Actually I just switched back from Kdrive to XFree86 because Kdrive's unaccelerated VESA server was much slower than XFree's accelerated MGA server (as you'd expect). One of the drawbacks of a tiny X server is that it can't include as many optimisations.
In California, police will be able in 2008 to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, whether the person is convicted or not
In the UK, police can already take a DNA sample if you're arrested for any crime (even if you're not charged, let alone convicted). Samples are kept indefinitely and added to the national DNA database, which could be sold to private companies or cross-referenced with the National Identity Register to find out the subject's current name and address.
Are you behind a firewall? It would be cool to run a webserver on a transatlantic flight, although if you do so I don't recommend you post it to Slashdot.;-)
Maybe levitation technology is too expensive to include in ordinary droids. I mean we have limited slip differentials and anti-lock brakes but we don't put them on shopping trolleys.
Actually, if downloading is legal then uploading might be too, thanks to an exception in the European Copyright Directive that fans of P2P kept rather quiet about while they were protesting the rest of the law:
(33) The exclusive right of reproduction should be subject to an exception to allow certain acts of temporary reproduction, which are transient or incidental reproductions, forming an integral and essential part of a technological process and carried out for the sole purpose of enabling either efficient transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or a lawful use of a work or other subject-matter to be made. The acts of reproduction concerned should have no separate economic value on their own. To the extent that they meet these conditions, this exception should include acts which enable browsing as well as acts of caching to take place, including those which enable transmission systems to function efficiently, provided that the intermediary does not modify the information and does not interfere with the lawful use of technology, widely recognised and used by industry, to obtain data on the use of the information. A use should be considered lawful where it is authorised by the rightholder or not restricted by law.
IANAL but my reading of this is that if downloading a file is legal, then uploading an unmodified copy of the file in order to enable someone else to perform a more efficient download (BitTorrent anyone?) is also legal.
No, uploading is compensated by a separate tax on reading from hard drives. I myself declared over 1TB of reads last year, although my accountant says that with better caching I could have reduced it to 600GB.
It would follow the orientation of your head, not your eyes, so you'd have to flick your head around like a bird - if you think RSI in your wrist is bad, wait till you get it in your neck!;-)
I've just been writing a boot script that finds programs that were accessed between the last boot and the last shutdown and loads them into the disk cache. Speeds up load times even when you "only" have 64 megs of RAM.
There's a tradeoff between boot speed and application start speed - Win98 tried to get faster load times by preloading things at boot time but personally I found the slow boot really annoying. I suppose you might be able to get faster load times by using an absurdly large read-ahead disk cache; looks like the read-ahead code is mostly in/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c if you're interested in digging further. Or you could have a low-priority process that reads executable files, thus dragging them into the disk cache so they'll load faster when they're actually executed; not sure if there's a separate cache for executable pages though. I'm going to try this with firefox and see if it improves the load time.
I have to dsiagree with you, even though I'm not usually offended by swearing. You might as well argue that it's silly to think about food when someone says "lunch". Yes the symbol is arbitrary, but it still conveys meaning. Swear words convey anger or aggression, as well as having taboo literal meanings that increase their shock value. Why is "fuck" more offensive than "have sexual intercourse with"? Because it's more often used in an aggressive context, so its use conveys aggression. It isn't silly to be offended when a stranger calls you a cunt - they would only do so as an aggressive act.
Actually the President can sign treaties without the consent of the Congress or the Senate, and they are binding.
The "Supremacy Clause" of the U.S. Constitution is contained in Article VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
What is more important, the knowledge gained through rigorous study or the ablility to acomplish what the studing provides through a machine.
But what if learning to perform up to the machine's level is only the first step? Those who want to do better than the machine must first learn to do worse than the machine. A calculator can multiply large numbers much more quickly than a human, but if you don't learn your multiplication tables then you won't get very far in mathematics, even with a calculator. You have to push basic skills down to an instinctive level before you can build on them.
It's hard to fix - you need to be Administrator to run a debugger because a debugger attaches to another process and alters its memory. But maybe the rest of Visual Studio could run as a normal user, with the debugger using Run As? Coincidentally I was just reading a journal entry on exactly that subject.
You wouldn't believe the things you see in your Gnutella search monitor when your node contains songs by Sex Gang Children and Lolita Storm. I wonder if my ISP has reported me yet?
I've heard that one reason for making the grooves deeper on bass-heavy records is to prevent the needle from skipping due to the extra momentum (same reason DJs put pennies on top of the stylus when playing bass-heavy records, at the cost of extra wear and tear).
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I don't think the idea is to achieve a security level of 128 + 160 bits; the idea is to achieve a security level of at least 128 bits that won't be lost if either algorithm is completely broken.
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Actually I just switched back from Kdrive to XFree86 because Kdrive's unaccelerated VESA server was much slower than XFree's accelerated MGA server (as you'd expect). One of the drawbacks of a tiny X server is that it can't include as many optimisations.
Just remove OpaqueResize and OpaqueMove from your .twmrc ;-)
In the UK, police can already take a DNA sample if you're arrested for any crime (even if you're not charged, let alone convicted). Samples are kept indefinitely and added to the national DNA database, which could be sold to private companies or cross-referenced with the National Identity Register to find out the subject's current name and address.
Are you behind a firewall? It would be cool to run a webserver on a transatlantic flight, although if you do so I don't recommend you post it to Slashdot. ;-)
Yeah how ridiculous, everyone on Slashdot knows you can't do any harm with a sudden flood of HTTP requests from a million different IPs... oh wait...
Maybe levitation technology is too expensive to include in ordinary droids. I mean we have limited slip differentials and anti-lock brakes but we don't put them on shopping trolleys.
Don't worry, they'll soon be forced to pay the tax too in the name of harmonization.
No, uploading is compensated by a separate tax on reading from hard drives. I myself declared over 1TB of reads last year, although my accountant says that with better caching I could have reduced it to 600GB.
I guess a linternaut would be someone floating around in your dryer.
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It would follow the orientation of your head, not your eyes, so you'd have to flick your head around like a bird - if you think RSI in your wrist is bad, wait till you get it in your neck! ;-)
So users of Debian Stable have nothing to worry about?
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/mrogers/quickstart.h tml
There's a tradeoff between boot speed and application start speed - Win98 tried to get faster load times by preloading things at boot time but personally I found the slow boot really annoying. I suppose you might be able to get faster load times by using an absurdly large read-ahead disk cache; looks like the read-ahead code is mostly in /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c if you're interested in digging further. Or you could have a low-priority process that reads executable files, thus dragging them into the disk cache so they'll load faster when they're actually executed; not sure if there's a separate cache for executable pages though. I'm going to try this with firefox and see if it improves the load time.
I have to dsiagree with you, even though I'm not usually offended by swearing. You might as well argue that it's silly to think about food when someone says "lunch". Yes the symbol is arbitrary, but it still conveys meaning. Swear words convey anger or aggression, as well as having taboo literal meanings that increase their shock value. Why is "fuck" more offensive than "have sexual intercourse with"? Because it's more often used in an aggressive context, so its use conveys aggression. It isn't silly to be offended when a stranger calls you a cunt - they would only do so as an aggressive act.
But what if learning to perform up to the machine's level is only the first step? Those who want to do better than the machine must first learn to do worse than the machine. A calculator can multiply large numbers much more quickly than a human, but if you don't learn your multiplication tables then you won't get very far in mathematics, even with a calculator. You have to push basic skills down to an instinctive level before you can build on them.
I dunno, I can see arguments on both sides - what if spyware attaches to an ssh client?
A wireless mouse really ought to be called a hamster.
It's hard to fix - you need to be Administrator to run a debugger because a debugger attaches to another process and alters its memory. But maybe the rest of Visual Studio could run as a normal user, with the debugger using Run As? Coincidentally I was just reading a journal entry on exactly that subject.
You wouldn't believe the things you see in your Gnutella search monitor when your node contains songs by Sex Gang Children and Lolita Storm. I wonder if my ISP has reported me yet?
Can anyone explain why IsNot != !=?
I've heard that one reason for making the grooves deeper on bass-heavy records is to prevent the needle from skipping due to the extra momentum (same reason DJs put pennies on top of the stylus when playing bass-heavy records, at the cost of extra wear and tear).
I don't think the idea is to achieve a security level of 128 + 160 bits; the idea is to achieve a security level of at least 128 bits that won't be lost if either algorithm is completely broken.