aesoteric and..., this was so pathetic that it wasn't even funny.
aesoteric a user that doesn't post comments, but only stories. And which's web page leads to...itnews.com.au.
It is bound to lead to a double dose of advertising... with luck, the TFA may fall into "stuff that matters" category but... how muck luck can one have on/. these days?
Attachments? Gmail uploads them by HTTP. GMail lets you use HTTPS to access GMail. Good luck detecting what is an attachment and when you just "copy/pasted sensitive information in the very body of the email".
Even when blocking gmail/yahoo, still not addressing leakers using :
a. a HTTP proxy (e.g. to access gmail).
b. a private mailserver
c. a combination of the above (one can arrange for tunneling through HTTP a totally different protocol).
Yes, well... there are a few obvious things to look at
a) Humans do not generally live on top of their rubbish dumps; if they did they'd have to continually rebuild their homes on top of the accumulated rubbish. While not completely implausible, the evidence would still be there if this is the course of action the people took
How insightful items you can pull from the top of you head !!! Given the mortgage and the price of labor, it is highly unlikely that constantly/frequently rebuilding their homes would ever occur. And, indeed, the "buried under trash" home would have been preserved, the today's diggers would certainly find the concrete foundations, beams, fragments of windows glass and frames, and why not...possibly some remains of split air conditioning systems?
Here's an artist impression of how a villa of that time would be presented by real-estate agents for the potential investors.
The trash piles—a mix of discarded food, charcoal, shell tools, and broken pottery—would have been slightly higher and drier than the surrounding marsh, offering a foothold for trees, shrubs, and other vegetation.
TFA:
The so-called tree islands of the Everglades are patches of relatively high and dry ground that rise from the wetlands. They stand between 1 and 2 meters higher than the surrounding landscape, can cover 100 acres or more
I can imagine a bunch of pre-historic humans having their lunch in a pool-bar only to discard the bones and other scraps to form those "trash piles", raise the ground and form the islands. And probably doing it for some centuries, in continuous "mad-hatter lunch", to cover 100 acres and more.
Seriously, don't you think the areas should have been already raised above the water level for this to actually happen? And if already raised, does it necessary require humans discarding scraps (or would it be enough any land-living predators to eat their prey on a slightly raised surface of land)?
I wouldn't want to do my day to day desktop computing on it.
If that word must be interpreted stricto sensu, can you please point to me where can one find now a desktop computer powered by ARM? I would fully appreciate the reference, thank you.
I think he was saying the/. editors' members were thin fuzzy lines.
As I believe the/. editors are in no way resembling the The FSM (Blessed be His Noodly Appendages), I think the correct expression should be he was saying the/. editors' limbs were thin fuzzy lines.
But anyway, this is quite OT.
Well ARM is a hell of a lot less power using but it is also a hell of a lot less powerful clock for clock, so it evens out doesn't it? I mean sure in a cell phone where its main job is running a highly specialized OS, with tons of little support chips to help it out it does great, but I wouldn't want to do my day to day desktop computing on it.
Why do you think ARM is equivalent with less computation power? Maybe it is so for the present, but doesn't seem so for the near future
There's hardly any good reason to choose anything else over it, either.
Well, yes and no. Certainly in the space between the notebook computer and any but the mightiest supercomputers there's no reason at all not to go with x86. But in the mobile processor space, where ultra-low TDP is the order of the day, ARM has a big leg up on x64
Yeap. But, in the context of the Oracle behemoth database server, does mobile processors have any relevance? It seems that it does - even if an ARM-based server is no longer what one would call "mobile".
One on top of the other, may it be that the Itanium heavyweight approach is indeed a dinosaur of the past?
What does it mean to buy music?
(No, seriously... letting aside the interpretation on the line of copyright/piracy, WTF does "buying music" means? What rights you have over a music that you bought?)
Rejoice: a new oxymoron is born.
(thin line - accidentally cross it because it takes no time, but very well defined. Fuzzy line - is non-trivial to cross but, being fuzzy, there is no way to tell the exact moment one actually crossed it) .
/. editors - they do get paid, while members don't, isn't it?
Hopefully you didn't assume that describing a situation somehow implies acceptance
Wasn't born yesterday. Fortunate for the dialog, not sure if so fortunate for me.
BTW, as others have said, corruption is not some disease brought by foreigners.
Almost agreed, with the amendment that if even the foreigners succumbs to infection, the illness has little chances to be cured (other than by bloody revolutions). Also as a reserve to your statement, there's nothing (at least, theoretically) to exclude situations in which the foreigners actually initiating the corruption (or, rather, fueling it from an almost unobservable/petty level to a societal infection).
All you need is underpaid officials handling matters that are valuable to someone else
While underpaid officials is one of the ways in which corruption creeps in, unfortunately there are also other motivations that may lead to corruption. Anyway, need two to tango.
Feature phone is a term used to describe a low-end mobile phone that has less computing ability than a smartphone, but more capability than a "dumb phone".
TFA
“Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 percent of mobile users that don’t have access to advanced smartphones,”
My reaction: just in time. If they have waited for 2-3 more years, Snaptu would have been extinct (due to the lack of "food" in the eco-system).
The money is transfered from public works to private individuals and the entire country suffers.
You mean money confiscated from productive members of society for distribution to the shiftless and lazy is returned to those who actually earned it, rather than waiting for the nanny state to give them goods for free, don't you, comrade...
How insightful you are today!!!
Everybody knows that the govt bureaucrat who won't do a thing for you (even if you are entitled to) unless you pay "his private tax" is working very hard to earn his money, takes enormous risks just to keep the society going towards the greater good. Such individuals are actually the spine of the society, without them everybody will just lazily bake themselves in the sun, paid from the dole.
Just sayin', based on my experience living in Latin America.
And do you like it? Assuming you would be willing to bribe someone to get something done, would you be happy of somebody from a foreign country just overbidding your bribe by a higher one? (even if, say, what the foreign party will sell to you and your family is 2-3 times as expensive?)
I thought bribing foreign officials was a good thing?
Only if you think that paying off a blackmailer is a good thing. On short term, maybe. On longer term, you encourage a culture of corruption which will make your future dealing be increasingly based of paying bribes. And guess what... the bribes will always go up.
Why aren't they using Android, which already has text to voice, voice to text, GPS navigation, and almost everything else you might need in a car?
Or, at the very least, have the "Other OS" option enabled! WTF? Do I own the car or not?
Also, don't they see that they are destroying the "car analogy" meme? I wonder how the/. editors can't see the impact this is going to have on the slashvertising business.
(BTW: don't you dare whining TL;DR, it is not a meme I'd expect from a person at your age).
Your fake condescension might look more clever had you actually bothered to read the thing to which I was responding. The claim was that Rand accepted government payments pseudonymously. That's what struck me as an extraordinary claim, and the funny thing is that for all your talking talking talking talking, it was the other person who responded who actually linked to some evidence for it.
My apologies, I did not intend to sound condescending. Probably overreacted, my single defense is you attached the "Citation needed" without being specific to what exactly you'd like a reference from the GP post. Looked to me like posting just for the sake of being controversial. My sincere apologies once again.
Hell, absolutely survival level of google-fu would get it for you. Here's anyway. For the "live up to her own values" - read the "Later years" section. For the " more stringent the values that they espouse" start reading from the beginning of the article.
(BTW: don't you dare whining TL;DR, it is not a meme I'd expect from a person at your age).
If you don't think George W. Bush... followed by Barak Obama... is a change, then I don't know what is!
Here's my perception: I don't know how it looks from inside US, but from outside it doesn't look any different, certainly not any difference in the good sense of it. So, if you do care about the perception from outside, you'll do something. If you don't care, don't be surprise if the rest of the world will start not caring either.
in a "everything in the open" patents acts even more as a hindrance that a promoter for invention, by promoting the individualism over the collaboration effort.
No; human nature does that. The patent system is not the cause; it is only a by-product.
Well, you are right... and, in the terms of "human-race club", tautologically so.
But tell you what: much easier to strike down the patents law than is to modify the human nature. And, since in "all on the open" utopian world, trade secrets doesn't exist anymore and patents encourages individualism on the expense of a quicker collaborative invention process, I argue that in such a world patents law makes too little sense.
Remember? Patents were introduced as a "lesser evil to act as a counter-balance to trade secrets". If the "trade secret greater evil" doesn't exist anymore, the next "greater evil" (there's always a maximum) becomes... patent laws. Why should I keep them in place?
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aesoteric and ..., this was so pathetic that it wasn't even funny.
aesoteric a user that doesn't post comments, but only stories. And which's web page leads to...itnews.com.au. /. these days?
It is bound to lead to a double dose of advertising... with luck, the TFA may fall into "stuff that matters" category but... how muck luck can one have on
Good luck detecting what is an attachment and when you just "copy/pasted sensitive information in the very body of the email".
Even when blocking gmail/yahoo, still not addressing leakers using :
a. a HTTP proxy (e.g. to access gmail).
b. a private mailserver
c. a combination of the above (one can arrange for tunneling through HTTP a totally different protocol).
Yes, well... there are a few obvious things to look at
a) Humans do not generally live on top of their rubbish dumps; if they did they'd have to continually rebuild their homes on top of the accumulated rubbish. While not completely implausible, the evidence would still be there if this is the course of action the people took
How insightful items you can pull from the top of you head !!! Given the mortgage and the price of labor, it is highly unlikely that constantly/frequently rebuilding their homes would ever occur. And, indeed, the "buried under trash" home would have been preserved, the today's diggers would certainly find the concrete foundations, beams, fragments of windows glass and frames, and why not...possibly some remains of split air conditioning systems?
Here's an artist impression of how a villa of that time would be presented by real-estate agents for the potential investors.
The trash piles—a mix of discarded food, charcoal, shell tools, and broken pottery—would have been slightly higher and drier than the surrounding marsh, offering a foothold for trees, shrubs, and other vegetation.
TFA:
The so-called tree islands of the Everglades are patches of relatively high and dry ground that rise from the wetlands. They stand between 1 and 2 meters higher than the surrounding landscape, can cover 100 acres or more
I can imagine a bunch of pre-historic humans having their lunch in a pool-bar only to discard the bones and other scraps to form those "trash piles", raise the ground and form the islands. And probably doing it for some centuries, in continuous "mad-hatter lunch", to cover 100 acres and more.
Seriously, don't you think the areas should have been already raised above the water level for this to actually happen? And if already raised, does it necessary require humans discarding scraps (or would it be enough any land-living predators to eat their prey on a slightly raised surface of land)?
I wouldn't want to do my day to day desktop computing on it.
If that word must be interpreted stricto sensu, can you please point to me where can one find now a desktop computer powered by ARM? I would fully appreciate the reference, thank you.
I think he was saying the /. editors' members were thin fuzzy lines.
As I believe the /. editors are in no way resembling the The FSM (Blessed be His Noodly Appendages), I think the correct expression should be /. editors' limbs were thin fuzzy lines.
he was saying the
But anyway, this is quite OT.
Intel is obligated to continue developing Itanium, or HP sues them. Itanium is going nowhere, and Oracle is spreading FUD.
FTFY. Other than that, all your other assertions ring true to me.
Well ARM is a hell of a lot less power using but it is also a hell of a lot less powerful clock for clock, so it evens out doesn't it? I mean sure in a cell phone where its main job is running a highly specialized OS, with tons of little support chips to help it out it does great, but I wouldn't want to do my day to day desktop computing on it.
Why do you think ARM is equivalent with less computation power? Maybe it is so for the present, but doesn't seem so for the near future
Well, yes and no. Certainly in the space between the notebook computer and any but the mightiest supercomputers there's no reason at all not to go with x86. But in the mobile processor space, where ultra-low TDP is the order of the day, ARM has a big leg up on x64
Yeap. But, in the context of the Oracle behemoth database server, does mobile processors have any relevance? It seems that it does - even if an ARM-based server is no longer what one would call "mobile".
One on top of the other, may it be that the Itanium heavyweight approach is indeed a dinosaur of the past?
What does it mean to buy music?
(No, seriously... letting aside the interpretation on the line of copyright/piracy, WTF does "buying music" means? What rights you have over a music that you bought?)
Member, editor. It's all such a thin fuzzy line.
Rejoice: a new oxymoron is born.
(thin line - accidentally cross it because it takes no time, but very well defined. Fuzzy line - is non-trivial to cross but, being fuzzy, there is no way to tell the exact moment one actually crossed it) .
Hopefully you didn't assume that describing a situation somehow implies acceptance
Wasn't born yesterday. Fortunate for the dialog, not sure if so fortunate for me.
BTW, as others have said, corruption is not some disease brought by foreigners.
Almost agreed, with the amendment that if even the foreigners succumbs to infection, the illness has little chances to be cured (other than by bloody revolutions).
Also as a reserve to your statement, there's nothing (at least, theoretically) to exclude situations in which the foreigners actually initiating the corruption (or, rather, fueling it from an almost unobservable/petty level to a societal infection).
All you need is underpaid officials handling matters that are valuable to someone else
While underpaid officials is one of the ways in which corruption creeps in, unfortunately there are also other motivations that may lead to corruption. Anyway, need two to tango.
Feature phone is a term used to describe a low-end mobile phone that has less computing ability than a smartphone, but more capability than a "dumb phone".
TFA
“Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 percent of mobile users that don’t have access to advanced smartphones,”
My reaction: just in time. If they have waited for 2-3 more years, Snaptu would have been extinct (due to the lack of "food" in the eco-system).
The money is transfered from public works to private individuals and the entire country suffers.
You mean money confiscated from productive members of society for distribution to the shiftless and lazy is returned to those who actually earned it, rather than waiting for the nanny state to give them goods for free, don't you, comrade ...
How insightful you are today!!!
Everybody knows that the govt bureaucrat who won't do a thing for you (even if you are entitled to) unless you pay "his private tax" is working very hard to earn his money, takes enormous risks just to keep the society going towards the greater good. Such individuals are actually the spine of the society, without them everybody will just lazily bake themselves in the sun, paid from the dole.
Just sayin', based on my experience living in Latin America.
And do you like it?
Assuming you would be willing to bribe someone to get something done, would you be happy of somebody from a foreign country just overbidding your bribe by a higher one? (even if, say, what the foreign party will sell to you and your family is 2-3 times as expensive?)
I thought bribing foreign officials was a good thing?
Only if you think that paying off a blackmailer is a good thing. On short term, maybe. On longer term, you encourage a culture of corruption which will make your future dealing be increasingly based of paying bribes. And guess what... the bribes will always go up.
But downloadable softmods to tune ride characteristics would be amazing.
Yes!!! Wonderful, can't expect to plug in my own heuristic algo to control the debit from the NOS bottles!
Yo dawg, I heard you like cars, so we put a car in your computer so you can drive while you compute!
But does this car have valves or is it steam powered? What about the car's specific impulse?
Guys, I really don't get it. Can someone post a "car analogy" for me, please?
Why aren't they using Android, which already has text to voice, voice to text, GPS navigation, and almost everything else you might need in a car?
Or, at the very least, have the "Other OS" option enabled! WTF? Do I own the car or not?
Also, don't they see that they are destroying the "car analogy" meme? I wonder how the /. editors can't see the impact this is going to have on the slashvertising business.
</sarcasm>
(BTW: don't you dare whining TL;DR, it is not a meme I'd expect from a person at your age).
Your fake condescension might look more clever had you actually bothered to read the thing to which I was responding. The claim was that Rand accepted government payments pseudonymously. That's what struck me as an extraordinary claim, and the funny thing is that for all your talking talking talking talking, it was the other person who responded who actually linked to some evidence for it.
My apologies, I did not intend to sound condescending. Probably overreacted, my single defense is you attached the "Citation needed" without being specific to what exactly you'd like a reference from the GP post. Looked to me like posting just for the sake of being controversial. My sincere apologies once again.
Citation needed.
Hell, absolutely survival level of google-fu would get it for you. Here's anyway. For the "live up to her own values" - read the "Later years" section. For the " more stringent the values that they espouse" start reading from the beginning of the article.
(BTW: don't you dare whining TL;DR, it is not a meme I'd expect from a person at your age).
If you don't think George W. Bush... followed by Barak Obama... is a change, then I don't know what is!
Here's my perception: I don't know how it looks from inside US, but from outside it doesn't look any different, certainly not any difference in the good sense of it.
So, if you do care about the perception from outside, you'll do something. If you don't care, don't be surprise if the rest of the world will start not caring either.
And the new privacy bill of rights answers with a very weak whisper before finally dying.
in a "everything in the open" patents acts even more as a hindrance that a promoter for invention, by promoting the individualism over the collaboration effort.
No; human nature does that. The patent system is not the cause; it is only a by-product.
Well, you are right... and, in the terms of "human-race club", tautologically so.
But tell you what: much easier to strike down the patents law than is to modify the human nature. And, since in "all on the open" utopian world, trade secrets doesn't exist anymore and patents encourages individualism on the expense of a quicker collaborative invention process, I argue that in such a world patents law makes too little sense.
Remember? Patents were introduced as a "lesser evil to act as a counter-balance to trade secrets". If the "trade secret greater evil" doesn't exist anymore, the next "greater evil" (there's always a maximum) becomes... patent laws. Why should I keep them in place?