Quantum processing,... hm, that means it will first happen when you look. That is definitely not a good idea. It should just work and I should not be required to walk down to the cellar to find the damn hardware box I am using. Next I will be required to locate the processor before Heisenberg is satisfied.
So, you want pirates to pay royalties. I always thought that pirates we pirates because they did not want to pay the royalties. What another license makes for a difference is beyond me. If they do not want to pay, they simply will remain pirates.
However, this can be called civil disobedience; although taken to an extreme. You do not have to agree with it and you do not have to participate. If this call succeeds, then you should consider the impact on a broader scale and you should see this as a very potent protest.
The code hit an assert() in glibc. That is per definition a bug. You should never implement an assertion and then complain if someone hits it and confronts you with the design choices of that time. When you are informed of a triggered assert(), then you should act like a man and fix the code.
Medical equipment has a very long lifespan. Many devices for measurement and monitoring are used for 10 to 20 years before replacement. The general policy is "if it works, don't fix it and, more important, do not touch it". The real problem is that most suppliers of equipment are reluctant to support any type of patches. Many of the suppliers explicitly state that the machines may not be changed in any way (and that includes patching the OS) or you will lose all guarantee and support.
Although very cynical at first glance, it has a lot of merit. Many product announcements included a lot of hot air and were dropped as the release schedule came closer. The only problem is that the same behaviour goes into the "cry wolf" direction. These feature-news-drops are not taken as serious as before. This makes me wonder what part of the drop in earnings can be attributed to lost credibility.
I think that there is a lot more power in there. The water content, assuming a 250x250km area that can be soaked in 10cm of water would be, at least, 250 exaJoule (250*10^18, temperature drop from +27 sea water to +17 degrees C rain). The scale of a storm is even in excess of these dimensions. So, conversion of the power at a 10^12 rate to mechanical energy is peanuts compared to the real energy content.
If you manage to generate power in space at the 10^15 scale, then you might do a very local change of pattern, but I suspect that the real impact will be very small. A storm, or most other weather patterns are encapsulating enormous amounts of energy, which all pale our human efforts at power generation.
Yes, but when robots do all the work, then the human population needs less food. Why then grow all those tomatoes? The more robots do, the less they need to do if for the humans. Maybe we are working on an evolutionary path making us obsolete. Let the robot philosopher break his cpu on that.
I cannot see the big breakthrough here. For example, the corneal endothelium also fits like a puzzle. The cells are responsible for pumping water out of the cornea. That only works properly when all cells coordinate to cover the entire back-surface. When a cell dies, then other cells will migrate and change shape to fill the gap. Cells do die as cell concentration decreases with age.
Right, really infectious power. The mutations might cause a new cold fusion discovery real soon now.
But then again, it is kinda neat to get those little bastards doing some handy work for us. However, I am a bit sceptical whether it would be efficient on an industrial scale, like so many other innovations.
But the 'no-win-no-fee' will make it a no-cost low-effort to suppress unwanted speech. There is a big difference between libel and things you do not want to hear.
But the problem is that they probably have a EULA which excludes any damages in whatever form whatsoever (limited warranty). This would then require the invalidation of that clause, which then could be a devastating result for the software business as a whole. No software company wants to pay for any damage ever...
Evolutionist: A virus or other organism will evolve to decode on the fly Creationist: God made this secret. No man shall decode it. The church shall interpret divinely for you
Unfortunately, many bosses are equally out of touch with reality. Some even a bit more. Anyway, you get what you teach. Many are taught that capitalism is all and that anything comes at a price. Would it then be strange that the same person puts a price on his/her ability (whether deserved or not is immaterial to the principle).
On the other hand, the sheer number of "infringers" means that there is a demand for something that is not satisfied by the normal market. So, either you can beat down on the "infringers" by any means, or you try to make them part of the regular market. You already know where the profit would be.
The traditional view of "property" and "limited monopoly" is turned upside down with the commoditization of communication. If you cannot control the distribution channel, then all attempts on artificial scarcity will be in vein too. The only sustainable way out is to rethink the way we see creation and exploitation of it.
Generally speaking, science is about/how/ things work. Science does not answer the why (in the sense how it relates to us on a concious or social plane).
Religion answers/why/ things work. This is normally modelled by a "god" figure.
And there is no money to renovate the buildings or hire more/better qualified personnel. But, there is money for tech to watch^H^H^H^H^Hspy. Says something about the priorities nowadays...
Agreed, why would one want another programming language embedded in a programming language? Postscript already can do all you would want. It is a bit hairy programming, but it can be done (see f.x. http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/foster/postscript.html). The best way to mitigate security issues with embedded code is to eliminate the execution. That is, until some one writes a javascript interpreter in postscript.
Generally, secret stuff does not withstand public scrutiny. If it could, then you would be able to hold some one or somebody responsible. But that is against the secret nature.
Yes, but straight dumps take time, a lot of time. They need to be consistent to be useful and then you have to hold table/db locks which can interfere with the operation. Even if you can dump it without locks, 500GByte of data over a GBit link takes al least 1.2 hours. And that assumes that you can get the data that fast, let alone transport it. Mysql is slow at doing dumps on innodb (myisam can be copied rather easily).
When databases and tables get large, things start to suck big time if you want real backups. Probably the most effective is doing snapshots of the filesystem while you hold a lock in the database and flush it hard. Then you can copy the snapshot over all the time you need.
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Quantum processing,... hm, that means it will first happen when you look. That is definitely not a good idea. It should just work and I should not be required to walk down to the cellar to find the damn hardware box I am using. Next I will be required to locate the processor before Heisenberg is satisfied.
So, you want pirates to pay royalties. I always thought that pirates we pirates because they did not want to pay the royalties. What another license makes for a difference is beyond me. If they do not want to pay, they simply will remain pirates.
However, this can be called civil disobedience; although taken to an extreme. You do not have to agree with it and you do not have to participate. If this call succeeds, then you should consider the impact on a broader scale and you should see this as a very potent protest.
The code hit an assert() in glibc. That is per definition a bug. You should never implement an assertion and then complain if someone hits it and confronts you with the design choices of that time. When you are informed of a triggered assert(), then you should act like a man and fix the code.
Medical equipment has a very long lifespan. Many devices for measurement and monitoring are used for 10 to 20 years before replacement. The general policy is "if it works, don't fix it and, more important, do not touch it".
The real problem is that most suppliers of equipment are reluctant to support any type of patches. Many of the suppliers explicitly state that the machines may not be changed in any way (and that includes patching the OS) or you will lose all guarantee and support.
Although very cynical at first glance, it has a lot of merit. Many product announcements included a lot of hot air and were dropped as the release schedule came closer. The only problem is that the same behaviour goes into the "cry wolf" direction. These feature-news-drops are not taken as serious as before. This makes me wonder what part of the drop in earnings can be attributed to lost credibility.
I think that there is a lot more power in there. The water content, assuming a 250x250km area that can be soaked in 10cm of water would be, at least, 250 exaJoule (250*10^18, temperature drop from +27 sea water to +17 degrees C rain). The scale of a storm is even in excess of these dimensions. So, conversion of the power at a 10^12 rate to mechanical energy is peanuts compared to the real energy content.
If you manage to generate power in space at the 10^15 scale, then you might do a very local change of pattern, but I suspect that the real impact will be very small. A storm, or most other weather patterns are encapsulating enormous amounts of energy, which all pale our human efforts at power generation.
Yes, but when robots do all the work, then the human population needs less food. Why then grow all those tomatoes? The more robots do, the less they need to do if for the humans. Maybe we are working on an evolutionary path making us obsolete. Let the robot philosopher break his cpu on that.
I cannot see the big breakthrough here. For example, the corneal endothelium also fits like a puzzle. The cells are responsible for pumping water out of the cornea. That only works properly when all cells coordinate to cover the entire back-surface. When a cell dies, then other cells will migrate and change shape to fill the gap. Cells do die as cell concentration decreases with age.
Right, really infectious power. The mutations might cause a new cold fusion discovery real soon now.
But then again, it is kinda neat to get those little bastards doing some handy work for us. However, I am a bit sceptical whether it would be efficient on an industrial scale, like so many other innovations.
But the 'no-win-no-fee' will make it a no-cost low-effort to suppress unwanted speech. There is a big difference between libel and things you do not want to hear.
But the problem is that they probably have a EULA which excludes any damages in whatever form whatsoever (limited warranty). This would then require the invalidation of that clause, which then could be a devastating result for the software business as a whole. No software company wants to pay for any damage ever...
That would be a very poor private key then...
Evolutionist: A virus or other organism will evolve to decode on the fly
Creationist: God made this secret. No man shall decode it. The church shall interpret divinely for you
Old theme... One's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Which form used is strictly dependent on who writes the history book afterwards.
Unfortunately, many bosses are equally out of touch with reality. Some even a bit more.
Anyway, you get what you teach. Many are taught that capitalism is all and that anything comes at a price. Would it then be strange that the same person puts a price on his/her ability (whether deserved or not is immaterial to the principle).
On the other hand, the sheer number of "infringers" means that there is a demand for something that is not satisfied by the normal market. So, either you can beat down on the "infringers" by any means, or you try to make them part of the regular market. You already know where the profit would be.
The traditional view of "property" and "limited monopoly" is turned upside down with the commoditization of communication. If you cannot control the distribution channel, then all attempts on artificial scarcity will be in vein too. The only sustainable way out is to rethink the way we see creation and exploitation of it.
Use puppet to enforce configuration: http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
Generally speaking, science is about /how/ things work. Science does not answer the why (in the sense how it relates to us on a concious or social plane).
Religion answers /why/ things work. This is normally modelled by a "god" figure.
And there is no money to renovate the buildings or hire more/better qualified personnel. But, there is money for tech to watch^H^H^H^H^Hspy. Says something about the priorities nowadays...
Agreed, why would one want another programming language embedded in a programming language? Postscript already can do all you would want. It is a bit hairy programming, but it can be done (see f.x. http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/foster/postscript.html). The best way to mitigate security issues with embedded code is to eliminate the execution. That is, until some one writes a javascript interpreter in postscript.
Generally, secret stuff does not withstand public scrutiny. If it could, then you would be able to hold some one or somebody responsible. But that is against the secret nature.
Yes, but straight dumps take time, a lot of time. They need to be consistent to be useful and then you have to hold table/db locks which can interfere with the operation. Even if you can dump it without locks, 500GByte of data over a GBit link takes al least 1.2 hours. And that assumes that you can get the data that fast, let alone transport it. Mysql is slow at doing dumps on innodb (myisam can be copied rather easily).
When databases and tables get large, things start to suck big time if you want real backups. Probably the most effective is doing snapshots of the filesystem while you hold a lock in the database and flush it hard. Then you can copy the snapshot over all the time you need.
More like child abuse. The perverts! Call in the Think-Of-The-Children-Police(TM).
But, but,... the license is viral. You are a slave of your users and especially big media.