Slashdot continues to publish Promoted Stories, which could cause some serious outrage from users who feel that CmdrTaco is attempting to deceive them.
Anything thing that removes a selection pressure is going to increase the rate of evolution, not decrease it. By removing that pressure, you have reduced the punishment for a bad mutation. Therefore, any new mutations are more likely to be passed down, increasing the observed rate of genetic change.
Another shameless plug: I've got a thread going on here about what I've found - how to get a terminal, what packages are installed, keyboard shortcuts etc. Just a little bit more detail than what techcrunch and gdgt have been saying.
Perhaps the network is congested with traffic going to other continents travelling across the same networks as used for this experiment. Once the fiber is installed then this international traffic will be routed more efficiently to the outside world, lowering network congestion and allowing higher speeds to transfers between peers in SA.
Don't forget that the BIOS can act as a vector, and even that fairly exotic CPU rootkit that made the news a few months ago could be used. These are possibly lucrative targets - high enough up to get juicy information, and perhaps the malicious party imagined that they wouldn't be quite high enough up for them not to use the laptops.
Chromium does have flash support if you start it with --enable-plugins. It works pretty well, although admittedly I haven't tested the latest 4.0 builds or the x64 version.
I came here from my RSS feed purely to moan about this. Glad to see several beat me to it. Also, in what must be a Slashdot first, TFS has actually been corrected!
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VLC supports hardware acceleration on nVidia G80 and higher hardware using VDPAU on Linux. As soon as ATI releases a XvBA driver, hardware acceleration should be possible through VAAPI.
I posted a question yesterday about what was wrong with a simple program. No-one seemed to know so here's my attempt at writing that simple program. Feel free to tear my ideas to pieces. Hint: I am not a programmer.
MAIN:
print("Please enter your Voter ID")
scan, store as voterID
if (voterID == any value in array of legal voters)
then run the vote program
else {
print("Error")
go back to main }
VOTE:
print("Enter your choice of candidate")
scan, store as candidate
if (candidate == A) {
then record vote for candidate A
remove voterID from array of legal voters
exit }
elif (candidate == B) {
then record vote for candidate B++
remove voterID from array of legal voters
exit }
Bing is seriously a backronym for "Bing is not google"? Wow. Here I thought it was just one of the cheapest 4 letter domains they could buy... then they went and decided to "GNU" their name...
They didn't decide to do anything. A backronym can be constructed for anything.
A backronym is a reverse acronym, a phrase constructed after the fact to make an existing word or words into an acronym. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology.
I don't understand how voting machines can be so complicated that such gross errors occur. Surely it can't be much more than a glorified counting program that also keeps some sort of log about what it's done. I'm making the presumption that these programs are for some reason very complicated, and that's why errors like this are more frequent than they should be. Can anyone either explain why they're so complicated or give another reason why they seem to spew out so many errors?
(Aside from the witty "they're all programmed to vote for candidate X!" responses.)
I think the difference is that if an aeroplane is involved in an accident then, as appears to be the case here, all witnesses, both human and computer, are likely to be lost. In hospital theatres it's only going to be the person on the table who's likely to die, in which case you have an entire room of witnesses, plus any that were observing from a neighbouring room. Likewise, in a car accident witnesses are more likely to survive, both inside the vehicle and other drivers on the road. Material evidence (such as rubber on the road) is also much more likely to be recovered.
As for the privacy of the communications; that's obviously an issue. Perhaps all transmissions could be encrypted with a hash of the plane's tail number and a salt known only to the relevant authorities.
Have a look at here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchPad. It's supposedly running an ubuntu variant, so debian should be fine. In the recent video of it the narrator apologised for the loading times claiming that they were "on a 3G connection".
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Slashdot continues to publish Promoted Stories, which could cause some serious outrage from users who feel that CmdrTaco is attempting to deceive them.
Anything thing that removes a selection pressure is going to increase the rate of evolution, not decrease it. By removing that pressure, you have reduced the punishment for a bad mutation. Therefore, any new mutations are more likely to be passed down, increasing the observed rate of genetic change.
Another shameless plug: I've got a thread going on here about what I've found - how to get a terminal, what packages are installed, keyboard shortcuts etc. Just a little bit more detail than what techcrunch and gdgt have been saying.
Just check the sou..
Ah.
Perhaps the network is congested with traffic going to other continents travelling across the same networks as used for this experiment. Once the fiber is installed then this international traffic will be routed more efficiently to the outside world, lowering network congestion and allowing higher speeds to transfers between peers in SA.
I thought Ares died?
Don't forget that the BIOS can act as a vector, and even that fairly exotic CPU rootkit that made the news a few months ago could be used. These are possibly lucrative targets - high enough up to get juicy information, and perhaps the malicious party imagined that they wouldn't be quite high enough up for them not to use the laptops.
Chromium does have flash support if you start it with --enable-plugins. It works pretty well, although admittedly I haven't tested the latest 4.0 builds or the x64 version.
I'm one of only 3 people qualified at my level in Mid Wales
So you could say that you're the only plumber in the vil-lage.
I came here from my RSS feed purely to moan about this. Glad to see several beat me to it.
Also, in what must be a Slashdot first, TFS has actually been corrected!
Another case of life imitating Onion.
This thing can nuke itself from orbit?
Impressive.
VLC supports hardware acceleration on nVidia G80 and higher hardware using VDPAU on Linux. As soon as ATI releases a XvBA driver, hardware acceleration should be possible through VAAPI.
Mod parent up and grandparent down...
There were a hundred and twenty six of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road...
Luxury!
I posted a question yesterday about what was wrong with a simple program. No-one seemed to know so here's my attempt at writing that simple program. Feel free to tear my ideas to pieces. Hint: I am not a programmer.
MAIN:
print("Please enter your Voter ID")
scan, store as voterID
if (voterID == any value in array of legal voters)
then run the vote program
else {
print("Error")
go back to main }
VOTE:
print("Enter your choice of candidate")
scan, store as candidate
if (candidate == A) {
then record vote for candidate A
remove voterID from array of legal voters
exit }
elif (candidate == B) {
then record vote for candidate B++
remove voterID from array of legal voters
exit }
else {
print("Error")
go back to vote }
Bing is seriously a backronym for "Bing is not google"? Wow. Here I thought it was just one of the cheapest 4 letter domains they could buy... then they went and decided to "GNU" their name...
They didn't decide to do anything. A backronym can be constructed for anything.
A backronym is a reverse acronym, a phrase constructed after the fact to make an existing word or words into an acronym. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology.
I don't understand how voting machines can be so complicated that such gross errors occur. Surely it can't be much more than a glorified counting program that also keeps some sort of log about what it's done. I'm making the presumption that these programs are for some reason very complicated, and that's why errors like this are more frequent than they should be. Can anyone either explain why they're so complicated or give another reason why they seem to spew out so many errors?
(Aside from the witty "they're all programmed to vote for candidate X!" responses.)
Here's a link to a wikipedia section explaining what the summary means by "controlled nuclear explosion".
I think the difference is that if an aeroplane is involved in an accident then, as appears to be the case here, all witnesses, both human and computer, are likely to be lost. In hospital theatres it's only going to be the person on the table who's likely to die, in which case you have an entire room of witnesses, plus any that were observing from a neighbouring room. Likewise, in a car accident witnesses are more likely to survive, both inside the vehicle and other drivers on the road. Material evidence (such as rubber on the road) is also much more likely to be recovered.
As for the privacy of the communications; that's obviously an issue. Perhaps all transmissions could be encrypted with a hash of the plane's tail number and a salt known only to the relevant authorities.
Have a look at here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchPad.
It's supposedly running an ubuntu variant, so debian should be fine. In the recent video of it the narrator apologised for the loading times claiming that they were "on a 3G connection".
I think this is probably designed for people who don't need tech support. I'm hoping they do one better and let us put whatever we want on there.
Give us the address, we'll give his server so much traffic he'll be begging to give the domain away.
The problem is returning to the current state after it flips to the other one.
Damn you entropy!
So what happens when you SLI two of these badboys together?
The card supports quad-SLI, so I guess you just end up with 4 285s in SLI.