In some countries the comma is to separate decimals, so that should be read here as 12.0000. Wonder if this were 12.00001 whos 0.00001 of a scientist? The one that denied evolution, maybe?
The 1st that come to my mind when i read that was the evolution of a programmer, when a "program" evolving started to get back thin in lines didnt meant that were a step backwards.
At the very least, developing the technology needed to live in another planet (or space stations) will be very useful here if this planet becomes not so hospitable as it is now. And being able to do that out of this planet will make things safer against more complicated disasters.
Even if things dont go very wrong in the short/middle term, will be side effects, developing bombs that travel further we got worldwide communication after all.
About diverting money, investing here dont mean to stop worrying about things on earth. And (flamebait analogy:) people dont question investing large sums in something that could take 10-20 years to start to "pay" back, like educating children, why you object to another investment in our not so far future?
... is usually a very bad idea, knowing how much times the basket fell in the past. But space exploration is not just searching for a backup to save a sample of us. Just trying to do that, either in things we must develop for it, or things we find doing that, or things we discover out there, are short term benefits that must not be discarded (put the question before there were communication satellites and think in how much we could had lost).
I loved the "Why do it now?" question of a senator... you can ask the same question every day, except the day that is already too late.
They are not "chaotic" stuff, all or at least most share the same general direction, under the surface the goal is the main one of google, to do a better search, giving tools around it or helping people to move content to a better (? at least they control it) searchable environment. And maybe more important, there are some increasing interaction between the "chaotic" google products. Things that maybe are less used now may evolve into something more integrated with the rest in a future.
thats the 1st that comes to my mind when i see how sophisticated and commercial had become the bad guys. There have been a lot of stories regarding this kind of subject in the last months/years, and internet is becoming more and more like a minefield.
I know that this one is pretty dependant on Windows (not only is the easy target, because users, numbers and the "security" of the system/browser present there), but i bet that some in that development can be translated to unix/mac systems (as is the user the one that mainly installs it, think in i.e. when was corrupted the SquirrelMail repository, if someone send spams away to make people to download it before it gets catched, and that installs in fact a trojan with that functionality).
At universe time scales, where the whole planet earth life existence is almost a blimp, we (us, or the humanity, or wheatever evolves and leaves earth in a far future) will be affected by that or even a side effect? I know that looks a bit short sighted, but the "running out of time" headline should be read in a proper way.
My hope is that we will be living "Mimsy were the Borogoves" from Lewis Padgett, older but great... childs learning in a so different way that can go beyond what we can today.
... a new breed has been found, Homo Slashdotis. Apparently can repproduce without sex, survive unharmed to flamewars, and all the base belong to them. News at 11.
... or reinvigorates it. OLPCs are built thinking in the future, so think in a future with a lot of people that had a laptop all their childhood, what will they have later?
There is no or little difference between local and "for free" rice, but could be a big difference between the "free" OLPC and what the hardware industry can produce.
... are the better ones for that, maybe boring, and surely depends on how common is your name/surname. My nick, mail address (without the @gmail.com) and even my real life name (ok, initial of name+surname) coincide, even with different mail providers in the past, so giving your name is giving your nickname.
And of course, different people could use your nickname across different communities. So giving your nickname you could end giving the wrong references, if some of the hits points to something you dont like from someone else.
Ive already seen people everywhere who gets taken in by glitzy, superficial, overpriced, unsafe and under-featured OSs, just because the tech media says they're wonderful... so, no, there is no hope, just hype.
Lots of times the "waste" of money in research/discovery/exploring new things payed off big time. Maybe in that time it looked something crazy to do or to try, but a lot of them opened a whole new world.
Now, what could that bring back? Confirmation that there is another (?) inteligent life out there? Will be nice, will be a revolution, but is more a confirmation that statistics work than anything else. Trade/Chat/Invasion? Time and space conspires a bit against that, at least if universe rules are as we think they are. If the next advanced enough civilization is at, lets say, 50 light years from here, that kind of issues would take too much time to be practical. But if what we get from the transmission is some sort of "textbook" (galactic encyclopedia, or the diagram of a ftl ship, something that teaches us something new or corrected) then no matter how much we invested. we probably got far more.
And if someone thinks that the odds of that are too low, a good example of wasting money with extremely low odds of getting something back is called Lotto, and a lot of people think that is good to play it and wastes on it yearly more than what did the SETI project in its entire life probably, so why not bet on something that will change all humanity instead?
Lets say im not totally suicidal opening every mail attachment that comes. Lets say that im not a security expert, and use the browser that im practically forced to use in windows from day 0, even if i hear somewhere that there are other browsers in the market. Well, thats it, following a link (that come by mail, from a search result, in an online game/chat), a mistype in an URL, whatever, and the internet explorer by itself, could take care of downloading and installing a trojan, no confirmation required, and probably with administration access. Some years (?) ago, the same no user intervention infection was managed efficiently by outlook, the default/forced mail client.
What about other OSs?
You dont have so much monoculture in linux, different distributions, architectures, browsers (ok, mozilla/gecko should be the most used), dinamic in new versions, user access, even sources of installable programs. All of this conspires to make that model of trojan spreading a lot harder, not impossible, but harder. In OS X some of this applies too.
And yes, i think that Microsoft is at least part of the problem. Not just because their faulty implementation of programs, but also because their policies.
Is great. Phones using the gPhone system will be a security nightmare for corporations because, SURELY, will be virus/trojans/malware for them. Have to love how informed and objective is that opinion. Is not like there are no virus already for smartphones (some that were in the wild probably?) but a lot of technologies dont need to have so easy for that kind of malware. Maybe he is generalization about windows, that probably is the only thing he can think of about PC, and that should be already a nightmare for corporatiosn because the traditional "security" of it (something that is instead a beautiful dream when it comes to other OSs seems... at least compared with it).
And that things are open dont means that could not be signed, or have authoritative portals for that kind of 3rd party applications for those phones integrated with them by default (something like the applets for iGoogle page, or any linux distribution repository).
"These include a black screen after 1 hour of browsing"
Seems that they will manage to get a full 1 hour of browsing with Vista, more than the average for the rest of us.
Seriously, how much will want people to install timebombware in their PCs? How much legal users were considered pirates by some microsoft "validation" measures in the past?
I always say that what i have is culture, not memory. Culture enough to know that i had read that short story lots of years ago, a good idea of what was it about and the fun i had reading it. Now, dont ask me for birthdays of people that i didnt grow with them, or phone numbers of friends, or even what happened last week or yesterday.
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In some countries the comma is to separate decimals, so that should be read here as 12.0000. Wonder if this were 12.00001 whos 0.00001 of a scientist? The one that denied evolution, maybe?
The problem in this case with that much matter is that it is not gray, but brown.
The 1st that come to my mind when i read that was the evolution of a programmer, when a "program" evolving started to get back thin in lines didnt meant that were a step backwards.
... say goodbye to our old giant rats overlords.
At the very least, developing the technology needed to live in another planet (or space stations) will be very useful here if this planet becomes not so hospitable as it is now. And being able to do that out of this planet will make things safer against more complicated disasters.
:) people dont question investing large sums in something that could take 10-20 years to start to "pay" back, like educating children, why you object to another investment in our not so far future?
Even if things dont go very wrong in the short/middle term, will be side effects, developing bombs that travel further we got worldwide communication after all.
About diverting money, investing here dont mean to stop worrying about things on earth. And (flamebait analogy
... is usually a very bad idea, knowing how much times the basket fell in the past. But space exploration is not just searching for a backup to save a sample of us. Just trying to do that, either in things we must develop for it, or things we find doing that, or things we discover out there, are short term benefits that must not be discarded (put the question before there were communication satellites and think in how much we could had lost).
I loved the "Why do it now?" question of a senator... you can ask the same question every day, except the day that is already too late.
... at least if they are still running Windows.
They are not "chaotic" stuff, all or at least most share the same general direction, under the surface the goal is the main one of google, to do a better search, giving tools around it or helping people to move content to a better (? at least they control it) searchable environment. And maybe more important, there are some increasing interaction between the "chaotic" google products. Things that maybe are less used now may evolve into something more integrated with the rest in a future.
thats the 1st that comes to my mind when i see how sophisticated and commercial had become the bad guys. There have been a lot of stories regarding this kind of subject in the last months/years, and internet is becoming more and more like a minefield.
I know that this one is pretty dependant on Windows (not only is the easy target, because users, numbers and the "security" of the system/browser present there), but i bet that some in that development can be translated to unix/mac systems (as is the user the one that mainly installs it, think in i.e. when was corrupted the SquirrelMail repository, if someone send spams away to make people to download it before it gets catched, and that installs in fact a trojan with that functionality).
Two days before the day after tomorrow?
At universe time scales, where the whole planet earth life existence is almost a blimp, we (us, or the humanity, or wheatever evolves and leaves earth in a far future) will be affected by that or even a side effect? I know that looks a bit short sighted, but the "running out of time" headline should be read in a proper way.
... a white hole or something related could look that way?
Lets see it in a positive way... is better a supernova in empty space than one close to an habited (?) planet.
My hope is that we will be living "Mimsy were the Borogoves" from Lewis Padgett, older but great... childs learning in a so different way that can go beyond what we can today.
... what if they do the same test at both sides of the bathroom door? There for sure time happens at different rate.
... a new breed has been found, Homo Slashdotis. Apparently can repproduce without sex, survive unharmed to flamewars, and all the base belong to them. News at 11.
... or reinvigorates it. OLPCs are built thinking in the future, so think in a future with a lot of people that had a laptop all their childhood, what will they have later?
There is no or little difference between local and "for free" rice, but could be a big difference between the "free" OLPC and what the hardware industry can produce.
... are the better ones for that, maybe boring, and surely depends on how common is your name/surname. My nick, mail address (without the @gmail.com) and even my real life name (ok, initial of name+surname) coincide, even with different mail providers in the past, so giving your name is giving your nickname.
And of course, different people could use your nickname across different communities. So giving your nickname you could end giving the wrong references, if some of the hits points to something you dont like from someone else.
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Microsoft
Was that so hard?
Ive already seen people everywhere who gets taken in by glitzy, superficial, overpriced, unsafe and under-featured OSs, just because the tech media says they're wonderful... so, no, there is no hope, just hype.
Lots of times the "waste" of money in research/discovery/exploring new things payed off big time. Maybe in that time it looked something crazy to do or to try, but a lot of them opened a whole new world.
Now, what could that bring back? Confirmation that there is another (?) inteligent life out there? Will be nice, will be a revolution, but is more a confirmation that statistics work than anything else. Trade/Chat/Invasion? Time and space conspires a bit against that, at least if universe rules are as we think they are. If the next advanced enough civilization is at, lets say, 50 light years from here, that kind of issues would take too much time to be practical. But if what we get from the transmission is some sort of "textbook" (galactic encyclopedia, or the diagram of a ftl ship, something that teaches us something new or corrected) then no matter how much we invested. we probably got far more.
And if someone thinks that the odds of that are too low, a good example of wasting money with extremely low odds of getting something back is called Lotto, and a lot of people think that is good to play it and wastes on it yearly more than what did the SETI project in its entire life probably, so why not bet on something that will change all humanity instead?
Lets say im not totally suicidal opening every mail attachment that comes. Lets say that im not a security expert, and use the browser that im practically forced to use in windows from day 0, even if i hear somewhere that there are other browsers in the market. Well, thats it, following a link (that come by mail, from a search result, in an online game/chat), a mistype in an URL, whatever, and the internet explorer by itself, could take care of downloading and installing a trojan, no confirmation required, and probably with administration access. Some years (?) ago, the same no user intervention infection was managed efficiently by outlook, the default/forced mail client.
What about other OSs?
You dont have so much monoculture in linux, different distributions, architectures, browsers (ok, mozilla/gecko should be the most used), dinamic in new versions, user access, even sources of installable programs. All of this conspires to make that model of trojan spreading a lot harder, not impossible, but harder. In OS X some of this applies too.
And yes, i think that Microsoft is at least part of the problem. Not just because their faulty implementation of programs, but also because their policies.
... but things went very wrong and got released. May God have mercy on your soul, Ballmer.
Is great. Phones using the gPhone system will be a security nightmare for corporations because, SURELY, will be virus/trojans/malware for them. Have to love how informed and objective is that opinion. Is not like there are no virus already for smartphones (some that were in the wild probably?) but a lot of technologies dont need to have so easy for that kind of malware. Maybe he is generalization about windows, that probably is the only thing he can think of about PC, and that should be already a nightmare for corporatiosn because the traditional "security" of it (something that is instead a beautiful dream when it comes to other OSs seems... at least compared with it).
And that things are open dont means that could not be signed, or have authoritative portals for that kind of 3rd party applications for those phones integrated with them by default (something like the applets for iGoogle page, or any linux distribution repository).
"These include a black screen after 1 hour of browsing"
Seems that they will manage to get a full 1 hour of browsing with Vista, more than the average for the rest of us.
Seriously, how much will want people to install timebombware in their PCs? How much legal users were considered pirates by some microsoft "validation" measures in the past?
I always say that what i have is culture, not memory. Culture enough to know that i had read that short story lots of years ago, a good idea of what was it about and the fun i had reading it. Now, dont ask me for birthdays of people that i didnt grow with them, or phone numbers of friends, or even what happened last week or yesterday.