So, in a country governed by a surpressive regime which wishes to controll and monitor it citizen's as much as possible, a proprieatry closed system controlled by a centralised body is standard software rather than a free open system with an ideological emphasis on the freedoms of the users. Doesn't sound to surprising does it ? Now the real WTF is that the democratic world is using it as well...
It will fail as the DRM nonsense. Not just because of the usual reasons but this crap that tests the distance to the screen and other bullshit ill make the connector cables stupidly expensive, will probably mean you will have to pay a license to produce one ( I can't possibly see how that could be bad for adoption ) and then you will get a bunch of incompatible devices and users screaming for something else. In short, it will suck, it will be hated, and it will die. VGA has stayed around so long for a few simple reasons:
a)It is compatible b)It is good enough c)It works d)It doesn't cost a fortune
Nothing with DRM will be able to fullfill those criteria well enough to last.
You do know you can use aptitude on it ? Ubuntu uses.deb so if you dislike the default GUI you have quite a few alernative package managers at your disposal. I guess if you prefer rpm it is a different matter, but that is an rpm vs deb issue more than it is an issue with Ubuntu, and I think it is safe to say that that which is better of the two is at the very least debateable.
You sir are an idiot. Regardless of weather you take the measures you suggested or not, we will still need some number of powerplants, and some number of cars, and some number of airplanes. Now, here comes the bit that you seem to fail to grasp "no matter what number of cars we use, be there few or many, it is better if they are cleaner and more efficient". Say you managed to cut car use down by 50% using the measures you suggest, that still leaves the other 50%. Now you can either let those run the old ineficient and dirty solutions, or you can use new technology to cut CO2 emissions another 25%. Sure, maybe in todays society we are more likely to see a rise in car numbers, but in that case it is even more important that we strive to improve car technology to offset such a rise. Bottom line is, no matter how you look at it, improving fuel efficiency will greatly benefit the environment, and it is in no way mutually exclusive with reducing wasteful practises.
Slightly change the wording and you pretty much sum up what's wrong with society nowadays. Stagnation is a problem across the globe. When was the last revolution we had? The seventies? Berlin wall? Maybe i'm being cynical.
Does the internet count? Tor? Cryptographic software with plausible deniability? We're having plenty of revolutions. They are just not noticed by big media... Now THAT is a revolution.
You would prefer it if the authorities did not investigate matters and instead let the courts base their judgements on who can afford the most lawyers? Well, just for the record, this is how we do things over here...
1:Investigation 2:Seek warrants from a judge 3:The apropriate authorities goes to fetch evidence 4:Repeat 1-3 if necessary 5:Accusation 6:Due process in court 7:Verdict 8:Depending on 7, punishments might be applied.
I know step 1,2,4 and 6 are getting out of fashion some places, but they are still used in the EU (well, most of the time ).
"Claims that Open Source Software would be legally troublesome or low quality are completely unfounded. Plenty of large organisations are deeply ivolved with open source development and recognise its potential. As an example, even Microsoft, a company traditionally commited to the closed source model and a long standing sceptic of many open source projects, has recently started to use it for its own codebase and has launched open source initiatives of its own: . Althou the project has had some problems, some of whic were related to the inability of the closed portion of the software to interoperate with the open bit, the work proceeds and recent developments has lead some analysts to predict the company may consider using the same model for other projects as well."
Lets see them try to argue with that one... If they claim the article is accurate they will be promoting OSS. If they claim the project has problems they are admitting that yet another of their projects is a complete failure. If they try to claim the proprietary bit is doing well but the open bit is doing bad, they will piss off anyone participating which could easily lead to a good chunk of bad press. Lets help them shoot themselves in the foot.
Indeed. As part of my degree I did some suff on lasers, and simply put I am damn impressed they got something like that to work. The number of things that can go wrong preventing such a setup from working are overwhealming. As far as high-tech is concerned this is definately one of those things you could sort of imagine on paper but didn't expect in practice.
Are you sure it isn't in fact a follow-up to the THEL ? Also, iirc the THEL used deuterium to power its pumping, which could make it rather expensive. The breakthrough will be when they manage to get solid state lasers ( like Neodynium-YAG ) working like this. I imagine the Israelis will be quite interested in buying a few such devices.
How exactly is 1gb of RAM minimum and $money "the better product" if all you will do is to browse the web and write some e-mails ? Increased system requirements, extra cost,privacy issues,inferior security... Now, compare that to installing Xubuntu on the box. It is probably easier than removing all the craplets from your typical pre-loaded windows system as well...
-You dare to attack me here? Do you even know who you face?
-So godchild, you have escaped. -You're not going to torture us any longer. -Torture? Silly girl, you just don't understand what I'm doing, do you? -I don't care what you're doing, let us go. -I won't let you leave, not when I'm so close to unlocking your power. -We don't want anything from you!
-ENOUGH. I don't have the time to listen to the babbling of ignorant children. -This is an unsanctioned use of magical energy, all involved will be held, this disturbance is over.
-This mage's power is imense, we must overcome him quickly. -Your pathetic magic is uselss, let this end. -Even if we fall our numbers are many, you will be overwhealmed. -You bore me mageling. You may take me in but you will take the girl as well.. -No, I've done nothing wrong. -You've been involved in illegal use of magic, you will come with us. *LVL UP SOUND*
a) If it is your machine you could just as well use a PGP encrypoted text file. If the website in question is still vulnerable, then it is a problem with the website, and changing browser won't help you.
b) If it is not your machine, or if you think your machine is compromised, then you really shouldn't be typing your passwords in it to begin with.
Seriously, find a strong passphrase and store the damn password list as a PGP encyrpted file on a USB pen drive. Only decrypt it on machines you trust. If you still lose your password then you either typed it into a compromised machine ( meaning you're fucked anyway ), you were victim to a man in the middle attack ( meaning you're fucked anyway ) or there was a vulnerability on the server side ( meaning you're fucked anyway ).
Personally I don't trust a whole lot of websites to secure their own systems so I don't use my root or e-mail password for my facebook account...
I imagine ratings like these are mostly of interest to advertisers. Thanks to a little firefox plugin this means the ratings are even more skewed. Or maybe the two cancel one another since people reluctant to install Alexa is also the users likely to install ad-block, thus giving advertisers exactly what they want. It is effectively a number which says where naive fools that will opt in to stuff like this can be found... In either case slashdot need not care since page-views do not translate into ad's viewed anyway. Especially not among slashdot users. In particular, thou I guess slashdot has ad's ( there is a big white space at the top of this page ) I wonder how many slashdot readers actually see them.
The thing that worries me is that that is actually too stupid even for a parody, so I guess it might actually be real... Oh well, Einstein has a quote on that:
"The difference between genious and stupidity is that genious has its limits."
So...they don't know what the problem is, but they definitely know it will cost them $1.1B to fix? That makes perfect sense.
Lets say they have sold a million of them. Lets say that out of the first 100.000 X% came back defective. Since they don't know the problem, but strongly suspect it is a design flaw, they can only assume X% of the remaining ones will also come out defective. Multiply by number of units sold and the price by replacing each unit, and I would say that is a fairly good statistical estimate of what it will cost them.
...you have { efficient, small, affordable } pick 2. It is easy to make a breakthrough in one of them if you ignore the other two. It is somewhat harder to make a breakthrough in 2 while ignoring one, and any article that doesn't mention all 3 when talking about a breakthrough is almost certainly hype.
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So, in a country governed by a surpressive regime which wishes to controll and monitor it citizen's as much as possible, a proprieatry closed system controlled by a centralised body is standard software rather than a free open system with an ideological emphasis on the freedoms of the users. Doesn't sound to surprising does it ? Now the real WTF is that the democratic world is using it as well...
It will fail as the DRM nonsense. Not just because of the usual reasons but this crap that tests the distance to the screen and other bullshit ill make the connector cables stupidly expensive, will probably mean you will have to pay a license to produce one ( I can't possibly see how that could be bad for adoption ) and then you will get a bunch of incompatible devices and users screaming for something else. In short, it will suck, it will be hated, and it will die. VGA has stayed around so long for a few simple reasons:
a)It is compatible
b)It is good enough
c)It works
d)It doesn't cost a fortune
Nothing with DRM will be able to fullfill those criteria well enough to last.
You do know you can use aptitude on it ? Ubuntu uses .deb so if you dislike the default GUI you have quite a few alernative package managers at your disposal. I guess if you prefer rpm it is a different matter, but that is an rpm vs deb issue more than it is an issue with Ubuntu, and I think it is safe to say that that which is better of the two is at the very least debateable.
You sir are an idiot. Regardless of weather you take the measures you suggested or not, we will still need some number of powerplants, and some number of cars, and some number of airplanes. Now, here comes the bit that you seem to fail to grasp "no matter what number of cars we use, be there few or many, it is better if they are cleaner and more efficient". Say you managed to cut car use down by 50% using the measures you suggest, that still leaves the other 50%. Now you can either let those run the old ineficient and dirty solutions, or you can use new technology to cut CO2 emissions another 25%. Sure, maybe in todays society we are more likely to see a rise in car numbers, but in that case it is even more important that we strive to improve car technology to offset such a rise. Bottom line is, no matter how you look at it, improving fuel efficiency will greatly benefit the environment, and it is in no way mutually exclusive with reducing wasteful practises.
You would prefer it if the authorities did not investigate matters and instead let the courts base their judgements on who can afford the most lawyers? Well, just for the record, this is how we do things over here...
1:Investigation
2:Seek warrants from a judge
3:The apropriate authorities goes to fetch evidence
4:Repeat 1-3 if necessary
5:Accusation
6:Due process in court
7:Verdict
8:Depending on 7, punishments might be applied.
I know step 1,2,4 and 6 are getting out of fashion some places, but they are still used in the EU (well, most of the time ).
Ok Dell, well done. Just one minor detail... SHIP IT TO EUROPE! :'(
This is how to do it:
"Claims that Open Source Software would be legally troublesome or low quality are completely unfounded. Plenty of large organisations are deeply ivolved with open source development and recognise its potential. As an example, even Microsoft, a company traditionally commited to the closed source model and a long standing sceptic of many open source projects, has recently started to use it for its own codebase and has launched open source initiatives of its own: . Althou the project has had some problems, some of whic were related to the inability of the closed portion of the software to interoperate with the open bit, the work proceeds and recent developments has lead some analysts to predict the company may consider using the same model for other projects as well."
Lets see them try to argue with that one... If they claim the article is accurate they will be promoting OSS. If they claim the project has problems they are admitting that yet another of their projects is a complete failure. If they try to claim the proprietary bit is doing well but the open bit is doing bad, they will piss off anyone participating which could easily lead to a good chunk of bad press. Lets help them shoot themselves in the foot.
Indeed. As part of my degree I did some suff on lasers, and simply put I am damn impressed they got something like that to work. The number of things that can go wrong preventing such a setup from working are overwhealming. As far as high-tech is concerned this is definately one of those things you could sort of imagine on paper but didn't expect in practice.
Are you sure it isn't in fact a follow-up to the THEL ? Also, iirc the THEL used deuterium to power its pumping, which could make it rather expensive. The breakthrough will be when they manage to get solid state lasers ( like Neodynium-YAG ) working like this. I imagine the Israelis will be quite interested in buying a few such devices.
How exactly is 1gb of RAM minimum and $money "the better product" if all you will do is to browse the web and write some e-mails ? Increased system requirements, extra cost,privacy issues,inferior security... Now, compare that to installing Xubuntu on the box. It is probably easier than removing all the craplets from your typical pre-loaded windows system as well...
Nonsense...
:p
-You dare to attack me here? Do you even know who you face?
-So godchild, you have escaped.
-You're not going to torture us any longer.
-Torture? Silly girl, you just don't understand what I'm doing, do you?
-I don't care what you're doing, let us go.
-I won't let you leave, not when I'm so close to unlocking your power.
-We don't want anything from you!
-ENOUGH. I don't have the time to listen to the babbling of ignorant children.
-This is an unsanctioned use of magical energy, all involved will be held, this disturbance is over.
-This mage's power is imense, we must overcome him quickly.
-Your pathetic magic is uselss, let this end.
-Even if we fall our numbers are many, you will be overwhealmed.
-You bore me mageling. You may take me in but you will take the girl as well..
-No, I've done nothing wrong.
-You've been involved in illegal use of magic, you will come with us.
*LVL UP SOUND*
No no, I haven't played that too much, honest
a) If it is your machine you could just as well use a PGP encrypoted text file. If the website in question is still vulnerable, then it is a problem with the website, and changing browser won't help you.
b) If it is not your machine, or if you think your machine is compromised, then you really shouldn't be typing your passwords in it to begin with.
Seriously, find a strong passphrase and store the damn password list as a PGP encyrpted file on a USB pen drive. Only decrypt it on machines you trust. If you still lose your password then you either typed it into a compromised machine ( meaning you're fucked anyway ), you were victim to a man in the middle attack ( meaning you're fucked anyway ) or there was a vulnerability on the server side ( meaning you're fucked anyway ).
Personally I don't trust a whole lot of websites to secure their own systems so I don't use my root or e-mail password for my facebook account...
I imagine ratings like these are mostly of interest to advertisers. Thanks to a little firefox plugin this means the ratings are even more skewed. Or maybe the two cancel one another since people reluctant to install Alexa is also the users likely to install ad-block, thus giving advertisers exactly what they want. It is effectively a number which says where naive fools that will opt in to stuff like this can be found... In either case slashdot need not care since page-views do not translate into ad's viewed anyway. Especially not among slashdot users. In particular, thou I guess slashdot has ad's ( there is a big white space at the top of this page ) I wonder how many slashdot readers actually see them.
link?
They probably are collecting personal data and passing it on to the government, but this sure as hell isn't how they do it...
It's so the gentoo users can run a computer game with their media player running in the background as they wait for the compilation to finish. ; )
Because it will take another 5 years for windows 7 to reach maturity ?
We do have a drinking age limit in most EU countries. It is true that it is quite a bit lower than in the US thou.
There is enough stuff written before this madness started to last a lifetime. After that there is only another 60 years to go
Lets say they have sold a million of them. Lets say that out of the first 100.000 X% came back defective. Since they don't know the problem, but strongly suspect it is a design flaw, they can only assume X% of the remaining ones will also come out defective. Multiply by number of units sold and the price by replacing each unit, and I would say that is a fairly good statistical estimate of what it will cost them.
...you have { efficient, small, affordable } pick 2. It is easy to make a breakthrough in one of them if you ignore the other two. It is somewhat harder to make a breakthrough in 2 while ignoring one, and any article that doesn't mention all 3 when talking about a breakthrough is almost certainly hype.