2% of the uninhabited Sahara is still a lot of land area to build on. The Sahara is about 9.4 million square kilometers in area. 94000 square km of panels is a 300 km x 300 km area. Yes it's doable but getting the power from that area to where it's used is also going to be hard.
In contrast the amount of area needed for nuclear powerplants and to store nuclear waste is much smaller. As long as you build modern design powerplants that don't blow up catastrophically when stuff happens, they'll do much less damage to the environment and you can put them closer to the places which need power.
That said, mining for uranium/thorium does damage the environment. Not sure how much.
Maybe you should do some research before making claims. AppArmor is included by default on Ubuntu and allows application level internet permissions. Granted, it is configured very liberally by default
Yeah, when I checked the firefox apparmor sandbox wasn't much of a sandbox.
An apparmor sandbox that's configured very liberally by default is not like ZoneAlarm and other similar software that make companies $$$ by scaring their users (whether rightfully or wrongfully).
Yeah. The same users on a "Desktop Linux" (or even OSX) system would be happy to "perl bunnies", "python snake", "ruby jewels" or even chmod 755 sexy.jpg;./sexy.jpg, and get just as pwned.
Uh they do take over Linux servers regularly. The architecture isn't better.
As for desktops, if you somehow get Joe Schmoe to run an arbitrary executable[1] on either platform, Joe Schmoe's confidential data will be at risk, or his machine can be turned into a spam sending zombie. So no big difference. Whether the executable gets root/admin is irrelevant for many criminal purposes.
Linux servers tend to be more useful targets than Linux desktops. I also wonder whether there are more Linux servers than Linux desktops;).
[1] Doesn't have to be an executable in the chmod sense of the word- perl Makefile.PL on a malicious Makefile.PL will still get you screwed.
Many species have "proof of fitness" rites as part of mating rituals. Being able to spend 35K does show some sort of fitness;).
sex isn't the mistake... paying for it with freedom is. you don't have to give away your liberty to have companionship and procreation.
You may see it as slavery, others see it as a token of their love.
Lots of people give up certain freedoms in order to play certain games. When you play soccer you choose to abide by the rules. Without the rules, there's no fun in the game. Yes you're not supposed to do certain things while playing the game that you can do freely when not playing the game. But there are millions of people who still find the game fun even though millions of others might not;).
You don't like the game, don't play it. Others seem to like it, who are we to tell them not to play?
You'll just be swapping one indoctrination for another.
I doubt religion will die as long as humans are alive. If you believe animals (except for humans and their more recent ancestors) don't have religion, then clearly religion emerged in humans, outcompeted the default of "no religion" and has even thrived in the past thousands of years.
Yes there are a small minority of atheists, but most atheists don't appear to have much of an indoctrination, education and conversion plan (and so far such plans from atheists have been rather evil and negative in comparison to more benign religions). So how will the ratios increase?
Far more people while not being very religious, are not interested in getting rid of religion (they're more interested in music, TV, Farmville, money etc;) ).
And many seem to need to feel part of a Greater Thing. Whether it's religion or some "Greener than Thou movement", or a football team, or Star Trek. You take religion away from them, and something else will rush into the hole and look practically the same thing.
Cool thanks! Hope it works. I think much has been changed since- a lot of the ATI/AMD stuff needs.Net now.
There's a huge version number difference between the one I found with google (and their search) and the one in the "optional downloads".
I guess writing such software might be like painting the golden gate bridge, by the time you're "done", Microsoft/KDE etc changes enough stuff so you'd have to do it again for the new OS/version;).
In my experience Nview works with chrome etc, it only has problems moving "full screen" stuff to another screen, but can I understand why that might not be supported (except it makes showing powerpoint viewer stuff on a different monitor difficult). Nview has been around since 2002 or so, so I guess they've had time to figure stuff out:).
Wouldn't the US Gov want the Iran Gov (and their friends) to be using as much of Google's stuff as possible? Heck even better if they use Facebook, but that's another story...
The last I checked Google doesn't produce weapons. The Iran Gov can easily buy maps that are more accurate than google's (I've seen plenty of mislabelled buildings and stuff on Google Maps).
If brain-computer interfaces become common, tablet computers will probably go extinct - who needs a midsized screen when the screen appears in your mind, and you can share data/objects by just sending them to the recipient's brain-augmenter (like telepathy). Who needs touch-sensitive stuff, when you control stuff (including the environment via local/area services) by using thought-macros.
But I bet powerful non-portable personal computers will still be around - home servers to help you do "magic", store, backup and manipulate large amounts of data. Large fixed screens might still be used for aesthetics and for easy public view/sharing (note though there are already personal projectors, there's even some guy going around with a wearable computer and projector and some fancy software that recognizes hand gestures albeit tagged with coloured thimbles/fingertips;) ).
She says "Nope, no problem.", and now his conviction is overturned. Why did he spend two years in jail? Because of a technicality?
In two years, she'll be "in love" with someone new, and care less about the guy she was "in love" with two years ago. If you want to gamble your freedom on the fact that when a girl turns 18, she'll say "I still say it was consentual", I'd give you about a 10% chance that you'll see the freedom on that day. More than likely, she'll look back at it as a huge mistake, and how that the older guy took advantage of her.
Uh those are features not bugs. It's not supposed to encourage guys to go around fucking young girls. It's to still discourage them, and cater for the real world cases when "stuff happens".
You do it, you still have to go to jail for having sex with a minor. If a few years later she still thinks it wasn't rape despite pressure from the family, friends, having a new boyfriend etc then it's fair to say you didn't rape her. So why should you be punished for rape?
To me calling consensual sex rape, cheapens the meaning of rape. Maybe I'm wrong and we should ask some victims of "real rape", what do you think?
As for telling those guys to "just not sleep with them", there are still severe sentences for "child molestation" in most places.
Yeah I sometimes suspect all of that is cynical trolling for extra hits/posts. Maybe next time we should tag/comment such a story as "troll" or "spam". Then once that's done, don't bother with the "story".
The Linux developers themselves don't take "Desktop Linux" seriously.
After so many years they still can't get the graphics and audio foundations right. They can say all they want about OSS purity and it's the fault of the hardware people for not doing drivers right, and so on. But guess who makes it so hard for the driver makers? Make it harder than it has to be and the hardware people don't really care- the number of sales they lose is not really significant - even OS X has a bigger share than Desktop Linux.
"Server Linux" on the other hand seems to be a whole different story.
Even lacks in features. My current AMD/ATI card is faster than my prev Gigabyte Nvidia 9800GT (which died a premature death - Nvidia hardware reliability sucks, I got it replaced under warranty which took weeks, so I bought an ATI card- hopefully it'll last longer). But it doesn't support something Nvidia has had for a very long time - hotkeys to move windows to a different screen (nvidia calls that stuff nview). Perhaps I'd get that sort of thing if I went for their Eyefinity stuff, but if my ATI dies prematurely I'll probably be going back to Nvidia.
The following might be a VLC problem - I currently get video corruption/artifacts when I play video on VLC while having another VLC video paused. Maybe one day I'll swap in my Nvidia to see if it happens with that too, or maybe even try that with the onboard Intel graphics;).
The attackers will still succeed in targeting the sheep who will give the obvious answers to such "security" questions.
Worse - some sites have security questions that require a drop-down selection box for the security answers! Yep, only a few limited answers. DailyWTF contenders.
If it was consensual but statutory rape, maybe they should just jail the "rapist" till the "child" reaches legal age. Then if the now adult "victim" still thinks it's consensual and not rape, the "rapist" gets that charge wiped totally clean.
If the victim changes her/his mind and thinks it's rape or the "victim" is threatened the "rapist" gets the full rapist sentence.
Huh, just because people don't quit doesn't mean it isn't abuse. That's as stupid as saying that those abused women aren't abused just because they don't leave the abuser.
Just because some people are weaker doesn't mean it's right to take advantage of them.
The ones who are really strong are those who can also take good care of the weak.
Could the company just give each employee $1500 per year (or whatever) for hardware expenses, and let the people decide for themselves whether they want more memory, a bigger/second monitor, or whatever?
Yes but most employees don't want to decide on such stuff. Their work does not involve deciding what computer hardware to buy, buying it (and probably supporting it - returns and repairs).
Once a company gets bigger than a few people, it becomes more efficient to split up the work to specialists, so someone decides on the computer stuff, someone else does the accounts, another decides on "office supplies" (pens, paper etc), furniture and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
The one I remember was a Novell server (not unix).
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/10/1846258
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1824
Original techweb article now gone, but I'm sure you can find other references.
2% of the uninhabited Sahara is still a lot of land area to build on. The Sahara is about 9.4 million square kilometers in area. 94000 square km of panels is a 300 km x 300 km area. Yes it's doable but getting the power from that area to where it's used is also going to be hard.
In contrast the amount of area needed for nuclear powerplants and to store nuclear waste is much smaller. As long as you build modern design powerplants that don't blow up catastrophically when stuff happens, they'll do much less damage to the environment and you can put them closer to the places which need power.
That said, mining for uranium/thorium does damage the environment. Not sure how much.
Maybe you should do some research before making claims. AppArmor is included by default on Ubuntu and allows application level internet permissions. Granted, it is configured very liberally by default
Yeah, when I checked the firefox apparmor sandbox wasn't much of a sandbox.
An apparmor sandbox that's configured very liberally by default is not like ZoneAlarm and other similar software that make companies $$$ by scaring their users (whether rightfully or wrongfully).
Yeah. The same users on a "Desktop Linux" (or even OSX) system would be happy to "perl bunnies", "python snake", "ruby jewels" or even chmod 755 sexy.jpg; ./sexy.jpg, and get just as pwned.
Uh they do take over Linux servers regularly. The architecture isn't better.
;).
As for desktops, if you somehow get Joe Schmoe to run an arbitrary executable[1] on either platform, Joe Schmoe's confidential data will be at risk, or his machine can be turned into a spam sending zombie. So no big difference. Whether the executable gets root/admin is irrelevant for many criminal purposes.
Linux servers tend to be more useful targets than Linux desktops. I also wonder whether there are more Linux servers than Linux desktops
[1] Doesn't have to be an executable in the chmod sense of the word- perl Makefile.PL on a malicious Makefile.PL will still get you screwed.
If everyone drove at 5kph, we'd lose a lot of our lives just to the high commute time alone.
stop trying so hard.
Many species have "proof of fitness" rites as part of mating rituals. Being able to spend 35K does show some sort of fitness ;).
sex isn't the mistake... paying for it with freedom is. you don't have to give away your liberty to have companionship and procreation.
You may see it as slavery, others see it as a token of their love.
Lots of people give up certain freedoms in order to play certain games. When you play soccer you choose to abide by the rules. Without the rules, there's no fun in the game. Yes you're not supposed to do certain things while playing the game that you can do freely when not playing the game. But there are millions of people who still find the game fun even though millions of others might not ;).
You don't like the game, don't play it. Others seem to like it, who are we to tell them not to play?
Or use stuff like rapidshare, megaupload etc.
You'll just be swapping one indoctrination for another.
;) ).
I doubt religion will die as long as humans are alive. If you believe animals (except for humans and their more recent ancestors) don't have religion, then clearly religion emerged in humans, outcompeted the default of "no religion" and has even thrived in the past thousands of years.
Yes there are a small minority of atheists, but most atheists don't appear to have much of an indoctrination, education and conversion plan (and so far such plans from atheists have been rather evil and negative in comparison to more benign religions). So how will the ratios increase?
Far more people while not being very religious, are not interested in getting rid of religion (they're more interested in music, TV, Farmville, money etc
And many seem to need to feel part of a Greater Thing. Whether it's religion or some "Greener than Thou movement", or a football team, or Star Trek. You take religion away from them, and something else will rush into the hole and look practically the same thing.
Cool thanks! Hope it works. I think much has been changed since- a lot of the ATI/AMD stuff needs .Net now.
;).
There's a huge version number difference between the one I found with google (and their search) and the one in the "optional downloads".
I guess writing such software might be like painting the golden gate bridge, by the time you're "done", Microsoft/KDE etc changes enough stuff so you'd have to do it again for the new OS/version
In your experience does it work well (crashing etc?)? I see complaints about it only working with some stuff: http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=119851
I'm somehow inclined to believe the complaints :). I'm also having difficulty finding the mythical more up to date version (that's mentioned in that thread) of Hydravision on AMD which works with more apps despite looking in:
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx
In my experience Nview works with chrome etc, it only has problems moving "full screen" stuff to another screen, but can I understand why that might not be supported (except it makes showing powerpoint viewer stuff on a different monitor difficult). Nview has been around since 2002 or so, so I guess they've had time to figure stuff out :).
Wouldn't the US Gov want the Iran Gov (and their friends) to be using as much of Google's stuff as possible? Heck even better if they use Facebook, but that's another story...
The last I checked Google doesn't produce weapons. The Iran Gov can easily buy maps that are more accurate than google's (I've seen plenty of mislabelled buildings and stuff on Google Maps).
If brain-computer interfaces become common, tablet computers will probably go extinct - who needs a midsized screen when the screen appears in your mind, and you can share data/objects by just sending them to the recipient's brain-augmenter (like telepathy). Who needs touch-sensitive stuff, when you control stuff (including the environment via local/area services) by using thought-macros.
;) ).
But I bet powerful non-portable personal computers will still be around - home servers to help you do "magic", store, backup and manipulate large amounts of data. Large fixed screens might still be used for aesthetics and for easy public view/sharing (note though there are already personal projectors, there's even some guy going around with a wearable computer and projector and some fancy software that recognizes hand gestures albeit tagged with coloured thimbles/fingertips
I had more than one Nvidia video card failing on me after less than 2 years. In the past Nvidia were OK.
This might be because of a manufacturing problem:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1004378/why-nvidia-chips-defective
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-GPU-failure,6248.html
The latter link emphasizes notebooks, but there's no reason why desktop chips wouldn't be affected.
FWIW, I was already aware of this, that's why I picked a Gigabyte 9800GT with a 3 year warranty.
They should have fixed the problem by now... But who knows ;).
She says "Nope, no problem.", and now his conviction is overturned. Why did he spend two years in jail? Because of a technicality?
In two years, she'll be "in love" with someone new, and care less about the guy she was "in love" with two years ago. If you want to gamble your freedom on the fact that when a girl turns 18, she'll say "I still say it was consentual", I'd give you about a 10% chance that you'll see the freedom on that day. More than likely, she'll look back at it as a huge
mistake, and how that the older guy took advantage of her.
Uh those are features not bugs. It's not supposed to encourage guys to go around fucking young girls. It's to still discourage them, and cater for the real world cases when "stuff happens".
You do it, you still have to go to jail for having sex with a minor. If a few years later she still thinks it wasn't rape despite pressure from the family, friends, having a new boyfriend etc then it's fair to say you didn't rape her. So why should you be punished for rape?
To me calling consensual sex rape, cheapens the meaning of rape. Maybe I'm wrong and we should ask some victims of "real rape", what do you think?
As for telling those guys to "just not sleep with them", there are still severe sentences for "child molestation" in most places.
Yeah I sometimes suspect all of that is cynical trolling for extra hits/posts. Maybe next time we should tag/comment such a story as "troll" or "spam". Then once that's done, don't bother with the "story".
The Linux developers themselves don't take "Desktop Linux" seriously.
After so many years they still can't get the graphics and audio foundations right. They can say all they want about OSS purity and it's the fault of the hardware people for not doing drivers right, and so on. But guess who makes it so hard for the driver makers? Make it harder than it has to be and the hardware people don't really care- the number of sales they lose is not really significant - even OS X has a bigger share than Desktop Linux.
"Server Linux" on the other hand seems to be a whole different story.
Even lacks in features. My current AMD/ATI card is faster than my prev Gigabyte Nvidia 9800GT (which died a premature death - Nvidia hardware reliability sucks, I got it replaced under warranty which took weeks, so I bought an ATI card- hopefully it'll last longer). But it doesn't support something Nvidia has had for a very long time - hotkeys to move windows to a different screen (nvidia calls that stuff nview). Perhaps I'd get that sort of thing if I went for their Eyefinity stuff, but if my ATI dies prematurely I'll probably be going back to Nvidia.
;).
The following might be a VLC problem - I currently get video corruption/artifacts when I play video on VLC while having another VLC video paused. Maybe one day I'll swap in my Nvidia to see if it happens with that too, or maybe even try that with the onboard Intel graphics
The attackers will still succeed in targeting the sheep who will give the obvious answers to such "security" questions.
Worse - some sites have security questions that require a drop-down selection box for the security answers! Yep, only a few limited answers. DailyWTF contenders.
If it was consensual but statutory rape, maybe they should just jail the "rapist" till the "child" reaches legal age. Then if the now adult "victim" still thinks it's consensual and not rape, the "rapist" gets that charge wiped totally clean.
If the victim changes her/his mind and thinks it's rape or the "victim" is threatened the "rapist" gets the full rapist sentence.
AMD's closed source drivers on windows suck too.
Yeah the father needs a gigabit backbone.
Dishonest? He's willing to commit on his prediction.
Are the others willing to commit on their predictions? If they aren't then why should we commit the economies of the world on their predictions?
Can't say 10 years is too short and on the other hand say we are causing significant global warming.
Huh, just because people don't quit doesn't mean it isn't abuse. That's as stupid as saying that those abused women aren't abused just because they don't leave the abuser.
Just because some people are weaker doesn't mean it's right to take advantage of them.
The ones who are really strong are those who can also take good care of the weak.
Could the company just give each employee $1500 per year (or whatever) for hardware expenses, and let the people decide for themselves whether they want more memory, a bigger/second monitor, or whatever?
Yes but most employees don't want to decide on such stuff. Their work does not involve deciding what computer hardware to buy, buying it (and probably supporting it - returns and repairs).
Once a company gets bigger than a few people, it becomes more efficient to split up the work to specialists, so someone decides on the computer stuff, someone else does the accounts, another decides on "office supplies" (pens, paper etc), furniture and so on.