The real reason the desktop pc is on the decline is that it can be upgraded and made to last a very long time...
Nope. Nobody (you 3 geeks don't count) upgrades their PC - they buy a new one if they need to. The reason people are not buying new ones is that PCs from several years ago still do everything that users need 'em to do. ei. email, light text, light surfing, photo management, media playback.
That power curve is going to hit phones and pads in the next few years, hard, and the compelling reason to upgrade your phone/pad will be battery life (if we can manage to pull off some good battery technology improvements and/or power management/use improvements).
... People who shoot up schools/malls/whatever are highly motivated. Making guns harder to get will not stop these people...
I don't think they're highly motivated. I think they're mostly just crazy. But let's try to skip that part.
Which recent slaughterer had to work hard to come by the firearms they used - as opposed to them being their parent's guns and fairly handy.
And by that I mean specifically: if guns were illegal, the recent killings in Connecticut would never have happened because the shooter was NOT highly motivated and/or capable of acquiring weapons. Though it seems like the Columbine did do some work (their own purchasing, anyway).
Oh - you're suggesting that the companies we work for can spy on us. I agree. What's more, I think we should expect it. What's more, I think it is RIGHT. It is called work for a reason. What one does on their hardware on their time is their business. Their *business*.
I thought you were talking in the general case. ie. don't trust google fiber.
I'm not a lawyer, either. But the questions are moot - since copyright will continue to get extended until congress comes to its senses. I'm not holding my breath.
He's being overly paranoid. When he refers to MITM certs, he means that in theory, someone could have installed their own root certificate into ALL of your computer browsers, and then they could intercept your outbound SSL traffic. This is how SSL proxies work, but it requires you (or your IT) to install the trusted certs in the browser.
It is quite unlikely that this would ever happen, and is not difficult to detect and mitigate (remove the untrusted certs).
Boot from a ROM and/or maintain an encrypted partition/app server. Or maintain a trusted SSL proxy server and/or VPN somewhere of your own. Whatever.
Or just wear a tinfoil hat. I've got 'em for sale!
So should I then also be able to make a Superman movie, with the Superman logo,
I was going to say "Yes. Those things are old.", but it turns out the original authors died in the early-mid 90's. I figure the shorter of 75 years or (author's life + 20) is pretty reasonable. That'd be up in this year! Go for it - you're not likely to be done filming before June (1st pub date).
the Superman soundtrack (you know, the one composed by John Williams for the 'original' 1980s Superman),
I should think that soundtrack was written by someone fairly recently, so no.
and so on? Where does the line get drawn?.
Semi-arbitrarily at some date from original publication and/or author's life, just like it does now.
I see it as being able to use another company's trademark - their logo or name of a product. If they're not using it anymore, it's fair game. If they are using it, it's strictly forbidden, as is anything which might be easily mistaken. End of story.
And I disagree, because what happens is some company buys a copyright and then "uses it" indefinitely. And then the copyright never expires. And I don't think that fits with
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
And I don't think that benefits society as a whole. What happens with the model you describe is that one company ends up owning and controlling everything because they have an eternal monopoly on those characters. Which is exactly what is happening with Disney - because they are banking on copyright being extended indefinitely. Which is exactly what's been happening.
Disagree. After a reasonable time, it should pass into the public domain. Anyone should be able to make a superman movie, comic, etc.
Hell, look how many "reboots" comics and sci-fi have recently received. Anyone should be able to reboot (or stick to the original) after things pass into PD - and things should pass.
Is the mask supposed to protect you from others, or the other way around?
Some of both, I should think. But it seems likely that surgeons don't wear them to protect themselves. They wear them to protect the patient's delicate insides from their icky mouth gunk.
According to wikipedia: Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs known as alveoli.[1][2] It is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria and less commonly other microorganisms, certain drugs and other conditions such as autoimmune diseases.[1][3]
Influenza, commonly known as the 'flu' , is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza viruses.
If pneumonia is primarily caused by influenza, then it really doesn't make too much sense to differentiate how many died of the flu vs. how many died of pneumonia caused by the flu.
Meh. Wearing a mask for 3 months sucks - I don't know of anyone at her hospital that does it. But I think it's a fair option.
The flu shot is supposed to keep you safe from some limited number of flu viruses, right? A mask ought to block 'em all (and more) - as efficiently as a mask does. Dunno how well that is.
While the CDC does not keep a tab of deaths overall from the flu, it estimates that 24,000 Americans die each year.
Why doesn't the CDC keep tabs on overall deaths from the flu? You can make policy without hard numbers, but you will never know if the policy is effective.
A keyboard has no precision at all, it's either 1 or 0.
Dude. You need a new keyboard. Morse clickers went out a long time ago.
My keyboard has what - about 40 keys? And I know I can do combinations of at least 3 keys at once - but I don't know the full limit. Let's say it's 3, and any 3 at that.
That means my keyboard is capable of about 40^3 combinations. Hey - that looks like 64,000, which is closer to 2^16 than it is to 2^1.
Only the oldies use Imperial- it just so happens that old women are the prime target market for cookery books.
It's only been 40 years since we started metrication, and continuing to print Imperial measures in cookery books is hardly an odious obligation. We keep doing that for a couple more decades and the overwhelming majority of "imperial natives" will be gone, and then we can drop it. Until then, it does no harm to accommodate everyone...
No - totally agree. It just takes a lot longer than I thought it should back in the 70's, when the US took a stab at it.
Agree, that's the way to go... Personally, I don't think it'll take 3 generations... As soon as you have physics in high-school you'll start to truly appreciate the metric system...
You wouldn't think so. But ask the brits how long it's taken - especially with weights used in the home.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
I'll bite:
Where? Who is paying that kind of money?
The real reason the desktop pc is on the decline is that it can be upgraded and made to last a very long time...
Nope. Nobody (you 3 geeks don't count) upgrades their PC - they buy a new one if they need to. The reason people are not buying new ones is that PCs from several years ago still do everything that users need 'em to do. ei. email, light text, light surfing, photo management, media playback.
That power curve is going to hit phones and pads in the next few years, hard, and the compelling reason to upgrade your phone/pad will be battery life (if we can manage to pull off some good battery technology improvements and/or power management/use improvements).
I'll play.
... People who shoot up schools/malls/whatever are highly motivated. Making guns harder to get will not stop these people...
I don't think they're highly motivated. I think they're mostly just crazy. But let's try to skip that part.
Which recent slaughterer had to work hard to come by the firearms they used - as opposed to them being their parent's guns and fairly handy.
And by that I mean specifically: if guns were illegal, the recent killings in Connecticut would never have happened because the shooter was NOT highly motivated and/or capable of acquiring weapons. Though it seems like the Columbine did do some work (their own purchasing, anyway).
Oh - you're suggesting that the companies we work for can spy on us. I agree. What's more, I think we should expect it. What's more, I think it is RIGHT. It is called work for a reason. What one does on their hardware on their time is their business. Their *business*.
I thought you were talking in the general case. ie. don't trust google fiber.
I'm not a lawyer, either. But the questions are moot - since copyright will continue to get extended until congress comes to its senses. I'm not holding my breath.
He's being overly paranoid. When he refers to MITM certs, he means that in theory, someone could have installed their own root certificate into ALL of your computer browsers, and then they could intercept your outbound SSL traffic. This is how SSL proxies work, but it requires you (or your IT) to install the trusted certs in the browser.
It is quite unlikely that this would ever happen, and is not difficult to detect and mitigate (remove the untrusted certs).
Boot from a ROM and/or maintain an encrypted partition/app server. Or maintain a trusted SSL proxy server and/or VPN somewhere of your own. Whatever.
Or just wear a tinfoil hat. I've got 'em for sale!
because I've seen the tech (and interviewed at a company who BRAGGED ABOUT IT) during the interview.
that enough for you??
Nope.
I'm selling 100% effective tinfoil hats!
Seriously: why are you worried about google doing cable, and why do you think mitm attacks are possible when using encryption?
So should I then also be able to make a Superman movie, with the Superman logo,
I was going to say "Yes. Those things are old.", but it turns out the original authors died in the early-mid 90's. I figure the shorter of 75 years or (author's life + 20) is pretty reasonable. That'd be up in this year! Go for it - you're not likely to be done filming before June (1st pub date).
the Superman soundtrack (you know, the one composed by John Williams for the 'original' 1980s Superman),
I should think that soundtrack was written by someone fairly recently, so no.
and so on? Where does the line get drawn?.
Semi-arbitrarily at some date from original publication and/or author's life, just like it does now.
I see it as being able to use another company's trademark - their logo or name of a product. If they're not using it anymore, it's fair game. If they are using it, it's strictly forbidden, as is anything which might be easily mistaken. End of story.
And I disagree, because what happens is some company buys a copyright and then "uses it" indefinitely. And then the copyright never expires. And I don't think that fits with
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
And I don't think that benefits society as a whole. What happens with the model you describe is that one company ends up owning and controlling everything because they have an eternal monopoly on those characters. Which is exactly what is happening with Disney - because they are banking on copyright being extended indefinitely. Which is exactly what's been happening.
Good point.
Disagree. After a reasonable time, it should pass into the public domain. Anyone should be able to make a superman movie, comic, etc.
Hell, look how many "reboots" comics and sci-fi have recently received. Anyone should be able to reboot (or stick to the original) after things pass into PD - and things should pass.
Is the mask supposed to protect you from others, or the other way around?
Some of both, I should think. But it seems likely that surgeons don't wear them to protect themselves. They wear them to protect the patient's delicate insides from their icky mouth gunk.
According to wikipedia:
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs known as alveoli.[1][2] It is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria and less commonly other microorganisms, certain drugs and other conditions such as autoimmune diseases.[1][3]
Influenza, commonly known as the 'flu' , is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza viruses.
If pneumonia is primarily caused by influenza, then it really doesn't make too much sense to differentiate how many died of the flu vs. how many died of pneumonia caused by the flu.
I don't know. I'm not a doctor or a scientist. The CDC seems to think flu shots are pretty effective at preventing flu:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5502a1.htm
Meh. Wearing a mask for 3 months sucks - I don't know of anyone at her hospital that does it. But I think it's a fair option.
The flu shot is supposed to keep you safe from some limited number of flu viruses, right? A mask ought to block 'em all (and more) - as efficiently as a mask does. Dunno how well that is.
My partner is a nurse. Her choices are:
* Get a flu shot
or
* Wear a surgical mask for the flu months while at work (I think that's December-February)
While the CDC does not keep a tab of deaths overall from the flu, it estimates that 24,000 Americans die each year.
Why doesn't the CDC keep tabs on overall deaths from the flu?
You can make policy without hard numbers, but you will never know if the policy is effective.
Huh.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
...
Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,692
...
A keyboard has no precision at all, it's either 1 or 0.
Dude. You need a new keyboard. Morse clickers went out a long time ago.
My keyboard has what - about 40 keys? And I know I can do combinations of at least 3 keys at once - but I don't know the full limit. Let's say it's 3, and any 3 at that.
That means my keyboard is capable of about 40^3 combinations. Hey - that looks like 64,000, which is closer to 2^16 than it is to 2^1.
Only the oldies use Imperial- it just so happens that old women are the prime target market for cookery books.
It's only been 40 years since we started metrication, and continuing to print Imperial measures in cookery books is hardly an odious obligation. We keep doing that for a couple more decades and the overwhelming majority of "imperial natives" will be gone, and then we can drop it. Until then, it does no harm to accommodate everyone...
No - totally agree. It just takes a lot longer than I thought it should back in the 70's, when the US took a stab at it.
Agree, that's the way to go... Personally, I don't think it'll take 3 generations... As soon as you have physics in high-school you'll start to truly appreciate the metric system...
You wouldn't think so. But ask the brits how long it's taken - especially with weights used in the home.
I see that the BBC still lists both imperial and metric, for example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chocolate_cake_31070
I don't understand why there is a problem. We should require metric and allow both. Done.
Eventually (in 3 generations, I figure), companies will stop bothering with imperial. In the meantime, everybody wins.
The headline didn't tip you off?
It did. Much like book reviews generally say book review in the title. And yet there is a section.
I wish the mods would moderate stupid, pointless comments like yours to the "-1, offtopic" they ALL deserve.
At this time, the only moderation I've received is +1 insightful - so it seems I'm not alone in being sick of this crap.
... If you want to bitch about what stories are posted, do it in your journal so we don't have to see it.
The title didn't tip you off?
As for poisoning the comment space, my email address is clearly visible, there was no need for you to post your comment here.
I disagree with your premise, however. I was commenting specifically on the topic. A little meta, but I think /. can handle it.
Please add a TSA section so that I can ignore it.
Tax evasion is tax evasion. It should be prevented, if only for principle. The law should be for everyone, or I wrong?
You're right! So... we already have laws for tax evasion.
Non issue.
OMG. I hate that idea.
But it seems downright reasonable. Guh.