Don't be so sure. Earth was about as warm as it is now when the Sun was about 60% of the current brightness.
I've read several papers on extreme greenhouse effect, and they all say that it's probably not possible. However, there are some very speculative scenarios where it can be just possible (granted, all of them involve _really_ large-scale deforestation).
Why? Capability-based security is trivial with the managed code. You just need to get rid of global shared resources and that's it.
And since it's easy to verify managed code for correctness (i.e. that no buffer overflows or type confusions are possible), you can be sure that capabilities won't fall into wrong hands.
Web server will also require access to database which is more than enough for attacker. So attacker then can request http://your.server.com/IHaveHackedThisBox.html and get a full database dump.
In practice, your webserver will probably also need permissions for outgoing connections. So if it's hacked then your computer can be a part of DDoS'ing botnet.
Capability-based security omits one liiiiiiiittle detail: initial capability distribution. That's why most (all?) of proves of capability based security omit the initial image set up. That's the case with CoyotOS and other OSes. Or in other words, the question is: should IAmEvilExecutable get CAP_ALL_ACCESS permission if user starts it and grants it this permission?
Another problem is that if I somehow inject myself into, say, web server then I'll get access to all capabilities granted to this webserver. Which is usually more than enough. The only 'fix' on the horizon for this problem is fully managed code (see: Singularity OS).
Theology was not able to adequately answer even the simplest questions: "Why there is evil?", "Why there are different religions?", "Should we rely on faith rather than facts?".
In this regard theology is even worse than philosophy (I'm not including theology as a part of philosophy), as the philosophy can be somewhat excused because it lacks the clear object to study.
Also, I'm lodging a complaint against you for disturbing my mental balance by insinuating that suing random entities is somehow NOT good. Prepare to pay me ONE BILLION DOLORS!
There are independent OpenSource graphics developers who do an amazing job (thanks for r300, Corbin Simpson!). But there are too few of them, mostly because the whole area of graphics driver development is fairly specialized and complicated.
PS: I'm a long-time lurker in Mesa IRC and mailing lists, and I'm planning to join Mesa development once I've more free time.
So? You can be tracked just as easily by your mobile phone (linked to your internal passport). Also, making a centralized database of micropayments is not a trivial task in itself.
The other argument that sometime in future some dictator might reintroduce the propiska is irrelevant, since it can work just as well with paper documents. In fact, something like this had already happened in 90-s in Moscow when Luzhkov started to enforce the rules for mandatory local registration.
OpenSource guys know how to implement graphics drivers, but they're horribly understaffed.
There are probably 50 times more closed source driver developers than OpenSource developers. The fact that they are able to do even what they do is amazing in its own right.
That's OK. They'll just set the price at $1,000,000,000 so you can enjoy your lack of sales.
That reminds me of old Dutch anti-contraband law - a skipper could set any price of his goods and pay duties based on that price. However, Dutch government reserved a right to buy all skipper's cargo at whatever price he declared.
Grandparent said "not since 30's" so s/he definitely knows about the Holodomor which happened then.
Stalin's personality cult was at about the same time. During the WW|| the cult of his personality had waned significantly. And it had been officially denounced in 1956 by Nikita Khrushev (who introduced the term "personality cult" in the first place, BTW).
A little more depth. There is a talk about deprecating internal passports and replacing them with ID cards, however as far as I understand this card will not yet be the national ID card.
I'm reading specifications for this card, and so far it seems that government is just mandating a single standard for micropayments and ID transmission info. Which certainly makes sense (I hate buying subway passes every time I visit Moscow).
Internal passports are interesting in themselves. They were first invented during the USSR era as means of migration control. In order to get a job each citizen of the USSR had to have a local registration ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska ), it's a stamp on a passport page. And to get a propiska one had to have a local job - a nice Catch-22 scenario. And living without registration in the USSR was actually a crime that could get you behind the bars. With the fall of the USSR, both of the requirements for propiska were lifted, even though the requirement for the mandatory local registration remained in place (though now punishment for living without the local registration is trivial, about $15, AFAIR).
But local registration has been transformed from a barrier into a bureaucratic nuisance (or hell). It's now a classical Brazilia situation - state can't nominally refuse you to register, but it can make it thoroughly unpleasant.
The proposed ID card will _finally_ kill off the propiska for good. As a citizen of Russia, for me it's much much much better than nebulous additional threats to privacy.
You can actually get at least somewhat statistically significant results for 10 year period, but the signal will be marginal. In part because 10 years is less than one full solar sunspot cycle. 20-25 years give you much better statistical significance. By now, we can with high certainty say that during 1990-2010 observed temperature rise is not a fluctuation.
However, personally I'd take this bet. Next 10 years with Business As Usual scenario should give more than enough to overcome the cooling from solar variation.
First, this is NOT an ID card (at least at first), it's just a government-mandated standard card. Second, Russia _already_ has a universal ID system - internal passports, which have nice unique ID numbers and every citizen by law must get a passport. A lot of things (bank accounts, phone numbers) are already linked to passport serial numbers, so it's not like it's hard to correlate these data.
Interestingly enough, it's not used for oppression of political opposition. Mostly because it's not of much use to know where your political opponent is.
In my opinion, ID cards are better than paper passports - they are physically smaller and easier to carry and do not fray around the edges as easily as paper documents. A major boon of ID cards should be the ease of cancellation. A stolen paper passport is a disaster, a stolen ID card should just be a nuisance.
However, though internal passports are a legacy of the USSR, they have some advantages too - they can contain more "naked-eye visible" information than a credit-card-sized ID card, like marital status, information about children, blood type, etc.
1) Drilling in the Mexixan Gulf doesn't make prices go down. 2) Drilling won't help US to be independent from foreign oil. Even if ALL regulations are lifted.
First, there are countries without any regulation at all (Nigeria), and yet costs of oil mining is almost the same there.
Second, oil business is actually quite competitive. You only see big corporations, but up close these corporations are not monolithic. They lease equipment and subcontract a lot of work and there are tons of small companies owning several oil rigs.
Third, there's just not enough oil left. There's just not enough capital (mining platforms, engineers, oil fields) to mine significantly more oil. So your 'free market' unregulated companies will still have to drill deep into the ocean floor, oil won't just magically appear back in Texas in unlimited quantities.
"Capitalism works, except that's not really what we are dealing with when it comes to oil. We have placed the regulations so high that it's virtually impossible for anyone to enter in meaningful way. There are 5 major oil companies that touch about every gallon of oil in the US before it's used, shipped off, refined or whatever else. Of those 5, no more then 4 operate in any one state at a time."
Come on. Suppose that you remove ALL regulations. What would happen next? Of course, nothing. Because oil mining is EXPENSIVE and there's just not a lot of it in the USA.
"Furthermore, the code was moved from the kernel into userland to prevent buggy drivers from causing blue screens of death."
Which caused much higher latency and throughout, especially for demanding apps like studio recording. So a lot of professional hardware actually implements completely separate audio stacks.
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Don't be so sure. Earth was about as warm as it is now when the Sun was about 60% of the current brightness.
I've read several papers on extreme greenhouse effect, and they all say that it's probably not possible. However, there are some very speculative scenarios where it can be just possible (granted, all of them involve _really_ large-scale deforestation).
Why? Capability-based security is trivial with the managed code. You just need to get rid of global shared resources and that's it.
And since it's easy to verify managed code for correctness (i.e. that no buffer overflows or type confusions are possible), you can be sure that capabilities won't fall into wrong hands.
Web server will also require access to database which is more than enough for attacker. So attacker then can request http://your.server.com/IHaveHackedThisBox.html and get a full database dump.
In practice, your webserver will probably also need permissions for outgoing connections. So if it's hacked then your computer can be a part of DDoS'ing botnet.
Nope, it won't help.
Capability-based security omits one liiiiiiiittle detail: initial capability distribution. That's why most (all?) of proves of capability based security omit the initial image set up. That's the case with CoyotOS and other OSes. Or in other words, the question is: should IAmEvilExecutable get CAP_ALL_ACCESS permission if user starts it and grants it this permission?
Another problem is that if I somehow inject myself into, say, web server then I'll get access to all capabilities granted to this webserver. Which is usually more than enough. The only 'fix' on the horizon for this problem is fully managed code (see: Singularity OS).
Not really, ozone is constantly replenished by our friendly nearby star. And once H2 reacts with ozone it's just a harmless water vapor.
The problem with CFCs - they essentially catalyze O3 decomposition, while not being affected themselves.
"You need to study your theology. Continuous implementation of new ideas."
LOL! Theology is nothing but inventing lame excuses for lame myths. Courtier's reply sums it quite nicely: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/the_courtiers_reply.php
Theology was not able to adequately answer even the simplest questions: "Why there is evil?", "Why there are different religions?", "Should we rely on faith rather than facts?".
In this regard theology is even worse than philosophy (I'm not including theology as a part of philosophy), as the philosophy can be somewhat excused because it lacks the clear object to study.
I want to buy a powerful ARM laptop, with the fastest CPU, most cores and the biggest screen (15" is preferable).
Is there anything like this on the market?
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Also, I'm lodging a complaint against you for disturbing my mental balance by insinuating that suing random entities is somehow NOT good. Prepare to pay me ONE BILLION DOLORS!
There are independent OpenSource graphics developers who do an amazing job (thanks for r300, Corbin Simpson!). But there are too few of them, mostly because the whole area of graphics driver development is fairly specialized and complicated.
PS: I'm a long-time lurker in Mesa IRC and mailing lists, and I'm planning to join Mesa development once I've more free time.
So? You can be tracked just as easily by your mobile phone (linked to your internal passport). Also, making a centralized database of micropayments is not a trivial task in itself.
The other argument that sometime in future some dictator might reintroduce the propiska is irrelevant, since it can work just as well with paper documents. In fact, something like this had already happened in 90-s in Moscow when Luzhkov started to enforce the rules for mandatory local registration.
OpenSource guys know how to implement graphics drivers, but they're horribly understaffed.
There are probably 50 times more closed source driver developers than OpenSource developers. The fact that they are able to do even what they do is amazing in its own right.
That's OK. They'll just set the price at $1,000,000,000 so you can enjoy your lack of sales.
That reminds me of old Dutch anti-contraband law - a skipper could set any price of his goods and pay duties based on that price. However, Dutch government reserved a right to buy all skipper's cargo at whatever price he declared.
Grandparent said "not since 30's" so s/he definitely knows about the Holodomor which happened then.
Stalin's personality cult was at about the same time. During the WW|| the cult of his personality had waned significantly. And it had been officially denounced in 1956 by Nikita Khrushev (who introduced the term "personality cult" in the first place, BTW).
A little more depth. There is a talk about deprecating internal passports and replacing them with ID cards, however as far as I understand this card will not yet be the national ID card.
I'm reading specifications for this card, and so far it seems that government is just mandating a single standard for micropayments and ID transmission info. Which certainly makes sense (I hate buying subway passes every time I visit Moscow).
Internal passports are interesting in themselves. They were first invented during the USSR era as means of migration control. In order to get a job each citizen of the USSR had to have a local registration ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska ), it's a stamp on a passport page. And to get a propiska one had to have a local job - a nice Catch-22 scenario. And living without registration in the USSR was actually a crime that could get you behind the bars. With the fall of the USSR, both of the requirements for propiska were lifted, even though the requirement for the mandatory local registration remained in place (though now punishment for living without the local registration is trivial, about $15, AFAIR).
But local registration has been transformed from a barrier into a bureaucratic nuisance (or hell). It's now a classical Brazilia situation - state can't nominally refuse you to register, but it can make it thoroughly unpleasant.
The proposed ID card will _finally_ kill off the propiska for good. As a citizen of Russia, for me it's much much much better than nebulous additional threats to privacy.
You can actually get at least somewhat statistically significant results for 10 year period, but the signal will be marginal. In part because 10 years is less than one full solar sunspot cycle. 20-25 years give you much better statistical significance. By now, we can with high certainty say that during 1990-2010 observed temperature rise is not a fluctuation.
However, personally I'd take this bet. Next 10 years with Business As Usual scenario should give more than enough to overcome the cooling from solar variation.
First, this is NOT an ID card (at least at first), it's just a government-mandated standard card. Second, Russia _already_ has a universal ID system - internal passports, which have nice unique ID numbers and every citizen by law must get a passport. A lot of things (bank accounts, phone numbers) are already linked to passport serial numbers, so it's not like it's hard to correlate these data.
Interestingly enough, it's not used for oppression of political opposition. Mostly because it's not of much use to know where your political opponent is.
In my opinion, ID cards are better than paper passports - they are physically smaller and easier to carry and do not fray around the edges as easily as paper documents. A major boon of ID cards should be the ease of cancellation. A stolen paper passport is a disaster, a stolen ID card should just be a nuisance.
However, though internal passports are a legacy of the USSR, they have some advantages too - they can contain more "naked-eye visible" information than a credit-card-sized ID card, like marital status, information about children, blood type, etc.
"And he used an executive order to stop oil drilling when we desperately need energy prices to go down and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
You're demonstrating typical Republican know-nothingness.
1) Drilling in the Mexixan Gulf doesn't make prices go down.
2) Drilling won't help US to be independent from foreign oil. Even if ALL regulations are lifted.
"2. Most users are not going anywhere near to 5GB of usage. /. users are totally atypical."
WTF? It's ridiculously easy to blow this cap, for example by watching YouTube videos.
"...booted in about 5 seconds, and that was to a general desktop."
So does Linux back in 2008 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NxCM8ryF8 Yes, BIOS is a kludge but it's on the way out.
As for Linux/Windows - they can certainly be optimized to achieve sub-second boot times. But flexibility might be greatly limited in this case.
We have reliable proxy data for much earlier than 1880.
No, I'm talking that music is produced on common computers, not some kind of magical devices.
Of course, ASIO (or JACK) is used and that's the point - built-in audio stack in Vista is crap.
That's stupid.
First, there are countries without any regulation at all (Nigeria), and yet costs of oil mining is almost the same there.
Second, oil business is actually quite competitive. You only see big corporations, but up close these corporations are not monolithic. They lease equipment and subcontract a lot of work and there are tons of small companies owning several oil rigs.
Third, there's just not enough oil left. There's just not enough capital (mining platforms, engineers, oil fields) to mine significantly more oil. So your 'free market' unregulated companies will still have to drill deep into the ocean floor, oil won't just magically appear back in Texas in unlimited quantities.
"Capitalism works, except that's not really what we are dealing with when it comes to oil. We have placed the regulations so high that it's virtually impossible for anyone to enter in meaningful way. There are 5 major oil companies that touch about every gallon of oil in the US before it's used, shipped off, refined or whatever else. Of those 5, no more then 4 operate in any one state at a time."
Come on. Suppose that you remove ALL regulations. What would happen next? Of course, nothing. Because oil mining is EXPENSIVE and there's just not a lot of it in the USA.
"latency has always been high in the OS"
Nope, Windows XP worked just fine. Vista with ASIO stack is also fine. However, Vista's native stack is horrible.
"and no sane person in a studio would use a built-in soundchip in place of studio gear."
??? How do you think most of music is produced?
"for a start, where would you plug a mic or guitar?"
In your auid card's input ports ( http://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/8pre ). Do you think that nothing exists but Intel HDA cards?
"Furthermore, the code was moved from the kernel into userland to prevent buggy drivers from causing blue screens of death."
Which caused much higher latency and throughout, especially for demanding apps like studio recording. So a lot of professional hardware actually implements completely separate audio stacks.