I find all this rather exotic advice a little silly. The data security risks you will face in South America are in no way different than what you are exposed to surfing the web from your local coffee shop, or taking your netbook to work every day on the subway.
Your biggest security concerns while on travel should be more along the lines of getting your immunizations up to date and avoiding staying out after dark.
...that is, if there is a battle at all. When google feigned a bid for the wireless spectrum freed up by the digital TV conversion, I had high hopes they had big plans to launch a new network and re-make the wireless market in America. They didn't. Is it even possible now for a new competitor to come in, acquire spectrum, create a nationwide network, and compete with the incumbents? I don't see how, so I don't dare get my hopes up. The ownership of spectrum, in particular, seems like an impassable limitation; those who own it now aren't giving it up, and you simply can't compete on equal terms without it.
All this eco-stuff is especially pointless since there's a perfectly good solution to everything - put our heads in the sand, do nothing, pretend fossil fuels are harmless, and plan on increasing the population exponentially forever. It's Carter and Reagan all over again - fire the guy causing you pain my making you face up to problems, and bring in a new guy to tell you everything is wonderful as is... no more worries about Iran, the environment, the energy supply... right? Right?
Wikipedia as it stood not too long ago was a remarkable testament to the power of collaborative editing, and represented an incredible resource.
It still is. But the experiment of information anarchy on the Internet has run its course, because it turned out not be very useful or interesting. Not, for the most part, because of big eviiil government, but simply because the signal to noise ratio is so low that it isn't worthwhile. Moderated web forums have pushed Usenet aside. Email blacklists have limited which IPs allowed to originate outgoing email. Facebook has replaced homebrew home pages. The existence of Wikipedia in the first place is a testament to the need for organization and filtering; otherwise we'd all just post our wisdom to our own little web sites and let users combine it all with search engines. It is possible that Wikipedia will take this too far and become too heavy-handed, but the simple fact that it's changing is not evidence of that in itself. Rather, it is maturing, and the fact is, a random user editing a random Wikipedia page is now more likely to make it worse than to make it better.
Yep, Jimmy Wales may be many things, but sure he knows how to make a buck.
Whatever. All I know is, Wikipedia is hugely useful to me, and has cost me nothing. My sincere thanks go out to all those who made useful additions to Wikipedia, and to Wales for making it happen.
They are either sensationalist trash or blatantly biased news sources.
Hey Microsoft, how much are you paying Murdoch to stop me from finding his sites on google? I'll undercut him! For a mere $2/mo, I promise never to follow a google link to a Murdoch site again! Let me know soon.
You talk as if fantasy were a bad thing. If you don't want any, read peer-reviewed journals like Science and Nature. Sci-Fi is just fantasy with a bit of science. Science fiction rarely invents anything; at best it is good prognostication, which is still not to say it actually influences science, just as predicting the outcome of a football match isn't what makes it so.
there is a mild situational irony in moving Gimp from the Disc to an online annex...
The online repository isn't an "annex," the disc is... raise your hand if you actually install new packages by digging around for a CD-ROM. Nobody? I use Ubuntu and Gimp and probably never would have noticed this.
in terms of CO2. Well, China surpassed America in terms of total CO2 emissions in late 2006. And they have accelerated even faster. They currently add 1-2 NEW 500 MW COAL PLANTS EACH WEEK WITHOUT ANY CO2 OR POLLUTION CONTROL. OTH, America adds one ever couple of months (actually, I think in the last year, we have added only 1-2 new coal plants) and these have most of the pollution controls and even have ways to lower CO2 emissions.
Ranking nations by total emissions is absurd; obviously it should be per capita. Per-capita CO2 emissions in the US are over 4 times that of China. So when we demand China reduce their emissions before doing anything ourselves, what we are doing is claiming the right of each American to pollute 4 times as much as each Chinese person. Bicycles for them, SUVs for us. Rice for them, beef for us. And then we are shocked when they object to this notion.
The problem is that we don't train people in the fine art of bullshit detection
99.99% of Christians are not going to fear Nibiru after watching 2012, so it's only fair to distinguish between them and the people Morrison is talking about. You must realize, he is fielding questions from a population of millions of people, some significant percentage of whom are literally psychotic (which actually means losing touch with reality, not being an axe murderer). This "idiocracy" meme (that the masses are stupid and we are the smart ones) is just ego stroking - don't feel good just because you're more sane than the bottom 0.001% who are off their meds.
We already did this experiment once - it was the Great Depression. It would be nice if free markets just punished the guilty, but widespread bank failure does not work that way.
When you look at the price tags for the bail out for banks... seems pretty silly now because we ended up giving even more money so some execs can keep their yachts.
There would be much less money and fewer jobs to go around for everybody if the banking system had been allowed to fail. It's sort of like saying, "wow, WWII really sucked, look how many GIs got killed and how much money it cost, imagine how much better off we'd be if we'd just stayed out of it!"
so windows 7 FINALLY implemented alt+f2 launcher from kde and gnome, but the huge improvement was that they made it appear instead of the start menu ?:)
Hmm, alt+f2 also makes the menu pop up in fvwm. Are we gonna have to fire up twm in this archaeological quest?
Will it be less information interchange and more of movie watching?
I think that threshold was passed long, long ago. As for the creators of the initial Internet, well, they're not paying the bills for it any more.
Still, I'm amazed how fast video stormed the Internet. There was widespread skepticism that the Internet could be scaled to do it, until youtube proved them all wrong.
You make a good point that the infection should be easier to cure if it's just for that user, sparing an OS re-install (so long as you convince yourself it didn't ever escalate its privileges...)
I recently re-shopped mid-range CPUs and went Intel, due mainly to power consumption. I chose a 65 watt Core 2 Duo E7600 Wolfdale 3 GHz. Given a limit of 65 watts and $150, did I miss out on something better from AMD?
In the setting of a family, user separation doesn't buy you much anyways. What do virii do? Send out spam, reveal passwords from browser cookies, use up your bandwidth and CPU, maybe trash your data files? A virus doesn't need to be root to do any of those things.
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Your biggest security concerns while on travel should be more along the lines of getting your immunizations up to date and avoiding staying out after dark.
Look at it this way, you would profit greatly from the increased competition, even if you decided to stick with another carrier.
...that is, if there is a battle at all. When google feigned a bid for the wireless spectrum freed up by the digital TV conversion, I had high hopes they had big plans to launch a new network and re-make the wireless market in America. They didn't. Is it even possible now for a new competitor to come in, acquire spectrum, create a nationwide network, and compete with the incumbents? I don't see how, so I don't dare get my hopes up. The ownership of spectrum, in particular, seems like an impassable limitation; those who own it now aren't giving it up, and you simply can't compete on equal terms without it.
Happens all the time 1 2 3.
All this eco-stuff is especially pointless since there's a perfectly good solution to everything - put our heads in the sand, do nothing, pretend fossil fuels are harmless, and plan on increasing the population exponentially forever. It's Carter and Reagan all over again - fire the guy causing you pain my making you face up to problems, and bring in a new guy to tell you everything is wonderful as is... no more worries about Iran, the environment, the energy supply... right? Right?
The design capacity is irrelevant if subsequent advances in technology have increased that capacity.
It still is. But the experiment of information anarchy on the Internet has run its course, because it turned out not be very useful or interesting. Not, for the most part, because of big eviiil government, but simply because the signal to noise ratio is so low that it isn't worthwhile. Moderated web forums have pushed Usenet aside. Email blacklists have limited which IPs allowed to originate outgoing email. Facebook has replaced homebrew home pages. The existence of Wikipedia in the first place is a testament to the need for organization and filtering; otherwise we'd all just post our wisdom to our own little web sites and let users combine it all with search engines. It is possible that Wikipedia will take this too far and become too heavy-handed, but the simple fact that it's changing is not evidence of that in itself. Rather, it is maturing, and the fact is, a random user editing a random Wikipedia page is now more likely to make it worse than to make it better.
Whatever. All I know is, Wikipedia is hugely useful to me, and has cost me nothing. My sincere thanks go out to all those who made useful additions to Wikipedia, and to Wales for making it happen.
[Citation Needed] "Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games..."
You don't need slashdot for that, just visit the electronics aisle at Wal-Mart a couple times a year if that's what meets your level of interest.
Which would be a good reason for NVidia to focus on science and media applications rather than games after all.
Especially since SD cards are so cheap now, there's no need to upload photos while on the trip.
Hey Microsoft, how much are you paying Murdoch to stop me from finding his sites on google? I'll undercut him! For a mere $2/mo, I promise never to follow a google link to a Murdoch site again! Let me know soon.
You talk as if fantasy were a bad thing. If you don't want any, read peer-reviewed journals like Science and Nature. Sci-Fi is just fantasy with a bit of science. Science fiction rarely invents anything; at best it is good prognostication, which is still not to say it actually influences science, just as predicting the outcome of a football match isn't what makes it so.
The online repository isn't an "annex," the disc is... raise your hand if you actually install new packages by digging around for a CD-ROM. Nobody? I use Ubuntu and Gimp and probably never would have noticed this.
Ranking nations by total emissions is absurd; obviously it should be per capita. Per-capita CO2 emissions in the US are over 4 times that of China. So when we demand China reduce their emissions before doing anything ourselves, what we are doing is claiming the right of each American to pollute 4 times as much as each Chinese person. Bicycles for them, SUVs for us. Rice for them, beef for us. And then we are shocked when they object to this notion.
99.99% of Christians are not going to fear Nibiru after watching 2012, so it's only fair to distinguish between them and the people Morrison is talking about. You must realize, he is fielding questions from a population of millions of people, some significant percentage of whom are literally psychotic (which actually means losing touch with reality, not being an axe murderer). This "idiocracy" meme (that the masses are stupid and we are the smart ones) is just ego stroking - don't feel good just because you're more sane than the bottom 0.001% who are off their meds.
We already did this experiment once - it was the Great Depression. It would be nice if free markets just punished the guilty, but widespread bank failure does not work that way.
There would be much less money and fewer jobs to go around for everybody if the banking system had been allowed to fail. It's sort of like saying, "wow, WWII really sucked, look how many GIs got killed and how much money it cost, imagine how much better off we'd be if we'd just stayed out of it!"
Hmm, alt+f2 also makes the menu pop up in fvwm. Are we gonna have to fire up twm in this archaeological quest?
I think that threshold was passed long, long ago. As for the creators of the initial Internet, well, they're not paying the bills for it any more.
Still, I'm amazed how fast video stormed the Internet. There was widespread skepticism that the Internet could be scaled to do it, until youtube proved them all wrong.
Hmm, I didn't notice that one. I would have given it very serious consideration, it does seem perhaps a better deal than the Intel.
You make a good point that the infection should be easier to cure if it's just for that user, sparing an OS re-install (so long as you convince yourself it didn't ever escalate its privileges...)
I recently re-shopped mid-range CPUs and went Intel, due mainly to power consumption. I chose a 65 watt Core 2 Duo E7600 Wolfdale 3 GHz. Given a limit of 65 watts and $150, did I miss out on something better from AMD?
In the setting of a family, user separation doesn't buy you much anyways. What do virii do? Send out spam, reveal passwords from browser cookies, use up your bandwidth and CPU, maybe trash your data files? A virus doesn't need to be root to do any of those things.