Religion has absolutely no place in science. When religion gets the chance, as has been shown again and again, it tries to tell us unscientific facts about the world. To say that religion doesn't make any claims about the physical world is either false, or produces a religion with nothing in it.
Can't we just outgrow fairy tales as a way to explain the world already?
Actually, at least in Sweden, it seems that 6 weeks of vacation per year is starting to become the norm in the I.T. industry. But that's usually to compensate for no overtime. Anyhow, a good bet if you want time to travel.
Is that so bad? Shareware would probably not cover their development costs, and 10$ is a small sum most everybody would be able to afford... Can't really see the problem with their approach.
A functional language would be my first choice, definitely teaches you to think about programming in a different way from all those procedural and oo-languages.
I vote for haskell, www.haskell.org, it's a beautiful language.
Prompting for a license key upon installation could be ok, since most users are used to that hassle anyway (though it's still a hassle).
"Phoning home" should never be done. Keep in mind that internet connection isn't flawless, sometimes it doesn't work for one reason or another, and would you really want to get a bunch of angry customers mailing/calling you when the software won't work/install because their internet connections went down for a while. On top of that, if your main user base is business users, most of them will sit in a protected environment which probably won't let your program phone home even if it tries.
This is just an aside from the real problem with programs "phoning home", though. Integrity and privacy should not be taken ligthly.
Great Britain _really_ wants to become air strip one... (CCTV everywhere, registration of number plates of every car, all the time, and now this.) I just don't get it, has none of their politicans read 1984? If not, they probably should. Even though I don't live in GB, this is scary since the current swedish justice minister applauds every step in this direction taken by GB, and he is quick to propose new laws. In fact, so quick that the review process for proposals for new laws has ben swamped. Scary.
If you have a palm pilot, i can recommend Weasel Reader. I've been using it for a couple of years on my Palm V, and despite its small screen size it works perfectly for reading ebooks.
When quake first was released, i didn't want to use the mouse, only the keyboard. However, after doing the shoot-strafe-left-look-down maneuver one time too many, i decided to switch to mouse... (shoot-strafe-left-look-down = ctrl, alt(gr), left arrow, delete)
When will this new routing protocol be in the main freenet releases? As far as I can tell, it isn't in 0.5.2... Or does anyone know of a way to download and test a version that includes NGRouting?
...but I don't think so. The RIAA & co. wouldn't be interested, beacuse they would not understad the concept. Believe me, they _never_ understand the concepts of new innovations. Since they will not understand it, they will boycott it and try to ban it.
Geeks wouldn't want to install something that surely will be delivered with a 1096-page EULA stating that Honest Thief can do whatever they please with your CPU, whenever they please, and that they may close your account when they feel like it.
And Joe Sixpack couldn't use it either, because his ISP would ban this bandwith hog.
That's just the way it is, and I am _not_ pessimistic.
Steganography would be more precisely defined as "information hiding". It doesn't require that it is impossible to find the data hidden, but it tries to conceal the existence of the data. Cryptography on the other hand does not try to try to hide the existence of information, it just tries to hide what message is embedded in that information. Cryptography != Steganography, but they can be used in conjunction.
The xbox is probably cheaper than most other PC-based boxes, and with a modchip installed (total cost for xbox+modchip about $250) you can install Xbox Media Player on it.
I have used it for a couple of months now, works like a charm for playing dvds, divx, xvid, mp3 etc.
Check it out!
Like it's not enough already with all the billboards that companies can buy to bombard us with ads all the time... Do they have to _steal_ public space to imprint their messages in our brains now?
Fewer ads would in fewer places would be a good thing, not more ads everywhere.
Exactly _why_ would Linux be "the perfect environment for a rouge program to set up its own little SMTP server"?
If you know some windows programming, it isn't any harder to do in Windows than in Linux.
Anyway, you might have a point. Just don't know if it's valid, that's all.
About serving web pages from an atari, I've been planning to do just that, setting up a webserver on my old Atari 1040 STe.
Does anyone here know of any good places to get a network card for an old atari (preferably with ethernet), and/or any good s/w to get net connectivity in an atari?
Ouch! This is the second time in a week i've been burned (had to do extra work) by security flaws found in Microsoft programs. I've been thinking about the need for a standards organization, or certification authority, for some time now. The question is; how would you set up such an organization, and would you trust it? An analogy: All of the major e-commerce sites on the web today buys their SSL certificate from one of the big CA:s, VeriSign for one, because that's a trusted entity. Wouldn't big progam houses be interested in getting their applications branded "Secure" by a likewise trusted authority? (think CERT) My guess is yes. Microsoft, for example, would benefit (at least in large, mission critical installations) from having their source code audited and confirmed by a third party. When we have open source, most problems are found early (many eyeballs make shallow bugs) but not all. Think of the Wuftpd exploit last month. Is there, perhaps, even a need for an open security auditing organization?
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So, what's Elaine Ecklund's religion?
Religion has absolutely no place in science. When religion gets the chance, as has been shown again and again, it tries to tell us unscientific facts about the world.
To say that religion doesn't make any claims about the physical world is either false, or produces a religion with nothing in it.
Can't we just outgrow fairy tales as a way to explain the world already?
Heard of BitTorrent?
That's what I thought the article was about when I read the headline...
And every time I see something like this I think "Oh how I hate those stupid americans"!
Seriously, stop destroying our world.
Actually, at least in Sweden, it seems that 6 weeks of vacation per year is starting to become the norm in the I.T. industry. But that's usually to compensate for no overtime. Anyhow, a good bet if you want time to travel.
Thank God!
So?
Is that so bad? Shareware would probably not cover their development costs, and 10$ is a small sum most everybody would be able to afford...
Can't really see the problem with their approach.
I actually think his not so futuristic fiction is better than the pure scifi...
I recommend The Business and Espedair street, great books both of them.
A functional language would be my first choice, definitely teaches you to think about programming in a different way from all those procedural and oo-languages.
I vote for haskell, www.haskell.org, it's a beautiful language.
Using google currency converter:
129 USD In SEK:
129 U.S. dollars = 828.979584 Swedish kronor
and the list price for apple store sweden:
1.195,00
hmm
1195 SEK in USD:
1 195 Swedish kronor = 185.957535 U.S. dollars
So thats a 56$ premium. I don't think so.
Congrats, apple. You just won a pirated copy of Leopard!
Prompting for a license key upon installation could be ok, since most users are used to that hassle anyway (though it's still a hassle).
"Phoning home" should never be done. Keep in mind that internet connection isn't flawless, sometimes it doesn't work for one reason or another, and would you really want to get a bunch of angry customers mailing/calling you when the software won't work/install because their internet connections went down for a while.
On top of that, if your main user base is business users, most of them will sit in a protected environment which probably won't let your program phone home even if it tries.
This is just an aside from the real problem with programs "phoning home", though. Integrity and privacy should not be taken ligthly.
Great Britain _really_ wants to become air strip one... (CCTV everywhere, registration of number plates of every car, all the time, and now this.)
I just don't get it, has none of their politicans read 1984? If not, they probably should.
Even though I don't live in GB, this is scary since the current swedish justice minister applauds every step in this direction taken by GB, and he is quick to propose new laws.
In fact, so quick that the review process for proposals for new laws has ben swamped.
Scary.
If you have a palm pilot, i can recommend Weasel Reader.
I've been using it for a couple of years on my Palm V, and despite its small screen size it works perfectly for reading ebooks.
When quake first was released, i didn't want to use the mouse, only the keyboard. However, after doing the shoot-strafe-left-look-down maneuver one time too many, i decided to switch to mouse... (shoot-strafe-left-look-down = ctrl, alt(gr), left arrow, delete)
When will this new routing protocol be in the main freenet releases? As far as I can tell, it isn't in 0.5.2... Or does anyone know of a way to download and test a version that includes NGRouting?
The most important thing when selling mp3s (apart from price) is the bitrate. As longas its 192 kbps or higher i would pay, otherwise no way.
Well, duh!
;)
Install Debian, of course
Good troll there, mr. anonymous...
Now go play somewhere else.
...but I don't think so. The RIAA & co. wouldn't be interested, beacuse they would not understad the concept. Believe me, they _never_ understand the concepts of new innovations.
Since they will not understand it, they will boycott it and try to ban it.
Geeks wouldn't want to install something that surely will be delivered with a 1096-page EULA stating that Honest Thief can do whatever they please with your CPU, whenever they please, and that they may close your account when they feel like it.
And Joe Sixpack couldn't use it either, because his ISP would ban this bandwith hog.
That's just the way it is, and I am _not_ pessimistic.
Steganography would be more precisely defined as "information hiding". It doesn't require that it is impossible to find the data hidden, but it tries to conceal the existence of the data.
Cryptography on the other hand does not try to try to hide the existence of information, it just tries to hide what message is embedded in that information.
Cryptography != Steganography, but they can be used in conjunction.
The xbox is probably cheaper than most other PC-based boxes, and with a modchip installed (total cost for xbox+modchip about $250) you can install Xbox Media Player on it.
I have used it for a couple of months now, works like a charm for playing dvds, divx, xvid, mp3 etc.
Check it out!
Yeah!
Like it's not enough already with all the billboards that companies can buy to bombard us with ads all the time... Do they have to _steal_ public space to imprint their messages in our brains now?
Fewer ads would in fewer places would be a good thing, not more ads everywhere.
Exactly _why_ would Linux be "the perfect environment for a rouge program to set up its own little SMTP server"?
If you know some windows programming, it isn't any harder to do in Windows than in Linux.
Anyway, you might have a point. Just don't know if it's valid, that's all.
About serving web pages from an atari, I've been planning to do just that, setting up a webserver on my old Atari 1040 STe.
Does anyone here know of any good places to get a network card for an old atari (preferably with ethernet), and/or any good s/w to get net connectivity in an atari?
Ouch!
This is the second time in a week i've been burned (had to do extra work) by security flaws found in Microsoft programs.
I've been thinking about the need for a standards organization, or certification authority, for some time now. The question is; how would you set up such an organization, and would you trust it?
An analogy: All of the major e-commerce sites on the web today buys their SSL certificate from one of the big CA:s, VeriSign for one, because that's a trusted entity.
Wouldn't big progam houses be interested in getting their applications branded "Secure" by a likewise trusted authority? (think CERT) My guess is yes. Microsoft, for example, would benefit (at least in large, mission critical installations) from having their source code audited and confirmed by a third party.
When we have open source, most problems are found early (many eyeballs make shallow bugs) but not all. Think of the Wuftpd exploit last month. Is there, perhaps, even a need for an open security auditing organization?