The Chinese have to circumvent the law since there is no way they could change it. Protesting against the government can get you in jail or worse.
On the other side you have Germany, a real democracy. There's now a "pirate party" and a petition against internet censorship, which was signed by nearly 130.000 people (keep in mind that the population of Germany is only 80.000.000 so that's a lot). It should be possible to fight that nonsense the legal way. Using encryption, proxies etc. should be the LAST step, not the first...
Sorry, but we Germans had some bad experiences with voting for extreme right parties in the past, so no thanks!
Actually, an increasing number of morons vote for the NPD, the "quite Nazi party", which is scary and not really helping.
Illuminate me, how does voting for the right help?
The tweets are generated algorithmically inside the C64. As good as the real thing.;)
No, serious, why do you ask that? Even without reading the article it should be obvious (especially to a slashdotter) that in order to read what's on twitter you have to get it from there.
Well, no.
VMware virtual machines share the memory that is identical, so you don't need to allocate that memory for every client (e.g. Kernel). Also, they share the files on the hard drive as long as they are identical and when running the same programs they even share some chunks of the RAM used by that program.
Here's an analogy for what a garbage collector does:
Vocabulary:
People: program
Food: data object
Refridgerator: memory
Let's say you live together with some friends and you share a refrigerator with them.
No-garbage-collector programming languages are like this: Everyone has to keep track of what belongs to him and throw out his rotten food. If someone accidentally forgets one of his food items it will rot in there forever. If this happens more often the refridgerator will be filled with garbage and you can't use it for real food any more. That's called a memory leak.
Garbage collection works like this:
1. Ask everyone to mark the food they know belongs to them.
2. Throw out every unmarked food.
(3. remove the markings, so they won't cause troubles the next time you do a garbage collection)
if I cannot obtain security updates because my OS is wrongly deemed to be an unauthorized copy,
Which pirated OS is excluded from security patches? As far as I know Microsoft distributes security patches to pirates to protect the customers from attacks.
> They really do. (This is because the other half of the equation is that the earth accelerates towards the falling object. For a heavier object, it accelerates proportionally faster. Of course, I'm pretty sure we'll never be able to measure effects this small.)
No. Just no.
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The Chinese have to circumvent the law since there is no way they could change it. Protesting against the government can get you in jail or worse.
On the other side you have Germany, a real democracy. There's now a "pirate party" and a petition against internet censorship, which was signed by nearly 130.000 people (keep in mind that the population of Germany is only 80.000.000 so that's a lot). It should be possible to fight that nonsense the legal way. Using encryption, proxies etc. should be the LAST step, not the first...
Sorry, but we Germans had some bad experiences with voting for extreme right parties in the past, so no thanks! Actually, an increasing number of morons vote for the NPD, the "quite Nazi party", which is scary and not really helping. Illuminate me, how does voting for the right help?
The tweets are generated algorithmically inside the C64. As good as the real thing. ;)
No, serious, why do you ask that? Even without reading the article it should be obvious (especially to a slashdotter) that in order to read what's on twitter you have to get it from there.
Well, no. VMware virtual machines share the memory that is identical, so you don't need to allocate that memory for every client (e.g. Kernel). Also, they share the files on the hard drive as long as they are identical and when running the same programs they even share some chunks of the RAM used by that program.
Here's an analogy for what a garbage collector does:
Vocabulary:
People: program
Food: data object
Refridgerator: memory
Let's say you live together with some friends and you share a refrigerator with them. No-garbage-collector programming languages are like this: Everyone has to keep track of what belongs to him and throw out his rotten food. If someone accidentally forgets one of his food items it will rot in there forever. If this happens more often the refridgerator will be filled with garbage and you can't use it for real food any more. That's called a memory leak.
Garbage collection works like this:
1. Ask everyone to mark the food they know belongs to them.
2. Throw out every unmarked food.
(3. remove the markings, so they won't cause troubles the next time you do a garbage collection)
if I cannot obtain security updates because my OS is wrongly deemed to be an unauthorized copy,
Which pirated OS is excluded from security patches? As far as I know Microsoft distributes security patches to pirates to protect the customers from attacks.
Does a red story mean that there are no comments?
No, every second digit has to be a five, eg 595151. Also, the number may not contain any zeros, because you can't dial them...
> They really do. (This is because the other half of the equation is that the earth accelerates towards the falling object. For a heavier object, it accelerates proportionally faster. Of course, I'm pretty sure we'll never be able to measure effects this small.) No. Just no.