What is the diversity of the active slashdot user base? Maybe we could have a poll limited to logged-in people only to keep people from tilting the stats?
So why should information be free? It's not a law of nature, a property of the universe, or any other such. If someone creates the cure for the common cold and keeps it secret even to their grave, that's entirely their business. Sure, they're being dicks, but there's not a law against that (yet).
Then they should have said that. They didn't - instead they anthropomorphised with their silly "Information wants to be free" chant. Don't blame me if freetards can't express their ideas properly. Also, your "translation" is also wrong - my genome (which is information) stays with me. It's not open for replication outside my own body.
About everything you need to know about "new measures and improved encryption" Google, Microsoft and others use to block spying is nicely wrapped in these words:
"He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. 'They’re patriots.' "
Translation for the slow: "We got supporters who want to make money off this banging on our doors."
All the ranting about the NSA and government intrusion just diverts from the fact that; 1) if you don't want anyone to hear what you say, don't say it.
Unacceptable.
I think you spelled "reality" wrong:-) Never say or do anything you wouldn't want your mother to see on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper.
" would rather see 1000 terrorists go free than to see a single innocent person have their privacy, security, civil liberties or constitutional rights violated."
Methinks you need a bit of perspective here. Besides, there's already tons of stuff that isn't private because of individual's actions. Like married people getting caught posting dating profiles on web sites claiming they're single, using illegal drugs, posting selfies that show off the stuff they've stolen, those "private" pics and videos that make it all over the net after a break-up...
You still have your copy. Information should be free. Don't buy imaginary property
I'm getting sick and tired of people chanting that false mantra. Information doesn't "want" anything, so stop anthropomorphising. Should your genome be available to anyone on request because, after all, you'll still have the original, and "information wants to be free?"
Be careful what you wish for - you may get it, and it will get you in the end.
I get what you're saying, but your statements are not consistent on the issue, as the two quotes I provided show. Consistency of message is needed to build confidence with people, and it hasn't been shown here. It would have been better to say "We haven't finalized our plans for that, so in the meantime we're still open to people's input."
I think it will be easier to just say "call (someone I know)"... no hassles with time zones, language, they also know the area, and may even be in the area to offer more immediate assistance. Plus, I'm more likely to know their schedule so I can call someone else instead of interrupting them.
Is the idea good? Yes. Is it scaleable? Probably not. It also has some serious problems in situations such as when you're in a dead zone and can't use the internet, or battery dying, or you drop the phone in a snowbank or otherwise can't find it, or it fell out of your pocket without you noticing. What to do - have a second phone so you can find the first?
Having had my dog guide me around for a couple of months last year, I'm sticking with my dog again next time it happens. "It just works."
That being said, if you do manage to scale it up that would definitely be a "GOOD THING (tm)" for people who for one reason or another can't use a dog (allergies in the household or a lack of availability)..
The purpose of the app is not navigation help, but help with small tasks-- reading a label on a can, or checking an expiry date for milk.
Someone else who couldn't be bothered to click on the first link in the summary:
The examples the company shows in its product video include visually impaired users getting help with things like reading an expiration date, figuring out what a photograph looks like, and reading signs in an unfamiliar location.
As for what the police believe, well they're going to parrot the prevailing current meme that all Muslims are terrorists and all terrorists are Muslim.
try this. That's a lot of source to maintain (don't forget, you've got to include not just the binary kernel but also the loadable modules to get the run-time kernel effective size, otherwise you're hiding bloat).
Born in Montreal, he later lived in Calgary and Vancouver, then went to Ottawa on Oct. 2 to deal with an issue regarding his passport application, Paulson said. Police believe he was hoping to travel to Syria from Ottawa.
I already addressed the other points, and NOBODY uses a FIFO as a disk cache. Also, "Cache access overhead is constant time regardless of the size of the cache" is false.
For a while there were zero comments and a little box that said "This discussion has been archived." Of course, the little box was partially unreadable because of the broken css, but you get my point.
As for the movie, if it's as "accurate" as Argo, then it's two thumbs down.
The crackhead who attacked Parliament was pissed off that he couldn't get a passport and leave the country or even get thrown in jail to clean himself up.
He didn't want to go to Syria to "get cleaned up."
Unfortunately, that doesn't hamper telemarketers outside North America who spoof numbers. One number gets nailed, they spoof another one. The telcos could fix this if they really wanted to, but they make money off it.
I'd rather see something in re-entrant assembler. For one thing, it would get rid of the latest crrap added to C++. For another, it would get rid of all the wannabe programmers. Win-win.
You really don't get it. All data is binary. Even text files. The problem is that most people use "text mode" to read and write to text files, which is slow as all hell. There is no reason, even under Windows, not to read and write text data using the same system calls, which gives the same speed. Stackoverflow got this one really wrong. Test it, and you'll see. Oh wait - you can't because you're not a real programmer.
Most of what people consider "important" simply isn't. Most people don't have source code to maintain, and original documents that they get from others are almost always hard-copies.
Losing access to their facebook or twitter account on one device through a series of hardware failures simply isn't the end of the world, no matter how much they want to believe it.
Thinking that the vast majority of users "need" absolute recoverability of all their data is something that is simply silly in the real world. Most people can keep all the important stuff on 1 usb key or flash card. The rest is mostly stuff that they will never look at again, but we've been spoiled by huge storage capacities so as not to prune off the crap every once in a while.
You really don't know what you're talking about. All files are binary data - even "text" files. And if the data is arranged in fixed-width fields in alphabetical order, it will be searchable faster than the same file using an index, because the data itself IS the index - no separate index lookup needed. Also, modern OSes and hard drives cache a lot of data, not only for disk reads of data, but also for disk reads of the filesystem structure. If your disk isn't fragmented badly, the chance is very good that a 2k-4k ini file physically located near the app on disk is already in the cache.
This isn't new. People were using 3rd-party read-caching (and write-caching) software more than 20 years ago.
Also, even Microsoft's latest iteration (Windows 8.1) uses ini files for things like the setting for a user's desktop, which were deemed too critical to leave to the vicissitudes of the registry.
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What is the diversity of the active slashdot user base? Maybe we could have a poll limited to logged-in people only to keep people from tilting the stats?
Companies that don't hire the best employees fail.
False. Just look at the board of directors of many companies - the companies survive based on inertia and cronyism, not merit.
So why should information be free? It's not a law of nature, a property of the universe, or any other such. If someone creates the cure for the common cold and keeps it secret even to their grave, that's entirely their business. Sure, they're being dicks, but there's not a law against that (yet).
Then they should have said that. They didn't - instead they anthropomorphised with their silly "Information wants to be free" chant. Don't blame me if freetards can't express their ideas properly. Also, your "translation" is also wrong - my genome (which is information) stays with me. It's not open for replication outside my own body.
About everything you need to know about "new measures and improved encryption" Google, Microsoft and others use to block spying is nicely wrapped in these words: "He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. 'They’re patriots.' "
Translation for the slow: "We got supporters who want to make money off this banging on our doors."
All the ranting about the NSA and government intrusion just diverts from the fact that; 1) if you don't want anyone to hear what you say, don't say it.
Unacceptable.
I think you spelled "reality" wrong :-) Never say or do anything you wouldn't want your mother to see on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper.
" would rather see 1000 terrorists go free than to see a single innocent person have their privacy, security, civil liberties or constitutional rights violated."
Methinks you need a bit of perspective here. Besides, there's already tons of stuff that isn't private because of individual's actions. Like married people getting caught posting dating profiles on web sites claiming they're single, using illegal drugs, posting selfies that show off the stuff they've stolen, those "private" pics and videos that make it all over the net after a break-up ...
"You will live your life under the state microscope".
So it'll be like having my own "The Truman Show"
Do I get paid union scale? 24 hours a day, 7 days a week will lead to some nice overtime :-)
You still have your copy. Information should be free. Don't buy imaginary property
I'm getting sick and tired of people chanting that false mantra. Information doesn't "want" anything, so stop anthropomorphising. Should your genome be available to anyone on request because, after all, you'll still have the original, and "information wants to be free?"
Be careful what you wish for - you may get it, and it will get you in the end.
I get what you're saying, but your statements are not consistent on the issue, as the two quotes I provided show. Consistency of message is needed to build confidence with people, and it hasn't been shown here. It would have been better to say "We haven't finalized our plans for that, so in the meantime we're still open to people's input."
I think it will be easier to just say "call (someone I know)" ... no hassles with time zones, language, they also know the area, and may even be in the area to offer more immediate assistance. Plus, I'm more likely to know their schedule so I can call someone else instead of interrupting them.
Is the idea good? Yes. Is it scaleable? Probably not. It also has some serious problems in situations such as when you're in a dead zone and can't use the internet, or battery dying, or you drop the phone in a snowbank or otherwise can't find it, or it fell out of your pocket without you noticing. What to do - have a second phone so you can find the first?
Having had my dog guide me around for a couple of months last year, I'm sticking with my dog again next time it happens. "It just works."
That being said, if you do manage to scale it up that would definitely be a "GOOD THING (tm)" for people who for one reason or another can't use a dog (allergies in the household or a lack of availability)..
The purpose of the app is not navigation help, but help with small tasks-- reading a label on a can, or checking an expiry date for milk.
Someone else who couldn't be bothered to click on the first link in the summary:
The examples the company shows in its product video include visually impaired users getting help with things like reading an expiration date, figuring out what a photograph looks like, and reading signs in an unfamiliar location.
As for what the police believe, well they're going to parrot the prevailing current meme that all Muslims are terrorists and all terrorists are Muslim.
Congratulations. You win the prize for most ignorant post of the day.BTW - the cop they killed in Paris was Muslim And so was the guy who hid Jews in the freezer in Paris. They're both being hailed as heroes in France and around the world.
Doesn't explain why people couldn't post, or the erroneous presence of "This discussion is archived".
try this. That's a lot of source to maintain (don't forget, you've got to include not just the binary kernel but also the loadable modules to get the run-time kernel effective size, otherwise you're hiding bloat).
Born in Montreal, he later lived in Calgary and Vancouver, then went to Ottawa on Oct. 2 to deal with an issue regarding his passport application, Paulson said. Police believe he was hoping to travel to Syria from Ottawa.
Same as the Quebec terrorist:
The Quebec man accused of running down two soldiers, killing one of them, had already had his passport revoked for trying to go to Syria.
I already addressed the other points, and NOBODY uses a FIFO as a disk cache. Also, "Cache access overhead is constant time regardless of the size of the cache" is false.
For a while there were zero comments and a little box that said "This discussion has been archived." Of course, the little box was partially unreadable because of the broken css, but you get my point.
As for the movie, if it's as "accurate" as Argo, then it's two thumbs down.
The crackhead who attacked Parliament was pissed off that he couldn't get a passport and leave the country or even get thrown in jail to clean himself up.
He didn't want to go to Syria to "get cleaned up."
Software caches do not use FIFO algorithms to expire data. You really shouldn't expose your ignorance.
Unfortunately, that doesn't hamper telemarketers outside North America who spoof numbers. One number gets nailed, they spoof another one. The telcos could fix this if they really wanted to, but they make money off it.
I'd rather see something in re-entrant assembler. For one thing, it would get rid of the latest crrap added to C++. For another, it would get rid of all the wannabe programmers. Win-win.
You really don't get it. All data is binary. Even text files. The problem is that most people use "text mode" to read and write to text files, which is slow as all hell. There is no reason, even under Windows, not to read and write text data using the same system calls, which gives the same speed. Stackoverflow got this one really wrong. Test it, and you'll see. Oh wait - you can't because you're not a real programmer.
Most of what people consider "important" simply isn't. Most people don't have source code to maintain, and original documents that they get from others are almost always hard-copies.
Losing access to their facebook or twitter account on one device through a series of hardware failures simply isn't the end of the world, no matter how much they want to believe it.
Thinking that the vast majority of users "need" absolute recoverability of all their data is something that is simply silly in the real world. Most people can keep all the important stuff on 1 usb key or flash card. The rest is mostly stuff that they will never look at again, but we've been spoiled by huge storage capacities so as not to prune off the crap every once in a while.
This isn't new. People were using 3rd-party read-caching (and write-caching) software more than 20 years ago.
Also, even Microsoft's latest iteration (Windows 8.1) uses ini files for things like the setting for a user's desktop, which were deemed too critical to leave to the vicissitudes of the registry.