What does that have to do with this? You can encrypt it with a one time pad if you want, and that still won't prevent anyone from modifying and redistributing copies.
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people start advocating "computer control" to stop cyber crime A better analogy would be when people start talking about kitchen knife control or baseball bat control. Do you see that happening?
The "encryption" and "protection" in a PDF is essentially worthless. They're little more than bits that can be set to tell the reader to prevent copy/paste or printing or whatever. It's only enough to stop the most clueless of people... and those people are unlikely to know how to modify and create a new PDF anyway.
You might be joking, but in case you're not.... you're surprised that when you tack on a innocuous word like "go" to "PC Operating System", you get a site related to the PC operating system that has 90% of the market share today instead of one that barely made a splash 20 years ago?
Exactly... the other day, I was thrust this knife into a guy's chest to see how far it would go. Mandatory prison time seems like such a knee-jerk reaction.
With the semiconductor industry though, fabricatoin costs, error rates etc. are very major factors. With time, they get better at lowering error rates, developing better fabrication technology and so on. This is unlike traditional manufacturing where the fabrication technology itself is not rapidly evolving anymore.
You're forgetting that when you're sending a probe to a distant planet, every kg costs millions of dollars, every instrument consumes power, every bit of complexity increases the chance of failure.
That's because until Cassini got there, they had no idea what the surface was like because of thick clouds. If Huygens had landed in the lake, it would have been blazingly obvious whether it's liquid or solid. Trying to determine that from orbit is an entirely different matter.
So maybe I was wrong in that finding *liquid* was not something they hadn't fully expected, but Cassini was never designed to determine whether any part of the surface was liquid or solid.
The whole point of GPUsort is to exploit the parallelism of the GPU... you certainly could implement it... hell you could implement it on a postscript printer... anything that is Turing-complete. But it won't be a valid comparison. What they have compared is their best-known algorithms for sorting on a GPU to what is probably the best general-purpose sorting algorithm on a CPU.
Finding lakes was not a part of the mission plan... it was a chance discovery. They can't possibly load it up with every instrument they might ever conceivably need.
they draw the conclusion that uploading == p2p == piracy No, they draw the conclusion that consistently uploading=running a server which violates their terms of service
Ok, look at is this way... by spending 10B euros on
ITER: Potentially solve the world's energy problems for a long time Windfarms: Produce enough energy to supply about 0.6% of the world's electricity demand.
10,000MW may seem like a lot, but according to the CIA World Factbook, the world consumed 13.8 quadrillion watt-hours in 2001, so the energy produced by the windfarms they're proposing would be a drop in the ocean.
Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
I don't know if you've heard, but people do die from accidents and such every now and then. About one person every 11 minutes from road accidents in the US alone, in fact. A lot of these people also have donated their bodies to medical and scientific research. Testing it on these people would not just be ethical but also quite legal.
rm -rf * shouldnt work unless your on root, and if you use root as your normal account, you are a friggen moron. This common platitude doesn't hold water. While you can't delete/usr, that's irrelevant because all the hard-to-replace files are in the user's home directory. The fact that your system remains stable and functional is little consolation if you've lost all your files.
The rest of your post exactly the point I was making... nobody's arguing that RAID is useless... just that it isn't an effective backup mechanism, and you need to supplement it with something else.
Well, in that case, in america you can't afford to furnish your home with high quality hand-crafted furniture in the US on that salary. You can in India.
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That's completely different, unless you live on an airplane
What does that have to do with this? You can encrypt it with a one time pad if you want, and that still won't prevent anyone from modifying and redistributing copies.
Really? How do you read it without a key then?
people start advocating "computer control" to stop cyber crime
A better analogy would be when people start talking about kitchen knife control or baseball bat control. Do you see that happening?
The "encryption" and "protection" in a PDF is essentially worthless. They're little more than bits that can be set to tell the reader to prevent copy/paste or printing or whatever. It's only enough to stop the most clueless of people... and those people are unlikely to know how to modify and create a new PDF anyway.
How is this funny? The parent's post is exactly on target. MS invited him... he didn't apply for the job.
You might be joking, but in case you're not.... you're surprised that when you tack on a innocuous word like "go" to "PC Operating System", you get a site related to the PC operating system that has 90% of the market share today instead of one that barely made a splash 20 years ago?
It costs money to convert existing systems
Exactly... the other day, I was thrust this knife into a guy's chest to see how far it would go. Mandatory prison time seems like such a knee-jerk reaction.
Only if you could prove that they knew that they were making a groundless report... that's very hard to to prove in this case.
With the semiconductor industry though, fabricatoin costs, error rates etc. are very major factors. With time, they get better at lowering error rates, developing better fabrication technology and so on. This is unlike traditional manufacturing where the fabrication technology itself is not rapidly evolving anymore.
You need to look up the term "research project" one of these days. Its depressing how short-sighted people have become.
You're forgetting that when you're sending a probe to a distant planet, every kg costs millions of dollars, every instrument consumes power, every bit of complexity increases the chance of failure.
That's because until Cassini got there, they had no idea what the surface was like because of thick clouds. If Huygens had landed in the lake, it would have been blazingly obvious whether it's liquid or solid. Trying to determine that from orbit is an entirely different matter.
So maybe I was wrong in that finding *liquid* was not something they hadn't fully expected, but Cassini was never designed to determine whether any part of the surface was liquid or solid.
The whole point of GPUsort is to exploit the parallelism of the GPU... you certainly could implement it... hell you could implement it on a postscript printer... anything that is Turing-complete. But it won't be a valid comparison. What they have compared is their best-known algorithms for sorting on a GPU to what is probably the best general-purpose sorting algorithm on a CPU.
Finding lakes was not a part of the mission plan... it was a chance discovery. They can't possibly load it up with every instrument they might ever conceivably need.
It's called How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, but thanks for playing,
they draw the conclusion that uploading == p2p == piracy
No, they draw the conclusion that consistently uploading=running a server which violates their terms of service
Ok, look at is this way... by spending 10B euros on
ITER: Potentially solve the world's energy problems for a long time
Windfarms: Produce enough energy to supply about 0.6% of the world's electricity demand.
10,000MW may seem like a lot, but according to the CIA World Factbook, the world consumed 13.8 quadrillion watt-hours in 2001, so the energy produced by the windfarms they're proposing would be a drop in the ocean.
Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
I don't know if you've heard, but people do die from accidents and such every now and then. About one person every 11 minutes from road accidents in the US alone, in fact. A lot of these people also have donated their bodies to medical and scientific research. Testing it on these people would not just be ethical but also quite legal.
rm -rf * shouldnt work unless your on root, and if you use root as your normal account, you are a friggen moron. /usr, that's irrelevant because all the hard-to-replace files are in the user's home directory. The fact that your system remains stable and functional is little consolation if you've lost all your files.
This common platitude doesn't hold water. While you can't delete
The rest of your post exactly the point I was making... nobody's arguing that RAID is useless... just that it isn't an effective backup mechanism, and you need to supplement it with something else.
What is wrong with RAID?
rm -rf *
Have you looked at international shipping prices for heavy objects lately?
Estopped is not a spelling mistake, it's a legal term.
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Well, in that case, in america you can't afford to furnish your home with high quality hand-crafted furniture in the US on that salary. You can in India.