Really? Is that now the standard that we use to explain things? What does "smooth like plastic" even mean? While "smooth as glass" is a commonly accepted term (in spite of the obvious fact that not all glass is manufactured smooth), I think the idea that all or even most plastic is smooth is a concept that most people will reject. I have a lot of plastic in front of me as I type this. Some is glossy smooth, but the majority (by volume) has textured surfaces that are anything but smooth.
The administration is still not sure if Snowden got the N.S.A. files on Obama's birth and those clumsy Hawaiian "documents". (Ask yourself for any good reason that the leader of the country would black out the number on a supposed birth certificate. The only thing that makes sense is he doesn't want it matching thecertificate of anyone else, or coming after someone born in the last minutes of the year. And after the "this is the only certificate there is" nonsense, there was the second, different, birth certificate. Don't even respond about that unless you looked at it on the whitehouse.gov website and saw how obviously (and poorly) it was Photoshopped.) They sure don't want those N.S.A. documents snuck back in the country and would like to have any information to track down the patriot who got them and the files. As far as anyone knows the files are not on Snowden's person but rather hidden where someone like this person can access them if the administration manages to assassinate Snowden.
Google is your friend, it was "all over" the Internet, you didn't need to wait for me to respond. Develop your searching techniques. But sure, one of the many places it was shown was: http://www.techworm.net/2015/0...
Nothing strange about UFOs. The strange thing is that NSAS cut the live feed as soon as they appeared (by as soon as I mean about 1 second into the appearance).
You can bet that, after NASA recently cut out of a live broadcast of the earth from space when 3 UFOs suddenly appeared in the video, that this data will be thoroughly picked through to make sure that there are no more unwelcome photobombs in these pictures.
By real corruption they mean corruption so vile that it would disgust even members of congress. The other corruption simply goes by the name "business as usual". And, by the way, by that definition it is real corruption that does not exist, not the other kind.
You have been downgraded to troll for stating the obvious. I've long believed that a new ice age was coming and that global warming was our best bet in avoiding it, but whenever I mention that I'm also marked as a troll by idiots who think that not sharing their point of view is the same as trolling.Or maybe they don't really believe that, but they still abuse moderation to make less apparent any view that disagrees with them, particularly when they are ill equipped to logically debate you.
Absolutely, while this may be the dream of Democrats, Communists and Roddenberry (and Slashdot editors), it is absolute BS.
First of all, we already have replicators, but it is illegal to use them! There is a warning on every DVD that I have that tells me this (and even though I supposedly own the DVD and the DVD player, the player will not skip past that warning. Similarly, while it is perfectly fine for the music labels to cheat the artists, it is not fine to cheat the music labels. And with the stated intention by big industry including Disney to subvert the U.S. Constitution, no copyrighted works will ever pass into public domain again. So if you want to see a movie, listen to music or pay that ever increasing cable bill you are going to need money.
Also, there are finite resources like real estate. Unless your ideal world is one where the party bosses and their pals get to live in big estates and everyone else gets put in a small cell in an undesired location that is deemed perfectly adequate for them, then the Slashdot editor economy doesn't really work. Similarly for any personal service, from a gardener to calling the plummer to domestic help. The fat cats will have all of the body guards (i.e. private mercenaries) that they want, as well as servants (paid slaves) but it will be wrong for you to expect any or not want to wait five to ten years while you go on the list for the plummer.
Even if we had real viable perfect replicators for all physical items and free unlimited energy, this system would never work. In a world where we don't have these, it is ignorant to even suggest that such a system is "closer than you think".
Once again we have a patent issued for something that wasn't built, can't be built and likely will never be built. Boeing has no idea how to build a fusion engine, and if they could then they could and should build a ground based fusion power plant based on their magic technology. About the only thing that can ever happen with this patent is to be used by a troll in case anyone does really manage to build a fusion power plant that uses some of the same terms used in this science fiction document, such as lasers.
No, I'm just able to think and comprehend. Making a contrast of a battery from the 1990's to today is a jump of up to 25 years. That would be even less than the 5% yearly improvement that you claimed was happening. My statement is that we never see the 100% to 1000% percent jump in capacity promised from a single innovation in one step in a year or two after the announcement. Please try to keep up.
Batteries have been steadily improving by about 5% per year.
Yea, but/. is big on reporting "new technologies" that are going to give us 100% jumps in improvement in "one or two years". They do this on a regular basis with batteries, no matter if it is a nano-material electrode with vastly greater surface area or some other change. And the articles and summaries usually go to great lengths to point out how easily the new technology will integrate into current production techniques. This has been going on here for over a decade and we never see the great factor of two or even factor of ten improvements promised, only as you pointed out the slow and steady 5% improvements that do not use these new magic technologies. So many of us more experienced/. readers are learning to take these promises of future improvements here with a grain of salt.
Myself, I remember a great story about a new technology for a new small extremely efficient gasoline motor that appeared here many years ago. It was stated that it would make it to electric cars in a year or two and would give us better than 200 mpg. Apparently it was most suitable for electric cars because it had to run at a constant velocity, it could not be throttled like current gasoline motor technology, although one would think that the use of CVT transmissions would open the door for non-hybrid cars too. But that was the last I heard of it and I can't even find any trace of that motor in the Slashdot archives.
Maybe in a few more years and after a lot more next great thing hype articles you'll start questioning things that sound too good to be true here too.
This is heresy. All worshipers of the high priest and great scientist Obama know that all undesired weather events are caused by global warming and nothing else. Global warming is real, no matter what the evidence says and this is not open to reasonable discussion. The floods in China must have been caused by global warming, just as tornadoes, colder winters, ISIS and tsunamis are. And don't get me started on the link between the Greek default and global warming.
Contrast this to the treatment meted out to Aaron Swartz
Why contrast this to Arron Swartz? This crook committed real crimes (the "theft of credit card details" that presumably were used or sold). As far as I know (and I could be wrong) Swartz committed no real crime, was just the victim of over zealous prosecution. Not that I have any love or respect for Swartz, I think he was an asshole and that may well have contributed to his over enthusiastic prosecution.
This is Nvidia. Don't buy into this based on any promises of what is to come, no matter how reasonable they seem.
Last summer I bought a Nvidia Tegra Note 7 tablet based on promises that Android 5 (Lollipop) was coming out for it "real soon". They even stated that it was easy to port Lollipop on the Tegra Note 7 since it was basically a stock Android design with little or on deviation from the standard design. That "real soon" slipped to February of 2015 and when February 2015 came and went Nvidia became strangely mute on the subject, ignoring customers' inquiries.
A claimed Nvidia employee even posted here as an AC that it was a shame what happened to the Tegra Note 7 customers, but explained that the U.S.A. developers wanted to work on the new stuff and the Tegra Note 7 project was shipped overseas, where no one wanted to work on it either (and apparently did not).
My Tegra Note 7 tablet is the last thing that Nvidia will ever sell me. If you chose to do business with them then I may not be able to talk you out of it, but do so based on what they deliver today, not on promises of things that will never come.
Well, duh. If you give away your SSID to a 3rd party, YOU have compromised your security, not MS. That's why my guest room has a cat5 ethernet connection. And for special cases I do have an access point that I normally keep off but could turn on if someone shows up with a wifi only device such as a tablet. But the obvious solution for most users is simply be aware of this issue and never give your SSID password to a Windows 10 user. I have no problem explaining why if someone has Windows 10 they will not get access to my system wirelessly, if you do then go ahead and compromise your system.
If you don't want someone's Windows 10 passing on your password, Microsoft has two solutions;
Not a problem for me, they missed the obvious third solution. Never ever use Outlook, Don't use Skype and don't use Facebook. Problem solved without having to change my SSID. And, of course, there is a fourth solution but that involves using Linux.
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Really? Is that now the standard that we use to explain things? What does "smooth like plastic" even mean? While "smooth as glass" is a commonly accepted term (in spite of the obvious fact that not all glass is manufactured smooth), I think the idea that all or even most plastic is smooth is a concept that most people will reject. I have a lot of plastic in front of me as I type this. Some is glossy smooth, but the majority (by volume) has textured surfaces that are anything but smooth.
The administration is still not sure if Snowden got the N.S.A. files on Obama's birth and those clumsy Hawaiian "documents". (Ask yourself for any good reason that the leader of the country would black out the number on a supposed birth certificate. The only thing that makes sense is he doesn't want it matching thecertificate of anyone else, or coming after someone born in the last minutes of the year. And after the "this is the only certificate there is" nonsense, there was the second, different, birth certificate. Don't even respond about that unless you looked at it on the whitehouse.gov website and saw how obviously (and poorly) it was Photoshopped.) They sure don't want those N.S.A. documents snuck back in the country and would like to have any information to track down the patriot who got them and the files. As far as anyone knows the files are not on Snowden's person but rather hidden where someone like this person can access them if the administration manages to assassinate Snowden.
Google is your friend, it was "all over" the Internet, you didn't need to wait for me to respond. Develop your searching techniques. But sure, one of the many places it was shown was: http://www.techworm.net/2015/0...
I don't remember pointing out the mistake. What are you talking about? Maybe you shouldn't have been posting at all?
The only reason for using IE is that you like all of the vulnerabilities.
Nothing strange about UFOs. The strange thing is that NSAS cut the live feed as soon as they appeared (by as soon as I mean about 1 second into the appearance).
You can bet that, after NASA recently cut out of a live broadcast of the earth from space when 3 UFOs suddenly appeared in the video, that this data will be thoroughly picked through to make sure that there are no more unwelcome photobombs in these pictures.
By real corruption they mean corruption so vile that it would disgust even members of congress. The other corruption simply goes by the name "business as usual". And, by the way, by that definition it is real corruption that does not exist, not the other kind.
in fact, it's the only tool legislators have after they've rooted out real corruption.
By that definition they will never have a need for that tool.
You have been downgraded to troll for stating the obvious. I've long believed that a new ice age was coming and that global warming was our best bet in avoiding it, but whenever I mention that I'm also marked as a troll by idiots who think that not sharing their point of view is the same as trolling.Or maybe they don't really believe that, but they still abuse moderation to make less apparent any view that disagrees with them, particularly when they are ill equipped to logically debate you.
Absolutely, while this may be the dream of Democrats, Communists and Roddenberry (and Slashdot editors), it is absolute BS.
First of all, we already have replicators, but it is illegal to use them! There is a warning on every DVD that I have that tells me this (and even though I supposedly own the DVD and the DVD player, the player will not skip past that warning. Similarly, while it is perfectly fine for the music labels to cheat the artists, it is not fine to cheat the music labels. And with the stated intention by big industry including Disney to subvert the U.S. Constitution, no copyrighted works will ever pass into public domain again. So if you want to see a movie, listen to music or pay that ever increasing cable bill you are going to need money.
Also, there are finite resources like real estate. Unless your ideal world is one where the party bosses and their pals get to live in big estates and everyone else gets put in a small cell in an undesired location that is deemed perfectly adequate for them, then the Slashdot editor economy doesn't really work. Similarly for any personal service, from a gardener to calling the plummer to domestic help. The fat cats will have all of the body guards (i.e. private mercenaries) that they want, as well as servants (paid slaves) but it will be wrong for you to expect any or not want to wait five to ten years while you go on the list for the plummer.
Even if we had real viable perfect replicators for all physical items and free unlimited energy, this system would never work. In a world where we don't have these, it is ignorant to even suggest that such a system is "closer than you think".
Please don't inflict your religious blessings on me.
Once again we have a patent issued for something that wasn't built, can't be built and likely will never be built. Boeing has no idea how to build a fusion engine, and if they could then they could and should build a ground based fusion power plant based on their magic technology. About the only thing that can ever happen with this patent is to be used by a troll in case anyone does really manage to build a fusion power plant that uses some of the same terms used in this science fiction document, such as lasers.
No, I'm just able to think and comprehend. Making a contrast of a battery from the 1990's to today is a jump of up to 25 years. That would be even less than the 5% yearly improvement that you claimed was happening. My statement is that we never see the 100% to 1000% percent jump in capacity promised from a single innovation in one step in a year or two after the announcement. Please try to keep up.
Batteries have been steadily improving by about 5% per year.
Yea, but /. is big on reporting "new technologies" that are going to give us 100% jumps in improvement in "one or two years". They do this on a regular basis with batteries, no matter if it is a nano-material electrode with vastly greater surface area or some other change. And the articles and summaries usually go to great lengths to point out how easily the new technology will integrate into current production techniques. This has been going on here for over a decade and we never see the great factor of two or even factor of ten improvements promised, only as you pointed out the slow and steady 5% improvements that do not use these new magic technologies. So many of us more experienced /. readers are learning to take these promises of future improvements here with a grain of salt.
Myself, I remember a great story about a new technology for a new small extremely efficient gasoline motor that appeared here many years ago. It was stated that it would make it to electric cars in a year or two and would give us better than 200 mpg. Apparently it was most suitable for electric cars because it had to run at a constant velocity, it could not be throttled like current gasoline motor technology, although one would think that the use of CVT transmissions would open the door for non-hybrid cars too. But that was the last I heard of it and I can't even find any trace of that motor in the Slashdot archives.
Maybe in a few more years and after a lot more next great thing hype articles you'll start questioning things that sound too good to be true here too.
Not all conservatives are religious idiots, just the great bulk and loudest of them.
It is a shame that I can't be both.
This is heresy. All worshipers of the high priest and great scientist Obama know that all undesired weather events are caused by global warming and nothing else. Global warming is real, no matter what the evidence says and this is not open to reasonable discussion. The floods in China must have been caused by global warming, just as tornadoes, colder winters, ISIS and tsunamis are. And don't get me started on the link between the Greek default and global warming.
Contrast this to the treatment meted out to Aaron Swartz
Why contrast this to Arron Swartz? This crook committed real crimes (the "theft of credit card details" that presumably were used or sold). As far as I know (and I could be wrong) Swartz committed no real crime, was just the victim of over zealous prosecution. Not that I have any love or respect for Swartz, I think he was an asshole and that may well have contributed to his over enthusiastic prosecution.
It would also be technically difficult.
Nothing is too difficult for the person who doesn't have to do it their self.
This is Nvidia. Don't buy into this based on any promises of what is to come, no matter how reasonable they seem.
Last summer I bought a Nvidia Tegra Note 7 tablet based on promises that Android 5 (Lollipop) was coming out for it "real soon". They even stated that it was easy to port Lollipop on the Tegra Note 7 since it was basically a stock Android design with little or on deviation from the standard design. That "real soon" slipped to February of 2015 and when February 2015 came and went Nvidia became strangely mute on the subject, ignoring customers' inquiries.
A claimed Nvidia employee even posted here as an AC that it was a shame what happened to the Tegra Note 7 customers, but explained that the U.S.A. developers wanted to work on the new stuff and the Tegra Note 7 project was shipped overseas, where no one wanted to work on it either (and apparently did not).
My Tegra Note 7 tablet is the last thing that Nvidia will ever sell me. If you chose to do business with them then I may not be able to talk you out of it, but do so based on what they deliver today, not on promises of things that will never come.
It has been over a week since SCOTUS gayed up marriage, now it is time to gay up computers.
Sony introduced the "Play Station" (yes, with a space)
In the pictures there is no space between play and station in the name.
Well, duh. If you give away your SSID to a 3rd party, YOU have compromised your security, not MS. That's why my guest room has a cat5 ethernet connection. And for special cases I do have an access point that I normally keep off but could turn on if someone shows up with a wifi only device such as a tablet. But the obvious solution for most users is simply be aware of this issue and never give your SSID password to a Windows 10 user. I have no problem explaining why if someone has Windows 10 they will not get access to my system wirelessly, if you do then go ahead and compromise your system.
If you don't want someone's Windows 10 passing on your password, Microsoft has two solutions;
Not a problem for me, they missed the obvious third solution. Never ever use Outlook, Don't use Skype and don't use Facebook. Problem solved without having to change my SSID. And, of course, there is a fourth solution but that involves using Linux.