Airplanes already use a paint that alters it's color from impacts with things like seagulls and airborne debris. Stress lines appear in the paint from the impact of objects and the airplane safety inspectors can eyeball a plane to see if it needs a closer inspection.
What about people in other countries who decide your system is not something they wish to implement. The web is "world-wide", how does a mailing address in Pingo-Pongo stop Joe Hoo-hah from downloading Britney Spears?
He simply cheats your system with his Pingo-Pongo Post Office Box and has the checks in that box sent to his Swiss Bank Account.
If you attempt legal action in a US Court against someone in Pingo-Pongo, and no extradition treaty exists, and Pingo-Pongo is not a big fan of the US of A, what prevents Joe Hoo-Hah from going about his business and ruining your system?
I find it odd that people in the US keep trying to regulate the rest of the world. We have no business telling anyone except ourselves what to do. I seriously doubt our future as a nation. We spend all this time coming up with inventive ways to try and regulate the universe all the while ignoring the very serious problems we have going on in our own back yard.
It has been shown that Hero had invented the steam engine in 1000 B.C.
His designs were lost as were many wonderful discoveries by the Fire at Library of Alexandria.
Had that fire never ocurred, we might have been living in a vastly different world. However, we should also remember that we can play the what if game until we're blue in the face. It won't change the fact that we actually know extremely little in the grand scheme of things. Our understanding of physics and math is rudimentary at best.
There's just too much unknown to make substantial claims about where our civilization stands with respect to other civilizations.
You wrote: Also, I wonder if anyone knows if versioning (used in databases like InterBase) has been used in filesystems yet.
I believe that the VMS Filesystem used versioning.
For example [000000]foo.txt;1 [000000]foo.txt;2 and so on. A purge command would delete all but the most current version.
This came in very handy when writing code and documentation. Of course, purging after I had forgotten to for over a month just plain sucked on my old ass VAX.
[emphasis added by me]
Marketspeak:
'For the first time, it gives high-quality architecture at low cost,opening the door to handling speech recognition and lip-reading.
Geekspeak:
The key in the translation here is 'opening the door'. We can say that the discovery of electricity 'opened the door' for computers. Did it directly bring them about however? I think not. He's hiding reality in vaguely worded tripe.
Marketspeak:
'It will start off addressing issues of consciousness,' said Joseph de Saram, the 28-year-old chief executive of Clarke Omniputers, the Luxembourg-based company behind the project. 'We're on the verge of going off into artificial intelligence. HAL is back.'
Geekspeak:
'start off addressing the issues of consciousness'
Uh-huh. I suppose that by speaking English, I start off addressing the issues of speaking Swahili. I mean, I can speak language, therefore why can't I also speak Swahili as well? He is making a poorly thought logical jump from
fast processor speed --> artificial intelligence. A common misconception in the technically inept.
Marketspeak:
'on the verge of going off into artificial intelligence.'
Geekspeak:
I also could argue that my cat is on the verge of natural language. He meows different intonations depending on whether he is hungry, pissed off, sick, sad, or lonely. Doesn't mean he's going to start speaking in English anytime soon.
This is not to say that I support gene patenting.. but I believe the reason for it is to provide an incentive for companies to research genes. If there was no such thing as a gene patent, then it would probably be much longer before we got a cure for cancer and whatever other genetic diseases there are.
What? Think about how much money you can make selling the cure for cancer. Also, they're patenting the genes themselves. That in my opinion is retarded beyond the point of human reasoning.
Patents are for wussies who are afraid to keep on inovating and would prefer to sit on their laurels and reap rewards from their "one trick pony."
Re:It is compulsory to vote in Australia?
on
eLection '04
·
· Score: 1
Thanks for the clarification.
Given my choice of who to vote for in the US election I chose to walk into the booth and vote for no one. If enough people did that it would show the politicians that they weren't offering any valid choices, since x% of the population voted but only y% of that x% did indeed choose someone.
I guess if I was in Australia I would write "you all suck" on my ballots. =)
Regards...
It is compulsory to vote in Australia?
on
eLection '04
·
· Score: 1
What happens if you refuse to vote? You're imprisoned? Are you allowed to vote without picking anyone? How exactly does that work?
Does the Higgs boson's "spin" affect the mass assigned to a given object that passes through it. In other words, would altering the spin of a Higgs boson cause it to behave differently? By this I mean applying a different mass to objects under its "influence?"
I ask this because if physicists can determine how mass is "applied" to an object, couldn't we then change the characteristics of an object by affecting the way it's mass is determined? By altering a group of these paritcles so that an object in that space has its mass reduced or increased based upon the way the Higgs bosons have been altered?
Everybody's got one, but I'll inject mine here at the risk of being a bit OT.
It seems that Microsoft is pushing towards the ultimate appliance interface. They do not want (nor do most people want) a computer in your home. They want an appliance. You turn it on and do what you have to do through their interface and you pay them for the service they are providing you. Now, I and many others do not find this appealing or even think it is a "GOOD THING" with respect to computing. However, the majority of people do not know, nor do they desire to know much about the internals of a computer or its operating system.
I think Microsoft is actually providing a useful service to those people who do not wish to learn about computers and merely are looking for an appliance to play games and write emails on.
Those of us who do have a desire to learn about the internals of a computer, its OS, and the general administration of a server will benefit from the many other options we have available to us. There is Linux, FreeBSD, OPENBSD, Solaris, TruUnix64, MacOS X, ad naseum.
I think in the long run however, this computer as an appliance mentality will undermine the growth of the future Computer Science majors and Software Engineers. People become to accustomed to the computer==appliance model of thought, there *could* be a serious decline in the interest of computing (where computing equals programming and general hackery.)
I see nothing wrong with providing a service people want as long as it *does not* infringe on the rights of others who do wish to learn more than how to use an appliance.
Computers should be easier for people to use, but consumers should also have the choice to own a computer and not an appliance.
Define practical in your context.
I have witnessed controlled fusion experiments both in Real Time via a camera into the core of a reactor and through post experiment film.
Controlled fusion reactions are possible. I believe that fusion will make it into usage during my lifetime (I'm 24).
Don't be so quick to poo-poo fusion just because the field is in it's infancy. We have a long way to go in Materials Science before fusion becomes a mainstream energy source. Were the first bicycles practical? Absolutely not, they were fixed gear and had iron wheels. Prior to that the velocipedes had no gears of any kind, or pedals, and they weighed over 100 lbs.
I'd love to see Microsoft source code. We could all benefit from looking at their source. In the very least we could learn what kind of code *not* to write.
Most hackers who are hacking into a box for the purpose of providing Admins with the exploit details and how to fix it will most likely not be caught red-handed at the keyboard. The reason black hats are often caught is through months (sometimes years) of systematic research and tracking their activities. It is a long an arduous process to get to the point where the FBI is breaking down some guys door and ripping his RJ45 out of the wall. (Read Cliff Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg to see what he had to go through for this to happen)
I suspect a white hat would exploit a system and then go to work on a fix. He would not repeatedly go back and exploit the same box over and over. That is a evidence of a black hat. Black hats keep their exploits secret and repeatedly exploit the same hole over and over. A white hat is also not angling for an account on that box from from where he'd set up a base of operations. He just exploits and leaves, leaving little trace of even being there.
I would be less concerned with a white hat getting caught, and more concerned with black hats post-facto claiming they were planning to go public all along. (Apparently the legal system takes this view as well)
Does this mean we can expect (eventually) to see some radical advances in the state of the art of metallurgy.
I'd be interested in seeing what kind of patterns of molecules can be hand woven to create stronger materials than we currently have. I'd also think this would go a long way in helping advance materials science by giving them a new method to custom tailor materials at the molecular level.
Does anybody who work in this field have any insight they can lend me...this looks like a promising step into allowing us to advance many fields through the creation of new materials.
As the second generation of the SPARC 64-bit architecture, the UltraSPARC III chip provides complete binary compatibility between applications written for previous generations of the architecture, delivering unmatched investment protection for Sun customers upgrading to next-generation systems. Furthermore, Sun's continuing development of the UltraSPARC II processor -- underscored by the announcement of the UltraSPARC IIe processor on September 11-- will extend the economically useful life of systems based on this architecture well into the future.
This is not exactly new news, many people may remember how a certain Melissa virus author was tracked due to some serial number in the Microsoft software he was using. (if memory serves correct)
And while I think this is a valid reason to use open source, we should remember that unless we compile the software we use ourselves from our own source that we ourselves have checked, then we can never be sure if there exists a backdoor into our software. I speculate most people are not willing to wade through literally millions of lines of source and compile by hand each program they use to ensure that the "man" is not watching them. However, the article (which refers to the NSA agent as a "spook") does not mention why he is an ex NSA agent. What is the reason he is no longer with the NSA and why is he so freely admitting these facts. Having had clearance in the past I know very well you need to sign many numerous agreements that state you can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial if you violate said agreements. You basically sign over your rights as a US citizen to obtain that kind of security clearance. This story raises some good issues about how much we as citizens should trust our government and our software, as well as raise the ire of many foreign nations using US software. But there is always a nagging doubt in my head when we hear stories from ex employees and there is no knowledge given about why they are ex-employees.
But in general this news is not really new. The government has had backdoors in software as long as software has been around. And this has been shown in the press before to be true.
I do think however this presents those of us in the open source world with a strong argument in favour of open source software with respect to dealing with trusted programs.
What if a company who is a third-party, independent of either the advertiser or the web hoster were to set up a box through which all internet traffic to the server was transparently passed to. The third party logs the traffic to determine if his logs match what the hoster is claiming. The advertiser can trust the third party because he hires one he trusts to provide this service for him.
The hosters guys can't access the box because it is literally black boxed (locked up, no physical access, and no knowledge of the logins/passwords)
The third party logger can remotely access his box, download logs or whatever and provide that info to the advertiser. The advertiser can then check the logs of the hoster and compare them to the thirdy party (aka verifier). If the verifiers logs match the hosters you know the data is somewhat accurate (at least as accurate as these things can be).
I mean, nielsen does this with those boxes they give to their test families, why can't some enterprising third-party verification company (hmmmmm?) do the same with web-hosts.
This looks like a nice little niche market for exploitation and mucho money to be made off of. I mean you write a few scripts to keep control over your logs and to send the logs back to a central server that formats this stuff into nice pretty print outs for the suits to drool over at their next board meeting.
My first question is about possible connectivity of the indrema to an existing linux box. Will there be a way to interface to the box to an existing linux box to increase the storage capacity, ala exporting a drive off to the indrema using kerberos or nfs? How about firing up a terminal on the indrema?
The second question is obvious...the web site made no mention of an existing linux box being capable of running the indrema software. Will existing linux boxen with proper hardware reqs be able to play these games?
^D
<EOT>
Slashdot Mirror
Airplanes already use a paint that alters it's color from impacts with things like seagulls and airborne debris. Stress lines appear in the paint from the impact of objects and the airplane safety inspectors can eyeball a plane to see if it needs a closer inspection.
Regards...
Pinky,
What about people in other countries who decide your system is not something they wish to implement. The web is "world-wide", how does a mailing address in Pingo-Pongo stop Joe Hoo-hah from downloading Britney Spears?
He simply cheats your system with his Pingo-Pongo Post Office Box and has the checks in that box sent to his Swiss Bank Account.
If you attempt legal action in a US Court against someone in Pingo-Pongo, and no extradition treaty exists, and Pingo-Pongo is not a big fan of the US of A, what prevents Joe Hoo-Hah from going about his business and ruining your system?
I find it odd that people in the US keep trying to regulate the rest of the world. We have no business telling anyone except ourselves what to do. I seriously doubt our future as a nation. We spend all this time coming up with inventive ways to try and regulate the universe all the while ignoring the very serious problems we have going on in our own back yard.
Regards...
(((he)((must be)))(a lisper)).
It has been shown that Hero had invented the steam engine in 1000 B.C.
His designs were lost as were many wonderful discoveries by the Fire at Library of Alexandria.
Had that fire never ocurred, we might have been living in a vastly different world. However, we should also remember that we can play the what if game until we're blue in the face. It won't change the fact that we actually know extremely little in the grand scheme of things. Our understanding of physics and math is rudimentary at best.
There's just too much unknown to make substantial claims about where our civilization stands with respect to other civilizations.
You wrote:
Also, I wonder if anyone knows if versioning (used in databases like InterBase) has been used in filesystems yet.
I believe that the VMS Filesystem used versioning.
For example [000000]foo.txt;1 [000000]foo.txt;2 and so on. A purge command would delete all but the most current version.
This came in very handy when writing code and documentation. Of course, purging after I had forgotten to for over a month just plain sucked on my old ass VAX.
Regards
Here you go:
[emphasis added by me]
Marketspeak:
'For the first time, it gives high-quality architecture at low cost,opening the door to handling speech recognition and lip-reading.
Geekspeak:
The key in the translation here is 'opening the door'. We can say that the discovery of electricity 'opened the door' for computers. Did it directly bring them about however? I think not. He's hiding reality in vaguely worded tripe.
Marketspeak:
'It will start off addressing issues of consciousness,' said Joseph de Saram, the 28-year-old chief executive of Clarke Omniputers, the Luxembourg-based company behind the project. 'We're on the verge of going off into artificial intelligence. HAL is back.'
Geekspeak:
'start off addressing the issues of consciousness'
Uh-huh. I suppose that by speaking English, I start off addressing the issues of speaking Swahili. I mean, I can speak language, therefore why can't I also speak Swahili as well? He is making a poorly thought logical jump from
fast processor speed --> artificial intelligence. A common misconception in the technically inept.
Marketspeak:
'on the verge of going off into artificial intelligence.'
Geekspeak:
I also could argue that my cat is on the verge of natural language. He meows different intonations depending on whether he is hungry, pissed off, sick, sad, or lonely. Doesn't mean he's going to start speaking in English anytime soon.
Nah...I prefer:
shutdown *= shutdown
Cuz I'm a square....*rimshot*
This is not to say that I support gene patenting.. but I believe the reason for it is to provide an incentive for companies to research genes. If there was no such thing as a gene patent, then it would probably be much longer before we got a cure for cancer and whatever other genetic diseases there are.
What? Think about how much money you can make selling the cure for cancer. Also, they're patenting the genes themselves. That in my opinion is retarded beyond the point of human reasoning.
Patents are for wussies who are afraid to keep on inovating and would prefer to sit on their laurels and reap rewards from their "one trick pony."
Thanks for the clarification.
Given my choice of who to vote for in the US election I chose to walk into the booth and vote for no one. If enough people did that it would show the politicians that they weren't offering any valid choices, since x% of the population voted but only y% of that x% did indeed choose someone.
I guess if I was in Australia I would write "you all suck" on my ballots. =)
Regards...
What happens if you refuse to vote? You're imprisoned? Are you allowed to vote without picking anyone? How exactly does that work?
I downloaded the latest Preview Release 3...here is what happened...
./netscape
./mozilla-bin
[/usr/local/netscape]
./run-mozilla.sh
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./Cool
LIBPATH=.:./Cool
SHLIB_PATH=.:./Cool
XPCS_HOME=./Cool
MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
MOZ_TOOLKIT=
moz_debug=0
moz_debugger=
./run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 16993 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+"$@"}
So, netscape is just mozilla that doesn't run?
Methinks I think I shall stick to the Mozilla nightly builds...
Regards
Does the Higgs boson's "spin" affect the mass assigned to a given object that passes through it. In other words, would altering the spin of a Higgs boson cause it to behave differently? By this I mean applying a different mass to objects under its "influence?"
I ask this because if physicists can determine how mass is "applied" to an object, couldn't we then change the characteristics of an object by affecting the way it's mass is determined? By altering a group of these paritcles so that an object in that space has its mass reduced or increased based upon the way the Higgs bosons have been altered?
That could solve alot of problems.
Regards.
Everybody's got one, but I'll inject mine here at the risk of being a bit OT.
It seems that Microsoft is pushing towards the ultimate appliance interface. They do not want (nor do most people want) a computer in your home. They want an appliance. You turn it on and do what you have to do through their interface and you pay them for the service they are providing you. Now, I and many others do not find this appealing or even think it is a "GOOD THING" with respect to computing. However, the majority of people do not know, nor do they desire to know much about the internals of a computer or its operating system.
I think Microsoft is actually providing a useful service to those people who do not wish to learn about computers and merely are looking for an appliance to play games and write emails on.
Those of us who do have a desire to learn about the internals of a computer, its OS, and the general administration of a server will benefit from the many other options we have available to us. There is Linux, FreeBSD, OPENBSD, Solaris, TruUnix64, MacOS X, ad naseum.
I think in the long run however, this computer as an appliance mentality will undermine the growth of the future Computer Science majors and Software Engineers. People become to accustomed to the computer==appliance model of thought, there *could* be a serious decline in the interest of computing (where computing equals programming and general hackery.)
I see nothing wrong with providing a service people want as long as it *does not* infringe on the rights of others who do wish to learn more than how to use an appliance.
Computers should be easier for people to use, but consumers should also have the choice to own a computer and not an appliance.
Hope that wasn't too much of a rant.
Regards,
Dan
Define practical in your context.
I have witnessed controlled fusion experiments both in Real Time via a camera into the core of a reactor and through post experiment film.
Controlled fusion reactions are possible. I believe that fusion will make it into usage during my lifetime (I'm 24).
Don't be so quick to poo-poo fusion just because the field is in it's infancy. We have a long way to go in Materials Science before fusion becomes a mainstream energy source. Were the first bicycles practical? Absolutely not, they were fixed gear and had iron wheels. Prior to that the velocipedes had no gears of any kind, or pedals, and they weighed over 100 lbs.
All technology goes through a refining process.
Somebody wanna put up a location to the source?
I'd love to see Microsoft source code. We could all benefit from looking at their source. In the very least we could learn what kind of code *not* to write.
Most hackers who are hacking into a box for the purpose of providing Admins with the exploit details and how to fix it will most likely not be caught red-handed at the keyboard. The reason black hats are often caught is through months (sometimes years) of systematic research and tracking their activities. It is a long an arduous process to get to the point where the FBI is breaking down some guys door and ripping his RJ45 out of the wall. (Read Cliff Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg to see what he had to go through for this to happen)
I suspect a white hat would exploit a system and then go to work on a fix. He would not repeatedly go back and exploit the same box over and over. That is a evidence of a black hat. Black hats keep their exploits secret and repeatedly exploit the same hole over and over. A white hat is also not angling for an account on that box from from where he'd set up a base of operations. He just exploits and leaves, leaving little trace of even being there.
I would be less concerned with a white hat getting caught, and more concerned with black hats post-facto claiming they were planning to go public all along. (Apparently the legal system takes this view as well)
Regards...
Does this mean we can expect (eventually) to see some radical advances in the state of the art of metallurgy.
I'd be interested in seeing what kind of patterns of molecules can be hand woven to create stronger materials than we currently have. I'd also think this would go a long way in helping advance materials science by giving them a new method to custom tailor materials at the molecular level.
Does anybody who work in this field have any insight they can lend me...this looks like a promising step into allowing us to advance many fields through the creation of new materials.
Regards...
bah...slashdot inserted a damned space into my link....
the appropriate link is here:
slashcode needs reworking guys!
If you read the article&l t;/a>, here's what you would have seen...
As the second generation of the SPARC 64-bit architecture, the UltraSPARC III chip provides complete binary compatibility between applications written for previous generations of the architecture, delivering unmatched investment protection for Sun customers upgrading to next-generation systems. Furthermore, Sun's continuing development of the UltraSPARC II processor -- underscored by the announcement of the UltraSPARC IIe processor on September 11-- will extend the economically useful life of systems based on this architecture well into the future.
Regards...
This is not exactly new news, many people may remember how a certain Melissa virus author was tracked due to some serial number in the Microsoft software he was using. (if memory serves correct)
And while I think this is a valid reason to use open source, we should remember that unless we compile the software we use ourselves from our own source that we ourselves have checked, then we can never be sure if there exists a backdoor into our software. I speculate most people are not willing to wade through literally millions of lines of source and compile by hand each program they use to ensure that the "man" is not watching them. However, the article (which refers to the NSA agent as a "spook") does not mention why he is an ex NSA agent. What is the reason he is no longer with the NSA and why is he so freely admitting these facts. Having had clearance in the past I know very well you need to sign many numerous agreements that state you can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial if you violate said agreements. You basically sign over your rights as a US citizen to obtain that kind of security clearance. This story raises some good issues about how much we as citizens should trust our government and our software, as well as raise the ire of many foreign nations using US software. But there is always a nagging doubt in my head when we hear stories from ex employees and there is no knowledge given about why they are ex-employees.
But in general this news is not really new. The government has had backdoors in software as long as software has been around. And this has been shown in the press before to be true.
I do think however this presents those of us in the open source world with a strong argument in favour of open source software with respect to dealing with trusted programs.
Regards...
What if a company who is a third-party, independent of either the advertiser or the web hoster were to set up a box through which all internet traffic to the server was transparently passed to. The third party logs the traffic to determine if his logs match what the hoster is claiming. The advertiser can trust the third party because he hires one he trusts to provide this service for him.
The hosters guys can't access the box because it is literally black boxed (locked up, no physical access, and no knowledge of the logins/passwords)
The third party logger can remotely access his box, download logs or whatever and provide that info to the advertiser. The advertiser can then check the logs of the hoster and compare them to the thirdy party (aka verifier). If the verifiers logs match the hosters you know the data is somewhat accurate (at least as accurate as these things can be).
I mean, nielsen does this with those boxes they give to their test families, why can't some enterprising third-party verification company (hmmmmm?) do the same with web-hosts.
This looks like a nice little niche market for exploitation and mucho money to be made off of. I mean you write a few scripts to keep control over your logs and to send the logs back to a central server that formats this stuff into nice pretty print outs for the suits to drool over at their next board meeting.
Just a thought...
My first question is about possible connectivity of the indrema to an existing linux box. Will there be a way to interface to the box to an existing linux box to increase the storage capacity, ala exporting a drive off to the indrema using kerberos or nfs? How about firing up a terminal on the indrema?
The second question is obvious...the web site made no mention of an existing linux box being capable of running the indrema software. Will existing linux boxen with proper hardware reqs be able to play these games?
^D
<EOT>
To whomever moderated this as flamebait...
"You sir, are a hooha."
Dan
Godwin's Law. YHL. HAND.
I can't actually believe another Staten Islander posts to Slashdot. I thought I was the only one. I am in shock...(not 110v or 220v (see poll))
Dan
P.S. - Next you'll tell me you ride the ferry too!
=)