This is why you dont use rail or gauss guns for everything. For the heavy stuff, you make the projectile a steel rod into a satellite that you can remote initiate re-entry, keeping them pre-staged in space.
All you have to do is push it into re-entry and gravity does the rest. By the time it hits the ground, depending on the mass of the projectile, it can have the potential of a small nuclear bomb. And apparently this doesn't even violate treaties promising no nukes in space - because those only ban nukes, not conventional weapons.
Also, congrats on making me login for the first time in at least a year.
No - BP was under fire because when the part (or multiple components) failed, alarms went off. The oil rig team in charge of responding to those alarms went "God those things are annoying and nothing is ever wrong when they go off, just disable the alarms."
The next time the alarms were supposed to go off, they could not because they were disabled, so nobody responded to an alarm that did not sound.
I bought GTA4 on DVD, and had to make a "Games for Windows LIVE" account and "Rockstar Social Club" account and sign into both of those just to launch the game. At that point in time I hadn't gotten into Steam very much, but I remember thinking "Wow, it must really suck for the people that bought on Steam, that makes a 3rd account to sign into just to launch GTA4"
I don't know which was worse, that or buying non-Valve games on CD/DVD in store only to go home and it has to download 4GB from Steam...
Which all makes perfect sense now that I pretty much only buy games on Steam.
Keep in mind that some workplaces prefer a paid solution with support for the sole reason that if a nightmare scenario comes up, you can always blame the vendor you bought it from.
Unless its the ARM version, which doesn't even support GPO. I'm sure corporate IT departments will be super willing to allow that on their networks/domain
Exactly - they've had research group that does the exact same thing as this for the past 20 years.
It's coincidentally called "Microsoft Research" - and every cool thing that everybody from Microsoft's own OS engineers to *nix and BSD people think are a good ideas, which their management promptly kills, because "it doesn't push MS Office or Internet Explorer (basically insert other MS product here)" onto corporate IT and home users more.
Because in this instance, it is not about being prude or politically correct. It is because as other people have pointed out, it's more "hip and "kickin" to use a curseword and censor it, particularly masking it with fake "L33T" characters.
If anybody involved in writing the article or submitting it to slashdot actually cared about "keeping those evil, satanic cursewords from the eyes of the children" they would have simply written it to not include them in the first place.
Also, retarded lameness filter is retarded. Here's sme more random crap to make this post go through...
Also, ask them why they use whatever they are using. You'll probably hear a lot of "Software X? Whats that?" or "I don't wanna have to migrate all my settings/bookmarks/learn something new in life"
This doesn't apply to just web-browsers or software either...
Seems like somebody should try and actually make their response to this... actually useful and constructive?
The separate processes for each tab is EXACTLY what makes Chrome superior.
While my desktop is a 4x core Phenom 2 w/ 4GB of RAM, my laptop that mostly sits around (as I have not needed to refresh it since I don't really need a laptop right now) is a Gateway ultra-light from 2006 - Core Solo ULV (1st gen Core series, single core, 1.3GHz) w/ 1GB of RAM.
I have a minimalist Debian installation on it running Openbox, WICD, and Chrome - not much else, so that it keeps resources free for actually using it. Chrome runs great, the only thing that chokes it up is if I try to load anything with Flash video (Youtube, etc) and generally I can open as many tabs as I want. And when it does freeze, the browser GUI is still useable to close whatever page does have a flash video loaded.
Firefox 3.x (that was the last time I had Firefox on that system, about 1.5 years ago?) would choke up just from loading 5 or more tabs - without flash on them. Whats worse, is that on Firefox, when it did freeze, it took the whole interface down with it. There are reasons that Firefox and everybody else is trying to play catch-up to Chrome and include process isolation.
Also, most web-browsers tend to access web-pages - on the internet... the HDD is really only used for caching pages (and images, etc on them) locally. Why would you think that
...all these processes are fighting with one another to get HDD access
need massive amounts of HDD I/O at all? And how did this even get marked "insightful"?
I see so many comments on articles about Chrome (not just on this one article either) about "I'm not going to switch just to jump on the Chrome bandwagon!" - its not about jumping on any bandwagon, its that at the moment (and for the past few years now) Chrome really is a better experience.
Which works right up until they tell the people they are preaching to "Look! See, I told you they would try to make us look stupid, its because they hate us!"
OTOH, I guess you've gotta try what you can - and if at least the semi-intelligent on up see that the recruiter was dumb enough to fall for a troll, they'll loose faith. As long as they don't use this to recruit, say 3 or 4 times the people who didn't join up...
give-aways to entice people into an over-priced 2-year data contracts
It solves the problem of where carriers are required (due to their pockets) to 2x profits every year but claim huge net losses. It solves the problem of their networks being so utterly congested that they have to move to tiered data to make you use less data, so that they can push more VCast streaming video, crappy carrier branded GPS navigation (when you've got the already really good and free Google one), and now where the entire UI and home screen is constantly being re-downloaded.
It doesn't have to be just games that it distributes.
Even the normal Steam client lets you view embedded video, or download video as its own "store" item. Also, since a game is just another type of program, you could deliver other applications as well, such as the training simulators used in MCSE books, custom testing programs that some classes insist on using, editor applications such as Notepad++, GIMP, etc.
I think the biggest benefit of this would be giving the teachers a trusted software repository where they can tell their students to just go download it through the SteamEDU client, and not have to worry about them going to an impostor site and getting a school computer infected with malware (because obviously nobody knows how to ask for a rebuild of that system from the school's IT dept).
While I do like KDE4, GNOME2, and XFCE - my personal secondary system is a Core Solo ULV with 1GB of RAM from 2006, and was barely fast enough for WinXP.
I've been using a relatively bare-bones Debian 6 with OpenBox install for a while now - install just the basic CLI and apt-get, then install X, OpenBox, Nitrogen (wallpaper configurator GUI), FBPanel (for taskbar), WICD (WiFi configurator), and I if I remember SlimDM (login manager). Chrome is generally really good for web-browsing since it seems the only thing that really brings it down is Flash on webpages.
The "bleeding" in part doesn't apply though if you can apply updates and it not break things or freak out because something requires newer libraries than the repos have (and thats with just the default repos) - all you have then is a distro thats on the edge, not the "bleeding, cut my wrists, edge"
Its been said enough already, but it's in Google's best interest to keep it open anyway. They make money on the number of people looking at ads, rather than pure profit of just the hardware.
This is Red Hat you're talking about here, if they wanted something like that to work they would have gone with Debian - but oh, that doesn't have "Enterprise Support" which only means that you are paying so that if something goes wrong, you get to blame it on Red Hat
The OP apparently doesn't even know why he installed LogMeIn in the first place. From the LogMeIn website:
Key Features
Remote Control Your Computer
Access your desktop from anywhere.
Wake-On-LAN
Start a sleeping computer on LAN.
PC or Mac compatible
Anytime, anywhere remote access.
It does this by installing their remote desktop client on the host to remote into, proxies through their servers over regular HTTP / port 80, and also features a web based control/viewer. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia
Users access remote desktops using either the LogMeIn Ignition stand-alone application or a web portal. The web portal requires either an ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer, or an extension for Firefox (the LogMeIn plug-in for Firefox), or an extension for Safari (the LogMeIn plug-in for Safari), failing that it falls back to requiring Java in order to run a Java program,[3] and failing that it falls back to "a screen-shot based HTML remote control".[4] The web portal also provides status information for the remote computers and, optionally, remote computer management functions.
So he has all the remote desktop capabilities in the world he could want. All he needs to do is setup a script to take photos whenever the lid is opened, and check on the browser cookies to see what web-sites the thief is going to. Even if the Apple camera application doesn't support this, I'm sure there are plenty of F/LOSS camera applications that would.
Basically, he needs to do what this DEFCON hacker did. Failing all of that, he could provide the S/N and other info to the Vancouver PD and Apple, so that if the thief attempts taking it to an Apple store to have it wiped (and removing LogMeIn by doing so) if they follow their processes and check the S/N, they should see it is a stolen laptop...
No. The GPL does NOT prevent you from downloading the software and not being able to install it. It prevents you from downloading and then redistributing it without making an offer for the source code. While they do not have to package the source with the binary download, they have to be able to give you the source for the program. The developer is allowed to charge a fee that makes sense to cover the costs of the CD or server bandwidth.
Also, a developer is allowed to charge for the binary, but again has to provide source to anybody that paid for the license to the binary. This means they do not have to provide source free of charge to anybody off the street just because they want the application for free.
The GPL isn't about restricting what the end user can do with the application, it's about preventing people and corporations from taking F/LOSS code that a lot of people worked on for free, or even paid developers by companies like Red Hat from having their code stolen by "Hypothetical Evil Company X" to be rebranded and sold for the profit of said evil company and not only not returning a dime of it to the original and rightful developers, but also to keep the application open for development by other people.
Which is why I said it probably wouldn't be very secure:(
Also, I should have clarified that to get the server working in such a basic state takes "adding or modifying" said number of lines.
However, I still stand that no matter which server you choose it is currently easier to get it up and running through CLI instead of said kludged together RedHat or Webmin configurators, which seem to use backend scripts that fail to even write to the file properly...
Also, hasn't this been the way pretty much every single feature phone from cellular carriers with a "web browser" worked this way since that capability came out?
Exactly - when I went to school they taught using Fedora 6 with Webmin and the non-working Fedora GUI tools for managing Apache and SSL. Even if the tool configured Apache to start and host a site, they NEVER configured SSL properly, no matter if you followed the textbook, or tried any combination or order of clicking buttons in the Red Hat tool or Webmin.
After a while, I installed Debian 4 (right after it came out) one of my systems, looked around for GUI configurators, saw none, and so it seemed that the only way to do so on Debian was through CLI. Turns out, a basic Apache config (probably not at all secure) was about 3 or 4 lines in the config file, and SSL is only another 5 or 10 minutes through the command line where weeks of playing with GUI tools at school yielded nothing.
Point of the story being that Apache and SSL really are easier to config through CLI. Also, I never really went back to Red Hat/Fedora/Etc after that since they always seemed to be too bleeding edge - giving Fedora dependency hell, you go to update all packages on a system, they require newer libraries than in the repo, and can't update. I've never really had this happen on Debian but for once or twice on experimental.
The GP's point is if you are going to bother building a nuclear plant, why not just skip the oil and coal altogether? If you can build 1 or 2 nuclear plants that would replace 2 to 3 coal fired power plants, isn't that a much more straightforward path? Instead, somebody decided to only make the nuclear plant the middle man?
The same issue is one of the major roadblocks to electric cars. "Oh we're running out of oil for the cars, lets make a nuclear plant to harvest oil!" instead of "Lets build a nuclear plant, the electricity from which will power EV's!" If you're going to build a nuclear plant, at least make it actually effect the core issue more directly instead of prolonging you running out of gas - get rid of the gas altogether.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
This is why you dont use rail or gauss guns for everything. For the heavy stuff, you make the projectile a steel rod into a satellite that you can remote initiate re-entry, keeping them pre-staged in space.
All you have to do is push it into re-entry and gravity does the rest. By the time it hits the ground, depending on the mass of the projectile, it can have the potential of a small nuclear bomb. And apparently this doesn't even violate treaties promising no nukes in space - because those only ban nukes, not conventional weapons.
Also, congrats on making me login for the first time in at least a year.
No - BP was under fire because when the part (or multiple components) failed, alarms went off. The oil rig team in charge of responding to those alarms went "God those things are annoying and nothing is ever wrong when they go off, just disable the alarms."
The next time the alarms were supposed to go off, they could not because they were disabled, so nobody responded to an alarm that did not sound.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms
Also, congrats on getting me to log-in for something worth of commenting on for the first time in ages.
It'd be funny if it weren't true.
I bought GTA4 on DVD, and had to make a "Games for Windows LIVE" account and "Rockstar Social Club" account and sign into both of those just to launch the game. At that point in time I hadn't gotten into Steam very much, but I remember thinking "Wow, it must really suck for the people that bought on Steam, that makes a 3rd account to sign into just to launch GTA4"
I don't know which was worse, that or buying non-Valve games on CD/DVD in store only to go home and it has to download 4GB from Steam...
Which all makes perfect sense now that I pretty much only buy games on Steam.
Keep in mind that some workplaces prefer a paid solution with support for the sole reason that if a nightmare scenario comes up, you can always blame the vendor you bought it from.
Unless its the ARM version, which doesn't even support GPO. I'm sure corporate IT departments will be super willing to allow that on their networks/domain
Zdnet article or just google "windows 8 rt gpo"
Exactly - they've had research group that does the exact same thing as this for the past 20 years.
It's coincidentally called "Microsoft Research" - and every cool thing that everybody from Microsoft's own OS engineers to *nix and BSD people think are a good ideas, which their management promptly kills, because "it doesn't push MS Office or Internet Explorer (basically insert other MS product here)" onto corporate IT and home users more.
Because in this instance, it is not about being prude or politically correct. It is because as other people have pointed out, it's more "hip and "kickin" to use a curseword and censor it, particularly masking it with fake "L33T" characters.
If anybody involved in writing the article or submitting it to slashdot actually cared about "keeping those evil, satanic cursewords from the eyes of the children" they would have simply written it to not include them in the first place.
Also, retarded lameness filter is retarded. Here's sme more random crap to make this post go through...
Also, ask them why they use whatever they are using. You'll probably hear a lot of "Software X? Whats that?" or "I don't wanna have to migrate all my settings/bookmarks/learn something new in life"
This doesn't apply to just web-browsers or software either...
The separate processes for each tab is EXACTLY what makes Chrome superior.
While my desktop is a 4x core Phenom 2 w/ 4GB of RAM, my laptop that mostly sits around (as I have not needed to refresh it since I don't really need a laptop right now) is a Gateway ultra-light from 2006 - Core Solo ULV (1st gen Core series, single core, 1.3GHz) w/ 1GB of RAM.
I have a minimalist Debian installation on it running Openbox, WICD, and Chrome - not much else, so that it keeps resources free for actually using it. Chrome runs great, the only thing that chokes it up is if I try to load anything with Flash video (Youtube, etc) and generally I can open as many tabs as I want. And when it does freeze, the browser GUI is still useable to close whatever page does have a flash video loaded.
Firefox 3.x (that was the last time I had Firefox on that system, about 1.5 years ago?) would choke up just from loading 5 or more tabs - without flash on them. Whats worse, is that on Firefox, when it did freeze, it took the whole interface down with it. There are reasons that Firefox and everybody else is trying to play catch-up to Chrome and include process isolation.
Also, most web-browsers tend to access web-pages - on the internet... the HDD is really only used for caching pages (and images, etc on them) locally. Why would you think that
need massive amounts of HDD I/O at all? And how did this even get marked "insightful"?
I see so many comments on articles about Chrome (not just on this one article either) about "I'm not going to switch just to jump on the Chrome bandwagon!" - its not about jumping on any bandwagon, its that at the moment (and for the past few years now) Chrome really is a better experience.
Which works right up until they tell the people they are preaching to "Look! See, I told you they would try to make us look stupid, its because they hate us!"
OTOH, I guess you've gotta try what you can - and if at least the semi-intelligent on up see that the recruiter was dumb enough to fall for a troll, they'll loose faith. As long as they don't use this to recruit, say 3 or 4 times the people who didn't join up...
It solves the problem of where carriers are required (due to their pockets) to 2x profits every year but claim huge net losses. It solves the problem of their networks being so utterly congested that they have to move to tiered data to make you use less data, so that they can push more VCast streaming video, crappy carrier branded GPS navigation (when you've got the already really good and free Google one), and now where the entire UI and home screen is constantly being re-downloaded.
It doesn't have to be just games that it distributes.
Even the normal Steam client lets you view embedded video, or download video as its own "store" item. Also, since a game is just another type of program, you could deliver other applications as well, such as the training simulators used in MCSE books, custom testing programs that some classes insist on using, editor applications such as Notepad++, GIMP, etc.
I think the biggest benefit of this would be giving the teachers a trusted software repository where they can tell their students to just go download it through the SteamEDU client, and not have to worry about them going to an impostor site and getting a school computer infected with malware (because obviously nobody knows how to ask for a rebuild of that system from the school's IT dept).
While I do like KDE4, GNOME2, and XFCE - my personal secondary system is a Core Solo ULV with 1GB of RAM from 2006, and was barely fast enough for WinXP.
I've been using a relatively bare-bones Debian 6 with OpenBox install for a while now - install just the basic CLI and apt-get, then install X, OpenBox, Nitrogen (wallpaper configurator GUI), FBPanel (for taskbar), WICD (WiFi configurator), and I if I remember SlimDM (login manager). Chrome is generally really good for web-browsing since it seems the only thing that really brings it down is Flash on webpages.
voodoopc.com? (one of HP's "high-end" desktop brands)
Disclaimer: I still haven't used Arch
The "bleeding" in part doesn't apply though if you can apply updates and it not break things or freak out because something requires newer libraries than the repos have (and thats with just the default repos) - all you have then is a distro thats on the edge, not the "bleeding, cut my wrists, edge"
Its been said enough already, but it's in Google's best interest to keep it open anyway. They make money on the number of people looking at ads, rather than pure profit of just the hardware.
This is Red Hat you're talking about here, if they wanted something like that to work they would have gone with Debian - but oh, that doesn't have "Enterprise Support" which only means that you are paying so that if something goes wrong, you get to blame it on Red Hat
It does this by installing their remote desktop client on the host to remote into, proxies through their servers over regular HTTP / port 80, and also features a web based control/viewer. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia
So he has all the remote desktop capabilities in the world he could want. All he needs to do is setup a script to take photos whenever the lid is opened, and check on the browser cookies to see what web-sites the thief is going to. Even if the Apple camera application doesn't support this, I'm sure there are plenty of F/LOSS camera applications that would.
Basically, he needs to do what this DEFCON hacker did. Failing all of that, he could provide the S/N and other info to the Vancouver PD and Apple, so that if the thief attempts taking it to an Apple store to have it wiped (and removing LogMeIn by doing so) if they follow their processes and check the S/N, they should see it is a stolen laptop...
No. The GPL does NOT prevent you from downloading the software and not being able to install it. It prevents you from downloading and then redistributing it without making an offer for the source code. While they do not have to package the source with the binary download, they have to be able to give you the source for the program. The developer is allowed to charge a fee that makes sense to cover the costs of the CD or server bandwidth.
Also, a developer is allowed to charge for the binary, but again has to provide source to anybody that paid for the license to the binary. This means they do not have to provide source free of charge to anybody off the street just because they want the application for free.
The GPL isn't about restricting what the end user can do with the application, it's about preventing people and corporations from taking F/LOSS code that a lot of people worked on for free, or even paid developers by companies like Red Hat from having their code stolen by "Hypothetical Evil Company X" to be rebranded and sold for the profit of said evil company and not only not returning a dime of it to the original and rightful developers, but also to keep the application open for development by other people.
Which is why I said it probably wouldn't be very secure :(
Also, I should have clarified that to get the server working in such a basic state takes "adding or modifying" said number of lines.
However, I still stand that no matter which server you choose it is currently easier to get it up and running through CLI instead of said kludged together RedHat or Webmin configurators, which seem to use backend scripts that fail to even write to the file properly...
Also, hasn't this been the way pretty much every single feature phone from cellular carriers with a "web browser" worked this way since that capability came out?
Exactly - when I went to school they taught using Fedora 6 with Webmin and the non-working Fedora GUI tools for managing Apache and SSL. Even if the tool configured Apache to start and host a site, they NEVER configured SSL properly, no matter if you followed the textbook, or tried any combination or order of clicking buttons in the Red Hat tool or Webmin.
After a while, I installed Debian 4 (right after it came out) one of my systems, looked around for GUI configurators, saw none, and so it seemed that the only way to do so on Debian was through CLI. Turns out, a basic Apache config (probably not at all secure) was about 3 or 4 lines in the config file, and SSL is only another 5 or 10 minutes through the command line where weeks of playing with GUI tools at school yielded nothing.
Point of the story being that Apache and SSL really are easier to config through CLI. Also, I never really went back to Red Hat/Fedora/Etc after that since they always seemed to be too bleeding edge - giving Fedora dependency hell, you go to update all packages on a system, they require newer libraries than in the repo, and can't update. I've never really had this happen on Debian but for once or twice on experimental.
WHOOSH
The GP's point is if you are going to bother building a nuclear plant, why not just skip the oil and coal altogether? If you can build 1 or 2 nuclear plants that would replace 2 to 3 coal fired power plants, isn't that a much more straightforward path? Instead, somebody decided to only make the nuclear plant the middle man?
The same issue is one of the major roadblocks to electric cars. "Oh we're running out of oil for the cars, lets make a nuclear plant to harvest oil!" instead of "Lets build a nuclear plant, the electricity from which will power EV's!" If you're going to build a nuclear plant, at least make it actually effect the core issue more directly instead of prolonging you running out of gas - get rid of the gas altogether.