I'd rather download better quality Linux isos. I think if I could get 720p Linux isos that would be great, but not every Linux iso is available at that resolution. Some are ripped from VHS and others from TV, I usually avoid those.
kill switch fine but if it was unwarranted then prison time for those that infringed the constitution
The Constitution itself says you can't do that. This has been uphedl by courts, look here for an example of how it works.
The only answer is NOT having stupid legislation that go against basic human liberty. If a private bank is being DDOSed, let them hire better system administrators who will know how to configure their routers.
It's not "some" website, it's the official website of the Cuban government, the one that hosts Fidel's personal blog.
That comment was an observation of an obvious corollary of the main story, that China censors news about popular uprisings. What's good for one dictatorship is good for the other.
I'm not a very fast typer but I'm a very productive programmer. Maybe it's because I do more thinking than banging my keyboard:-)
I, too, do much more thinking than banging at the keyboard. However, once I have it carefully thought out, my ideas flow quickly and effortlessly into code.
Think how much better you would be if you learned to type well. If you really did some thinking, you would realize that there's *NO* way to be more productive by doing something badly.
Unless you mean that, by typing slowly, you have more time to think. No, it doesn't work that way either. You have to keep watching for typing errors instead of concentrating on your program.
doesn't anyone want to talk about about the fact that the good old US of A is supporting a brutal regime that murders and tortures its own people?
If the USA didn't support any regime that murders and tortures its own people it would have very few relations to other countries. It's all a matter of proportion. Egypt is less brutal than other countries in that region, they have a relatively moderate stance regarding international relations, they try not to let Muslim radicals do too much harm.
Don't get me wrong, I think Mubarak should step down, but Obama is right in taking a cautious approach to that crisis.
As long as machine is doing the typing, slightly easier reading is much more important than length of writing.
First, I don't use autocompletion. I've tried it and found that I can type faster than stopping every time to pick one of a set of options. Autocompletion is for people who can't type, If you can't type very fast you'll never be a very productive programmer.
Also, "end" isn't easier to read than "}". The closing brace has a distinctive shape, the only place it could be confusing is if it's mixed with parentheses, as often happens in Python, I don't program in Ruby so I don't know if it's the same problem there.
If they are in a line by themselves, braces are easier to see at a glance than "end", that was one of the details that got me to switch to C from Pascal. When you have to program or maintain millions of lines of code, every little detail matters, it may not be that much difference seeing one symbol or the other, but in the end the simpler one wins.
It makes me less Christian, perhaps, but perfectly human.
OK, here's another funny story that I read once about a bumbling terrorist. In Pakistan a suicide bomber wore an explosive vest, with the detonator wired to two metal bracelets, one on each wrist, so it would detonate when they were shorted together.
The bomb blew up prematurely when the terrorist rode a bicycle and both bracelets came into contact with the handlebar at the same time.
Non-von-Neumann supercomputers have been built, look at this hypercube topology.
The problem is the software, we have such a big collection of traditional libraries that it becomes hard to justify starting over in an alternative way.
A little bird informs the world that the US has a supercomputer already running on them, somewhere between 100Ghz-1Thz per processor
Unlikely. If you do the calculations, you'll find that the current 3GHz limit is about as fast as you can get data from other chips on a circuit board. 3GHz is 0.33 nanoseconds period, the time it takes for light to travel ten centimeters in a vacuum. A faster CPU will stay idle most of the time, waiting for the data it requested from other chips to arrive at the speed of light.
In the past, there were a lot of applications that a true supercomputer was needed to be built for to solve, be it basic modeling of weather, rendering stuff for ray-tracing, etc.
Now, most applications are able to be done by COTS hardware
It's true, many applications that needed supercomputers in the past can be done by COTS hardware today. But this does not mean there are no applications for bigger computers. As each generation of computers assume the tasks done by the former supercomputers, new applications appear for the next supercomputer.
Take weather modeling, for instance. Today we still can't predict rain accurately. That's not because the modeling itself is not accurate, but because the spatial resolution needed to predict rainfall beyond our computers. Engineers still use wind tunnels, they still have tanks to test ship models, there are many situations where the most powerful computers today cannot perform calculations at the same level of precision one gets from scale models.
And then there are entirely new applications that are way beyond the capacity of our current computers. Drug design is one example, a computer capable of calculating accurately the shape a protein molecule will have given its sequence of amino acids is still a dream.
Another funny story about a terrorist bomb premature detonation was one of a car bomb that detonated on a deserted Israeli road.
Comparing the remains of the driver's wristwatch with the clock attached to the bomb in the car's trunk, Israeli experts came to the conclusion that the bomb clock was set to Israeli time, which was in daylight saving mode, and the driver's was set to Palestinian time, which wasn't.
I've never read of any clandestine transmitters in ww2 that were battery powered. Got any links to share? I'd be interested in expanding my knowledge on the subject.
if the network in question can provide enough information to suggest "this account posted this text on this date from this address" and the lawyers can provide enough corroborating evidence to allow a reasonable person to accept that as a truth, then its good enough to be used in a court
Normally courtroom evidence needs to do more than "suggest".
Things posted in a social network are somewhat equivalent of an unsigned typewritten text. The best you can assume is that this was written in a specific machine, not that it was written by its purported author.
Also, as in any informal document, you cannot assume that it was intended to be interpreted as the truth. People have been writing fiction, have been writing under pseudonyms for thousands of years and it has never been a crime to do so.
If people need to be constantly alert for the possible interpretations of their words we would be back to the Middle Ages, when anything you did could be considered as evidence of heresy and witchcraft.
In a courtroom one must take an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The standards for a social network are considerably lower in regard to accuracy.
not only don't have the cultural cues that help us communicate, but may not even operate on the same time scales
That's a point that has been nearly ignored in science fiction. Except for Robert Forward's "Dragon Egg" I don't remember any story where the aliens' minds operated on a significantly different time scale from ours.
How likely would that be? Our brains work the way they do because they use the same nervous system that has been evolving for at least 600 million years. Had the first neurons in the Cambrian period been somewhat different perhaps our brains would work in a different way, which could be much faster or much slower than ours.
The point of DRM is not to stop serious cracking groups, its to stop casual copying such as kids someone making a copy for their schoolfriends.
School kids know all about how to circumvent DRM. All their games are copied from friends, except for those they get as gifts from older relatives, which is the only way new games get into the school kid environment.
You don't imagine school kids will spent their hard-earned allowance to buy legal copies of games, do you?
No, the real purpose of DRM is to make pointy-haired managers feel good.
Both german-controlled france and russia took the same novel approach trying to find spies transmitting in WW2... they'd cut power to parts of the city a chunk at a time until the signal went off the air, then tear apart that area
Nope, you've been watching too many old spy movies. That approach would never be used due to two reasons:
1) There are better ways to find a transmitter. 2) Batteries. What's the point in cutting power to the neighborhood if the signal keeps transmitting?
Nowadays though with dopplars and haddock arrays they don't have to shut down the grids, but finding the actual transmitter remains very difficult.
I've 30+ years of experience as an Electronic Engineer and don't have the remotest idea of what you mean as a "haddock array". And neither Google knows.
Well, anyhow kudos to you, you seem to have convinced a few Slashdot moderators that you know something.
Slashdot Mirror
Rule #1: the joke has to be funny, at least funnier than the explanation, which is not the case here.
I'd rather download better quality Linux isos. I think if I could get 720p Linux isos that would be great, but not every Linux iso is available at that resolution. Some are ripped from VHS and others from TV, I usually avoid those.
kill switch fine but if it was unwarranted then prison time for those that infringed the constitution
The Constitution itself says you can't do that. This has been uphedl by courts, look here for an example of how it works.
The only answer is NOT having stupid legislation that go against basic human liberty. If a private bank is being DDOSed, let them hire better system administrators who will know how to configure their routers.
It's not "some" website, it's the official website of the Cuban government, the one that hosts Fidel's personal blog.
That comment was an observation of an obvious corollary of the main story, that China censors news about popular uprisings. What's good for one dictatorship is good for the other.
Egypt isn't mentioned at all in the official Cuban website
I'm not a very fast typer but I'm a very productive programmer. Maybe it's because I do more thinking than banging my keyboard :-)
I, too, do much more thinking than banging at the keyboard. However, once I have it carefully thought out, my ideas flow quickly and effortlessly into code.
Think how much better you would be if you learned to type well. If you really did some thinking, you would realize that there's *NO* way to be more productive by doing something badly.
Unless you mean that, by typing slowly, you have more time to think. No, it doesn't work that way either. You have to keep watching for typing errors instead of concentrating on your program.
doesn't anyone want to talk about about the fact that the good old US of A is supporting a brutal regime that murders and tortures its own people?
If the USA didn't support any regime that murders and tortures its own people it would have very few relations to other countries. It's all a matter of proportion. Egypt is less brutal than other countries in that region, they have a relatively moderate stance regarding international relations, they try not to let Muslim radicals do too much harm.
Don't get me wrong, I think Mubarak should step down, but Obama is right in taking a cautious approach to that crisis.
Try googling it
If Google is too hard, try these
As long as machine is doing the typing, slightly easier reading is much more important than length of writing.
First, I don't use autocompletion. I've tried it and found that I can type faster than stopping every time to pick one of a set of options. Autocompletion is for people who can't type, If you can't type very fast you'll never be a very productive programmer.
Also, "end" isn't easier to read than "}". The closing brace has a distinctive shape, the only place it could be confusing is if it's mixed with parentheses, as often happens in Python, I don't program in Ruby so I don't know if it's the same problem there.
If they are in a line by themselves, braces are easier to see at a glance than "end", that was one of the details that got me to switch to C from Pascal. When you have to program or maintain millions of lines of code, every little detail matters, it may not be that much difference seeing one symbol or the other, but in the end the simpler one wins.
Kate is exactly what you describe, has been working fine for me for the last ten years or so.
is there an even earlier computer that was in some way un-scientific?
Certainly, the abacus is much older and was used for business, as opposed to scientific, calculations.
How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature?
I'd say it's pretty easy, considering they can send to jail anybody who reads them
no, it's a whole bunch of stuff.
It makes me less Christian, perhaps, but perfectly human.
OK, here's another funny story that I read once about a bumbling terrorist. In Pakistan a suicide bomber wore an explosive vest, with the detonator wired to two metal bracelets, one on each wrist, so it would detonate when they were shorted together.
The bomb blew up prematurely when the terrorist rode a bicycle and both bracelets came into contact with the handlebar at the same time.
Non-von-Neumann supercomputers have been built, look at this hypercube topology.
The problem is the software, we have such a big collection of traditional libraries that it becomes hard to justify starting over in an alternative way.
A little bird informs the world that the US has a supercomputer already running on them, somewhere between 100Ghz-1Thz per processor
Unlikely. If you do the calculations, you'll find that the current 3GHz limit is about as fast as you can get data from other chips on a circuit board. 3GHz is 0.33 nanoseconds period, the time it takes for light to travel ten centimeters in a vacuum. A faster CPU will stay idle most of the time, waiting for the data it requested from other chips to arrive at the speed of light.
In the past, there were a lot of applications that a true supercomputer was needed to be built for to solve, be it basic modeling of weather, rendering stuff for ray-tracing, etc.
Now, most applications are able to be done by COTS hardware
It's true, many applications that needed supercomputers in the past can be done by COTS hardware today. But this does not mean there are no applications for bigger computers. As each generation of computers assume the tasks done by the former supercomputers, new applications appear for the next supercomputer.
Take weather modeling, for instance. Today we still can't predict rain accurately. That's not because the modeling itself is not accurate, but because the spatial resolution needed to predict rainfall beyond our computers. Engineers still use wind tunnels, they still have tanks to test ship models, there are many situations where the most powerful computers today cannot perform calculations at the same level of precision one gets from scale models.
And then there are entirely new applications that are way beyond the capacity of our current computers. Drug design is one example, a computer capable of calculating accurately the shape a protein molecule will have given its sequence of amino acids is still a dream.
Another funny story about a terrorist bomb premature detonation was one of a car bomb that detonated on a deserted Israeli road.
Comparing the remains of the driver's wristwatch with the clock attached to the bomb in the car's trunk, Israeli experts came to the conclusion that the bomb clock was set to Israeli time, which was in daylight saving mode, and the driver's was set to Palestinian time, which wasn't.
I've never read of any clandestine transmitters in ww2 that were battery powered. Got any links to share? I'd be interested in expanding my knowledge on the subject.
Start by this book.
if the network in question can provide enough information to suggest "this account posted this text on this date from this address" and the lawyers can provide enough corroborating evidence to allow a reasonable person to accept that as a truth, then its good enough to be used in a court
Normally courtroom evidence needs to do more than "suggest".
Things posted in a social network are somewhat equivalent of an unsigned typewritten text. The best you can assume is that this was written in a specific machine, not that it was written by its purported author.
Also, as in any informal document, you cannot assume that it was intended to be interpreted as the truth. People have been writing fiction, have been writing under pseudonyms for thousands of years and it has never been a crime to do so.
If people need to be constantly alert for the possible interpretations of their words we would be back to the Middle Ages, when anything you did could be considered as evidence of heresy and witchcraft.
...but can they be used as evidence?
In a courtroom one must take an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The standards for a social network are considerably lower in regard to accuracy.
not only don't have the cultural cues that help us communicate, but may not even operate on the same time scales
That's a point that has been nearly ignored in science fiction. Except for Robert Forward's "Dragon Egg" I don't remember any story where the aliens' minds operated on a significantly different time scale from ours.
How likely would that be? Our brains work the way they do because they use the same nervous system that has been evolving for at least 600 million years. Had the first neurons in the Cambrian period been somewhat different perhaps our brains would work in a different way, which could be much faster or much slower than ours.
The point of DRM is not to stop serious cracking groups, its to stop casual copying such as kids someone making a copy for their schoolfriends.
School kids know all about how to circumvent DRM. All their games are copied from friends, except for those they get as gifts from older relatives, which is the only way new games get into the school kid environment.
You don't imagine school kids will spent their hard-earned allowance to buy legal copies of games, do you?
No, the real purpose of DRM is to make pointy-haired managers feel good.
I would think that you could turn a lot of background noise into something that looks like a message.
If you look hard enough, anything at all looks like a message
Both german-controlled france and russia took the same novel approach trying to find spies transmitting in WW2... they'd cut power to parts of the city a chunk at a time until the signal went off the air, then tear apart that area
Nope, you've been watching too many old spy movies. That approach would never be used due to two reasons:
1) There are better ways to find a transmitter.
2) Batteries. What's the point in cutting power to the neighborhood if the signal keeps transmitting?
Nowadays though with dopplars and haddock arrays they don't have to shut down the grids, but finding the actual transmitter remains very difficult.
I've 30+ years of experience as an Electronic Engineer and don't have the remotest idea of what you mean as a "haddock array". And neither Google knows.
Well, anyhow kudos to you, you seem to have convinced a few Slashdot moderators that you know something.