It's like buying a house next to a railroad track and complaining about the trains. If the house you're buying is mysteriously cheaper than the same house in another area: Find out why! And if you buy it anyway: Live with it!
Indeed, think of all the farm laborers John Deere has put out of their jobs. We should immediately ban tractors and combines and put everyone back to work in the fields.
Look online for a neat little script called Wondershaper. It configures the Linux QoS for you based on the shell variables you set at the beginning of the script.
This is useful because coming up with a good configuration from scratch is a real pain.
Without hackers forcing security fixes and encryption technology, our systems would be completely open to the CIA, NSA, Chinese, space aliens, or anyone else who was interested.
It's the same reason Europeans were able to take over North America so easily: disease resistance. They had it, Native Americans didn't.
Let's send some email to Linux magazines like Linux Journal and others, asking them to interview a few companies like nVidia, ATI, Broadcom and others about this question. Maybe if they think there's enough publicity pressure, they'd give useful answers. Then instead of wondering, we'd *know*.
Fine. Phrased the other way my point was that Evolution is as unscientific as Intelligent Design.
Saying that given enough time and enough space anything can happen, no matter how improbable, pretty much covers the theory of evolution creating new improved species.
If your software evolution can't reach an arbitrary level of complexity, then it doesn't really prove anything about evolution on the large scale, does it?
It reaches a certain point and then gets stuck. Looked at one way, it indicates evolution shouldn't work. Organisms should reach a local maximum of efficiency and never move on, because changes would make them less efficient vs. their neighbors.
Education isn't complete without a firm grounding in the economic theories of Karl Marx or the philosophy of Nietzsche either, but you don't see that being taught in high school.
The point is: no education is complete, especially in high school. We have to pick and choose what to teach, so why not leave out something that causes political and religious conflict?
It would be a much better use of time to teach kids rational thought, how to use a library, and how to question authority (without going off the deep end of discarding authority altogether).
The point is, you don't need to explain the why of gravitation at all in order to teach it. You don't need to explain the origins of biology in order to teach it.
The theory of evolution meets Occam's Razor. But is it falsifiable?
Give me a test that would conclusively falsify the theory that single-celled organisms evolved into humans.
The problem with evolution is that if you did have such a test, the proponents of evolution would simply claim that they needed a bigger petri dish or a few more million years. Keep increasing the size or adding years. Where's the falsifiability in that?
Intelligent Design is just as "scientific" as evolution. Evolution as a whole isn't scientific.
Small parts of evolution may be science, but the whole thing is more like "proving" history. You've got evidence, and you can come up with theories to fit the evidence, but in no way can you prove it without a control planet and another billion years.
Indeed, evolution itself argues for the possibility, even the likelyhood of intelligent design. Do you think that of all the planets in all the stars of the galaxy, we humans are the first intelligent race to evolve?
Personally, I don't think that public schools should teach any origin theories. Kids don't need it. "Where do we come from?" is fundamentally a religious issue, along with "Why are we here?" Just leave it alone and let the parents explain it.
My impression is that it is extra picky about standards compliance. The bits that will bite everyone the most is not allowing casts on the left side of an assignment, and not allowing array declarations without an array type definition.
Other than that, I suppose that it builds faster code, as other people's benchmarks will show, but rebuilding your Gentoo with it is not going to blow you away with super speed.
Gentoo has had a GCC 4 ebuild for months now. I've been using it to build my system. If you really really want it, you need to set your package.keywords to -* and also unmask it in package.unmask.
Then be prepared to switch between gcc 3.4 and 3 a lot because many packages, especially multimedia packages, fail to build.
On my Gentoo AMD64 -O3 compiled system, running Gnome, Rhythmbox, Evolution, Epiphany, Liferea and GAIM, it is using 365 MB of RAM, not including buffers or disk cache.
In contrast, Windows XP running a similar set of applications was only using 230 MB.
After years of hearing about how superior Debian's package handling is and about how Debian never has dependency problems, Debian finally gets its just reward.
Now Debian users can get the same joy RedHat users always had of trying to make an RPM fit into a system it wasn't intended for or trying to build a RPM to install on all systems.
Serves all you self satisfied Debian users right. Muahahahahaaha!
Use a dial-up ISP? Do you really think that provides any protection from the FBI? They just go to the ISP and ask for the authentication logs.
"Got a warrant? Yes? Okay, here you go, Joe Blow dialed in at March 28 at 22:03 on IP 1.2.3.4 for 35 minutes."
The SSH proxy? Even if it's not logging and uncooperative, they can compel the ISPs to provide network traces, then do traffic analysis.
Use a wireless coffee shop. Use a MAC address randomizer. Wear a mask and sit outside. Don't park nearby. Remove your mask and change your jacket while walking back to your car, and don't take a direct route.
The police can get the security camera tapes for every shop and ATM in whatever radius they like, if they really want it.
Make sure your cell phone is off. I don't know if it's logged but if it is, the police could follow your cell phone through tower transitions. "What cell phones were in this IP address's coverage area at 22:10? Which phones arrived in the coverage area at 22:10 minus travel time?"
Don't set up a pattern. If you always post anarchist rants on Wednesdays in a 10 mile radius, the FBI could just stake out every wireless access point until you show up.
Use a VMware or other virtual system with a clean OS and revert the snapshot after posting. The FBI may have piggybacked snoopware into your system through a browser security flaw.
Imagine what you could do if you had the FBI's legal enforcement powers, cooperative judges and a hundred Special Agents plus support personel, and you were assigned to track down one guy posting to a web site.
And for getting rid of hard drives fast, one word: Thermite. Easy enough to make, ignite it with batteries and a model rocket igniter and motor, link it to a serial or parallel port for manual ignition and a case intrusion switch or three for when the power's off. You'll still be in trouble for destroying evidence, explosive devices, endangering bystanders/law-enforcement personel, etc, but at least they won't have your data.
And this sort of failure probability is why I only buy ECC RAM these days. What's the odds of one capacitor failing? Now what's the odds of 4 billion failing? Much higher.
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It's like buying a house next to a railroad track and complaining about the trains. If the house you're buying is mysteriously cheaper than the same house in another area: Find out why! And if you buy it anyway: Live with it!
Indeed, think of all the farm laborers John Deere has put out of their jobs. We should immediately ban tractors and combines and put everyone back to work in the fields.
Look online for a neat little script called Wondershaper. It configures the Linux QoS for you based on the shell variables you set at the beginning of the script.
This is useful because coming up with a good configuration from scratch is a real pain.
Without hackers forcing security fixes and encryption technology, our systems would be completely open to the CIA, NSA, Chinese, space aliens, or anyone else who was interested.
It's the same reason Europeans were able to take over North America so easily: disease resistance. They had it, Native Americans didn't.
Let's send some email to Linux magazines like Linux Journal and others, asking them to interview a few companies like nVidia, ATI, Broadcom and others about this question. Maybe if they think there's enough publicity pressure, they'd give useful answers. Then instead of wondering, we'd *know*.
According to this month's PC Gamer, yes.
Fine. Phrased the other way my point was that Evolution is as unscientific as Intelligent Design.
Saying that given enough time and enough space anything can happen, no matter how improbable, pretty much covers the theory of evolution creating new improved species.
If your software evolution can't reach an arbitrary level of complexity, then it doesn't really prove anything about evolution on the large scale, does it?
It reaches a certain point and then gets stuck. Looked at one way, it indicates evolution shouldn't work. Organisms should reach a local maximum of efficiency and never move on, because changes would make them less efficient vs. their neighbors.
Education isn't complete without a firm grounding in the economic theories of Karl Marx or the philosophy of Nietzsche either, but you don't see that being taught in high school.
The point is: no education is complete, especially in high school. We have to pick and choose what to teach, so why not leave out something that causes political and religious conflict?
It would be a much better use of time to teach kids rational thought, how to use a library, and how to question authority (without going off the deep end of discarding authority altogether).
Sounds cool.
I look forward to seeing your human level AI generated using your evolutionary algorithms.
The point is, you don't need to explain the why of gravitation at all in order to teach it. You don't need to explain the origins of biology in order to teach it.
Yep, lets just not teach the scientific theory that is the foundation of modern biology.
You don't need evolution to teach biology any more than you need string theory to teach gravity.
The theory of evolution meets Occam's Razor. But is it falsifiable?
Give me a test that would conclusively falsify the theory that single-celled organisms evolved into humans.
The problem with evolution is that if you did have such a test, the proponents of evolution would simply claim that they needed a bigger petri dish or a few more million years. Keep increasing the size or adding years. Where's the falsifiability in that?
Intelligent Design is just as "scientific" as evolution. Evolution as a whole isn't scientific.
Small parts of evolution may be science, but the whole thing is more like "proving" history. You've got evidence, and you can come up with theories to fit the evidence, but in no way can you prove it without a control planet and another billion years.
Indeed, evolution itself argues for the possibility, even the likelyhood of intelligent design. Do you think that of all the planets in all the stars of the galaxy, we humans are the first intelligent race to evolve?
Personally, I don't think that public schools should teach any origin theories. Kids don't need it. "Where do we come from?" is fundamentally a religious issue, along with "Why are we here?" Just leave it alone and let the parents explain it.
My impression is that it is extra picky about standards compliance. The bits that will bite everyone the most is not allowing casts on the left side of an assignment, and not allowing array declarations without an array type definition.
*((int*)pChar) = 32
and
extern struct sometype_t somearray[];
(without defining struct sometype_t)
are not allowed anymore.
Other than that, I suppose that it builds faster code, as other people's benchmarks will show, but rebuilding your Gentoo with it is not going to blow you away with super speed.
I do know what I'm doing.
I like -O3. -Os is for people with a tiny cache.
Memory reported by "free -m" is accurate. Adding up the memory reported by ps or top is not.
Gentoo has had a GCC 4 ebuild for months now. I've been using it to build my system. If you really really want it, you need to set your package.keywords to -* and also unmask it in package.unmask.
Then be prepared to switch between gcc 3.4 and 3 a lot because many packages, especially multimedia packages, fail to build.
On my Gentoo AMD64 -O3 compiled system, running Gnome, Rhythmbox, Evolution, Epiphany, Liferea and GAIM, it is using 365 MB of RAM, not including buffers or disk cache.
In contrast, Windows XP running a similar set of applications was only using 230 MB.
I'm partial to Feral Tabby.
After years of hearing about how superior Debian's package handling is and about how Debian never has dependency problems, Debian finally gets its just reward.
Now Debian users can get the same joy RedHat users always had of trying to make an RPM fit into a system it wasn't intended for or trying to build a RPM to install on all systems.
Serves all you self satisfied Debian users right. Muahahahahaaha!
Assuming an IQ of zero, that math works just fine.
Use a dial-up ISP? Do you really think that provides any protection from the FBI? They just go to the ISP and ask for the authentication logs.
"Got a warrant? Yes? Okay, here you go, Joe Blow dialed in at March 28 at 22:03 on IP 1.2.3.4 for 35 minutes."
The SSH proxy? Even if it's not logging and uncooperative, they can compel the ISPs to provide network traces, then do traffic analysis.
Use a wireless coffee shop. Use a MAC address randomizer. Wear a mask and sit outside. Don't park nearby. Remove your mask and change your jacket while walking back to your car, and don't take a direct route.
The police can get the security camera tapes for every shop and ATM in whatever radius they like, if they really want it.
Make sure your cell phone is off. I don't know if it's logged but if it is, the police could follow your cell phone through tower transitions. "What cell phones were in this IP address's coverage area at 22:10? Which phones arrived in the coverage area at 22:10 minus travel time?"
Don't set up a pattern. If you always post anarchist rants on Wednesdays in a 10 mile radius, the FBI could just stake out every wireless access point until you show up.
Use a VMware or other virtual system with a clean OS and revert the snapshot after posting. The FBI may have piggybacked snoopware into your system through a browser security flaw.
Imagine what you could do if you had the FBI's legal enforcement powers, cooperative judges and a hundred Special Agents plus support personel, and you were assigned to track down one guy posting to a web site.
And for getting rid of hard drives fast, one word: Thermite. Easy enough to make, ignite it with batteries and a model rocket igniter and motor, link it to a serial or parallel port for manual ignition and a case intrusion switch or three for when the power's off. You'll still be in trouble for destroying evidence, explosive devices, endangering bystanders/law-enforcement personel, etc, but at least they won't have your data.
And this sort of failure probability is why I only buy ECC RAM these days. What's the odds of one capacitor failing? Now what's the odds of 4 billion failing? Much higher.
700MB of RAM usage and 78 minutes of compile time (on a 2.2GHz A64). But boy was that code optimized!
*grin*
Total, abject surrender avoids war. For anyone interested in survival above all else, it's the way to go.