In fact according to the article, Windows is open source to China among other governments BECAUSE Linux is open source and they were going to switch.
So when the first real cyber warfare starts happening (Ghostnet, Stuxnet are two that we know about). You'll know its Microsoft greed and our dependence on Microsoft that lost it for us. Selective open sourcing where none of the white-hats that aren't on the MS payroll get to see the code while nations that, at the very least, want to build an arsenal against it do see the code is worse than closed source.
There are a couple of things that make this useless.
Both Apple and Android run only signed code unless the user makes an effort to do otherwise. Google makes it a checkbox (which some carriers then remove).
Browser exploits for either platform are equally likely.
On Android, without rooting it or installing iTunes you can backup and install.apk files using a file explorer. The only "in the cloud" part is if the developer uses Google's version of DRM via the Market app. As long as you paid for the app, it doesn't care what version it is, so this too is no problem. So without being anchored to the iTunes monolith you can do this version management on the phone in the middle of nowhere.
Thats because it is one.
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-11/hybrid-car-created-completely-3d-printing
Real picture of a 1/6 scale model according to the article, and they have an actual video of the prototype driving around without a body shell.
The body appears to flip up with a seam around the driver area over the front wheel wells. Hinges on the front of the body? Or maybe hinges mid-body but that means you can't open it in your garage and some parking garages without scraping ceiling/garage door.
I'm betting "leave the planet" is the proper idea. I always imagine that shortly after the singularity, a sentient computer would get the hell off the planet pretty quick and probably just avoid us like the plague. We wouldn't really have the ability to give chase even in our own solar system.
That is unless the first AI is made by painstakingly simulating the human brain...Then yeah, we're screwed.
As far as buying unlocked phones, I haven't seen a setup where they have a non subsidized billing rate. You get out of the two year contract/early termination but it isn't like they have an unlocked phone rate. You still pay for the handset subsidy whether or not you need it. So yeah if you like giving extra money to the phone company, by all means, buy an unlocked phone and pay their unlimited data plan rate.
"Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters."
TFA is just speculating a linear scale down to handheld and shark-mounted lasers as a joke. Pretty funny too.
The goal weapon is 150kW which will put out the.50s 17kJ in about.11 seconds.
Nothing mentions the diameter or frequency of the beam used, but as another person alluded exposed human parts would explosively vaporize, metal would melt, and clothing would ignite(sufficient to stop combatant) pretty quickly.
36.6C, 40kg body water raised to boiling 63.4 degrees.
40kg * 63.4C * 4.18kJ/(kg * C) / 150 kW = 70.7 seconds to boil a 40kg person.
So (according to wolfram alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.035+s) between.4 to.7 of a "blink of an eye" 20cc of water turns to 34000cc of steam with what was a part of your body...and nobody said they turn the beam of here.
That probably over-simplifies how the energy would be converted and propagate through tissue, but who knows the frequency or diameter of the beam?
I agree it could be more powerful, but I thought the point of lasers was silence, precision, very little splash damage, and light speed travel to the target. Bullets are way slower than light, more adversely affected by wind, windows, etc. The use for this would probably be sniping guys with guns off a mosque with a drone instead of blowing up all their civilian shields and getting on the news.
Ditto shorter resolution. Also, if you had a skilled staff, you fix it yourself.
How many MS ATL apps are you running that are hackable?
How many vendors can update their product on your box without you running a separate update "daemon" in your HKLM/Software/Windows/Run key. Which shouldn't really even work anyway if your smart enough to leave your users out of the admin role. They aren't exactly benifiting from that WSUS server either.
Hell MS released a metric shit-ton of updates. How many MS ATL/Visual C++ apps are now hosed? You will never know, by design.
LOTS of lead-in on that. Long story short: Password recovery email sent to abandoned and thus recycled and avaiable hotmail account. Register hotmail account, send recovery email. Use gmail account to do password resets all over the damn place.
Google docs & everything Google was done on the first step.
If reverse time travel were possible it would have already happened in the future. Either we do not matter much to the inventors or they're too worried about changing their own past and vanishing, causing a global war, or preventing the invention of the sonic screwdriver.
So what I am wondering is: If you change the past, does the current time continue to happen in an alternate universe, or would it just change all of the events and update the same reality. Alternate universes would require an entire universe worth of energy to fork right? That has me leaning toward single reality updates. Unless that universe already existed and... oh I've gone crosseyed.
Anyone read "The Dreaming Void?" Substitute universe with known-universe and you just need a gigantic simulator that eats galaxies when it needs to fork. They should've built in logrotate on that simulator BTW.
The second we started broadcasting radio signals, we started talking to aliens. When we started having geostationary satellites we started beaming signals in a beacon that made it around a shadow of a satellite sweeping the earth's rotation and orbit. Which is not perfect coverage considering other bodies and the sun, still pretty good.
We can only hope they weren't listening.
Maybe the topic of the thread is how we can develop FTL travel to jam our previous signals before they reach the destination and instead explain that most of what is broadcast from our planet represents the worst of our culture.
Assuming one of Slashdot's readers is using a satellite internet service or possibly a wireless terrestrial connection, this discussion has made it there before any light-speed communications made after discovery.
So on behalf of our planet, please don't judge us by our average citizen, also don't visit for 500 or so years because we'll probably nuke you(which will tickle your ships..possibly recharging them via energy sink shields.) Then again if any of the show you've undoubtedly watched "X-Files" is accurate, please stop abducting stupid people and keep your genetic mutation virus to yourselves. Colonize some other planet congruous to your species that is uninhabited due to recent planetary cataclysm, please.
Stick on an external drive if needed. With Handbrake you can trascode those movie backups and stream them via Coherence to a UDMA/UPnP device (XBOX 360, PS3) etc. You have to do a custom setup with Handbrake to get the AC3 audio, basically select XBox360 as the target to get the defaults, change audio to AC3 direct stream copy or whatever, use AVI container, use Xvid(or FFMPEG not tested though) and viola.
Still requires some tweaking, I still get some weird artifacts with Xvid.
Use the easy_install Coherence method because the package in Ubuntu Intrepid sucked hard.
Also need 100Mbps ethernet to your XBOX360 to get acceptable AC3 audio. Not sure why but it streams at 30Mbps, your wiFi will probably fail at this. I troubleshot codecs forever until I read a post about bandwidth, copper made it awesome. Tip: if it works ok from a USB memory stick but sucks over wifi, you need a bigger pipe.
So the second service pack to a product released in Nov 2007 constitutes "out of the box" for a 1.0 standard from Feb 2007, or the 1.1 from Feb 2008...or 1.2?
"Out of the box" just seems a poor choice. 2 years later after much feet dragging, an international debacle, trying to kill or commandeer it several times...etc. This seems more like a concession/defeat admission.
Better late than never? Now make it the default save format please...though that might be like signing your own death warrant. Too much to ask I suppose.
Why the hell weren't they using ext2/3 or anything else? I'm guessing compatibility for the flash card readers for music loaded up by a windows PC or something?
Long AND short file names - This is the ~1 ~2 etc crap you get for file names from the 8.3 format. Probably not the exact same thing but wouldn't Unix symbolic links count? They're old as dirt. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5579517
Flash memory. Remove the word flash and it looks a lot like a textbook from the 70s on file systems 101 would work. Hell it almost looks like this could've been avoided by using a block allocation bitmap instead of storing usage flags in block headers. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6256642
ISP is doing the same scam, they direct you to a less trustworthy site on NXDOMAIN errors. For home use I wouldn't want to use this. For a corporate environment, I'll take the devil I know (OpenDNS) over whatever subcontractor my ISP chooses.
I spent a minute troubleshooting that problem with the ISP before I figured out what they were doing. They were catching updates.microsoft.com (NXDOMAIN) vs update.microsoft.com (good). They were handing off to a crappy looking search engine and it looked like a sneaky BHO blocking windows update. Instead of the familiar "hey you fat fingered this, dummy" page.
Now I'm using OpenDNS as yet another layer to keep the users in line and out of the bad parts of the internet. ISP didn't have reporting, malicious content blocking, or personal branding options. They were just pocketing the money from ads.
This is a great alternative to lame ISPs for businesses. Paranoid and/or home users need not apply. Also one size does not fit all, etc.
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In fact according to the article, Windows is open source to China among other governments BECAUSE Linux is open source and they were going to switch.
So when the first real cyber warfare starts happening (Ghostnet, Stuxnet are two that we know about). You'll know its Microsoft greed and our dependence on Microsoft that lost it for us. Selective open sourcing where none of the white-hats that aren't on the MS payroll get to see the code while nations that, at the very least, want to build an arsenal against it do see the code is worse than closed source.
There are a couple of things that make this useless. Both Apple and Android run only signed code unless the user makes an effort to do otherwise. Google makes it a checkbox (which some carriers then remove). Browser exploits for either platform are equally likely.
On Android, without rooting it or installing iTunes you can backup and install .apk files using a file explorer. The only "in the cloud" part is if the developer uses Google's version of DRM via the Market app. As long as you paid for the app, it doesn't care what version it is, so this too is no problem. So without being anchored to the iTunes monolith you can do this version management on the phone in the middle of nowhere.
Thats because it is one. http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-11/hybrid-car-created-completely-3d-printing Real picture of a 1/6 scale model according to the article, and they have an actual video of the prototype driving around without a body shell. The body appears to flip up with a seam around the driver area over the front wheel wells. Hinges on the front of the body? Or maybe hinges mid-body but that means you can't open it in your garage and some parking garages without scraping ceiling/garage door.
Selling IPv6 gear and migration services to federal orgs who get funded to do it regardless of need.
Cassandra has the goods for high available and optimized for non-financial data.
That said, I am amazed at how much time, money, and effort has gone into Twitter.
Now a distributed scalable super duper database will keep track of who is pooping. http://poop.obtoose.com/
I'm betting "leave the planet" is the proper idea. I always imagine that shortly after the singularity, a sentient computer would get the hell off the planet pretty quick and probably just avoid us like the plague. We wouldn't really have the ability to give chase even in our own solar system.
That is unless the first AI is made by painstakingly simulating the human brain...Then yeah, we're screwed.
This guy nailed it.
As far as buying unlocked phones, I haven't seen a setup where they have a non subsidized billing rate. You get out of the two year contract/early termination but it isn't like they have an unlocked phone rate. You still pay for the handset subsidy whether or not you need it. So yeah if you like giving extra money to the phone company, by all means, buy an unlocked phone and pay their unlimited data plan rate.
Yeah, job one for creating American jobs is farming jobs out to India. Nice.
It is 160 characters because of one guy and his typewriter in 1985.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html
"Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters."
TFA is just speculating a linear scale down to handheld and shark-mounted lasers as a joke. Pretty funny too.
The goal weapon is 150kW which will put out the .50s 17kJ in about .11 seconds.
Nothing mentions the diameter or frequency of the beam used, but as another person alluded exposed human parts would explosively vaporize, metal would melt, and clothing would ignite(sufficient to stop combatant) pretty quickly.
36.6C, 40kg body water raised to boiling 63.4 degrees.
40kg * 63.4C * 4.18kJ/(kg * C) / 150 kW = 70.7 seconds to boil a 40kg person.
But that isn't how it works, it's focused on say 20 cc of water. .02kg * 63.4C * 4.18kJ/(kg * C) / 150 kW = .035 seconds. So 20cc * 1700 = 34000cc BOOM!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.02kg+*+63.4C+*+4.18kJ%2F(kg+*+C)+%2F+150+kW
So (according to wolfram alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.035+s) between .4 to .7 of a "blink of an eye" 20cc of water turns to 34000cc of steam with what was a part of your body...and nobody said they turn the beam of here.
That probably over-simplifies how the energy would be converted and propagate through tissue, but who knows the frequency or diameter of the beam?
I agree it could be more powerful, but I thought the point of lasers was silence, precision, very little splash damage, and light speed travel to the target. Bullets are way slower than light, more adversely affected by wind, windows, etc. The use for this would probably be sniping guys with guns off a mosque with a drone instead of blowing up all their civilian shields and getting on the news.
Slightly more info and likely a big part of TFA's source:
http://www.ga.com/purchasing/pdf/HELLADS.pdf
heh, captcha is ablation ;)
Ditto shorter resolution. Also, if you had a skilled staff, you fix it yourself.
How many MS ATL apps are you running that are hackable?
How many vendors can update their product on your box without you running a separate update "daemon" in your HKLM/Software/Windows/Run key. Which shouldn't really even work anyway if your smart enough to leave your users out of the admin role. They aren't exactly benifiting from that WSUS server either.
Hell MS released a metric shit-ton of updates. How many MS ATL/Visual C++ apps are now hosed? You will never know, by design.
Nobody mentioned twitter?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/the-anatomy-of-the-twitter-attack/
LOTS of lead-in on that. Long story short: Password recovery email sent to abandoned and thus recycled and avaiable hotmail account. Register hotmail account, send recovery email. Use gmail account to do password resets all over the damn place.
Google docs & everything Google was done on the first step.
If reverse time travel were possible it would have already happened in the future. Either we do not matter much to the inventors or they're too worried about changing their own past and vanishing, causing a global war, or preventing the invention of the sonic screwdriver.
So what I am wondering is: If you change the past, does the current time continue to happen in an alternate universe, or would it just change all of the events and update the same reality. Alternate universes would require an entire universe worth of energy to fork right? That has me leaning toward single reality updates. Unless that universe already existed and ... oh I've gone crosseyed.
Anyone read "The Dreaming Void?" Substitute universe with known-universe and you just need a gigantic simulator that eats galaxies when it needs to fork. They should've built in logrotate on that simulator BTW.
The second we started broadcasting radio signals, we started talking to aliens. When we started having geostationary satellites we started beaming signals in a beacon that made it around a shadow of a satellite sweeping the earth's rotation and orbit. Which is not perfect coverage considering other bodies and the sun, still pretty good.
We can only hope they weren't listening.
Maybe the topic of the thread is how we can develop FTL travel to jam our previous signals before they reach the destination and instead explain that most of what is broadcast from our planet represents the worst of our culture.
Assuming one of Slashdot's readers is using a satellite internet service or possibly a wireless terrestrial connection, this discussion has made it there before any light-speed communications made after discovery.
So on behalf of our planet, please don't judge us by our average citizen, also don't visit for 500 or so years because we'll probably nuke you(which will tickle your ships..possibly recharging them via energy sink shields.) Then again if any of the show you've undoubtedly watched "X-Files" is accurate, please stop abducting stupid people and keep your genetic mutation virus to yourselves. Colonize some other planet congruous to your species that is uninhabited due to recent planetary cataclysm, please.
BTW: Enjoy the LOLcats.
Stick on an external drive if needed. With Handbrake you can trascode those movie backups and stream them via Coherence to a UDMA/UPnP device (XBOX 360, PS3) etc. You have to do a custom setup with Handbrake to get the AC3 audio, basically select XBox360 as the target to get the defaults, change audio to AC3 direct stream copy or whatever, use AVI container, use Xvid(or FFMPEG not tested though) and viola.
Still requires some tweaking, I still get some weird artifacts with Xvid.
Use the easy_install Coherence method because the package in Ubuntu Intrepid sucked hard.
Also need 100Mbps ethernet to your XBOX360 to get acceptable AC3 audio. Not sure why but it streams at 30Mbps, your wiFi will probably fail at this. I troubleshot codecs forever until I read a post about bandwidth, copper made it awesome. Tip: if it works ok from a USB memory stick but sucks over wifi, you need a bigger pipe.
I know what the submitter intended.
So the second service pack to a product released in Nov 2007 constitutes "out of the box" for a 1.0 standard from Feb 2007, or the 1.1 from Feb 2008...or 1.2?
"Out of the box" just seems a poor choice. 2 years later after much feet dragging, an international debacle, trying to kill or commandeer it several times...etc. This seems more like a concession/defeat admission.
Better late than never? Now make it the default save format please...though that might be like signing your own death warrant. Too much to ask I suppose.
I feel bad for the guy that cleans the people soup this makes in the crater.
Ron White might say. This will take them all the way to the crash site.
Why the hell weren't they using ext2/3 or anything else? I'm guessing compatibility for the flash card readers for music loaded up by a windows PC or something?
Long AND short file names - This is the ~1 ~2 etc crap you get for file names from the 8.3 format. Probably not the exact same thing but wouldn't Unix symbolic links count? They're old as dirt.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5579517
Ditto
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5758352
Flash memory. Remove the word flash and it looks a lot like a textbook from the 70s on file systems 101 would work. Hell it almost looks like this could've been avoided by using a block allocation bitmap instead of storing usage flags in block headers.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6256642
Drilling platform now. We've probably built better in the last 40 years though.
I almost forgot: Type o' Dong. HAHAHA.
obligitory, low brow, sorry
They are probably on their way.
If they think it is important enough, they will go to great lengths to recover things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Glomar_Explorer
ISP is doing the same scam, they direct you to a less trustworthy site on NXDOMAIN errors. For home use I wouldn't want to use this. For a corporate environment, I'll take the devil I know (OpenDNS) over whatever subcontractor my ISP chooses.
I spent a minute troubleshooting that problem with the ISP before I figured out what they were doing. They were catching updates.microsoft.com (NXDOMAIN) vs update.microsoft.com (good). They were handing off to a crappy looking search engine and it looked like a sneaky BHO blocking windows update. Instead of the familiar "hey you fat fingered this, dummy" page.
Now I'm using OpenDNS as yet another layer to keep the users in line and out of the bad parts of the internet. ISP didn't have reporting, malicious content blocking, or personal branding options. They were just pocketing the money from ads.
This is a great alternative to lame ISPs for businesses. Paranoid and/or home users need not apply. Also one size does not fit all, etc.
It's the AVG logo rotated 90 degrees CCW with a G on it without the 3D light and shadow.
http://www.avg.com/
Still, I like the old favicon. The new one isn't that great.