In theory, they could do it. but first they'd need this machine that the article describes. In other words, your keys are still safe until someone actually builds one (even the guy who came up with the algorithm hasn't done that yet).
In other words, you're probably safe for about a week after Shamir reveals the algorithms (which I don't think he's actually done yet). Then, well, I'd look into stronger security.
The thing with 3D acceleration is that it's still very CPU-dependent. All a 3D card does is actually draw the screen; it relies on the CPU to set it up. The reason it accelerates framerates is because it leaves the CPU free to set up frame after frame after frams, without the overhead of rendering them.
What's the big deal, you say? The problem is, 3D acceleration is still CPU-dependent, to a degree. While you'll still get a boost, it might not be all that great. A P100, for example, can't keep a Voodoo2 saturated. You'll get great-looking graphics, but the animation still won't be very smooth (probably, in the case of a P100, it'll be just barely playable, but playable nonetheless).
Sorry, voyeurs, but this machine appears to be too powerful to allow for that. X-rays go right through skin (but not metal and bone) so unless you have an extreme attraction to skeletons you're not going to see anything particularly fascinating on this thing.
But even so, why do I get the feeling we'll be seeing X-ray porn sites popping up on the Net soon?
Probably not. It's X-ray-based, remember? This means two things:
1) It works visually; a bunch of coins in a pocket would show up as a big white blob, shaped like a bunch of coins but with no real way to determine what the coins were. 2) X-rays penetrate paper. The magnetic strips in dollar bills aren't dense enough to block X-rays.
It is important that these people are punished for their actions.
It is equally important, however, that they continue to get the education they need. Therefore, I propose a two-step system:
1) For the first two nonviolent offenses of any rule, the student gets a week's worth of in-school suspension. For those unfamiliar with the concept of in-school suspension, it basically involves the student spending the school day locked in a classroom with one or more proctors, their books, and a load of classwork which must be completed before the student can leave (the amount is reasonable, however; no more than can be finished in the average school day).
For the third nonviolent offense or the first violent one: military school for at least a year. The reasons are threefold: 1) Deterrent. The mere mention of military school is enough to send chills down the spine of even the most jaded of bullies. 2) Discipline. If mental discipline (such as in-school suspension) doesn't work, the physical rigors of training ought to do the trick. 3) Surveillance. The students are kept carefully under control.This keeps them out of trouble while in military school; the idea is that those habitswill carry over when it is time for the student to be re-integrated into the mainstream school system.
And one other thing: on the second violent offense: permanent expulsion from the public school system.
I certainly hope you meant to say "Let's ban priests now; they wear black"; while I know you were being sarcasticthat was still a very unfortunate typo.
Now, you are right about some of the things that the US has done. But you know what? I'll bet that wherever you live, I can drag up stuff your country has done that's even worse. The point: it isn't fair to bring up things a nation once did without acknowledging what your own nation has done. Yes, the US has its share of spots on its name; the near-genocide of the Native Americans is one, slavery's another, the Japanese internment camps are a third, and others exist. Don't be so quick to take the holier-than-thou position, though. I'd like to point out Spain's Inquisition, France's Reign of Terror, Germany's Third Reich, the whole mess with Mussolini in Italy, Japan's treatment of WWII prisoners (it was more fatal to be a prisoner of war in Japan than to be fighting the Japanese on the front lines), Russia's Great Purges, and so on.
Yeah; the US has done some bad stuff. But I still don't think I'd rather live anywhere else just yet.
Evolution does not imply that something gets "better" or "more sphoisticated." It implies only a change with a purpose behind it which differentiates it from the original. For example, let's go to evolution for a second: whales, dolphins, and the like evolved from land-dwelling mammals who took to the water for food. Under your definition of evolution this should not have happened.
Cultures do evolve, but the purpose is nothing more than the whims of the general populace. Think about it: American culture wasn't always the way it is now. There was in fact once a kinder, gentler time; geeks were still looked down upon but it was nothing like it is today. What we've seen is a backlash. Whyit was caused isn't something I claim to know; it could be blamed on the media, the mass abandonment by parents of their young, or any number of other things (but not the Net; this evolution was well under way long before 95% of the population even knew what the Net was).
What did goth culture evolve out of? Frankly, I haven't got a clue. Sure; it's no better or worse than any other subculture, but is is more evolved (it started from some mainstream ideal, and it has since become more and more different from the mainstream; that makes it evolved).
In the end, both projects really should converge (or nearly converge). Why? Choice is good, but only when all of the choices meet certain standards. To give an example: vi and Emacs. Both editors are radically different. but they agree on one simple standard: ASCII text. What does this mean? It means that I can work on a file in either Emacs or vi (or Pico, or joe, or any other text editor) without worrying about who created it.
Gnome and KDE need to do this. They've made one attempt by agreeing on XDND (technically you could say that X is a standard here as well), but that attempt is, quite simply put, feeble. They need to standardize on other issues, such as window manager support and the object models they'll be using. The end goal of this: Take two computers. One has only KDE on it, the other has only Gnome (though both have GTK and Qt). Take one app and compile it on each machine. Then run it on both machines with no problems.
The idea of having to write code for two desktop environments is ludicrous, and developers simply will not do it. TH4ey'll choose one or the other (in the furute it'll more likely be Gnome simply because that frees commercil developers from having to pay monstrously high licensing fees to Troll), and users will have to keep both on their system. That shouldn't have to happen.
As it stands, both DE's are currently flawed. KDE is ugly (even with themes support, which is too limited), the apps don't interact well, and it has the worst WM I've ever seen (though that can be replaced). Gnome, however, should still be in beta; despite the FUD that KDE users love to spread about version numbering it's not quite stable enough (and it still doesn't compile well on LinuxPPC R4; it can be made to compile not not particularly easily). Besides that, the installation is simply too difficult right now. Converge the products, and you have something that's not too shabby.
The martial arts probably deserve most of the credit for my managing to stay sane through my middle and high school years. I started then when I was 11, and I can't think of anything that helped me finish it out more.
For parents who balk at the idea, let me tell you something. I've been a martial artist for 9 years. I've been in far, far more than my share of confrontations in middle school. But I have never once used my skills to fight. Indeed, the cardinal rule of any martial art is that if you have to fight, you have already failed.
Frankly, I wonder if we shouldn't make some martial art mandatory learning material in schools. Start them in kindergarten. The martial arts works to ingrain a sense of honor and gentleness (yes, you heard me right, gentleness) into a person, especially that young, like almost nothing else.
Of course, that leads us to the problem of choosing an art, and you haven't seen a flamewar till you've seen an Art X vs. Art Y flamewar, so let's not go into that.
You are right about one thing: parents cannot have 100% control over their kids. That's not their job.
But it is the responsibility of every parent to teach their children right from wrong, fantasy from reality, and all that other good stuff. It is their responsibility to do that by absolutely whatever means are necessary so long as they aren't abusive. There is no more important job a person can have, and it's not even a terribly difficult one. In short, you teach the kid to now need you to have 100% control over them. These parents quite obviously failed to do that.
By the way, if your parents knew you snuck beers over to a friend's house, I'm willing to bet you that they knew about the bombs, but also figured you were responsible enough not to blow up anybody with one.
Their peers do indeed carry some of the blame. And ultimately it's the shooters themselves, of course.
But parents who neglect their child to the extent that they don't notice a kid going insane and planning to blow up the school when it's been in the works for a whole damn year are also to blame. Those kids needed help, it was doubtless obvious that they needed help (the police found sawed-off shotgun barrels in both bedrooms in plain view, you know), and the parents continued to look away.
I, too, have read Ayn Rand. She created the philosophy of Objectivism that puts cold emotionlessnes and ruthlessness above honor and kindness. Unless the world fixes itself we will definitely have some serious problems in the future. However, the teachings of Ayn Rand will not fix them. It is those ideals which have helped to get us into this problem in the first place.
In my post above (under the thread "Jesus H. Copeland") I stated that if this was ever going to end, some pretty big cultural changes were going to be needed. I stick by this. But I've been thinking some more about this, and I see only one even potentially effective first step.
This ostracism must be seen and treated as what it is: a crime. I call it "peer abuse." The legal punishment should be appropriate, but she schools should be empowered to administrate that punishment if the crime is committed on school grounds. I know the law isn't likely to be enforced; that isn't the point. The point is to force the schools to enforce the rules they supposedly have against this sort of thing (students, look in your student handbooks; every single school in the nation has rules against what is being done to you). It also establishes a legal recourse for those who are ostracized constantly; they can charge those who ostracize them with the crime they really are committing, and they can charge the school for aiding and abetting (this is not a lawsuit, by the way; this is pressing criminal charges).
Currently, the schools don't enforce it. Why? Because they're too damn lazy. Make peer abuse a crime, and the schools are committing a crime by not enforcing their rules. That would force them to do something, and maybe we'd have a better chance of putting an end to this.
However, it's one which I see in a lot of platforms. They claim many things but won't (can't?) back it up with anything specific. *BSD users aren't the only culprits of this; all of the Unices do it to each other (though Linux is better about this than most). The Windoze crowd sort of does it too (they do say stuff to back their claims up; it's just that all of it's wrong).
But it could be worse. After all, first Blockbuster has to get game makers to make the games support that format. And I seriously doubt any game makers are going to do that, because most of the hardcore gamers are techno-savvy enough to know about Divx. The fallout would simply be too great. I know I'd call for a boycott of Id (or Blizzard, or whoever) if they went along with this sick scheme, and I'd imagine many people would follow. The game companies know this. Therefore, I don't think this is anything to worry about; Blockbuster will scrap this idea when they realize no one is going to use it.
It doesn't seem to work with a Voodoo2 card either; q3test gives the error "You must have at least 4 MB of VRAM to play." I don't know if it's Quake3 or Mesa which is at fault for that one.
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Here's the thing: I don't think there is anjy actual single-player storyline, though I'd imagine somebody could make one.
However, this can still be played alone. If I'm not mistaked, Q3 will support Unreal-style "botmatches" where you spar with very highly advanced bots. Also, there's a tutorial mode.
Actually, I think this will be more in the form of a head-up display than true VR goggles. In other words, the screen appears to float in the air in front of you, but you can still see around the screen (and even, if I'm not mistaken, through the screen if you wish). So you could still look down at the keyboard.
Better yet, get some speech-dictation software and you won't even need the keyboard at all:)
Yellow Dog has Netscape up and running? I thought that was only for the Gone Home edition, which hasn't come out yet (the problem with Netscape is the combination of PPC and glibc2, not the LinuxPPC kernel, which is identical to the one used in Yellow Dog).
Last I heard, this Netscape issue was the only reason LinuxPPC hasn't released R5 yet.
Well, I still see a lot of anti-Mac FUD here, but at least he's toning down a bit. I'd be quite surprised, however, if he actually trook the time to properly optimize the Mac version of Quake3. Oh, and he seems to have been testing a Voodoo2 (or Voodoo3 even?) on the PC vs. a Rage Pro on a beige G3; you call that fair? Also, I like this bit about "No openGL Voodoo support on the Mac..." It's called Mesa, John. It's been out for years. Sure, Apple doesn't yet have 3Dfx GL support (I have yet to figure out why) but the Mac does.
But hey, he's improving, at least. His anti-Mac rants aren't totally inaccurate anymore. And hell, he's giving Q3Test to Mac users first.
I don't think we'll be seeing LinuxPPC binaries any time soon. The reason: Glide hasn't been ported to LinuxPPC yet, so even though we have Mesa we don't have any hardware 3D acceleration.
What ever happened to the Glide port anyway? I keep hearing about one in the works, but no information on the status.
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In theory, they could do it. but first they'd need this machine that the article describes. In other words, your keys are still safe until someone actually builds one (even the guy who came up with the algorithm hasn't done that yet).
In other words, you're probably safe for about a week after Shamir reveals the algorithms (which I don't think he's actually done yet). Then, well, I'd look into stronger security.
The thing with 3D acceleration is that it's still very CPU-dependent. All a 3D card does is actually draw the screen; it relies on the CPU to set it up. The reason it accelerates framerates is because it leaves the CPU free to set up frame after frame after frams, without the overhead of rendering them.
What's the big deal, you say? The problem is, 3D acceleration is still CPU-dependent, to a degree. While you'll still get a boost, it might not be all that great. A P100, for example, can't keep a Voodoo2 saturated. You'll get great-looking graphics, but the animation still won't be very smooth (probably, in the case of a P100, it'll be just barely playable, but playable nonetheless).
Sorry, voyeurs, but this machine appears to be too powerful to allow for that. X-rays go right through skin (but not metal and bone) so unless you have an extreme attraction to skeletons you're not going to see anything particularly fascinating on this thing.
But even so, why do I get the feeling we'll be seeing X-ray porn sites popping up on the Net soon?
Probably not. It's X-ray-based, remember? This means two things:
1) It works visually; a bunch of coins in a pocket would show up as a big white blob, shaped like a bunch of coins but with no real way to determine what the coins were.
2) X-rays penetrate paper. The magnetic strips in dollar bills aren't dense enough to block X-rays.
It is important that these people are punished for their actions.
It is equally important, however, that they continue to get the education they need. Therefore, I propose a two-step system:
1) For the first two nonviolent offenses of any rule, the student gets a week's worth of in-school suspension. For those unfamiliar with the concept of in-school suspension, it basically involves the student spending the school day locked in a classroom with one or more proctors, their books, and a load of classwork which must be completed before the student can leave (the amount is reasonable, however; no more than can be finished in the average school day).
For the third nonviolent offense or the first violent one: military school for at least a year. The reasons are threefold:
1) Deterrent. The mere mention of military school is enough to send chills down the spine of even the most jaded of bullies.
2) Discipline. If mental discipline (such as in-school suspension) doesn't work, the physical rigors of training ought to do the trick.
3) Surveillance. The students are kept carefully under control.This keeps them out of trouble while in military school; the idea is that those habitswill carry over when it is time for the student to be re-integrated into the mainstream school system.
And one other thing: on the second violent offense: permanent expulsion from the public school system.
I certainly hope you meant to say "Let's ban priests now; they wear black"; while I know you were being sarcasticthat was still a very unfortunate typo.
Now, you are right about some of the things that the US has done. But you know what? I'll bet that wherever you live, I can drag up stuff your country has done that's even worse. The point: it isn't fair to bring up things a nation once did without acknowledging what your own nation has done. Yes, the US has its share of spots on its name; the near-genocide of the Native Americans is one, slavery's another, the Japanese internment camps are a third, and others exist. Don't be so quick to take the holier-than-thou position, though. I'd like to point out Spain's Inquisition, France's Reign of Terror, Germany's Third Reich, the whole mess with Mussolini in Italy, Japan's treatment of WWII prisoners (it was more fatal to be a prisoner of war in Japan than to be fighting the Japanese on the front lines), Russia's Great Purges, and so on.
Yeah; the US has done some bad stuff. But I still don't think I'd rather live anywhere else just yet.
Evolution does not imply that something gets "better" or "more sphoisticated." It implies only a change with a purpose behind it which differentiates it from the original. For example, let's go to evolution for a second: whales, dolphins, and the like evolved from land-dwelling mammals who took to the water for food. Under your definition of evolution this should not have happened.
Cultures do evolve, but the purpose is nothing more than the whims of the general populace. Think about it: American culture wasn't always the way it is now. There was in fact once a kinder, gentler time; geeks were still looked down upon but it was nothing like it is today. What we've seen is a backlash. Whyit was caused isn't something I claim to know; it could be blamed on the media, the mass abandonment by parents of their young, or any number of other things (but not the Net; this evolution was well under way long before 95% of the population even knew what the Net was).
What did goth culture evolve out of? Frankly, I haven't got a clue. Sure; it's no better or worse than any other subculture, but is is more evolved (it started from some mainstream ideal, and it has since become more and more different from the mainstream; that makes it evolved).
In the end, both projects really should converge (or nearly converge). Why? Choice is good, but only when all of the choices meet certain standards. To give an example: vi and Emacs. Both editors are radically different. but they agree on one simple standard: ASCII text. What does this mean? It means that I can work on a file in either Emacs or vi (or Pico, or joe, or any other text editor) without worrying about who created it.
Gnome and KDE need to do this. They've made one attempt by agreeing on XDND (technically you could say that X is a standard here as well), but that attempt is, quite simply put, feeble. They need to standardize on other issues, such as window manager support and the object models they'll be using. The end goal of this: Take two computers. One has only KDE on it, the other has only Gnome (though both have GTK and Qt). Take one app and compile it on each machine. Then run it on both machines with no problems.
The idea of having to write code for two desktop environments is ludicrous, and developers simply will not do it. TH4ey'll choose one or the other (in the furute it'll more likely be Gnome simply because that frees commercil developers from having to pay monstrously high licensing fees to Troll), and users will have to keep both on their system. That shouldn't have to happen.
As it stands, both DE's are currently flawed. KDE is ugly (even with themes support, which is too limited), the apps don't interact well, and it has the worst WM I've ever seen (though that can be replaced). Gnome, however, should still be in beta; despite the FUD that KDE users love to spread about version numbering it's not quite stable enough (and it still doesn't compile well on LinuxPPC R4; it can be made to compile not not particularly easily). Besides that, the installation is simply too difficult right now. Converge the products, and you have something that's not too shabby.
The martial arts probably deserve most of the credit for my managing to stay sane through my middle and high school years. I started then when I was 11, and I can't think of anything that helped me finish it out more.
For parents who balk at the idea, let me tell you something. I've been a martial artist for 9 years. I've been in far, far more than my share of confrontations in middle school. But I have never once used my skills to fight. Indeed, the cardinal rule of any martial art is that if you have to fight, you have already failed.
Frankly, I wonder if we shouldn't make some martial art mandatory learning material in schools. Start them in kindergarten. The martial arts works to ingrain a sense of honor and gentleness (yes, you heard me right, gentleness) into a person, especially that young, like almost nothing else.
Of course, that leads us to the problem of choosing an art, and you haven't seen a flamewar till you've seen an Art X vs. Art Y flamewar, so let's not go into that.
You are right about one thing: parents cannot have 100% control over their kids. That's not their job.
But it is the responsibility of every parent to teach their children right from wrong, fantasy from reality, and all that other good stuff. It is their responsibility to do that by absolutely whatever means are necessary so long as they aren't abusive. There is no more important job a person can have, and it's not even a terribly difficult one. In short, you teach the kid to now need you to have 100% control over them. These parents quite obviously failed to do that.
By the way, if your parents knew you snuck beers over to a friend's house, I'm willing to bet you that they knew about the bombs, but also figured you were responsible enough not to blow up anybody with one.
Their peers do indeed carry some of the blame. And ultimately it's the shooters themselves, of course.
But parents who neglect their child to the extent that they don't notice a kid going insane and planning to blow up the school when it's been in the works for a whole damn year are also to blame. Those kids needed help, it was doubtless obvious that they needed help (the police found sawed-off shotgun barrels in both bedrooms in plain view, you know), and the parents continued to look away.
I, too, have read Ayn Rand. She created the philosophy of Objectivism that puts cold emotionlessnes and ruthlessness above honor and kindness. Unless the world fixes itself we will definitely have some serious problems in the future. However, the teachings of Ayn Rand will not fix them. It is those ideals which have helped to get us into this problem in the first place.
In my post above (under the thread "Jesus H. Copeland") I stated that if this was ever going to end, some pretty big cultural changes were going to be needed. I stick by this. But I've been thinking some more about this, and I see only one even potentially effective first step.
This ostracism must be seen and treated as what it is: a crime. I call it "peer abuse." The legal punishment should be appropriate, but she schools should be empowered to administrate that punishment if the crime is committed on school grounds. I know the law isn't likely to be enforced; that isn't the point. The point is to force the schools to enforce the rules they supposedly have against this sort of thing (students, look in your student handbooks; every single school in the nation has rules against what is being done to you). It also establishes a legal recourse for those who are ostracized constantly; they can charge those who ostracize them with the crime they really are committing, and they can charge the school for aiding and abetting (this is not a lawsuit, by the way; this is pressing criminal charges).
Currently, the schools don't enforce it. Why? Because they're too damn lazy. Make peer abuse a crime, and the schools are committing a crime by not enforcing their rules. That would force them to do something, and maybe we'd have a better chance of putting an end to this.
That's part of why I used them as the example; I know they would never use such a sceme.
However, it's one which I see in a lot of platforms. They claim many things but won't (can't?) back it up with anything specific. *BSD users aren't the only culprits of this; all of the Unices do it to each other (though Linux is better about this than most). The Windoze crowd sort of does it too (they do say stuff to back their claims up; it's just that all of it's wrong).
But it could be worse. After all, first Blockbuster has to get game makers to make the games support that format. And I seriously doubt any game makers are going to do that, because most of the hardcore gamers are techno-savvy enough to know about Divx. The fallout would simply be too great. I know I'd call for a boycott of Id (or Blizzard, or whoever) if they went along with this sick scheme, and I'd imagine many people would follow. The game companies know this. Therefore, I don't think this is anything to worry about; Blockbuster will scrap this idea when they realize no one is going to use it.
It doesn't seem to work with a Voodoo2 card either; q3test gives the error "You must have at least 4 MB of VRAM to play." I don't know if it's Quake3 or Mesa which is at fault for that one.
Here's the thing: I don't think there is anjy actual single-player storyline, though I'd imagine somebody could make one.
However, this can still be played alone. If I'm not mistaked, Q3 will support Unreal-style "botmatches" where you spar with very highly advanced bots. Also, there's a tutorial mode.
I mean www.mesa3d.org, not www.mesa3d.got ot www.mesaGL.org.
Where did I get "got" from "org" anyway?
1) Their link to Mesa's site is bad. It's www.mesa3d.got, not www.mesaGL.org.
2) The 3.1b4 binaries aren't where the Mesa site says they are. In fact, I'm still looking for them.
This said, q3test looks great. Now, if only I goould get into one of the servers...
Actually, I think this will be more in the form of a head-up display than true VR goggles. In other words, the screen appears to float in the air in front of you, but you can still see around the screen (and even, if I'm not mistaken, through the screen if you wish). So you could still look down at the keyboard.
:)
Better yet, get some speech-dictation software and you won't even need the keyboard at all
Yellow Dog has Netscape up and running? I thought that was only for the Gone Home edition, which hasn't come out yet (the problem with Netscape is the combination of PPC and glibc2, not the LinuxPPC kernel, which is identical to the one used in Yellow Dog).
Last I heard, this Netscape issue was the only reason LinuxPPC hasn't released R5 yet.
You see, it isn't really free, since Compaq has to buy the OS from Microsoft. Apple, on the other hand, makes their own, which they put on the laptop.
At least, that's what Apple will tell you. Remember, they still consider themselves to be primarily a hardware company.
Well, I still see a lot of anti-Mac FUD here, but at least he's toning down a bit. I'd be quite surprised, however, if he actually trook the time to properly optimize the Mac version of Quake3. Oh, and he seems to have been testing a Voodoo2 (or Voodoo3 even?) on the PC vs. a Rage Pro on a beige G3; you call that fair? Also, I like this bit about "No openGL Voodoo support on the Mac..." It's called Mesa, John. It's been out for years. Sure, Apple doesn't yet have 3Dfx GL support (I have yet to figure out why) but the Mac does.
But hey, he's improving, at least. His anti-Mac rants aren't totally inaccurate anymore. And hell, he's giving Q3Test to Mac users first.
I don't think we'll be seeing LinuxPPC binaries any time soon. The reason: Glide hasn't been ported to LinuxPPC yet, so even though we have Mesa we don't have any hardware 3D acceleration.
What ever happened to the Glide port anyway? I keep hearing about one in the works, but no information on the status.