It's all already there, except for the IO pins if you want to do serious embedded type development. But for the price of four of these Pis you could get a chinese 'google tv' adapter with 1gig of DDR3+4-8 gigs of ram, an RK3066 dual core ARM+Quad Core Mali 400, one or two usb ports, 802.11n, HDMI out (no Composite support unless you drop back to move expensive single-core options.
Those may be fine if you only wish to run Android on them, but running Linux on those would be a real pain. Go ahead and research e.g. the Mali-400 support and you'll quickly see what I mean.
As a Catholic, I completely agree with evolution, and have no problems with it being taught in schools. That being said, people here are losing sight of the fact that it is a parent's job to raise and educate their own children. The government is there as an assistance to the parents - absolutely not as a usurper. Much of the conversation here, while correct on the science, is absolutely incorrect on the fundamentals of human rights and freedoms.
I have to disagree. There are plenty of aspects to government, including maintaining a functional society and moving it forward, keeping the society healthy and to encourage development that increases equality. Teaching children that the world was created by a magical being and that humans are inherently superior beings compared to anything and everything else is quite the opposite of those aforementioned goals, promoting irrational thought, inequality, distrust in sciences and so on and so forth. Adults may be free to believe whatever they want, but government really does have the responsibility of stepping in when parents go wrong.
it's like selling pretty slave collars in a Goodwill store.
Now you went and caught my attention; what kinds of collars are we talking about here? Leather, I presume, but what else? I own a few ones from before and my favorite is this one with 3, large rings in the front.
Sometimes people want brand-recognition or some famous name behind a project, and will thusly agree to back the project even if there was nothing else than stick figures, and when there is no brand-recognition or a famous name behind the project these people will refer to the project's popularity as a measure of worth.
There was an article on Ars Technica about a similar phenomenon a while back: a group of researchers performed tests on various groups of people and found out that some people actually prefer less specific information and would actually run the opposite direction of products with highly detailed packaging -- these people were also much more likely to just choose a product with some familiar name or a product that was seemingly popular among these persons' peers, even if the product was actually of pretty poor quality. The other group of people were the kinds who tend to drift towards analytical careers and similar, and who preferred to have as much information as possible and were much more likely to ignore the brand or peer pressure.
I've never heard of that game and I know it's not to my tastes, but damn, I gotta hand it to you guys for daring to try an entirely new gaming experience. It sure is atleast innovative if nothing else! Good luck with your game and remember to have as much fun developing it as your eventual gamers will have playing it:)
You've been trying to advertise that game of yours a few times before here on Slashdot, though, and instead of profits you're clearly expecting praise. You're not getting either from me, though.
No. This is just to appeal to environmentalists and the general populace, and will be a very rare occurrence. I verily doubt you'll see a single company in the next 10 years being forced to "take responsibility."
2. Websites that insist on posting useless bandwidth-hogging 'talking head' videos rather than posting a simple photo and a text summary.
This one is one of my pet peeves: I can't even count the number of times I've wanted to know more about something that could have been explained much more clearly AND in only a few passages of text but the author(s) insisted instead on making a video with a talking head that adds absolutely not a single thing to the topic. What's the point? Video should be actually used for something, but when it's just a head saying the same thing that could've been said in written text it's waste of everyone's time.
Nobody cares about you on fark? Too bad, it is even colder on slashdot.
Not really. I quite like her style after seeing several handfuls of comments from her, and the comment scores she is getting seem to be agreeing with me. On the other hand someone who seemingly has an axe to grind and is afraid of even posting under his own account....
4) Spotify -- well, many people enjoy streaming music, and it's not like Spotify slows your computer down just by being installed there
Spotify is actually using a peer-to-peer file-sharing for distributing music files. File-sharing music files does not consume that much resources (compared to, say, file-sharing movies...), but saying that it does not consume resources at all is wrong.
All the information I can find says it does that only when the client is running. If the client is not running then it indeed doesn't consume resources.
After Windows, the first piece of software I installed was Acer Live Update. It found zero updates, despite several unknown devices in the device manager. Useless.
It only knows to look for updates for things you have already installed. It doesn't know how to look updates for things you do not have installed yet, so indeed, it cannot be used to install drivers on a fresh install. Besides, it may not be useful to you, but it's useful to all the non-geeks who do not know where to look for drivers or BIOS-updates, and as these non-geeks do not do clean installs of Windows they do not run into the thing you mentioned, you know?
Let's see. There's plenty of apps on that list that I would NOT call crapware, as follows: 1) Acer Recovery Management -- well, the name says it all. It's an application that allows the user to e.g. create recovery disks for the system and/or restore the thing to factory conditions. 2) Acer Live Update -- it's a small application that periodically checks Acer's servers for updated software, drivers and BIOS. Again, quite useful. 3) Cyberlink MediaEspresso -- atleast the version I got on my laptop was the full version, not a trial one, and people do like to use the app to convert their videos for YouTube or mobile phones. 4) Spotify -- well, many people enjoy streaming music, and it's not like Spotify slows your computer down just by being installed there. 5) Crystal Eye -- it's a webcam utility which allows the user to record videos or take pictures. Since Windows seemingly does not include such an application of its own then it actually does make a lot of sense to include this.
I just get the impression that the author felt like whining online in an effort to gain some sort of street cred among geek community, but didn't actually peruse the list properly.
You may have missed the fact that these files are DRM-free and can be stored on any device you like -- including your local computer with your local music.
The thing is, if you're trying to starve them then they'll just get the police and/or the army to force people to keep them well-supplied and pampered. Arrest people for some silly things, for example, and then put the prisoners to work; it has worked well in the past and there is no reason it wouldn't work just as well in the future. The plan for starving the pampered elite would only work if the police and the army weren't following their orders.
It'd be stupid to fight them head on when starving their supply lines and waiting them out is an easier, more ethical, and less bloody alternative.
That I definitely agree with. Violence just tends to make things too personal, clouding one's judgement, and leads to a circle of revenge instead of something constructive. Besides, I just happen to hold life in high value -- both human and animal -- and therefore I'd still object to violence even if one could guarantee there'd be no such a circle.
I have thought about if a few times, and well, I'd lose everything I care about if I lost my eye-sight. If there was zero chance of me getting my eye-sight back within a year I would not hesitate a second to commit a suicide.
Then again, as the realist that I am I believe the situation will only go worse.
Likewise. It seems the world learns its lessons the same way a four year old does: No matter how many times you tell them what will happen if they don't wear their hat and mittens, they will still cheerfully ignore you. It seems that only after you've frozen the little bastard half to death that they learn.
It's unfortunate that we haven't yet managed to evolve a society that learns in any other way than by bludgeoning of the clue bat.
The thing that worries me is that the people in power are only gaining more and more and more power -- including technological creations -- and therefore if things were ever to boil over there'd be nothing the common populace could actually do to overthrow the big shots. We do not have access to widespread surveillance, including UAVs, blinding weapons, heavy-duty body armors and so on and so forth; the difference in actual physical power just keeps growing at the same speed as political and legal power. In other words, the people in power won't willingly give that power away via legal means even in the several hundreds of years it'll take people to realize the abuse, and the people in power hold all the physical toys, too. It's a scary prospect.
Sounds about right. I'm happy to see that there are still some people who can think for themselves. Hopefully this becomes a trend;-)
You hope thinking for oneself and realizing this situation where money equals power becomes a trend, whereas I hope one day there won't be a need for such at all. Then again, as the realist that I am I believe the situation will only go worse.
As in most places in the world, downloading is not a crime.
A lot of file sharing software is designed to upload simultaneously with the download. BitTorrent would be a popular example.
Indeed, and that is the issue in almost all these cases: downloading in and of itself isn't the criminal part, it's the uploading. There are plenty of ways of downloading stuff even without uploading, though, including on BitTorrent.
Unauthorized file sharing can be punished as a crime, even though it wouldn't be done for profit. Downloading illegal copies on the Internet will be prohibited. Downloading for personal use won't be punished
These are taken from your own link and clearly state that sharing is a crime, but downloading isn't.
That doesn't work because any basic anti-depression medication will stop people from having nervous reactions when lying.
Just a minor nit-pick: that's not anti-depressants, that's anti-anxiety. Anti-depressants generally take 2-3 weeks to even start working and they do not affect nervousness. I just quit anti-depressants, so I'd say I know.
If you've even been shocked by static electricity, you've probably been shocked by far more voltage. A quarter inch spark in air is around 20k volts
Static electricity is fun, I've had some pretty big shocks from the static build-up, like e.g. once I was planning to go to bed, I switched the lights off and I don't remember what it was that I touched but the whole room lit up when the spark went off. My hand was totally numb for a while! There was also this one guy who built up over 40,000 volts of static electricity and was near the point of spontaneous self-combustion.
Not that any of this has anything to do with the story, I just felt like sharing!
So it isn't a rootkit (rootkit is only class of malware what is made against operating system like Linux [kernel]) but just a malware what needs user to grant it a root rights.
Since TFA doesn't give enough details the kernel module and its files could, in theory, be a PART of a rootkit, but the party that installed the module and its files did all the work and the module is indeed just malware. And well, we don't know if the party that installed it in there was indeed using an unknown exploit or if it was just a person who got inside the server due to poorly-developed websites and/or SQL-injection, and it's much more likely it's just the latter.
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It's all already there, except for the IO pins if you want to do serious embedded type development. But for the price of four of these Pis you could get a chinese 'google tv' adapter with 1gig of DDR3+4-8 gigs of ram, an RK3066 dual core ARM+Quad Core Mali 400, one or two usb ports, 802.11n, HDMI out (no Composite support unless you drop back to move expensive single-core options.
Those may be fine if you only wish to run Android on them, but running Linux on those would be a real pain. Go ahead and research e.g. the Mali-400 support and you'll quickly see what I mean.
As a Catholic, I completely agree with evolution, and have no problems with it being taught in schools. That being said, people here are losing sight of the fact that it is a parent's job to raise and educate their own children. The government is there as an assistance to the parents - absolutely not as a usurper.
Much of the conversation here, while correct on the science, is absolutely incorrect on the fundamentals of human rights and freedoms.
I have to disagree. There are plenty of aspects to government, including maintaining a functional society and moving it forward, keeping the society healthy and to encourage development that increases equality. Teaching children that the world was created by a magical being and that humans are inherently superior beings compared to anything and everything else is quite the opposite of those aforementioned goals, promoting irrational thought, inequality, distrust in sciences and so on and so forth. Adults may be free to believe whatever they want, but government really does have the responsibility of stepping in when parents go wrong.
it's like selling pretty slave collars in a Goodwill store.
Now you went and caught my attention; what kinds of collars are we talking about here? Leather, I presume, but what else? I own a few ones from before and my favorite is this one with 3, large rings in the front.
Sometimes people want brand-recognition or some famous name behind a project, and will thusly agree to back the project even if there was nothing else than stick figures, and when there is no brand-recognition or a famous name behind the project these people will refer to the project's popularity as a measure of worth.
There was an article on Ars Technica about a similar phenomenon a while back: a group of researchers performed tests on various groups of people and found out that some people actually prefer less specific information and would actually run the opposite direction of products with highly detailed packaging -- these people were also much more likely to just choose a product with some familiar name or a product that was seemingly popular among these persons' peers, even if the product was actually of pretty poor quality. The other group of people were the kinds who tend to drift towards analytical careers and similar, and who preferred to have as much information as possible and were much more likely to ignore the brand or peer pressure.
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I've never heard of that game and I know it's not to my tastes, but damn, I gotta hand it to you guys for daring to try an entirely new gaming experience. It sure is atleast innovative if nothing else! Good luck with your game and remember to have as much fun developing it as your eventual gamers will have playing it :)
You've been trying to advertise that game of yours a few times before here on Slashdot, though, and instead of profits you're clearly expecting praise. You're not getting either from me, though.
"...take responsibility for their actions?"
No. This is just to appeal to environmentalists and the general populace, and will be a very rare occurrence. I verily doubt you'll see a single company in the next 10 years being forced to "take responsibility."
2. Websites that insist on posting useless bandwidth-hogging 'talking head' videos rather than posting a simple photo and a text summary.
This one is one of my pet peeves: I can't even count the number of times I've wanted to know more about something that could have been explained much more clearly AND in only a few passages of text but the author(s) insisted instead on making a video with a talking head that adds absolutely not a single thing to the topic. What's the point? Video should be actually used for something, but when it's just a head saying the same thing that could've been said in written text it's waste of everyone's time.
Nobody cares about you on fark? Too bad, it is even colder on slashdot.
Not really. I quite like her style after seeing several handfuls of comments from her, and the comment scores she is getting seem to be agreeing with me. On the other hand someone who seemingly has an axe to grind and is afraid of even posting under his own account....
4) Spotify -- well, many people enjoy streaming music, and it's not like Spotify slows your computer down just by being installed there
Spotify is actually using a peer-to-peer file-sharing for distributing music files.
File-sharing music files does not consume that much resources (compared to, say, file-sharing movies...), but saying that it does not consume resources at all is wrong.
All the information I can find says it does that only when the client is running. If the client is not running then it indeed doesn't consume resources.
After Windows, the first piece of software I installed was Acer Live Update. It found zero updates, despite several unknown devices in the device manager. Useless.
It only knows to look for updates for things you have already installed. It doesn't know how to look updates for things you do not have installed yet, so indeed, it cannot be used to install drivers on a fresh install. Besides, it may not be useful to you, but it's useful to all the non-geeks who do not know where to look for drivers or BIOS-updates, and as these non-geeks do not do clean installs of Windows they do not run into the thing you mentioned, you know?
Let's see. There's plenty of apps on that list that I would NOT call crapware, as follows: 1) Acer Recovery Management -- well, the name says it all. It's an application that allows the user to e.g. create recovery disks for the system and/or restore the thing to factory conditions. 2) Acer Live Update -- it's a small application that periodically checks Acer's servers for updated software, drivers and BIOS. Again, quite useful. 3) Cyberlink MediaEspresso -- atleast the version I got on my laptop was the full version, not a trial one, and people do like to use the app to convert their videos for YouTube or mobile phones. 4) Spotify -- well, many people enjoy streaming music, and it's not like Spotify slows your computer down just by being installed there. 5) Crystal Eye -- it's a webcam utility which allows the user to record videos or take pictures. Since Windows seemingly does not include such an application of its own then it actually does make a lot of sense to include this.
I just get the impression that the author felt like whining online in an effort to gain some sort of street cred among geek community, but didn't actually peruse the list properly.
You may have missed the fact that these files are DRM-free and can be stored on any device you like -- including your local computer with your local music.
The thing is, if you're trying to starve them then they'll just get the police and/or the army to force people to keep them well-supplied and pampered. Arrest people for some silly things, for example, and then put the prisoners to work; it has worked well in the past and there is no reason it wouldn't work just as well in the future. The plan for starving the pampered elite would only work if the police and the army weren't following their orders.
It'd be stupid to fight them head on when starving their supply lines and waiting them out is an easier, more ethical, and less bloody alternative.
That I definitely agree with. Violence just tends to make things too personal, clouding one's judgement, and leads to a circle of revenge instead of something constructive. Besides, I just happen to hold life in high value -- both human and animal -- and therefore I'd still object to violence even if one could guarantee there'd be no such a circle.
Think about how it feels to lose your sight.
I have thought about if a few times, and well, I'd lose everything I care about if I lost my eye-sight. If there was zero chance of me getting my eye-sight back within a year I would not hesitate a second to commit a suicide.
Then again, as the realist that I am I believe the situation will only go worse.
Likewise. It seems the world learns its lessons the same way a four year old does: No matter how many times you tell them what will happen if they don't wear their hat and mittens, they will still cheerfully ignore you. It seems that only after you've frozen the little bastard half to death that they learn.
It's unfortunate that we haven't yet managed to evolve a society that learns in any other way than by bludgeoning of the clue bat.
The thing that worries me is that the people in power are only gaining more and more and more power -- including technological creations -- and therefore if things were ever to boil over there'd be nothing the common populace could actually do to overthrow the big shots. We do not have access to widespread surveillance, including UAVs, blinding weapons, heavy-duty body armors and so on and so forth; the difference in actual physical power just keeps growing at the same speed as political and legal power. In other words, the people in power won't willingly give that power away via legal means even in the several hundreds of years it'll take people to realize the abuse, and the people in power hold all the physical toys, too. It's a scary prospect.
Sounds about right. I'm happy to see that there are still some people who can think for themselves. Hopefully this becomes a trend ;-)
You hope thinking for oneself and realizing this situation where money equals power becomes a trend, whereas I hope one day there won't be a need for such at all. Then again, as the realist that I am I believe the situation will only go worse.
A lot of file sharing software is designed to upload simultaneously with the download. BitTorrent would be a popular example.
Indeed, and that is the issue in almost all these cases: downloading in and of itself isn't the criminal part, it's the uploading. There are plenty of ways of downloading stuff even without uploading, though, including on BitTorrent.
Unauthorized file sharing can be punished as a crime, even though it wouldn't be done for profit.
Downloading illegal copies on the Internet will be prohibited. Downloading for personal use won't be punished
These are taken from your own link and clearly state that sharing is a crime, but downloading isn't.
It's actually "tekijänoikeusrikkomus," ie. breach of copyright. It does not in any way or form imply criminality.
That doesn't work because any basic anti-depression medication will stop people from having nervous reactions when lying.
Just a minor nit-pick: that's not anti-depressants, that's anti-anxiety. Anti-depressants generally take 2-3 weeks to even start working and they do not affect nervousness. I just quit anti-depressants, so I'd say I know.
If you've even been shocked by static electricity, you've probably been shocked by far more voltage. A quarter inch spark in air is around 20k volts
Static electricity is fun, I've had some pretty big shocks from the static build-up, like e.g. once I was planning to go to bed, I switched the lights off and I don't remember what it was that I touched but the whole room lit up when the spark went off. My hand was totally numb for a while! There was also this one guy who built up over 40,000 volts of static electricity and was near the point of spontaneous self-combustion.
Not that any of this has anything to do with the story, I just felt like sharing!
over my little pony toys.
Why do you collect small pony toys, and why do you let him ejaculate over them in the first place? :o
So it isn't a rootkit (rootkit is only class of malware what is made against operating system like Linux [kernel]) but just a malware what needs user to grant it a root rights.
Since TFA doesn't give enough details the kernel module and its files could, in theory, be a PART of a rootkit, but the party that installed the module and its files did all the work and the module is indeed just malware. And well, we don't know if the party that installed it in there was indeed using an unknown exploit or if it was just a person who got inside the server due to poorly-developed websites and/or SQL-injection, and it's much more likely it's just the latter.
"The rootkit is designed specifically for 64-bit Linux systems .. The new Linux rootkit is loaded into memory and once there"
How does this 'rootkit' get executed on the target machine, does it require prior root access in order to sucessfully execute?
Yes, it does. It contains no exploits whatsoever.