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Not sure if this will get to you or not, but could you please let me know how that turns out? I'm a college frosh thinking about buying it cause I'm getting Carpal Tunnel symptoms. gschwart@uci.edu Thanks.

Wasn't it done by Super Kamiokande experiment back in 1998? (presence of mass is equivalent to the presense of mixing in current theory)

UC Irvine's HCI group is called CORPS:
Computers, ORganizations, Policy and Society
its at:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~corps/

As the name suggests, it is more of social sciences group, than a computer science group (as stated by the author above).

However, it got disbanded or is being disbanded now, or atleast it has very less emphasis now because the ir graduating students were just not getting jobs and the faculty were not getting funding.

This was also due to the fact that most of the graduate students were from social sciences etc. Many of them could not even do anything beyond using Word, let alone do programming.

Anyway, no body is sad to see that group crumble - we all felt they were a bunch of fluffballs who belonged in the social science department - I don't think HCI should be part of computer science.

The "right" system design language is currently a heated discussion in the chip design community. A design language based on a mainstream software language (like JHDL on Java, or SystemC on C++) means that each of us already has the compiler installed to run a simulation. Proposals made on proprietary syntaxes (like SpecC, Rosetta , Superlog , Esterel, ECL ) mean that you have to set up a new environment off the beaten path.
On the other hand, in chip design a language is used to express a model. In a proprietary language, the compiler errors will related directly to that model (like 'port not connected'), while with a mainstream software language you will see C++ or Java errors that might have nothing to do with a modeling error. So the answer to your question would be: if you are a hardware newbie, stick to an environment that supports you: VHDL, Verilog, or one of the new ones. If you like software engineering, go for C++ or Java.

My UUID (which is from an actual DCE implementation, which is where Microsoft got this idea) does not contain a MAC address, the last field is the IP of the machine where it was generated, plus two more unknown bytes.

When did this change? The spec I found here doesn't mention using IPs at all.

Also, how come they're calling them GUIDs instead of UUIDs? Doesn't matter much I guess, but I like the sound of it. "Ah, bad UUID."

Impresses users too, they think "juju-ID".

These parts?

I'll second the recommendation of ACE. In addition to ACE, The ACE ORB (TAO), Zen, their real-time ORB, and Jaws, An Application Framework for High Performance Web Systems, are all worth a look. This stuff has been around for quite some time and has been ported to nearly every compiler-platform imaginable.

...I found this line in the original proposal: "These constraints lead to a strawman design consisting of 81 strings 125 m apart, arranged on a square 9×9 grid. Each string holds 60 optical modules separated by 16 m."

There are good graphics showing how they'll be arranged, and explanation of how this design will facilitate ~1 resolution in muon trail reconstructions. Impressive!

I also found elsewhere that faint Cherenkov radiation can travel more than 24 meters through deep Antarctic ice before being completely attenuated. So that question is answered.

2) Read newsgroups related to sysadmining. This is the single most important recommendation, IMO.

3) Attend sysadmin conferences

4) Programming classes are useful, but optional. You can become an advanced sysadmin in some places just by knowing how to interpret truss/strace/trace/par output. If you can also write glue code in C, /bin/sh, and python, you're in really good shape.

5) Get a box you can yank on really hard without upsetting anyone. Do your evil experiments there, not on production machines. If you want to admin linux, get a linux box. If you want to admin sun, get a sun, even if it's kind of low-end, as long as it'll run a current release of solaris.

6) I have a rather large collection of intro links here.

7) A four year degree helps, but you wouldn't necessarily have to make it computer related. One of our better admins here has a poli sci degree. With this degree, he showed he could jump through hoops, which is the most important thing a degree does for you, IMO. Then again, I went for an MS in CS, and I haven't regretted it, despite its not being all that directly applicable.

If you want something heavy on strategy, minus the explosions and dudes keeling over with bullet holes, try the aeons-old board game called go. There are computer opponents for *ix which are good enough to challenge a beginner, and there are clients for go servers that'll give you access to some astonishingly good human opponents as well.

It's incredible how a game with such simple rules can have so many layers of deep strategy. It actually uses a rating system just like what you see used by students of karate, to help give people well-matched games.

I've had many friends who had to leave the major because they couldn't cope with the coding demands. Now imagine if they were allowed to work in a team- a lot of them surely would have still been in the major, perhaps damaging their entire lives.

We do have a few labs that are meant to be done with partners and it is my opinion that they are quite adequate as teach you team-work and more importantly, how to factor in complete idiots in your team. :-)

The idea of colliding beam fusion reactors is not new. In the early 70's Bogden Maglich came of with the idea of using a self-colliding ion beam architecture (based upon his precetron accelerator design which he created to study pion-antipion collisions in the 60's) to trigger aneutronic fusion without the plasma containment instability problems inherent in magnetic confinement fusion reactor designs. The results of his experiments over the years have been very promising, but he has had a great deal of difficulty getting funding for his research since his approach is so far outside of the "orthodox" mainstream fusion being conducted as Princeton and elsewhere. The uninformed also unfortunately tend to lump him in with crackpots such as Cold Fusion researchers and perpetual motion engine designers (and the "free energy" crackpots like to make him out to be one of their own), despite the fact that most experts in the fusion research field acknowledge that his science is sound.

For more info, here are a few links to get started. There was also an interesting article about him in Omni back in the 80's, but I don't recall the issue.

• Letter to The Scientist Magazine from B. Maglich
• The Scientist - "Letter: And Migmatron Facts"
• Phys. Rev. Letters:"Magnetic Fusion with High Energy Self-Colliding Ion Beams"

When this came out in 1997 it sounded (again) as if smallish, clean power plants were "just around the corner"... but I haven't heard anything much more from it since!

Check out the original article I read and its accompanying diagram.

Or go to the scientists' web site, which hasn't been updated since 1997!

And these aren't crackpots either... they're professors at UC Irvine, Los Alamos National Labs, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory!

Oh well, I still have high hopes for fusion, but I also have low expectations...

Dolphin Smalltalk has a plugin as well. However, like Dolphin Smalltalk itself, it is Win32 only.

One of the bigger, more business oriented Smalltalks, VisualWorks, also has a plugin. It looks like it too is Win32 only, but VisualWorks itself is cross-platform, and runs on Windows, Mac OS, and a big number of Unices.

The coolest plug-in for a language I've ever seen has got to be Oberon's Juice, by far. Unlike the Java and Squeak VM plug-ins, which take bytecode for their respective VMs, the Juice plugin takes pre-parsed Oberon code and compiles and executes it on the fly. This makes for really fast applets. I tried it a while back and it took a heckuva lot less time for Juice to download, compile, and execute the applet than it took for a comparitive Java applet to start up. Really cool stuff. However, it seems it's not been maintained in a while, and is Windows and Mac only. Seeing how Oberon itself has source available (IIRC), I'm sure that some Oberon enthusiast who wanted to get a generized Unix version going of Juice could do so.

My personal pick is Go. It's Soooo deep.

You can get go client software for just about any common platform, some are in java too. So you can play on servers against other humans, and you can play against AI programs (which most people can beat easily after playing a few years because go is just too deep for a computer to play well - despite a $1 million reward for a truly good go AI).

There have been studies on the effects of go on the brain. Apparently it has developmental benefits in children similar to studying music. It supposedly also helps with dementia.

Real men play Core Wars and learn assembly. This does beat learning Java in Prof. Thronton's ICS 22 class tho. :-)

Ohhhh, me so goatse!
Ohhhh, me so goatse!
Ohhhh, me so goatse!
me troll you long, long time!

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All models are real goats, not like that other link

100% free goat pr0n, no annoying popup windows

goats and llamas

Are you depraved enough to click on the links? Are ya punk?!!

"ok, so I'm lying. At least it't not goat related."

Freakin' holier-than-thou meta-troll!

Just to bring this thread on topic:

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All models are real goats, not like that other link

100% free goat pr0n, no annoying popup windows

• Opera
• Konqueror
• Mozilla
• Galeon
• Skipstone
• Netscape

The article did not review a number of browsers. Here are a some more that you may want to try:

• Arena
• Amaya
• Chimera
• MMM
• Emacs/W3
• Lynx (text based)
• Links (text based)
• Debris (text based)
• w3m (text based)
• Libwww (text/line based)
• HowJava
• Express
• Armadillo (was Gzilla)
• Mnemonic
• Kde (file manager with builtin browser)
• mMosaic
• QtMozilla
• QWeb
• Mosaic
• Arachne
• Beest
• Beonex
• BrowseX
• Grail
• Dillo
• NetRaider

And how the disclaimers: The list above by no means complete. The browers above were listed in j-random order. Some browsers are in early alpha stage, some in Beta and others are in full release. Some of the browsers may suck, some are OK and some are good. Your mileage may vary. Sorry If I left out your favorite browser. IE was left off the list for obvious reasons. Good while supply lasts or until Bill Gates takes over. I'm not a member of the FCIA. Void where cast as (void).

A friend of mine who lived in my dorm here was a really big sitcom-episode-trader kind of person. Simpsons, Seinfeld, Titus, Family Guy, etc. He was running some form of Gnutella clone, and he somehow managed to exceed 87 gb uploaded in one month. The network folks sent him an email kindly asking him to quit it... and he taped it to his door, with the big numbers circled. =)

The more inappropriate aspect of this response is that it adopts the language of property rights with respect to copyright and patents - the view that monopolies in information are somehow natural, god given things.

This is a deeply problematic view of copyright and patent law, one which was explicity ruled out in various common law jurisdictions by virtue of Donaldson v. Becket (1774) and the US Constitution.

A more reasonable and modern approach is to regard IP laws as economic instruments which must balance the public interest in incentives with the public interest in widespread distribution. The Free Software movement (and the more general anti-IP sentiment on the internet) is a result of the fact that technology has shifted this balance - the public interest dictates that copyright and patent laws ought to be weaker, to utilise the distributional possibilities of the net. In this context, IBM's actions can be seen to be more unethical and inconsistent.

Of course, expecting the average copyright lawyer, let alone IBM marketing, to acknowledge this, is rather unrealisitic. :)

BTW, for further reading, see RMS' artcile Re-evaluating copyright: the public must prevail, William Fisher's Theories of Intellectual Property, or A Philosophy of Intellectual Property by Peter Drahos.

While you're accurately describing the situation today, it need not stay this way. There are some very interesting projects, out in academia, which might address this very important issue.

Take a look at "slim binaries" and "Dynamic Code Reoptimizers" here for a starting point.

The interesting aspect to this, from a social and economic perspective, is that it is projects like this which could reduce the benefit of any existing monopolistic position on the desktop. Given this, I'm somewhat saddened that these ideas haven't been picked up by companies like SUN or communities like Linux. Perhaps this really isn't ready for 'prime time', but cash and interest from SUN could go a long way to aiding this work.

Intel would also gain from this. As you've pointed out, software tends to be optimized towards the least common denominator of hardware. That eliminates much of the advantage of newer architectures. Techniques such as these would increase the incentive for hardware upgrades, as existing softwares' performance would be immediately improved.

one page among many. UC Irvine is pretty agressive about Art and Technology. I became aware of this when they hired Antoinette LaFarge.

"On June 5, 1998, the Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced discovery of evidence for neutrino mass at the Neutrino '98 conference, held in Takayama, Japan."

The evidence is pretty anecdotal, but each person's internal map of pecking orders and trust networks seems to grow not much beyond that size. You and I can track coolness factors for about 150 of our closest friends, no more.

This is not entirely true. I know that this has been the result of some experiment in social psychology, but there is enough evidence that the sizes of individual ego networks may vary greatly, often beyond those 150 heads. These results have been problematic mainly due to the environmental settings their test persons were subject to, i.e. their role within Western culture. However, if you look at the ego network of someone really prominent within one's society (a famous scholar, a politician etc., someone who knows and has to communicate with lots of people independently and intensively), you'll find that they are often larger. I know of no historical examples where there are scientific surveys, but one is currently in preparation about an Arabic scholar in 18th century Egypt who had intensive scholarly contacts all over Northern Africa, Arabia and most of Asia, and his ego network comprised of well over one thousand individuals.

Of course, this does not invalidate your idea.

Personally, I find the idea to have something like a permanent trend database collected from what individual users considered "cool" at a given time rather fascinating. It allows for some really interesting social analyses, for example whether coolness trends originate from individuals who are in the position of "hubs" in a social network or rather from individuals more to the edge and so on.

However, the proposal definitely has the problem of anonymity. When individual user's trends are trackable, individual anonymity can no longer be guaranteed; effectively, DoubleClick already does quite a lot of what you want the trend database to do! I doubt whether just anonymizing the data will solve this fairly basic problem; social networks are very often harder or even impossible to reconstruct when the data is fully anonymized (because it is much harder to reconstruct who interacts with whom), and partial anonymization is practically equivalent to no anonymization at all, because when you speak of "User A" instead of "Joe User", but keep track of his taste, his age, gender and so on, as well as his social interaction within the observed framework, you may just as well keep the name because it would be rather easy to correlate the data with external material and thus recover the individual's identity.

And just to give the crowd some material regarding social networks, here are some social network-related links:

• The Oracle of Bacon - play and delve into the network of Hollywood actors (i.e. who acted with whom)
• Visualizing Social Networks - paper by Linton S. Freeman, social network scientist, that explains some of the theory, with applications
• Freeman's personal homepage, with links and papers - no, I'm not associated with him in any way :-)
• The International Network for Social Network Analysis - scientific association with fairly self-referential name, with links

The evidence is pretty anecdotal, but each person's internal map of pecking orders and trust networks seems to grow not much beyond that size. You and I can track coolness factors for about 150 of our closest friends, no more.

This is not entirely true. I know that this has been the result of some experiment in social psychology, but there is enough evidence that the sizes of individual ego networks may vary greatly, often beyond those 150 heads. These results have been problematic mainly due to the environmental settings their test persons were subject to, i.e. their role within Western culture. However, if you look at the ego network of someone really prominent within one's society (a famous scholar, a politician etc., someone who knows and has to communicate with lots of people independently and intensively), you'll find that they are often larger. I know of no historical examples where there are scientific surveys, but one is currently in preparation about an Arabic scholar in 18th century Egypt who had intensive scholarly contacts all over Northern Africa, Arabia and most of Asia, and his ego network comprised of well over one thousand individuals.

Of course, this does not invalidate your idea.

Personally, I find the idea to have something like a permanent trend database collected from what individual users considered "cool" at a given time rather fascinating. It allows for some really interesting social analyses, for example whether coolness trends originate from individuals who are in the position of "hubs" in a social network or rather from individuals more to the edge and so on.

However, the proposal definitely has the problem of anonymity. When individual user's trends are trackable, individual anonymity can no longer be guaranteed; effectively, DoubleClick already does quite a lot of what you want the trend database to do! I doubt whether just anonymizing the data will solve this fairly basic problem; social networks are very often harder or even impossible to reconstruct when the data is fully anonymized (because it is much harder to reconstruct who interacts with whom), and partial anonymization is practically equivalent to no anonymization at all, because when you speak of "User A" instead of "Joe User", but keep track of his taste, his age, gender and so on, as well as his social interaction within the observed framework, you may just as well keep the name because it would be rather easy to correlate the data with external material and thus recover the individual's identity.

And just to give the crowd some material regarding social networks, here are some social network-related links:

• The Oracle of Bacon - play and delve into the network of Hollywood actors (i.e. who acted with whom)
• Visualizing Social Networks - paper by Linton S. Freeman, social network scientist, that explains some of the theory, with applications
• Freeman's personal homepage, with links and papers - no, I'm not associated with him in any way :-)
• The International Network for Social Network Analysis - scientific association with fairly self-referential name, with links

So the neutrino was the last of the leptons and quarks for which there was not experimental evidence. Now what?

Good history (although the translation from French is kind of amusing) here

and this background info is a little better (also, there is more yellow on the page :)
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/neutrino.html

• http://www.chem.uci.edu/education/undergrad_pgm/ap plets/bounce/demon.htm
• http://www.maxwellian.demon.co.uk/name.html
• http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/Weird/no de1.html

Check those out, and if that's not enough, just do a search for "maxwell's demon" or a similar phrase.

Max, in America, it's customary to drive on the right.

We've already had a similar service at UC Irvine since last year. By summer of this year, it will become campus wide .. check it out at http://www.nacs.uci.edu/ucinet/mobile/

Pyrite is not a Palm port of Python but a framework for synching desktop apps with Palm apps using Python.

The guys behind the current port had, however, released an alpha version of this about a year ago, IIRC, before they went with the Endeavors firm.

"Instead they keep upgrading the standards and thats whats causing these problems."

Bzzzzzzt ... no, but thanks for playing. Try this - go read the HTML2.0 specification and then try to find a site that implements it WITHOUT using anything after it (HTML4, CSS, etc.). The standards are upgraded (very slowly, I might add) because there's a crying need for easier and better ways to present rich content to people over the web.

The problem is that browser manufacturers have spent the last few years vying for market control without keeping the good of the web as a whole in mind. Cascading Style Sheets has been a W3C recommendation for over 4 years (December 1996) and as yet no browser supports it 100% (although the newer ones are very close, and quite usable).

question: is control controlled by its need to control?
answer: yes

list of open source projects and benchmarks is at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sumitg/CadPages.html#Bench

people are beginning to use C or variants of C (see http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~specc)
for hardware design and simulation.

synthesis tool that generates hardware starting from C at
http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~spark

list of open source projects and benchmarks is at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sumitg/CadPages.html#Bench

people are beginning to use C or variants of C (see http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~specc)
for hardware design and simulation.

synthesis tool that generates hardware starting from C at
http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~spark

list of open source projects and benchmarks is at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sumitg/CadPages.html#Bench

people are beginning to use C or variants of C (see http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~specc)
for hardware design and simulation.

synthesis tool that generates hardware starting from C at
http://www.cecs.uci.edu/~spark

You're using MH folders and you say can't read it from a shell? I thought this was the point of using MH :-). Get NMH and read stuff from the command line to your heart's content. That's the only way I read mail now.

For more information, man nmh and look at the manpages for each program, or better yet, read the ORA book on the subject. It's very helpful.

Quick starter guide though:

• folders - list your mail folders. Use -r to show subfolders. Folders are referred to with the syntax +foldername. The folder can be specified with most (if not all) commands at any time to explicitly say which folder you want to look at.
• scan - scan the current folder for a list of messages. If you set up procmail to store messages in a sequence (such as unseen), you can say scan unseen to see new messages. See the ORA book for more info on this.
• show - show a given message.
• refile - move a message to another folder.
• rmm - delete a message.

Messages are referred to by number. There are plenty of other commands that do other interesting things (such as pick which lets you query the current mailbox with regexps on a per-component behavior), and every aspect can be customized (see again the ORA book).

The coolest thing is that because these are all shell commands, they can be scripted to do complex things your "conventional" mail client never could. As an added benefit, since they're not a monolithic program, there's no resident size.

Finally, if you want a nice monitor, I hacked MH-style mailbox support into Sjoerd Simon's Mailwatch plugin which you can use with gkrellm. (If you're in the console, use flists to show new mail.)

Have fun. :-)

safety Sorry No. Go down and have a look at the 'murder' columns, shows a value of deaths per 100k. US ends up w/ double digits with countries like the USSR, Latvia & Brazil - Drastically higher than sub 2 values of star performers like Canada, Belgium, Greece and Japan..

freedom Sorry No. Have a look at the Corruption Index (Scroll to Table 1), American Imperialism (and here), McArthyism.. I wont bother with the links: DMCA, Marijuana Prohibition, Prostitution, Collusive Monopolies (RIAA/MPAA), The Cuban Embargo, Kent State Massacre, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra Affair, Watergate, Assassinations of John/Bobby Kennedy & MLK, Invasion of Granada, The War on Drugs, Internet Censorship in Schools/Libraries, Consumerism, Work holism, Invasion of Dominican Republic, Gulf War, Systemic Racism (weak gay rights)... etc etc

quality of life Sorry No. Canada has the highest Standard of Living on the planet - 7 years running...

I went to Chicago for NewYears eve to visit some friends. On the way home we heard a news reporter 'lead out of a story' by saying "...and after all; we are the richest and most powerful people in the world." What I began to think is that Americans have begun to treat their 'democracy' (*ahem*) like a Religion. There is no debate. They have enjoyed a very good 150 years - and like all successful civilizations; it will eventually end. If America didnt have such a large piece of 'virgin' North America to exploit for natural resources, and did host a World War (or two) Im betting the world would be a very different place. The 'success' of America dosnt prove the 'rightness' of Capitalism - so get that out of your head. America's 'success' is not success at all! (See adbusters.org about consumerism and mindlessness). America would do itself a favour and learn a little collective humility. Surely the last election has taught you something...

The system has been horribly corrupt by politicians and business people 'on the take'. Their is no longer anyone in Washington who intends to lead Americans. To help America lead and become better global citizens - and try their best to help set a good example - and take examples from those who are already doing good. No person on this planet should be without the rights described in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the US Constitution (or similar documents written or yet-to-be written). Like it or not this is a Global Village and we should be working together for the good of us all.

I refuse to become cynical and jadded. People will respond that this is 'The Real World' - to that I suggest people decide what we are choosing to make this 'Real World' become? Like it or not our collective action/inaction everyday sets the course for the future. We need to stop the 'present' America from setting the course that it is now (and using arms/propaganda to force others into capitulating). (I wont bother with the globalization/imperialist/enslavement/end-of-the-p lanet scenario that is our current future).

Please American PEOPLE do something about your government.

> I'm amazed that nobody has thought of something like this before.

Try this on for size.

--

Ok so java has been there before but surely that fact doesn'e preclude someone else trying it out.

See also Juice

Juice is a new technology for distributing executable content across the World Wide Web. Juice differs from Java in several important aspects that allow it to outperform Java in many "downloadable Applets" applications. Juice is intended to be a complement to Java, giving users a choice: Java or Juice.

Mickey Rowe, an expert on the evolution of colour vision, wrote this post to his dinosaur mailing list and this talk.origins post on the subject. The latter includes this interesting observation:

It should also be noted that many humans carry more than one copy of the middle wavelength-sensitive cone opsin. As this is grist for the evolution of color vision mill, we're literally ripe for the addition of a fourth cone class. (This probably won't happen, though, because people with a fourth cone class will be constantly trying to readjust the color on television sets. As a result of that such people will be highly selected against in bars the world over :-)

It's been done. At XEROX Parc no less.

The could get it make arbitrary movements and speak at arbitrary times. They now how the speech is encoded, but not the specifics. (As they said, "It was outside the scope of the project. Plus it ensures that Barney is constantly in character.")

Lets cut the crap and get to the heart of it. Statistics will prove MS wrong once again here. For example all it takes is a little research to find out that the .net CLR is actually written in C++ which right out of the gate gives you slower performance by an order of (a/b) * a.(1/b) due to the dynamic late binding of C++. Okay, that's a fact, the proof can be on Professor Kyzinsk's web page.

Second we all know that in java you reference everything by a reference, unless you are working with primitives, which only a rookie does because they are about 50% slower than a pointer. With the .NET stuff you are dealing with a VC constructor that is already overloaded on every instruction.

That's right, that makes .NET very flexible because you can generate a polymorphic polymorphic constructor on a standard method. Yep, that lets you do nice things like super(super(super))). But do you want to talk slow???? It's been pretty well documented that Java will always be faster than .NET. Not to mention that .NET has no support for RMI. Heh.. can you say strike three you're out. For you non-believers here is a snippet of the code from .NET....heh..pure crap.

Some context... CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere is here: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/dem oc.html

http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoR K-a rchive/aug00/0018.html .

Go is a very deep game, rich in strategy. Entire books have been written about how go strategy compares to business strategy.

Microsoft business tactics are very much like intermediate go strategy - give your opponent a "heavy" group, one that's too awkward to be of much use, but you leave it living anyway so you have something to chase around and make solid territory (profit) from as you chase it.

The heavy group is the weakling business, apple or corel. Your goal isn't to make it thrive and overwhelm one of your groups, but to keep it just barely alive, because businesses and weak groups on life support have their uses.

What about the WebDAV that has been development? see the IETF page or the webdav site, and let's not forget the Apache webdav module mod_dav.

Plus there is RFC 2518 for it -

http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2518.html

While there may not be a 100% fit, there could be enough to invalidate this patent.

And calling python "academic", as if that's a term of derision, is simply silly. It's not a language that has attempted to create new ideas in programming languages; it simply starts with different design principles and, unsurprisingly, ends up in a different place. See Tim Peters's "19 Pythonic Theses" for a (retroactively coined) list of principles.

A refutal of the "pretty good explanation" is here.

I particularly like the analysis of Setterfields "scientific" work that states "one of his goals is to reconcile 'the observational problems of astronomy and Genesis creation ...'" (the embedded quote is his).

The real solution for the future is WebDAV (and being worked on by the W3C), which fully supports named servers and authentication, and is designed to replace FTP and the various ugly "web posting" systems out there, including the uploading aspects of FrontPage Extensions.

Notably WebDAV implementations include Zope and mod_dav for Apache.

Next time think before opening your mouth and showing the entirety of slashdot what a moron you are.

You're the moron. Come back when you've read RFC 1945.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/iet f/http/rfc1945.html#Request