transient electromagnetic field in your drive actuator
I can't seem to remember that one. Was that the Dynamic Transient Magnetic Re-allocation Policy of my hard disk or the transient hysterisis loops in the head media? If it's the Re-allocation Policy of my hard disk, then I'm fscked, cuz I didn't do those backup things that everybody said I should do (but my AOL should back up important things, right? It said that it would make sure that I had an excellent browsing experiance!). If it's the transient hysterisis loops in the head media, then I already tried the reasonant magentic distortion rectifier. But I didn't really have one after you told me to use the 'highly-acidic battery charge' on the supply cabinet while they were plugging in the new networking room, so I just used the hammer and screwdriver, like last time. But now my hard drive is sort of bent and part of the metal box broke, and now that floppy circly thing is hanging out. And the AOL tech support people keep hitting the 'mute' button on their microphones for long periods of time after I call them and tell them what I did. It's almost as if they're laughing at me. But AOL wouldn't do that, right? Right?
I'm sorry, but Microsoft now owns all of this new memory technology. As you know, Microsoft holds a patent on Vapourware technology and a copyright on the phrase Vaporware, Vapourware, and DMCA. In fact, this post itself is a violation of the DMCA for even refering to the DMCA, because the DMCA prohibits use of copyrighted property which would include the phrase DMCA. And Vapourware.
Hmmm... go to the store and you buy a 50GB HD. Go home, partition disk as swap, pull out your old (outdated) RAM chips, now you've got 10GB of memory running at RAM speed (see above):)
could selectively power RAM to save a few watts here or there Wasnt't that what 'Standby' is? Swapping the RAM to HD and then cutting power, essentially?
terribly interested in RAM that you can take power away from, and have it maintain state... Um... sounds great... until the machine crashes.. and you have to use a magnet (or bulk eraser) to reboot... well... not without an operating system, since a magnet would wipe the hard drive...
RAM Hmm.. what an informative title. Can we get something a little longer, next time?
I'll give you a few hints and leave you to it: magnets and optics. Enjoy! This didn't work for me. I got the case off of the computer, yanked the newfangled RAM thingy out (that little clipper thingy snapped right off, landed on that noisy dusty box right in the middle) and stuck a magnet in. Nothin happened, cept my screen got all weird and frizzled and colory (I forgot to turn it off, but it didn't seem to make much difference). My AOL login screen got all screwed up. So I yanked the magenty bit out and stuck it back onto my box of floppie disks (gotta hold em down somehow). The optics thing didn't werk either. I went to the network room of the office and yanked out some of that orange optical fibur cable from the big gray box in the middle of the room, and then cut it open. I yanked out the little thingy thing inside and jammed in into the RAM socket. That seemed to work, so I put the lid thing back on the computer boxie and started clicking on AOL, but it was slow and stupid, not faster. You stupid Slashdot person screwed up my computah.
laughing at myself in 5 years for spending $75 on such small and slow media Yeah, we upgraded the server over here a week ago with 128 megs of fresh RAM. I can just wait until administration catches wind of this.. However, you mentioned that in 5 years that 32mb would be slow. Well, maybe in 5 years, but not because of this. CD-RW memory requires you to bulk erase large sections of the tape before you can write over it (at least in the current condition). Being that read speeds are right now about 8x the erase (rewrite) speed, this would mean blazing fast performance for a while and then a sudden, drastic stop for a while as the CD was being erased, and then more blazing fast performance. Just like with DVDs when they first came out, I'd stick with regular (or one of the other established types) RAM until CD-RW RAM technology is debugged, optimized, etc. Maybe DVD-RAM will be next.
but those results have not been revealed because of "commercial reasons." (Don't these people ever learn? You're not going to make a cent unless your process stands up to scientific review!) Back in the real world (non-Open Source, non-Software, there is such a place), corporations aren't always nice communities of people that will respond to your emails and modify their software distributions accordingly (in fact, there are actually some corporations that don't sell software). Many corporations in this so-called 'Real World' are greedy, capitalistic scum-suckers that care about only making the most money, instead of ethics. (You can relate those to Microsoft). Now, when you simply reveal the blueprints (source code) to the scientific community without either an NDA or a patent (real world equivalent of the GPL), these greedy, evil corporations (read: Microsoft-esque) will steal/ borrow/ use your new product in theirs. Now, you're not going to spend the time to patent something that doesn't work, simply stated, so your product needs to go through scientific review before you patent it. The only other option is going to be an NDA, or (more likely), an in-house team of scientists. Now, if they're not revealing it for 'commercial reasons', then they're probably planning to (gasp) make a profit on it. Now, that might sound like an absurd concept to you, but there are companies out there that make a profit. Redhat, Debian, etc.. make profits from selling their distributions, so profits aren't all bad. Look up. That banner ad is a profit for Andover. People like profits. Not everything is Open Source (at least, outside of the realm of software). Don't complain. They're just trying to remain competitive.
BTW, 'you' in that post refered to the Slashdot community at large, not just you. BTW, the last 'you' in that message refered to the you, not the Slashdot community at large. BTW, the last 'you' in that message refered to the you, not the Slashdot community at large. ...
Lineo. First of all, for everbody that doesn't know what Lineo does, they make embedded Linux systems for non-desktop computers (servers, production lines, cars, etc). Now, this Lineo company goes public. Whoop de do. The story is two lines. I get it that this is a Linux forum, but.. at least, couldn't the story have been a tad more informative?
I wish them luck. I'm sure you do. But a two line story needs something more in it. How about a financial analysis (can't find it in the story, in the article, or on the website. How should I know whether to invest if I can't find anything on it?), or a bit of history of their company (Caldera Embedded Systems or something like that). In a year when I find this in the archives Cnet will probably have dumped the news story, and there will be no information on what this story means.
Let me tell you a torid tale of a consumer market gone bad. There was a company of name Microsoft, who's OS was pretty sad. It was a graphical shell of a crappy cmd line and it hadn't true multiuser support. And at Microsofts head was a man named Bill, who wrote BASIC all from scratch. And the DOJ got put away until Bill released 2k. When Windows 2k was not Ok. The DOJ got pissed. And they sued MSFT for half their cash and Bill got really miffed. At the same time there was Linux, an OS that was pretty good. It was posix nice, with apache and Bryce, and was free and open as this. And Linux suits like RHAT sucked because they couldn't turn a profit: Who's going to buy a product they can download free from the 'net? And so the Linux hackers hacked away and made Linux for the I-64. And Bill got pissed and he was miffed and made a dangerous call. His friends at Intel picked up and cut him some slack. They conspired to get the DOJ off his back. They slowed the I-64 so Bill could get in, and rewrote the specs so that Linux can't win. And Bill got good and Linus got pissed and the DOJ saved the day. Cause MSFT went down and LNUX went up and RHAT flew away.
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Easy? I thought so. You can't break in to the box when there are no ports open.
Although this is Slashdot... it's sort of nice if you can have an HTTP port open. And Slashdot runs on Perl, so you'll want Cgi-bin\ working. Plus, you need something for the writers to upload their stories to. There's either Ftp (bad), ssh (not much better), or a hacked together uploader (not particularly good). Probably that means ssh. Next, Slashdot runs their own ad server. They'll want that linked up to the HTTP server. That means UUCP (erm.. not that good), Ether (better, as long as it's secure), or one-way optical (better, but that needs a reserved port). That's three ports, and we haven't even gotten to comment posting yet...
AI should be under psychology, or better yet, a department of it's own.
Right on all other counts. But why would anybody want AI under psych? If it has to be under something else, it should be artificial biology or biological engineering. Psychology is a component of AI, just like Linguistics and Human Interfacing. Biology and Comp Sci provide the foundations and hard science behind AI. But it should be under a department of its own, if it could. (Although, maybe it's rightly classified Comp Sci, because then it gets a larger timeshare on the University computer labs)
machines have absolutely no reason to want the same things we do? I am in an Artificial Intelligance division at a U.S. National Research Lab (can't say which, don't want anybody to know that I'm leaking this) we are working on models of intelligance networks that use, essentially, the necessities for biological function (eating, drinking, excreting, reproducing), as an intelligance model. The network runs on easy to produce microbots (bigger than nanobots, smaller than a penny) that use electricity flowing through the air (not flowing, but emitted by various things, toned down EMP) as water, metal as food and repair (they have tools to scrape shards of metal off of a metal block and high-heat fuse it onto damaged sectors of their body), and will collect bits of metal in a storage-bay type thing, in which they will construct other micro-bots. Our project is far from being completed, but rumor around here is that we may be getting military funding, so it might get done a bit faster.
Robotic Teenage Male Sex-Daemons roving the streets looking for tasty Human Teenage Girls to impregnate with their Metal/Carbon Hybrid CoDNA Yes, but you might have Robotic-Teenage (developing its modular components) Asexual Reproduction-Microbots roving the streets looking for tasty PentiumIII-Linux-Boxes to impregnate with their Microbot-Larvae-esque things. Wasn't my idea.
that self-guiding code that learns from failures and suffers from overcompensation--in other words, code that can even evolve under feedback loops--is pretty rare, even among the best attack detection systems All you need is one effective system that does all of the essential life functions. And we may be closer to making that system than anybody has known before.
what some *human* has programmed them to do. Tank or Pokemon, it's made by us It was a great experiance when I realized that this wasn't true. Tierras are mutating bits of code that, in this case, fight it out to the death. Put one of these in a positive feedback loop, and.. well.. we're using a derivitive of this idea to actually program the microbots, along with a decentralized data bank via infrared packet TCP/IP to evolve a massive collection of response data that we can moniter. The microbots will fight, like Tierras, except they will be working with actual, physical robots, instead of bits of memory. The microbots will be able to reproduce, and if we put them in a plastic room filled with old computers, they should eventually fill it up. The project is exciting, although we haven't yet got official word on the military funding.
Does anyone remember when we all started using linux cause it was cool?? I switched because it was open and (relatively, at that time) stable, but yeah.
Now linux is getting into a framework where everyone talks about the "business model" and the "value added" components, and the blah and the blah and the blah. Linux is becoming corporatized. It's now the 'next new fad' of the computer industry. Now that everybody has a webpage, and everybody has a.com e-business (bleck.. remember when the web was about resource sharing and transmitting information? Back in the post-ARPAnet but pre-SuperInformationCyberHighway days?), so the latest fad is running a Linux server. Not Linux because it's more stable and reliable than Windoze (although that began the fad), not Linux because it's secure and has strong multiuser support and uptime, not even Linux because it's a 1337 operating system, but Linux because it's the latest thing. These fads tend to rip through a new technology, spread crappy implementations of it everywhere, and then leave it rotting, the old userbase disgusted and the new users left in the dust with a horrid half-implemented Linux system that fails half the time and doesn't even boot the other half. (Linux, in some respects, is better than that, but this new system they have isn't the same kind of quality as there was before the fad.)
I'm fucking switching to BSD The one great thing is that once the fad sweeps through Open Source, it won't come back for a while. BSD will remain unharmed, while at the same time getting the B1 security certification that its been working on all the while. If this fad rips Linux apart and truely mutilates it, we can expect that the older Open Source advocates will switch to BSD. It's not that terribly different from Linux.
going to happen sooner than we think. Self-Actualizing Prophecy alert! If the strong Linux userbase leaves because Linux is becoming corporatized, then even more of Linux will become corporatized. If the strong userbase remains, and they hand out copies of the GPL to the new sysadmins, and Slashdot remains an open forum for talk about things like this, then Linux will never truely become completely corporatized. Sure, businesses will make closed-source apps. But, if the strong userbase remains, we can make open-source ones to compete with the closed-source ones, just like Linux competes with Microsoft. The incredible Linux userbase, in my opinion, is capable of doing everything that the closed-source companies can do, and more.
which have a frighteningly strong chance of holding up against at relatively weak GPL That is the one weakness of the entire Open Source movement. If, say, Microsoft found a loophole in the GPL, we're all dead. But hopefully that won't happen. I believe that, with the governments pro-competition idiology that the GPL will hold up in court, being the incredible volume of software that would be vulnerable if it was thrown out.
switch to the next "linux" In my opinion, if Linux were ever to die (I hope not), then BSD would be the next 'Linux'. It's open source, without being part of the Open Source 'fad'. It has a higher security certification than Linux (Last time I checked), and is certainly a viable alternative. But I hope that Linux doesn't die.
(hint, it's founder's name starts with B, and ends in "ill Gates") Bill Gates made an operating system? MS-DOS was bought by Microsoft (originally QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System, now Microsoft's Dirty Operating System), Windows was blatently ripped off of Xerox, with bits of the MacOS, NT was from VMS and Windows, and Win2k was from NT and 98 (which is actually 95 + Active Desktop and bug fixes, and 95 is actually a graphical shell for 3.11 with some 32-bit support). Microsoft never 'founded' an operating system. Although Bill did write one of the early BASICs. Blame him for that.
I'm not saying that I'm abandoning linux. Good.
absolute freedom of linux. Well, I switched because it was reliable and open, but free (beer) doesn't make it any worse. Although I think that Linux will still be around, although its userbase might not be as elite, and might use propriety software, there will always be those of us who use only open source code. Long Live Linux.
A material will not emit light because it was exposed to any sort of radiation, sorry. I wonder where that comes from...whenever someone wants to show that something is radioactive, it glows green... Anyone know who came up with that?
Well, the top post wasn't that funny, so I won't complain about you pointing that out. Radioactive green came from U-238, which isn't fissionable uranium. Let me explain: Uranium is gathered. Most of what you have isn't uranium ore. To get Uranium ore, you refine it. (I'm a bit unclear on the process there). Then, you have Uranium ore. From this Uranium ore, you want to extract U-235 (Uranium 235), which actually glows blue. U-235 is fissionable. Unfortunately, most of the Uranium in Uranium ore is U-238 (Uranium 238), and is not fissionable. Therefore, it is the waste produced when refining Uranium 235 out of Uranium ore. Uranium 238 (waste) glows green. Most of the Uranium 235 is shipped away to build nuclear missiles and nuclear reactors, so you never see it glowing blue. However, green radioactive waste has been a mainstay of games, superhero comics, various TV shows since the entire anti-nuclear movement got in gear and started spilling the truth about radioactive waste (genetic mutation, etc). Therefore, the public associates green with anything radioactive, since that is how it was shown to them.
Washington State, not D.C., right? Isn't that right near, guess who, Microsoft Corporate Headquarters? Maybe this nuclear science stuff isn't that bad after all.
Reporters don't want to trek through 43 square miles, and plus most of the stuff is classified beyond requiring a press pass. If you were a reporter, would you want a 15 hour tour through a bunch of (to you) science geeks' offices just to see what could have been shown to you in 2 hours, or for that matter 30 minutes? Plus, if there was an accident, it would have been in a classified section (the nuclear research/test sites/reactors & stuff are all classified to prevent sabotage from visitors/terrorists), so the reporters wouldn't have seen it even if they had walked for three days straight.
There is legislation in the works to ban the substance Dihydrogen Monoxide. I think that you should look into it. Dihydrogen monoxide is highly dangerous, and you should look into it before it's too late.
is at 9.8 meters per second per second. People, don't give in to the five fruits flavors any more than you would give in to the five fruity BSODs. It you want color, make a clear plastic cover and put a bright LED inside. Pink plastic on a computer case is just embarassing. And WTF is up with the 'Yum' advertisements? One of the students here tried to lick the new iMac that we got. Damn Apple. Damn them to.. to.. Microsoft's Programming Division. Heh heh heh.
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Microsoft is going to be broken up. It's alright. Everything will be OK. Can you say that with me? Everything will be OK.
transient electromagnetic field in your drive actuator
I can't seem to remember that one. Was that the Dynamic Transient Magnetic Re-allocation Policy of my hard disk or the transient hysterisis loops in the head media? If it's the Re-allocation Policy of my hard disk, then I'm fscked, cuz I didn't do those backup things that everybody said I should do (but my AOL should back up important things, right? It said that it would make sure that I had an excellent browsing experiance!). If it's the transient hysterisis loops in the head media, then I already tried the reasonant magentic distortion rectifier. But I didn't really have one after you told me to use the 'highly-acidic battery charge' on the supply cabinet while they were plugging in the new networking room, so I just used the hammer and screwdriver, like last time. But now my hard drive is sort of bent and part of the metal box broke, and now that floppy circly thing is hanging out. And the AOL tech support people keep hitting the 'mute' button on their microphones for long periods of time after I call them and tell them what I did. It's almost as if they're laughing at me. But AOL wouldn't do that, right? Right?
Sorry, bad pun. Now my karma's going down like an overclocked Win2k server running on that island without a heatsink.
Check this out. HP gets closer to the final goal.
I'm sorry, but Microsoft now owns all of this new memory technology. As you know, Microsoft holds a patent on Vapourware technology and a copyright on the phrase Vaporware, Vapourware, and DMCA. In fact, this post itself is a violation of the DMCA for even refering to the DMCA, because the DMCA prohibits use of copyrighted property which would include the phrase DMCA. And Vapourware.
just make the swap act AS the RAM ;)
:)
Hmmm... go to the store and you buy a 50GB HD. Go home, partition disk as swap, pull out your old (outdated) RAM chips, now you've got 10GB of memory running at RAM speed (see above)
could selectively power RAM to save a few watts here or there
Wasnt't that what 'Standby' is? Swapping the RAM to HD and then cutting power, essentially?
terribly interested in RAM that you can take power away from, and have it maintain state...
Um... sounds great... until the machine crashes.. and you have to use a magnet (or bulk eraser) to reboot... well... not without an operating system, since a magnet would wipe the hard drive...
RAM
Hmm.. what an informative title. Can we get something a little longer, next time?
I'll give you a few hints and leave you to it: magnets and optics. Enjoy!
This didn't work for me. I got the case off of the computer, yanked the newfangled RAM thingy out (that little clipper thingy snapped right off, landed on that noisy dusty box right in the middle) and stuck a magnet in. Nothin happened, cept my screen got all weird and frizzled and colory (I forgot to turn it off, but it didn't seem to make much difference). My AOL login screen got all screwed up. So I yanked the magenty bit out and stuck it back onto my box of floppie disks (gotta hold em down somehow).
The optics thing didn't werk either. I went to the network room of the office and yanked out some of that orange optical fibur cable from the big gray box in the middle of the room, and then cut it open. I yanked out the little thingy thing inside and jammed in into the RAM socket. That seemed to work, so I put the lid thing back on the computer boxie and started clicking on AOL, but it was slow and stupid, not faster. You stupid Slashdot person screwed up my computah.
this wouldn't be necessary for anything except Windows machines.... ;)
Hey now, Macs have their own share of problems..
laughing at myself in 5 years for spending $75 on such small and slow media
Yeah, we upgraded the server over here a week ago with 128 megs of fresh RAM. I can just wait until administration catches wind of this.. However, you mentioned that in 5 years that 32mb would be slow. Well, maybe in 5 years, but not because of this. CD-RW memory requires you to bulk erase large sections of the tape before you can write over it (at least in the current condition). Being that read speeds are right now about 8x the erase (rewrite) speed, this would mean blazing fast performance for a while and then a sudden, drastic stop for a while as the CD was being erased, and then more blazing fast performance. Just like with DVDs when they first came out, I'd stick with regular (or one of the other established types) RAM until CD-RW RAM technology is debugged, optimized, etc. Maybe DVD-RAM will be next.
but those results have not been revealed because of "commercial reasons." (Don't these people ever learn? You're not going to make a cent unless your process stands up to scientific review!)
...
Back in the real world (non-Open Source, non-Software, there is such a place), corporations aren't always nice communities of people that will respond to your emails and modify their software distributions accordingly (in fact, there are actually some corporations that don't sell software). Many corporations in this so-called 'Real World' are greedy, capitalistic scum-suckers that care about only making the most money, instead of ethics. (You can relate those to Microsoft). Now, when you simply reveal the blueprints (source code) to the scientific community without either an NDA or a patent (real world equivalent of the GPL), these greedy, evil corporations (read: Microsoft-esque) will steal/ borrow/ use your new product in theirs. Now, you're not going to spend the time to patent something that doesn't work, simply stated, so your product needs to go through scientific review before you patent it. The only other option is going to be an NDA, or (more likely), an in-house team of scientists. Now, if they're not revealing it for 'commercial reasons', then they're probably planning to (gasp) make a profit on it. Now, that might sound like an absurd concept to you, but there are companies out there that make a profit. Redhat, Debian, etc.. make profits from selling their distributions, so profits aren't all bad. Look up. That banner ad is a profit for Andover. People like profits. Not everything is Open Source (at least, outside of the realm of software). Don't complain. They're just trying to remain competitive.
BTW, 'you' in that post refered to the Slashdot community at large, not just you.
BTW, the last 'you' in that message refered to the you, not the Slashdot community at large.
BTW, the last 'you' in that message refered to the you, not the Slashdot community at large.
Quake 3 would FLY!!!!!
g_gravity -15
Lineo.
First of all, for everbody that doesn't know what Lineo does, they make embedded Linux systems for non-desktop computers (servers, production lines, cars, etc). Now, this Lineo company goes public. Whoop de do. The story is two lines. I get it that this is a Linux forum, but.. at least, couldn't the story have been a tad more informative?
I wish them luck.
I'm sure you do. But a two line story needs something more in it. How about a financial analysis (can't find it in the story, in the article, or on the website. How should I know whether to invest if I can't find anything on it?), or a bit of history of their company (Caldera Embedded Systems or something like that). In a year when I find this in the archives Cnet will probably have dumped the news story, and there will be no information on what this story means.
Let me tell you a torid tale of a consumer market gone bad. There was a company of name Microsoft, who's OS was pretty sad. It was a graphical shell of a crappy cmd line and it hadn't true multiuser support. And at Microsofts head was a man named Bill, who wrote BASIC all from scratch. And the DOJ got put away until Bill released 2k. When Windows 2k was not Ok. The DOJ got pissed. And they sued MSFT for half their cash and Bill got really miffed.
At the same time there was Linux, an OS that was pretty good. It was posix nice, with apache and Bryce, and was free and open as this. And Linux suits like RHAT sucked because they couldn't turn a profit: Who's going to buy a product they can download free from the 'net? And so the Linux hackers hacked away and made Linux for the I-64. And Bill got pissed and he was miffed and made a dangerous call.
His friends at Intel picked up and cut him some slack. They conspired to get the DOJ off his back. They slowed the I-64 so Bill could get in, and rewrote the specs so that Linux can't win. And Bill got good and Linus got pissed and the DOJ saved the day. Cause MSFT went down and LNUX went up and RHAT flew away.
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Easy? I thought so. You can't break in to the box when there are no ports open.
Although this is Slashdot... it's sort of nice if you can have an HTTP port open. And Slashdot runs on Perl, so you'll want Cgi-bin\ working. Plus, you need something for the writers to upload their stories to. There's either Ftp (bad), ssh (not much better), or a hacked together uploader (not particularly good). Probably that means ssh. Next, Slashdot runs their own ad server. They'll want that linked up to the HTTP server. That means UUCP (erm.. not that good), Ether (better, as long as it's secure), or one-way optical (better, but that needs a reserved port). That's three ports, and we haven't even gotten to comment posting yet...
AI should be under psychology, or better yet, a department of it's own.
Right on all other counts. But why would anybody want AI under psych? If it has to be under something else, it should be artificial biology or biological engineering. Psychology is a component of AI, just like Linguistics and Human Interfacing. Biology and Comp Sci provide the foundations and hard science behind AI. But it should be under a department of its own, if it could. (Although, maybe it's rightly classified Comp Sci, because then it gets a larger timeshare on the University computer labs)
machines have absolutely no reason to want the same things we do?
I am in an Artificial Intelligance division at a U.S. National Research Lab (can't say which, don't want anybody to know that I'm leaking this) we are working on models of intelligance networks that use, essentially, the necessities for biological function (eating, drinking, excreting, reproducing), as an intelligance model. The network runs on easy to produce microbots (bigger than nanobots, smaller than a penny) that use electricity flowing through the air (not flowing, but emitted by various things, toned down EMP) as water, metal as food and repair (they have tools to scrape shards of metal off of a metal block and high-heat fuse it onto damaged sectors of their body), and will collect bits of metal in a storage-bay type thing, in which they will construct other micro-bots. Our project is far from being completed, but rumor around here is that we may be getting military funding, so it might get done a bit faster.
Robotic Teenage Male Sex-Daemons roving the streets looking for tasty Human Teenage Girls to impregnate with their Metal/Carbon Hybrid CoDNA
Yes, but you might have Robotic-Teenage (developing its modular components) Asexual Reproduction-Microbots roving the streets looking for tasty PentiumIII-Linux-Boxes to impregnate with their Microbot-Larvae-esque things. Wasn't my idea.
that self-guiding code that learns from failures and suffers from overcompensation--in other words, code that can even evolve under feedback loops--is pretty rare, even among the best attack detection systems
All you need is one effective system that does all of the essential life functions. And we may be closer to making that system than anybody has known before.
what some *human* has programmed them to do. Tank or Pokemon, it's made by us
It was a great experiance when I realized that this wasn't true. Tierras are mutating bits of code that, in this case, fight it out to the death. Put one of these in a positive feedback loop, and.. well.. we're using a derivitive of this idea to actually program the microbots, along with a decentralized data bank via infrared packet TCP/IP to evolve a massive collection of response data that we can moniter. The microbots will fight, like Tierras, except they will be working with actual, physical robots, instead of bits of memory. The microbots will be able to reproduce, and if we put them in a plastic room filled with old computers, they should eventually fill it up. The project is exciting, although we haven't yet got official word on the military funding.
Does anyone remember when we all started using linux cause it was cool??
.com e-business (bleck.. remember when the web was about resource sharing and transmitting information? Back in the post-ARPAnet but pre-SuperInformationCyberHighway days?), so the latest fad is running a Linux server. Not Linux because it's more stable and reliable than Windoze (although that began the fad), not Linux because it's secure and has strong multiuser support and uptime, not even Linux because it's a 1337 operating system, but Linux because it's the latest thing. These fads tend to rip through a new technology, spread crappy implementations of it everywhere, and then leave it rotting, the old userbase disgusted and the new users left in the dust with a horrid half-implemented Linux system that fails half the time and doesn't even boot the other half. (Linux, in some respects, is better than that, but this new system they have isn't the same kind of quality as there was before the fad.)
I switched because it was open and (relatively, at that time) stable, but yeah.
Now linux is getting into a framework where everyone talks about the "business model" and the "value added" components, and the blah and the blah and the blah.
Linux is becoming corporatized. It's now the 'next new fad' of the computer industry. Now that everybody has a webpage, and everybody has a
I'm fucking switching to BSD
The one great thing is that once the fad sweeps through Open Source, it won't come back for a while. BSD will remain unharmed, while at the same time getting the B1 security certification that its been working on all the while. If this fad rips Linux apart and truely mutilates it, we can expect that the older Open Source advocates will switch to BSD. It's not that terribly different from Linux.
going to happen sooner than we think.
Self-Actualizing Prophecy alert! If the strong Linux userbase leaves because Linux is becoming corporatized, then even more of Linux will become corporatized. If the strong userbase remains, and they hand out copies of the GPL to the new sysadmins, and Slashdot remains an open forum for talk about things like this, then Linux will never truely become completely corporatized. Sure, businesses will make closed-source apps. But, if the strong userbase remains, we can make open-source ones to compete with the closed-source ones, just like Linux competes with Microsoft. The incredible Linux userbase, in my opinion, is capable of doing everything that the closed-source companies can do, and more.
which have a frighteningly strong chance of holding up against at relatively weak GPL
That is the one weakness of the entire Open Source movement. If, say, Microsoft found a loophole in the GPL, we're all dead. But hopefully that won't happen. I believe that, with the governments pro-competition idiology that the GPL will hold up in court, being the incredible volume of software that would be vulnerable if it was thrown out.
switch to the next "linux"
In my opinion, if Linux were ever to die (I hope not), then BSD would be the next 'Linux'. It's open source, without being part of the Open Source 'fad'. It has a higher security certification than Linux (Last time I checked), and is certainly a viable alternative. But I hope that Linux doesn't die.
(hint, it's founder's name starts with B, and ends in "ill Gates")
Bill Gates made an operating system? MS-DOS was bought by Microsoft (originally QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System, now Microsoft's Dirty Operating System), Windows was blatently ripped off of Xerox, with bits of the MacOS, NT was from VMS and Windows, and Win2k was from NT and 98 (which is actually 95 + Active Desktop and bug fixes, and 95 is actually a graphical shell for 3.11 with some 32-bit support). Microsoft never 'founded' an operating system. Although Bill did write one of the early BASICs. Blame him for that.
I'm not saying that I'm abandoning linux.
Good.
absolute freedom of linux.
Well, I switched because it was reliable and open, but free (beer) doesn't make it any worse. Although I think that Linux will still be around, although its userbase might not be as elite, and might use propriety software, there will always be those of us who use only open source code. Long Live Linux.
A material will not emit light because it was exposed to any sort of radiation, sorry.
I wonder where that comes from...whenever someone wants to show that something is radioactive, it glows green...
Anyone know who came up with that?
Well, the top post wasn't that funny, so I won't complain about you pointing that out. Radioactive green came from U-238, which isn't fissionable uranium. Let me explain:
Uranium is gathered. Most of what you have isn't uranium ore. To get Uranium ore, you refine it. (I'm a bit unclear on the process there). Then, you have Uranium ore. From this Uranium ore, you want to extract U-235 (Uranium 235), which actually glows blue. U-235 is fissionable. Unfortunately, most of the Uranium in Uranium ore is U-238 (Uranium 238), and is not fissionable. Therefore, it is the waste produced when refining Uranium 235 out of Uranium ore. Uranium 238 (waste) glows green. Most of the Uranium 235 is shipped away to build nuclear missiles and nuclear reactors, so you never see it glowing blue. However, green radioactive waste has been a mainstay of games, superhero comics, various TV shows since the entire anti-nuclear movement got in gear and started spilling the truth about radioactive waste (genetic mutation, etc). Therefore, the public associates green with anything radioactive, since that is how it was shown to them.
(Western Washington)
Washington State, not D.C., right? Isn't that right near, guess who, Microsoft Corporate Headquarters? Maybe this nuclear science stuff isn't that bad after all.
Reporters don't want to trek through 43 square miles, and plus most of the stuff is classified beyond requiring a press pass. If you were a reporter, would you want a 15 hour tour through a bunch of (to you) science geeks' offices just to see what could have been shown to you in 2 hours, or for that matter 30 minutes? Plus, if there was an accident, it would have been in a classified section (the nuclear research/test sites/reactors & stuff are all classified to prevent sabotage from visitors/terrorists), so the reporters wouldn't have seen it even if they had walked for three days straight.
Cobalt atom in vitamin B-12
There is legislation in the works to ban the substance Dihydrogen Monoxide. I think that you should look into it. Dihydrogen monoxide is highly dangerous, and you should look into it before it's too late.
and our prime minister doesn't have sex with his intern.
No, your prime minister doesn't get caught.
Thus, technically, MS had committed perjury, and hasn't a leg to stand on.
You seriously think that perjury is a crime? Ask Clinton. He'll explain it all to you.
is at 9.8 meters per second per second. People, don't give in to the five fruits flavors any more than you would give in to the five fruity BSODs. It you want color, make a clear plastic cover and put a bright LED inside. Pink plastic on a computer case is just embarassing. And WTF is up with the 'Yum' advertisements? One of the students here tried to lick the new iMac that we got. Damn Apple. Damn them to.. to.. Microsoft's Programming Division. Heh heh heh.