The GP is certainly asking for a default screen session evey time he does SSH, emulating what he gets on Windows.
Oh, well, most people prefer the option of choosing what session to use when they connect, thus things don't get linked the way he wants, but it is easy enough to set ssh to execute "screen -r" when one connects... The GP needs only to RTFM (the first line of it).
They've sampled a big number of meteorites, from several parts of the Solar System. Also, they don't need to sample them over time because they know how isotopes change, and thus only need a snapshot.
Follow the money. Search engine advertising is falling because it is not targeted, but social networks are easily targeted for advertising.
There is nothing better than "whatever people are thinking right now" to target against. Not even targeting at the individual level beats that.
People are fleeing Google into Facebook ads just because the later are much cheaper. It is not because of quality. (They are not even fleeing badly enough to reduce the price of Google ads.)
In the really rare chance of an emergeny, there is a huge chance you'll be able to help yourself, and a small (but not small enough to be rare) chance you'll be able to help others.
I'm not defending the ban. I have no idea if it is important, and keeping people atent is not justification for it. I'm just replying to your claim that attention is useless.
as a passenger... in the event of emergency, I don't think my exact point of focus is going to matter to the outcome of the incident
You may have no idea, but your point of focus can determine if you get out of the situation dead or alive. Some people can even change the outcome for others, those are not everybody, but aren't rare either.
And an RFID reader is some kind of secret technology that only the government have, and is only available for use in public schools* right?
Such a tag lets everybody track the children. Or better, it would let, if the children don't beat the system too fast to create any kind of infrastructure, as will probably happen.
* LOL. Have you ever see a brazilian public school? Yeah, they are nice and everything, but the tought of a secret piece of technology restricted to it is funny.
That means, they'll use whatever equipment an expensive contractor can sell. And it won't limit the liberty of the children, because it will work badly for 6 months and none at all after that.
That is, it will have a chance of working badly if some tribunal somewhere don't declare it illegal. Otherwise, it won't even be turned on.
Since metal detectors use electromagnetic waves (call those non-static magnetic fields if you want), instead of magnetic fields, that cloak wouldn't be a problem at all. Well, ok, it would cloak its interior, like any piece of conductor would. It would also trigger the alarm itself, like any piece of conductor.
But now, why are people so concerned about airport security anyway? The invention has no relation to it.
Microsoft offers free backstabing to all manufacturers, and for Nokia they are offering technical engineering traps and bait, which is a pretty good deal compared to what Android is offering.
There, FIFY. It is like C-people can't bother googling a company name before closing multi-billion dollar deals with them.
Launching them is the easy part. If they are solar powered, they'll probably have quite powerfull motors (since those are both cheap, light, and efficient) capable of vertical take-off, or if you don't want that, you can always sling-shot them. Also, a carrier for small planes is smaler, and not that expensive.
Besides, several countries permit operations of uncertified UAVs.
You still need huge batteries, that weight a lot and push your craft down. Ok, you could in theory exchange some battery charge for altitude, I've never made the calculations to discover if that is usefull.
Keeping a transmiter up there capable of any reasonable amount of bandwidth is hard.
They probably don't intent on creating such ground station, as it would defeat the porpouse of lifting the servers. If you want to contact a baloon, you can use an RF kit.
But I don't understand why they plan to keep the servers at internationa waters. Shouldn't they get near coast to be useful? And wouldn't it be simpler to just put the servers up there, and forget about them?
My guess is the GP was trying to write a joke based on the old SCO citation that Linux developers couldn't have made everything on their own (implying they stole part from SCO's code, and part from Windows). But whatever the intent was, the GP failed to communicate it.
Anyway, SCO jokes are as aged as compiling one's kernel.
Linux is pushing every complex code into the userland. I guess it doesn't make much difference anymore, now that our machines have several processors, 2+GHz and context switching optimizations. Ok, you lose all of your pipeline when switching contexts, that's what? 14 instructions? Nobody is counting instructions with that precision anymore, nowadays we optimize algorithms, not representations.
Yes, if you have decent JavaDoc-style comments describing each function, and you have small self-contained functions, then perhaps they could reimplement each function from scratch just by knowing its arguments and behaviour — they don't need the contents of each function at all.
Now you got what the GP meant.
Anyway, I don't know if I agree. Writting such kind of comments sometimes takes more time than writting the code, and the function name should be self explanatory most of the times. For an API, surely, the docs are a must have, but for internal code that only one module will touch? I think the answer is not universal.
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Not on Debian.
The GP is certainly asking for a default screen session evey time he does SSH, emulating what he gets on Windows.
Oh, well, most people prefer the option of choosing what session to use when they connect, thus things don't get linked the way he wants, but it is easy enough to set ssh to execute "screen -r" when one connects... The GP needs only to RTFM (the first line of it).
If they both formed from the same accreation disk, the composition of the Earth and the Moon would be different, not similar.
They've sampled a big number of meteorites, from several parts of the Solar System. Also, they don't need to sample them over time because they know how isotopes change, and thus only need a snapshot.
The conclusion seems quite well fundamented.
There is nothing better than "whatever people are thinking right now" to target against. Not even targeting at the individual level beats that.
People are fleeing Google into Facebook ads just because the later are much cheaper. It is not because of quality. (They are not even fleeing badly enough to reduce the price of Google ads.)
Yep,and if they are willing to assure their feat by setting their policy, who am I to complain?
In the really rare chance of an emergeny, there is a huge chance you'll be able to help yourself, and a small (but not small enough to be rare) chance you'll be able to help others.
I'm not defending the ban. I have no idea if it is important, and keeping people atent is not justification for it. I'm just replying to your claim that attention is useless.
You may have no idea, but your point of focus can determine if you get out of the situation dead or alive. Some people can even change the outcome for others, those are not everybody, but aren't rare either.
Yeah, ok. The only problem with this argument is that no human being is able to keep so near the treshold as you want.
In the real world a person will either break too lightly or use the ABS, so at best there will be no difference from just slamming on the pedal.
You just put two lines there, each with current in an oposite direction. The same way people do transimission lines today.
In fact, RFID is probably cheaper than the teacher's time for taking the atendance.
This is just wrong, not expensive. (Oh, and won't work either.)
Are you sure that is right? That is wrong on so many levels.
And an RFID reader is some kind of secret technology that only the government have, and is only available for use in public schools* right?
Such a tag lets everybody track the children. Or better, it would let, if the children don't beat the system too fast to create any kind of infrastructure, as will probably happen.
* LOL. Have you ever see a brazilian public school? Yeah, they are nice and everything, but the tought of a secret piece of technology restricted to it is funny.
That means, they'll use whatever equipment an expensive contractor can sell. And it won't limit the liberty of the children, because it will work badly for 6 months and none at all after that.
That is, it will have a chance of working badly if some tribunal somewhere don't declare it illegal. Otherwise, it won't even be turned on.
Since metal detectors use electromagnetic waves (call those non-static magnetic fields if you want), instead of magnetic fields, that cloak wouldn't be a problem at all. Well, ok, it would cloak its interior, like any piece of conductor would. It would also trigger the alarm itself, like any piece of conductor.
But now, why are people so concerned about airport security anyway? The invention has no relation to it.
There, FIFY. It is like C-people can't bother googling a company name before closing multi-billion dollar deals with them.
So, if you are from a tiny research area, why don't you organize a publication?
Isn't that what most sucessful internet companies to from day 1? What do you plan to sell if you don't change people's paradigm?
You have not played to model aircrafts, did you?
Launching them is the easy part. If they are solar powered, they'll probably have quite powerfull motors (since those are both cheap, light, and efficient) capable of vertical take-off, or if you don't want that, you can always sling-shot them. Also, a carrier for small planes is smaler, and not that expensive.
Besides, several countries permit operations of uncertified UAVs.
You still need huge batteries, that weight a lot and push your craft down. Ok, you could in theory exchange some battery charge for altitude, I've never made the calculations to discover if that is usefull.
Keeping a transmiter up there capable of any reasonable amount of bandwidth is hard.
They probably don't intent on creating such ground station, as it would defeat the porpouse of lifting the servers. If you want to contact a baloon, you can use an RF kit.
But I don't understand why they plan to keep the servers at internationa waters. Shouldn't they get near coast to be useful? And wouldn't it be simpler to just put the servers up there, and forget about them?
My guess is the GP was trying to write a joke based on the old SCO citation that Linux developers couldn't have made everything on their own (implying they stole part from SCO's code, and part from Windows). But whatever the intent was, the GP failed to communicate it.
Anyway, SCO jokes are as aged as compiling one's kernel.
Linux is pushing every complex code into the userland. I guess it doesn't make much difference anymore, now that our machines have several processors, 2+GHz and context switching optimizations. Ok, you lose all of your pipeline when switching contexts, that's what? 14 instructions? Nobody is counting instructions with that precision anymore, nowadays we optimize algorithms, not representations.
Now you got what the GP meant.
Anyway, I don't know if I agree. Writting such kind of comments sometimes takes more time than writting the code, and the function name should be self explanatory most of the times. For an API, surely, the docs are a must have, but for internal code that only one module will touch? I think the answer is not universal.
If dificulty of understanding code and getting it accepted is the metric, aim directly to Open SSH or Free BSD.