The Queen have [sic] a delegate who have [sic] no power what-so-ever
Incorrect. A recent example is BC's Lieutenant Governor Lam, who stated he would have removed Premier van der Zalm from office, had van der Zalm not resigned.
During a recent federal election, when the polls suggested a possible NDP / Liberal coalition the question was raised to to whom the Governor General would select as Prime Minister - The minority house leader, or the coalition leader. The GG would, in effect, select Her Majesty's Prime minister.
I'm old enough to remember that when Windows 95 came out there was all this ranting on the newsgroups against this new 'start menu' and people used various hacks to get the Windows 3.1 Program Manager (basically a screen full of icons) to display in Windows 95.
I'd be more worried if this stuff actually worked. Take bogeyman Facebook. I've been on Facebook since 2009. I post regularly - Links, photos. I check in regularly at various locations. FB should have a wealth of information about me - Should know where I live, that I have two kids under 5, that I'm male, Gen-X on and on. Yet FB has NEVER been able to serve up an ad for ANYTHING I care about. Never. All I get is Candy Crush garbage, vocational colleges and credit cards.
It's Saturday morning. I'm about to head out with the kids to give my wife a break. Facebook 'knows' I do this most Saturdays. If someone gave me an ad with a coupon this morning, I'd go there. Instead Facebook wants me to know where to get eyeglasses. I'm 20/20, morons, unlike these omnipotent 'tracking servers.'
What happened was the move towards people expecting that The Government protect The Children from everything, all the time. The safest state is a police state.
If there is any one group responsible for starting the home computing boom, it was the Homebrew Computer Club and the advent of the Altair
I certainly don't idolize Jobs - He was probably mostly a dick. However, the Homebrew Computer Club and the Altair can't take the credit. The computer 'revolution' started when businesspeople took what they were doing and ran with it. Until Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Don Estridge stepped up it was just a bunch of geeks swapping floppy disks. Once you had the platforms, other business-types created VisiCalc and WordPerfect and we were off to the races.
don't even realize what the DARPA project is about, and why it's a legitimate area of research and concern for national security.
Absolutely correct. I don't think 10% of the people posting here even read the linked document. This has nothing to do with "DARPA shutting down Facebook" (whatever the hell that even means). It's about whether or not adversaries could mine big data to determine attack vectors, in the same way advertisers mine big data to determine where to spend their marketing dollars.
For example, could big data tell our enemies where there might be high concentrations of Jews in August? Could big data reveal which bridges have the highest number of heavy trucks on them on Friday afternoons? Correctly mined, big data might be able to provide lots of information about where best to direct terror resources.
Come to think of it, there's a good Tom Clancy or Brad Thor novel in the making here...
...and while you're at it, retire your sneakers and get a nice pair of leather shoes as well. If you're feeling REALLY crazy get a leather belt and have it match your new shoes.
This is Slashdot, where perfect is the enemy of good.
Because there are edge use-cases where this won't work, it's completely unsuitable for ALL applications.
Or, to put it another way, because it won't work in some guy's shed in Anchorage, poor people in Africa, Asia and South America should continue to toil in the dark until a proper solution involving LEDs and / or light pipes is made available.
Now, instead let's discuss how 2014 will definitely be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Sure it should be. Here's one example: If I have Intel Anti-Theft (AT) Technology, TPM and encryption my data is very well protected.
If my computer is out of my control I can lock down the hardware with Intel AT. If the encryption key is in the TPM then no one can put the drive in another machine and decrypt it even if they know my password.
There are lots of good uses for TPM if you remove your tinfoil hat.
I know that everyone thinks this is a great idea and all, and it's nice to have less suffering in the world, but we are slowly removing more and more of the things that keep the human population in check
You wanna keep the human population in check? Howzabout the USA institute a nickel tax on cheeseburgers and use the money to distribute millions of condoms to Africa. That way no five year old has to suffer and die in fear.
Many of the areas hardest hit by malaria are the same areas stricken by endemic poverty, corruption, famine, etc.. There is a long way to go before curing malaria even puts a dent in their problems.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try - I think people who say this truly don't understand the scope of the Malaria problem.
Malaria kills 1.2 MILLION people EVERY year. That's like everyone in Dallas dying, every year. Well over half those people are children under the age of five. Sure, democracy and the absence of corruption is necessary eventually - But a mother who is lying next to a cot as her four-year-old dies doesn't give a damn about that stuff, and frankly neither would I.
Here's an idea, if people are so hepped up on making sure someone else has healthcare, why don't they give the money directly to that person and write it off on their taxes as a charitable contribution?
I hope there's healthcare in your jurisdiction, because you need an effing brain transplant.
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> Not saying you're wrong
He is wrong:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4102779&cid=44606969
The Queen have [sic] a delegate who have [sic] no power what-so-ever
Incorrect. A recent example is BC's Lieutenant Governor Lam, who stated he would have removed Premier van der Zalm from office, had van der Zalm not resigned.
During a recent federal election, when the polls suggested a possible NDP / Liberal coalition the question was raised to to whom the Governor General would select as Prime Minister - The minority house leader, or the coalition leader. The GG would, in effect, select Her Majesty's Prime minister.
I'm old enough to remember that when Windows 95 came out there was all this ranting on the newsgroups against this new 'start menu' and people used various hacks to get the Windows 3.1 Program Manager (basically a screen full of icons) to display in Windows 95.
(Now get off my lawn, etc.)
But IMO its a big no no. Also wtf it takes 10 mins to find the shut down prompt cause its on the last menu you'd look for it?
Here's how it works in my Surface Pro -
Step 1: Find power button (optional if you've ever actually turned the computer off before)
Step 2: Press power button
I'd be more worried if this stuff actually worked. Take bogeyman Facebook. I've been on Facebook since 2009. I post regularly - Links, photos. I check in regularly at various locations. FB should have a wealth of information about me - Should know where I live, that I have two kids under 5, that I'm male, Gen-X on and on. Yet FB has NEVER been able to serve up an ad for ANYTHING I care about. Never. All I get is Candy Crush garbage, vocational colleges and credit cards.
It's Saturday morning. I'm about to head out with the kids to give my wife a break. Facebook 'knows' I do this most Saturdays. If someone gave me an ad with a coupon this morning, I'd go there. Instead Facebook wants me to know where to get eyeglasses. I'm 20/20, morons, unlike these omnipotent 'tracking servers.'
What happened was the move towards people expecting that The Government protect The Children from everything, all the time. The safest state is a police state.
If there is any one group responsible for starting the home computing boom, it was the Homebrew Computer Club and the advent of the Altair
I certainly don't idolize Jobs - He was probably mostly a dick. However, the Homebrew Computer Club and the Altair can't take the credit. The computer 'revolution' started when businesspeople took what they were doing and ran with it. Until Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Don Estridge stepped up it was just a bunch of geeks swapping floppy disks. Once you had the platforms, other business-types created VisiCalc and WordPerfect and we were off to the races.
Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
Do they address requirement #4?
Google Maps says it takes over 2 hours to get from the Mission District to Google HQ using the public transit system.
Alright, so put a 50 cent per gallon tax on gas and use that money to fund a kickass transit system - Buses, more rail, whatever.
Apologies for not being pedantic, Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
"Walk two blocks, bus to a subway, walk one block to my office. Door-to-door in 40 minutes"
That better?.
Getting bus service to and from work would be great
I have this where I live already. It's called the Municipal Transit System. Bus to a subway to my office. Door-to-door in 40 minutes.
But I guess only socialist COMMIE places have that.
don't even realize what the DARPA project is about, and why it's a legitimate area of research and concern for national security.
Absolutely correct. I don't think 10% of the people posting here even read the linked document. This has nothing to do with "DARPA shutting down Facebook" (whatever the hell that even means). It's about whether or not adversaries could mine big data to determine attack vectors, in the same way advertisers mine big data to determine where to spend their marketing dollars.
For example, could big data tell our enemies where there might be high concentrations of Jews in August? Could big data reveal which bridges have the highest number of heavy trucks on them on Friday afternoons? Correctly mined, big data might be able to provide lots of information about where best to direct terror resources.
Come to think of it, there's a good Tom Clancy or Brad Thor novel in the making here...
Get a nice leather satchel.
...and while you're at it, retire your sneakers and get a nice pair of leather shoes as well. If you're feeling REALLY crazy get a leather belt and have it match your new shoes.
Prepare yourself for a shock. I'm the Rocketeer.
This is Slashdot, where perfect is the enemy of good.
Because there are edge use-cases where this won't work, it's completely unsuitable for ALL applications.
Or, to put it another way, because it won't work in some guy's shed in Anchorage, poor people in Africa, Asia and South America should continue to toil in the dark until a proper solution involving LEDs and / or light pipes is made available.
Now, instead let's discuss how 2014 will definitely be the year of Linux on the desktop.
How does that work if you're a large health organization managing 5000 computers?
It shouldn't be there in the first place.
Sure it should be. Here's one example: If I have Intel Anti-Theft (AT) Technology, TPM and encryption my data is very well protected.
If my computer is out of my control I can lock down the hardware with Intel AT. If the encryption key is in the TPM then no one can put the drive in another machine and decrypt it even if they know my password.
There are lots of good uses for TPM if you remove your tinfoil hat.
I know that everyone thinks this is a great idea and all, and it's nice to have less suffering in the world, but we are slowly removing more and more of the things that keep the human population in check
You wanna keep the human population in check? Howzabout the USA institute a nickel tax on cheeseburgers and use the money to distribute millions of condoms to Africa. That way no five year old has to suffer and die in fear.
Well, Bill Gates was showing a special container
I'm sorry, this is Slashdot. If Bill Gates was showing it, obviously it is a container of EVIL.
Many of the areas hardest hit by malaria are the same areas stricken by endemic poverty, corruption, famine, etc.. There is a long way to go before curing malaria even puts a dent in their problems.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try - I think people who say this truly don't understand the scope of the Malaria problem.
Malaria kills 1.2 MILLION people EVERY year. That's like everyone in Dallas dying, every year. Well over half those people are children under the age of five. Sure, democracy and the absence of corruption is necessary eventually - But a mother who is lying next to a cot as her four-year-old dies doesn't give a damn about that stuff, and frankly neither would I.
Here's an idea, if people are so hepped up on making sure someone else has healthcare, why don't they give the money directly to that person and write it off on their taxes as a charitable contribution?
I hope there's healthcare in your jurisdiction, because you need an effing brain transplant.
I know this is Bill Gates and everybody loves to hate him, but WTF? Really?
Yep, really. When your kid is dying of malaria and you can't afford the drugs it's useful to be able to watch blimp-provided YouTube cat videos.
He should hoard money like Ellison
Now, now, be fair. Ellison doesn't hoard money. He spends it on Fucking Huge Boats.
do we really want hardware that must bit bang ports used to maintain aircraft?
Sure - That hardware is probably a decade or two newer than the aircraft it is being used to maintain anyway.