I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you were referring to 'Ajax' merely as a word (which just happened to be written in all caps), and not as an acronym:-)
Large disk drives make this possible by enabling Lina to provide an extra copy of the operating system, libraries, X, etc for each application. Maybe surprising, but this doesn't have too much overhead. Zees, I hope it uses something like unionfs or at least a bind mount for the static stuff, or else this thing will be a contestant for the "Most Ridiculous Waste of Resources" contest, right next to those VMWare appliances, chroot jails and sandboxes for each individual application (not just for the tricky ones), etc.
Yeah, and all the insurgents will need is a dinghy stacked full of explosives, piloted either by home-rigged 'robotics' wired to a Linksys wireless router or a suicide bomber with a laptop running Kismet...
"Oh no, not again!" (the bowl of petunias thought)/me shudders at the thought of large ugly disclaimers like "WARNING! By choosing 'None' as encryption method you are granting anyone access to your wireless network. <Company name> can not be held liable for any damage, financial or otherwise, resulting from this action" popping up in your face when configuring your AP, being printed on every 42nd page in the manual, stickered onto 3 sides of the box, engraved on the installation CD, etc., etc.
That's a good example. In fact, an unsecured access point is broadcasting that very fact continuously, and a client configured to associate with any access point doesn't know zip about whether that access point belongs to a friendly neighbour, the mob or the Queen. It simply connects.
...the "No Work" database. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a d..."
Can anyone see the LIGHT in here? Just go on repeat that hypnotizing mantra "work work work work work work work..." and you might end up losing signt of any other purpose, calling or destiny humanity may yet have, and become just a pawn in some evil overlord's idea of a chess game.
Link. Fourth paragraph. Must read. (And watch the movie.)
The problem lies not so much with keeping society from falling into chaos, it is all to do with increasingly fine-grained control over individual freedom. Using sophisticated technology to scrutinize individual actions in increasing detail reduces citizens of society from free agents into animals running around in a cage during a Pavlov experiment. One (admittedly overstated example): Lets assume government decides to closer monitor individuals on welfare to make sure tax dollars are spent wisely. All nice and dandy to this point. Next, lets assume that it is found that some individuals spend time on so-called 'high-risk to health' activities like smoking, drinking, mountain-climbing, taking detours going home from the welfare department, sunbathing, walking the neighbour's dog, bicycling instead of taking the bus, etc... The question is: how much of an individual's life do authorities need to control in order to keep society functioning and how much is 'too much'?
Backup _all_ your data, then do a hard reset. When the screen calibration drill appears, make sure you tap some distance _below_ the markers. Next you have time to practice the new input method with the cut'n'paste drill and while you install . Viola!
...which makes for fun reading (or a lot of irritation) when submitting patches or code fragments containing such 'magic incantations' as regular expressions, Perl wizardry, symbolic notation, yacc grammars, C++ template trickery and whatnot.
The database? Well you'd need a proper global filesystem, but that's no biggie either. What global filesystem? I'll have my data on my personal USB drive, thank you. And while you're at it, make sure that no trace of what I did remains on whatever server whatsoever. I don't want <insert your favorite government organization / hacker clique / whoever> poking around in my personal stuff.
What would you expect, the backbone provider coming in with a truck full of routers and a caravan of backhoes to dig in more fiber in August, only to return June the next year to dig it all up and take it away again? Bandwidth is always a trade-off between cost and utility. Also, the bandwidth variety of Parkinson's Law applies: data transfer volume expands so as to fill the bandwidth available.
...or someone has to come up with a driving-qualified robot that's at least 18 years old (hey Mr. Wells, can I borrow your Time Machine for a bit?)
Driver Requirements:... - (a) Minimum age of 18... - (e) Must be alcohol- and drug-free (it's the way to be), including illegal, prescription, and non-prescription drugs.
Sorry guys, but that disqualifies most humans. Most foodstuffs are verifiable (non-prescription) drugs. Also, imagine a driver not allowed to drink any coffee during such an ordeal, I wouldn't want to be in a car with him/her. Not to mention this is discriminating people who are dependent on medication to stay healthy.
When does a piece of cake stop being a piece of cake?
If I eat half a cake and give you the other half, wouldn't you call your piece half a cake? Continue on, eat half your piece and pass the rest to me, I'll eat half of that and pass the rest on to you.
Trick question: who eats the last piece of cake (assuming fair play, of course)? Super-trick question: if you would repeat this experiment many times, what would be the distribution of the outcomes?
Morale of this story: you cant have your cake and eat it, too.
If you were to dress up as G.I.Joe and tell children to go out and kill for Jesus, that would be bad because murder is bad, not G.I.Joe. Though I could understand the confusion, more so if the G.I.Joe guy happens to be an Army recruitment officer.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
So first we had laptop batteries catching fire, soon we'll have laptop coolers that go out with a bang?
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you were referring to 'Ajax' merely as a word (which just happened to be written in all caps), and not as an acronym :-)
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Get yourself enrolled into a secret Army hibernation experiment, have it go off the rails, and you could be the hero who saves the country.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Yeah, and all the insurgents will need is a dinghy stacked full of explosives, piloted either by home-rigged 'robotics' wired to a Linksys wireless router or a suicide bomber with a laptop running Kismet...
$1400 may sound expensive, but what price on a life?
Arab or American?
(may I pass over the gawddamn bridge now? I've got a Grail to find...)
...when you could just do
../mbox; grep -li "viagra\|penis enlargement\|prescription meds" *| xargs rm ../mbox; cd ..; rm -rf tmp
$ mkdir tmp; cd tmp
$ splitmbox
$ cat * >
to get rid of 90% of your spam. Ah well, those were the days...
"Oh no, not again!" (the bowl of petunias thought) /me shudders at the thought of large ugly disclaimers like "WARNING! By choosing 'None' as encryption method you are granting anyone access to your wireless network. <Company name> can not be held liable for any damage, financial or otherwise, resulting from this action" popping up in your face when configuring your AP, being printed on every 42nd page in the manual, stickered onto 3 sides of the box, engraved on the installation CD, etc., etc.
That's a good example. In fact, an unsecured access point is broadcasting that very fact continuously, and a client configured to associate with any access point doesn't know zip about whether that access point belongs to a friendly neighbour, the mob or the Queen. It simply connects.
...the "No Work" database. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a d..."Can anyone see the LIGHT in here? Just go on repeat that hypnotizing mantra "work work work work work work work
Link. Fourth paragraph. Must read. (And watch the movie.)
More to the point (because some sites require Javascript to function):
In Firefox: Edit -> Preferences -> Content tab -> Advanced (button opposite "Enable Javascript" checkbox) -> Uncheck "Disable or replace context menus"
Install an extension like UnPlug and you're all set.
The problem lies not so much with keeping society from falling into chaos, it is all to do with increasingly fine-grained control over individual freedom. Using sophisticated technology to scrutinize individual actions in increasing detail reduces citizens of society from free agents into animals running around in a cage during a Pavlov experiment.
One (admittedly overstated example): Lets assume government decides to closer monitor individuals on welfare to make sure tax dollars are spent wisely. All nice and dandy to this point. Next, lets assume that it is found that some individuals spend time on so-called 'high-risk to health' activities like smoking, drinking, mountain-climbing, taking detours going home from the welfare department, sunbathing, walking the neighbour's dog, bicycling instead of taking the bus, etc...
The question is: how much of an individual's life do authorities need to control in order to keep society functioning and how much is 'too much'?
Backup _all_ your data, then do a hard reset. When the screen calibration drill appears, make sure you tap some distance _below_ the markers. Next you have time to practice the new input method with the cut'n'paste drill and while you install . Viola!
...which makes for fun reading (or a lot of irritation) when submitting patches or code fragments containing such 'magic incantations' as regular expressions, Perl wizardry, symbolic notation, yacc grammars, C++ template trickery and whatnot.
What would you expect, the backbone provider coming in with a truck full of routers and a caravan of backhoes to dig in more fiber in August, only to return June the next year to dig it all up and take it away again?
Bandwidth is always a trade-off between cost and utility. Also, the bandwidth variety of Parkinson's Law applies: data transfer volume expands so as to fill the bandwidth available.
...or someone has to come up with a driving-qualified robot that's at least 18 years old (hey Mr. Wells, can I borrow your Time Machine for a bit?)
... ...
Driver Requirements:
- (a) Minimum age of 18
- (e) Must be alcohol- and drug-free (it's the way to be), including illegal, prescription, and non-prescription drugs.
Sorry guys, but that disqualifies most humans. Most foodstuffs are verifiable (non-prescription) drugs. Also, imagine a driver not allowed to drink any coffee during such an ordeal, I wouldn't want to be in a car with him/her. Not to mention this is discriminating people who are dependent on medication to stay healthy.
When does a piece of cake stop being a piece of cake?
If I eat half a cake and give you the other half, wouldn't you call your piece half a cake?
Continue on, eat half your piece and pass the rest to me, I'll eat half of that and pass the rest on to you.
Trick question: who eats the last piece of cake (assuming fair play, of course)?
Super-trick question: if you would repeat this experiment many times, what would be the distribution of the outcomes?
Morale of this story: you cant have your cake and eat it, too.
If you were to dress up as G.I.Joe and tell children to go out and kill for Jesus, that would be bad because murder is bad, not G.I.Joe. Though I could understand the confusion, more so if the G.I.Joe guy happens to be an Army recruitment officer.
"These aren't the 'droids you're looking for.
You see, both are registered as ARN#624-926-536624"
"But that spells OBI-WAN-KENOBI, doesn't it?"
"Yeah, but Central Registration Authority never gives out the same number twice!"
"So the registration must be bogus then. Very well, move along..."
Last but not least: here.
Here you go. On both pages, search for 'FantAsia'.