What if the guy GPLed the thing? What would military do? Osama (just to use some wildcard name for the evil character they want you to fear now) could use it as well as caaptain america (insert your favourite hiro/protagonist [blink]) Would anyone acknowledge the importance of open developing and GPL derivative work or would they just secret it up? Ok I really have no idea how open source licences would apply in such a scenario but it could be interesting
[and this is/. anyway so someone had to bring this up. BTW I see the meme war has already started so let me add: now imagine a Beowulf army of theese!]
If mail apps signed messages by default and included encryption in an easy and trasparent way, people would start to get accustomed and use it. I'd really like mail encryption to work as easily as ssl in browsers (but, hopefully, offering some more security). I advocate Enigmail to become part of thunderbird and to have tb create keys for you when you create an account and sign message by default. If a recipient is found to support crypto (it uses tb or signs its emails) the app could even bother you asking if you want to send secure message. This thing could be cool enought to get Outolook to follow the trend. Oh, by the way, look at how many thing Outlook mad us swallow just by making them default (HTML mail for one)
It is absolutely clear to me that you cannot have the computing power google has and not expect it to produce complex behaviour. I fell pretty sure google is the first step toward the cyberpunk world. (I for one welcome our new artificial intelligence overlord)
Maybe it's just that I rad the article while listening to "Delete Yourself" by the Atari Teenage Riot (worth downloading, I swear)
I have read the FAQ and the one you pointed me to have no info on what i asked, I said I gain and loose karma, without being mnoderated up and down, and without even reading slashdot... or at least that's what it looks like to me sometimes, I wish changenges to my karma were explicitly motivated by the system...
It happened to me recently, I complained with Cmdr_Taco and somehow the day after my karma was back from the dead (from bad to neutral) a few days passed on and i got moderated overrated again, karma went below zero. The day after my karma was restored to neutral and is now positive after no posting and a few metamoderations I made. Can someone point me to the whole set of rules karma follows, I seem to loose and gain it almost randomly even when I stay away from my pc...
Please focus on a stripped down version for PDAs. Pocket IE it's not a browser, it a joke. I think a minimal but modern browser could have a lot of public.
I followed the link you provided filled with excitation but what I found is just the official net-install debian cds. When talking about a live distro I assume you do not have to write on your hard disk in anyway to acces the full power of that distribution. On the other hand a netinst image is designed to let you run just the installer and little else so hardly qualify to be a live cd. I am really looking forward a live distribution fully compatible with debian (knoppix has a lot of issues if you try to apt-get upgrade it since its a mix of testing, unstable and hacked packages), maybe some day there will be even an "official" live cd.
Btw (sorry if this is slightly offtopic) but there is an x86 based live cd called Kanopix that tries to be as debian friendly as possibe to help those who wand to upgrade thei system sooner or later.
S entropy k Boltzman constant W number of possible microscopic states avaible.
An equation that ties disorder in the microscopic world (something invisible and fundamental) to such concrete things as temperature and pressure. And entropy is probably the most fascinating concept in statistical mechanics. I study particle physics but I always tought this is the most elegant equation I've ever seen.
PS According to wikipedia: "S = k log(W) is engraved on Boltzmann's tombstone at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof."
this equation holds if n belongs to the integears set.
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Phillip K Dick used to get stoked on amphetamines and write a novel in one week.... now this explains a lot to me:) wait, im not saying i dont like dick's novels, i think he had a lot of incredible ideas (amphetamines may have helped)... but his writing is not that good, I always end up mad at his stories because i feel he never exploited their full potential. Well maybe what i just said is just what this contest is all about, not just bragging about having written a novel but forcing out of you a story that would have never been written.
Cool (oh my god I'm so geek)... I wish I was able to look at them.
Btw here in Italy teletext (aka "televideo") has been used to distibute software... pages under 100 were reserved to transmit data that could be received with a special pc card. I think the system is still working, broadcasting software utilities, novels and simple (at the time they were dos) games, and I think all that stuff was in the public domain, maybe even GPL.
it answers a post (already modded up, unfortunately) wich stated something incorrect, and needs to be reconsidered by the readers. btw I would have corrected it myself.
Say you have a quantum state, you cannot read all the information it stores, lousy example: its like having a 3d object but beeing only able to project it only on ONE plane. There is this city but you can look at a city map but not find out about the height of the buildings, OR you can look at a transverse view, the skyline, where the tallest building covers all the others behind. In both cases you loose some information and you will never be able to fullyreproduce the city.
A quantum state can be fully copied (only destroying the original in the process) to another quantum system using some other (entangled) particle as a transport medium (plus you will need to transfer at least two common bits). The (entangled) particle must travel at a speed above or equal (if you use a photon) the speed of light, so NO, this is NOT faster than light information transfer.
Also the old style bits have to travel thru a ol' style bus, again slower or as fast as light, so, again, no faster than light transfer.
Disclaimer: I study quantum physics, it does not mean I have fully grasped it. (IMNYQP: i am not yet a quantum physicist!!!)
Wrong, if the answer was known the univers would flush out and restart becoming so complicated that the old Qestion answr wold make no sense any more.
By the way, I know the Question: once I was walking with some friends of mine when I saw this guy with a big 42 on the back of his t-shirt. "Look!" I said. "What?" someone replied. By that time the guy had disappeared in the crowd "That guy's t-shirt... never mind..." "Why? What was written on it?" I was going to Answer, but then I realized... it would have meant The End, so I shut up. But I think this is a good day for the end of the world.
Here is the Questions fellow/.ers it has been a pleasure and a privilege to know you. See you in the next universe.
how am i supposed to write my Phd thesis on every pc i find on my way if there is no latex. There is no way i am going to use 3.4. Sigh... i have been waiting so long for 2.6kernel on knoppix!
Slashdot Mirror
What if the guy GPLed the thing?
/. anyway so someone had to bring this up. BTW I see the meme war has already started so let me add:
What would military do?
Osama (just to use some wildcard name for the evil character they want you to fear now) could use it as well as caaptain america (insert your favourite hiro/protagonist [blink])
Would anyone acknowledge the importance of open developing and GPL derivative work or would they just secret it up?
Ok I really have no idea how open source licences would apply in such a scenario but it could be interesting
[and this is
now imagine a Beowulf army of theese!]
If mail apps signed messages by default and included encryption in an easy and trasparent way, people would start to get accustomed and use it.
I'd really like mail encryption to work as easily as ssl in browsers (but, hopefully, offering some more security).
I advocate Enigmail to become part of thunderbird and to have tb create keys for you when you create an account and sign message by default. If a recipient is found to support crypto (it uses tb or signs its emails) the app could even bother you asking if you want to send secure message.
This thing could be cool enought to get Outolook to follow the trend.
Oh, by the way, look at how many thing Outlook mad us swallow just by making them default (HTML mail for one)
It is absolutely clear to me that you cannot have the computing power google has and not expect it to produce complex behaviour.
I fell pretty sure google is the first step toward the cyberpunk world.
(I for one welcome our new artificial intelligence overlord)
Maybe it's just that I rad the article while listening to "Delete Yourself" by the Atari Teenage Riot (worth downloading, I swear)
I have read the FAQ and the one you pointed me to have no info on what i asked, I said I gain and loose karma, without being mnoderated up and down, and without even reading slashdot...
or at least that's what it looks like to me sometimes, I wish changenges to my karma were explicitly motivated by the system...
It happened to me recently, I complained with Cmdr_Taco and somehow the day after my karma was back from the dead (from bad to neutral) a few days passed on and i got moderated overrated again, karma went below zero. The day after my karma was restored to neutral and is now positive after no posting and a few metamoderations I made.
Can someone point me to the whole set of rules karma follows, I seem to loose and gain it almost randomly even when I stay away from my pc...
No, wait, they are our internet search overlords since, like, 1999?
Mhm to anonymous coward or not to anonymous coward?
Will moderators smack my karma below zero?
Please focus on a stripped down version for PDAs. Pocket IE it's not a browser, it a joke. I think a minimal but modern browser could have a lot of public.
I followed the link you provided filled with excitation but what I found is just the official net-install debian cds.
When talking about a live distro I assume you do not have to write on your hard disk in anyway to acces the full power of that distribution.
On the other hand a netinst image is designed to let you run just the installer and little else so hardly qualify to be a live cd.
I am really looking forward a live distribution fully compatible with debian (knoppix has a lot of issues if you try to apt-get upgrade it since its a mix of testing, unstable and hacked packages), maybe some day there will be even an "official" live cd.
Btw (sorry if this is slightly offtopic) but there is an x86 based live cd called Kanopix that tries to be as debian friendly as possibe to help those who wand to upgrade thei system sooner or later.
"Look, how late, its 19:84 already"
Daria Morgendorffer
BTW would you consider signing the petition to get MTV release all Daria episodes on DVD:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dvdaria/
Sorry it was:
Exp(2*i*pi*n)+1=0
am so stupid.
By the way this equation become the one posted in the article for 2pi=1 wich is a choice I always endorsed.
S entropy
k Boltzman constant
W number of possible microscopic states avaible.
An equation that ties disorder in the microscopic world (something invisible and fundamental) to such concrete things as temperature and pressure.
And entropy is probably the most fascinating concept in statistical mechanics.
I study particle physics but I always tought this is the most elegant equation I've ever seen.
PS
According to wikipedia:
"S = k log(W) is engraved on Boltzmann's tombstone at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof."
this equation holds if n belongs to the integears set.
Phillip K Dick used to get stoked on amphetamines and write a novel in one week. ... now this explains a lot to me :)
wait, im not saying i dont like dick's novels, i think he had a lot of incredible ideas (amphetamines may have helped)... but his writing is not that good, I always end up mad at his stories because i feel he never exploited their full potential.
Well maybe what i just said is just what this contest is all about, not just bragging about having written a novel but forcing out of you a story that would have never been written.
Cool (oh my god I'm so geek)... I wish I was able to look at them.
Btw here in Italy teletext (aka "televideo") has been used to distibute software...
pages under 100 were reserved to transmit data that could be received with a special pc card.
I think the system is still working, broadcasting software utilities, novels and simple (at the time they were dos) games, and I think all that stuff was in the public domain, maybe even GPL.
Way to go for the Ghostbusters atomic backpack!!!
G ho stbusters/CentralMinnesota/scrapbookFiles/mailedD1 7.jpgp ackwins ton.jpg
http://community-2.webtv.net/Central_Minnesota_
http://www.cyberturf.com/ghostbusters/back
it answers a post (already modded up, unfortunately) wich stated something incorrect, and needs to be reconsidered by the readers.
btw I would have corrected it myself.
Say you have a quantum state, you cannot read all the information it stores, lousy example:
its like having a 3d object but beeing only able to project it only on ONE plane.
There is this city but you can look at a city map but not find out about the height of the buildings, OR you can look at a transverse view, the skyline, where the tallest building covers all the others behind. In both cases you loose some information and you will never be able to fullyreproduce the city.
A quantum state can be fully copied (only destroying the original in the process) to another quantum system using some other (entangled) particle as a transport medium (plus you will need to transfer at least two common bits).
The (entangled) particle must travel at a speed above or equal (if you use a photon) the speed of light, so NO, this is NOT faster than light information transfer.
Also the old style bits have to travel thru a ol' style bus, again slower or as fast as light, so, again, no faster than light transfer.
Disclaimer: I study quantum physics, it does not mean I have fully grasped it. (IMNYQP: i am not yet a quantum physicist!!!)
AFAIK "Teleporting" is mainly a buzzword.
Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?
No, its just the end of Coral!
Wrong,
/.ers it has been a pleasure and a privilege to know you. See you in the next universe.
if the answer was known the univers would flush out and restart becoming so complicated that the old Qestion answr wold make no sense any more.
By the way, I know the Question:
once I was walking with some friends of mine when I saw this guy with a big 42 on the back of his t-shirt.
"Look!" I said.
"What?" someone replied.
By that time the guy had disappeared in the crowd
"That guy's t-shirt... never mind..."
"Why? What was written on it?"
I was going to Answer, but then I realized...
it would have meant The End, so I shut up.
But I think this is a good day for the end of the world.
Here is the Questions fellow
All packed toghether so you dont have to search
In soviet russia ARM boycots you!
I, for one, welcome our new processor market overlords.
I can't afford a non ARM cell phone, you insensitive clod.
... that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
Have americans ever read that much
(PS I love Allen Ginsberg)
forget java5
forget inferno
write your program as a mozilla extension
you'll be able to run it anywhere...
(at least anywhere mozilla can run, and it's a lot of places already)
how am i supposed to write my Phd thesis on every pc i find on my way if there is no latex.
There is no way i am going to use 3.4. Sigh... i have been waiting so long for 2.6kernel on knoppix!
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