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Comment Re:You're a target (Score 1) 470

by horli (#34816380) Attached to: Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case?
But Email is decentraliced, FB is centralized. FB is in a position to know everything about you and your friends. Google does this with email, and that is why I don't use Gmail. It's the business model of Google and FB to know everything about you. I feel queasy.

Comment Re:Dead on. (Score 1) 470

by horli (#34816294) Attached to: Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case?
If my kid is deathly sick I would definitly not post this to a semic public place. I would not want that my parents would have shared such information in an insecure semi public place using a commercial data mining company. I never understood why parents post pictures of their childs on the net (semi) publically. If my baby pictures were googeable or FB searchable I would not be happy nowadays. This is private and should remain private. FB posting is not private, its business model is exploiting private data.

Comment Re:Vinyl (Score 1) 520

by horli (#34314758) Attached to: Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card?
Real live acustic is way to complex and poorly understood to measure and reproduce it accuratly. It's a matter of fact that no $xxxx gear sound hifi equipment can beat to sound of an A string on a real guitar. Just try.

Comment Re:Why do we attack google? (Score 1) 378

by horli (#34085842) Attached to: Is Google Polluting the Internet?
There is such a law in Germany. Your are not allowed to store personel data in Germany without requiring permission from the person to do so. It is also forbidden to take systemactically pictures of car license plates without a suspicion of an infrigment. Unenctryped WLAN is not a public broadcast and therefore there is no approval to store the ownser's personal data. Even if a door is not locked you are not allowed to rob the house.

Comment Re:Make the Egg so we can get the chicken. (Score 2, Informative) 232

by horli (#26479169) Attached to: PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis
Using processes or threads is an implementation detail and there is no difference in the fundamental logical problem of shared state and data.
Sure processes are better isolated, but the problem of time and concurrency stays.
This will always be a problem because it is a fundamental logical one, comming from mother nature.

SICP has an good examples of that problem: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-23.html#%25_sec_3.4

Functional programming may be an answer, but this answer is limited by mother nature.

Comment Re:Make the Egg so we can get the chicken. (Score 5, Informative) 232

by horli (#26471943) Attached to: PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis
Two fundamental points are missing:

4. There are computing-jobs that are inherently not parallel.

5. Parallel programming is hard not because of bad programming languages but because of the logical problems that come with shared state and parallelism.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-23.html#%25_idx_3598

Therefore multicores do not bring a substantial performance benefit. Futhermore because the problems are fundamental logical ones, there is no big hope.

Comment Re:Rail, no thanks (Score 2, Insightful) 897

by horli (#26239959) Attached to: Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails?
You forget that you have a power outlet and a table at each seat in the train. Therefore I can connect my notebook and work 6-8 hours instead of stupid driving. If I bring in those working hours in the equitation, car and plane has financially lost. While working, those 8 hours are going by that fast, I even don't realize them. Furthermore there is a nice dining car in the train with excellent food. (in Europe) Space and comfort is much more generous in the train than car or plane.
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Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON 108

Posted by timothy from the mama-with-a-heart-is-so-last-century dept.
OSCON isn't just a gathering for talks on topics like Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform and fightin' words from the stage; it's also an excuse for some interesting social gatherings, like this year's Community Choice awards (organized and sponsored by the corporate overlords at SourceForge, as you might recall, and with Slashdot's own special category), at which, among other festive activities, attendees were offered the chance to get open-source-related tattoos. There are shots of some of these up on the SourceForge Community pages, and — with some overlap — even more in this set at Flickr. (My pasty bicep^h^h^h^h^h shoulder is the one now adorned with a circled head of a happy Tux ala IBM; I was expecting it to hurt more than it actually did.) Anyone with techie tattoos, please disclose below.

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