Well hopefully we can start a community off of this planet, and start it the right way. We are more knowledgable of what is dangerous to us now so we can possibly create a civilization free from pollution or be much better at handling it. Also the earth is very limiting compared to what else is out there. We can learn a million things from traveling to space and it will also solve the problem of the earth overcrowding. People's life spans are expected to increase to 150 and by 2100 we may possibly never die and our bodies may not even be carbon any more (yes this sounds like science fiction, but technology increases at an exponential rate, something catastrophic would have to happen in order to stop it i.e. nuclear war). We've almost used up all of our resources on this planet so we should expand out before we destroy ourselves. Also by spreadng our civilization out across the galaxy/universe we are insuring that we go on as a species because one asteroid won't be able to knock us all out. By exploring space we can learn more about spacetime and possibly time travel or new highly dense materials. The possibilities are endless. We can't really start warping the timespace continuim unless we leave the planet and can gather things with the mass of such planets like Jupiter. Many experiments are already conducted in space that help us. Flame resistant materials are created, cancer research, organic growth and many more (google it, there are too many to list).Certain things can only happen in 0 gravity. We can better examine the earth and we will be able to build super giant paritcle accelerators that stretch planets in length. We will also gain new insights into things such as fusion. Space travel is necessary and we can't stop it so we might as well not try to slow it down. Besides all of the knowledge that we will gain, we will be insuring our species survives. One other cool thing would be overclocking you computer in a vacuum and absolute zero (or near it) temperatures, it couldn't possibly overheat:) Okay well the list could go on, but in short leaving this planet is the best thing for us. We are so constricted here that we don't even realize it yet and in a few hundred years or so we'll look back and say "Wow I wonder what it was like never leaving that planet and not knowing what was on the other side of the Milky Way" just like today we look back at Christopher Columbus and those of his era and we think "Wow what was it like not knowing that half of the earth existed and never being able to cross the continents". Personally I'm looking foward to all this new traveling, it should be a good show. Regards, Steve
That's right. A few billion here, a few billion there. Pretty soon, it starts to add up to real money.
It's sad that some people really think like that and ironic how we take such things like this for granted. Some countries would kill for a 50 billion or even just a one billion dollar national budget, and in many countries (i.e. Japan, America, Germany, England...) your not even considered a major contender as a company unless your bringing in a billion a year. Just something worth thinking about that most people don't. Regards, Steve
If you were trying to insult SkyOS as not being up to the task of hosting a site, I believe you inadvertently insulted Linux. I guess they are having bandwidth issues. Regards, Steve
I've never had to use X over a network connection, is it slow like VNC or PCAnywhere, or is it relatively fast compared to those options? Also is there anythign else required other then just tunneling the connection through SSH? Any help with this would be great. Thanks in advance. Regards, Steve
Well the whole purpose of tapping is to catch organized criminals. Most organized criminals have no need to contact people outside of a certain circle and would probably find it useful having such a feature that prevents anyone else from listening in. Any large time criminals that would be worth tapping are probably smart enough or have the resources to use a VPN. This legalizing tapping is hurting the innocent more then the guilty. Regards, Steve
Thank you! I was just about to point this out. Python will handle integers of any length which can really come in handy. None of that puny 64 bit or 128 bit stuff. You can easily work with 10,000 bit integers and higher, I do all the time. There are a few other features of python like this, so its not really fair to compare unless you are using similar functions in the other languages. I for one find this arbitrary precision indespensable.[For those who don't use python or don't code, this simply means that you can pass python any number no matter how big (limited only by your hardware) and it will handle it with no complaints and do whatever you want with it] Regards, Steve
The rate of technological change accelerates over time, though.
Yes, as a matter of fact it increases exponentially. As a result of its exponential growth it is fair to say that we have achieved more in 2000 years then in 98,000 years. Regards, Steve
When I use Gimp I tend to put it in its own virtual desktop. It helps alot if you've got a million windows open everywhere. With the newest versions of GIMP though there may be a less cluttered interface and may not be needed any more. I'm apt-getting the latest unstable when I get home tonight to check it out. Regards, Steve
What's wrong with good old symmetrical encryption algorithms? No need to store a hash or anything like that. Just encrpyt the damn thing and only people who know the password or brute force it can read it. Its a fairly trivial thing to accomplish. I understand that if you wanted two passwords, one for read rights, and one for write rights, then you can run into problems. But seriously this crack is ridiculous. In a worst case scenario, use symmetrical encryption, but just make two copies of it. Yes I'm sure someone can come up with a case where this wouldn't be sensible for a business, but for most purposes this will more then suffice and if you need someother feature, use a third party.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Does any known what method OpenOffice uses to protect its documents?
Yes, there is something wrong with it...you don't know everyone who will email you and you don't know when. You can't tell mailing lists to add "a magic password" and making another account just for mailing lists will be inconvenient and probably be filled with spam. If you hand out business cards with your email or post it on a private forum to get responses there is no way to whitelist everyone who will email you. You can't ask someone for their email address everytime you hand out your business card and adding a little line to the bottom saying "Add this when you email me" will take up alot of the space on the card and be very unprofessional. The list could go on. Regards, Steve
This may be a dumb question but...if you recompile code on a 64 bit platform, does that code then use any benefits of being 64-bit or will it still run just the same as 32 bits. I'm just curious because I may be getting an AMD 64-bit (or possibly holding out now and see how Intel prices their processor) and want to know if compiling Gentoo or anything else on it will make any major improvements.
Maybe since you are familar with the project you can answer this...On the website I see nothing but information about the product. I don't see anywhere to purchase it. I just see "Home, Security, Telecom, Automation, Entertainment, Personal computing" and no links to something like order here or contact us here... have any idea why not? and Judging from the post, it appears to be based on Linux as well...is it open source and you just by the hardware from Pluto? Regards, Steve
Well gosh...this looks awfully familiar. Almost like the first reply to the first post. How did this get moderated up? Come on moderators read a few more comments before moderating. Regards, Steve
You can share the connection over a LAN and 7 people including one dial-up user can be on at the same time (although its not necessary for each client to log on through AOL), even if everyone isn't on the LAN. I've done this for people, ironically using Linux as a router. AOL broadband uses PPPoE as its protocol so pretty much anything can connect to it. It was no differnet then setting this up with anyother ISP. Regards, Steve P.S. I'm not sure how ironic the Linux thing was, I guess it wasn't very ironic at all. What else would you use to make a router out of an old PC?
He's a moron? Wow! Send me your kernel that is used by millions of people all around the world, even NASA. I can't wait to see what great things you've achieved if Linus is a moron compared to you. Unfortunately I've chosen to respond to your flamebait, which is something Linus is intelligent enough to avoid. Linus never starts them and rarely continues them, that makes him smarter then the both of us right now. Regards, Steve P.S. I too rarely continue a flame, but I take insults to Linus and Linux somewhat personally:) P.S.S. Linus is not a thief. If you knew anything about the SCO case you would know that they have nothing against Linus, but rather against IBM for other reasons. But let's not get started on the SCO case.
This has always bothered me and is a serious question... If they know what website is being used why can't they shut it down and/or find the person who created it. I understand he could claim that his website was hacked or whatever, but at least they would stop it from spreading. The worm would be better if it used MSN to send the files to each other. The only thing that using a webpage accomplishes is that you can alter the executable to whatever you want whenever you want to.
Regards,
Steve
How about instead of replacing slashdot, Taco just gives a hundred or so random subscribers the ability to mod a story as a dupe before it is officially posted for everyone else to read? It wouldn't be much harder to implement then mod points or metamoderation. If it wasn't a dupe then noone would have to do anything, but if it was a dupe then those "lucky" few could get someone's attention by clicking a "This is a dupe" link.
Regards,
Steve
No, this is a good feature. I've been using it in Mozilla for quite a while now. It is also available in the Mac email client. This is MS making themselves look like innovators, when once again we've proven that they're not. This is comparable to them saying that security is a top priority, and then we continuously prove that its not. MS is just repeating what it has always done and always will do, replicate others' ideas without giving the proper credit behind their inspiration. Just look at Longhorn, its not like MS suddenly thought up of multiple virtual desktops. Virtual Desktops have been around for years, but now MS has decided that they are so great that they will use the idea. None of this would bother me if they would come out and say, "Yea, we got this idea from various Open Source projects like KDE, it was good so we are borrowing it.", but they will make the masses think that they are innovative and came up with this themselves. They'll probably do that with tabbed browsing too. I only hope that open source will have spread far enough by that time that people will realize what is up.
-Steve
To those who modded this as offtopic, it wasn't. May be it was offotpic in regards to the story, however it was a correction to a previous thread that was offtopic. True the grandparent is offtopic, but as far as my reply goes, it is on topic to the subject matter at hand. This post is technicaly offtopic, however it is necessary because too many people don't know how to use mod points correctly. If you mod the gradnparent as offtopic then obviously anything underneath it will not pertain to the story, however the replies will be ontopic to that thread.
-Steve
Umm...I don't know if you've ever done any patching, but usually you can tell by the broken code and the new code what areas to generally look at for incompatibilities. Most calls made shouldn't really be changed and the original code should be left untouched as much as possible. If so much of the code is a problem that you literally have to test the whole system, oh well thats sloppy coding and its their fault. On Debian, security patches are as much of the original code as possible and the rules on what can be changed in the code are fairly strict. Despite this, security patches are always released promptly and people can have the assurance that their systems will remain stable and won't be broken. MS doesn't really have an excuse. Hell, if they opened the code I'd do the patching for them. Just my 2 cents.
-Steve
Slashdot Mirror
Well hopefully we can start a community off of this planet, and start it the right way. We are more knowledgable of what is dangerous to us now so we can possibly create a civilization free from pollution or be much better at handling it. Also the earth is very limiting compared to what else is out there. We can learn a million things from traveling to space and it will also solve the problem of the earth overcrowding. People's life spans are expected to increase to 150 and by 2100 we may possibly never die and our bodies may not even be carbon any more (yes this sounds like science fiction, but technology increases at an exponential rate, something catastrophic would have to happen in order to stop it i.e. nuclear war). We've almost used up all of our resources on this planet so we should expand out before we destroy ourselves. Also by spreadng our civilization out across the galaxy/universe we are insuring that we go on as a species because one asteroid won't be able to knock us all out. By exploring space we can learn more about spacetime and possibly time travel or new highly dense materials. The possibilities are endless. We can't really start warping the timespace continuim unless we leave the planet and can gather things with the mass of such planets like Jupiter. Many experiments are already conducted in space that help us. Flame resistant materials are created, cancer research, organic growth and many more (google it, there are too many to list).Certain things can only happen in 0 gravity. We can better examine the earth and we will be able to build super giant paritcle accelerators that stretch planets in length. We will also gain new insights into things such as fusion. Space travel is necessary and we can't stop it so we might as well not try to slow it down. Besides all of the knowledge that we will gain, we will be insuring our species survives. One other cool thing would be overclocking you computer in a vacuum and absolute zero (or near it) temperatures, it couldn't possibly overheat:) Okay well the list could go on, but in short leaving this planet is the best thing for us. We are so constricted here that we don't even realize it yet and in a few hundred years or so we'll look back and say "Wow I wonder what it was like never leaving that planet and not knowing what was on the other side of the Milky Way" just like today we look back at Christopher Columbus and those of his era and we think "Wow what was it like not knowing that half of the earth existed and never being able to cross the continents". Personally I'm looking foward to all this new traveling, it should be a good show.
Regards,
Steve
That's right. A few billion here, a few billion there. Pretty soon, it starts to add up to real money.
It's sad that some people really think like that and ironic how we take such things like this for granted. Some countries would kill for a 50 billion or even just a one billion dollar national budget, and in many countries (i.e. Japan, America, Germany, England...) your not even considered a major contender as a company unless your bringing in a billion a year. Just something worth thinking about that most people don't.
Regards,
Steve
If you were trying to insult SkyOS as not being up to the task of hosting a site, I believe you inadvertently insulted Linux. I guess they are having bandwidth issues.
Regards,
Steve
I've never had to use X over a network connection, is it slow like VNC or PCAnywhere, or is it relatively fast compared to those options? Also is there anythign else required other then just tunneling the connection through SSH? Any help with this would be great. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Steve
Well the whole purpose of tapping is to catch organized criminals. Most organized criminals have no need to contact people outside of a certain circle and would probably find it useful having such a feature that prevents anyone else from listening in. Any large time criminals that would be worth tapping are probably smart enough or have the resources to use a VPN. This legalizing tapping is hurting the innocent more then the guilty.
Regards,
Steve
Thank you! I was just about to point this out. Python will handle integers of any length which can really come in handy. None of that puny 64 bit or 128 bit stuff. You can easily work with 10,000 bit integers and higher, I do all the time. There are a few other features of python like this, so its not really fair to compare unless you are using similar functions in the other languages. I for one find this arbitrary precision indespensable.[For those who don't use python or don't code, this simply means that you can pass python any number no matter how big (limited only by your hardware) and it will handle it with no complaints and do whatever you want with it]
Regards,
Steve
The rate of technological change accelerates over time, though.
Yes, as a matter of fact it increases exponentially. As a result of its exponential growth it is fair to say that we have achieved more in 2000 years then in 98,000 years.
Regards,
Steve
When I use Gimp I tend to put it in its own virtual desktop. It helps alot if you've got a million windows open everywhere. With the newest versions of GIMP though there may be a less cluttered interface and may not be needed any more. I'm apt-getting the latest unstable when I get home tonight to check it out.
Regards,
Steve
What's wrong with good old symmetrical encryption algorithms? No need to store a hash or anything like that. Just encrpyt the damn thing and only people who know the password or brute force it can read it. Its a fairly trivial thing to accomplish. I understand that if you wanted two passwords, one for read rights, and one for write rights, then you can run into problems. But seriously this crack is ridiculous. In a worst case scenario, use symmetrical encryption, but just make two copies of it. Yes I'm sure someone can come up with a case where this wouldn't be sensible for a business, but for most purposes this will more then suffice and if you need someother feature, use a third party.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Does any known what method OpenOffice uses to protect its documents?
Yes, there is something wrong with it...you don't know everyone who will email you and you don't know when. You can't tell mailing lists to add "a magic password" and making another account just for mailing lists will be inconvenient and probably be filled with spam. If you hand out business cards with your email or post it on a private forum to get responses there is no way to whitelist everyone who will email you. You can't ask someone for their email address everytime you hand out your business card and adding a little line to the bottom saying "Add this when you email me" will take up alot of the space on the card and be very unprofessional. The list could go on.
Regards,
Steve
This may be a dumb question but...if you recompile code on a 64 bit platform, does that code then use any benefits of being 64-bit or will it still run just the same as 32 bits. I'm just curious because I may be getting an AMD 64-bit (or possibly holding out now and see how Intel prices their processor) and want to know if compiling Gentoo or anything else on it will make any major improvements.
Regards,
Steve
Maybe since you are familar with the project you can answer this...On the website I see nothing but information about the product. I don't see anywhere to purchase it. I just see "Home, Security, Telecom, Automation, Entertainment, Personal computing" and no links to something like order here or contact us here... have any idea why not? and Judging from the post, it appears to be based on Linux as well...is it open source and you just by the hardware from Pluto?
Regards,
Steve
Well gosh...this looks awfully familiar. Almost like the first reply to the first post. How did this get moderated up? Come on moderators read a few more comments before moderating.
Regards,
Steve
You can share the connection over a LAN and 7 people including one dial-up user can be on at the same time (although its not necessary for each client to log on through AOL), even if everyone isn't on the LAN. I've done this for people, ironically using Linux as a router. AOL broadband uses PPPoE as its protocol so pretty much anything can connect to it. It was no differnet then setting this up with anyother ISP.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. I'm not sure how ironic the Linux thing was, I guess it wasn't very ironic at all. What else would you use to make a router out of an old PC?
P.S.S.S. Posting as anonymous coward is not an effective manner for presenting an argument, no matter how absurd it may be.
He's a moron? Wow! Send me your kernel that is used by millions of people all around the world, even NASA. I can't wait to see what great things you've achieved if Linus is a moron compared to you. Unfortunately I've chosen to respond to your flamebait, which is something Linus is intelligent enough to avoid. Linus never starts them and rarely continues them, that makes him smarter then the both of us right now.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. I too rarely continue a flame, but I take insults to Linus and Linux somewhat personally:)
P.S.S. Linus is not a thief. If you knew anything about the SCO case you would know that they have nothing against Linus, but rather against IBM for other reasons. But let's not get started on the SCO case.
This has always bothered me and is a serious question... If they know what website is being used why can't they shut it down and/or find the person who created it. I understand he could claim that his website was hacked or whatever, but at least they would stop it from spreading. The worm would be better if it used MSN to send the files to each other. The only thing that using a webpage accomplishes is that you can alter the executable to whatever you want whenever you want to.
Regards,
Steve
Hey watch what you say about BMW's. Last I checked Linus drove one:)
Regards,
Steve
How about instead of replacing slashdot, Taco just gives a hundred or so random subscribers the ability to mod a story as a dupe before it is officially posted for everyone else to read? It wouldn't be much harder to implement then mod points or metamoderation. If it wasn't a dupe then noone would have to do anything, but if it was a dupe then those "lucky" few could get someone's attention by clicking a "This is a dupe" link. Regards, Steve
I'll stick with skype.
What's up groupie! I'll bet you've never even used Apache.
No, this is a good feature. I've been using it in Mozilla for quite a while now. It is also available in the Mac email client. This is MS making themselves look like innovators, when once again we've proven that they're not. This is comparable to them saying that security is a top priority, and then we continuously prove that its not. MS is just repeating what it has always done and always will do, replicate others' ideas without giving the proper credit behind their inspiration. Just look at Longhorn, its not like MS suddenly thought up of multiple virtual desktops. Virtual Desktops have been around for years, but now MS has decided that they are so great that they will use the idea. None of this would bother me if they would come out and say, "Yea, we got this idea from various Open Source projects like KDE, it was good so we are borrowing it.", but they will make the masses think that they are innovative and came up with this themselves. They'll probably do that with tabbed browsing too. I only hope that open source will have spread far enough by that time that people will realize what is up.
-Steve
To those who modded this as offtopic, it wasn't. May be it was offotpic in regards to the story, however it was a correction to a previous thread that was offtopic. True the grandparent is offtopic, but as far as my reply goes, it is on topic to the subject matter at hand. This post is technicaly offtopic, however it is necessary because too many people don't know how to use mod points correctly. If you mod the gradnparent as offtopic then obviously anything underneath it will not pertain to the story, however the replies will be ontopic to that thread.
-Steve
same here:)
Umm...I don't know if you've ever done any patching, but usually you can tell by the broken code and the new code what areas to generally look at for incompatibilities. Most calls made shouldn't really be changed and the original code should be left untouched as much as possible. If so much of the code is a problem that you literally have to test the whole system, oh well thats sloppy coding and its their fault. On Debian, security patches are as much of the original code as possible and the rules on what can be changed in the code are fairly strict. Despite this, security patches are always released promptly and people can have the assurance that their systems will remain stable and won't be broken. MS doesn't really have an excuse. Hell, if they opened the code I'd do the patching for them. Just my 2 cents.
-Steve