Wow. A poster who is all for reducing the control over one's car, to make races more enterteaining to watch. I'm sure the lawyers would love that idea. I'm also sure that you would be firmly against anything similar that would affect your own life (eg a keyboard that occasionally types the wrong letter, to make Slashdot posts more amusing. Although on second thought this might not be the best such example).
Makes me wonder... considering how extremely lightweight racecars are, how long before putting a few cameras and a remote control on a car gives you a real edge over other drivers? And if that happens, will people still watch races?
So, how do you plan on keeping your kids away from other kids who watch sex & violence on TV? You can't control every aspect of your kids' lives, you know.
Not so fast there. There is a huge benefit for a parent that the TV be in agreement (or in less of a disagreement) with the moral values that they are trying to teach their own kids. Yes, it will affect other peoples' kids. That is part of the good part. You will have less of a problem keeping your kids off {drugs, sex, violence, $other_unethical_behaviour} if you don't have all their peers telling them that that is teh cool.
Myself, I grew up from 0-13 and 15-20 without a TV at home, and I don't think I missed anything.
I don't think that security counts as forensics resistance, but here are some things you can do: 1) Put a password on your bios. Someone will have to do some fancy soldering to replace it if they want to boot your machine without your password. 2) Store all sensitive data on an encrypted medium. Just hope no one puts a key logger on your keyboard.
While being quite secure is as simple as installing *nix, there is not much you can do if someone has physical access to your box.
You don't have a networked machine? Does that mean that you are posting to Slashdot from an internet cafe? Or are you posting from a spam server that you call "my computer"?
Just because you won't loose your job if you get hacked, doesn't mean you should ignore the possibility.
The problem with computer crimes is that they are not easy to track. On a regular PC, a cracker could break in and remove any evidence (on that PC) that the computer was ever hacked. You might catch him if you happen to be looking while he is busy, but after he is finished, there is not much you can do.
There are, however, some hardware solutions, namely, to keep track of everything that happens (this is expensive!). Software could also do that, so long at it cannot be hacked. Overall, I think the best thing to do is to keep a backup inaccessible from the network, and hope no sensitive information gets stolen.
So, do we love the new volunteer advertizers, or hate them for being advertizers? Myself, I think I will go on the side of hating them -- I mean, it is still advertizing.
On the other hand, these people (I think) all belive in what they are saying, so I might actually listen to what they are saying.
Two things to take into account: 1) You won't be getting back all the energy that is dicipated as heat. (If you did, you would have yourself a perpetual motion machine. You wouldn't be able to patent it, though, since even the USPTO will throw that out without reading it.)
2) Doing this will reduce the heat sink's ability to cool off.
Yes! We can then eventually use this technology for rocognizing everyone, particularly for financial transactions (buying and selling). Just think how hard it would be to give bribes or conduct illicit trade.
I, for one, welcome our new antichrist overlord(s).
'One way to stem piracy is to offer consumers in emerging countries a low-cost PC, Ballmer said. "There has to be...a $100 computer to go down-market in some of these countries. [...]"
Cost of cheap WallMart computer: $250 Cost of pirated software Windoze, word, etc: around $400
So, a simple way for M$ to make millions of dollars would be to give away free computers in China -- by reducing the cost of a computer to $0, they would completely eliminate piracy and earn $150 for each computer they give away. They could make billions!
Although it is not a scientific name, my favorite is Venus's flytrap -- named for its resemblance to a certain part of the female anatomy that most of us here haven't seen yet.
...we got a movie based on politics that really doesn't have a bias or an op-ed piece, and just around Election Day. It's just a movie making fun of everyday politics and the current events that we face.
So, does it have a bias toward the view that politics is good for laughing at? (which is in fact my own view) Or did you mean, "Doesn't have a bias in favor of a candidate/party"?
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Wow. A poster who is all for reducing the control over one's car, to make races more enterteaining to watch. I'm sure the lawyers would love that idea. I'm also sure that you would be firmly against anything similar that would affect your own life (eg a keyboard that occasionally types the wrong letter, to make Slashdot posts more amusing. Although on second thought this might not be the best such example).
quick make a million different jokes!!
that are all lame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'm sure most of the jokes I'll be making will be lame. Especially since I sprained my ankle 2 days ago.
Sorry, I just belong to the bread that makes lame jokes.
Makes me wonder... considering how extremely lightweight racecars are, how long before putting a few cameras and a remote control on a car gives you a real edge over other drivers? And if that happens, will people still watch races?
I suppose you all already know what shape is the most aerodynamically efficient shape for soft solids...
So, how do you plan on keeping your kids away from other kids who watch sex & violence on TV? You can't control every aspect of your kids' lives, you know.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Not so fast there. There is a huge benefit for a parent that the TV be in agreement (or in less of a disagreement) with the moral values that they are trying to teach their own kids. Yes, it will affect other peoples' kids. That is part of the good part. You will have less of a problem keeping your kids off {drugs, sex, violence, $other_unethical_behaviour} if you don't have all their peers telling them that that is teh cool.
Myself, I grew up from 0-13 and 15-20 without a TV at home, and I don't think I missed anything.
I don't think that security counts as forensics resistance, but here are some things you can do:
1) Put a password on your bios. Someone will have to do some fancy soldering to replace it if they want to boot your machine without your password.
2) Store all sensitive data on an encrypted medium. Just hope no one puts a key logger on your keyboard.
While being quite secure is as simple as installing *nix, there is not much you can do if someone has physical access to your box.
You don't have a networked machine? Does that mean that you are posting to Slashdot from an internet cafe? Or are you posting from a spam server that you call "my computer"?
Just because you won't loose your job if you get hacked, doesn't mean you should ignore the possibility.
The problem with computer crimes is that they are not easy to track. On a regular PC, a cracker could break in and remove any evidence (on that PC) that the computer was ever hacked. You might catch him if you happen to be looking while he is busy, but after he is finished, there is not much you can do.
There are, however, some hardware solutions, namely, to keep track of everything that happens (this is expensive!). Software could also do that, so long at it cannot be hacked. Overall, I think the best thing to do is to keep a backup inaccessible from the network, and hope no sensitive information gets stolen.
So, do we love the new volunteer advertizers, or hate them for being advertizers? Myself, I think I will go on the side of hating them -- I mean, it is still advertizing.
On the other hand, these people (I think) all belive in what they are saying, so I might actually listen to what they are saying.
Two things to take into account:
1) You won't be getting back all the energy that is dicipated as heat. (If you did, you would have yourself a perpetual motion machine. You wouldn't be able to patent it, though, since even the USPTO will throw that out without reading it.)
2) Doing this will reduce the heat sink's ability to cool off.
Yes! We can then eventually use this technology for rocognizing everyone, particularly for financial transactions (buying and selling). Just think how hard it would be to give bribes or conduct illicit trade.
I, for one, welcome our new antichrist overlord(s).
A spammer is a spammer is a spammer.
Forgive my ingorance, but don't you have to me going *really fucking fast* if you want to make any noticeable doppler shift in light?
No, no, no. It just has a secret ingredient that gives it its unique taste.
In other news, the water cycle doesn't give a shit.
Also, trees will convert carbon from farts and minerals from all sorts of shit into the food you eat.
In Soviet Russia, Murphy's Law obeys YOU!
Yes, but that does not mean we will agree with them. For example, the Terminators decided to eliminate human error.
but is it illegal to give your passport a tin-foil hat?
'One way to stem piracy is to offer consumers in emerging countries a low-cost PC, Ballmer said. "There has to be...a $100 computer to go down-market in some of these countries. [...]"
Cost of cheap WallMart computer: $250
Cost of pirated software Windoze, word, etc: around $400
So, a simple way for M$ to make millions of dollars would be to give away free computers in China -- by reducing the cost of a computer to $0, they would completely eliminate piracy and earn $150 for each computer they give away. They could make billions!
So if IE quietly accepts bad data where other browsers crash, does that make IE singularly bad for checking whether a web page works?
Although it is not a scientific name, my favorite is Venus's flytrap -- named for its resemblance to a certain part of the female anatomy that most of us here haven't seen yet.
Is there no shame left? These are our children who are watching these sorts of things.
Also, every time our precious children watch a bad movie, a kitten dies. Will someone *please* think of the kittens!
...we got a movie based on politics that really doesn't have a bias or an op-ed piece, and just around Election Day. It's just a movie making fun of everyday politics and the current events that we face.
So, does it have a bias toward the view that politics is good for laughing at? (which is in fact my own view) Or did you mean, "Doesn't have a bias in favor of a candidate/party"?