And even if it does turn out to be completely useless for physics, I would have much rather have seen my US tax dollars be wasted on something like a particle collider than how they've been wasted in Iraq. Money spent on science is almost never truly wasted.
Some group doing this is not helpful. All it is going to do is give Republicans a rallying cry for even more draconian laws governing email and the internet should they get elected in November.
I don't see how this eliminates the carbon footprint of building the car. It only moves it. Unless all of your tools are alternative energy powered, and the vehicles used to deliver the parts to you are likewise alternative energy powered, nothing has been accomplished here except moving where the carbon has been emitted. I fail to see how this helps the planet.
How is that possible when I keep seeing figures, from supposedly reliable sources, that spam email accounts for anywhere from 60 to 80 percent (depending on who's figures you want to use) of net traffic? That's not coming from bots?
So if researchers can detect these things with apparent reliability in their process, why can't ISPs detect them the same way and cut the bastards off?
If Comcast and ilk such as that were really interested in conserving network bandwidth, they'd be cutting off zombies instead of putting on bandwidth caps.
Um...you've never heard of the Reiser File System in Linux? I'll give you three guesses who created it.
That's what makes this "news for nerds".
As for everyone's comments in the SFGate article, and probably soon to appear here, that "15 years isn't enough" and the like, remember that is only the amount of time that he has to wait for a parole opportunity. There is no certainty that he will ever actually make parole, and he could very well end up spending the rest of his life locked up.
>if you could even parallelize the procedure that much
You can't. Multiple cores are of no help in speeding up a prime number search like GIMPS. Each iteration of the test requires the results of the previous iteration. All multiple cores do is allow you to run multiple copies of the software (one per core) in order to allow a machine to test more than one prospective prime at a time.
FWIW, I run two copies of the GIMPS software on an E8400 processor, one copy on each core. And last time I did a benchmarking check on it, its currently taking 26 days and a few hours to fully test exponents in the 42,000,000 range.
If you're driving along.. and a cop car rear ends you, without it's lights on... you cant sue the police department, at least in most states. They dont have to pay to fix your car, you're just SOL and have to fix your own car.
As the other poster with a similar story says, this must vary by state. And in Kentucky, yes you can sue in this situation, and yes they can be made to pay.
When I was 17, I had a teenager's worst nightmare and my car was hit by a police car (supposedly on a run, but no lights or siren). I wanted the city to repair my car. City government decided to fight it in court. They lost. The judge ruled in my favor. The city did not appeal.
You asked them to fix something. You in effect invited them in to your server. If you're going to let someone else manage your servers, that's what happens. If you're going to host on a machine with the accounts of others also present, that's what happens.
If you don't like being open like that, and don't want to deal with the support problems of colo, and don't want to have the servers located in your home, then your only real option is to lease entire machines for yourself. And then change the root passwords and keep those to yourself. Granted, if they want it bad enough they can still get to your data...just pull the hard drive and put it in another machine. But since you'd notice the downtime, that's not likely with a reputable company.
That's what I do. I lease entire machines, not just space on a server with a bunch of others running reseller accounts. I also self manage.
But again, remember one fact...as soon as you ask them "Can you fix this software problem for me?", you just invited them in.
I swear I don't mean to be difficult here, I'm just stating my own experiences.
>What market is Mandriva serving these days?
The market that wants the stuff to work. Out of the box. With no bit twiddling.
My PCs are not bleeding edge, and they don't use anything non-standard. Same for my laptops. And I have not even once been able to get any version of Ubuntu, or any of its derivatives, to install correctly on anything I own without having to majorly fight with it. And that includes Hardy Heron.
Mandriva, on the other hand, is just the opposite. It has never once failed to install correctly, straight out of the box, no hammering required.
Contrary to what everyone here likes to report, I've never had problems installing any version of Windows on any hardware I own (and that includes Vista). I expect Linux to be no different. If I have to fire up so much as a text editor to make alterations to get the distribution to install, then its garbage. I should be able to put the DVD in a drive, fire it up, answer some questions, and get a working installation. Just like I do with Windows. Mandriva, and Mandrake before it, is the one distribution of Linux that "just works" for me. Each and every time, on each and every machine I put it on.
I'll probably install the alpha on a test machine tonight.
I was just getting ready to point that out myself.
Whether or not TFA is factual, and no matter how much Pelosi may wish those were the rules, there is not even a snowball's chance in hell that rules like that could pass Constitutional muster.
I've also seen a couple of replies here that think it makes a difference that these proposed rules are talking about Congress and not the general public. Doesn't matter. The Constitution protects the rights of Congresscritters to speak in public too.
I bought my first copies of Mandrake (now Mandriva) and Slackware off the shelf in a big box store. Granted, this was back in the 90s when bandwidth was a lot harder to come by than it is now. I've also got a couple of purchased versions of Redhat.
The fact is that seeing them on the shelf right beside Microsoft products gives them a new level of perceived "legitimacy". The general consumer needs that. And its another fact that, based upon some of the replies in this thread, the majority of the people here do not understand that. Its never going to be the famed "year that Linux takes over on the desktop" until Linux is as common on the retail shelf as Microsoft and Apple are.
Oh, and I still use Redhat, Mandriva, and Slackware on a daily basis. And all three are in "paid for" versions. I believe in supporting the products I use, even if I can get them for free. If they aren't worth paying something for, then they aren't worth using.
The way I understand it from what I have read, this is basically all they can find that they could charge her with. The situation doesn't fit, according to local (to where it happened) authorities, any of their other available laws (child abuse, etc), or rather fits it even worse than using this law.
I have very mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, yeah, we're starting down a very slippery slope with this one. But on the other hand, this is Lori Drew...she needs to be f**king nailed to the wall as hard as possible, and I hope she has a long natural life that is filled with absolute pain, suffering and misery for every second of it.
I should have been more clear in my original question, so the fact that I got some poor answers is my fault.
But your answer here is what I was looking for, thanks!
What I should have initially asked is what US providers that use GSM will allow you to bring your own phone to the table and shove one of their sim cards in it and make calls.
Currently I have a Verizon CDMA phone, and my current contract (my 5th with them) ends in September. I've been with Verizon for going on 10 years now, and have no real complaints. The iPhone is not enough to make me consider switching to AT&T. But OpenMoko is.
Even though I readily admit I hate the shape of the case they put this thing in, I am otherwise quite interested in this phone from the "open" standpoint.
But assuming I were to buy one of these, what carriers in the US will let you put it on their network without grief or a number of hoops to jump through?
Have you ever thought rush hour on the 405 Freeway might be more bearable if you could check your e-mail, shop for a book on Amazon, place some bids on EBay and maybe even, if nobody is looking, download a little porn?
If so, then you should be taking public transportation, because obviously you'd never be able to pay attention to your driving with something like this in your car.
I'll echo another reply...the reason Chrysler is the first with this is because everyone else has already decided its a bad idea.
I live in a rural area in the Midwest. If a horde of people I didn't know suddenly descended on my property, and I don't see some badges or blue and red lights accompanying them, those people would see a gun too...and mine wouldn't be in a rack.
I've had this same discussion with several friends. We all grew up in the "Scouts of the old days", and range in age from 45 to 65. And your comment could not be more right on.
I had many wonderful experiences in Scouts, and did many things I would not have otherwise had the chance to do.
But I've seen enough on the local level in very recent times (like a local council vice-president who turned out to be one of the most anti-Black/anti-Gay bigots I've ever met...all he was missing was the white sheet and pointy hat, and he may have had those at home in the closet), if I had children now I'm not sure I'd allow them to participate.
On the one hand, I think developing open source software for the BSA could be a good thing. But on the other hand, I'm not sure I can just toss my personal opinions by the wayside to write some myself.
I wonder, then, how come Microsoft still manages to sell gazillions of copies of Visual Studio, even when they also give away "express" editions of their products too.
The best thing that could happen after punishment is dispensed is for this asshole to never be mentioned in public again. His name should be stricken from the face of the earth, just like they did in the old days. He does not deserve to be remembered.
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And even if it does turn out to be completely useless for physics, I would have much rather have seen my US tax dollars be wasted on something like a particle collider than how they've been wasted in Iraq. Money spent on science is almost never truly wasted.
Some group doing this is not helpful. All it is going to do is give Republicans a rallying cry for even more draconian laws governing email and the internet should they get elected in November.
I don't see how this eliminates the carbon footprint of building the car. It only moves it. Unless all of your tools are alternative energy powered, and the vehicles used to deliver the parts to you are likewise alternative energy powered, nothing has been accomplished here except moving where the carbon has been emitted. I fail to see how this helps the planet.
Yep, I knew it would get modded troll. I dared to disparage a product of His Holiness Lord Steve and his loyal subjects.
What the fuck...I've got karma out the ass.
What's the difference between a Mac and PC besides the operating system?
The price.
How is that possible when I keep seeing figures, from supposedly reliable sources, that spam email accounts for anywhere from 60 to 80 percent (depending on who's figures you want to use) of net traffic? That's not coming from bots?
So if researchers can detect these things with apparent reliability in their process, why can't ISPs detect them the same way and cut the bastards off?
If Comcast and ilk such as that were really interested in conserving network bandwidth, they'd be cutting off zombies instead of putting on bandwidth caps.
Um...you've never heard of the Reiser File System in Linux? I'll give you three guesses who created it.
That's what makes this "news for nerds".
As for everyone's comments in the SFGate article, and probably soon to appear here, that "15 years isn't enough" and the like, remember that is only the amount of time that he has to wait for a parole opportunity. There is no certainty that he will ever actually make parole, and he could very well end up spending the rest of his life locked up.
>if you could even parallelize the procedure that much
You can't. Multiple cores are of no help in speeding up a prime number search like GIMPS. Each iteration of the test requires the results of the previous iteration. All multiple cores do is allow you to run multiple copies of the software (one per core) in order to allow a machine to test more than one prospective prime at a time.
FWIW, I run two copies of the GIMPS software on an E8400 processor, one copy on each core. And last time I did a benchmarking check on it, its currently taking 26 days and a few hours to fully test exponents in the 42,000,000 range.
To me, the reasoning behind the faked display is no consolation or excuse
Then next time, Timothy, we'll let you fly the helicopter while fireworks are being shot at it.
If you're driving along.. and a cop car rear ends you, without it's lights on... you cant sue the police department, at least in most states. They dont have to pay to fix your car, you're just SOL and have to fix your own car.
As the other poster with a similar story says, this must vary by state. And in Kentucky, yes you can sue in this situation, and yes they can be made to pay.
When I was 17, I had a teenager's worst nightmare and my car was hit by a police car (supposedly on a run, but no lights or siren). I wanted the city to repair my car. City government decided to fight it in court. They lost. The judge ruled in my favor. The city did not appeal.
You asked them to fix something. You in effect invited them in to your server. If you're going to let someone else manage your servers, that's what happens. If you're going to host on a machine with the accounts of others also present, that's what happens.
If you don't like being open like that, and don't want to deal with the support problems of colo, and don't want to have the servers located in your home, then your only real option is to lease entire machines for yourself. And then change the root passwords and keep those to yourself. Granted, if they want it bad enough they can still get to your data...just pull the hard drive and put it in another machine. But since you'd notice the downtime, that's not likely with a reputable company.
That's what I do. I lease entire machines, not just space on a server with a bunch of others running reseller accounts. I also self manage.
But again, remember one fact...as soon as you ask them "Can you fix this software problem for me?", you just invited them in.
I swear I don't mean to be difficult here, I'm just stating my own experiences.
>What market is Mandriva serving these days?
The market that wants the stuff to work. Out of the box. With no bit twiddling.
My PCs are not bleeding edge, and they don't use anything non-standard. Same for my laptops. And I have not even once been able to get any version of Ubuntu, or any of its derivatives, to install correctly on anything I own without having to majorly fight with it. And that includes Hardy Heron.
Mandriva, on the other hand, is just the opposite. It has never once failed to install correctly, straight out of the box, no hammering required.
Contrary to what everyone here likes to report, I've never had problems installing any version of Windows on any hardware I own (and that includes Vista). I expect Linux to be no different. If I have to fire up so much as a text editor to make alterations to get the distribution to install, then its garbage. I should be able to put the DVD in a drive, fire it up, answer some questions, and get a working installation. Just like I do with Windows. Mandriva, and Mandrake before it, is the one distribution of Linux that "just works" for me. Each and every time, on each and every machine I put it on.
I'll probably install the alpha on a test machine tonight.
I was just getting ready to point that out myself.
Whether or not TFA is factual, and no matter how much Pelosi may wish those were the rules, there is not even a snowball's chance in hell that rules like that could pass Constitutional muster.
I've also seen a couple of replies here that think it makes a difference that these proposed rules are talking about Congress and not the general public. Doesn't matter. The Constitution protects the rights of Congresscritters to speak in public too.
Yep, what you say.
I bought my first copies of Mandrake (now Mandriva) and Slackware off the shelf in a big box store. Granted, this was back in the 90s when bandwidth was a lot harder to come by than it is now. I've also got a couple of purchased versions of Redhat.
The fact is that seeing them on the shelf right beside Microsoft products gives them a new level of perceived "legitimacy". The general consumer needs that. And its another fact that, based upon some of the replies in this thread, the majority of the people here do not understand that. Its never going to be the famed "year that Linux takes over on the desktop" until Linux is as common on the retail shelf as Microsoft and Apple are.
Oh, and I still use Redhat, Mandriva, and Slackware on a daily basis. And all three are in "paid for" versions. I believe in supporting the products I use, even if I can get them for free. If they aren't worth paying something for, then they aren't worth using.
The way I understand it from what I have read, this is basically all they can find that they could charge her with. The situation doesn't fit, according to local (to where it happened) authorities, any of their other available laws (child abuse, etc), or rather fits it even worse than using this law.
I have very mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, yeah, we're starting down a very slippery slope with this one. But on the other hand, this is Lori Drew...she needs to be f**king nailed to the wall as hard as possible, and I hope she has a long natural life that is filled with absolute pain, suffering and misery for every second of it.
I should have been more clear in my original question, so the fact that I got some poor answers is my fault.
But your answer here is what I was looking for, thanks!
What I should have initially asked is what US providers that use GSM will allow you to bring your own phone to the table and shove one of their sim cards in it and make calls.
Currently I have a Verizon CDMA phone, and my current contract (my 5th with them) ends in September. I've been with Verizon for going on 10 years now, and have no real complaints. The iPhone is not enough to make me consider switching to AT&T. But OpenMoko is.
Even though I readily admit I hate the shape of the case they put this thing in, I am otherwise quite interested in this phone from the "open" standpoint.
But assuming I were to buy one of these, what carriers in the US will let you put it on their network without grief or a number of hoops to jump through?
A number of comments here have asked questions like "how hard is it to pull over" or "why not just call them". Here's another one...
Why not RTFA and discover that its a joke group and its creator is not trying to condone texting while driving.
Have you ever thought rush hour on the 405 Freeway might be more bearable if you could check your e-mail, shop for a book on Amazon, place some bids on EBay and maybe even, if nobody is looking, download a little porn?
If so, then you should be taking public transportation, because obviously you'd never be able to pay attention to your driving with something like this in your car.
I'll echo another reply...the reason Chrysler is the first with this is because everyone else has already decided its a bad idea.
I live in a rural area in the Midwest. If a horde of people I didn't know suddenly descended on my property, and I don't see some badges or blue and red lights accompanying them, those people would see a gun too...and mine wouldn't be in a rack.
I've had this same discussion with several friends. We all grew up in the "Scouts of the old days", and range in age from 45 to 65. And your comment could not be more right on.
I had many wonderful experiences in Scouts, and did many things I would not have otherwise had the chance to do.
But I've seen enough on the local level in very recent times (like a local council vice-president who turned out to be one of the most anti-Black/anti-Gay bigots I've ever met...all he was missing was the white sheet and pointy hat, and he may have had those at home in the closet), if I had children now I'm not sure I'd allow them to participate.
On the one hand, I think developing open source software for the BSA could be a good thing. But on the other hand, I'm not sure I can just toss my personal opinions by the wayside to write some myself.
I wonder, then, how come Microsoft still manages to sell gazillions of copies of Visual Studio, even when they also give away "express" editions of their products too.
I gotta admit you're probably right. Its like crack cocaine dealers...you take one off the street, and another is right there ready to step up.
The best thing that could happen after punishment is dispensed is for this asshole to never be mentioned in public again. His name should be stricken from the face of the earth, just like they did in the old days. He does not deserve to be remembered.