This story is pertinent to me; I did dump cnn.com recently because it has grown too soft. I don't mind allowing user comments though. What I do mind is intentionally misleading headlines that "trick" you into reading a story, over-reporting on nonstories ("balloon boy," all things sex-related, and lifestyle/relationship columnists), and too many video-only stories.
The security-oriented Thinkpads (probably including all of those with fingerprint scanners, but also some without) also have support for hardware whole-disk encryption. It's great. After entering a password at power-on, it's otherwise unnoticeable. No performance overhead.
The fingerprint scanner, I had on a T60 and never used. To me it's easier just to enter a password.
No, minors are not legally entitled to make their own decisions. Legally, it is their parents' right to send them to the camps.
You'll notice two contradictory sentiments on slashdot: 1) parents are responsible for everything their kids do and leaving it up to technology or laws is reprehensible, and 2) parents are wrong for doing anything to their kids because someday they'll have to make their own decisions.
By your intrepretation a toddler put in a crib is also a prisoner.
You are inventing details that may or may not be true in individual cases, and I am not defending all these bootcamps. But a lot of the comments on this thread assume what the summary implies, which is that the Chinese govt. used to use corporal punishment on "net addicts" and now decided not to. Rather, what happened is a kid died at a privately run camp (in China), there was a massive public outcry, so the govt. is responding. Maybe they should have been more proactive; OK, fine. But everybody has this problem. Certainly there are more kids who come out of these places saying it helped them than who die, but obviously 1 death is too many.
Are you kidding? His pedantic argument sounds right at home here on slashdot. "What, you mean I'm not allowed to point a camera in a certain direction and push the button?" (just because it happens to be pointed at a copyright painting?) "You mean it's illegal to pluck magnetic waves from the atmosphere and visualize them?" (satellite TV piracy). Or, "My resampling algorithm provably changes every audio sample in the recording. Who's to say it's not an original work" (just because it sounds the same for all practical purposes), "I mean, there's obviously a slippery slope here. What percent of the bits do I have to change, 40%, 60%, hmmmmmm? Can't pick a reasonable percentage, can you? The judge in this case obviously doesn't 'get it' at all!"
The sad thing is that VoIP is still primitive, at least in commonly available form. 10 years ago I really thought the Internet would wipe out traditional telephony. Paying an additional bill just because some of your data traffic happens to be voice? Remembering long numbers instead of names? The entire family sharing a single number? No integration with contact lists from e.g. Outlook or facebook? "Long-distance" fees? Caller-ID and conference calls as special, value-added "features"?
It's really no different than email. Who would pay $25/mo for a single email account? And they pay extra to see the "from:" address, or send to multiple recipients, or to send to the next state over, or for a username that isn't just a 10 digit random number?
And yet with Vonage, Comcast VOIP, etc, here we still are.
Besides, I have had payments frozen and while irritating, you have to remember that without that option, fewer customers would dare to send you money in the first place. It's a cost of doing business, like accepting returns.
I'm sure there must be a good answer to this, but why does a space elevator require laser power at all, instead of just running electricity up the "rope"?
As an end user, to me the value in going through a centralized payment service is the security of having only one reputable company (PayPal) handling my personal information, instead of having every vendor out there from whom I've ever bought anything potentially putting my CC# into their database. Forget disintermediation via this API, I'd rather go the other way and have assurance from the middleman that the vendor will never get anything they don't need for order fullfillment - that is, just my name and mailing address.
I hope I will still be able to watch youtube and Netflix streaming. I only have the 768 kbit/s service, so streaming video really does use more than 70% of my bandwidth. Waiting another few minutes for an ISO to download is one thing, but losing streaming video would really stink.
Careful, being labeled "special" is very much a double-edged sword. I'd rather be respected than pitied, unless I truly thought I had no shot at being respectable.
the X style of remote access is much, much more useful than VNC/RDP.... multiple people can run remote apps on the same machine, without interfering with each other or a user who's physically sitting at the machine.
Actually VNC for linux does that too ("vncserver"). Or, if what you wanted really was remote control of the console, it supports that too, via x11vnc.
The sad thing is X isn't even any good for what it was designed for - remote display. It's just too slow, even on a WiFi lan connection. VNC and Windows Remote Desktop, though hacked on after-the-fact, work far better in any situation, other than perhaps a wired LAN. (But even then I use vncserver instead; you can disconnect and reconnect to a session, and access from cross-platform clients). By default, most distros don't even configure X to listen for TCP connections anymore. And very few developers access the Xlib API anymore, it's too primitive.
Take that away and what problem does X actually solve? Letting you draw rectangles and pixmaps? All the real UI design work was simply passed along, and has finally, sort of, been done in the last few years.
It's very sad, with the real high tech shit aboard the ISS, that consumer grade electronics are featured as 'the tech of ISS'.
Glass half full - isn't it cool we can buy the best processors ever made with hundreds of millions of transistors rolling off multi-billion-dollar production lines, all for a couple hundred bucks?
I do run my own mail server and I do appreciate being able to exchange very private email with my wife without anybody being able to snoop. But I will be the first to make two points: 1) running your own mail server is NOT for everybody; you have to run a computer 24/7, you have to tweak the config files from time to time, you have to fight SPAM on your own, you need a domain name - all of this is totally unreasonable for most users, and 2) the extra protection you gain is ONLY for mail sent from users you host, to users you also happen to host, so you don't get much privacy from it after all.
What is this story about? uTP, because it promises to reduce bittorrent interference with other apps on the network. From what I have gathered it is only offered by utorrent.
In my experience, uTorrent only runs on Linux through Wine, and even then, only a few particular obsolete versions of uTorrent are Wine-compatible. Is there someway for me to run a uTorrent-2 client on Linux right now? I've wasted a lot of time trying to get bittorrent to play nice on my home network, to little avail.
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This story is pertinent to me; I did dump cnn.com recently because it has grown too soft. I don't mind allowing user comments though. What I do mind is intentionally misleading headlines that "trick" you into reading a story, over-reporting on nonstories ("balloon boy," all things sex-related, and lifestyle/relationship columnists), and too many video-only stories.
Or the news. Google road rage shooting, it happens sometimes, a confrontation turns deadly because somebody was armed.
The fingerprint scanner, I had on a T60 and never used. To me it's easier just to enter a password.
You'll notice two contradictory sentiments on slashdot: 1) parents are responsible for everything their kids do and leaving it up to technology or laws is reprehensible, and 2) parents are wrong for doing anything to their kids because someday they'll have to make their own decisions.
You are inventing details that may or may not be true in individual cases, and I am not defending all these bootcamps. But a lot of the comments on this thread assume what the summary implies, which is that the Chinese govt. used to use corporal punishment on "net addicts" and now decided not to. Rather, what happened is a kid died at a privately run camp (in China), there was a massive public outcry, so the govt. is responding. Maybe they should have been more proactive; OK, fine. But everybody has this problem. Certainly there are more kids who come out of these places saying it helped them than who die, but obviously 1 death is too many.
Nice spin. What this is, is regulations on treatments requested by parents, akin to Outward Bound in the US.
Are you kidding? His pedantic argument sounds right at home here on slashdot. "What, you mean I'm not allowed to point a camera in a certain direction and push the button?" (just because it happens to be pointed at a copyright painting?) "You mean it's illegal to pluck magnetic waves from the atmosphere and visualize them?" (satellite TV piracy). Or, "My resampling algorithm provably changes every audio sample in the recording. Who's to say it's not an original work" (just because it sounds the same for all practical purposes), "I mean, there's obviously a slippery slope here. What percent of the bits do I have to change, 40%, 60%, hmmmmmm? Can't pick a reasonable percentage, can you? The judge in this case obviously doesn't 'get it' at all!"
It's really no different than email. Who would pay $25/mo for a single email account? And they pay extra to see the "from:" address, or send to multiple recipients, or to send to the next state over, or for a username that isn't just a 10 digit random number?
And yet with Vonage, Comcast VOIP, etc, here we still are.
Besides, I have had payments frozen and while irritating, you have to remember that without that option, fewer customers would dare to send you money in the first place. It's a cost of doing business, like accepting returns.
I'm sure there must be a good answer to this, but why does a space elevator require laser power at all, instead of just running electricity up the "rope"?
What's wrong with taking 83 days? How often do launches occur now? And couldn't many payloads climb in parallel?
What makes you think a helmetless rider will have higher lifetime medical costs than somebody wearing a helmet? More likely the opposite. The longer people live, and the slower they die, the more their total healthcare costs.
As an end user, to me the value in going through a centralized payment service is the security of having only one reputable company (PayPal) handling my personal information, instead of having every vendor out there from whom I've ever bought anything potentially putting my CC# into their database. Forget disintermediation via this API, I'd rather go the other way and have assurance from the middleman that the vendor will never get anything they don't need for order fullfillment - that is, just my name and mailing address.
More likely they just check each minute to see if the total bytes for the last 15 minutes exceeded bandwidth*15*0.7.
I hope I will still be able to watch youtube and Netflix streaming. I only have the 768 kbit/s service, so streaming video really does use more than 70% of my bandwidth. Waiting another few minutes for an ISO to download is one thing, but losing streaming video would really stink.
I may have you beat:
cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr: No such file or directory
cat:
Hmm, is that good or bad? Running 2.6.25.20. Then again it's a home box so does it even matter?
Careful, being labeled "special" is very much a double-edged sword. I'd rather be respected than pitied, unless I truly thought I had no shot at being respectable.
Actually VNC for linux does that too ("vncserver"). Or, if what you wanted really was remote control of the console, it supports that too, via x11vnc.
Take that away and what problem does X actually solve? Letting you draw rectangles and pixmaps? All the real UI design work was simply passed along, and has finally, sort of, been done in the last few years.
I'll quit complaining after they finally get cut/paste working, which is to say, probably never.
Glass half full - isn't it cool we can buy the best processors ever made with hundreds of millions of transistors rolling off multi-billion-dollar production lines, all for a couple hundred bucks?
I do run my own mail server and I do appreciate being able to exchange very private email with my wife without anybody being able to snoop. But I will be the first to make two points: 1) running your own mail server is NOT for everybody; you have to run a computer 24/7, you have to tweak the config files from time to time, you have to fight SPAM on your own, you need a domain name - all of this is totally unreasonable for most users, and 2) the extra protection you gain is ONLY for mail sent from users you host, to users you also happen to host, so you don't get much privacy from it after all.
Have you noticed whether uTP works as advertized - does it interfere with other apps less?
What is this story about? uTP, because it promises to reduce bittorrent interference with other apps on the network. From what I have gathered it is only offered by utorrent.
In my experience, uTorrent only runs on Linux through Wine, and even then, only a few particular obsolete versions of uTorrent are Wine-compatible. Is there someway for me to run a uTorrent-2 client on Linux right now? I've wasted a lot of time trying to get bittorrent to play nice on my home network, to little avail.