What the hell is wrong with the USA, when they have to force their religious beliefs on other countries?
There's nothing wrong with the US, this is not a new phenomenon. You've pretty much defined the primary cause of most war. The second cause is basically armed robbery. We've all done it, the USA is just the up at the plate at the moment.
It's not so much an illusion, it's more of an abstract. You cannot travel in time because there is no such thing.
So, what is time? Well, it first started out as a way for man to determine when to plant crops. It later was used by man for navigation & transport, at a time where different villages were on different time zones (sundials). Now we measure it by counting the vibrations of an atom. The key thing is that man was present at each step. We feel so confident about it, we have even created a "Universal Time". This doesn't make it any more real or even universally relevant.
When scientists say "time slows down" e.g. relativity, the way I see it is that your perception of time slows down. Your atomic vibrations change speed, relative to an external observer. But there is no way that can be seen as time travel.
What I'm trying to say is that one only one time "exists", NOW! The moment when your eye's hit the N is now gone. It never existed really, but what we do know is that when your eyes got to it, the crystal in your watch had been counted to have vibrated X number of times since point Y.
Besides, the grandfather theory, as others describe, completely discounts time travel, unless there are parallel universes with different timelines, which I doubt. The would need to be an infinite amount of them, and the count can only grow exponentially as "time" progresses.
No. I think the 'acedemic' approach didn't pan out with the cumbersome, intrusive technologies of the time. That's the reason why VR was never immersive: you always felt the heavy headset, you where locked in a sensor cage...it sucked.
It is parly that, but there is another larger problem. Basically, it was dangerous. People would come off the machines feeling disoriented and dizzy. The false perspective used in the headset messed with you own natural perspective, which might not restore to normal for several hours depending on the person. If that person was to then drive a car, the VR company is legally liable if they were to have an accident.
I'm sure I read this on another/. topic about "what ever happened to VR" a few months ago.
He said several different variations. He was around at the right time for the explosion of media, so he's quoted a lot, and much of it's the same as the other stuff!:-)
Meh, that's actually something he was quoted on! "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber". I think it was refering to his work that essentially gave the world the nuke.
A more important science project to keep alive is the Voyagers. It has taken decades to get them where they are, and the deviation of their trajectories from the predicted trajectories is very valuable to get an idea of the dark matter present in our own solar system.
If that is the cause of the deviation. The dark matter thing is a wild guess there.
In my experience a travel Brussels - Roma is quicker and cheaper by plane than by train.
Last year or so, the BBC carried a story that taking a plane from Edinburgh to London via Frankfurt, Germany(!) was cheaper and quicker than the direct train.
I'm not sure if it has enough juice yet, certainally with existing technologies. Also, how could you power a desktop with firewire, then have firewire ports hanging off it? They then could have firewire powered PCs trying to power themselves from that. Not going to work.
In some ways, the current system works well. By having a big fat feed into the PC, you supply many little devices from it. What I'd rather see is a domestic uber DC supply that had 12/5 V available. Even then, I think there are still some valid reasons for using AC over DC.
The induction chargers are more promising for portable devices. They don't even plug in, just sit the device near (or on) the charger. With networking going to wireless anyway, I think it won't be all that long before we start to see devices with no I/O ports on them whatsoever. Will make design cheaper & simplers, the devices will be stronger and more durable. And it will be easier to use. Win win, except for the anti-RF people...!
I've always liked the iPod ACs that used firewire cables to charge the iPod
Old technology really, but mentioning Apple got you your mod points;-) I've had charging USB devices for at least three years, and an access point that uses PoE for at least as long. The AP mains adapter terminates with a box with two cat-5 sockets on it. One goes to the switch, one to the AP (with power). I've often wondered what would happen if I plugged it in the wrong way and sent the power to my NIC/switch...:-)
Ordinary users on Unix are subject to even worse limitations (which is, in fact, why ping among other utilities runs setuid root).
Has anyone found that this makes Unix unusable for them?
Yes, absolutely. Generally when I'm in an SSH session, I'll be root. Granted, the nature of what I'm doing most of the time demands it, but to be honest I haven't used a non-privledged account since my Uni days. Even at work I have access to just about every root password, and I'm not in the admin group. It's the only way I can do my job really. Makes for an interesting environment, as half the employees have the same access, and some aren't all that experienced!
What is good though is more the *nix environment. When I'm sitting at the console behind a GUI login, most of my apps will be running as me, except of course my terminals. A mail/web trojan couldn't do all that much damage, and that's what counts. Many daemons run in a chroot jail as well, making them safer. So, even though I'm regularly using a root session to do most of my work, I'm a hell of a lot safer than on Windows. On that side of things, it's admin privledges all the way. Runas just has too many limitations, and the user-level access is just too strict for my liking. Yes, I know you can change it, but I use too many different machines to be able to set them all up nicely. And then there's all the application bugs relating to restricted users...
I have used sudo in the past (with full privleges), when I was working with a well configured network. That worked, though the only real benefit was essentially an auto logout of terminals (timed) and the fact it was selective (I didn't "sudo ls" all that much). However, many places just don't use it as it's a huge hole. Needing a specific root password means that snooping my regular password isn't enough to do damage. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.
As far as I know, there are no parts 7,8 and 9 to be filmed.:) Indeed there are such rumours, but that's a common mistake.
You know, I heard the exact same thing several years ago before Phantom was announced. They completely made clear that the original trilogy was the end. Lucas is a one-trick pony. He'll make the rest, he's got nothing else to go with. The only thing that might screw that up is if he retires.
Conclusion: even if Lucas *wanted* to make parts 7, 8 and 9, he'd have to go back to the writing table and work out all new stories.
Damn. There are so many films that don't get made because of the writer not being able to crank out a cliched reshash of other films./sarcasm
Look, for the millions of dollars the SW puts in his pocket, I'm sure he'll be willing to dig out his typewriter for a few hours work.
So I assume the masses and masses of comments about Americans being fat and stupid on slashdot are racist too, right.. oh, they aren't? Why is that?
Please turn off your computer, and turn it on again when you understand the difference between racism and xenophobia too.
What in the hell are you talking about? You just showed your own prejudges you fucking moron. Where in my post did I say anything about any group of people? The only generalisation I made was that slashdot tends to mod up predictable racist comments.
And I ain't ever modded ANYONE up for a similar pointless negative comment about Americans. My original comment applies to those posts as well.
It's a hell of a lot more honest than the "+1 insightful" and "+1 interesting" that the mods currently give them. The France/India thing is getting boring now. The US* needs to switch to East Asia for their 10 minutes hate for a bit, give us a breath of fresh air.
* yes, I am fully aware of the hypocracy of calling an entire nation racist, but I blame the media, not the people. I guess that makes it alright.
If ISPs would spent a few bucks on implementing passive traffic analyzers to search for the viral/trojan patterns and null route offenders, we'd clean things up pretty quick.
Bollocks.
The aren't running a network in their parents basement you know. Their networks are massive, with nodes LITERALY spanning thousands of miles. The volume of traffic they deal with is HUGE. They use cutting-edge routers just to keep up with the demand.
How on earth do you do traffic analysis on that level? You might be able to catch some of the more obvious spammers, but how do you differentiate (on the IP level) between: a) a residential user b) a commercial user who maildrops willing customers c) a zombie d) a community group or e) blah. Blocking someone based on traffic is not possible, unless you want to lose your valid customers.
What they should do is be more responsive to complaints. If a customer of theirs is a zombie spambot or acting as a stepping stone for some script kiddie, they should have their connection suspended until it is remedied. But they can only do this based on a complaint.
Besides, what's the profit in spending any resource on the problem in the first place? Until that is affected, they won't care about it.
There are some. This site has several different blocklists, such as ad-hosts, anti-p2p bodies, spyware companies, hackers, trackers, trojans etc. The link above lists what's available. Sure, the lists aren't 100% acurate, but they are a lot better than nothing.
Very highly recommended. With the case of p2p, it's good to keep your head down. It's the tall ones that get their heads chopped off...
They also have software to convert the lists to various formats for use in different firewalls. iptables fans should check out "linblock". Beware though, a large list can take an hour to parse on your typical recycled firewall box, but the tool merges the ranges to keep the tables as short as possible.
It's funny that Futurama has the technological development of two distinct and competing technologies for longevity. Fry gets frozen in the chrogenics centre, wakes up in the future and, a few episodes later, discovers that celebrities live on as brains in jars.
It also means they can have celebrity guest spots on the show...;-)
Replying to my own post, but I missed the scariest part. From the IMDB link I provided earlier:
Lenina Huxley tells John Spartan about the Arnold Schwarzenegger Library, explaining that, based on the sheer popularity of his movies, a Constitutional amendment was passed in order for Schwarzenegger to run for president, which, according to Huxley, he did. In 2003, ten years after this film's release, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and shortly after his election, three senators separately proposed amendments to the US Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to become president.
Well, the key point of demolition man was not that they freeze criminals, it's that they subject the prisoners to personality altering technology which takes a very long time to be effective, therefore they have to be frozen.
It was kind of a throwback to the book that Demolition Man is inspired by, "A Brave New World". Yes, you heard me, the classic Alderous Huxley book. In the book, people were preconditioned to like certain roles during their embronic and growth phases.
If you still doubt me on the "based on" bit, consider this. Sandra's character was called "Lenina Huxley", and the main female lead was called Lenina. She says in the film "John, you're a savage", a nod towards John Savage. Snipes says as some point "It's a brave new world". Here's the trivia page on the movie.
I actually quite like the flick, though to be honest I like any future imagary, whether it's a utiopia or distopia. The prospect of hibernation is interesting. If you could be frozen for 40-50 years, I'd do it just to see the gadgets everyone was carrying!;-) Seriously though, it's worth a thought, you get to see how things turn out.
Intel did this as a marketing ploy -- only. They set aside $10k for one copy of the Electronics mag, knowing all sorts of them would go missing, thus increasing the value of *their* copy, while creating quite a stir. Intel will put it up for auction since the value was increased, or they might keep it around, collecting value.
You are right up until the second sentence. I seriously doubt though that they intent to profit from a later sale. The money is small fry to them, even if they would be able to quadruple the value, it's nothing. Companies like Intel have corporate displays at most of their largest locations. Historical equiptment, plaques about memorable events/periods. It's going to end up in one of them, probably in a display showing how Intel lead the way, with speeds in big numbers in a timeline. A very good place to bring potential clients...
The funny thing is... they are getting a lot of press over this, so it's a very successful advertising campaign, and for the LOW PRICE of only $10,000. Compared to some ad campaigns? That's NOTHING!
You hit the nail on the head. This was EXACTLY their aim. And they pulled it off very well. Kudos to them.
Hey glesga you do know that you just quoted a high school paper as a reference!
Was it? lol. There were many links in the search, it's just to point out that the number has been used a lot. Here's a more respected source.
...the political scientist R. J. Rummel has instead estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million Native Americans were the victims of what he calls democide
The numbers are under heavy debate of course and there isn't much evidence to go on. The link you provided was quite interesting, and only backed up my original point of everyone having some dirt on them that is repressed in popular history. Some of the numbers on that site were shocking, it's pretty messed up that we can sit here casually and chat about it when you think about it.
the Native Americans responsible for introducing tobacco to the world -- and for the 90 million deaths which followed?
Meh:-) Do we blame the Christians for their promotion of wine* for the harm done by alcohol then? Say, 75% of murders, rapes and assaults in the last 200 years?;-)
* presence of wine in the bible is undoubtably why booze is still legal in most christian countries.
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There's nothing wrong with the US, this is not a new phenomenon. You've pretty much defined the primary cause of most war. The second cause is basically armed robbery. We've all done it, the USA is just the up at the plate at the moment.
Perhaps the phrase should be: "for the consumers, by the corporations"? People don't mean squat nowadays.
Someone made a bootleg mashup of George Bush singing the song, using clips from speaches. Highly recommended if you like your irony! Get it here
So, what is time? Well, it first started out as a way for man to determine when to plant crops. It later was used by man for navigation & transport, at a time where different villages were on different time zones (sundials). Now we measure it by counting the vibrations of an atom. The key thing is that man was present at each step. We feel so confident about it, we have even created a "Universal Time". This doesn't make it any more real or even universally relevant.
When scientists say "time slows down" e.g. relativity, the way I see it is that your perception of time slows down. Your atomic vibrations change speed, relative to an external observer. But there is no way that can be seen as time travel.
What I'm trying to say is that one only one time "exists", NOW! The moment when your eye's hit the N is now gone. It never existed really, but what we do know is that when your eyes got to it, the crystal in your watch had been counted to have vibrated X number of times since point Y. Besides, the grandfather theory, as others describe, completely discounts time travel, unless there are parallel universes with different timelines, which I doubt. The would need to be an infinite amount of them, and the count can only grow exponentially as "time" progresses.
It is parly that, but there is another larger problem. Basically, it was dangerous. People would come off the machines feeling disoriented and dizzy. The false perspective used in the headset messed with you own natural perspective, which might not restore to normal for several hours depending on the person. If that person was to then drive a car, the VR company is legally liable if they were to have an accident.
I'm sure I read this on another /. topic about "what ever happened to VR" a few months ago.
He said several different variations. He was around at the right time for the explosion of media, so he's quoted a lot, and much of it's the same as the other stuff! :-)
Meh, that's actually something he was quoted on! "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber". I think it was refering to his work that essentially gave the world the nuke.
If that is the cause of the deviation. The dark matter thing is a wild guess there.
One word: sequels.
Last year or so, the BBC carried a story that taking a plane from Edinburgh to London via Frankfurt, Germany(!) was cheaper and quicker than the direct train.
British Rail's legacy lives on...
In some ways, the current system works well. By having a big fat feed into the PC, you supply many little devices from it. What I'd rather see is a domestic uber DC supply that had 12/5 V available. Even then, I think there are still some valid reasons for using AC over DC.
The induction chargers are more promising for portable devices. They don't even plug in, just sit the device near (or on) the charger. With networking going to wireless anyway, I think it won't be all that long before we start to see devices with no I/O ports on them whatsoever. Will make design cheaper & simplers, the devices will be stronger and more durable. And it will be easier to use. Win win, except for the anti-RF people...!
Old technology really, but mentioning Apple got you your mod points ;-) I've had charging USB devices for at least three years, and an access point that uses PoE for at least as long. The AP mains adapter terminates with a box with two cat-5 sockets on it. One goes to the switch, one to the AP (with power). I've often wondered what would happen if I plugged it in the wrong way and sent the power to my NIC/switch... :-)
Has anyone found that this makes Unix unusable for them?
Yes, absolutely. Generally when I'm in an SSH session, I'll be root. Granted, the nature of what I'm doing most of the time demands it, but to be honest I haven't used a non-privledged account since my Uni days. Even at work I have access to just about every root password, and I'm not in the admin group. It's the only way I can do my job really. Makes for an interesting environment, as half the employees have the same access, and some aren't all that experienced!
What is good though is more the *nix environment. When I'm sitting at the console behind a GUI login, most of my apps will be running as me, except of course my terminals. A mail/web trojan couldn't do all that much damage, and that's what counts. Many daemons run in a chroot jail as well, making them safer. So, even though I'm regularly using a root session to do most of my work, I'm a hell of a lot safer than on Windows. On that side of things, it's admin privledges all the way. Runas just has too many limitations, and the user-level access is just too strict for my liking. Yes, I know you can change it, but I use too many different machines to be able to set them all up nicely. And then there's all the application bugs relating to restricted users...
I have used sudo in the past (with full privleges), when I was working with a well configured network. That worked, though the only real benefit was essentially an auto logout of terminals (timed) and the fact it was selective (I didn't "sudo ls" all that much). However, many places just don't use it as it's a huge hole. Needing a specific root password means that snooping my regular password isn't enough to do damage. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.
You know, I heard the exact same thing several years ago before Phantom was announced. They completely made clear that the original trilogy was the end. Lucas is a one-trick pony. He'll make the rest, he's got nothing else to go with. The only thing that might screw that up is if he retires.
Conclusion: even if Lucas *wanted* to make parts 7, 8 and 9, he'd have to go back to the writing table and work out all new stories.
Damn. There are so many films that don't get made because of the writer not being able to crank out a cliched reshash of other films. /sarcasm
Look, for the millions of dollars the SW puts in his pocket, I'm sure he'll be willing to dig out his typewriter for a few hours work.
What in the hell are you talking about? You just showed your own prejudges you fucking moron. Where in my post did I say anything about any group of people? The only generalisation I made was that slashdot tends to mod up predictable racist comments.
And I ain't ever modded ANYONE up for a similar pointless negative comment about Americans. My original comment applies to those posts as well.
It's a hell of a lot more honest than the "+1 insightful" and "+1 interesting" that the mods currently give them. The France/India thing is getting boring now. The US* needs to switch to East Asia for their 10 minutes hate for a bit, give us a breath of fresh air.
* yes, I am fully aware of the hypocracy of calling an entire nation racist, but I blame the media, not the people. I guess that makes it alright.
Bollocks.
The aren't running a network in their parents basement you know. Their networks are massive, with nodes LITERALY spanning thousands of miles. The volume of traffic they deal with is HUGE. They use cutting-edge routers just to keep up with the demand.
How on earth do you do traffic analysis on that level? You might be able to catch some of the more obvious spammers, but how do you differentiate (on the IP level) between: a) a residential user b) a commercial user who maildrops willing customers c) a zombie d) a community group or e) blah. Blocking someone based on traffic is not possible, unless you want to lose your valid customers.
What they should do is be more responsive to complaints. If a customer of theirs is a zombie spambot or acting as a stepping stone for some script kiddie, they should have their connection suspended until it is remedied. But they can only do this based on a complaint.
Besides, what's the profit in spending any resource on the problem in the first place? Until that is affected, they won't care about it.
Very highly recommended. With the case of p2p, it's good to keep your head down. It's the tall ones that get their heads chopped off...
They also have software to convert the lists to various formats for use in different firewalls. iptables fans should check out "linblock". Beware though, a large list can take an hour to parse on your typical recycled firewall box, but the tool merges the ranges to keep the tables as short as possible.
Slashdot needs a "+1 racist" moderation. The previous topic mentions "Indians" and is full of the same predictable slurs.
Not true anymore. Break the party line and you are "unpatriotic".
It also means they can have celebrity guest spots on the show... ;-)
It was kind of a throwback to the book that Demolition Man is inspired by, "A Brave New World". Yes, you heard me, the classic Alderous Huxley book. In the book, people were preconditioned to like certain roles during their embronic and growth phases.
If you still doubt me on the "based on" bit, consider this. Sandra's character was called "Lenina Huxley", and the main female lead was called Lenina. She says in the film "John, you're a savage", a nod towards John Savage. Snipes says as some point "It's a brave new world". Here's the trivia page on the movie.
I actually quite like the flick, though to be honest I like any future imagary, whether it's a utiopia or distopia. The prospect of hibernation is interesting. If you could be frozen for 40-50 years, I'd do it just to see the gadgets everyone was carrying! ;-) Seriously though, it's worth a thought, you get to see how things turn out.
You are right up until the second sentence. I seriously doubt though that they intent to profit from a later sale. The money is small fry to them, even if they would be able to quadruple the value, it's nothing. Companies like Intel have corporate displays at most of their largest locations. Historical equiptment, plaques about memorable events/periods. It's going to end up in one of them, probably in a display showing how Intel lead the way, with speeds in big numbers in a timeline. A very good place to bring potential clients...
The funny thing is... they are getting a lot of press over this, so it's a very successful advertising campaign, and for the LOW PRICE of only $10,000. Compared to some ad campaigns? That's NOTHING!
You hit the nail on the head. This was EXACTLY their aim. And they pulled it off very well. Kudos to them.
Was it? lol. There were many links in the search, it's just to point out that the number has been used a lot. Here's a more respected source.
The numbers are under heavy debate of course and there isn't much evidence to go on. The link you provided was quite interesting, and only backed up my original point of everyone having some dirt on them that is repressed in popular history. Some of the numbers on that site were shocking, it's pretty messed up that we can sit here casually and chat about it when you think about it.
the Native Americans responsible for introducing tobacco to the world -- and for the 90 million deaths which followed?
Meh :-) Do we blame the Christians for their promotion of wine* for the harm done by alcohol then? Say, 75% of murders, rapes and assaults in the last 200 years? ;-)
* presence of wine in the bible is undoubtably why booze is still legal in most christian countries.