If so, the name choice was brilliant (regardless of whether the project itself is.) Thanks for the info.

Also: Wikipedia suggests that the 'D' in "Système D" can stand for "démerde" :)

OK, so people had to implement this blocking, right?

And it had to have been more than one person, right?

How many individuals would have to have been active and knowingly involved in order to implement such blocking?

From that number, how long until someone straight-up comes out and says they did it and exactly how they did it? You know, instead of having to rely on this external third-party reverse engineering.

I've always been fascinated when software makes dramatic enhancements to the capabilities of existing hardware and data. Like a few years ago there was the release of the TLD algorithm which suddenly turned my old webcam into an futuristic object recognition/tracking device!

What I wonder is, when these software enhancements are made, does hardware usually evolve to converge with the software? Meaning, in this example, if the software is using a new method for processing point data, does that not mean the hardware could be made to collect point data in a way more conducive to this new method?

And is this kind of progress a common thing? Is it common or rare this leapfrog progressive dance of hardware and software?

As someone who was out there in the gulf documenting the effects of the spill, I'm disappointed that there is no actual details or data or maps indicating where actually the oil is located? Where are the details?

Anyone know of such a service that supports the rsync protocol (either over ssh or any other rsync-friendly transport). If so - bandwidth limitations don't suck so bad; since you'd be typically just streaming incremental changes.

Hasn't the world only gotten better as intelligence has increased? What is the ratio of negative vs. positive effects of AI so far? Artificial intelligence is intelligence. As an exercise of intelligence, remove "Artificial" from his statements and reevaluate his assertions.

Elon is rich and got there by being controlling: That which may not be controllable terrifies those. No value judgement there, that's just how it is.

I mean, do we even control our own intelligence or does it control us?

Don't have Windows here. Would be nice if they had a firmware patch that could run on Linux.

I love how Zune has now become a word for Microsoft screwing a partner.

https://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/...

Whenver a speed camera gives a ticket it sucks money out of a community (sharing with arizona or wherever the company is that runs most of them).

Yet the camera marketing companies keep spinning them as ways to provide money to cities.

In reality, that only works for the rare city where most drivers are from out of town.

Remember how "off-site backups" were important back before the cloud?

I think the best of both worlds is to have the live system in the cloud, but have on site backups of all those systems.

That way if/when the cloud dies, you can still have access to all your data.

Thank you for making that distinction.

I liked using Ruby before ever seeing Rails, and have a moderate dislike for Rails.

I wish people would stop judging Ruby for one IMHO awkward and bloated framework.

To be fair, upstart doesn't have anywhere near the level of "kitchen sink" insanity that is systemd.

I hope yes for bug fixes. Less excited about "features". I'm not sure I want them adding "features" like Google Play and random to help their data business.

Does that mean they think they're allowed to hack whatever banks and stock markets they want in foreign countries?

If so - imagine how effectively they might go after financial crimes.

Or is this just for when the FBI wants to overlap with the DEA on wars on drugs?