These things are not making cold, they are moving heat. So where is that heat going?
I would not want to be in anything with a internal combusion engine that wasn't releasing its heat somehow. It would get dangeriously hot in a very short time.
There's a name for this sort of thing: extrajudicial punishment.
I hear in civilized parts of the world, it's highly frowned upon.
Where are these civilized parts of the world you talk about?
Extrajudicial Punishment and various forms of abuse of power are common in every western country I've ever seen, the non-western ones tend to be far worse.
Every domain has its own set of political issues, including.com/.net/.org, which the US ICE can take down if you even link to copyright-infringing material. You just have to know the risks and choose the domain that's least likely to run you into legal trouble depending on the content your site is hosting.
Ok, so where is a safe domain to put my homepage under?
The only safe domain I know of is.bit because it's controlled by a peer to peer network of computers not corruptable humans.
"The policy would cover cases in which a site is involved in crimes covered under the Serious Crimes Act 2007, including fraud, prostitution, money laundering, blackmail and copyright infringement."
The interesting thing is that it should be trivial for the cops to get a court order if there is any evidence that the site is involved in any of that.
So why do they need powers to take down websites where they have no evidence of any wrongdoing?
Maybe for the same reason they need powers to stop and search people without even the faintest suspicion of any wrongdoing. That is they are corrupt and just looking to increase their power.
"The policy would cover cases in which a site is involved in crimes covered under the Serious Crimes Act 2007, including fraud, prostitution, money laundering, blackmail and copyright infringement."
Always copyright infringement. Is it really a "serious crime"? And will this rule really have any effect?
The thing is it's not 'sites involved in', It's 'sites accused of being involved in'. This rule is wide open for abuse, they can shutdown anything with it.
Besides it's a totally stupid rule as the current DNS setup lets anyone anywhere register anything anywhere else. Not to mention you don't even need a domain name to host a website.
This is stupid political powermongering types giving excessive power to corrupt police. Again.
As someone outside the US I'm highly jealous that you lot have option 3. It's a really bad option but it's better to have it then be under the jackboot of a government that knows only they have the guns.
if you want to change society, you do live in a democracy and are supposed to change it by voting.
The politicians are all corrupt and in the pocket of big business. The really stupid people form a big enough voting block to ensure that nothing really changes. The differences between all major political parties are tiny, none want real change but they will lie about it to get votes.
What can voting change when you are out numbered 49 to 1 by people who will vote for whoever spends the most on marketing?
How can any fairer system of proportional representation ever get put in place when whoever is ruling have a vesting interest in keeping it out?
If you get high enough up in a company, you can do whatever you want, get in whatever trouble you want, and some smaller company will always hire you. Another recent(ish?) example I can think of is Mark Hurd from HP, Oracle immediately gave him a job.
The old boys club. It's killing industry worldwide.
This happens at every company.....until someone reports it.
I'm a pretty big Microsoft hater but I have to say I totally agree with you.
People with any kind of power will abuse it and men often abuse their position to get female attention. The women who flirt with the boss get good reviews, the women that sleep with the boss get big pay raises, the ones that have their kids get jobs for life on pay they could not otherwise justify. It happens everywhere just like fiddling expenses and booking extra flights to collect air miles. It's not seen as wrong until someone starts complaining.
You can put your own mp3's on your ipod with gtkpod.
Historically, third-party support for loading music onto iPod devices has lagged behind support in iTunes software. Which iPod models does gtkpod support? Does it work with, say, an iPod touch 4?
I really don't know. I know it works with my 3rd generation nano but that's not exactly new anymore.
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word. Second, you have been able to mount isos using "mount -o loop blah.iso" using root privileges in a console for ages. No Linux desktop has, afaik, made it as easy as just double clicking the file.
It should be easy enough to let users mount.iso's under linux. Distros likely do this already.
Yes, what's your point? The fact that this feature should have been implemented before now isn't a reason to not be happy that it's finally being implemented.
It's such a simple feature, and such a useful feature it having not been implemented before is news.
Seriously what do windows users do if that want to read an.iso ? Burn it to a disk every time ? There has to be something that mounts or unpacks.iso files on windows already.
"The Worlds Remaining Superpower" is now an oxymoron. The US may have a lot of military personnel but it's a very sick country on the verge of collapse.
And yes, asm will usually get you a 3x boost over C - and the performance diff. is cumulative, so having a desktop that's 10-20x faster may be possible.
Compilers optimize better than humans in most cases. Plus it's significantly easier to read and write C.
Hand coding assembler for anything but very small regions is a thing of the past.
Actually tell that to my last employer who brought a few hundred HP workstations, rack mounted them, and used them as servers. It was the cheapest way to buy good quality and high spec hardware at the time.
It's slashdot, I didn't actually read the article. Nice to know I'll still be able to buy decent servers.
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In Sweden (and most of Europe, I think) you need a permit to carry or store any laser pointer stronger than 5 mW outside your own home.
Is that right? I've never heard of that rule.
Makes sense though, these things are pretty dangerous.
These things are not making cold, they are moving heat. So where is that heat going?
I would not want to be in anything with a internal combusion engine that wasn't releasing its heat somehow. It would get dangeriously hot in a very short time.
There's a name for this sort of thing: extrajudicial punishment.
I hear in civilized parts of the world, it's highly frowned upon.
Where are these civilized parts of the world you talk about?
Extrajudicial Punishment and various forms of abuse of power are common in every western country I've ever seen, the non-western ones tend to be far worse.
Every domain has its own set of political issues, including .com/.net/.org, which the US ICE can take down if you even link to copyright-infringing material. You just have to know the risks and choose the domain that's least likely to run you into legal trouble depending on the content your site is hosting.
Ok, so where is a safe domain to put my homepage under?
The only safe domain I know of is .bit because it's controlled by a peer to peer network of computers not corruptable humans.
The interesting thing is that it should be trivial for the cops to get a court order if there is any evidence that the site is involved in any of that.
So why do they need powers to take down websites where they have no evidence of any wrongdoing?
Maybe for the same reason they need powers to stop and search people without even the faintest suspicion of any wrongdoing. That is they are corrupt and just looking to increase their power.
"The policy would cover cases in which a site is involved in crimes covered under the Serious Crimes Act 2007, including fraud, prostitution, money laundering, blackmail and copyright infringement."
Always copyright infringement. Is it really a "serious crime"? And will this rule really have any effect?
The thing is it's not 'sites involved in', It's 'sites accused of being involved in'. This rule is wide open for abuse, they can shutdown anything with it.
Besides it's a totally stupid rule as the current DNS setup lets anyone anywhere register anything anywhere else. Not to mention you don't even need a domain name to host a website.
This is stupid political powermongering types giving excessive power to corrupt police. Again.
Does Texas complain loudly when the US messes about in the internal affairs of other countries?
Turnabout is fair play.
1) submission to tyrants;
2) civil disobedience;
3) armed insurrection.
As someone outside the US I'm highly jealous that you lot have option 3. It's a really bad option but it's better to have it then be under the jackboot of a government that knows only they have the guns.
if you want to change society, you do live in a democracy and are supposed to change it by voting.
The politicians are all corrupt and in the pocket of big business. The really stupid people form a big enough voting block to ensure that nothing really changes. The differences between all major political parties are tiny, none want real change but they will lie about it to get votes.
What can voting change when you are out numbered 49 to 1 by people who will vote for whoever spends the most on marketing?
How can any fairer system of proportional representation ever get put in place when whoever is ruling have a vesting interest in keeping it out?
If you get high enough up in a company, you can do whatever you want, get in whatever trouble you want, and some smaller company will always hire you.
Another recent(ish?) example I can think of is Mark Hurd from HP, Oracle immediately gave him a job.
The old boys club. It's killing industry worldwide.
This happens at every company.....until someone reports it.
I'm a pretty big Microsoft hater but I have to say I totally agree with you.
People with any kind of power will abuse it and men often abuse their position to get female attention. The women who flirt with the boss get good reviews, the women that sleep with the boss get big pay raises, the ones that have their kids get jobs for life on pay they could not otherwise justify. It happens everywhere just like fiddling expenses and booking extra flights to collect air miles. It's not seen as wrong until someone starts complaining.
You can put your own mp3's on your ipod with gtkpod.
Historically, third-party support for loading music onto iPod devices has lagged behind support in iTunes software. Which iPod models does gtkpod support? Does it work with, say, an iPod touch 4?
I really don't know. I know it works with my 3rd generation nano but that's not exactly new anymore.
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word.
If you had a sense of humor, you'd understand where "boxen" came from.
I'm not so sure. -en is Dutch for -s in English.
For starters, i cannot put on my iDevice my own MP3's without going through the iProprietarytunes scanner.
You can put your own mp3's on your ipod with gtkpod. I've been using it for years and it's less annoying than itunes.
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word. Second, you have been able to mount isos using "mount -o loop blah.iso" using root privileges in a console for ages. No Linux desktop has, afaik, made it as easy as just double clicking the file.
It should be easy enough to let users mount .iso's under linux. Distros likely do this already.
Having said that I normally do it as root.
Yes, what's your point? The fact that this feature should have been implemented before now isn't a reason to not be happy that it's finally being implemented.
It's such a simple feature, and such a useful feature it having not been implemented before is news.
Seriously what do windows users do if that want to read an .iso ? Burn it to a disk every time ? There has to be something that mounts or unpacks .iso files on windows already.
"The Worlds Remaining Superpower" is now an oxymoron. The US may have a lot of military personnel but it's a very sick country on the verge of collapse.
Are you sure he wasn't talking about China?
They may have wanted performance :)
And yes, asm will usually get you a 3x boost over C - and the performance diff. is cumulative, so having a desktop that's 10-20x faster may be possible.
Compilers optimize better than humans in most cases. Plus it's significantly easier to read and write C.
Hand coding assembler for anything but very small regions is a thing of the past.
All the best in the future your d00dness.
"Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world's Gmail accounts to ransom"
That would be too bad for google mail users, they would have to restore from their local backups. You have local backups right?
I'd not be affected anyway as I never trusted google with my email.
A book called 'Loving Our Kids On Purpose' by a religious nut?
I feel vaguely sick.
What mod do you use for a total asshole who happens to be absolutely correct?
Check with data-via-electric-sockets solutions as a replacement for ethernet, put acess points to these.
Yuck! Homeplug should be illegal the way it messes up shortwave radio.
What makes you think I actually care about winning an argument with a random autistic on slashdot?
If you want to run windows server 2008 on apple hardware you go right ahead.
servers are not PC's, simple isn't it
Actually tell that to my last employer who brought a few hundred HP workstations, rack mounted them, and used them as servers. It was the cheapest way to buy good quality and high spec hardware at the time.
It's slashdot, I didn't actually read the article. Nice to know I'll still be able to buy decent servers.