The one site that I can think of that actually does use a webcam/mic via flash is ChatRoulette. So we might all be better if we don't have cam/mic support....
The author mentions the disk access for deduped primary storage (he points out (rightfully so) that deduped primary storage will perform slower than non-deduped primary storage), but he failed to mention what I think is an important point when discussing deduplication and network performance/bottlenecks.
If you dedupe your backups (the author mentions, for example, a VTL solution), you then gain the ability to replicate only the unique data to your DR site. In terms of saving bandwidth, this can be an absolutely huge savings. Imagine if you backup to a VTL, and with dedupe you get an average 25:1 ratio; that means that, for the purposes of DR, you can replicate 25x more data through your pipe than you would have been able to, without dedupe.
The author mentions the disk access for deduped primary storage (he points out (rightfully so) that deduped primary storage will perform slower than non-deduped primary storage), but he failed to mention what I think is an important point when discussing deduplication and network performance/bottlenecks.
If you dedupe your backups (the author mentions, for example, a VTL solution), you then gain the ability to replicate only the unique data to your DR site. In terms of saving bandwidth, this can be an absolutely huge savings. Imagine if you backup to a VTL, and with dedupe you get an average 25:1 ratio; that means that, for the purposes of DR, you can replicate 25x more data through your pipe than you would have been able to, without dedupe.
You're acting like the Russians are just going to take his dollars and burn them in a furnace, or that somehow those dollars are going to be taken out of circulation, never to be used for anything ever again.
Realize that his $30 million is going to be spent by the Russians; on the development of new technology, on fuel (and hence, on employees of the energy companies), on paying engineers and scientists; on all the things required to maintain a space program.
If you want to support an industry - and most people on slashdot probably believe the space industry is one worth supporting - the best thing you can do is to buy their product. That's exactly what he's doing.
I have to say, I love Google for their book search. I never read eBooks in their entirety; if I'm doing research I'll read a few relevant passages (again, Google book search to find them), but other than that I can't stand reading pages of text on my LCD. Dead-tree format is the way to go.
But you are 100% right - you can't "search" a physical book the way you can when it's digitized. Enter Google book search; if I own a book and want to find a particular passage, I can usually remember a few keywords to search for, and find it within seconds. I honestly don't know how people got along before search!
This is something I really hope gets asked. A lot of the comments here seem to be of the "the people you need aren't going to fit in with the military structure" as well as, "are you sure you even know what you're getting into doing this?"
I think Internet Privateers, a sibling-comment suggests, would be perfectly legitimate - and as effective, if not more effective, than an organized USAF "cyber attack" on, e.g, the PRC. I don't doubt the need for a "cyber command" to protect American information infrastructure, but I strongly suspect that an distributed, head-less method of attack is a better offensive strategy than a monolithic one. And I think most people on Slashdot would agree (although I am eager to hear arguments against it).
So really - what is your response to what the parent suggests? In the case that an offensive is required against enemy information targets, would the USAF be willing to publish a list of IP addresses for private citizens to crack?
Alltray and preload are two totally different things. With Alltray, you're talking about keeping the application open, just minimized to the system tray. With Preload, you're talking about caching the binaries/libraries in memory so when you do open the application, it's reading the data from RAM rather than the hard drive. Sure, AllTray moves the load to RAM, but at the cost of entire applications. The point of preload is that it just caches the most commonly used files.
This is exactly the point of "Identity 2.0" You can prove who you are, to any site on the web. It gives you a constant identity.
Granted, you can have more than one identity, but generally I think people like having single handles. It lets you build a reputation across multiple sites.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. "Needless" means unnecessary. Obviously, with more and more information going through the tubes, we NEED bigger tubes!
People aren't going to stop transfering data over the internet just because the telecoms say so. The trend is towards larger files, faster downloads, and more data. We NEED more bandwidth. Just because you don't want to be bothered with upgrades, doesn't make the upgrades unnecessary.
There's only so much one can see from the ground. Okay, so you can look up at the sky and say, "hey, there's a satellite, and it isn't listed publicly on the internet. It must be a secret government satellite!" Now, alright - this may be a small problem. It lets the enemy know where our spy satellites will be, and when. But they won't know what kind of sophisticated spying equipment is on them; whether they have a resolution of 5 meters or 5 inches. All they know, basically, is that there's a hunk of metal at some point in the sky, at some point in time.
The only way around this would be to create a bunch of decoy satellites. That is, until clocking technology is invented, I suppose. Unless you can keep the satellite with the sun behind it all the time, but then it isn't very stationary, now, is it.
I know that in the US, there's a very big difference between the civil courts and the criminal courts. While it seems that under Swedish law, the hosting of torrent files doesn't appear to be a crime, does anyone know if they have the same sort of distinctions between civil and criminal courts? Could they be found innocent in criminal court, yet still be forced to pay thousands/millions of damages in civil court?
From the summary, the rules are basically, "you may blog at the Olympics, but you may not blog about the Olympics. Unless you are blogging about what you had for breakfast at the Olympics, and you do not include pictures."
NASA has a history of lettingpeoplename things. It's a fun and easy way to get people interested in space travel, science, exploration, and whatever else it is that NASA is doing. The more people excited about NASA, the better.
Seriously, Adobe Reader has gotten huge in terms of file size, when compared to xpdf/kpdf/foxit/etc. I'm wondering if someone can explain to me what all this extra code is for? Obviously it must be doing something, but personally I've never seen the difference.
It takes one kind of person to abuse their position as a public official to turn a quick buck (we call these people politicians). But then, once your scam doesn't work anymore, you sue - and not even under some pretense of fairness with a hidden (yet, most likely obvious) motive - but blatantly sue for financial loss? That's corruption at its worst.
It seems to me that she wouldn't be complaining if the $8 she charged for paper copies was only to cover distribution and reproduction costs. The fact that she tried to charge $8 per map for a digital copy makes it obvious that she's trying to turn an extra buck on what is, quite obviously, information that should be public and available for anyone interested.
Like the article says, taxation should be a transparent process. This isn't in any way similar to the argument over physical music costs vs. digital downloads; this is something where profits shouldn't be involved at all. And if they truly weren't, she would have no problem publishing them on the internet for free (or only a nominal cost to cover bandwidth and hosting, which really should be included in taxes since it's a public service available for all; 0.0025$ per resident per year should be more than enough to cover it).
Haha, nice catch... as I was typing that, I spelled it wrong at first, went back, added an "o" and said to myself, "yeah, sure, that looks like a word, let's go with it." Guess the preview button is there for a reason. (Not hitting it in 3, 2, 1...)
A search engine's job is to provide you with the best results possible for your query. By removing results, the search engine is failing to perform its function to the best of its ability.
A cooperation's job is to earn as much money as possible for its shareholders. In this particular case, we have a company with an obligation to its shareholders to produce as much profit as possible. China is a huge market - Google can't not participate in it, that would be neglecting its responsibility to its shareholders. But since Google is in the search business, and China has certain rules about information exchange, Google has no choice but to cripple its product in order to maximize profits.
This is yet another example of government regulation lowering the value of a product. But this time, it's in China, and we can all look at how lucky we have it that all Google has to worry about in the US is the DMCA, instead of outright censorship of political and religious decent.
Not only does this wreak of desperation on the part of Microsoft, but I have to wonder how in the world they thought this wasn't going to come out? Or they just didn't care?
"It's our email service, you have to use our browser." Fair enough - you've already driven these users away from your browser, now they're going to go ahead and move their email accounts, too. You're just alienating further those who have already realized that the Microsoft way isn't necessarily the best way.
And hey, Microsoft - people tell their friends about better services. Your competitor's services. How do you think Firefox is spreading so fast? It ain't 'cause of no "Where do you want to go today" commercials. I'm betting Gmail is going to see a nice surge in new accounts because of this.
You're completely right about it depending on "which lens you use," as you put it. But to use the w3c stats, or stats from websites you frequent, or your own website, will give a highly distorted view. These are (I'm assuming) mostly technical sites, with technically-minded people.
If you want to know how Linux is really doing on the desktop, look at the stats from ESPN.com. I'm betting not so good.
The article says that these are basically standard licenses, but they include RFID chips.
Is anyone else worried about all these RFID chips that companies and government seem to love putting everywhere? Credit cards? Products? Licenses?
They do realize that RFID is not secure, right? And that anyone with a few bucks can buy or build an RFID reader and cloner? So basically, the validity of your RFID scan is zero. Anyone who can counterfeit a license today will be able to counterfeit a license tomorrow, as long as they do a little research and invest in some extra equipment. It's a business - those who can't (or don't) adapt will die out, and those who do adapt to to the new market will succeed. But it will not be going away any time soon. RFID does not make anything more secure.
I doubt Microsoft really cares if you buy XP with your computer instead of Vista. They way they look at it, it's even good for them - Vista is a Juggernaut that will eventually be standard on modern desktops; people who choose XP instead of Vista are going to have to buy a copy of Vista down the line.
So from Microsoft's standpoint, people buying XP is great for them - they get paid once for their old OS, and then they get paid again when you buy a boxed copy of Vista down the line.
FTA: She suggests that common filtering software may not be effective, since children will access what they are looking for elsewhere -- at a friend's house, an Internet café, or school. And if the child accesses dangerous material outside of the home, they will be unprepared and uninformed when it happens, she says. (Emphasis mine)
What is this "it"? "It" is a word that must refer to something previously stated. Unprepared and uninformed when what happens? And what is this "dangerous material" that everyone is so afraid of? Porn? The Anarchist Cookbook?
People are so terrified of the dangers lurking on the internet. It's just a method of information exchange. Sure, okay, "it" can refer to meeting some 47 year old guy pretending to be a 10 year old girl, but for the overwhelming majority of things that a kid is doing online, "it" is undefined.
Oh - and, if it is porn... why the heck are you blocking/getting up set at your teenage kid from watching porn? And if it's "how to blow stuff up 101" then you should be teaching them better (so they don't have to go online to find out. It's safer this way!).
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The one site that I can think of that actually does use a webcam/mic via flash is ChatRoulette. So we might all be better if we don't have cam/mic support....
The author mentions the disk access for deduped primary storage (he points out (rightfully so) that deduped primary storage will perform slower than non-deduped primary storage), but he failed to mention what I think is an important point when discussing deduplication and network performance/bottlenecks.
If you dedupe your backups (the author mentions, for example, a VTL solution), you then gain the ability to replicate only the unique data to your DR site. In terms of saving bandwidth, this can be an absolutely huge savings. Imagine if you backup to a VTL, and with dedupe you get an average 25:1 ratio; that means that, for the purposes of DR, you can replicate 25x more data through your pipe than you would have been able to, without dedupe.
The author mentions the disk access for deduped primary storage (he points out (rightfully so) that deduped primary storage will perform slower than non-deduped primary storage), but he failed to mention what I think is an important point when discussing deduplication and network performance/bottlenecks.
If you dedupe your backups (the author mentions, for example, a VTL solution), you then gain the ability to replicate only the unique data to your DR site. In terms of saving bandwidth, this can be an absolutely huge savings. Imagine if you backup to a VTL, and with dedupe you get an average 25:1 ratio; that means that, for the purposes of DR, you can replicate 25x more data through your pipe than you would have been able to, without dedupe.
You're acting like the Russians are just going to take his dollars and burn them in a furnace, or that somehow those dollars are going to be taken out of circulation, never to be used for anything ever again.
Realize that his $30 million is going to be spent by the Russians; on the development of new technology, on fuel (and hence, on employees of the energy companies), on paying engineers and scientists; on all the things required to maintain a space program.
If you want to support an industry - and most people on slashdot probably believe the space industry is one worth supporting - the best thing you can do is to buy their product. That's exactly what he's doing.
I have to say, I love Google for their book search. I never read eBooks in their entirety; if I'm doing research I'll read a few relevant passages (again, Google book search to find them), but other than that I can't stand reading pages of text on my LCD. Dead-tree format is the way to go.
But you are 100% right - you can't "search" a physical book the way you can when it's digitized. Enter Google book search; if I own a book and want to find a particular passage, I can usually remember a few keywords to search for, and find it within seconds. I honestly don't know how people got along before search!
This is something I really hope gets asked. A lot of the comments here seem to be of the "the people you need aren't going to fit in with the military structure" as well as, "are you sure you even know what you're getting into doing this?"
I think Internet Privateers, a sibling-comment suggests, would be perfectly legitimate - and as effective, if not more effective, than an organized USAF "cyber attack" on, e.g, the PRC. I don't doubt the need for a "cyber command" to protect American information infrastructure, but I strongly suspect that an distributed, head-less method of attack is a better offensive strategy than a monolithic one. And I think most people on Slashdot would agree (although I am eager to hear arguments against it).
So really - what is your response to what the parent suggests? In the case that an offensive is required against enemy information targets, would the USAF be willing to publish a list of IP addresses for private citizens to crack?
Posting on slashdot is all well and good, but the EFF can only continue its work if you support them financially !
I'm a member.. are you?
OS X uses Prebinding, which is a bit of a different thing.
Alltray and preload are two totally different things. With Alltray, you're talking about keeping the application open, just minimized to the system tray. With Preload, you're talking about caching the binaries/libraries in memory so when you do open the application, it's reading the data from RAM rather than the hard drive. Sure, AllTray moves the load to RAM, but at the cost of entire applications. The point of preload is that it just caches the most commonly used files.
This is exactly the point of "Identity 2.0" You can prove who you are, to any site on the web. It gives you a constant identity.
Granted, you can have more than one identity, but generally I think people like having single handles. It lets you build a reputation across multiple sites.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. "Needless" means unnecessary. Obviously, with more and more information going through the tubes, we NEED bigger tubes!
People aren't going to stop transfering data over the internet just because the telecoms say so. The trend is towards larger files, faster downloads, and more data. We NEED more bandwidth. Just because you don't want to be bothered with upgrades, doesn't make the upgrades unnecessary.
There's only so much one can see from the ground. Okay, so you can look up at the sky and say, "hey, there's a satellite, and it isn't listed publicly on the internet. It must be a secret government satellite!" Now, alright - this may be a small problem. It lets the enemy know where our spy satellites will be, and when. But they won't know what kind of sophisticated spying equipment is on them; whether they have a resolution of 5 meters or 5 inches. All they know, basically, is that there's a hunk of metal at some point in the sky, at some point in time.
The only way around this would be to create a bunch of decoy satellites. That is, until clocking technology is invented, I suppose. Unless you can keep the satellite with the sun behind it all the time, but then it isn't very stationary, now, is it.
I know that in the US, there's a very big difference between the civil courts and the criminal courts. While it seems that under Swedish law, the hosting of torrent files doesn't appear to be a crime, does anyone know if they have the same sort of distinctions between civil and criminal courts? Could they be found innocent in criminal court, yet still be forced to pay thousands/millions of damages in civil court?
From the summary, the rules are basically, "you may blog at the Olympics, but you may not blog about the Olympics. Unless you are blogging about what you had for breakfast at the Olympics, and you do not include pictures."
Woohoo, freedom of the press!
NASA has a history of letting people name things. It's a fun and easy way to get people interested in space travel, science, exploration, and whatever else it is that NASA is doing. The more people excited about NASA, the better.
Seriously, Adobe Reader has gotten huge in terms of file size, when compared to xpdf/kpdf/foxit/etc. I'm wondering if someone can explain to me what all this extra code is for? Obviously it must be doing something, but personally I've never seen the difference.
It takes one kind of person to abuse their position as a public official to turn a quick buck (we call these people politicians). But then, once your scam doesn't work anymore, you sue - and not even under some pretense of fairness with a hidden (yet, most likely obvious) motive - but blatantly sue for financial loss? That's corruption at its worst.
It seems to me that she wouldn't be complaining if the $8 she charged for paper copies was only to cover distribution and reproduction costs. The fact that she tried to charge $8 per map for a digital copy makes it obvious that she's trying to turn an extra buck on what is, quite obviously, information that should be public and available for anyone interested.
Like the article says, taxation should be a transparent process. This isn't in any way similar to the argument over physical music costs vs. digital downloads; this is something where profits shouldn't be involved at all. And if they truly weren't, she would have no problem publishing them on the internet for free (or only a nominal cost to cover bandwidth and hosting, which really should be included in taxes since it's a public service available for all; 0.0025$ per resident per year should be more than enough to cover it).
Haha, nice catch... as I was typing that, I spelled it wrong at first, went back, added an "o" and said to myself, "yeah, sure, that looks like a word, let's go with it." Guess the preview button is there for a reason. (Not hitting it in 3, 2, 1...)
I agree and disagree, but largely on semantics.
A search engine's job is to provide you with the best results possible for your query. By removing results, the search engine is failing to perform its function to the best of its ability.
A cooperation's job is to earn as much money as possible for its shareholders. In this particular case, we have a company with an obligation to its shareholders to produce as much profit as possible. China is a huge market - Google can't not participate in it, that would be neglecting its responsibility to its shareholders. But since Google is in the search business, and China has certain rules about information exchange, Google has no choice but to cripple its product in order to maximize profits.
This is yet another example of government regulation lowering the value of a product. But this time, it's in China, and we can all look at how lucky we have it that all Google has to worry about in the US is the DMCA, instead of outright censorship of political and religious decent.
Not only does this wreak of desperation on the part of Microsoft, but I have to wonder how in the world they thought this wasn't going to come out? Or they just didn't care?
"It's our email service, you have to use our browser." Fair enough - you've already driven these users away from your browser, now they're going to go ahead and move their email accounts, too. You're just alienating further those who have already realized that the Microsoft way isn't necessarily the best way.
And hey, Microsoft - people tell their friends about better services. Your competitor's services. How do you think Firefox is spreading so fast? It ain't 'cause of no "Where do you want to go today" commercials. I'm betting Gmail is going to see a nice surge in new accounts because of this.
You're completely right about it depending on "which lens you use," as you put it. But to use the w3c stats, or stats from websites you frequent, or your own website, will give a highly distorted view. These are (I'm assuming) mostly technical sites, with technically-minded people.
If you want to know how Linux is really doing on the desktop, look at the stats from ESPN.com. I'm betting not so good.
The article says that these are basically standard licenses, but they include RFID chips.
Is anyone else worried about all these RFID chips that companies and government seem to love putting everywhere? Credit cards? Products? Licenses?
They do realize that RFID is not secure, right? And that anyone with a few bucks can buy or build an RFID reader and cloner? So basically, the validity of your RFID scan is zero. Anyone who can counterfeit a license today will be able to counterfeit a license tomorrow, as long as they do a little research and invest in some extra equipment. It's a business - those who can't (or don't) adapt will die out, and those who do adapt to to the new market will succeed. But it will not be going away any time soon. RFID does not make anything more secure.
I doubt Microsoft really cares if you buy XP with your computer instead of Vista. They way they look at it, it's even good for them - Vista is a Juggernaut that will eventually be standard on modern desktops; people who choose XP instead of Vista are going to have to buy a copy of Vista down the line.
So from Microsoft's standpoint, people buying XP is great for them - they get paid once for their old OS, and then they get paid again when you buy a boxed copy of Vista down the line.
FTA: She suggests that common filtering software may not be effective, since children will access what they are looking for elsewhere -- at a friend's house, an Internet café, or school. And if the child accesses dangerous material outside of the home, they will be unprepared and uninformed when it happens, she says. (Emphasis mine)
What is this "it"? "It" is a word that must refer to something previously stated. Unprepared and uninformed when what happens? And what is this "dangerous material" that everyone is so afraid of? Porn? The Anarchist Cookbook?
People are so terrified of the dangers lurking on the internet. It's just a method of information exchange. Sure, okay, "it" can refer to meeting some 47 year old guy pretending to be a 10 year old girl, but for the overwhelming majority of things that a kid is doing online, "it" is undefined.
Oh - and, if it is porn... why the heck are you blocking/getting up set at your teenage kid from watching porn? And if it's "how to blow stuff up 101" then you should be teaching them better (so they don't have to go online to find out. It's safer this way!).