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Is that a mac??Yeah, he is a corporate whore, like the rest of them, isn't he?
/troll-nosh (August 31, 2012, 08:20 AM)
Reminds me of Fight-club's dialogue it was something like - "people spend their life working and ending up buying things they don't need"."working jobs we hate so we can buy sh!t we don't need"-mahesh2k (August 31, 2012, 10:11 AM)
^How about walled gardens for the users and closed ecosystems for developers for starters? Just the thing to destroy any real innovation.Mainly the walled gardens. I don't like how Microsoft has started copying crApple with Win8... while I don't think Secure Boot is necessarily a bad thing, I don't like how it's being implemented, and especially not when Microsoft is also starting a (cr)AppStore.-40hz (August 31, 2012, 08:09 AM)
Now why do you want to have Linux on the desktop with all the other choices available?Because the other choices are, for various reasons, getting increasingly less appealing.-Tuxman (August 31, 2012, 03:11 AM)
And perhaps it's best if we let it rest here.Amen.-40hz (August 30, 2012, 11:47 PM)
As for delusion, unfortunately Richard Dawkins at the end of his life will discover to his eternal horror how deluded he really was.Goddamn, you religious people are so full of yourselves >_<
The same comment applies to those who believe similarly.
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Again, I'm referring only to the Bible.
There is no other divinely inspired book.-NigelH
There's no FF15 yet. They're still at XIV.You're a moron if you claim Firefox could be confused with Final Fantasy when you've got the context that a thread about a webbrowser gives.-Tuxman (August 30, 2012, 06:03 AM)
edit: I like the other big change in Fx15 though.Eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww, it's all germy!-Tuxman (August 30, 2012, 03:04 AM)
I'm wondering if I could start an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to buy napalm and a stealth bomber.Hm, what's that sound from the sky?-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 04:40 AM)
Small surprise in that Apple is based in CA, that lovely State that brought so many great ideas and unique outlooks to the American experience.There's a Marilyn Manson song that explains that ^_^-40hz (August 29, 2012, 02:01 PM)
(Please don't ask me what I consider to be the the most dangerous books ever written.There's two of them, isn't there? (Perhaps three, if you consider the first book to consist of and old and a new part).)
-40hz (August 29, 2012, 11:03 AM)
I expect Mr. Rutherford has a text editing software that automatically can vary a bunch of phrases - otherwise merely $20 (6,000/300) for a review really is too cheap, I think....There's (unfortunately) some pretty sophisticated software around for doing that, abusing AI and NLP. If I had my way, SEO fscktards would be publicly tortured, they're ruining the interwebs.-Curt (August 28, 2012, 04:47 PM)
You could try disabling the hardware BIOS discovery feature by selecting the "OS is plug&play aware" option in the BIOS settings if there is one. That sometimes prevents that problem from occurring since P&P discovery won't take place until after Windows loads.That should only affect stuff like IRQ assignments and device initialization, and not affect boot order, though.-40hz (August 28, 2012, 10:11 AM)
)This reminds me of why I am wary of dual boot set-ups. Someone could write a Windows virus to attack your Linux system files, or a Linux virus to attack your Windows system files. In either case any normal antivirus software would not be running.It has been done, but pretty much just a proof of concept thing. Doesn't really make sense for a normal piece of malware, since the gains are extremely small and the code complexity quite a bit higher.
Not sure if that exists in real life, either.-daddydave (August 24, 2012, 02:01 PM)
The usable lifespan of a broken disk is short enough, adding in the complexity and disk access to get the drive mounted might make it tougher to get anything off.Do what you always ought to do with a failing disk: make an image and salvage from that. It's less stressful to do a linear read from the beginning to the end rather than copying individual files that are likely to be scattered all over the disk...-x16wda (August 24, 2012, 07:34 PM)
With just a bit more study, red wine will solve all of our energy problems and allow us to live forever.Sounds good to me
Well if Office 365 is any indication.. MS will probably start doing the monthly rent a game thing.Start doing? Ever heard of World Of Warcrack?-Cloq (August 23, 2012, 07:25 PM)
But my concerns would be related to storage and handling, and exactly how tolerant is it of things like radiation and heat.Yep - and though you do extreme redundancy because of the data density, you'd need to be able to compare a lot of copies in order to determine the correct bits... and the article mentions that both reading and writing is (currently) slower than normal media. You'd also want to store data at multiple sites, and then you have the classical problem of link speed between those sites - now just with insanely larger data collections-SeraphimLabs (August 22, 2012, 03:52 PM)
Besides, even if they do invent a radically new computing technology with calculation power greater than anything we've ever considered, someone will almost instantly develop a whole new encryption scheme that takes advantage of that power to generate it and in the process makes it again time consuming to crack.Will they? And will they be able to design something that can run, securely, on a regular non-quantum computing device? I expect there's going to be a nice long gap where government agencies and (decreasingly) sophisticated/wealthy nasty attackers will have access to quantum computing devices, whereas it'll take far longer before everybody and their dog has. Just how many of our current public/private-key encryption schemes don't depend on factoring numbers? What do we currently have, or know of mathematically, that is resistant to the currently known quantum-computing attacks?-SeraphimLabs (August 22, 2012, 11:56 AM)
Even if it means going back to the centuries old technique of actually scrambling the documents, or using a template to decode it.Document encryption (using symmetric ciphers) isn't the biggest worry here, it's the prospect of (all?) our existing asymmetric public/private key schemes going bunk... without those, no SSH, no SSL, no lots-of-other-stuff.-SeraphimLabs (August 22, 2012, 11:56 AM)