I only had two semesters of physics, so I can't solve this myself, but wouldn't the hot side get damned hot? All the heat in a living room coming through two square inches?
If there is anyone out there who has any ideas about stopping PanIP or can help us out in any way it would be appreciated.
Here's an idea. Suck it up and fight the bastards in court. If you can't afford it, get a legal defense fund started. Countersue. If you just show up in court and show what a ridiculous claim this is, it may be thrown out right away.
Or, you can just let yourself be bled white by them until someone else does it for you. I would call that "short-term thinking", myself.
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Producer: What a great idea! Let's tell the story of how brilliant hackers cracked the German codes and won WWII. Oh, wait, little problem here. The chief hacker was (gasp) a poofter. Horrors! The audience won't like that!
Writer: I know! We'll fictionalize it, then we can have a nice straight protagonist, the audience will like it, and we'll still get to tell a cool story!
Someone way down on the totem pole: But isn't that kind of dishonoring the memory of the genius who actually did the work?
Producer: (Hands over ears) LA LA LA LA I can't hear you...
"Well, sir, that's certainly very generous of you. Thirty billion will go a long way toward making this technology practical."
"Yes, well, we have a few trips we'd like to make. Strictly historical interest, you understand. Now tell me, if you want to travel to...oh, say, Finland, does the machine have to be in Finland, or can you move in space as well?"
"Oh, I think we'd have to move in space, what with the Earth's rotation, movement around the sun, and so forth. Finland?"
"Just an example. Do you see any particular limit on timespan? Say you have a working model by 2010; would you be able to send a person back to, say, 1990? Or even 1970?"
"That should work. Longer trips would require more energy, of course."
"Well, 1984 might be as good as 1970, really. Hmm, have to find some maps of Cambridge as it was in 1984..."
"Er...exactly what kind of historical research were you thinking of doing, Mr. Gates?"
Sure, NASA has a plan. They'll spend 400 million dollars developing an overcomplicated robot to land on the asteroid, and said robot will develop a fatal glitch en route. Oops.
Wake up, guys. Doctors have been screening for genetic diseases for years. Remember the big Tay-Sachs screening? The difference here is that it's a disease that won't show up until adulthood. Up to now they've only done lethal childhood diseases.
Don't ask me why people are getting in such an uproar over that. Yes, I agree it wasn't necessarily a good idea to have a kid when you're going to go gaga in about ten years (he said tactfully). But as for the genetic engineering aspects, don't look for Gattaca anytime soon. Picking out one gene that causes a disease and selecting the gametes with the undamaged version, sure. Trying to select things like strength or smarts, or designing entirely new traits, not anytime soon.
A suspected terrorist was apprehended today at Franz Kafka International Airport. Security personnel became suspicious when they noticed the image of a bomb on a traveler's computer screen. The computer case also had a picture of an apple on it, which authorities believe may be related to the September 11 attacks in the "Big Apple".
I have a family of compression algorithms that will take an apparently-random string of 5e7 bytes or more and reversibly compress it to 5000 bytes or less. Only works on certain strings, though. Here are a few:
Um, that would require the infected sending machine to be able to read the sent items on your clean machine before it infects you. I doubt even Outlook is that insecure.
Oh, my God, what a troll. Let's take it a bit at a time.
The problem is that Debian is quickly becoming just as bad as Microsoft in terms of insisting that everyone play the games by their rules, freezing out everyone else.
Um, no. They insist that they play by their own rules. What anyone else does is their business. Perhaps you are confusing Debian with RMS?
Now they suddenly announce that since 2/3 of LDP does not satisfy their definition of "free," they're going to drop them. Not move them into "non-free," drop them outright.
Where did you read that? They're not dropping them. They're moving them from "main" to "non-free". They'll be just as available as they ever were. Debian even keeps blatantly non-free stuff like Netscape on their servers. Debian developers perenially argue whether they should dump non-free for the sake of purity and/or to save space and maintainer effort. So far the users have won every time.
The only way to avoid this is for authors to drop everything else in their life to make these changes.
Well, yes, it will certainly take a great deal of time and effort on the part of the authors to change their licenses. Maybe as much as an hour. The only reason there's any hurry is that woody-base will be frozen in a few days. The timing is unfortunate, but considering the importance of the docs, and the fact that docs don't impact other software, I will venture to predict that the Debian maintainers will be generous in letting docs back into main after the freeze as the licenses are fixed.
And, rubbing salt in this wound, this question was clearly written by one of the persons responsible for dropping these documents. Yet he doesn't feel the need to actually provide a link to a list of the documents in question. We're clearly supposed to waste even more time trying to track down that list on the Debian site because this guy can't be bothered to provide the link in his message.
The list doesn't exist yet. LDP is working on it.
I should also point out that Debian did not instigate this. No one at Debian had noticed the license issue till David Merrill pointed it out to them. If you don't like the fact that they then acted in accordance with Debian policy, perhaps you're using the wrong distribution.
Sad but true. My five-year-old P133 with 32MB runs fine, until I start X (ouch) and Netscape (OUCH!). Or try to do anything serious with the GIMP. Thank God I finally got X working on my new machine. It leaves greased weasels in the dust:) All of which of course makes a 33 kbps net connection the new bottleneck...
At last, and this is perhaps the most important factor - we can't make an OS more failsafe (or performing better) by introducing margins anywhere. Due to the binary nature of CS it doesn't make sense to use redundancy for many aspects of an OS.
In the mechanical engineering world, you introduce redundancy and safety margins by making things stronger than they strictly need to be. In CS, you avoid using bleeding-edge techniques that aren't well understood, you do code reviews and audits, and you send beta versions / -pre's / -rc's out into the world before declaring a release stable.
Yeah, I have this vision of the Straumli Blight in A Fire Upon the Deep, asking its victims "Where do you want to go today?" before it installs the mind-control hardware:)
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I only had two semesters of physics, so I can't solve this myself, but wouldn't the hot side get damned hot? All the heat in a living room coming through two square inches?
Here's an idea. Suck it up and fight the bastards in court. If you can't afford it, get a legal defense fund started. Countersue. If you just show up in court and show what a ridiculous claim this is, it may be thrown out right away.
Or, you can just let yourself be bled white by them until someone else does it for you. I would call that "short-term thinking", myself.
Writer: I know! We'll fictionalize it, then we can have a nice straight protagonist, the audience will like it, and we'll still get to tell a cool story!
Someone way down on the totem pole: But isn't that kind of dishonoring the memory of the genius who actually did the work?
Producer: (Hands over ears) LA LA LA LA I can't hear you...
In your car, interfacing with the navigational system.
In your house, issuing often-used commands like "who's at the door" and "turn off the lights" and "turn up the heat two degrees".
Any other ideas?
"This'll make a great blow-up!"
Hmm, we need a "-1: Incomprehensible" mod.
I hope no one here is dumb enough to hold this attitude until it really is dead...
"Yeah? What?"
"Well...the webserver will go down for half a day or so..."
"Yes, well, we have a few trips we'd like to make. Strictly historical interest, you understand. Now tell me, if you want to travel to...oh, say, Finland, does the machine have to be in Finland, or can you move in space as well?"
"Oh, I think we'd have to move in space, what with the Earth's rotation, movement around the sun, and so forth. Finland?"
"Just an example. Do you see any particular limit on timespan? Say you have a working model by 2010; would you be able to send a person back to, say, 1990? Or even 1970?"
"That should work. Longer trips would require more energy, of course."
"Well, 1984 might be as good as 1970, really. Hmm, have to find some maps of Cambridge as it was in 1984..."
"Er...exactly what kind of historical research were you thinking of doing, Mr. Gates?"
We need this in my office now. All the fscking idiots, yakking on their phones all day, no clue that they're disturbing anyone...
Pah, big deal. "Stealth Asteroid Hits Earth", now, that would be a headline...
Sure, NASA has a plan. They'll spend 400 million dollars developing an overcomplicated robot to land on the asteroid, and said robot will develop a fatal glitch en route. Oops.
It's so nice not to have to worry about any of this crud...
God. Slashdot. Typical clueless headline writing.
Wake up, guys. Doctors have been screening for genetic diseases for years. Remember the big Tay-Sachs screening? The difference here is that it's a disease that won't show up until adulthood. Up to now they've only done lethal childhood diseases.
Don't ask me why people are getting in such an uproar over that. Yes, I agree it wasn't necessarily a good idea to have a kid when you're going to go gaga in about ten years (he said tactfully). But as for the genetic engineering aspects, don't look for Gattaca anytime soon. Picking out one gene that causes a disease and selecting the gametes with the undamaged version, sure. Trying to select things like strength or smarts, or designing entirely new traits, not anytime soon.
How about the chilling effect of putting up a site and being instantly slashdotted?
That's easy. "Can you beat Linux on price? No? Then why are you wasting our time?"
Try changing your time zone so it doesn't use daylight savings time. That will at least tell you if it's DST-related or not.
(I don't know how offhand - anyone?)
A suspected terrorist was apprehended today at Franz Kafka International Airport. Security personnel became suspicious when they noticed the image of a bomb on a traveler's computer screen. The computer case also had a picture of an apple on it, which authorities believe may be related to the September 11 attacks in the "Big Apple".
Film at 11.
Gojira!
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Um, that would require the infected sending machine to be able to read the sent items on your clean machine before it infects you. I doubt even Outlook is that insecure.
The problem is that Debian is quickly becoming just as bad as Microsoft in terms of insisting that everyone play the games by their rules, freezing out everyone else.
Um, no. They insist that they play by their own rules. What anyone else does is their business. Perhaps you are confusing Debian with RMS?
Now they suddenly announce that since 2/3 of LDP does not satisfy their definition of "free," they're going to drop them. Not move them into "non-free," drop them outright.
Where did you read that? They're not dropping them. They're moving them from "main" to "non-free". They'll be just as available as they ever were. Debian even keeps blatantly non-free stuff like Netscape on their servers. Debian developers perenially argue whether they should dump non-free for the sake of purity and/or to save space and maintainer effort. So far the users have won every time.
The only way to avoid this is for authors to drop everything else in their life to make these changes.
Well, yes, it will certainly take a great deal of time and effort on the part of the authors to change their licenses. Maybe as much as an hour. The only reason there's any hurry is that woody-base will be frozen in a few days. The timing is unfortunate, but considering the importance of the docs, and the fact that docs don't impact other software, I will venture to predict that the Debian maintainers will be generous in letting docs back into main after the freeze as the licenses are fixed.
And, rubbing salt in this wound, this question was clearly written by one of the persons responsible for dropping these documents. Yet he doesn't feel the need to actually provide a link to a list of the documents in question. We're clearly supposed to waste even more time trying to track down that list on the Debian site because this guy can't be bothered to provide the link in his message.
The list doesn't exist yet. LDP is working on it.
I should also point out that Debian did not instigate this. No one at Debian had noticed the license issue till David Merrill pointed it out to them. If you don't like the fact that they then acted in accordance with Debian policy, perhaps you're using the wrong distribution.
Sad but true. My five-year-old P133 with 32MB runs fine, until I start X (ouch) and Netscape (OUCH!). Or try to do anything serious with the GIMP. Thank God I finally got X working on my new machine. It leaves greased weasels in the dust :) All of which of course makes a 33 kbps net connection the new bottleneck...
In the mechanical engineering world, you introduce redundancy and safety margins by making things stronger than they strictly need to be. In CS, you avoid using bleeding-edge techniques that aren't well understood, you do code reviews and audits, and you send beta versions / -pre's / -rc's out into the world before declaring a release stable.
Same principles, different practices.
Yeah, I have this vision of the Straumli Blight in A Fire Upon the Deep, asking its victims "Where do you want to go today?" before it installs the mind-control hardware :)