Are you trying to say that setting school curriculum and teaching goals is not best done at the federal level? You are unpatriotic and anti-American. I'd call you more words too, if they had taught us more words at school. People like you shouldn't even be here. There is no room here for original thinking, or people who are taking responsibility for themselves. You need to get with the program or GTFO! It's people like you who abuse the gift of federally mandated high fructose corn syrup snacks for our children. If you don't stop spreading your filth and down-right sacrilege, our children (god's gift to us) will end up being free thinking hippie types who don't support our troops.
I wonder how long before this is used for something bad? Does this possibly mean that the sun, inhabited by an alien life form, has turned off the one's and zero's in an effort to relay the message GTFO!
FTFA:
Casati says practical physicists must rise to the challenge set by the theorists. Yet even if they can, phononic computing is unlikely to threaten electronics because phonons travel a lot slower than electrons. Li imagines that the two technologies will work together, in hybrid devices that perform some computation using waste heat.
I bet there are better ways to use this than PC computing
Seriously, I can't wait for the real security malfunctions with this. The jokes will be real groaners on the surface, but I'm sure each incident report-ed will be funny enough to make a penguin laugh!
I understand that, and agree that is an important part of what happened, but I suspect there is more behind the scenes than we are hearing about. Just a suspicion.
I'm not entirely convinced that you are 100% correct here. Recent tech spats with Russia et al include MS and piracy in Russian schools, OSS software directives, and several minor stories I seem to remember about the Russian government pulling away from outsiders. I'm pretty certain that after the cold war they have more reason to not want 'help' than any of us might imagine. My point is I don't think this is an isolated incidence of over reaction. I think it fits with an overall plan for IT infrastructure for government, as far as I can tell.
In truth, after RefFlag Linux and some other efforts around the globe, I've been waiting for Russia et al to announce something that more or less tells Redmond to get stuffed. By way of guilt by association reasoning, if Putin and Russia manage to thumb their noses at North American software/hardware manufacturers, it's nearly certain that many others will follow suit. I suspect there are a lot of politics involved though... and that causes me curiosity.
It was honest and sarcastic. The true answer is education so that they can participate in the wider world of communication and commerce, but that too is a cur(s)e that may well be worse than the disease. Most of us don't want spam or junk mail, but that's what's in store for them when they are able to participate.
Picking up a foreign language is not easy. I'm working on learning bits and pieces of three with a goal of expanding on that. The goal is to prove it can be done without the standard methodologies. A recent study shows that I'm probably on the right track, but we'll see. (German, Spanish, French) Latin keeps sneaking into the mess too.
I have no mod points so let me just comment that this is a well spoken post. Globalism is on the rise, and we need someone to help assume some of this debt. Once they speak English we can begin sending them "you have been specially selected... " credit card applications and such. Not to mention how the illegal pharmaceutical market will blossom.
I don't hope one way or the other... if good comes of it, hooray for LHC. If it devours the galaxy in a big sucking sound with a black hole... game over, man! At that point it really won't matter anymore what people think. Such is life. Sometimes I wonder why the religious wouldn't just be glad to 'be in a better place' sooner? Truthfully, I think it will operate for some years, some discoveries will be made, and life will go on; perhaps with some new gadgets that were not possible without the information found at the LHC.
I'm hoping that someday soon we'll be able to buy wall coverings that are LED lighting. I don't care if the light comes from the ceiling or not, give me a whole wall or three of variable light output LEDs. You can even make it the ceiling if you want, I don't care...
I think we'll be able to do many exciting things with new lighting technologies, and I for one welcome our new overhead lighting LEDs
In a recent statement from the RIAA public relations VP,....On behalf of our member companies, and associated groups across the globe, we would like to say to the people of the world:
We're sorry, we accidentally the whole Internet.
We would particularly like to apologize to people who live in those parts of the world where it is likely easy to shoot at our executives and not be caught. Sweden, we're still not happy with you.
Moving forward, we promise to only prosecute those individuals who admit to downloading content they don't plan to pay for at some future date. Beginning Monday, we're going to turn the Internet back on. Please tell your friends and family as we know some of them will not have gotten the news without an Internet connection.
Let me be the first, if not one of many, to tell you that your attitude needs wiping with a bit of toilet paper. The arguments for or against the continued use of the LHC are all talking about risk, some high, some low. Either way, it's risk. To that risk, I say meh. Statistically speaking, each of us could be one of the three people that will be struck dead by a bus in tomorrow's morning rush hour.
FEAR should not be what guides you in doing or not doing anything in your life. Attainment should be. What do we attain or not attain in continued use of the LHC? What do I attain or not attain in physically subduing an armed attacker? You see, there is a difference, whether you realize it or not. I say that risks are not that high even if said LHC devours this entire section of the Galaxy in a man made black hole. It will have been our greatest creation ever! period!
You go ahead with your rational discourse, I'm going to stick with logical discourse. It is just as likely that the LHC will show us nothing new, and amount to something less than a productive use of time and resources.
BTW, Donate your life savings the The Campaign For Liberty post haste. If I die tomorrow, I attain nothing, but if I oppose the LHC and prevent it's use, I fail to attain the chance at some very wonderful things. So, yes, I remain gung-ho with zero regard for whether the slim chance of destruction happens or not. Furthermore, I fart in your general direction.
The end game on that is a lose-lose proposition. When dial-up was still popular this over-subscribed broadband plan was workable. The traffic generated by file sharing, email, web browsing etc. could be handled in this manner. The trouble is that ISPs did not update or upgrade the 'tubes' to handle the traffic that they themselves intended on selling to users. All this crap about bundled services (triple-play and Quadruple-play) for the last 5 years is about ISP's selling you streaming content and high-bandwidth content. To claim that they need to 'manage congestion' while trying to sell data content is absolute BS. What they want is carte blanche to tell you what data you are allowed to send and receive. period. no arguing.
We tend to forget that they have this plan to sell you streaming data that has to fit in the same damned pipes as the data you are using now, that they claim are not big enough to handle some file sharing. I call bullshit. The ISPs cannot force the Internet to be how it used to be. Rich Internet content, web 2.0, streaming content... all of this is ruining their original over-subscription network configuration plan. Now, the very same ISPs that are complaining about congestion are fully into planning and implementation of bandwidth intensive services they want to sell you. What they want is for you to only use bandwidth on data services that you have purchased from them. They are double dipping on this, and there is no other way to see it.
The purpose of the LHC is noble, and results could be what we need to get off this rock and really dominate the galaxy. If they destroy the Earth... meh, it was a good try. Maybe next time.
That's the problem. As soon as they start "managing congestion" with anything other than the bandwidth they sold us, it becomes an issue. When my Vonage VoIP packets are getting delayed, is it because of Cox or because of greedy bandwidth hogging porn downloaders and music file sharers? I'll wager that Cox says it's not because of them. There is no way to view why or when they "manage congestion" so users will never know, and the product and service sold to them is incapable of being verified as fit for purpose.
Something tells me that this is not right, and should be taken to court. I just can't figure out on my own how to win.
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Lets be honest here. What would we like the average office PC to be doing? If they are beefy enough to run a grid on, and so also perform many of the data retention, de-duplication, HPC functions, and many other things, then yes, having faster-better-more on the desktop at work could be interestingly useful. Software is needed to use hardware that way, meh.
There will never be a time in the foreseeable future when beefier hardware will not be met with requirements for its use. Call that Z's corollary to Moore's Observation.... if you want.
If the phone company started looking for a burst of phone calls to Mexico and informed the Minute Men if there was a spike, people'd be furious.
That is absolutely correct and more to the point, the story tag 'sneakernet' is the process that will ensure that file sharing never dies, and in fact directly robs the RIAA members of revenue. When you and 25 of your friends make a list of music you like, then each of you buys one new CD and copies it 25 times and passes them around to your CD group, the RIAA members lose directly. This is not a try-before-buy thing like a lot of file sharing is, it's full on loss of CD sales revenue:-)
Besides making the ISPs culpable in any file sharing, they drive the problem to a place where it can't be detected or stopped. At that point, the RIAA members will have to admit that they aren't making money because all the do is promote crap at extortionate prices.
This house of cards will fall too, as soon as NYCountryLawyer starts ISPvsThePeople blog and documents all the legal crap that starts happening when ISPs start narcing for the RIAA. Once they lose safe harbor protection via a law suit over P2P it will be interesting to see what other legal trouble they get into. Will they then be liable for voice traffic issues? If someone calls and threatens me and I ask the ISP to block voip calls from that person, will they become liable if they don't? Can I get a court order to force them to? There are literally thousands of issues that can arise if they lose safe harbor status. I kind of look forward to it in a weird sort of way.
There is the problem, full in your face style. No matter what trade agreements are agreed to, China is run differently internally than the USA or European Union countries. Going to the WTO is like asking a police officer to witness someone robbing your car all the while knowing that the police officer will not arrest the robber. I don't think anyone has a full grasp of what would happen if the US simply stopped doing business with China cold turkey style... So, this remains a problem.
That would be cool. Sharing is good. I just figured out that in SeaMonkey email client you can do a search for messages that are less than one day old, then save that as a search folder. In fact, you can save lots of search folders. I use a lot of personal folders and filters, so this is a trick that works like the inbox folder but much more useful to me. I'm not sure if that feature is in other email applications (yet) but it's pretty awesome. Once filtered to a personal folder, they won't show in the inbox, and with the search folder I can specify folders to search and folders to ignore. Very useful.
Not to poke fun, but if you do a network boot/install in Linux, you can install ANY image you create. Windows has that capability too for people that install 100s of systems at a time. If you are talking about work, I would *presume* that you build your own image that includes software apps that you would have to install after the OS anyway... don't you?
I always wondered why they didn't just call it Windows 7 or whatever code name and then distribute it with application packs, which would include application packs such as: server app pack home/media app pack basics/offic app pack
The way they do it, joe public can't really be sure what version they have. Hell, there are a lot of end users that don't know if they are currently running XP or Vista (but you can tell by complaints about performance LOL).
I think that Ubuntu, Fedora and others could use with that sort of packaging also. By simply distributing the basic distro and setting up repositories for each application pack. That would make it easy to get a media server based on abc linux set up and maintained.
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Are you trying to say that setting school curriculum and teaching goals is not best done at the federal level? You are unpatriotic and anti-American. I'd call you more words too, if they had taught us more words at school. People like you shouldn't even be here. There is no room here for original thinking, or people who are taking responsibility for themselves. You need to get with the program or GTFO! It's people like you who abuse the gift of federally mandated high fructose corn syrup snacks for our children. If you don't stop spreading your filth and down-right sacrilege, our children (god's gift to us) will end up being free thinking hippie types who don't support our troops.
I wonder how long before this is used for something bad? Does this possibly mean that the sun, inhabited by an alien life form, has turned off the one's and zero's in an effort to relay the message GTFO!
FTFA:
Casati says practical physicists must rise to the challenge set by the theorists. Yet even if they can, phononic computing is unlikely to threaten electronics because phonons travel a lot slower than electrons. Li imagines that the two technologies will work together, in hybrid devices that perform some computation using waste heat.
I bet there are better ways to use this than PC computing
Security vulnerability... ba bum bump..
Seriously, I can't wait for the real security malfunctions with this. The jokes will be real groaners on the surface, but I'm sure each incident report-ed will be funny enough to make a penguin laugh!
I understand that, and agree that is an important part of what happened, but I suspect there is more behind the scenes than we are hearing about. Just a suspicion.
I just spit/coughed coffee onto my screen reading that... I lol'd
I'm not entirely convinced that you are 100% correct here. Recent tech spats with Russia et al include MS and piracy in Russian schools, OSS software directives, and several minor stories I seem to remember about the Russian government pulling away from outsiders. I'm pretty certain that after the cold war they have more reason to not want 'help' than any of us might imagine. My point is I don't think this is an isolated incidence of over reaction. I think it fits with an overall plan for IT infrastructure for government, as far as I can tell.
In truth, after RefFlag Linux and some other efforts around the globe, I've been waiting for Russia et al to announce something that more or less tells Redmond to get stuffed. By way of guilt by association reasoning, if Putin and Russia manage to thumb their noses at North American software/hardware manufacturers, it's nearly certain that many others will follow suit. I suspect there are a lot of politics involved though... and that causes me curiosity.
It was honest and sarcastic. The true answer is education so that they can participate in the wider world of communication and commerce, but that too is a cur(s)e that may well be worse than the disease. Most of us don't want spam or junk mail, but that's what's in store for them when they are able to participate.
Picking up a foreign language is not easy. I'm working on learning bits and pieces of three with a goal of expanding on that. The goal is to prove it can be done without the standard methodologies. A recent study shows that I'm probably on the right track, but we'll see. (German, Spanish, French) Latin keeps sneaking into the mess too.
I have no mod points so let me just comment that this is a well spoken post. Globalism is on the rise, and we need someone to help assume some of this debt. Once they speak English we can begin sending them "you have been specially selected... " credit card applications and such. Not to mention how the illegal pharmaceutical market will blossom.
What? You don't have one yet? Oh right, forgot, not everyone has a time traveling car. Guess it sucks to be you.
Only if you signed your passport with syousef as your name.
Good thing you didn't check the box, I'm absolutely certain that Anonymous Coward is banned from traveling to many if not all countries by now.
Finally, we'll get the answer to that burning question: how many pages are there on the Internet?
The King of Thailand will be honored for finding out before anyone else.
I don't hope one way or the other... if good comes of it, hooray for LHC. If it devours the galaxy in a big sucking sound with a black hole... game over, man! At that point it really won't matter anymore what people think. Such is life. Sometimes I wonder why the religious wouldn't just be glad to 'be in a better place' sooner? Truthfully, I think it will operate for some years, some discoveries will be made, and life will go on; perhaps with some new gadgets that were not possible without the information found at the LHC.
I'm hoping that someday soon we'll be able to buy wall coverings that are LED lighting. I don't care if the light comes from the ceiling or not, give me a whole wall or three of variable light output LEDs. You can even make it the ceiling if you want, I don't care...
I think we'll be able to do many exciting things with new lighting technologies, and I for one welcome our new overhead lighting LEDs
In a recent statement from the RIAA public relations VP, ....On behalf of our member companies, and associated groups across the globe, we would like to say to the people of the world:
We're sorry, we accidentally the whole Internet.
We would particularly like to apologize to people who live in those parts of the world where it is likely easy to shoot at our executives and not be caught. Sweden, we're still not happy with you.
Moving forward, we promise to only prosecute those individuals who admit to downloading content they don't plan to pay for at some future date. Beginning Monday, we're going to turn the Internet back on. Please tell your friends and family as we know some of them will not have gotten the news without an Internet connection.
Peace
Let me be the first, if not one of many, to tell you that your attitude needs wiping with a bit of toilet paper. The arguments for or against the continued use of the LHC are all talking about risk, some high, some low. Either way, it's risk. To that risk, I say meh. Statistically speaking, each of us could be one of the three people that will be struck dead by a bus in tomorrow's morning rush hour.
FEAR should not be what guides you in doing or not doing anything in your life. Attainment should be. What do we attain or not attain in continued use of the LHC? What do I attain or not attain in physically subduing an armed attacker? You see, there is a difference, whether you realize it or not. I say that risks are not that high even if said LHC devours this entire section of the Galaxy in a man made black hole. It will have been our greatest creation ever! period!
You go ahead with your rational discourse, I'm going to stick with logical discourse. It is just as likely that the LHC will show us nothing new, and amount to something less than a productive use of time and resources.
BTW, Donate your life savings the The Campaign For Liberty post haste. If I die tomorrow, I attain nothing, but if I oppose the LHC and prevent it's use, I fail to attain the chance at some very wonderful things. So, yes, I remain gung-ho with zero regard for whether the slim chance of destruction happens or not. Furthermore, I fart in your general direction.
The end game on that is a lose-lose proposition. When dial-up was still popular this over-subscribed broadband plan was workable. The traffic generated by file sharing, email, web browsing etc. could be handled in this manner. The trouble is that ISPs did not update or upgrade the 'tubes' to handle the traffic that they themselves intended on selling to users. All this crap about bundled services (triple-play and Quadruple-play) for the last 5 years is about ISP's selling you streaming content and high-bandwidth content. To claim that they need to 'manage congestion' while trying to sell data content is absolute BS. What they want is carte blanche to tell you what data you are allowed to send and receive. period. no arguing.
We tend to forget that they have this plan to sell you streaming data that has to fit in the same damned pipes as the data you are using now, that they claim are not big enough to handle some file sharing. I call bullshit. The ISPs cannot force the Internet to be how it used to be. Rich Internet content, web 2.0, streaming content... all of this is ruining their original over-subscription network configuration plan. Now, the very same ISPs that are complaining about congestion are fully into planning and implementation of bandwidth intensive services they want to sell you. What they want is for you to only use bandwidth on data services that you have purchased from them. They are double dipping on this, and there is no other way to see it.
The purpose of the LHC is noble, and results could be what we need to get off this rock and really dominate the galaxy. If they destroy the Earth... meh, it was a good try. Maybe next time.
That's the problem. As soon as they start "managing congestion" with anything other than the bandwidth they sold us, it becomes an issue. When my Vonage VoIP packets are getting delayed, is it because of Cox or because of greedy bandwidth hogging porn downloaders and music file sharers? I'll wager that Cox says it's not because of them. There is no way to view why or when they "manage congestion" so users will never know, and the product and service sold to them is incapable of being verified as fit for purpose.
Something tells me that this is not right, and should be taken to court. I just can't figure out on my own how to win.
Lets be honest here. What would we like the average office PC to be doing? If they are beefy enough to run a grid on, and so also perform many of the data retention, de-duplication, HPC functions, and many other things, then yes, having faster-better-more on the desktop at work could be interestingly useful. Software is needed to use hardware that way, meh.
There will never be a time in the foreseeable future when beefier hardware will not be met with requirements for its use. Call that Z's corollary to Moore's Observation.... if you want.
If the phone company started looking for a burst of phone calls to Mexico and informed the Minute Men if there was a spike, people'd be furious.
That is absolutely correct and more to the point, the story tag 'sneakernet' is the process that will ensure that file sharing never dies, and in fact directly robs the RIAA members of revenue. When you and 25 of your friends make a list of music you like, then each of you buys one new CD and copies it 25 times and passes them around to your CD group, the RIAA members lose directly. This is not a try-before-buy thing like a lot of file sharing is, it's full on loss of CD sales revenue :-)
Besides making the ISPs culpable in any file sharing, they drive the problem to a place where it can't be detected or stopped. At that point, the RIAA members will have to admit that they aren't making money because all the do is promote crap at extortionate prices.
This house of cards will fall too, as soon as NYCountryLawyer starts ISPvsThePeople blog and documents all the legal crap that starts happening when ISPs start narcing for the RIAA. Once they lose safe harbor protection via a law suit over P2P it will be interesting to see what other legal trouble they get into. Will they then be liable for voice traffic issues? If someone calls and threatens me and I ask the ISP to block voip calls from that person, will they become liable if they don't? Can I get a court order to force them to? There are literally thousands of issues that can arise if they lose safe harbor status. I kind of look forward to it in a weird sort of way.
There is the problem, full in your face style. No matter what trade agreements are agreed to, China is run differently internally than the USA or European Union countries. Going to the WTO is like asking a police officer to witness someone robbing your car all the while knowing that the police officer will not arrest the robber. I don't think anyone has a full grasp of what would happen if the US simply stopped doing business with China cold turkey style... So, this remains a problem.
That would be cool. Sharing is good. I just figured out that in SeaMonkey email client you can do a search for messages that are less than one day old, then save that as a search folder. In fact, you can save lots of search folders. I use a lot of personal folders and filters, so this is a trick that works like the inbox folder but much more useful to me. I'm not sure if that feature is in other email applications (yet) but it's pretty awesome. Once filtered to a personal folder, they won't show in the inbox, and with the search folder I can specify folders to search and folders to ignore. Very useful.
Not to poke fun, but if you do a network boot/install in Linux, you can install ANY image you create. Windows has that capability too for people that install 100s of systems at a time. If you are talking about work, I would *presume* that you build your own image that includes software apps that you would have to install after the OS anyway... don't you?
Thanks for that tidbit of info... will be trying that this weekend :-)
I always wondered why they didn't just call it Windows 7 or whatever code name and then distribute it with application packs, which would include application packs such as:
server app pack
home/media app pack
basics/offic app pack
The way they do it, joe public can't really be sure what version they have. Hell, there are a lot of end users that don't know if they are currently running XP or Vista (but you can tell by complaints about performance LOL).
I think that Ubuntu, Fedora and others could use with that sort of packaging also. By simply distributing the basic distro and setting up repositories for each application pack. That would make it easy to get a media server based on abc linux set up and maintained.