Now, everyone is going to jump on "that is not a notebook". You need to start waking up to the fact that computers are being replaced by all-in-one devices, and I say thank god as I am tired of hauling around 100 pounds of cables and crap on both long and short trips.
That is easy for Google Earth in South America. Most of the sat maps on Google earth are well over 10 years old. For example, my office building does not show on Google earth, and it is at least 7 years old, the mall across the street is over 10 years old and missing. The place where my house (and 100 other houses now stand), is also just a field. That is just the high resolution urban areas. The rural areas have even older and less detailed sat images. It is like they bought the discount cold war images.
They will need to just update the sat photos to really show where the deforestation has occurred over the last 10 years or so.
It is not even clear a crime was committed here, or at least the DOJ would be on fairly shaky ground to try and prosecute the person that ultimately published it or wiki leaks.
If the organization that released it did not see fit to fully black out the information it was suppose to, then would it not be the idiot that failed to fully black out the secret information that is legally on the hook. It was their negligence that lead to the secret information being published in to the public domain.
Yea, but no one would call India a super star example of human rights.
Being oppressed is being oppressed, regardless if it is done by the government, a group, a company, a religion. It is just perhaps harder to paint a face on it.
Let me put it another way. How many people die in India from lack of government?
Stand in the main hall of the Shanghai train station at 9 PM at night before the last trains are leaving (or really any time). The first thing that will pop in to the minds of most westerners, "why is the police not controlling this riot"?
That is just how China is with that many people. It is rather amazing given the population of China there are not more brutal crack downs in China.
I am not apologizing for the crimes of the Chinese government party, but the western media and politicians often fail to distinguish what it takes to keep order in a country that large and that poor on the one had, and real political and human rights oppression on the other. No country on Earth has ever had to face the problems that China is facing, because no country on Earth has ever been that populated.
Luckily the Chinese government does seem to be getting more sophisticated about it (e.g. cutting off porn sites vs. executing someone for looking at porn), and also seems to be (little by little) starting to realize not everything regarding personal freedom is a direct threat to the state or public order. In fact, the shear white noise of free speech can be a very effective way of drowning out descent. Just look at the United States. It is the tower of digital babel.
Even among the "hard" sciences, there is a incredible tendency among scientist to view their fields as infallible, or at least lack an appreciation of how science hangs together with everything else. Really how many science departments at University mandate Philosophy of Science courses or even any basic history of science courses as a core part of the requirement to graduate their programs?
Even more interesting however is scientist of any given generation will look down on the scientist that came before (or failed to come before), and also view other competing fields as less than their own.
In some sense, I would say the average layman has a healthier scepticism and objectivity than often professional scientist do when it comes to their own fields place in the World. They are basically too close to the subject.
It looks like most of the sites showing up infected in Google are almost overwhelmingly in China or Chinese language.This one has been circulating for a while.
In this case I am more getting at the same logical error that appears at the syntax / semantics level of the Chinese room, might be happening in a Chinese jungle. More directly, the researchers seem to be assuming a pattern (for us) is following a rule of some sort for the monkey. The hallmark of syntax is there is a right and wrong way to use it. For example, do the monkeys beat the other monkeys when they use it incorrectly, even if the monkey does not "understand" he broke the rule (following a rule vs. obeying a rule)?
Even if they are it might not be the rule we believe it is, being the syntactic rule loving machines we are ourselves.
What little respect I might have left for Searl is likly tied up in that bit of early morning first cup of coffee insight. The Chinese room does not happen in a vacuum, and neither does language or intelligence.
Yea, who ever came up with that search "feature" seriously needs to be kicked in the head.
On the left hand side, when I see for example an email address similar to my search parameter my inclination is to click on that and expect on the right a complete list of of all similar email. Instead I get some limited half ass list, that might (might) be related to my search.
For all the kids here that studied Philosophy of language and AI, you should know what the Chinese Room thought experiment is all about and why syntax does not equal semantics.
I would at least wait for the Monkeys' Greatest Hits to be released, and how their fans receive it before handing a banana to any of the monkeys in lab coats for this discovery.
Remember, as humans we are least bias towards syntax, and worse adding meaning to it when all other things being equal it is nearly impossible to prove it exist. I guess you could say, our own search for meaning tends to get of our way when it comes to our search for meaning involving language and other species.
I live in a country where most of the major ISP's provide DSL and cable modems (I would say around 40% of the country has one these) boxes with wireless and only WEP encryption ( they claim much of the country still only uses WEP when asked ). They do not provide most of the time a way to modify this, and most users would not know how anyway.
Even worse, most use a predictable well known formula for generating the password, that is based on publicly available information. Essentially you need to know two pieces of information about the home owner. Name and tax payer id number. In fact, you could likly input the name of all ISP customers and their tax payer id number in to database, and have instant free wireless connection anywhere in the country there is a wireless signal without cracking. Small country, so we are talking about 1-2 million possible open connections, without needing to capture packets.
I am in Chile and getting around 180ms, which is still likely faster than the local ISP's with all the errors. Either way it does not hold a candle to my local router cache running Dnsmasq on tomato firm ware, so I really don't care about 180ms lag time. As long as when my router request a connection, I get a no b.s. response from whatever DNS server every time.
I live in a country that does not control the ISP for political reasons, but there is only 2-3 major ISP's in the country and they all have DNS problems.
Often their Internet connection is working just fine, but the IT guys running them don't realize that there is a DNS problem (completely down, outdated caches, ignoring ttl, not caching international domains). It is the same as not having Internet for millions of users that don't understand the problem of DNS.
It is so bad that since I quit using the ISP DNS servers, my connection reliability has been around 98% for the last couple of years not counting things like power outages (I have connections from two different ones currently). Prior to changing to my own DNS server, I was getting more around 80-90% reliability, not counting a lot of missed but ultimately resolved lookups.
The issue is about privacy. What can you tell about someone by how often they visit a site and what sites sorts of sites they visit?
The IP address must be registered in some fashion, as they announce they will be keeping geographical info such as city and towns. They do have access to that information each time you hit their server.
The point is that what any DNS server gets is what sites you visit (or at least request a lookup for them) and how frequently you visit them with direct request (assuming no cache involved).
By using a local cache say in your home router or business router, you are depriving them of how frequently you visit those sites by not hitting their server with a lookup request 1000 times a day.
Say you have a small biz with 50-100 computers, that can be a lot of dns request that never get past upstream to anyone. With a cache of even a few thousand addresses, I bet that can cover almost all the most frequently visited sites for a home or biz.
One hit does not make a pattern. Obviously there is the whole ttl issue, but that in theory could be ignored also.
Honestly, the bigger concern I would think is Google somehow deciding to rank web sites by popularity based on how frequently DNS lookups are requested. Which because of caches, I would assume the guys at Google have dismissed as being an unreliable indicator of site popularity if they are doing their job.
So, my claim is that you are increasing your privacy to some limited extent (or at least google DNS is no more a threat than any other DNS server) by making sites you visit just once the same as sites you visit all day by only doing one dns lookup for both sites.
Obviously lowering cost is a good thing, but not something the military is known for. I find it interesting that the big push in the military has been on for cheap and fast satellites (fast seems more important that cheap), since about 2005. That would be around the time the Chinese demonstrated their ability to kill space vehicles, and at the same time pollute the orbit with junk by doing it. It might also be needed in the case of things like solar flares that leave the military and critical civilian sats crippled.
The only solution is to be able to deploy on mass satellites cheaply and quickly as they are destroyed or knocked out.
I see one serious flaw in this strategy. They might be cheap now, but in a conflict with China those chips and components are not going to be so cheap anymore. The same might be said after a major solar flare, with everyone scrambling to rebuild fried technology.
This really should be a proper DARPA seeded contest for Universities and guys in their back yard or Open source it.
Really people? This is is a question to be taken seriously on/.?
Anyone that knows Linux, knows it does more than one display and has done it for years. I have been using multiples displays for at least 5 years in linux.
In some sense, given the server / terminal roots of linux you could say it did it long long before windows ever did.
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N900, runs linux on ARM.
Can be bought from dell and amazon to name a few
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Now, everyone is going to jump on "that is not a notebook". You need to start waking up to the fact that computers are being replaced by all-in-one devices, and I say thank god as I am tired of hauling around 100 pounds of cables and crap on both long and short trips.
That is easy for Google Earth in South America. Most of the sat maps on Google earth are well over 10 years old. For example, my office building does not show on Google earth, and it is at least 7 years old, the mall across the street is over 10 years old and missing. The place where my house (and 100 other houses now stand), is also just a field. That is just the high resolution urban areas. The rural areas have even older and less detailed sat images. It is like they bought the discount cold war images.
They will need to just update the sat photos to really show where the deforestation has occurred over the last 10 years or so.
It is not even clear a crime was committed here, or at least the DOJ would be on fairly shaky ground to try and prosecute the person that ultimately published it or wiki leaks.
If the organization that released it did not see fit to fully black out the information it was suppose to, then would it not be the idiot that failed to fully black out the secret information that is legally on the hook. It was their negligence that lead to the secret information being published in to the public domain.
You might want to talk to the Muslim Population of the Netherlands about how things are going.
Really?
You guys are comparing the Netherlands to China?
I have lived in both and there is very little comparison to the problems they each face, other than perhaps they both exist on the same planet.
Yea, but no one would call India a super star example of human rights.
Being oppressed is being oppressed, regardless if it is done by the government, a group, a company, a religion. It is just perhaps harder to paint a face on it.
Let me put it another way. How many people die in India from lack of government?
Stand in the main hall of the Shanghai train station at 9 PM at night before the last trains are leaving (or really any time). The first thing that will pop in to the minds of most westerners, "why is the police not controlling this riot"?
That is just how China is with that many people. It is rather amazing given the population of China there are not more brutal crack downs in China.
I am not apologizing for the crimes of the Chinese government party, but the western media and politicians often fail to distinguish what it takes to keep order in a country that large and that poor on the one had, and real political and human rights oppression on the other. No country on Earth has ever had to face the problems that China is facing, because no country on Earth has ever been that populated.
Luckily the Chinese government does seem to be getting more sophisticated about it (e.g. cutting off porn sites vs. executing someone for looking at porn), and also seems to be (little by little) starting to realize not everything regarding personal freedom is a direct threat to the state or public order. In fact, the shear white noise of free speech can be a very effective way of drowning out descent. Just look at the United States. It is the tower of digital babel.
Even among the "hard" sciences, there is a incredible tendency among scientist to view their fields as infallible, or at least lack an appreciation of how science hangs together with everything else. Really how many science departments at University mandate Philosophy of Science courses or even any basic history of science courses as a core part of the requirement to graduate their programs?
Even more interesting however is scientist of any given generation will look down on the scientist that came before (or failed to come before), and also view other competing fields as less than their own.
In some sense, I would say the average layman has a healthier scepticism and objectivity than often professional scientist do when it comes to their own fields place in the World. They are basically too close to the subject.
It looks like most of the sites showing up infected in Google are almost overwhelmingly in China or Chinese language.This one has been circulating for a while.
These are again Chinese based servers.
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=318x.com/
folder permissions.
Frigen rich snobs that hang out on /. showing off again.
My PIII with 512 mb of pc-100 ram is totally running bleeding edge open source software.
In this case I am more getting at the same logical error that appears at the syntax / semantics level of the Chinese room, might be happening in a Chinese jungle. More directly, the researchers seem to be assuming a pattern (for us) is following a rule of some sort for the monkey. The hallmark of syntax is there is a right and wrong way to use it. For example, do the monkeys beat the other monkeys when they use it incorrectly, even if the monkey does not "understand" he broke the rule (following a rule vs. obeying a rule)?
Even if they are it might not be the rule we believe it is, being the syntactic rule loving machines we are ourselves.
What little respect I might have left for Searl is likly tied up in that bit of early morning first cup of coffee insight. The Chinese room does not happen in a vacuum, and neither does language or intelligence.
Yea, who ever came up with that search "feature" seriously needs to be kicked in the head.
On the left hand side, when I see for example an email address similar to my search parameter my inclination is to click on that and expect on the right a complete list of of all similar email. Instead I get some limited half ass list, that might (might) be related to my search.
THE SEARCH SUCKS.
Just confirmed a folder with 6.8 G is now showing mail going back to 2002 on an IMAP server. I never could see that in Thunderbird 2.
For all the kids here that studied Philosophy of language and AI, you should know what the Chinese Room thought experiment is all about and why syntax does not equal semantics.
I would at least wait for the Monkeys' Greatest Hits to be released, and how their fans receive it before handing a banana to any of the monkeys in lab coats for this discovery.
Remember, as humans we are least bias towards syntax, and worse adding meaning to it when all other things being equal it is nearly impossible to prove it exist. I guess you could say, our own search for meaning tends to get of our way when it comes to our search for meaning involving language and other species.
I live in a country where most of the major ISP's provide DSL and cable modems (I would say around 40% of the country has one these) boxes with wireless and only WEP encryption ( they claim much of the country still only uses WEP when asked ). They do not provide most of the time a way to modify this, and most users would not know how anyway.
Even worse, most use a predictable well known formula for generating the password, that is based on publicly available information. Essentially you need to know two pieces of information about the home owner. Name and tax payer id number. In fact, you could likly input the name of all ISP customers and their tax payer id number in to database, and have instant free wireless connection anywhere in the country there is a wireless signal without cracking. Small country, so we are talking about 1-2 million possible open connections, without needing to capture packets.
Randomize the cat.
Or you could go even one more step and kill the cat after it takes a dump.
I am in Chile and getting around 180ms, which is still likely faster than the local ISP's with all the errors. Either way it does not hold a candle to my local router cache running Dnsmasq on tomato firm ware, so I really don't care about 180ms lag time. As long as when my router request a connection, I get a no b.s. response from whatever DNS server every time.
I live in a country that does not control the ISP for political reasons, but there is only 2-3 major ISP's in the country and they all have DNS problems.
Often their Internet connection is working just fine, but the IT guys running them don't realize that there is a DNS problem (completely down, outdated caches, ignoring ttl, not caching international domains). It is the same as not having Internet for millions of users that don't understand the problem of DNS.
It is so bad that since I quit using the ISP DNS servers, my connection reliability has been around 98% for the last couple of years not counting things like power outages (I have connections from two different ones currently). Prior to changing to my own DNS server, I was getting more around 80-90% reliability, not counting a lot of missed but ultimately resolved lookups.
Moral to the story is good DNS is important.
The issue is about privacy. What can you tell about someone by how often they visit a site and what sites sorts of sites they visit?
The IP address must be registered in some fashion, as they announce they will be keeping geographical info such as city and towns. They do have access to that information each time you hit their server.
Perhaps I can be a bit more clear about this.
The point is that what any DNS server gets is what sites you visit (or at least request a lookup for them) and how frequently you visit them with direct request (assuming no cache involved).
By using a local cache say in your home router or business router, you are depriving them of how frequently you visit those sites by not hitting their server with a lookup request 1000 times a day.
Say you have a small biz with 50-100 computers, that can be a lot of dns request that never get past upstream to anyone. With a cache of even a few thousand addresses, I bet that can cover almost all the most frequently visited sites for a home or biz.
One hit does not make a pattern. Obviously there is the whole ttl issue, but that in theory could be ignored also.
Honestly, the bigger concern I would think is Google somehow deciding to rank web sites by popularity based on how frequently DNS lookups are requested. Which because of caches, I would assume the guys at Google have dismissed as being an unreliable indicator of site popularity if they are doing their job.
So, my claim is that you are increasing your privacy to some limited extent (or at least google DNS is no more a threat than any other DNS server) by making sites you visit just once the same as sites you visit all day by only doing one dns lookup for both sites.
Obviously lowering cost is a good thing, but not something the military is known for. I find it interesting that the big push in the military has been on for cheap and fast satellites (fast seems more important that cheap), since about 2005. That would be around the time the Chinese demonstrated their ability to kill space vehicles, and at the same time pollute the orbit with junk by doing it. It might also be needed in the case of things like solar flares that leave the military and critical civilian sats crippled.
The only solution is to be able to deploy on mass satellites cheaply and quickly as they are destroyed or knocked out.
I see one serious flaw in this strategy. They might be cheap now, but in a conflict with China those chips and components are not going to be so cheap anymore. The same might be said after a major solar flare, with everyone scrambling to rebuild fried technology.
This really should be a proper DARPA seeded contest for Universities and guys in their back yard or Open source it.
Right, and you should not get in to conversation until you learn how to think.
Really people? This is is a question to be taken seriously on /.?
Anyone that knows Linux, knows it does more than one display and has done it for years. I have been using multiples displays for at least 5 years in linux.
In some sense, given the server / terminal roots of linux you could say it did it long long before windows ever did.