This is truly a triumph of modern science and unfortunately we do not dream big like this anymore. We are limited to our own backyard. The moon, Mars, etc. Such a shame.
If the "we" in question is NASA, your assertion is true.
However, if the "we" denotes the human race, nope, the dream is still on, and there are still people working towards achieving even greater goals.
People in Brazil, in Japan, in India, in China are working on projects that may take us (and the "us" here means human race) further.
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
Sad, but very, very true !
I too, am about to abandon this site.
Slashdot has become more and more irrelevant.
I came to Slashdot because I got to learn so many NEW and USEFUL stuffs.
*grabs popcorn* I'm gonna enjoy watching this guy roast.
My popcorn is ready.
I too enjoy watching this guy roast. But still, this "news" has nothing to do with technology nor anything that interests the true geek community - which Slashdot serves.
A better summary would be something like "Anthropologist studies nerds, finds that they have "an interesting culture" and a clear interest in civil liberties issues."
That summary would be wrong, for a very simple reason:
Not all the hackers live within the same "culture.
Season veterans who have spent literally *DECADES completely immersed in the hacker scene still dare not make any sweeping declaration about the nature of the hacker world.
And here we have, a person who only spent 3 fricking years (as she put it "researching") comes out with her "immense knowledge" of the hacker subculture.
My own experience told me that, while hackers in general do share "common traits", hackers from one community differ from hackers from another community, in term of way of thought, habits, etc.
The term "community" means a lot as well - as the word not only define geographic difference, but also the different fields (shared interests) the hackers are working on.
I still remember when the movie scene started to take interest in hackerism they had actors playing stereotypical thick-glassed, talkative, soprano-toned hackers, and they all come with lousy hairdo - As if we are like that.
I've known some of the greatest hackers and from the outside they look normal - just fucking absolutely normal.
* 1. exploitation of homeless/unemployed people and putting them in harm's way ?
* 2. drivers getting into accident due to the distraction by the appearance of homeless/unemployed/unkempt people at busy traffic intersections?
* 3. little girls in cars got spooked by homeless/unemployed/unkempt people taking pictures of them?
If your answer is "YES" to all of the above questions, then, sure, go ahead, start distributing digital cameras to homeless/unemployed people and putting them in the middle of busy traffic intersections.
So you wait until you are sure that everyone does not know the answer and then you show everyone just how smart you are?
Nope. But then, reading your comment I know that you too, are from the "Doh!" category.
How would you feel if you asked a question to a roomful of people and nobody even bother to have the courtesy to answer??
I answer simply because I do not want to disappoint the person (whether it be a teacher, a lecturer, or someone genuinely looking for a right answer) who asked that particular question.
... Intel used to be nimble --- and I'm talking about the time of 8088/8086 up to 80386/80387.
When Pentium came to market, Intel were so successful that most of its competitors just got out of the game, and allowed Intel to get bigger and bigger until they became the 800lb gorilla.
What Intel is facing is a market that's totally different from what it had faced for the past 30 years - embedded processor from ARM.
Intel's Atom processors was their reply to ARM and we all know how successful Atom turned out to be.
As if it's not enough, Intel is again shooting its own feet.
Intel is gambling with its own mainstream CPU - We have seen what they did to their Ivy Bridge, which is not that impressive as compared to the previous Sandy Bridge platform.
And their next gen CPU, the Haswell - Intel is actually trying to move Haswell to the direction of ARM - by making them "power saving".
What Intel really needs is to pursue a course up the curve - by making their processor much more powerful, not by making them weaker (albeit power saving).
Intel needs to come up with chips that have more cores which runs at much higher speed.
... and this is the one thing that is so irritating.
Ms. Zoà Keating things that because people listen to her song she has the right to SPAM her listeners with announcement of new album / new gig / new whatever and so on.
Granted, a portion of her listeners would want to know everything she does, but a larger portion do not.
And it is not right for an artist to bug the listeners, whether they are paid listeners, or not.
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This is truly a triumph of modern science and unfortunately we do not dream big like this anymore. We are limited to our own backyard. The moon, Mars, etc. Such a shame.
If the "we" in question is NASA, your assertion is true.
However, if the "we" denotes the human race, nope, the dream is still on, and there are still people working towards achieving even greater goals.
People in Brazil, in Japan, in India, in China are working on projects that may take us (and the "us" here means human race) further.
I have that.
Can you lend me a hammer?
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
Sad, but very, very true !
I too, am about to abandon this site.
Slashdot has become more and more irrelevant.
I came to Slashdot because I got to learn so many NEW and USEFUL stuffs.
No more.
How can it be a disease?
Many geeks are very proud of their special skills which, co-incidentally, fit the description of the Asperger syndrome.
*grabs popcorn* I'm gonna enjoy watching this guy roast.
My popcorn is ready.
I too enjoy watching this guy roast. But still, this "news" has nothing to do with technology nor anything that interests the true geek community - which Slashdot serves.
Why is Slashdot carrying a piece about an alleged murder case?
It has nothing to do with technology and the murder weapon ain't high tech either.
Can't Slashdot make up its mind what it wants to be?
Just because it's McAfee it must be "newsworthy" for Slashdot?
I dunno.
The Slashdot I used to visit wasn't like this.
...while the assembly was sone in a facility in Nevada...Las Alamos is located in New Mexico.
Question: Is it legal to transport radioactive material across state-line?
Umm...
Please excuse this dense-head ...
What's the right answer??
... about Invisigoth (Esther Nairn) in the X-Files episode "Kill Switch" you'll never know how long I wanted to be that girl!
Gotta admit I had a crush on that character as well !!
Unfortunately her stint on X-Files was too short to made any lasting effect.
I will never forget that mustache... The horror!
Uggggh!!
And I bet you never seen any "movie hacker" with such horror, or do you?
There are three periods in an ellipsis. Three.
Lemme see ... 28days X 3 ... an ellipsis is equal to 84 days?
A better summary would be something like "Anthropologist studies nerds, finds that they have "an interesting culture" and a clear interest in civil liberties issues."
That summary would be wrong, for a very simple reason:
Not all the hackers live within the same "culture.
Season veterans who have spent literally * DECADES completely immersed in the hacker scene still dare not make any sweeping declaration about the nature of the hacker world.
And here we have, a person who only spent 3 fricking years (as she put it "researching") comes out with her "immense knowledge" of the hacker subculture.
My own experience told me that, while hackers in general do share "common traits", hackers from one community differ from hackers from another community, in term of way of thought, habits, etc.
The term "community" means a lot as well - as the word not only define geographic difference, but also the different fields (shared interests) the hackers are working on.
I still remember when the movie scene started to take interest in hackerism they had actors playing stereotypical thick-glassed, talkative, soprano-toned hackers, and they all come with lousy hairdo - As if we are like that.
I've known some of the greatest hackers and from the outside they look normal - just fucking absolutely normal.
When I looked at the pictures I saw fractals.
Very very complex fractals.
Hopefully one day some brainy guy can come out with a 3D fractal program that can simulate this absolute wonder.
In Silicon valley, when you reached the age of 40 you supposed to have at least 50 millions dollars under you name.
The role that people 40 and above play in Silicon Valley is that of the Angel Investor.
If you are over 40 and still looking for opportunity to toil through the night hacking away - man, you do not belong in the Valley.
I left that place when I was 32 - after I sold my creations (plural) there to the highest bidders
...regarding ...
* 1. exploitation of homeless/unemployed people and putting them in harm's way ?
* 2. drivers getting into accident due to the distraction by the appearance of homeless/unemployed/unkempt people at busy traffic intersections?
* 3. little girls in cars got spooked by homeless/unemployed/unkempt people taking pictures of them?
If your answer is "YES" to all of the above questions, then, sure, go ahead, start distributing digital cameras to homeless/unemployed people and putting them in the middle of busy traffic intersections.
Try UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Hongkong, Singapore ...
You think lawyers in countries other than the good ol' US of A just sit there all day and do nothing?
I gotta admit that I'm not familiar with photonic quantum cryptography.
As far as I know, photonics means light, and light does reflect - and could even possibly be diverted (from one beam and splits it into two)
Can the MIM (man in the middle) spit a beam into two, letting the "original" beam to travel to whoever the recipient while working on the "branch"?
Would that approach cause a "noticeable disruption"?
In case you never heard of Bulimia - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001381/ - it's a (mental) illness that causes the sufferers to go through episodes of binge eating and then purging.
The "Glass" may help on dieting but that might harm people with bulimic problem.
I'm curious as to how many of you are using the XiaoMi phones
As far as I know the XiaoMi only sells their phones in PRC - and even inside PRC their phones are in short supply
Not saying that they shouldn't release their MIUI code .... but if one does not have XiaoMi phones, MIUI won't do any good at all
will it likely break the customer's site, sure it will, but it will also jolt them into action
Yep, it sure will jolt them into action ... in court
It would be extremely foolish to forget that we do live in a sue-happy world
Why would the newer versions be less capable?
New versions are all fine except for the problem of BLOAT
So you wait until you are sure that everyone does not know the answer and then you show everyone just how smart you are?
Nope. But then, reading your comment I know that you too, are from the "Doh!" category.
.... fat fucking chance !!
How would you feel if you asked a question to a roomful of people and nobody even bother to have the courtesy to answer??
I answer simply because I do not want to disappoint the person (whether it be a teacher, a lecturer, or someone genuinely looking for a right answer) who asked that particular question.
At least I got the courtesy.
For you?
Nah
... Intel used to be nimble --- and I'm talking about the time of 8088/8086 up to 80386/80387.
When Pentium came to market, Intel were so successful that most of its competitors just got out of the game, and allowed Intel to get bigger and bigger until they became the 800lb gorilla.
What Intel is facing is a market that's totally different from what it had faced for the past 30 years - embedded processor from ARM.
Intel's Atom processors was their reply to ARM and we all know how successful Atom turned out to be.
As if it's not enough, Intel is again shooting its own feet.
Intel is gambling with its own mainstream CPU - We have seen what they did to their Ivy Bridge, which is not that impressive as compared to the previous Sandy Bridge platform.
And their next gen CPU, the Haswell - Intel is actually trying to move Haswell to the direction of ARM - by making them "power saving".
What Intel really needs is to pursue a course up the curve - by making their processor much more powerful, not by making them weaker (albeit power saving).
Intel needs to come up with chips that have more cores which runs at much higher speed.
The real threat to Intel is not from ARM.
The real threat to Intel is from Nvidia / ATI.
... and this is the one thing that is so irritating.
Ms. Zoà Keating things that because people listen to her song she has the right to SPAM her listeners with announcement of new album / new gig / new whatever and so on.
Granted, a portion of her listeners would want to know everything she does, but a larger portion do not.
And it is not right for an artist to bug the listeners, whether they are paid listeners, or not.