With a PSP that's running hacked firmware (which you need to play rips)? Trivial. Plug in over USB, copy the iso file that appears in explorer over to memory stick, done.
I've done that with the games I own so I can leave the UMDs at home.
So victims of child abuse that becomes child porn should not expect that pictures of humiliation and sexual violence toward them be controlled and removed from circulation wherver possible? That people perpetrating further indignities toward them every time the image is viewed and distributed be stopped and punished?
Sorry, but this is a no-brainer to me.
There are many problems in the world, just because this is not the absolute, 100% worst doesn't mean it shouldn't be tackled.
"Another recent example is Australia banning small-breasted porn stars from XXX movies in Australia. The apparent reason (in not so many words) is people that find women with small breasts attractive are pedophiles!!!! Now, why aren't women right's groups all over this shitty law??"
Because it was the wittering of one loony (state-level) politician, and never made it into a bill, let alone state law.
I actually made one of these about five years ago, for a laugh. Encode some sentence stuctures as sequences of adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs etc etc. Then create some dictionaries of words starting with each letter that ft these categories (x, y and Z are tough). Then take binary data, encode as ascii letters (base 26), and pick a random sentence structure from your list. Fill out the structure with a word from your dictionary that starts with the current letter in your encoding stream.
Voila - english looking gibberish, with masses and masses of bloat
MIne was really really crude and had no underlying encryption, but I just put "Hello" through it and got this -
"the kitchen organised the monkey urgently but an island independently quit a xanthia. A number, ordinarily"
Gecko is also used in epiphany, the gnome browser, which is somewhat like firefox without quite a lot of the cruft. IIRC, MicroB the maemo browser uses it too.
Umm, not everyone aspires to be an apple consumer, not everyone by a long way.
I sure as hell don't, and the only thing either of my parents know about apple is that their computers are supposed to be less frustrating to use than windows.
Apple are good at marketing, sure, but it's a bit much to say that they market and sell to the people that everyone else wants to be.
I was doing commercial multi-threaded programming a decade ago, and it wasn't new then. Multi-process across multiple cores has been with us for decades.
Parallel programming is not massively difficult, but here on Slashdot people seem to think it's some crazy new thing that's really hard and nobody's ever done it before.
Any business would be mad to let sensitive data (especially medical) get onto employee's home machines. And bringing personal machines to work and hooking them up the network?
You're a walking, talking, security nightmare. Your IT staff should be fired for not being harsh enough. NO personal laptops on the network. NO accessing email from home machines.
I used to run two NSLU2s, now I have a sheevaplug. His work enabled me to turn them all into debian boxes.
How is the QNAP stuff? What's the core speed/RAM? Was toying with buying one but they were expensive compared to sheeva. Of course you have to get the disk caddy extra for the plug.
Server doesn't necessarily mean "super-beefy computer in the back room", it can mean "file server for a small office" or "part of a web-serving cluster".
Neither of these (nor a lot of other server activities) require either masses of memory or ultra-fast cpu. In many cases it's far better to reduce the power usage.
Hell, you could do that with an NSLU2, running an arm core at 266MHz with 32MiB of RAM and an external drive. That *and* a simple torrent box.
You can do much more with a sheevaplug, mine has a full vnc server and gnome running on it at reasonable speed, or at least it had before I emigrated and gave it away. An OpenRD box should be fully capable of being a basic linux desktop machine.
N900 uses Maemo. I think you mean Meego, the Moblin/Maemo meld.
N900 seems to be at least the test platform for this, so it's highly likely us N900 owners will be able to transition.
I don't know what you mean by "screwed" either. M5 will continue to be supported and, hell, I'll probably get another phone in a year anyway so I'm looking forward to the next Meego device.
I actually heard an interview with this guy the other day. His point is not that we need to stop cutting pollution, it does cause a lot of respiratory diseases and various other forms of environmental damage.
it's just another effect that needs to be taken into account.
His thing is geo-engineering though, so his take is that this means we must start geo-engineering now.
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With a PSP that's running hacked firmware (which you need to play rips)? Trivial. Plug in over USB, copy the iso file that appears in explorer over to memory stick, done.
I've done that with the games I own so I can leave the UMDs at home.
Don't count C out. It's in your phone, your desktop OS, a hell of a lot of enterprise software, transaction systems etc etc
There's still a lot of us C coders around. If anything I'd say that it could be underrated because it's not hip, cool or new. It just is.
You shat you own pants sonny, that's your issue.
So victims of child abuse that becomes child porn should not expect that pictures of humiliation and sexual violence toward them be controlled and removed from circulation wherver possible? That people perpetrating further indignities toward them every time the image is viewed and distributed be stopped and punished?
Sorry, but this is a no-brainer to me.
There are many problems in the world, just because this is not the absolute, 100% worst doesn't mean it shouldn't be tackled.
"Another recent example is Australia banning small-breasted porn stars from XXX movies in Australia. The apparent reason (in not so many words) is people that find women with small breasts attractive are pedophiles!!!! Now, why aren't women right's groups all over this shitty law??"
Because it was the wittering of one loony (state-level) politician, and never made it into a bill, let alone state law.
I actually made one of these about five years ago, for a laugh. Encode some sentence stuctures as sequences of adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs etc etc. Then create some dictionaries of words starting with each letter that ft these categories (x, y and Z are tough). Then take binary data, encode as ascii letters (base 26), and pick a random sentence structure from your list. Fill out the structure with a word from your dictionary that starts with the current letter in your encoding stream.
Voila - english looking gibberish, with masses and masses of bloat
MIne was really really crude and had no underlying encryption, but I just put "Hello" through it and got this -
"the kitchen organised the monkey urgently but an island independently quit a xanthia. A number, ordinarily"
Gecko is also used in epiphany, the gnome browser, which is somewhat like firefox without quite a lot of the cruft.
IIRC, MicroB the maemo browser uses it too.
I admit these are niche players though.
They let you in the UK now too.
So it's useful that I have a proxy over there and a uk credit card :)
Not in most of the world they don't.
And just how does your employer get at your facebook posts anyway? Did you 'friend' your boss?
Yeah.
Unfortunately in the US you have both.
Umm, not everyone aspires to be an apple consumer, not everyone by a long way.
I sure as hell don't, and the only thing either of my parents know about apple is that their computers are supposed to be less frustrating to use than windows.
Apple are good at marketing, sure, but it's a bit much to say that they market and sell to the people that everyone else wants to be.
Please tell me you're not using OO.o for writing code!
What the hell do you mean "Apparently"?
I was doing commercial multi-threaded programming a decade ago, and it wasn't new then. Multi-process across multiple cores has been with us for decades.
Parallel programming is not massively difficult, but here on Slashdot people seem to think it's some crazy new thing that's really hard and nobody's ever done it before.
No it isn't and yes they have.
No, it's true, Apple invented the application and no other platform is capable of running such a thing!
*facepalm*
b-1, the real world is bigger than the USA and in much of it they would not be able to fire you for these actions.
It's that simple.
Any business would be mad to let sensitive data (especially medical) get onto employee's home machines. And bringing personal machines to work and hooking them up the network?
You're a walking, talking, security nightmare. Your IT staff should be fired for not being harsh enough. NO personal laptops on the network. NO accessing email from home machines.
Some of the newer cores have an optional FPU, meaning you need to look at the device/specific chip you're buying to see if it's on there. This helps.
Otherwise yes, FPU is terrible. I'm not sure you need one for file/web/mail/news/torrent/stuff serving in general though do you?
I too would like to thank Martyn.
I used to run two NSLU2s, now I have a sheevaplug. His work enabled me to turn them all into debian boxes.
How is the QNAP stuff? What's the core speed/RAM?
Was toying with buying one but they were expensive compared to sheeva. Of course you have to get the disk caddy extra for the plug.
What do you do with your server?
Server doesn't necessarily mean "super-beefy computer in the back room", it can mean "file server for a small office" or "part of a web-serving cluster".
Neither of these (nor a lot of other server activities) require either masses of memory or ultra-fast cpu. In many cases it's far better to reduce the power usage.
Depends what you want to hack. My Netgear ADSL router is MIPS based and runs linux so you can roll your own distro if you want.
Not that I did, but I like that the option's there.
Hell, you could do that with an NSLU2, running an arm core at 266MHz with 32MiB of RAM and an external drive. That *and* a simple torrent box.
You can do much more with a sheevaplug, mine has a full vnc server and gnome running on it at reasonable speed, or at least it had before I emigrated and gave it away. An OpenRD box should be fully capable of being a basic linux desktop machine.
Also, just to add to your list, the Sony PSP runs on MIPS IIRC
N900 uses Maemo. I think you mean Meego, the Moblin/Maemo meld.
N900 seems to be at least the test platform for this, so it's highly likely us N900 owners will be able to transition.
I don't know what you mean by "screwed" either. M5 will continue to be supported and, hell, I'll probably get another phone in a year anyway so I'm looking forward to the next Meego device.
Well that's not how he came across on the radio, not at all. Maybe he was just pushing his book.
I actually heard an interview with this guy the other day. His point is not that we need to stop cutting pollution, it does cause a lot of respiratory diseases and various other forms of environmental damage.
it's just another effect that needs to be taken into account.
His thing is geo-engineering though, so his take is that this means we must start geo-engineering now.