With battle field lasers being available now, it needs to have a quantum entanglement detector to operate. This also requires the IBM time machine to be really effective. The nice thing it is so futuristic it has an open source time machine operating system.
I build from source for most of my packages on Linux and I also change things in the code to be more to my liking. I have to understand how the code works to do this. The biggest security problem I see is the way in which closed source incorporates methods that it sells to companies. I have done Windows driver development and I know that it is done. Off the top of my head I remember something I think was called "Bear251" or some such name along with many other loop holes that eventually become security flaws that cannot be removed without destroying designed in functionality.
I am sure that the pressure is really on at Ms because there are layoffs and I bet the marketing shirts are going to be the sweatiest and FUD will continue to be rampant. They are a company for profit and I am surprised this is all they do.
I often check my machine and the drivers that I get and if I found a hole in something that I thought somebody put there as an exploit, I would be letting everybody know. With closed source you cannot verify if a driver is tampered, because you cannot compare it to source and disassembly is possible but is so time consuming it can't be doe in the constantly updating code world.
I just installed this a few hours ago and it is a nice interface. The variety of what is free to download is amazing and they did a good job on making the interface intuitive. It will be a nice place for me to publish blender animation products and video tutorials of all kinds. Blender has a great tutorial on making tutorials and videos.
Of course it will fail. Gene's, DNA and proteins are not 'plug n play'. If you want cat eyes, there is a lot more then trying to mix cat eye dna with human eye dna. The brain has no clue how to use a cat eye, the body has no idea how to maintain it.
It is possible, but not by some nub methods like these.
I think you are spot on there. The complexity of the system is so great that it is like putting a RISC processor in an Intel socket and expecting some kind of mutation to ensue. You can plug in a USB device to either and expect some results, however. I do think that neural stem cells have been used in such a way that hybrids have been generated and there seems to be a great deal more moral ambiguity in that process than just replacing a hand with a claw.
That is definitely a solution and it is just __scary__ what my customers will do. I have considered training them to use encrypted email and there is a learning issue there. They will not learn how to use it as it is irritating to them and consumes their time. They will simply ignore me and hire somebody that will not bother them about security, even though they are exposing information about others. Private customers are even worse, their computer skill level is so low that it is impossible to communicate the fact that they __personally__ must do something and there is no widget solution. As far as the government doing this, it just makes matters worse. Soon the spammers will mimic the official documents and as a final step will tell the consumer to install pwn_my_Machine.exe to solve all their problems.
That was very interesting as I knew what was going on with the associated news stories that are planted but never knew it was so aptly named. I wonder , do the movie promoters pay the people to do the articles, or are they just lazy, and if somebody writes free copy for them, they jump all over it. As far as the Nuclear drive, my brother ( who is a Nuclear Engineer ) and I have discussed it for over 30 years and though it might work, it could also end up buried somewhere with a message "Do not open until Christmas 40010".
This made me think of something. In order to support open source, and if people agreed as to the method ( a very large if ___ fi ), It would be interesting to see a book called SmashDot that took all the best of/. and incorporated it into a book. I would really like to have a reference to some of the [bash, net, encryption] savvy that is available here in the comments ( beyond Googling and finding it ). Certainly the collective understanding of the/. has some value. Just think of a Beowulf cluster of frosty postmen.
I have wondered a few times if there is not some of the same effect happening at slashdot. Some comments seem very curious and I typically notice these things when a new product is introduced. I know some people are just fans of certain things like Fords and Chevys , but sometimes it seems like people are purposely attempting to twist opinions. Perhaps everybody else already knows this is true, and I am the fool who just thinks it is possible.
Those should have been multiplies by 160 instead of 80.
I would have thought that immediately ( 160 ) since I did so much assembly with CGA, however I may be even older and some of the displays were 40 characters wide, so 80 would be correct for that. On the issues of coreboot, that is fantastic and I want it for my machine now. I want instant boot to linux and ext4 for my next upgrade. On the other issue of _asm_ as faster, I bet I could make some of it faster, but gcc is way good anymore and I often objdump my "c" code to look at the assembly and the people who write the compiler are virtually magicians with that code. I have tried competing with the compiler and it is a waste of time for most things and unless I was doing firmware or a device driver, I wouldn't even consider assembly. As far as the code, the one thing I wouldn't do is a "mul" just for the cycle cost, I would combine shifts and adds to get (16x+64x).
It seems appropriate to bash here as this is about technology and not fluff posing as technology.
Certainly not: how many of the criticisms you saw were based on the technical merits of the product? At the time I read this, there were none. The time when/. was a mainly technical forum has long passed. Now/. is just an interactive version of Wired, minus the glossy photographs - lots of noise, very little substance.
Very few comments are on any subject, ever.
It does provide a forum that is not tainted by fear of economic reprisal.
I stand by my opinion that Microsoft produces consumer products and as such, they are not oriented toward technical achievement because they cannot be. They must consider what effect any change will do to the bottom line and if people will buy singing fish instead of a safe computing environment, that is what they will sell.
There are many sources of information that will tell you how great Microsoft is. It is advertising dollars at work. As one of the few places where it is possible to express an opinion about the product that is ultimately technically based, this is the place.
Ms is not a company that is in the business of producing good software, they are in the business of making money with software. They sell product "composed" of software to make money and that is quite a bit different than designing a software for a purpose.
It seems appropriate to bash here as this is about technology and not fluff posing as technology. As far as bashing, I often use Bourne Again SHell programming to express my technical dislike for Ms.
It seems that with a little firmware it could be coaxed to do some content addressability. Considering that it is 10x faster inside than the peak of the SATA interface. It seems to me that there is a lot of potential. I always liked the ram disks when they were popular ISA cards and this could be the thing that could use the full power of USB 4.0 [sic]. Applications could be changed to take advantage of this speed. If lists and SQL databases could be sorted on the drive without CPU overhead, it could be very useful.
It adds another complication to my GATTACA dating , now I have to have their SNP scan and a list of their flora to see if we are compatible. I like hydrogen people as opposed to methane people.
I was not aware of the mod, however I personally think that any changes to the normal flora should wait until they have mapped the associations of all the organisms. They shit acid for a reason and most likely to kill the competition. If you remove an indigenous species from a niche it gets replaced with something worse usually. It is suggested that fire ants are helped to get a foothold by the fact that we kill the native ants. I still want my monkey man and some sharks teeth like in the book Einstein Intersection.Maybe the acid could be made worse so it would be like Alien, that would be a cool mod.
Sounds like a good idea, but I think nature plays hard ball and if you have a bacteria where there is a potential food source they will evolve back to eat it. That is just my guess from putting bacteria on on mixed media and when the good stuff runs out, the ones that eat the regular food die and the mutants that eat the other stuff thrive. Just a guess though. I personally would rather have sharks teeth that regrow every few months.
I can't believe I am doing this, I am attempting to be a Latin grammar !z. But you know I must http://xkcd.com/386/
Virgil's Aeneid, Book II.354:
It is victis, not victus I believe.
dative/nominative case.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
I was contacted by a company the other day and they have a new game called "drone" and they said they would pay me to play it. I could fly a simulated plane in a virtual world and blow stuff up.All I had to do is sign a piece of paper and use their terminals. They said it was as realistic as you could get. I think the game was made by a company called USAF, or something like that. So why use the free version when somebody will pay you to play? Some binary bits may have been harmed in the production of this comment. As far as the article, a reasonably priced product will be easier to purchase and an expensive one will be more profitable to pirate. I don't think pirates go after ship loads of potatoes as much as diamonds. I personally find that FOSS games are entertaining enough for me and often educational, and I probably learn more playing with the source than the games themselves.
I disagree on that.
I designed video games a long time ago and we used a dot on the screen for pointing a virtual gun. It generated a specific pixel pattern that was recognized by the targeting device. It seems to me that this is just creating a new way to do something when a free way is available in order to control and profit from something that can easily be done with free technology that has existed for 35 years.
I can make a receptor that recognizes a position on a screen and makes positional corrections and selections like a touch screen at a lesser cost. I have also done this with "pick and place" robots that build circuit boards. The identification of the "registration mark" need not even be on the screen itself.
I think the problem with Microsoft is that they _start_ by deciding how to tie the customer to their interface. It just makes one more land mine to somebody who has a similar but better idea.
I recently designed an interface for my keyboard that has two thumb-wheels on either side of the keyboard that I can scroll up and sideways ( to select the absolute dot position where the mouse points (gimp, opengl, and blender positioning)) it seems that this would work just as well and could be far more precise. This type of thing means that if somebody sees that idea and comes up with something to extend the idea and make it better, it will never happen as they must negotiate with a monopoly to see profit from their idea, and I have been -there- too many times. The share [insert monopoly] offers to new extensions is 0.
The problem is they really don't understand or don't care. I got a computer from a government agency and it had not been wiped. They contacted me a week later and told me I had to return it so it could be erased and reformatted. I let them do that, but, I still don't understand what could make somebody think that erasing information that has been out of their control serves any purpose whatsoever. These are people who -could- think that chain of custody is flexible. I just noticed the message at the bottom of my web page and it say that the Earth was destroyed by a solar flare. This post is pointless then I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
With battle field lasers being available now, it needs to have a quantum entanglement detector to operate. This also requires the IBM time machine to be really effective. The nice thing it is so futuristic it has an open source time machine operating system.
I believe this is it. I did not see it. http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/660-123467890.html
I build from source for most of my packages on Linux and I also change things in the code to be more to my liking. I have to understand how the code works to do this. The biggest security problem I see is the way in which closed source incorporates methods that it sells to companies. I have done Windows driver development and I know that it is done. Off the top of my head I remember something I think was called "Bear251" or some such name along with many other loop holes that eventually become security flaws that cannot be removed without destroying designed in functionality.
I am sure that the pressure is really on at Ms because there are layoffs and I bet the marketing shirts are going to be the sweatiest and FUD will continue to be rampant. They are a company for profit and I am surprised this is all they do.
I often check my machine and the drivers that I get and if I found a hole in something that I thought somebody put there as an exploit, I would be letting everybody know. With closed source you cannot verify if a driver is tampered, because you cannot compare it to source and disassembly is possible but is so time consuming it can't be doe in the constantly updating code world.
I just installed this a few hours ago and it is a nice interface. The variety of what is free to download is amazing and they did a good job on making the interface intuitive. It will be a nice place for me to publish blender animation products and video tutorials of all kinds. Blender has a great tutorial on making tutorials and videos.
I thought it was just pining for the fjords... No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
Of course it will fail. Gene's, DNA and proteins are not 'plug n play'. If you want cat eyes, there is a lot more then trying to mix cat eye dna with human eye dna. The brain has no clue how to use a cat eye, the body has no idea how to maintain it.
It is possible, but not by some nub methods like these.
I think you are spot on there. The complexity of the system is so great that it is like putting a RISC processor in an Intel socket and expecting some kind of mutation to ensue. You can plug in a USB device to either and expect some results, however. I do think that neural stem cells have been used in such a way that hybrids have been generated and there seems to be a great deal more moral ambiguity in that process than just replacing a hand with a claw.
That is definitely a solution and it is just __scary__ what my customers will do. I have considered training them to use encrypted email and there is a learning issue there. They will not learn how to use it as it is irritating to them and consumes their time. They will simply ignore me and hire somebody that will not bother them about security, even though they are exposing information about others.
Private customers are even worse, their computer skill level is so low that it is impossible to communicate the fact that they __personally__ must do something and there is no widget solution.
As far as the government doing this, it just makes matters worse. Soon the spammers will mimic the official documents and as a final step will tell the consumer to install pwn_my_Machine.exe to solve all their problems.
That was very interesting as I knew what was going on with the associated news stories that are planted but never knew it was so aptly named. I wonder , do the movie promoters pay the people to do the articles, or are they just lazy, and if somebody writes free copy for them, they jump all over it.
As far as the Nuclear drive, my brother ( who is a Nuclear Engineer ) and I have discussed it for over 30 years and though it might work, it could also end up buried somewhere with a message "Do not open until Christmas 40010".
This made me think of something. In order to support open source, and if people agreed as to the method ( a very large if ___ fi ), It would be interesting to see a book called SmashDot that took all the best of /. and incorporated it into a book. I would really like to have a reference to some of the [bash, net, encryption] savvy that is available here in the comments ( beyond Googling and finding it ). Certainly the collective understanding of the /. has some value. Just think of a Beowulf cluster of frosty postmen.
Is this self referentially true because of the way it is modded?
I have wondered a few times if there is not some of the same effect happening at slashdot. Some comments seem very curious and I typically notice these things when a new product is introduced. I know some people are just fans of certain things like Fords and Chevys , but sometimes it seems like people are purposely attempting to twist opinions. Perhaps everybody else already knows this is true, and I am the fool who just thinks it is possible.
Slashdotted already. Should give an indication of how desperate /. ers are for a new FOSS FPS.
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=198419 Get it at sourceforge
Those should have been multiplies by 160 instead of 80.
I would have thought that immediately ( 160 ) since I did so much assembly with CGA, however I may be even older and some of the displays were 40 characters wide, so 80 would be correct for that. On the issues of coreboot, that is fantastic and I want it for my machine now. I want instant boot to linux and ext4 for my next upgrade. On the other issue of _asm_ as faster, I bet I could make some of it faster, but gcc is way good anymore and I often objdump my "c" code to look at the assembly and the people who write the compiler are virtually magicians with that code. I have tried competing with the compiler and it is a waste of time for most things and unless I was doing firmware or a device driver, I wouldn't even consider assembly. As far as the code, the one thing I wouldn't do is a "mul" just for the cycle cost, I would combine shifts and adds to get (16x+64x).
It seems appropriate to bash here as this is about technology and not fluff posing as technology.
Certainly not: how many of the criticisms you saw were based on the technical merits of the product? At the time I read this, there were none. The time when /. was a mainly technical forum has long passed. Now /. is just an interactive version of Wired, minus the glossy photographs - lots of noise, very little substance.
Very few comments are on any subject, ever.
It does provide a forum that is not tainted by fear of economic reprisal.
I stand by my opinion that Microsoft produces consumer products and as such, they are not oriented toward technical achievement because they cannot be. They must consider what effect any change will do to the bottom line and if people will buy singing fish instead of a safe computing environment, that is what they will sell.
There are many sources of information that will tell you how great Microsoft is. It is advertising dollars at work. As one of the few places where it is possible to express an opinion about the product that is ultimately technically based, this is the place.
Ms is not a company that is in the business of producing good software, they are in the business of making money with software. They sell product "composed" of software to make money and that is quite a bit different than designing a software for a purpose.
It seems appropriate to bash here as this is about technology and not fluff posing as technology. As far as bashing, I often use Bourne Again SHell programming to express my technical dislike for Ms.
All those laid off workers can help with Open Source development while they're on unemployment. It sounds like a win to me.
It seems that with a little firmware it could be coaxed to do some content addressability. Considering that it is 10x faster inside than the peak of the SATA interface. It seems to me that there is a lot of potential. I always liked the ram disks when they were popular ISA cards and this could be the thing that could use the full power of USB 4.0 [sic]. Applications could be changed to take advantage of this speed. If lists and SQL databases could be sorted on the drive without CPU overhead, it could be very useful.
It adds another complication to my GATTACA dating , now I have to have their SNP scan and a list of their flora to see if we are compatible. I like hydrogen people as opposed to methane people.
I was not aware of the mod, however I personally think that any changes to the normal flora should wait until they have mapped the associations of all the organisms. They shit acid for a reason and most likely to kill the competition. If you remove an indigenous species from a niche it gets replaced with something worse usually. It is suggested that fire ants are helped to get a foothold by the fact that we kill the native ants. I still want my monkey man and some sharks teeth like in the book Einstein Intersection.Maybe the acid could be made worse so it would be like Alien, that would be a cool mod.
Sounds like a good idea, but I think nature plays hard ball and if you have a bacteria where there is a potential food source they will evolve back to eat it. That is just my guess from putting bacteria on on mixed media and when the good stuff runs out, the ones that eat the regular food die and the mutants that eat the other stuff thrive. Just a guess though. I personally would rather have sharks teeth that regrow every few months.
I can't believe I am doing this, I am attempting to be a Latin grammar !z. But you know I must http://xkcd.com/386/
Virgil's Aeneid, Book II.354:
It is victis, not victus I believe.
dative/nominative case.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
I was contacted by a company the other day and they have a new game called "drone" and they said they would pay me to play it. I could fly a simulated plane in a virtual world and blow stuff up.All I had to do is sign a piece of paper and use their terminals. They said it was as realistic as you could get. I think the game was made by a company called USAF, or something like that. So why use the free version when somebody will pay you to play?
Some binary bits may have been harmed in the production of this comment.
As far as the article, a reasonably priced product will be easier to purchase and an expensive one will be more profitable to pirate. I don't think pirates go after ship loads of potatoes as much as diamonds. I personally find that FOSS games are entertaining enough for me and often educational, and I probably learn more playing with the source than the games themselves.
I disagree on that.
I designed video games a long time ago and we used a dot on the screen for pointing a virtual gun. It generated a specific pixel pattern that was recognized by the targeting device. It seems to me that this is just creating a new way to do something when a free way is available in order to control and profit from something that can easily be done with free technology that has existed for 35 years.
I can make a receptor that recognizes a position on a screen and makes positional corrections and selections like a touch screen at a lesser cost. I have also done this with "pick and place" robots that build circuit boards. The identification of the "registration mark" need not even be on the screen itself.
I think the problem with Microsoft is that they _start_ by deciding how to tie the customer to their interface. It just makes one more land mine to somebody who has a similar but better idea.
I recently designed an interface for my keyboard that has two thumb-wheels on either side of the keyboard that I can scroll up and sideways ( to select the absolute dot position where the mouse points (gimp, opengl, and blender positioning)) it seems that this would work just as well and could be far more precise.
This type of thing means that if somebody sees that idea and comes up with something to extend the idea and make it better, it will never happen as they must negotiate with a monopoly to see profit from their idea, and I have been -there- too many times. The share [insert monopoly] offers to new extensions is 0.
It rubs the karma on its skin, or it gets the mod again.
The problem is they really don't understand or don't care. I got a computer from a government agency and it had not been wiped. They contacted me a week later and told me I had to return it so it could be erased and reformatted. I let them do that, but, I still don't understand what could make somebody think that erasing information that has been out of their control serves any purpose whatsoever. These are people who -could- think that chain of custody is flexible.
I just noticed the message at the bottom of my web page and it say that the Earth was destroyed by a solar flare. This post is pointless then I guess.