Not a completly stupid idea this. One of the ways in fighting virusses is to get the body adjusted to a lesser variant of the virus you want to fight against. It is called innoculation (or something) and it is extremly widely used. Problem with the aids virus is that there doesn't seem to be a lesser variant around we can use to prepare our imune system. Meaning the innoculation will kill you. Not good.
Perhaps an artificial virus can come close enough to build up our defence system but not actually kill you in the process.
Of course the bad news is that people tend to screw up so we might end up with an aids virus that spreads through the air.
ehm no? The members. So unless Microsoft has some special hidden member status I very much doubt it. Sure joining your enemies to fight them from the inside is a smart move but this one nobody would fall for.
You want to buy only a lossless codec wich is why you are sticking with cd's for now. Mmmm, right. You do know that cd's aren't lossless either? They leave out parts of the original sound to fit on a cd.
Don't count on it. I a burglar climbs over your fence, stumbles and impales himself on your fence you most certainly have to defend yourselve in court. If someone steals your car and the brakes fail killing the thief you will be sued. Why do you think anti-theft kits are so damn simplistic? Why not in a stolen car blowout the steering when the car is going fullspeed down the highway? Or suddenly lock the brakes? Reroute the sparkplugs through the passenger seat? You are not allowed to harm criminals.
Soon women with STD who are raped will be charged with causing willfull harm to their rapists. Welcome to lawyer hell.
ehm, DOS and DDOS attacks. Spamming. Protocol floods. All things that can be done with a compromised machine that do not require a unprotected machine at the other end.
People who break into other peoples computer do this for a reason. Not just to send up an endless chain of machines they hacked but rather to then use these machines for another form of attack. If you don't know what a ddos or dos attack is. It is basically a way to flood out a service by sending lots of bogus traffic. Denial of Service and Distrubted Denial of Service.
If that car is used to smuggle drugs then you can say goodbye to your car. Well that is at least what I think the law in america is.
There certainly have been enough sob-stories on tv-docu about america's war on drugs here to give me the impression that even accidently helping drug trafficing can land you in jail. Remember in holland we get a fair few of these docu's looking at american law because our law system is almost the exact opposite (and somehow just as bad/useless/non-working/wastefull/unfair).
I remember on case in wich a sister-in-laws car was "borrowed" by the boyfriend of her sister. Since she had not taken enough measures to stop the car from being used she was guilty of assisting drug trafficing. Blam, jailtime. (maybe something more was going on as these programs are hardly unbiased).
So the courts could come to hold computer crime in the same light. You didn't protect your computer thereby granting the criminal easy access hence you are guilty. How heavy they are going to come down on people like this is the real question. But I do know that at least for drugs the courts seem to show very little mercy (yes I am a damn liberal sometimes)
First timers. That really is the key. Read a lot of the posts and what you will hear people complaining about is that Linux != Windows. They want or expect computers to work the way windows works. For some reason they are unable to accept that windows != computers. It is just one way of doing things. Seriously some even say that they want a C: drive on linux since this is the way it is supposed to be.
They are unable to remember back to the time that they first encountered a windows/dos machine and were totally baffled by it. The idea for them that linux will have to be learned just like they once learned to use windows seems repulsive or even insane to them. I certainly remember being totally lost at the dos prompt cause I was expecting something like the C64.
First time users like the people in this article are ofcourse totally unaffected by this.
Of course the article you refer talks about something that MIGHT happen. It has not yet happened. The 70% stick rate is a prediction not a measured fact.
Still having good support, from a friend, local user group, co-workers, IT-staff, is essential for all newbies to learn any new tool. If the thai goverment has really done this well, not just installed a couple of script readers going, "please reboot your computer", then it might work. If it doesn't work then nothing is lost. That is the great thing about being last. You can only get better. The leader on the other hand can only lose. Neat eh?
mmm, that case was the public against a company. The public has of course no case they should be in jail anyway for being scrufy and not paying enough bribes oops sorry campaign donations.
Not that this will happen but lets say it did.
This is big company against big company. Think godzilla vs king kong. This is going to be enjoyable to watch. From a safe distance. Anyone know when the first shuttles leaves for mars?
They licensed some technology, related to chips. Hardly a huge deal to anyone not from marketing. These kind of deals are signed all the time between companies. It would be almost impossible to design a chip without licensing tech from others. Welcome to IP in the 21st century.
Not really, this is more like going into to the zoo and throwing pebbles at the hybernating polar bear. Only it ain't winter and there is no zoo.
Survival programs always say you gotta startle a bear or a lion into thinking you are bigger. They never talk about what happens after the huge predator stops being startled. In fact noone ever reported on this. I wonder why.
(if you don't get it, the fact that there are no accounts of wolves attacking travellers is not exactly comforting when you are travelling through wolve country)
How do you turn the damn thing? They mention leaning but that at least on bikes works only at speed. Leaning a bike/bicycle/moped or indeed unicycle while going slow only leads to falling over.
And how much leaning would it allow? How would it know the difference between turning and falling over?
For those that don't know uni-cycles are turned rather forcibly by pulling a kind of jump twist with your body when standing still or very close to it. Usefull for showing off, hardly something you want to do while parking this thing each day.
So anyone around a little brighter then me? Does the machine take over the forces you excert with your body in a traditional unicycle?
Well it does say that the brake is triggered by a trigger. Wich says button to me. Wich suggests you have the same control over the power of your braking as you have on say a gba racing game. None. So if your fat, expect braking distances that would make a 747 weep.
On the other hand pulling a wheelie has never been easier.
To reply to this thread. All pilots should know, they train for this in simulators. How often does it happen in real life. Not very often, I just remember the gear up one from a focker friendship that had the pilot balancing the aircraft on one gear during the landing until it finally fell over. But this was at a slow enough speed not to cause to much damage, to the passengers. If he had done it wrong then all the passengers would have been dead.
Oh and the training in simulators is ongoing. Depends a bit on region and airline but what I know of it is that big airline pilots are routinly tested on landing crippled planes. If they fail the test they are grounded.
ehm you do know linux is also a decade old? Of course MS has been doing it for a bit longer then 1 decade. Hell the current windows looks will soon be a decade old (1994 yes I know it was released officially in 1995). But MS has been around a bit longer. Hell they used to be a unix company:P
Ehm, if you are suggesting MS will somehow start writing exploits or something to bring down linux you are either mad or think MS has gone mad.
That would land them in so much hot water if found out that it is just not funny anymore. FUD is nothing new, actually attacks are something different. The last one is just good bussines the latter is investigated by the police. Not by jokers like the SEC but real cops who put you in handcuffs and put you in jail with a guy called bubba.
Do you think any MS coder is going to risk getting slammed like some of the other virus writers?
No, MS will try to discredit Linux and all its competitors. It may even publish "research" showing it to be so. But it will not resort to clear and blatant criminal acts.
Do we need a revolution? I don't think so. Why not? What is needed is NON-windows systems getting a larger share (no not because I am anti-windows) Let me explain.
Currently people expect other people to run windows/office/MS-app. Worse they expect other people to run the latest windows/office/MS-app. So they happily send you a office XP.doc, expect you to run Windows Media Player, release windows only drivers, expect you to use messenger to talk to them.
As more people use non-windows (apple, unix, bsd, amiga, game conolse, web-tv, linux, pda's, symbian and god knows what more) this assumption will have to disappear. Just like gasstations have to be built to accomodate everything from a smart to a hummer, people will have to adjust to the other side not running the same OS as them. This means using cross-platform somewhat open formats.
This is what I am hoping will happen. So if you want to help make it a more linux friendly place get people to buy mac's. We need a 20% or so non-windows users share out there for the world to stop being ms-centric. Not a 20% linux crowd.
I was always under the impression that render farms used the cpu. Same as say 3dmax does under windows (at least that was true a few years ago).
I did hear some suggestions that with gpu's becoming cheaper that it might be used in renderfarms but this was dismissed I think since for now the image generated by them can't compete with the routines done in software on the main cpu. Also gpu's seem to be more expensive as you still need a cpu to control them.
Cause it is the pilot who has the training and experience to land that aircraft on only 1 gear down. With half the engines off. With part of the control surfaces stuck. It isn't always bad maintenance that causes failures. Sometimes things just break. Then the pilot go to land it. No matter how much you pay the mechanics they can not fix the aircraft inflight.
Plus of course there are a hell of a lot more mechanics for each plane then pilots. So it would be like pay several million more on maintenance or just a million more on pilots. Simple choice really.
Well not by telling them that linux is really big in servers. Not exactly the place you put a near high end gaming video card (or do you really need two gpu's to render a remote ssh session?).
Anyway there seem to be linux drivers under development (later this year).
And yes it could be a nice adition, after all writing the drivers themselves shouldn't be to hard for people who can design chips. Matrox has been slipping as the default linux vid card maker. I could seriously use a powerfull dual output card for my linux machine.
Yes you are missing the fact that most people don't seem to know how to deal with their VCR. That blinking clock is not a joke.
I also think you are missing just how many people know about the inner working of cars. I am certainly no mechanic but I know how most of the bits roughly work. An electrical motor sets the crankshaft in motion wich causes cylinders to move. The action of this creates suction drawing in air wich is fed alond a nozzle from wich fuel is pulled wich then mixes with the air. This mixture is then ignited in the cylinder at the a certain point wich causes the cylinder to move and foila the engine is started.
How many here can tell this a lot better? At least a quarter of the readers I will bet. So most people will not be to cheated at a car dealer/repairshop. If we don't know enough ourselves we can rely on people close to us who we thrust for help. I can fix a loose wire and will not be charged for replacing the pistons when the sparky things have just gotten old (moped)
Now go and check how many people understand what a partition is. I recently found this one out and it scared the shit out of me. The person had a 60gb hd and wanted a new one because it was full. So I asked what he did with it to determine if perhaps he needed to go for a 200gb wich was on special offer. Turned out he didn't do anything special with it. So why was his disk full? He only had one tiny little partition.
This person was a slave to his machine. With a car he would be unable to tell something is wrong when it does a mile to the gallon, with a vcr he would be unable to record a program while he wasn't there to start it. Any shop clerk could have sold him anything with the highest profit.
It is like when the church was dead set against the bible being translated into english. They wanted people to rely on them to tell what the word of god was. Translate it into english and people might just make their own mind up about it,
So does everyone need to learn the innerworkings of their PC? No as long as they are happy with the fact that they are completly and utterly reliant upon others. Do you need to learn the innerworkings of your car? No as long as you are happy being totally and completly reliant on others when things break down.
We seem to be moving away as a society from thrusting other people completly. How many people would no longer ask for second opinion from a doctor for something serious?
You sound like those people who want to stop using horse powers when reviewing cars. After all horses are so obsolete. True perhaps. However it is a reference everybody can relate to. You know how your current card does in quake (in terms of looks and speed) so when you then see in a stat it has X better AA or X times framerate you can put it in perspective. This is kinda hard to do with a game no one has yet seen. Silent Storm is a current game that really pushes your hardware at the moment. It has a framerate display but nobody will be able to use those stats to decide wether they need to upgrade.
It is not the MS way or to be honest the linux way. Apple did it a couple of times. It allowes them to move on and leave all the ancient legacy crap behind but it costs them. Why? People hate not being able to run their old apps anymore or use their old hardware.
The famous MS instability is often a fault of the insane amount of crappy obsolete hardware that is still attached to machines. I recently heard someone bitch on how none of the P4 boards had an ISA slot for his modem and now he had to upgrade and he didn't want to.
(oh and they exist)
Was he right? Well according to MS and linux and the makers of that board, yes. (don't know about the bsd's) People should be able to use old software from the dos era and hardware that belonged in a pc two generations old. (human generations). Apple would have told him to get stuffed.
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Perhaps an artificial virus can come close enough to build up our defence system but not actually kill you in the process.
Of course the bad news is that people tend to screw up so we might end up with an aids virus that spreads through the air.
Anyway smuggling kittens is hard as they set off the sniffer dogs.
Remember weapons of war must look hard and menacing, not cute and fluffy.
ehm no? The members. So unless Microsoft has some special hidden member status I very much doubt it. Sure joining your enemies to fight them from the inside is a smart move but this one nobody would fall for.
You want to buy only a lossless codec wich is why you are sticking with cd's for now. Mmmm, right. You do know that cd's aren't lossless either? They leave out parts of the original sound to fit on a cd.
Soon women with STD who are raped will be charged with causing willfull harm to their rapists. Welcome to lawyer hell.
People who break into other peoples computer do this for a reason. Not just to send up an endless chain of machines they hacked but rather to then use these machines for another form of attack. If you don't know what a ddos or dos attack is. It is basically a way to flood out a service by sending lots of bogus traffic. Denial of Service and Distrubted Denial of Service.
There certainly have been enough sob-stories on tv-docu about america's war on drugs here to give me the impression that even accidently helping drug trafficing can land you in jail. Remember in holland we get a fair few of these docu's looking at american law because our law system is almost the exact opposite (and somehow just as bad/useless/non-working/wastefull/unfair).
I remember on case in wich a sister-in-laws car was "borrowed" by the boyfriend of her sister. Since she had not taken enough measures to stop the car from being used she was guilty of assisting drug trafficing. Blam, jailtime. (maybe something more was going on as these programs are hardly unbiased).
So the courts could come to hold computer crime in the same light. You didn't protect your computer thereby granting the criminal easy access hence you are guilty. How heavy they are going to come down on people like this is the real question. But I do know that at least for drugs the courts seem to show very little mercy (yes I am a damn liberal sometimes)
They are unable to remember back to the time that they first encountered a windows/dos machine and were totally baffled by it. The idea for them that linux will have to be learned just like they once learned to use windows seems repulsive or even insane to them. I certainly remember being totally lost at the dos prompt cause I was expecting something like the C64.
First time users like the people in this article are ofcourse totally unaffected by this.
Of course the article you refer talks about something that MIGHT happen. It has not yet happened. The 70% stick rate is a prediction not a measured fact.
Still having good support, from a friend, local user group, co-workers, IT-staff, is essential for all newbies to learn any new tool. If the thai goverment has really done this well, not just installed a couple of script readers going, "please reboot your computer", then it might work. If it doesn't work then nothing is lost. That is the great thing about being last. You can only get better. The leader on the other hand can only lose. Neat eh?
Not that this will happen but lets say it did.
This is big company against big company. Think godzilla vs king kong. This is going to be enjoyable to watch. From a safe distance. Anyone know when the first shuttles leaves for mars?
They licensed some technology, related to chips. Hardly a huge deal to anyone not from marketing. These kind of deals are signed all the time between companies. It would be almost impossible to design a chip without licensing tech from others. Welcome to IP in the 21st century.
Survival programs always say you gotta startle a bear or a lion into thinking you are bigger. They never talk about what happens after the huge predator stops being startled. In fact noone ever reported on this. I wonder why.
(if you don't get it, the fact that there are no accounts of wolves attacking travellers is not exactly comforting when you are travelling through wolve country)
And how much leaning would it allow? How would it know the difference between turning and falling over?
For those that don't know uni-cycles are turned rather forcibly by pulling a kind of jump twist with your body when standing still or very close to it. Usefull for showing off, hardly something you want to do while parking this thing each day.
So anyone around a little brighter then me? Does the machine take over the forces you excert with your body in a traditional unicycle?
On the other hand pulling a wheelie has never been easier.
Okay I stop now.
But yes they got to prove being able to land a damaged bird and are tested on it during their career.
I can only say for KLM for sure but the answer is 100% of its pilots how shown in simulators that they can land a cripped airline aircraft.
As for real life. Sadly engine failure is not exactly rare. Some total egine failures
Oh and the training in simulators is ongoing. Depends a bit on region and airline but what I know of it is that big airline pilots are routinly tested on landing crippled planes. If they fail the test they are grounded.
To explain the log would write to something. Thereby overwriting what was already there. This would need to be undone as well.
End logic error.
ehm you do know linux is also a decade old? Of course MS has been doing it for a bit longer then 1 decade. Hell the current windows looks will soon be a decade old (1994 yes I know it was released officially in 1995). But MS has been around a bit longer. Hell they used to be a unix company :P
That would land them in so much hot water if found out that it is just not funny anymore. FUD is nothing new, actually attacks are something different. The last one is just good bussines the latter is investigated by the police. Not by jokers like the SEC but real cops who put you in handcuffs and put you in jail with a guy called bubba.
Do you think any MS coder is going to risk getting slammed like some of the other virus writers?
No, MS will try to discredit Linux and all its competitors. It may even publish "research" showing it to be so. But it will not resort to clear and blatant criminal acts.
Currently people expect other people to run windows/office/MS-app. Worse they expect other people to run the latest windows/office/MS-app. So they happily send you a office XP .doc, expect you to run Windows Media Player, release windows only drivers, expect you to use messenger to talk to them.
As more people use non-windows (apple, unix, bsd, amiga, game conolse, web-tv, linux, pda's, symbian and god knows what more) this assumption will have to disappear. Just like gasstations have to be built to accomodate everything from a smart to a hummer, people will have to adjust to the other side not running the same OS as them. This means using cross-platform somewhat open formats.
This is what I am hoping will happen. So if you want to help make it a more linux friendly place get people to buy mac's. We need a 20% or so non-windows users share out there for the world to stop being ms-centric. Not a 20% linux crowd.
I was always under the impression that render farms used the cpu. Same as say 3dmax does under windows (at least that was true a few years ago). I did hear some suggestions that with gpu's becoming cheaper that it might be used in renderfarms but this was dismissed I think since for now the image generated by them can't compete with the routines done in software on the main cpu. Also gpu's seem to be more expensive as you still need a cpu to control them.
Plus of course there are a hell of a lot more mechanics for each plane then pilots. So it would be like pay several million more on maintenance or just a million more on pilots. Simple choice really.
Anyway there seem to be linux drivers under development (later this year).
And yes it could be a nice adition, after all writing the drivers themselves shouldn't be to hard for people who can design chips. Matrox has been slipping as the default linux vid card maker. I could seriously use a powerfull dual output card for my linux machine.
I also think you are missing just how many people know about the inner working of cars. I am certainly no mechanic but I know how most of the bits roughly work. An electrical motor sets the crankshaft in motion wich causes cylinders to move. The action of this creates suction drawing in air wich is fed alond a nozzle from wich fuel is pulled wich then mixes with the air. This mixture is then ignited in the cylinder at the a certain point wich causes the cylinder to move and foila the engine is started.
How many here can tell this a lot better? At least a quarter of the readers I will bet. So most people will not be to cheated at a car dealer/repairshop. If we don't know enough ourselves we can rely on people close to us who we thrust for help. I can fix a loose wire and will not be charged for replacing the pistons when the sparky things have just gotten old (moped)
Now go and check how many people understand what a partition is. I recently found this one out and it scared the shit out of me. The person had a 60gb hd and wanted a new one because it was full. So I asked what he did with it to determine if perhaps he needed to go for a 200gb wich was on special offer. Turned out he didn't do anything special with it. So why was his disk full? He only had one tiny little partition.
This person was a slave to his machine. With a car he would be unable to tell something is wrong when it does a mile to the gallon, with a vcr he would be unable to record a program while he wasn't there to start it. Any shop clerk could have sold him anything with the highest profit.
It is like when the church was dead set against the bible being translated into english. They wanted people to rely on them to tell what the word of god was. Translate it into english and people might just make their own mind up about it,
So does everyone need to learn the innerworkings of their PC? No as long as they are happy with the fact that they are completly and utterly reliant upon others. Do you need to learn the innerworkings of your car? No as long as you are happy being totally and completly reliant on others when things break down.
We seem to be moving away as a society from thrusting other people completly. How many people would no longer ask for second opinion from a doctor for something serious?
You sound like those people who want to stop using horse powers when reviewing cars. After all horses are so obsolete. True perhaps. However it is a reference everybody can relate to. You know how your current card does in quake (in terms of looks and speed) so when you then see in a stat it has X better AA or X times framerate you can put it in perspective. This is kinda hard to do with a game no one has yet seen. Silent Storm is a current game that really pushes your hardware at the moment. It has a framerate display but nobody will be able to use those stats to decide wether they need to upgrade.
The famous MS instability is often a fault of the insane amount of crappy obsolete hardware that is still attached to machines. I recently heard someone bitch on how none of the P4 boards had an ISA slot for his modem and now he had to upgrade and he didn't want to. (oh and they exist)
Was he right? Well according to MS and linux and the makers of that board, yes. (don't know about the bsd's) People should be able to use old software from the dos era and hardware that belonged in a pc two generations old. (human generations). Apple would have told him to get stuffed.
Who is right?