I'm not entirely sure, in general.
Some laptops (including mine) have part of CompuTrace built into the BIOS, so it can persist across hard drive reformats and replacements. I have no idea how it actually manages to integrate with the newly installed OS and access the internet to continue tracking the computer after a hard drive replacement, though.
http://www.absolute.com/products-bios-enabled-computers.asp
I discovered this by accident a few months ago when I was looking at a hex dump of my BIOS for fun and was quite surprised to see a "CompuTrace" message in there.
Maintaining a constant electric field doesn't require energy input.
Of course, no hardware is perfect, and there will probably be some energy loss. But it would certainly be much less than 20% of your car's output.
I thought DHTML was, by definition, the use of Javascript to manipulate the HTML of a web page. So, how can something require DHTML, but not Javascript?
Calling it the "Large Hole of Cash" seems a bit unjustified. Even in the unlikely event that it turns out to be completely useless for physics, the technologies developed for particle detectors in the LHC have direct applications in medical imaging, and the LHC's computing Grid is working on problems such as protein folding. It's certainly not a pointless cash sink. Especially considering the amount of cash that governments tend to sink into various other unproductive things.
The transformer malfunction was inevitable, due to the anthropic principle. In every possible universe in which the transformer didn't malfunction, the LHC destroyed the world and we couldn't observe that it didn't malfunction.:p
The difference is that the GPL only applies to people who modify the software. Ordinary users don't have to agree to the GPL just to use the software. So, most software in Ubuntu doesn't require the user to agree to anything.
I think it's a bit unfair to expect game developers to let me play a game under Linux, given that at the moment running most OpenGL applications makes my Linux system unstable and/or completely locks up the system.
When graphics card manufacturers and/or Linux developers can make my graphics card work properly, then I'll expect game developers to make games for Linux. Until then, I won't blame them, because making a game work well on the majority of Linux desktops is more trouble than it's worth.
Following the American Revolution, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt "reception statutes" that gave legal effect to the existing body of English Common Law.
To the fool who tagged this 'unusualisnotabnormal':
You're wrong. Unusual and abnormal mean essentially the same thing - something out of the ordinary, something not routine.
If the point you were trying to make is that authorities shouldn't be suspicious of every unusual occurrence, then perhaps something like 'unusualisnotwrong' would have better served your purpose.
I don't find it a little scary / unusual that mobile 'net access might be cheaper than ADSL. In some places here in Australia, mobile internet is cheaper than ADSL, because Telstra owns all the exchanges and most of the phone lines, and controls the ADSL prices. Meanwhile, the government sits around talking about how they're going to build/upgrade a national broadband network at the level of the rest of the world. They can't, though, because Telstra's refusing to provide them with maps of the existing network infrastructure. At least, that's what I've heard.
Given that this is an olympic village, built specifically for the Games, there wouldn't be any existing phone lines. The network provider probably had to install phone lines, maybe build a new exchange, install DSLAMs, and maybe provide DSL modems. That seems to me like a sufficiently large investment that responding with "What equipment?" hardly makes sense.
I have, with a recent version of Ubuntu, had to edit config files to even get the mouse to work on my sister's computer. And again to get the monitors to work at the correct resolution. And again to get Wi-Fi to work consistently.
Not being experienced with GNOME and not knowing the keyboard shortcuts, I couldn't get it to do anything at all without the mouse. In Windows all you have to know is that the Windows key opens the start menu, and that's not hard to guess. In GNOME, there's a keyboard shortcut for the menu that you'd have no hope of randomly guessing.
So, I had to switch to a console and edit xorg.conf there. I read the relevant man page and it told me the option I wanted was documented in another (nonexistent) man page. So I basically had to guess how to fix my configuration.
And, when I made a mistake in editing the X configuration file, the X server quit on startup and Ubuntu kept restarting it every few seconds, making the console unusable. Eventually it gave up and displayed a text-based error message which appeared corrupted because it used the wrong character set.
Also, you meant 2.4GHz. Also, you meant molecule, not atom. Also, 2.4GHz is not a harmonic of the water molecule. Even if 2.4GHz were a natural resonance of a water molecule, in liquid water (such as in your brain) the resonances are 'smeared out' by the interaction between molecules, to the point where they're barely noticeable. And the heat won't damage your brain; you get orders of magnitude more heat just from the sun shining on your head. It's the mysterious unknown electromagnetic effects that you're supposed to be worried about.:p
How does a site 'need encryption' but not need to verify identity? Without identity verification, encryption isn't providing any security at all. Your users could be encrypting their data and sending it to some random hacker instead, and they'd never know.
A user could notice symptoms of a virus, such as extra processes running, excessive/unusual network and disk activity, spyware/adware toolbars, etc. An experienced user is likely to be running more secure software than most users, have a properly functioning firewall, and not do things such as downloading and running untrusted programs or opening suspicious email attachments. Also, it's possible that although the user doesn't have anti-virus software installed and running all the time, they might scan their hard drive and/or backups for viruses occasionally.
Thus, even without AV software running in the background, it's very unlikely that an experienced user will get infected by a virus, and reasonably likely that they would notice if they did.
Why do registrars even have to exist? And why does ICANN need to pay other companies to run the actual DNS infrastructure? If ICANN ran.com,.org and.net itself, and there were no registrars/resellers, and every time someone paid for a domain all the money went straight to ICANN, surely ICANN would have enough money to run all the DNS infrastructure itself very well. Then we wouldn't have to deal with all the dodgy things that registries and registrars do, like Verisign's "Site Finder", and various slightly evil registrars stealing domains, and various registrars being incredibly insecure and transferring domains to hackers without proper authentication.
Microsoft is a greedy cult founded by a second rate science major dropout. It is bad software.
Not a cult, a corporation. Greedy, yes, but that is the nature of a corporation. Bill Gates has been very successful at running the business, and I've heard he was also a very good programmer. Calling him a 'second rate dropout' is ridiculous.
ZFS fixes real world problems. WinFS just makes searching/tagging more convienient? That is useless to most users.
WinFS fixes real world problems. ZFS just makes volume/filesystem management more convenient? That is useless to most users.
I'm not sure how much I'm like "most users", but I have a few thousand music files and photos on my hard drive. I like being able to tag them and search them quickly, and I think I might find something like WinFS useful.
What does ZFS offer that would be useful and usable for "most users"?
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I'm not entirely sure, in general. Some laptops (including mine) have part of CompuTrace built into the BIOS, so it can persist across hard drive reformats and replacements. I have no idea how it actually manages to integrate with the newly installed OS and access the internet to continue tracking the computer after a hard drive replacement, though. http://www.absolute.com/products-bios-enabled-computers.asp I discovered this by accident a few months ago when I was looking at a hex dump of my BIOS for fun and was quite surprised to see a "CompuTrace" message in there.
You don't have all your /home files on a backup drive already?
Maintaining a constant electric field doesn't require energy input. Of course, no hardware is perfect, and there will probably be some energy loss. But it would certainly be much less than 20% of your car's output.
"... javascript is not required to exploit this."
"The exploit requires DHTML."
I thought DHTML was, by definition, the use of Javascript to manipulate the HTML of a web page. So, how can something require DHTML, but not Javascript?
Calling it the "Large Hole of Cash" seems a bit unjustified. Even in the unlikely event that it turns out to be completely useless for physics, the technologies developed for particle detectors in the LHC have direct applications in medical imaging, and the LHC's computing Grid is working on problems such as protein folding. It's certainly not a pointless cash sink. Especially considering the amount of cash that governments tend to sink into various other unproductive things.
The transformer malfunction was inevitable, due to the anthropic principle. In every possible universe in which the transformer didn't malfunction, the LHC destroyed the world and we couldn't observe that it didn't malfunction. :p
The difference is that the GPL only applies to people who modify the software. Ordinary users don't have to agree to the GPL just to use the software. So, most software in Ubuntu doesn't require the user to agree to anything.
They waited until an inconvenient time to improve the chances that Ubuntu would agree to their demands rather than changing the browser.
I think it's a bit unfair to expect game developers to let me play a game under Linux, given that at the moment running most OpenGL applications makes my Linux system unstable and/or completely locks up the system. When graphics card manufacturers and/or Linux developers can make my graphics card work properly, then I'll expect game developers to make games for Linux. Until then, I won't blame them, because making a game work well on the majority of Linux desktops is more trouble than it's worth.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law )
Unfortunately the year of the Linux desktop will also be the year of the laptop.
To the fool who tagged this 'unusualisnotabnormal':
You're wrong. Unusual and abnormal mean essentially the same thing - something out of the ordinary, something not routine.
If the point you were trying to make is that authorities shouldn't be suspicious of every unusual occurrence, then perhaps something like 'unusualisnotwrong' would have better served your purpose.
I don't find it a little scary / unusual that mobile 'net access might be cheaper than ADSL. In some places here in Australia, mobile internet is cheaper than ADSL, because Telstra owns all the exchanges and most of the phone lines, and controls the ADSL prices. Meanwhile, the government sits around talking about how they're going to build/upgrade a national broadband network at the level of the rest of the world. They can't, though, because Telstra's refusing to provide them with maps of the existing network infrastructure. At least, that's what I've heard.
Given that this is an olympic village, built specifically for the Games, there wouldn't be any existing phone lines. The network provider probably had to install phone lines, maybe build a new exchange, install DSLAMs, and maybe provide DSL modems. That seems to me like a sufficiently large investment that responding with "What equipment?" hardly makes sense.
I have, with a recent version of Ubuntu, had to edit config files to even get the mouse to work on my sister's computer. And again to get the monitors to work at the correct resolution. And again to get Wi-Fi to work consistently.
Not being experienced with GNOME and not knowing the keyboard shortcuts, I couldn't get it to do anything at all without the mouse. In Windows all you have to know is that the Windows key opens the start menu, and that's not hard to guess. In GNOME, there's a keyboard shortcut for the menu that you'd have no hope of randomly guessing.
So, I had to switch to a console and edit xorg.conf there. I read the relevant man page and it told me the option I wanted was documented in another (nonexistent) man page. So I basically had to guess how to fix my configuration.
And, when I made a mistake in editing the X configuration file, the X server quit on startup and Ubuntu kept restarting it every few seconds, making the console unusable. Eventually it gave up and displayed a text-based error message which appeared corrupted because it used the wrong character set.
Also, you meant 2.4GHz. Also, you meant molecule, not atom. Also, 2.4GHz is not a harmonic of the water molecule. Even if 2.4GHz were a natural resonance of a water molecule, in liquid water (such as in your brain) the resonances are 'smeared out' by the interaction between molecules, to the point where they're barely noticeable. And the heat won't damage your brain; you get orders of magnitude more heat just from the sun shining on your head. It's the mysterious unknown electromagnetic effects that you're supposed to be worried about. :p
How does a site 'need encryption' but not need to verify identity? Without identity verification, encryption isn't providing any security at all. Your users could be encrypting their data and sending it to some random hacker instead, and they'd never know.
A user could notice symptoms of a virus, such as extra processes running, excessive/unusual network and disk activity, spyware/adware toolbars, etc. An experienced user is likely to be running more secure software than most users, have a properly functioning firewall, and not do things such as downloading and running untrusted programs or opening suspicious email attachments. Also, it's possible that although the user doesn't have anti-virus software installed and running all the time, they might scan their hard drive and/or backups for viruses occasionally. Thus, even without AV software running in the background, it's very unlikely that an experienced user will get infected by a virus, and reasonably likely that they would notice if they did.
Thus it was redundant.
Why do registrars even have to exist? And why does ICANN need to pay other companies to run the actual DNS infrastructure? If ICANN ran .com, .org and .net itself, and there were no registrars/resellers, and every time someone paid for a domain all the money went straight to ICANN, surely ICANN would have enough money to run all the DNS infrastructure itself very well. Then we wouldn't have to deal with all the dodgy things that registries and registrars do, like Verisign's "Site Finder", and various slightly evil registrars stealing domains, and various registrars being incredibly insecure and transferring domains to hackers without proper authentication.
You don't natively run applications on Ubuntu which were compiled more than 20 years ago. Windows can run binaries older than that.
Not a cult, a corporation. Greedy, yes, but that is the nature of a corporation. Bill Gates has been very successful at running the business, and I've heard he was also a very good programmer. Calling him a 'second rate dropout' is ridiculous.
WinFS fixes real world problems. ZFS just makes volume/filesystem management more convenient? That is useless to most users.
I'm not sure how much I'm like "most users", but I have a few thousand music files and photos on my hard drive. I like being able to tag them and search them quickly, and I think I might find something like WinFS useful.
What does ZFS offer that would be useful and usable for "most users"?
Try going to some other country-specific google url, or going to www.google.com/ncr (No Country Redirect).
I read everyone else's data from a parallel universe in which I founded Google.