Keyhole and other organisations had same/similar collections of photos for ages and noone thought that's a threat to security.
But of course, since Google bought Keyhole, and Google is popular, this means their "intelligence" noticed the existence of such data during their casual browsing around Google.
Just this fact makes me laugh about the way they overreact about the whole situation.
Black cars and clothes are the reason for global warming. There we go.
But, honestly, even though it may be true, and if it's a lie, then in every lie there's a bit of truth... it just sounds more like an excuse for ecoligal negligence more than anything.
"Hey check it out, SOME trees COULD be bad, so feel free to cut 'em all".
You know if we were bombarded daily (spend a few seconds to think of a country where this happens NOW) I'd accept being "spied" on the phone if:
1. this would actually help stop the attacks 2. I was sure the collected information not related to terrorism activites won't be used inappropriately and not stored
But guess what, you can't guarantee any of those. So what happens is just stuff going down the slippery road.
You can bet that for every piece of info on "terrorism" been discovered with those technologies, there's 100x the times of information collected illegally by corrupted agents and then sold to people who have interest in it.
It's even possible that terrorist abuse this law to obtain additional information they need for their attacks. Ever thought of that?
I know they are officially separate, but this is just a trick for the lawyers... Several prominent ID supporters have slipped the word "creationism" few times during interviews and such.
Also we know that lots of Christian-related foundations and institutions are those that back up ID (and in the long term they'll try to push their complete 'theory' even if they don't attempt it now).
Well ID is also getting money and research you know.
Or you missed that CNN report where they shot that "ID museum", with Adam and Eve petting their home pets (I think it was an animatronic T-Rex and Raptor: man that's a lot of... grass to feed such pets).
ID has scientific prove that it all started 6000 years ago.
... wow. While I'm ok with this partilcular lawsuit, when's the last time you woke up and check the news and didn't see few new gigantic lawsuits happening every damn day?
Is it just me, or we have waaay too much lawsuits going on here. I mean, lawsuits are supposed to be the exception, and the regulator is supposed to be the law with the help of a possibility for lawsuit.
Today, we just have a bunch of lawsuits from people raping the system, and no benefits. For how long can the system sustain this?
You know this is millions of people giving part of their wage for lawyer/lawsuit expenses. You have to work more and get less, so that all those lawsuits can happen. Directly or indirectly.
"To most people such claims as "the virus is developing the ability to resist some drug" might sound as if the microorganisms can think and somehow train themselves to defend against drugs. But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate."
What THE HELL are you talking about? Natural selection? Evolution based on random mutation??
We all know God INTELLIGENTLY TWEAKS those virus strands to make them resistant to drugs, FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND!!
Reminds me of the nostalgic times waaay long time ago, when things were moving slow enough that you "learn" something and you're set for life.
Well, meet computer technology. You learn something today, which is obsolete tommorow and you have to learn again.
So whatever you learn, know you can't be either too right or too wrong, instead try to pick the common ideas and themes between all those languages/protocols/technologies, so you can make learning the next thing easier for you.
I think God or whatever intelligent creature that supposedly designed us would really be dissapointed by Christians and ID supporters as a whole. I mean, science advances, and religion folks are forced to look for holes in the modern theories and when something can't be yet explained, they shove God in there "see, you don't know why THIS happened, cuz this is GOD".
Trouble is, the places to "shove God" become smaller and smaller as time passes. This increases the tension between scientific research and religion institutions and results in sillyness as we saw this year.
"Intellegent design simply states that the state of life on Earth is far to complex to be attributed to a random process."
You know one definition of random could be a set of specific events and facts based on known nature laws, that put together create a result far too complex to analyse.
So we just call it random. From that point of view tha fact that life is far too complex and that's based on random events kind of fits together nicely.
Also, many ID supporters like to give other examples where what might be attributed to evolution is in fact intelligent design - like the development of computer technology over the past years. It might look like "evolution of computers" to some alien form excavating remains of PC-s hundreds of years from now, but we know we actually intelligently designed all those machines.
Where it breaks the analogy, is I suppose the part where we're supposed to erase all evidence of our existence here, abandon Earth, and then watch and punish any computer who tries to disagree with our existence. What a great way for intelligent beings to spend some quality time, eh.
It's some group trying to pull bad Vista news out of its *ss.
Metadata makes search exponentially faster. So what they're saying is basically, "it's not as if this information is less protected now than before, but now it's just faster to find it".
Plus yea, it's not mandatory to tag your files in a "fast-to-find-by-folks-you-dont-want-to-find-it" way.
Ok so it's not better, it's just harder. Not exactly a plus:)
User friendliness matters a lot. 3D packages have complex interface by their nature - you can't just grab any of them and start making animated furry jungle animals straight out.
But with my few attempts of trying Blender I had tough luck even creating a sphere and moving and rotating it around.
When you're hit with such a steep learning curve, you can either give up a lot of your free time and learn it (which was harder-to-impossible at the time since there was no even a free manual, or good resources, not sure about now), or just give up on the software. Which is what I did.
But it's open source - it's not as if it has to be attractive enough to sustain a business or anything. So I suppose they could also attach fart noises to every button and call it unorthodox look at interface design:)
Good luck with it, it definitely has the features, maybe one day it'll have the interface.
Excuse me this is a video card. Since when a $380 video card is targeted to budget users? Maybe poor CEO's on a budget, but I mean come on.
I've the feeling people overstimate the importance of a video card in the overall PC experience. I have a what should be crap of the crappiest, got few years ago for less than 40 bucks: GeForce 4 MX.
Yet, it runs Quake 3 smooth at 1280x1024, Doom 3 ok in 800x600 and HalfLife just fine in 1024x768 for playback.
Also the 2D performance virtually doesn't matter anymore on any of the new videocards, them all being "fast enough that you won't notice any difference".
I'd never spend $380 on a video card. Plus I bet this will be rebranded and sold in the TRUE budget range around 40-50 USD just 3 of years from now.
Actually two cores make better use of the first level cache, the CPU cycles and so on by having two hardware threads.
With one hardware thread when the CPU has to take something from RAM it just stops and waits for the data to come, sometimes hundreds of cycles doing nothing. In this laptop, while one of the cores waits, the other makes effective use of the bus and cache, so less time is wasted.
As a matter of fact, dual core contributes for a better performance/watt in its own way. Any multitasking OS benefits, and multithreaded apps benefit additionally (without changes).
Intel has many of the big OEMs in its grip with long term contracts and relationships.
You should've noticed that Dell started selling some AMD models recently. Also as you know AMD is in the process of suing Intel for malpractises of dumping, "special offer to drop AMD in favor of us" and other such bad ideas on the side of Intel, to make sure people don't flood to AMD.
For those not picking the connection between this article and my comment above, I'll give a hint (but god knows I hate explaining my jokes/they're bad enough anyway/):
You know I'm a big fan of the Terminator 2 and 3 movies. But as I'm replaying them recently, I find myself rooting for the bad liquid dude/chick more and more. What up with that?
"Today I woke up and started preparing for work as usual. Brushed my teeth, shaved, took a shower. But you could sense the tension in air. Today I'm filing patent violation suit against Microsoft. During the years, we've had the chance to sue the hell out of a lot of companies for all sorts of patented ideas we came up while picking our noses, but this is my first big project. Needless to say, I'm pretty nervous and excited to work with the legal department of such a big and popular company. I've met with them couple of times, and they appear to be a bunch of great guys, so I hope we'll do a great job together."
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Keyhole and other organisations had same/similar collections of photos for ages and noone thought that's a threat to security.
But of course, since Google bought Keyhole, and Google is popular, this means their "intelligence" noticed the existence of such data during their casual browsing around Google.
Just this fact makes me laugh about the way they overreact about the whole situation.
Black cars and clothes are the reason for global warming. There we go.
But, honestly, even though it may be true, and if it's a lie, then in every lie there's a bit of truth... it just sounds more like an excuse for ecoligal negligence more than anything.
"Hey check it out, SOME trees COULD be bad, so feel free to cut 'em all".
You know if we were bombarded daily (spend a few seconds to think of a country where this happens NOW) I'd accept being "spied" on the phone if:
1. this would actually help stop the attacks
2. I was sure the collected information not related to terrorism activites won't be used inappropriately and not stored
But guess what, you can't guarantee any of those. So what happens is just stuff going down the slippery road.
You can bet that for every piece of info on "terrorism" been discovered with those technologies, there's 100x the times of information collected illegally by corrupted agents and then sold to people who have interest in it.
It's even possible that terrorist abuse this law to obtain additional information they need for their attacks. Ever thought of that?
I know they are officially separate, but this is just a trick for the lawyers... Several prominent ID supporters have slipped the word "creationism" few times during interviews and such.
Also we know that lots of Christian-related foundations and institutions are those that back up ID (and in the long term they'll try to push their complete 'theory' even if they don't attempt it now).
Divide and conquer.
Well ID is also getting money and research you know.
... grass to feed such pets).
Or you missed that CNN report where they shot that "ID museum", with Adam and Eve petting their home pets (I think it was an animatronic T-Rex and Raptor: man that's a lot of
ID has scientific prove that it all started 6000 years ago.
God bless ignorance. Amen.
Today they track Santa, tommorow it'll be Easter Bunny!
Wake up people, fight for your rights!
... wow. While I'm ok with this partilcular lawsuit, when's the last time you woke up and check the news and didn't see few new gigantic lawsuits happening every damn day?
Is it just me, or we have waaay too much lawsuits going on here. I mean, lawsuits are supposed to be the exception, and the regulator is supposed to be the law with the help of a possibility for lawsuit.
Today, we just have a bunch of lawsuits from people raping the system, and no benefits. For how long can the system sustain this?
You know this is millions of people giving part of their wage for lawyer/lawsuit expenses. You have to work more and get less, so that all those lawsuits can happen. Directly or indirectly.
God damn it everything is so wrong.
**head explodes**
I'm probably spoiling it for everybody but here we go: there's no Santa.
Yes, yes... all those letters your wrote...
"To most people such claims as "the virus is developing the ability to resist some drug" might sound as if the microorganisms can think and somehow train themselves to defend against drugs.
But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate."
What THE HELL are you talking about? Natural selection? Evolution based on random mutation??
We all know God INTELLIGENTLY TWEAKS those virus strands to make them resistant to drugs, FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND!!
Oh wait..
Modded off topic. F5. F5. Wondering if it's cuz: I'm not American, or F5. F5. because Slashdot addiction doesn't count as technology addiction.
F5....
Been refreshing all day to get the new Slashdot article you guys! This is my comment. Hi Mom!
Ok now the race begins for the next article.
F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5.
Reminds me of the nostalgic times waaay long time ago, when things were moving slow enough that you "learn" something and you're set for life.
Well, meet computer technology. You learn something today, which is obsolete tommorow and you have to learn again.
So whatever you learn, know you can't be either too right or too wrong, instead try to pick the common ideas and themes between all those languages/protocols/technologies, so you can make learning the next thing easier for you.
I think God or whatever intelligent creature that supposedly designed us would really be dissapointed by Christians and ID supporters as a whole. I mean, science advances, and religion folks are forced to look for holes in the modern theories and when something can't be yet explained, they shove God in there "see, you don't know why THIS happened, cuz this is GOD".
Trouble is, the places to "shove God" become smaller and smaller as time passes. This increases the tension between scientific research and religion institutions and results in sillyness as we saw this year.
"Intellegent design simply states that the state of life on Earth is far to complex to be attributed to a random process."
You know one definition of random could be a set of specific events and facts based on known nature laws, that put together create a result far too complex to analyse.
So we just call it random. From that point of view tha fact that life is far too complex and that's based on random events kind of fits together nicely.
Also, many ID supporters like to give other examples where what might be attributed to evolution is in fact intelligent design - like the development of computer technology over the past years. It might look like "evolution of computers" to some alien form excavating remains of PC-s hundreds of years from now, but we know we actually intelligently designed all those machines.
Where it breaks the analogy, is I suppose the part where we're supposed to erase all evidence of our existence here, abandon Earth, and then watch and punish any computer who tries to disagree with our existence. What a great way for intelligent beings to spend some quality time, eh.
Google has agreed to pretend to agree with Microsoft, and Microsoft has agreed to believe that.
We all now Kai-Fu is gonna do what he was hired for, never mind if his official position is to brew coffee in the Google Restaurant.
It's some group trying to pull bad Vista news out of its *ss.
Metadata makes search exponentially faster. So what they're saying is basically, "it's not as if this information is less protected now than before, but now it's just faster to find it".
Plus yea, it's not mandatory to tag your files in a "fast-to-find-by-folks-you-dont-want-to-find-it" way.
"I wouldn't call it better than 3dmax"
:)
:)
Ok so it's not better, it's just harder. Not exactly a plus
User friendliness matters a lot. 3D packages have complex interface by their nature - you can't just grab any of them and start making animated furry jungle animals straight out.
But with my few attempts of trying Blender I had tough luck even creating a sphere and moving and rotating it around.
When you're hit with such a steep learning curve, you can either give up a lot of your free time and learn it (which was harder-to-impossible at the time since there was no even a free manual, or good resources, not sure about now), or just give up on the software. Which is what I did.
But it's open source - it's not as if it has to be attractive enough to sustain a business or anything. So I suppose they could also attach fart noises to every button and call it unorthodox look at interface design
Good luck with it, it definitely has the features, maybe one day it'll have the interface.
Excuse me this is a video card.
Since when a $380 video card is targeted to budget users? Maybe poor CEO's on a budget, but I mean come on.
I've the feeling people overstimate the importance of a video card in the overall PC experience. I have a what should be crap of the crappiest, got few years ago for less than 40 bucks: GeForce 4 MX.
Yet, it runs Quake 3 smooth at 1280x1024, Doom 3 ok in 800x600 and HalfLife just fine in 1024x768 for playback.
Also the 2D performance virtually doesn't matter anymore on any of the new videocards, them all being "fast enough that you won't notice any difference".
I'd never spend $380 on a video card. Plus I bet this will be rebranded and sold in the TRUE budget range around 40-50 USD just 3 of years from now.
Actually two cores make better use of the first level cache, the CPU cycles and so on by having two hardware threads.
With one hardware thread when the CPU has to take something from RAM it just stops and waits for the data to come, sometimes hundreds of cycles doing nothing.
In this laptop, while one of the cores waits, the other makes effective use of the bus and cache, so less time is wasted.
As a matter of fact, dual core contributes for a better performance/watt in its own way.
Any multitasking OS benefits, and multithreaded apps benefit additionally (without changes).
Intel has many of the big OEMs in its grip with long term contracts and relationships.
You should've noticed that Dell started selling some AMD models recently. Also as you know AMD is in the process of suing Intel for malpractises of dumping, "special offer to drop AMD in favor of us" and other such bad ideas on the side of Intel, to make sure people don't flood to AMD.
Ok this means that the production version of OSXx86 has to be on those for them to be ready.
Let the hacking (to make it compatible with generic x86 machine) begin...
"Can anyone tell me applications of dual core for a on-the-go computer?"
Running any multitasking OS (such as Windows).
For those not picking the connection between this article and my comment above, I'll give a hint (but god knows I hate explaining my jokes /they're bad enough anyway/):
arnold schwarzenegger
"Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera"
What did Qwerty say to that?
You know I'm a big fan of the Terminator 2 and 3 movies. But as I'm replaying them recently, I find myself rooting for the bad liquid dude/chick more and more. What up with that?
"Today I woke up and started preparing for work as usual. Brushed my teeth, shaved, took a shower. But you could sense the tension in air. Today I'm filing patent violation suit against Microsoft.
During the years, we've had the chance to sue the hell out of a lot of companies for all sorts of patented ideas we came up while picking our noses, but this is my first big project.
Needless to say, I'm pretty nervous and excited to work with the legal department of such a big and popular company. I've met with them couple of times, and they appear to be a bunch of great guys, so I hope we'll do a great job together."