he Adobe SVG provides the user a getURL() (or similar named) method which allows the browser to read information from the server or any other arbitary url on the web without any form submits of page refreshes.
Given that SVG looks like it will be all over the place, this "feature" will have to be carefully watched. You could do web bugs
More info here, including a calculation that the energy required to spin the ringworld is roughly the amount put out by our sun in 130,000 years. Yikes.
You build it spinning... maintain the discrete components in orbit around the sun from the git-go
There's info at the end of the link given. Sorry it's long, but the gist re that idea is that in order to provide 1g gravity on the innder surface, a ringworld rotates a lot faster than earth orbits the sun. A point on Niven's ringworld goes right around the sun every 9.3 days. This is one of the reasons why it has to be so strong. Orbital speed is a small fraction of what you need
If it breaks, the fragments have escape velocity from thier solar system.
It doesn't matter at what phase of the construction you spin it up, you still need to put in heaps of energy.
I had to have this explained to me too, but the ringworld is not actually in orbit. That's why it's in constant danger of falling into its star. For more info, follow the link or read The Ringworld Engineers
if the machine doing the attack has been hijacked who does the fault lie with? Is it the owner for not keeping his system secure or virus protected?
Here it comes out again. For historical reference, this is much like saying "if you forget to lock your door then you're guilty of the subsequent burglary" or even "if you wear a short skirt you deserve to be raped".
Stupid, careless, maybe. Guilty or criminal, certainly not.
Freeman Dyson (Freeman Dyson!) had no trouble believing in the Ringworld
believing in what sense? That one had been observed? I don't think so.
That it could be built? You'll need nearly Jupiter's mass of a substance with the same tensile strength as an atomic nucleus. In sort, not known to our physical theories (I'll stop just short of saying it's impossible). And then to spin the thing up to 1 gravity, you'll need the amount of energy that our sun puts out in 1000 years. In short, extremely difficult. Even then it's unstable.
His concept of the "Dyson Sphere" was very different from the SF concept of "a solid shell around the sun". He merely observed that the end-point of putting stuff in space to soak up the sunlight, is that all the sunlight is soaked up by millions upon millions of things, and all that gets out is the waste heat.
E2's subjectivity is a strength and also a weakness. Often you want to hear opinions, and Wikipedia can fail to deliver them. E2, is at its best a plurality of informed individual voices, which give you insightful subjectivity that wikipaedia won't.
The unfocussed nature of the E2 project is both it's strong point and it's downfall. Is it an encyclopaedia, a creative writing exercise or blog? All are found there, but much material is in the grey areas, which is not what you want if you need to look something up.
E2 delivering at its best as an information resource is sadly damn rare - it's very much a crapshoot if a topic will have good content, one paragraph of poorly punctuated teenage ranting, or nothing. This is due to the limited capacity of the small crew there, and the arrogant, self-serving, ego-stroking echo-chamber in which the management operates.
Um, yeah. OK, allow me to be slightly clearer: Subversion does not support decentralized development.
Client-server source control systems in general were created to support decentralised development.
I'm hacking away at my copy of the source over here, you on yours over there, and the central archive on Sourceforge keeps us consistent. You, I and the other hackers are thus not constrained (centralised) in our development, as were would be without any source control at all.
Maybe the lack of decentralised version control is a limitation, but it's not currently a lack that most people feel.
Ad-Aware finds tracking cookies as well. While this is good, and I am glad to let Ad-aware remove them, a statement of "22 files" can be misleading as this program will show both spyware.exe's and cookies in one list.
Hay, Mentifex, long time no see. I'd say that we missed your relentless punting of your pet project, but well, we didn't. I'm sorry to see that you still sound like a stuck record, and still think you're writing an AI in JavaScript. Have you made much progress at the actual coding since last you flooded Slashdot with this off-topic punditry?
Some might call you a troll, but to be a troll requires a level of cynicism and self-awareness that I really don't think you possess.
This is playing to an audience (us) when the writer knows that the addressee won't go along. Otherwise a private letter would suffice. It's just a statement of position, don't expect anything to come of it.
No, he shouldn't be "thankful". Quite to the contrary. LISP is an interactive, dynamically typed language, which makes it great for introductory CS teaching.
Back in the day I tutored 1st year students doing scheme. It was good that they learned the functional paradigm early, and it was good that the amatuer hackers were on a par with the newbies in an unfamilar language, but The Pain, The Pain! The syntax is not newbie friendly, and finding bugs and misplaced brackets with them was very frustrating.
Imagine, too, the anguished hand-wringing of governments when the technology reaches a point where you can print parts for an AK-47.
A desktop robot that can mould and carve soft plastic is one thing, but machining a gun barrel from iron alloy is another. It's much harder in both senses.
And unless you want to design a desktop iron smelter, you'd also need to give it just the right lump of metal alloy.
the music that is pedaled by RIAA you get everything from sex, drugs, murder, all manner of crime and theft.
No you don't. You get talking (singing?) about the above.
I choose not to listen to some artists if I displike thier oulook, and I have some support for file-sharers, but let us 1) distinguish between reality and fiction and 2) support freedom of speech and not even contemplate censorship.
The fact of the matter is that the "big boys" in counterfeiting are NOT using a $50.00 scanner and a $19.99 inkjet printer.
Perhaps the problem they are facing is that a few big boys are being joined by lots of little boys?... much like the RIAA's current problems dealing with many ordinary people with networked computers.
The fact that the data went through multiple levels of subcontractors doesn't bother me, so long as each has signed the appropriate waivers and so long as each have been checked out enough to be trusted with the data.
Well, it bothers me. When a chain gets long enough, the probability that there's a weak link in there somewhere approaches 1. You want confidentiality? You must pay for it by limiting access to data.
This is yet one more nail in the coffin for TIA-styled programs. "Oh, we're very careful with our data." Right.
Exactly. Never mind this screwup, the whole concept is flawed. You don't get best security at lowest prices.
Sometimes it's a bit of both. We used to have a cunning but lazy cat who would camp out under the big window, and pounce on the stunned birds that occasionally flew into it.
But does that offset the fact that he got that money by violating US law?
That's not for me to say, and I don't necessarily agree with this decision. I was pointing out that historically, people who have significant philanthropic interests have had much better success at being honoured by Her Majesty. It's an obvious plus point for Mr. Billy G.
Ha ha:) C2 is cliquey because it's still in beta. Neither the hardware nor the software is ready for the number of users that being open to the internet weould bring.
This is an interesting and correct answer, but is also a good example of how X solves a general case well, and thereby makes things quite suboptimal for the 99% case when the gui is entirely local, or entirely connected to one remote server.
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he Adobe SVG provides the user a getURL() (or similar named) method which allows the browser to read information from the server or any other arbitary url on the web without any form submits of page refreshes.
Given that SVG looks like it will be all over the place, this "feature" will have to be carefully watched. You could do web bugs
More info here, including a calculation that the energy required to spin the ringworld is roughly the amount put out by our sun in 130,000 years. Yikes.
You build it spinning ... maintain the discrete components in orbit around the sun from the git-go
There's info at the end of the link given. Sorry it's long, but the gist re that idea is that in order to provide 1g gravity on the innder surface, a ringworld rotates a lot faster than earth orbits the sun. A point on Niven's ringworld goes right around the sun every 9.3 days. This is one of the reasons why it has to be so strong. Orbital speed is a small fraction of what you need
If it breaks, the fragments have escape velocity from thier solar system.
It doesn't matter at what phase of the construction you spin it up, you still need to put in heaps of energy.
I had to have this explained to me too, but the ringworld is not actually in orbit. That's why it's in constant danger of falling into its star. For more info, follow the link or read The Ringworld Engineers
if the machine doing the attack has been hijacked who does the fault lie with? Is it the owner for not keeping his system secure or virus protected?
Here it comes out again. For historical reference, this is much like saying "if you forget to lock your door then you're guilty of the subsequent burglary" or even "if you wear a short skirt you deserve to be raped".
Stupid, careless, maybe. Guilty or criminal, certainly not.
Freeman Dyson (Freeman Dyson!) had no trouble believing in the Ringworld
believing in what sense? That one had been observed? I don't think so.
That it could be built? You'll need nearly Jupiter's mass of a substance with the same tensile strength as an atomic nucleus. In sort, not known to our physical theories (I'll stop just short of saying it's impossible). And then to spin the thing up to 1 gravity, you'll need the amount of energy that our sun puts out in 1000 years. In short, extremely difficult. Even then it's unstable.
His concept of the "Dyson Sphere" was very different from the SF concept of "a solid shell around the sun". He merely observed that the end-point of putting stuff in space to soak up the sunlight, is that all the sunlight is soaked up by millions upon millions of things, and all that gets out is the waste heat.
More info here
It's a crock of shit. I happen to have Asperger's syndrome ... and my parents are not particularly technical.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
E2's subjectivity is a strength and also a weakness. Often you want to hear opinions, and Wikipedia can fail to deliver them. E2, is at its best a plurality of informed individual voices, which give you insightful subjectivity that wikipaedia won't.
The unfocussed nature of the E2 project is both it's strong point and it's downfall. Is it an encyclopaedia, a creative writing exercise or blog? All are found there, but much material is in the grey areas, which is not what you want if you need to look something up.
E2 delivering at its best as an information resource is sadly damn rare - it's very much a crapshoot if a topic will have good content, one paragraph of poorly punctuated teenage ranting, or nothing. This is due to the limited capacity of the small crew there, and the arrogant, self-serving, ego-stroking echo-chamber in which the management operates.
Um, yeah. OK, allow me to be slightly clearer: Subversion does not support decentralized development.
Client-server source control systems in general were created to support decentralised development.
I'm hacking away at my copy of the source over here, you on yours over there, and the central archive on Sourceforge keeps us consistent. You, I and the other hackers are thus not constrained (centralised) in our development, as were would be without any source control at all.
Maybe the lack of decentralised version control is a limitation, but it's not currently a lack that most people feel.
it found 22 infected files
.exe's and cookies in one list.
Ad-Aware finds tracking cookies as well. While this is good, and I am glad to let Ad-aware remove them, a statement of "22 files" can be misleading as this program will show both spyware
Hay, Mentifex, long time no see. I'd say that we missed your relentless punting of your pet project, but well, we didn't. I'm sorry to see that you still sound like a stuck record, and still think you're writing an AI in JavaScript. Have you made much progress at the actual coding since last you flooded Slashdot with this off-topic punditry?
Some might call you a troll, but to be a troll requires a level of cynicism and self-awareness that I really don't think you possess.
Or maybe they're just a bunch of hippocrates.
What, they are ancient greek doctors?
This is playing to an audience (us) when the writer knows that the addressee won't go along. Otherwise a private letter would suffice. It's just a statement of position, don't expect anything to come of it.
Do open letters ever achive their overt goals?
I can't wait until the war on terrorism is over and there is no more terrorism
Yeah, and I can't wait until the war on drugs is over and there are no more drugs.
It's just as likely.
No, he shouldn't be "thankful". Quite to the contrary. LISP is an interactive, dynamically typed language, which makes it great for introductory CS teaching.
Back in the day I tutored 1st year students doing scheme. It was good that they learned the functional paradigm early, and it was good that the amatuer hackers were on a par with the newbies in an unfamilar language, but The Pain, The Pain! The syntax is not newbie friendly, and finding bugs and misplaced brackets with them was very frustrating.
Imagine, too, the anguished hand-wringing of governments when the technology reaches a point where you can print parts for an AK-47.
A desktop robot that can mould and carve soft plastic is one thing, but machining a gun barrel from iron alloy is another. It's much harder in both senses.
And unless you want to design a desktop iron smelter, you'd also need to give it just the right lump of metal alloy.
the music that is pedaled by RIAA you get everything from sex, drugs, murder, all manner of crime and theft.
No you don't. You get talking (singing?) about the above.
I choose not to listen to some artists if I displike thier oulook, and I have some support for file-sharers, but let us 1) distinguish between reality and fiction and 2) support freedom of speech and not even contemplate censorship.
The fact of the matter is that the "big boys" in counterfeiting are NOT using a $50.00 scanner and a $19.99 inkjet printer.
... much like the RIAA's current problems dealing with many ordinary people with networked computers.
Perhaps the problem they are facing is that a few big boys are being joined by lots of little boys?
I accept that humans are fallible ... I will design the structure of the program, and freeze its feature set, before I begin coding.
Speaking as a programmer, these two rules are in conflict.
The fact that the data went through multiple levels of subcontractors doesn't bother me, so long as each has signed the appropriate waivers and so long as each have been checked out enough to be trusted with the data.
Well, it bothers me. When a chain gets long enough, the probability that there's a weak link in there somewhere approaches 1. You want confidentiality? You must pay for it by limiting access to data.
This is yet one more nail in the coffin for TIA-styled programs. "Oh, we're very careful with our data." Right.
Exactly. Never mind this screwup, the whole concept is flawed. You don't get best security at lowest prices.
Sometimes it's a bit of both. We used to have a cunning but lazy cat who would camp out under the big window, and pounce on the stunned birds that occasionally flew into it.
Except everyone fails to mention this important fact: it all happened internally within one economy so overall affect was positive
It still all happens internally within one (global) economy so the overall affect is (globally) positive.
But does that offset the fact that he got that money by violating US law?
That's not for me to say, and I don't necessarily agree with this decision. I was pointing out that historically, people who have significant philanthropic interests have had much better success at being honoured by Her Majesty. It's an obvious plus point for Mr. Billy G.
exactly what Bill Gates has done to earn an honor of this magnitude.
Giving loads of money to good causes always helps.
Wow, it's even more cliquey than C2!
:) C2 is cliquey because it's still in beta. Neither the hardware nor the software is ready for the number of users that being open to the internet weould bring.
Ha ha
This is an interesting and correct answer, but is also a good example of how X solves a general case well, and thereby makes things quite suboptimal for the 99% case when the gui is entirely local, or entirely connected to one remote server.