This is not new. I remember watching a show about this in HIGH SCHOOL. That was over ten years ago. Using the ocean's thermocline to change buoyancy and thereby achieve movement is an old idea.
While this car seems like a boon for the environment I bet it will turn out to be the opposite. At that price it won't have a catalytic converter (uses expensive metals) which means the exhaust will be full of the compounds that lead to smog. Italy has big problems in some cities from all the scooters running around pumping burned fuel straight into the air. Great gas mileage, sure, but dirty.
Indeed, indeed, I have been espousing this same concern for some time now and have been stonewalled at all the conferences.
Let us start with some simple axioms we know to be true.
1) Evolution is spurred on by mutations, whatever the form 2) Mutations, being random, are liable to be disadvantageous 3) Outward pressures select, in the most general of terms, those few mutations that are advantageous
Now let us consider our current condition.
1) We have an increasingly polluted environment that is stressing our bodies and introducing mutations at a faster rate than can be historically considered the norm (just having children later in life is enough to increase the mutation rate). 2) We have few outward pressures on our gene pool. What we now consider "success" (e.g., careers) usually results in fewer children whereas those that "fail in life" often procreate like mad. 3) Science and medicine are advancing to allow those that would previously *not* have been able to procreate to now do so.
The outcome is obvious. We are, in a sense, *devolving*. The above factors hang like anchors on our collective gene pool. With each passing day we collect more mutations and disadvantageous traits that will require ever more from medicine to "shore up" the listing species. Homo sapiens may be ok for ten or twenty generations (assuming we last that long) but sooner than later we will begin to see an emergence of widespread formative problems tied to our genomic collapse similar to those seen in inbreeding. Similar.
I am not advocating anything in specific, just pointing out the mechanics of the system that made us.
It's not about service, it's about something more valuable -- my time. I despise that first class passengers get to deboard before everyone else. They pay for bigger seats, better meals, whatever, but they should not get to buy my time away from me.
This is just another method for separating out the classes. Have money? We'll make your life more convenient at the inconvenience of everyone else. It's one thing to give people better service in exchange for value-add, it's another to create that value by taking from someone else.
So clearly the encryption system records the running password somewhere outside the encrypted volume if the auto-reboot is selected. One would assume that, upon reboot, the password gets overwritten.
We are constantly told that data that's only overwritten once on a magnetic drive is recoverable. So, if one could figure out which section of the drive gets the password written to it (an easy enough exercise given that the boot code that mounts the encrypted volume is in a fixed location and largely static) then one could steal a laptop and, assuming it had been auto-rebooted once before in its life, potentially recover the entire drive contents.
Beyond the capabilities of your average evil-doer but certainly possible.
Look out trees, there is a forest all around you!!
Your observance on relativism misses the point. The dollar and the euro aren't getting stronger against the buck because they are doing so much right with their economy. Nay, it is we who are initiating the action, cheapening our currency to keep the lalala circus of an economy we have propped up..com bust? hmm.. let's go bananas over housing! ooh.. giving out huge loans to poor people might have been fiscally irresponsible. HELP, HELP!! Government shovels money into the market and drops the interest rate a 1/2 percent to fan the flames of a dieing fire.
The basis of our markets is a "upward, onward, dancing, fattening!" collectively agreed upon fantasy. Problem is, you can only keep lauding the quality of the champagne on the Titanic for so long.
I use TrueCrypt quite a bit and, generally, love it. I store a VM inside a TrueCrypt volume (using twofish encryption) and notice practically no slowdown in performance. Backing up volumes, drives, etc, is as simple as copying a big file elsewhere. Mounting this volume is done via keystroke shortcut. enter my 15 char password, and blammo, it's up and running.
With hardware encryption I would have to fall back on utilizing software encryption for any network backups that place the data beyond the scope of the hardware encryption (the local drive).
The only advantage I can see with on-disk hw encryption is that your swap file gets mangled with everything else.
download a whole high definition DVD in two seconds
Assuming she has a massive drive array to record that amount of info in two seconds. I know the statement is just to illustrate the bandwidth but the nerd in me had to point out the infeasibility of it. Preposterous!
That "hard work" spiel is an incomplete recipe for success. Hard work plus business acumen plus a whole lot of luck is what *might* make you successful. The single mom holding down three jobs is working damn hard but do you think there's a million dollar salary waiting for her down the road?
That's true in so far as the cost (power loss) of converting AC to DC as most modern power supplies are > 80% efficient. But all those individual PSUs generate a lot of heat. If you can do the conversion outside the datacenter and then run in the DC you could probably cut cooling by a third.*
I love Half Life, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 - Episode One... but I have to take issue with a year and a half delay between one episode and the next. Calling it "episode two" does not make it episodic play in the sense that there is much real-life experiential continuity between the two. It has been so long now that I've somewhat forgotten how EP1 ended. Something about Alex getting killed (or was that from the preview of ep2?) and a train leaving and everything blowing up? I recall Valve saying they were developing the episodes concurrently but at $50/game and a 16 months inbetween, one may as well call them HL3 and HL4. Worse, the games are not "full" games in that they can be reasonably finished in 12-15 hours.
What made HL great is the more the story line than the software. It should not take over a year to write a new chapter and devise some new maps. If you want to create a true episodic experience, release new versions every 6-8 months with incremental improvements.
Reading this post I feel like comic book shop guy in the Simpsons. There is not an emoticon to describe how I am feeling!!
Did you RTFA? She didn't get her comeuppance. She got more probation and is probably out there right now stealing your identity and buying ice cream on your dime while you sit there and write you're glad "she got her comeuppance."
How about the fact that for the average user Linux was all but unusable due to driver support / app support / features up until *maybe* a couple years ago? Give it time. It's absurd to ask the question "why isn't everyone using Linux??" when Linux is only just now becoming a viable desktop. There is a powerful inertia in OS usage due reasons including what's already installed, what people know, people simply not upgrading, etc. IMHO Linux still has a couple years to go before it is really mass-market friendly. Maybe then we will start to see some movement in its direction.
I have read that schizophrenics in less wealthy countries have a better prognosis than those in the US. One of the theorized reasons is that a stronger social fabric in the 2nd and 3rd world means a "crazy" person is still included in life in whatever ostracized way. "That's Uncle Yung, he talks to the palm trees a lot, it sure is funny." Here we lock them up and try to fix the issue on a molecular level (gross over generalization, I know). Ditto for a lot of depression and anxiety. What other country is so fascinated with yet removed from genuine "happiness" that we have written libraries about the subject and created an entirely new discipline - "positive psychology." Meanwhile the TV would have me believe that I can wake with a smile if I just throw down some ambien before I sleep.
Personally I think the borg issue is still more in the realm of philosophy than technology. Morbidity for cancer remains largely unchanged, half the nation is still eating itself to death, and leeches are still used in even the most advanced hospitals. Speech recognition is better but still clumsy and my brand-new Blackberry 7200c just rebooted tonight when I tried to delete an email. The world of tomorrow is today.
For the life of me I can't find the article but there was a recent publication about how soldiers don't like all this high-tech gear. And I can imagine why. Outside of body armor (and soldiers say there's such a thing as too much) and good communication a lot of this junk is over-hyped whiteboard warrior stuff that gobbles up billions of dollars of DoD R&D.
Within the article:
"It's unclear what the final system will look like." but "Darpa says it expects to have prototypes in the hands of soldiers in three years."
Sure. It's like the Popular Science covers of the 1960s "Flying cars tomorrow! Pick your model today!"
If we really want to helps soldiers brains, help them come back from a bogus war with fewer instances of PTSD and other psychological damage.
Wow, I am completely surprised at the number of posts attempting to dispute global warming. Pathetically, most of said posts attempt to call into question the impartiality of the scientists that did the research as if they have some political agenda of their own. It's more than a little ironic that the term "sheeple" gets tossed about by those who are generally regurgitating political dogma.
And for the others who point to past predictions of environmental degradation that never materialized (global cooling, for instance) as reason to ignore the current forecast -- I beg of you, please stop. We obviously still don't know exactly how everything works but when the current body of knowledge and the majority of the scientific community is predicting something severe, we would be stubborn to the point of idiocy to do anything but plan accordingly.
Personally, I don't need any government study to convince me that global warming is happening. Look at a satellite map of the Arctic thirty years ago and compare it to one today. Thirty years is to the planet the time equivalent of an afternoon to us. Ever get that depleted hot flush a day before the flu kicks in?
Anonymous coward indeed. And what would you have the community do? Sit on its hands and hope extra hard that Msft doesn't become emboldened with its patent play?
No, seriously. It must cost at least $3,000 in law enforcement time and resources to investigate something like this. The RIAA is having great success running their own bounty hunter wing, just tack on a few IP addresses for them to subpoena at $3k a pop, then fine the perp $10k, profit.
I have a friend who does stats research for a nationally known hospital and she laments that it's difficult for them to get adequate data for long-term treatment success rates as much of the info is still stored on paper, isn't shared, or is only available in digital format for the last five or ten years. But want to know the credit history of any social security number? You can have your answer in 5 minutes. Where there's the prospect of money there's efficiency, resources, and drive.
We all know that unless you're parked outside someone's house, stealing their wifi, running tor, or routed through a hacked machine there is ultimately limited anonymity on the Internet when you get down to it.
Slashdot Mirror
"The instability helps Microsoft sell new versions of its operating system. "
That would be fine if the newer versions were stabler. My experience with Vista has left me longing for XP.
"A friendly worm updated your computer which required a reboot."
could someone give me a little prep on this article.. A paragraph or two on how the universe works would be good. cheers. /obligatory
This is not new. I remember watching a show about this in HIGH SCHOOL. That was over ten years ago. Using the ocean's thermocline to change buoyancy and thereby achieve movement is an old idea.
While this car seems like a boon for the environment I bet it will turn out to be the opposite. At that price it won't have a catalytic converter (uses expensive metals) which means the exhaust will be full of the compounds that lead to smog. Italy has big problems in some cities from all the scooters running around pumping burned fuel straight into the air. Great gas mileage, sure, but dirty.
Indeed, indeed, I have been espousing this same concern for some time now and have been stonewalled at all the conferences.
Let us start with some simple axioms we know to be true.
1) Evolution is spurred on by mutations, whatever the form
2) Mutations, being random, are liable to be disadvantageous
3) Outward pressures select, in the most general of terms, those few mutations that are advantageous
Now let us consider our current condition.
1) We have an increasingly polluted environment that is stressing our bodies and introducing mutations at a faster rate than can be historically considered the norm (just having children later in life is enough to increase the mutation rate).
2) We have few outward pressures on our gene pool. What we now consider "success" (e.g., careers) usually results in fewer children whereas those that "fail in life" often procreate like mad.
3) Science and medicine are advancing to allow those that would previously *not* have been able to procreate to now do so.
The outcome is obvious. We are, in a sense, *devolving*. The above factors hang like anchors on our collective gene pool. With each passing day we collect more mutations and disadvantageous traits that will require ever more from medicine to "shore up" the listing species. Homo sapiens may be ok for ten or twenty generations (assuming we last that long) but sooner than later we will begin to see an emergence of widespread formative problems tied to our genomic collapse similar to those seen in inbreeding. Similar.
I am not advocating anything in specific, just pointing out the mechanics of the system that made us.
I'm sure lots of people are going to get some unexpected exposure to Knoppix.
It's not about service, it's about something more valuable -- my time. I despise that first class passengers get to deboard before everyone else. They pay for bigger seats, better meals, whatever, but they should not get to buy my time away from me.
This is just another method for separating out the classes. Have money? We'll make your life more convenient at the inconvenience of everyone else. It's one thing to give people better service in exchange for value-add, it's another to create that value by taking from someone else.
So clearly the encryption system records the running password somewhere outside the encrypted volume if the auto-reboot is selected. One would assume that, upon reboot, the password gets overwritten.
We are constantly told that data that's only overwritten once on a magnetic drive is recoverable. So, if one could figure out which section of the drive gets the password written to it (an easy enough exercise given that the boot code that mounts the encrypted volume is in a fixed location and largely static) then one could steal a laptop and, assuming it had been auto-rebooted once before in its life, potentially recover the entire drive contents.
Beyond the capabilities of your average evil-doer but certainly possible.
Look out trees, there is a forest all around you!!
.com bust? hmm.. let's go bananas over housing! ooh.. giving out huge loans to poor people might have been fiscally irresponsible. HELP, HELP!! Government shovels money into the market and drops the interest rate a 1/2 percent to fan the flames of a dieing fire.
Your observance on relativism misses the point. The dollar and the euro aren't getting stronger against the buck because they are doing so much right with their economy. Nay, it is we who are initiating the action, cheapening our currency to keep the lalala circus of an economy we have propped up.
The basis of our markets is a "upward, onward, dancing, fattening!" collectively agreed upon fantasy. Problem is, you can only keep lauding the quality of the champagne on the Titanic for so long.
Just focus on the symmetric key aspects of gpg. :)
Just curious as to the view of /.ers..
I use TrueCrypt quite a bit and, generally, love it. I store a VM inside a TrueCrypt volume (using twofish encryption) and notice practically no slowdown in performance. Backing up volumes, drives, etc, is as simple as copying a big file elsewhere. Mounting this volume is done via keystroke shortcut. enter my 15 char password, and blammo, it's up and running.
With hardware encryption I would have to fall back on utilizing software encryption for any network backups that place the data beyond the scope of the hardware encryption (the local drive).
The only advantage I can see with on-disk hw encryption is that your swap file gets mangled with everything else.
No kidding. I thought of analyzing message boards for hints on where stocks might go but most of the posts amounted to, at best:
"haha longs, TIMBEERRRRR this stock is going straight down, ROFL LMAO you idiots."
download a whole high definition DVD in two seconds
Assuming she has a massive drive array to record that amount of info in two seconds. I know the statement is just to illustrate the bandwidth but the nerd in me had to point out the infeasibility of it. Preposterous!
I'll go now.
That "hard work" spiel is an incomplete recipe for success. Hard work plus business acumen plus a whole lot of luck is what *might* make you successful. The single mom holding down three jobs is working damn hard but do you think there's a million dollar salary waiting for her down the road?
That's true in so far as the cost (power loss) of converting AC to DC as most modern power supplies are > 80% efficient. But all those individual PSUs generate a lot of heat. If you can do the conversion outside the datacenter and then run in the DC you could probably cut cooling by a third.*
*Random figure, no basis to it.
I love Half Life, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 - Episode One... but I have to take issue with a year and a half delay between one episode and the next. Calling it "episode two" does not make it episodic play in the sense that there is much real-life experiential continuity between the two. It has been so long now that I've somewhat forgotten how EP1 ended. Something about Alex getting killed (or was that from the preview of ep2?) and a train leaving and everything blowing up? I recall Valve saying they were developing the episodes concurrently but at $50/game and a 16 months inbetween, one may as well call them HL3 and HL4. Worse, the games are not "full" games in that they can be reasonably finished in 12-15 hours.
What made HL great is the more the story line than the software. It should not take over a year to write a new chapter and devise some new maps. If you want to create a true episodic experience, release new versions every 6-8 months with incremental improvements.
Reading this post I feel like comic book shop guy in the Simpsons. There is not an emoticon to describe how I am feeling!!
Did you RTFA? She didn't get her comeuppance. She got more probation and is probably out there right now stealing your identity and buying ice cream on your dime while you sit there and write you're glad "she got her comeuppance."
How about the fact that for the average user Linux was all but unusable due to driver support / app support / features up until *maybe* a couple years ago? Give it time. It's absurd to ask the question "why isn't everyone using Linux??" when Linux is only just now becoming a viable desktop. There is a powerful inertia in OS usage due reasons including what's already installed, what people know, people simply not upgrading, etc. IMHO Linux still has a couple years to go before it is really mass-market friendly. Maybe then we will start to see some movement in its direction.
Gah, it's like GNU but less elegant..
A PC on every desktop with a desktop in a PC on a desktop.. fork fork!
I have read that schizophrenics in less wealthy countries have a better prognosis than those in the US. One of the theorized reasons is that a stronger social fabric in the 2nd and 3rd world means a "crazy" person is still included in life in whatever ostracized way. "That's Uncle Yung, he talks to the palm trees a lot, it sure is funny." Here we lock them up and try to fix the issue on a molecular level (gross over generalization, I know). Ditto for a lot of depression and anxiety. What other country is so fascinated with yet removed from genuine "happiness" that we have written libraries about the subject and created an entirely new discipline - "positive psychology." Meanwhile the TV would have me believe that I can wake with a smile if I just throw down some ambien before I sleep.
Personally I think the borg issue is still more in the realm of philosophy than technology. Morbidity for cancer remains largely unchanged, half the nation is still eating itself to death, and leeches are still used in even the most advanced hospitals. Speech recognition is better but still clumsy and my brand-new Blackberry 7200c just rebooted tonight when I tried to delete an email. The world of tomorrow is today.
For the life of me I can't find the article but there was a recent publication about how soldiers don't like all this high-tech gear. And I can imagine why. Outside of body armor (and soldiers say there's such a thing as too much) and good communication a lot of this junk is over-hyped whiteboard warrior stuff that gobbles up billions of dollars of DoD R&D.
Within the article:
"It's unclear what the final system will look like." but "Darpa says it expects to have prototypes in the hands of soldiers in three years."
Sure. It's like the Popular Science covers of the 1960s "Flying cars tomorrow! Pick your model today!"
If we really want to helps soldiers brains, help them come back from a bogus war with fewer instances of PTSD and other psychological damage.
Wow, I am completely surprised at the number of posts attempting to dispute global warming. Pathetically, most of said posts attempt to call into question the impartiality of the scientists that did the research as if they have some political agenda of their own. It's more than a little ironic that the term "sheeple" gets tossed about by those who are generally regurgitating political dogma.
And for the others who point to past predictions of environmental degradation that never materialized (global cooling, for instance) as reason to ignore the current forecast -- I beg of you, please stop. We obviously still don't know exactly how everything works but when the current body of knowledge and the majority of the scientific community is predicting something severe, we would be stubborn to the point of idiocy to do anything but plan accordingly.
Personally, I don't need any government study to convince me that global warming is happening. Look at a satellite map of the Arctic thirty years ago and compare it to one today. Thirty years is to the planet the time equivalent of an afternoon to us. Ever get that depleted hot flush a day before the flu kicks in?
Anonymous coward indeed. And what would you have the community do? Sit on its hands and hope extra hard that Msft doesn't become emboldened with its patent play?
No, seriously. It must cost at least $3,000 in law enforcement time and resources to investigate something like this. The RIAA is having great success running their own bounty hunter wing, just tack on a few IP addresses for them to subpoena at $3k a pop, then fine the perp $10k, profit.
I have a friend who does stats research for a nationally known hospital and she laments that it's difficult for them to get adequate data for long-term treatment success rates as much of the info is still stored on paper, isn't shared, or is only available in digital format for the last five or ten years. But want to know the credit history of any social security number? You can have your answer in 5 minutes. Where there's the prospect of money there's efficiency, resources, and drive.
We all know that unless you're parked outside someone's house, stealing their wifi, running tor, or routed through a hacked machine there is ultimately limited anonymity on the Internet when you get down to it.