Then just have a safety interlock where the laser can't fire if the fuel isn't enough to cool it. If they can scrounge together nearly a megawatt of energy on a fighter jet and design a laser that is over 10% efficient, then I'm sure they thought of that too. This whole discussion seems to be falling prey to Slashdot Naysayer Syndrome (SNS).
motor failure during the flight and the flight was terminated,
I think it's pretty cool if this was some sort of self-destruct mechanism. The article doesn't really say if it self-destructed by itself, or if it was triggered from the ground.
I just wonder if they had to recite "Picard four-seven-alpha-tango" to activate it.:)
Being pro-Linux does not require you to be anti-MS.
Sorry, it does now. Ballmer wants to crush Linux. "The GPL is a cancer... Open source leads to security problems...." etc...
At one time you could be pro-Linux and not anti-MS, but MS has made that impossible now. If you support MS, you hurt Linux and open source. It is not us who made it that way, it is MS.
Well, someone had to watch my kid. I guess it was more accurately "day care". Even the people who just babysit in their homes all advertised things like "Christian mother", as if that were a good thing or something.
And you think people are completely truthful on those surveys, knowing the possible huge repurcussions of getting convicted of those crimes?
Even so, a full 39% admitted to using an illegal drug at some point, that's 80 million people. Also note that many of the respondents from 12-18 will most likely get their first exposure to illegal drugs in college.
Now, knowing those numbers, and even assuming they are correct, do you really think 80 million people have broken the DMCA? Do 80 million people even know what the DMCA is? I doubt it.
My point is... The original poster asked if there were some practice in the USA that allowed laws to be challenged only because it turns large groups of people into criminals. There isn't. There probably should be.
Either that, or quit my job and move somewhere else, pretty risky in this market.
If you're so sure of this that you can pinpoint the exact moment when his problems started, why didn't you pull him out of the school?
I don't know that the school was the definite cause. I highly suspect it played a big role in the development of some of the problems, considering the timing of it all, but as we all know, correlation isn't necessarily causation. It's not as if this stuff developed overnight either. I just started seeing a pattern of behavior.
Because 49 Mhz is the standard frequency for cheap RC stuff in the US. The electronics for 49Mhz are cheap and easy to build. Of course, the optimal antenna for it is probably a lot longer than the antenna these little cars have, but that can be compensated for to some extent with proper antenna loading coils.
Were kids in the 80's as violent as ones now? Hell no, and it's because the kids growing up just after I did had crap like Captain Planet and other spoon-fed pablum created to make everyone love and respect eachother
Bah, that liberal stuff is on the way out. The power rangers made me sick. Edgy shows are making it big recently, like the Power Puff Girls, SpongeBob SquarePants, etc...
It isn't like the 80s where you could turn on your TV almost any night of the week and see Micheal Knight take a bullet in the shoulder, but it's not as wussified as the early 90s either.
Humans are just different in that somehow, some of us just seem to "snap" and totally lose perspective and rationality
Well, I think the cause of this is two things.
We are generally not allowed to express anger in natural ways, like smacking someone upside the head. This social repression probably contributes to this explosive release.
Second, we have technology, something no other animal can really claim. It's a lot easier for us, alone or in small groups, to kill large amounts of other humans. Even the most powerful animal could only take out a few of it's own species at one time.
Have these researchers for a moment stopped to consider that hours spent glued to some machine instead of interacting with ones peers is the cause of "anxieties", "anger", and "aggression"?
I don't know so much about that. Mostly anecdotal, but as a child I lived pretty much in isolation until I was 5 years old. I lived in the country and interacted very little with my peers. I didn't have a Nintendo or computers or anything like that back then, but I did watch a good bit of TV. I had very few behavioural problems in school, at least not many problems with aggression, I did tend to be a loner, and had some trouble interacting.
My son is now 5. He has gone to preschool since he was in diapers. He has problems with agression and anger management, he has had them for a while now.
They developed when he started going to one particular school, and interacted with peers that were very rough and physical on average. This was mostly because in the town I moved to, there are no secular preschools, so I was forced to send him to one of the brainwashing kinds, with the accompaning trashy Christian kids. Earlier he was attending a non-religious school in a college town, mostly with the sons and daughters of professors.
Now, I do allow him to play first person shooters and such, but I turn down the gore options.
My point? I don't know. It's hard to say from a little bit of anecdotal evidence like this, but my impression is that his interaction with certain types of peers led more to his anger problems than any game ever did. I just don't think the games are affecting him in a negative way, but I can tell you that the peers definitely are.
Sit through a two-hour long meeting with a manager and then go play twenty minutes of GTA3.
That could be dangerous if you aren't allowed to play games at work like 99.9% of people. Imagine sitting in said 2 hours meeting, getting all riled up for GTA3, then having to drive home before you can play.:)
Yeah, that was my point, even if things keep doubling at their current rate, RC5-64 will still not be feasible to crack in reasonable by anything except dedicated (expensive) hardware for several decades.
Besides, who uses 64 bit encryption anymore. 128 bit will take several orders of magnitude times longer, it should be safe from brute force for the forseeable future.
They did forge ground in being one of the first large scale distributed computing efforts, so all is not lost, that is important research after all.
While it's debatable that the duration of this project does much to devalue the security of a 64-bit RC5 key by much, we can say with confidence that RC5-64 is not an appropriate algorithm to use for data that will still be sensitive in more than several years' time.
Heh, it took a world-wide effort of thousands of computers over 1700 days. I don't think there is any debate at all; they proved the opposite of what they set out to prove.:)
So it's impolite to change the default configuration of anything in your distro without the permission of the author? That makes no sense. Why even have distros? I think Red Hat should take a lesson from this and drop KDE completely, since the KDE community is obviously a bunch of whining assholes.
That's BS man. Companies should compete on implementations of open standards. No one is forcing you to give up your secrets on how your implementation works 100% faster than the rest, etc.
And funny I never hear users of Windows software refer to "closed source shitty software".
Bah, you aren't listening to the right people then. I used to be pro-MS... believe it or not. I was supportive of the deployment of MS Office where I worked in 1998. I have come to regret that to some extent, but it is better than the Lotus Suite they were using.
In any case, back when I used MS and mostly closed source software, I constantly bitched about how bad it was. I hated IE... I just didn't think there were realistic other options.. I hated Windows, and how much it crashed. I hated not having control over my computer, or knowing for sure whether that seedy site I just visited had trojaned my computer or tricked me into changing my home page.
It's funny, but back then, I would never know whether hardware was really bad, or if it was software. Since I have switched, there is rarely any question when hardware is suspected as bad.
Anyway, my point is, I may not have called it "closed source shitty software" back then, because back then I didn't know any better. I didn't realize the huge advantages of open source, I just called it "shitty software", but I did complain. Windows and closed source really does suck, take it from a former Microsoft advocate.
Nor can I find, any jobs in my area listing Linux as a qualification
Jobs get listed in job databases in markets like this because the jobs suck. Any reasonable job is going to be filled locally, or from personal networks. Anyone would jump at the opportunity to admin or program for Linux servers, because you can get so much done so easily.
The coverse, no one wants to get stuck administering or programming for closed source shitty software, hence, the jobs wind up unfilled and on monster.com.
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Then just have a safety interlock where the laser can't fire if the fuel isn't enough to cool it. If they can scrounge together nearly a megawatt of energy on a fighter jet and design a laser that is over 10% efficient, then I'm sure they thought of that too. This whole discussion seems to be falling prey to Slashdot Naysayer Syndrome (SNS).
motor failure during the flight and the flight was terminated,
:)
I think it's pretty cool if this was some sort of self-destruct mechanism. The article doesn't really say if it self-destructed by itself, or if it was triggered from the ground.
I just wonder if they had to recite "Picard four-seven-alpha-tango" to activate it.
Being pro-Linux does not require you to be anti-MS.
Sorry, it does now. Ballmer wants to crush Linux. "The GPL is a cancer... Open source leads to security problems...." etc...
At one time you could be pro-Linux and not anti-MS, but MS has made that impossible now. If you support MS, you hurt Linux and open source. It is not us who made it that way, it is MS.
Well, someone had to watch my kid. I guess it was more accurately "day care". Even the people who just babysit in their homes all advertised things like "Christian mother", as if that were a good thing or something.
And you think people are completely truthful on those surveys, knowing the possible huge repurcussions of getting convicted of those crimes?
Even so, a full 39% admitted to using an illegal drug at some point, that's 80 million people. Also note that many of the respondents from 12-18 will most likely get their first exposure to illegal drugs in college.
Now, knowing those numbers, and even assuming they are correct, do you really think 80 million people have broken the DMCA? Do 80 million people even know what the DMCA is? I doubt it.
My point is... The original poster asked if there were some practice in the USA that allowed laws to be challenged only because it turns large groups of people into criminals. There isn't. There probably should be.
Probably bochs [sourceforge.net] would also do, though i didn't test it.
If you like 10 Mhz computing.
but aren't there rules about passing frivolous laws that will be broken by the majority of "ordinary" people
No, the War on Drugs is a shining example.
Forced to? Forced to?
Either that, or quit my job and move somewhere else, pretty risky in this market.
If you're so sure of this that you can pinpoint the exact moment when his problems started, why didn't you pull him out of the school?
I don't know that the school was the definite cause. I highly suspect it played a big role in the development of some of the problems, considering the timing of it all, but as we all know, correlation isn't necessarily causation. It's not as if this stuff developed overnight either. I just started seeing a pattern of behavior.
Because 49 Mhz is the standard frequency for cheap RC stuff in the US. The electronics for 49Mhz are cheap and easy to build. Of course, the optimal antenna for it is probably a lot longer than the antenna these little cars have, but that can be compensated for to some extent with proper antenna loading coils.
No one really takes too much note if you display an anti-Christian bias, so you should be squared away here...
Were you trying to be sarcastic or what?
Were kids in the 80's as violent as ones now? Hell no, and it's because the kids growing up just after I did had crap like Captain Planet and other spoon-fed pablum created to make everyone love and respect eachother
Bah, that liberal stuff is on the way out. The power rangers made me sick. Edgy shows are making it big recently, like the Power Puff Girls, SpongeBob SquarePants, etc...
It isn't like the 80s where you could turn on your TV almost any night of the week and see Micheal Knight take a bullet in the shoulder, but it's not as wussified as the early 90s either.
Humans are just different in that somehow, some of us just seem to "snap" and totally lose perspective and rationality
Well, I think the cause of this is two things.
We are generally not allowed to express anger in natural ways, like smacking someone upside the head. This social repression probably contributes to this explosive release.
Second, we have technology, something no other animal can really claim. It's a lot easier for us, alone or in small groups, to kill large amounts of other humans. Even the most powerful animal could only take out a few of it's own species at one time.
referring to Christian children as trashy
I said trashy Christian children. As in the ones he went to school with were, not all of them are.
Have these researchers for a moment stopped to consider that hours spent glued to some machine instead of interacting with ones peers is the cause of "anxieties", "anger", and "aggression"?
I don't know so much about that. Mostly anecdotal, but as a child I lived pretty much in isolation until I was 5 years old. I lived in the country and interacted very little with my peers. I didn't have a Nintendo or computers or anything like that back then, but I did watch a good bit of TV. I had very few behavioural problems in school, at least not many problems with aggression, I did tend to be a loner, and had some trouble interacting.
My son is now 5. He has gone to preschool since he was in diapers. He has problems with agression and anger management, he has had them for a while now.
They developed when he started going to one particular school, and interacted with peers that were very rough and physical on average. This was mostly because in the town I moved to, there are no secular preschools, so I was forced to send him to one of the brainwashing kinds, with the accompaning trashy Christian kids. Earlier he was attending a non-religious school in a college town, mostly with the sons and daughters of professors.
Now, I do allow him to play first person shooters and such, but I turn down the gore options.
My point? I don't know. It's hard to say from a little bit of anecdotal evidence like this, but my impression is that his interaction with certain types of peers led more to his anger problems than any game ever did. I just don't think the games are affecting him in a negative way, but I can tell you that the peers definitely are.
Sit through a two-hour long meeting with a manager and then go play twenty minutes of GTA3.
:)
That could be dangerous if you aren't allowed to play games at work like 99.9% of people. Imagine sitting in said 2 hours meeting, getting all riled up for GTA3, then having to drive home before you can play.
But then again, who uses RC5 in 20 years....
Yeah, that was my point, even if things keep doubling at their current rate, RC5-64 will still not be feasible to crack in reasonable by anything except dedicated (expensive) hardware for several decades.
Besides, who uses 64 bit encryption anymore. 128 bit will take several orders of magnitude times longer, it should be safe from brute force for the forseeable future.
They did forge ground in being one of the first large scale distributed computing efforts, so all is not lost, that is important research after all.
While it's debatable that the duration of this project does much to devalue the security of a 64-bit RC5 key by much, we can say with confidence that RC5-64 is not an appropriate algorithm to use for data that will still be sensitive in more than several years' time.
:)
Heh, it took a world-wide effort of thousands of computers over 1700 days. I don't think there is any debate at all; they proved the opposite of what they set out to prove.
So it's impolite to change the default configuration of anything in your distro without the permission of the author? That makes no sense. Why even have distros? I think Red Hat should take a lesson from this and drop KDE completely, since the KDE community is obviously a bunch of whining assholes.
That's BS man. Companies should compete on implementations of open standards. No one is forcing you to give up your secrets on how your implementation works 100% faster than the rest, etc.
and they don't want an employee who
admits RH 8.0's KDE is crippleware
Uhhhh...that is something about crippleware. Still immature on his part I think,
Perfect timing that you got your FUD story posted you mean, right?
Except that neither one is a WM.
Why did they waste money crippling it?
How is adding options to something "crippling it"?
It's clear from the KDE community reaction that many who love RH and KDE will switch to Mandrake or SuSE over the way RH has treated KDE.
Bullshit. The only people I see whining are the ones that never liked Red Hat to start with.
And funny I never hear users of Windows software refer to "closed source shitty software".
Bah, you aren't listening to the right people then. I used to be pro-MS... believe it or not. I was supportive of the deployment of MS Office where I worked in 1998. I have come to regret that to some extent, but it is better than the Lotus Suite they were using.
In any case, back when I used MS and mostly closed source software, I constantly bitched about how bad it was. I hated IE... I just didn't think there were realistic other options.. I hated Windows, and how much it crashed. I hated not having control over my computer, or knowing for sure whether that seedy site I just visited had trojaned my computer or tricked me into changing my home page.
It's funny, but back then, I would never know whether hardware was really bad, or if it was software. Since I have switched, there is rarely any question when hardware is suspected as bad.
Anyway, my point is, I may not have called it "closed source shitty software" back then, because back then I didn't know any better. I didn't realize the huge advantages of open source, I just called it "shitty software", but I did complain. Windows and closed source really does suck, take it from a former Microsoft advocate.
Nor can I find, any jobs in my area listing Linux as a qualification
Jobs get listed in job databases in markets like this because the jobs suck. Any reasonable job is going to be filled locally, or from personal networks. Anyone would jump at the opportunity to admin or program for Linux servers, because you can get so much done so easily.
The coverse, no one wants to get stuck administering or programming for closed source shitty software, hence, the jobs wind up unfilled and on monster.com.
I keep saying, I'll learn Linux as soon as I see a significant market for it
"I'll learn computers as soon as I see a significant market for them." --Anonymous Luddite, Circa 1982