Even as the footnotes to the ruling indicate, Spock was merely referencing a classic work of English literature. One of the hallmarks of good literature, and good art, are that they reflect the sensibilities of the culture which created them. That's what allows people to identify with the work and the characters therein, as well as learn a great deal about now-dead cultures through surviving works. If not for Beowulf and the Exeter Book, then we would not precious little about the minds of the ancient Anglo-Saxons. Citing Dickens, who was nothing if not socially conscious, seems perfectly reasonable. The fact that more people have seen Star Trek II than have likely read Dickens is just a way to help get the point across.
If not for the Star Trek reference, this likely wouldn't have made it to Slashdot, however I honestly think that it's slightly disingenuous to relegate it to idle.
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They really don't have any standards for art anymore, do they?
You mean scale of how the Albanians, Bulgarians, Armenians, etc, don't all have relatives with controlling shares in major Western media outlets to make sure we never, ever get to stop hearing about it? After all, to quote Adolf Hitler, "Who now remembers Armenia?"
The OS is only tangentially related. Was writing an entire new operating system necessary? No, but a thorough code review would have been, just to double-check and see if there was anything there that was missed before that the Chinese might have found.
The fact that the hardware was in the hands of the enemy is the problem, and software that drives it is part of the whole package. You're still looking at this from an IT perspective rather than a national security perspective. When the incident happened, it was something of a big deal, and the true fallout may be as of yet unknown.
However, it has happened before that that key pairs and/or encryption hardware has been captured before, and the result was often a complete hardware reworking and redeployment of new equipment to replace the old compromised version.
Also, the comparison to NASA's costs is somewhat fallacious in that NASA is mostly just used as a dick-measuring stick and a reason to keep jobs in otherwise lame places like Louisiana. NSA isn't the sort of institution that's really going to be questioned on why $42.5B is necessary for their project. They're going to get their money, one way or another.
The keys are present, and there has been key leakage in the past. This is what John Walker was selling the Soviets -- encrpytion keys for the intel messages sent between the NSA listening posts on various ships and Ft. Meade, among other things.
However, its not just about the keys. It's about the possibility that the Chinese could find a vulnerability in the operating system that could be exploited, or get a better read on what the listening capabilities of the sigint gear is, which means knowing what you need to do to better avoid it.
But yeah, no big deal, right? Let's just assume the Chinese are too fucking stupid to figure it out and go on doing the same old shit.
Larry Ellison seems like the kind of guy who would put his hatred for Microsoft above his willingness to make money, so I doubt they're getting paid out. If.NET gets any boost out of this, it'll be purely accidental from Oracle's point of view. Although, I could be wrong.
Because the phenotype associated with the gene is more in line with what your typical Ruby-programming hipster Democrat believes rather than your COBOL-munching, tie-wearing Republican.
Isn't what what Windows 8 is going to be? OS X was a Mach/BSD rebrand with a familiar face, and Windows 8 will just be Ubuntu with a GUI that doesn't suck, maybe with a proper, WINE-killing emulator built in.
Honestly, if MS made a (non-Xenix) Unix reboot with a proper desktop, I might switch away from Mac again. And no, SFU doesn't count... that's just frustrating (although less so than Cygwin).
Well, it just sounded to me like she wasn't really able to get anything more out of life herself and that she was basically having her life span artificially extended to suit the wishes of her human owners. As long as she's not in pain and is still able to get something out of life, then I won't judge. It does make me think about my own "end of life care" situation though, although I'm only 26 and (hopefully) that's a ways off.
Well, say you're a commodity PC vendor. You buy motherboards from Asus, hard drives from Seagate, etc. Buying a flash SATA in an enclosure, especially if you're buying in bulk for your production, is totally doable and not going to be too expensive. Designing your own motherboard so that the flash is integrated into it (of course, making it entirely non-upgradable in a much more serious way than complaints about batteries) is going to cost money, etc. My point was that these aren't just off-the-shelf parts that you're paying to have pre-assembled, they did actually do some work to make this thing.
Well, not for all cases. You have to base your price point on what people are willing to pay where you can still make money. You have to pay the engineers designing custom wirewraps, buy the materials, etc. After that, you still need to make a profit, but not try and gouge too much, otherwise even Steve isn't going to be able to justify it.
It costs $1000 because they had to custom-design a lot of internal parts and do stuff to make everything fit. For instance, the flash memory is directly on the board rather than in a separate enclosure attached by a SATA cable. Also, the display on the 11" apparently has more pixels than the display on my 13" MBP. Other than the fact that it's tragically small and that I don't think I could realistically be able to work on anything smaller than my 13", it seems like a pretty nice machine, at least when compared to all the cheap crap netbooks I've interacted with (My 10" EeePC was so terrible for me that I gave it away).
The bytecocde interpreter is targeted at a specific architecture, which is what he's talking about. Just because you abstract the end application doesn't mean that the VM works by magic. Java and Flash would have to be re-built for the new architecture themselves, before they could supply support for applications.
Not that I really care, because I have yet to find a Java or Flash "app" that actually works better than any native alternative, and frankly, wish they'd both just die.
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Even as the footnotes to the ruling indicate, Spock was merely referencing a classic work of English literature. One of the hallmarks of good literature, and good art, are that they reflect the sensibilities of the culture which created them. That's what allows people to identify with the work and the characters therein, as well as learn a great deal about now-dead cultures through surviving works. If not for Beowulf and the Exeter Book, then we would not precious little about the minds of the ancient Anglo-Saxons. Citing Dickens, who was nothing if not socially conscious, seems perfectly reasonable. The fact that more people have seen Star Trek II than have likely read Dickens is just a way to help get the point across.
If not for the Star Trek reference, this likely wouldn't have made it to Slashdot, however I honestly think that it's slightly disingenuous to relegate it to idle.
They really don't have any standards for art anymore, do they?
You mean scale of how the Albanians, Bulgarians, Armenians, etc, don't all have relatives with controlling shares in major Western media outlets to make sure we never, ever get to stop hearing about it? After all, to quote Adolf Hitler, "Who now remembers Armenia?"
That's possibly one of the most blatant troll attempts in history, right up there with the people who think that Roger Moore is the real James Bond.
The OS is only tangentially related. Was writing an entire new operating system necessary? No, but a thorough code review would have been, just to double-check and see if there was anything there that was missed before that the Chinese might have found.
The fact that the hardware was in the hands of the enemy is the problem, and software that drives it is part of the whole package. You're still looking at this from an IT perspective rather than a national security perspective. When the incident happened, it was something of a big deal, and the true fallout may be as of yet unknown.
However, it has happened before that that key pairs and/or encryption hardware has been captured before, and the result was often a complete hardware reworking and redeployment of new equipment to replace the old compromised version.
Also, the comparison to NASA's costs is somewhat fallacious in that NASA is mostly just used as a dick-measuring stick and a reason to keep jobs in otherwise lame places like Louisiana. NSA isn't the sort of institution that's really going to be questioned on why $42.5B is necessary for their project. They're going to get their money, one way or another.
No, but I think all of those things describe the typical "rubyist"
The keys are present, and there has been key leakage in the past. This is what John Walker was selling the Soviets -- encrpytion keys for the intel messages sent between the NSA listening posts on various ships and Ft. Meade, among other things.
However, its not just about the keys. It's about the possibility that the Chinese could find a vulnerability in the operating system that could be exploited, or get a better read on what the listening capabilities of the sigint gear is, which means knowing what you need to do to better avoid it.
But yeah, no big deal, right? Let's just assume the Chinese are too fucking stupid to figure it out and go on doing the same old shit.
what are Lisp programmers?
Gods among men.
Larry Ellison seems like the kind of guy who would put his hatred for Microsoft above his willingness to make money, so I doubt they're getting paid out. If .NET gets any boost out of this, it'll be purely accidental from Oracle's point of view. Although, I could be wrong.
Because the phenotype associated with the gene is more in line with what your typical Ruby-programming hipster Democrat believes rather than your COBOL-munching, tie-wearing Republican.
We have had that now for the last 2 years or so. Are we more free? I don't think so, and one might argue that we're even less free than before.
Precisely. Thomas Jefferson was a liberal. Barbara Boxer is a hippie lesbian with an obnoxious voice.
That was Bob Dole, not John McCain. You know, former Presidential candidate and WWII hero Bob Dole.
Yeah, I think he was trying to make a crude concentration camp tattoo joke.
There is no "citizen or here legally option." It is if and only if you are a citizen. Voting rights are pretty much the definition of citizenship.
Isn't what what Windows 8 is going to be? OS X was a Mach/BSD rebrand with a familiar face, and Windows 8 will just be Ubuntu with a GUI that doesn't suck, maybe with a proper, WINE-killing emulator built in.
Honestly, if MS made a (non-Xenix) Unix reboot with a proper desktop, I might switch away from Mac again. And no, SFU doesn't count... that's just frustrating (although less so than Cygwin).
Unfortunately, when it comes to NP-complete, they world is not enough :-/
What the hell does a sea unicorn have to do with $5.00/case frat boy beer?
Well, it just sounded to me like she wasn't really able to get anything more out of life herself and that she was basically having her life span artificially extended to suit the wishes of her human owners. As long as she's not in pain and is still able to get something out of life, then I won't judge. It does make me think about my own "end of life care" situation though, although I'm only 26 and (hopefully) that's a ways off.
Well, say you're a commodity PC vendor. You buy motherboards from Asus, hard drives from Seagate, etc. Buying a flash SATA in an enclosure, especially if you're buying in bulk for your production, is totally doable and not going to be too expensive. Designing your own motherboard so that the flash is integrated into it (of course, making it entirely non-upgradable in a much more serious way than complaints about batteries) is going to cost money, etc. My point was that these aren't just off-the-shelf parts that you're paying to have pre-assembled, they did actually do some work to make this thing.
Well, not for all cases. You have to base your price point on what people are willing to pay where you can still make money. You have to pay the engineers designing custom wirewraps, buy the materials, etc. After that, you still need to make a profit, but not try and gouge too much, otherwise even Steve isn't going to be able to justify it.
It costs $1000 because they had to custom-design a lot of internal parts and do stuff to make everything fit. For instance, the flash memory is directly on the board rather than in a separate enclosure attached by a SATA cable. Also, the display on the 11" apparently has more pixels than the display on my 13" MBP. Other than the fact that it's tragically small and that I don't think I could realistically be able to work on anything smaller than my 13", it seems like a pretty nice machine, at least when compared to all the cheap crap netbooks I've interacted with (My 10" EeePC was so terrible for me that I gave it away).
Maybe the located in North Carolina to get easy access to Red Hat? /ducks
The bytecocde interpreter is targeted at a specific architecture, which is what he's talking about. Just because you abstract the end application doesn't mean that the VM works by magic. Java and Flash would have to be re-built for the new architecture themselves, before they could supply support for applications.
Not that I really care, because I have yet to find a Java or Flash "app" that actually works better than any native alternative, and frankly, wish they'd both just die.