistake. If you're doing 35mph and the light turns red when you're 10 feet from the intersection, the SAFE thing to do is blow the red light... not lock up your breaks and go careening into the next lane to avoid breaking a silly ordinance. The time delay between when your light turns red and the intersecting traffic light turning green is supposed to compensate for mistakes like these. The best ting they could do to make intersections safer is rip out the lights and install round-abouts which, while they have a slightly higher accident rate have almost 0% injurious or fatal accidents.
Who cares? I think everyones missing the real reason Chrome fails and that's it's sole purpose is to entice people away from firefox and adblock+ I can control what I see in my browser, Google should know better than anyone that once this kind of Genie is out of it's bottle there's no putting it back in.
finally someone gets it right. There is no part of the patent system for offensive than gene patents.
Many ISPs still have head routers with internal IP addressing like 192.168.0.10, 11, 12
3D TV = Laser disc. 10 years from now we'll see these things sitting in goodwill and laugh our asses off.
Or Google could start redirecting users to random proxy services.
I don't understand why people will spend five grand on a laptop, get pissed about its lack of features but at home still have an 8 year old computer that they relay on for all of their real work and data backup. Get a $500 desktop, it will outclass your laptop easily if you build it yourself and skip the microsoft tax. As far as speed and utility are concerned it'll blow any laptop away... then get a netbook for travel. If you're trying to rip 8tracks to MP3 while sitting in Starbucks, you're doing it wrong.
The more customers they drive to pirate their software, the better as far as I'm concerned. Then we'll see them in front of congress wining how the evil bit torrent is steeling their monies!
Because they hate progress, not nuclear power. If the general public could understand who really apposes Nuclear power and their reasons are simply that they want to return us to some mythical agrarian society where everyone lives off vegetables they grow in their back yards and spends the evening reading books and listening to bluegrass, I think we might have a chance. But as-is they just associate any nuclear reaction with BOMB and all the sheep get scared.
Illegal and Evil are two entirely separate things. Anything that hurts the current media industrial complex is a good and righteous act as far as I'm concerned.
Leave the politics out of it. Nasa is a drop in the bucket. Lets not argue about Iraq or Afghanistan and instead pull troops out of somewhere we can all agree on, like Korea or Germany. Or ban political contributions ALL TOGETHER. Or how about passing an amendment that bars the federal government from bailing out ANY failing company or industry? There are thousands of places the government is sending our money that we can unanimously agree are things we do not want to pay for, why argue about the ones we can't agree on?
There is no separation of church and state in the constitution. That's why we need an amendment.
Being someone that works for a major ISP in the department in which we receive and act on copyright complaints, I can tell you... we hate it. Think of it this way, when the DMCA was passed we suddenly had to create an entire department that produced no profits. In fact, it sometimes forces us to disconnect customers and LOSE money. I know that managent rutinely goes to our legal department to find out if they can just stop enforcing DMCA all together. Now, throttling the bandwidth of torrent users? Yea... they're all over that. What ISPs want are little old ladies paying $100/month for 10MB service and only using it to check their mail once a day.
as if you need wiretapping to get all this info. Have you been paying attention lately? We gave away our right to privacy at least 5 years ago. It's gone.
My guess would be one of the first experiments the military would want to run would be to un-anonymize the samples. Why is it that in this country, a business can own a DNA sequence by doing nothing more than "Discovering it", but a the person that is born of that sequence has no inherent birthright to it. Seriously, if there was ever something that should be covered by an open source license, it's DNA.
I didnt see anything in those videos that I can't find in most modern games. Also, they say its rendering in real time... So what? You can sit and optimize a scene for weeks before releasing it. It's when you get half a dozen real players running in unpredictable directions and in unpredictable patterns that an engine either shines or fails.
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Exactly right... My company is in this boat. We've got dozens of shit webapps that will not work outside of IE6. It would cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to rewrite them all and most of the people involved in the originals are long gone.
Wait... flash isn't dead yet?
I'll say it yet again... these "Scientist" don't have a fucking clue. I'm not saying we aren't warming the planet. Without a doubt, us digging up shit that's been buried for millions of years, burning it, and dumping it's byproducts into the atmosphere, simply HAS to be a bad thing. But for these supposed experts to pretend like they have a fucking clue what's really going on is ridiculous.
You guys can argue about the semantics all you want... but this will be the end of the US space program. It's done, gone... we'll likely never go into space again. If that's cool with you, fine. But if you think there's any business that's going to actually risk the kind of cash that's needed for REAL space travel, you're deluding yourself. We'll have cheap, sub-orbital tourist trips while India and China build real, legitimate space programs.
And don't forget, India was mostly unaffected by our recent economic downturn because of their draconian economic laws. For decades they were criticized for their over regulation of their financial markets but after the fall, India was seen as a model for how markets could survive wide-scale economic collapse.
A vulnerability in the kernel or the modules would be apparent in the code. We have no idea how secure this services equipment is. By using it you are explicitly trusting their network. in the environment I work, we have duplicates of everything we run sitting in a lab. When there's a patch, it goes on the duplicate... runs there for 2 weeks... then we swap the entire piece of equipment out. To just let something like this go live without any testing just seems reckless to me.
All of which you can test prior to putting into production.
Color me stupid but wouldn't any application in which you'd rather not be rebooting (i.e. Router, firewall, file server, etc...) be the exact same application in which you'd NEVER want some 3rd party having access to your kernel? I mean, if a large percent of distros were using this I can just imagine it would be the A#1 target for every malicious coder in the world.