Because time is crucial to all sorts of physical and scientific endeavors, such as planetary motion, navigation, GPS, etc. We need an accurate standard, or stuff quits working.
I though that planetary motion was the source of the problem?
Seriously, behave like you would if you were talking to his face. A redundant comment would be met with "Yes, I _know_" even though noone would add that (also) redundant comment to the comments board. Also it'd cut down on flamefests. So many people get real obnoxious for no particular reason except they can sit in front of a computer screen and do it, kinda like the online version of the school bully. About as mature too.
You did realize that you were posting to slashdot, didn't you? Flamefests and being obnoxious are most of the fun.
Perhaps you haven't looked at the roads around here lately? Not much maintenance going on here. And even if there were, they are already taxing me per mile via fuel taxes. If they want to force people to use public transportation, then the proper solution would be to pass a law closing the roads to private transportation, not dick around with the tax structure.
I think that this is incredibly unlikely to spread virus executables from one machine to another. The compiled code would not work on the machine where it was compiled. People have been doing cross-compiling for years without this problem. Virus code exploits vulnerabilities in the system - a Win32 virus will only exploit machines which supply a Win32 runtime environment.
The MD5 hashes are 128 bits. Since they are one-way, it is easy to generate the hash from the message, but impossible to generate a message that matches a give hash. The only way to do it would be to randomly generate messages until you found one that gave the hash that you were looking for. Good luck.
It never occurred to me to click on one - they just always looked like advertising and were in the spot where advertising belongs. And I think that clicking on one is part of the learning process for the noobs. It's part of how they learn what to trust and what to take seriously versus what is scam. If they don't learn the lesson, they may start to believe things that they read on/.
...with applications that don't do processing in the background... Which is just about every complex program nowadays. It's spellchecking your work or downloading your files or god-knows-what. ...and their RAM will eventually be paged out when it is needed for other... No, no performance penalties there... There is no way that a programmer can decided the best way for the program to work for me. The way I use it is going to be different from the next person. Taking my ability to control the way that the program works away is a good way to make sure that I don't use the program.
I will leave it to you to work this part out (or look it up yourself): The conversion of mass to energy via Einstein's famous E=mc2 yields one megaton (like a nuke) per 46.58 grams of mass converted. Sooooo, if Jesus is a normal dude of say, 65 kilograms, his little "resurrection" act would have released just short of 1400 megatons of energy.
I'm just guessing here, but I think that someone might have noticed.
Yes, and the technology to do analog broadcasting is 50 years old. The only reason that the digital equipment is so expensive is that there isn't a second-hand market yet, and the technology isn't old enough to have produced the "all-on-one-chip" solutions that drive down the price of manufacture. Give it a few years and the prices will come down just as they do in any other technological area. By the time the change-over is enforced (does anyone really believe that will be 2007?) the prices will be a lot more reasonable.
Shoestring budget or not, they somehow managed to aquire the analog broadcasting equipment in the first place. That isn't free. If they care about what they are doing (as they must if the financial reward is apparently zero), they will find a way to aquire digital broadcast equipment.
No, Mandrake was originally based on the RedHat distribution. It's claim to fame was that they took the basic RedHat distro (386 optimized) and recompiled it to 586 optimization. It will only run on Pentiums and higher. The installer is definately different, but the base - where things are located, RPMs, the configure scripts - are all based on RedHat
It wouldn't have made much of a difference. Draeker would just have made off with that much more money and the employees would still have gotten shafted.
An where would one purchase one of these fine products? A search of the various comparison sites (and even tom's price shopper) didn't turn up so much as one site selling them.
Seems pointless to recommend a board that can't be bought.
Have you ever really tried to do any of this stuff with a phone? Browse the web? Get your email? It's useless on a phone. The screen is too small and entering information into the phone is an exercise in frustration. Or you end up with a phone like the Kyocera which is a great palm, but sucks as a phone. Ever try actually holding it to your face and talking on it?
I'm all for cool technology and doing things that are cool just for the sake of doing it, but John Q. Public is never going to accept this stuff if it's a pain to use. It solves a problem that doesn't exist.
The only time that I ever really look at articles on salon is when they are presented here. Maybe Taco look at the ad for us and then post the link to the actual story behind it. Let him do something useful for a change.
But the question is who changed the words around. If the reporter got it right and an anonymous coward of an editor changed it to suit his/her idea of what the herd wanted to hear, flaming the reporter isn't the answer.
Furthermore, once they break the encryption scheme, they can go back over the terabytes of data they collected previously, so you better hope the statute of limitations is up or that your significant other won't hold that affair against you 7 years after the fact.
Slashdot Mirror
Because time is crucial to all sorts of physical and scientific endeavors, such as planetary motion, navigation, GPS, etc. We need an accurate standard, or stuff quits working. I though that planetary motion was the source of the problem?
Seriously, behave like you would if you were talking to his face. A redundant comment would be met with "Yes, I _know_" even though noone would add that (also) redundant comment to the comments board. Also it'd cut down on flamefests. So many people get real obnoxious for no particular reason except they can sit in front of a computer screen and do it, kinda like the online version of the school bully. About as mature too.
You did realize that you were posting to slashdot, didn't you? Flamefests and being obnoxious are most of the fun.
Perhaps you haven't looked at the roads around here lately? Not much maintenance going on here. And even if there were, they are already taxing me per mile via fuel taxes. If they want to force people to use public transportation, then the proper solution would be to pass a law closing the roads to private transportation, not dick around with the tax structure.
...see the free use of roads as a divine right no-one should interfere with ...
Because we already PAID for them once when they were built.
I think that this is incredibly unlikely to spread virus executables from one machine to another. The compiled code would not work on the machine where it was compiled. People have been doing cross-compiling for years without this problem. Virus code exploits vulnerabilities in the system - a Win32 virus will only exploit machines which supply a Win32 runtime environment.
Sorry, you are an idiot.
The MD5 hashes are 128 bits. Since they are one-way, it is easy to generate the hash from the message, but impossible to generate a message that matches a give hash. The only way to do it would be to randomly generate messages until you found one that gave the hash that you were looking for. Good luck.
Not stictly impossible, just really improbable.
It never occurred to me to click on one - they just always looked like advertising and were in the spot where advertising belongs. And I think that clicking on one is part of the learning process for the noobs. It's part of how they learn what to trust and what to take seriously versus what is scam. If they don't learn the lesson, they may start to believe things that they read on /.
...with applications that don't do processing in the background...
...and their RAM will eventually be paged out when it is needed for other...
Which is just about every complex program nowadays. It's spellchecking your work or downloading your files or god-knows-what.
No, no performance penalties there...
There is no way that a programmer can decided the best way for the program to work for me. The way I use it is going to be different from the next person. Taking my ability to control the way that the program works away is a good way to make sure that I don't use the program.
Ohhh, Ohhh, let me answer:
I will leave it to you to work this part out (or look it up yourself): The conversion of mass to energy via Einstein's famous E=mc2 yields one megaton (like a nuke) per 46.58 grams of mass converted. Sooooo, if Jesus is a normal dude of say, 65 kilograms, his little "resurrection" act would have released just short of 1400 megatons of energy.
I'm just guessing here, but I think that someone might have noticed.
Yes, and the technology to do analog broadcasting is 50 years old. The only reason that the digital equipment is so expensive is that there isn't a second-hand market yet, and the technology isn't old enough to have produced the "all-on-one-chip" solutions that drive down the price of manufacture. Give it a few years and the prices will come down just as they do in any other technological area. By the time the change-over is enforced (does anyone really believe that will be 2007?) the prices will be a lot more reasonable.
Shoestring budget or not, they somehow managed to aquire the analog broadcasting equipment in the first place. That isn't free. If they care about what they are doing (as they must if the financial reward is apparently zero), they will find a way to aquire digital broadcast equipment.
No, Mandrake was originally based on the RedHat distribution. It's claim to fame was that they took the basic RedHat distro (386 optimized) and recompiled it to 586 optimization. It will only run on Pentiums and higher. The installer is definately different, but the base - where things are located, RPMs, the configure scripts - are all based on RedHat
It wouldn't have made much of a difference. Draeker would just have made off with that much more money and the employees would still have gotten shafted.
The athlon's floating point unit is MUCH better than intel's.
Binary is OK, but what we really need is a watch that count telling UNIX time - seconds since the epoch.
"Do you have the time?"
"Yeah, it's 2,000,230,293"
"Go away."
An where would one purchase one of these fine products? A search of the various comparison sites (and even tom's price shopper) didn't turn up so much as one site selling them.
Seems pointless to recommend a board that can't be bought.
Have you ever really tried to do any of this stuff with a phone? Browse the web? Get your email? It's useless on a phone. The screen is too small and entering information into the phone is an exercise in frustration. Or you end up with a phone like the Kyocera which is a great palm, but sucks as a phone. Ever try actually holding it to your face and talking on it?
I'm all for cool technology and doing things that are cool just for the sake of doing it, but John Q. Public is never going to accept this stuff if it's a pain to use. It solves a problem that doesn't exist.
Scottaroo
The only time that I ever really look at articles on salon is when they are presented here. Maybe Taco look at the ad for us and then post the link to the actual story behind it. Let him do something useful for a change.
But the question is who changed the words around. If the reporter got it right and an anonymous coward of an editor changed it to suit his/her idea of what the herd wanted to hear, flaming the reporter isn't the answer.
Furthermore, once they break the encryption scheme, they can go back over the terabytes of data they collected previously, so you better hope the statute of limitations is up or that your significant other won't hold that affair against you 7 years after the fact.