And I hope these spammers get the max sentence the law allows for,
You really think that spammers deserver to be locked up with rapists and murderers? I mean I hate spam as much as the next guy, I probably spend 20% of my day dealing with spam, last month my firm's total spam/ham ratio was 71/100 (71% spam). Yes its ridiculous, but jail time? Even I think thats rough, am I alone in this view and the rest of slashdot agrees with the parent? Regards, Steve
In short, its just as good, and better in some aspects. I have yet to notice any degradation of any sort. Fedora really did a good job with this release. It just feels like everythign is new, fast, and shiny:) Regards, Steve
Well I've read almost every post under this story and noone has mentioned how it actually works. From the e-rater site "E-rater learns to score essays on a particular topic by processing a significant number of essays on the topic, each of which has been scored by two or more faculty readers. While e-rater is a powerful scoring engine, it is not meant to replace a teacher whose judgment is essential to helping students improve their writing ability." This means that its essentialy a bayesian filter that instead of being fed spam and ham and told which is right from wrong, it is fed good papers and bad papers and told which is right from wrong. You could literally reproduce this with something like SpamBayes but instead of feeding it spam, feed it essays. Anyway, you can probably beat the system but the fact that it is based on preprocessed papers means that a) it will be much harder to game the system without knowing what papers were scanned, and b) all future grading is based solely on the fact that previous generations have written papers and the futre grades will be based on them. The good thing is that unless the teachers are willing to write 20 different papers all on the same subject and scan them in, then the computer won't expect anything better then what was previosuly written. This also means, assuming the teacher won't write essays but rather will use ones from students from prior years, that the essay topics can't be changed, otherwise the teacher would have nothing to scan from prior years and thus nothing to base the grades on. As a result of the essay topic not being able to be changed that simply means that you can find someone from a year above you and ask them to save their papers for you, or in a worst case scenario, everyone must be given the same topic so at least you can help each other out. Often times teachers would give everyone a different topic to avoid people "helping" each other, but with such a system that would be impossible. I sure wish I was back in highschool. Regards, Steve
Yea I mean like why do you think all those people are always raving about Gentoo? They are obviously paid by Gentoo's greedy corporate le... oh wait... hmmm oh well I tried. On a more serious note, use Red Hat, its bette.. wait... I'm doing it again, I meant to say that this kind of stuff happens all the time and I agree with you. Remember last year when Amazon had a glitch and all anonymous posts showed their real posters for a few hours? Didn't somthing like 70% or more of the book comments/reviews have at least one comment from the author raving about how great and enjoyable the book was. Regards, Steve
I dont believe its a distro problem but rather a kernel problem, I've experienced issues like that with any distro using 2.6. Now I may just have bad luck, but I'd bet its the kernel. I think you can pass a command to the kernel prior to the install to install a 2.4.x kernel. Hope that will help:) Regards, Steve
The thing that I find the most interesting is that first this shows that whatever security products they are selling obviously aren't good enough because there is someway around them(assuming Ciso would be using their own best products). But more importantly, if this were an open source project like Gnome, then we'd have up to the second details on what happened, why it happened, how it happened, what was accessed, whats at risk, etc... In the closed/proprietary world this doesn't happen, we are all just basically left in the dark and have to accept whatever they tell us. All the more for linux based routers! Regards, Steve
Well I'm convinced that they are. I've spoken with quite a few devs, many are very intelligent academics, or get paid by corporations like IBM and RedHat to do such things. The great thing about open source is that you only work on a project if you know what you are doing and you enjoy what you are doing (implying you have a well founded understanding of what the project is trying to achieve). In companies, someone makes you code something and pays you whether or not you have any interest at all in what you are coding. In the OSS world everyone on the project has interest in it and its because of this that OSS succeeds so well. I'd rather have Linus check my code then Bill Gates. There is a reason people are switching and government agencies are realizing that its more secure. If you dont think IBM has audited many open source projects then your nuts, a corporation like IBM can't support something that it doesn't know is supportable, stable, and secure. Have you ever looked at the kernel code? Its damn nice. Regards, Steve
Was that a joke? Debian's full distro is 7 cds. I know they are optional, but so are Fedora's 4 cds. I've installed a few systems only using one cd. Regards, Steve
I personally like apt-rpm but I am also a big fan of yum. yum kind of took the best parts of apt and improved them, kinda like emerge did too.I run debian and fedora, and apt is superior at some things but yum holds its own in many areas as well, its also a bit easier to use. Assuming you already know enough about apt, here is a link to read about yum. Regards, Steve
Check your history and see how many people were killed so that the current inhabitants of your country could live there. The original americans (not the native americans) were only doing what they were doing because thats how it was in europe. Regards, Steve
Actually yes my grandfather did. Would you like his email address so you can thank him for putting his life on the line to save your asses in a war that America tried to stay out of for as long as possible. Before we went around saving Europe twice, we pretty much stayed out of your affairs, you got us involved so deal with it. Many Americans alive today were in the world wars, and many more died to save you. Stop dissing America, when ever we are needed we are there despite the critics, and we will be there again in the future if need be. As far as the slave comments go, slaves haven't been around for quite a while, and half of America never wanted them in the first place, thus the civil war. I'm from the North and I know my ancestors fought and died to free the slaves. Right now America's government has made a few relativly bad decisions (if you consider saving a nation that was to ignorant to know it needed to be saved to be bad), but mainly because the rest of the world doesn't have the balls to do what needed to be done. Give America another 4 years (should be enough time to get a new president and set things right) and things will be good again. America has an amazing ability to rebound, thats why we in the position that we are. Also keep in mind that America is the nation of nations meaning that we are all immigrants in one form or another, and even now there are far more immigrants in America then there are people that descend directly from the original americans(who were immigrants anyway). Regards, Steve
You've obviously never worked with intelligence agencies. They've got information on pretty much any one involved in any scheme, including the guys involved with 9/11, they just didn't know when to act and weren't 100% sure where to act. But you imply that we wouldn't know about some one who has never been suspected before and blow himself up, news flash, every major country exchanges information and they all know pretty much everyone who is involved with anything. They can't publicly state this, but they do. I am a US citizen and see no problem with this new biometric system, people need to take off their tinfoil hats and relax a bit. Regards, Steve
Bit torrent isn't anonymous, this article is about anonymous p2p. The guy across the hall from me in the dorms was just sued by the MIAA for downloading/uploading the movie Chicago with bit torrent. Steve
I run Debian stable on my servers, and Fedora Core 1 on my desktops. I've got Test 3 running on older machines. If the tests show anything about Core 2 (which they do) then Fedora Core 2 is definitly a better choice. I've been through mandrake, slackware, debian, freebsd, suse, lycoris, and a few others, just when I was about to do linux from scratch I figured I'd give Fedora a shot (which was new at the time) it definitly impressed me, so much so that I've set it up on many friend's machines, and any new servers that I've set up. Its really nice, and Core 2 with 2.6 and SE is even nicer. Suse isn't bad, but I had pretty bad experiences with it in comparison to the others. On my list Suse is third right after Fedora and then Mandrake. Just figured I'd give you another user's perspective:) (not that there aren't enough of those on/.) Regards, Steve
You sir are on crack. I adminstrate a Windows exchange server and about the only thing worth doing from the cmd line is "net" commands. Windows is horrible with the command line. It has recently improved slightly because MS hired old unix gurus to help them out, but as far as I know you can not install a command line only Windows. Also the Windows GUI is not superior and hasnt been for a while. This is common knowledge if you use *nix. Windows has nothing on linux in the server arena, and I've used Linux on my desktop for a few years now as well. If I didn't have to use Windows as the server at my job then I wouldn't, and we are in the process of fixing that. Windows is slower, less efficient( both from a performance and usability viewpoint), and not reliable at all. This is coming from someone who has to administrate it everday. Regards, Steve
Hmm... well I wish I lived in fantasy land too... I'm kidding:) Where my firm is, its something like 384kbps/1024kpps for about $110 a month and thats cheap for business class. Maybe where you are it's cheaper, but as far as New York and Philadelphia, as well as a few other eastern cities, thats about the cheapest you'll find it. Static IP alone will increase the price by 80 bucks or so. Regards, Steve
Red Hat has not given up anything! Just because you see it on Slashdot doesn't make it true. A few people are just making alot of noise against RH, just like Gentoo only sports a few thousand users, but yet you always here people ranting about it. RH contributes more then any other company, and by far. They also stick strictly to their OpenSource policy. Give them a break, I mean they decided to give their desktop edition out for free instead of making you pay for it, what a horrible thing to do. They changed the name, big deal, people still use firefox, but that name has been changed at least 3 times. Fedora still has all the same RH9 developers, its just now you can't call up headquarters crying about a problem and making them fix it for you for free on the 1-800 line that they pay for. You can email the devs, I do all the time. They are nice guys and provide better free support then Microsoft provides for the Server that has to be payed for. I know this because I admin an Exchange Server(the PHBs chose it) at the firm I work at . Regards, Steve P.S. Fedora Core 1 is very stable, more so then both Mandrake and Suse, both of which I have used. If you want bleeding edge then use the test versions that Fedora has.
Welcome to Slashdot! Regards, Steve P.S. You are right on, unfortunately it happens to the best of us. Just out of curiosity, any reason you use JDS over something like say Red Hat? I've used both and prefer RH, I'm just curious on your input.
Anything created by the government in this regards is public domain. Thus it is OSS, and developers from around the nation/globe contributed to it, read over the specs, and built upon them. It is the open nature of such things why we are where we are, otherwise you'd be paying a royalty fee on every packet leaving your computer. Anyway, the OSS community innovates a ton, i.e. tabbed browsing, and autocomplete in OOo while you type. The list could go on but I don't feel like feeding a troll. Regards, Steve
Yes, because grammar is of the upmost importance in an informal public forum such as Slashdot. Get over yourself guy. I'm not an english major and never claimed to be, I am involved in mathematics and computer science fields. I've typed formal reports and papers many times, both in academia and the corporate world. Quite frankly I've got better things to do than spell check and grammar check my reply to some dumb post on Slashdot. You can show your ignorance and stubbornness by ignoring the information that I've supplied in the prior posting of mine, or you can just except the fact that it was written as a stream of conscience in a short time period. I wrote what was on my mind and then submitted it. The point was still clearly understood by the intended recipients. As far as I'm concerned, I have succeeded in my goal, without wasting senseless time on such trivial matters as checking my grammar on Slashdot. I've got better things to do, and now I must return to them. Regards, Steve
P.S. I guess I was wrong for assuming that it was appropriate to use colloquial language when replying to an informal post. One more thing worth noting, I may have made some grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, but at least I was capable of arguing my point without the inclusion of unnecessary vulgarities. As a result, I have retained more of my dignity than you have.
Umm... Mandrake gives the community it's "shitty" version and yes I know it is shitty because I've tried it. Then forces you to pay for anything worthwhile. Red hat is the only linux company worth using. They stick by the open source community, contribute more then anyone, and give away a good free product. They are also the only ones willing to stick their necks out for the community. Fedora is better then any distro I use, and I've used a ton, even now I've got two servers running debian stable. Get your facts straight first, Fedora is a major improvement on RH9 and RH9 had the same development process and all the devs are almost the exact same. Its just now red hat wants to give it away for free and in a few months they will roll out their enterprise desktop. Fedora is more stable the RH9 and RH9 was updated just as frequently and was just as bleeding edge. We aren't beta testers unless you want to try out the tests. You may here alot of bad press by other/.'ers about RH, but the truth is we know where it stands, and it stands above the rest. We are the silent majority if you will, we don't need to brag about how great our OS is. One person can make alot of noise, us RH users will just sit back and watch the rest of you make foolsof yourselves. Regards, Steve
Why do you think that this will never be achieved? Once scientists are done "reverse engineering" our brains it will be quite feasible. I mean there have already been great strides in such efforts. When it comes down to it, thinking and interpretting is nothing but a semi controlled series of electrical pulses and connections, and even alot of that is just redundancy. That sounds damn like a computer to me, we just have to figure out the connections. Three of the most obvious good things about replacing the carbon brain with a silicon brain would be the much increased conductance and speed due to the materials used, memory that isn't fuzzy but permanent, and the fact that evolution has made our brain work really well, unfortunately they are bigger then need be and space consuming, the size could be greatly decreased. Regardless, even with we fail to "reverse engineer" the brain in any short time period, humans are not really good at much other then pattern recognition. When it comes down to it, thats pretty much all we do. We just find patterns and make connections with them to our memory. It really shouldn't be much more then 20-30 years before you start seeing any of this. I also wouldn't be surprised if true AI that resembled human nature and thinking was first hardwired in hardware rather then software simply because certain things about our brains lend themself to this. Any way dont be so pessimistic about our future, it may very well be a future where people don't have to do manual labor any more, and the robots can do literally everything. Humans would just do whatever they want, itd be nice:) At least until Skynet and the Matrix bite our asses. Regards, Steve
Guys guys guys... I think your missing the joke. Look at the names "Linux 7.0" and "LinuxOS", etc... Look at the exaggerated and blatanlty false percentages and statistics. Then the GNU copyright notice at the bottom, this isn't a troll its a joke, but I've seen this on/. before a few months back, so it is redundant, but not a troll. Just thought I'd clear things up. I'm surprised BillCrayMCSD hasn't replied yet to correct these people. Regards, Steve
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And I hope these spammers get the max sentence the law allows for,
You really think that spammers deserver to be locked up with rapists and murderers? I mean I hate spam as much as the next guy, I probably spend 20% of my day dealing with spam, last month my firm's total spam/ham ratio was 71/100 (71% spam). Yes its ridiculous, but jail time? Even I think thats rough, am I alone in this view and the rest of slashdot agrees with the parent?
Regards,
Steve
In short, its just as good, and better in some aspects. I have yet to notice any degradation of any sort. Fedora really did a good job with this release. It just feels like everythign is new, fast, and shiny:)
Regards,
Steve
Well I've read almost every post under this story and noone has mentioned how it actually works. From the e-rater site "E-rater learns to score essays on a particular topic by processing a significant number of essays on the topic, each of which has been scored by two or more faculty readers. While e-rater is a powerful scoring engine, it is not meant to replace a teacher whose judgment is essential to helping students improve their writing ability." This means that its essentialy a bayesian filter that instead of being fed spam and ham and told which is right from wrong, it is fed good papers and bad papers and told which is right from wrong. You could literally reproduce this with something like SpamBayes but instead of feeding it spam, feed it essays. Anyway, you can probably beat the system but the fact that it is based on preprocessed papers means that a) it will be much harder to game the system without knowing what papers were scanned, and b) all future grading is based solely on the fact that previous generations have written papers and the futre grades will be based on them. The good thing is that unless the teachers are willing to write 20 different papers all on the same subject and scan them in, then the computer won't expect anything better then what was previosuly written. This also means, assuming the teacher won't write essays but rather will use ones from students from prior years, that the essay topics can't be changed, otherwise the teacher would have nothing to scan from prior years and thus nothing to base the grades on. As a result of the essay topic not being able to be changed that simply means that you can find someone from a year above you and ask them to save their papers for you, or in a worst case scenario, everyone must be given the same topic so at least you can help each other out. Often times teachers would give everyone a different topic to avoid people "helping" each other, but with such a system that would be impossible. I sure wish I was back in highschool.
Regards,
Steve
Yea I mean like why do you think all those people are always raving about Gentoo? They are obviously paid by Gentoo's greedy corporate le... oh wait ... hmmm oh well I tried. On a more serious note, use Red Hat, its bette .. wait ... I'm doing it again, I meant to say that this kind of stuff happens all the time and I agree with you. Remember last year when Amazon had a glitch and all anonymous posts showed their real posters for a few hours? Didn't somthing like 70% or more of the book comments/reviews have at least one comment from the author raving about how great and enjoyable the book was.
Regards,
Steve
I dont believe its a distro problem but rather a kernel problem, I've experienced issues like that with any distro using 2.6. Now I may just have bad luck, but I'd bet its the kernel. I think you can pass a command to the kernel prior to the install to install a 2.4.x kernel. Hope that will help:)
Regards,
Steve
What a troll, that was from test 1, since then there have been two other tests and now an official release. Its been fixed for months.
-Steve
The thing that I find the most interesting is that first this shows that whatever security products they are selling obviously aren't good enough because there is someway around them(assuming Ciso would be using their own best products). But more importantly, if this were an open source project like Gnome, then we'd have up to the second details on what happened, why it happened, how it happened, what was accessed, whats at risk, etc... In the closed/proprietary world this doesn't happen, we are all just basically left in the dark and have to accept whatever they tell us. All the more for linux based routers!
Regards,
Steve
Well I'm convinced that they are. I've spoken with quite a few devs, many are very intelligent academics, or get paid by corporations like IBM and RedHat to do such things. The great thing about open source is that you only work on a project if you know what you are doing and you enjoy what you are doing (implying you have a well founded understanding of what the project is trying to achieve). In companies, someone makes you code something and pays you whether or not you have any interest at all in what you are coding. In the OSS world everyone on the project has interest in it and its because of this that OSS succeeds so well. I'd rather have Linus check my code then Bill Gates. There is a reason people are switching and government agencies are realizing that its more secure. If you dont think IBM has audited many open source projects then your nuts, a corporation like IBM can't support something that it doesn't know is supportable, stable, and secure. Have you ever looked at the kernel code? Its damn nice.
Regards,
Steve
Was that a joke? Debian's full distro is 7 cds. I know they are optional, but so are Fedora's 4 cds. I've installed a few systems only using one cd.
Regards,
Steve
I personally like apt-rpm but I am also a big fan of yum. yum kind of took the best parts of apt and improved them, kinda like emerge did too.I run debian and fedora, and apt is superior at some things but yum holds its own in many areas as well, its also a bit easier to use. Assuming you already know enough about apt, here is a link to read about yum.
Regards,
Steve
Check your history and see how many people were killed so that the current inhabitants of your country could live there. The original americans (not the native americans) were only doing what they were doing because thats how it was in europe.
Regards,
Steve
Actually yes my grandfather did. Would you like his email address so you can thank him for putting his life on the line to save your asses in a war that America tried to stay out of for as long as possible. Before we went around saving Europe twice, we pretty much stayed out of your affairs, you got us involved so deal with it. Many Americans alive today were in the world wars, and many more died to save you. Stop dissing America, when ever we are needed we are there despite the critics, and we will be there again in the future if need be. As far as the slave comments go, slaves haven't been around for quite a while, and half of America never wanted them in the first place, thus the civil war. I'm from the North and I know my ancestors fought and died to free the slaves. Right now America's government has made a few relativly bad decisions (if you consider saving a nation that was to ignorant to know it needed to be saved to be bad), but mainly because the rest of the world doesn't have the balls to do what needed to be done. Give America another 4 years (should be enough time to get a new president and set things right) and things will be good again. America has an amazing ability to rebound, thats why we in the position that we are. Also keep in mind that America is the nation of nations meaning that we are all immigrants in one form or another, and even now there are far more immigrants in America then there are people that descend directly from the original americans(who were immigrants anyway).
Regards,
Steve
You've obviously never worked with intelligence agencies. They've got information on pretty much any one involved in any scheme, including the guys involved with 9/11, they just didn't know when to act and weren't 100% sure where to act. But you imply that we wouldn't know about some one who has never been suspected before and blow himself up, news flash, every major country exchanges information and they all know pretty much everyone who is involved with anything. They can't publicly state this, but they do. I am a US citizen and see no problem with this new biometric system, people need to take off their tinfoil hats and relax a bit.
Regards,
Steve
Bit torrent isn't anonymous, this article is about anonymous p2p. The guy across the hall from me in the dorms was just sued by the MIAA for downloading/uploading the movie Chicago with bit torrent.
Steve
I run Debian stable on my servers, and Fedora Core 1 on my desktops. I've got Test 3 running on older machines. If the tests show anything about Core 2 (which they do) then Fedora Core 2 is definitly a better choice. I've been through mandrake, slackware, debian, freebsd, suse, lycoris, and a few others, just when I was about to do linux from scratch I figured I'd give Fedora a shot (which was new at the time) it definitly impressed me, so much so that I've set it up on many friend's machines, and any new servers that I've set up. Its really nice, and Core 2 with 2.6 and SE is even nicer. Suse isn't bad, but I had pretty bad experiences with it in comparison to the others. On my list Suse is third right after Fedora and then Mandrake. Just figured I'd give you another user's perspective:) (not that there aren't enough of those on /.)
Regards,
Steve
You sir are on crack. I adminstrate a Windows exchange server and about the only thing worth doing from the cmd line is "net" commands. Windows is horrible with the command line. It has recently improved slightly because MS hired old unix gurus to help them out, but as far as I know you can not install a command line only Windows. Also the Windows GUI is not superior and hasnt been for a while. This is common knowledge if you use *nix. Windows has nothing on linux in the server arena, and I've used Linux on my desktop for a few years now as well. If I didn't have to use Windows as the server at my job then I wouldn't, and we are in the process of fixing that. Windows is slower, less efficient( both from a performance and usability viewpoint), and not reliable at all. This is coming from someone who has to administrate it everday.
Regards,
Steve
Hmm... well I wish I lived in fantasy land too... I'm kidding:) Where my firm is, its something like 384kbps/1024kpps for about $110 a month and thats cheap for business class. Maybe where you are it's cheaper, but as far as New York and Philadelphia, as well as a few other eastern cities, thats about the cheapest you'll find it. Static IP alone will increase the price by 80 bucks or so.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat has not given up anything! Just because you see it on Slashdot doesn't make it true. A few people are just making alot of noise against RH, just like Gentoo only sports a few thousand users, but yet you always here people ranting about it. RH contributes more then any other company, and by far. They also stick strictly to their OpenSource policy. Give them a break, I mean they decided to give their desktop edition out for free instead of making you pay for it, what a horrible thing to do. They changed the name, big deal, people still use firefox, but that name has been changed at least 3 times. Fedora still has all the same RH9 developers, its just now you can't call up headquarters crying about a problem and making them fix it for you for free on the 1-800 line that they pay for. You can email the devs, I do all the time. They are nice guys and provide better free support then Microsoft provides for the Server that has to be payed for. I know this because I admin an Exchange Server(the PHBs chose it) at the firm I work at .
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Fedora Core 1 is very stable, more so then both Mandrake and Suse, both of which I have used. If you want bleeding edge then use the test versions that Fedora has.
Welcome to Slashdot!
Regards,
Steve
P.S. You are right on, unfortunately it happens to the best of us. Just out of curiosity, any reason you use JDS over something like say Red Hat? I've used both and prefer RH, I'm just curious on your input.
Anything created by the government in this regards is public domain. Thus it is OSS, and developers from around the nation/globe contributed to it, read over the specs, and built upon them. It is the open nature of such things why we are where we are, otherwise you'd be paying a royalty fee on every packet leaving your computer. Anyway, the OSS community innovates a ton, i.e. tabbed browsing, and autocomplete in OOo while you type. The list could go on but I don't feel like feeding a troll.
Regards,
Steve
Sounds to me like you need the Sims :)
Regards,
Steve
Yes, because grammar is of the upmost importance in an informal public forum such as Slashdot. Get over yourself guy. I'm not an english major and never claimed to be, I am involved in mathematics and computer science fields. I've typed formal reports and papers many times, both in academia and the corporate world. Quite frankly I've got better things to do than spell check and grammar check my reply to some dumb post on Slashdot. You can show your ignorance and stubbornness by ignoring the information that I've supplied in the prior posting of mine, or you can just except the fact that it was written as a stream of conscience in a short time period. I wrote what was on my mind and then submitted it. The point was still clearly understood by the intended recipients. As far as I'm concerned, I have succeeded in my goal, without wasting senseless time on such trivial matters as checking my grammar on Slashdot. I've got better things to do, and now I must return to them.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. I guess I was wrong for assuming that it was appropriate to use colloquial language when replying to an informal post. One more thing worth noting, I may have made some grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, but at least I was capable of arguing my point without the inclusion of unnecessary vulgarities. As a result, I have retained more of my dignity than you have.
Umm... Mandrake gives the community it's "shitty" version and yes I know it is shitty because I've tried it. Then forces you to pay for anything worthwhile. Red hat is the only linux company worth using. They stick by the open source community, contribute more then anyone, and give away a good free product. They are also the only ones willing to stick their necks out for the community. Fedora is better then any distro I use, and I've used a ton, even now I've got two servers running debian stable. Get your facts straight first, Fedora is a major improvement on RH9 and RH9 had the same development process and all the devs are almost the exact same. Its just now red hat wants to give it away for free and in a few months they will roll out their enterprise desktop. Fedora is more stable the RH9 and RH9 was updated just as frequently and was just as bleeding edge. We aren't beta testers unless you want to try out the tests. You may here alot of bad press by other /.'ers about RH, but the truth is we know where it stands, and it stands above the rest. We are the silent majority if you will, we don't need to brag about how great our OS is. One person can make alot of noise, us RH users will just sit back and watch the rest of you make foolsof yourselves.
Regards,
Steve
Why do you think that this will never be achieved? Once scientists are done "reverse engineering" our brains it will be quite feasible. I mean there have already been great strides in such efforts. When it comes down to it, thinking and interpretting is nothing but a semi controlled series of electrical pulses and connections, and even alot of that is just redundancy. That sounds damn like a computer to me, we just have to figure out the connections. Three of the most obvious good things about replacing the carbon brain with a silicon brain would be the much increased conductance and speed due to the materials used, memory that isn't fuzzy but permanent, and the fact that evolution has made our brain work really well, unfortunately they are bigger then need be and space consuming, the size could be greatly decreased. Regardless, even with we fail to "reverse engineer" the brain in any short time period, humans are not really good at much other then pattern recognition. When it comes down to it, thats pretty much all we do. We just find patterns and make connections with them to our memory. It really shouldn't be much more then 20-30 years before you start seeing any of this. I also wouldn't be surprised if true AI that resembled human nature and thinking was first hardwired in hardware rather then software simply because certain things about our brains lend themself to this. Any way dont be so pessimistic about our future, it may very well be a future where people don't have to do manual labor any more, and the robots can do literally everything. Humans would just do whatever they want, itd be nice:) At least until Skynet and the Matrix bite our asses.
Regards,
Steve
Guys guys guys... I think your missing the joke. Look at the names "Linux 7.0" and "LinuxOS", etc... Look at the exaggerated and blatanlty false percentages and statistics. Then the GNU copyright notice at the bottom, this isn't a troll its a joke, but I've seen this on /. before a few months back, so it is redundant, but not a troll. Just thought I'd clear things up. I'm surprised BillCrayMCSD hasn't replied yet to correct these people.
Regards,
Steve