Wait a minute, I didn't say I wanted to forbid it! I just said I didn't want to use it.
And I think your analogy regarding digital cameras are lacking in the regard that if I buy a digital camera, I can decide if I want to photograph child porn with it or not. If I run a freenet node, I can't decide if I want it to host child pornography.
No not because is allows privacy, but the simple fact remains, that if I host a freenet node, then I may without knowing it be hosting child pornography. Many people, including me, feels that this is ethically questionable. Which is why I feel uneasy about hosting a freenet node.
And yes, allowing complete privacy must encourage child pornography, simply because distributors of such material feel safer in distributing it, means that more people will upload more. I think that counts as encouraging.
GStreamer is a framework for streaming, decoding, encoding, mixing, doing non-linear editing and outputting all kinds of multimedia.
Xine is strictly a player library which only focusses on playback of your multimedia files. In that respect it can perhaps be described as a subset of gstreamers functionallity. But it is great at what it does.
One day, gstreamer may replace both xine and mplayer and the existing media backends like esound and arts, to become the default media backend for both KDE and Gnome, giving both a full build in media playing capacity.
.dk domains cost 10$ per year to hold. This fee is mainly to prevent cyber squating. It works, and I think this is fair.
And perhaps if ICANN actually had some money to spend, they would have time to investigate issues like domain hijacking which is a rampant problem.
BTW don't mistake this for a hosting or dns fee. This is a fee paid directly to dk-hostmaster, just for owning the name.
Re:This is UNIX, but why is that so funny?
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Why is this so funny?
When I saw JP, I really thought it was a totally redundant statement. It seemed to me, that the purpose of it being put in there, was to make the kid sound like a wiz to the average Joe. But as a geek it sounds like a stupid thing to say. Especially when you have a 2 meter high mutant velociraptor breathing down your neck..
Really.. I know it's pretty much a slashdot meme, but I don't get it..
To sum it up, Debian is maintaining it's own tree of Xfree86, without any material that has the new license, but with some x.org and other patches. This is what will be in Sarge.
I just tried replacing smbfs with cifsfs last week on my two Debian/sid systems. It was just a couple of months back that the necessary mount.cifs scripts was even included in unstable. Before that, there was no cifs support in Debian, even if it was in the kernel.
Getting to the point though, cifsfs was fairly disappointing. It seemed a bit faster than smbfs when the transfer was in progress, however the server frequently and regularly locked up completely for several seconds, resulting in much worse performance than with smbfs. It almost felt as if I had ran into the annoying tcp sendfile bug, though I had previously set sendfile to no in the server configuration, since otherwise smbfs was just unusable because of lockups.
I'd say cifsfs still has some way to go, before it can replace smbfs.
Not to mention the fact that we are building with a brand new completely untested material. Once we have this wonder tether, we will have to test it first. Build bridges out of it for instance. At least see if it works before betting the farm on it.
KMail works for me, but it should be said that it has a number of long standing and very annoying bugs, including the most hated KDE bug #41514 of all time.
This bug does not affect me because I use IMAP, but then there is my own favorite annoyance.
One big problem which I think will significantly reduce the commercial usefulness of these devices are that the battery drains weither you use it or not.
This means that you probably wont be able to sell them in regular supermarkets, because by the time the customer picks it from the shelf, the battery will have drained itself.
You would have to get the battery directly from the manufacturer to the consumer, probably on demand. There is no way to recharge this kind of battery, so this is something that has to be taken into account in the application.
Well I think you are wrong. But of course I live in Denmark which, as everybody knows, is a borderline communistic wellfare state, and not a free society.
I can't prove it was stolen, its most likely it is, but then again, one can't go around calling the police simply because you think something is stolen.
Why the hell not?
If it was your own laptop that was stolen and someone else found it, would you want them to call the police? You know if nobody ever helped out the police, society would go down the tube pretty quickly. The police need these tips to do their work. This info gets thrown into the mix with all kinds of other pieces, like a jigsaw. Your tip could be the final crucial bit of evidence that was needed to crack a wider case.
It's your damn duty to call the cops, when you see something like this.
I've been running it on several system since 2.6.2 and has not had any problems with it at all. Some things broke when I upgraded, but that was just because it does some things a bit differently from 2.4 (like input and framebuffers).
A lot of drivers in 2.6 were in a not so finished state at first, but this was mostly for new hardware anyway, so that was to be expected.
The most significant improvement for me is smb file transfers, where I have seen 4 times the transfer rates compared to the 2.4 kernel.
Kernel 2.6 works and is stable. One should keep in mind here that they are not using the 2.6 tree to test experimental stuff. The things that go into 2.6 has been tested first in the -mm tree, and only safe patches go on to the stable kernel.
I say things has been looking good with 2.6 developement so far, so let's try this out for a while, and see how it goes.
It's a clever system. The Danish International Brigade trains units that are sent to Bosnia and Iraq with this. Never got to try it myself though. (And it was a long time ago I saw it..)
One thing. If you get hit, it beeps, until you lie completely still on the ground, then it stops.
The problem with most laser tag systems I think is the daylight. It will likely screw up the receptors resulting in very poor range. This profesional system solves this with special ir filters on the diodes, giving effective ranges hundreds of meters.
I think it would be very difficult technically to mod any of the cheap laser tag systems to compete with this.
Re: Do you get what Paint Ball is about?
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I have played both Laser Tag (Q-zar) and Paintball and I enjoy both, but I don't think you can simply compare the two on the basis of what incentive there is not to get hit.
The variety of gameplay possibilities the realtime scoring and rules management system in laser tag games offer, make the experience completely different from Paint Ball.
If you want an incentive not to get hit in laser tag, then I suggest a game of Q-Zar Eliminator. When you get tagged, you loose one of your preset amount of "lives", and when you have lost all of them you are simply out of the game. You loose. You can steal lives from other players if you shoot accurately enough, a game rule which would be completely unenforcable in Paint Ball. You have to watch your ass, if the arena is well designed and set with the right ambient sounds and lighting, this can be a truely nerve wrecking experience. I have never experienced the same amount of suspence in any game of Paint Ball I have played.
If the reason you prefer Paint Ball is that it hurts when you get hit (which supposedly would give you an incentive not to get hit), then I must question your understanding of the game.
Paint Ball is NOT about not getting hit. Paint Ball is about winning the game. To win the game you sometimes have to make sacrifices and take casualties. Get the flag and take it to the goal. If one of your team survives and accomplishes this, the victory is yours. Paint Ball is not a war simulation. I have seen plenty of trained military personel get their asses thouroughly spanked by more sports oriented teams, because they don't understand that it isn't a problem if you take a couple of casualties on you way to the goal. In Paint Ball pain is temporary, honor is forever, and there are no points for second place.
I can't tell if you are joking or if you are serious, so let me reply as if not.
Duh. It was ejected into space.
Ejected? Like forcefully ejected in an explosive manner? No, definitely not.
On Earth the magnetic field deflects the ionized particles in the solar wind, forcing the particles to mostly fly past the Earth, but also to a smaller degree impact into the magnetic north and south poles causing aurora.
Space is a giant vacuum. Material sucked up into space and carried away at speeds approaching that of the light tend to "disappear."
As you can readily verify on spaceweather.com the solar wind travels at an average speed of around 300km/s, which is pretty far from the speed of lights 300000km/s.
And the atmosphere doesn't get "sucked" into space. There is vacuum around Earth too you know? Why doesn't Earth's atmosphere get sucked away?
When a planet has no magnetic field, the high impulse component of the solar wind blasts right into the atmosphere and blows off the outer layers little by little. It's just like those drier things in the rest room.
There isn't concensus on where the water have gone, the only thing we know for sure is, there was a lot of water before, and there isn't now.
I work closely with the Mars scientists at Copenhagen University. They designed the magnets on the Mars Rovers. If you ask any one of those for their official oppinion on where the water went, most likely they will just say "erhhh?!", because really nobody has clue. Some calculations conclude that even with the weak magnetic field, the boiling off of water would not go fast enough for all the water to evaporate into space.
Most of the water may still be there, but hidden underground as permafrost.
The important thing is to teach it regularly, or at least when you begin to get too many false negatives. Even if you get a lot of spam compared to ham, as long as you feed it all the ham you get, it will learn well in my experience.
I use spamassassin, and get at least 99% accuracy. I get between 50 and 100 spam mails per day, and around 25-50 ham mails, most from boring mailing lists I subscribe to. I can't remember getting a false positive with it after the bayesian filter kicked in.
Spamassassin will autolearn messages when it feels sure it has found a good positive or negative. You have to watch out for false negatives here, because spam which is incorrectly learnt as ham will really screw up your bayesian filter (surprise).
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Wait a minute, I didn't say I wanted to forbid it! I just said I didn't want to use it.
And I think your analogy regarding digital cameras are lacking in the regard that if I buy a digital camera, I can decide if I want to photograph child porn with it or not. If I run a freenet node, I can't decide if I want it to host child pornography.
That makes a difference.
No not because is allows privacy, but the simple fact remains, that if I host a freenet node, then I may without knowing it be hosting child pornography. Many people, including me, feels that this is ethically questionable. Which is why I feel uneasy about hosting a freenet node.
And yes, allowing complete privacy must encourage child pornography, simply because distributors of such material feel safer in distributing it, means that more people will upload more. I think that counts as encouraging.
GStreamer is a framework for streaming, decoding, encoding, mixing, doing non-linear editing and outputting all kinds of multimedia.
Xine is strictly a player library which only focusses on playback of your multimedia files. In that respect it can perhaps be described as a subset of gstreamers functionallity. But it is great at what it does.
One day, gstreamer may replace both xine and mplayer and the existing media backends like esound and arts, to become the default media backend for both KDE and Gnome, giving both a full build in media playing capacity.
Why not call him? I hear he always answers the phone?
Don't look at me?! I don't have his number.
.dk domains cost 10$ per year to hold. This fee is mainly to prevent cyber squating. It works, and I think this is fair.
And perhaps if ICANN actually had some money to spend, they would have time to investigate issues like domain hijacking which is a rampant problem.
BTW don't mistake this for a hosting or dns fee. This is a fee paid directly to dk-hostmaster, just for owning the name.
Why is this so funny?
When I saw JP, I really thought it was a totally redundant statement. It seemed to me, that the purpose of it being put in there, was to make the kid sound like a wiz to the average Joe. But as a geek it sounds like a stupid thing to say. Especially when you have a 2 meter high mutant velociraptor breathing down your neck..
Really.. I know it's pretty much a slashdot meme, but I don't get it..
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To sum it up, Debian is maintaining it's own tree of Xfree86, without any material that has the new license, but with some x.org and other patches. This is what will be in Sarge.
As I wrote in a comment just above this one, I had similar difficulties with cifsfs. I agree it isn't mature yet.
I just tried replacing smbfs with cifsfs last week on my two Debian/sid systems. It was just a couple of months back that the necessary mount.cifs scripts was even included in unstable. Before that, there was no cifs support in Debian, even if it was in the kernel.
Getting to the point though, cifsfs was fairly disappointing. It seemed a bit faster than smbfs when the transfer was in progress, however the server frequently and regularly locked up completely for several seconds, resulting in much worse performance than with smbfs. It almost felt as if I had ran into the annoying tcp sendfile bug, though I had previously set sendfile to no in the server configuration, since otherwise smbfs was just unusable because of lockups.
I'd say cifsfs still has some way to go, before it can replace smbfs.
Not to mention the fact that we are building with a brand new completely untested material. Once we have this wonder tether, we will have to test it first. Build bridges out of it for instance. At least see if it works before betting the farm on it.
I think that will add 10-20 years to any plans.
KMail works for me, but it should be said that it has a number of long standing and very annoying bugs, including the most hated KDE bug #41514 of all time.
This bug does not affect me because I use IMAP, but then there is my own favorite annoyance.
One big problem which I think will significantly reduce the commercial usefulness of these devices are that the battery drains weither you use it or not.
This means that you probably wont be able to sell them in regular supermarkets, because by the time the customer picks it from the shelf, the battery will have drained itself.
You would have to get the battery directly from the manufacturer to the consumer, probably on demand. There is no way to recharge this kind of battery, so this is something that has to be taken into account in the application.
Well I think you are wrong. But of course I live in Denmark which, as everybody knows, is a borderline communistic wellfare state, and not a free society.
;)
I can't prove it was stolen, its most likely it is, but then again, one can't go around calling the police simply because you think something is stolen.
Why the hell not?
If it was your own laptop that was stolen and someone else found it, would you want them to call the police? You know if nobody ever helped out the police, society would go down the tube pretty quickly. The police need these tips to do their work. This info gets thrown into the mix with all kinds of other pieces, like a jigsaw. Your tip could be the final crucial bit of evidence that was needed to crack a wider case.
It's your damn duty to call the cops, when you see something like this.
SP2 is oooold! SP8 is the latest, which was just released.
I've been running it on several system since 2.6.2 and has not had any problems with it at all. Some things broke when I upgraded, but that was just because it does some things a bit differently from 2.4 (like input and framebuffers).
A lot of drivers in 2.6 were in a not so finished state at first, but this was mostly for new hardware anyway, so that was to be expected.
The most significant improvement for me is smb file transfers, where I have seen 4 times the transfer rates compared to the 2.4 kernel.
Kernel 2.6 works and is stable. One should keep in mind here that they are not using the 2.6 tree to test experimental stuff. The things that go into 2.6 has been tested first in the -mm tree, and only safe patches go on to the stable kernel.
I say things has been looking good with 2.6 developement so far, so let's try this out for a while, and see how it goes.
Is there no moderation on orkut? Can't the group creator enforce a language?
Maybe www.dark-tag.com is a better option?
It's a clever system. The Danish International Brigade trains units that are sent to Bosnia and Iraq with this. Never got to try it myself though. (And it was a long time ago I saw it..)
One thing. If you get hit, it beeps, until you lie completely still on the ground, then it stops.
The problem with most laser tag systems I think is the daylight. It will likely screw up the receptors resulting in very poor range. This profesional system solves this with special ir filters on the diodes, giving effective ranges hundreds of meters.
I think it would be very difficult technically to mod any of the cheap laser tag systems to compete with this.
I have played both Laser Tag (Q-zar) and Paintball and I enjoy both, but I don't think you can simply compare the two on the basis of what incentive there is not to get hit.
The variety of gameplay possibilities the realtime scoring and rules management system in laser tag games offer, make the experience completely different from Paint Ball.
If you want an incentive not to get hit in laser tag, then I suggest a game of Q-Zar Eliminator. When you get tagged, you loose one of your preset amount of "lives", and when you have lost all of them you are simply out of the game. You loose. You can steal lives from other players if you shoot accurately enough, a game rule which would be completely unenforcable in Paint Ball. You have to watch your ass, if the arena is well designed and set with the right ambient sounds and lighting, this can be a truely nerve wrecking experience. I have never experienced the same amount of suspence in any game of Paint Ball I have played.
If the reason you prefer Paint Ball is that it hurts when you get hit (which supposedly would give you an incentive not to get hit), then I must question your understanding of the game.
Paint Ball is NOT about not getting hit. Paint Ball is about winning the game. To win the game you sometimes have to make sacrifices and take casualties. Get the flag and take it to the goal. If one of your team survives and accomplishes this, the victory is yours. Paint Ball is not a war simulation. I have seen plenty of trained military personel get their asses thouroughly spanked by more sports oriented teams, because they don't understand that it isn't a problem if you take a couple of casualties on you way to the goal. In Paint Ball pain is temporary, honor is forever, and there are no points for second place.
I can't tell if you are joking or if you are serious, so let me reply as if not.
Ejected? Like forcefully ejected in an explosive manner? No, definitely not.
On Earth the magnetic field deflects the ionized particles in the solar wind, forcing the particles to mostly fly past the Earth, but also to a smaller degree impact into the magnetic north and south poles causing aurora.
As you can readily verify on spaceweather.com the solar wind travels at an average speed of around 300km/s, which is pretty far from the speed of lights 300000km/s.
And the atmosphere doesn't get "sucked" into space. There is vacuum around Earth too you know? Why doesn't Earth's atmosphere get sucked away?
When a planet has no magnetic field, the high impulse component of the solar wind blasts right into the atmosphere and blows off the outer layers little by little. It's just like those drier things in the rest room.
There isn't concensus on where the water have gone, the only thing we know for sure is, there was a lot of water before, and there isn't now.
I work closely with the Mars scientists at Copenhagen University. They designed the magnets on the Mars Rovers. If you ask any one of those for their official oppinion on where the water went, most likely they will just say "erhhh?!", because really nobody has clue. Some calculations conclude that even with the weak magnetic field, the boiling off of water would not go fast enough for all the water to evaporate into space.
Most of the water may still be there, but hidden underground as permafrost.
On the other hand the alien abduction risk is probably increased.
The important thing is to teach it regularly, or at least when you begin to get too many false negatives. Even if you get a lot of spam compared to ham, as long as you feed it all the ham you get, it will learn well in my experience.
I use spamassassin, and get at least 99% accuracy. I get between 50 and 100 spam mails per day, and around 25-50 ham mails, most from boring mailing lists I subscribe to. I can't remember getting a false positive with it after the bayesian filter kicked in.
Spamassassin will autolearn messages when it feels sure it has found a good positive or negative. You have to watch out for false negatives here, because spam which is incorrectly learnt as ham will really screw up your bayesian filter (surprise).
Inside job?
Couldn't anyone sneak in under the cover of darkness and place the dinosaur and not be seen by the camera?