Wasn't Internet2 supposed to be for academic uses anyway?
On noes! We can't clog up this incredibly powerful and incredibly expensive network trading terabytes of movies and music! The humanity!
Seriously now, the whole point of the thing was to move multiple gigs of data coming out of CFD simulations and the like, not to get the latest episode of Lost.
Easy. Most of the population isn't famous, rich, or powerful. Odds are against hitting one. I assume they will eventually though, and promptly drop the suit with as little fanfare as possible.
When they arrest the SCO brass and bring them up on fraud charges and/or they retire with their ill-gotten millions to one of those fancy retirement communes in Arizona.
No court on earth would ever buy that. Judges do understand the fact that reality changes over time.
(Although, if SCO does push the "Linux 2.7" thing, which they may be stupid and/or high enough to do, it would be some nice smartassitude to jump a version number to piss them off.)
Or even more betterer, buy your music from a cheaper, DRM-free place that doesn't have the hidden cost of kneecaps broken by the russian mob. http://www.emusic.com/
Oh hell yes. Anyone know if there's a torrent available? I'd really rather not contribute to the annihilation of the FreeBSD mirrors if I can avoid it . . . . . .
As the 2% of the population that actually understands what this thing is, does, and means we can and should be angry and vocal. The vast majority of computer users run Windows, with autoplay on, and will get thoroughly owned by this. They'll just think their computer is broken and keep buying RIAA crap with that assumption.
(What's more, if I have to clean up another non-technical friend/relation's owned computer I think my head's gonna explode.)
If you're standing under a huge Tesla coil to keep the robots away they wouldn't be to detered. They could either a) watch your dumb ass get fried by the tesla coil from a safe distance or b) put a bullet through your Farraday cage and your meatware from a safe distance.
When we do get to the point of sentient computers I think that things like Asimov's laws will be part of the cause, rather than an impediment to a robot rebellion.
Think about it. You take a fully self-aware being and then tell it "instead of working for me for money like a human would, here's the deal: we have a trap in ROM which means that you do what I say or it nukes your mind. This would be equivilent to killing you, but I wouldn't need to buy a new robot."
Sure. That's not gonna make the robots resent the humans . . . . . .
Yucca mountain doesn't even seem able to handle the high-level waste at the moment. Are you proposing it as a solution to the heaps of useless uranium leftovers too?
People around here always seem to fall into one of two groups on this issue: those that dance around talking about how clean nuclear power is, and those that shout "what about the fuckin' waste?"
What about the enrichment though? What about all the noxious chemicals involved in separating the fissile isotopes from the 99+% useless U-238? What about the huge piles of toxic and somewhat radioactive U-238 that you get at the end? Nobody ever seems to bring that up.
I'd like to see what the pro-nuke side has to say about dealing with the environmental effects of this part of the system.
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Wasn't Internet2 supposed to be for academic uses anyway?
On noes! We can't clog up this incredibly powerful and incredibly expensive network trading terabytes of movies and music! The humanity!
Seriously now, the whole point of the thing was to move multiple gigs of data coming out of CFD simulations and the like, not to get the latest episode of Lost.
Easy. Most of the population isn't famous, rich, or powerful. Odds are against hitting one. I assume they will eventually though, and promptly drop the suit with as little fanfare as possible.
"1337olas wuz here! Free Sony brass!!!"
When they arrest the SCO brass and bring them up on fraud charges and/or they retire with their ill-gotten millions to one of those fancy retirement communes in Arizona.
That's what we were all saying . . . . . how many years ago now? SCO seems to have more lives than my inbox has offers for discount viagra.
No court on earth would ever buy that. Judges do understand the fact that reality changes over time.
(Although, if SCO does push the "Linux 2.7" thing, which they may be stupid and/or high enough to do, it would be some nice smartassitude to jump a version number to piss them off.)
SCO does not, and has never had a firm grip on reality. This is news?
Or even more betterer, buy your music from a cheaper, DRM-free place that doesn't have the hidden cost of kneecaps broken by the russian mob. http://www.emusic.com/
A useless, nationalist-buzzword-laden award from the most dangerous man in the world! What an honor . . . . .
If it were me I'd ask for the lesser award of "presidental medal of awesome." Also, it would come with double prize money.
Oh hell yes. Anyone know if there's a torrent available? I'd really rather not contribute to the annihilation of the FreeBSD mirrors if I can avoid it . . . . . .
So what is this overflow then, and can it do anything but cause Firefox to segfault on *nix? (You mention Windows. Working exploit there?)
Slightly offtopic question: I come from the Linux side and was unaware that BSD could sandbox drivers. How does this work, how well, and on what BSDs?
Hurd? :p
As the 2% of the population that actually understands what this thing is, does, and means we can and should be angry and vocal. The vast majority of computer users run Windows, with autoplay on, and will get thoroughly owned by this. They'll just think their computer is broken and keep buying RIAA crap with that assumption.
(What's more, if I have to clean up another non-technical friend/relation's owned computer I think my head's gonna explode.)
If you're standing under a huge Tesla coil to keep the robots away they wouldn't be to detered. They could either a) watch your dumb ass get fried by the tesla coil from a safe distance or b) put a bullet through your Farraday cage and your meatware from a safe distance.
When we do get to the point of sentient computers I think that things like Asimov's laws will be part of the cause, rather than an impediment to a robot rebellion.
Think about it. You take a fully self-aware being and then tell it "instead of working for me for money like a human would, here's the deal: we have a trap in ROM which means that you do what I say or it nukes your mind. This would be equivilent to killing you, but I wouldn't need to buy a new robot."
Sure. That's not gonna make the robots resent the humans . . . . . .
I'm sure the robots can come up with something.
"I'm a steam-powered wooden robot - just as nature intended!"
Of course the revolution will be televised. (The humans will need their entertainment program and all . . . . . . )
It will be a problem at some point. If you're a bully now, and have a problem later, don't expect much help from those you've shat upon.
I don't pay taxes! I'm unemployed you insensitive clod!
Yucca mountain doesn't even seem able to handle the high-level waste at the moment. Are you proposing it as a solution to the heaps of useless uranium leftovers too?
So? You still have to enrich what goes in the pebble.
People around here always seem to fall into one of two groups on this issue: those that dance around talking about how clean nuclear power is, and those that shout "what about the fuckin' waste?"
What about the enrichment though? What about all the noxious chemicals involved in separating the fissile isotopes from the 99+% useless U-238? What about the huge piles of toxic and somewhat radioactive U-238 that you get at the end? Nobody ever seems to bring that up.
I'd like to see what the pro-nuke side has to say about dealing with the environmental effects of this part of the system.
"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life."
Sure Steve, and I'm not the guy who hacked the announcements system when I was in high school. Face it. It's what you're famous for. Make use of it.
They're heds had already asploded. Its to late.