A few years ago someone wondered: "Why are there no higher animals which do not sleep?" It clearly would be of great evolutionary advantage to not have to sleep. So there must be some very basic reason.
Answer: Brains use more energy than blood can deliver. The purpose of sleep is to recharge energy.
IIRC, people who are deprived of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, but not of other kinds of sleep, eventually start going weird; in otherwords, dreaming (which happens mainly in REM) is somehow essential to the proper functioning of the human mind.
Worse still, the Web enables those who support such ideas to network and promote their products, books and so-called 'scientific' and other reports by means of e-commerce, or even to coordinate their subversive activities
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Nazism, racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are a threat to humanity.
From the way they're talking, it doesn't sound like they think that education would be enough.
That's the whole point of Crusoe, you DON'T code for it directly. It takes other instuctions, starting with x86, and runs them faster, better, and optimizes on the fly.
The "code morphing" layer is what makes Crusoe stand apart from the rest. It optimizes on the fly the instuction set it's running on the fly. This means that your aps will run faster and faster as it runs. This layer is what gives the Crusoe it's speed. Coding nativly would be SLOWER then using the morphing layer. You also don't get the benifit of the optimaztion.
What about designing a virtual architecture that is very easy for the code morphing engine to translate, gets rid of performance degrading quirks (like the x86 exception handling mechanism), and also allows you to give hints to the optimizer and code morpher. Programs compiled to this virtual architecture would execute faster than x86 code, but would still take advantage of all of Crusoe's features and also be runnable on all of the different Crusoe chips.
I remember reading several times that Microsoft is concerned about Linux getting mindshare among programmers. Getting Linux into schools seems like an excellent way of getting mind share among the school age geeks who'll be the programmers of the next generation.
So, are you assuming that a computer must be connected to the Internet for it be "hackable"? If it's not remotely accesible via the Internet, modems, or what have you, then someone needs to break into a secure military installation to gain access to the computer. And unless that someone leaves a radio transmitter/receiver to give the hackers remote access, the hackers would have to be part of the breakin. Sounds like more of a job for professional spies than traditional hackers.
I rather doubt that the military of any oponet we might have would make any of their important computers available online, which seems to be an assumption in the Wired article. Hackers (or should I say "crackers") could do the following:
Break into non-military computers, like banking or sewer control, and scew things up.
Do website vandalism for purposes of propoganda or psychological warfare.
Break into the computers of banks and manufacturing companies to try to figure out how much of what weapons and stuff are being made.
However, I don't think that these types of things are what the military is hoping for (and the third thing would be handled by the CIA, wouldn't it?) Was this idea thought up of by some brass that doesn't have knowledge in the area of hacking/cracking? Or maybe this has some other purpose?
Rather than (or in addition to) a boycott, lets use the media against Amazon. Organize a protest against Amazon and alert the media. Then we can get to the general public with three things:
Give a 15 second explanation of why software patents are bad. "How can you patent an idea?"
Explain how you can use Amazon to search for a book, then go buy it somewhere else, for cheaper.
Explain how the whole Linux community is dead set against this patent, and Amazon's use of it. (Of course, that should be the "Open Source Community", but we don't want to confuse the average person). Get Linus Trovaldas to make a videotaped statement of his disaproval; heck, get Linus to participate in the protest!
Right now, investors seems to ascribe supernatural powers to Linux. Maybe we can get all of those Amazon stokeholders to call up Amazon and scream "What the hell are you doing, pissing off those Linux people! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is!"
There are various excercises that can help your tendons recover more quickly (assuming that the problem is some sort of repetetive stress injury, like carpal-tunnel). Unfortuneatly, I can't remember the names of any books on the subject, but they're not too hard to find.
NOTE: Don't try this without reading one of those books, as this isn't like normal streatching, but must be done gently.
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A few years ago someone wondered: "Why are there no higher animals which do not sleep?" It clearly would be of great evolutionary advantage to not have to sleep. So there must be some very basic reason.
Answer: Brains use more energy than blood can deliver. The purpose of sleep is to recharge energy.
IIRC, people who are deprived of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, but not of other kinds of sleep, eventually start going weird; in otherwords, dreaming (which happens mainly in REM) is somehow essential to the proper functioning of the human mind.
From the article:
Worse still, the Web enables those who support such ideas to network and promote their products, books and so-called 'scientific' and other reports by means of e-commerce, or even to coordinate their subversive activities
and
Nazism, racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are a threat to humanity.
From the way they're talking, it doesn't sound like they think that education would be enough.
That's the whole point of Crusoe, you DON'T code for it directly. It takes other instuctions, starting with x86, and runs them faster, better, and optimizes on the fly.
The "code morphing" layer is what makes Crusoe stand apart from the rest. It optimizes on the fly the instuction set it's running on the fly. This means that your aps will run faster and faster as it runs. This layer is what gives the Crusoe it's speed. Coding nativly would be SLOWER then using the morphing layer. You also don't get the benifit of the optimaztion.
What about designing a virtual architecture that is very easy for the code morphing engine to translate, gets rid of performance degrading quirks (like the x86 exception handling mechanism), and also allows you to give hints to the optimizer and code morpher. Programs compiled to this virtual architecture would execute faster than x86 code, but would still take advantage of all of Crusoe's features and also be runnable on all of the different Crusoe chips.I remember reading several times that Microsoft is concerned about Linux getting mindshare among programmers. Getting Linux into schools seems like an excellent way of getting mind share among the school age geeks who'll be the programmers of the next generation.
So, are you assuming that a computer must be connected to the Internet for it be "hackable"? If it's not remotely accesible via the Internet, modems, or what have you, then someone needs to break into a secure military installation to gain access to the computer. And unless that someone leaves a radio transmitter/receiver to give the hackers remote access, the hackers would have to be part of the breakin. Sounds like more of a job for professional spies than traditional hackers.
- Break into non-military computers, like banking or sewer control, and scew things up.
- Do website vandalism for purposes of propoganda or psychological warfare.
- Break into the computers of banks and manufacturing companies to try to figure out how much of what weapons and stuff are being made.
However, I don't think that these types of things are what the military is hoping for (and the third thing would be handled by the CIA, wouldn't it?) Was this idea thought up of by some brass that doesn't have knowledge in the area of hacking/cracking? Or maybe this has some other purpose?- Give a 15 second explanation of why software patents are bad. "How can you patent an idea?"
- Explain how you can use Amazon to search for a book, then go buy it somewhere else, for cheaper.
- Explain how the whole Linux community is dead set against this patent, and Amazon's use of it. (Of course, that should be the "Open Source Community", but we don't want to confuse the average person). Get Linus Trovaldas to make a videotaped statement of his disaproval; heck, get Linus to participate in the protest!
Just my $0.02Right now, investors seems to ascribe supernatural powers to Linux. Maybe we can get all of those Amazon stokeholders to call up Amazon and scream "What the hell are you doing, pissing off those Linux people! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is!"
NOTE: Don't try this without reading one of those books, as this isn't like normal streatching, but must be done gently.