You gotta remember that stupid people didn't invent those safety devices. Smart people designed them because of the same reason they do other things - increase their chances of survival - whether by earning more money or other numerous ways. So even though I do agree that more stupid humans will be alive, human intelligence is still on the rise.
True, these tools are 50000 years old. Actually the early men that came to America 25000 years ago from the third world, brought these (then) 25000 year old tools with them. They were the earliest paleontologists and moved to America as temporary workers because there was a sheer shortage of palentologists in America. America had started this (then) new concept of temporary visas like F(OB)-1 and H(obo)-1. Later when they found that the American youth were by and large moving to specializing in artsy stuff like cave drawings and inventing tribal dances or giving in to some intoxicaitng herbs illegally imported from some poor civilizations across the seas and were less and less taking on scientific fields like paleontology, they put a ban on H-1 and F-1 visas. But soon they found out that the American Palentologists were too expensive... and had to outsource studying all the dinosaur fossils to India and China.
I submitted the same story too... here's some more info you won't find on the EST site.
The first time these guys surfaced was on FullDisclosure mailing list. Here's the message. Their website which, apparently, doesn't work anymore. Techworld article can link you to a lot more information.
Sometimes I think the whole concept of whosoever gets more than 50% votes is a winner is flawed. Consider the case we have here... Bush:Kerry popular vote ratio is 51%:48%, though that doesn't really decide the winner, I know. That means whosoever is elected, almost half of the country doesn't want him as the president. In other countries, winning party (or a coalition) needs 2/3rds of the majority (66%) of the votes to win.
The numbers were so close in these US elections that it doesn't make sense to continue like that. Are you we going to keep living with almost 50% of the population not preferring the current leadership?
The account the screenshot is from is an old account - created August 1999 - so I guess they're upgrading the accounts in chronological order.
That's not true. My account was created in 1997 and it's still not upgraded. May be the accounts are being upgraded based on which server machine needs a reboot first;) (you know how Windows is!)
The optical sensor that Microsoft's (and others') optical mice use, is made by Agilent. Gary Gordon, who works at Agilent, invented the optical mouse. Microsoft just happens to license the technology.
Now-a-days, you can write user space USB drivers for any USB device in a portable way. The last issue of Linux Journal describes the technique.
Each technique has its advantages. What's needed are ways for a programmer to harness both techniques. Then a system could be built by using one of these to cater to a particular set of requirements. For example, someone putting a Linux kernel on his wrist watch might think that a microkernel brings more baggage than power. On the other hand, powerful server OS could use the microkernel approach to improve stability.
I guess the biggest factor playing in favor of this technology is that power lines are ubiquitous. I don't call the ISP and fret at the usual "Sorry, this facility is not available in your area", anymore. Hell! It better be available. This can be a big advantage. Almost everywhere you go, you have power. So, you have potential for internet connectivity. No more worrying about whether that place will have an RJ11 or RJ45 jacks or 802.11. I'm really concerned about the security though. So, your next bank transaction is going through that big ugly power transformer sitting a few meters away from your house. How does that make you feel? I mean power lines are easily accessible and so I guess easier to tap into. On the positive side, there are some cools things that may happen. I would assume soon we'll have computers with no ethernet ports. Just plug in the power cable and that's all you need for power as well as network connectivity. Or, the gadgets at home might talk to each other using the power line they are anyways connected to.
Well, I guess I'm asking for ideas here. In an open-source proj like this, you obviously want people to choose what they want to do or how they want to contribute. When you do that, one of the biggest problem is that, there are some parts of the project that everybody tries to avoid.
I've tried to manage a project, in a similar way, on a very small scale though (~30 people). Everybody wanted to own the coolest parts of the project. What I eventually ended up doing is tying cool parts with not-so-cool parts. So, if you choose the cool part, you automatically also own the corresponding not-so-cool part.
I'm looking for more ideas. May be some brainstorming would help here.
I hope that people don't mistake it for one of the mass gay marriages taking place in San Fran these days! After all, you don't find that many guys huddling at a single place, on any normal day.
I thought a gauge like that would be great for cpu physical temperature as well.
I think once you get this one working, a heat sensor would be fairly easy to make. You can read the temperature of the CPU (Linux ACPI provides a way to do it), and communicate that to the sensor. I think the file to read is/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature. I'm not sure but I think this file provides temperature of the system, which triggers the fans in the system. I'm not sure if there are separate sensors for CPU or not.
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It's not that easy. HTTPS means that a non-trivial increase in hardware resources used on the server-side.
I would wager that too. We are probably just an interesting "ant colony" to them, that might be worthwhile studying... or not.
Ever heard of suspend? I always suspend my laptop.
You gotta remember that stupid people didn't invent those safety devices. Smart people designed them because of the same reason they do other things - increase their chances of survival - whether by earning more money or other numerous ways. So even though I do agree that more stupid humans will be alive, human intelligence is still on the rise.
i don't know how a car works... ;)
You shouldn't be on slashdot then!
I guess the guy was running the web server off an AOL CD! :p
You can't take your cellphone on an airplane? OR Al-Qaeda making a secret deal with Kyocera to buy all their stock? crazy!
True, these tools are 50000 years old. Actually the early men that came to America 25000 years ago from the third world, brought these (then) 25000 year old tools with them. They were the earliest paleontologists and moved to America as temporary workers because there was a sheer shortage of palentologists in America. America had started this (then) new concept of temporary visas like F(OB)-1 and H(obo)-1. Later when they found that the American youth were by and large moving to specializing in artsy stuff like cave drawings and inventing tribal dances or giving in to some intoxicaitng herbs illegally imported from some poor civilizations across the seas and were less and less taking on scientific fields like paleontology, they put a ban on H-1 and F-1 visas. But soon they found out that the American Palentologists were too expensive... and had to outsource studying all the dinosaur fossils to India and China.
I don't actually care as long the said discs are made of corn!
Did you use the program "edict" to get that definition?
I'm waiting for the day when AOL starts sending me free breakfast in mail, everday! :)
I submitted the same story too... here's some more info you won't find on the EST site.
The first time these guys surfaced was on FullDisclosure mailing list. Here's the message. Their website which, apparently, doesn't work anymore. Techworld article can link you to a lot more information.
Sometimes I think the whole concept of whosoever gets more than 50% votes is a winner is flawed. Consider the case we have here... Bush:Kerry popular vote ratio is 51%:48%, though that doesn't really decide the winner, I know. That means whosoever is elected, almost half of the country doesn't want him as the president. In other countries, winning party (or a coalition) needs 2/3rds of the majority (66%) of the votes to win.
The numbers were so close in these US elections that it doesn't make sense to continue like that. Are you we going to keep living with almost 50% of the population not preferring the current leadership?
The account the screenshot is from is an old account - created August 1999 - so I guess they're upgrading the accounts in chronological order.
That's not true. My account was created in 1997 and it's still not upgraded. May be the accounts are being upgraded based on which server machine needs a reboot firstThe optical sensor that Microsoft's (and others') optical mice use, is made by Agilent. Gary Gordon, who works at Agilent, invented the optical mouse. Microsoft just happens to license the technology.
Now-a-days, you can write user space USB drivers for any USB device in a portable way. The last issue of Linux Journal describes the technique. Each technique has its advantages. What's needed are ways for a programmer to harness both techniques. Then a system could be built by using one of these to cater to a particular set of requirements. For example, someone putting a Linux kernel on his wrist watch might think that a microkernel brings more baggage than power. On the other hand, powerful server OS could use the microkernel approach to improve stability.
Yeah.. and stop using your CD drive as a cup holder!
I guess the biggest factor playing in favor of this technology is that power lines are ubiquitous. I don't call the ISP and fret at the usual "Sorry, this facility is not available in your area", anymore. Hell! It better be available. This can be a big advantage. Almost everywhere you go, you have power. So, you have potential for internet connectivity. No more worrying about whether that place will have an RJ11 or RJ45 jacks or 802.11. I'm really concerned about the security though. So, your next bank transaction is going through that big ugly power transformer sitting a few meters away from your house. How does that make you feel? I mean power lines are easily accessible and so I guess easier to tap into. On the positive side, there are some cools things that may happen. I would assume soon we'll have computers with no ethernet ports. Just plug in the power cable and that's all you need for power as well as network connectivity. Or, the gadgets at home might talk to each other using the power line they are anyways connected to.
you'll have digital telephones using the power lines too... Now tell me, how the @^$# do you call PG&E, when you have a power outage? :p
Well, I guess I'm asking for ideas here. In an open-source proj like this, you obviously want people to choose what they want to do or how they want to contribute. When you do that, one of the biggest problem is that, there are some parts of the project that everybody tries to avoid.
I've tried to manage a project, in a similar way, on a very small scale though (~30 people). Everybody wanted to own the coolest parts of the project. What I eventually ended up doing is tying cool parts with not-so-cool parts. So, if you choose the cool part, you automatically also own the corresponding not-so-cool part.
I'm looking for more ideas. May be some brainstorming would help here.
I hope that people don't mistake it for one of the mass gay marriages taking place in San Fran these days! After all, you don't find that many guys huddling at a single place, on any normal day.
and AFAIK you need memory to learn things!
Enough of those aliens trying to scare us... it's our turn now by sending the dead people to the space.
Daddy says that I can't have the new 240GB hard disk till I fill my current 80GB one. Perhaps NASA could help me!
I thought a gauge like that would be great for cpu physical temperature as well.
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature. I'm not sure but I think this file provides temperature of the system, which triggers the fans in the system. I'm not sure if there are separate sensors for CPU or not.
I think once you get this one working, a heat sensor would be fairly easy to make. You can read the temperature of the CPU (Linux ACPI provides a way to do it), and communicate that to the sensor. I think the file to read is