Too bad DNA is as unstable in the long term as it is, though.
Why not just fill in the gaps with something similar. ..like frog DNA? Perhaps utilizing modern computers and 3d-modeling. Just be careful what kind of frog you use...
I have never worked at a place that didn't have an AUP that wen't roughly along the lines of:
Do anything that would get us sued and you will be fired. Don't do your job and you will be fired.
You didn't say anything about them watching you. It's one thing for a company to make that statement, its another for them to monitor every single resource you use (without notifying you) to ensure you are complying with that statement.
Even at $7/gig, they would be better cutting off the top users of tech support than the top users of bandwidth.
Something you didn't consider was the number of top users of tech support vs top users of bandwidth. If the top users of bandwidth comprise ~1% while the top users of tech support are ~15%, which is better/easier to eliminate. Plus cutting someone off because they are not computer savvy would bring the company a lot of negative attention. Cutting off users because they use a very abnormally large amount of bandwidth is much more reasonable.
Are we about to see the dawn of a new day for the Boot Sector Virus?
This is a very interesting point. The difficulty ofcourse still remains with getting the virus into the boot sector, but once there it would be no different than your run-of-the-mill xp virus with administrator priveledges. Fortunately I'm sure Vista (and hell, even the BIOS) guard the boot sector like it's fort knox.
This has not been tested due to lack of equipment supporting WEPplus. Since WEPplus only avoids the weak IVs of the original FMS attack, we foresee no problems in applying the attack against WEPplus So you probably still aren't secure.
Why would you run another desktop on top of Windows? Wouldn't you take a performance hit for running two desktops, in essence?
Say you want to transition your office or whatever to use all Linux and OSS. You can get them used to open office, but they still be a bit put off when you make them switch to KDE. This way they can get used to "linux" while still having access to their favorite windows apps. I think it'd be a great idea for preparing people for a transition.
What happens if a manufacturer sells devices to the public, and all the complementary ( ie. opposite spin ) devices to the government?
Ok, I'm going to assume you are talking about quantum entanglement and that you are suggesting that the devices sold to consumers are entangled with another device, which is then sold/given to the government to monitor what the user does? I'm no quantum physicist but I'm pretty sure the tech for that is a bit more complicated than spintronics, also it would be infeasible for the government to have complementary devices for every device sold to anyone.
How? Mozart was very privileged. When his father saw a little musical talent in him, he threw plenty of resources to develop that talent including "instruction in clavier, violin, and organ." Wiki-link. This was all at the age of 3 mind you, one has to take into consideration the amount that you can condition a human being to excel in a certain area if you train them from such an early age.
That's "football clubs" to the rest of us. Disclaimer: I am an American.
Ah, but see, by saying "soccer" it removes all the ambiguity. Most non-Americans know what "soccer" is, they just think it is an incorrect term to describe that sport with 2 goals and a buncha guys kicking a ball around. Had the poster said "football" then the American population would assume the summary was referring to American football while the non-american population wouldn't be confused for they would expect to see "American football" to describe football and "football" to describe soccer; a clever non-American would however assume that since this is an Amermican website that the summarry was actually referring to American footbal by saying "football". So had the summary said "football" to describe soccer, only non-presumptuous non-American's would infer the correct meaning...By saying soccer, everyone infers the correct meaning, and a few people get pissed off and/or roll their eyes.
P.S. I'm not arguing over which is the more correct term, thats a useless debate...Seeing as I am an American and a Slashdotter, I suppose I'm supposed to be double-arrogant and double-argumentative. . so yeah, soccer is THE correct term:-)
Because they are a monopoly. ..If they stayed in the computer software business and poured all their resources into making that bigger, they would get smacked down by anti-trust laws very quickly. By spreading into other markets they are able to expand their business without risking further anti-trust suits.
Anyone else read that as "Wireless Portable Cell Phone Unveiled". I thought some company thought it had the greatest thing ever and reinvented the cell phone or something...:-p
But how can you tell that your bittorrent is going slow due to your ISP throttling it or theres just not enough seeders, too many leechers, seeders are all overseas, etc. Bittorrent is a fairly irregular protocol in terms of speed, I doubt anyone would complain because they'd never know their ISP was doing anything.
Do they want to irritate their BitTorrent-using contingent, or let BitTorrent flow unhindered at the risk degrading the experience of those who don't download torrents?
Neither. Instead, focus on upgrading the infrastructure and giving people more bandwidth, the US is already behind pretty much the rest of the world. . .
IANAL, but if I remember my high school business law class correctly, it is possible for a minor to enter into a contract, and hold an adult to the contract. The minor, however, also has the ability to dissafirm or back out of a contract. So basically, a minor can hold an adult to the contract, but the adult cannot hold the kid to the contract.
What are you talking about? This is slashdot! Land of the geeks and nerds who spend hours formulating arguments to debate trivial things that can be pages long; anything from the difference between geeks and nerds, the proper use of a semicolon (is this sentence correct?) to Java vs. C++ (apples and oranges, there I finished it, don't bother debating).
In all seriousness, that is why I love slashdot, you get to see all sorts of opinions and as long as the arguments aren't inflammatory and make a bit of sense, its almost certain to get modded up regardless of whether it adheres to the norm or not.
Just wanted to remind fellow CS student slashdotters that your school is most likely part of the MSDN Academic Alliance, and you can get all sorts of microsoft stuff for "free". The only stipulation is you can't use it for for-profit stuff. In any case its a great way to get legit keys to use so you can get the updates "legally". I'm downloading the DVD of Vista right now, I'll prolly install it on a separate partition just to get a feel for it, but I'm gonna stick with XP for a little while.
Linky for the lazy like myself:-D Though you'll have to talk to your CS dept. about how to obtain login information.
Whoa whoa. ..ok, I happen to be quite familiar with these sorts of scenarios. What happened was upon receiving that memo, Dwight thought it was a joke from one of his buddies. He then scanned it in and forwarded it to his friend whom he thought printed it out originally. Unfortunately, the printer had been infected with a temporal virus and intercepted that message which was then printed in the past due to a clock skew error which resulted in the flip of the sign bit for a timer. So the whole poisoned coffee bit is irrelevant, Dwight may or may not die, also irrelevant and there is no original author of the memo, it's a closed loop.
Moral of the story: Patch your printers, and don't overclock them and get clock skew errors.
Ion engines are very efficient, problem is they don't generate much thrust and therefore don't really help with "getting there faster". Deep space one pioneered ion propulsion technology. Can't do nuclear propulsion like Project Orion due to international treaties and what not. Basically anything other than chemical propulsion is experimental and no one is willing to foot the bill to make the technology mature.
I said nothing about the ethical dilema, only that arguing a rights violation may not be a valid argument, so you would have to instead focus on the ethical argument instead of a legal argument.
Mod parent up. ..this is a key point. If I recall correctly, the US Constituion doesn't apply to non-US citizens until they are on American soil. Does anyone know for sure if I am right about this? If so, this basically voids any "violating Constituional righs" arguments.
I believe that people that work in orange fields eventually lose their fingerprints due to the constant exposure to citric acid. I bet there are plenty of people who legitimately don't have any fingerprints due to repeated exposure to weak chemicals.
Super glue is a bit overkill. . that stuff literally dissolves and rebinds protiens quite readily.
Define sentience. It's one thing if the robot spouts off random responses, like a chat bot. Though on closer inspection it's a great deal more complicated and more of a philisophical question really:
"I think, therefore I am." We certainly have computer that are able to analyze complex things and draw conclusions, we even have neural-network programs that don't do this thinking in a pre-programmed way, but rather they "learn". I wrote a little AI that used a priority queue, I can tell you that the thing was a great deal "smarter" than I thought it would be, all I did was assign arbitrary numbers to tasks indicating their importance. The whole decision making and actual intelligence just happened. Emergent properties are certainly interesting. ..
So we already have computers that have the following attributes: Pre-programmed intelligence (instinct) Learned behavoir Emergent properties
My psychology prof boiled down the field to a simple definition: "You have black box, with input stimulus and output behavoir; psychology is the study of that black box." I'm not saying we have sentient computers already, but the framework is definately there, and whos to say that pre-programmed sentience isn't sentience? When a baby cries because it feels ill is it not sentient because it's simply hardwired into the pain-center of the brain?
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Too bad DNA is as unstable in the long term as it is, though.
.like frog DNA? Perhaps utilizing modern computers and 3d-modeling. Just be careful what kind of frog you use...
Why not just fill in the gaps with something similar. .
Mod parent up!
Not only is he making a good point, but he did so with a single 1 paragraph-long sentence.
I have never worked at a place that didn't have an AUP that wen't roughly along the lines of:
Do anything that would get us sued and you will be fired. Don't do your job and you will be fired.
You didn't say anything about them watching you. It's one thing for a company to make that statement, its another for them to monitor every single resource you use (without notifying you) to ensure you are complying with that statement.
Even at $7/gig, they would be better cutting off the top users of tech support than the top users of bandwidth.
Something you didn't consider was the number of top users of tech support vs top users of bandwidth. If the top users of bandwidth comprise ~1% while the top users of tech support are ~15%, which is better/easier to eliminate. Plus cutting someone off because they are not computer savvy would bring the company a lot of negative attention. Cutting off users because they use a very abnormally large amount of bandwidth is much more reasonable.
Are we about to see the dawn of a new day for the Boot Sector Virus?
This is a very interesting point. The difficulty ofcourse still remains with getting the virus into the boot sector, but once there it would be no different than your run-of-the-mill xp virus with administrator priveledges. Fortunately I'm sure Vista (and hell, even the BIOS) guard the boot sector like it's fort knox.
Does aircrack-ptw work against WEPplus?
This has not been tested due to lack of equipment supporting WEPplus. Since WEPplus only avoids the weak IVs of the original FMS attack, we foresee no problems in applying the attack against WEPplus
So you probably still aren't secure.
. . . and their going to do it anyway, root or no root.
Well if that's the case then I guess theres no point in doing anything about it.
Why would you run another desktop on top of Windows? Wouldn't you take a performance hit for running two desktops, in essence?
Say you want to transition your office or whatever to use all Linux and OSS. You can get them used to open office, but they still be a bit put off when you make them switch to KDE. This way they can get used to "linux" while still having access to their favorite windows apps. I think it'd be a great idea for preparing people for a transition.
But can it run Linux. . .?
Why did they use Java? It would have been faster in C++.
I for one welcome our new old x86 overlords.
Did I miss any?
What happens if a manufacturer sells devices to the public, and all the complementary ( ie. opposite spin ) devices to the government?
Ok, I'm going to assume you are talking about quantum entanglement and that you are suggesting that the devices sold to consumers are entangled with another device, which is then sold/given to the government to monitor what the user does? I'm no quantum physicist but I'm pretty sure the tech for that is a bit more complicated than spintronics, also it would be infeasible for the government to have complementary devices for every device sold to anyone.
Mozart comes to mind when I think of him.
How? Mozart was very privileged. When his father saw a little musical talent in him, he threw plenty of resources to develop that talent including "instruction in clavier, violin, and organ." Wiki-link. This was all at the age of 3 mind you, one has to take into consideration the amount that you can condition a human being to excel in a certain area if you train them from such an early age.
That's "football clubs" to the rest of us.
:-)
Disclaimer: I am an American.
Ah, but see, by saying "soccer" it removes all the ambiguity. Most non-Americans know what "soccer" is, they just think it is an incorrect term to describe that sport with 2 goals and a buncha guys kicking a ball around. Had the poster said "football" then the American population would assume the summary was referring to American football while the non-american population wouldn't be confused for they would expect to see "American football" to describe football and "football" to describe soccer; a clever non-American would however assume that since this is an Amermican website that the summarry was actually referring to American footbal by saying "football". So had the summary said "football" to describe soccer, only non-presumptuous non-American's would infer the correct meaning...By saying soccer, everyone infers the correct meaning, and a few people get pissed off and/or roll their eyes.
P.S. I'm not arguing over which is the more correct term, thats a useless debate...Seeing as I am an American and a Slashdotter, I suppose I'm supposed to be double-arrogant and double-argumentative. . so yeah, soccer is THE correct term
Because they are a monopoly. . .If they stayed in the computer software business and poured all their resources into making that bigger, they would get smacked down by anti-trust laws very quickly. By spreading into other markets they are able to expand their business without risking further anti-trust suits.
I dunno, thats my theory.
Anyone else read that as "Wireless Portable Cell Phone Unveiled". I thought some company thought it had the greatest thing ever and reinvented the cell phone or something...:-p
But how can you tell that your bittorrent is going slow due to your ISP throttling it or theres just not enough seeders, too many leechers, seeders are all overseas, etc. Bittorrent is a fairly irregular protocol in terms of speed, I doubt anyone would complain because they'd never know their ISP was doing anything.
Do they want to irritate their BitTorrent-using contingent, or let BitTorrent flow unhindered at the risk degrading the experience of those who don't download torrents?
Neither. Instead, focus on upgrading the infrastructure and giving people more bandwidth, the US is already behind pretty much the rest of the world. . .
IANAL, but if I remember my high school business law class correctly, it is possible for a minor to enter into a contract, and hold an adult to the contract. The minor, however, also has the ability to dissafirm or back out of a contract. So basically, a minor can hold an adult to the contract, but the adult cannot hold the kid to the contract.
What are you talking about? This is slashdot! Land of the geeks and nerds who spend hours formulating arguments to debate trivial things that can be pages long; anything from the difference between geeks and nerds, the proper use of a semicolon (is this sentence correct?) to Java vs. C++ (apples and oranges, there I finished it, don't bother debating).
In all seriousness, that is why I love slashdot, you get to see all sorts of opinions and as long as the arguments aren't inflammatory and make a bit of sense, its almost certain to get modded up regardless of whether it adheres to the norm or not.
Just wanted to remind fellow CS student slashdotters that your school is most likely part of the MSDN Academic Alliance, and you can get all sorts of microsoft stuff for "free". The only stipulation is you can't use it for for-profit stuff. In any case its a great way to get legit keys to use so you can get the updates "legally". I'm downloading the DVD of Vista right now, I'll prolly install it on a separate partition just to get a feel for it, but I'm gonna stick with XP for a little while.
:-D Though you'll have to talk to your CS dept. about how to obtain login information.
Linky for the lazy like myself
Whoa whoa. . .ok, I happen to be quite familiar with these sorts of scenarios. What happened was upon receiving that memo, Dwight thought it was a joke from one of his buddies. He then scanned it in and forwarded it to his friend whom he thought printed it out originally. Unfortunately, the printer had been infected with a temporal virus and intercepted that message which was then printed in the past due to a clock skew error which resulted in the flip of the sign bit for a timer. So the whole poisoned coffee bit is irrelevant, Dwight may or may not die, also irrelevant and there is no original author of the memo, it's a closed loop.
Moral of the story: Patch your printers, and don't overclock them and get clock skew errors.
Ion engines are very efficient, problem is they don't generate much thrust and therefore don't really help with "getting there faster". Deep space one pioneered ion propulsion technology. Can't do nuclear propulsion like Project Orion due to international treaties and what not. Basically anything other than chemical propulsion is experimental and no one is willing to foot the bill to make the technology mature.
I said nothing about the ethical dilema, only that arguing a rights violation may not be a valid argument, so you would have to instead focus on the ethical argument instead of a legal argument.
Mod parent up. . .this is a key point. If I recall correctly, the US Constituion doesn't apply to non-US citizens until they are on American soil. Does anyone know for sure if I am right about this? If so, this basically voids any "violating Constituional righs" arguments.
I believe that people that work in orange fields eventually lose their fingerprints due to the constant exposure to citric acid. I bet there are plenty of people who legitimately don't have any fingerprints due to repeated exposure to weak chemicals.
Super glue is a bit overkill. . that stuff literally dissolves and rebinds protiens quite readily.
Define sentience. It's one thing if the robot spouts off random responses, like a chat bot. Though on closer inspection it's a great deal more complicated and more of a philisophical question really:
.
"I think, therefore I am." We certainly have computer that are able to analyze complex things and draw conclusions, we even have neural-network programs that don't do this thinking in a pre-programmed way, but rather they "learn".
I wrote a little AI that used a priority queue, I can tell you that the thing was a great deal "smarter" than I thought it would be, all I did was assign arbitrary numbers to tasks indicating their importance. The whole decision making and actual intelligence just happened. Emergent properties are certainly interesting. .
So we already have computers that have the following attributes:
Pre-programmed intelligence (instinct)
Learned behavoir
Emergent properties
My psychology prof boiled down the field to a simple definition: "You have black box, with input stimulus and output behavoir; psychology is the study of that black box." I'm not saying we have sentient computers already, but the framework is definately there, and whos to say that pre-programmed sentience isn't sentience? When a baby cries because it feels ill is it not sentient because it's simply hardwired into the pain-center of the brain?