Wonder how a vehicle with this as a tensile skin would crash test? The body would become a safety cocoon.
No, it would most likely be a deadly coffin. Crash zones in cars that absorb the impact energy are there for a reason, namely to keep you from decelerating too quickly and thus being harmed.
Of course security related government agencies will also have full access to the database as well. Believe me, it will get funded.
Also in germany this is on the way. About time, 1984 is overdue and we need more security from terrorists, child molesters and other scum. Also we can then more easily fine for speeding. And all this on a european scale. Brave new world!
The whole point of the EU system during normal use is not to REPLACE GPS but act as a ADDITIONAL aid which should improve accuracy.
Of course only America matters and the rest of the world doesn't...
I always thought the point of Galileo was to have a positioning service that is not controlled by the military. NAVSTAR-GPS is american military, GLONASS russian military.
Document? ODF or PDF (not sure how "open" PDF really is but its pretty universal)
Ahaaa! Gotcha right there. Looks like you just proposed to define some sort of an 'openness continuum' there, by adding something that is not open, but merely 'pretty universal'. So who bribed you and how much did it cost them?
and we have to teach people all over again how to use a tee-connector and by no means plug the end of a cable directly into the card and take down all the network.
that the ultimate limit is the processes that the universe itself uses to "compute" its own state? That we can only ever asymptotically approach this limit? Once we hit the limit, our computations cease being simulations and become reality.
You're correct, proof: A computer that has reaches the performance of the universe-computer, must necessarily be powerfull enough to simulate itself in real-time, because it is contained within the universe. Since a system can never simulate itself in real-time, no computer within this universe can reach the performance of the universe-computer.
Once our computer reaches the limit, it is the universe-computer and therefore calculates reality.
I had occasion to have an email conversation with Berners-Lee at one time (he bought a license for a program of mine), and I asked if he regretted choosing "www" instead of "web". I was very surprised that this was not something he'd change if he could do the whole thing over...
Saying "double u double u double u" takes about twice as long as saying "web" so that would have been far more beneficial than worrying about the slashes.
There was a bit of a drive to use "web" some years ago, but unfortunately that fizzled..
the ages when webservers where on a different machine than the ftp servers are long gone. so why use subdomains there anyway. I have to agree with a previous post. Some people, when I tell them a web-address, they have already put "www." in their browser an happily assume it would somehow belong there and I would just skip it (even if I say: "http://domain.tld") and then complain when the site is not found. I could kill in such moments, especially when it's over the phone.
Cellular phones today do NOT run any longer than 15 years ago so every of the so MANY articles about better batteries I've seen are all just lies. Plain damn LIES.
You forget contemporary phones usually suck a LOT more power than old ones. My N95 lasted for about 1/2 a day (about 1 day after I de-branded and got newest firmare, thanks a lot O2 for not releasing, you SUCKERS). I lost it and got a old-school nokia-something. With a battery a lot smaller it lasts about 10-12 DAYS.
From the article: "He said the team had seen a wave of support and denied that liberties were being affected. 'There are more than four million cameras in the UK so everybody is on camera already, it is just that no one is watching the cameras.'"
WTF! How about liberties are already affected?
What's next? Put cams in your home to have your children watched? I bet these people would do it without a blink of an eye.
1. register the copyright on something of your own. 2. misname it to something currently popular. 3. "leak" it out onto the p2p nets 4. watch same nets for signs of illegal activity 5. SUE 6. profit!!!
OK, I know. Too many steps and I left out the all important: ??? but still...
all the best,
drew
nice idea, some improvement:
you can skip step one, since copyright does not have to be registered, you just own it by creating the work (e.g. by using "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/shared/$currently_popular_movie_name.avi")
The article states iiNet users "made files available". Seems they don't have proof of any actual download taking place. Furthermore, they probably didn't download the files to fake-check them, or did they? Is it illegal downunder to offer some bunch of random bits under the name "Family Guy S04E05.avi" ?
True, and that's what Sourceforge does. But there's no useful publicly available tool that I know of for managing those public keys. Do you have one?
My repositories are only used by a small number of users that have shell-accounts anyway and maintain their ~/ssh/authorized_keys themselves.
Git, at least, has 'gitosis' for that task, and it allows you to record your changes locally and only push them to the central repository when you're satisfied with your progress.
This (able to record local changes) seems to be an unrelated to using ssh or not?
I've been wanting to check out git myself because of this, but haven't gotten around to it. I usually make a branch whenever I start more massive changes to work around this problem.
Slashdot Mirror
TA says: "It's already known that ants use celestial clues to establish the general direction home".
(assuming by azimuth you mean direction)
Now that you said that, by slashdot law, I have to post the following:
I for one welcome our new ant overlords!
and also the obligatory:
In soviet russia, ants cut your legs off.
If it _appears_ to be counting, it counts.
Simple as that, the interna don't matter, just the outside effect.
If it was transparent, maybe it could stop windows from crashing and finally make it a stable operating system.
Wonder how a vehicle with this as a tensile skin would crash test? The body would become a safety cocoon.
No, it would most likely be a deadly coffin. Crash zones in cars that absorb the impact energy are there for a reason, namely to keep you from decelerating too quickly and thus being harmed.
I hope they make a 1600x1200 version.
Of course security related government agencies will also have full access to the database as well. Believe me, it will get funded.
Also in germany this is on the way. About time, 1984 is overdue and we need more security from terrorists, child molesters and other scum. Also we can then more easily fine for speeding. And all this on a european scale. Brave new world!
The whole point of the EU system during normal use is not to REPLACE GPS but act as a ADDITIONAL aid which should improve accuracy.
Of course only America matters and the rest of the world doesn't...
I always thought the point of Galileo was to have a positioning service that is not controlled by the military. NAVSTAR-GPS is american military, GLONASS russian military.
Images? There are many
Audio? Ogg Vorbis
Video? Ogg Theora
Document? ODF or PDF (not sure how "open" PDF really is but its pretty universal)
Ahaaa! Gotcha right there. Looks like you just proposed to define some sort of an 'openness continuum' there, by adding something that is not open, but merely 'pretty universal'. So who bribed you and how much did it cost them?
also what about times when the bus doesn't need to pick up or drop of passengers? just stop the bus anyways?
the diesel bus stops anyway, too. it must keep it's schedule and there is no point in being early.
and we have to teach people all over again how to use a tee-connector and by no means plug the end of a cable directly into the card and take down all the network.
yeah, still got some of these massive cables with these humongous plugs on them... will put on ebay.
that the ultimate limit is the processes that the universe itself uses to "compute" its own state? That we can only ever asymptotically approach this limit? Once we hit the limit, our computations cease being simulations and become reality.
You're correct, proof:
A computer that has reaches the performance of the universe-computer, must necessarily be powerfull enough to simulate itself in real-time, because it is contained within the universe. Since a system can never simulate itself in real-time, no computer within this universe can reach the performance of the universe-computer.
Once our computer reaches the limit, it is the universe-computer and therefore calculates reality.
Against cluttered windows, just use frames (ion). Couldn't live without.
I had occasion to have an email conversation with Berners-Lee at one time (he bought a license for a program of mine), and I asked if he regretted choosing "www" instead of "web". I was very surprised that this was not something he'd change if he could do the whole thing over ...
Saying "double u double u double u" takes about twice as long as saying "web" so that would have been far more beneficial than worrying about the slashes.
There was a bit of a drive to use "web" some years ago, but unfortunately that fizzled..
the ages when webservers where on a different machine than the ftp servers are long gone. so why use subdomains there anyway.
I have to agree with a previous post. Some people, when I tell them a web-address, they have already put "www." in their browser an happily assume it would somehow belong there and I would just skip it (even if I say: "http://domain.tld") and then complain when the site is not found. I could kill in such moments, especially when it's over the phone.
I can already find a ton of Marge Simpson pr0n on the internet.
yeah, but it's all fake.
get an atari 2600 emulator (stella for example) and play space invaders or pac man
Cellular phones today do NOT run any longer than 15 years ago so every of the so MANY articles about better batteries I've seen are all just lies. Plain damn LIES.
You forget contemporary phones usually suck a LOT more power than old ones. My N95 lasted for about 1/2 a day (about 1 day after I de-branded and got newest firmare, thanks a lot O2 for not releasing, you SUCKERS). I lost it and got a old-school nokia-something. With a battery a lot smaller it lasts about 10-12 DAYS.
From the article: "He said the team had seen a wave of support and denied that liberties were being affected. 'There are more than four million cameras in the UK so everybody is on camera already, it is just that no one is watching the cameras.'"
WTF! How about liberties are already affected?
What's next? Put cams in your home to have your children watched? I bet these people would do it without a blink of an eye.
hmmm.
1. register the copyright on something of your own.
2. misname it to something currently popular.
3. "leak" it out onto the p2p nets
4. watch same nets for signs of illegal activity
5. SUE
6. profit!!!
OK, I know. Too many steps and I left out the all important: ??? but still...
all the best,
drew
nice idea, some improvement:
you can skip step one, since copyright does not have to be registered, you just own it by creating the work (e.g. by using "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/shared/$currently_popular_movie_name.avi")
The article states iiNet users "made files available". Seems they don't have proof of any actual download taking place.
Furthermore, they probably didn't download the files to fake-check them, or did they?
Is it illegal downunder to offer some bunch of random bits under the name "Family Guy S04E05.avi" ?
True, and that's what Sourceforge does. But there's no useful publicly available tool that I know of for managing those public keys. Do you have one?
My repositories are only used by a small number of users that have shell-accounts anyway and maintain their ~/ssh/authorized_keys themselves.
Git, at least, has 'gitosis' for that task, and it allows you to record your changes locally and only push them to the central repository when you're satisfied with your progress.
This (able to record local changes) seems to be an unrelated to using ssh or not?
I've been wanting to check out git myself because of this, but haven't gotten around to it. I usually make a branch whenever I start more massive changes to work around this problem.
And rip Subversion and CVS out because of their continuing practice of storing your account passwords in plain-text.
just use svn+ssh://...
no pass stored in plain
sound like you read the hacker's diet
Too bad to see a nice solution not be used, just because it gives ISPs more power/income to provide similar functionality in some other way.
It wouldn't cost Providers/Carriers too much to enable multicasting, would it? (most (all?) Cisco-Routers can do it, for example.)