Look, if someone is stupid enough to click 'OK' on a random dialog saying "Do you want to install xxxxx from yyyyyy corporation", then it doesn't matter what browser they're using. This is not a security vulnerability - it only autoinstalls if someone has set their permissions to "yes I want to allow anyone to automatically install things on my pc without confirmation". And you know what? I actually use that setting. Some sites on servers owned by my company use activex, and it is helpful to give them these permissions. Of course, not being a 'tard I only have it set on a small number of trusted servers.
These people are agreeing to the install. As soon as you make it impossible to do this, they will start complaining that they can't get flash, $random-movie-player to run.
To summarise, this is a social problem, with stupid people. It doesn't matter what browser/OS/firewall you use, if you're an idiot you're gonna fuck it up.
No, the lameness filter does nothing like this. The lameness filter (strictly the postercomment compression filter) just sees how well the isolated text compresses. Too high compression implies too much repetition (hence likely repeatedy copy+pasted junk), too low compression implies random chars - English contains plenty of redundancy.
This, on the other hand, talks about gziping the mail in the context of corpora of known spam or known ham. Thus it serves as a classification of types of Englishg text, whereas the slashdot system only tries to classify whether or not it is actually English text at all.
s/teh/the. I shall mutilate my arm by way of penance.
Slow down cowboy! I'm going to throw away your post because you dared to try and correct your heinous typo - as you know, this is against slashdot policy. If you think this is unfair, email grammar@slashdot.org with your MD5d IP address which is "FUCKOFF"
Well, I'm no electrical engineer, but I think that it's safe to say you've got teh question the wrong way round. It's not "why do the signals travel so slow" but "why do they travel so fast".
In fact, electrons move slowly - there's no reason for them to travel at the speed of light, although for some reason people are led to believe that this is the case. Indeed, if Einstein is worth his salt, it would not be possible for an electron to move at the speed of light (they do have a mass).
In wires, electrons actually move at speeds measured in CMs per second (once again, I forget the actual figures, but it's either CMs or MMs). The reason that it appears so much faster is that, at the risk of oversimplifying things, the whole chain of electrons is shunted along when the first electrons move. As an analogy, imagine holding a long stick and moving it backwards and forwards. The actual movement at the other end of the stick would appear almost instantaneously, despite the fact that the stick would never actually be traveling more than say 20MPH.
It's the same with free electrons moving through a conductor - they may not move fast, but as electrons are passed to atoms, other free electrons in the vicinity are passed along - the net result is very fast data transmission.
That answers the question of why it goes so fast, and hopefully you see why that is the question, rather than why it goes so slow...
Dude, there's more to free/open software than just Linux, and there's more to proprietary software than just Windows.
Unless you actually thought I just used the kernel (and maybe the shell), then it's fairly obvious that I run more than Linux - for example the fucking applications that make the computer actually do something.
It should be fairly obvious that "Running only Linux..." means "...As opposed to Windows", rather than "I boot up a kernel then sit staring at a blank screen, smug with my 1337 purity".
ESR has given us a compelling essay on the benefits of communal non-property. He has enriched our lives with a collection of stirring poetry. He has left an electronic legacy of just how gruesome the human form can get. And he has given every underdog geek hope with an inspiring account of his meteoric rise to unheard of riches.
But none of these compares to his Sex Tips for Geeks. After all, if these tips can get ESR into some hottie's pants, then any disgusting slob can get laid!
Seriously, though, how could ESR have developed these valuable mating tips? Nobody can make me believe that even if he offered all of his newfound wealth to the most hard-up crack-whore on the streets of New York he could get his stinger wet. My Philosophy professor always said, "you cannot invoke magic or God and expect to win an argument in this class." I am therefore left to reach only one possible conclusion. What follows is the only possible explanation for ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks.
The room was dark and the night was cold as the rain pelted against the window. Eric paid no attention, though, absorbed as he was in the warm glow of his computer monitor. A raspy voice grated out of the speakers situated on either side of his monitor, "you've got mail!"
It was his mother's voice, which he had recorded to use with the perl AOL interface he had been working on for the past 10 years. Eric smiled and wiped the sweat condensing in his palm on his thin swatch of hair, only to replace the sweat with the grease oozing from his scalp. His hands shaking, Eric simultaneously pressed the ctrl, alt, shift, F1 and page down keys to retrive the new mail message. He read the message aloud, his voice quivering with excitement.
"hi! i will meet with u on chat 7pm tonite! c u then, xoxoxoxo suzee."
Eric expunged a bulb of gas from his spastic bowel as he checked his watch. 6:57 pm. His shaking grew more extreme, more uncontrollable. He could barely press the key sequence alt, space, F10, F3, tab, scroll-lock, page-up and end to bring up his open-source AOL chat client. Eric was barely able to situate his notebook and ink his quil before the chat client began to load. Eight minutes later, the client was ready to go.
"hi eric," came the message.
Eagerly, Eric replied, "hi, suzee! how r u tonite?"
"fine, thanks. u r late! i wuz worried!"
Eric scribbled in his notebook, "women like promptness."
"i am sorry:( what did u do today?"
"it's ok..."
"Politeness goes a long way," he wrote.
"... i got in trouble in school becuz i hit this guy becuz he kept pulling my hair:("
"No hair-pulling," he noted.
"so. what grade r u in?" Suzee asked.
Eric blushed. The large beads of sweat began to roll down his face to fall on his keyboard. He wiped his forhead with his hand and picked up more grease from his thin red hair. Shaking, he replied to Suzee, "i am not in school n e more."
"that is kool! what do u do then?"
"Girls like men who are no longer in school," He scribbled, before replying.
"i write about my newfound riches and how open-source is a superior method of software development."
There was a long pause. Eric's leg began to shake nervously. After a few minutes of nervous waiting, a long paragraph burst onto the screen.
"open-source is NOT a superior form of software development. The open-source model does not protect the user's rights the way the FREE SOFTWARE model does. Free software ensures that a user will have the right to modify his software and guarantees that the user will have full access to all source code. Open-source is nothing more than thinly-disguised corporate tool which only hints at the beauty of the socialist model."
Eric was shocked. Such thoughts from a young girl. He quickly scribbled in his notebook, "girls prefer FREE software to OPEN-SOURCE software." Eric was beside himself due to this shocking comment. He decided he should convince this youngster that open-source was the one true way.
"hang on a sec. i need to load up vi to get sum info to send u."
"VI?? You fucking idiot! Do you know how much time I spent on emacs... errr... ummmm... I mean... My brother told me that emacs does EVERYTHING. You could chat with me, load your info AND microwave the squirel you shot last night. Only morons and capitalists use vi."
Eric stared at the screen, his mouth wide open, a stream of drool dribbling onto his keyboard. He realized his pants were suddenly getting tight around the crotch.
"RMS??"
"Yes."
"Meet me at the super-8 motel in one hour?"
"I'll bring the Crisco!"
ESR leapt from his chair. He grabbed his keys from the desk and turned to rush from the room. He paused and returned to his desk to scribble in his notebook, "Fat disgusting free-software zealots are hotter than women!"
ESR lunged from the room, grabbing a fire-place poker and can of chocolate syrup on his way out the door.
Best tool for the job and all that. For example, our servers are all linux based; it's cheaper for our clients. Of course, none of this really helps the open source developers (except for the warm glow they will get that hopefully keeps their cardboard-box home warm on a winter's night).
That you are not afraid to show how pitifully poor open source coding makes you. I code professionally, and strangely have no trouble in buying hardware and, say, fine wines.
Given that cat5 signals travel somewhere in the region of 0.6C (I don't know the exact figure), I don't think you'll have to worry about latency until the musicians start playing from the next town.
Dude, why don't you look at your comment preferences and assign a -ve modifier to the 'funny' moderation? This gives you fine grained control over what you see, and does exactly what you want.
Honestly, with all the hard work put into slashdot by Taco and all the others, it is frustrating to see people throwing it back in their faces; in this case they've been helpful enough to provide this control, and nobody even bothers to look!
I can't tell if you're talking to me or the person whom I was replying to. The social security number was exactly what I was implying, however I suggested a barcode for easy scannability. As for gigabytes of data, I was just making the point that if the government wanted to, they could store an arbitrary amount of data in a centralised database rather than farming it out to the client, ripe for tampering.
I should've known some retard would start yakking about privacy. Jesus, if the government mandated you carried a single card (not even smartcard) that had a barcode, they could look up your data on a central DB and get gigabytes of data about you. But they don't.
Now you're given a system for transporting porn and mp3s, and suddenly you think that the government is going to say "to hell with a centralised database, we'll make everyone carry their own data. Hope nobody breaks it."
Hey, I hear that tinfoil hats protect you from harmful gases - try wearing yours then sticking your head in a gas-oven for an hour - it really works!
Wouldn't that be racist then?: No. The Welsh bit was my own comment - Prescott had no idea of nationality when he punched him.
Wouldn't that be failing your role as an example to the rest of us (proles)?: Arguably. Personally I think he did a great job with that punch. Others may disagree, but I am not one. I don't think that being in a position of authority means you have to take any shit directed at you.
Wouldn't that be common assault, caught on camera, and gone unpunished?: There was talk of a criminal charge, but it was decided it'd go nowhere. Before you scream about inequalities etc, perhaps I should remind you about the circumstances: as he walked to a public occasion, a man threw an egg into his face, hard, at point blank range. Prescott turned and punched him. As it is I'm already thinking Prescott is in the right, but of course his defence is that he didn't know he'd been egged, just that a protestor (with mullet, don't forget) had just hit him in the side of the head, so he fought back.
Wouldn't that amount to the complete adn abject abuse of the power...: No. I am satisfied that he didn't use his position to avoid prosecution or anything similar. The only argument is your 2nd point, which suggests that even if it is an understandable reaction, he should have restrained himself. People's opinions will differ on this point, but I am of the opinion that he should not have to be saintly.
It's about synchronisation. In a parallel system, the controller has to ensure that there are no race conditions, as the data is flowing two ways and must be synchronised properly - deadlock is impossible, but race conditions are *very* common, which can slow the system right down. It is possible to write an efficient synchronisation algorithm (Dijkstra wrote an O(ln n) one, I believe), but it is processor intensive, so virtually all controller cards are without, offloading the task onto the CPU.
This is one reason why SCSI is so much faster/more expensive; all scsi controllers have this functionality so throughput is maintained even when the parallel data is clashing.
Whilst serial is theoretically slower than parallel, by removing these synching issues you can guarantee better performance in consumer-priced hardware. At the server end, SCSI will remain as price is less important than performance, and as I said, parallel is still more efficient if it has a decent sych algorithm *on board*.
Really? Grammar aside I thought his point was entirely valid. As far as I can tell, your 'joke' was simply to explain the joke in the original submission. I saw no actual joke in your comment other than a rewording of the submission in a way that is accessible to the...err...'differently abled' posters.
If there was some specially subtle joke of yours thatI failed to pick up, then please correct me and gloat over me. Otherwise stfu.
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That was the gayest comment EVAH! I realise that on Slashdot this is an incredibly hard dream to realise, but YOU DID IT!
These people are agreeing to the install. As soon as you make it impossible to do this, they will start complaining that they can't get flash, $random-movie-player to run.
To summarise, this is a social problem, with stupid people. It doesn't matter what browser/OS/firewall you use, if you're an idiot you're gonna fuck it up.
Stay tuned for next week when we take the existence of bikini waxes to show that George W Bush is a paedophile.
This, on the other hand, talks about gziping the mail in the context of corpora of known spam or known ham. Thus it serves as a classification of types of Englishg text, whereas the slashdot system only tries to classify whether or not it is actually English text at all.
This article will make much more sense if you look at the raw data in tabular form.
Are they Gods that desparately need to lose weight?
Slow down cowboy! I'm going to throw away your post because you dared to try and correct your heinous typo - as you know, this is against slashdot policy. If you think this is unfair, email grammar@slashdot.org with your MD5d IP address which is "FUCKOFF"
In fact, electrons move slowly - there's no reason for them to travel at the speed of light, although for some reason people are led to believe that this is the case. Indeed, if Einstein is worth his salt, it would not be possible for an electron to move at the speed of light (they do have a mass).
In wires, electrons actually move at speeds measured in CMs per second (once again, I forget the actual figures, but it's either CMs or MMs). The reason that it appears so much faster is that, at the risk of oversimplifying things, the whole chain of electrons is shunted along when the first electrons move. As an analogy, imagine holding a long stick and moving it backwards and forwards. The actual movement at the other end of the stick would appear almost instantaneously, despite the fact that the stick would never actually be traveling more than say 20MPH.
It's the same with free electrons moving through a conductor - they may not move fast, but as electrons are passed to atoms, other free electrons in the vicinity are passed along - the net result is very fast data transmission.
That answers the question of why it goes so fast, and hopefully you see why that is the question, rather than why it goes so slow...
Unless you actually thought I just used the kernel (and maybe the shell), then it's fairly obvious that I run more than Linux - for example the fucking applications that make the computer actually do something.
It should be fairly obvious that "Running only Linux..." means "...As opposed to Windows", rather than "I boot up a kernel then sit staring at a blank screen, smug with my 1337 purity".
ESR has given us a compelling essay on the benefits of communal non-property. He has enriched our lives with a collection of stirring poetry. He has left an electronic legacy of just how gruesome the human form can get. And he has given every underdog geek hope with an inspiring account of his meteoric rise to unheard of riches.
But none of these compares to his Sex Tips for Geeks. After all, if these tips can get ESR into some hottie's pants, then any disgusting slob can get laid!
Seriously, though, how could ESR have developed these valuable mating tips? Nobody can make me believe that even if he offered all of his newfound wealth to the most hard-up crack-whore on the streets of New York he could get his stinger wet. My Philosophy professor always said, "you cannot invoke magic or God and expect to win an argument in this class." I am therefore left to reach only one possible conclusion. What follows is the only possible explanation for ESR's Sex Tips for Geeks.
The room was dark and the night was cold as the rain pelted against the window. Eric paid no attention, though, absorbed as he was in the warm glow of his computer monitor. A raspy voice grated out of the speakers situated on either side of his monitor, "you've got mail!"
It was his mother's voice, which he had recorded to use with the perl AOL interface he had been working on for the past 10 years. Eric smiled and wiped the sweat condensing in his palm on his thin swatch of hair, only to replace the sweat with the grease oozing from his scalp. His hands shaking, Eric simultaneously pressed the ctrl, alt, shift, F1 and page down keys to retrive the new mail message. He read the message aloud, his voice quivering with excitement.
"hi! i will meet with u on chat 7pm tonite! c u then, xoxoxoxo suzee."
Eric expunged a bulb of gas from his spastic bowel as he checked his watch. 6:57 pm. His shaking grew more extreme, more uncontrollable. He could barely press the key sequence alt, space, F10, F3, tab, scroll-lock, page-up and end to bring up his open-source AOL chat client. Eric was barely able to situate his notebook and ink his quil before the chat client began to load. Eight minutes later, the client was ready to go.
"hi eric," came the message.
Eagerly, Eric replied, "hi, suzee! how r u tonite?"
"fine, thanks. u r late! i wuz worried!"
Eric scribbled in his notebook, "women like promptness."
"i am sorry
"it's ok..."
"Politeness goes a long way," he wrote.
"... i got in trouble in school becuz i hit this guy becuz he kept pulling my hair
"No hair-pulling," he noted.
"so. what grade r u in?" Suzee asked.
Eric blushed. The large beads of sweat began to roll down his face to fall on his keyboard. He wiped his forhead with his hand and picked up more grease from his thin red hair. Shaking, he replied to Suzee, "i am not in school n e more."
"that is kool! what do u do then?"
"Girls like men who are no longer in school," He scribbled, before replying.
"i write about my newfound riches and how open-source is a superior method of software development."
There was a long pause. Eric's leg began to shake nervously. After a few minutes of nervous waiting, a long paragraph burst onto the screen.
"open-source is NOT a superior form of software development. The open-source model does not protect the user's rights the way the FREE SOFTWARE model does. Free software ensures that a user will have the right to modify his software and guarantees that the user will have full access to all source code. Open-source is nothing more than thinly-disguised corporate tool which only hints at the beauty of the socialist model."
Eric was shocked. Such thoughts from a young girl. He quickly scribbled in his notebook, "girls prefer FREE software to OPEN-SOURCE software." Eric was beside himself due to this shocking comment. He decided he should convince this youngster that open-source was the one true way.
"hang on a sec. i need to load up vi to get sum info to send u."
"VI?? You fucking idiot! Do you know how much time I spent on emacs... errr... ummmm... I mean... My brother told me that emacs does EVERYTHING. You could chat with me, load your info AND microwave the squirel you shot last night. Only morons and capitalists use vi."
Eric stared at the screen, his mouth wide open, a stream of drool dribbling onto his keyboard. He realized his pants were suddenly getting tight around the crotch.
"RMS??"
"Yes."
"Meet me at the super-8 motel in one hour?"
"I'll bring the Crisco!"
ESR leapt from his chair. He grabbed his keys from the desk and turned to rush from the room. He paused and returned to his desk to scribble in his notebook, "Fat disgusting free-software zealots are hotter than women!"
ESR lunged from the room, grabbing a fire-place poker and can of chocolate syrup on his way out the door.
Best tool for the job and all that. For example, our servers are all linux based; it's cheaper for our clients. Of course, none of this really helps the open source developers (except for the warm glow they will get that hopefully keeps their cardboard-box home warm on a winter's night).
Fucking proles.
Given that cat5 signals travel somewhere in the region of 0.6C (I don't know the exact figure), I don't think you'll have to worry about latency until the musicians start playing from the next town.
Honestly, with all the hard work put into slashdot by Taco and all the others, it is frustrating to see people throwing it back in their faces; in this case they've been helpful enough to provide this control, and nobody even bothers to look!
They are, after all, not interested in girls.
In short, I agree with you entirely.
But I didn't think that vagrants had Internet access...
Now you're given a system for transporting porn and mp3s, and suddenly you think that the government is going to say "to hell with a centralised database, we'll make everyone carry their own data. Hope nobody breaks it."
Hey, I hear that tinfoil hats protect you from harmful gases - try wearing yours then sticking your head in a gas-oven for an hour - it really works!
OLEDs potentially solves both of these problems since they are inorganic
Given this is quantum physics, perhaps this is an example of the uncertainty principle? Inquiring minds want to know...
Wouldn't that be failing your role as an example to the rest of us (proles)?: Arguably. Personally I think he did a great job with that punch. Others may disagree, but I am not one. I don't think that being in a position of authority means you have to take any shit directed at you.
Wouldn't that be common assault, caught on camera, and gone unpunished?: There was talk of a criminal charge, but it was decided it'd go nowhere. Before you scream about inequalities etc, perhaps I should remind you about the circumstances: as he walked to a public occasion, a man threw an egg into his face, hard, at point blank range. Prescott turned and punched him. As it is I'm already thinking Prescott is in the right, but of course his defence is that he didn't know he'd been egged, just that a protestor (with mullet, don't forget) had just hit him in the side of the head, so he fought back.
Wouldn't that amount to the complete adn abject abuse of the power...: No. I am satisfied that he didn't use his position to avoid prosecution or anything similar. The only argument is your 2nd point, which suggests that even if it is an understandable reaction, he should have restrained himself. People's opinions will differ on this point, but I am of the opinion that he should not have to be saintly.
YOU FAIL IT!
This is one reason why SCSI is so much faster/more expensive; all scsi controllers have this functionality so throughput is maintained even when the parallel data is clashing.
Whilst serial is theoretically slower than parallel, by removing these synching issues you can guarantee better performance in consumer-priced hardware. At the server end, SCSI will remain as price is less important than performance, and as I said, parallel is still more efficient if it has a decent sych algorithm *on board*.
what you never never never want to know when you know what you are-o.
How can you not love a man who, when on dozens of live tv cameras, punches an ugly Welsh fucker with a mullet?
If there was some specially subtle joke of yours thatI failed to pick up, then please correct me and gloat over me. Otherwise stfu.