You dont have to go see it, its seeing you right now. Probably those lines are higher voltage than your average city line, but there is voltage nontheless.
This is a strictly AC phenomonon.
And it should be noted that he is effectively stealing power with all those lightbulbs.
I find it hard to agree with the hair standing on end statement though as this is not static electricity. The current is always there, just because you brought some bulbs along does not mean there is more, in fact it means there is less.
The power of magnetic fields drops off with the square of the distance. That means the device must have mucho power if its going to reach inside your brain at any appreciable levels.
Nevertheless, all magnetic fields affect everything in the universe to some small degree. So their is an effect.
I think its something we just deal with. You cant expect this level of electromagneticness and not expect any adverse reactions. Its time we stop acting like its all good.
btw you can consider 802.11 an electric field, and not a magnetic one.
Why would you want to prevent reverse engineering anyway? How hard could it be to just create the application from scratch? Likely much easier than reverse engineering.
And if its security, we know you do not get it by hiding the source...
If you *can* move from Java to c# then do. i.e., if you are writing applications for Microsoft Windows, their is no harm in writing in a Microsoft language.
If you want portability, then Java is your cup of tea. You have no idea when/if MS will ever yank the rug from under Mono. If history is a lesson, they will whenever it is to their benefit to do so.
Open sourcing 'Java' is an issue of binaries. It's a misnomer in fact. Its not really Java that ESR is calling for to be open sourced. Its Sun's implementation of Java, their JVM. At least as far as I can tell that is what he is calling for.
RMS is not really that soft. His positions are firm. I do not think he would endorse using 4.4 if its not copylefted. He would endorse putting pressure on X to copyleft it in one way or another.
But 32-bit processors can, using the exact same tricks to pass around 64-bit data, address more than 4GB of memory.
Both are legitimate enhancements that a 64-bit processor has over a 32-bit one.
More address space, wider data path.
My personal opinion is the end result of 64-bits will be an efficiency improvement, but not a performance one. So once again AMD favors performance over clock speeds. Probably another reason intel is weak on putting out 64-bit CPUs because they know the clock speeds will be lower.
They had synthetic diamonds for years (i mean the top quality ones too). Scientific purposes required them and have been using them. Its like Linux, we cant afford yours so well roll our own.
DeBeers is essentially trying to get the governments to forceibly label them as synthetic because otherwise no one can tell the difference.
Diamonds are a racket. I will never buy *another* one. What can I say? This logic stuff don't work to well on women:-)
I have never bought a CD with vocals on it. I think the Label takes liberties with their artists products, but I would doubt the artist just offer this up.
Nor have I ever heard anyone release a background track. Why would they? 90% of the time you can recognize the original song its from anyway...Those that do not have beats based on older songs are easily simulated electronically.
Let us also not forget that windows "leaks" have occured recently. And remember last year when their was question about the code being infultrated? Leaks can go both ways.
I like the ability to personally verify any rumors I hear about the code, or pay someone else too. OSS offers this, cloded source does not.
Also, when you have the illusion of security, you tend to be less diligent. I argue OSS has stronger code checks for major projects because of the nature of the code. For instance, the Linux kernel appears to have several review steps for CODE that is submitted. They dont just check if the running binary breaks.
I think they trust each other, not you. They trust that if you slipped a mickey into the code, it would come out. Then you would be branded. They trust the system of communication that is the internet. I used precompiled binaries on occasion for difficult projects such as Multimedia ones on Linux. I'm suspicious too.
I'm quite a bit less suspicious when using software from RedHat. Though I emailed them twice about their up2date upgrade downloads md5sum not matching the binaries, on some of their download servers.
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Not entirely true. Cars are tuned for fuel efficiency. Thats because the manufacturers have to have an average fuel efficiency, and these days they got lots of trouble making up for the SUVs...
So you can get more horses if you sacrifice efficiency. Note also, the Dodge viper and the Dodge RAM shared versions of the same V12 engine. One tuned for high horses, other tuned for high torque.
You will not be wearing out your car with the modifications these controllers allow. You are just adjusting variables that the OEMs already have there.
If they allows this off the line, the govt would probably force them to figure it into their average fuel economy. There are no "underclocked" cars.
The only thing OEMs don't want is you diagnosing your car, or any repair shops fixing them. The dealerships push the OEMs hard on that aspect.
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i'm sure this is ob the banned exports lists. or soon will be. GPS? yea, soon...
You dont have to go see it, its seeing you right now. Probably those lines are higher voltage than your average city line, but there is voltage nontheless.
This is a strictly AC phenomonon.
And it should be noted that he is effectively stealing power with all those lightbulbs.
I find it hard to agree with the hair standing on end statement though as this is not static electricity. The current is always there, just because you brought some bulbs along does not mean there is more, in fact it means there is less.
Yep Yep. Its an old auto industry trick.
Auto industry wanted to add passenger airbag cut off switches so they can blame the driver if a child gets injured and he failed to turn off the bag.
If the driver mismanages the switch he can forget suing the OEMs since they had no choice in the matter...
So often when the government is regulating an industry at the request of that industry, it is to the detriment of public protection.
If using the key set off the alarm, then he has an after market alarm.
I know they are trying it, but I don't think it will work in general.
I think its going to work for sites which are money related, such as financial news. But its not going to work otherwise.
News is empty these days, nobody realizes how empty until you are made to pay for it.
Just let the cable company start sub-bundling channels and see how quickly several channels find no viewership...
The power of magnetic fields drops off with the square of the distance. That means the device must have mucho power if its going to reach inside your brain at any appreciable levels.
Nevertheless, all magnetic fields affect everything in the universe to some small degree. So their is an effect.
I think its something we just deal with. You cant expect this level of electromagneticness and not expect any adverse reactions. Its time we stop acting like its all good.
btw you can consider 802.11 an electric field, and not a magnetic one.
Strikes me that OS does not have this issue.
Why would you want to prevent reverse engineering anyway? How hard could it be to just create the application from scratch? Likely much easier than reverse engineering.
And if its security, we know you do not get it by hiding the source...
Fail to see the need.
You could always read the original article and understand that open sourcing "Java" is not about the language but Sun's implementation of it.
I guess at this point since the whole of slashdot is getting it wrong due to the standard failure to RTFA, I'll just let it go...
If you *can* move from Java to c# then do. i.e., if you are writing applications for Microsoft Windows, their is no harm in writing in a Microsoft language.
If you want portability, then Java is your cup of tea. You have no idea when/if MS will ever yank the rug from under Mono. If history is a lesson, they will whenever it is to their benefit to do so.
Open sourcing 'Java' is an issue of binaries. It's a misnomer in fact. Its not really Java that ESR is calling for to be open sourced. Its Sun's implementation of Java, their JVM. At least as far as I can tell that is what he is calling for.
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin."
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P.S. The lameness filter aborted this biblical quote in its proper form
The virus analogy is flawed. How about, "genetic clause"?
The Linux desktop movement is based in an idea of Freedom. To accept a less than 'free' desktop for the 'free' desktop movement would not make sense.
(admittidly its not just any form of freedom the GPL is pushing)
Sorry, US policies are not misguided. They do exactly as they are intended.
Its US intentions that are misguided.
RMS is not really that soft. His positions are firm. I do not think he would endorse using 4.4 if its not copylefted. He would endorse putting pressure on X to copyleft it in one way or another.
But 32-bit processors can, using the exact same tricks to pass around 64-bit data, address more than 4GB of memory.
Both are legitimate enhancements that a 64-bit processor has over a 32-bit one.
More address space, wider data path.
My personal opinion is the end result of 64-bits will be an efficiency improvement, but not a performance one. So once again AMD favors performance over clock speeds. Probably another reason intel is weak on putting out 64-bit CPUs because they know the clock speeds will be lower.
The short is uninspiring. A waste of good production and acting effort.
It did come off rather rehersed. Like Rome says, "Don't read your takes!"
Please. DeBeers to scientist. Pow!
:-)
They had synthetic diamonds for years (i mean the top quality ones too). Scientific purposes required them and have been using them. Its like Linux, we cant afford yours so well roll our own.
DeBeers is essentially trying to get the governments to forceibly label them as synthetic because otherwise no one can tell the difference.
Diamonds are a racket. I will never buy *another* one. What can I say? This logic stuff don't work to well on women
I have never bought a CD with vocals on it. I think the Label takes liberties with their artists products, but I would doubt the artist just offer this up.
Nor have I ever heard anyone release a background track. Why would they? 90% of the time you can recognize the original song its from anyway...Those that do not have beats based on older songs are easily simulated electronically.
You can have Java when you pry it from Sun's cold dead hands... No wait!
Let us also not forget that windows "leaks" have occured recently. And remember last year when their was question about the code being infultrated? Leaks can go both ways.
I like the ability to personally verify any rumors I hear about the code, or pay someone else too. OSS offers this, cloded source does not.
Also, when you have the illusion of security, you tend to be less diligent. I argue OSS has stronger code checks for major projects because of the nature of the code. For instance, the Linux kernel appears to have several review steps for CODE that is submitted. They dont just check if the running binary breaks.
I think they trust each other, not you. They trust that if you slipped a mickey into the code, it would come out. Then you would be branded. They trust the system of communication that is the internet. I used precompiled binaries on occasion for difficult projects such as Multimedia ones on Linux. I'm suspicious too.
I'm quite a bit less suspicious when using software from RedHat. Though I emailed them twice about their up2date upgrade downloads md5sum not matching the binaries, on some of their download servers.
Not entirely true. Cars are tuned for fuel efficiency. Thats because the manufacturers have to have an average fuel efficiency, and these days they got lots of trouble making up for the SUVs...
So you can get more horses if you sacrifice efficiency. Note also, the Dodge viper and the Dodge RAM shared versions of the same V12 engine. One tuned for high horses, other tuned for high torque.
You will not be wearing out your car with the modifications these controllers allow. You are just adjusting variables that the OEMs already have there.
If they allows this off the line, the govt would probably force them to figure it into their average fuel economy. There are no "underclocked" cars.
The only thing OEMs don't want is you diagnosing your car, or any repair shops fixing them. The dealerships push the OEMs hard on that aspect.
Of course. Now who builds the Legos?
Often sofware usage resembles building with Legos. When you use a good library you feel this way. MS Visual Basic is strongly this way.
But the design of those pieces can be difficult.
Often people want OO objects to resemble "real world" objects. We take for granted how complicated the physics behind the real world really is.
I found software and math classes to be equally easy. They both require lots of time though.