Fellow HAM here (General license). As we both know, radio burn is a potential hazard with any frequency. We also both know that some frequencies (such as VHF frequencies) are more hazardous than others. So, the question isn't whether radio burn with Bluetooth (2.45 GHz) is a possibility - of course it is - but what exposure levels are safe. There's been precious little research on this topic, but the prevailing consensus seems to be that using a Bluetooth headset presents less of a cancer hazard than holding a cell phone against one's head. (See for example the American Cancer Society's guidance on cell phones). 73.
I agree with this assessment - and I think summit organizers made a mistake here. Linus isn't going to live forever, and if Linux is going to survive without him, the kernel maintainers need to learn to work without Linus.
Maybe next year he should just tell them, "I'm delegating decisions to these persons and taking a three week hiatus, have at."
If it's a Linux kernel, but not released under GPL v2, then that's a GPL violation. Google might be powerful enough to violate the GPL, but chances are they'd rather not bother, and would rather instead roll their own. That's not to say they might not borrow liberally from other open source projects, such as BSD.
I was about to say...my phone and tablet run Linux (Android), my Blu-Ray player runs Linux, my television, for some reason, runs Linux.....pretty much the only consumer space where Linux doesn't have a huge share, apparently, is the desktop.
Let's suppose (big if) that we can cram a program with bugs that are either highly unlikely to be exploitable, or provably not exploitable. How long would it take an attacker to learn to recognize a real bug from a manufactured bug, and filter out the probably-manufactured ones?
How long would it take to build a classifier to recognize and flag probably-manufactured bugs?
This might make more sense if we combined this technique with better means for closing exploitable, or probably exploitable, bugs. But man, color me skeptical.
Math might not care - but humans do math, and representation matters to the humans. More humans doing deep math means more and better discoveries, sooner.
Note that the electric vehicle market - led by Tesla Motors - has taken off in the wake of Trump's election. If (and this is a big if) one of the primary factors in this is consumer reaction against Trump's pro-fossil fuel policies, this could accelerate that trend, perhaps to the point where it starts to take a real bite out of the oil market.
To more directly answer your question: if we exclude students and other academic talent from American/Australian/UK universities - which have for decades been the best place for academics to find a home - on account of their country of origin, then those universities suffer. Eventually, those best minds go elsewhere, and in this case, it wouldn't have been Delhi, but some other place with a larger wealth of talent in a country with better immigration policies. And then those universities will attract the best talent instead - eventually to include the brightest minds from the US, Australia, UK. Afterwards, the tendency of persons not to want to move away from a good thing, will mean that those bright minds settle there and contribute to those economies and technologies.
In short, we would see a brain drain - out of the US/UK/AU - into CAN, DE, FR. This is already starting to happen in some fields.
Because: representation matters. There's only ever been one woman awarded a Fields Medal. Having a living woman Fields Medal winner would make a huge difference to other women studying mathematics.
Well, let's turn that around - if someone is going to be a genius somewhere, wouldn't you rather that they were a genius in your country, and teaching your country's students, so they can help develop your country's economy?
I think most people a greedy enough to want this. I would argue that this constitutes a form of enlightened self-interest. I would further argue that xenophobia gets in the way of this enlightened self-interest. One need only look at how Nazi anti-Jewish policies contributed to the United States developing atomic weapons as an example.
I'm rather disappointed that Professor Viazovska didn't take a medal this year. Her career is such that she's a prime candidate - her solutions to the sphere packing problem for S8 and S24 are remarkably simple and probably open up the question for more general Sn - and it would have been fitting after the stunning loss of Maryam Mirzakhani this last year to cancer. I hope Professor Viazovska gets the medal in 2022.
Because: anyone outsourcing to China has to deal with a Chinese state company; and, practically everyone, especially the current President of the United States, outsources to China. Therefore, banning Chinese state companies from doing business in the United States is a non-starter.
Amazon's two-day shipping has been pretty reliable for me. Then again, I live in a major metropolitan area. I suppose if I lived in the boonies it might be different.
Prescription drugs are a huge chunk of their business - and now Amazon is moving into that space. Other than that, they sell OTC products, photo services, and some knick-knacks. I'm not saying that Amazon is an existential threat to them, but...look at what happened to chain bookstores.
The Register suggests that other FS's can pick up the slack. Quoting:
When Lustre emerged in the year 2003 it had little competition for creation of large-scale filesystems. Nearly 15 years on and Red Hat offers Gluster, IBM’s Spectrum Scale (aka the GPFS General Parallel File System) and scale-out NFS can all do plenty of what made Lustre useful. HDFS has emerged, too, for big data workloads.
How long do you suppose it will be before someone gets the idea to require first world bloggers and podcasters to obtain a license, at prohibitive cost?
Presumably, Google means that they won't sell or license their proprietary code for weapons purposes. I'm not sure they can tell military contractors not to use their open source code to develop weapons, although that depends on the license. AFAIK GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT and Apache licenses all allow one to use such-licensed code for weapons development.
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Fellow HAM here (General license). As we both know, radio burn is a potential hazard with any frequency. We also both know that some frequencies (such as VHF frequencies) are more hazardous than others. So, the question isn't whether radio burn with Bluetooth (2.45 GHz) is a possibility - of course it is - but what exposure levels are safe. There's been precious little research on this topic, but the prevailing consensus seems to be that using a Bluetooth headset presents less of a cancer hazard than holding a cell phone against one's head. (See for example the American Cancer Society's guidance on cell phones). 73.
Hi AC. You're stating that Elive is based on Debian 7; can you tell us how we can validate this for ourselves? Much obliged.
...and go with Bluetooth instead. TBH I'm not sure that's a bad idea.
Intel is a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation - which, btw, doesn't just sponsor the Linux kernel, but a bunch of projects, similarly to the Apache Foundation. Does this satisfy?
I agree with this assessment - and I think summit organizers made a mistake here. Linus isn't going to live forever, and if Linux is going to survive without him, the kernel maintainers need to learn to work without Linus.
Maybe next year he should just tell them, "I'm delegating decisions to these persons and taking a three week hiatus, have at."
....if they can only get out of beta......
If it's a Linux kernel, but not released under GPL v2, then that's a GPL violation. Google might be powerful enough to violate the GPL, but chances are they'd rather not bother, and would rather instead roll their own. That's not to say they might not borrow liberally from other open source projects, such as BSD.
I was about to say...my phone and tablet run Linux (Android), my Blu-Ray player runs Linux, my television, for some reason, runs Linux.....pretty much the only consumer space where Linux doesn't have a huge share, apparently, is the desktop.
Okay. So question: why can't one use the web interface?
Let's suppose (big if) that we can cram a program with bugs that are either highly unlikely to be exploitable, or provably not exploitable. How long would it take an attacker to learn to recognize a real bug from a manufactured bug, and filter out the probably-manufactured ones?
How long would it take to build a classifier to recognize and flag probably-manufactured bugs?
This might make more sense if we combined this technique with better means for closing exploitable, or probably exploitable, bugs. But man, color me skeptical.
Math might not care - but humans do math, and representation matters to the humans. More humans doing deep math means more and better discoveries, sooner.
Note that the electric vehicle market - led by Tesla Motors - has taken off in the wake of Trump's election. If (and this is a big if) one of the primary factors in this is consumer reaction against Trump's pro-fossil fuel policies, this could accelerate that trend, perhaps to the point where it starts to take a real bite out of the oil market.
To more directly answer your question: if we exclude students and other academic talent from American/Australian/UK universities - which have for decades been the best place for academics to find a home - on account of their country of origin, then those universities suffer. Eventually, those best minds go elsewhere, and in this case, it wouldn't have been Delhi, but some other place with a larger wealth of talent in a country with better immigration policies. And then those universities will attract the best talent instead - eventually to include the brightest minds from the US, Australia, UK. Afterwards, the tendency of persons not to want to move away from a good thing, will mean that those bright minds settle there and contribute to those economies and technologies.
In short, we would see a brain drain - out of the US/UK/AU - into CAN, DE, FR. This is already starting to happen in some fields.
Because: representation matters. There's only ever been one woman awarded a Fields Medal. Having a living woman Fields Medal winner would make a huge difference to other women studying mathematics.
Well, let's turn that around - if someone is going to be a genius somewhere, wouldn't you rather that they were a genius in your country, and teaching your country's students, so they can help develop your country's economy? I think most people a greedy enough to want this. I would argue that this constitutes a form of enlightened self-interest. I would further argue that xenophobia gets in the way of this enlightened self-interest. One need only look at how Nazi anti-Jewish policies contributed to the United States developing atomic weapons as an example.
I'm rather disappointed that Professor Viazovska didn't take a medal this year. Her career is such that she's a prime candidate - her solutions to the sphere packing problem for S8 and S24 are remarkably simple and probably open up the question for more general Sn - and it would have been fitting after the stunning loss of Maryam Mirzakhani this last year to cancer. I hope Professor Viazovska gets the medal in 2022.
Indeed! And that doesn't count all the cryptological applications of higher math, either.
Because: anyone outsourcing to China has to deal with a Chinese state company; and, practically everyone, especially the current President of the United States, outsources to China. Therefore, banning Chinese state companies from doing business in the United States is a non-starter.
Amazon's two-day shipping has been pretty reliable for me. Then again, I live in a major metropolitan area. I suppose if I lived in the boonies it might be different.
Wait....minions come with an API?
This is GREAT NEWS!
Prescription drugs are a huge chunk of their business - and now Amazon is moving into that space. Other than that, they sell OTC products, photo services, and some knick-knacks. I'm not saying that Amazon is an existential threat to them, but...look at what happened to chain bookstores.
....we thought the Internet (sic) interpreted censorship as damage, and routed around it? My, how times have changed.
Source: Linux literally loses its Lustre – HPC filesystem ditched in new kernel. The Register, 18 Jun 2018 at 01:29
How long do you suppose it will be before someone gets the idea to require first world bloggers and podcasters to obtain a license, at prohibitive cost?
Presumably, Google means that they won't sell or license their proprietary code for weapons purposes. I'm not sure they can tell military contractors not to use their open source code to develop weapons, although that depends on the license. AFAIK GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT and Apache licenses all allow one to use such-licensed code for weapons development.