"But it's your second sentence that really bothers me: "We'll probably end up detonating some sort of nuclear bomb to try to counter-act the forces of nature." This sounds a lot like a sort of pastorialist, head-in-sand point of view; in fact if you replace "nature" with "God," it starts to sound downright medeival"
And if you change "detonate" to "sacrifice" and "nuclear bomb" to "goat", it sounds even older than that! Oo, and if you change all the words to pictures of eyes, chickens, people walking funny, it'll even look egyption!
"And you thought a hot battery in your lap was scary"
No, but I did think it was a PITA having to quickly plug into a wall socket as my laptop's about to put itself to sleep when the battery's getting low... now I'm gonna have to jump in the car to buy some fuel! I could syphon out of the car, but that's a bad habit to get into, which could lead to me finding myself having to/cycle/ to get some fuel for the car/and/ the laptop!
Quantum computing isn't just "one up" on classical computing; it's a different tool for different jobs. Yes there's gonna be some overlap, where quantum can do a job better, but don't expect to see this across the board for all (or even most) general computing requirements.
"Perhaps it will clear out the juvenile morons that post simply to post"
...as well as discussion, people with more than 3-4 interesting/witty things to say per week...
There should be a "challenge" link I think, so if you disagree with a moderation, you can submit it for challenge. The moderator gets chance to withdraw the moderation, or it goes to review if enough people challenge it and no agreement is formed with the moderator.
People who get their moderations overturned take hits on their karma, reducing their future chances to moderate.
"Also, how about a laser weapon targeting system that can lase 100 targets at once for all the bomblets?"
These lasers fire in a single direction, so you'd still need some method of changing the angle of the beam to point at the target. Dunno how this would really help with that.
"and that it is generally a bad idea to work on a PC while it is plugged in"
No, flick the power switch yes, but leave it plugged in... that way you know it's earthed. Rest your arm on the case, and you're earthed too, no need to worry about static buildup (I don't know how much of an issue that really is, but when you're working on someone elses kit, you take such a precaution out of respect if nothing else)
"Hey, wait a minute; German doesn't even come close to the wackiness of English"
What, where words are dude/dudette and you have to remember which one otherwise you'll end up saying the wrong word with it and making it mean something else - and that's just what you need to know for the word "the"?! Try telling somebody who lives in a country where their furniture/doesn't/ have reproductive organs that that isn't wacky...
In german, wacky isn't even a word! (and that assertion's based on absolutely no knowledge whatsoever).
English can be twisted, maimed and abused (I'm looking at you, USA), and still get the message across 9 times out of 10, and if the person you're talking to doesn't understand english very well, this can be resolved easily by raising your voice at them. When I hear shouting in german, it just makes me giggle and stick my finger under my nose, but I'm still no closer to understanding it. You don't get much wackier than that!
...and instead use one of the many other browsers that never has any bugs 'n exploits, like erm... errr... um... anyway, yeah, then you'd be totally secure!
"Do you think only people with tinfoil hats think advertising companies have been tracking people on the web for over a decade?"
No, just that only people with tinfoil hats/care/ that advertising companies are tracking people. Not everyone has the level of self-shame where they feel the need to hide what they're doing.
Doesn't help if you wanna display any sort of dynamic content based on the tracking info though, as you only know which user/session has loaded a page after the page has been loaded, when the image can be loaded.
Using the javascript method, you could do something like modify links on the page to add a session=xxx string, or even reload sections of the page. I guess it comes down to what you want your tracking to accomplish.
NASA have had problems in the past on mars with priority inversion, something that can be helped along by adding priority inheritance code to the underlying kernel, something that Linus has in the past disagreed with ("fix your code instead").
Is there now priority inheritance in the linux kernel, or will NASA have to add it? Will they remember to (this is NASA)? Will the example of a mission to mars going wrong and needing patching add any weight to the pro-priority-inheritance argument?
Will be interesting to see if NASA feed any patches back.
oo you don't wanna be using a thing like that here! What you have to remember is that this galaxy we're viewing is in the same location that the big bang occured... and so are we.:-/
If you travel at 80% the speed of light away from an object travelling 80% of the speed of light in the opposite direction, the distance between you is growing at 160% speed of light, so your speed relative to the other object is faster than the speed of light.
We're already on the way with SMART, with many (most?) drives having reserved sectors that get mapped over bad sectors when they crop up. This won't be able to recover lost data, but a drive that verifies writes could re-write a sector that didn't make it to disc on first attempt.
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"But it's your second sentence that really bothers me: "We'll probably end up detonating some sort of nuclear bomb to try to counter-act the forces of nature." This sounds a lot like a sort of pastorialist, head-in-sand point of view; in fact if you replace "nature" with "God," it starts to sound downright medeival"
And if you change "detonate" to "sacrifice" and "nuclear bomb" to "goat", it sounds even older than that! Oo, and if you change all the words to pictures of eyes, chickens, people walking funny, it'll even look egyption!
"And you thought a hot battery in your lap was scary"
/cycle/ to get some fuel for the car /and/ the laptop!
No, but I did think it was a PITA having to quickly plug into a wall socket as my laptop's about to put itself to sleep when the battery's getting low... now I'm gonna have to jump in the car to buy some fuel! I could syphon out of the car, but that's a bad habit to get into, which could lead to me finding myself having to
Are you saying that with one of these types of surge protector, if there is a surge, the earth line and all that's attached become charged?
Quantum computing isn't just "one up" on classical computing; it's a different tool for different jobs. Yes there's gonna be some overlap, where quantum can do a job better, but don't expect to see this across the board for all (or even most) general computing requirements.
"Perhaps it will clear out the juvenile morons that post simply to post"
...as well as discussion, people with more than 3-4 interesting/witty things to say per week...
There should be a "challenge" link I think, so if you disagree with a moderation, you can submit it for challenge. The moderator gets chance to withdraw the moderation, or it goes to review if enough people challenge it and no agreement is formed with the moderator.
People who get their moderations overturned take hits on their karma, reducing their future chances to moderate.
Maybe.
"Also, how about a laser weapon targeting system that can lase 100 targets at once for all the bomblets?"
These lasers fire in a single direction, so you'd still need some method of changing the angle of the beam to point at the target. Dunno how this would really help with that.
"and that it is generally a bad idea to work on a PC while it is plugged in"
No, flick the power switch yes, but leave it plugged in... that way you know it's earthed. Rest your arm on the case, and you're earthed too, no need to worry about static buildup (I don't know how much of an issue that really is, but when you're working on someone elses kit, you take such a precaution out of respect if nothing else)
cool... and we could use tiny specs of glow-in-the-dark paint to store bits, so we don't have to convert to electricity at all!! ;-)
"Think of it like a tube full of marbles."
I hear the internet is made of tubes. A senator told me that.
Yeah but because of people dumping in the tubes, he lost his marbles.
"Hey, wait a minute; German doesn't even come close to the wackiness of English"
/doesn't/ have reproductive organs that that isn't wacky...
What, where words are dude/dudette and you have to remember which one otherwise you'll end up saying the wrong word with it and making it mean something else - and that's just what you need to know for the word "the"?! Try telling somebody who lives in a country where their furniture
In german, wacky isn't even a word! (and that assertion's based on absolutely no knowledge whatsoever).
English can be twisted, maimed and abused (I'm looking at you, USA), and still get the message across 9 times out of 10, and if the person you're talking to doesn't understand english very well, this can be resolved easily by raising your voice at them. When I hear shouting in german, it just makes me giggle and stick my finger under my nose, but I'm still no closer to understanding it. You don't get much wackier than that!
You've just posted links to pages that contain information about people, collected through such means... this makes you better how exactly?
...and instead use one of the many other browsers that never has any bugs 'n exploits, like erm... errr... um... anyway, yeah, then you'd be totally secure!
If you wanna track your users, then what's important is what browser they use, not what you use yourself, and very few of them use opera.
"Do you think only people with tinfoil hats think advertising companies have been tracking people on the web for over a decade?"
/care/ that advertising companies are tracking people. Not everyone has the level of self-shame where they feel the need to hide what they're doing.
No, just that only people with tinfoil hats
"However let's imagine it's integrated in a website for which you have enabled javascripts, then you're f@cked"
Only if you frequent websites that are trying to f@ck you. If you are, perhaps you should look at your own browsing habits.
Doesn't help if you wanna display any sort of dynamic content based on the tracking info though, as you only know which user/session has loaded a page after the page has been loaded, when the image can be loaded.
Using the javascript method, you could do something like modify links on the page to add a session=xxx string, or even reload sections of the page. I guess it comes down to what you want your tracking to accomplish.
But why bother even visiting a website where you distrust its creators so much as to need to employ such methods against them?
NASA have had problems in the past on mars with priority inversion, something that can be helped along by adding priority inheritance code to the underlying kernel, something that Linus has in the past disagreed with ("fix your code instead").
Is there now priority inheritance in the linux kernel, or will NASA have to add it? Will they remember to (this is NASA)? Will the example of a mission to mars going wrong and needing patching add any weight to the pro-priority-inheritance argument?
Will be interesting to see if NASA feed any patches back.
You lie! If this was really slashdot, 6. would be "profit!!!"
Yeah but it was the computer program that judged which method should win!
Google for it. It shows recently terminated processes in red (or whatever) for a few seconds after it's terminated (all configurable)
Or when converted to binary, it turned out to be an mp3 of the latest song from [insert-RIAA-label], and so they banned distribution of it :-p
"My intuition..."
:-/
oo you don't wanna be using a thing like that here! What you have to remember is that this galaxy we're viewing is in the same location that the big bang occured... and so are we.
If you travel at 80% the speed of light away from an object travelling 80% of the speed of light in the opposite direction, the distance between you is growing at 160% speed of light, so your speed relative to the other object is faster than the speed of light.
We're already on the way with SMART, with many (most?) drives having reserved sectors that get mapped over bad sectors when they crop up. This won't be able to recover lost data, but a drive that verifies writes could re-write a sector that didn't make it to disc on first attempt.