Hold on a minute - not only are you related to a shareholder of a company engaged in/. reader's 2nd most despised activity in the universe, you then come onto/., own up to that fact and then make thinly veiled threats about other browsers.
Either you have a death wish for your servers or you are monumentally short-sighted.
That's a LOT harder than you'd think. Even over interplanetary distances there is a lag between transmission and reception that can be potentially catastrophic - radio waves can only travel at c, so as the distance to your radio controlled toy increases you get corresponding increases in the time taken to get a signal to or from it. In the case of the moon, you have:
Distance between the moon and earth(d): 384,500 km Speed of light(c): 299,792,458 m/s d / c = 1.283 seconds
So you end up sending a signal and a second later your rocket/whatever responds. Obviously not a situation in which tight maneuvering is possible.
The problem is even worse to other planets - delays to Mars run into several minutes. To do anything complicated things send out there have to be as autonomous as possible with any control from Earth being little more than "go here", "do this", "go there" and letting the machine work out how to do it.
"How many hackers can give up reading slashdot, even when they're running from the law?"
Unless they have a machine somwhere between slashdot's servers and the machine your hypothetical outlaw is using, trawling/. pages will be no use to them. Unless I've missed something/. doesn't display the IP you posted from, let alone your location.
Of course, getting to a machine between slashdot and the rest of the world would probably be quite doable if my route to the server is typical: several Level3.net and cw.net routers for a start.
And that's if Echelon doesn't do this stuff already.../me puts on his AFPB.
And what about when someone who shouldn't gets access to the system and either farms details, or better yet, frames you?
And what about when you may actually have a reason to organise a rebellion because your government has turned your country into a police state the KGB would envy?
I've lived with real terrorism all my life - I was 5 minutes away from being killed on one occasion I know of for certain (Manchester IRA bombing) and probably more. As far as I'm concerned this "keeping track of YOU so they can't blow you up" is nothing more than a way to monitor and control a nation, it has nothing to do with stopping terrorists.
Last I checked, one of the major reasons Americans claim to value their right to arm bears, bear arms and all things inbetween is that it allows them to form an armed militia to overthrow a represive government.
If someone says "I think your government is repressive/illegal/the result of a military-industrial coup d'etat and I think that you should take up whatever weaponry you have and fire wildly into the air and/or the nearest politician" then he is a) exercising his right to free speech, b) encouraging the use of firearms for the pupose they should be used (especially if the lawyers get in the way of the politicians) and c) making a political statement that may actually be not too far from accurate.
No choice? Hardly - if Microsoft wanted to they could throw a truckload of patent infringement claims at Wine without even breaking into a sweat. The only problem with that would be the "Microsoft crushing the competition" backlash, and given the wrist tapping (it isn't even a slap) they got from the DoJ I doubt they'd care less about that.
No, either they don't view Wine as a significant threat, or the fact that it can run Office apps == bigger market for one of the things that makes Microsoft money I don't know..
You could probably purchase a nice yeild thermonuclear weapon for considerably less than a purchase or lawsuit, just ensure that the SCO board is in a meeting when you let it off.
Sure, it'd irradiate a chunk of Utah, but nobody would notice the difference...
About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^(-18). A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^(-18) light years, or about 3.1 cm (thus, 1 attoparsec/microfortnight equals about 1 inch/sec). This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the U.K
I never said anyone is stupid, just that we are attempting to wrap a pound of damp grey matter around the universe and failing because of its inherant deficiencies. Think about it for a minute: you have a brain that has evolved over millions of years to perform specific tasks - processing a limited number of sensory inputs, building rudimentary time-based models ("stories") and coordinating a number of muscles and regulatory processes - and you're asking it to understand something that is completely alien to anything it could possibly encounter.
You can't create some kind of metaphor or analogy for the universe simply because there's nothing to compare it with. There is no system we can point to and say "it is like this" because that would require us to be outside the system - and that would cause the analogy to fail because there is no outside to the universe. I could give examples like the balloon system (the universe is the inside of a balloon being blow up) but all of these fail because there is an outside to the balloon. And this is where it starts to get mind bending because the human brain just can't handle the idea of something having an inside but no outside, it makes no sense at all to us, it is completely contrary to everything we know.
Only about a hundred or less of the gates were used though, and the analogue effects only extended to nearby gate networks. In all only a tiny area of the potential space in the FPGA was used and had any part - active or passive - in the circuit.
I've be very interested to find out the method to your madness Mr AC, because so far I've seen you post links to mirrors of a lot of stories that have absolutely no chance of being/.ed - so why exactly are you doing it?
I don't think any mainstream scientist suggests the universe is infinite now...
the universe NEEDS to be contained within something...
Why? That's just like saying there was something around before the Big Bang - it makes no sense. There is nothing "outside" space because there is no outside in much the same way as there was nothing before the Big Bang because there was no time or space for anything to exist in - you can't go "outside" space in the same way as you can't go "before" the big bang.
The big problem here is that human brains aren't set up to handle this sort of discontinuity - we are the product of millions of years of evolution that hasn't encountered this sort of problem before.Tou our ancestors there was always been something that happens before an event and somewhere for it to happen in. The universe isn't like that.
Slashdot Mirror
Just take the mouse to bits. Then clean the parts individually and put it all back together - end of problem...
Except that the playstation can't play it at 1600x1200x32bit with FSAA and anisotropic filtering.
Funny? Sounds more like good advice to me...
Hold on a minute - not only are you related to a shareholder of a company engaged in /. reader's 2nd most despised activity in the universe, you then come onto /., own up to that fact and then make thinly veiled threats about other browsers.
Either you have a death wish for your servers or you are monumentally short-sighted.
That's a LOT harder than you'd think. Even over interplanetary distances there is a lag between transmission and reception that can be potentially catastrophic - radio waves can only travel at c, so as the distance to your radio controlled toy increases you get corresponding increases in the time taken to get a signal to or from it. In the case of the moon, you have:
Distance between the moon and earth(d): 384,500 km
Speed of light(c): 299,792,458 m/s
d / c = 1.283 seconds
So you end up sending a signal and a second later your rocket/whatever responds. Obviously not a situation in which tight maneuvering is possible.
The problem is even worse to other planets - delays to Mars run into several minutes. To do anything complicated things send out there have to be as autonomous as possible with any control from Earth being little more than "go here", "do this", "go there" and letting the machine work out how to do it.
In quantum physics, yes. Although you can't be certain of it.
" what are you watching tonight, and how much are you paying again?"
Nothing (because TV tends to be a once a week, if that, pastime) and 115 TV License - the tax we Brits have to pay just to have a TV in the house.
No Pay TV, no cable and if I stick to the BBC channels, no adverts.
That's the result of a system that was created in the days when people were customers not consumers..
1. make antenna to contact the aliens that built the pyramids
2. ask them what oyur antenna horn flare should be
3. ????
4. Profit!
Note: step 1 may require recursion...
"but can YOU do it with bubble gum, a piece of thread and a muffin?"
I'd need a small apple and a paperclip, otherwise the detonator wouldn't work properly.
You're complaining? Gives to an easy way to get in and make sure they aren't storing anything about you that you don't want them to....
(note - this is not a joke, think about it in the context of the fact that the most dangerous criminals are the most intelligent ones...)
"How many hackers can give up reading slashdot, even when they're running from the law?"
/. pages will be no use to them. Unless I've missed something /. doesn't display the IP you posted from, let alone your location.
/me puts on his AFPB.
Unless they have a machine somwhere between slashdot's servers and the machine your hypothetical outlaw is using, trawling
Of course, getting to a machine between slashdot and the rest of the world would probably be quite doable if my route to the server is typical: several Level3.net and cw.net routers for a start.
And that's if Echelon doesn't do this stuff already...
And what if they *gasp* get it wrong?
And what about when someone who shouldn't gets access to the system and either farms details, or better yet, frames you?
And what about when you may actually have a reason to organise a rebellion because your government has turned your country into a police state the KGB would envy?
I've lived with real terrorism all my life - I was 5 minutes away from being killed on one occasion I know of for certain (Manchester IRA bombing) and probably more. As far as I'm concerned this "keeping track of YOU so they can't blow you up" is nothing more than a way to monitor and control a nation, it has nothing to do with stopping terrorists.
"Why dont all the vendors individually sue SCO?"
Probably because a lot of vendors aren't in the US so it is either (more) extremely expensive to sue them or legally problematical.
"so why no gamecube port?"
At a guess, it's because the gamecube is virtually a flop outside Japan, whereas the XBox is not quite as bad.
Last I checked, one of the major reasons Americans claim to value their right to arm bears, bear arms and all things inbetween is that it allows them to form an armed militia to overthrow a represive government.
If someone says "I think your government is repressive/illegal/the result of a military-industrial coup d'etat and I think that you should take up whatever weaponry you have and fire wildly into the air and/or the nearest politician" then he is a) exercising his right to free speech, b) encouraging the use of firearms for the pupose they should be used (especially if the lawyers get in the way of the politicians) and c) making a political statement that may actually be not too far from accurate.
"Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls."
Two words: Deus Ex.
Easy - Solo moved the finish line before he started the run ;)
Either that or George Lucas just grabbed the nearest-sounding bit of astophysics jargon and hoped that nobody would start asking awkward questions....
No choice? Hardly - if Microsoft wanted to they could throw a truckload of patent infringement claims at Wine without even breaking into a sweat. The only problem with that would be the "Microsoft crushing the competition" backlash, and given the wrist tapping (it isn't even a slap) they got from the DoJ I doubt they'd care less about that.
No, either they don't view Wine as a significant threat, or the fact that it can run Office apps == bigger market for one of the things that makes Microsoft money I don't know..
You could probably purchase a nice yeild thermonuclear weapon for considerably less than a purchase or lawsuit, just ensure that the SCO board is in a meeting when you let it off.
Sure, it'd irradiate a chunk of Utah, but nobody would notice the difference...
attoparsec n.
About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^(-18). A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^(-18) light years, or about 3.1 cm (thus, 1 attoparsec/microfortnight equals about 1 inch/sec). This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the U.K
Bah, I pour scorn on your criticism when you can't even be bothered to promote the use of attoparsec per microfortnight as a measure of speed!
I never said anyone is stupid, just that we are attempting to wrap a pound of damp grey matter around the universe and failing because of its inherant deficiencies. Think about it for a minute: you have a brain that has evolved over millions of years to perform specific tasks - processing a limited number of sensory inputs, building rudimentary time-based models ("stories") and coordinating a number of muscles and regulatory processes - and you're asking it to understand something that is completely alien to anything it could possibly encounter.
You can't create some kind of metaphor or analogy for the universe simply because there's nothing to compare it with. There is no system we can point to and say "it is like this" because that would require us to be outside the system - and that would cause the analogy to fail because there is no outside to the universe. I could give examples like the balloon system (the universe is the inside of a balloon being blow up) but all of these fail because there is an outside to the balloon. And this is where it starts to get mind bending because the human brain just can't handle the idea of something having an inside but no outside, it makes no sense at all to us, it is completely contrary to everything we know.
Only about a hundred or less of the gates were used though, and the analogue effects only extended to nearby gate networks. In all only a tiny area of the potential space in the FPGA was used and had any part - active or passive - in the circuit.
I've be very interested to find out the method to your madness Mr AC, because so far I've seen you post links to mirrors of a lot of stories that have absolutely no chance of being /.ed - so why exactly are you doing it?
we are assuming that it is infinite.
I don't think any mainstream scientist suggests the universe is infinite now...
the universe NEEDS to be contained within something...
Why? That's just like saying there was something around before the Big Bang - it makes no sense. There is nothing "outside" space because there is no outside in much the same way as there was nothing before the Big Bang because there was no time or space for anything to exist in - you can't go "outside" space in the same way as you can't go "before" the big bang.
The big problem here is that human brains aren't set up to handle this sort of discontinuity - we are the product of millions of years of evolution that hasn't encountered this sort of problem before.Tou our ancestors there was always been something that happens before an event and somewhere for it to happen in. The universe isn't like that.