People have been taught, for several generations now, that causality is optional, that science is for geeks, that geeks are there to serve the jocks, that man needs to serve the state, and that perception is reality. Why would they care about your silly little experiments?
Sounds like you got stuffed into a lot of lockers as a child. "Greedy corporations" - what about "Greedy consumers", you know, the people who want to pay 10%, 1%, 0.1% of the cost of an item - no limit to how low they want to pay! Microsoft respects their customer, just as much as the customer respects them. In a pro shop, you get great access to Microsoft tech people, etc, because you pay for it - there's a mutually beneficial arrangement. In your case, you feel that they don't respect you, and I'd say it safe to say that you don't respect them. What was the last Microsoft product you paid for ?
If you steal my laptop, and try to boot it, it doesn't magically decrypt anything for you to steal by reading the RAM shortly thereafter.
So you'd need me to log & open up the TrueCrypt protected data. Then, as I see you coming to kill me, I pull the plug on the machine, but in the next 3-35 seconds, you manage to read all of RAM.
Interesting point about DRAM holding onto memory after power is removed, but hardly a reason to worry.
The points you bring up do not apply to "Average Joe User" - who was the fictional consumer in the article. Slashdotters know Linux, we may even know that we need it. The rest just buy a Dell, dude.
A computer nowadays is an appliance, that plays games, downloads porn, and gets you onto Myspace. Whether its a Mac or PC is based on what other s/w you can steal from your friends, or whether you're rich and/or trendy. You have to buy a computer, and it "comes with" the OS - why would you even waste your time farking around with something else?
You can put a million monkeys in front of typewriters, but yet AOL is nothing like Shakespeare. Just because Sally Jo Walmart captures something on her cellphone camera, and has the wherewithal to upload it to CNN, doesn't mean that its news, insightful, or "appropriate" to their nebulous guidelines. Nothing shocking or anti-establishment will ever air, nor will anything that scoops CNN itself. Its nice and bloggy and Web-two-oh, but so are Digg and Fark and Slashdot.
Isn't grid supercomputing best done on Macs, or via MOSIX, or a homebrew Beowulf cluster (insert joke here). I don't see this as enough of a commodity product to support a reseller-type market. If you need a linux supercomputer of OTS gear, you probably have enough eggheads on staff to build and support it.
We're implementing a GPO to actually sleep the monitors instead of activating a screensaver. You need the PCs on for autoupdates, WOL is a nice idea but isn't reliable.
Take yer watermarked file, play it through a low-pass filter, aka Soundblaster line-out port, then re-record it. Presto, all those pesky high-frequency 'marks' filtered away!
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Why do you need readers? What profound insight do you have? Or are you just masterbating?
People have been taught, for several generations now, that causality is optional, that science is for geeks, that geeks are there to serve the jocks, that man needs to serve the state, and that perception is reality. Why would they care about your silly little experiments?
Sounds like you got stuffed into a lot of lockers as a child. "Greedy corporations" - what about "Greedy consumers", you know, the people who want to pay 10%, 1%, 0.1% of the cost of an item - no limit to how low they want to pay! Microsoft respects their customer, just as much as the customer respects them. In a pro shop, you get great access to Microsoft tech people, etc, because you pay for it - there's a mutually beneficial arrangement. In your case, you feel that they don't respect you, and I'd say it safe to say that you don't respect them. What was the last Microsoft product you paid for ?
Knoppmyth will fix your problems. So, there is in fact, software that just works.
Good thing my DukeNukemForever/Hurd 1.0 kernel supports v6! I might need it someday!
Where does the energy to compress the air come from ?
In this house, we obey the laws of Thermodynamics!
If you steal my laptop, and try to boot it, it doesn't magically decrypt anything for you to steal by reading the RAM shortly thereafter.
So you'd need me to log & open up the TrueCrypt protected data. Then, as I see you coming to kill me, I pull the plug on the machine, but in the next 3-35 seconds, you manage to read all of RAM.
Interesting point about DRAM holding onto memory after power is removed, but hardly a reason to worry.
Did you JUST realize that China is a hostile foreign power?
Young Buck: Hey, we have a data exchange problem between two systems, lets use XML !
Greybeard: Ok, but now you have 2 problems.
The points you bring up do not apply to "Average Joe User" - who was the fictional consumer in the article. Slashdotters know Linux, we may even know that we need it. The rest just buy a Dell, dude.
A computer nowadays is an appliance, that plays games, downloads porn, and gets you onto Myspace. Whether its a Mac or PC is based on what other s/w you can steal from your friends, or whether you're rich and/or trendy. You have to buy a computer, and it "comes with" the OS - why would you even waste your time farking around with something else?
You can put a million monkeys in front of typewriters, but yet AOL is nothing like Shakespeare. Just because Sally Jo Walmart captures something on her cellphone camera, and has the wherewithal to upload it to CNN, doesn't mean that its news, insightful, or "appropriate" to their nebulous guidelines. Nothing shocking or anti-establishment will ever air, nor will anything that scoops CNN itself. Its nice and bloggy and Web-two-oh, but so are Digg and Fark and Slashdot.
Copying other's work is what the Internet is all about anyways, right?
Isn't grid supercomputing best done on Macs, or via MOSIX, or a homebrew Beowulf cluster (insert joke here). I don't see this as enough of a commodity product to support a reseller-type market. If you need a linux supercomputer of OTS gear, you probably have enough eggheads on staff to build and support it.
If you don't think China is a threat, you need to wake up and smell the soy sauce.
All 3 Iranians who are downloading government-approved news ?
Why Mossad is worried about Iranian Internet access is a mystery.
Any junior-year engineer at college could do this? How is this useful, news, or important?
not trying to be a Luddite here, but really, whats next, a robot that wipes your backside?
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Nice to HP getting busy and all, but how is this any sort of breakthrough ?
for file in `find -name *.c` ; do grep GPL $file ; done
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We're implementing a GPO to actually sleep the monitors instead of activating a screensaver. You need the PCs on for autoupdates, WOL is a nice idea but isn't reliable.
Sell support, professional services, training, etc.
Wait, since the Earth is only 6000 years old, how can this be possible?
/Seriously, how do religious people deal with this sort of thing?
"Look at me, I'm an attention whore!"
The OLPC is a flop. Its a $100 laptop that costs $250 to make, and the little urchins who DID receive it, immediately used it to surf porn.
Please.
Take yer watermarked file, play it through a low-pass filter, aka Soundblaster line-out port, then re-record it. Presto, all those pesky high-frequency 'marks' filtered away!
The more you tighten your grip, etc. etc.
What's next flounder genes in tomatoes to keep them from freezing? Flouresence genes in pigs so they glow under black light? Oh, wait..