walter_bishop

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by walter_bishop 10y ago
> Ubuntu 16.04 on my modern workstation gets progressively slower with each systemd update I hadn't noticed a noticeable slowdown on my Ubuntu 16.04. I wouldn't even know about the controversy except people keep mentioning it.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
> Usually the chain includes the Islamic Middle East ... Until the Islamic world turned its back on Neoplaton thought under the guidance of theologian Al-Ghazali in the 11th century.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"How does the brain produce conscious experience? How can neurons firing give rise to experiences of colour, sound, taste, pain and so on? In principle, scientists could map my brain processes in complete detail but, it seems, they cou
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Doesn't work here on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
“For the cases where computers are not well protected in the hands of end-users who are not IT professionals, and who do not have any recourse to IT professional help, we need to design systems that proactively protect them”, Konstantin Rya
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Such 'hacker-proof code' can only be as secure as the underlying hardware. If such a cure already existed, we wouldn't be subjected to the current hacking/phishing epidemic. "these malfunctions could be as simple as
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
I see, that comment was totally unnecessary ..
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
sctb: you should allow these comment, they don't offend anyone, as far as I am concerned its all water off a splatyrhynchos back :) > Dude what's your problem? I can't comment on the pictures? Look at the thread, plenty of
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Beginning in version 47, Firefox desktop also supports the Google Widevine CDM" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"It’s ironic that the people who are most likely to doubt or deny the existence of consciousness (on the ground that everything is physical, and that consciousness can’t possibly be physical)" We don't doubt that consciousnes
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
> why wouldn't the humans question that premise They do, every so often some do wake up, that's why the agents have to hunt them down before they contaminate the rest of the matrix (whole crops were destroyed), or failing that
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Slartibartfast: "Science has achieved some wonderful things of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." Arthur: "And are you?" Slartibartfast: "No. That's where it all falls down of course.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
> I'm not sure why they changed the script to turn the people into rechargeable batteries instead of CPUs .. You're only partly correct. The battery story was told to the humans to blind them from the truth, which would have be
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
How does Microsoft tweaking the OS to make Edge use the battery more efficiently translate to industry-leading efficiency? A more reliable test would be to compare browsers on another Operating System.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Has anyone actually tried to implement Ranums ideas?