The poster uses "fucking" all over his analysis on his website. The fact that fucking is censored in the slashdot post is only an indication that the editor ( at/. ) censored it.
Do you really think they just go to the local computer store and buy a Pentium 1, then ship it to mars ?
Hello !
Those CPU are extensively tested. They probably used Pentium 1 because nothing better was available when testing began.
Usually, they'll eat the CPU to 100 c. then to 0 c, and cycle the temperature between the two, while they test all the operations. This test goes on on many CPU, for years. Those CPU that were strong enough to handle this abuse are then used for mission critical stuff.
They probably don't even use anything floating point, since there's a risk of something being wrong somewhere in the multiplication tables, whereas fix-point operations can be completely tested.
The ppl building those systems are professional. If they used P1, there is a friggin good reason.
I don't know anything about minerals either, but if all the other known ways to create rocks implied the use of water in the process, it would be logical that the only way to create a water-reactive rock would be by volcanic activity. Otherwise, the rock would be destroyed by the activity that creates it.
> but what happens when the quantum computers > make breaking these things easy?
People start using quantum cryptography. There already are commercial products offering you unconditial security, based on quantum computing, whereas the quantum computer is not ready to factor anything larger than 21...
we are to believe that all of a sudden, man/machine decides to just drop everything and live in harmony
No. First you have to understand that Neo made a deal with The Matrix. But for that you have to get the fact that it was something he, only, could do.
The problem is, to understand this, you need to understand the problem with Agent Smith, and the fact that although Neo died, he didn't really just died, he also killed Smith.
But that also forces you to understand the concept of the Matrix, and what the Oracle and the Architect said. And, pfeuh, that's way too much, considering the average attention span of movie watchers.
My original post, the one that started the thread was flamebait, indeed, and it worked. But in this thread came a very insightful comment. (sad I can't moderate)
Better and more concise explanation than I could have come up with for the bad reviews. Thanks.
Multiverse doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Multiverse is a technical word, for interpreting Quantum Physics. It is totally misplaced in this news submission. Did the poster even know what it means ?
> It's already moral, [...] which is all I care > about. Whether the company [...] makes any > money from their sale is not interesting to me.
Yeah, but by that logic, one could say:
I don't give a rat's ass about that GPL stuff. The thing is probably programmed by some stoned lazy bummer in his parents' basement anyway.
Moral is great, but the law is equally important. If you find the law immoral, consider voting for someone else next election, or go talk to your representative, whichever government you live under.
Whatever your mindset is, when you feel something is right, you *have* to do it. Try justifying the need for you to have a brain, otherwise...
And although these terrorists are doing wrong (IMHO), any person who can not understand them is severly limited intellectually. That might, in fact, be the main problem with the north american culture. Not even considering that other people might have different certainties, and be ready to act on them.
I don't usually answer people signatures. However, given that yours is:
"Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear
And that your first sentence is:
That's a huge oversimplification. I wouldn't even respond to such a troll had some ill-informed moderators not decided to mod it up to a 5 and make it the first comment on the page.
I must say that this is a very nice display of consistency.
OVERVIEW
--------
A bug was recently discovered in the default configuration of the
daily log summaries. The default address is set incorrectly causing
daily summaries to bounce until the system is ran through the initial
configuration process or the admin e-mail address is changed.
Err. That's probably the mildest bug/security problem I've ever seen. Care to explain me what is the problem of either
- applying the update ? - running the initial configuration process ?
Or were you simply googling for a defect to post and that's the ony one you found ?
Although I might actually agree with the fact that their is no deep philisophical meaning in The Matrix, I have a problem with your post.
Specifically, I have a problem with any sentence of the form : There is no X in work Y. Replace X with { drama, philosophy, beliefs } and Y with any movie, play, opera, book. Why ? Because how the fuck would you know that there is not ? You can adopt two stances:
1- I'm brighter than you, and I clearly see that there is no X. Easy to refute. What if you actually missed it ? Undefendable position.
2- There cannot be because of Z, where Z is your specific ideology. Setting Z to catholicism, you'll get to the current opposition to the movie by extreme-right groups. The problem here is the same, though. Not everyone has the same cultural reference and religious limitation. So, unless you wanna adopt a preaching position you still get to an undefendable position.
You might still be right, but you can't proof it. So please let people who thought they got some philosophy out of it discuss it. Who knows, maybe they actually got some deep philosophical concept...
Go read "fabric of reality by David Deutsch". truly excellent book arguing for the multiverse.
> The second suffers as it suddenly places the > human freedom of choice at the center of its > reasoning
According to the multiverse interpretation of quantum physic, every time any particle has a choice, parallel universes are created. Since everything happens, and human are no special thingy, both your arguments vanish.
I work in a quantum computing lab. I'm not sure that the multiverse is real. However, if it is not, I have no idea where quantum computers do their work, or why quantum cryptography works.;-)
I've just invented a new universal theorem. It goes likes this:
The theorem takes a natural value as parameter n, and n more parameters between 1 and 27. Then, you read out the theorem by replacing each parameter by a letter between 'a' and 'z', and space being 27.
The really interesting point is that every known theorem, including Godel incompleteness theorem and general relativity are special cases of this theorem.
Ok, I'll agree that writing out mathematical symbol is a bitch with it though.;-)
Everybody's suggestion seems to be to add a random delay to responses.
Why ?
Why not make the response time fixed ? Like in the biggest possible response time. If every query was responded in x ms, NO info would be leaking to the attacker. Or am I missing something ?
Slashdot Mirror
How about shaving ?
;-)
Ho.. wait.. this is slashdot, nevermind.
Maybe "Ten weeks != Two Years", but according to the article :
;-)
Unable to meet that schedule, the mission will use its backup window that begins July 30 and extends 15 days.
[...]
Launch on July 30 will occur during a 12-second window opening at 2:17:44 a.m. EDT (0617:44 GMT) from pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
So, it still looks like a 12 second == 15 days.
Does I then qualify as "some moron" ?
Anyone remembers winmm ?
Anyone remembers winG ?
Guess this will end up just as useful...
The poster uses "fucking" all over his analysis on his website. The fact that fucking is censored in the slashdot post is only an indication that the editor ( at /. ) censored it.
Why ? Ask Michael, or Michael's boss.
J.
Who makes money out of viruses ?
Who makes money out of spam-blocking software ?
(I'll leave the answers as exercices to the readers)
J.
Do you really think they just go to the local computer store and buy a Pentium 1, then ship it to mars ?
Hello !
Those CPU are extensively tested. They probably used Pentium 1 because nothing better was available when testing began.
Usually, they'll eat the CPU to 100 c. then to 0 c, and cycle the temperature between the two, while they test all the operations. This test goes on on many CPU, for years. Those CPU that were strong enough to handle this abuse are then used for mission critical stuff.
They probably don't even use anything floating point, since there's a risk of something being wrong somewhere in the multiplication tables, whereas fix-point operations can be completely tested.
The ppl building those systems are professional. If they used P1, there is a friggin good reason.
J.
How would you know ?
;-)
I mean, if you were schizophren, wouldn't you be writing exaclty this ?
J.
I don't know anything about minerals either, but if all the other known ways to create rocks implied the use of water in the process, it would be logical that the only way to create a water-reactive rock would be by volcanic activity. Otherwise, the rock would be destroyed by the activity that creates it.
J.
With a population of 292,287,454 and New Year about to be celebrated, it is quite certain that a few more millions turkeys will be killed.
And yes, turkeys are birds too.
J.
Magnetic Poles May Be About To Flip.
;-)
So, all the discussions about end-of-the-world, and creating our own magnetic field are already available there.
J.
> but what happens when the quantum computers
> make breaking these things easy?
People start using quantum cryptography. There already are commercial products offering you unconditial security, based on quantum computing, whereas the quantum computer is not ready to factor anything larger than 21...
J.
we are to believe that all of a sudden, man/machine decides to just drop everything and live in harmony
No. First you have to understand that Neo made a deal with The Matrix. But for that you have to get the fact that it was something he, only, could do.
The problem is, to understand this, you need to understand the problem with Agent Smith, and the fact that although Neo died, he didn't really just died, he also killed Smith.
But that also forces you to understand the concept of the Matrix, and what the Oracle and the Architect said. And, pfeuh, that's way too much, considering the average attention span of movie watchers.
Hence, the bad reviews, and your comment.
Agreed. Totally.
My original post, the one that started the thread was flamebait, indeed, and it worked. But in this thread came a very insightful comment. (sad I can't moderate)
Better and more concise explanation than I could have come up with for the bad reviews. Thanks.
> when we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix
Just my personnal opinion, but the problem people have with The Matrix ending is peace. War is so much more glamour these days...
J.
Multiverse doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Multiverse is a technical word, for interpreting Quantum Physics. It is totally misplaced in this news submission.
Did the poster even know what it means ?
> It's already moral, [...] which is all I care
:
> about. Whether the company [...] makes any
> money from their sale is not interesting to me.
Yeah, but by that logic, one could say
I don't give a rat's ass about that GPL stuff. The thing is probably programmed by some stoned lazy bummer in his parents' basement anyway.
Moral is great, but the law is equally important. If you find the law immoral, consider voting for someone else next election, or go talk to your representative, whichever government you live under.
Whatever your mindset is, when you feel something is right, you *have* to do it. Try justifying the need for you to have a brain, otherwise...
And although these terrorists are doing wrong (IMHO), any person who can not understand them is severly limited intellectually. That might, in fact, be the main problem with the north american culture. Not even considering that other people might have different certainties, and be ready to act on them.
I don't usually answer people signatures. However, given that yours is :
:
"Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear
And that your first sentence is
That's a huge oversimplification. I wouldn't even respond to such a troll had some ill-informed moderators not decided to mod it up to a 5 and make it the first comment on the page.
I must say that this is a very nice display of consistency.
Err. That's probably the mildest bug/security problem I've ever seen. Care to explain me what is the problem of either
- applying the update ?
- running the initial configuration process ?
Or were you simply googling for a defect to post and that's the ony one you found ?
Although I might actually agree with the fact that their is no deep philisophical meaning in The Matrix, I have a problem with your post.
:
Specifically, I have a problem with any sentence of the form : There is no X in work Y.
Replace X with { drama, philosophy, beliefs } and Y with any movie, play, opera, book.
Why ? Because how the fuck would you know that there is not ? You can adopt two stances
1- I'm brighter than you, and I clearly see that there is no X. Easy to refute. What if you actually missed it ? Undefendable position.
2- There cannot be because of Z, where Z is your specific ideology. Setting Z to catholicism, you'll get to the current opposition to the movie by extreme-right groups. The problem here is the same, though. Not everyone has the same cultural reference and religious limitation. So, unless you wanna adopt a preaching position you still get to an undefendable position.
You might still be right, but you can't proof it. So please let people who thought they got some philosophy out of it discuss it. Who knows, maybe they actually got some deep philosophical concept...
Your tone imply that you know better than the guys out there at Nasa.
You say : I can't believe that a rigid docking system would be less practicable than a severing system.
Guess what, I can't believe that some random slashdotter just happens to know better what is more practicable for a Mars Rover.
As a greater thinker once said, "There's a point in life where you've got to stop taking everyone else for morons".
Go read "fabric of reality by David Deutsch".
;-)
truly excellent book arguing for the multiverse.
> The second suffers as it suddenly places the
> human freedom of choice at the center of its
> reasoning
According to the multiverse interpretation of quantum physic, every time any particle has a choice, parallel universes are created. Since everything happens, and human are no special thingy, both your arguments vanish.
I work in a quantum computing lab. I'm not sure that the multiverse is real. However, if it is not, I have no idea where quantum computers do their work, or why quantum cryptography works.
I've just invented a new universal theorem. It goes likes this :
;-)
The theorem takes a natural value as parameter n, and n more parameters between 1 and 27. Then, you read out the theorem by replacing each parameter by a letter between 'a' and 'z', and space being 27.
The really interesting point is that every known theorem, including Godel incompleteness theorem and general relativity are special cases of this theorem.
Ok, I'll agree that writing out mathematical symbol is a bitch with it though.
Everybody's suggestion seems to be to add a random delay to responses.
Why ?
Why not make the response time fixed ? Like in the biggest possible response time. If every query was responded in x ms, NO info would be leaking to the attacker. Or am I missing something ?
> most Windows users run their boxes as
:
/user:administrator cmd
> Administrator anyway
I don't, just like everybody with a clue.
> there's no easy way to become Admin (root) when
> you need to
err. why don't you try this at home
C:\>runas
Yes, with some effort you can have a secure win2K.
J.