Why KDE4 fucking locks my system up after ten minutes, I'd be all set. Once it finishes loading, I've got about 10-20 minutes before some graphics get randomly corrupted, then the system freezes dead. Doesn't happen if I play a fullscreen game, only if the KDE4 desktop is visible. It even happened when I started a single KDE4 application inside KDE3!
I spent hours trying to get an answer on #kde and got as far as "your backtrace is useless. It's probably the video drivers, go bug nVidia," even though I'd used two totally different drivers - the accelerated one and the glacially slow nv one.
Kparts means that you can include practically entire programs (spreadsheets, browsers, editors) inside other programs - how much more modular can it get?
However, I think that a user-owned wired backbone as well as local caching proxies would be essential to make this work. It's impossible for RF links alone to work for two reasons: Bandwidth and lag. The speed of wired networks is much higher to start with (>= Gbps), and you need that as a backbone. Secondly, long range cable/fiber accumulates microseconds of delay per hop; WiFi in my experience accumulates milliseconds. Would you want to use a network that took seconds to send packets 100Km?
Fast long-range connections will be absolutely essential to prevent the system from failing by reducing load on otherside intermediate nodes and greatly reducing the mean number of hops from A to B. You need is delay-tolerant drivers for your ethernet card and either some nice ECL buffers or fiber transceivers to extend the range if it's a really long way. For example you'd want to run at least 100M ethernet between chains of wifi routers in your neighborhood, and try to run a some 200/600Mbps fiber between distant neighborhoods. The problem is that this shit is expensive which is why mesh networks don't generally work out. But I'm up for giving it a shot. Combine this with a p2p system that uses that OFF distributed filesystem for effective local caching and you've got a winner IMO.
That'll go over like a lead balloon as soon as the first worm comes out that looks for other infected boxes and begins exchanging the contents of/dev/urandom with them.
Although I'd also note that cheap unlimited connections can never make business sense with underbuilt networks - it's only been exposed since traffic became majority continuous rather than majority burst thanks to bittorrent/p2p/streaming video. It's probably been known since Usenet that there are a subset of users who have an obsessive-compulsive need to collect every file ever; They will never go away and not accounting for them is simply negligent.
This works by xoring your data (in 128KB blocks) with one randomly-selected block and then xoring the result with a second randomly selected block. Store your new result on the network and then the "address" is the three hashes needed to get the blocks back and reverse the operation. Add a level of indirection by creating a block that stores all the hashes for the data blocks and a hash search and you have OFF.
So how does this relate to substituting shorter sequences for commonly used and/or longer ones?
Freeman Dyson estimated that launching a 6000 ton Orion would cause.1 to 1 fatal cancers, and it's been shown that efficiency increases with increasing size such that the amount of fissionables expended is almost constant on scales up to nearly 8 million tons.
The fallout from a launch would be similar to that of a ten-megaton nuke, of which the Soviets and the US detonated quite a few. Seriously, if you had the chance to put an eight million ton starship in orbit in exchange for one random death, would you say no? The chance to set up a self-sustaining moonbase in one move? To visit the entire solar system in short order?
The Uploaders have doubtlessly noted that this never would have happened if they were using an encrypted darknet for initial distribution.
Quite possibly things may evolve to the point where you aren't allowed to join without proving your identity and uploading something illegally. Compare Russian Business Network, who do this for the same purpose: you won't betray the group if they have the dirt on you also.
Mix that with segmentation among darknets to prevent inevitable compromises from taking everything down and you're golden once you set up trusted peers between different subdarknets to diffuse data between them.
Network neutrality isn't about treating all packets the same!
It's a universally accepted principle that discrimination based on data type is acceptable and necessary to manage network congestion. What is not accepted and is in fact anathema to the very concept of the internet is discrimination based on source/destination. That is what network neutrality means: all packets in a given data class have the same priority, regardless of the packet's SRC or DST fields.
The legislation would be as simple as "Networking Service Providers will not interfere with data flow based on source or destination for non-security reasons."
This is the first time in a while I've come away from reading/. with more than a whole lot of thoughts to process. Right click, "add feed to akgregator"!
Does their microbe create a crude oil substitute or does it create gasoline/diesel substitute? Because there's a giant difference. A crude oil substitute would have to have an assay remotely compatible with "real" crude if you're not going to end up synthesizing everything else.
Do the bacteria excrete asphalt (although this is less an issue with the heavy crude they're getting now being full of the stuff)? Or the lightweight components of crude? Or kerosene?
Now I'm not saying this wouldn't be an impressive move, and if it can help take up some of the vehicle fuel slack long enough to move to alternatives then great, but we have to be realistic. Take away crude oil and you have to slip another synthesis step in before almost every industrial process to replace the molecules that were nearly ready-made in oil. And since a lot of it will be synthesizing molecules from scratch, it'll suck a/huge/ amount of energy from one source or another.
Well, except it's happened provably in two places and it's now happening to the world as a whole.
Starting in 1974, oil output from Texas oil fields began declining 4-ish percent per year. Despite the deployment of every available technology and minimal to almost no drilling restrictions, the decline continues. The same thing happened in the North Sea in 2000: Production peaked, and now production there has been falling about 4 to 5 percent per year for 8 years.
At this time, there is virtually no spare capacity in the middle east to pump more oil. Any that they can bring online will go more to covering rapid declines in North Sea output than increasing supply. The Saudis were hoping to increase production by about 1.2 million barrels/day this year, and it looks as if they'll be doing damn well to get another 500 thousand; We're looking at a loss next year.
A gun-assembly bomb is extremely reliable*. The manhattan project designers only included a neutron source as a detonator in Little Boy to make sure it went off at just the right altitude; Based on the rate of neutron release due to spontaneous fissions, the bomb was absolutely gauranteed to have gone off within 1 or 2 seconds anyway. They didn't even build a test bomb they were so sure it would work.
The problem is that gun bombs are an obscene waste of an extremely rare material; Little Boy had about five times as much uranium as Fat Man did plutonium (~100 vs ~20Kg) but a significantly inferior yield (~15 vs ~20KT). It's estimated that maybe 1/10 of Little Boy's uranium had fissioned when it disassembled.
* YMMV depending on isotopic impurities, but terrorists aren't going to be the ones refining the metal.
So, it worked? The Iraqi government got their acts together and stopped the sectarian bullshit? Because after all, that's what the surge was about.
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No? They're still squabbling and gridlocked? The surge is now acting like a pressure cooker whose lid is going to be loosened because we can't keep that many men there permanently and the violence will blow up again? Phooey.
'in particular zones to limit the speed and/or acceleration of vehicles, to require the use of lights, to verify an indication of insurance coverage and/or current registration, or the like.'
And I, the consumer, would buy a new device that is explicitly less functional than existing devices... why?
I don't doubt that some segment of the environmentalist movement (think ecoterrorists like the ELF) is accurately described by the "humans are evil despoilers" mentality. The problem is using the term "the environmentalists." There is no the environmentalists, anymore than there are The Jews, or The Corporations. A better term would've been "some blind ideologue environmentalists."
Stating objectively verifiable facts is not trolling, fucktard mod. Sea levels are confirmed as haven risen some inches between 1900 and 2000, and are likely to rise half a foot to a foot this coming century (assuming no catastrophes like the collapse of the Ross ice shelf), which would endanger numerous low-lying islands in the Pacific.
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I too was devastated to learn that my poor Linux box can only handle 128KB of command line arguments. How can I possibly finish typing in that uncompressed bitmap...
If rotten.com can stay on the wire, so can you.
Why KDE4 fucking locks my system up after ten minutes, I'd be all set. Once it finishes loading, I've got about 10-20 minutes before some graphics get randomly corrupted, then the system freezes dead. Doesn't happen if I play a fullscreen game, only if the KDE4 desktop is visible. It even happened when I started a single KDE4 application inside KDE3!
I spent hours trying to get an answer on #kde and got as far as "your backtrace is useless. It's probably the video drivers, go bug nVidia," even though I'd used two totally different drivers - the accelerated one and the glacially slow nv one.
KDE? more modular?
Kparts means that you can include practically entire programs (spreadsheets, browsers, editors) inside other programs - how much more modular can it get?
If the public think non-whites should be rounded up and exterminated, then they should be.
/And fark slashcode for not allowing <strike>
You fail - here's your heaping helping of argumentum ad populum.
Welcome to the Unwirers.
However, I think that a user-owned wired backbone as well as local caching proxies would be essential to make this work. It's impossible for RF links alone to work for two reasons: Bandwidth and lag. The speed of wired networks is much higher to start with (>= Gbps), and you need that as a backbone. Secondly, long range cable/fiber accumulates microseconds of delay per hop; WiFi in my experience accumulates milliseconds. Would you want to use a network that took seconds to send packets 100Km?
Fast long-range connections will be absolutely essential to prevent the system from failing by reducing load on otherside intermediate nodes and greatly reducing the mean number of hops from A to B. You need is delay-tolerant drivers for your ethernet card and either some nice ECL buffers or fiber transceivers to extend the range if it's a really long way. For example you'd want to run at least 100M ethernet between chains of wifi routers in your neighborhood, and try to run a some 200/600Mbps fiber between distant neighborhoods. The problem is that this shit is expensive which is why mesh networks don't generally work out. But I'm up for giving it a shot. Combine this with a p2p system that uses that OFF distributed filesystem for effective local caching and you've got a winner IMO.
Yes, and I have a message for you to deliver. I'm sorry, Billy, but it's going to take a very long time...
That'll go over like a lead balloon as soon as the first worm comes out that looks for other infected boxes and begins exchanging the contents of /dev/urandom with them.
Although I'd also note that cheap unlimited connections can never make business sense with underbuilt networks - it's only been exposed since traffic became majority continuous rather than majority burst thanks to bittorrent/p2p/streaming video. It's probably been known since Usenet that there are a subset of users who have an obsessive-compulsive need to collect every file ever; They will never go away and not accounting for them is simply negligent.
This works by xoring your data (in 128KB blocks) with one randomly-selected block and then xoring the result with a second randomly selected block. Store your new result on the network and then the "address" is the three hashes needed to get the blocks back and reverse the operation. Add a level of indirection by creating a block that stores all the hashes for the data blocks and a hash search and you have OFF.
So how does this relate to substituting shorter sequences for commonly used and/or longer ones?
Freeman Dyson estimated that launching a 6000 ton Orion would cause .1 to 1 fatal cancers, and it's been shown that efficiency increases with increasing size such that the amount of fissionables expended is almost constant on scales up to nearly 8 million tons.
The fallout from a launch would be similar to that of a ten-megaton nuke, of which the Soviets and the US detonated quite a few. Seriously, if you had the chance to put an eight million ton starship in orbit in exchange for one random death, would you say no? The chance to set up a self-sustaining moonbase in one move? To visit the entire solar system in short order?
The Uploaders have doubtlessly noted that this never would have happened if they were using an encrypted darknet for initial distribution.
Quite possibly things may evolve to the point where you aren't allowed to join without proving your identity and uploading something illegally. Compare Russian Business Network, who do this for the same purpose: you won't betray the group if they have the dirt on you also.
Mix that with segmentation among darknets to prevent inevitable compromises from taking everything down and you're golden once you set up trusted peers between different subdarknets to diffuse data between them.
Network neutrality isn't about treating all packets the same!
It's a universally accepted principle that discrimination based on data type is acceptable and necessary to manage network congestion. What is not accepted and is in fact anathema to the very concept of the internet is discrimination based on source/destination. That is what network neutrality means: all packets in a given data class have the same priority, regardless of the packet's SRC or DST fields.
The legislation would be as simple as "Networking Service Providers will not interfere with data flow based on source or destination for non-security reasons."
- ScienceDaily
- Google News
- Lords of the Blog
And of course the KDE feeds that come preset with Akgregator.I wonder how far things would have to go before we start seeing acts of sabotage or even violence against the creators and perpetrators of DRM.
Does their microbe create a crude oil substitute or does it create gasoline/diesel substitute? Because there's a giant difference. A crude oil substitute would have to have an assay remotely compatible with "real" crude if you're not going to end up synthesizing everything else.
/huge/ amount of energy from one source or another.
Do the bacteria excrete asphalt (although this is less an issue with the heavy crude they're getting now being full of the stuff)? Or the lightweight components of crude? Or kerosene?
Now I'm not saying this wouldn't be an impressive move, and if it can help take up some of the vehicle fuel slack long enough to move to alternatives then great, but we have to be realistic. Take away crude oil and you have to slip another synthesis step in before almost every industrial process to replace the molecules that were nearly ready-made in oil. And since a lot of it will be synthesizing molecules from scratch, it'll suck a
Well, except it's happened provably in two places and it's now happening to the world as a whole.
Starting in 1974, oil output from Texas oil fields began declining 4-ish percent per year. Despite the deployment of every available technology and minimal to almost no drilling restrictions, the decline continues. The same thing happened in the North Sea in 2000: Production peaked, and now production there has been falling about 4 to 5 percent per year for 8 years.
At this time, there is virtually no spare capacity in the middle east to pump more oil. Any that they can bring online will go more to covering rapid declines in North Sea output than increasing supply. The Saudis were hoping to increase production by about 1.2 million barrels/day this year, and it looks as if they'll be doing damn well to get another 500 thousand; We're looking at a loss next year.
The peak is real and most likely imminent.
The car containing the nuke is the one whose wheels and suspension have been crushed by a four metric ton, three meter long buttplug.
A gun-assembly bomb is extremely reliable*. The manhattan project designers only included a neutron source as a detonator in Little Boy to make sure it went off at just the right altitude; Based on the rate of neutron release due to spontaneous fissions, the bomb was absolutely gauranteed to have gone off within 1 or 2 seconds anyway. They didn't even build a test bomb they were so sure it would work.
The problem is that gun bombs are an obscene waste of an extremely rare material; Little Boy had about five times as much uranium as Fat Man did plutonium (~100 vs ~20Kg) but a significantly inferior yield (~15 vs ~20KT). It's estimated that maybe 1/10 of Little Boy's uranium had fissioned when it disassembled.
* YMMV depending on isotopic impurities, but terrorists aren't going to be the ones refining the metal.
Oh hell, I'll bite.
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So, it worked? The Iraqi government got their acts together and stopped the sectarian bullshit? Because after all, that's what the surge was about.
No? They're still squabbling and gridlocked? The surge is now acting like a pressure cooker whose lid is going to be loosened because we can't keep that many men there permanently and the violence will blow up again? Phooey.
And I, the consumer, would buy a new device that is explicitly less functional than existing devices... why?
Everybody get in here! Your senators know that every person who actually writes represents thousands of voters.
Thousand years ago. Apparently K/M/G-ya has been deprecated in favor of Ka/Ma/Ga.
I don't doubt that some segment of the environmentalist movement (think ecoterrorists like the ELF) is accurately described by the "humans are evil despoilers" mentality. The problem is using the term "the environmentalists." There is no the environmentalists, anymore than there are The Jews, or The Corporations. A better term would've been "some blind ideologue environmentalists."
Ack, crap. I was sure to get something wrong writing that much off the top of my head. Guess I was thinking of halocarbons...
Stating objectively verifiable facts is not trolling, fucktard mod. Sea levels are confirmed as haven risen some inches between 1900 and 2000, and are likely to rise half a foot to a foot this coming century (assuming no catastrophes like the collapse of the Ross ice shelf), which would endanger numerous low-lying islands in the Pacific.