On Windows, even the Administrator account (which is the level that lots of people log in to) is not really root access. The Local System account is comparable to root. The Administrator has control over all user-controllable parts of the OS but there are parts that are not user-controllable.
Yeah, I understood what you were trying to say. It's just that scalars are by definition directionless. Your literary meaning was well-taken. The mathematical representation of your point was just a little skewed, that's all.;) (Pun intended.)
(Now somebody will come and tell me "You can't have skew points, and what is it skew to anyway? Don't you know the first thing about geometry?")
Besides, those sonic charges in Attack of the Clones had THE COOLEST SOUND EFFECTS. Everyone loved 'em.
I liked that sound, but I think part of the coolness of it was that there WAS complete silence while the thing blew up -- it was only after a moment (the amount of time it would take for the sound to travel to the viewer, if sound could travel in a vacuum just as in air) that the sound came. It made it at least _more_ realistic.:)
Do you feel software publishers should have the right to peer into users data, if their software suspects foul play on the machine, or should it do the easy and intelligent thing and just stop working?
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That's a very loaded question. I don't purport that Slashdot needs to be impartial (like a good newspaper) or anything. But if opening questions are supposed to foster discussion and debate, shouldn't they allow two sides to enter the discussion ground on equal terms?
I believe in privacy of data, and I usually agree with a good deal of what is said in these forums, but I'm not so zealous that I insist on absolute public anonymity (like some people who often post in these privacy-related topics). My view is unpopular, I know. But it seems like the system here is sometimes designed to (very subtly) push a certain agenda. And that's the editors' prerogative, I suppose, but I can't help but wonder if Slashdot would attract a slightly different crowd (and be somewhat more enjoyable to ME, at least) if it were more focused on expansion of awareness of other people's views than on railing on the same issues again and again with few new ideas ever finding a respected place in the discussion.
That said, I DO agree in this case with the suggested opinion, but I still would like to hear what others might have to say.
But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
This, semantically, is the same as saying "We rarely or never misplace our suspicion."
... light is able to travel away from the star surface - just not past the event horizon.
Actually, there's no reason why light couldn't pass the "event horizon." It's just that light emitted from within the event horizon doesn't have enough energy to completely escape the black hole.
Think about it -- the event horizon is the surface of the sphere inside which the escape speed is greater than the speed of light. So nothing from inside can completely escape the black hole's gravity unless it's going faster than that.
As an analogy from here on Earth, there's a sphere (say 10 feet above sea level) inside of which the escape velocity is greater than (about) 7 miles/second. That doesn't mean you have to throw something faster than that just to get it past the surface of the sphere! It just means that you have to throw it faster than that for it to escape the earth's gravity well ENTIRELY. There's no reason that light couldn't be emitted from deep within a large black hole but still make it very far past the "horizon." It would just be extremely red-shifted.
Of course, if you accept the model that space itself ENDS at the event horizon, then nothing could be emitted from inside it anyway, because there's nothing there. (Not even nothing.:) )
That model, however, is flawed. Or at least, is incomplete. It cannot explain what happens when an object FIRST achieves high enough density to become a black hole.
This isn't a condensed history! It's a two page paper on the difference between two IBM keyboards, and a little commentary on why he likes the old keyboards better. Oh, plus two paragraphs on why the qwerty and dvorak keyboards were invented.
Which is BS, by the way. It wasn't to avoid jamming the keys by slowing the typist down, but by making sure the commonly-used key levers weren't close enough to each other to jam. And I think that the dvorak layout was designed to put the most commonly-used keys right under the fingertips, not just within reach of the "strongest fingers." Geez, like you need really STRONG fingers to type faster.
I have no problem with talking all you like about the differences between keyboards and why you prefer one over the other. Reminiscing is fun sometimes. But don't tout it as a "condensed history of the keyboard." Just call it "One guy's ideas about keyboards."
He'd better be a hell of a lot more descriptive than "Cold. Red. Dusty"
"They shouldn't have sent a scientist; they should have sent a poet!"
- Somebody or other (Jodie Foster?) in the movie Contact
(And possibly one of the only things I liked about the movie.) (And I probably don't remember it very accurately; a real Contact fan could correct the quote, I'm sure.)
I'm going to name my band "Quark-Gluon Plasma"... It's much cooler than "Bose-Einstein Condensate"
?!?!?
Let's see,.000 000 003 degrees Kelvin for the Bose-Einstein Condensate vs. "more than 300 million times the surface temperature of the sun" (From the article) for this stuff.
I think you've got "much cooler" and "MUCH HOTTER" mixed up.
Eavesdropping 'must be undetectable,' and multiple police agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one another.
So what happens when a black hat gets in?
Answer: a completely open router that acts like none of his packets have the "evil bit" set.
Really, this is starting to worry me. If it's all undetectable, and is built in, how is this different from the telescreens in 1984?
Big Brother is reading your packets!
The process involves resonant Raman transitions between Zeeman split spin states. In the experiments, the signature of entanglement involving m electrons is the detection of the mth-harmonic of the fundamental Zeeman frequency in the differential reflectivity data.
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It doesn't mean that your access level isn't high enough, it means that you're attempting an illegal operation.
such as root access for all users
On Windows, even the Administrator account (which is the level that lots of people log in to) is not really root access. The Local System account is comparable to root. The Administrator has control over all user-controllable parts of the OS but there are parts that are not user-controllable.
Congratulations to simoniker, poster of the most inanely paranoid comment I have ever read here on slashdot. And that's saying something.
Here's the registration-required link, shamefully omitted from the original post. (For all you anti-privacy zealots)
Yeah, it plugs straight into the wall socket -- no need for a power cord to recharge it!
Where's your imagination? ;)
(Now somebody will come and tell me "You can't have skew points, and what is it skew to anyway? Don't you know the first thing about geometry?")
Would you mind clarifying how that works?
I liked that sound, but I think part of the coolness of it was that there WAS complete silence while the thing blew up -- it was only after a moment (the amount of time it would take for the sound to travel to the viewer, if sound could travel in a vacuum just as in air) that the sound came. It made it at least _more_ realistic. :)
<rant>
That's a very loaded question. I don't purport that Slashdot needs to be impartial (like a good newspaper) or anything. But if opening questions are supposed to foster discussion and debate, shouldn't they allow two sides to enter the discussion ground on equal terms?
I believe in privacy of data, and I usually agree with a good deal of what is said in these forums, but I'm not so zealous that I insist on absolute public anonymity (like some people who often post in these privacy-related topics). My view is unpopular, I know. But it seems like the system here is sometimes designed to (very subtly) push a certain agenda. And that's the editors' prerogative, I suppose, but I can't help but wonder if Slashdot would attract a slightly different crowd (and be somewhat more enjoyable to ME, at least) if it were more focused on expansion of awareness of other people's views than on railing on the same issues again and again with few new ideas ever finding a respected place in the discussion.
That said, I DO agree in this case with the suggested opinion, but I still would like to hear what others might have to say.
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This, semantically, is the same as saying "We rarely or never misplace our suspicion."
How self-righteous is that?
Yeah, like about 10-15 seconds LESS than 10-15 seconds.
An attosecond is 10^-18s. Your description, while perfectly accurate, could still be accurate if it were 19 orders of magnitude smaller. :)
Actually, there's no reason why light couldn't pass the "event horizon." It's just that light emitted from within the event horizon doesn't have enough energy to completely escape the black hole.
Think about it -- the event horizon is the surface of the sphere inside which the escape speed is greater than the speed of light. So nothing from inside can completely escape the black hole's gravity unless it's going faster than that.
As an analogy from here on Earth, there's a sphere (say 10 feet above sea level) inside of which the escape velocity is greater than (about) 7 miles/second. That doesn't mean you have to throw something faster than that just to get it past the surface of the sphere! It just means that you have to throw it faster than that for it to escape the earth's gravity well ENTIRELY. There's no reason that light couldn't be emitted from deep within a large black hole but still make it very far past the "horizon." It would just be extremely red-shifted.
Of course, if you accept the model that space itself ENDS at the event horizon, then nothing could be emitted from inside it anyway, because there's nothing there. (Not even nothing. :) )
That model, however, is flawed. Or at least, is incomplete. It cannot explain what happens when an object FIRST achieves high enough density to become a black hole.
By definition, history is comprised solely of OLD information.
Which is BS, by the way. It wasn't to avoid jamming the keys by slowing the typist down, but by making sure the commonly-used key levers weren't close enough to each other to jam. And I think that the dvorak layout was designed to put the most commonly-used keys right under the fingertips, not just within reach of the "strongest fingers." Geez, like you need really STRONG fingers to type faster.
I have no problem with talking all you like about the differences between keyboards and why you prefer one over the other. Reminiscing is fun sometimes. But don't tout it as a "condensed history of the keyboard." Just call it "One guy's ideas about keyboards."
"They shouldn't have sent a scientist; they should have sent a poet!"
- Somebody or other (Jodie Foster?) in the movie Contact
(And possibly one of the only things I liked about the movie.) (And I probably don't remember it very accurately; a real Contact fan could correct the quote, I'm sure.)
?!?!?
Let's see, .000 000 003 degrees Kelvin for the Bose-Einstein Condensate vs. "more than 300 million times the surface temperature of the sun" (From the article) for this stuff.
I think you've got "much cooler" and "MUCH HOTTER" mixed up.
No problem. I've got one right here for you.
Just send me $145,000 for this here little key and I'll ship it (and the Rolls that it goes to) right away.
Why is it that all the really cool places to work are on the left coast? (Pixar, Google, Microsoft , etc.)
So was linux v0.01. ;)
So what happens when a black hat gets in?
Answer: a completely open router that acts like none of his packets have the "evil bit" set.
Really, this is starting to worry me. If it's all undetectable, and is built in, how is this different from the telescreens in 1984? Big Brother is reading your packets!
Lack of punctuation what lack of punctuation?
Why didn't I think of that? Duh!
(slaps forehead)
!?!?
Wow! What's that -- 20% to the government and 40% to Guido's "protection" racket?
I can't imagine paying 60% in taxes. That's crazy.