It's a good thing to give the customers more transparency in who they do business with, but I am concerned that this will reduce competition even further to price warfare. Quality, safety, environmental sustainability and the welfare of employees may take even more of a backseat than it already does.
Needless to say, this transparency is not the root cause or a bad thing. However, with shoppers caring more about price than anything else, it is vital to regulate industry and retail to ensure that companies do not rape their people and the environment to stay competitive.
You could probably resurface after a couple of years. Selective pressure would have turned what is left of humanity into ace pilots. (And very fast runners.)
The RepRap tries this approach, but it cannot manufacture all of its parts. Take into account that among those parts are circuit boards, motors and support struts that just wouldn't be structurally sound if made out of relatively soft plastic instead of metal.
I'm not yet convinced that complete self-replication is a relevant first goal. It will be impossible for a long time yet to produce every single part of a fabrication unit with another one of the same type, simply because fabricators are necessarily built of multiple materials (metal, plastic and silicon at the least) and can currently only work with a single material (plastic). Universal fabricators that can reproduce any complex design of any material sound like Technology Singularity stuff. Trying to approach this limit with a non-universal fabricator simply by limiting the number of non-reproducible parts may be possible, but I don't see how it will make it any easier to actually reach that limit.
Secret of the Oracle. The one with the infamous fish. Only actually finished it in 2008, for that matter (I first played it around 1994, but never finished until rediscovering it a long time later).
Go up against the powerful, and nothing on you remains out of the public eye.
However, there is a notable flaw in this tactic: It is completely irrelevant to the veracity of Wikileaks' documents whether Assange is a arrogant, horny, conceited, a chauvinist or even a rapist.
Okay, a second flaw: As dating profiles go, this is ridiculously non-scandalous. Calling himself "dangerous" or talking about working in a "male-dominated organization" is hard to twist into even circumstantial evidence of even fantasized rape. The rest suggests a desire for an intellectual and ideological equal. Pretty much the only character flaw one can pin on him from this is narcissism, and that's easy to develop when you grow up smarter than everyone around you and caring about stuff most people don't give a crap about. It's a common hacker trait.
That thing is a mess, and they're struggling to contain it even after decades. They should nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be--- oh, wait.
That happens when two diseases with the same symptoms are around long enough to get an established name before they are determined to have two different causes.
Slashdot Mirror
I hear the official South Korean position is that they will respond to any nuclear action by the DPRK with a zerg rush.
It's a good thing to give the customers more transparency in who they do business with, but I am concerned that this will reduce competition even further to price warfare. Quality, safety, environmental sustainability and the welfare of employees may take even more of a backseat than it already does.
Needless to say, this transparency is not the root cause or a bad thing. However, with shoppers caring more about price than anything else, it is vital to regulate industry and retail to ensure that companies do not rape their people and the environment to stay competitive.
Netcraft confirms it: Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux is Alive!
But public transport is COMMUNISM! :P
You could probably resurface after a couple of years. Selective pressure would have turned what is left of humanity into ace pilots. (And very fast runners.)
... that joke is a capital offense.
Sorry, I may have had a bad source then. There are several comments and pages claiming that the crypt() function used by the site generated LM hashes.
Ah? Are Americans actually all alliterate?
We can't put the broken part in the machine. It wouldn't smash the right tiny things together. Then the machine might break. That would be very sad.
The RepRap tries this approach, but it cannot manufacture all of its parts. Take into account that among those parts are circuit boards, motors and support struts that just wouldn't be structurally sound if made out of relatively soft plastic instead of metal.
I'm not yet convinced that complete self-replication is a relevant first goal. It will be impossible for a long time yet to produce every single part of a fabrication unit with another one of the same type, simply because fabricators are necessarily built of multiple materials (metal, plastic and silicon at the least) and can currently only work with a single material (plastic). Universal fabricators that can reproduce any complex design of any material sound like Technology Singularity stuff. Trying to approach this limit with a non-universal fabricator simply by limiting the number of non-reproducible parts may be possible, but I don't see how it will make it any easier to actually reach that limit.
It is relevant in the context of these crappy LM hashes also being used to store Gawker's passwords.
(And yes, that constitutes a major fuck-up.)
Oracle is absolutely and steadfastly committed to Open Source, as seen from their admirable interaction with the OpenOffice.org and Java communities.
High Risk of not being profitable. Not, you know, of destroying civilization as we know it and rendering the planet inhabitable for human life.
Wait, why would earning actual revenue be a requirement for a startup being worth investing millions in or paying billions for?
Now that's just silly!
Secret of the Oracle. The one with the infamous fish. Only actually finished it in 2008, for that matter (I first played it around 1994, but never finished until rediscovering it a long time later).
SWIM SWIM HUNGRY
Go up against the powerful, and nothing on you remains out of the public eye.
However, there is a notable flaw in this tactic: It is completely irrelevant to the veracity of Wikileaks' documents whether Assange is a arrogant, horny, conceited, a chauvinist or even a rapist.
Okay, a second flaw: As dating profiles go, this is ridiculously non-scandalous. Calling himself "dangerous" or talking about working in a "male-dominated organization" is hard to twist into even circumstantial evidence of even fantasized rape. The rest suggests a desire for an intellectual and ideological equal. Pretty much the only character flaw one can pin on him from this is narcissism, and that's easy to develop when you grow up smarter than everyone around you and caring about stuff most people don't give a crap about. It's a common hacker trait.
That thing is a mess, and they're struggling to contain it even after decades. They should nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be--- oh, wait.
I love the way both of these are modded Insightful rather than Funny. Just the fax.
December 21.
The sudden shut-down will lead to the spontaneous formation of a stable strangelet and, well, you know the rest.
Well, they do say "apiece", not "in pieces", so that's something. :P
Waht? Smcrbalnig is a pfretlecy surece epoitrcyn mhtoed for prdsoaswss!
They're always stealing or breaking our stuff, those jerks.
That happens when two diseases with the same symptoms are around long enough to get an established name before they are determined to have two different causes.
No kidding. DRM these days looks pathetic by comparison. :P
Free, in fact. How can you pass that up?