Seriously. All it takes is one joint to realize that marijuana causes far fewer social problems than alcohol. Who would ever start a fight when he's high? Now try that scenario again, but replace pot with MD 20/20.
Jail time for this though? He's not a dangerous person (at least by the fact of this conviction). We're talking about throwing away 10% of someone's life for what should be a civil offense. Maybe the copyright holder should sue him into the ground, but he shouldn't be imprisoned. Imprisonment is not something that should be taken lightly.
I'm a lender on Lending Club and I've got money that's not going to come back to me for another 3 years. Anyone got a guess about whether or not it will affect me?
All of this makes me wonder if anyone has ever heard of SSH! Whenever I'm away from home, I just SSH into my own computer with X forwarding enabled. Bam! I can do just about anything I do at home on another computer and my tracks are pretty much covered.
Come to think of it, if this is a relational database, I say don't send it to them. Just give them an account with limited access because even if it is Truecrypted, you're still waiting for someone on the other computer to fuck up.
It'd be odd for the 360, too, since Microsoft has its own streaming movie micropayment service on it. It works well, but I subscribe to Netflix which makes it irrelevant.
The rumor floating around earlier was that software would be available to PS3 and 360 owners so that they could watch these movies on their consoles. I've got a 360 and I already use it as my DVD player. I'd love to watch the streaming movies on the TV easily rather than use my computer either with its monitor or some complicated streaming setup (which is especially difficult since I use Linux and "Watch now" doesn't support Linux).
I see. I really have no clue about renders and raytracing. I suppose with real-time graphics there is no single correct answer for the values on the screen, which is why different hardware can make things look different without it being considered an error. CUDA still has some issues with the floating point numbers (which is what it's really good for) not being quite up to the IEEE spec, but it's never been a problem for me. The only thing that caused me any trouble during the research for my seminar was that CudaMalloc() behaves in the same way as Linux malloc(). Please correct me if this is wrong, but that's not a problem for malloc() because it can fall back on virtual memory. cudaMalloc() can't fall back on virtual memory and if you allocate more space than the (fairly limited) DRAM, everything gets initialized to zero and you're screwed. Doesn't even send an error message, you're just plain screwed until you figure out what you've done.
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I'm pretty sure that's what OpenGL (or maybe the driver itself) does. The GPU is designed for graphics, and graphics problems just happen to be massively data parallel. GPGPU is all about using the GPU for things that are NOT graphics, because OpenGL already exposes it as a graphics device, whereas CUDA exposes the GPU as a truly generic computing platform.
What I mean is, I just finished my senior seminar on CUDA a little less than a month ago and it's meant for doing what GPU's don't already do easily; they're already very good at graphics. Multiplying huge matrices on a Core 2 Duo can take 10 minutes whereas the same operation on a Quadro 5700 with my (not very good) CUDA kernel takes 30 seconds. That's some serious horsepower when applied properly, it's just that it's not the right thing to use very often. Also, CUDA kicks Cell's ass all day long on SIMD, especially on very large datasets.
For all the poorly edited stories and group-think that goes on, Slashdot really is one of the best forums on the net. It sure beats Digg, even without as much fancy "2.0" stuff. If only they'd add a small one-time entry fee and some really aggressive permabanning moderators like Something Awful, this would be the best tech discussion imaginable, even if it may already be the best tech discussion available.
Transition from web pages to places? No thanks! I want a clean, simple web page that delivers the information I need in an organized and intuitive manner, not a fucking video game time sink. It shouldn't take up lots of memory and it shouldn't require much navigation, which is what web pages do and it is not what "virtual worlds" do.
I don't know about their dream world, but I live in a metropolitan area with 1.1 million people. When I got broadband 8 years ago, Road Runner was the only option. There's DSL now, but it costs the same price for much lower speed. I'd like to have options, and I'm moving across the country to Tempe soon. Hopefully things are better there.
How about Something Awful? I've got an account over there which I actually paid tenbux for and it's easily the best forum account I've ever had. I can post on almost any topic, and the moderators are very quick to delete bad threads and ban bad users. They've got 100k registered users, so there's something to be said for paying to post in a really good forum.
Well, I don't claim to be an expert at Perl, but I can trace a program and determine its output, and implement any algorithm I could do in Java and C while making use of some Perl-specific syntax. I am not an expert at meditating, either, but I do meditate now and it leaves me feeling good. The point is that I get nothing out of video games and there's other fun things to do that actually have an impact on myself or the world around me without necessarily tiring me out.
I suppose that even if most desktop software today isn't doing much more than it did 10 years ago, it is going to increase in complexity due to the shift to higher level languages. As hardware gets better, crappier software manages to run at an acceptable pace.
Well, I really doubt people are buying new processors in order to load their web pages faster. Sure, my computer does have heavyweight linear tasks to do, and also plenty of multitasking, but rendering webpages shouldn't be that difficult if I could do it just fine over ten years ago on my Pentium.
My standard for productive things here is pretty liberal; smoking a joint and playing guitar for three hours can count as productive because I'm getting better at something that exists in real life. Also, maybe I could play with my dog or ride my bike. I guess the point of my original post was that playing video games by myself usually doesn't do anything to make me a better person or improve my life or the world around me. All that happens is that I lose valuable time inside a world that doesn't exist. I'm pretty much always a nice person, so anything I do to interact with the world around me is probably going to improve it somehow, so I should do pretty much anything besides playing video games.
I'm about to graduate from college and at the end of this semester, I realized I had a ton of math homework that I needed to do in order to pass. Why was this the case? I'm a smart guy so it's really not very difficult for me, and it's not just busywork.
I had been wasting time playing video games. I decided about 3 weeks ago that I wasn't going to spend my time doing things that have no outcome and only serve as time sinks: no video games, no pot smoking, no TV watching(unless it's informative). Exceptions (like social events) do exist, but I've stuck to it.
Since then, I put time into my senior seminar and it ended up kicking ass, done a whole semester's worth of math in about 4 straight days, greatly increased my guitar playing ability, learned to meditate, and learned a new programming language. I've also taken care of loads of smaller things I may have just ignored and come closer to some friends and family. Most of this great success is due to the fact that I've eliminated my biggest time sink (video games). I imagine I'll also have more money, since video games are expensive and I'm selling my X360.
These changes have allowed me to come closer to my full potential, and I don't regret it one bit. For me, video games took hours (years?) of time that I'll never get back, but at least I'm young enough that it's not too late. I feel like I just woke up from a coma.
I strongly encourage everyone to examine his time-sinking habits and eliminate them; it may change your life!
It absolutely IS the responsibility of the telcos not to betray their customers. When you are a fucking giant like AT&T, you have the resources to see if a request is legal.
It doesn't cost extra money; they've got a budget for lawyers.
Even if Freenet was illegal, you could probably get around that by running Freenet over Tor. Sure, it'd be slower than ever, but it should still work as long as you don't set up your node as a server.
Since everything is encrypted (right down to the datastore) and there is no plaintext info to send, it's actually a good application of Tor. I run an exit node for Tor, and I do look at the traffic occasionally. Very little of it has to do with free speech; most of it looks like people watching porn who are apparently afraid of their prudish wives sniffing the router or something.
I'll keep running my Tor relay, and when I move to Arizona in a month or so hopefully I'll be able to get a better connection and run Tor and Freenet at the same time. I'll also need a better computer to handle all that, since Freenet is a bit heavy. If you've got the resources, there's really no reason not to. Also, I'm pretty sure that Freenet would perform almost as well as Tor if it was as popular. I certainly believe Freenet to be about the most important technology in development, as far as freedom is concerned.
Maybe if they do start monitoring all that traffic, people will get a clue and start using Tor for all their internet traffic. Especially their plaintext passwords. Dangerous business, letting the FBI know where those plaintext passwords are going. Better encrypt them with Tor!
Anyone wonder how many exit nodes the NSA already runs? That'd be a far better(easier?) approach than monitoring "normal" traffic since I suppose the interesting stuff is already going through Tor, though in a typical hour-long scan I can't find any really "interesting" unencrypted web traffic at my exit node.
Folks surfing porn? Plenty. Plenty of Chinese blogs with plaintext passwords, too. But even those Chinese blogs are benign and not something that would be censored by their gov't (I think). Based on the pictures and my basic proficiency with Chinese, it's either folks just fooling around with Tor or it's steganographic.
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Seriously. All it takes is one joint to realize that marijuana causes far fewer social problems than alcohol. Who would ever start a fight when he's high? Now try that scenario again, but replace pot with MD 20/20.
Jail time for this though? He's not a dangerous person (at least by the fact of this conviction). We're talking about throwing away 10% of someone's life for what should be a civil offense. Maybe the copyright holder should sue him into the ground, but he shouldn't be imprisoned. Imprisonment is not something that should be taken lightly.
Sometimes questions can provoke interesting discussion, which is the reason I come to Slashdot.
I'm not here for legal advice; I'm here to get a variety of perspectives.
I'm a lender on Lending Club and I've got money that's not going to come back to me for another 3 years. Anyone got a guess about whether or not it will affect me?
All of this makes me wonder if anyone has ever heard of SSH! Whenever I'm away from home, I just SSH into my own computer with X forwarding enabled. Bam! I can do just about anything I do at home on another computer and my tracks are pretty much covered.
Come to think of it, if this is a relational database, I say don't send it to them. Just give them an account with limited access because even if it is Truecrypted, you're still waiting for someone on the other computer to fuck up.
How about SCP over SSH? As far as I know that's quite secure and I can tell you from experience that it's damned easy to set up and use.
It'd be odd for the 360, too, since Microsoft has its own streaming movie micropayment service on it. It works well, but I subscribe to Netflix which makes it irrelevant.
The rumor floating around earlier was that software would be available to PS3 and 360 owners so that they could watch these movies on their consoles. I've got a 360 and I already use it as my DVD player. I'd love to watch the streaming movies on the TV easily rather than use my computer either with its monitor or some complicated streaming setup (which is especially difficult since I use Linux and "Watch now" doesn't support Linux).
I see. I really have no clue about renders and raytracing. I suppose with real-time graphics there is no single correct answer for the values on the screen, which is why different hardware can make things look different without it being considered an error. CUDA still has some issues with the floating point numbers (which is what it's really good for) not being quite up to the IEEE spec, but it's never been a problem for me. The only thing that caused me any trouble during the research for my seminar was that CudaMalloc() behaves in the same way as Linux malloc(). Please correct me if this is wrong, but that's not a problem for malloc() because it can fall back on virtual memory. cudaMalloc() can't fall back on virtual memory and if you allocate more space than the (fairly limited) DRAM, everything gets initialized to zero and you're screwed. Doesn't even send an error message, you're just plain screwed until you figure out what you've done.
I'm pretty sure that's what OpenGL (or maybe the driver itself) does. The GPU is designed for graphics, and graphics problems just happen to be massively data parallel. GPGPU is all about using the GPU for things that are NOT graphics, because OpenGL already exposes it as a graphics device, whereas CUDA exposes the GPU as a truly generic computing platform.
What I mean is, I just finished my senior seminar on CUDA a little less than a month ago and it's meant for doing what GPU's don't already do easily; they're already very good at graphics. Multiplying huge matrices on a Core 2 Duo can take 10 minutes whereas the same operation on a Quadro 5700 with my (not very good) CUDA kernel takes 30 seconds. That's some serious horsepower when applied properly, it's just that it's not the right thing to use very often. Also, CUDA kicks Cell's ass all day long on SIMD, especially on very large datasets.
For all the poorly edited stories and group-think that goes on, Slashdot really is one of the best forums on the net. It sure beats Digg, even without as much fancy "2.0" stuff. If only they'd add a small one-time entry fee and some really aggressive permabanning moderators like Something Awful, this would be the best tech discussion imaginable, even if it may already be the best tech discussion available.
Transition from web pages to places? No thanks! I want a clean, simple web page that delivers the information I need in an organized and intuitive manner, not a fucking video game time sink. It shouldn't take up lots of memory and it shouldn't require much navigation, which is what web pages do and it is not what "virtual worlds" do.
Tell Zuxxez you'll pay when they make something that's worth money. At the moment, they can starve for all I care.
I don't know about their dream world, but I live in a metropolitan area with 1.1 million people. When I got broadband 8 years ago, Road Runner was the only option.
There's DSL now, but it costs the same price for much lower speed. I'd like to have options, and I'm moving across the country to Tempe soon. Hopefully things are better there.
How about Something Awful? I've got an account over there which I actually paid tenbux for and it's easily the best forum account I've ever had. I can post on almost any topic, and the moderators are very quick to delete bad threads and ban bad users. They've got 100k registered users, so there's something to be said for paying to post in a really good forum.
We all know that the best Slashdot comments come from anonymous cowards, right? This guy is nuts to require registration!
Well, I don't claim to be an expert at Perl, but I can trace a program and determine its output, and implement any algorithm I could do in Java and C while making use of some Perl-specific syntax. I am not an expert at meditating, either, but I do meditate now and it leaves me feeling good. The point is that I get nothing out of video games and there's other fun things to do that actually have an impact on myself or the world around me without necessarily tiring me out.
I suppose that even if most desktop software today isn't doing much more than it did 10 years ago, it is going to increase in complexity due to the shift to higher level languages. As hardware gets better, crappier software manages to run at an acceptable pace.
Well, I really doubt people are buying new processors in order to load their web pages faster. Sure, my computer does have heavyweight linear tasks to do, and also plenty of multitasking, but rendering webpages shouldn't be that difficult if I could do it just fine over ten years ago on my Pentium.
My standard for productive things here is pretty liberal; smoking a joint and playing guitar for three hours can count as productive because I'm getting better at something that exists in real life. Also, maybe I could play with my dog or ride my bike. I guess the point of my original post was that playing video games by myself usually doesn't do anything to make me a better person or improve my life or the world around me. All that happens is that I lose valuable time inside a world that doesn't exist. I'm pretty much always a nice person, so anything I do to interact with the world around me is probably going to improve it somehow, so I should do pretty much anything besides playing video games.
I'm about to graduate from college and at the end of this semester, I realized I had a ton of math homework that I needed to do in order to pass. Why was this the case? I'm a smart guy so it's really not very difficult for me, and it's not just busywork.
I had been wasting time playing video games. I decided about 3 weeks ago that I wasn't going to spend my time doing things that have no outcome and only serve as time sinks: no video games, no pot smoking, no TV watching(unless it's informative). Exceptions (like social events) do exist, but I've stuck to it.
Since then, I put time into my senior seminar and it ended up kicking ass, done a whole semester's worth of math in about 4 straight days, greatly increased my guitar playing ability, learned to meditate, and learned a new programming language. I've also taken care of loads of smaller things I may have just ignored and come closer to some friends and family. Most of this great success is due to the fact that I've eliminated my biggest time sink (video games). I imagine I'll also have more money, since video games are expensive and I'm selling my X360.
These changes have allowed me to come closer to my full potential, and I don't regret it one bit. For me, video games took hours (years?) of time that I'll never get back, but at least I'm young enough that it's not too late. I feel like I just woke up from a coma.
I strongly encourage everyone to examine his time-sinking habits and eliminate them; it may change your life!
It absolutely IS the responsibility of the telcos not to betray their customers. When you are a fucking giant like AT&T, you have the resources to see if a request is legal.
It doesn't cost extra money; they've got a budget for lawyers.
Even if Freenet was illegal, you could probably get around that by running Freenet over Tor. Sure, it'd be slower than ever, but it should still work as long as you don't set up your node as a server.
Since everything is encrypted (right down to the datastore) and there is no plaintext info to send, it's actually a good application of Tor. I run an exit node for Tor, and I do look at the traffic occasionally. Very little of it has to do with free speech; most of it looks like people watching porn who are apparently afraid of their prudish wives sniffing the router or something.
I'll keep running my Tor relay, and when I move to Arizona in a month or so hopefully I'll be able to get a better connection and run Tor and Freenet at the same time. I'll also need a better computer to handle all that, since Freenet is a bit heavy. If you've got the resources, there's really no reason not to. Also, I'm pretty sure that Freenet would perform almost as well as Tor if it was as popular. I certainly believe Freenet to be about the most important technology in development, as far as freedom is concerned.
Maybe if they do start monitoring all that traffic, people will get a clue and start using Tor for all their internet traffic. Especially their plaintext passwords. Dangerous business, letting the FBI know where those plaintext passwords are going. Better encrypt them with Tor!
Anyone wonder how many exit nodes the NSA already runs? That'd be a far better(easier?) approach than monitoring "normal" traffic since I suppose the interesting stuff is already going through Tor, though in a typical hour-long scan I can't find any really "interesting" unencrypted web traffic at my exit node.
Folks surfing porn? Plenty. Plenty of Chinese blogs with plaintext passwords, too. But even those Chinese blogs are benign and not something that would be censored by their gov't (I think). Based on the pictures and my basic proficiency with Chinese, it's either folks just fooling around with Tor or it's steganographic.