Slashdot Mirror


User: SlOrbA

SlOrbA's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
31
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 31

  1. ..climate for three and a half decades.. on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I surely hope that the data is representing more than 35 years for temperature variation. We can have a hybris and think everything is man made if we only look things in the scope of single human lifetime. I bet in the 1850's they believed that all the coal burning was the reason for the mini ice age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. One true science is unscientific on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 1

    Science articles are at best n-1 dimensional projections of n dimensional objects.

  3. Pulling the site's comments back on line on Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Is the some way to get the comments of nokiaplanb.com back on line? The site was hosted by GoDaddy and I would presume it would have to been bought for 1 month. So why did it vanish?

  4. The adaptation of IPv6 will free IPv4 addresses on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I predict that 2012 we will still have available IPv4 addresses.

    This will happen because some IPv4 addresses will be reallocated as client-side doesn't need IPv4 addresses in IPv6 to access IPv4 resources. So IPv6 adaptation it self will slow the need to migrate to IPv6 as singular Internet Protocol.

  5. You are now moving into production environment on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1
    Make sure that all the things she uses work.

    I think the easiest way to make friction is, if just-works thinks aren't working:
    • printer: because cups on NSLU2 died
    • web-sites open slowly: because browser tries to use IPv6
    • a-must-have browser plugin is not working: because it's not IE or Firefox was just updated
    • TV doesn't work: because the Dreambox is a testbed for new OSD pet-project
    • laptop doesn't have internet: routers NAT is dying under the P2P connections or you liked to isolate wlan to different vlan and the routing did come up in last reboot.
    • etc.
  6. So Google wants to be in China on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Many times it is hard to see why we need development, when we already have invented all the things in the world.

    Luckily IPv4 address space has been allocated unfairly for Asia and Africa so they will have the first IPv6 users and most of the IPv6 experts. I believe that IPv6 makes Internet somewhat born again. Because it brings back some of the we all peers way of networking that was the main drive for internet development in the early 90's.

  7. Re:The list on Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? · · Score: 1

    > If you work for any of these companies, please contact management and ask them to explain themselves. Ok, will do, but I don't think I'll reporting back here ;)

  8. Re:Ironically on The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bandwidth isn't issue in the Northern Europe.

    Americans have cheap petrol and Scandinavians have cheap bandwidth.

  9. Re:Don't trust any bank that relies on credentials on IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Man ..

    It's all software .. It's all software.

  10. Re:Are End Users to Blame for OS Flaws? on Are End Users to Blame for OS Flaws? · · Score: 1

    Same answer totally different reason. Modern Operating Systems aren't designed to be used and customized by ignorant users, but they are marketed as being easy to learn and comprehend. It's easy to make good solid OS for every user, but that is not the way computer is build. It's the model of embedded designing and computer is always the product of trial and error evolution.

  11. Re:Trade Wars on Microsoft Responds to EU With Another Question · · Score: 1

    Your notion of government saying what software you should run is not seeing the forest for the trees. By not splitting the Microsoft into slices the US government is balancing between number of choices in home market and offshore hegemony of computer software. The US government is saying that _you_ don't (need to) have a choice between the platforms from which the fruits of information society are served.

    In the industrial era US companies didn't need to sustain the homeland hegemony to prosper internationally, but in information technology you need consistent control of your market places or you'll slip into multi-company standard groups like the 3GPP.

  12. Re:Trade Wars on Microsoft Responds to EU With Another Question · · Score: 1

    That is too narrow minded comment!

    We are talking about the biggest common market in the world. Naturally hardware manufacturers would start selling the hardware with alternative software bundles.

    In developing countries the piracy comes from the fact that there is no market sell _new_ hardware with _new_ software bundled. There on the other hand is a notion that grass is greener on the developed countries and they are using _new_ hardware bundled _new_ software over there.

  13. Re:Virtualization in the OS? on VMware-Microsoft Battle Looming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it isn't in the Operating System it can't be embedded into the Windows and so MicroSoft can't kill other implementations.

    Actually in x86 platforms Virtualisation should be at least on the OS because if there is no virtualisation initialisation the system can be exposed to a virualisation enabled malware.

  14. Re:More a Problem for Linux than Mac Boxes? on Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax · · Score: 1

    The pricing hits linux users most.

    Actually there is no hit.

    Linux users vendors usually pay the M$ tax or they them selfs are entitled to the OEM license (x86 platforms).

    As with Mac's boot camp Linux users have for ages been able to do dual boot installation and it's actually very interesting if M$ wants to limit the running of a dual boot installed windows over a Hypervizor.

  15. MESH .. Yes, please! on First Look At Final OLPC Design · · Score: 1

    I really really like the mesh networking.

    There is no way that Phone or Network hardware companies can make it happen. There is no question about the future being mesh, but the issue is when.

  16. Nice front but what about the backend? on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    I'll been using GnuCash for a year and a half and so far I have been really satisfied with the GUI. Although I'm using it for my own personal accounting I'd really like to use MySQL as a backend storage and be able to access and manipulate my accounting data from various GnuCash installations.

  17. You can't be pervasive without Windows support on BBC Signs 'Memo of Understanding' With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Most of the problems with Microsoft compatibility comes from Microsoft insisting on "invented here" frame of mind. If this ends up as a non-Microsoft owned, but Microsoft backed video content management framework, it will most likely be better than the alternative of Microsoft pushing solely on with it's own ideas and goals.

    The BBC has taken pretty mature way on establishing it's view on being a internet content provider. There are many examples where the notion of the net is been seen as a desktop extension. This means that the only thing being asked by the wannabe internet broadcaster's decision-maker's is "Will it play well on my laptop?".

  18. Re:Liberalism on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 1

    EU on the other hand is a hopeless ideologically void pile of byrocracy that needs a thorough overhaul.

    I feel that the notion of idealogical void on EU's part is a miss judgement.

    When ever EU members reach concensus on something they have trough EU's bureaucracy the tools to act on it. I like Ian M. Banks's Culture concept of power and government. EU has a way of being a vapor that condenses on surfaces when surfaces being issues and the condensed liquid being solutions. The American way of being is more like a plasma that's only means of interaction and internal regulation are trough blasts, bangs and discharges.

  19. Liberalism on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In Civilization IV's Civilopedia there is a Benjamin Franklin quotation on article about Liberalism.

    "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both"

    In this context the society is not the State but the airport. Do people feel more secure on security control when a person before them is pointed out because of critisim about the system or are they going to be looking around for the lion in the bushes.

  20. Re:Mini on Sexy Intel Computer Design Worth Big Bucks · · Score: 1

    I too.

    The idea of useing USB or similar as a backbone is intriguing. I Don't mind if there is going to be a shift towards Entertainment systems modular structures.

  21. Re:"Researcher" was stupid on Judge Refuses To Convict Hacker · · Score: 1

    And how do you think Security Firms open up their sales pitch?

    Nobody in this case has indicated that there were "or else" incentives used in request for unprecontracted compencation.

  22. Holism is good for the usability on OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More · · Score: 1

    I think this is great not in the short time, but in the long run.

    What realy is needed is non segmented office suite that has pervasive applicability, pervasive supportability, zero initial investment for single user and free extendability. In fact we need a Eclipse equivalent of a office suite.

  23. Re:Private Business Cards on Selling Other People's Identities · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be question of privacy!

    It should be question of copyright and the copyright holder should be the creator of this information. This copyright concept means that individual record is actualy owned by the respected individual.

  24. Re:Banned in the EU on Selling Other People's Identities · · Score: 2, Informative

    The European way to handle personal information is via ownership establishment.

    In EU the personal information is owned by the respective person and anyone how is copying personal information without the consent of the owners to that information is pirating the information. The only execption to this is the official records regulated by individual laws i.e. criminal records.

    This fact is also the corner stone of the ruling which forbids the handing of personal information of travelers to US officials, because in US there is legal respect of this ownership.

  25. Re:Ever? on DRM Hole Sets Patch Speed Record For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

    The Quickest Patch Ever that I know is the 2.6.8 to 2.6.8.1 patch which was released 5 hours and 10 minutes after the affected version's release.