Depending upon which planets are connected to this network, the timeouts on IP packets will have to be increased. You'll have to wait for several hours to find out if the remote host is up.
Or you might get:
$ ping pluto
....
Destination planet unreachable.
A couple of years ago her in Australia Telstra (the telecomms monopoly) wanted to introduce timed local calls for data while leaving voice calls alone. To do this they would have had to sample and analyze a piece of each call to determine how it should be charged. This, being an invasion of privacy, was thrown away as soon as the public got wind of it.
Classification of packets by protocol can only really work if the data in analyzed. Doesn't this also constitute and invasion of privacy?
The classification could also be achieved by only looking at the source / destination ports, but they can easily be changed by the provider of the service.
This sort of mutation seems to be the only sort of evolution that our species will be able to achieve.
Consider that through our ideals of compassion and medical advances, etc. people with "undesirable" genetic traits (not just hereditary diseases) survive. Their problem genes are not removed from the gene pool and are passed on to subsequent generations. There is not more survival of the fittest.
Genetic modification through gene therapy would be one method of eliminating bad genes as well. although giving people extra abilities (strength, speed) would be deemed "unethical" and experiments would be shut down.
If our society survives for a few more thousand years, geographic adaptations that various people have acquired will be diluted. These adaptations are things like skin colour and facial features. The dilution is a result of our ability to travel anywhere on the planet and to survive there independant of our heritage.
Eventually, there would be very little to distinguish European people from African, Asian or anyone else. They would just be people. Unfortunately, I don't think bigotry and racial persecution will disappear; they'll just take on a different form.
Lack of support for an OS stems from a low user base. A low user base can be attributed to the lack of performance of a platform.
Last year, I benchmarked an UltraSparc 5 (400MHz version) and it's number crunching ability was about that of a Pentium II 300.
With these machines costing $3500 (Australian), it's no wonder most people are opting for the x86 architecture. Although, the people that refuse to trade reliability for performance would still choose the Sparcs.
Most employers today require their employees to sign IP agreements. These basically state that any ideas you produce while working for the company are the property of the company.
As they own the idea, it's the company can patent it at their disgression.
If you happen to have an idea outside work hours that relates closely to your work, a court would probably rule in favour of your employer.
Call me a Troll if you want, but what is the point of this exercise?
I might be more meaningful to get everyone to count the number of pink cars that drive past their house each day.
> BUT it also leads to exploits,
> stolen ideas/code, etc.
I know that this is flamebait, nut this was too stupid to pass over.
Stolen ideas will always occur. you need to be VERY intelligent to come up with an algorithm that someone else can't decipher. Most people just need to look at the inputs and outputs to figure out what you've done. It's easy to copy and you don't need the source code. Code does, however, give you bug fixes/extra info.
Next thing, WereTiger will be saying that a component software model is the second demon to open source.
Now to the part of the statement regarding exploits. How long will it be before the idea of 'security through obscurity' is dead? Probably never. an article referenced on Slashdot at least once described the exploits executed on 'Age of Empires' (published by Microsoft) which is closed source.
One enterprising person contacted the developers asking for a proprietary image format and was turned down. A few weeks later he sent them the entire correct spec. for the format that he reverse engineered.
To stop this form of exploit, what will be the next controversial law before parliament? One requiring the registration of all debuggers?
I've just finished Tom Clancy's latest work: "The Bear and the Dragon".
The story was, of course, biased toward the US and Russian characters and against the Chinese. Basically, The Chinese government was portrayed as having only a untenable understanding of international relations and American behaviour.
However, the rather poetic statements in the linked-to article do not dissuade me from discarding the novel's reality.
(No, I am not accusing Mr Clancy of not doing his homework. I also understand that this is but one article and not a good indication of the current views of the Chinese authorities.)
Of the people I know in the tech. field, the ones that studied double degrees with their IT Eng / Comp. Sci. tend to be the ones uninterested in the technology. Specifically the ones studied commerce.
One girl now works for DeutchBank as a banker because "they have a lot of money". It's a pity that she'd wasted 4 years studying Information Technology.
It's just like wannabe rev-heads. People who want to get a computer because it has flashing lights and cool-counding statistics attached to it are looked down on by hard-core programmers as much as car enthusiasts laugh at those that buy a V8 to pick up chicks (don't even start on balding, middle aged guys in red convertibles).
The size of the actual fission device might fit on a table, but what about the 10+ metres of concrete and lead shielding that would be needed to placate people with fear of radiation?
The treatment of Crouching Tiger...
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Here in Australia "Crouching Tiger" got similar treatment. Only 2 cinemas in Perth (capital of Western Australia) were showing it to start with. These two places usually show alternative style movies (Run Lola Run, etc.).
Then two days after the Golden Globe awards, every cinema complex in town was screening it. I don't think they were waiting for the award night.
They didn't screen the movie because it involved subtitles / was in a foreign language.
It's amazing how many people forget the proverb they learnt in primary school: Don't judge a book by it's cover.
"Office XP works so easily that it's made Office Assistants like me useless. Obsolete. And, I'm told, hideously unattractive."
The bloody office assistants were ugly enough to begin with. Office XP will be a fair bit more popular with people know that they know the annoying office assistants can't bollocks up their work.
Don't let microsoft near this one. Next thing you know, it's got support for executing VB scripts / apps.
The next logical progression is a series of virii that hijack the control to the air-conditioner.
e.g. Sahara virus: Temperature set to a nice dry 45 degrees C.
Siberia virus: Temperature set to a nice cool -45 degrees C.
Yoyo virus: keeps changing the temperature setting to random values.
One of my lecturers described to my class several good methods of generating references.
Two favourites were:
"Article title that sounds roughly to do with subject" by (eg) Smith and Stryzikovich. No-one can easily disprove that the article exists because the first author has a common name and the second could be easily misspelled.
Microsoft will probably claim that the computer problems on the ISS are caused by some form of cosmic radiation.
I think that the source is actually of terrestrial origin. It's probably the hate for Microsoft radiated from members of the Slashdot and geek communities that is focussed and trapped by the Earth's magnetic field.
Next thing you know, we're going to have to get permits from the FCC...
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Depending upon which planets are connected to this network, the timeouts on IP packets will have to be increased. You'll have to wait for several hours to find out if the remote host is up.
Or you might get:
$ ping pluto
....
Destination planet unreachable.
I wonder where all the functional goodies (cpu, HDD, RAM, etc.) are going to be put when Imacs start using these LCD screens.....
A couple of years ago her in Australia Telstra (the telecomms monopoly) wanted to introduce timed local calls for data while leaving voice calls alone. To do this they would have had to sample and analyze a piece of each call to determine how it should be charged. This, being an invasion of privacy, was thrown away as soon as the public got wind of it.
Classification of packets by protocol can only really work if the data in analyzed. Doesn't this also constitute and invasion of privacy?
The classification could also be achieved by only looking at the source / destination ports, but they can easily be changed by the provider of the service.
This sort of mutation seems to be the only sort of evolution that our species will be able to achieve.
Consider that through our ideals of compassion and medical advances, etc. people with "undesirable" genetic traits (not just hereditary diseases) survive. Their problem genes are not removed from the gene pool and are passed on to subsequent generations. There is not more survival of the fittest.
Genetic modification through gene therapy would be one method of eliminating bad genes as well. although giving people extra abilities (strength, speed) would be deemed "unethical" and experiments would be shut down.
If our society survives for a few more thousand years, geographic adaptations that various people have acquired will be diluted. These adaptations are things like skin colour and facial features. The dilution is a result of our ability to travel anywhere on the planet and to survive there independant of our heritage.
Eventually, there would be very little to distinguish European people from African, Asian or anyone else. They would just be people. Unfortunately, I don't think bigotry and racial persecution will disappear; they'll just take on a different form.
> African or European?
I don't know!
Aaaarrgghh!
(/me falls into ravine of general nastiness.)
Lack of support for an OS stems from a low user base. A low user base can be attributed to the lack of performance of a platform.
Last year, I benchmarked an UltraSparc 5 (400MHz version) and it's number crunching ability was about that of a Pentium II 300.
With these machines costing $3500 (Australian), it's no wonder most people are opting for the x86 architecture. Although, the people that refuse to trade reliability for performance would still choose the Sparcs.
Have you calculated the air-speed velocity of an unladen Pigeon?
Can it carry a coconut by gripping it by the husk?
Most employers today require their employees to sign IP agreements. These basically state that any ideas you produce while working for the company are the property of the company.
As they own the idea, it's the company can patent it at their disgression.
If you happen to have an idea outside work hours that relates closely to your work, a court would probably rule in favour of your employer.
Call me a Troll if you want, but what is the point of this exercise? I might be more meaningful to get everyone to count the number of pink cars that drive past their house each day.
> BUT it also leads to exploits,
> stolen ideas/code, etc.
I know that this is flamebait, nut this was too stupid to pass over.
Stolen ideas will always occur. you need to be VERY intelligent to come up with an algorithm that someone else can't decipher. Most people just need to look at the inputs and outputs to figure out what you've done. It's easy to copy and you don't need the source code. Code does, however, give you bug fixes/extra info.
Next thing, WereTiger will be saying that a component software model is the second demon to open source.
Now to the part of the statement regarding exploits. How long will it be before the idea of 'security through obscurity' is dead? Probably never. an article referenced on Slashdot at least once described the exploits executed on 'Age of Empires' (published by Microsoft) which is closed source.
One enterprising person contacted the developers asking for a proprietary image format and was turned down. A few weeks later he sent them the entire correct spec. for the format that he reverse engineered.
To stop this form of exploit, what will be the next controversial law before parliament? One requiring the registration of all debuggers?
Now most school kids have a valid way to get rid of their lunch if they don't like it.
Also, school bus drivers will not have to spend a cent on fuel ever again!
I've just finished Tom Clancy's latest work: "The Bear and the Dragon".
The story was, of course, biased toward the US and Russian characters and against the Chinese. Basically, The Chinese government was portrayed as having only a untenable understanding of international relations and American behaviour.
However, the rather poetic statements in the linked-to article do not dissuade me from discarding the novel's reality.
(No, I am not accusing Mr Clancy of not doing his homework. I also understand that this is but one article and not a good indication of the current views of the Chinese authorities.)
"If NASA engineers built space stations the way Microsoft writes operating systems, the ISS would have been toast long ago..."
There's still many years in it's operational life, lets hope NASA avioded ex-microsoftees like the plague.
Of the people I know in the tech. field, the ones that studied double degrees with their IT Eng / Comp. Sci. tend to be the ones uninterested in the technology. Specifically the ones studied commerce.
One girl now works for DeutchBank as a banker because "they have a lot of money". It's a pity that she'd wasted 4 years studying Information Technology.
It's just like wannabe rev-heads. People who want to get a computer because it has flashing lights and cool-counding statistics attached to it are looked down on by hard-core programmers as much as car enthusiasts laugh at those that buy a V8 to pick up chicks (don't even start on balding, middle aged guys in red convertibles).
The size of the actual fission device might fit on a table, but what about the 10+ metres of concrete and lead shielding that would be needed to placate people with fear of radiation?
Here in Australia "Crouching Tiger" got similar treatment. Only 2 cinemas in Perth (capital of Western Australia) were showing it to start with. These two places usually show alternative style movies (Run Lola Run, etc.).
Then two days after the Golden Globe awards, every cinema complex in town was screening it. I don't think they were waiting for the award night.
They didn't screen the movie because it involved subtitles / was in a foreign language.
It's amazing how many people forget the proverb they learnt in primary school: Don't judge a book by it's cover.
Quoting the linked-to article:
"Office XP works so easily that it's made Office Assistants like me useless. Obsolete. And, I'm told, hideously unattractive."
The bloody office assistants were ugly enough to begin with. Office XP will be a fair bit more popular with people know that they know the annoying office assistants can't bollocks up their work.
I wonder if Novell could 'misplace' Bill Gates for four years in a wall...
Give him a cat-5 cable and power and brick him up!
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Well, yeah. But I don't know enough entropy theory to calculate the probability.
I take your point though.
Don't let microsoft near this one. Next thing you know, it's got support for executing VB scripts / apps.
The next logical progression is a series of virii that hijack the control to the air-conditioner.
e.g. Sahara virus: Temperature set to a nice dry 45 degrees C.
Siberia virus: Temperature set to a nice cool -45 degrees C.
Yoyo virus: keeps changing the temperature setting to random values.
You're not exactly going to find neutrons being emitted by an organism that hasn't noticeably evolved for 150 million years...
Is it remotely possible that some fusion reactions DON'T involve neutron emissions?
Good points made above.
One of my lecturers described to my class several good methods of generating references.
Two favourites were:
"Article title that sounds roughly to do with subject" by (eg) Smith and Stryzikovich. No-one can easily disprove that the article exists because the first author has a common name and the second could be easily misspelled.
or
Gabriel, A., Personal Comm. (Where A = Archangel)
Microsoft will probably claim that the computer problems on the ISS are caused by some form of cosmic radiation.
I think that the source is actually of terrestrial origin. It's probably the hate for Microsoft radiated from members of the Slashdot and geek communities that is focussed and trapped by the Earth's magnetic field.
Next thing you know, we're going to have to get permits from the FCC...
Those tanks better use an encrypted transmission...
On second thought, the enemy just has to use a directional antenna to find them.
"We have the latest technology to coordinate our tank assaults. "
The tanks' radio transmitters are basically screaming:
"I'm over here! Lock onto the source of this transmission and blow me up!"
Essentially this 'Ask Slashdot' is looking for a beefed up x86 IMac.
This is freaking me out. I never thought anyone would come up with a PRACTICAL use for such a machine.
:)