Anti-matter (search Google or sciam.com, etc.) is the opposite of matter to some degree (different polarity in a mathematical kind of way if you want to think of it like that), whereas dark matter is stuff that doesn't behave the way we expect matter to behave but has lots of mass.
Dark matter is a good way to explain the mathematical problems we have with the current conceptions of how the universe exists (there's not enough "stuff" out there to make the mass we need for our theorems to work). That's one of the reasons astronomers look for black holes all the time too; they account for lots of mass that doesn't behave "normally".
That said, "normal" means "the way I, a measely human being with a brain the size of a couple fists understand that it ought to work and have observed it working." When we get over our self-indulgences, we realize that we know very little and theorize on the rest. That's how science works.
The general public, of couse, has this unfortunate notion of science as a school teacher; knows everything cause they know very little. Its only when you get involved that you realize how little science does in fact know and how much is simply made up (by some brilliant people who are sometimes even right) to explain the stuff they've noticed.
Just think how many of Newton's theories are incorrect (or inaccurate) in light of relativity. We still give Newton credit for being a very intelligent person; but we need to be willing to think outside the box of current scientific understanding sometimes.
This reminds me, if you're doing a web search feature that accesses your backend database, make sure the *data* it accesses is secure.
GRANT SELECT ON PublicDatabase.SpecificTables TO websearch@hostgroup...... don't go doing something stupid like thinking "well, my search form only lets people read specific information." Trust me, you'll make a mistake. It'll suck. You'll feel bad. Hopefully, you'll get your ass sued into next century for not thinking ahead.
I've been using daemontools for years to start up all my system processes in parallel. My start-up times are great (plus, I don't have to wait for timeouts on failed drivers before I get a login).
Multicast works wonderfully, except that ISPs often decide to not route it, which is the main problem. If your ISP supports it, and its upstreams allow it, you're fine for the most part. However, if its just blocked (like port 25 half the time now), you won't get through.
ISPs don't like how multicast splits streams into multiple streams at their border routers for multiple customers to receive data; its difficult to charge appropriately for bandwidth usage.
They have to justify their refusal to provide you with service in the setting in question; talk to a lawyer. Even business owners can't prevent you from being on the premises without a valid reason; you can take them to court for it and you'll probably win. Private property laws aren't what you think -- there are a lot of exceptions, including standard "right of passage / thoroughfare" type clauses (the path that runs down the side of your yard that's been used by kids going to school for 30 years can't be fenced off in most places just because you don't like it anymore), etc.
Just because its your property (unless you live in places like Texas), doesn't mean you can forbid people from being on it for no apparent reason. Its *not* trespassing (for example) to walk into a store uninvited (as it would be for your living room), (partly) because it is considered "normal" to be allowed into the premises.
The public *can* do more than boycott the premises. They can try to enter with video cameras, or voice their concerns about their privacy or tie up all the service reps with questions about video cameras while on camera (for the tape-reviewer types to notice).
You may get banned from the store -- that's also their right, but you *can* do more than just boycott them. If you want lots of fun, you can even chat up other friendly shoppers near you about whether they've thought about the privacy implications of cameras in the store. Suggest watch some Malcom in the Middle (wherein the store manager labels the tapes based on the bending over of the female shoppers maybe).
Your comment is flawed... I know what you're getting at, but no... I *can* do more, and so can anyone else. Just because someone doesn't *have* to listen doesn't mean speaking is pointless.
And we have police to keep order, not to beat down innocent citizens. Although that may happen in other countries, you live in CANADA!! Canada you idiot! Probably one of the most passive counties in the world! And if there was a demonstration where people got hurt, there's a good chance they deserved it for being stupid radicals with too much time on their hands, like you
That's interesting... Canada has had a few interesting cases of police beating down innocent protestors in Montreal and pepper-spraying a peaceful protest group in British Columbia as well. The Prime Minister went so far as to say they were lucky it was pepper spray and not baseball bats.
There's a *good* reason for his paranoia; a lot of world governments and corporations are starting to think they should have a lot more control over our behaviour than you may believe.
Mann can wear his HMD, you can stick your head in the sand. To each his own.
I just wish there were more HMD-wearers and less sand-gazers.
There's a fundamental difference between private property and private commercial property. Commercial property is designed to make money off customers.
If enough customers want something, the commercial space is going to accomodate that within reason.
Until one person says something, nobody will. If enough people agree, some commercial spaces will change policies.
It isn't stupid to voice your opinion in commercial space at all.
Precisely my thoughts -- I don't buy the cheapest machines, I buy the ones that do what I want to do for a reasonable price. If its too cheap, it probably sucks (good rule of thumb in all industries).
I don't mind paying *more* for a machine that supports Linux in all its hardware devices, and that comes with Linux software to use all those devices.
Its actually good style to put the things you want well remembered at the end because people remember the beginnings and ends of things they read / hear best.
That said, the writing style (as pointed out by another poster) left something to be desired.
Does our friend Kevin have a PGP/GPG key that he would like used for these stories? I'm assuming many FBI resources will be concentrated on his ISP's chain of routers to the Internet to compromise the identities of any 'good' hackers that write in.
I'd hate to stifle the book, and can almost guarantee that I'll buy it, but I'd like to make sure that people are able to protect their identities and not unwittingly reveal incriminating information about themselves.
It is arguable (and I would gladly argue it) that sound does *not* belong in the X protocol. I don't mind an X-like protocol for sound, but it should be outside the X connection. Having both the X connection and your sound protocol connection travelling over an SSH tunnel together to a remote server makes perfect sense, but again, they are seperate protocols with seperate needs.
In the case where sound and video need to be synchronized, X synchronization calls could be made (easily?) by the sound server as timing notices, for example.
As a canadian who enjoys travelling abroad, I must say that big-city america is probably the worst place to get directions. I found France very friendly as well -- especially if you ask a local about something cultural. If you ask for the nearest McDonald's, you probably deserve the spit they leave on your shoes after all. If you ask where you ought to eat, expect something good where you can't read the menu but the waiter wants you to be happy.
Its also worth pointing out that (as Slashdot posted many moons ago), the Canadian Copyright Board actually put out a public request for comments about this type of legislation and action.
They wanted to know what *we* thought about DMCA-like regulations in Canada, *we* including consumers and producers.
Reading the list of responses (I don't see it offhand, but someone please post the link), its interesting to see the perspectives of many of the artists / producers (who've never seen a cent from that blank media levy).
My ISP (Cogeco) in Canada offers an FTP site for the kernels and RedHat distributions to its customers only. Its very fast and works well and does exactly what you describe.
However, remember that it *is* legal for me to download TV shows, etc. here, so using it for that purpose isn't a "problem" for my ISP to use against me.
Also, I use my Internet connection to VPN to work, transfer large files (we're talking gigs here) and run remote X sessions. That eats bandwidth by the end of a day, legitimately.
That said, I'm getting upwards of 400KB/s on downloads and they haven't ever talked to me about my usage levels, so I won't complain. I pre-warned them that I used my connection for work and would be running services and they said 'ok'.
The parallel is that it is a modern movie with lots of well-done special effects and a similar fan-base to the other two movies.
That would be about it, IMHO:-)
That said, I'm more interested in seeing the movie now that I've read how people didn't get or didn't like the second and now third movies. I loved the second movie; I thought it was innovative and they did things that weren't what was expected. They made you think, not as much as the first perhaps, but they've already explained "The Matrix", remember?
Of course the second and third movies won't have as much new information as the first -- the first had to break you into this new concept. The second and third simply take place within the world created therein.
Slashdot Mirror
Anti-matter (search Google or sciam.com, etc.) is the opposite of matter to some degree (different polarity in a mathematical kind of way if you want to think of it like that), whereas dark matter is stuff that doesn't behave the way we expect matter to behave but has lots of mass.
Dark matter is a good way to explain the mathematical problems we have with the current conceptions of how the universe exists (there's not enough "stuff" out there to make the mass we need for our theorems to work). That's one of the reasons astronomers look for black holes all the time too; they account for lots of mass that doesn't behave "normally".
That said, "normal" means "the way I, a measely human being with a brain the size of a couple fists understand that it ought to work and have observed it working." When we get over our self-indulgences, we realize that we know very little and theorize on the rest. That's how science works.
The general public, of couse, has this unfortunate notion of science as a school teacher; knows everything cause they know very little. Its only when you get involved that you realize how little science does in fact know and how much is simply made up (by some brilliant people who are sometimes even right) to explain the stuff they've noticed.
Just think how many of Newton's theories are incorrect (or inaccurate) in light of relativity. We still give Newton credit for being a very intelligent person; but we need to be willing to think outside the box of current scientific understanding sometimes.
This reminds me, if you're doing a web search feature that accesses your backend database, make sure the *data* it accesses is secure.
... ... don't go doing something stupid like thinking "well, my search form only lets people read specific information." Trust me, you'll make a mistake. It'll suck. You'll feel bad. Hopefully, you'll get your ass sued into next century for not thinking ahead.
GRANT SELECT ON PublicDatabase.SpecificTables TO websearch@hostgroup
Please think.
I use it on my P-133 gateway machine at home with 64M of RAM. And yes, its much faster to start up.
I've been using daemontools for years to start up all my system processes in parallel. My start-up times are great (plus, I don't have to wait for timeouts on failed drivers before I get a login).
Remind me to patent the way I tie my shoes ...
Multicast works wonderfully, except that ISPs often decide to not route it, which is the main problem. If your ISP supports it, and its upstreams allow it, you're fine for the most part. However, if its just blocked (like port 25 half the time now), you won't get through.
ISPs don't like how multicast splits streams into multiple streams at their border routers for multiple customers to receive data; its difficult to charge appropriately for bandwidth usage.
Watch out before your congressperson gets any bright ideas from their local neighbourhood pimp lobby group.
Like I said, go ask a lawyer; what I described applies to private property as well under specific circumstances.
Plus, the "refusal" of service must be valid.
Try getting kicked out of a store cause you're black (hey, they can kick you out for *any* reason you said) and see how the courts feel about it.
They have to justify their refusal to provide you with service in the setting in question; talk to a lawyer. Even business owners can't prevent you from being on the premises without a valid reason; you can take them to court for it and you'll probably win. Private property laws aren't what you think -- there are a lot of exceptions, including standard "right of passage / thoroughfare" type clauses (the path that runs down the side of your yard that's been used by kids going to school for 30 years can't be fenced off in most places just because you don't like it anymore), etc.
Just because its your property (unless you live in places like Texas), doesn't mean you can forbid people from being on it for no apparent reason. Its *not* trespassing (for example) to walk into a store uninvited (as it would be for your living room), (partly) because it is considered "normal" to be allowed into the premises.
The public *can* do more than boycott the premises. They can try to enter with video cameras, or voice their concerns about their privacy or tie up all the service reps with questions about video cameras while on camera (for the tape-reviewer types to notice).
... I know what you're getting at, but no ... I *can* do more, and so can anyone else. Just because someone doesn't *have* to listen doesn't mean speaking is pointless.
You may get banned from the store -- that's also their right, but you *can* do more than just boycott them. If you want lots of fun, you can even chat up other friendly shoppers near you about whether they've thought about the privacy implications of cameras in the store. Suggest watch some Malcom in the Middle (wherein the store manager labels the tapes based on the bending over of the female shoppers maybe).
Your comment is flawed
GIMP predates Gnome though; GIMP even predates Gtk+ to some degree as Gtk+ was designed out of GIMP's needs.
:-)
... FVWM (not).
Anyone else remember those days?
Ahh
Current versions of The GIMP may or may not use Gnome features at this point beyond the simple Gtk+ reliance, but I'm not sure of that.
That's interesting
There's a *good* reason for his paranoia; a lot of world governments and corporations are starting to think they should have a lot more control over our behaviour than you may believe.
Mann can wear his HMD, you can stick your head in the sand. To each his own.
I just wish there were more HMD-wearers and less sand-gazers.
There's a fundamental difference between private property and private commercial property. Commercial property is designed to make money off customers.
If enough customers want something, the commercial space is going to accomodate that within reason.
Until one person says something, nobody will. If enough people agree, some commercial spaces will change policies.
It isn't stupid to voice your opinion in commercial space at all.
Precisely my thoughts -- I don't buy the cheapest machines, I buy the ones that do what I want to do for a reasonable price. If its too cheap, it probably sucks (good rule of thumb in all industries).
I don't mind paying *more* for a machine that supports Linux in all its hardware devices, and that comes with Linux software to use all those devices.
Its actually good style to put the things you want well remembered at the end because people remember the beginnings and ends of things they read / hear best.
That said, the writing style (as pointed out by another poster) left something to be desired.
Does our friend Kevin have a PGP/GPG key that he would like used for these stories? I'm assuming many FBI resources will be concentrated on his ISP's chain of routers to the Internet to compromise the identities of any 'good' hackers that write in.
I'd hate to stifle the book, and can almost guarantee that I'll buy it, but I'd like to make sure that people are able to protect their identities and not unwittingly reveal incriminating information about themselves.
It is arguable (and I would gladly argue it) that sound does *not* belong in the X protocol. I don't mind an X-like protocol for sound, but it should be outside the X connection. Having both the X connection and your sound protocol connection travelling over an SSH tunnel together to a remote server makes perfect sense, but again, they are seperate protocols with seperate needs.
In the case where sound and video need to be synchronized, X synchronization calls could be made (easily?) by the sound server as timing notices, for example.
As a canadian who enjoys travelling abroad, I must say that big-city america is probably the worst place to get directions. I found France very friendly as well -- especially if you ask a local about something cultural. If you ask for the nearest McDonald's, you probably deserve the spit they leave on your shoes after all. If you ask where you ought to eat, expect something good where you can't read the menu but the waiter wants you to be happy.
I hate to feed a troll, but FYI:
Canada.
Its also worth pointing out that (as Slashdot posted many moons ago), the Canadian Copyright Board actually put out a public request for comments about this type of legislation and action.
They wanted to know what *we* thought about DMCA-like regulations in Canada, *we* including consumers and producers.
Reading the list of responses (I don't see it offhand, but someone please post the link), its interesting to see the perspectives of many of the artists / producers (who've never seen a cent from that blank media levy).
My ISP (Cogeco) in Canada offers an FTP site for the kernels and RedHat distributions to its customers only. Its very fast and works well and does exactly what you describe.
However, remember that it *is* legal for me to download TV shows, etc. here, so using it for that purpose isn't a "problem" for my ISP to use against me.
Also, I use my Internet connection to VPN to work, transfer large files (we're talking gigs here) and run remote X sessions. That eats bandwidth by the end of a day, legitimately.
That said, I'm getting upwards of 400KB/s on downloads and they haven't ever talked to me about my usage levels, so I won't complain. I pre-warned them that I used my connection for work and would be running services and they said 'ok'.
But it is a lot to open source licensees ...
Of course, you're right, even if you didn't realize why -- underscores are illegal in domain names.
The parallel is that it is a modern movie with lots of well-done special effects and a similar fan-base to the other two movies.
:-)
That would be about it, IMHO
That said, I'm more interested in seeing the movie now that I've read how people didn't get or didn't like the second and now third movies. I loved the second movie; I thought it was innovative and they did things that weren't what was expected. They made you think, not as much as the first perhaps, but they've already explained "The Matrix", remember?
Of course the second and third movies won't have as much new information as the first -- the first had to break you into this new concept. The second and third simply take place within the world created therein.
(Not directed at the poster above btw)
Ah, I didn't realize that big software companies were in the protection racket business. I'll have to keep that in mind.
(Yes, supposedly funny)