Sure there are levels of abstraction etc, but I think you got lost on the "cognitive ability" bit.
Many people don't "get it" with math because they are not cognitively wired to absorb stuff the way it is presented. Yet, if something is presented a bit differently they might then "get it" and be able to move on to the next step.
I was very fortunate to have an excellent math teacher. This teacher was able to teach kids who had previously not done well at math and get them scoring As. I think his secret was this: He used many different wasy to explain things to the kids. Some would get it immediately. Some would only get it when he explained things differently. Quite often he'd explain things in thee or four different ways. Now sometimes he'd be stumped and could not get an idea across.... So here's where he was different from other math teachers..... He'd get one of the kids that "got it" to sit and explain to the kid that didn't "get it", and he'd watch and take notes. Eventually someone would manage to get through. Better still, the teacher would then have a few more ways of explaining things to future classes.
Let's face it... the urge to gamble, watch pron etc is stronger than any firewall. As Scott Adams once predicted, the V chip will fail because you're trying to outwitt the collective hornyness of all the teenagers in the world.
So they're losing some productivity? Well they could compensate by making online gaambling legal in USA and scoring a whole lot of tax.
Of course there are those that argue that it is more productive for these people to be surfing pron than doing real work (which, for public service desk-jockeys normallys means drowning productive members of society in red tape).
it is harder to earn Funny mod points about 24-port gigabit switches.
Ask Slashdot is not really about asking real questions and getting real advice. It is primarily for entertainment reasons like the advice columns in teen/women's magazines.
so if some existing software does not do exactly what you want, then you can just add the functionality yourself FOR FREE!
For instance, you could start with, say GNU/make. Now that is a pretty handy chunk of software but it sadly lacks video playing facilities. You can freely download the source code, spend a few evenings writing the video playback code you need and you're done. And it won't cost you a cent!
Teleporting would severely hamper governments' abilities to control the movement of people and other material objects. In this age of paranoid fear of terrorists, and other control oriented behaviour (tax, excise, War On Drugs, War On Illegal Aliens,..., one wonders whether governments will shut down any programs before they get anywhere near making practical teleporting work.
The USA might make 20% of the worlds GDP, but that is very different to contributing 20% of the world's goods.
I'm no economist, but IIRC, the GDP includes things like property/house value increases. If you buy a house for $100k and it becomes worth $300K well congratulations: you've contributed $200K to the GDP, yet no "goods" have been created for the world.
Likewise, a huge economic force in USA is the medical sector where everything seems to cost a lot more than most other parts of the world. Your $50K surgery might cost only one fifth of that in China/India. In GDP terms, the USA output would be measured as $50k vs $10k, yet the contribution to the world is one surgical operation.
I expect that if a more sane measure than GDP was used to measure the USA's output the numbers would look very different.
You can turn off module support and build static kernel. The list is for for managing the exe handlers. Removing the module support would just prevent the list from being hijacked, not remove the list itself.
You could do just about anything you want via modules, including installing all kind of nasties via the reported mechanism, or by installing a nasty file system, driver, whatever. For example, you could write a "file system" or "device driver" that allows tou to write in other modules etc from user space.
Basically loadable modules are an obvious "back door" and hardly a security flaw if managed properly. If you're going to hand out module loading access you're going to get it where you deserve!
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and it made this cool crunching sound. I still can't figure out where they hid the speaker but that guy sure writes slick Javascript!
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I'm not an Intel fanboy by any measure, but I wonder where you draw the line as to where you just accept specs and where you start demanding more detail.
"Just download this firmware blob" is one level, then "just load this microcode". If you're using a Xilinx FPGA running a downloadable CPU core, should that be treated as yet another CPU (ie a sealed blob) or should the downloadable core be considered firmware/microcode? As we get more and more interesting hardware, the boundaries are only going to get more blurred.
Even regular CPUs have an interface (the instruction set etc) and their inner workings are sealed from the software developers.
but it is close.... Yet another misleading/. subject header.
The basic idea is that the plane flies by rotating and, just as a fan blade or propeller becomes close to invisible when spinning, this aircraft might too.
Of course visibility to the naked eye is only a very small part of invisibility. This thing probably sticks out like dogs balls on radar.
Just because you think you've found a loophole does not make it legal. Passing money across state (and possibly international) boundaries to commit a crime is illegal too.
Now that you've posted instructions on how to do this, you're probably guilty of some crime or other too.
Although still booming at the start of 2001, a turn-down in the economy was evident prior to wtc. Sure wtc accelerated the turn down, but it did not cause it. WTC was a useful scapegoat for many CEOs because it was an external and exceptional event that they could peg blame on.
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no more brain power than, say, learning to follow a recipe which is why a burger flippers should have a PhD!
Many people don't "get it" with math because they are not cognitively wired to absorb stuff the way it is presented. Yet, if something is presented a bit differently they might then "get it" and be able to move on to the next step.
I was very fortunate to have an excellent math teacher. This teacher was able to teach kids who had previously not done well at math and get them scoring As. I think his secret was this: He used many different wasy to explain things to the kids. Some would get it immediately. Some would only get it when he explained things differently. Quite often he'd explain things in thee or four different ways. Now sometimes he'd be stumped and could not get an idea across.... So here's where he was different from other math teachers..... He'd get one of the kids that "got it" to sit and explain to the kid that didn't "get it", and he'd watch and take notes. Eventually someone would manage to get through. Better still, the teacher would then have a few more ways of explaining things to future classes.
So they're losing some productivity? Well they could compensate by making online gaambling legal in USA and scoring a whole lot of tax.
Of course there are those that argue that it is more productive for these people to be surfing pron than doing real work (which, for public service desk-jockeys normallys means drowning productive members of society in red tape).
Ask Slashdot is not really about asking real questions and getting real advice. It is primarily for entertainment reasons like the advice columns in teen/women's magazines.
For instance, you could start with, say GNU/make. Now that is a pretty handy chunk of software but it sadly lacks video playing facilities. You can freely download the source code, spend a few evenings writing the video playback code you need and you're done. And it won't cost you a cent!
Even to be compared to either of these is a gross insult!
Teleporting would severely hamper governments' abilities to control the movement of people and other material objects. In this age of paranoid fear of terrorists, and other control oriented behaviour (tax, excise, War On Drugs, War On Illegal Aliens,..., one wonders whether governments will shut down any programs before they get anywhere near making practical teleporting work.
If you don't like a book, and you're not its target audience, then put it down and don't review it.
I'm no economist, but IIRC, the GDP includes things like property/house value increases. If you buy a house for $100k and it becomes worth $300K well congratulations: you've contributed $200K to the GDP, yet no "goods" have been created for the world.
Likewise, a huge economic force in USA is the medical sector where everything seems to cost a lot more than most other parts of the world. Your $50K surgery might cost only one fifth of that in China/India. In GDP terms, the USA output would be measured as $50k vs $10k, yet the contribution to the world is one surgical operation.
I expect that if a more sane measure than GDP was used to measure the USA's output the numbers would look very different.
Right, but that assumes you leave /dev/kmem open which would be a dumb thing to do.
That would require being able to reboot etc.... May as well just be lazy and build a new kernel from scratch.
You can turn off module support and build static kernel. The list is for for managing the exe handlers. Removing the module support would just prevent the list from being hijacked, not remove the list itself.
Basically loadable modules are an obvious "back door" and hardly a security flaw if managed properly. If you're going to hand out module loading access you're going to get it where you deserve!
and it made this cool crunching sound. I still can't figure out where they hid the speaker but that guy sure writes slick Javascript!
... oh wait!
"Just download this firmware blob" is one level, then "just load this microcode". If you're using a Xilinx FPGA running a downloadable CPU core, should that be treated as yet another CPU (ie a sealed blob) or should the downloadable core be considered firmware/microcode? As we get more and more interesting hardware, the boundaries are only going to get more blurred.
Even regular CPUs have an interface (the instruction set etc) and their inner workings are sealed from the software developers.
News is supposed to be new.
To get real freedom you want to live in a country near the top of a list like: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=4116
Sure, there could be a bad patch in the insulation, but there are other more likely faults than that.
Still, it looks like this baby could be quite easy to tke out with a shotgun :-).
Just go stright for the source. I can't see this bloke staying out of hot water for very ong.
The basic idea is that the plane flies by rotating and, just as a fan blade or propeller becomes close to invisible when spinning, this aircraft might too.
Of course visibility to the naked eye is only a very small part of invisibility. This thing probably sticks out like dogs balls on radar.
ant vs steam roller.
Now that you've posted instructions on how to do this, you're probably guilty of some crime or other too.
America, land of the free!
Although still booming at the start of 2001, a turn-down in the economy was evident prior to wtc. Sure wtc accelerated the turn down, but it did not cause it. WTC was a useful scapegoat for many CEOs because it was an external and exceptional event that they could peg blame on.