It's just second guessing. Which way do you jump. As long as every body guesses it may work. If every body reads a 'forecoast' they everyone may jump the same way; gridlock.
So what you are saying that people would start to second guess each other. They would probably all go for the easiest route and cause a traffic jam.
What we need now is for this program to be able to predict the effect this program will have on traffic and....well repeat continously.
3) Hardware manufacturers want the hardware to be as much of a black box as possible. Handing out driver source, thus exposing the hardware interface and not just the driver interface, provides more intformation about the hardware, and would make it easier to guess how it works. [You touched on this in your last pgh.]
It would be interesting if another card manufactuer released the drivers for the their card and opened sourced them. If it proved popular would NVIDIA do something similar?
How many of those users will be competent enough to download and install a new browser?
Just about all of them, I would imagine. The people whose computers I administer to have no problem downloading and installing applications. I just wish they didn't know how to at all, for their own sake. They simply will not follow good simple advice.
What the hell, it gives me something to do I suppose.
My partner's daughters tend to install everything not nailed down. Not necessarily a bad thing if you want to learn how to use a computer and you don't mind re-installing the OS, but for the most part they just want frills and eye candy.
One of them thinks it is cool if there PC gets a virus. I've set-up their systems as best I can (firewall, virus killers, user/admin accounts) and threatened to disconnect them from the Internet, but they still manage to get infected! I feel sick just thinking about the shit they put on their PCs.
This got me thinking. I wonder what provisions the government has made (if any, I'm from the UK) to destroy personal data should any invasion, however unlikely take place?
Concerning you sig, tux is cute, and I use Linux myself but the little FreeBSD devil..I don't know, perhaps I'll get him tatooed to my butt just to be original.
Typically I've just posted a similar comment to what I've posted here way down this list.
Terrorist are nothing to be scared of when compared to governments. When it comes to terrorising the populace, terrorist are amateurs compared to an elected democratic government or worse like a dictatorship.
But given the way litigation seems to be increasing (just an opinion, I've no facts to back it up), lawyers are becoming indespensible, especially for the bigger corporations.
It might not seem that lawyers are at the top of the food chain, not all lawyers make a good living (I suppose) but lawyers can live without the corporations, can the corporations live withough the lawyers?
Very amusing...but is it that far off the mark, I'm not so sure, only time will tell.
Possibly more insightful that funny.
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It does open a new backdoor. But while that might be preparation for some future malicious action, it might also have been the author leaving himself a way to fix things if his initial worm got out with a destructive bug. (Of course it could be the worm cleaning up signs of previous infections in order to hide itself and thus head off other cleanups.)
The trouble that I have with this scenario is that other virus writers could use this backdoor. Because of this, I think it is malware.
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Wierd! I thought anti-crime ads were more targetted towards normally law abiding citizens, such as 'Don't drink and drive'. The ads targetted what I would call 'borderline crime' where it's illegal but is it wrong.
If you drink and drive and you don't kill anyone then that's ok (I imagine this is what they think). You copy or download music, but there is no real actual theft even if it is illegal. You do drugs and you don't hurt anyone else but yourself. But I find it hard to think that anyone thinks rape is OK.
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Something like rings a bell here in the UK. I was wondering if the ran ads such as "Don't murder' or 'Theft is wrong' (Joking).
I think what I was trying to get across with the question I asked was 'Who gives a toss!' People who break the law wouldn't care too much I guess.
I'm not sure that I care (I'm not referring to the murder or theft comment here).
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We have them in the UK as well, at least when I used to watch TV, which is rarely these days. I'm think there were drugs ads as well though I'm not 100% sure.
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It's just second guessing. Which way do you jump. As long as every body guesses it may work. If every body reads a 'forecoast' they everyone may jump the same way; gridlock.
Or perhaps even 'It's a density model not a human density model :-). Shame, if we could only model human stupidity.
So what you are saying that people would start to second guess each other. They would probably all go for the easiest route and cause a traffic jam. What we need now is for this program to be able to predict the effect this program will have on traffic and....well repeat continously.
Can it predict its own interference/effect it will have on traffic jams?
What if people start using it? They avoid the traffic jams, thus no traffic jams. Wrong prediction!
It would be interesting if another card manufactuer released the drivers for the their card and opened sourced them. If it proved popular would NVIDIA do something similar?
Just about all of them, I would imagine. The people whose computers I administer to have no problem downloading and installing applications. I just wish they didn't know how to at all, for their own sake. They simply will not follow good simple advice.
What the hell, it gives me something to do I suppose.
A good post. The only thing the GPL stops is your ability to steal.
My partner's daughters tend to install everything not nailed down. Not necessarily a bad thing if you want to learn how to use a computer and you don't mind re-installing the OS, but for the most part they just want frills and eye candy.
One of them thinks it is cool if there PC gets a virus. I've set-up their systems as best I can (firewall, virus killers, user/admin accounts) and threatened to disconnect them from the Internet, but they still manage to get infected! I feel sick just thinking about the shit they put on their PCs.
This got me thinking. I wonder what provisions the government has made (if any, I'm from the UK) to destroy personal data should any invasion, however unlikely take place?
Ouch!......very well put.
Concerning you sig, tux is cute, and I use Linux myself but the little FreeBSD devil..I don't know, perhaps I'll get him tatooed to my butt just to be original.
Terrorist are nothing to be scared of when compared to governments. When it comes to terrorising the populace, terrorist are amateurs compared to an elected democratic government or worse like a dictatorship.
Unless someone can say diffently, governments have killed an awful lot more law abiding people than terrorists.
It might not seem that lawyers are at the top of the food chain, not all lawyers make a good living (I suppose) but lawyers can live without the corporations, can the corporations live withough the lawyers?
Possibly more insightful that funny.
The trouble that I have with this scenario is that other virus writers could use this backdoor. Because of this, I think it is malware.
I think SCO has dropped all of the GPL related charges (if indeed there were any to begin with, rather than just mouthing off).
I don't think it was ever going to be tested in court. Not by SCO anyway.
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The spelling mistakes could account for a lot of their buggy software!
Whoops..that ends this thread!
If you drink and drive and you don't kill anyone then that's ok (I imagine this is what they think). You copy or download music, but there is no real actual theft even if it is illegal. You do drugs and you don't hurt anyone else but yourself. But I find it hard to think that anyone thinks rape is OK.
I think what I was trying to get across with the question I asked was 'Who gives a toss!' People who break the law wouldn't care too much I guess.
I'm not sure that I care (I'm not referring to the murder or theft comment here).
We have them in the UK as well, at least when I used to watch TV, which is rarely these days. I'm think there were drugs ads as well though I'm not 100% sure.