Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
I don't hide my porn browsing from my wife, but I still don't want it popping up every time someone starts to type something into the address bar. I always cringe when a guest comes over and types "a" into the address bar and "Amateur Porn Blog" comes up as the first item in the list.
How is "less logical" to function robustly under a load of hundreds of developers checking in code while build jobs are simultaneously checking out code? How "less logical" is it for a single server to be able to hold the entire code reserve of a large software company and serve it to all its users? There is no other product that will function as well as Perforce under such a load.
I don't know if you noticed, but git seems to be doing pretty well for the Linux kernel. Admittedly, there are only thousands of developers simultaneously working on the project while many thousands of people are simultaneously checking out code to build. I suspect that p4 would rapidly choke and die if you tried to do the sort of scale and rate of development that the kernel maintains month after month.
Well, except that SVN revision numbers are in order. Could you tell at a glance which of two binaries with the git SHA1 hash in the filename was newer? What about with an svn revision number?
You may wish to investigate the git describe command. For example:
The output contains the latest annotated tag, the number of commits since that tag, and the first 7 hex digits of the current commit hash prefixed by a "g". All the information you need to quickly or precisely identify a revision.
No, that was Canonical. Greg K-H publicly and controversially called them out about it at a kernel developer conference a while back, but I can't find a link right now.
...I suspect many professors still feel a textbook lacks legitimacy unless it's hard cover, thick and there is a substantial price tag connected to it. I say this so as to suggest that "free" might mean it won't be as widely adopted as the authors first one.
That's fine -- just take a leaf out of David MacKay's book (ha). His textbook (Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms) is available online for free, but is also published by Cambridge University Press, one of the world's top academic publishers.
It's also one of their best-sellers.
(I own a copy of the above textbook; it's excellently written, typeset and bound. One of the best books I own!)
Nothing is more insulting that equating being technically literate with 'defending the anonymity of internet pirates'. What is this? digg? torrentfreak? or 'newsforpirates'?
If you think that's what my objection to this is about, you're a fool suffering under the influence of the well-known fallacy, "The innocent have nothing to fear."
I am not a pirate, yet I oppose this. My main objections to this are:
Very little if any consideration of how false accusations might occur. At the moment, you might end up getting hauled into court:
Because the clock on the ISP's DHCP box was incorrect;
Because you were uploading something entirely legitimate which happened to have a filename which looked like it might be unauthorised.
Other ways I haven't thought of yet.
In the legislation as currently proposed, there is no discussion whatsoever of what recourse ISP account holders would have against false accusations.
No requirement that an ISP account holder is notified promptly of accusations made against them, so that they can preserve evidence of non-infringement. Indeed, there is not even a requirement that an account holder is told what work they are alleged to have illicitly copied or who is asserting the copyright on the work.
No requirement that civil court-grade evidence is gathered at the time that an accusation of infringement is made. Essentially, any lawsuit brought based on the proposed legislation would be a case of, "He said, she said," without the defendant receiving the benefit of good quality evidence to use in their defence.
There are several other similar issues.
Support this legislation if you like; I will have no sympathy whatsoever for you if and when you find yourself in court accused of something you didn't do and with no way to mount an effective defence.
The data would be anonymous, but serious repeat infringers would be tracked down through their computer ID numbers.
This must be some definition of the word 'anonymous' that I was not previously aware of.
Yes, quite. The whole thing is pure fascistic lunacy, that appears to have been drawn up by corporate lobbyists and Whitehall bureaucrats with no awareness of either the technical or legal ramifications of what they are doing.
Also, since the rate of progress of technology nowadays is so much faster than big business and government can respond to it, this scheme will be obsolescent by the time that it gets implemented.
I recently wrote to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in response to the pre-legislative consultation documents, and I would encourage other technically-literate Brits to do the same.
I acutally like Windows 7, it crusies on my low-end, Sam's Club Dell Inspiron 1525 Celeron with 2GB of RAM. I still have plenty of memory for doing other things. Gnome and KDE have some catching up to do again.
Whatever. KDE4 works perfectly smoothly (with all the fancy compositing etc turned on) on my Athlon 64 3500+ with 1 GB of RAM which I bought in 2004.
What you meant is, "Windows is still more bloated than GNOME and KDE." Right?
Sorry, you're neither correct nor insightful- and I wish the people that'd modded you up had bothered to do the same little experiment I did and didn't give you the time of day, any more than the discussion threads over at Linux Today gave you an inch on this stuff you're coming up with. Which, I might add, is verbatim what you posted over here.
I still think Slashdot needs a (-1, Wrong) moderation option for idiots like this.
One idea is perhaps have an option when a TPM prompts for its PIN to have a duress code which would zero out the stored data. Problem is, if that feature got used, almost immediately, a destruction of evidence charge likely would follow.
It sounds like the trick is to do this in such a way that no-one can tell that anything was changed...
That's assuming that the police are drooling morons that have no clue what they're doing.
Obviously they'll copy the drive before trying anything on it. You hand over the "wrong" key, data gets scrambled, the restore it from the copy they took and asks for the correct key.
This sounds like a good application for a TPM, don't you think? Isn't that supposed to stop anyone being able to remove data from the machine? (Unless the TPM is backdoored...)
Do modern TPMs have a "suicide" feature that allows them to destroy the secret and create a new one on operating system request? If not, they should have.
PCGamer - atleast in the UK - was and is aimed at the teenage market. Plastered with semi-naked models holding various computing peripherals. Last time I bought PC Gamer I was at a hospital and needed something to read while I was waiting. Utter Trash
I've never seen a model on the front of PCGamerUK, naked or otherwise... without exception that I am aware of, their front covers are always screenshot-, concept art-, or logo-based.
Were you thinking of PC Format? Now that is trash.
I stopped reading gaming mags/sites years ago, too many puff-pieces for vapourware, or people telling me I'd be sooo much more competitive if I just spent loadsamoney on their hardware. Instead; I tried asking real people what games they played, how well it played, and if online play was fun or just a button-twitch fest.
Chances are they want to provide things like DVD style menus that work consistently across a range of devices with different display and input capabilities. That's not a terrible idea and it is the sort of thing that you need some sort of standard for beyond "just use HTML".
No, that is a terrible idea. Anyway, what's wrong with HTML+Javascript for that application? People have been designing webpages that "work consistently across a range of devices with different display and input capabilities" for years.
I have to disagree with this. Non-linear programming is not appropriate for a marriage. If you can't express your needs as a set of linear constraints, then you're not trying hard enough. If you can't use the simplex algorithm to resolve resource allocation conflicts, then you're not ready to get married.
Personally, I often find that Monte-Carlo methods provide a number of advantages.
1. You need goals to achieve anything. You need to achieve things to be happy. If one or more of your group is unhappy, the result will inevitably be dissolution of the group. Set goals early, set them often.
...
I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
Are these points related?
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But... forgive me, master... I do not know the way. Please. Enlighten me.
Actually, you'll be pleased to hear that it's fairly straightforward-ish. Firstly, activities are layer *under* virtual desktops, not above them. As I understand it:
Virtual desktops:
Provide a way to organize sets of application windows.
Associates applications with each other within the same activity.
Are typically switched between with high frequency (every few minutes).
Activities:
Provide a way to organize the way that you organize application windows (the virtual desktop switcher and taskbar are Plasmoids!)
Provide a context within which applications are run (i.e. associates applications with a particular activity).
Are switched between less frequently (e.g. once every few hours, possibly).
So, for instance, an Activity allows you to change the icons on *all* of your virtual desktops at once, because if you are changing the "activity" you are currently involved it you'll probably want to run different applications on all of your virtual desktops (or so, I believe, the logic goes).
TBH, I use neither Activities nor virtual desktops, so I'm not exactly arguing from a position of strength here!
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Had plasma simply been a library and a method for displaying desktop widgets...
...then it would have been an entirely pointless exercise that completely failed to complete its objectives.
I still don't know what the hell plasma activities are supposed to do, except break things. They don't do anything that virtual desktops don't.
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surrounding the UK Parliament and saying, "Comply or else."
Or else what?
"I fart in your general direction!"
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
I don't hide my porn browsing from my wife, but I still don't want it popping up every time someone starts to type something into the address bar. I always cringe when a guest comes over and types "a" into the address bar and "Amateur Porn Blog" comes up as the first item in the list.
That's why my system has an 'xguest' account!
How is "less logical" to function robustly under a load of hundreds of developers checking in code while build jobs are simultaneously checking out code? How "less logical" is it for a single server to be able to hold the entire code reserve of a large software company and serve it to all its users? There is no other product that will function as well as Perforce under such a load.
I don't know if you noticed, but git seems to be doing pretty well for the Linux kernel. Admittedly, there are only thousands of developers simultaneously working on the project while many thousands of people are simultaneously checking out code to build. I suspect that p4 would rapidly choke and die if you tried to do the sort of scale and rate of development that the kernel maintains month after month.
Well, except that SVN revision numbers are in order. Could you tell at a glance which of two binaries with the git SHA1 hash in the filename was newer? What about with an svn revision number?
You may wish to investigate the git describe command. For example:
[peter@harrington git (master)]$ git describe
v1.6.3.2-225-gb836490
The output contains the latest annotated tag, the number of commits since that tag, and the first 7 hex digits of the current commit hash prefixed by a "g". All the information you need to quickly or precisely identify a revision.
Documentation is here.
That would be "Age of Parentheses". They're no good unless they're in matching pairs!
Some more than others, unfortunately.
Well, as it happens, yes, the LRO does have a Synthetic Aperture Radar payload (called MiniRF).
But it's separate.
No, that was Canonical. Greg K-H publicly and controversially called them out about it at a kernel developer conference a while back, but I can't find a link right now.
Personally I run R&D, invention, manufacturing, and work the market when I don't have much time to invest.
This is PVP.
I squeeze in a few missions when do have some time to kill mostly as an income supplement.
This is PVE.
...I suspect many professors still feel a textbook lacks legitimacy unless it's hard cover, thick and there is a substantial price tag connected to it. I say this so as to suggest that "free" might mean it won't be as widely adopted as the authors first one.
That's fine -- just take a leaf out of David MacKay's book (ha). His textbook (Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms) is available online for free, but is also published by Cambridge University Press, one of the world's top academic publishers.
It's also one of their best-sellers.
(I own a copy of the above textbook; it's excellently written, typeset and bound. One of the best books I own!)
Nothing is more insulting that equating being technically literate with 'defending the anonymity of internet pirates'. What is this? digg? torrentfreak? or 'newsforpirates'?
If you think that's what my objection to this is about, you're a fool suffering under the influence of the well-known fallacy, "The innocent have nothing to fear."
I am not a pirate, yet I oppose this. My main objections to this are:
In the legislation as currently proposed, there is no discussion whatsoever of what recourse ISP account holders would have against false accusations.
Support this legislation if you like; I will have no sympathy whatsoever for you if and when you find yourself in court accused of something you didn't do and with no way to mount an effective defence.
The data would be anonymous, but serious repeat infringers would be tracked down through their computer ID numbers.
This must be some definition of the word 'anonymous' that I was not previously aware of.
Yes, quite. The whole thing is pure fascistic lunacy, that appears to have been drawn up by corporate lobbyists and Whitehall bureaucrats with no awareness of either the technical or legal ramifications of what they are doing.
Also, since the rate of progress of technology nowadays is so much faster than big business and government can respond to it, this scheme will be obsolescent by the time that it gets implemented.
I recently wrote to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in response to the pre-legislative consultation documents, and I would encourage other technically-literate Brits to do the same.
I acutally like Windows 7, it crusies on my low-end, Sam's Club Dell Inspiron 1525 Celeron with 2GB of RAM. I still have plenty of memory for doing other things. Gnome and KDE have some catching up to do again.
Whatever. KDE4 works perfectly smoothly (with all the fancy compositing etc turned on) on my Athlon 64 3500+ with 1 GB of RAM which I bought in 2004.
What you meant is, "Windows is still more bloated than GNOME and KDE." Right?
Sorry, you're neither correct nor insightful- and I wish the people that'd modded you up had bothered to do the same little experiment I did and didn't give you the time of day, any more than the discussion threads over at Linux Today gave you an inch on this stuff you're coming up with. Which, I might add, is verbatim what you posted over here.
I still think Slashdot needs a (-1, Wrong) moderation option for idiots like this.
One idea is perhaps have an option when a TPM prompts for its PIN to have a duress code which would zero out the stored data. Problem is, if that feature got used, almost immediately, a destruction of evidence charge likely would follow.
It sounds like the trick is to do this in such a way that no-one can tell that anything was changed...
That's assuming that the police are drooling morons that have no clue what they're doing. Obviously they'll copy the drive before trying anything on it. You hand over the "wrong" key, data gets scrambled, the restore it from the copy they took and asks for the correct key.
This sounds like a good application for a TPM, don't you think? Isn't that supposed to stop anyone being able to remove data from the machine? (Unless the TPM is backdoored...)
Do modern TPMs have a "suicide" feature that allows them to destroy the secret and create a new one on operating system request? If not, they should have.
They could always make servers specific to parts of the globe...
One of the unique selling points of EVE is that there is only one collosal server.
PCGamer - atleast in the UK - was and is aimed at the teenage market. Plastered with semi-naked models holding various computing peripherals. Last time I bought PC Gamer I was at a hospital and needed something to read while I was waiting. Utter Trash
I've never seen a model on the front of PCGamerUK, naked or otherwise... without exception that I am aware of, their front covers are always screenshot-, concept art-, or logo-based.
Were you thinking of PC Format? Now that is trash.
I stopped reading gaming mags/sites years ago, too many puff-pieces for vapourware, or people telling me I'd be sooo much more competitive if I just spent loadsamoney on their hardware. Instead; I tried asking real people what games they played, how well it played, and if online play was fun or just a button-twitch fest.
You might find Rock Paper Shotgun refreshing, then.
Chances are they want to provide things like DVD style menus that work consistently across a range of devices with different display and input capabilities. That's not a terrible idea and it is the sort of thing that you need some sort of standard for beyond "just use HTML".
No, that is a terrible idea. Anyway, what's wrong with HTML+Javascript for that application? People have been designing webpages that "work consistently across a range of devices with different display and input capabilities" for years.
I suggest some NLP training
I have to disagree with this. Non-linear programming is not appropriate for a marriage. If you can't express your needs as a set of linear constraints, then you're not trying hard enough. If you can't use the simplex algorithm to resolve resource allocation conflicts, then you're not ready to get married.
Personally, I often find that Monte-Carlo methods provide a number of advantages.
1. You need goals to achieve anything. You need to achieve things to be happy. If one or more of your group is unhappy, the result will inevitably be dissolution of the group. Set goals early, set them often.
...
I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
Are these points related?
But ... forgive me, master ... I do not know the way. Please. Enlighten me.
Actually, you'll be pleased to hear that it's fairly straightforward-ish. Firstly, activities are layer *under* virtual desktops, not above them. As I understand it:
Virtual desktops:
Activities:
So, for instance, an Activity allows you to change the icons on *all* of your virtual desktops at once, because if you are changing the "activity" you are currently involved it you'll probably want to run different applications on all of your virtual desktops (or so, I believe, the logic goes).
TBH, I use neither Activities nor virtual desktops, so I'm not exactly arguing from a position of strength here!
Had plasma simply been a library and a method for displaying desktop widgets...
...then it would have been an entirely pointless exercise that completely failed to complete its objectives.
I still don't know what the hell plasma activities are supposed to do, except break things. They don't do anything that virtual desktops don't.
I see that ignorance is still bliss.
One word with respect to blatantly copying ideas from Microsoft (even if they are very good ones!): "Patents."