Sure, they can make a law to force people to give up their passwords... as long as they first prove that there actually WAS a password that would decrypt the data (and into what), as it might just be random garbage.
20 tabs? Try 500+ tabs... with flashblock, noscript and a tab counter plugin (obviously). Yes with Firefox. Only time it annoys me is when the browser crashes (due to lack of memory, it doesn't like it when it comes close to 2 GB).
Why? Don't you store all your data on a central server?
Why would I need to bring a specific device anywhere at all when I can just sitdown at any dumb future terminal (at work/home/coffeeshop) and simply login with my eye-scan/rdif-implant/creditcard/password to get to my personal environment that is stored on my homeserver/cloudserver?
I can already do that, albeit in a somewhat bandwidth limited fashion.
The only reason I store ANYTHING on my phone currently is due to lack of bandwidth -- in the future it will just a be a dumb handheld display, with speakers and microphone that has 9G wifi access. Pick one up, set your server address and login details, and you are ready to go.
I noticed I got single bit errors during big copies (about 1 bit error / 100 GB copied). I could not find the cause, and I could only conclude the data being transferred was damaged in memory before being stored again to an error correcting medium (harddisk). The busses used for the transfers also use CRC/ECC so I don't think they could cause it.
The problem was reproduceable (and different every time). Memory checks resulted in nothing.
Since then I always verify the big copies. After upgrading to ECC RAM, I haven't seen anymore verify errors.
Whether I had bad RAM, or some other problem, I don't know. I do know that the price difference between a regular system and one that can support ECC RAM is very small.
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If only they would choose to lose the keypad but instead add the navigation block in the proper position... I'd buy one immediately.
Numpad = useless Navigation block = priceless while programming*
* combinations like shift+home/end, shift+pageup/down, and various ctrl/alt/shift combination with cursor keys must be easy to use.
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...and a foldable 24" screen and full-size keyboard?
> (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data
Really? I doubt that since every bus and the harddisk itself use extensive ECC to prevent exactly that.
In my experience, the main point of corruption of data is from the use of non-ECC memory. Corruption rates are around 1 bit / 200 GB of data copied. Now, how would ZFS detect that data was corrupted when it was instructed to write a piece of corrupted memory to disk? It won't. It will happily write that crap and provide it with a nice (wrong) checksum. It will checksum its buffers you say? Is that before or after the memory corruption occured? Checked before and after a succesful write?
ZFS checksumming is pretty pointless in my experience as memory corruption can occur at any time, before after and during checksumming/reading/writing of data -- get ECC memory instead and the checksumming will become even more pointless.
All I can say is... good. I see no value in short-lived monopolies. I believe ideas (or tiny extensions of existing ideas in most patent cases) can occur (near) simultaneously -- in which case the patent is nothing short of paying for your own private monopoly, which can be enforced even if someone has a similar idea independently (this last bit is my main beef with patents in general).
I'm convinced that a harder-to-use patent system is actually the reason that there's such a huge amount of florishing smaller companies in Europe -- patents are a cost of doing business, a well hidden one, but it is there. This cost can become huge if you lack the patent portfolio of the bigger fish to make closed doors deals with each other.
You mean with enough power to push through their hidden agenda regardless of what they promised during elections. No thanks, atleast most coalations will prevent this sort of under the table politics.
You still assume that using more bandwidth actually costs more. It doesn't.
Yes, there's a fixed cost involved for expanding your network, but it's a FIXED cost. Using 1% or 100% of that network brings almost no additional costs, certainly not on the order of $1/GB. There's no degradation, overproduction or dwindling supply, like other utilities can experience.
Other metered services, like water, natural gas and electricity actually have some REAL costs per unit of product they deliver. Not so for the internet. Other countries (where there's ample competition and the network is open to all) prove that there's almost 0 cost in using up more bandwidth as they all simply offer unlimited plans... at a fixed monthly price lower than Canadian ISP's apparently.
If you buy into their garbage, you'll only end up padding the profit margins of these companies and kill any incentive to provide better service because of lack of competitors.
If you donot have the choice of 20+ ISP's in your country at any location, then there isn't enough competition. We do here, thanks to regulations that mandate carriers to open their networks to competitors. As a result, prices here are almost universal for an unlimited connection, only differing in service, reliability and bandwidth.
ISP's here are thriving, as are the network carriers, so this step back in time sounds to me suspiciously like companies trying to pad their bottom line.
Perspective? I still donot see why they'd need so many fonts. They're perhaps needed for the dying business model of printing things on dead-trees for money, but on computer screens, please donot torture us with fonts without proper hinting for 75/100 DPI displays (and you can bet that most fonts will not have this hinting information unless you are willing to pay a lot more).
I use the fonts that I use because they look good on my screen setup. More fonts just means more websites that think I use a 800x600 screen, browse in full-screen mode, on a Windows Box using IE6. They might as well just serve me a picture of their website, it's probably less work and is atleast guaranteed to be pixel-perfect(TM) in any browser.
Adding fonts to the mix will just means the pixel-pushing crowd of web-designers can make my life even more miserable.
Well, I checked a few pages worth of content on that site, and I must say it looks like most of these "misheard" lyrics are people trying to make a funny (often sex related) joke (or are simply lacking the correct vocabulary knowledge) instead of actually mishearing the lyric. Some of the songs on that list have lyrics that are so clear it's near impossible to hear them wrong. I certainly didn't find any that I heard wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm not native English, I am a musician though.
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Sure, they can make a law to force people to give up their passwords... as long as they first prove that there actually WAS a password that would decrypt the data (and into what), as it might just be random garbage.
How will you get out of jail though?
Give them the password? You can't since it is random data.
Tell them it was random data? Sure... we believe you! Now give us the password @#&*$!
This does show though that proving that something is not random data would be very important before they try waterboarding a password out of you :)
Parent should be modded +Conspiracy Theorist.
Oh, so there's finally a voip app in the store?
I have about two dozen choices of ISP's where I live. Guess what happens when my current one even hints of doing this.
...and location makes it relevant? I guess these people donot know me very well.
20 tabs? Try 500+ tabs... with flashblock, noscript and a tab counter plugin (obviously). Yes with Firefox. Only time it annoys me is when the browser crashes (due to lack of memory, it doesn't like it when it comes close to 2 GB).
I wonder, what could "harm" a student on the internet? Real, irreparable harm that turns an attentive, young student into a lifeless zombie for life?
Why? Don't you store all your data on a central server?
Why would I need to bring a specific device anywhere at all when I can just sitdown at any dumb future terminal (at work/home/coffeeshop) and simply login with my eye-scan/rdif-implant/creditcard/password to get to my personal environment that is stored on my homeserver/cloudserver?
I can already do that, albeit in a somewhat bandwidth limited fashion.
The only reason I store ANYTHING on my phone currently is due to lack of bandwidth -- in the future it will just a be a dumb handheld display, with speakers and microphone that has 9G wifi access. Pick one up, set your server address and login details, and you are ready to go.
I noticed I got single bit errors during big copies (about 1 bit error / 100 GB copied). I could not find the cause, and I could only conclude the data being transferred was damaged in memory before being stored again to an error correcting medium (harddisk). The busses used for the transfers also use CRC/ECC so I don't think they could cause it.
The problem was reproduceable (and different every time). Memory checks resulted in nothing.
Since then I always verify the big copies. After upgrading to ECC RAM, I haven't seen anymore verify errors.
Whether I had bad RAM, or some other problem, I don't know. I do know that the price difference between a regular system and one that can support ECC RAM is very small.
If only they would choose to lose the keypad but instead add the navigation block in the proper position... I'd buy one immediately.
Numpad = useless
Navigation block = priceless while programming*
* combinations like shift+home/end, shift+pageup/down, and various ctrl/alt/shift combination with cursor keys must be easy to use.
...and a foldable 24" screen and full-size keyboard?
Well, the light is all travelling in one direction, you wouldn't be able to see a visible light beam either unless it travels through dust/smoke...
> (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data
Really? I doubt that since every bus and the harddisk itself use extensive ECC to prevent exactly that.
In my experience, the main point of corruption of data is from the use of non-ECC memory. Corruption rates are around 1 bit / 200 GB of data copied. Now, how would ZFS detect that data was corrupted when it was instructed to write a piece of corrupted memory to disk? It won't. It will happily write that crap and provide it with a nice (wrong) checksum. It will checksum its buffers you say? Is that before or after the memory corruption occured? Checked before and after a succesful write?
ZFS checksumming is pretty pointless in my experience as memory corruption can occur at any time, before after and during checksumming/reading/writing of data -- get ECC memory instead and the checksumming will become even more pointless.
All I can say is... good. I see no value in short-lived monopolies. I believe ideas (or tiny extensions of existing ideas in most patent cases) can occur (near) simultaneously -- in which case the patent is nothing short of paying for your own private monopoly, which can be enforced even if someone has a similar idea independently (this last bit is my main beef with patents in general).
I'm convinced that a harder-to-use patent system is actually the reason that there's such a huge amount of florishing smaller companies in Europe -- patents are a cost of doing business, a well hidden one, but it is there. This cost can become huge if you lack the patent portfolio of the bigger fish to make closed doors deals with each other.
Maybe that's why all those pirates rar their stuff...
You mean with enough power to push through their hidden agenda regardless of what they promised during elections. No thanks, atleast most coalations will prevent this sort of under the table politics.
You still assume that using more bandwidth actually costs more. It doesn't.
Yes, there's a fixed cost involved for expanding your network, but it's a FIXED cost. Using 1% or 100% of that network brings almost no additional costs, certainly not on the order of $1/GB. There's no degradation, overproduction or dwindling supply, like other utilities can experience.
Other metered services, like water, natural gas and electricity actually have some REAL costs per unit of product they deliver. Not so for the internet. Other countries (where there's ample competition and the network is open to all) prove that there's almost 0 cost in using up more bandwidth as they all simply offer unlimited plans... at a fixed monthly price lower than Canadian ISP's apparently.
If you buy into their garbage, you'll only end up padding the profit margins of these companies and kill any incentive to provide better service because of lack of competitors.
If you donot have the choice of 20+ ISP's in your country at any location, then there isn't enough competition. We do here, thanks to regulations that mandate carriers to open their networks to competitors. As a result, prices here are almost universal for an unlimited connection, only differing in service, reliability and bandwidth.
ISP's here are thriving, as are the network carriers, so this step back in time sounds to me suspiciously like companies trying to pad their bottom line.
Perspective? I still donot see why they'd need so many fonts. They're perhaps needed for the dying business model of printing things on dead-trees for money, but on computer screens, please donot torture us with fonts without proper hinting for 75/100 DPI displays (and you can bet that most fonts will not have this hinting information unless you are willing to pay a lot more).
More aesthetically pleasing for whom?
I use the fonts that I use because they look good on my screen setup. More fonts just means more websites that think I use a 800x600 screen, browse in full-screen mode, on a Windows Box using IE6. They might as well just serve me a picture of their website, it's probably less work and is atleast guaranteed to be pixel-perfect(TM) in any browser.
Adding fonts to the mix will just means the pixel-pushing crowd of web-designers can make my life even more miserable.
So 32 registers would gain another 20%? I don't know, but that seems definitely worth it...
Well, I checked a few pages worth of content on that site, and I must say it looks like most of these "misheard" lyrics are people trying to make a funny (often sex related) joke (or are simply lacking the correct vocabulary knowledge) instead of actually mishearing the lyric. Some of the songs on that list have lyrics that are so clear it's near impossible to hear them wrong. I certainly didn't find any that I heard wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm not native English, I am a musician though.
Latency with satellite communication would make this an annoying way of having a phone conversation. I wouldn't like it.
I play games, but I don't *need* games. If games become too much hassle to get working properly, I'll find something else to waste my time on.