Ah, now we finally see the pushback from the usual anti-MS fanboi crowd. I was missing you, guys. Slashdot wouldn't be slashdot without blind hatred of any company the hive mind thinks is too large. Windows 7 could run faster than anything Linux could dream of, and be more usable than a Mac, and have built-in support for apps from every single OS ever, -AND- be released as open source, and you nimrods would still mindlessly trash it. Hell, it could come with free blowjobs and beer, and you'd turn Puritan just to spite Microsoft.
With minor paraphrasing, you pose the question "what if everything is impossible?" That's the stupidest question in the history of all luddites. Even if--and that's a massive if--it is provably infeasible to simulate an entire human, the research will be unimaginably valuable to any human. Brain prosthetics, broadband mind/machine interface, and safe treatments to target specific brain disorders are only the tiniest wedge of the foreseeable advances that sort of research can provide. Lastly, what "hardware limitations" can you be citing? Moore's law has held for the entire length of CPU development, and there's no indication for it to be slowing now. (hint: Moore's law has nothing to do with GHz) If silicon fails, there are dozens of technologies being tested to replace it.
With all the problems you're inventing, I have only one question for you: What are you afraid of?
"a nasty surprise" Somehow you're making the leap from "we don't know how now" to "when the visionary attempts X, he will fail". If we lived like that, we'd still be stoning the people showing us how to use fire. Not to mention, if it takes simulating an entire body to replicate a human digitally, so be it. It only takes more CPU to do that. CPU is cheap, and it's only going to get cheaper. Don't stand as an obstacle to progress, we'll keep going right over your head.
NoScript will no longer be permitted on any of my computers, period. This is unacceptable behavior. If I'd payed for the addon, I'd be demanding a refund. As it is, all I can do is try to take back the favorable word-of-mouth I've been giving the author, and try to find a version without the invasive behavior.
As a result, of course, I've started treating everyone with a UID lower than me as though they'd bought their account....so, uh, "Nimey" (if that is your real name) how much didya pay for yours?
"The right way to do this is simply to have the encryption code silently destroy access to the data when given a special, secondary password."
Have you never heard of "dd"? Bit-for-bit copying of an entire drive renders your special booby-trapped key completely pointless. Who are you trying to defend yourself against, Inspector Clouseau?
Another thing would be Truecrypt's refusal to overwrite certain parts of that "random" data inside the not-hidden container. Gives it away that it's protecting the integrity of a hidden container. Why do people constantly make this mistake? TrueCrypt cannot know a hidden partition exists, *unless* you enter the inner volume password. It will cheerfully let you write right over the inner volume without so much as a by-your-leave, if you only give it the first password. It is true deniability, assuming this tool can't distinguish "encrypted blank space" and "encrypted data".
Again, ~90% of the market. If I could put that in bold 72pt flashing courier, I would. You cannot not develop for 90% of the market because you don't like their OS. This (the unwarranted elitism) is a sickness, and it's endemic to the free software community. Whether or not you like Windows/Microsoft makes precisely zero difference. If you want to be mainstream, you cater to those in the mainstream. If you want to be a pathetic niche, that's fine, nobody will stop you. But when your tunnel vision gets so strong that you equate people using the dominant PC/OS setup as "not really that relevant", you harm yourself, and you harm everyone that tries to rely on the work you do.
Most places charge on the 95th percentile based on bandwidth used. Thusly, people running torrents during off-hours doesn't affect your bottom line much if at all, but people watching Hulu or Youtube instead of TV during prime-time hurts you a LOT. Implementing usage caps is really a very crude band-aid for what they actually need to do: upgrade and stop overselling so damn much.
IANANP (network professional), but I play one on TV.
Wrongo, boyo. Firewalls that only block ports are at the same level of power as a Vespa. You can use a firewall to block, limit, reroute, monitor, automatically report, intelligently failover to a secondary uplink, perform adaptive QoS, and any number of other incredibly useful things.
The windows firewall is no more useful than disabling the file-sharing services built-into windows. That's all. Turning it on means a good portion of threads are essentially wasting CPU, trying to share C$ through blocked ports. Why Microsoft didn't default disable the networking services for XP Home and create a simple UI to turn them on is completely beyond me.
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What, you need a citation for the jargon file? Hand in your geek card, and go back to whatever pop culture meme site you came from.
Great Runes/n./
Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case.
Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion:
"It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly."
In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
Pick the one that doesn't require an attention span longer than ten seconds. You could also go with whichever one doesn't require more than $3.25 (all they've got in the couch).
actually, this is incorrect. when designers were working on one of the first computer fonts, they had only enough storage for one set of letters. a study was conducted to determine which one was most legible, and lower case won. the reason they went on to use only capitals? apparently you can't write the name of the christian deity in all lowercase. yes, folks, religion is why old terminals were all-caps only.
I have two pcHDTV-5500 cards running DVB feeds. Rarely, whether due to the incompetent provider, random burps, or phase of the moon, I get complete junk instead of a signal lock. When that happens, the backend crashes(not every time, but every crash seems related to that), with a segfault in libavcodec. Afterwards, any time the frontend tries to preview the aborted video, it also segfaults. I don't so much mind the crashes, given that it takes all of ten seconds to ssh in and restart it. The problem is, if I know I have to babysit the thing, I might as well be using a VCR.
Many consumer network links operate such that if you saturate traffic flowing one direction, you'll be unable to pass much traffic the opposite direction. I suspect that 60 KBps is near the maximum for your uplink, and limiting that is the only way to receive the benefit of the torrent. What keeps people from limiting their uploads to absurdly low numbers is the "quid-pro-quo" aspect of torrents. If you don't upload, the swarm adjusts and refuses to upload back to you at any reasonable spead.
What I would dearly love to see from Ubuntu is sane webcam drivers. Migrating to V4L2 when few mainstream clients support it yet is a bone-headed decision. Not including the compatibility library by default is even more bone-headed. I finally gave up on trying to use zoneminder in Ubuntu for that very reason. That, and maybe a default "relaunch service on segfault" setup. My mythserver needs to be checked every couple of hours to make sure it's still a server. Meanwhile I have an OpenBSD firewall that went 2+ years without needing any maintenance, and it would have a 3 year uptime if I hadn't moved.
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Ah, now we finally see the pushback from the usual anti-MS fanboi crowd. I was missing you, guys. Slashdot wouldn't be slashdot without blind hatred of any company the hive mind thinks is too large.
Windows 7 could run faster than anything Linux could dream of, and be more usable than a Mac, and have built-in support for apps from every single OS ever, -AND- be released as open source, and you nimrods would still mindlessly trash it. Hell, it could come with free blowjobs and beer, and you'd turn Puritan just to spite Microsoft.
Now mod me down, fanbois. I've got karma to burn.
With minor paraphrasing, you pose the question "what if everything is impossible?"
That's the stupidest question in the history of all luddites. Even if--and that's a massive if--it is provably infeasible to simulate an entire human, the research will be unimaginably valuable to any human. Brain prosthetics, broadband mind/machine interface, and safe treatments to target specific brain disorders are only the tiniest wedge of the foreseeable advances that sort of research can provide.
Lastly, what "hardware limitations" can you be citing? Moore's law has held for the entire length of CPU development, and there's no indication for it to be slowing now. (hint: Moore's law has nothing to do with GHz) If silicon fails, there are dozens of technologies being tested to replace it.
With all the problems you're inventing, I have only one question for you: What are you afraid of?
"a nasty surprise"
Somehow you're making the leap from "we don't know how now" to "when the visionary attempts X, he will fail". If we lived like that, we'd still be stoning the people showing us how to use fire. Not to mention, if it takes simulating an entire body to replicate a human digitally, so be it. It only takes more CPU to do that. CPU is cheap, and it's only going to get cheaper. Don't stand as an obstacle to progress, we'll keep going right over your head.
Nonsense. My stallion is extremely intelligent, at least smarter than half of Slashdot. I assume you've heard the expression, "hung like a horse"?
NoScript will no longer be permitted on any of my computers, period. This is unacceptable behavior. If I'd payed for the addon, I'd be demanding a refund. As it is, all I can do is try to take back the favorable word-of-mouth I've been giving the author, and try to find a version without the invasive behavior.
As a result, of course, I've started treating everyone with a UID lower than me as though they'd bought their account. ...so, uh, "Nimey" (if that is your real name) how much didya pay for yours?
It would be ironic to record a song titled "Ironic" and have the lyrics report a series of events which are unlucky, rather than ironic.
Ah, so that explains Alanis Morisette. It was deeply meta-ironic. See, now I can enjoy the song again.
Guess why your (not an i-)phone doesn't get featured on the front page of slashdot?
YOU'RE NOT FLYING A FUCKING HELICOPTER WITH YOUR PHONE.
"The right way to do this is simply to have the encryption code silently destroy access to the data when given a special, secondary password."
Have you never heard of "dd"? Bit-for-bit copying of an entire drive renders your special booby-trapped key completely pointless. Who are you trying to defend yourself against, Inspector Clouseau?
Another thing would be Truecrypt's refusal to overwrite certain parts of that "random" data inside the not-hidden container. Gives it away that it's protecting the integrity of a hidden container.
Why do people constantly make this mistake?
TrueCrypt cannot know a hidden partition exists, *unless* you enter the inner volume password. It will cheerfully let you write right over the inner volume without so much as a by-your-leave, if you only give it the first password. It is true deniability, assuming this tool can't distinguish "encrypted blank space" and "encrypted data".
Ow, the meta is hurting my head.
Again, ~90% of the market.
If I could put that in bold 72pt flashing courier, I would. You cannot not develop for 90% of the market because you don't like their OS. This (the unwarranted elitism) is a sickness, and it's endemic to the free software community. Whether or not you like Windows/Microsoft makes precisely zero difference. If you want to be mainstream, you cater to those in the mainstream. If you want to be a pathetic niche, that's fine, nobody will stop you. But when your tunnel vision gets so strong that you equate people using the dominant PC/OS setup as "not really that relevant", you harm yourself, and you harm everyone that tries to rely on the work you do.
Well yes, but a 99.999999998% guarantee puts virgin birth well inside the margin of error.
Most places charge on the 95th percentile based on bandwidth used. Thusly, people running torrents during off-hours doesn't affect your bottom line much if at all, but people watching Hulu or Youtube instead of TV during prime-time hurts you a LOT. Implementing usage caps is really a very crude band-aid for what they actually need to do: upgrade and stop overselling so damn much.
IANANP (network professional), but I play one on TV.
Wrongo, boyo. Firewalls that only block ports are at the same level of power as a Vespa. You can use a firewall to block, limit, reroute, monitor, automatically report, intelligently failover to a secondary uplink, perform adaptive QoS, and any number of other incredibly useful things.
The windows firewall is no more useful than disabling the file-sharing services built-into windows. That's all. Turning it on means a good portion of threads are essentially wasting CPU, trying to share C$ through blocked ports. Why Microsoft didn't default disable the networking services for XP Home and create a simple UI to turn them on is completely beyond me.
His royalty checks decreased. Google something something books. IT WAS GOOGLE'S FAULT!
Haven't you seen the markov chain generator posts? I haven't seen the markov chain generator posts? I could be one myself. Haven't you seen the markov chain generator posts? I could be one myself. Haven't you seen the markov chain generator posts? I haven't seen them from genuine posts. In point of fact, I haven't seen the markov chain generator posts? I could be one myself. Haven't you seen them from genuine posts. In point of fact, I can't tell them from genuine posts. In point of fact, I haven't seen the markov chain generator posts? I can't tell them from genuine posts. In point of fact, I could be one myself. Haven't you seen the markov chain generator posts? I can't tell them recently, and that disturbs me: they've gotten so good I could be one myself.
Why should he? You seemed to figure it out fullt utvecklad.
What, you need a citation for the jargon file? Hand in your geek card, and go back to whatever pop culture meme site you came from.
Pick the one that doesn't require an attention span longer than ten seconds. You could also go with whichever one doesn't require more than $3.25 (all they've got in the couch).
actually, this is incorrect. when designers were working on one of the first computer fonts, they had only enough storage for one set of letters. a study was conducted to determine which one was most legible, and lower case won. the reason they went on to use only capitals? apparently you can't write the name of the christian deity in all lowercase.
yes, folks, religion is why old terminals were all-caps only.
"L'Académie franÃaise"
C'mon, Slashdot. This is the 21st century, and you're stuck on ASCII. What is this, a monocolor terminal? Catch up to the fucking present already.
I have two pcHDTV-5500 cards running DVB feeds. Rarely, whether due to the incompetent provider, random burps, or phase of the moon, I get complete junk instead of a signal lock. When that happens, the backend crashes(not every time, but every crash seems related to that), with a segfault in libavcodec. Afterwards, any time the frontend tries to preview the aborted video, it also segfaults. I don't so much mind the crashes, given that it takes all of ten seconds to ssh in and restart it. The problem is, if I know I have to babysit the thing, I might as well be using a VCR.
Many consumer network links operate such that if you saturate traffic flowing one direction, you'll be unable to pass much traffic the opposite direction. I suspect that 60 KBps is near the maximum for your uplink, and limiting that is the only way to receive the benefit of the torrent.
What keeps people from limiting their uploads to absurdly low numbers is the "quid-pro-quo" aspect of torrents. If you don't upload, the swarm adjusts and refuses to upload back to you at any reasonable spead.
What I would dearly love to see from Ubuntu is sane webcam drivers. Migrating to V4L2 when few mainstream clients support it yet is a bone-headed decision. Not including the compatibility library by default is even more bone-headed. I finally gave up on trying to use zoneminder in Ubuntu for that very reason.
That, and maybe a default "relaunch service on segfault" setup. My mythserver needs to be checked every couple of hours to make sure it's still a server. Meanwhile I have an OpenBSD firewall that went 2+ years without needing any maintenance, and it would have a 3 year uptime if I hadn't moved.