I don't get it. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking for a good Google substitute, and the number of skeptics will just grow, unless Google gets it privacy protection act together. It's just a matter of time that another AOL-type leak happens.
In the internet age, companies' luck can change quite quickly. Please Google, just get rid of those logs quickly and completely..
Q: I'm worried about security and have a choice of package managers. What package manager should I use?
A: It depends on your situation. If you are using a distribution like RedHat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise that support HTTPS and do not have mirrors run by outside organizations, then you are most likely safe from the attacks described here.
If you use a distribution that does not have these features, we strongly recommend using a package manager that signs the repository metadata and supports HTTPS. Of the package managers we examined, APT-RPM, Stork, and YaST have this support by default and APT has an optional package to support HTTPS.
The basic idea is that people should govern themselves. If you give them a hard and fast rule, some types of people will see how close they can get to that rule without breaking it. Not a good way to live a christian life. Well, if I'd give 10% of my income away as tithes, I'd demand some pretty damn good governing for that kinda money, with bells and whistles!
Yep, in absolute terms space exploration costs average American about 50 dollars per year. In Europe, dividing ESA:s budget of 2.9 billion by the population would make it only about 8 per head,or about 12 dollars.
I personally think that only the entertainment value of space exploration is a rationale enough. Just following the Mars rover landing and the (failed) ESA Beagle lander couple of years back was easily worth a couple of movie ticket prices.
If you have, you will know how brilliant idea the normal mousetrap actually is. It's ridiculously cheap and efficient, and has practically remained the same for almost 100 years. Here is a link to the pantent:
56 % of Europeans can have a conversation in 1 foreign language
28 % with 2 foreign languages
11 % with 3 or more foreign languages
Clearly, there are lots of benefits from knowing another language in Europe, and it's probably also a status symbol to some extent. For a college educated European being able to speak 2 foreign languages is a norm. This is what I've always loved about in Europe - an endless supply of true cosmopolitans.
For both US and the UK, the education sector is a big source of revenue. It could be interpreted as a service, that is traded internationally. There is simply lots of demand for English language education in the world, and the English speaking countries are in the best position to supply.
The reason they study computer science, sciences, engineering and so forth is that they get a highly transferable skill.
The wrong conclusion that too many are ready to draw is that US citizen are dumb and lazy and don't want to do anything hard. I would imagine that the absolute numbers of US citizens getting computer science PhD has remained fairly constant or even increased. Perhaps someone can prove me wrong..
Not all 43 million batteries need replacing, dimwits! Only a small batch manufactured by Matsushita. You need your battery's serial number to check whether it belongs to that particular batch, mine didn't. If it doesn't, _IT WILL NOT BE REPLACED_.
Firstly, the article has nothing about "human genetic diversity". It's about ancient UK population having larger haplotype diversity than the many modern European populations.
There could be a few reasons to this. Anglo-Saxons came to England around 550AD. Also Romans had settled the island. Later also Vikings came. These plus the local population already implies quite a lot of diversity.
Since then some lineages have been more successful, that's it. Actually, this could be considered supporting evidence for D. Gregory Clark's hypothesis that upper classes have been replacing the lower ones during middle ages in England, as reported by Slashdot yesterday, see http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/0 7/2221256
Imagine we'd have two type of people: those who have 5% chance of accident and those with 0% chance. It would be unfair to make the risk-free people pay for the insurance, because they don't need the service. Just like I don't need, say a private jet, I shouldn't be forced to buy it.
Lets move on. Imagine we'd have two type of people: those who have 5% chance of accident and those with 1% chance. It would be unfair to make the 1% group purchase more insurance than they wish to have. Yes, insurance can be bought in quantities, just like gasoline, and your demand may vary depending on your car's mileage.
So I think yes, insurance companies should be able to price-discriminate according to risk levels. Caring for the weak is not the job of the companies, but the job of the society. Unfortunately, in a privately run health care system such as in the US, this is a shitty situation if you have a serious condition, and can't get an insurance. Public health care systems are considerably better if you care for the weakest in the society.
Wife: "Where the hell are all the files I downloaded??!! I need those files now!!"
Me: "In the Shitcan."
Wife: "What a fucking Shitcan?"
Me: "There, on the desktop - a folder called Shitcan. All your files are there."
Me: "How many times do I have to tell you that I don't want the desktop full of files. Once a week the desktop is full of some bloody downloaded files!"
>You've got it all backwards - a typical techie thing to do. People don't look for solutions to problems unless the problems are hurting them.
Sorry I really don't want to flame, but that reminded me of the British attitude to housing - single glazed windows so it's freezing in winter and no air-conditioning - impossible to work in summer. My experience with the UK is that nothing is fixed until it REALLY needs to be fixed, and "polishing" & "finalising" things is out of the question - waste of time..
I still love British culture - it's vary laid back and individualistic. But perhaps too laid back for Linux.
Agreed. I've now lived 6 years in the UK and none of my friends here use Linux - and I'm in a top University!
In my home country I ended up trying Linux because many of my friends had tried it. So Brits, please get your act together!
If you have BRAINS, you have a comparative advantage in protesting in the Internet:
1 - The potential upper ceiling of visibility is practically unlimited. Protesting on street will expose your message to a few hundred people, out of which most don't really care a bit. Yes you can jam the traffic but it could work against you.
2 - If you have imagination, you can make a catchy/naughty/funny protest video, and make it big quickly - It will be dugg, it will be on dozens of blogs, and evetually get thousands of viewings, all due to ONE person's imagination and some hours of work.
Doing that will not make you a geeky couch potato, you just use your own means the best way. You would have achieved a lot less by going to a demo and standing in a rain with a piece of cardboard.
The price of DRAM maybe crashing, but they expect the launch of vista to increase demand:
Others see a brighter outlook. ''We're going into a season that is soft,'' said Bill Lauer, director of marketing at Micron Technology Inc., in a recent interview. ''The good news is that Vista was launched. That bodes well for the memory market. Demand is going to be strong in the second half.''
So the prices are probably going to keep high. Output quantities can't adjust too quickly to the extent that returns to scale start kicking in..
1. Those that people can generally spell
2. Those that people generally can't spell
3. Those that are nearly impossible to spell correctly
4. Fridrich Niezche
At what point does our loathing of Microsoft and our support of OSS equate to a massive economic loss to our own nation? At what point do American supporters of OSS achieve a shot to their own shared national foot?
Eeh? What makes you think slashdotters ("us" as you refer them) are Americans? I've never known any Americans who read Slashdot.
By the way, do you include Belize and Calapagos Islands to your concept of America?
Slashdot Mirror
So Dubya would have just one big button on the desktop with text "INTERNETS"?
I don't get it. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking for a good Google substitute, and the number of skeptics will just grow, unless Google gets it privacy protection act together. It's just a matter of time that another AOL-type leak happens.
In the internet age, companies' luck can change quite quickly. Please Google, just get rid of those logs quickly and completely..
FTA:
Q: I'm worried about security and have a choice of package managers. What package manager should I use?
A: It depends on your situation. If you are using a distribution like RedHat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise that support HTTPS and do not have mirrors run by outside organizations, then you are most likely safe from the attacks described here.
If you use a distribution that does not have these features, we strongly recommend using a package manager that signs the repository metadata and supports HTTPS. Of the package managers we examined, APT-RPM, Stork, and YaST have this support by default and APT has an optional package to support HTTPS.
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/460/1201116421097ig4.jpg
Yep, in absolute terms space exploration costs average American about 50 dollars per year. In Europe, dividing ESA:s budget of 2.9 billion by the population would make it only about 8 per head,or about 12 dollars.
I personally think that only the entertainment value of space exploration is a rationale enough. Just following the Mars rover landing and the (failed) ESA Beagle lander couple of years back was easily worth a couple of movie ticket prices.
Have you ever tried to catch mice?
If you have, you will know how brilliant idea the normal mousetrap actually is. It's ridiculously cheap and efficient, and has practically remained the same for almost 100 years. Here is a link to the pantent:
http://inventors.about.com/od/weirdmuseums/ig/History-of-Mousetraps/James-Doubt---Mousetrap-Patent.htm
Eurobarometer survey on language skills makes interesting reading:
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf
56 % of Europeans can have a conversation in 1 foreign language
28 % with 2 foreign languages
11 % with 3 or more foreign languages
Clearly, there are lots of benefits from knowing another language in Europe, and it's probably also a status symbol to some extent. For a college educated European being able to speak 2 foreign languages is a norm. This is what I've always loved about in Europe - an endless supply of true cosmopolitans.
For both US and the UK, the education sector is a big source of revenue. It could be interpreted as a service, that is traded internationally. There is simply lots of demand for English language education in the world, and the English speaking countries are in the best position to supply.
The reason they study computer science, sciences, engineering and so forth is that they get a highly transferable skill.
The wrong conclusion that too many are ready to draw is that US citizen are dumb and lazy and don't want to do anything hard. I would imagine that the absolute numbers of US citizens getting computer science PhD has remained fairly constant or even increased. Perhaps someone can prove me wrong..
Not all 43 million batteries need replacing, dimwits! Only a small batch manufactured by Matsushita. You need your battery's serial number to check whether it belongs to that particular batch, mine didn't. If it doesn't, _IT WILL NOT BE REPLACED_.
I don't care if it were free. I don't want The Central Brain(TM) to scan my files.
Firstly, the article has nothing about "human genetic diversity". It's about ancient UK population having larger haplotype diversity than the many modern European populations.
0 7/2221256
There could be a few reasons to this. Anglo-Saxons came to England around 550AD. Also Romans had settled the island. Later also Vikings came. These plus the local population already implies quite a lot of diversity.
Since then some lineages have been more successful, that's it. Actually, this could be considered supporting evidence for D. Gregory Clark's hypothesis that upper classes have been replacing the lower ones during middle ages in England, as reported by Slashdot yesterday, see http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/
From Dell Ubuntu Page:
"The main thing to note is that when you choose open source you don't get a Windows® operating system."
Aaahh, so that's what this Ubuntu thing is all about..
Imagine we'd have two type of people: those who have 5% chance of accident and those with 0% chance. It would be unfair to make the risk-free people pay for the insurance, because they don't need the service. Just like I don't need, say a private jet, I shouldn't be forced to buy it.
Lets move on. Imagine we'd have two type of people: those who have 5% chance of accident and those with 1% chance. It would be unfair to make the 1% group purchase more insurance than they wish to have. Yes, insurance can be bought in quantities, just like gasoline, and your demand may vary depending on your car's mileage.
So I think yes, insurance companies should be able to price-discriminate according to risk levels. Caring for the weak is not the job of the companies, but the job of the society. Unfortunately, in a privately run health care system such as in the US, this is a shitty situation if you have a serious condition, and can't get an insurance. Public health care systems are considerably better if you care for the weakest in the society.
Wife: "Where the hell are all the files I downloaded??!! I need those files now!!"
Me: "In the Shitcan."
Wife: "What a fucking Shitcan?"
Me: "There, on the desktop - a folder called Shitcan. All your files are there."
Me: "How many times do I have to tell you that I don't want the desktop full of files. Once a week the desktop is full of some bloody downloaded files!"
>> So Brits, please get your act together!
>You've got it all backwards - a typical techie thing to do. People don't look for solutions to problems unless the problems are hurting them.
Sorry I really don't want to flame, but that reminded me of the British attitude to housing - single glazed windows so it's freezing in winter and no air-conditioning - impossible to work in summer. My experience with the UK is that nothing is fixed until it REALLY needs to be fixed, and "polishing" & "finalising" things is out of the question - waste of time..
I still love British culture - it's vary laid back and individualistic. But perhaps too laid back for Linux.
Agreed. I've now lived 6 years in the UK and none of my friends here use Linux - and I'm in a top University!
In my home country I ended up trying Linux because many of my friends had tried it. So Brits, please get your act together!
And once they get to internet, guess what Nigerians search for on Google? Check what country comes on top:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=united+states
http://www.google.com/trends?q=united+kingdom
http://www.google.com/trends?q=germany
If you have BRAINS, you have a comparative advantage in protesting in the Internet:
1 - The potential upper ceiling of visibility is practically unlimited. Protesting on street will expose your message to a few hundred people, out of which most don't really care a bit. Yes you can jam the traffic but it could work against you.
2 - If you have imagination, you can make a catchy/naughty/funny protest video, and make it big quickly - It will be dugg, it will be on dozens of blogs, and evetually get thousands of viewings, all due to ONE person's imagination and some hours of work.
Doing that will not make you a geeky couch potato, you just use your own means the best way. You would have achieved a lot less by going to a demo and standing in a rain with a piece of cardboard.
The price of DRAM maybe crashing, but they expect the launch of vista to increase demand:
Others see a brighter outlook. ''We're going into a season that is soft,'' said Bill Lauer, director of marketing at Micron Technology Inc., in a recent interview. ''The good news is that Vista was launched. That bodes well for the memory market. Demand is going to be strong in the second half.''
So the prices are probably going to keep high. Output quantities can't adjust too quickly to the extent that returns to scale start kicking in..
Right, I have 512Mb, I need to buy 3.5 Gb, that's about £245 in UK prices, or about $460. Another number to add on the price of Vista upgrade..
"or in the spirit of Frederick Neitzche."
Yeah, names can be categorized to 4 groups:
1. Those that people can generally spell
2. Those that people generally can't spell
3. Those that are nearly impossible to spell correctly
4. Fridrich Niezche
At what point does our loathing of Microsoft and our support of OSS equate to a massive economic loss to our own nation? At what point do American supporters of OSS achieve a shot to their own shared national foot?
Eeh? What makes you think slashdotters ("us" as you refer them) are Americans? I've never known any Americans who read Slashdot.
By the way, do you include Belize and Calapagos Islands to your concept of America?
If you feel you need to let some steam out, you should sign up for 'The Kill Everyone Project' http://homokaasu.org/killeveryone/
Psst, Plan9 is the word. Pass around.. http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/