I respectfully disagree. With the motion picture industry the way it is these days with bad movies being hyped into existance this household regularly downloads cam movies to evaluate the product. If its a good movie we then purchase it on a pressed DVD.
Music OTOH we don't go and purchase the disc for mainstream music anyway. Probably because the downloadable version is of reasonable quality already. I listen to http://www.triplej.abc.net.au/ in Australia. It has a lot of noise but occasionally there is a gem that probably won't make it to the mainstream radio stations - these artists we buy.
Grab a tarball of the kernel, read the docs, print out a kernel compile howto - Dirty your hands!
All drivers have the option of being compiled or not and there are many that you will NEVER use. Most have the option of being compiled a a module - it will unload itself from memory when not being used. It the case of network drivers esp PCI hardware most will be in use all the time so the difference between a module and being compiled into the kernel is very slight.
It's funny that you think you have privacy on the internet.
Who ever promised you privacy on the internet? With so many internet links traveling through unknown places it is _your_ responsibility to encript or otherwise protect your data from prying eyes, nobody elses.
The only problem with that is that it's non specific. Which memories will be erased? No one can tell. Also if sometime in the future you have a trigger you might remember all said memories.
I personally do think that it will be a while before we have a MIB style neuraliser. A device that leaves common knowledge intact but erases memories from recent events.
When I talk to people about this
monster
not one person I have spoken to has remembered the incident or knew it happened in the first place.
People are happy in there own worlds, Happy and safe knowing that they will be here tomorow, They don't consider that something like this couls happen.
It scares me more that people are so unaware of things like this. If people don't know of things like this, and or they don't care, no funding will be alloted to detecting things like these.
After all no politition wants to spend money, Peoples hard earned taxes, on something that will not get him back into office next term.
Our University, Griffith UNI, AU Uses 2yo PC's for student common use computer labs. Our UNI has trouble keeping a SQUID server up and running so i hope they don't make any drastic changes like this. Our enrollment software server falls over all the time, The server that serves our timetabling info is rarely up when you need it.
You guessed it, The computer policy is Windoze, Although the system programmers are starting to implement their own policy based on RedHat.
Where I work (I know not a UNI environment) uses thin clients - everyone hates them because they are so slow. The same company uses pIII computers to run windows software to control Gas Chromatographs. Talk about major overkill.
Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi, etc, etc...
For the "force feedback" provided by steering wheels when cornering, the force of bushing a button to make sure it has operated, The vibrations through your seat to tell you when your going over a dirt road.
Then we are after the tool manufacturers.
We couldn't have tools that provided feedback, arguably in a Digital environment because of the fact that a nut/screw is either done up properly or it isn't. Two states = Binary.
The list is neverending, This company does not have to worry about lack of turnover for a LONG time yet.
So you go to the Grand Canyon or whatever and for the next 3 hours you are busy checking out peoples web sites and downloading pictures from the people that have been there before.
Next you look around upload you pic and it's dark.
Oh well you will just have to come back tomorow to look at the canyon!
Ok, I have my MP3's streaming, all our digital pictures up
Given that MP3's and digital pictures don't change with time like databases, documents etc, why not do what we do and back the whole lot up once. Then as you download new MP3's, pictures, whatever. Put them into a directory say Not_Backed_Up, and burn that to CD also when you have enough to fill a CD. Then migrate this with the rest of the data and start fresh with the next CD to be filled.
FWIW if you have the money to buy 2 identical drives RAID 1 might be the way to go.
Reached an aggreement with Excite@Home in Australia months ago and have scince been moving over to their own infrastructure. Changes are complete now except for internal newsgroups:-(
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I respectfully disagree. With the motion picture industry the way it is these days with bad movies being hyped into existance this household regularly downloads cam movies to evaluate the product. If its a good movie we then purchase it on a pressed DVD.
Music OTOH we don't go and purchase the disc for mainstream music anyway. Probably because the downloadable version is of reasonable quality already. I listen to http://www.triplej.abc.net.au/ in Australia. It has a lot of noise but occasionally there is a gem that probably won't make it to the mainstream radio stations - these artists we buy.
Grab a tarball of the kernel, read the docs, print out a kernel compile howto - Dirty your hands!
All drivers have the option of being compiled or not and there are many that you will NEVER use. Most have the option of being compiled a a module - it will unload itself from memory when not being used. It the case of network drivers esp PCI hardware most will be in use all the time so the difference between a module and being compiled into the kernel is very slight.
Get in, get dirty and learn!
Adrian
That stuff is dangerous and should be destroyed on sight: see here:- http://www.dhmo.org/
In other words they are after 4 inches?
Adrian
Duh! Look past the monitor!
Adrian
It's funny that you think you have privacy on the internet.
Who ever promised you privacy on the internet?
With so many internet links traveling through unknown places it is _your_ responsibility to encript or otherwise protect your data from prying eyes, nobody elses.
Adrian
The only problem with that is that it's non specific. Which memories will be erased? No one can tell. Also if sometime in the future you have a trigger you might remember all said memories.
I personally do think that it will be a while before we have a MIB style neuraliser. A device that leaves common knowledge intact but erases memories from recent events.
Adrian
You miss the point, It's a method for getting to the beer FASTER...
As I see it there is nothing drastically different with Slack to require a Slack specific HOWTO.
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This only complicates things more.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.htm
Would have sufficed,
Adrian
Betcha he feels like a turkey for posting his story now...
Um Buy a better one?
Why oh why can't these people be happy whith the real and honest work they do for the project?
Cheating, result stuffing, whatever you want to call it does nothing but diminish the overall value of the scientific work being done.
The fact that the SETI group does nothing about this is confusing to me.
Fabulous, Works with mozilla,
Great support, They even listen to their customers.
I sent in a bug report and they fixed the problem in about 2 months when they updated the website.
Adrian
When I talk to people about this monster not one person I have spoken to has remembered the incident or knew it happened in the first place.
People are happy in there own worlds, Happy and safe knowing that they will be here tomorow, They don't consider that something like this couls happen.
It scares me more that people are so unaware of things like this. If people don't know of things like this, and or they don't care, no funding will be alloted to detecting things like these.
After all no politition wants to spend money, Peoples hard earned taxes, on something that will not get him back into office next term.
DDOS
I can see it now, Someone on IRC states that "All you're base..." And gets pinf flodded into oblivion from whe whole galaxy.
Our University, Griffith UNI, AU Uses 2yo PC's for student common use computer labs. Our UNI has trouble keeping a SQUID server up and running so i hope they don't make any drastic changes like this. Our enrollment software server falls over all the time, The server that serves our timetabling info is rarely up when you need it.
You guessed it, The computer policy is Windoze, Although the system programmers are starting to implement their own policy based on RedHat.
Where I work (I know not a UNI environment) uses thin clients - everyone hates them because they are so slow. The same company uses pIII computers to run windows software to control Gas Chromatographs. Talk about major overkill.
Next they sue the major car companies.
Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi, etc, etc...
For the "force feedback" provided by steering wheels when cornering, the force of bushing a button to make sure it has operated, The vibrations through your seat to tell you when your going over a dirt road.
Then we are after the tool manufacturers.
We couldn't have tools that provided feedback, arguably in a Digital environment because of the fact that a nut/screw is either done up properly or it isn't. Two states = Binary.
The list is neverending, This company does not have to worry about lack of turnover for a LONG time yet.
I could never understand how my fellow students could mostly afford lappies, newest phones etc, etc...
While i'm strugglin' to pay the bills and buy the next round of text books.
Life's hard at Uni without parental financial support.
Dosen't make me wish any less though!
So you go to the Grand Canyon or whatever and for the next 3 hours you are busy checking out peoples web sites and downloading pictures from the people that have been there before.
Next you look around upload you pic and it's dark. Oh well you will just have to come back tomorow to look at the canyon!
Given that MP3's and digital pictures don't change with time like databases, documents etc, why not do what we do and back the whole lot up once. Then as you download new MP3's, pictures, whatever. Put them into a directory say Not_Backed_Up, and burn that to CD also when you have enough to fill a CD. Then migrate this with the rest of the data and start fresh with the next CD to be filled.
FWIW if you have the money to buy 2 identical drives RAID 1 might be the way to go.
*Steven Fucking Spielberg* Works in the movie industry dosn't he? How easy would it be for someone to make a latex mask?
Reached an aggreement with Excite@Home in Australia months ago and have scince been moving over to their own infrastructure. Changes are complete now except for internal newsgroups :-(
Adrian
Pity it coulden't have ran linux as then it really would have been one cool cat...
Does Mozilla include SSL or will it ever include SSL for accessing secure sites?
What options are out there for use on *nix platforms that allow people to access secure sites?
Adrian.