Wait for Vista ? why not move to OSX ?
The FileVault feature is built into OSX and can be configured to automatically encrypt all the data in your home folder.
You can even use it to encrypt virtual memory !
I love how all the upcoming "new" features in Vista are already in OSX 10.4, with more coming shortly with 10.5.
And this is not even coming from a mac zealot either ! Been a pc user all my life, but just got mine 2 months ago and haven't touched my pc since... so many features, and it just works ! Make the switch !
"That guy is republican, so he must be evil !"
"He's a left-wing hippy pot-smoking democrat !"
God when will you people stop with the partisanship, and start focusing on the issues which actually matter !
Face it, there's morons on both sides of the fence. Politics is not an epic battle between the forces of good and evil ! It would be easier for things to be so clear cut, but in reality life is a million different shades of gray.
So when you vote in november, just try to elect the person who seems to make the most sense and represents what you stand for as a human being, AFTER having heard their ideas/platforms/etc. And heck, if both turn out to be the wrong choice for you, vote independent ! Its only a wasted vote if you don't show up !
Sorry, with all the ranting I realized I forgot to make my point.
Shouldn't we (individually or as a society) spend time thinking and reflecting on the root cause of this (our social values, meaning of life and all these other grand questions) ?
Nope. Instead, we're supposed to medicate people so they can feel better about themselves and accept the status quo ?
What I don't get is this: why is depression a disease which needs to be cured ??
What if there's a real reason you're depressed. Yes, the world around you sucks. You realize your job is meaningless. And you don't know what to do with your life.
What if there IS something wrong with our society. Why SHOULD i waste my life working at something i don't really care about, so what, so I can spend two days a week doing something that I actually like doing ? OooOO... And all that for what ? So i can afford to buy my iPod, watch Tivo and all the crap that society is pushing on us ?
And don't give me some of that "your work should be your pleasure" thing. Recent numbers are that 80-90% of people do not like their jobs. So this is a problem not just with myself but with society as a whole. I mean how many of us actually enjoy coding day in day out, on tight deadlines, and on projects know one cares about.
"'The concept here is making the peer-to-peer networks work for us,' says Jay-Z's attorney, Michael Guido. 'While peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property, they are also the active music audience,' and 'this technology allows us to market back to them.'"
Oh.. I thought the goal of this was to get people to stop using P2P networks by forcing them to listen to 8 mins of JAY-Z.
1 min is about all the torture I can take. I guess its back to the record store for me !
At least we'll get a free game out of it. What's that ? we won't ? Screw that.
Let the collective boycotting begin (in case you weren't boycotting EA games already)
... seriously, this is completely worthless.
If they made that LCD screen detachable, then it would be cool. I'm hoping that Apple will be the first one to do this: control your Macbook (while its in its bag) through your iPod ! You could have a special interface to read (or have a computer voice) read you your rss feeds, and would allow you to do some basic operations.
Now THAT would be sweet. But this ?! very lame.
Actually, kind of reminds me fo the nintendo DS:)... ducks
Its funny though how people will tend to distrust an administration who blatantly LIED to them about the reason for going to war.
What I also still can't believe is not having seen the words "WMD LIE" on the front page of major newspapers.
Faulty intelligence ! how can establishment with so much infrastructure, manpower and money (and capabilities) as the US intelligence community be so wrong about something. Makes me sick just thinking about it.
What's sad is you can't say that anywhere without being accused of playing partisan politics. I don't care what side of the electoral fence you're on, but i'm sorry, this administration still owes us an explanation. And it shouldn't include the words ("better off now", "must stay the course", "he was a bad guy anyway").
Believe in the conspiracy if you choose to or not.
But even if you leave it aside, you still have an election system which is completely flawed and prone to tampering. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE. Have you ever heard of a completely secure computer ? Trust me it doesn't exist. Its online secure until the next vulnerability.
Even without a conspiracy a certain software bug could end up giving more votes to one side than the another. And even then, are you willing to live with machine who randomly crashes and loses votes (which is a fact!) ? And what about the possibility of another country stealing the election ? Doesn't that scare you a little bit ? Imagine China skewing the election in favor of their favorite candidate.
The whole reason people are talking about this is that the system allows for all these things. Who cares if it actually happened.
And how do you fix that (if you really really need to have an electronic-voting system) ?
First step - paper trail, paper trail, paper trail !
Second - an OPEN system and platform which can be peer reviewed.
This is not about partisan politics. Just basic comp sci principle. And it should be a basic citizen-principle to reject such a faillable system.
"Let's just hope that when the invisible woman arrives, she's played more convincingly then Jessica Alba."
I can think of a couple of things involving "invisibility" and "Jessica Alba". The above is not one of them.
I also think another big problem is people who think they have the solution.
People like that are always at the core of conflict and wars (and yes I am fully aware of the irony of such a statement). If everyone just learned to get along.
Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheist... who the f*** cares. Its the 21st century for crying out loud. Just treat each other with respect.
I think that if more people were interested in the discussion and trying to find a solution, then there wouldn't be a problem. Or at least, one would emerge over time.
The real problem is that most people don't think and aren't involved (whether through thoughts or action). They just live for the day to day, trying to amass more money so they can buy a better/bigger car, a new ipod or whatever the neighbour has that you don't. The other half of the world in the meantime is too busy trying to stay alive and wondering how to feed their family.
I truly think that for things to get better, they'll have to get a whole lot worse soon.
To quote from RATM and The Matrix... "Wake up !"
Tell me what the difference is between this and the following scenario:
A new radio station opens up in town at 101.1Mhz, and decides that in order to increase profit, it will require listeners to pay a set fee per month.
A constant reminder of this fact is broadcasted in between songs "to listen to the following, you need to be a member of bla bla bbla, send payment to..."
If you inadventently (or intentionally) dial to 101.1 and continue to listen even AFTER youv'e heard the legal disclaimer stating that you should not keep listening, does that constitute theft ? In both cases, we're dealing with
- EM waves, broadcasted in the public domain
- willfull infringement of the original purpose of the service
- and knowledge of this infringement.
The only real difference that I see, is that since radio is one-way only, the user would think to himself "how are they ever gonna know i'm listening", and thus keep listening. The internet user on the other hand, doesn't have this luxury.
What we need is something similar to Digg Spy, but for patents.
An interface which would allow you to view patent applications as they come in. Anybody could then pick one based on their expertise and start hammering away at it. If prior art exists, add a comment which highlights the fact.
This would take a huge burden off the patent office, which could then focus solely on (in)validating the claims.
I'm not too sure if the social networking side of things would work (i.e bunch of geeks doing it for the greater good), but you can bet that large corporations would start playing the game. They could hire entire departments whose sole job would be to invalidate competitor's patent application.
Could it be that the main issue is that today's processors lend themselves more towards monolithic kernels ? Couldn't the performance gap of micro vs. monolithic be solved through a new paradigm in microprocessor design ?
Seems like the trend towards multi-core CPUs would lend itself more to a micro-kernel, which in itself is more "distributed" by nature, then the single-core monolithic solution of today. Anybody have any ideas on how this could be leveraged ?
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Wait for Vista ? why not move to OSX ? The FileVault feature is built into OSX and can be configured to automatically encrypt all the data in your home folder.
... so many features, and it just works ! Make the switch !
You can even use it to encrypt virtual memory !
I love how all the upcoming "new" features in Vista are already in OSX 10.4, with more coming shortly with 10.5.
And this is not even coming from a mac zealot either ! Been a pc user all my life, but just got mine 2 months ago and haven't touched my pc since
"That guy is republican, so he must be evil !"
"He's a left-wing hippy pot-smoking democrat !"
God when will you people stop with the partisanship, and start focusing on the issues which actually matter !
Face it, there's morons on both sides of the fence. Politics is not an epic battle between the forces of good and evil ! It would be easier for things to be so clear cut, but in reality life is a million different shades of gray.
So when you vote in november, just try to elect the person who seems to make the most sense and represents what you stand for as a human being, AFTER having heard their ideas/platforms/etc. And heck, if both turn out to be the wrong choice for you, vote independent ! Its only a wasted vote if you don't show up !
A single tear just rolled down my cheeks. I never thought i'd see the day...
Sorry, with all the ranting I realized I forgot to make my point.
Shouldn't we (individually or as a society) spend time thinking and reflecting on the root cause of this (our social values, meaning of life and all these other grand questions) ? Nope. Instead, we're supposed to medicate people so they can feel better about themselves and accept the status quo ?
What I don't get is this: why is depression a disease which needs to be cured ??
What if there's a real reason you're depressed. Yes, the world around you sucks. You realize your job is meaningless. And you don't know what to do with your life.
What if there IS something wrong with our society. Why SHOULD i waste my life working at something i don't really care about, so what, so I can spend two days a week doing something that I actually like doing ? OooOO... And all that for what ? So i can afford to buy my iPod, watch Tivo and all the crap that society is pushing on us ?
And don't give me some of that "your work should be your pleasure" thing. Recent numbers are that 80-90% of people do not like their jobs.
So this is a problem not just with myself but with society as a whole. I mean how many of us actually enjoy coding day in day out, on tight deadlines, and on projects know one cares about.
Pffff ! A boat's a boat. But the mystery box ... It could be anything, even a boat !
I'd choose the mystery box myself
"'The concept here is making the peer-to-peer networks work for us,' says Jay-Z's attorney, Michael Guido. 'While peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property, they are also the active music audience,' and 'this technology allows us to market back to them.'"
.. I thought the goal of this was to get people to stop using P2P networks by forcing them to listen to 8 mins of JAY-Z.
Oh
1 min is about all the torture I can take. I guess its back to the record store for me !
At least we'll get a free game out of it. What's that ? we won't ? Screw that. Let the collective boycotting begin (in case you weren't boycotting EA games already)
... and if anyone tries to leave the airport or enter restricted areas, the collars explode !
... seriously, this is completely worthless. If they made that LCD screen detachable, then it would be cool. I'm hoping that Apple will be the first one to do this: control your Macbook (while its in its bag) through your iPod ! You could have a special interface to read (or have a computer voice) read you your rss feeds, and would allow you to do some basic operations.
:) ... ducks
Now THAT would be sweet. But this ?! very lame.
Actually, kind of reminds me fo the nintendo DS
Its funny though how people will tend to distrust an administration who blatantly LIED to them about the reason for going to war. What I also still can't believe is not having seen the words "WMD LIE" on the front page of major newspapers. Faulty intelligence ! how can establishment with so much infrastructure, manpower and money (and capabilities) as the US intelligence community be so wrong about something. Makes me sick just thinking about it.
What's sad is you can't say that anywhere without being accused of playing partisan politics. I don't care what side of the electoral fence you're on, but i'm sorry, this administration still owes us an explanation.
And it shouldn't include the words ("better off now", "must stay the course", "he was a bad guy anyway").
I'm astounded that Florida would have a law making it illegal to count paper ballot after votes have been electronically tallied.
Believe in the conspiracy if you choose to or not.
But even if you leave it aside, you still have an election system which is completely flawed and prone to tampering. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE. Have you ever heard of a completely secure computer ? Trust me it doesn't exist. Its online secure until the next vulnerability.
Even without a conspiracy a certain software bug could end up giving more votes to one side than the another. And even then, are you willing to live with machine who randomly crashes and loses votes (which is a fact!) ? And what about the possibility of another country stealing the election ? Doesn't that scare you a little bit ? Imagine China skewing the election in favor of their favorite candidate.
The whole reason people are talking about this is that the system allows for all these things. Who cares if it actually happened.
And how do you fix that (if you really really need to have an electronic-voting system) ?
First step - paper trail, paper trail, paper trail !
Second - an OPEN system and platform which can be peer reviewed.
This is not about partisan politics. Just basic comp sci principle. And it should be a basic citizen-principle to reject such a faillable system.
"Let's just hope that when the invisible woman arrives, she's played more convincingly then Jessica Alba."
I can think of a couple of things involving "invisibility" and "Jessica Alba". The above is not one of them.
So basically any slashdotter posting a disguised link to goatse.cx could end up with 10 years in jail ?
I also think another big problem is people who think they have the solution.
People like that are always at the core of conflict and wars (and yes I am fully aware of the irony of such a statement). If everyone just learned to get along.
Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheist... who the f*** cares. Its the 21st century for crying out loud. Just treat each other with respect.
I think that if more people were interested in the discussion and trying to find a solution, then there wouldn't be a problem. Or at least, one would emerge over time.
The real problem is that most people don't think and aren't involved (whether through thoughts or action). They just live for the day to day, trying to amass more money so they can buy a better/bigger car, a new ipod or whatever the neighbour has that you don't. The other half of the world in the meantime is too busy trying to stay alive and wondering how to feed their family.
I truly think that for things to get better, they'll have to get a whole lot worse soon. To quote from RATM and The Matrix... "Wake up !"
Right... and i'm sure they'll get the point, and NOT blame the decline in sales on piracy !
Ok, now for a second exercise.
Tell me what the difference is between this and the following scenario:
A new radio station opens up in town at 101.1Mhz, and decides that in order to increase profit, it will require listeners to pay a set fee per month. A constant reminder of this fact is broadcasted in between songs "to listen to the following, you need to be a member of bla bla bbla, send payment to..."
If you inadventently (or intentionally) dial to 101.1 and continue to listen even AFTER youv'e heard the legal disclaimer stating that you should not keep listening, does that constitute theft ? In both cases, we're dealing with
- EM waves, broadcasted in the public domain
- willfull infringement of the original purpose of the service
- and knowledge of this infringement.
The only real difference that I see, is that since radio is one-way only, the user would think to himself "how are they ever gonna know i'm listening", and thus keep listening. The internet user on the other hand, doesn't have this luxury.
What we need is something similar to Digg Spy, but for patents. An interface which would allow you to view patent applications as they come in. Anybody could then pick one based on their expertise and start hammering away at it. If prior art exists, add a comment which highlights the fact.
This would take a huge burden off the patent office, which could then focus solely on (in)validating the claims.
I'm not too sure if the social networking side of things would work (i.e bunch of geeks doing it for the greater good), but you can bet that large corporations would start playing the game. They could hire entire departments whose sole job would be to invalidate competitor's patent application.
Could it be that the main issue is that today's processors lend themselves more towards monolithic kernels ?
Couldn't the performance gap of micro vs. monolithic be solved through a new paradigm in microprocessor design ?
Seems like the trend towards multi-core CPUs would lend itself more to a micro-kernel, which in itself is more "distributed" by nature, then the single-core monolithic solution of today. Anybody have any ideas on how this could be leveraged ?
The Republic (think ewoks, protocol droids, etc) was also a republic.
And look at all the good that came out of it !
That's probably what they said during the industrial revolution...
Intel with a dropped e ? That's so like 1970 to end of 2005.
Get with the times Slashdot.