Y'know, I'm not entirely sure. I didn't follow the discussions very closely. I'm sure there's a good reason that you could find if you poked around the LKML a bit, though.
You might also want to consider Xen. Coupled with a CPU supporting virtualization it offers most of the benefits of VMWare with no slowdown whatsoever.
Passwords are great. They are one of the few legacy (think before computers) devices that work just as well with computers. If one thinks abstractly from computers, to the use of passwords in general it's entirely obvious why passwords have such longevity - they're the only solution that the general user can successfully utilize and they're rather secure.
Overall the article really confirms this. Passwords are not perfect. Other methods do not work (much) better, if at all.
He's not claiming that one should be paranoid, just noting the trend of lessening freedoms.
Currently (most) people have the option to not use it if they don't like it. However, traditional ways are slowly be phased out - how long will it be until only credit cards and fingerprints are accepted? It would definitely be economical to get rid of all the physical money out there - it has no intrinsic worth and is just a burden on society. By removing it, though, it also destroys the old way of customer interaction. It limits your freedom to using the new methods.
This is related to DRM as it is a parallel limiting of freedom - just like how people are slowly being forced to use credit cards and finger prints to buy necessities they are likewise slowly being forced to buy products that limit their freedom when it comes to the goods they've purchased.
Finally, it is not a matter of 'feeling' free, it is a matter of eroding choice.
Grown people tend to be able to understand temporality and see beyond the direct and immediate effects of a fundamental societal switch - perhaps you should considering working on that.
Well obviously the technology is not perfect yet. However, none of the problems you bring up are particularly insurmountable (as long as you aren't excepting the AI to be BETTER at parsing languages than people). Yes, words are ambiguous, and yes humans can fail at parsing them, ergo computers probably will too. That's just a fact, we're not going to achieve perfection. Still, this could be a pretty major step forward (well, not that this is the first time something like this has been tried - but the base premise seems sound) by using google the elephant of a problem you mention can be partialy mitigated. Google gives enough context around a word that ideally, when the word to be translated is also surrounded by context its meaning amoung alternate meanings can be discovered without giving an overly ambigous translation.
No - I think they hoped it would turn into some kind of groovy GNU love-fest.
Also, for people not so well versed in OSS (and they do visit slashdot so I am told!) might find the points and counter-points helpful to evaluating what license their software should be released under, if they want to support GNU, et cetera.
But yeah - in any case, it's not quite "news for nerds" (we all know about the GPL already) or "stuff that matters" (a requisite for this would be 'stuff' existing, ala something happening.)
It is truely a sad day when, "Patent infringement coverage is needed by anyone involved in the software business, whether it is proprietary or open source."
The courrupt payoff from a courrupt system. Patents were never intended to be used in this manner. If something was worthy to be pantented it should have been innovative enough such that no one else would, for the duration of the patent, indenpendently develop the same product.
The only time "patent infringement coverage" would be needed then, is when either a member of the team gets lazy and copies some source, or the idea is indenpendently developed, exposing that the patent being infringed upon was insufficent to be patented in the first place - patents such as 'mouse clicking' and 'a method of interacting with electronic devices' come to mind.
Hopefully those in power will some day stop shelling out to corporate interests and actually move the system back into doing what it was intended to do. Unill then, at least there's Poland.
I think you have to take into account that these chips are made expressly for "performance desktops." So they're basically just aiming at the ultra high-end market of people with money to burn.
At this point it doesn't matter if the market picks up on them, just if they can get a few out there, get some good reviews and then start selling them high-end and midline a few months later.
However, from a practical point of view you definitely do have a point - why get all the speed? To be honest (and IANAID - I am not an Intel dev), I don't have a good reason.
Though, on the other hand, why not? This jumps forward in CPU technology are making computers faster and in the long run even cheaper. So I'm not going to complain.
Oh I agree fully. This is the best kind of innovation - I was just trying to make a joke between his "stated aims" so to speak and the practicality of the project.
Besides, you're missing the entire point of the justice system. It's not there to get revenge on people who've caused damage. I mean sure, you can claim eye for an eye is justice but that view's been going more and more out of favor. Reforming people is generally more successful; not to mention, in the end more benefitial to society.
As for preventiveness, I'm sure any amount of actual oversight - from their parents or otherwise - is probably enough to deter most 'script kiddies'.
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Well sendfile() itself has never been portable, so the situation hasn't gotten any worse with splice().
If you want to look at it negatively though, yes, non-portable syscalls will make programs that use them non-portable.
Y'know, I'm not entirely sure. I didn't follow the discussions very closely. I'm sure there's a good reason that you could find if you poked around the LKML a bit, though.
sendfile(2) is now a call to splice() so programs that use the old syscall will benefit as well and without modificaiton.
You might also want to consider Xen. Coupled with a CPU supporting virtualization it offers most of the benefits of VMWare with no slowdown whatsoever.
Sure, save that cocaine is illegal. Thankfully having music on ones' computer is not yet a crime in the United States.
"they can't catch criminals because we don't use Exploder."
Well shit, now all they have to do - in your case - is browse to Slashdot using IE and they've got your admission right there!
who speak english.
Mod parent up.
Passwords are great. They are one of the few legacy (think before computers) devices that work just as well with computers. If one thinks abstractly from computers, to the use of passwords in general it's entirely obvious why passwords have such longevity - they're the only solution that the general user can successfully utilize and they're rather secure.
Overall the article really confirms this. Passwords are not perfect. Other methods do not work (much) better, if at all.
He's not claiming that one should be paranoid, just noting the trend of lessening freedoms.
Currently (most) people have the option to not use it if they don't like it. However, traditional ways are slowly be phased out - how long will it be until only credit cards and fingerprints are accepted? It would definitely be economical to get rid of all the physical money out there - it has no intrinsic worth and is just a burden on society. By removing it, though, it also destroys the old way of customer interaction. It limits your freedom to using the new methods.
This is related to DRM as it is a parallel limiting of freedom - just like how people are slowly being forced to use credit cards and finger prints to buy necessities they are likewise slowly being forced to buy products that limit their freedom when it comes to the goods they've purchased.
Finally, it is not a matter of 'feeling' free, it is a matter of eroding choice.
Grown people tend to be able to understand temporality and see beyond the direct and immediate effects of a fundamental societal switch - perhaps you should considering working on that.
Well obviously the technology is not perfect yet. However, none of the problems you bring up are particularly insurmountable (as long as you aren't excepting the AI to be BETTER at parsing languages than people). Yes, words are ambiguous, and yes humans can fail at parsing them, ergo computers probably will too. That's just a fact, we're not going to achieve perfection. Still, this could be a pretty major step forward (well, not that this is the first time something like this has been tried - but the base premise seems sound) by using google the elephant of a problem you mention can be partialy mitigated. Google gives enough context around a word that ideally, when the word to be translated is also surrounded by context its meaning amoung alternate meanings can be discovered without giving an overly ambigous translation.
No - I think they hoped it would turn into some kind of groovy GNU love-fest.
Also, for people not so well versed in OSS (and they do visit slashdot so I am told!) might find the points and counter-points helpful to evaluating what license their software should be released under, if they want to support GNU, et cetera.
But yeah - in any case, it's not quite "news for nerds" (we all know about the GPL already) or "stuff that matters" (a requisite for this would be 'stuff' existing, ala something happening.)
It is truely a sad day when, "Patent infringement coverage is needed by anyone involved in the software business, whether it is proprietary or open source." The courrupt payoff from a courrupt system. Patents were never intended to be used in this manner. If something was worthy to be pantented it should have been innovative enough such that no one else would, for the duration of the patent, indenpendently develop the same product. The only time "patent infringement coverage" would be needed then, is when either a member of the team gets lazy and copies some source, or the idea is indenpendently developed, exposing that the patent being infringed upon was insufficent to be patented in the first place - patents such as 'mouse clicking' and 'a method of interacting with electronic devices' come to mind. Hopefully those in power will some day stop shelling out to corporate interests and actually move the system back into doing what it was intended to do. Unill then, at least there's Poland.
I think you have to take into account that these chips are made expressly for "performance desktops." So they're basically just aiming at the ultra high-end market of people with money to burn.
At this point it doesn't matter if the market picks up on them, just if they can get a few out there, get some good reviews and then start selling them high-end and midline a few months later.
However, from a practical point of view you definitely do have a point - why get all the speed? To be honest (and IANAID - I am not an Intel dev), I don't have a good reason.
Though, on the other hand, why not? This jumps forward in CPU technology are making computers faster and in the long run even cheaper. So I'm not going to complain.
Oh I agree fully. This is the best kind of innovation - I was just trying to make a joke between his "stated aims" so to speak and the practicality of the project.
"to be transmitted in the language of the Internet"
Finally we'll be able to get the news in 1337 - and I never throught I'd live see the day.
"I have a strong bias towards building products that people buy for their own use." -Trevor
I too support people killing themselves. But, really - couldn't we find a more effective method?
Besides, you're missing the entire point of the justice system. It's not there to get revenge on people who've caused damage. I mean sure, you can claim eye for an eye is justice but that view's been going more and more out of favor. Reforming people is generally more successful; not to mention, in the end more benefitial to society. As for preventiveness, I'm sure any amount of actual oversight - from their parents or otherwise - is probably enough to deter most 'script kiddies'.