Talking to the person next to you is less of an issue, but at least the person sitting next to you in the car can see what's going on around you, so they're going to understand if you stop talking in mid-sentence to avoid the taxi that's just pulled out in front of you.
I ride a bicycle to work and I have seen a lot of crazy shit in the last couple of years:
Bicycle riders chatting away on the phone with one or zero hands on the controls
Car drivers stylusing away on PDA's
Some guy taking orders from his GPS. Stopping ten metres back from the traffic signals (presumably because of a GPS error) and slowing down before intersections to wait for the GPS to catch up and tell him if he had to turn.
People who are out visiting who call up somebody at their destination and take instructions like "ok look for the letterbox year got it now turn left left left".
For me the difference between a distraction in the car, compared with one outside the car is about attention. If my wife is in the car and starts a conversation about what to buy somebody for christmas then that is just as distracting for me as if she called me up. OTH talking about the immediate environment keeps your attention in the car. A phone call will almost always direct your attention elsewhere.
One rather wonders what would have happened if in 2003 we hadn't sent an Army but just airdropped a few million pacifists into Iraq to sing songs and cuddle with everybody. They probably would have all been killed, but you still have to wonder...
100% free unfiltered wireless internet, with repeaters mounted on disposable UAV's. Drop OLPC like devices all over their main population centres.
Let the people work the situation out and deal with their Government.
how many websites there relied on active x code that was incompatible with Vista
God don't get me started. I spent a week working at a customer site in S Korea about a month ago. At one point I had to get a deb package for my laptop and asked if I could plug it into their internet facing network. But it was no-go. Whatever URL I put in got back a javascript redirect to a page apparently telling me I had to use IE. Not an easy thing to do in Ubuntu.
So I gave a USB stick to a Korean co-worker and he tried to download the same file. Again no go. Gets the same page. Then he gave me the USB stick back and retried the page on the off chance and the bloody thing worked. This machine only gets you to real web pages if you are on windows and don't have a USB storage device mounted. Its meant to be secure I suppose.
For some reason the Koreans just love hacks like that. I don't know why. I was happy to get back home after that.
"God made it that way" ends all arguments for them so there is no rational thought behind their position.
I am sure that most anti-evolution parents would want their child to grow up to marry a good looking person of the opposite sex with lots of money and no history of disease in the family.
Yes I have, though it has been a while and I had forgotten some of the details. I find many of Greg Bear's books to be a bit depressing. The Forge of God comes to mind as well as Blood Music. Same with Stephen Baxter (Titan, Moonseed, Origin).
Quarantine by Greg Egan...is a great book which explores the idea that the wave function collapse caused by observation is something specific to the human brain, and the rest of the universe is starting to get a bit upset about humans carving up the universe by observing it.
Its a great read, and a good way to get a better understanding of (at least Egans' idea of) quantum mechanics.
when technology allows brain implants and wireless brain-to-brain communication.
Then Governments will want to install spy ware in your brain to listen in on your illegal communications/thoughts. Just make sure you aren't remembering any songs against the wishes of the copyright holders.
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So, what's this about how the Earth's moon is unique? Is this something new?
Earth and Pluto are similar in having a moon which is a decent fraction of their own mass. The two moons of Mars, and the moons of the four gas giant planets are minute in comparision to their primary bodies.
Earth and Pluto are sometimes called binary planets for this reason. And there is no easy way to show how they formed in this way, other than invoking chance impacts shortly after formation.
As I understand it, UTC, with corrections in the form of leap seconds is the only reference available from GPS clocks. If the same clocks provided a clock tick without leap seconds there would be no problem.
Some safety critical real time systems such as radar trackers need an accurate time reference to be able to work at all. They don't care about the time of day but do care a lot about each hour, minute and second being exactly the same length.
I think we need two references. One time reference which never, ever changes, and another which tracks the diurnal cycle. For the latter, leap minutes would be fine.
I'm fairly sure that would be the first chance to have two separate probes actually end up in the same spot at the same time
Well Pete Conrad landed Apollo 12 a couple of hundred metres from Surveyor 3. I don't think having one of your vehicles manned should exclude you from that record.
So, these photons have enough energy lift a 1 kg block over a half a meter!
Long ago I read that dust particles from meteors are important to the atmosphere because they nucleate raindrops. I wonder if the heat dumped into the at atmosphere by particles with this amount of energy has an effect on the energy budget of the stratosphere which would be worth modelling.
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Which points to the underlying reason why VMS didn't take off like Unix. It had features to burn, and pretty good documentation, but no community such as existed for unix, bsd and linux.
Even with decus the agenda was mostly controlled by DEC, and directed at selling more stuff. I knew most of the answer you gave to the GP's question, but I never played with that feature, even though I had seen it used.
If there was most open source stuff available specifically for VMS I would have learned more. Unfortunately the freeware CD which DEC put out mainly contained ported UNIX apps.
In the PDF at the end of section four he talks about making compromises in the design of the configuration files and the inadvisability of working around file system problems. I can't quote it because my PDF reader is doing strange things with selection but it occurred to be that DJB has some approaches to software in common with Hans Reiser, and that maybe DJB is the right person to drive reiserfs development in the future.
If the program is not functional, it doesn't matter how secure it is.
In wonder how much of the worlds spam traffic is a result of qmail sending bounces from a different socket connection and process, instead of sending the response back through the connection which the message arrived in.
But yeah it is very secure. Back when I first ran servers on the internet I bought a book on configuring sendmail. The ultimate conclusion in the book was to run qmail.
I'd use Qmail, except that the licence means that in order for Qmail to scale, it has to be patched about fifteen squillion times over... all thanks to the restrictive licence.
Seeing that netqmail is distributed legally as a qmail distribution plus patches with a script which applies the patches, I wonder if I could get away with releasing a patched qmail as a repository in a DSCM tool like mercurial since that just maintains the base version plus optional patches.
As it stands I will still buy from them as soon as they put out a working phone with wifi. If google had a desktop linux distribution (say a google branded ubuntu) I doubt I would be using it. OTH new applications deployed on the google platform can only be good for other linux based phones.
I don't think it is going to hurt them, I just wish they would release something which works.
Phones using the google OS need not be more open than any other linux based phone.
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I ride a bicycle to work and I have seen a lot of crazy shit in the last couple of years:
For me the difference between a distraction in the car, compared with one outside the car is about attention. If my wife is in the car and starts a conversation about what to buy somebody for christmas then that is just as distracting for me as if she called me up. OTH talking about the immediate environment keeps your attention in the car. A phone call will almost always direct your attention elsewhere.
100% free unfiltered wireless internet, with repeaters mounted on disposable UAV's. Drop OLPC like devices all over their main population centres.
Let the people work the situation out and deal with their Government.
God don't get me started. I spent a week working at a customer site in S Korea about a month ago. At one point I had to get a deb package for my laptop and asked if I could plug it into their internet facing network. But it was no-go. Whatever URL I put in got back a javascript redirect to a page apparently telling me I had to use IE. Not an easy thing to do in Ubuntu.
So I gave a USB stick to a Korean co-worker and he tried to download the same file. Again no go. Gets the same page. Then he gave me the USB stick back and retried the page on the off chance and the bloody thing worked. This machine only gets you to real web pages if you are on windows and don't have a USB storage device mounted. Its meant to be secure I suppose.
For some reason the Koreans just love hacks like that. I don't know why. I was happy to get back home after that.
I am sure that most anti-evolution parents would want their child to grow up to marry a good looking person of the opposite sex with lots of money and no history of disease in the family.
Yes I have, though it has been a while and I had forgotten some of the details. I find many of Greg Bear's books to be a bit depressing. The Forge of God comes to mind as well as Blood Music. Same with Stephen Baxter (Titan, Moonseed, Origin).
Have fun proving that you had the idea before Theo.
Quarantine by Greg Egan...is a great book which explores the idea that the wave function collapse caused by observation is something specific to the human brain, and the rest of the universe is starting to get a bit upset about humans carving up the universe by observing it.
Its a great read, and a good way to get a better understanding of (at least Egans' idea of) quantum mechanics.
Then Governments will want to install spy ware in your brain to listen in on your illegal communications/thoughts. Just make sure you aren't remembering any songs against the wishes of the copyright holders.
Earth and Pluto are similar in having a moon which is a decent fraction of their own mass. The two moons of Mars, and the moons of the four gas giant planets are minute in comparision to their primary bodies.
Earth and Pluto are sometimes called binary planets for this reason. And there is no easy way to show how they formed in this way, other than invoking chance impacts shortly after formation.
I want to know how he plans to make my bicycle steer itself in 2025.
As I understand it, UTC, with corrections in the form of leap seconds is the only reference available from GPS clocks. If the same clocks provided a clock tick without leap seconds there would be no problem.
Some safety critical real time systems such as radar trackers need an accurate time reference to be able to work at all. They don't care about the time of day but do care a lot about each hour, minute and second being exactly the same length.
I think we need two references. One time reference which never, ever changes, and another which tracks the diurnal cycle. For the latter, leap minutes would be fine.
Well Pete Conrad landed Apollo 12 a couple of hundred metres from Surveyor 3. I don't think having one of your vehicles manned should exclude you from that record.
They brought some bits of the surveyor back too.
I just can't believe USA people put up with spending 21% of their national budget on the military.
By developing time travel
For a moment there I thought you wrote Google's supercavitating torpedo. Gave me a terrible fright.
Actually it wouldn't suprise me if google did have a Ramadan logo. They have a christmas logo after all, and there is an arabic google news.
Long ago I read that dust particles from meteors are important to the atmosphere because they nucleate raindrops. I wonder if the heat dumped into the at atmosphere by particles with this amount of energy has an effect on the energy budget of the stratosphere which would be worth modelling.
Which points to the underlying reason why VMS didn't take off like Unix. It had features to burn, and pretty good documentation, but no community such as existed for unix, bsd and linux.
Even with decus the agenda was mostly controlled by DEC, and directed at selling more stuff. I knew most of the answer you gave to the GP's question, but I never played with that feature, even though I had seen it used.
If there was most open source stuff available specifically for VMS I would have learned more. Unfortunately the freeware CD which DEC put out mainly contained ported UNIX apps.
Yes, I am. When I select text in the right column of text the entire left column gets selected.
In the PDF at the end of section four he talks about making compromises in the design of the configuration files and the inadvisability of working around file system problems. I can't quote it because my PDF reader is doing strange things with selection but it occurred to be that DJB has some approaches to software in common with Hans Reiser, and that maybe DJB is the right person to drive reiserfs development in the future.
In wonder how much of the worlds spam traffic is a result of qmail sending bounces from a different socket connection and process, instead of sending the response back through the connection which the message arrived in.
But yeah it is very secure. Back when I first ran servers on the internet I bought a book on configuring sendmail. The ultimate conclusion in the book was to run qmail.
Count yourself lucky that it doesn't all go under /djb
Seeing that netqmail is distributed legally as a qmail distribution plus patches with a script which applies the patches, I wonder if I could get away with releasing a patched qmail as a repository in a DSCM tool like mercurial since that just maintains the base version plus optional patches.
As it stands I will still buy from them as soon as they put out a working phone with wifi. If google had a desktop linux distribution (say a google branded ubuntu) I doubt I would be using it. OTH new applications deployed on the google platform can only be good for other linux based phones.
I don't think it is going to hurt them, I just wish they would release something which works.
Phones using the google OS need not be more open than any other linux based phone.