You could aways encode messages in your DNA.
Or even more sophisticated: you could encode your DNA in such a way that the message shows up as a tatoo on the buttoms of your descendants.
You cannot block the EMP of a nuclear explosion.
For blocking EMP you need a Faradays cage to trap incoming electromagnetic waves. However, the holes of the cage must be small enough to block the waves from getting in. That means that the holes can have at most one half of the wavelength in size. But the wavelength of electromagnetic waves depends on the energy. So with a nuclear (or even nuclear fission) blast you would have extremely low wavelengths in the gamma range. That means that your cage can have only very small holes. But for the gamma range this means that even the distance between atoms is too big - you can't just block them. That's why all these military stations are so deep in the earth: they don't aim to block gamma rays, they just want to get away from them to decrease the incoming energy (=less harmful). This works because you have cubic decay of the radiation intensity. Note that there is still no full protection: after WW III all these military bunkers would be full of cancer ridden mutants away.
The only working way to protect equipment from nuclear blasts would be to increase the wavelength. This could be e.g. done by exploiting the Doppler effect. That means that you would have to accelerate your equipement away from the radiation source. While this is problematic of Earth, you could perhaps do this in space.
BeOS is a failed system. Point.
BeOS tried to penetrate a saturated OS market and of course didn't succeed.
Why should it succeed as a free system ?
The market is still saturated. Indeed the saturation increases with the upcoming of decent Linux GUI like KDE.
And no Linux is no counterexample.
Linux did succeed because there was a huge gap on the market: professional Unix system where fucking expensive, *BSD was fucked by lawsuits and Windows was still fuckingly in its infancy.
Not to mention Hurd.
This all seems like a huge, albeit well formatted waste of time.
LOTR III will get some stupid Visual Effects or Best Soundtrack or Biggest Boobs Oscar nobody cares about and the main prices go to generic, brainless, Disney-esque Hollywood shit like Jerkinator III, Green Dork or Find Goatse.
This has happened to a very large number of industries and it's constantly growing. People in the US would be amazed if they knew how much stuff is imported these days - that's the reason for the huge trade deficit. E.g. 85 percent of all used perservatives in the US are imported and 60 percent come even from different continents.
No this comment ain't gonna to be the standard open standards/ open source bashing. The problem lies in a totally different region: We want everything to be cheap. Extremely cheap. And even cheaper. As soon as a manufacturer starts demanding money for US-made quality people being to bitch about high prices and coporate greed. Nobody is paying a fucking dime more just because it's US-made. Why should we do ? Slave child-workers will to it cheaply in Tibet or Taiwan. Oh, and evil company outsources my job to India, these evil bastards, they are just in for the money, these bloodsuckers !
Take e.g. Apple. Saving US jobs by US goods in the US. But when they charge prices to substain these US jobs everybody whines about teh evil Steve Jobs. Just look at the frontpage and the "iPod battery costs money= TEH EVIL" stories. And this bigotry doesn't even rule Slashdot, it rules the whole country and makes it on the frontpages of NY Times and Newsweek.
was a typical social engineering story.
Some hacker wanted to haxor some local republican servers. But these things turn out well secured, so he needed some physical access to the boxes. So he claimed to be a fundamentalist protestant (well, he didn't put it this way obviously) and asked the local repubs for some help for anti-abortion protests. He convinced the people to paint transparents in the server room. Ownage occured mysteriously. Well, not so mysteriously, 'cos the FBI got him in the end.
To save his honour, it must be said that he indeed turned up at the anti-abortion protest, even throwing some tomatoes.
Well, he was a crazy Nader follower. Quite funny , when you think about it - the hacker helped in the repubs due to the bad press in the end. And even Nader helped Bush by sucking votes away from Gore. These ecos can be very strange some times.
If don't specialize in non-commutative geometry, gauge and QF theory or homology of perverse sheaves now, then you will be sooo fucked in some years. I mean every jerk can do FEM, non-smooth optimization, commutative or Riemannian geometry these days. Have I mentioned that Hilbert spaces are trivial ? And universities everywhere are outsourcing their researches on Frenet spaces to Columbia already !
Nonsense FUD !
The alpha version MYSQL 4.0 is rock stable - it only crashes every two hours on our production systems.
Furthermore: if you fear data corruption then you should do more backups.
Clarke wants to save his face, but it's well known in certain circles that freenet doesn't provide 100% anonymity if the attacker has enough resources, e.g. a large ISP or the gov.
It takes some time, but you can determine the IP and stored data of a user.
But I don't think that this is so bad, in free societies such anonymizer tools are often abused by criminals, spammers and perverts and in oppressive societies the use of the tool gets you in prison anyway. The Chinese gov is not so stupid to get caught by the "hahaha - my data was encrypted, you can't prove anything"-argument.
So it's really no loss there.
I don't really see the point with these 3D displays.
There is a very large number of different projections of 3 dimensional Riemannian space to flat 2D Euclidian space. Using clever parametrisations these projections can suited to every users needs. Further more unlike this 3D-3D projection these dimension lowering projections have less computional complexity, thus requiring less resources.
Even more such projections are known from arbitrary high dimensional spaces to 2D, enabling experts to reconstruct the original pictures easily in their minds.
However for projections from nD to mD with n>5 and m>2 the very extistence of such projections is unknown and noboby has a clue how to cumpute them.
So I don't see the point in producing a 3D display where 2D would be sufficent, besides the coolness factor. But for coolness: these thing are considered to be business machines.
And the same is true for drugs and a host of other things sold overseas. Have the US/Japan/Europe make the real profit and subsidize low-margin (but not unprofitable) Third World markets. Use legislation to enforce this model. Profit!!
I think you got the wrong example. Drugs are produced in third world countries like Afghanistan or Columbia and sold in US/Japan/Europe. And legislation is used prevent this model.
I think the fast development of larger and larger data storage containers is actually a very bad thing for society. It causes much more problems than it creates benefits. Let me list some of the basic problems:
Increased storage capacity lead to a decrease of data quality which renders aquired data in the long term basically useless. You might have 100s of pentabytes of data, you'll never have the time and processing power to analyse it or make any sensible use of it.
Increased storage capacity lead automatically to the storage of more data. The storage limits are just reached much faster and you'll be basically again stuck at the storage limits. But this time point 1. kicks in and you have more storage units but much less use for it.
The increased data storage increases the propability of the violation of personal and cooperate privacy by goverment or other 3rd parties. Combined with the automatic effect of point 2. this can lead to an Orwellian society if high storage adaption if faster than the adaption of society - even if the political leaders don't aim for it initially.
Increased data storage makes backup and other storage presevering operation more expensive. This results in lower preserving operations per important data units which results in high loss propabilities. I think I don't have to point out the further consequences.
At the whole the whole dedication to increasing data storage is in fact a bad thing. Instead we should concentrate our economical forces the enhance data quality which is a more important and harder task. Note further that data storage and data care is basically a low-skilled and personal intensive operation. Such operations can be easily outsourced by high capacity communications channels like the internet to developing countries like India, China or Poland.
These techniques have no future in high wage countries like US, Japan or Europe. So a dedication the high-skilled data quality enhanching would make much more sense from an economical point of view.
the ecofundamentalists will shut this project down because these invisible rays interfere with the morphic field of their crystal beads and their carrots.
-the "Merovingians" were a line of kings in Southern France before the Middle Ages who believed themselves to be direct descendants of Jesus Christ. the Catholic Church wiped them out along with the Cathars, Gnostics and the Templars.
Bullshit. The Merovingians where the first line of kings around 700-850 (?) a.C. in the Franconian kingdom. They never believed themselves to be descendeants of Jesus: this is just an old conspiracy theory. And they where thrown down by their counsellors because they were failing as they duty as kings: they weren't able to fight the Arab attacks on the Franconian kingdom they counsellor, Karl Martell, hab to do this in 832. When it came apparent they they couldn't reign the the Franconian kingdom decently, they're counsellors asked the pope to make on of the Pippin, grandson of Karl Martell, king, which indeed he did. This wasn't about religion, this was about power and the benfit of the country. The last Merovingian king was put in a monastry for the rest of his life. The new kings were the famous line of Karolingians which layed to foundations of France and Germany.
Please don't post rubbish here at slashdot about things you don't know. I don't post here anecdotes about US civil wars, too.
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You could aways encode messages in your DNA.
Or even more sophisticated: you could encode your DNA in such a way that the message shows up as a tatoo on the buttoms of your descendants.
You cannot block the EMP of a nuclear explosion.
For blocking EMP you need a Faradays cage to trap incoming electromagnetic waves. However, the holes of the cage must be small enough to block the waves from getting in. That means that the holes can have at most one half of the wavelength in size. But the wavelength of electromagnetic waves depends on the energy. So with a nuclear (or even nuclear fission) blast you would have extremely low wavelengths in the gamma range. That means that your cage can have only very small holes. But for the gamma range this means that even the distance between atoms is too big - you can't just block them. That's why all these military stations are so deep in the earth: they don't aim to block gamma rays, they just want to get away from them to decrease the incoming energy (=less harmful). This works because you have cubic decay of the radiation intensity. Note that there is still no full protection: after WW III all these military bunkers would be full of cancer ridden mutants away.
The only working way to protect equipment from nuclear blasts would be to increase the wavelength. This could be e.g. done by exploiting the Doppler effect. That means that you would have to accelerate your equipement away from the radiation source. While this is problematic of Earth, you could perhaps do this in space.
No, it doesn't prove they are crazy, they just claim to own a mortuary.
And easy to program, too !
BeOS tried to penetrate a saturated OS market and of course didn't succeed.
Why should it succeed as a free system ?
The market is still saturated. Indeed the saturation increases with the upcoming of decent Linux GUI like KDE.
And no Linux is no counterexample.
Linux did succeed because there was a huge gap on the market: professional Unix system where fucking expensive, *BSD was fucked by lawsuits and Windows was still fuckingly in its infancy. Not to mention Hurd.
This all seems like a huge, albeit well formatted waste of time.
LOTR III will get some stupid Visual Effects or Best Soundtrack or Biggest Boobs Oscar nobody cares about and the main prices go to generic, brainless, Disney-esque Hollywood shit like Jerkinator III, Green Dork or Find Goatse.
Yes, India might care more about cyberspace. But the US cares more about morale.
Guess who is going to have more benefits in the long run ?
This has happened to a very large number of industries and it's constantly growing. People in the US would be amazed if they knew how much stuff is imported these days - that's the reason for the huge trade deficit. E.g. 85 percent of all used perservatives in the US are imported and 60 percent come even from different continents.
In particular this is a great opportunity for India where they can bring about social change in our country.
We want everything to be cheap. Extremely cheap. And even cheaper. As soon as a manufacturer starts demanding money for US-made quality people being to bitch about high prices and coporate greed. Nobody is paying a fucking dime more just because it's US-made. Why should we do ? Slave child-workers will to it cheaply in Tibet or Taiwan. Oh, and evil company outsources my job to India, these evil bastards, they are just in for the money, these bloodsuckers !
Take e.g. Apple. Saving US jobs by US goods in the US. But when they charge prices to substain these US jobs everybody whines about teh evil Steve Jobs. Just look at the frontpage and the "iPod battery costs money= TEH EVIL" stories. And this bigotry doesn't even rule Slashdot, it rules the whole country and makes it on the frontpages of NY Times and Newsweek.
Outsourcing justs means: we get what we pay for.
was a typical social engineering story.
Some hacker wanted to haxor some local republican servers. But these things turn out well secured, so he needed some physical access to the boxes. So he claimed to be a fundamentalist protestant (well, he didn't put it this way obviously) and asked the local repubs for some help for anti-abortion protests. He convinced the people to paint transparents in the server room. Ownage occured mysteriously. Well, not so mysteriously, 'cos the FBI got him in the end.
To save his honour, it must be said that he indeed turned up at the anti-abortion protest, even throwing some tomatoes.
Well, he was a crazy Nader follower. Quite funny , when you think about it - the hacker helped in the repubs due to the bad press in the end. And even Nader helped Bush by sucking votes away from Gore. These ecos can be very strange some times.
If don't specialize in non-commutative geometry, gauge and QF theory or homology of perverse sheaves now, then you will be sooo fucked in some years. I mean every jerk can do FEM, non-smooth optimization, commutative or Riemannian geometry these days. Have I mentioned that Hilbert spaces are trivial ? And universities everywhere are outsourcing their researches on Frenet spaces to Columbia already !
They just found him in some hole in Iraq.
Nonsense FUD !
The alpha version MYSQL 4.0 is rock stable - it only crashes every two hours on our production systems.
Furthermore: if you fear data corruption then you should do more backups.
Quantum computing will be ready for the desktop in 2050, so you'll have to wait a little for Doom 3.
Blame outsourcing on IT admins, not on Bush.
Clarke wants to save his face, but it's well known in certain circles that freenet doesn't provide 100% anonymity if the attacker has enough resources, e.g. a large ISP or the gov.
It takes some time, but you can determine the IP and stored data of a user.
But I don't think that this is so bad, in free societies such anonymizer tools are often abused by criminals, spammers and perverts and in oppressive societies the use of the tool gets you in prison anyway. The Chinese gov is not so stupid to get caught by the "hahaha - my data was encrypted, you can't prove anything"-argument.
So it's really no loss there.
There is a very large number of different projections of 3 dimensional Riemannian space to flat 2D Euclidian space. Using clever parametrisations these projections can suited to every users needs. Further more unlike this 3D-3D projection these dimension lowering projections have less computional complexity, thus requiring less resources.
Even more such projections are known from arbitrary high dimensional spaces to 2D, enabling experts to reconstruct the original pictures easily in their minds.
However for projections from nD to mD with n>5 and m>2 the very extistence of such projections is unknown and noboby has a clue how to cumpute them.
So I don't see the point in producing a 3D display where 2D would be sufficent, besides the coolness factor. But for coolness: these thing are considered to be business machines.
I think you got the wrong example. Drugs are produced in third world countries like Afghanistan or Columbia and sold in US/Japan/Europe. And legislation is used prevent this model.
I suspect it is impossible to find a buyer who speaks Chinese to play the game.
- Increased storage capacity lead to a decrease of data quality which renders aquired data in the long term basically useless. You might have 100s of pentabytes of data, you'll never have the time and processing power to analyse it or make any sensible use of it.
- Increased storage capacity lead automatically to the storage of more data. The storage limits are just reached much faster and you'll be basically again stuck at the storage limits. But this time point 1. kicks in and you have more storage units but much less use for it.
- The increased data storage increases the propability of the violation of personal and cooperate privacy by goverment or other 3rd parties. Combined with the automatic effect of point 2. this can lead to an Orwellian society if high storage adaption if faster than the adaption of society - even if the political leaders don't aim for it initially.
- Increased data storage makes backup and other storage presevering operation more expensive. This results in lower preserving operations per important data units which results in high loss propabilities. I think I don't have to point out the further consequences.
At the whole the whole dedication to increasing data storage is in fact a bad thing. Instead we should concentrate our economical forces the enhance data quality which is a more important and harder task. Note further that data storage and data care is basically a low-skilled and personal intensive operation. Such operations can be easily outsourced by high capacity communications channels like the internet to developing countries like India, China or Poland. These techniques have no future in high wage countries like US, Japan or Europe. So a dedication the high-skilled data quality enhanching would make much more sense from an economical point of view.>[Image of a small roadworker digging a hole]
Doesn't this count as ASCII-goatse ?
the ecofundamentalists will shut this project down because these invisible rays interfere with the morphic field of their crystal beads and their carrots.
Bullshit. The Merovingians where the first line of kings around 700-850 (?) a.C. in the Franconian kingdom. They never believed themselves to be descendeants of Jesus: this is just an old conspiracy theory. And they where thrown down by their counsellors because they were failing as they duty as kings: they weren't able to fight the Arab attacks on the Franconian kingdom they counsellor, Karl Martell, hab to do this in 832. When it came apparent they they couldn't reign the the Franconian kingdom decently, they're counsellors asked the pope to make on of the Pippin, grandson of Karl Martell, king, which indeed he did. This wasn't about religion, this was about power and the benfit of the country. The last Merovingian king was put in a monastry for the rest of his life. The new kings were the famous line of Karolingians which layed to foundations of France and Germany.
Please don't post rubbish here at slashdot about things you don't know. I don't post here anecdotes about US civil wars, too.
The US military moved to Iraq, too.
And what is the result ?