You do realize that Russian space program is mostly self-financing in the first place? You know, people pay money to launch commercial satellites.
Besides, Russian economy is much bigger than Polish - so $10000000 for space program take less than $1 from each citizen.
GDP per capita is very misleading: Luxembourg currently leads with $81511 (against measly $43223 in USA). So should USA just stop all scientific programs and channel all money to welfare?
Nope, you're thinking about Russian grammar in the sense 'how to write without grammatic mistakes'. Yes, it's not really hard - English spelling, for example, is much more erratic.
On the other hand, correct machine analysis of Russian is very hard. Rulesets are nowhere close to 10 printed pages, and a lot of things is so context-sensitive that it's not even possible to do correct analysis. I briefly worked at NLP (Natural Language Processing) area, but cowardly fled it - too much pain for not much gain.
It still doesn't work very well. Yandex can conjugate the whole phrases and can work with composited words (words containing more than one stem). Google still uses simple word normalization.
Nope. It was fairly easy to work with foreign currency in Russia since early 90-s. Yandex was simply MUCH better than Google because Google have not supported Russian morphology until very recently.
For example, if I'm searching information about, say, the name of Putin's dog I can use the following search query: "Imja sobaki Putina" - (the name of Putin's dog) and Yandex can find documents with the words "Imena sobak Putina" - (the names of Putin's dogs - note the plural) or documents with the words "Imen sobak Putina" - ([about] the names of Putin's dogs) "Imena sobakam Putina" - another grammar case....
Russian morphology is MUCH MUCH more complex than in English. Yandex started working on morphological search in 1996, so it's not surprising that it's still much better than Google.
Sputnik actually HAD science instruments: it encoded pressure and temperature inside the capsule in radio pulses. This allowed to verify that there's no big danger of micrometeorits in space.
No, "I" is the computer user very paranoid about security.
Of course, phone manufacturers might also use TPM for Tivoisation. But it's far easier just to use a simple signed first stage bootloader for the same effect.
Why? I DO know my root key to TPM - I can view all stored keys and manipulate them. After all, it's not more than a hardware keystore and some validating code.
The goal of TPM is to build a secure HOST. I.e. the one which I can trust to be secure during all stages (for example, TPM can guarantee that a malicious hacker has not installed a backdoor into my kernel).
TPM in Thinkpads allows stores private/public keys in a secure hardware storage.
The kernel is signed and the hardware bootloader checks that the signature is valid (using TPM). So we can at least guarantee that the system is in consistent state during kernel loading. Later we can use numerous methods to control kernel integrity (SELinux, AppArmour, etc.).
Theoretically, Microsoft can make you to use TPM to validate their kernel during booting (because tainted kernel can be used to circumvent DRM).
So we just need to be able to turn off the TPM chip if it's not required.
MS has already done it with Vista x64 - it doesn't allow you to install unsigned drivers. TPM will also allow them to be sure that the kernel is not tampered during the startup. But I don't think it adds too much security for evil DRM schemes.
But personally, I'd like to have the same capability to be sure my system is not tampered with by NSA when they examine my laptop during in airport:)
No, "trusted computing" means that hardware can guarantee the integrity of the environment. For example, I'd like to use TPM chip in my Thinkpad to guarantee that my machine will boot only kernels signed with MY key. Also, I very much like the hardware keyring.
Trusted computing is only a problem when YOU are not the owner of the machine and don't have the full control over the TPM module on a new computer (of course, once TPM is set up - it shouldn't be possible to change it without owner's keys).
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The problem is: it doesn't scale well.
You do realize that Russian space program is mostly self-financing in the first place? You know, people pay money to launch commercial satellites.
Besides, Russian economy is much bigger than Polish - so $10000000 for space program take less than $1 from each citizen.
GDP per capita is very misleading: Luxembourg currently leads with $81511 (against measly $43223 in USA). So should USA just stop all scientific programs and channel all money to welfare?
"First they ignore me. Then they laugh at me. Then they fight me. Then I win." - Gandhi.
Microsoft is at stage 2 (and Nokia is at stage 1 - http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/142247).
Let's see again in, say, 12 months!
Actually, Russian laws require law enforcement to get a court order to wiretap anything.
Of course, I don't think the law is being followed to the letter...
But I guess he was too busy playing with iPhone...
Vinil is no way superior to properly-produced CDs, though it might sound a bit differently (because of different set of noises and distortions).
But in any case, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio - both of them FAR superior to vinyl (for example, they can carry 6:1 sound and have much wider frequency band).
Unfortunately, these formats utterly and completely failed because of invasive DRM...
Nope, you're thinking about Russian grammar in the sense 'how to write without grammatic mistakes'. Yes, it's not really hard - English spelling, for example, is much more erratic.
On the other hand, correct machine analysis of Russian is very hard. Rulesets are nowhere close to 10 printed pages, and a lot of things is so context-sensitive that it's not even possible to do correct analysis. I briefly worked at NLP (Natural Language Processing) area, but cowardly fled it - too much pain for not much gain.
It still doesn't work very well. Yandex can conjugate the whole phrases and can work with composited words (words containing more than one stem). Google still uses simple word normalization.
Nope. It was fairly easy to work with foreign currency in Russia since early 90-s. Yandex was simply MUCH better than Google because Google have not supported Russian morphology until very recently.
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For example, if I'm searching information about, say, the name of Putin's dog I can use the following search query:
"Imja sobaki Putina" - (the name of Putin's dog) and Yandex can find documents with the words
"Imena sobak Putina" - (the names of Putin's dogs - note the plural) or documents with the words
"Imen sobak Putina" - ([about] the names of Putin's dogs)
"Imena sobakam Putina" - another grammar case.
Russian morphology is MUCH MUCH more complex than in English. Yandex started working on morphological search in 1996, so it's not surprising that it's still much better than Google.
Yes, I'm always logged on, but I frequently see "Nothing to see here..." (it usually goes away in a minute, so not a big problem).
Sputnik actually HAD science instruments: it encoded pressure and temperature inside the capsule in radio pulses. This allowed to verify that there's no big danger of micrometeorits in space.
Actually, it's possible. There were several criticality accidents in oil reservoirs and air filters:
For example, http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1961USSR2.html and several other ones (I'm too lazy to search)
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radcrit.html
No, "I" is the computer user very paranoid about security.
Of course, phone manufacturers might also use TPM for Tivoisation. But it's far easier just to use a simple signed first stage bootloader for the same effect.
Why? I DO know my root key to TPM - I can view all stored keys and manipulate them. After all, it's not more than a hardware keystore and some validating code.
The goal of TPM is to build a secure HOST. I.e. the one which I can trust to be secure during all stages (for example, TPM can guarantee that a malicious hacker has not installed a backdoor into my kernel).
TPM in Thinkpads allows stores private/public keys in a secure hardware storage.
The kernel is signed and the hardware bootloader checks that the signature is valid (using TPM). So we can at least guarantee that the system is in consistent state during kernel loading. Later we can use numerous methods to control kernel integrity (SELinux, AppArmour, etc.).
Theoretically, Microsoft can make you to use TPM to validate their kernel during booting (because tainted kernel can be used to circumvent DRM).
So we just need to be able to turn off the TPM chip if it's not required.
MS has already done it with Vista x64 - it doesn't allow you to install unsigned drivers. TPM will also allow them to be sure that the kernel is not tampered during the startup. But I don't think it adds too much security for evil DRM schemes.
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But personally, I'd like to have the same capability to be sure my system is not tampered with by NSA when they examine my laptop during in airport
No, "trusted computing" means that hardware can guarantee the integrity of the environment. For example, I'd like to use TPM chip in my Thinkpad to guarantee that my machine will boot only kernels signed with MY key. Also, I very much like the hardware keyring.
Trusted computing is only a problem when YOU are not the owner of the machine and don't have the full control over the TPM module on a new computer (of course, once TPM is set up - it shouldn't be possible to change it without owner's keys).
...They also decided to rig a thermal barrier out of a surplus reference book and all-purpose gray tape....Once again, duct tape saves the day!
Ever heard of 'anaerobic respiration' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_respiration)?
That's BS. Of course, there are transmission losses, but they are NOWHERE close to 90% per kilometers.
That's why we have 4GW power plants without much problems.
5-10Mw is the power output of _one_ _small_ power plant. Typical nuclear power plants output hundreds megawatts of power.
However, a nice focused microwave ray can literally bake people without (much) damage to property.
Nuff said :)
Probably, BOFH got fed up with spam :)
Ook? Ook ook ook, gook ook.
Ook!
But most of devices are not necessary to start kernel booting. In any case, kernel will reprobe almost all devices later during boot.
ACPI support is more complicated, but I think it's still possible to boot Linux in just a few seconds.