I guess this makes a convoluted sense -- a huge hard drive with large chunks of data written on it would be hard to access, given current speeds. But I don't see this idea catching on at the end-user desktop level. The average Joe doesn't have corporate volumes of data, and he's not going to spend half a day in sequential access looking for his pron or his Word files.
Not to say that large, sequential access hard disks aren't a good idea for archives or corporate data. It'll cut out the need for tape drives. But this will never fly with the home user.
I said it back when Napster took its famous stage dive, and I'm saying it again now that Kazaa is on the chopping block. Getting rid of 1 p2p service only enables 6 more to spring up, these even more widely dispersed. How long before p2p servers become located in non-US countries and routed through anonymous proxies to avoid the watchful eye of the RIAA/MPAA? How long before a pirates create apps to google through anonymous FTP proxies/IRC for the copyrighted material? p2p is the fall guy for piracy, the most readily available target. But because of that, its business is in the open. The pirated wares will be moved to the 'Net equivalent of a black market, while legitimate p2p (esp. with the right of first sale) will become like the 'Net equivalent of a flea market.
The evil shadow government has used extraterrestrial server-destroying technology to take out the site and the google cache... yet I still feel that the truth is out there.
I can't wait to see the results of the Cassini landing. Titan's been one of my favorite moons ever since junior high science. The presence of so many different chemicals that are found in few other places in the universe means its going to be an interesting experiment. Who knows what we'll learn?
If I can beg a little impartiality from the Slashdot editors
You're new here, aren't you?
But seriously, folks, business has ALWAYS been about this. That's the way capitalism is set up... you cut out your competitors through any means possible.
What? You can't eat/sleep/shit while connected to the computer? You mean you haven't modified your computer chair/display to tilt to a reclining position so that you can nap or relax while computing? And you haven't install that toilet-plumbing system in your chair either? And -- horror of horrors -- you don't have a microwave and a ready supply of ramen and Easy Mac within reach of your main box?
for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date.
I'm not sure if it's free or not, but the University of Texas has a book exchange. I've never used it personally, but I know people who have and they've always been satisfied with it.
So potential Iranian terrorists can now go snooping around the net anonymously while the average American citizen is liable to be scrutinized by John Ashcroft... all courtesy of the American government! I'm so glad I live in a world that makes sense!
Was mich nicht umbringt, mach mich noch staerker -- von der militaerischen Schule das lebens
Meaning:
From the military school of life
German is such an expressive language for philosophy that its true ideas cannot be carried over in to English. Double and triple entendres abound in German, and any translation doesn't carry in to English the right way... in light of the full quote, I think Herr Nietzsche meant what you said as well as "What does not overcome me (an implied meaning from the "bring down" part of umbringt) makes me that much stronger (in the sense of being able to overcome more)." Remember, he served in the Franco-Prussian war, and developed a lot of his ideals on personal strength and overcoming (uebergangen) from his experiences.
I'm trying to register for classes right now and my stupid university's servers (which run MS) aren't letting anyone log on... and all it took was >30K students trying to register. I'd hate to see what a/.ing would do.
With several friends of mine. One of them, despite his better knowledge, is a big Windows fan "because it does what I need it to do, it's secure if you patch it, and I can run my BF1492 server off of it."
The rest of us are OSS fans, and had a hard time convincing him that while he could use gobs of 3rd party software and his own knowledge to secure a Windows box as well as any of us could secure our machines, Windows was not "just as safe" because it has security holes you have to patch when you buy it. There are at least 5 processes that leave ports open in the background on any XP box when you install it. You don't get that with something like Linux.
He did make a good point that it's easy for typical users to secure Windows by buying a firewall, shutting off Messenger and running virus scans, but in order to make something really secure, you need a good, secure OS. It's hard to do anything that harmful in *nix without root access, and that requires things like password sniffers and keyloggers... things an educated computer user should be able to avoid.
It goes back to the fact that *nix is more secure for mainly two reasons -- design and the knowledge of its typical user.
Scientists have reconstructed the face of Lucy, famed early human, using this technology. To little surprise, they found her primitive features closely resembled those of homo sapiens SCO executivus, a recent throwback to more primitive cultures that has surfaced in the deserts of Utah.
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Not to say that large, sequential access hard disks aren't a good idea for archives or corporate data. It'll cut out the need for tape drives. But this will never fly with the home user.
just kidding buddy. But you should know... you need p0w3r for t3h sake of p0w3r.
I can't wait to see the results of the Cassini landing. Titan's been one of my favorite moons ever since junior high science. The presence of so many different chemicals that are found in few other places in the universe means its going to be an interesting experiment. Who knows what we'll learn?
It's called house music. Learn to despise it.
You're new here, aren't you?
But seriously, folks, business has ALWAYS been about this. That's the way capitalism is set up... you cut out your competitors through any means possible.
JUST WHAT KIND OF A /. READER ARE YOU?
for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date.
Users get to set it. It's not automatic.
I'm not sure if it's free or not, but the University of Texas has a book exchange. I've never used it personally, but I know people who have and they've always been satisfied with it.
Meaning:
From the military school of life
German is such an expressive language for philosophy that its true ideas cannot be carried over in to English. Double and triple entendres abound in German, and any translation doesn't carry in to English the right way... in light of the full quote, I think Herr Nietzsche meant what you said as well as "What does not overcome me (an implied meaning from the "bring down" part of umbringt) makes me that much stronger (in the sense of being able to overcome more)." Remember, he served in the Franco-Prussian war, and developed a lot of his ideals on personal strength and overcoming (uebergangen) from his experiences.
The rest of us are OSS fans, and had a hard time convincing him that while he could use gobs of 3rd party software and his own knowledge to secure a Windows box as well as any of us could secure our machines, Windows was not "just as safe" because it has security holes you have to patch when you buy it. There are at least 5 processes that leave ports open in the background on any XP box when you install it. You don't get that with something like Linux.
He did make a good point that it's easy for typical users to secure Windows by buying a firewall, shutting off Messenger and running virus scans, but in order to make something really secure, you need a good, secure OS. It's hard to do anything that harmful in *nix without root access, and that requires things like password sniffers and keyloggers... things an educated computer user should be able to avoid.
It goes back to the fact that *nix is more secure for mainly two reasons -- design and the knowledge of its typical user.
I made this post on OS X, through a BSD firewall. It wasn't a flame, it was a joke. Derrrrrrrp.
"CLEAR!"
[loud zapping noise]
"Ladies and gentlenerds... BSD is no longer dying."
Someone had to say it
Ohkay people of Slashdot! Do you declare shenanigans against the SCO nutcakes?
(loud cheers are heard)
Ohkay SCO nutcakes... do you accept this declaration of shenanigans?
(muttered grumbling)
Then SHENANIGANS!
(hordes of smelly, unwashed nerds in penguin t-shirts overrun the SCO nutcakes with pitchforks, torches and bricks)
And they all lived happily ever after.