You still have two options -- get the powers-that-be to compile and release a VM with gcc-3.1 compatibility, or don't use Mandrake 9.0b1. It's the same situation that Windows users find themselves in all the time, but this time it happens in the Linux world and we wonder what the fix is....
I think there's a lesson in the current stock market scandals. The big companies can buy legislators. They've shown that they can derail effective regulation of accounting rules. They can set things up so that a crooked CFO who bilks people out of billions and sends the markets into a spiral that wipes out the savings of millions of people gets a lighter punishment than a punk who robs a liquor store.
You know, I began to think about this statement, and realized that what the corrupt corporations are doing is no better than the mob making a living by racketeering. The punk robs a few bottles and perhaps some cash, the mob takes the entire store and sells it at a loss to pad their own pockets. It's really no different at the corporate scandal level.
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Actually, what I'd like to see/. do is to setup a caching proxy to any site listed in an accepted article and publish a secondary link for that site with a 24-hour TTL. Afterwards, let the cache expire and remove the secondary link. Slashdot almost certainly can handle the load, and the owner's site doesn't get totally hammered everytime/. publishes an article about them.
Of course, this could only be done with permission from the owner, but overall, it should be a win-win for both.
This reminds me of an old article with the name of this subject that came out around the mid-90's about Microsoft's sync-and-stabilize methodology. Really not a lot new here, save the amount of time they required to build their OS.
Let's see...a scientific analysis of resource consumption based on the decline of animal population over the past 100 years, plus a very relevant hectare/person statistic. Sounds like excellent research to me...
If they really want to be taken seriously, quote the actual usage of arable land per person in each country. Countries like Ethopia and Burundi will be astronomically high, while the US will be very low comparatively. The truth is that those countries are overpopulated based on their own resources and require outside assistance from countries like the US.
Overall, if worse comes to worse, don't fret for the Earth. Nature is self-regulating and will find a way to keep man's progress in check. More likely, if such a scenario is possible, man will make himself extinct before the effects can jeopardize the world.
I'm wary of any entity that controls the rights to that data, since there is a precedent being set by companies like Verisign and Yahoo that do not value your right to privacy. Corporate entities have little fear of the law since the penalties they face for abusing their customer's privacy usually only affect the people who run them indirectly, and seldom result in more than fines to the company. Concurrently, allowing the government to outright control this system provides them with a means to abuse the power similar to corporations, but for different ends.
I think the only way to ensure protection for yourself and for those that need to use it is to setup some sort of government-funded clearinghouse whose sole purpose is to store the information and provide access to it to others who have been explicitly granted permission by those that provide the biometric data. This would not be unlike an authentication system like Kerberos which innately distrusts everything and will only grant limited-use tickets to use its data when properly authorized to. Then and only then, would I feel safe in providing this information.
Come on. Really. US currency is the most well known currency on the planet, is used in lieu of local currency in some locales, and has several mechanisms installed to prevent counterfeiting as well as to ensure the readability of the bills.
Go to the Secret Service website and look up the details behind the reason why American currency is designed the way it is.
The anti-counterfeit measures are basically non-existant
Not true. Go to the Secret Service's webpage based on the measures they've taken. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they're not there.
it's impossible to know if something is a 5 or a 10 just by glancing at it
You mean, like looking at the big number in each corner of the paper? Different question: Are you telling me that you need a color-based mnemonic to remember a numeric-based mnemonic as to the representation of the value of the currency? IOW, Red=5 is easier to remember than 5=5?
A lot of the problem may rely on what methodology you are using to code the program, whether it is the traditional waterfall method, or the sprial method, or perhaps M$'s old sync-and-stabilize method. Whatever methodology you use will drive how you should be testing.
With the waterfall model, you really need to know way ahead of time that what you are coding is what will be desired in the end product. It forces you to have a clear picture in your model of what you are trying to build and with each step in the process, you must develop testing procedures that address that level of the code. For example, at a high level, you may say, let's build a compiler, and following that decision, you need to devise a test that proves that the compiler works. The next phase, you may say, let's build an assembler to produce machine code for the compiler. Then you need to build tests that prove that the assembler works. This methodology continues right down to the smallest module of code, and when all of the pieces have been written, integration testing begins, and you make sure that each larger piece can correctly function based on the output of the smaller piece.
However, in the spiral model, it allows for a well-defined core code to be produced with tons of modules that evolve as the spiral expands. Integration is a function of the spiral, and testing occurs within each iteration of the spiral loop. Code produced with the spiral model also tends to be somewhat more difficult to test in later stages, IMHO, due to the nature of the testing that occurs at each cycle in the loop. Testing becomes more critical in later stages as the previous stages become more nested into the core of the program.
Well, enough Software Engineering for one day. Back to work....
And yet, some people will buy it. Remember the old Sony Watchman's? About the same size, IIRC. And yes, I can't imagine too many places where one would want to watch a movie on the go, except maybe in the back seat of a car, riding the subway, or anything else where you're in transit and need an escape...
Once the screen goes color and hi-def enough, I can see this becoming a new format for portable movies...just about the right size for storing a DVD-sized movie....
I've never understood the market for these players
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If the average CD-RW can hold approximately 650 MB of data, that comes out to needing just under 8 CD-RW's to hold what the single 5GB disk holds. A decent portable CD/MP3 player can be had for around $150, and let's round up to a 10-pack of CD-RW's for $20, plus a carrying case for the CD-RW's for $10.
So here's what I don't get...is the smaller profile of the device worth the extra $220?
Per yesterday's/. article on the current state of Air Traffic Control systems, is sounds like this is standard fare for them as well. They've certified that the ATC systems that STARS is replacing are hack-proof, simply because the systems are so old that few people in the IT world today were even alive when they were introduced.
Of course, a system like this is still subject to physical abuse, and an old system that is broken into pieces is just as bad as a new system that is the subject of a DoS....
I wonder if SuSe obtained the permission of the UL team members to issue this statement. If not, sounds like the UnitedLinux project has some communication problems at the least, and possibly some larger problems looming on the horizon.
I know if I had issued a statement like this without consulting my team members first that there would be hell to pay, but we'll see.
Actually, I never said that I implied they were making up the story. Instead, I found it convenient that a newspaper runs a story in a city whose lifeblood depends indirectly on oil which makes it looks like they're biased towards a particular side of the fence.
I don't doubt that they are swayed by Gold's theories on this, but rather that it serves their purpose, which is to keep Detroiters happy by telling them that "there's going to be plenty of oil, so keep pushing out those gas guzzling monster SUV's everyone!!!" And happy Detroit News readers are continued Detroit News readers, so it benefits them to run such a story.
However, since the only part of the earth that is able to hold oil deposits is the crust, we're always going to be limited by that factor. Since the crust is approximately 25 miles deep, that is the extent of our possible deposits. Everything else is magma in the mantle and outer/inner core material -- IOW, unable to hold oil deposits.
I don't doubt that the Detroit News would run a piece like this, since the Detroit economy is heavily based on automobiles, and since most automobiles run on gasoline, which comes from oil....
They benefit from sitting on one great big source of geothermal energy for a limited population. This isn't going to work for the rest of the world. Natural sources of energy are limited and the world's energy needs are exploding, which points to a shortage in the years to come.
I'm happy to see the alternatives being used and discussed, but we have got to start getting really serious about getting cold fusion to work, or else we're in big trouble in about 40 years.
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You still have two options -- get the powers-that-be to compile and release a VM with gcc-3.1 compatibility, or don't use Mandrake 9.0b1. It's the same situation that Windows users find themselves in all the time, but this time it happens in the Linux world and we wonder what the fix is....
I can't think of a better example why every business needs redundant networks than this.
I think there's a lesson in the current stock market scandals. The big companies can buy legislators. They've shown that they can derail effective regulation of accounting rules. They can set things up so that a crooked CFO who bilks people out of billions and sends the markets into a spiral that wipes out the savings of millions of people gets a lighter punishment than a punk who robs a liquor store.
You know, I began to think about this statement, and realized that what the corrupt corporations are doing is no better than the mob making a living by racketeering. The punk robs a few bottles and perhaps some cash, the mob takes the entire store and sells it at a loss to pad their own pockets. It's really no different at the corporate scandal level.
Actually, what I'd like to see /. do is to setup a caching proxy to any site listed in an accepted article and publish a secondary link for that site with a 24-hour TTL. Afterwards, let the cache expire and remove the secondary link. Slashdot almost certainly can handle the load, and the owner's site doesn't get totally hammered everytime /. publishes an article about them.
Of course, this could only be done with permission from the owner, but overall, it should be a win-win for both.
This reminds me of an old article with the name of this subject that came out around the mid-90's about Microsoft's sync-and-stabilize methodology. Really not a lot new here, save the amount of time they required to build their OS.
Let's see...a scientific analysis of resource consumption based on the decline of animal population over the past 100 years, plus a very relevant hectare/person statistic. Sounds like excellent research to me...
If they really want to be taken seriously, quote the actual usage of arable land per person in each country. Countries like Ethopia and Burundi will be astronomically high, while the US will be very low comparatively. The truth is that those countries are overpopulated based on their own resources and require outside assistance from countries like the US.
Overall, if worse comes to worse, don't fret for the Earth. Nature is self-regulating and will find a way to keep man's progress in check. More likely, if such a scenario is possible, man will make himself extinct before the effects can jeopardize the world.
I'm wary of any entity that controls the rights to that data, since there is a precedent being set by companies like Verisign and Yahoo that do not value your right to privacy. Corporate entities have little fear of the law since the penalties they face for abusing their customer's privacy usually only affect the people who run them indirectly, and seldom result in more than fines to the company. Concurrently, allowing the government to outright control this system provides them with a means to abuse the power similar to corporations, but for different ends.
I think the only way to ensure protection for yourself and for those that need to use it is to setup some sort of government-funded clearinghouse whose sole purpose is to store the information and provide access to it to others who have been explicitly granted permission by those that provide the biometric data. This would not be unlike an authentication system like Kerberos which innately distrusts everything and will only grant limited-use tickets to use its data when properly authorized to. Then and only then, would I feel safe in providing this information.
OK, I'm going to pick nits here, but...
What if you're colorblind?
What if you're colorblind?
Come on. Really. US currency is the most well known currency on the planet, is used in lieu of local currency in some locales, and has several mechanisms installed to prevent counterfeiting as well as to ensure the readability of the bills.
Go to the Secret Service website and look up the details behind the reason why American currency is designed the way it is.
This is probably a troll, but what the heck...
The anti-counterfeit measures are basically non-existant
Not true. Go to the Secret Service's webpage based on the measures they've taken. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they're not there.
it's impossible to know if something is a 5 or a 10 just by glancing at it
You mean, like looking at the big number in each corner of the paper? Different question: Are you telling me that you need a color-based mnemonic to remember a numeric-based mnemonic as to the representation of the value of the currency? IOW, Red=5 is easier to remember than 5=5?
Let's get this technology implemented for Doom.
Then again...
A lot of the problem may rely on what methodology you are using to code the program, whether it is the traditional waterfall method, or the sprial method, or perhaps M$'s old sync-and-stabilize method. Whatever methodology you use will drive how you should be testing.
With the waterfall model, you really need to know way ahead of time that what you are coding is what will be desired in the end product. It forces you to have a clear picture in your model of what you are trying to build and with each step in the process, you must develop testing procedures that address that level of the code. For example, at a high level, you may say, let's build a compiler, and following that decision, you need to devise a test that proves that the compiler works. The next phase, you may say, let's build an assembler to produce machine code for the compiler. Then you need to build tests that prove that the assembler works. This methodology continues right down to the smallest module of code, and when all of the pieces have been written, integration testing begins, and you make sure that each larger piece can correctly function based on the output of the smaller piece.
However, in the spiral model, it allows for a well-defined core code to be produced with tons of modules that evolve as the spiral expands. Integration is a function of the spiral, and testing occurs within each iteration of the spiral loop. Code produced with the spiral model also tends to be somewhat more difficult to test in later stages, IMHO, due to the nature of the testing that occurs at each cycle in the loop. Testing becomes more critical in later stages as the previous stages become more nested into the core of the program.
Well, enough Software Engineering for one day. Back to work....
And yet, some people will buy it. Remember the old Sony Watchman's? About the same size, IIRC. And yes, I can't imagine too many places where one would want to watch a movie on the go, except maybe in the back seat of a car, riding the subway, or anything else where you're in transit and need an escape...
Once the screen goes color and hi-def enough, I can see this becoming a new format for portable movies...just about the right size for storing a DVD-sized movie....
If the average CD-RW can hold approximately 650 MB of data, that comes out to needing just under 8 CD-RW's to hold what the single 5GB disk holds. A decent portable CD/MP3 player can be had for around $150, and let's round up to a 10-pack of CD-RW's for $20, plus a carrying case for the CD-RW's for $10.
So here's what I don't get...is the smaller profile of the device worth the extra $220?
You may be able to learn some neat things in Perl in 24 hours, but will you remember them without the book in 24 more hours?
Of course, being the loyal /.'ers that we are, I have to ask the question...
:-P
What is the storage density of this new technology in Libraries of Congress/hectare?
Per yesterday's /. article on the current state of Air Traffic Control systems, is sounds like this is standard fare for them as well. They've certified that the ATC systems that STARS is replacing are hack-proof, simply because the systems are so old that few people in the IT world today were even alive when they were introduced.
Of course, a system like this is still subject to physical abuse, and an old system that is broken into pieces is just as bad as a new system that is the subject of a DoS....
Sounds like PBS to me...
I wonder if SuSe obtained the permission of the UL team members to issue this statement. If not, sounds like the UnitedLinux project has some communication problems at the least, and possibly some larger problems looming on the horizon.
I know if I had issued a statement like this without consulting my team members first that there would be hell to pay, but we'll see.
Actually, I never said that I implied they were making up the story. Instead, I found it convenient that a newspaper runs a story in a city whose lifeblood depends indirectly on oil which makes it looks like they're biased towards a particular side of the fence.
I don't doubt that they are swayed by Gold's theories on this, but rather that it serves their purpose, which is to keep Detroiters happy by telling them that "there's going to be plenty of oil, so keep pushing out those gas guzzling monster SUV's everyone!!!" And happy Detroit News readers are continued Detroit News readers, so it benefits them to run such a story.
However, since the only part of the earth that is able to hold oil deposits is the crust, we're always going to be limited by that factor. Since the crust is approximately 25 miles deep, that is the extent of our possible deposits. Everything else is magma in the mantle and outer/inner core material -- IOW, unable to hold oil deposits.
I don't doubt that the Detroit News would run a piece like this, since the Detroit economy is heavily based on automobiles, and since most automobiles run on gasoline, which comes from oil....
They benefit from sitting on one great big source of geothermal energy for a limited population. This isn't going to work for the rest of the world. Natural sources of energy are limited and the world's energy needs are exploding, which points to a shortage in the years to come.
I'm happy to see the alternatives being used and discussed, but we have got to start getting really serious about getting cold fusion to work, or else we're in big trouble in about 40 years.