You hope Hawking was right about the Hawking radiation and then wait for 10^70 years or so for it to evaporate.;-) Hey, at least you can be all lazy about it and don't have to worry about "disposing" anything. It will handle that on its own perfectly fine, given enough time! Yet another nice advantage with black holes.
Let me guess... James P. Hogan is not an established scientist?:-P
*checks biography online*
Right... Science fiction author...
Most scientists have assured the LHC won't create micro black holes, and CERN has actually made a full fledged study on "exotic" events that could occur. But of course, we can't be 100% sure of our theories and that nothing will happen. I trust these guys more than a sci-fi author though.
Other "real world" tests might involve LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors, as it is believed theorized cosmic strings and domain walls would both emit gravitational waves, and both are involved in string theories. Kip Thorne has a good downloadable online lecture here, with slides as well as audio (you have to sync yourself with them manually;-)): http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/thorne/
Thanks for the thorough reply! Hmm, didn't know Norway had done this. The infamous Aylar Lie material and also that skier's (her name escapes me now) hardcore stuff probably contributed to that assumption, but these could of course have used other "loopholes" such as simply opting to produce the porn for a company under another legislation. This makes me wonder how common it is in "Western" cultures to outlaw hardcore pornography.
Nettsider som tilbyr porno som virker støtende. = "Web sites that provide pornography that can offend."
Hmm, is that kind of material even illegal in Norway otherwise? It would encompass most porn because you can be sure there's always someone offended about it, particularly often in governments it seems.
I see your sarcasm, but there has actually been identified cases of astroturfing from major companies like Sony with PS3 blogging. I think it'll help in these high profile cases, because they probably wouldn't want to risk a scandal by hiring a third party blogger that was later revealed to work for Sony.
But you're right in that it won't help much in companies advertising products, where the company was already shady to begin with.
Still dwarfed by the debate on the DRM of Vista...:-p
Some even still believe that the protection paths of Vista are active and analyzing content at all times, reducing performance, and not just when playing DRM'ed media you have opted to purchase yourself. Or that it somehow tries to restrict use of non-DRM'ed media.
It still suffers from some "closed sourcedness" behavior, with e.g. how do I / who define more "kinds", what's each "kind" defined as? how is a "store" defined? and so on, but it can still do quite a bit more than what first meets the eye in Vista or XP using the WDS addon. It's a bit too heavily specialized for the wants of Microsoft though. What that application needs is a thorough, nice, API to define its behavior.
Your arguments are entirely based on speculation in what they do on their "boredom time" and what Microsoft's intentions are; do you realize you're just conspiracing here?
Thus, those who know the most deeply buried exploits for Windows Vista (especially the exploits which may even be specific to particular hardware) are in the social circles which are closest to organizations such as the NSA.
Why would a developer "know exploits" without trying to patch them? Just because of being evil, while risking a huge scandal for Microsoft? You see, it's here your "logical conclusion" fails.
What kind of measures does one need to take to make sure no one but yourself has access to your data? Is Bitlocker just good enough (keeping out your siblings) or does it miss the whole purpose of the encryption entirely?"
It doesn't miss the point, and all the article says is that because of lack of hardware designed for Bitlocker, it may not become well used anytime soon. But AFAIK, there's nothing to suggest Bitlocker is not doing something it is intended to do. If you have the hardware necessary, I believe Bitlocker will work just fine.
If you don't, I guess TrueCrypt could be a better choice here as it doesn't rely on hardware, but is software based.
Vista does nothing special more than the damage the MPAA/RIAA backed DRM has already done to the entertainment business and culture.
The problem here is DRM, not an OS implementing DRM as a choice to use besides unprotected files. You can ignore that choice and use your computers like you always did.
Vista even allows me to use BitTorrent to leech unprotected HD movies and play it back on *gasp* a non-HDCP compliant monitor without quality reduction!11!!
I just find it riduculous how much crap Vista gets for merely giving their users the freedom to use DRM.
The real problem here is that excessive DRM usage limits our choices, but that's a flamewar you need to carry on with the media companies that decide which movies should have it applied or not. It's definitely not up to Microsoft, as little as it is to Apple as for which music gets protected with FairPlay. If Apple could, they'd basically give their music away as mp3's.
Why is Vista a threat to our freedom? Because it's laden with DRM.
Sorry, but isn't it today's movie companies that are threat to our freedoms, because their discs are laden with DRM?
Vista merely have an implementation of the standard to give their users the choice to use them, as well as letting them opt out of this whole crap by playing unprotected media, the path I'd take at least.
Well, contrary to popular opinion on Slashdot, Windows fans do exist (you'll find throngs of them on popular sites like Neowin) and do believe Windows Vista is better than both OS X and Linux, so I think you'll need to provide something more than someone liking MS technologies to say it's about Microsoft themselves. It's like saying an Ubuntu hacker is automatically an Ubuntu developer.
Why is it always assumed someone miss a joke when staying on topic just to give some info. I for one was happy for the information, but sure, the joke was kinda funny too. Can't we just leave it at that for once?:-p
After having actually used ( please don't waste your time commenting here if you haven't:-p ) Vista, I think the app compatibility has been as good as I can expect from a major OS upgrade. In other words, similar to where Windows 2000 was when it was fresh out the door. Lots work, some things don't. Especially if the applications are designed in a user-oriented way that understands Windows actually has a user home directory, they seem to work well. The most common problems seem to be software that work in a very machine local way. Compare to if a Linux application would try install things under \root\FancyApp instead of the home directory. Even here, Vista tries to resolve things in a clean way for backwards compatibility, but sometimes fail, especially when UAC prompts are active.
With that in mind...
If it is not who do you think is 'at fault' here, Microsoft or Apple?
Since Apple isn't whining about Microsoft's Vista compatibility (they would definitely be in a position to do so, especially with Microsoft's recent lashes at Apple), but taking full responsibility at fixing their app ASAP, and that application incompatibilities hasn't been overly common in Vista (it's far worse with drivers), I'd say that Apple has made a boo-boo at their software design. They aren't great developers of Windows applications anyway, as any user of Windows QuickTime vs Apple QuickTime should be able to confirm.
Many users are calling this BS, saying it's all about Yahoo marketing its other properties to Flickr's user-base.
And what's the problem with that? OK, "marketing" can be an evil thing, but still, if it's about integrating their feature set better and providing their Flickr users with more functionality, I'd be all for it. Same if Gmail started getting more useful features from other Google services. Is it always bad to see integration for a company to give you more functionality?
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How does one go about disposing of a black hole?
;-) Hey, at least you can be all lazy about it and don't have to worry about "disposing" anything. It will handle that on its own perfectly fine, given enough time! Yet another nice advantage with black holes.
You hope Hawking was right about the Hawking radiation and then wait for 10^70 years or so for it to evaporate.
Huh? The article isn't just talking about a ring, but a black hole with a ring around it.
Let me guess... James P. Hogan is not an established scientist? :-P
*checks biography online*
Right... Science fiction author...
Most scientists have assured the LHC won't create micro black holes, and CERN has actually made a full fledged study on "exotic" events that could occur. But of course, we can't be 100% sure of our theories and that nothing will happen. I trust these guys more than a sci-fi author though.
I've had those near me so often merely by browsing Slashdot at -1 by now that I think I'm immune to their effects.
Other "real world" tests might involve LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors, as it is believed theorized cosmic strings and domain walls would both emit gravitational waves, and both are involved in string theories. Kip Thorne has a good downloadable online lecture here, with slides as well as audio (you have to sync yourself with them manually ;-)): http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/thorne/
Thanks for the thorough reply! Hmm, didn't know Norway had done this. The infamous Aylar Lie material and also that skier's (her name escapes me now) hardcore stuff probably contributed to that assumption, but these could of course have used other "loopholes" such as simply opting to produce the porn for a company under another legislation. This makes me wonder how common it is in "Western" cultures to outlaw hardcore pornography.
Nettsider som tilbyr porno som virker støtende.
= "Web sites that provide pornography that can offend."
Hmm, is that kind of material even illegal in Norway otherwise? It would encompass most porn because you can be sure there's always someone offended about it, particularly often in governments it seems.
I see your sarcasm, but there has actually been identified cases of astroturfing from major companies like Sony with PS3 blogging. I think it'll help in these high profile cases, because they probably wouldn't want to risk a scandal by hiring a third party blogger that was later revealed to work for Sony.
But you're right in that it won't help much in companies advertising products, where the company was already shady to begin with.
Still dwarfed by the debate on the DRM of Vista... :-p
Some even still believe that the protection paths of Vista are active and analyzing content at all times, reducing performance, and not just when playing DRM'ed media you have opted to purchase yourself. Or that it somehow tries to restrict use of non-DRM'ed media.
While we're at WDS, I think it also has what one would call "boolean queries":d resources/advanced.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/ad
It still suffers from some "closed sourcedness" behavior, with e.g. how do I / who define more "kinds", what's each "kind" defined as? how is a "store" defined? and so on, but it can still do quite a bit more than what first meets the eye in Vista or XP using the WDS addon. It's a bit too heavily specialized for the wants of Microsoft though. What that application needs is a thorough, nice, API to define its behavior.
If I did then I would be required, by law and my duty to my country, to kill you.
I assume you don't live in the USA? Which country have such laws?
Your arguments are entirely based on speculation in what they do on their "boredom time" and what Microsoft's intentions are; do you realize you're just conspiracing here?
It's a logical conclusion
A "conclusion" without any factual basis?
Thus, those who know the most deeply buried exploits for Windows Vista (especially the exploits which may even be specific to particular hardware) are in the social circles which are closest to organizations such as the NSA.
Why would a developer "know exploits" without trying to patch them? Just because of being evil, while risking a huge scandal for Microsoft? You see, it's here your "logical conclusion" fails.
If you don't, I guess TrueCrypt could be a better choice here as it doesn't rely on hardware, but is software based.
Finally someone who agrees with me... :-)
Vista does nothing special more than the damage the MPAA/RIAA backed DRM has already done to the entertainment business and culture.
The problem here is DRM, not an OS implementing DRM as a choice to use besides unprotected files.
You can ignore that choice and use your computers like you always did.
Vista even allows me to use BitTorrent to leech unprotected HD movies and play it back on *gasp* a non-HDCP compliant monitor without quality reduction!11!!
I just find it riduculous how much crap Vista gets for merely giving their users the freedom to use DRM.
The real problem here is that excessive DRM usage limits our choices, but that's a flamewar you need to carry on with the media companies that decide which movies should have it applied or not. It's definitely not up to Microsoft, as little as it is to Apple as for which music gets protected with FairPlay. If Apple could, they'd basically give their music away as mp3's.
Vista merely have an implementation of the standard to give their users the choice to use them, as well as letting them opt out of this whole crap by playing unprotected media, the path I'd take at least.
No, it's movie companies that use DRM technologies that do this.
Vista will play unprotected media just as happily as protected.
The problem isn't really Vista, but the DRM philosophy itself.
And like Linus Torvalds, Steve Ballmer & the gang don't really have anything against *implementing* DRM for giving their users the choice.
Enough with this "Vista will doom our media landscape" FUD. That matter is largely in the hands of the media companies, not Microsoft.
LOL, OK, I checked up on this further and it even says it's from Microsoft on the front page: ... so I guess you're right in that it indeed is from Microsoft, but it's hardly astroturfing either...
©2007 BORINGBORING - Um projeto Microsoft
Well, contrary to popular opinion on Slashdot, Windows fans do exist (you'll find throngs of them on popular sites like Neowin) and do believe Windows Vista is better than both OS X and Linux, so I think you'll need to provide something more than someone liking MS technologies to say it's about Microsoft themselves. It's like saying an Ubuntu hacker is automatically an Ubuntu developer.
Why is it always assumed someone miss a joke when staying on topic just to give some info. I for one was happy for the information, but sure, the joke was kinda funny too. Can't we just leave it at that for once? :-p
After having actually used ( please don't waste your time commenting here if you haven't :-p ) Vista, I think the app compatibility has been as good as I can expect from a major OS upgrade. In other words, similar to where Windows 2000 was when it was fresh out the door. Lots work, some things don't. Especially if the applications are designed in a user-oriented way that understands Windows actually has a user home directory, they seem to work well. The most common problems seem to be software that work in a very machine local way. Compare to if a Linux application would try install things under \root\FancyApp instead of the home directory. Even here, Vista tries to resolve things in a clean way for backwards compatibility, but sometimes fail, especially when UAC prompts are active.
With that in mind...
If it is not who do you think is 'at fault' here, Microsoft or Apple?
Since Apple isn't whining about Microsoft's Vista compatibility (they would definitely be in a position to do so, especially with Microsoft's recent lashes at Apple), but taking full responsibility at fixing their app ASAP, and that application incompatibilities hasn't been overly common in Vista (it's far worse with drivers), I'd say that Apple has made a boo-boo at their software design. They aren't great developers of Windows applications anyway, as any user of Windows QuickTime vs Apple QuickTime should be able to confirm.
Hmm, looks like some material here to post for new articles on Wikiquote! :-)
I'm not sure if that was sarcastic, but the Slashdot editors don't, and neither do the submitters.
Before, the installer installed individual files from the disc which cause among other things pretty bad seek times.
a 905070.aspxa ge_based_install
With Vista, the installer now simply decompress an image file to your hard drive.
One can read on about WIM here and how to create and manipulate such images yourself: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/a
A less technical article here: http://www.apcstart.com/3834/inside_vistas_new_im