Programmers know too much about the inner workings of a system...
And end users know too little. The problem with most commercial software is it looks like it was designed by the end users without much programmer innovation.
Programmers innovate everything. They create code that wasn't there before they wrote it. I would trust them to innovate a more creative solution to most problems including user interface than the typical user would understand.
Use two hashes for each file. 1 md5 and 1 sha1. Getting a file that matches both and has the same file size is probably impossible. But who knows. Its just a simple small hash key and there are lots of bits in a file.
but its not surprising given that slashdot editors really don't appear to give a flying fuck any more
Never attribute to malic which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I think they forgot they should read.. the articles.. _before_ posting.
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Are you saying that there are many planes of consciousness? That perhaps new borns and insects and computers are aware on some level?
I don't buy it. I think adults are barely aware. Cats and dogs are often more aware of their surroundings than some people. But probably not of their location on the planet. I think consciousness is learned. IMO, it is accumulated through a lifetime of experience and knowledge..
I think I would cease to be conscious if my memory were wiped and my personality, I, would be lost.
I guess maybe some part of me would still be here in the case of amnesia, so perhaps not all my personality would be lost. But that would be an interesting thing to study. How do people change, how does their behavior change when their experiences change. How does their behavior change when their environment changes? How does environment affect experience? And what comes first? Experience or consciousness? Is one reliant on the other?
I assume we must have experiences to become conscious. Am I wrong?
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So, why are we here? Why are we in the theater, watching the show, rather than there just being a theater playing the story of the universe, but nobody's watching it?
If a tree falls in the forest and noone is around to hear it does it make a sound? But more importantly does it matter if it makes a sound or not?
All our experiences end with death. All our thoughts, our consciousness, our memories and feelings die with us. So, like the tree, does it matter if we're watching the movie or if the theatre is empty?
We have a limited amount of time. Time is constantly moving forward, it never stops and it never reverses. Our consciousness is dependant on this time changing. Without it how would we collect memories in our brain? How would the chemicals transfer the data from our eyes to our synapses to be processed? They must move through space and time to do this. We are mechanical, in a very organic sense. So our experiences depend on all these physical properties of our universe. Without them we could not exist. And without existence there is no thought, no consciousness to percieve existence, what it means, or why it is important.
Life is a limited resource. Our consciousness doesn't last forever. Eventually we all die. So its more important to experience life than to prove that these experiences mean something to us or anyone else. Its more important what you do with your time while you are alive than what you did with it after you are dead. Because once you die you can't go back and change anything. Its gone. Even if you can somehow magicly be conscious without a brain.
Also we are programmed. This programming allows us to be manipulated. Psychologists study this intensely.
D-Link might be bad but at least its better than Linksys. I bought a new linksys ABG wireless router that has these "features" to cache DNS and periodicly stop serving DHCP. Since the DNS cache doesn't work and there's no way to turn it off (not even a firmware update available at this time) this device is useless. It will work for about 30 minutes, but no longer than 1 day before requiring a reset.
I bought a D-Link with the same specs and set it up this weekend. Its been working fine ever since. It doesn't cache my DNS and has a much more feature filled interface. Many options that weren't available for the Linksys.
I don't recommend all D-Link products. But for a simple DSL/Cable wireless router they have something that will work as long as you don't need VPN or some other weird setup.
My preference will always be a Linux box if you can afford the time to set it up.
But if your own government supports them then you, too, might be a communist.
Capitalists and spineless heartless bastards who seem to think they're right. Until one day they find they're working for the commies they hated and propogandized their whole lives.
But will they ever admit they were wrong? Will they ever acknowledge the hypocracy of the whole freakin stupid system? No. They'll just go on bashing communists, business as usual.
chemical fuels will never work much better than it does now. There's just not enough energy per unit mass.
Um, Hydrogen can be fused to produce more energy than we get by burning it. The power per unit of mass is far more than we know what to do with. We just gotta LEARN how to use it safely.
This takes time.
But I agree with your other points. There's no need to send people out there until we get this research done. By then we could have robots doing most of the work for us.
Even if they make a new license that would punish Google, Google doesn't have to use it. They can continue using the software they are running now without any form of legal damages.
We're not loonies like those freaks up in Redmond. We don't go on suing rampages to make a profit. But we protect our IP just as viciously as they do in our licenses.
Just look what happened to CherryOS. The threat of legal action is usually enough to bring offenders into compliance with the law. This saves everyone time and money, compared with our current system where companies like SCO thrive. They're still in business last time I checked.
This make me think. Who's side are you really on? You must actually agree with these frivilous lawsuits, proprietary secret closed-source business practices. Things like the BSA. Do you like business as usual? Or do you just not know any better?
You're probably just too lazy to think for yourself.
But he did it without pointing a gun at anyone. If someone cracks into a bank's computers and transfers $10,000 to their personal account they should get punished, but not 9 years in prison. A couple years would be more than enough, IMO. But personally I'd rather see them lose all their money and property and have to start over again.
Well, if these old timers would wake up there's technology out there that would be ready to handle this today.
Instead of supporting this peer to peer technology they have to go begging for help like some homeless hippie. That's sad.
I suggest they get with the times and start promoting technology that could save us all some money. Imagine if every web browser had some efficient P2P software integrated/standard. Without encryption or obfiscation it could be very efficient and legal content, like this, could be distributed with less overhead.
The NForce2 chipset in my Shuttle PC is "rock stable".
I never have network, performance or stability problems. And rarely have problems with the sound. But I use Linux, so my drivers might not be all there. Haven't updated them in a while, too. There's no need. It just works.
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I'm writing a patent.
I discovered this new technology. I call it a comparitive statement. It works like this:
I have this statement, right? When we do a comparitive analysis of this statement, if it is honest it executes this truthful section of code. If it is lying it executes this blasphemous section of code over here.
Honestly, this has never been done before. I wanna patent. Gimme!
Now let's supposed its your motorhome and you live in it. Its full of your stuff. And when they come to take it back your stuff is tossed out next to you in the street. Do you still feel the same way?
I think you give this version control software too much credit, like its significantly better than the alternatives, almost like there are no alternatives - you'd be walking.. But here in reality there are alternatives and always has been. BitKeeper wasn't some perfect source control tool. In fact its a pain to use. Not much better than cvs, IMO
How can you ignore the progress the kernel devs made in their process while using bk?
How can you ignore the progress the kernel devs made without bk? Its not the tool, its the people. Its the stupid, stupid.
I think Bill's promise to give away 90+% of his net worth is more noble than anything any slashdotter will ever accomplish.
Give any slashdotter that kind of cash and find out. I, for one, would be very happy with even $1 million. But I guess nobility is more expensive these days, with inflation and all.
I don't disagree that Bill Gates is noble or a good person or whatever, when compared with MOST capitalists. But Microsoft got its money by rather less than noble means. So, for example, if a drug dealer gives away 90+% of their profits does that make them noble?
Am I the only guy on the planet who doesn't seem to need more than about 80GB?
Yep, you're the only one.
Why did you move your music into MP3 format? I mean, was there a reason? Or are you just trying to use up that last 20GB of free disk space you had sitting there doing nothing?
The reason I buy disk space is because I want to store my content on it. So first I moved my music collection from CDs to ogg files on my harddrive. This takes up over 60GB. Then I started converting my DVD collection to ogm files. This is now taking up over 500GB. Since my largest file server is around only 750GB I welcome this extra storage space. I could use about 8 300GB drives right now. No telling what I will be able to use next year.
What's funny is how you get modded down as flamebait because there are so many insecure Windows users trolling these forums.
Oh, did I say insecure? I meant stupid.;)
Anyone who uses an OS that's expensive, insecure, bloated, buggy and annoying because its easy-to-use can't be too bright. But don't ever tell them that. They'll just rush out and buy the latest version.
Yep, but now high school has become something like a medium-hard level in a first person shooter. You have guards and possibly police and everyone is caged in like some sort of jail. It almost excites me to think about shooting up the place and I got over my frustration with high school over 5 years ago, a couple years after I graduated..
I think if we could think of a way to make high school a place where kids want to go to learn then maybe they won't treat it like some destructive video game. But, then again, its very entertaining to read about other people's misery. Almost as entertaining as causing it to virtual people in GTA. Perhaps people should be nicer to eachother to avoid the violence? Or at least put up all the graphic blood and death on TV so I can be entertained by it.
If I cared about the ignorant masses instead of hating them and the way they think maybe I'd offer my condolences for the stupid fat lazy Americans who keep losing their lives because they don't understand psychology and the psyche, the source of these decisions. Someone should get those poor saps a book to read to their children, that is, if they still remember how to read.
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But why not use two hashes? Or hash up each segment of the file as it gets broken up before transfer.
Multiple hashes per file would make it more difficult to spoof.
Saying "There is no need..." is why they have this problem in the first place. Besides, what are you going to do with those extra CPU cycles?
Well, okay, I agree. :)
Programmers know too much about the inner workings of a system...
And end users know too little. The problem with most commercial software is it looks like it was designed by the end users without much programmer innovation.
Programmers innovate everything. They create code that wasn't there before they wrote it. I would trust them to innovate a more creative solution to most problems including user interface than the typical user would understand.
Use two hashes for each file. 1 md5 and 1 sha1. Getting a file that matches both and has the same file size is probably impossible. But who knows. Its just a simple small hash key and there are lots of bits in a file.
but its not surprising given that slashdot editors really don't appear to give a flying fuck any more
Never attribute to malic which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I think they forgot they should read.. the articles.. _before_ posting.
Are you saying that there are many planes of consciousness? That perhaps new borns and insects and computers are aware on some level?
I don't buy it. I think adults are barely aware. Cats and dogs are often more aware of their surroundings than some people. But probably not of their location on the planet. I think consciousness is learned. IMO, it is accumulated through a lifetime of experience and knowledge..
I think I would cease to be conscious if my memory were wiped and my personality, I, would be lost.
I guess maybe some part of me would still be here in the case of amnesia, so perhaps not all my personality would be lost. But that would be an interesting thing to study. How do people change, how does their behavior change when their experiences change. How does their behavior change when their environment changes? How does environment affect experience? And what comes first? Experience or consciousness? Is one reliant on the other?
I assume we must have experiences to become conscious. Am I wrong?
So, why are we here? Why are we in the theater, watching the show, rather than there just being a theater playing the story of the universe, but nobody's watching it?
If a tree falls in the forest and noone is around to hear it does it make a sound? But more importantly does it matter if it makes a sound or not?
All our experiences end with death. All our thoughts, our consciousness, our memories and feelings die with us. So, like the tree, does it matter if we're watching the movie or if the theatre is empty?
We have a limited amount of time. Time is constantly moving forward, it never stops and it never reverses. Our consciousness is dependant on this time changing. Without it how would we collect memories in our brain? How would the chemicals transfer the data from our eyes to our synapses to be processed? They must move through space and time to do this. We are mechanical, in a very organic sense. So our experiences depend on all these physical properties of our universe. Without them we could not exist. And without existence there is no thought, no consciousness to percieve existence, what it means, or why it is important.
Life is a limited resource. Our consciousness doesn't last forever. Eventually we all die. So
its more important to experience life than to prove that these experiences mean something to us or anyone else. Its more important what you do with your time while you are alive than what you did with it after you are dead. Because once you die you can't go back and change anything. Its gone. Even if you can somehow magicly be conscious without a brain.
Also we are programmed. This programming allows us to be manipulated. Psychologists study this intensely.
Here's a good experiment.
D-Link might be bad but at least its better than Linksys. I bought a new linksys ABG wireless router that has these "features" to cache DNS and periodicly stop serving DHCP. Since the DNS cache doesn't work and there's no way to turn it off (not even a firmware update available at this time) this device is useless. It will work for about 30 minutes, but no longer than 1 day before requiring a reset.
I bought a D-Link with the same specs and set it up this weekend. Its been working fine ever since. It doesn't cache my DNS and has a much more feature filled interface. Many options that weren't available for the Linksys.
I don't recommend all D-Link products. But for a simple DSL/Cable wireless router they have something that will work as long as you don't need VPN or some other weird setup.
My preference will always be a Linux box if you can afford the time to set it up.
But if your own government supports them then you, too, might be a communist.
Capitalists and spineless heartless bastards who seem to think they're right. Until one day they find they're working for the commies they hated and propogandized their whole lives.
But will they ever admit they were wrong? Will they ever acknowledge the hypocracy of the whole freakin stupid system? No. They'll just go on bashing communists, business as usual.
We're so dumb. All of us. Everyone.
chemical fuels will never work much better than it does now. There's just not enough energy per unit mass.
Um, Hydrogen can be fused to produce more energy than we get by burning it. The power per unit of mass is far more than we know what to do with. We just gotta LEARN how to use it safely.
This takes time.
But I agree with your other points. There's no need to send people out there until we get this research done. By then we could have robots doing most of the work for us.
How is the robot going to keep the first wall plum while it starts on the second?
Well, I'm not too bright, but I would consider using more than one robot to build a house.
Even if they make a new license that would punish Google, Google doesn't have to use it. They can continue using the software they are running now without any form of legal damages.
We're not loonies like those freaks up in Redmond. We don't go on suing rampages to make a profit. But we protect our IP just as viciously as they do in our licenses.
Just look what happened to CherryOS. The threat of legal action is usually enough to bring offenders into compliance with the law. This saves everyone time and money, compared with our current system where companies like SCO thrive. They're still in business last time I checked.
This make me think. Who's side are you really on? You must actually agree with these frivilous lawsuits, proprietary secret closed-source business practices. Things like the BSA. Do you like business as usual? Or do you just not know any better?
You're probably just too lazy to think for yourself.
But he did it without pointing a gun at anyone. If someone cracks into a bank's computers and transfers $10,000 to their personal account they should get punished, but not 9 years in prison. A couple years would be more than enough, IMO. But personally I'd rather see them lose all their money and property and have to start over again.
Make the punishment fit the crime.
Same goes for video.
But at least most audio, usb, firewire, ethernet, etc. devices are supported.
Well, if these old timers would wake up there's technology out there that would be ready to handle this today.
Instead of supporting this peer to peer technology they have to go begging for help like some homeless hippie. That's sad.
I suggest they get with the times and start promoting technology that could save us all some money. Imagine if every web browser had some efficient P2P software integrated/standard. Without encryption or obfiscation it could be very efficient and legal content, like this, could be distributed with less overhead.
The NForce2 chipset in my Shuttle PC is "rock stable".
I never have network, performance or stability problems. And rarely have problems with the sound. But I use Linux, so my drivers might not be all there. Haven't updated them in a while, too. There's no need. It just works.
I'm writing a patent.
I discovered this new technology. I call it a comparitive statement. It works like this:
I have this statement, right? When we do a comparitive analysis of this statement, if it is honest it executes this truthful section of code. If it is lying it executes this blasphemous section of code over here.
Honestly, this has never been done before. I wanna patent. Gimme!
Yeah, good point. :)
Good analogy.
Now let's supposed its your motorhome and you live in it. Its full of your stuff. And when they come to take it back your stuff is tossed out next to you in the street. Do you still feel the same way?
I think you give this version control software too much credit, like its significantly better than the alternatives, almost like there are no alternatives - you'd be walking.. But here in reality there are alternatives and always has been. BitKeeper wasn't some perfect source control tool. In fact its a pain to use. Not much better than cvs, IMO
How can you ignore the progress the kernel devs made in their process while using bk?
How can you ignore the progress the kernel devs made without bk? Its not the tool, its the people. Its the stupid, stupid.
I think Bill's promise to give away 90+% of his net worth is more noble than anything any slashdotter will ever accomplish.
Give any slashdotter that kind of cash and find out. I, for one, would be very happy with even $1 million. But I guess nobility is more expensive these days, with inflation and all.
I don't disagree that Bill Gates is noble or a good person or whatever, when compared with MOST capitalists. But Microsoft got its money by rather less than noble means. So, for example, if a drug dealer gives away 90+% of their profits does that make them noble?
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Am I the only guy on the planet who doesn't seem to need more than about 80GB?
Yep, you're the only one.
Why did you move your music into MP3 format? I mean, was there a reason? Or are you just trying to use up that last 20GB of free disk space you had sitting there doing nothing?
The reason I buy disk space is because I want to store my content on it. So first I moved my music collection from CDs to ogg files on my harddrive. This takes up over 60GB. Then I started converting my DVD collection to ogm files. This is now taking up over 500GB. Since my largest file server is around only 750GB I welcome this extra storage space. I could use about 8 300GB drives right now. No telling what I will be able to use next year.
What's funny is how you get modded down as flamebait because there are so many insecure Windows users trolling these forums.
;)
Oh, did I say insecure? I meant stupid.
Anyone who uses an OS that's expensive, insecure, bloated, buggy and annoying because its easy-to-use can't be too bright. But don't ever tell them that. They'll just rush out and buy the latest version.
Yep, but now high school has become something like a medium-hard level in a first person shooter. You have guards and possibly police and everyone is caged in like some sort of jail. It almost excites me to think about shooting up the place and I got over my frustration with high school over 5 years ago, a couple years after I graduated..
I think if we could think of a way to make high school a place where kids want to go to learn then maybe they won't treat it like some destructive video game. But, then again, its very entertaining to read about other people's misery. Almost as entertaining as causing it to virtual people in GTA. Perhaps people should be nicer to eachother to avoid the violence? Or at least put up all the graphic blood and death on TV so I can be entertained by it.
If I cared about the ignorant masses instead of hating them and the way they think maybe I'd offer my condolences for the stupid fat lazy Americans who keep losing their lives because they don't understand psychology and the psyche, the source of these decisions. Someone should get those poor saps a book to read to their children, that is, if they still remember how to read.
I am outraged!
Senator Clinton just lost my support and vote for President. She's an idiot.