If we improve childhood mortality rates, population *decreases*. The reason is that people want 2-3 kids to survive to have children themselves. If 1 in 6 children survives, you need to have 18 kids to do it. If 1 in 2 survive, you only need 4. That's a 60% improvement in mortality rate bringing eliminating 66.6% of the population.
A lot of the issue is that high bandwidth lines replace a *vast* number of low bandwidth ones. As a result you have far fewer places to put switches. If you had standby routers and lines that would work better, but the capital costs would be huge and the extra routing entries could murder some networks. Part of the reason the networks are so centralized now is to reduce routing complexity. If IPv6 was turned on(forget implemented, that's been done already in almost every OS) then we could have a lot more redundency.
Peer review isn't about the accuracy of the data. It's about how the data supports the conclusions and whether the paper is notable enough for the journal. Peer reviewers don't have the time and money to duplicate every experiment they review.
Increased CO2 emissions increase ocean acidity as the ocean is in chemical equilibrium with the air. Shelled organisms can't live above a critical pH. So CO2 emissions will cause mass extinction, even without feedback.
For Mac OS X debates Steve Jobs is the relevant person. You compare Microsoft to Steve Jobs's company. So when Microsoft had multiple user accounts in 1992, I point out that Steve was at NeXT in 1989 and they had a multiuser OS.
Stop drinking the free market Kool-aid. Free markets only work in ideal conditions, with no transaction costs, no externialities, full information, and localnonsatifiability. Heath care doesn't do that. You can be satified with being healthy. Being immunized decreases other people's chance of disease. And you need to spend money to drive to your doctor. He also needs to pay malpractice insurance. And as for redistributing income leading to economic problems, what the hell do I care about the economy when 15% of all american children are malnourished, while malnutrition is unheard of in Western Europe? How about the fact that the richest states are all democratic? It's the role of the economy to serve the people, not the other way around.
We already pay for our internet connections. So do websites. How exactly does that make the internet "free"? And people can send donations to Wikipedia if they want. Your argument is a thinly disgused false dicotomy between capitalism and soviet-style central planning. As for reimburusing content providers, that will just lead to a proliferation of domain squatting and search spaming sites. Just because I visit a site doesn't mean I want to support it.
If we don't know Achmed bin Terrorist is a terrorist we can verify his identity all we want and it won't help us stop his evil plans. If we are going to have a National ID card, let's have some honest debate, not fearmongering.
The third world has the majority of the human population and you begruge them a measly 1/3rd of the sustainable carbon buget while America, with 5% of the world population, emits 20% of all CO2? What about the fact that most enviromental damage happens as a result of 1st-world countries wanting 3rd world resourses? Does the International Decleration of Human Rights mean nothing to you? Are you seriously suggesting that we kill a huge number of people for the inequalities in the system that we imposed on them?
The thing about NAC's is they don't offer any real security. You can't tell the difference between a corrupted host emulating a good one and a good one. All open sourcing is is just a way to avoid leaving foo^W customers in the lurch.
We seem to have an unobtainum shortage at the moment. Now assuming we can make this gravity switch, we would need to do a detailed calculation to see what happens when we turn it back on. It is possible that a collison could lead to a disaster when gravity is reapplied. But I don't see to many difficulties with that after we obtain a gravity negation device.
That would be a Bad Thing. The reason we have DNS is so that server IP's can change. With the coming of IPv6, IP addresses would be tied to geography, so when your server moved, the search engine would lose track of your site.
Come on, are we seriously going to trust people because they can give us a url we can access? With IPv6, a lot more zombie machines are going to have publically accessable IPs which could host an Open ID server. How is Open ID going to prevent comment spam?
It's easy to find a buffer overflow by looking for strcpy calls with a debugger in a closed source program. It's a lot harder to fix them in a closed source program though, as you have no idea what to fix. The attacker doesn't need to understand the program to attack it, he just needs to understand a small part of it. The defender needs to understand all of it to patch it. Look at the CTSS bug involving a race condition and the system editor. The attacker just waited, and then he got the password file. Finding out what had happened was a lot harder.
I would like to point out that system libraries can contain coding errors themselves. One example is Apple's malloc(). It opened a file for debugging with the programs permissions, leading to a security hole in all setuid programs that need to allocate memory.source
You just hit the nail on the head as to a why software sucks. Managers want someone to blame when something goes wrong. They don't care about if it goes wrong.
Only the XBOX 360 uses Direct X. The Wii and PS3 both use OpenGL, which has no problems with taking advantage of new features while still working on old cards due to the requirement for a full implementation of a lot of things. Old cards do it in software, new ones in hardware.
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If we improve childhood mortality rates, population *decreases*. The reason is that people want 2-3 kids to survive to have children themselves. If 1 in 6 children survives, you need to have 18 kids to do it. If 1 in 2 survive, you only need 4. That's a 60% improvement in mortality rate bringing eliminating 66.6% of the population.
Doctors expect to be on call all the time. For them it's no big deal for the boss to say "We have an emergency, get here NOW!"
A lot of the issue is that high bandwidth lines replace a *vast* number of low bandwidth ones. As a result you have far fewer places to put switches. If you had standby routers and lines that would work better, but the capital costs would be huge and the extra routing entries could murder some networks. Part of the reason the networks are so centralized now is to reduce routing complexity. If IPv6 was turned on(forget implemented, that's been done already in almost every OS) then we could have a lot more redundency.
Peer review isn't about the accuracy of the data. It's about how the data supports the conclusions and whether the paper is notable enough for the journal. Peer reviewers don't have the time and money to duplicate every experiment they review.
Increased CO2 emissions increase ocean acidity as the ocean is in chemical equilibrium with the air. Shelled organisms can't live above a critical pH. So CO2 emissions will cause mass extinction, even without feedback.
For Mac OS X debates Steve Jobs is the relevant person. You compare Microsoft to Steve Jobs's company. So when Microsoft had multiple user accounts in 1992, I point out that Steve was at NeXT in 1989 and they had a multiuser OS.
Stop drinking the free market Kool-aid. Free markets only work in ideal conditions, with no transaction costs, no externialities, full information, and localnonsatifiability. Heath care doesn't do that. You can be satified with being healthy. Being immunized decreases other people's chance of disease. And you need to spend money to drive to your doctor. He also needs to pay malpractice insurance. And as for redistributing income leading to economic problems, what the hell do I care about the economy when 15% of all american children are malnourished, while malnutrition is unheard of in Western Europe? How about the fact that the richest states are all democratic? It's the role of the economy to serve the people, not the other way around.
We already pay for our internet connections. So do websites. How exactly does that make the internet "free"? And people can send donations to Wikipedia if they want. Your argument is a thinly disgused false dicotomy between capitalism and soviet-style central planning. As for reimburusing content providers, that will just lead to a proliferation of domain squatting and search spaming sites. Just because I visit a site doesn't mean I want to support it.
Aspie+PhD seems to work out well. The only issue is when they misinterpret mission control commands.
CAD is universial. But with a different meaning
VM's are just too slow. More likely is the use of a pure capability system like the OLPC security system or EROS.
If we don't know Achmed bin Terrorist is a terrorist we can verify his identity all we want and it won't help us stop his evil plans. If we are going to have a National ID card, let's have some honest debate, not fearmongering.
The third world has the majority of the human population and you begruge them a measly 1/3rd of the sustainable carbon buget while America, with 5% of the world population, emits 20% of all CO2? What about the fact that most enviromental damage happens as a result of 1st-world countries wanting 3rd world resourses? Does the International Decleration of Human Rights mean nothing to you? Are you seriously suggesting that we kill a huge number of people for the inequalities in the system that we imposed on them?
The thing about NAC's is they don't offer any real security. You can't tell the difference between a corrupted host emulating a good one and a good one. All open sourcing is is just a way to avoid leaving foo^W customers in the lurch.
So why didn't EROS catch on? It had a trusted window manager that could provide similar restrictions.
The bill leaves it up to Gonzales as to what ISP's must retain.
You can make a streamable Bittorrent-style protocol by priotizing the download of packets in a window infront of the play head.
We seem to have an unobtainum shortage at the moment. Now assuming we can make this gravity switch, we would need to do a detailed calculation to see what happens when we turn it back on. It is possible that a collison could lead to a disaster when gravity is reapplied. But I don't see to many difficulties with that after we obtain a gravity negation device.
That would be a Bad Thing. The reason we have DNS is so that server IP's can change. With the coming of IPv6, IP addresses would be tied to geography, so when your server moved, the search engine would lose track of your site.
Come on, are we seriously going to trust people because they can give us a url we can access? With IPv6, a lot more zombie machines are going to have publically accessable IPs which could host an Open ID server. How is Open ID going to prevent comment spam?
It's called the goverment. It makes laws and can fight companies for you. People control it in most places.
It's easy to find a buffer overflow by looking for strcpy calls with a debugger in a closed source program. It's a lot harder to fix them in a closed source program though, as you have no idea what to fix. The attacker doesn't need to understand the program to attack it, he just needs to understand a small part of it. The defender needs to understand all of it to patch it. Look at the CTSS bug involving a race condition and the system editor. The attacker just waited, and then he got the password file. Finding out what had happened was a lot harder.
I would like to point out that system libraries can contain coding errors themselves. One example is Apple's malloc(). It opened a file for debugging with the programs permissions, leading to a security hole in all setuid programs that need to allocate memory.source
You just hit the nail on the head as to a why software sucks. Managers want someone to blame when something goes wrong. They don't care about if it goes wrong.
Only the XBOX 360 uses Direct X. The Wii and PS3 both use OpenGL, which has no problems with taking advantage of new features while still working on old cards due to the requirement for a full implementation of a lot of things. Old cards do it in software, new ones in hardware.