You know, I never understand posts like this. There are many, many things that are important. I donate or give to those things that I can in different ways. Yes, the changing politics in the middle east is *more* important in most respects than consumer rights in the U.S. *but*:
a)That doesn't make consumer rights unimportant, or not worthy of some money for the good fight
b)There's little i can do to help the Egyptian people at the moment (not that they currently seem to need my help), but I can toss George Hotz $20 to fight what *is* an important legal battle here.
Civilization is built on a myriad of little things, you can't ignore the little stuff because there's lots of big stuff too. You fix the broken windows and the neighborhood gets safer. This case is a broken window. For that matter, in a way, you could relate these two things. A wikileaks cable is widely regarded as the straw that broke the camel's back in Tunisia. Legal protections for freedom of speech on the web (part of the GeoHot case) could have repercussions on anything else that gets published on the web (like, say, wikileaks), so perhaps I *am* helping, in some small way, to bring down the next Mubarak. But, most importantly, I am tossing some of my earned money to a cause I deem worthy, and that's my right.
Honestly, the *current* iPad competes well with the xoom, particularly on price, and it's not exactly a stretch to understand that Apple will release a new one, with updated specs and a similar price range, this year. I may not know the exact specs, but it's a good bet it isn't going to be a downgrade from the current model....
The iPad2 is going to murder the flagship Android tablets... shame, I really want an Android tablet, But give a wifi only version in the same price range as the wifi iPad! I only need to pay for one bloody data connection, and I already have one on my phone!
I realize you're probably a troll, but I'll bite (if for no other reason than you have an awesome UID
In honor of those lives lost in 86 [...] the fleet should have been grounded a LONG time ago
I'm pretty sure that none of the people whose lives were lost would consider it an honor for the fleet to be grounded. Pilots, researchers, and anyone else who undertakes to get onto a giant chemical rocket pointed up accepts that there's some risk, and they accept it willingly. This isn't a job at McDonalds that people take because they have no other choice, this is a job that highly skilled and motivated people take, despite (relative to what many of them could be doing in private industry) crappy pay, shitty hours, and lots of hard work. Not to mention that all told space travel under NASA has been exceedingly safe, being a commercial pilot would, in fact, likely be riskier to life and limb, it's just that when things go wrong with space flight in it's current state they go *wrong*.
and millions starving instead of being fed to do so [...] NASA is a pig, a money pit, we all know it
NASA is such a tiny portion of the federal budget that the idea of calling it a money hog is laughable. No one is starving because of the shuttle program, and the basic research NASA has produced has, in fact, helped farming methods, food safety standards, food packaging and shipping technology, food processing technology... etc. Not to mention that your argument is a false dichotomy, the only two things the govt spends money are not NASA and food...
Hell, if we'd funded NASA better we'd probably have a shuttle replacement flying by now.
it is already private with FAT government spending and waste
Usually the infringed party contacts the infringing party and allows them to correct the error, since mistakes happen. It's the polite, non-douchebag way to behave, particularly since the goal of the GPL is spreading code. In legal terms, it's called "good-faith".
Oracle, of course, is a douchebag, and as such does things the douchebag way.
Thus, Oracle gets slammed for being a douchebag.
It's like seeing a guy hit on your girlfriend, and instead of telling the guy she's spoken for, you sucker-punch him. You're a douchebag if you behave that way, plain and simple. That's how Oracle operates.
This is slashdot, can I have my analogies in car form please, at least it'll be more understandable than that most mythic of beasts on this site, a girlfriend!
The coffee from the crappy stand near the subway stop next to my house, or the bodega down the street: Both $1
The better coffee from the bakery near my house: $1.25 (though they're raising it to $1.50 this week apparently)
Starbucks, somewhere between crappy stand and bakery in quality: $1.70
Point is: It's only slightly more expensive, and perhaps not quite as high quality, but it's not *ludicrous* if all you want is a cup of joe. Now when you start getting into the half-cafe soy latte with the barista's poodle and an elephant on top... then it starts getting pricey.
One day you'll learn that it's possible to send encrypted and non-encrypted texts from the same phone pretty easily.
Ah, I misread that.
True, you can send encrypted and unencrypted texts from the same phone. However I was mostly taking issue with, from the GP: This has the upside of ensuring that everyone you text is aware of the importance of privacy." which implies that you would be sending encrypted texts to people who don't have the same software you do, or don't have it yet, annoying them. Think of it like nagware.
Honestly, any text important enough to be encrypted needs more security than a user-level piece of software on a modern phone, since such software isn't usually allowed to have low enough level hooks to prevent key logging, clipboard caching, and other security precautions.... If you want to be secure send it as email, encrypted, from a machine you have root on and control of the OS install, to a machine they have root on and control of the OS install.
And the couch part was a joke, the point being she wouldn't go out and buy all the necessary equipment and data plan to handle encrypted texts from me on an adjunct's salary just because I was being a pain in the ass
The OP was talking about encrypting *all* his texts, and you were talking about informing anyone he texts of the need for security thusly. He wasn't specifically referring to just activists, lawyers, businessmen, etc, nor were you unless my reading comprehension has ceased to function....
This has the upside of ensuring that everyone you text is aware of the importance of privacy.
I'm rather certain that like, despite the stereotype, most of/. the person I text the most is my SO. My girlfriend is a scientist, but not a tech/gadget person. I'd be willing to bet that most of the/. crowd's SOs are not necessarily gadget people either.
I'm quite certain my girlfriend's response to sending her incromprehensible jibberish and explaining that it was encrypted would not be "let me ditch my simple phone and get a smart phone (and mandatory data plan) so I can use an encrypted text app to know what you're sending me"
It would most likely be "stop acting like a jackass and send me normal texts or you get to sleep on the couch for the next week"
What if I don't *want* to expose my internal network to the world? You're right in that I won't need *NAT* with IPv6, but I'll still want a router with a builtin firewall! Not to mention all the legacy devices and machines I have that will never support v6 (couple printers, some old machines I have to play with, etc), I still need a router capable of handling both forms of traffic, handling NAT for the IPv4 devices, and translating to v6 so I can keep those devices working.....
Heh, he apparently was flying from ~3 blocks from my house. The city's emergency command center is only a few blocks away too, on the site of the old red cross building, and of course there's the bridges and lots of traffic on them and the BQE and FDR, plus pedestrians and boats... so it's not surprising that an long range aerial display like this would at least be checked up on. They didn't stop them though, so I'm not really worried about authorities overstepping their boundaries in this case....
I don't use the services of the Red Cross _at all_ but somehow I consider that to be a more worthwhile organization to donate to
Not to quibble but....
If you've ever swum in a public pool or at a public beach, had a safety lecture given to you at a job or school, had a first responder bandage your arm, head, hands (or those of family member), been effected in any way by a natural disaster, etc. Then there's a pretty good chance you've used the services of the Red Cross, if indirectly.
I was at the top500 talk at SC10 a few weeks ago, and that's their biggest issue right now. Hell, even core counts are contentious (how many cores does a Tesla C2050 have? Nvidia would say 448, the Top500 guys would say 56 ). The HPL benchmark does work, with some porting, on GPUs (I know firsthand, I used Nvidia's CUDA build of it for benchmarking for the SC10 cluster challenge) but there's a lot of devision I've seen in both vendors and researchers as to whether it's the best benchmark going forward.....
I looked around, and there's not a single semi-mainstream vendor which sells those -- and I'm not going to order stuff from overseas.
Server-side, I'm pretty sure IBM counts as a major vendor. Also the PS3, XBox360, and Wii all use some variant of PPC, as the GP noted. So btw do a great deal of embedded chips manufactured by such bit players (no pun intended) as, oh, say Motorola (well, Freescale now). A lot of set-top boxes and such use PPC.
Most business class connections and up are true unlimited, based on the connection speed, not on the amount. Verizon doesn't care if I max out my FIOS business class connection 24/7, I'm paying a premium for the connection, and they're providing me the bandwidth I'm paying for. To put it another way, they've allocated that trunk as if it were going to be heavily used, and so aren't over-selling as much as on the consumer connections.
....and the article don't match. According to the article which I::gasp:: read, Google is, in general, developing several APIs for direct access to the engine without scraping. Of the three mentioned, one of those options would work for the kind of searches the RIAA wants to do. Google politely pointed this out to the *AAs, but also pointed out they charge a fee for the queries - which, as the article says, could cost the *AAs a very large amount of money if they decided to use the API.
It's not really. Those buffers are to even production and store energy for later demand, but there's nowhere near enough to provide a base. Base load generators in the states are coal and nuclear, not wind or solar. Hell, wind and solar don't make up more than a few percent of *all* power generation in the US, let alone base stations.
There are other costs with moving to wind and solar on a large enough and distributed enough scale to even think about them being used in such a capacity anytime soon. There are heavy environmental costs to hydro-electric, solar panel production, etc. There are space considerations, and major transmission hurdles to fix. It's not impossible but it is *hard*, and *very* expensive. Sustainable doesn't mean much if it's not currently viable for such a use.
Most providers in the US will do that now, the problem is that panels are still expensive enough it takes something like 20 years to make your money back, even if you live somewhere sunny and have a good sized roof
It's much harder (note I said harder, not impossible) to create base load generation for a grid from solar/wind than from nuclear. It requires some sort of energy storage (either a battery, or pumped reservoir, etc) to do so from wind and solar, and if a long enough period of time with the wrong kind of weather happens that base vanishes. If we had *tons* of solar and wind, all over the country balancing load, and very efficient transmission from coast to coast I suppose it would solve that problem, but it's both a technical problem and a chicken/egg problem.
Sorry, but those puny savings simply won't matter when the banks demand their next round of trillion dollar bailouts in the next ten years. Penny wise and pound foolish doesn't make anybody rich....
You do know that even with a fair number of smaller banks still having debt outstanding and not expected to pay back till the interest bump in 2013 the govt. has already *made* money from TARP, right?
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You know, I never understand posts like this. There are many, many things that are important. I donate or give to those things that I can in different ways. Yes, the changing politics in the middle east is *more* important in most respects than consumer rights in the U.S. *but*:
a)That doesn't make consumer rights unimportant, or not worthy of some money for the good fight
b)There's little i can do to help the Egyptian people at the moment (not that they currently seem to need my help), but I can toss George Hotz $20 to fight what *is* an important legal battle here.
Civilization is built on a myriad of little things, you can't ignore the little stuff because there's lots of big stuff too. You fix the broken windows and the neighborhood gets safer. This case is a broken window. For that matter, in a way, you could relate these two things. A wikileaks cable is widely regarded as the straw that broke the camel's back in Tunisia. Legal protections for freedom of speech on the web (part of the GeoHot case) could have repercussions on anything else that gets published on the web (like, say, wikileaks), so perhaps I *am* helping, in some small way, to bring down the next Mubarak. But, most importantly, I am tossing some of my earned money to a cause I deem worthy, and that's my right.
..matched as well, this is an important fight!
Honestly, the *current* iPad competes well with the xoom, particularly on price, and it's not exactly a stretch to understand that Apple will release a new one, with updated specs and a similar price range, this year. I may not know the exact specs, but it's a good bet it isn't going to be a downgrade from the current model....
The iPad2 is going to murder the flagship Android tablets... shame, I really want an Android tablet, But give a wifi only version in the same price range as the wifi iPad! I only need to pay for one bloody data connection, and I already have one on my phone!
In honor of those lives lost in 86 [...] the fleet should have been grounded a LONG time ago
I'm pretty sure that none of the people whose lives were lost would consider it an honor for the fleet to be grounded. Pilots, researchers, and anyone else who undertakes to get onto a giant chemical rocket pointed up accepts that there's some risk, and they accept it willingly. This isn't a job at McDonalds that people take because they have no other choice, this is a job that highly skilled and motivated people take, despite (relative to what many of them could be doing in private industry) crappy pay, shitty hours, and lots of hard work. Not to mention that all told space travel under NASA has been exceedingly safe, being a commercial pilot would, in fact, likely be riskier to life and limb, it's just that when things go wrong with space flight in it's current state they go *wrong*.
and millions starving instead of being fed to do so [...] NASA is a pig, a money pit, we all know it
NASA is such a tiny portion of the federal budget that the idea of calling it a money hog is laughable. No one is starving because of the shuttle program, and the basic research NASA has produced has, in fact, helped farming methods, food safety standards, food packaging and shipping technology, food processing technology... etc. Not to mention that your argument is a false dichotomy, the only two things the govt spends money are not NASA and food...
Hell, if we'd funded NASA better we'd probably have a shuttle replacement flying by now.
it is already private with FAT government spending and waste
Uh, what?
Usually the infringed party contacts the infringing party and allows them to correct the error, since mistakes happen. It's the polite, non-douchebag way to behave, particularly since the goal of the GPL is spreading code. In legal terms, it's called "good-faith".
Oracle, of course, is a douchebag, and as such does things the douchebag way.
Thus, Oracle gets slammed for being a douchebag.
It's like seeing a guy hit on your girlfriend, and instead of telling the guy she's spoken for, you sucker-punch him. You're a douchebag if you behave that way, plain and simple. That's how Oracle operates.
This is slashdot, can I have my analogies in car form please, at least it'll be more understandable than that most mythic of beasts on this site, a girlfriend!
The coffee from the crappy stand near the subway stop next to my house, or the bodega down the street: Both $1
The better coffee from the bakery near my house: $1.25 (though they're raising it to $1.50 this week apparently)
Starbucks, somewhere between crappy stand and bakery in quality: $1.70
Point is: It's only slightly more expensive, and perhaps not quite as high quality, but it's not *ludicrous* if all you want is a cup of joe. Now when you start getting into the half-cafe soy latte with the barista's poodle and an elephant on top... then it starts getting pricey.
One day you'll learn that it's possible to send encrypted and non-encrypted texts from the same phone pretty easily.
Ah, I misread that.
True, you can send encrypted and unencrypted texts from the same phone. However I was mostly taking issue with, from the GP: This has the upside of ensuring that everyone you text is aware of the importance of privacy." which implies that you would be sending encrypted texts to people who don't have the same software you do, or don't have it yet, annoying them. Think of it like nagware.
Honestly, any text important enough to be encrypted needs more security than a user-level piece of software on a modern phone, since such software isn't usually allowed to have low enough level hooks to prevent key logging, clipboard caching, and other security precautions.... If you want to be secure send it as email, encrypted, from a machine you have root on and control of the OS install, to a machine they have root on and control of the OS install.
One day is not the same as now.
And the couch part was a joke, the point being she wouldn't go out and buy all the necessary equipment and data plan to handle encrypted texts from me on an adjunct's salary just because I was being a pain in the ass
The OP was talking about encrypting *all* his texts, and you were talking about informing anyone he texts of the need for security thusly. He wasn't specifically referring to just activists, lawyers, businessmen, etc, nor were you unless my reading comprehension has ceased to function....
This has the upside of ensuring that everyone you text is aware of the importance of privacy.
I'm rather certain that like, despite the stereotype, most of /. the person I text the most is my SO. My girlfriend is a scientist, but not a tech/gadget person. I'd be willing to bet that most of the /. crowd's SOs are not necessarily gadget people either.
I'm quite certain my girlfriend's response to sending her incromprehensible jibberish and explaining that it was encrypted would not be "let me ditch my simple phone and get a smart phone (and mandatory data plan) so I can use an encrypted text app to know what you're sending me"
It would most likely be "stop acting like a jackass and send me normal texts or you get to sleep on the couch for the next week"
Isn't about the iphone...
it's "where is my bloody flying car!?!?"
What if I don't *want* to expose my internal network to the world? You're right in that I won't need *NAT* with IPv6, but I'll still want a router with a builtin firewall! Not to mention all the legacy devices and machines I have that will never support v6 (couple printers, some old machines I have to play with, etc), I still need a router capable of handling both forms of traffic, handling NAT for the IPv4 devices, and translating to v6 so I can keep those devices working.....
Heh, he apparently was flying from ~3 blocks from my house. The city's emergency command center is only a few blocks away too, on the site of the old red cross building, and of course there's the bridges and lots of traffic on them and the BQE and FDR, plus pedestrians and boats... so it's not surprising that an long range aerial display like this would at least be checked up on. They didn't stop them though, so I'm not really worried about authorities overstepping their boundaries in this case....
I don't use the services of the Red Cross _at all_ but somehow I consider that to be a more worthwhile organization to donate to
Not to quibble but....
If you've ever swum in a public pool or at a public beach, had a safety lecture given to you at a job or school, had a first responder bandage your arm, head, hands (or those of family member), been effected in any way by a natural disaster, etc. Then there's a pretty good chance you've used the services of the Red Cross, if indirectly.
I was at the top500 talk at SC10 a few weeks ago, and that's their biggest issue right now. Hell, even core counts are contentious (how many cores does a Tesla C2050 have? Nvidia would say 448, the Top500 guys would say 56 ). The HPL benchmark does work, with some porting, on GPUs (I know firsthand, I used Nvidia's CUDA build of it for benchmarking for the SC10 cluster challenge) but there's a lot of devision I've seen in both vendors and researchers as to whether it's the best benchmark going forward.....
PowerPC is still popular in servers
I looked around, and there's not a single semi-mainstream vendor which sells those -- and I'm not going to order stuff from overseas.
Server-side, I'm pretty sure IBM counts as a major vendor. Also the PS3, XBox360, and Wii all use some variant of PPC, as the GP noted. So btw do a great deal of embedded chips manufactured by such bit players (no pun intended) as, oh, say Motorola (well, Freescale now). A lot of set-top boxes and such use PPC.
Most business class connections and up are true unlimited, based on the connection speed, not on the amount. Verizon doesn't care if I max out my FIOS business class connection 24/7, I'm paying a premium for the connection, and they're providing me the bandwidth I'm paying for. To put it another way, they've allocated that trunk as if it were going to be heavily used, and so aren't over-selling as much as on the consumer connections.
....and the article don't match. According to the article which I ::gasp:: read, Google is, in general, developing several APIs for direct access to the engine without scraping. Of the three mentioned, one of those options would work for the kind of searches the RIAA wants to do. Google politely pointed this out to the *AAs, but also pointed out they charge a fee for the queries - which, as the article says, could cost the *AAs a very large amount of money if they decided to use the API.
I vote for a probable D) A disproportionate number of iPhones compared to other smart phones are owned by teenagers
It's not really. Those buffers are to even production and store energy for later demand, but there's nowhere near enough to provide a base. Base load generators in the states are coal and nuclear, not wind or solar. Hell, wind and solar don't make up more than a few percent of *all* power generation in the US, let alone base stations.
There are other costs with moving to wind and solar on a large enough and distributed enough scale to even think about them being used in such a capacity anytime soon. There are heavy environmental costs to hydro-electric, solar panel production, etc. There are space considerations, and major transmission hurdles to fix. It's not impossible but it is *hard*, and *very* expensive. Sustainable doesn't mean much if it's not currently viable for such a use.
Most providers in the US will do that now, the problem is that panels are still expensive enough it takes something like 20 years to make your money back, even if you live somewhere sunny and have a good sized roof
It's much harder (note I said harder, not impossible) to create base load generation for a grid from solar/wind than from nuclear. It requires some sort of energy storage (either a battery, or pumped reservoir, etc) to do so from wind and solar, and if a long enough period of time with the wrong kind of weather happens that base vanishes. If we had *tons* of solar and wind, all over the country balancing load, and very efficient transmission from coast to coast I suppose it would solve that problem, but it's both a technical problem and a chicken/egg problem.
*made money from TARP on the parts paid back (I should probably use the preview button properly)
Sorry, but those puny savings simply won't matter when the banks demand their next round of trillion dollar bailouts in the next ten years. Penny wise and pound foolish doesn't make anybody rich....
You do know that even with a fair number of smaller banks still having debt outstanding and not expected to pay back till the interest bump in 2013 the govt. has already *made* money from TARP, right?