They are looking for water, which - when the oil runs out - is going to be a lot more interesting.
Note: the vast majority of all fresh water processing is fueled by fossile fuel today (think sea water processing), so when the oil runs out, there is going to be a serious shortage in drinking water.
I't wont even be the first war about water, but it may be the last one. Ever.
Maybe it's slowly rotating and only has one shiny side?
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There is an economics theory called 'optimal currency zones' which makes much the same case you do: how can the central bank pursue a coherent monetary (ie interest rate) policy, when the different countries that make up Europe have such different economies?
We don't know.
Well, only time will tell for sure, but several european countries (germany, italy, france, austria...) with federal government and central bank have pretty much experience with monetary coherence. Especially Germany with the former DDR regions (east vs. west) and Italy with extremly different economies (south vs. north) have a shitload of experience with handling such a situation.
Of course the Eurozone is considerably larger so this experience now has to be scaled up.
hmm, i just happen to think of all those Petabytes of Logs in the world, where all those IP addresses are related to you personal likes/dislikes/preferences....
Surfers leave traces. For years.
The only real problem was to relate these traces to individuals, or at least to workstations.
Now imagine combining the logs of sites like yahoo or altavista or ebay with the database gathered by this company, and you can figure out yourself what value they build up.
I just have to figure out the NETBLK's they own/use and install block-rules on all my border routers.
Excuse me, but you have never actually looked into Sun's PKG packaging system.
Describing PKG as not a very sophisticated packaging systems that support upgrading and that support vendor tagging and Solaris packages are not as powerful as RPM packages demonstrates just that you have not informed yourself before making such bold and false statements.
The Sun PKG packaging system supports everything that the RPM system does, and it is installed on every Solaris system on this planet (in contrast to RPM). And for updates and patches you could eigther use pkg itself to update (PKG supports version numbers) or the sun patch system.
However, i do agree that the documentation for PKG is very thin. I had to dig quite deeply to find some useable howto's and docs. (http://docs.sun.com/ is a good starting point)
I am not going to use RPM on my solaris machines, so i guess i have to wait until.pkg files are provided....
well - if i have a few spare moments, i will build it myself and make my own.pkg's.
It is never a good idea to use an alien file format for binary distribution - use the means that are provided with the target OS, or stick to.tar if you cant.
hmm, last time i checked Microsoft Media Player 7.x (whatever the current version is) does not run on my favorite Unix.
although i do not use any `Real' products because their privacy-violations really piss me off
but i got your point: if even the evil empire can produce a piece of code that does not violate human rights, why do those Realmedia guys always have to screw it?
> What ever happened to interleaving memory banks for more speed? It does raise the pin counts, > but package technologies have been developed that mitigate that.
Well, interleaving memory banks is live and kicking in non-Wintel-cheapo-pc systems aka so called "workstations". Sun's, HP's, Alpha's all can use the speedup effect of interleaving memory banks if you stick enough RAM modules into them. And due to the incredible braindeadness of intel and rambus, they will never ever use rambus ram's for their systems. And high cost is not the reason!
If you can get away with supplying a plain-text version of your encrypted message, you could give them any plain text.
Provided you used a sophisticated encryption algorithm with long keys, even a known-plaintext attack would be too hard for the officials to do on everyone who happily supplies a plain-text.
To me, this looks as if whoever proposed and accepted this law does not know anything about cryptology.
If they insist on the keys however, you are severly screwed...
This would be a good reason to leave the island for good. (its only Rain and BSE anyway...;-)
If you put 100 average computer cpu's to work together in a beowulf cluster, it would be a 100 times as fast as your average computer - thus matching your definition of the term "Super computer".
Please take a look at the Top-500 list of Supercomputers (forgot the link, use a search engine)...
The real news in this story is the target price of $100k. Linux/Alpha based supercomputers are old news and have been aroung quite some time now... A Top-500 Supercomputer for only a few thousand US$ would definetly shake the grounds of this market.
I want to see what the big players (IBM, Sun, NEC, Fujitsu) have to comment [if you note the absence of SGI in the above list, it was intentional.]
I would rather want to see GnuPG here, since it is both free as in beer and free as in speech. (Not crippled by US export limitations and patent issues)
The danger of CoS infiltrating the world by means of a disk defragmentization program seem a little too far fetched.
Hmm, just think of all those temporary files from your favorite home-banking software or crypto-suite, that get deleted from harddisk once the application is closed. The data however will remain until physically overwritten by some other program or until a disk-defragmentation program defragments your disk.
Now, since i cannot look into the Source Code of any Windows2000 component, i am unable to dismiss scenarios where this software deliberatly searches for confidential information and transmits them to a scientology server next time you go online. (Hint: OpenSource cannot get into this situation...)
Compared to the Scientology Organisation, Microsoft is a free, liberal, open-minded philanthropistic bunch of very nice free, liberal, open-minded persons.
Note: this only applies in direct comparison to the Scientology Organisation.
[i can only speak for Germany, which is the biggest market for computer games in europe, UK being just second]
In Germany, every Title released from IdSoftware since Wolfenstein3d went to the so called "Index" as soon as it hit the stores. In the case of Quake - even before... This means, that it is illegal in Germany to advertise and openly display the software and to sell it to minors.
While this seems to be not so much of an impact on prior idsoft titles like doom, quake and quake2. This only meant that you had to go into the game-shop and explicitly ask for quake to buy a copy.
Note that this does not include those title that were published by raven soft or others (H*)
The fact, that this softwaere gathers personal data without the knowledge or consent of the user, is a direct violation of the European Information pricay act in general and of the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal data/information protection law), i.e. illegal.
And this would mean that this title would be forbidden. - no unter-the-table sales, no imports.
well, actually im not in the least afraid of any one reading my mind - i have a free, open mind and i dont care who reads it.
What i am concerned about however is the fact that i have to install some binary chunk of code inside my firewalled,secured network that sends some arbitrary unintelligible data though the firewall systems. Its the integrity of corporate security im takling about here.
This strict view probably does not apply to most educational institutions or installations without sensitive data/traffic.
Why Backups? - All my data gets stored at Echelon... --
When i first joined the seti@home project in february, i believed their promises to release the source later... now i no longer run any seti@home crap on my systems, and kill every user-run process i find. -> No source = no trust.
i dont give a damn about some remote chance to win some bucks - be it 10000€ or 2000$ - when i can't verify the integrity of the code i am suppost to run on my systems - especially if it exchanges some cryptic data with a remote site.
You might call me paranoid - but my aversion against the idea to run some code which i cant verify is one of the things that pull me towards Unix.
btw: i wouldn't participate at this for the prize money - i would do it to make a point.
(i get more money doing something that is fun for me - and is called 'work' by others;-)
Although RedHat6.0 comes close, i havent yet seen the "Perfect Distribution for Me(tm)", so i welcome every attempt to make it better than the others - after all, thats what Linux is all about: To make it better than the Others (notice the capital "O";-)
As long as the initial installation goes better than with debian, i'll give it a try.
Free Software is about Freedom.
The only thing i can see about the history of Unix is this: It has survived and is thriving.
Read the words: "leagal or not" - what you state is "leagal only" - which is wrong. The amount of people shot is not linear to the number of guns out there, but no one can get shot if there are no guns.
Mexico is a different thing. You can have all the laws against weapon-owning you want, if the executive (that is: police) does not control these laws enough.
Switzerland has a completely different culture than the rest of the civilized world. The suiss people have stayed in their self-chosen cultural and political isolation for longer than the USA exists. It is true that suisse has less strict gun-ownership laws than most other european laws, but the percentage of actual gun-owners is less than in the USA.
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They are looking for water, which - when the oil runs out - is going to be a lot more interesting.
Note: the vast majority of all fresh water processing is fueled by fossile fuel today (think sea water processing), so when the oil runs out, there is going to be a serious shortage in drinking water.
I't wont even be the first war about water, but it may be the last one. Ever.
It's an Addiction. It doesn't need to be an essential one like food, oxygen or sex (the last being open to debate), but it is one nonetheless.
Hide all pizza delivery flyers. Problem Solved.
It's also often the last phrase a scientist utters...
Maybe it's slowly rotating and only has one shiny side?
There is an economics theory called 'optimal currency zones' which makes much the same case you do: how can the central bank pursue a coherent monetary (ie interest rate) policy, when the different countries that make up Europe have such different economies?
We don't know.
Well, only time will tell for sure, but several european countries (germany, italy, france, austria
Of course the Eurozone is considerably larger so this experience now has to be scaled up.
hmm, i just happen to think of all those Petabytes of Logs in the world, where all those IP addresses are related to you personal likes/dislikes/preferences....
Surfers leave traces. For years.
The only real problem was to relate these traces to individuals, or at least to workstations.
Now imagine combining the logs of sites like yahoo or altavista or ebay with the database gathered by this company, and you can figure out yourself what value they build up.
I just have to figure out the NETBLK's they own/use and install block-rules on all my border routers.
They wont scan my nets...
Excuse me, but you have never actually looked into Sun's PKG packaging system.
.pkg files are provided....
.pkg's.
.tar if you cant.
Describing PKG as not a very sophisticated packaging systems that support upgrading and that support vendor tagging and Solaris packages are not as powerful as RPM packages demonstrates just that you have not informed yourself before making such bold and false statements.
The Sun PKG packaging system supports everything that the RPM system does, and it is installed on every Solaris system on this planet (in contrast to RPM). And for updates and patches you could eigther use pkg itself to update (PKG supports version numbers) or the sun patch system.
However, i do agree that the documentation for PKG is very thin. I had to dig quite deeply to find some useable howto's and docs. (http://docs.sun.com/ is a good starting point)
I am not going to use RPM on my solaris machines, so i guess i have to wait until
well - if i have a few spare moments, i will build it myself and make my own
It is never a good idea to use an alien file format for binary distribution - use the means that are provided with the target OS, or stick to
hmm, last time i checked Microsoft Media Player 7.x (whatever the current version is) does not run on my favorite Unix.
although i do not use any `Real' products because their privacy-violations really piss me off
but i got your point: if even the evil empire can produce a piece of code that does not violate human rights, why do those Realmedia guys always have to screw it?
some US citicen should sue this US company.
hmm, and how exactly are you going to retrofit those solar sails on voyager ?
/. ;-)
unfortunatly there is no pitstop anywhere near the voyager probe, so NASA has to launch a whole new one to overtake it.
get your brains in gear before you talk to
> What ever happened to interleaving memory banks for more speed? It does raise the pin counts,
> but package technologies have been developed that mitigate that.
Well, interleaving memory banks is live and kicking in non-Wintel-cheapo-pc systems
aka so called "workstations". Sun's, HP's, Alpha's all can use the speedup effect
of interleaving memory banks if you stick enough RAM modules into them.
And due to the incredible braindeadness of intel and rambus, they will never
ever use rambus ram's for their systems. And high cost is not the reason!
just my 2 cents
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I can see a big flaw in this law (;-)
;-)
If you can get away with supplying a plain-text version of your
encrypted message, you could give them any plain text.
Provided you used a sophisticated encryption algorithm with long
keys, even a known-plaintext attack would be too hard for
the officials to do on everyone who happily supplies a plain-text.
To me, this looks as if whoever proposed and accepted this
law does not know anything about cryptology.
If they insist on the keys however, you are severly screwed...
This would be a good reason to leave the island for good.
(its only Rain and BSE anyway...
--
On the other hand,
If you put 100 average computer cpu's to work together in a beowulf cluster,
it would be a 100 times as fast as your average computer - thus matching
your definition of the term "Super computer".
Please take a look at the Top-500 list of Supercomputers (forgot the link,
use a search engine)...
The real news in this story is the target price of $100k.
Linux/Alpha based supercomputers are old news and have been aroung quite some time now...
A Top-500 Supercomputer for only a few thousand US$ would definetly shake
the grounds of this market.
I want to see what the big players (IBM, Sun, NEC, Fujitsu) have to comment
[if you note the absence of SGI in the above list, it was intentional.]
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I would rather want to see GnuPG here,
since it is both free as in beer and
free as in speech. (Not crippled by US export
limitations and patent issues)
--
The danger of CoS infiltrating the world by means of a disk defragmentization program seem a little too far fetched.
Hmm, just think of all those temporary files from your favorite home-banking software or crypto-suite, that get deleted from harddisk once the application is closed. The data however will remain until physically overwritten by some other program or until a disk-defragmentation program defragments your disk.
Now, since i cannot look into the Source Code of any Windows2000 component, i am unable to dismiss scenarios where this software deliberatly searches for confidential information and transmits them to a scientology server next time you go online. (Hint: OpenSource cannot get into this situation...)
Compared to the Scientology Organisation, Microsoft is a free, liberal, open-minded philanthropistic bunch of very nice free, liberal, open-minded persons.
Note: this only applies in direct comparison to the Scientology Organisation.
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[i can only speak for Germany, which is the biggest market for computer games in europe, UK being just second]
In Germany, every Title released from IdSoftware since Wolfenstein3d went to the so called "Index"
as soon as it hit the stores. In the case of Quake - even before...
This means, that it is illegal in Germany to advertise and openly display the software and to sell it to minors.
While this seems to be not so much of an impact on prior idsoft titles like doom, quake and quake2.
This only meant that you had to go into the game-shop and explicitly ask for quake to buy a copy.
Note that this does not include those title that were published by raven soft or others (H*)
The fact, that this softwaere gathers personal data without the knowledge or consent of the user, is a direct violation of the European Information pricay act in general and of the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal data/information protection law), i.e. illegal.
And this would mean that this title would be forbidden. - no unter-the-table sales, no imports.
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And in which Opressive Anti-Democratic Human-Rights-Violationg Dictatorship do you live, if i may ask ?
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well, actually im not in the least afraid of any one reading my mind - i have a free, open mind and i dont care who reads it.
What i am concerned about however is the fact that i have to install some binary chunk of code inside my firewalled,secured network that sends some arbitrary unintelligible data though the firewall systems.
Its the integrity of corporate security im takling about here.
This strict view probably does not apply to most educational institutions or installations without sensitive data/traffic.
Why Backups? - All my data gets stored at Echelon...
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Am i mistaken, or has not SGI sold part of Cray Research (the high-speed crossbar part) to Sun some time ago ?
;-)
AFAIK a bit later Sun came out with the E10000 which incidently had a high-performance Crossbar architechture....
But SGI had a much better Idea: Windows NT...
(we all know the Desaster for SGI...
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where is the source ?
;-)
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When i first joined the seti@home project in february, i believed their promises to release the source later...
now i no longer run any seti@home crap on my systems, and kill every user-run process i find.
-> No source = no trust.
i dont give a damn about some remote chance to win some bucks - be it 10000€ or 2000$ - when i can't verify the integrity of the code i am suppost to run on my systems - especially if it exchanges some cryptic data with a remote site.
You might call me paranoid - but my aversion against the idea to run some code which i cant verify is one of the things that pull me towards Unix.
btw: i wouldn't participate at this for the prize money - i would do it to make a point.
(i get more money doing something that is fun for me - and is called 'work' by others
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Maybe that laughter will die in their throats soner or later...
;)
(i know, its off-topic - give it a -1
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Although RedHat6.0 comes close, i havent yet ;-)
seen the "Perfect Distribution for Me(tm)", so i welcome every attempt to make it better than the others - after all, thats what Linux is all about: To make it better than the Others (notice the capital "O"
As long as the initial installation goes better than with debian, i'll give it a try.
Free Software is about Freedom.
The only thing i can see about the history of Unix is this: It has survived and is thriving.
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No to mention the emission of light that can be used by a nifty small camera somewhere in the ceiling...
;)
the perfect system would not have any display device at all.
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Er - how do you know that the BigBang that caused our universe to exist has not been caused by two stray gold ions colliding in a previous universe?
Just a thought.
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Read the words: "leagal or not" - what you state is "leagal only" - which is wrong.
The amount of people shot is not linear to the number of guns out there, but no one can get shot if there are no guns.
Mexico is a different thing. You can have all the laws against weapon-owning you want, if the executive (that is: police) does not control these laws enough.
Switzerland has a completely different culture than the rest of the civilized world.
The suiss people have stayed in their self-chosen cultural and political isolation for longer than the USA exists. It is true that suisse has less strict gun-ownership laws than most other european laws, but the percentage of actual gun-owners is less than in the USA.
With your last statement i do fully agree.
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