Primer was a pretty good SF movie. Hard science, speculative plot. No spaceships, explosions, robots, or girls in saran wrap spacesuits. That's probably why you have never heard of it.
No, it's more like learning that her sister has a penis.
As long as you don't fuck her sister [go to the second movie], it shouldn't really matter.
I haven't ever seen the third Matrix. I don't plan to. My experience of the first two remain unchanged. The experience of the first two have only been changed for people that didn't take that advice, and went and saw the third one.
Furthermore, the only way to stop crap movies from being made is to not go to them. It's the only power we have, so exercise it.
Well, I suppose you could torrent and distribute it. If the MPAA is accurate, that does them even more damage.
You probably haven't included the power, cooling, network, and floor space cost of wherever that gear lives. Both installation and on-going costs. Also, for the backup solution.
Maybe you did, but the point is that the fully loaded cost would include a lot of hidden costs that you might take for granted.
That would be funny, 'cause the grid would still go down. So your stuff may work, but you wouldn't be able to power it. And the cable TV system would not deliver content, so you could turn on your EMP protected TV, but only be able to get static.
It seems to me that if you had a 100K CPUs at your control, you could find something to do with those compute cycles that would be more profitable than SPAM, especially if you weren't restrained by what was legal. Like breaking encryption keys.
Isn't there a more imaginative/profitable use of a botnet than to send spam?
We don't disagree on either of those points, we disagree on the fundamental question of whether or not the unborn child should be considered an individual, with rights of its own to be protected.
Yes, you're right. I'm guilty of using ideological shorthand.
I'll even take your comment further--pro-choicers don't necessarily ignore the rights of the unborn child. Where we disagree is whose rights prevail--does the women's rights to determine what happens to her body trump the rights of the unborn child to live? Both rights are basic and profound. From my perspective, it is further complicated by pregnancy being much more than a mere inconvenience, and a disbelief that every cell that divides should have the protected status of human life. If the latter were true, we would therefore treat the risk to every conception as emergency room--and the simple fact is that a high rate of conceptions (30%?) are flushed down the toilet as a result of natural processes.
So at what point do dividing cells garner the privilege and respect of human life? I don't know. It's sometime after the sperm meets the egg, but sometime before the child enters the world. And since I don't know when that happens, I'm prepared to let each woman decide from their own conscience. Who is in a better position to make that determination? The government? The medical establishment? Religious leaders?
Again, our key difference is that you appear to think you know when those cells should acquire that respect, and in turn have rights that trump the right of the women carrying the child.
Good point. Also the seminal issue, abortion. I have consistently failed to understand how a "small government" party deems itself responsible to tell me what to do with my body.
If they can figure out how to be really small government--less intrusion, lower taxes, less spending, less police state, less war--then they'll be a force to be reckoned with. Until then, they want to have their cake and eat it too--smaller government except when more governmental control suits their religious ideology.
Then I tell them to imagine having to go to the DMV, and like with the above...wait often for hours in long lines with govt. workers who are drones that dont' give a shit, and yet have them in control of dispensing your medical care...what Dr. to see...what prescription to fill, etc.
I'm really not sure that that's worse than giving that power to insurance companies. And at least with the government, you'd take the profit margins out of it.
The core problem is that some available medical treatments are frankly too expensive to be worth it--but if it's your life on the line it's worth anything to you. Perhaps if you need a heart transplant after 20 years of smoking and steaks you should, you know, die. Or at least pay for it yourself--if you have to foot the bill for a treatment for $100K you might be more inclined to make better choices.
Until that happens, we'll all have to share those costs. Since there is no upper limit on the expensive treatments that can be dreamed up, costs are going to continue to rise for all of us.
You have designed a global, massively used, high bandwidth computer system that maintains the state of several million users + provides for a computer AI interaction. How is your physical and software infrastructure designed to provide for this kind of access to that many simultaneous users, around the clock globally? How is maintenance and repair of your computer systems managed--you can't possibly get enough done in the scheduled window of downtimes. How have you distributed your datacenters to provide for the greatest reliability and accessibility? What are the specifics of your computer infrastructure, and how do they connect to your storage systems?
What direction do you expect to take your computer infrastructure in the future?
We should have a captcha for drunkeness--solve in order to proceed, and is hard to figure out when drunk. I know it would have kept me from posting several embarrassments.
This is kinda disturbing. If an alien race wants to take us over, will they just put something in an alcoholic drink and claim that it will give us a high like never before? We wouldn't be able to resist. "Sure, it's melting my face off. But oh, what a clean finish!"
Kidding aside, how did this guy know that a 45 Million year old yeast wouldn't, you know, kill him? If it's that old it couldn't have been used (and therefore proven safe) by our ancestors--that way predates human evolution. Couldn't it have produced a lethal biotoxin? Afterall, alcohol itself is just a mild biotoxin--but it'll kill you too in enough quantity. Couldn't this have produced unusual strength, or unknown secondary biotoxins?
I guess that's what undergraduats are for. He probably "tested" this sample at a CPSU beer bash on freshmen fraternity students before releasing his finding.
And posting to Slashdot is better than watching TV, somehow?
If you consider Slashdot to have intelligent debate, anymore, I think there'll be plenty of shows for you to enjoy on TV. Wheel of Fortune, for example.
I am much more interested in how this unit would perform against people with evil intent and were trying to hide it, than against people without evil intent that were trying to display one.
At this point, it would be better suited to helping critique a theater performance than actually improving security. It detects and evaluates actors, not real world situations.
Let alone the thought-crime implications. I'll be more worried when it's actually demonstrated to, you know, work as advertised.
The only thing I want to know: is this game worth installing Windows for? Because I can play WoW right now, on my Mac, without having to.
That's a much higher hurdle than purchasing the game itself. If I'm going to the effort to do that, I need some reasonable assurance that it'd be worthwhile to do so.
Many states include the person's SSN in the driver license string, by default. I don't know if New York does this. But if it does, then you could acquire SSN for anyone with this card at a distance.
The DHS has a pretty low opinion of us to think that these numbers will be useless to anyone but them. Someone with a remotely, invisible, and silent unique identifier could be abused in any number of ways.
At least in the short term, rather clear why they would see it as a clear win.
When I was working in government IT (as a contractor) we were required to buy US manufactured equipment. Dells were very easy to get approved. Apple and others were not.
Once this change of manufacturing source makes it to the government approved purchasing lists, Dell may find that they're no longer the preferred vendor to the government.
Seriously, if a tech tried this on me I think I would get the last laugh. Unless 40 year old overweight men that infrequently shave and are rarely sober are the guy's thing, he's likely to tear his eyes out after looking through my cam back to me.
That's a pretty damaging accusation, Bruce, and I'm sorry that you were compelled to keep it secret.
What do you think happened to that intent? Do you think it still exists, and this latest move by Microsoft is just a stratagem in that attempt? Or, they have changed their mind?
It looks to me like they tried to pursue patent action, but used SCO as a front so Microsoft itself would be protected from the fallout and backlash that this would cause. Now that the SCO lawsuit has failed, for all intents and purposes, could MS really be adopting a "if you can't beat them (legally), interoperate with them (so you can beat them in the marketplace)" ?
Slashdot Mirror
Fantastic idea. I can't imagine someone better at creating an artificial need and demand for products than the ex-CEO of Symantec.
"Oh Noes! The current products suck! You might all die!
But fortunately, do I have the solution for you. In low low payments of $800B/Qtr, all of your problems will be solved..."
Primer was a pretty good SF movie. Hard science, speculative plot. No spaceships, explosions, robots, or girls in saran wrap spacesuits. That's probably why you have never heard of it.
No, it's more like learning that her sister has a penis.
As long as you don't fuck her sister [go to the second movie], it shouldn't really matter.
I haven't ever seen the third Matrix. I don't plan to. My experience of the first two remain unchanged. The experience of the first two have only been changed for people that didn't take that advice, and went and saw the third one.
Furthermore, the only way to stop crap movies from being made is to not go to them. It's the only power we have, so exercise it.
Well, I suppose you could torrent and distribute it. If the MPAA is accurate, that does them even more damage.
You probably haven't included the power, cooling, network, and floor space cost of wherever that gear lives. Both installation and on-going costs. Also, for the backup solution.
Maybe you did, but the point is that the fully loaded cost would include a lot of hidden costs that you might take for granted.
Your mileage may vary, but I just jumped $30k in salary during a recession.
Wait, that makes you the arrogant jackass, right?
That would be funny, 'cause the grid would still go down. So your stuff may work, but you wouldn't be able to power it. And the cable TV system would not deliver content, so you could turn on your EMP protected TV, but only be able to get static.
If you're "just beginning to take" CS classes, I'll assume you're an undergraduate. I really don't think that you have much to worry about.
And there would be nothing you could do about it.
Change the port that ssh listens on? Only listen for ssh on the intranet, and nothing external?
It seems to me that if you had a 100K CPUs at your control, you could find something to do with those compute cycles that would be more profitable than SPAM, especially if you weren't restrained by what was legal. Like breaking encryption keys.
Isn't there a more imaginative/profitable use of a botnet than to send spam?
We don't disagree on either of those points, we disagree on the fundamental question of whether or not the unborn child should be considered an individual, with rights of its own to be protected.
Yes, you're right. I'm guilty of using ideological shorthand.
I'll even take your comment further--pro-choicers don't necessarily ignore the rights of the unborn child. Where we disagree is whose rights prevail--does the women's rights to determine what happens to her body trump the rights of the unborn child to live? Both rights are basic and profound. From my perspective, it is further complicated by pregnancy being much more than a mere inconvenience, and a disbelief that every cell that divides should have the protected status of human life. If the latter were true, we would therefore treat the risk to every conception as emergency room--and the simple fact is that a high rate of conceptions (30%?) are flushed down the toilet as a result of natural processes.
So at what point do dividing cells garner the privilege and respect of human life? I don't know. It's sometime after the sperm meets the egg, but sometime before the child enters the world. And since I don't know when that happens, I'm prepared to let each woman decide from their own conscience. Who is in a better position to make that determination? The government? The medical establishment? Religious leaders?
Again, our key difference is that you appear to think you know when those cells should acquire that respect, and in turn have rights that trump the right of the women carrying the child.
Good point. Also the seminal issue, abortion. I have consistently failed to understand how a "small government" party deems itself responsible to tell me what to do with my body.
If they can figure out how to be really small government--less intrusion, lower taxes, less spending, less police state, less war--then they'll be a force to be reckoned with. Until then, they want to have their cake and eat it too--smaller government except when more governmental control suits their religious ideology.
Then I tell them to imagine having to go to the DMV, and like with the above...wait often for hours in long lines with govt. workers who are drones that dont' give a shit, and yet have them in control of dispensing your medical care...what Dr. to see...what prescription to fill, etc.
I'm really not sure that that's worse than giving that power to insurance companies. And at least with the government, you'd take the profit margins out of it.
The core problem is that some available medical treatments are frankly too expensive to be worth it--but if it's your life on the line it's worth anything to you. Perhaps if you need a heart transplant after 20 years of smoking and steaks you should, you know, die. Or at least pay for it yourself--if you have to foot the bill for a treatment for $100K you might be more inclined to make better choices.
Until that happens, we'll all have to share those costs. Since there is no upper limit on the expensive treatments that can be dreamed up, costs are going to continue to rise for all of us.
To Paul Sams, COO:
You have designed a global, massively used, high bandwidth computer system that maintains the state of several million users + provides for a computer AI interaction. How is your physical and software infrastructure designed to provide for this kind of access to that many simultaneous users, around the clock globally? How is maintenance and repair of your computer systems managed--you can't possibly get enough done in the scheduled window of downtimes. How have you distributed your datacenters to provide for the greatest reliability and accessibility? What are the specifics of your computer infrastructure, and how do they connect to your storage systems?
What direction do you expect to take your computer infrastructure in the future?
We should have a captcha for drunkeness--solve in order to proceed, and is hard to figure out when drunk. I know it would have kept me from posting several embarrassments.
This is kinda disturbing. If an alien race wants to take us over, will they just put something in an alcoholic drink and claim that it will give us a high like never before? We wouldn't be able to resist. "Sure, it's melting my face off. But oh, what a clean finish!"
Kidding aside, how did this guy know that a 45 Million year old yeast wouldn't, you know, kill him? If it's that old it couldn't have been used (and therefore proven safe) by our ancestors--that way predates human evolution. Couldn't it have produced a lethal biotoxin? Afterall, alcohol itself is just a mild biotoxin--but it'll kill you too in enough quantity. Couldn't this have produced unusual strength, or unknown secondary biotoxins?
I guess that's what undergraduats are for. He probably "tested" this sample at a CPSU beer bash on freshmen fraternity students before releasing his finding.
And posting to Slashdot is better than watching TV, somehow?
If you consider Slashdot to have intelligent debate, anymore, I think there'll be plenty of shows for you to enjoy on TV. Wheel of Fortune, for example.
those told to act suspicious
I am much more interested in how this unit would perform against people with evil intent and were trying to hide it, than against people without evil intent that were trying to display one.
At this point, it would be better suited to helping critique a theater performance than actually improving security. It detects and evaluates actors, not real world situations.
Let alone the thought-crime implications. I'll be more worried when it's actually demonstrated to, you know, work as advertised.
The only thing I want to know: is this game worth installing Windows for? Because I can play WoW right now, on my Mac, without having to.
That's a much higher hurdle than purchasing the game itself. If I'm going to the effort to do that, I need some reasonable assurance that it'd be worthwhile to do so.
Some long string of bytes that's all.
Many states include the person's SSN in the driver license string, by default. I don't know if New York does this. But if it does, then you could acquire SSN for anyone with this card at a distance.
The DHS has a pretty low opinion of us to think that these numbers will be useless to anyone but them. Someone with a remotely, invisible, and silent unique identifier could be abused in any number of ways.
He was using the logical fallacy of "appeal to PC-nes" to complain about how smoky you were making his backyard, and he didn't appreciate it.
He thought, erroneously, that while you obviously don't give a shit about his feelings that you might care about the wellbeing of a polar bear.
Passive aggressive? Yes. I assume you live in California.
btw, the correct response to his question is:
"I dunno. How about you come over and share some ribs with me and we'll talk about it?"
At least in the short term, rather clear why they would see it as a clear win.
When I was working in government IT (as a contractor) we were required to buy US manufactured equipment. Dells were very easy to get approved. Apple and others were not.
Once this change of manufacturing source makes it to the government approved purchasing lists, Dell may find that they're no longer the preferred vendor to the government.
Johnny's brain could hold 80GB, or 160GB if he used a "doubler". So a PB is 12.5 times the capacity of Johnny's brain, undoubled.
I should know. ;)
I've always imagined Bill's house as a nice secluded ranch somewhere
Why imagine, when the power of the internet is at your fingertips?
More to the point, why revel in fantasy when truth is so easily obtained?
http://www.chuggnutt.com/2006/05/04/bill_gates_house.html
In Soviet Russia, webcam watches you!
Seriously, if a tech tried this on me I think I would get the last laugh. Unless 40 year old overweight men that infrequently shave and are rarely sober are the guy's thing, he's likely to tear his eyes out after looking through my cam back to me.
That's a pretty damaging accusation, Bruce, and I'm sorry that you were compelled to keep it secret.
What do you think happened to that intent? Do you think it still exists, and this latest move by Microsoft is just a stratagem in that attempt? Or, they have changed their mind?
It looks to me like they tried to pursue patent action, but used SCO as a front so Microsoft itself would be protected from the fallout and backlash that this would cause. Now that the SCO lawsuit has failed, for all intents and purposes, could MS really be adopting a "if you can't beat them (legally), interoperate with them (so you can beat them in the marketplace)" ?