actually, a blacklist approach does quite well in blocking more bad than good, but it does so at the cost of either a *large* upkeep cost on the list (and still a moderate amount of bad getting through to determined people), or a large amount of bad being let through.
why not just have a proxy which you have to log into to access the net and all the pictures that come in through it are plastered on a monitor in the staff room, along with the name of the user who is currently logged into that computer? - instant internet monitoring from a central location, with little effort to set up, although actual enforcement could be "interesting"
tesla cards are basically 8800's with double the memory - for personal computing power, a straight 8800 (or 2) is probably just as useful, and quite a bit cheaper.
i agree - if the return on a cash investment is 6%, and the government only printed 2% more money, where does the extra come from?
ultimately there can be no such thing as guaranteed return on investment, in real terms, otherwise within a few cycles of money doubling investment people who invest in that scheme own the entire solar system.
Therefore, the average return on investment accross everything has to be equal to the % increase in the amount of goods/money in the system against the increase in the number of people in the system.
Of course there will be a bell curve distribution of wealth, with some people going broke and others making lots of money, but ultimately it must balance out.
in some ways this is typical of the solution to many linux problems - you "just" need to type these 3 random looking commands on the command line, twiddle 2 other random options and then your problems are "probably" fixed.
Linux users in general are quite happy to do this, but joe bloggs who just wants to play his computer game will go "wtf - this just worked when i had windows".
Linux is great when it works (and once things are set up correctly it stays working) but at times you need to be quite technically minded to get it going to begin with.
I feel that this is the biggest hindrance to widespread adoption of linux. The problems I had installing (3 different distro's live cd's didn't like my ide/sata drive mix; it took me a good portion of a weekend to get a working system) meant that my brother didn't bother looking at Linux, even when windows vista threw a bunch of problems at him.
I don't think many people care now, but with all new machines capable of 64bit, and major operating systems also being released 64bit, it does make sense for someone to start working on 64bot now, otherwise in 4 years time when SUPERAPP64 is released for windows people will be complaining about a lack of "obviously needed" 64bit functionality.
is this a promise not to sue the uni's or the students?
if it is the students, why should the uni's care?
if it is the uni's err, wtf, as it is the students doing the copying so there is just as much 'liability' in the system, and some central body now has more money to go after the students.
but if this is true we know we are being observed, and that throws a spanner in all future predictions, unless we think that this 'second foundation' has been destroyed.
isn't that assuming that mcdonalds only uses "appropriate" condiments? if they are already applying inappropriate ones, then the exact appropriate-ness of whatever white sludge they are currently applying might not come into it.
your grand-parents post has a newegg link to a 60Gb SSD drive for 150 - its not quite the 64G that your parents post has, but its close enough (ie, you could probably find enough of a discount by shopping around to get to the same $/GB as the 150/64 you seem to want.)
-- i agree with about 20% of people, a botnet run with windows would be overrated compared to one run off another system, its just quicker to build a windows one.
While the question may appear to come down to "do you trust microsoft to make a secure piece of software", this isn't quite what is happening I believe the question is more like "do you want microsoft to automagically detect and stop specific other software, which is known to cause harm, from running, even if the user has clicked "yes i do want to install usefullInternetThingy+Trogen #37b".
People are quite happy to click "yes, allow this random program to run and install, as i just asked it to do", but I don't think that "This program is contains Trojen #37b and has been blocked" is as likely to be ignored.
yes your site will be broken unless, say, you spend 1 second to click on the little S with a red line through it at the bottom of the screen to add the current website to noscripts whitelist... even then it is still secure as if (in the unlikely event) that the website you have previously marked as safe is hacked, they still can't run anything else off another website unless you also whitelist that.
at the moment i've only 2 of the 4 scripts here enabled - slashdot and google-analytics, but not doubleclick or fsdn.com
it only took me a little over 3 hours to compile -- this is on an older amd x2 4400 box, 2Gb of ram, while i was using it for other things, i'm sure with a nice new quad core2 you could get it done in under 2 hours.
I also shake my fist at the person above who suggested that you use a binary package in gentoo. I would also submit that he probably stoops to using firefox-bin also.
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actually, a blacklist approach does quite well in blocking more bad than good, but it does so at the cost of either a *large* upkeep cost on the list (and still a moderate amount of bad getting through to determined people), or a large amount of bad being let through.
well according to the current score, the game is about a 20 all tie -- although this doesn't count any points scored this year
http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/marsscorecard.html
why not just have a proxy which you have to log into to access the net and all the pictures that come in through it are plastered on a monitor in the staff room, along with the name of the user who is currently logged into that computer? - instant internet monitoring from a central location, with little effort to set up, although actual enforcement could be "interesting"
tesla cards are basically 8800's with double the memory - for personal computing power, a straight 8800 (or 2) is probably just as useful, and quite a bit cheaper.
"If one wanted to build their own home "super" computer then why not just use CUDA and a few Nvidia cards?"
its been done - http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_computing.html
$10k for ~250x the processing power of a desktop
as compared to "oops nuclear explosion" ?
i agree - if the return on a cash investment is 6%, and the government only printed 2% more money, where does the extra come from?
ultimately there can be no such thing as guaranteed return on investment, in real terms, otherwise within a few cycles of money doubling investment people who invest in that scheme own the entire solar system.
Therefore, the average return on investment accross everything has to be equal to the % increase in the amount of goods/money in the system against the increase in the number of people in the system.
Of course there will be a bell curve distribution of wealth, with some people going broke and others making lots of money, but ultimately it must balance out.
in some ways this is typical of the solution to many linux problems - you "just" need to type these 3 random looking commands on the command line, twiddle 2 other random options and then your problems are "probably" fixed.
Linux users in general are quite happy to do this, but joe bloggs who just wants to play his computer game will go "wtf - this just worked when i had windows".
Linux is great when it works (and once things are set up correctly it stays working) but at times you need to be quite technically minded to get it going to begin with.
I feel that this is the biggest hindrance to widespread adoption of linux. The problems I had installing (3 different distro's live cd's didn't like my ide/sata drive mix; it took me a good portion of a weekend to get a working system) meant that my brother didn't bother looking at Linux, even when windows vista threw a bunch of problems at him.
I don't think many people care now, but with all new machines capable of 64bit, and major operating systems also being released 64bit, it does make sense for someone to start working on 64bot now, otherwise in 4 years time when SUPERAPP64 is released for windows people will be complaining about a lack of "obviously needed" 64bit functionality.
someone quite clearly needed to be informed about the first post joke.
modular as in $50 per module?
would you like a firewall with that?
I think the counter-argument to this one is Sins of a Solar Empire -- no drm at all, quite good sales.
yeah, because they go 'Robin' the rich and give to the poor
it looks like you forgot your ~
is this a promise not to sue the uni's or the students?
if it is the students, why should the uni's care?
if it is the uni's err, wtf, as it is the students doing the copying so there is just as much 'liability' in the system, and some central body now has more money to go after the students.
but if this is true we know we are being observed, and that throws a spanner in all future predictions, unless we think that this 'second foundation' has been destroyed.
isn't that assuming that mcdonalds only uses "appropriate" condiments? if they are already applying inappropriate ones, then the exact appropriate-ness of whatever white sludge they are currently applying might not come into it.
your grand-parents post has a newegg link to a 60Gb SSD drive for 150 - its not quite the 64G that your parents post has, but its close enough (ie, you could probably find enough of a discount by shopping around to get to the same $/GB as the 150/64 you seem to want.)
only if each mp3 is 100 bytes ...
(they sorted 10 trillion 100-byte records)
actually,
40% Funny
30% Insightful
20% Overrated
-- i agree with about 20% of people, a botnet run with windows would be overrated compared to one run off another system, its just quicker to build a windows one.
While the question may appear to come down to "do you trust microsoft to make a secure piece of software", this isn't quite what is happening
I believe the question is more like "do you want microsoft to automagically detect and stop specific other software, which is known to cause harm, from running, even if the user has clicked "yes i do want to install usefullInternetThingy+Trogen #37b".
People are quite happy to click "yes, allow this random program to run and install, as i just asked it to do", but I don't think that "This program is contains Trojen #37b and has been blocked" is as likely to be ignored.
yes your site will be broken unless, say, you spend 1 second to click on the little S with a red line through it at the bottom of the screen to add the current website to noscripts whitelist...
even then it is still secure as if (in the unlikely event) that the website you have previously marked as safe is hacked, they still can't run anything else off another website unless you also whitelist that.
at the moment i've only 2 of the 4 scripts here enabled - slashdot and google-analytics, but not doubleclick or fsdn.com
"What kind of idiots are they employing?"
Very well paid ones probably.
The question is "are they getting what they paid for?"
yes, April 1 is always a good idea to spend money on expensive items based on flashy news :)
it only took me a little over 3 hours to compile -- this is on an older amd x2 4400 box, 2Gb of ram, while i was using it for other things, i'm sure with a nice new quad core2 you could get it done in under 2 hours.
I also shake my fist at the person above who suggested that you use a binary package in gentoo. I would also submit that he probably stoops to using firefox-bin also.