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Re:Hmmm...
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Sigh.... Yes, I realize it's a joke. But this is Slashdot, where nitpicking is encouraged and adored, right? Right?
Re:World Ends
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On an offtopic, but very interesting tangent, that is an extremely interesting, scary thought. If a nuclear bomb went off in St. Petersburg and 50 megatons of H-bomb were headed for every major city in the US, what would Slashdot report (assuming the editors knew it was going to happen - remember, this is hypothetical). Weird.
Basically, this is right
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Despite this article's annoying use of absolutes (I know, I know, they're effective, but I hate it when people write an article as if its the last thing that will ever be written on that subject), they're mostly right. Think about it. We can do more on the Net now than 5 years ago, despite the best efforts of the RIAA, MPAA, US Govt, and pretty much every corporate interest out there. I have a feeling this will continue into the future, too.
Get ready for a world of hurt... first the Slashdotting, and then, if this becomes popular, a wave of traffic to your site that won't stop... just look at IMBDB or RottenTomatoes: sites that started small and today have huge server farms...
The problem with that is, when you have to, er, close something in a hurry:), and then later, somebody else in my house starts up Opera, and sees what I was last looking at... as you can imagine, that option is turned off on my Opera...
With Opera 6, I didn't use them (I used multiple windows). With Opera 7, I've started using tabs. They actually do rock, though it is incredibly hard to resist the urge to accidentally just close the Opera window (this is what I'm used to from before... and now MS office uses a multiple document interface also...), accidentally closing all 30 tabs I have open:). Really, IMO though, they're great, aside from that one problem.
If it's posted on Slashdot, and has to do with encryption of random data, or 'increasing the speed of the Internet' by many times, it's a pretty good bet it's bogus. It's also a pretty good bet we'll read about it every couple of weeks for the next couple of years.:)
Sweet......are these galactic civilizations the anarchic oppressive Star Wars-type, or the unrealistic techno-communistic Star Trek type? And do we, as a species, stand to survive in these civilizations? I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords:)
Sweet! Someone is actually avoiding confusion (okay, not really true... a lot of people don't know those terms...). Someone is being explicit with what they mean in terms of amounts of data. I am so sick of Hard Drive manufacturers' (and everyone else that should be knowledgable on this kind of thing) lack of knowledge on this. And, yeah. In case you don't know what that guy was spouting with all those mebibytes and gibibytes, see here for a simple definition.
1) Isn't this the same way , uh, Internet1 was started? Just connecting universities and military sites (though they may have been two different networks originally, I'm not sure...). I'm sure Internet2 will become public eventually. Probably around the time the worlds top universities start using Internet3:).
2) When you're at a university using Internet2, does it work through the same TCP/IP protocol? What I mean is, do you use a browser, and its transparent to the user whether you're on Internet2 or Internet1... that would be interesting, because then you could actually route between them. Does Internet2 use IPv6?
This guy's library has exactly the right idea. Almost every single problem with inappropriate material in libraries can be solved by putting it in a high-traffic area. I'd rather the public that just happens to be walking by be monitoring what kids are doing on those computers than some overpriced, ineffective software. Have you ever tried to do something you're not supposed to while out in the middle of public? It's hard.
But cruz, you might say, what if they were looking at hate speech or something that isn't easily identifiable by someone just walking by the computer? Well, I say to that, that kind of stuff shouldn't be censored anyway. If it's text, it pretty much should be allowed to be viewed. (Okay, I know, 15 ACs will reply to this with good reasons why some text shouldn't be allowed to be viewed in a library... flame away...)
I've seen a whole bunch of 'stolen credit card #' type stories on Slashdot lately... the thing is, we never hear about any repercussions of these thefts. Do the thieves ever use the stolen records in large quantities? Follow-up is good:). Any info people have, post it here (I'm thinking of, in response to the Amazon CC# thefts from a few weeks ago, etc.)
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I find Tom's Hardware to be one of the most honest with this. They never favour Nvidia or ATI, or Intel, or AMD, or Transmeta, or whatever. What they do do that's annoying is talk about the latest card as if everyone needs it. And everyone on Slashdot knows that this isn't true, but it seems to me to be kind of weird when they play up a 2% performance edge that Intel may have as if its a huge thing. INTEL RETAKES PERFORMANCE CROWN! Yay.
I wish hardware sites would talk about more interesting things: serial ATA, 10Gbps ethernet (yes you heard me right... that's what's next...), giant LCD screens (or plasma), 7.1 channel sound, not a graphics card that gives me a 3% edge on directX 9.0 games of which there AREN'T ANY. Okay, rant over:)
Multicast protocols would help a lot with this... which means we really need IPv6. Currently most things like that are done as single point-to-point transmissions. With multicast, a 10-minute broadcast could be done every 10 minutes, and you'd just have turn it on at the beginning of those 10 minutes. To the broadcaster, it would only take the bandwidth of one person watching it every 10 minutes (by current standards). It's not the same as being able to start it whenever you want, but it's not as bad as TV where it is only broadcast once per day. The Itnernet could easily support that, even with current bandwidth limitations.
Now whether people would watch some weird geek's video blog is another story:)
I've said it before, I'll say it again. No American (I don't mean the company, I mean the nation) airliner will ever be hijacked again (well, not EVER, but as long as living memories of 9/11 exist.) If a terrorist with a freaking AK-47 opened up on a plane, half the plane would still rush at him. And they'd probably win - it's hard to take down that many people with any kind of weapon, when those people have nothing to lose.
Let's get this back on topic. Realistically, can you really hijack a plane using a laptop fuel cell? "Everybody down, or I'm gonna bust this cell open, let the methanol evaporate for 20 minutes, and then light it, making a 'pop' noise that may be quite loud!". I think not. Of course, that's not to say that overzealous security standards won't let them on anyway, but I don't think they're a realistic threat to airline safety.
Look at TV. The NTSC standard: invented in USA. Perfected in Europe as the PAL standard. PAL gives a better quality picture, and has much better error-handling (in the analog sense): a small signal error on NTSC gives chrominance errors (read: green looks red, etc.) while on PAL, I'm not exactly sure, but apparently it only gives luminance errors (meaning, it's a little too dark or light) - somebody with more knowledge could probably clear that up.
The cell phone. Analog cell phones first took off in USA, today USA is struggling to implement 3G while its relatively common in Europe / Asia (this also has somewhat to do with geography and population density, yes...)
Does this mean that the same thing is going to happen with the PC? The PC was basically invented in USA (or at least popularized here) - and what's expected to come next... that's right, Unification. I think the biggest thing to come out of the East or Europe is going to be unified devices. It's already started - Sony equipment all 'talks' to each other through their 'S-link' implementation of IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire). Even though LG (an American company, I believe) is pushing their Internet-aware devices, they're not selling well. I have a feeling that companies not in USA with less likelyhood of sticking to the legacy standards are going to come out with a unified home control system that will knock our socks off. Remember: you heard it here first:D .
Um, yes, because even if they can reduce this 150 MB file by, say, 8 megs, then if 100,000 people download it, that's 800 GB (using crappy hard-drive manufacturer base-10 definitions of GB because I'm too lazy right now to convert properly) of traffic they've just saved themselves. Impressive how it adds up when you're talking about popular downloads:)
Somehow I doubt this. Think about the absolutely most advanced encryption from 50 years ago you can think of. Don't you think we could break it today in about, oh, 10 seconds (including programmer time and coffee breaks)? Obviously, I'm not including One-time Pads in this equation, but that's okay, because we don't even use those for todays DRM. In 50 years, I have every confidence we'll have no trouble cracking todays' DRM-encrypted files.
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Internet attracts
nitpickers with no money;
driving you to drink.
Sigh.... Yes, I realize it's a joke. But this is Slashdot, where nitpicking is encouraged and adored, right? Right?
On an offtopic, but very interesting tangent, that is an extremely interesting, scary thought. If a nuclear bomb went off in St. Petersburg and 50 megatons of H-bomb were headed for every major city in the US, what would Slashdot report (assuming the editors knew it was going to happen - remember, this is hypothetical). Weird.
Despite this article's annoying use of absolutes (I know, I know, they're effective, but I hate it when people write an article as if its the last thing that will ever be written on that subject), they're mostly right. Think about it. We can do more on the Net now than 5 years ago, despite the best efforts of the RIAA, MPAA, US Govt, and pretty much every corporate interest out there. I have a feeling this will continue into the future, too.
Like leaves in the fall
Browser tabs fade away, and
you close the window.
Get ready for a world of hurt ... first the Slashdotting, and then, if this becomes popular, a wave of traffic to your site that won't stop... just look at IMBDB or RottenTomatoes: sites that started small and today have huge server farms...
The problem with that is, when you have to, er, close something in a hurry :), and then later, somebody else in my house starts up Opera, and sees what I was last looking at... as you can imagine, that option is turned off on my Opera...
With Opera 6, I didn't use them (I used multiple windows). With Opera 7, I've started using tabs. They actually do rock, though it is incredibly hard to resist the urge to accidentally just close the Opera window (this is what I'm used to from before... and now MS office uses a multiple document interface also...), accidentally closing all 30 tabs I have open :). Really, IMO though, they're great, aside from that one problem.
If it's posted on Slashdot, and has to do with encryption of random data, or 'increasing the speed of the Internet' by many times, it's a pretty good bet it's bogus. It's also a pretty good bet we'll read about it every couple of weeks for the next couple of years. :)
Sweet......are these galactic civilizations the anarchic oppressive Star Wars-type, or the unrealistic techno-communistic Star Trek type? And do we, as a species, stand to survive in these civilizations? I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords :)
Sweet! Someone is actually avoiding confusion (okay, not really true... a lot of people don't know those terms...). Someone is being explicit with what they mean in terms of amounts of data. I am so sick of Hard Drive manufacturers' (and everyone else that should be knowledgable on this kind of thing) lack of knowledge on this. And, yeah. In case you don't know what that guy was spouting with all those mebibytes and gibibytes, see here for a simple definition.
2) When you're at a university using Internet2, does it work through the same TCP/IP protocol? What I mean is, do you use a browser, and its transparent to the user whether you're on Internet2 or Internet1... that would be interesting, because then you could actually route between them. Does Internet2 use IPv6?
But cruz, you might say, what if they were looking at hate speech or something that isn't easily identifiable by someone just walking by the computer? Well, I say to that, that kind of stuff shouldn't be censored anyway. If it's text, it pretty much should be allowed to be viewed. (Okay, I know, 15 ACs will reply to this with good reasons why some text shouldn't be allowed to be viewed in a library... flame away...)
I can't see RMS complimenting anything, let alone his hippie software complementing the dispatching system run by the MAN! :)
I've seen a whole bunch of 'stolen credit card #' type stories on Slashdot lately... the thing is, we never hear about any repercussions of these thefts. Do the thieves ever use the stolen records in large quantities? Follow-up is good :). Any info people have, post it here (I'm thinking of, in response to the Amazon CC# thefts from a few weeks ago, etc.)
I wish hardware sites would talk about more interesting things: serial ATA, 10Gbps ethernet (yes you heard me right... that's what's next...), giant LCD screens (or plasma), 7.1 channel sound, not a graphics card that gives me a 3% edge on directX 9.0 games of which there AREN'T ANY. Okay, rant over :)
Much like alcohol;
AOL - both the problem
and the solution.
Now whether people would watch some weird geek's video blog is another story :)
Like bra-size taker, or beer taster, that _seems_ great, but actually isn't... yeah, right, eh? :)
Oh yeah, and you'll need to buy me a, uh, new Dell laptop too. Part of the challenge, you see. :)
Let's get this back on topic. Realistically, can you really hijack a plane using a laptop fuel cell? "Everybody down, or I'm gonna bust this cell open, let the methanol evaporate for 20 minutes, and then light it, making a 'pop' noise that may be quite loud!". I think not. Of course, that's not to say that overzealous security standards won't let them on anyway, but I don't think they're a realistic threat to airline safety.
Look at TV. The NTSC standard: invented in USA. Perfected in Europe as the PAL standard. PAL gives a better quality picture, and has much better error-handling (in the analog sense): a small signal error on NTSC gives chrominance errors (read: green looks red, etc.) while on PAL, I'm not exactly sure, but apparently it only gives luminance errors (meaning, it's a little too dark or light) - somebody with more knowledge could probably clear that up.
The cell phone. Analog cell phones first took off in USA, today USA is struggling to implement 3G while its relatively common in Europe / Asia (this also has somewhat to do with geography and population density, yes...)
Does this mean that the same thing is going to happen with the PC? The PC was basically invented in USA (or at least popularized here) - and what's expected to come next... that's right, Unification. I think the biggest thing to come out of the East or Europe is going to be unified devices. It's already started - Sony equipment all 'talks' to each other through their 'S-link' implementation of IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire). Even though LG (an American company, I believe) is pushing their Internet-aware devices, they're not selling well. I have a feeling that companies not in USA with less likelyhood of sticking to the legacy standards are going to come out with a unified home control system that will knock our socks off. Remember: you heard it here first :D .
Um, yes, because even if they can reduce this 150 MB file by, say, 8 megs, then if 100,000 people download it, that's 800 GB (using crappy hard-drive manufacturer base-10 definitions of GB because I'm too lazy right now to convert properly) of traffic they've just saved themselves. Impressive how it adds up when you're talking about popular downloads :)
Somehow I doubt this. Think about the absolutely most advanced encryption from 50 years ago you can think of. Don't you think we could break it today in about, oh, 10 seconds (including programmer time and coffee breaks)? Obviously, I'm not including One-time Pads in this equation, but that's okay, because we don't even use those for todays DRM. In 50 years, I have every confidence we'll have no trouble cracking todays' DRM-encrypted files.