Let's see how quickly this surveilance technology would get put away if we insisted that all public officials had these face scanners installed at their homes, places of work, etc, and monitored by the press.
It would certainly cut down on visits to officals by, say, prostitutes, wouldn't it? Hey that's a Good Thing, so we've got to do it! Who cares about the 'privacy' of public officials? They haven't got a Right to privacy any more than normal citizens...
I thought we had technical people on this forum?! Not a lot of technical arguments WHY mbox is better or worse than maildir...
I run a small ISP that's been around for 8 years, and we've been using POP3 all that time. We've occasionally had to restore files, unblock email boxes, and so on. But the worst issue we've had to deal with is Sendmail's piss-poor security and maintenance. It seems like there's a new crack for sendmail every week.
We're moving to qmail. I haven't seen a good argument why maildir isn't vastly superior than mbox, except for MUA support. Since most of my customers use dummyware like Outlook, MUAs are not such an important issue for us.
Yahoo for Linux! One thing that bugged me though was, if I were to use stateful firewalling on my Linux servers, how much memory (and processing) does such take up? Do I have to have a processor running at gigaherz speeds just to firewall my web server farm?
I continue to try to have a bit of awe every morning with my wake-up coffee. Remember,/.-ers, Linux is a freakin' amazing technical and social achievment, as it is. It isn't perfect, but I use it every day at work and love it.
Many comments here have been, 'KDE is catching up with (Windoze|Gnome), so this is no big deal.'
Umm, yes, it is. Linux copied plenty of features from Microsoft; deal with it. Catch-up means that those caught-up features are now available to the user community. The question now is, are they really useful? Are they efficient enough for daily use? Robust enough?
I just updated my KDE1 desktop to KDE2, through half a day's compiling. Although I wasn't pleased at the observation that KDE is reinventing a bunch of functionality their way so it will perform on their object tree, I still like the final result. This announcement that we can embed applications within applications is interesting, but do we want to do that?
KDE2 has cool enough features that I am willing to take some processing and time hits to use them. I frankly have my doubts about the usability of the first release of embedded components, however. I am willing to bet they will be just as slow and clunky as COM thingies. But, here is where the Linux developers can one-up their Micro$oft counterparts, in that they can probably come up with a way for these components to deliver the real-world goods we desire. I look forward to seeing how this new technology twist will play out.
Thanks KDE team for taking it to the next level! I use KDE every day to put beans on the table. THAT is the test of usability.
Those screen shots are very appealing to me. That's why I chose KDE over Gnome, to begin with, and have stuck with it. But it is pointless to argue issues of taste.
Fix the KDE2 bugs, and thanks for the continued evolution
I watched it. My overall impression is that this story is being written to appeal to young teens in love, rather than grizzled old science fiction koots like me. I got much the same feeling from seeing Starship Troopers boiled down to movie-going lowest common denominator thingie (Too bad; Starship Troopers had GREAT potentual as a movie.)
Ok, what I didn't like: whoever did the costuming on that show has got a real bad case of Kimono. Somehow, that look (which I like) just doesn't wash for me, in a Dune universe. Princess Irulian's butterfly collection was almost as bad as the Bene Jesserit's head adornment. The men's clothing just seemed thrown together from the extra's trailer. The Harkonen fetish for red outfits came through loud and clear.
The casting was so bad, the only two characters who presented even a shadow of what I think they should be were Liet and Mapes. Everyone else is just collecting a paycheck.
The mood: pathetic. Too well lit. The elder characters in this universe, such as the BJ witch, any mentat, and the "warmaster" Gurney should be frightening vicious creatures full of menace, like Darth Vader was. I felt like I could whip Gurney with one hand behind my back and with only the use of an unsharpened butterknife.
The whole story line is focusing on different elements than the book did. DUNE was about Byzantine politics, ghastly atrocities, and drug addiction. Just having characters in the series say 'the spice must flow' several times doesn't cut it the same way that either the book or movie did it. The only dream sequences are when Paul is actually asleep and dreaming; my impression from the book was that EVERYONE was essentially in a spice fog, to one degree or another.
The special effects were OK, some of them. The way personal shields were portrayed were a personal disappointment. The state of computer generated imaging these days is such that, given a typical Hollywood budget, there simply isn't an excuse for anything less than stunning results.
The most annoying thing about the show wasn't the production itself, but the SCIFI channel's need to deluge us with commercials. I frickin' HATE commercials. By the end of the evening, SCIFI was playing 6 minutes of ads for every 5 minutes of content. A signal-to-noise ratio of 50/50 just don't make it, for me.
But hey, it was free! So I'll still tune in tonite, though I won't waste precious VHS tape on it.
Unless the service agreement between you and the ISP prohibits them from deleting anything on their server, you, the user, have no recourse.
I am the founder of an old ISP business in Colorado, and we delete core files, clean out the/tmp area, and do other automated cleanups all the time. We specifically state in our service contract that we have the right to refuse all or part of our service to anyone, for any reason. There's plenty of alternatives out there if you don't like it.
This whole idea of compelling businesses to adhere to some whiny customer's unbusinesslike wishes makes me furious.
When I need support for the latest toy thingy, I go to WinBlows or Linux. When I need to squeeze every bit of performance out of my Intel boxes or need to keep the script kiddies at bay, it's FreeBSD, baby.
All those voters in Palm Beach had an opportunity and a responsibility to validate the actual votes recorded on their punch cards with their intended votes. If they chose not to do this, or to get help from election volunteers, too bad.
Buchanan has no say in this process. It doesn't matter whether he wants to cede his votes to Gore, Bush, or Zorkahn the Space God. He
is not part of the picture.
Whining after the election about the usability of the ballot is too little, too late.
I'd support allowing a revote only by those people who officially complained about the accuracy of their votes before the polls closed.
Patrick committed an act of supreme non-violent protest. The thundering irony of the school administration suspending him for refusing to accept a meaningless 'honor' simply astounds me!
This episode in high school politics should serve to educate all of us about the value of the 'zero-tolerance' attitude that is now common in our public education system.
I live in Colorado, and have to listen all the time to ignorant well-meaning suburbanites who are convinced that if we only had a few more gun control laws on the books, that Klebold and Harris would not have committed their now-famous atrocity at Columbine high school.
You can imagine how many media stories came out in the weeks after the event about how we are all 'struggling to make sense' of the tragedy. Since both of the Wannabe-Nazis killed themselves, the inevitable search-for-the-guilty round of stories cranked up, and some media outlets (including/.) suggested that the school social environment might share the blame. School administration was quick to deny, and still does to this day, that an oppressive jock culture exists at that school.
Folks, that is a big, fat, freaking lie. An example of the rampant administration worship of jocks is the story which broke a few months later about the girl who was being harassed by a prominent member of the football team. School officials denied that there was a problem with their testosterone-laden champion of athleticism, even though he was caught stalking this girl several times. She complained to administrators, the police, the jock's parents, and finally to the media. What was the response of the school principal to this problem? He suggested she move to a different school.
Really.
But perhaps the most damning evidence that the social environment at Columbine is frighteningly oppresive is the act committed by Harris and Klebold. Did they target their parents? No. Local police? No. Grocery store, church, rival gang clubhouse? Nope - they really hated that school. Theirs was a hatred strong enough to plot for a year about how to blow it up. They were racists, but specifically said they wanted to target jocks.
And now, as a result of their horrific act, schools administrations all across the country have over-reacted and implemented zero-tolerance policies against trenchcoats and activities like playing cops and robbers, with fingers shaped like guns.
Patrick didn't shoot any classmates. He didn't secretly tinker with explosives in his basement for months, and unleash them upon a vicious education system. He made a political statement about the outragious advocacy of elitism and how that continuing policy isn't necessarily promoting social welfare at his school.
If that young adult were in my town, I'd offer him a job. In any case, I want to get his autograph.
Most slashdot readers are self-centered, oblivious, technogeeks. 'I'm bored', 'where's the stuff that matters?'. Cretins!
Most of you live in the USA, where you can freely discuss the policies and politics which will affect your real ability to eat, live, play, and think. Yet most of you are far more worried about the capabilities of the next Playstation more than whether or not Socialism is a bankrupting political virus.
We will therefore get what we deserve, which is, that we will continue to repeat the history which we continue to ignore.
I've been a Lockheed Martin employee, and have a bit of familiarity with the rocket business.
The idea that we don't have the technology to get to Mars is utter pap. We had the technology in 1970, for Pete's sake!!!
What we lack is the national will to do it. Fine. I've been saying for years now, that if our government offered a $1.5 billion bounty (I started with $1 bil five years ago) to the first commercial entity that successfully landed humans on Mars and settled them there for, say, one month, would get the money. No enough of an incentive? Ok, how about if we say that the first company to do it gets to run the planet for ten years, no questions asked. That means that ALL revenues, entertainment-related and otherwise, go to this company.
Sheesh, there's enough investor money running around in the economy now that if we pulled together a company called 'Mars or Bust', and IPO'd it as an entertainment outfit, we'd probably attract $4 billion in capitalization.
This talk of lacking technology to get to Mars is crap. Here is a whiny NASA-crat who is forced to live in a dwindling NASA budget.
I started up my ISP business in 1993 using BSDI 1.1. We still have the original server we started with, and it is running BSDI 2.0. It is our primary domain name server, as well as our primary web server, and handles 10,000 emails a day, over 2 million web hits a month, 500 FTP sessions a day, and still runs mostly idle.
Here's the specs on this server: Pentium 133 (yes, really!) with 64megs RAM. The SCSI-II card is an EISA bus dinosaur, but it works. Although we have PCI slots on the server, the operating system is old enough that they are not supported. This system is definately getting clunky enough that it is time for an upgrade. Even so, this server has stood the test of time, and delivered incredible value for that initial $495 that we paid for the OS.
So I am working on bringing a new system online to replace the old warhorse. The new one is a Micron Netframe 3100, which sports dual Pentium III 450mhz CPUs, with 128MB RAM. The SCSI drives are alledgedly hot-swappable, but I haven't tested this capability yet. The operating system we have chosen is FreeBSD 3.3R, and here are the reasons:
o BSDI's policy of licensing per-user has automatically eliminated their OS from consideration. Too bad, because I'd pay the cash for commercial support in a heartbeat, otherwise.
o FreeBSD looks so much like BSDI that it is difficult to tell the difference. Our shell users (we've got a lot of those) need that compatibility.
o Most of the applications we run are supported on both BSDI and FreeBSD. Stronghold, several shopping cart programs, and the like, are easy to port over.
o We've been using FreeBSD for quite some time as well. In fact, we were using it before we started using Linux, and have never been sorry for that decision. FreeBSD really is one of the best server operating systems I've ever encountered, in terms of sheer bang for the buck performance, reliability, and ease of use.
o Our customers can run Linux apps on the new server if they want to. We like that. We want to promote cross-pollination of the various UNIX camps, as much as possible.
o FreeBSD isn't NT. 'Nuff said.
The Walnut Creek merger with BSDI is the biggest news in FreeBSD land that has happened in quite some time. Since the people involved all assure us that FreeBSD remains free from corporate ownership, then the user community has nothing to fear. And this pre-emptive move by BSDI to pool resources bodes well on the public awareness front for this very worthy operating system.
I look forward to the spread of FreeBSD, and if BSDI can get over this per-user licensing temporary insanity, then they will have my support, both verbal and monetary. The folks from Colorado Springs should be proud of their work, and I expect that they will produce more of the same.
Your points are interesting, but the volume of water that comes out of tailpipes now is insignificant compared to the mobile humidifiers that our cars would be if they all burned hydrogen. I'd prefer to keep the planet at 60% water levels, than to raise it even higher.
I'm watching Denver's brown cloud get worse every month. And it is not primarily because of particulates that cars eject here. Humidity is rising, and in the 10 years or so that I've lived in Colorado, I can tell a daily difference in the quality of the climate.
Understand that I am not against combatting vehicle polution, but we must understand also that a mass hydrogen conversion isn't going to solve our pollution problems... rather, it will change the problems we have to deal with.
Even if we could get Hydrogen into a safe and portable form, what are we going to do with all that water? Imagine the impact that a climate like Colorado's or Southern California's would sustain from millions of cars ejecting water into the atmosphere.
Oh boy... water pollution. When I mention this to people who champion hydrogen fuel solutions, it is as if I had just asked to buy their daughters. Blissful environmental types have no tolerance for the concept that their prize social causes might create problems as bad or worse than those they think they are solving.
Hey, I'm just pointing out the trend. And I don't buy the idea that a freedom lost in a nice way makes it any less lost.
At what point, as one chips away at personal freedom, is it lost? Is 80% freedom acceptable? How about 60%? Hey, we've got so many people in our city, isn't it reasonable that they can only enjoy 50%?
In case you gentle readers hadn't noticed, our Freedoms keep getting whittled down at the edges. Even if there is no 'national conspiracy' to convert our civic systems into police states, the net effect of our lawmaking processes are starting to result in an oppression machine of unimaginable proportions.
The more laws are enacted, the more ways there are for citizens to become criminals. In America, 'ignorance of the Law' is not a valid defense! There are more and more instances of law enforcement authorities breaking the law to enforce it, and unfortunately, these outragious violations (such as lying to a judge to obtain a search warrant) are tolerated or simply ignored. What truly effective check do we in the USA or the UK have to punish law enforcement abuses? None.
If I ever ran for office, I think my platform would be the promotion of a single bill, which would mandate that lawmakers must reduce the total number of laws on the books every year by 1%, for the next 50 years. Failure to do so would cause all lawmakers in that jurisdiction to forfeit their office, automatically, and new elections to be held. I could never get any of these characters to agree to the bill, because that would tend to ruin the nice little pork job politicians enjoy, but it would make a great campaign issue!
Seriously, check your laws concerning how much power the police have to legally rape you. This bill is just the next swirl around the toilet bowl.
Of all the issues that Slashdot has presented in the last year or so, only the Eschelon problem is as far-reaching and fatal to democracy than this new legislation in Australia empowering the government to remotely tap and alter ANY computer they wish to.
Censorship, the removal of citizen-owned guns, and now complete digital search, seizure, and alteration is "legal" Down Under. Must your backs be against the firing squad wall before you dobies realize that you are setting yourselves up for a one-way ticket to complete dictatorship?
My company will never invest in Australia or locate equipment there while you continue to exhibit such insane tolerance for your politician's bleeding-heart policies.
The public good is not served if Australian citizens have no way to curb their government's actions. Wake up!
Wrong! You do not have a 'right' to copy legally obtained content for your own use; you only have the opinion of the Courts that home copying is immune from prosecution.
A 3D interface for most 2D work is a bogus waste of CPU power and time. 3D is great if you've got to look at an exploded view, a brain tumor, or similar things. But to use 3D to browse flat webspace is stupid.
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Let's see how quickly this surveilance technology would get put away if we insisted that all public officials had these face scanners installed at their homes, places of work, etc, and monitored by the press.
It would certainly cut down on visits to officals by, say, prostitutes, wouldn't it? Hey that's a Good Thing, so we've got to do it! Who cares about the 'privacy' of public officials? They haven't got a Right to privacy any more than normal citizens...
I thought we had technical people on this forum?! Not a lot of technical arguments WHY mbox is better or worse than maildir...
I run a small ISP that's been around for 8 years, and we've been using POP3 all that time. We've occasionally had to restore files, unblock email boxes, and so on. But the worst issue we've had to deal with is Sendmail's piss-poor security and maintenance. It seems like there's a new crack for sendmail every week.
We're moving to qmail. I haven't seen a good argument why maildir isn't vastly superior than mbox, except for MUA support. Since most of my customers use dummyware like Outlook, MUAs are not such an important issue for us.
Yahoo for Linux! One thing that bugged me though was, if I were to use stateful firewalling on my Linux servers, how much memory (and processing) does such take up? Do I have to have a processor running at gigaherz speeds just to firewall my web server farm?
I continue to try to have a bit of awe every morning with my wake-up coffee. Remember, /.-ers, Linux is a freakin' amazing technical and social achievment, as it is. It isn't perfect, but I use it every day at work and love it.
Many comments here have been, 'KDE is catching up with (Windoze|Gnome), so this is no big deal.'
Umm, yes, it is. Linux copied plenty of features from Microsoft; deal with it. Catch-up means that those caught-up features are now available to the user community. The question now is, are they really useful? Are they efficient enough for daily use? Robust enough?
I just updated my KDE1 desktop to KDE2, through half a day's compiling. Although I wasn't pleased at the observation that KDE is reinventing a bunch of functionality their way so it will perform on their object tree, I still like the final result. This announcement that we can embed applications within applications is interesting, but do we want to do that?
KDE2 has cool enough features that I am willing to take some processing and time hits to use them. I frankly have my doubts about the usability of the first release of embedded components, however. I am willing to bet they will be just as slow and clunky as COM thingies. But, here is where the Linux developers can one-up their Micro$oft counterparts, in that they can probably come up with a way for these components to deliver the real-world goods we desire. I look forward to seeing how this new technology twist will play out.
Thanks KDE team for taking it to the next level! I use KDE every day to put beans on the table. THAT is the test of usability.
Those screen shots are very appealing to me. That's why I chose KDE over Gnome, to begin with, and have stuck with it. But it is pointless to argue issues of taste.
Fix the KDE2 bugs, and thanks for the continued evolution
I watched it. My overall impression is that this story is being written to appeal to young teens in love, rather than grizzled old science fiction koots like me. I got much the same feeling from seeing Starship Troopers boiled down to movie-going lowest common denominator thingie (Too bad; Starship Troopers had GREAT potentual as a movie.)
Ok, what I didn't like: whoever did the costuming on that show has got a real bad case of Kimono. Somehow, that look (which I like) just doesn't wash for me, in a Dune universe. Princess Irulian's butterfly collection was almost as bad as the Bene Jesserit's head adornment. The men's clothing just seemed thrown together from the extra's trailer. The Harkonen fetish for red outfits came through loud and clear.
The casting was so bad, the only two characters who presented even a shadow of what I think they should be were Liet and Mapes. Everyone else is just collecting a paycheck.
The mood: pathetic. Too well lit. The elder characters in this universe, such as the BJ witch, any mentat, and the "warmaster" Gurney should be frightening vicious creatures full of menace, like Darth Vader was. I felt like I could whip Gurney with one hand behind my back and with only the use of an unsharpened butterknife.
The whole story line is focusing on different elements than the book did. DUNE was about Byzantine politics, ghastly atrocities, and drug addiction. Just having characters in the series say 'the spice must flow' several times doesn't cut it the same way that either the book or movie did it. The only dream sequences are when Paul is actually asleep and dreaming; my impression from the book was that EVERYONE was essentially in a spice fog, to one degree or another.
The special effects were OK, some of them. The way personal shields were portrayed were a personal disappointment. The state of computer generated imaging these days is such that, given a typical Hollywood budget, there simply isn't an excuse for anything less than stunning results.
The most annoying thing about the show wasn't the production itself, but the SCIFI channel's need to deluge us with commercials. I frickin' HATE commercials. By the end of the evening, SCIFI was playing 6 minutes of ads for every 5 minutes of content. A signal-to-noise ratio of 50/50 just don't make it, for me.
But hey, it was free! So I'll still tune in tonite, though I won't waste precious VHS tape on it.
I am the founder of an old ISP business in Colorado, and we delete core files, clean out the /tmp area, and do other automated cleanups all the time. We specifically state in our service contract that we have the right to refuse all or part of our service to anyone, for any reason. There's plenty of alternatives out there if you don't like it.
This whole idea of compelling businesses to adhere to some whiny customer's unbusinesslike wishes makes me furious.
When I need support for the latest toy thingy, I go to WinBlows or Linux. When I need to squeeze every bit of performance out of my Intel boxes or need to keep the script kiddies at bay, it's FreeBSD, baby.
Buchanan has no say in this process. It doesn't matter whether he wants to cede his votes to Gore, Bush, or Zorkahn the Space God. He is not part of the picture.
Whining after the election about the usability of the ballot is too little, too late.
I'd support allowing a revote only by those people who officially complained about the accuracy of their votes before the polls closed.
This episode in high school politics should serve to educate all of us about the value of the 'zero-tolerance' attitude that is now common in our public education system.
I live in Colorado, and have to listen all the time to ignorant well-meaning suburbanites who are convinced that if we only had a few more gun control laws on the books, that Klebold and Harris would not have committed their now-famous atrocity at Columbine high school.
You can imagine how many media stories came out in the weeks after the event about how we are all 'struggling to make sense' of the tragedy. Since both of the Wannabe-Nazis killed themselves, the inevitable search-for-the-guilty round of stories cranked up, and some media outlets (including /.) suggested that the school social environment might share the blame. School administration was quick to deny, and still does to this day, that an oppressive jock culture exists at that school.
Folks, that is a big, fat, freaking lie. An example of the rampant administration worship of jocks is the story which broke a few months later about the girl who was being harassed by a prominent member of the football team. School officials denied that there was a problem with their testosterone-laden champion of athleticism, even though he was caught stalking this girl several times. She complained to administrators, the police, the jock's parents, and finally to the media. What was the response of the school principal to this problem? He suggested she move to a different school. Really.
But perhaps the most damning evidence that the social environment at Columbine is frighteningly oppresive is the act committed by Harris and Klebold. Did they target their parents? No. Local police? No. Grocery store, church, rival gang clubhouse? Nope - they really hated that school. Theirs was a hatred strong enough to plot for a year about how to blow it up. They were racists, but specifically said they wanted to target jocks.
And now, as a result of their horrific act, schools administrations all across the country have over-reacted and implemented zero-tolerance policies against trenchcoats and activities like playing cops and robbers, with fingers shaped like guns.
Patrick didn't shoot any classmates. He didn't secretly tinker with explosives in his basement for months, and unleash them upon a vicious education system. He made a political statement about the outragious advocacy of elitism and how that continuing policy isn't necessarily promoting social welfare at his school.
If that young adult were in my town, I'd offer him a job. In any case, I want to get his autograph.
Most of you live in the USA, where you can freely discuss the policies and politics which will affect your real ability to eat, live, play, and think. Yet most of you are far more worried about the capabilities of the next Playstation more than whether or not Socialism is a bankrupting political virus.
We will therefore get what we deserve, which is, that we will continue to repeat the history which we continue to ignore.
The idea that we don't have the technology to get to Mars is utter pap. We had the technology in 1970, for Pete's sake!!!
What we lack is the national will to do it. Fine. I've been saying for years now, that if our government offered a $1.5 billion bounty (I started with $1 bil five years ago) to the first commercial entity that successfully landed humans on Mars and settled them there for, say, one month, would get the money. No enough of an incentive? Ok, how about if we say that the first company to do it gets to run the planet for ten years, no questions asked. That means that ALL revenues, entertainment-related and otherwise, go to this company.
Sheesh, there's enough investor money running around in the economy now that if we pulled together a company called 'Mars or Bust', and IPO'd it as an entertainment outfit, we'd probably attract $4 billion in capitalization.
This talk of lacking technology to get to Mars is crap. Here is a whiny NASA-crat who is forced to live in a dwindling NASA budget.
Typical.
Here's the specs on this server: Pentium 133 (yes, really!) with 64megs RAM. The SCSI-II card is an EISA bus dinosaur, but it works. Although we have PCI slots on the server, the operating system is old enough that they are not supported. This system is definately getting clunky enough that it is time for an upgrade. Even so, this server has stood the test of time, and delivered incredible value for that initial $495 that we paid for the OS.
So I am working on bringing a new system online to replace the old warhorse. The new one is a Micron Netframe 3100, which sports dual Pentium III 450mhz CPUs, with 128MB RAM. The SCSI drives are alledgedly hot-swappable, but I haven't tested this capability yet. The operating system we have chosen is FreeBSD 3.3R, and here are the reasons:
o BSDI's policy of licensing per-user has automatically eliminated their OS from consideration. Too bad, because I'd pay the cash for commercial support in a heartbeat, otherwise.
o FreeBSD looks so much like BSDI that it is difficult to tell the difference. Our shell users (we've got a lot of those) need that compatibility.
o Most of the applications we run are supported on both BSDI and FreeBSD. Stronghold, several shopping cart programs, and the like, are easy to port over.
o We've been using FreeBSD for quite some time as well. In fact, we were using it before we started using Linux, and have never been sorry for that decision. FreeBSD really is one of the best server operating systems I've ever encountered, in terms of sheer bang for the buck performance, reliability, and ease of use.
o Our customers can run Linux apps on the new server if they want to. We like that. We want to promote cross-pollination of the various UNIX camps, as much as possible.
o FreeBSD isn't NT. 'Nuff said.
The Walnut Creek merger with BSDI is the biggest news in FreeBSD land that has happened in quite some time. Since the people involved all assure us that FreeBSD remains free from corporate ownership, then the user community has nothing to fear. And this pre-emptive move by BSDI to pool resources bodes well on the public awareness front for this very worthy operating system.
I look forward to the spread of FreeBSD, and if BSDI can get over this per-user licensing temporary insanity, then they will have my support, both verbal and monetary. The folks from Colorado Springs should be proud of their work, and I expect that they will produce more of the same.
I'm watching Denver's brown cloud get worse every month. And it is not primarily because of particulates that cars eject here. Humidity is rising, and in the 10 years or so that I've lived in Colorado, I can tell a daily difference in the quality of the climate.
Understand that I am not against combatting vehicle polution, but we must understand also that a mass hydrogen conversion isn't going to solve our pollution problems... rather, it will change the problems we have to deal with.
Oh boy... water pollution. When I mention this to people who champion hydrogen fuel solutions, it is as if I had just asked to buy their daughters. Blissful environmental types have no tolerance for the concept that their prize social causes might create problems as bad or worse than those they think they are solving.
At what point, as one chips away at personal freedom, is it lost? Is 80% freedom acceptable? How about 60%? Hey, we've got so many people in our city, isn't it reasonable that they can only enjoy 50%?
The more laws are enacted, the more ways there are for citizens to become criminals. In America, 'ignorance of the Law' is not a valid defense! There are more and more instances of law enforcement authorities breaking the law to enforce it, and unfortunately, these outragious violations (such as lying to a judge to obtain a search warrant) are tolerated or simply ignored. What truly effective check do we in the USA or the UK have to punish law enforcement abuses? None.
If I ever ran for office, I think my platform would be the promotion of a single bill, which would mandate that lawmakers must reduce the total number of laws on the books every year by 1%, for the next 50 years. Failure to do so would cause all lawmakers in that jurisdiction to forfeit their office, automatically, and new elections to be held. I could never get any of these characters to agree to the bill, because that would tend to ruin the nice little pork job politicians enjoy, but it would make a great campaign issue!
Seriously, check your laws concerning how much power the police have to legally rape you. This bill is just the next swirl around the toilet bowl.
The first thing I thought when I looked at the article about this technology is, "what a great torture device this would be."
Look Ma, no marks on the body.
Herd sheep if you don't want to be the sysadmin who controls the data lives of your coworkers.
Censorship, the removal of citizen-owned guns, and now complete digital search, seizure, and alteration is "legal" Down Under. Must your backs be against the firing squad wall before you dobies realize that you are setting yourselves up for a one-way ticket to complete dictatorship?
My company will never invest in Australia or locate equipment there while you continue to exhibit such insane tolerance for your politician's bleeding-heart policies.
The public good is not served if Australian citizens have no way to curb their government's actions. Wake up!
Try to fit Windoze on this hardware...
Isn't this caching method also called a RAM Disk?
Wrong! You do not have a 'right' to copy legally obtained content for your own use; you only have the opinion of the Courts that home copying is immune from prosecution.
A 3D interface for most 2D work is a bogus waste of CPU power and time. 3D is great if you've got to look at an exploded view, a brain tumor, or similar things. But to use 3D to browse flat webspace is stupid.