However you can still get around this by having a single non-root user that isn't managed by LDAP or whatever which you can log in with and su to root.
There may be some fatty acids that can act as neurotoxins but it's pretty unlikely these are. There are drinks that contain caffeine but that doesn't mean that my orange juice does.
Of course it's possible that by co-incidence they're neurotoxins but it's pretty unlikely.
These are just used by other insects as a sign that an insect died nearby, and the idea isn't for them to be used as an insecticide.
The BBC also shows lots of content licensed from other producers. In fact a good deal of the content the BBC commisions remains owned by other people, the BBC gets certain rights in return for paying less.
I think the Xbox division has started turning a profit actually. A small one iirc, but not a loss any more. Of course I'm sure it'll be a long time until they see enough profit to recover their losses over the previous years.
It's a DoS but it's also more than that as it could cause data corruption, or even just the loss of your unsaved files. Maybe not so huge for one user, but hit a large network with it and it could be a major pain in the arse.
While I agree the GP is wrong, you might want to have a look at Maemo in more detail. It is Debian based but quite a few key pieces of software on it are closed. I wouldn't expect to get another linux distro working on this, at least not if you want all the hardware to work. Certainly better than an iPhone though:)
Not true. 3G is a standard, you can use any GSM 3G phone on any GSM 3G network, provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country, and provided the phone isn't locked (restricted to a single carrier). The latter's still not an incompatibility, it's an explicit lock that can be undone. If you buy a phone without a contract it's never locked.
Yeah the iPhone is so free as in speech you can't install arbitrary apps unless you jailbreak it. Also as the other replier to your message mentioned, OSX doesn't have a BSD kernel, it has a Mach kernel with a BSD compat layer and some BSD userland.
Because Facebook is supposed to limit your data to your friends and applications *you* choose to trust. But it doesn't give you any control over which data of yours is visible to an application installed by someone else in your network.
Therefore if your mum installs a rogue app then she gives away every piece of data she can view about all her friends and family (who happen to be on Facebook), including you. That's going to include most of your data on Facebook.
Therefore what the hell is the point of having any privacy controls at all? They're simply misleading, all your data has already been made available to multiple third parties without consulting you.
You were doing so well for about half a post then it all went to shit:)
The order in which data is input into a computer makes no difference, processing is typically done frame by frame for a visual dataset, so each cycle (not CPU..) of processing acts on the whole 2D structure in one go.
Besides, hardware based artificial neural networks for processing images process 2D pixel arrays in parallel.
Also I think you're miles off when it comes to consciousness. Despite many claims I don't think anyone's really anywhere near any real idea of what it is. I think it might be an emergent property of certain types of complex system, but that's as much of a guess as yours is and I'm not going to try to state it as fact.
I'd be interested to know where you're planning to go with this, or I suppose maybe more to the point what you're planning to learn as you iterate the idea. I'm a bit young to really remember the transputer (I think I was probably about 12 when I saw the Atari transputer setup in a magazine, I nearly wet my pants;) but as you mention you're already aware of the design and from what I understand this seems quite similar. Do you think the transputer was just ahead of its time, or do you plan to move in another direction?
Incidentally, not sure how big it is, but if you could get the Erlang VM running on one of these nodes (may be a bit of a push on this iteration) I think it could be a perfect fit for the architecture.
Well I can't speak for other Linuxes, it's a long time since I used Redhat/Fedora or Suse as a desktop, but Ubuntu doesn't have a root terminal entry in the menus. I can't think of any standard apps or 'control panels' that request root straight away any more, they mostly ask when you try to do a specific operation. Granted you could probably wrap a random app in a password prompt and most people would just type it in anyway. In the case of Win7 UAC the code can get root the moment it's run.
But overall I agree with you, the sudo arrangement isn't a great deal better.
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I'm a tool and mis-read your (GP) post :)
However you can still get around this by having a single non-root user that isn't managed by LDAP or whatever which you can log in with and su to root.
Log in as a non root user and su to root, there's very rarely a good reason to allow root to log in directly.
Attack surface not attack rate..
You can not buy McDonalds' burgers though...
Huh?
There may be some fatty acids that can act as neurotoxins but it's pretty unlikely these are. There are drinks that contain caffeine but that doesn't mean that my orange juice does.
Of course it's possible that by co-incidence they're neurotoxins but it's pretty unlikely.
These are just used by other insects as a sign that an insect died nearby, and the idea isn't for them to be used as an insecticide.
Yeah but they're not nerve toxins like many pesticides..
The BBC also shows lots of content licensed from other producers. In fact a good deal of the content the BBC commisions remains owned by other people, the BBC gets certain rights in return for paying less.
Uhuh, have they open sourced the power management yet?
There's still plenty of closed stuff on Maemo.
Really? I'd be interested to see any figures for that. My understanding was that the market was shrinking.
I think the Xbox division has started turning a profit actually. A small one iirc, but not a loss any more. Of course I'm sure it'll be a long time until they see enough profit to recover their losses over the previous years.
It's a DoS but it's also more than that as it could cause data corruption, or even just the loss of your unsaved files. Maybe not so huge for one user, but hit a large network with it and it could be a major pain in the arse.
Nintendo, MS and Sony are the kings of gaming. But MS isn't there because of Windows, it's because of Xbox. The market for PC gaming is shriveling.
It has closed source bits, but the vast majority is OSS, you can rip and replace most individual parts and install whatever you like.
While I agree the GP is wrong, you might want to have a look at Maemo in more detail. It is Debian based but quite a few key pieces of software on it are closed. I wouldn't expect to get another linux distro working on this, at least not if you want all the hardware to work. Certainly better than an iPhone though :)
Not true. 3G is a standard, you can use any GSM 3G phone on any GSM 3G network, provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country, and provided the phone isn't locked (restricted to a single carrier). The latter's still not an incompatibility, it's an explicit lock that can be undone. If you buy a phone without a contract it's never locked.
I think in this case it's clearly meant to mean fair. Balancing the needs of each party.
Now whether you agree this particular proposal *is* balanced is another matter.
I stand corrected. Either that wasn't there last time I adjusted my privacy settings, or I didn't see it.
iPhone can't multi-task actually dude.
Wooosh!
Yeah the iPhone is so free as in speech you can't install arbitrary apps unless you jailbreak it. Also as the other replier to your message mentioned, OSX doesn't have a BSD kernel, it has a Mach kernel with a BSD compat layer and some BSD userland.
It's less than the Touch Pro I bought that's got a similar target market I think. That was 617 euros without a contract (yes ouch ;).
At 500 euros I think it's pretty competitive, you'll see it for 150 with contract before long.
Because Facebook is supposed to limit your data to your friends and applications *you* choose to trust. But it doesn't give you any control over which data of yours is visible to an application installed by someone else in your network.
Therefore if your mum installs a rogue app then she gives away every piece of data she can view about all her friends and family (who happen to be on Facebook), including you. That's going to include most of your data on Facebook.
Therefore what the hell is the point of having any privacy controls at all? They're simply misleading, all your data has already been made available to multiple third parties without consulting you.
You were doing so well for about half a post then it all went to shit :)
The order in which data is input into a computer makes no difference, processing is typically done frame by frame for a visual dataset, so each cycle (not CPU..) of processing acts on the whole 2D structure in one go.
Besides, hardware based artificial neural networks for processing images process 2D pixel arrays in parallel.
Also I think you're miles off when it comes to consciousness. Despite many claims I don't think anyone's really anywhere near any real idea of what it is. I think it might be an emergent property of certain types of complex system, but that's as much of a guess as yours is and I'm not going to try to state it as fact.
I'd be interested to know where you're planning to go with this, or I suppose maybe more to the point what you're planning to learn as you iterate the idea. I'm a bit young to really remember the transputer (I think I was probably about 12 when I saw the Atari transputer setup in a magazine, I nearly wet my pants ;) but as you mention you're already aware of the design and from what I understand this seems quite similar. Do you think the transputer was just ahead of its time, or do you plan to move in another direction?
Incidentally, not sure how big it is, but if you could get the Erlang VM running on one of these nodes (may be a bit of a push on this iteration) I think it could be a perfect fit for the architecture.
Well I can't speak for other Linuxes, it's a long time since I used Redhat/Fedora or Suse as a desktop, but Ubuntu doesn't have a root terminal entry in the menus. I can't think of any standard apps or 'control panels' that request root straight away any more, they mostly ask when you try to do a specific operation. Granted you could probably wrap a random app in a password prompt and most people would just type it in anyway. In the case of Win7 UAC the code can get root the moment it's run.
But overall I agree with you, the sudo arrangement isn't a great deal better.