No, I think that's still too broad. If the user intends to give away 5000 copies of that software to people who didn't buy it, but the software prevents that through online license number checking, it would be malware. But it's not. Calling it malware is, IMO, a dickish move. Maybe "the software does, by design, something that the user didn't intend to do, and does it without notifying the user of whatever it is that it's doing". Not really complete, but takes things a step further.
How about directed coherent light? Shining a huge ass laser directly towards the solar system (or where it'll be 50 years from now on the sky) would be more effective.
Actually it makes sense. Energy input can be photons, energy output is mid-wave Infrared. Uninhabited galaxy emits energy as X-Ray+Photons+mid-wave Infrared+UV+god knows whet else. Inhabited galaxy (by Type III) emits way less Photons but more mid-wave Infrared than the above, because the Photon energy is captured and part of it emitted as mid-wave Infrared.
One type of emission becomes much greater than expected, not the overall energy emission.
Agreed. Maybe is't just a matter of feasibility. Civilization X advances enough to realize that trapping the whole star into a Dyson sphere is simply less effective than matter/antimatter energy generation or microfusion piles, for example.
I'm no expert, but I remember reading that digital communication is virtually undetectable at galactic distances, because it fades way more quickly and becomes indistinguishable from background noise. About the heat emissions... dunno what to say. An advanced civilization might be so thinned out, galactic-wise that it would emit an insignificant amount of heat. Or it could be a race which doesn't reproduce easily and lives for a long time, e.g. a couple million sentient beings per planet, who need very little in terms of energy. The possibilities are limitless.
Just wondering... how much heat does mankind generate? Can someone 1000 LY away detect our heat emissions?
Related: 1h ago I was called by a HP representative to get me hired. My interview is Friday. Note: I live in a low-cost country and HP has been hiring like crazy, 20% of my co-workers have already moved to HP. They pay slightly better than my current employer (which is arguably bigger than HP globally but have a shitty salary process) and from what I've heard they have a good working environment.
TFS apparently calculates overall pollution since the dawn of time. In all fairness, it should be calculated since the moment people realized pollution hurts climate.
And over 50% for both genders, while we're at it! Come on, I know we could ultimately have 100% of each gender in any given job. Failure to achieve that is our own damn fault!
I'm measuring my PC and everything else on my desk, e.g. external HDDs, battery charger, docked phone, charging tablet, headphones, desk lamp, two monitors, the GPON and so on.
My computer is being used even when I'm not using it myself. I have an FTP server, a small webserver, a database, a TeamSpeak server and a PLEX Media Server on it. While idling (aka "not gaming on it") it consumes around 200W of power. I balanced that consumption by replacing all my light bulbs with low-consumption ones, and I actually pay less than when I had incandescent light bulbs and no gaming PC. While gaming, my PC consumes 400-450W and that happens 2-3 hours a day, some days it consumes less while gaming because some games I play don't tax the CPU/GPU so much. GPU Power is at 30% while playing Kerbal Space Program but it jumps to 100% while playing Witcher 3.
TFA is blanket-statement and scaremongering. If you really want a reduction in power consumption, tell all those bloody corporations to cut off the amount of lighting they use for their buildings, most of which are lit like a fucking Christmas tree and filled to the brim with computers which never turn off (not talking about servers here).
Oh, so they're not only doing that for ads, they're also doing that for regular search results? I agree, if they're paid for, they should go to the ads section.
Isn't this how commerce works? Company A pays 100 bucks for ads, company B pays 10000 bucks for ads, company B gets results displayed first on similar search terms. Is this illegal?
That's not what I am suggesting. Maybe the analogy was imperfect.
Systemd is like cars compared to horse carriages in early 1900s. They were a not-so-good alternative to the established method. Horse-based transportation was a mature solution which reached its limits, and cars at the time were a worse alternative in most ways.
I say, give it time. See if it would grow into something better. Flinging poo at systemd is like yelling "get a horse!" when seeing a car, back in the 1900s. True at the moment, but in time proven to be shortsighted.
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No, I think that's still too broad. If the user intends to give away 5000 copies of that software to people who didn't buy it, but the software prevents that through online license number checking, it would be malware. But it's not.
Calling it malware is, IMO, a dickish move.
Maybe "the software does, by design, something that the user didn't intend to do, and does it without notifying the user of whatever it is that it's doing". Not really complete, but takes things a step further.
How about directed coherent light?
Shining a huge ass laser directly towards the solar system (or where it'll be 50 years from now on the sky) would be more effective.
...such as bugs?
When I didn't ask to install it.
I would go one step further, any software is malware when it does something other than the user intended.
So... software bugs are all malware?
Actually it makes sense.
Energy input can be photons, energy output is mid-wave Infrared.
Uninhabited galaxy emits energy as X-Ray+Photons+mid-wave Infrared+UV+god knows whet else.
Inhabited galaxy (by Type III) emits way less Photons but more mid-wave Infrared than the above, because the Photon energy is captured and part of it emitted as mid-wave Infrared.
One type of emission becomes much greater than expected, not the overall energy emission.
Agreed. Maybe is't just a matter of feasibility. Civilization X advances enough to realize that trapping the whole star into a Dyson sphere is simply less effective than matter/antimatter energy generation or microfusion piles, for example.
My God, the URL abuse in that article...
I'm no expert, but I remember reading that digital communication is virtually undetectable at galactic distances, because it fades way more quickly and becomes indistinguishable from background noise.
About the heat emissions... dunno what to say. An advanced civilization might be so thinned out, galactic-wise that it would emit an insignificant amount of heat. Or it could be a race which doesn't reproduce easily and lives for a long time, e.g. a couple million sentient beings per planet, who need very little in terms of energy. The possibilities are limitless.
Just wondering... how much heat does mankind generate? Can someone 1000 LY away detect our heat emissions?
Related: 1h ago I was called by a HP representative to get me hired. My interview is Friday.
Note: I live in a low-cost country and HP has been hiring like crazy, 20% of my co-workers have already moved to HP. They pay slightly better than my current employer (which is arguably bigger than HP globally but have a shitty salary process) and from what I've heard they have a good working environment.
I wonder how difficult would it be to 3D-print a Star Wars watch case and fit a regular watch in it.
Apparently I am :)
Disregard the above, I'm an idiot.
TFS apparently calculates overall pollution since the dawn of time. In all fairness, it should be calculated since the moment people realized pollution hurts climate.
Bever say bever!
Not science. Art.
And over 50% for both genders, while we're at it! Come on, I know we could ultimately have 100% of each gender in any given job. Failure to achieve that is our own damn fault!
It's not that important to pay cash for it :)
I'm measuring my PC and everything else on my desk, e.g. external HDDs, battery charger, docked phone, charging tablet, headphones, desk lamp, two monitors, the GPON and so on.
My computer is being used even when I'm not using it myself. I have an FTP server, a small webserver, a database, a TeamSpeak server and a PLEX Media Server on it. While idling (aka "not gaming on it") it consumes around 200W of power. I balanced that consumption by replacing all my light bulbs with low-consumption ones, and I actually pay less than when I had incandescent light bulbs and no gaming PC.
While gaming, my PC consumes 400-450W and that happens 2-3 hours a day, some days it consumes less while gaming because some games I play don't tax the CPU/GPU so much. GPU Power is at 30% while playing Kerbal Space Program but it jumps to 100% while playing Witcher 3.
TFA is blanket-statement and scaremongering. If you really want a reduction in power consumption, tell all those bloody corporations to cut off the amount of lighting they use for their buildings, most of which are lit like a fucking Christmas tree and filled to the brim with computers which never turn off (not talking about servers here).
Oh, so they're not only doing that for ads, they're also doing that for regular search results?
I agree, if they're paid for, they should go to the ads section.
Isn't this how commerce works?
Company A pays 100 bucks for ads, company B pays 10000 bucks for ads, company B gets results displayed first on similar search terms.
Is this illegal?
Correct question is "why do they jailbreak?".
I don't have a driver's license.
And you of course missed the point.
That's not what I am suggesting.
Maybe the analogy was imperfect.
Systemd is like cars compared to horse carriages in early 1900s. They were a not-so-good alternative to the established method.
Horse-based transportation was a mature solution which reached its limits, and cars at the time were a worse alternative in most ways.
I say, give it time. See if it would grow into something better. Flinging poo at systemd is like yelling "get a horse!" when seeing a car, back in the 1900s. True at the moment, but in time proven to be shortsighted.
Nothing except that sometimes it's not fast enough.