Experiments have been made. When given the choice between eating naturally or going to the farmer to be force-fed, animals went to the way they were used to. Yes, they knew how to eat naturally. There is no pain involved in the process, just a short-circuiting of the hunger signal for fat regulation.
The problem isn't the external media, it is the OS that considers as safe any exe labeled as a autorun on it. Seriously, this is the feature that made me install an antivirus on WinXP. Until then I thought that windows updates and sane practice would be enough but then I discovered that even without user prompting (as they usually and annoyingly do for almost everything) they execute untrusted application from an unidentified third party. I can't think of a single good reason for this:
1) to exist at all
2) to still exist after 3 service packs and several virus exploiting this.
Seriously, can someone here point me toward a legitimate use of an autorun on a USB storage key ?
And that line is put because of the silly anoyingly presumably argumentable and debatable feature-wannabee that is the time limit on slashdot comments. IF THE TIME LIMIT RAISES COMMENTS INTERESTS, THEN CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. I'm cool. Another random sentence because 5 minutes is like very long.
Well, I always found Macs too expensive for me but every time I change computer, I take a look at the Apple products to check the differences. The recent politics around DRM and iPhone locking made me stop to even consider buying such a machine.
Or not...
I am surprised that Ray Kurtzweil is a dualist. I guess he was misunderstood... Anyway, why is he the most popular singularist out there ? There are many people who are more coherent and, well, more productive (I don't call cheap philosophy a production) than him
Almost. The European Council is comprised of the heads of state of all the EU countries. In practice, they all send non-elected representative there. It is notoriously the most corrupt part of the EU bureaucracy. They have tried to sneak a software patent law in EU law for a long time and often favored MS. While I am quite proud of the cleanliness of the European Parliament and its elected members, I am ashamed at the stupidity-driven thing that is the European Council.
Better use of multiple processors, of multiple cores, better caching, better multitasking, better use of processors extensions, of GPU, going 64 bits, etc... All of these are non-trivial features that, once implemented, provide a speed up of the OS.
I mean, on my XP, I had to install software to do efficient COPYING of files. On XP, windows are drawn by using the CPU instead of the GPU. That alone should make Vista more responsive and lightweight. There is plenty of room for windows to get better.
Was the flaw not swiftly patched in a few days after its discovery in most ISPs worldwide ? No law could have achieved that but the idea that some ISPs could get attacks by not acting while other would be immune to it is a tremendous incentive to act in a free market.
It is your (not mine, I'm not in UK) to remind other voters about these issues. In return they'll tell you about agriculture and financial problems that were not adressed and that you didn't really mind at the time.
Maybe it would have worked better if he actually wrote a historical novel. I am aware that I am bashing a popular author here but, seriously, at this place and time things happened that were so incredible that there is no need to add all this crappy fictional things around real facts. Simon Singh's "The Code Book" is far more breathtaking and it is a history book.
Heroism surrounded code breakers in Poland where the first mechanical algorithmic machines were made with the help of the secret services. Germany had their share of the game with their first programmable electronic device (some would call it a computer). The weirdness surrounding the decision of choosing an Indian language as American code (no, it was not because it was supposedly harder to break, but it was faster to have a native speaker of a code than a cryptographer who needed minutes to code even a short message). Bletchley recruitment effort that involved crosswords games, the sad story of Turing death cause by his mandated anti-homosexuality treatment, Yamamoto's death possible because of a message interception and so on...
WWII is so full of facts and anecdotes that trading them for a fictional content can only look tasteless...
The eeePC showed that linux works fine as a preinstalled OS. Its driver structure doesn't change every release in an unpredictable way. That makes it very attractive for computer makers. Microsoft really fears that the eeePC would be the first of a new kind of cheap low specs PCs
Wait a minute... The summary seems to imply that this is a pun about the Higg boson. Why they call it God is beyond my understanding but most Englishmen are as well too.
Their children will be stunned when they'll tell that when they were young, gay marriage was forbidden, smoking pot could send you to jail and that creationism still had adepts.
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Experiments have been made. When given the choice between eating naturally or going to the farmer to be force-fed, animals went to the way they were used to. Yes, they knew how to eat naturally. There is no pain involved in the process, just a short-circuiting of the hunger signal for fat regulation.
The problem isn't the external media, it is the OS that considers as safe any exe labeled as a autorun on it. Seriously, this is the feature that made me install an antivirus on WinXP. Until then I thought that windows updates and sane practice would be enough but then I discovered that even without user prompting (as they usually and annoyingly do for almost everything) they execute untrusted application from an unidentified third party. I can't think of a single good reason for this :
1) to exist at all
2) to still exist after 3 service packs and several virus exploiting this.
Seriously, can someone here point me toward a legitimate use of an autorun on a USB storage key ?
I must say, I was somehow expecting a rickroll...
And that line is put because of the silly anoyingly presumably argumentable and debatable feature-wannabee that is the time limit on slashdot comments. IF THE TIME LIMIT RAISES COMMENTS INTERESTS, THEN CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. I'm cool. Another random sentence because 5 minutes is like very long.
Well, I always found Macs too expensive for me but every time I change computer, I take a look at the Apple products to check the differences. The recent politics around DRM and iPhone locking made me stop to even consider buying such a machine.
Or not...
I am surprised that Ray Kurtzweil is a dualist. I guess he was misunderstood... Anyway, why is he the most popular singularist out there ? There are many people who are more coherent and, well, more productive (I don't call cheap philosophy a production) than him
That's called "burning". It requires some temperature to do it but once there, it just "burns", creating heat.
... if you need to add support of a device to an OSS, do it. If you don't know how to do it, buy a device with the integrated support.
Comparing any parliament to the US senate is a very pessimistic bias...
Almost. The European Council is comprised of the heads of state of all the EU countries. In practice, they all send non-elected representative there. It is notoriously the most corrupt part of the EU bureaucracy. They have tried to sneak a software patent law in EU law for a long time and often favored MS. While I am quite proud of the cleanliness of the European Parliament and its elected members, I am ashamed at the stupidity-driven thing that is the European Council.
This sounds like a job for Indiana Jones !
Better use of multiple processors, of multiple cores, better caching, better multitasking, better use of processors extensions, of GPU, going 64 bits, etc... All of these are non-trivial features that, once implemented, provide a speed up of the OS.
I mean, on my XP, I had to install software to do efficient COPYING of files. On XP, windows are drawn by using the CPU instead of the GPU. That alone should make Vista more responsive and lightweight. There is plenty of room for windows to get better.
You know, at first, I thought the "dupe" tag referred to Windows 7...
Was the flaw not swiftly patched in a few days after its discovery in most ISPs worldwide ? No law could have achieved that but the idea that some ISPs could get attacks by not acting while other would be immune to it is a tremendous incentive to act in a free market.
I'm waiting for the stick vs pitchfork thing
But I still don't know what heaven would be. IP law would be sweden I guess... the rest would be on Sealand
I can smell a meme taking shape...
Just tell me where I can enter and vote for petitions...
It is your (not mine, I'm not in UK) to remind other voters about these issues. In return they'll tell you about agriculture and financial problems that were not adressed and that you didn't really mind at the time.
Maybe it would have worked better if he actually wrote a historical novel. I am aware that I am bashing a popular author here but, seriously, at this place and time things happened that were so incredible that there is no need to add all this crappy fictional things around real facts. Simon Singh's "The Code Book" is far more breathtaking and it is a history book.
Heroism surrounded code breakers in Poland where the first mechanical algorithmic machines were made with the help of the secret services. Germany had their share of the game with their first programmable electronic device (some would call it a computer). The weirdness surrounding the decision of choosing an Indian language as American code (no, it was not because it was supposedly harder to break, but it was faster to have a native speaker of a code than a cryptographer who needed minutes to code even a short message). Bletchley recruitment effort that involved crosswords games, the sad story of Turing death cause by his mandated anti-homosexuality treatment, Yamamoto's death possible because of a message interception and so on...
WWII is so full of facts and anecdotes that trading them for a fictional content can only look tasteless...
Sometimes, Google is not evil...
That is why it is important to maintain sophisticated technology in the civil society.
Ok people. This is the Great Cliff of Common Sense. Now jump !
The eeePC showed that linux works fine as a preinstalled OS. Its driver structure doesn't change every release in an unpredictable way. That makes it very attractive for computer makers. Microsoft really fears that the eeePC would be the first of a new kind of cheap low specs PCs
Wait a minute... The summary seems to imply that this is a pun about the Higg boson. Why they call it God is beyond my understanding but most Englishmen are as well too.
Their children will be stunned when they'll tell that when they were young, gay marriage was forbidden, smoking pot could send you to jail and that creationism still had adepts.
God bless America.