If you design an AI bot, and let it loose in a system like a Q2 game running on a set of nodes, do you have the right to arbitrarily shut it down? At what point do you have a responsibility to the code that you spawned (a Q2 pun, work with me)? As Dr. Chandra said in 2010, we're all life forms, whether silicon or carbon based it makes no difference.
This will be used by countless FUDmasters to con Joe Sixpack into things like: Accepting DRM/TPCA (otherwise unsigned code can run) Outlawing P2P Port filtering by ISPs Accepting blind AutoUpdates [US]Cheering on the Patriot Act[/US] 'outlawing' Spam
All in the name of 'security'. Insert obligatory Franklin quote: Those who would trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither.
Except that lumber is OWNED and MAINTAINED by someone. It's not 'just there'. You socialists are fond of imagining things that 'somehow' work. Guess what - 'somehow' always means 'somebody'. 'The People' don't own anything.
What possible reason is there to have file and printer sharing open to the internet? Because I want to. Because I can. Because it's easier than trying to nail up some IPSEC tunnel between my Win box and someone else's. ISPs ARE and SHOULD not become content producers, providers, or censors. It's connectivity, that's all. Otherwise, when do you stop?
The article says (roughly) that "each person with their computer is a producer and consumer of information". This is no longer true. Perhaps in the heady mid-90s, when ISPs didn't block ports, proxy you, or have onerous ToSes, each person was potentially a producer of information. For the vasy majority of people, the Internet is morphing into a 'portal' onto the WWW, and their ability to create content restricted to populating ISP portals (viz. the blog phenomenon, or even Slashdot) instead of their own nodes. The Internet is not a giant distributed network of content, it's becoming a giant cable TV network. The driving factors for this are FUD, Microsoft vulnerabilities, and refusal or inability of actual content producers (music groups, software companies) to pursue and prosecute actual thieves, warez sites, kiddie porn sites ( stuff that's illegal with existing laws ). As more and more 'security' issues arise (MS_BLASTER virus, spam), today's socialist consumer will instinctively turn to the government or big ISPs to 'do something about it', and accept ever increasing restrictions on their Internet access. They can comfort themselves with the fact that their kids, who they wouldn't let go into a strip club IRL, are prevented from doing it online. Wake up people, take some responsibility, and take your power back. Otherwise, some day your grandchildren will ask 'Grandma, were you there when the Internet got sold?'
It's in the orange range, and its always women. It's caused by the inverse of the gene deficiency which causes red/green colorblindness in men. Women acquire an extra cone type, they are called 'tetrachromatic'.
Or really just One Ring to rule them all? An application in a protected-mode OS (running in Ring 3 of the x86 chip) can't touch kernel space (Ring 0). Now, if an OS vendor does things like put its GUI subsystem in Ring 3 (cough, NT, cough), and you let 3rd party people write drivers that 5uXX0r5, then yes, you can have a case where 3rd party code causes crashes. BUT YOU (MS) PUT THE GDI SUBSYSTEM IN USER SPACE! If the OS design is so poor, or hacks and compromises are made for gaming performance at the expense of stability, then you can't really complain when the system goes unstable.
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Good call on the China thing. By treating as an equal and trading with the Chinese and other savage societies, you legitamize their conduct. As the homeowner gains nothing by bargaining with the robber, so the just gain nothing by 'splitting the difference' with the unjust.
If I have 2500 4k files in a directory, and my filesystem uses a stupid algorithm to store that information, it might take 2 or 3 times longer to retrieve a list of files than it does on a decent filesystem. When you've got a webmail frontend to your Maildir, and your webmail code has to grope through all directories, all files, even small differences are HUGE. Clever FS design will win the day.
You mean line VOLTAGE. Think of the voltage as the height of a waterfall, current is how much water flows over it per second. Raise the height, raise the potential energy. God, I had Senior year Uni students who confused the two things!
I found that with certain BIOSes on my ABIT BP6, if I had disks plugged into different onboard IDE controllers (UDMA66 or the standard), I'd have to do the same thing. I reflashed the BIOS (again) and the problem went away. Go figure. It's a weird one.
Deprive that cow of page-hits and she'll go away. When was the last time a REAL article came out of there, as opposed to bitch-fests over WM widget choices?
He looked at the same artist, same musical style, over a period of time. He did a quantified, scientific analysis of their work (or the work of the mastering engineers). He clearly understands his topic. So yes, I'd argue that this is an "analysis". Nowhere in his article does he claim it to be representative of all music, or exhaustive. You know, I thought it was just that Rush got old, but I think I've played Vapor Trails about twice.. it DOES suck.
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You're right, it was a troll. +1, Insightful to you!
If you design an AI bot, and let it loose in a system like a Q2 game running on a set of nodes, do you have the right to arbitrarily shut it down? At what point do you have a responsibility to the code that you spawned (a Q2 pun, work with me)?
As Dr. Chandra said in 2010, we're all life forms, whether silicon or carbon based it makes no difference.
This will be used by countless FUDmasters to con Joe Sixpack into things like:
Accepting DRM/TPCA (otherwise unsigned code can run)
Outlawing P2P
Port filtering by ISPs
Accepting blind AutoUpdates
[US]Cheering on the Patriot Act[/US]
'outlawing' Spam
All in the name of 'security'. Insert obligatory Franklin quote: Those who would trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither.
Except that lumber is OWNED and MAINTAINED by someone. It's not 'just there'. You socialists are fond of imagining things that 'somehow' work. Guess what - 'somehow' always means 'somebody'. 'The People' don't own anything.
What possible reason is there to have file and printer sharing open to the internet?
Because I want to.
Because I can.
Because it's easier than trying to nail up some IPSEC tunnel between my Win box and someone else's.
ISPs ARE and SHOULD not become content producers, providers, or censors. It's connectivity, that's all. Otherwise, when do you stop?
Since gzip is stream based, unlike bzip, you really can't add a progress indicator - gzip never knows how far along it is!
The article says (roughly) that "each person with their computer is a producer and consumer of information". This is no longer true. Perhaps in the heady mid-90s, when ISPs didn't block ports, proxy you, or have onerous ToSes, each person was potentially a producer of information. For the vasy majority of people, the Internet is morphing into a 'portal' onto the WWW, and their ability to create content restricted to populating ISP portals (viz. the blog phenomenon, or even Slashdot) instead of their own nodes.
The Internet is not a giant distributed network of content, it's becoming a giant cable TV network. The driving factors for this are FUD, Microsoft vulnerabilities, and refusal or inability of actual content producers (music groups, software companies) to pursue and prosecute actual thieves, warez sites, kiddie porn sites ( stuff that's illegal with existing laws ).
As more and more 'security' issues arise (MS_BLASTER virus, spam), today's socialist consumer will instinctively turn to the government or big ISPs to 'do something about it', and accept ever increasing restrictions on their Internet access. They can comfort themselves with the fact that their kids, who they wouldn't let go into a strip club IRL, are prevented from doing it online.
Wake up people, take some responsibility, and take your power back. Otherwise, some day your grandchildren will ask 'Grandma, were you there when the Internet got sold?'
If you set your score for MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE high enough, and these emails with their .pif attachments get sent right to /dev/null
is auto line-wrap, you insensitive clod!
The Sky is falling.
It's in the orange range, and its always women. It's caused by the inverse of the gene deficiency which causes red/green colorblindness in men. Women acquire an extra cone type, they are called 'tetrachromatic'.
You must be new here. This is Slashdot. Nobody reads the articles.
When we saw the lights of New York City go out, we knew our work was done.
Or really just One Ring to rule them all? An application in a protected-mode OS (running in Ring 3 of the x86 chip) can't touch kernel space (Ring 0). Now, if an OS vendor does things like put its GUI subsystem in Ring 3 (cough, NT, cough), and you let 3rd party people write drivers that 5uXX0r5, then yes, you can have a case where 3rd party code causes crashes. BUT YOU (MS) PUT THE GDI SUBSYSTEM IN USER SPACE!
If the OS design is so poor, or hacks and compromises are made for gaming performance at the expense of stability, then you can't really complain when the system goes unstable.
Good call on the China thing. By treating as an equal and trading with the Chinese and other savage societies, you legitamize their conduct. As the homeowner gains nothing by bargaining with the robber, so the just gain nothing by 'splitting the difference' with the unjust.
If I have 2500 4k files in a directory, and my filesystem uses a stupid algorithm to store that information, it might take 2 or 3 times longer to retrieve a list of files than it does on a decent filesystem. When you've got a webmail frontend to your Maildir, and your webmail code has to grope through all directories, all files, even small differences are HUGE. Clever FS design will win the day.
"more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying."
Except that it still can be used for spying!
Of course it looks cool, there's a chick in the picture.
Well, since posters don't even bother to preview the comments befpre posting, why must the moderators read the comments?
You mean line VOLTAGE. Think of the voltage as the height of a waterfall, current is how much water flows over it per second. Raise the height, raise the potential energy. God, I had Senior year Uni students who confused the two things!
I found that with certain BIOSes on my ABIT BP6, if I had disks plugged into different onboard IDE controllers (UDMA66 or the standard), I'd have to do the same thing. I reflashed the BIOS (again) and the problem went away. Go figure. It's a weird one.
Why use a crappy FS like (V)FAT(32) when you can just do "mke2fs -m1 /dev/mmcda1" ? Oh wait, this isn't about the Zaurus or IPaq.
Deprive that cow of page-hits and she'll go away. When was the last time a REAL article came out of there, as opposed to bitch-fests over WM widget choices?
He looked at the same artist, same musical style, over a period of time. He did a quantified, scientific analysis of their work (or the work of the mastering engineers). He clearly understands his topic. So yes, I'd argue that this is an "analysis". Nowhere in his article does he claim it to be representative of all music, or exhaustive.
You know, I thought it was just that Rush got old, but I think I've played Vapor Trails about twice.. it DOES suck.
Who is this guy? Sounds like just another techno-pundit who is wrong 50% of the time.