Actually, people have certainly been jailed in the US for daring to appear at a Bush speech without having first drunk the kool-aid. For example, Nicole and Jeffrey Rank were arrested just for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts (without even creating a disturbance). But unlike in China, people in the US are generally released pretty quickly afterwards (and in this case, actually won a legal settlement against the federal government).
For those who haven't been following it, Henry Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle has a detailed blog of the entire trial. It is a really bizarre tale (the stuff of soap operas and mini-series).
In my opinion, despite the lack of witness, body, or weapon, the circumstantial evidence is fairly compelling when taken as a whole. The defense did actually try to emphasize Hans' weirdness as a characteristic misleading some to assume guilt, but the behavior does not add up, even for an uber-geek.
Who, other than a NATO-type international task force, would have the resources to reach out to those 40k users and help them clean their machines? If it's easy to detect the traffic to/from a botnet computer, they should be cut off by their ISP. The ISP can then offer them both instructions and to sell them PC cleaning as a service before allowing them to re-activate their connection.
Yes, but Linux's crypto device-mapper tool does not have state department mandated backdoors in it (well, they tried but due to the nature of open source the attempts were foiled). Any evidence of either of these assertions? *That* would be informative.
if the oblivious owner had intended to deny access, he would have sought a way to do it. By definition of "oblivious", he doesn't know his network is granting access. Of course, this whole argument would go away if all routers had some form of encryption enabled by default. There are ones that do, so it clearly is not "too hard".
The other side to this is, out of these 12% of consumers who are "stealing" it, what portion KNOW they aren't connected to their own network? Since it's a survey, I'm guessing 100%:-)
apparently they don't even support vector operations and are scalar-only. Yes, that's true. The reason is because it's hard to keep those vector units fully utilized. You get better utilization with more scalar units rather than fewer vector ones (for the same area of silicon).
Used to. Right now, LCDs transfer light, and some even reflect it. Ignoring the issue of reflective screens, which are clearly different (but not typically employed in work environments), the LCD still involves a light shining into your eyes. The light is partially masked by the liquid crystals. The question is what is the light energy output going from the display in the direction of your eyes. I'm guessing that for typical ambient illumination environments, the light coming off your monitor is much more than is coming off a sheet of white paper. It's really an interesting question, though, why that should be. You could always turn down the monitor brightness to match the paper. This is regardless of LCD versus CRT. It probably has to do with the reduced contrast that goes with the reduced brightness.
Seriously, I've always seen red and blue on monitors as having a slightly 3D effect, with the blue receding and the red popping out. Same for me. It comes from high index lenses in my glasses.
In fact, given a good LCD monitor, black on white should be the best....The more it can look like paper, the better. Paper works great.
Because the screen directly emits light, it is typically more tiring to your eyes. That's why people often prefer light text on dark background for a screen. I generally choose "old school" green or amber on black.
My understanding is that the Reyes rendering engine is based primarily on polygon subdivison to sub-pixels. There may be some support for ray tracing, etc., but I don't think it is primarily a ray tracer.
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Actually, people have certainly been jailed in the US for daring to appear at a Bush speech without having first drunk the kool-aid. For example, Nicole and Jeffrey Rank were arrested just for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts (without even creating a disturbance). But unlike in China, people in the US are generally released pretty quickly afterwards (and in this case, actually won a legal settlement against the federal government).
Great article. Thanks for the link.
This is slashdot. The logical operator you are referring to is XOR. OR allows multiple operands to be true.
Trinitron is no more (well, discontinued in USA and Canada in 2007).
His behavior is not what any of us would do in his situation, and many of us are geeks. Nice try.
For those who haven't been following it, Henry Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle has a detailed blog of the entire trial. It is a really bizarre tale (the stuff of soap operas and mini-series). In my opinion, despite the lack of witness, body, or weapon, the circumstantial evidence is fairly compelling when taken as a whole. The defense did actually try to emphasize Hans' weirdness as a characteristic misleading some to assume guilt, but the behavior does not add up, even for an uber-geek.
So you're claiming that this solution is also vaporware?
Do you know the NY Times hired Bill Kristol? In general I like the Times, but there is no "last respectable bastion of journalism".
Yar's Revenge!
Agreed!
+1 informative to the parent (if I had mod points). Also, CPU dedicates more die area to data caches.
That would be the anti-aliasing, then.
Because the screen directly emits light, it is typically more tiring to your eyes. That's why people often prefer light text on dark background for a screen. I generally choose "old school" green or amber on black.
That's really funny (to me). Thanks!
Perhaps it's not a random Microsoft bash, but a reference to Bill Gates' claims in 2004 that the spam problem would be solved by 2006.
My understanding is that the Reyes rendering engine is based primarily on polygon subdivison to sub-pixels. There may be some support for ray tracing, etc., but I don't think it is primarily a ray tracer.
Ray tracing provides THE best quality images.
Tell that to Pixar.
Whoa. That's outragious. I had no idea that was in there.