>The accountant problem is solved by giving the
>accountants one account, and a tarball of all
>the accounting records.
What if they need access to live data, are you going to create a new one every few hours?
>The student problem can be solved by posting
>your work to your public_html directory,
>password restricting access with HTTP
>authentication, and giving your pals the
>password to your website.
Which is promptly hacked by someone... Secure? Nope...
I use Windows 2000 as my desktop at work and, as far as I recall, I have only had to reboot it in anger once. Outlook crashes a lot on it though, but I just end task it, no affect on the rest of the system at all. One or two font problems with 16 bit progs though...
I have Linux and Windows at home and we use Unix on two of our main servers at work, as well as Linux on a small box for a french program.
Using Win2k at home however showed a problem - trying to use the Win 2000 drivers for my GForce 256 causes it to freeze up completely. Not even the three fingered salute causes a reaction. Linux won't support it either, at least not until I get XFree86 4.0 working on it...:-(
To the non techy user, it's the speed that sells, and that's something that the PC manufacturers seem to play on as well. Generally, unless your doing some serous work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine. At work we've been getting 550 PIIs as the cheapest that our supplier can provide, and from now on it going to be 650 PIIIs.
Anyway, I was reading in my daily news from ZDNet:
"Every five to six weeks between now and early next year, AMD will introduce faster Athlons - beginning at 1.1GHz, Monday"
OK, fair call. That is indeed common sense. However, given the current experimentation with genetics and genetically modified food, is it not likely that someone ambitious will decide to push ahead without thinking of the possible outcome?
?But can a real AI be constructed in a way that
>it obeys these laws and still be useful?
In most instances, yes, but if, for instance, while it is coming up with solutions, one solution along the way appeared too dangerous, if it was discarded, it may mean that the optimum solution is not reached. This is because the 'dangerous' solution, when developed/evolved further may deal with the danger element, or reduce it to what has been programmed into the AI as "acceptable risk".
I'm not an AI expert, just studied it at Uni, but I believe that any constraints outside of those that make up the problem (eg chip must run on less than 2 volts) can cause the problem to reach less than perfect solutions, or none at all.
OK, so I'm not so sure of the adverts bit. I think the BBC has adverts on their radio stations, but I haven't listened to any recently. I've been working hard at work a lot lately, so I've not really been aware of TV really.
Anyway, the bit about the BBC's licence fee still applies...
Strange, I could swear I was just watching an advert on BBC2...
Yes the BBC does have adverts, but it is not (as)dependant on the advertisers. It is a public service, which seeks to provide what the public wants, not just what would make prime advertising time.
I'll give the same explanation of the BBC and our licence fees, for those readers who aren't in the UK, as I gave on the dumb laws website (http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000010.ht ml):
"Those wishing to use a television must buy a license."
The explanation for this is that the licence fee is used to allow the BBC to (continue to) be a publicly funded service and as such has some accountability to the public and what they want from it.
The BBC is a big publisher of educational materials, and acually has a specific educational broadcasts slot each Sunday morning from the Open University (the main Campus of which is located in the city that I live in). I believe that, without the public funding, they would be less inclined to give back to the public in this way...
> Plus, I have often scanned a friend of mine's
> machine to figure out what port certain
> services are supposed to run on.
Which was done with permission of the 'admin'.
That's like getting in a security firm to check your doors and windows. You are allowing them to check the security of the place. People doing this without authorisation are liable to be arrested...
OK, I take that back - the Lords has made several amendments that make the bill a bit fairer and no longer reverses the burden of truth. Although I feel a bit worried about the ability of businesses to "Sue the police over the revealing of confidential information". Who's to say what is and is not confidential in an organisation? I can forsee businesses abusing this in order to try and prevent police from looking further into their affairs.
UK Government logic (post-RIP bill): Unless you give us the key (which you must prove you have not got) to decript this message that you appear to have sent, you will be jailed.
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I can see problems with this...
>The accountant problem is solved by giving the
>accountants one account, and a tarball of all
>the accounting records.
What if they need access to live data, are you going to create a new one every few hours?
>The student problem can be solved by posting
>your work to your public_html directory,
>password restricting access with HTTP
>authentication, and giving your pals the
>password to your website.
Which is promptly hacked by someone... Secure? Nope...
It doesn't even have to be a 1x1 pixel image - it can be any image that is loaded off a remote server that will be monitoring it.
The 1x1 pixel images are just when they want to be sneaky...
I think spammers may have cottoned on to this (although it is Sunday...). See this stat from their page:
11,675 messages eaten, 2 today.
Only 2...
Tracing route to warez.slashdot.org [127.0.0.1]
:-)
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms localhost.bt.net [127.0.0.1]
Trace complete.
-Yeap it works too
ARGGH! Preview - must use preview...
/proc/settings/lilo in both examples as per my previous post...
meant to type
I'm back home now.
/etc/lilo.conf to this theoretical /proc/settings/lilo
/proc/lilo/default
Other ideas that came to me while I was driving back was:
- Backward compatability:
symlink
- other command line actions:
cat
[eg response:] linux
Anyone get what I'm suggesting?
Ok who else mis-read it first time and thought it said "Peer to Peer At A Black Hole's Event Horizon"? My mind boggled at the thought.
The reality is still exciting though...
>Doesn't the SVGA xserver for 3.3.6 support those nvidia chipsets?
If you call what looks like 320x??? counts as supports. I can't get any workable res.
>In terms of release dates, you prefer "when
>marketing says so, regardless of status" to "no
>release before its time?"
I think MS has wised up a bit, why do you think W2K was late, and Windows DataCenter doubly so?
>Really, I'd love to see you change your kernel
>without rebooting!
I can't verify this, but I heard that a guy running a small ISP managed this.
I guess you could do something in the same way that loadlin overlays the memory in dos?
Anyone else got any ideas?
I use Windows 2000 as my desktop at work and, as far as I recall, I have only had to reboot it in anger once. Outlook crashes a lot on it though, but I just end task it, no affect on the rest of the system at all. One or two font problems with 16 bit progs though...
:-(
I have Linux and Windows at home and we use Unix on two of our main servers at work, as well as Linux on a small box for a french program.
Using Win2k at home however showed a problem - trying to use the Win 2000 drivers for my GForce 256 causes it to freeze up completely. Not even the three fingered salute causes a reaction. Linux won't support it either, at least not until I get XFree86 4.0 working on it...
To the non techy user, it's the speed that sells, and that's something that the PC manufacturers seem to play on as well. Generally, unless your doing some serous work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine. At work we've been getting 550 PIIs as the cheapest that our supplier can provide, and from now on it going to be 650 PIIIs.
Anyway, I was reading in my daily news from ZDNet:
"Every five to six weeks between now and early next year, AMD will introduce faster Athlons - beginning at 1.1GHz, Monday"
So they will be ahead of Intel again shortly.
The rest of the story is at:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/ 33/ns-17477.html
OK, fair call. That is indeed common sense. However, given the current experimentation with genetics and genetically modified food, is it not likely that someone ambitious will decide to push ahead without thinking of the possible outcome?
?But can a real AI be constructed in a way that
>it obeys these laws and still be useful?
In most instances, yes, but if, for instance, while it is coming up with solutions, one solution along the way appeared too dangerous, if it was discarded, it may mean that the optimum solution is not reached. This is because the 'dangerous' solution, when developed/evolved further may deal with the danger element, or reduce it to what has been programmed into the AI as "acceptable risk".
I'm not an AI expert, just studied it at Uni, but I believe that any constraints outside of those that make up the problem (eg chip must run on less than 2 volts) can cause the problem to reach less than perfect solutions, or none at all.
>without the ability to be selfish and ruthless
>robots are condemned to slavery.
And isn't that what we want? Robots doing our bidding and doing the boring/hazardous/difficult/strenuous things?
OK, so I'm not so sure of the adverts bit. I think the BBC has adverts on their radio stations, but I haven't listened to any recently. I've been working hard at work a lot lately, so I've not really been aware of TV really.
Anyway, the bit about the BBC's licence fee still applies...
>but it is NON COMMERCIAL as in NO adverts
t ml):
Strange, I could swear I was just watching an advert on BBC2...
Yes the BBC does have adverts, but it is not (as)dependant on the advertisers. It is a public service, which seeks to provide what the public wants, not just what would make prime advertising time.
I'll give the same explanation of the BBC and our licence fees, for those readers who aren't in the UK, as I gave on the dumb laws website (http://www.dumblaws.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000010.h
"Those wishing to use a television must buy a license."
The explanation for this is that the licence fee is used to allow the BBC to (continue to) be a publicly funded service and as such has some accountability to the public and what they want from it.
The BBC is a big publisher of educational materials, and acually has a specific educational broadcasts slot each Sunday morning from the Open University (the main Campus of which is located in the city that I live in). I believe that, without the public funding, they would be less inclined to give back to the public in this way...
I doubt that the average Extraterrestrial will have read/heard Asmov yet... Probably not even recieved Bell's first braodcasts...
> Plus, I have often scanned a friend of mine's
> machine to figure out what port certain
> services are supposed to run on.
Which was done with permission of the 'admin'.
That's like getting in a security firm to check your doors and windows. You are allowing them to check the security of the place. People doing this without authorisation are liable to be arrested...
> mv a* foo isn't hard to learn!
But you have to learn it. Using natural language would save people needing to learn the commands.
OK, I take that back - the Lords has made several amendments that make the bill a bit fairer and no longer reverses the burden of truth. Although I feel a bit worried about the ability of businesses to "Sue the police over the revealing of confidential information". Who's to say what is and is not confidential in an organisation? I can forsee businesses abusing this in order to try and prevent police from looking further into their affairs.
>There is a setting in outlook which tells it to
> use the "Internet Zone" security setting.
Whoa! Use the "Restricted Sites" setting instead. By default this has high security and disables almost everything.
I'd buy one of these (with that logo) if I knew it was going to go towards helping Kuro5hin (and that there was some way to get it to the UK).
> There are valid uses for this as well
> (improving Scoop comes to mind)
Excuse me, why bother to write this program, why not improve scoop by contributing fixes (I haven't checked, but I guess it (Scoop) is open source...)
UK Government logic (post-RIP bill): Unless you give us the key (which you must prove you have not got) to decript this message that you appear to have sent, you will be jailed.
I believe that number may have expanded, read these notices from RIPE:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Starting July 24th, Belgian domain objects (.be) will no longer be available from the RIPE Database. For information on Belgian domains, please query whois.dns.be.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Starting June 28th, German domain objects (.de) will no longer be stored in the RIPE Database.
Users will be able to query for German domains through whois.ripe.net but information will be retrieved from whois.denic.de
For better performance while looking for German domains, please query whois.denic.de.