You ask why we don't like bandwidth limits and like automatically triggered cut offs, like the two are equal. I don't mind bandwidth limits as long as they are clear, since you pay for your usage, if you use more, you pay. You're generally not pestering other people when you use more and the burden falls on you as well.
With cut offs it is different. An infected machine is a pain to the entire internet community except (often) the person whose machine got infected. If such a machine gets blocked from the internet, the community benefits and the burden is returned to the owner of the machine. It is all about who carries the burden of the unprotected machine.
Now I do have some experience in working with cut offs, since helped run a campus network when I was a student. Abusers of the network, be they bandwidth hoggers or unprotected systems could get kicked of the network if they didn't update their behaviour. It had in general a good effect on the behaviour of people.
When you do a cut off I would love to see a proper implementation of it. That would mean that a persons connection is not cut off outright, but that only certain services will be available for instance on a private, non-routable subnet. In this way the luser can get the updates nescessary, will be automagically guided through the right steps and then once a scan is done of the system released onto the wild internet again. This doesn't require much human assistance.
As a side note I would also like to mention that I wouldn't mind filtering of users connections for instance on port 25 as long as the user him/herself can disable that feature too... It would be like the speedlimiter on cars which limit them to 250km/h. You can remove it and go faster, but for most people 250 is good enough.
If it runs for twenty years, think of all the service packs and bug fixes they had to install. If I understand you correctly, then you mean that there is a computer system that can be patched without being rebooted. Well, that would be the greatest thing since sliced bread!
Though it sounds nice, it turns out these trains are way more expensive then the normal trains on wheels. Pain is that at higher velocities, 250+ the magnetic field creates its own drag. Now great... that means you have to inject more energy to overcome that. Furthermore, though wheels cause drag, at high velocities it turns out the drag from friction with the air is the main problem. So a lower cw-value will help you out alot more.
All in all it is not a solution, since it costs more to build and to operate. That is why German parliament voted against a German invention and Dutch parliament is also not to keen on it.
I really wonder if there will be undocumented securityfixes included in this Service Pack. I recently heard a director of Microsoft say that when Microsoft finds a security vulnerability, they don't disclose it, but just fixed it in a service pack. I hope I misinterpreted him, but it makes me wonder if a pre SP build of some Microsoft products might have something under the hood for bad guys to use.
That my friend is exactly the problem. Many people/governments think that there is alot more to internet governance than what ICANN does. They think that ICANN can control harmful and illegal content, cybercrime/terrorism, regulate internet access, create competition/stop competition etc.
But the only pressure points you have to kind of control who gets access to the existing net and under what conditions, are the DNS and the distribution of IP-numbers. Most of the DNS is done nationally by the ccTLD's and most of the IP-numbers by RIR's, so not much room for ICANN there. One might think that governments would show there face at the places where the new internet gets thought up. New standards are done by both IETF and ITU/ETSI where the IETF generally thinks up the ones that get accepted by the people implementing the technology. But nobody ever sees governments at IETF meetings, whereas they do attend ITU/ETSI meetings. Let alone that they have a clue of what the new IP-based technology will mean for them in a regulatory sense. (encrypted voice over IP peer to peer networks?)
And when it comes to what runs over the internet many governments still belief that voice runs over phones and webpages and e-mail over the Internet. Many of them have no idea of an integrated/converged IP-based network where application layer services switch as easy from IP-network as IP-connections switch from physical/datalink layer. Heck, many of our laws are still not ready for that. (see for instance media laws vs telecommunications laws)
If you can read Dutch, you can read a bit more about this at hte following URL: http://www.netkwesties.nl/editie73/artikel1.php
This project is interesting and is more or less the way people here in The Netherlands are thinking the future will be like. I have personally worked on projects like these and the general idea is like this.
1. The only worthwile infrastructure for the future is fiber. This is a statement of fact/religion. Wireless may be nice in your house, but as a shared infrastructure it doesn't work for high speed data services.
2. Having companies lay 2, 3, 4, 5 parallel fiber infrastructures to each house amounts to a huge investment which you can't earn back over time.
3. To save on the investment on the physical and datalink layer. The fiber and active components at the end of each street are owned by a not-for-profit organisation, this can be customer owned, owned by housing corporations, Public Private Partnership, public organisations or maybe even private organisations.
4. Routing is done in such a way that local traffic stays as local as possible. You can actually make local traffic free, because the fiber and active components have been paid for already (with a mild cap maybe to keep people from hogging bandwidth)
5. The whole network is hooked up to one or more central locations which act like Internet Exchanges. Here corporations hook up their networks. An ISP could expand its network to individual users via VLAN's. An end user just subscribes to a VLAN to get a service. This allows for easy access to end users for all suppliers and for easy changing of suppliers by end-users. At this central location you will also find bandwidth intensive services like video on demand. (Just like one builds an electricity intensive company next to a hydrodam)
6. It would be great if you could have indivdual vlans per device, so your IP-phone hooks up to a different vlan than your securitycam than your ISP-connection. This allows for easy access to multiple services without the nescessity to route everything through your ISP first. Power to the people.
All in all given an investment of about 1100euros per household this would amount to about 15 euros per month for 15 years. This would generate a total revenue of about 2700 euros for 15 years. That would about cover for organisation, maintenance and new kit every 5 years. On top of this the end user would get a service bill where each service gets indidually charged.
So all in all: Physical and datalink layer are a utility, all higher layers are not a utility and need to be payed for one way or another. Though local traffic could be free.
What the CEO of Verisign sais about the rootservers is a load of crap.
At the last Ripe meeting in Amsterdam 4 of the rootserver operators presented their plans/actions to anycast their root-server. Several of them already had done so. (F, I and K for instance) RIPE has worked together with NLnet Labs on new DNS software, NSD, and impelemented it on the K-Root. Bill Manning is working on a new implementation for the B-root. Also on a different hardware and software base, non Intel, non Bind or NSD. The rootserver maintainers are not stumbling volunteers, but committed to a community resource.
See http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presenta tions/
Dang, just imagine how many people that is. Have they actually researched all those people? I am just baffled by the sheer number and really wonder how they came up with that list.
A couple of months ago I overheard someone say: I 'll never get one of those camera phones. Just think of when my girlfriend asks, where are you? She will want me to send a picture. I'll never be able to go out again!
Known Airline Terrorists Appear Readily Distinguishable from the Normal
jetBlue Passenger Patterns
Can anyone tell me why they let known Airline Terrorists fly at all??
There is some interesting data-mining being done in the document. Correlating several databases together gives you a good profile of the people on the plane, but it doesn't give you an idea if someone is a terrorist. Like the presentation sais, Find a needle in a haystack, without knowing what the needle looks like If you don't know what it looks like you won't find it. What you do find is anamolous behaviour that points to interesting people to check.
Finding these people largely depends on how much they differ from the ordinary profile. Ordinary here is middle income suburbanite. So low income ghetto dwellers get singled out time and time again. Yes they might be out of the ordinary, but it doesn't mean that they will blow up the plane.
The problem with your statements is that you only look to telephony. I want to be able to do alot, alot more at home (like reading Slashdot and watching movies) all that should come over a nice line. Fiber is the fourth utility...
In recent times I have thought up a law that seems to be governinging all the savings that we make by doing our work more efficiently. It goes like this:
Savings which occur due to a more efficent production process are (partially) lost through an increase in marketing and sales activities.
This law seems to espescially hold in area's where goods can be diversified on the basis of quality, image, or some other intangible characteristic. It doesn't hold for clothespins, sand or anything else that doesn't have real distinguishable characteristics. That is also why I think the central point of the article won't hold. If machines do stuff more efficiently, then we will come up with other jobs for people to do.
I expect Bush to adress Congress tomorrow. He will tell them that the US needs to be able to provide for its own strategic electricity supply. Airco is a national security priority. Therefore Canada will be annexed by the end of the week.
Canadians that object will be labelled terrorists and put in camps where they will be working on new pipelines, new electricity lines and clearing out forrests. All others canadians will be subjected to pay the USA's debt as a thanks for now becoming part of the world's oldest democracy.
Since your replies seem to suggest your sincere, I thought I'd give a reply.
Jumping from the height this guy was on, means you have less drag, but the drag increases when you go lower, until he reaches the lower parts of the atmosphere where unpowered flight seems to be limited to about 220kph. Now would he have jumped out at 30km height, he would have broken the sound barrier and then, slowed down to 220kph.
This ofcourse holds untill the density goes (quite abruptly) up to that of solid rock, at which point velocity goes down to zero.
I used to live in a dorm with MBA's from all over the world and it was pretty obvious that the 100mbit switched network was loved most by those from countries with bad phone systems. Many of them bought a webcam, a microphone and were chatting away with friends and family back home or anywhere else in the world. It was cheaper and it gave alot less hassle with delays and operators and the like. Mind you, one does need a computer and dial up tot the internet, so this is only for the semi-richer people and those that can go tot internet-cafe's
On a related note, once at a RIPE-meeting a gentleman from Africa got a clunky looking phone (bit eighties style) from his briefcase, picked up the UTP that lay there for use with laptops and hooked the phone up to it. Within seconds he was chatting away with someone in Africa... YOu should have seen the stunned face on some of the geeks there.:-)
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This stuff is great for governments, consultants, legal firms and all those other people that do loads of work by pushing papers around and writing new pieces of text. I myself do this kind of work and it happens quite often that after I have written something, someone, somewhere delves up a paper written 2 years ago in another department on exactly the same subject.
It is not that I don't check the usual sources for input on these subjects, but in an organisation of over 4000 people, 5 directorates, 6 staff departments, and over 40 sub-divisions below that level and a filetree organised by department as a filing system, I don't expect myself to ever find everything. A system that would do that automagically for you based on the texts that you're writing. That would be just great.
Real world anecdote to complement this: Fokker, the now bankrupt airplane manufacturer, was said to have a huge archive all the kinds of research it had done or funded in the past. Problem was that those designing new things would hardly look at it, since searching it was an enormous pain in the ass. The problem was everything was organised by the main subject it was dealing with.... But that didn't mean it didn't have relevancy at other places.
Which laws? As far as I am aware there is only an EU privacy Directive available now, which has to be implemented by October (some countries won't make that date) As far as I know there are no laws in the US yet against spam, all of them are still proposals. (Correct me if I am wrong please) There is certainly no US wide law in effect today.
No, he will have to wait two years, or ten years from the start of his work to collect the one million dollars (not a bad yearly salary). He will have to wait his whole life and then some to know if his answer is correct.
At university I was given several courses in Methodology, not all of them fun unfortunately, but all of them relevant. Certainly in my current work as a government employee I continuously see claims being made by government and private sector alike which are shaky at best. I still value what I learned in Methodology to judge those.
Methodology or anything that teaches kids to discern right from wrong should be taught in schools, so that we can protect ourselves from wrong ideas based in nothing. This could be by just explaining kids how you can know something is true and when something hasn't been proven yet, but might be true and when things are real BS. (BBC's Panorama had an illusionist who debunked the claims of homeopathy. Entertaining and educational)
I also have one fundamental rule I adher by: Never trust data given by the person that is going to benefit from the decision you make upon it.
Watson recounts the following story. One night dr. Crick was going to a party with his wife. He had hoped some nice female exchange students would be there, but it turned out only Cambridge dons with their wifes turned up. Bored out of his skull he sat down and thought about the things he was working on and got a luminous idea. As Watson sais: This was one time in history, where an absense of women was a benifit to the advancement of science.
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FYI an american Tenor did sing "Rule Brittania" some years ago at the Royal Opera House in London, during the "Last Night of the Proms" He was dressed in tux with a star spangled banner and union jack combined as that small jacket with no sleeves..... dunno the english term in Dutch it is "gilet". He got a great reaction from the audience
.... But the fact is that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) got more addresses than The Republic of China alltogether.
I've heard this remark made before and though at first sight it seems to say something, it actually doesn't mean anything. MIT has a full/8, unfortunately. The whole republic of China doesn't. So What! If you look at these statistics of the joint RIR's than you will see that the whole world and their mother have more IP space than the Peoples Republic.:-) (ok, slightly exaggerated) But fact of the matter is that the Peoples republic shouldn't yet worry about not getting any IP-space.
For the last 10 years we have had the Regional Internet Registries in place, which deal with the IP-adress allocation. They have done a great job at conserving IP-space. Since they started their work, only 15% of the IP-space has been allocated, contrary to the 43% in pre-RIR times. If they continue to do their great job in the same way, we will hit critically low numbers of availability by 2010-15 and run out by 2030.
When I was 11 my teacher in primary school told us about some of the stunts he and his friends had pulled in high school. One day they were shown the experiment with a sliver of sodium and some water. Not content with the small sliver and the small effect that it caused, they stole some of it from the classroom. The needed a place to do the experiment and figured a toilet bowl was a great place to try out. The effect was as many of us expected: explosion, toilet bowl wrecked, water bursting out of all the adjacent toilets. Unfortunately on the other side of the wall there were the teachers toilets. Ofcourse a teacher was sitting on the bowl when the explosion happened.:-) You can imagine what happened. They apparantly didn't get caught.
Like a famous Dutch physicist said. If one does research with American scholars, one is sure to be reduced to "a dutch scholar" or "an european scholar".
Ofcourse the RIAA will claim that the studios loose half a trillion zloties in revenues over this, but I wonder if it really matters. I watched LOTR 1/3 three times now. Twice in the cinema and once on DVD. Judging from the geeks around me, most of them saw it at least twice legally and maybe once or twice illegally. For geeks its a must to see it in the cinema and they maybe even buy the DVD. They are also the only ones with a real chance (bandwidth and opportunity) of getting the full 700MB or so of this release, so chances are low that it will result in lower sales.
I do predict however that the revenues on Part Two will be lower. This because of the perceived downturn in the economy and parents therefore less willing to shell out large amounts of money around december.
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You ask why we don't like bandwidth limits and like automatically triggered cut offs, like the two are equal. I don't mind bandwidth limits as long as they are clear, since you pay for your usage, if you use more, you pay. You're generally not pestering other people when you use more and the burden falls on you as well.
With cut offs it is different. An infected machine is a pain to the entire internet community except (often) the person whose machine got infected. If such a machine gets blocked from the internet, the community benefits and the burden is returned to the owner of the machine. It is all about who carries the burden of the unprotected machine.
Now I do have some experience in working with cut offs, since helped run a campus network when I was a student. Abusers of the network, be they bandwidth hoggers or unprotected systems could get kicked of the network if they didn't update their behaviour. It had in general a good effect on the behaviour of people.
When you do a cut off I would love to see a proper implementation of it. That would mean that a persons connection is not cut off outright, but that only certain services will be available for instance on a private, non-routable subnet. In this way the luser can get the updates nescessary, will be automagically guided through the right steps and then once a scan is done of the system released onto the wild internet again. This doesn't require much human assistance.
As a side note I would also like to mention that I wouldn't mind filtering of users connections for instance on port 25 as long as the user him/herself can disable that feature too... It would be like the speedlimiter on cars which limit them to 250km/h. You can remove it and go faster, but for most people 250 is good enough.
If it runs for twenty years, think of all the service packs and bug fixes they had to install. If I understand you correctly, then you mean that there is a computer system that can be patched without being rebooted. Well, that would be the greatest thing since sliced bread!
Though it sounds nice, it turns out these trains are way more expensive then the normal trains on wheels. Pain is that at higher velocities, 250+ the magnetic field creates its own drag. Now great... that means you have to inject more energy to overcome that. Furthermore, though wheels cause drag, at high velocities it turns out the drag from friction with the air is the main problem. So a lower cw-value will help you out alot more.
All in all it is not a solution, since it costs more to build and to operate. That is why German parliament voted against a German invention and Dutch parliament is also not to keen on it.
I really wonder if there will be undocumented securityfixes included in this Service Pack. I recently heard a director of Microsoft say that when Microsoft finds a security vulnerability, they don't disclose it, but just fixed it in a service pack. I hope I misinterpreted him, but it makes me wonder if a pre SP build of some Microsoft products might have something under the hood for bad guys to use.
That my friend is exactly the problem. Many people/governments think that there is alot more to internet governance than what ICANN does. They think that ICANN can control harmful and illegal content, cybercrime/terrorism, regulate internet access, create competition/stop competition etc.
But the only pressure points you have to kind of control who gets access to the existing net and under what conditions, are the DNS and the distribution of IP-numbers. Most of the DNS is done nationally by the ccTLD's and most of the IP-numbers by RIR's, so not much room for ICANN there.
One might think that governments would show there face at the places where the new internet gets thought up. New standards are done by both IETF and ITU/ETSI where the IETF generally thinks up the ones that get accepted by the people implementing the technology. But nobody ever sees governments at IETF meetings, whereas they do attend ITU/ETSI meetings. Let alone that they have a clue of what the new IP-based technology will mean for them in a regulatory sense. (encrypted voice over IP peer to peer networks?)
And when it comes to what runs over the internet many governments still belief that voice runs over phones and webpages and e-mail over the Internet. Many of them have no idea of an integrated/converged IP-based network where application layer services switch as easy from IP-network as IP-connections switch from physical/datalink layer. Heck, many of our laws are still not ready for that. (see for instance media laws vs telecommunications laws)
If you can read Dutch, you can read a bit more about this at hte following URL: http://www.netkwesties.nl/editie73/artikel1.php
This project is interesting and is more or less the way people here in The Netherlands are thinking the future will be like. I have personally worked on projects like these and the general idea is like this.
1. The only worthwile infrastructure for the future is fiber. This is a statement of fact/religion. Wireless may be nice in your house, but as a shared infrastructure it doesn't work for high speed data services.
2. Having companies lay 2, 3, 4, 5 parallel fiber infrastructures to each house amounts to a huge investment which you can't earn back over time.
3. To save on the investment on the physical and datalink layer. The fiber and active components at the end of each street are owned by a not-for-profit organisation, this can be customer owned, owned by housing corporations, Public Private Partnership, public organisations or maybe even private organisations.
4. Routing is done in such a way that local traffic stays as local as possible. You can actually make local traffic free, because the fiber and active components have been paid for already (with a mild cap maybe to keep people from hogging bandwidth)
5. The whole network is hooked up to one or more central locations which act like Internet Exchanges. Here corporations hook up their networks. An ISP could expand its network to individual users via VLAN's. An end user just subscribes to a VLAN to get a service. This allows for easy access to end users for all suppliers and for easy changing of suppliers by end-users. At this central location you will also find bandwidth intensive services like video on demand. (Just like one builds an electricity intensive company next to a hydrodam)
6. It would be great if you could have indivdual vlans per device, so your IP-phone hooks up to a different vlan than your securitycam than your ISP-connection. This allows for easy access to multiple services without the nescessity to route everything through your ISP first. Power to the people.
All in all given an investment of about 1100euros per household this would amount to about 15 euros per month for 15 years. This would generate a total revenue of about 2700 euros for 15 years. That would about cover for organisation, maintenance and new kit every 5 years. On top of this the end user would get a service bill where each service gets indidually charged.
So all in all: Physical and datalink layer are a utility, all higher layers are not a utility and need to be payed for one way or another. Though local traffic could be free.
What the CEO of Verisign sais about the rootservers is a load of crap.
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At the last Ripe meeting in Amsterdam 4 of the rootserver operators presented their plans/actions to anycast their root-server. Several of them already had done so. (F, I and K for instance)
RIPE has worked together with NLnet Labs on new DNS software, NSD, and impelemented it on the K-Root. Bill Manning is working on a new implementation for the B-root. Also on a different hardware and software base, non Intel, non Bind or NSD. The rootserver maintainers are not stumbling volunteers, but committed to a community resource.
See http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/present
Dang, just imagine how many people that is. Have they actually researched all those people? I am just baffled by the sheer number and really wonder how they came up with that list.
A couple of months ago I overheard someone say: I 'll never get one of those camera phones. Just think of when my girlfriend asks, where are you? She will want me to send a picture. I'll never be able to go out again!
Can anyone tell me why they let known Airline Terrorists fly at all??
There is some interesting data-mining being done in the document. Correlating several databases together gives you a good profile of the people on the plane, but it doesn't give you an idea if someone is a terrorist. Like the presentation sais, Find a needle in a haystack, without knowing what the needle looks like If you don't know what it looks like you won't find it. What you do find is anamolous behaviour that points to interesting people to check.
Finding these people largely depends on how much they differ from the ordinary profile. Ordinary here is middle income suburbanite. So low income ghetto dwellers get singled out time and time again. Yes they might be out of the ordinary, but it doesn't mean that they will blow up the plane.
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The problem with your statements is that you only look to telephony. I want to be able to do alot, alot more at home (like reading Slashdot and watching movies) all that should come over a nice line. Fiber is the fourth utility...
In recent times I have thought up a law that seems to be governinging all the savings that we make by doing our work more efficiently. It goes like this:
Savings which occur due to a more efficent production process are (partially) lost through an increase in marketing and sales activities.
This law seems to espescially hold in area's where goods can be diversified on the basis of quality, image, or some other intangible characteristic. It doesn't hold for clothespins, sand or anything else that doesn't have real distinguishable characteristics. That is also why I think the central point of the article won't hold. If machines do stuff more efficiently, then we will come up with other jobs for people to do.
I expect Bush to adress Congress tomorrow. He will tell them that the US needs to be able to provide for its own strategic electricity supply. Airco is a national security priority. Therefore Canada will be annexed by the end of the week.
Canadians that object will be labelled terrorists and put in camps where they will be working on new pipelines, new electricity lines and clearing out forrests. All others canadians will be subjected to pay the USA's debt as a thanks for now becoming part of the world's oldest democracy.
Since your replies seem to suggest your sincere, I thought I'd give a reply.
Jumping from the height this guy was on, means you have less drag, but the drag increases when you go lower, until he reaches the lower parts of the atmosphere where unpowered flight seems to be limited to about 220kph. Now would he have jumped out at 30km height, he would have broken the sound barrier and then, slowed down to 220kph.
This ofcourse holds untill the density goes (quite abruptly) up to that of solid rock, at which point velocity goes down to zero.
I used to live in a dorm with MBA's from all over the world and it was pretty obvious that the 100mbit switched network was loved most by those from countries with bad phone systems. Many of them bought a webcam, a microphone and were chatting away with friends and family back home or anywhere else in the world. It was cheaper and it gave alot less hassle with delays and operators and the like. Mind you, one does need a computer and dial up tot the internet, so this is only for the semi-richer people and those that can go tot internet-cafe's
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On a related note, once at a RIPE-meeting a gentleman from Africa got a clunky looking phone (bit eighties style) from his briefcase, picked up the UTP that lay there for use with laptops and hooked the phone up to it. Within seconds he was chatting away with someone in Africa... YOu should have seen the stunned face on some of the geeks there.
This stuff is great for governments, consultants, legal firms and all those other people that do loads of work by pushing papers around and writing new pieces of text. I myself do this kind of work and it happens quite often that after I have written something, someone, somewhere delves up a paper written 2 years ago in another department on exactly the same subject.
It is not that I don't check the usual sources for input on these subjects, but in an organisation of over 4000 people, 5 directorates, 6 staff departments, and over 40 sub-divisions below that level and a filetree organised by department as a filing system, I don't expect myself to ever find everything. A system that would do that automagically for you based on the texts that you're writing. That would be just great.
Real world anecdote to complement this: Fokker, the now bankrupt airplane manufacturer, was said to have a huge archive all the kinds of research it had done or funded in the past. Problem was that those designing new things would hardly look at it, since searching it was an enormous pain in the ass. The problem was everything was organised by the main subject it was dealing with.... But that didn't mean it didn't have relevancy at other places.
Which laws? As far as I am aware there is only an EU privacy Directive available now, which has to be implemented by October (some countries won't make that date) As far as I know there are no laws in the US yet against spam, all of them are still proposals. (Correct me if I am wrong please) There is certainly no US wide law in effect today.
No, he will have to wait two years, or ten years from the start of his work to collect the one million dollars (not a bad yearly salary). He will have to wait his whole life and then some to know if his answer is correct.
At university I was given several courses in Methodology, not all of them fun unfortunately, but all of them relevant. Certainly in my current work as a government employee I continuously see claims being made by government and private sector alike which are shaky at best. I still value what I learned in Methodology to judge those.
Methodology or anything that teaches kids to discern right from wrong should be taught in schools, so that we can protect ourselves from wrong ideas based in nothing. This could be by just explaining kids how you can know something is true and when something hasn't been proven yet, but might be true and when things are real BS. (BBC's Panorama had an illusionist who debunked the claims of homeopathy. Entertaining and educational)
I also have one fundamental rule I adher by: Never trust data given by the person that is going to benefit from the decision you make upon it.
Watson recounts the following story. One night dr. Crick was going to a party with his wife. He had hoped some nice female exchange students would be there, but it turned out only Cambridge dons with their wifes turned up. Bored out of his skull he sat down and thought about the things he was working on and got a luminous idea. As Watson sais: This was one time in history, where an absense of women was a benifit to the advancement of science.
FYI an american Tenor did sing "Rule Brittania" some years ago at the Royal Opera House in London, during the "Last Night of the Proms" He was dressed in tux with a star spangled banner and union jack combined as that small jacket with no sleeves..... dunno the english term in Dutch it is "gilet".
He got a great reaction from the audience
I've heard this remark made before and though at first sight it seems to say something, it actually doesn't mean anything. MIT has a full
For the last 10 years we have had the Regional Internet Registries in place, which deal with the IP-adress allocation. They have done a great job at conserving IP-space. Since they started their work, only 15% of the IP-space has been allocated, contrary to the 43% in pre-RIR times. If they continue to do their great job in the same way, we will hit critically low numbers of availability by 2010-15 and run out by 2030.
When I was 11 my teacher in primary school told us about some of the stunts he and his friends had pulled in high school. One day they were shown the experiment with a sliver of sodium and some water. Not content with the small sliver and the small effect that it caused, they stole some of it from the classroom. The needed a place to do the experiment and figured a toilet bowl was a great place to try out. The effect was as many of us expected: explosion, toilet bowl wrecked, water bursting out of all the adjacent toilets. Unfortunately on the other side of the wall there were the teachers toilets. Ofcourse a teacher was sitting on the bowl when the explosion happened. :-) You can imagine what happened. They apparantly didn't get caught.
Like a famous Dutch physicist said. If one does research with American scholars, one is sure to be reduced to "a dutch scholar" or "an european scholar".
Ofcourse the RIAA will claim that the studios loose half a trillion zloties in revenues over this, but I wonder if it really matters. I watched LOTR 1/3 three times now. Twice in the cinema and once on DVD. Judging from the geeks around me, most of them saw it at least twice legally and maybe once or twice illegally. For geeks its a must to see it in the cinema and they maybe even buy the DVD. They are also the only ones with a real chance (bandwidth and opportunity) of getting the full 700MB or so of this release, so chances are low that it will result in lower sales.
I do predict however that the revenues on Part Two will be lower. This because of the perceived downturn in the economy and parents therefore less willing to shell out large amounts of money around december.