The only truly public "space" is the transport. By that, I mean that I don't think we're seeing any reports of routers selectively denying packets of content that their owners don't like. At least, I haven't heard anything like that.
Even then, there's nothing that prevents from happening. If you can get away with proxying, they can inspect the contents of the packets and possibly come up with a heuristic that can block a certain site with a low occurance of false positives but with few enough false negatives that service from that site is still unusable. Then you would encrypt traffic. Oh, wait, that's starting to sound like a few projects that are being done now...
And of course, there are the examples of ISPs having disputes and not only severing direct contact between each others' networks but also indirect contact which was routed through another ISP.
I think the story is more that people are coming to realize that there is no true public space on the Internet, just private spaces masquerading as public.
Goddamnit, Hans. Why would you do such a thing (this whole murder thing, not the bargaining)? Killing a person is a monumentally stupid way of resolving a problem. We knew you had personal problems, but damn... couldn't you have just gotten a divorce like most people?
We should have to explicitly sign a license agreement before we buy music, video, or books, subscribe to cable, buy a radio or TV antenna, or other such things, just how we have click-through license agreements for software.
Lobby your Congress critters for this. DO IT.
(The scary thing is that I'm half-serious about this.)
All of my laptops I have ever owned have died because the DC power socket lost its connection with the motherboard. I am convinced that laptop manufacturers half-ass this component on purpose.
Any "universal" solution to power adapters ought to also address this problem.
You'd need a very large number of abnormalities to make a significant difference, unless there is a disappointingly low number of measuring devices, which I find unlikely. But by all means, if you can find a systematic skew in the results that reinforces itself (rather than cancels itself out by erring in both directions randomly), please present this evidence; accuracy of evidence is a legitimate issue.
If you buy something preloaded with Linux, the companies involved know that they just sold one more unit on account of Linux. If enough computers are sold in this way, compatibility with Linux will have much more value to them, and the hardware they buy will reflect this. This, in turn, will encourage more hardware vendors to be compatible with Linux.
The question you want to ask yourself is whether the extra money paid is worth the chance to help bring this about. How much is the future prospect of better Linux compatibility worth to you? Is there something more valuable you can and want to do with whatever money you might save?
Paradoxically, another glutamate-booster, D-cycloserine, is being tested not to enhance memory, but to abolish it. The paradox is resolved because unlearning (or "extinction", in neurological parlance) is a process similar in its details to learning.
By binding to certain glutamate receptors, D-cycloserine selectively enhances extinction, suppressing the effects of conditioned associations such as anxiety, addiction and phobias. According to Dr Robbins, experiments have shown that if a rat is given a cue that it previously associated with fear at the same time as it receives D-cycloserine, the bad memory can be eliminated. Not only may this help remove unpleasant memories... Does this mean that people might be able to unsee things *coughgoatsecough*
The project seems to be on a longer-term scale than you seem to be imagining. Also, reverse-engineering CUDA is rewarding bad behavior on the part of NVIDIA.
Sure, hardware requires actual money, and that makes it harder to do in an open way than software. What's wrong with trying? What's wrong with experimentation? You don't know it's not possible until it doesn't work---and even then, that still doesn't fully prove that it isn't possible.
Certainly you do hope that they succeed, don't you? Otherwise, what is your hidden agenda? Do you work at NVIDIA?:)
Cox is my ISP. Sometimes, after using BitTorrent, regardless of what is being transferred, my cable modem's connection to their system will be severed, and it will not return for a time which more or less seems to be directly proportional to the time spent using the torrent.
I remember that someone here on/. told me that they had the same phenomenon happen to them when using VoIP.
Slashdot Mirror
The only truly public "space" is the transport. By that, I mean that I don't think we're seeing any reports of routers selectively denying packets of content that their owners don't like. At least, I haven't heard anything like that.
Even then, there's nothing that prevents from happening. If you can get away with proxying, they can inspect the contents of the packets and possibly come up with a heuristic that can block a certain site with a low occurance of false positives but with few enough false negatives that service from that site is still unusable. Then you would encrypt traffic. Oh, wait, that's starting to sound like a few projects that are being done now...
And of course, there are the examples of ISPs having disputes and not only severing direct contact between each others' networks but also indirect contact which was routed through another ISP.
Under the GPL, the freedom and the protection largely belongs to the end-user; developers burden themselves in order to try to guarantee this.
Under a BSD license, the freedom largely belongs to the developer.
Really, this is not difficult concept to understand.
Are the neurons in Sentat's heads interlinked enough to grok this?
I found that typo somewhat amusing, because it rhymes with "mentat", and that produced a very bizarre image in my mind.
I think the story is more that people are coming to realize that there is no true public space on the Internet, just private spaces masquerading as public.
Goddamnit, Hans. Why would you do such a thing (this whole murder thing, not the bargaining)? Killing a person is a monumentally stupid way of resolving a problem. We knew you had personal problems, but damn... couldn't you have just gotten a divorce like most people?
A few are needed, but the fewer marketing droids masquerading as engineering-types, the better.
Actually, the answer is yes.
We should have to explicitly sign a license agreement before we buy music, video, or books, subscribe to cable, buy a radio or TV antenna, or other such things, just how we have click-through license agreements for software.
Lobby your Congress critters for this. DO IT.
(The scary thing is that I'm half-serious about this.)
The question then is whether you remain an honest man having done this.
All of my laptops I have ever owned have died because the DC power socket lost its connection with the motherboard. I am convinced that laptop manufacturers half-ass this component on purpose.
Any "universal" solution to power adapters ought to also address this problem.
Barriers and journaling filesystems
Even if it weren't a heinous offense against decency, this bill must die for having another goddamn ridiculous acronym!
You'd need a very large number of abnormalities to make a significant difference, unless there is a disappointingly low number of measuring devices, which I find unlikely. But by all means, if you can find a systematic skew in the results that reinforces itself (rather than cancels itself out by erring in both directions randomly), please present this evidence; accuracy of evidence is a legitimate issue.
"sudo" is that command which grants one user authorization to act as another user.
"pseudo-" is that verbal prefix which means "false".
I'm seeing language devolve in front of my eyes...
TOUCHDOWN THURMAN THOMAS!
(Lameness filter be damned! This is actually relevant for once.)
What video card(s)/driver(s) are you using?
Mesa doesn't support AA IIRC.
If you buy something preloaded with Linux, the companies involved know that they just sold one more unit on account of Linux. If enough computers are sold in this way, compatibility with Linux will have much more value to them, and the hardware they buy will reflect this. This, in turn, will encourage more hardware vendors to be compatible with Linux.
The question you want to ask yourself is whether the extra money paid is worth the chance to help bring this about. How much is the future prospect of better Linux compatibility worth to you? Is there something more valuable you can and want to do with whatever money you might save?
How is this news?
By binding to certain glutamate receptors, D-cycloserine selectively enhances extinction, suppressing the effects of conditioned associations such as anxiety, addiction and phobias. According to Dr Robbins, experiments have shown that if a rat is given a cue that it previously associated with fear at the same time as it receives D-cycloserine, the bad memory can be eliminated. Not only may this help remove unpleasant memories... Does this mean that people might be able to unsee things *coughgoatsecough*
The project seems to be on a longer-term scale than you seem to be imagining. Also, reverse-engineering CUDA is rewarding bad behavior on the part of NVIDIA.
:)
Sure, hardware requires actual money, and that makes it harder to do in an open way than software. What's wrong with trying? What's wrong with experimentation? You don't know it's not possible until it doesn't work---and even then, that still doesn't fully prove that it isn't possible.
Certainly you do hope that they succeed, don't you? Otherwise, what is your hidden agenda? Do you work at NVIDIA?
Cox is my ISP. Sometimes, after using BitTorrent, regardless of what is being transferred, my cable modem's connection to their system will be severed, and it will not return for a time which more or less seems to be directly proportional to the time spent using the torrent.
/. told me that they had the same phenomenon happen to them when using VoIP.
I remember that someone here on
Using this same attitude of creating positive rights, this is also the same people who gave us droit d'auteur/moral rights and the Berne Convention.
There are better ways of getting at privacy.
Fuck that shit.
As attorneys, they would (surely) still be subject to the strict rule of various bar associations.
The phrase "bill of rights" is and has been for some time corrupted by idotic proposals like this. I cannot hear it without becoming nausious.
Discuss.