VP Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. Bob Kahn, with whom I worked to develop the Internet design in 1973, participated in several hearings held by then-Senator Gore and I recall that Bob introduced the term ``information infrastructure'' in one hearing in 1986. It was clear that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it.
As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and as Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics. If you look at the last 30-35 years of network development, you'll find many people who have made major contributions without which the Internet would not be the vibrant, growing and exciting thing it is today. The creation of a new information infrastructure requires the willing efforts of thousands if not millions of participants and we've seen leadership from many quarters, all of it needed, to move the Internet towards increased availability and utility around the world.
While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful.
We're fortunate to have senior level members of Congress and the Administration who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.
... and the country one grew up in. Dr. Who for example was never aired in free TV in Germany, afiak. But ofc every German geek should know Raumpatrouille Orion.
You and I might find that it lacks quality, but the HP books achieved something very worthwhile: millions of kids started reading books again. Some of which have never read a book themselves before.
If anything, the vast amount of empty space makes large-scale facilities of any kind easier.
Exactly. Germany's one of the countries with the highest population density. There's simply no room for wind turbines or big solar panel fields or big farms for bio-fuel crop. And yet we manage to cramp them in somewhere.
Don't complain - invent! That once has made the U.S.A. one of the most successful countries of the world.
"Ownership" is quite a broad term and not a good measurement for this discussion. For example, according to the WaffG (gun's law), when inheriting a gun you need to prove that you've got a need for a (working) gun. If you can't prove that, but still want to own the gun, a blocking device needs to be mounted to the gun and all rounds handed over.
Blank guns - if you want to carry them around - also need to be registered and therefore are part of those numbers.
"Owning guns" and "owning guns capable to kill" is quite an important difference. To me, at least.
If you ask me, there's a very simple and understandable reason for this sensibility: Europe hosted its share of tyrannic oppressive regimes over the centuries, all of which used accumulated data to oppress their opponents. For once people seemed to have learned a thing from history.
Most people already know that In his 1984 book "Neuromancer" he basically predicted the future importance and uses of the internet and the existence of portable devices to access it (It was he that coined the term Cyberspace). he also emphasised virtual reality, which back then was somewhat of a niche fad but even now is about to become more mainstream with the imminent release of Occulus Rift, off the back of which there is already a series of similar devices being leaked/advertised.
Agreed. But for me the most visionary prediction in the trilogy is that corporations have basically taken over the reign of the world. Which nowadays is terribly spot on, unfortunately.
This is Germany, we're talking about, so that's not NIMBY, but the St. Florian Prinzip: "Heiliger Sankt Florian / Verschon' mein Haus / Zünd' and're an! (Saint Florian / spare my house / burn others' (house) down).
My guess would be: 1) as you stated: not many cryptographers tackled the riddle and 2) a simple substitution is easy to spot, if you know the language. Not sure how many people these days "speak" runes and know their pronounciation (which seems part of the substitution).
The EU is also responsible for the Data Retention Directive.
Indeed. Which is - I admit - a shame. But we're also capable of learning from our errors, it seems:
The European Union's data retention directive is incompatible with the bloc's charter of fundamental rights, Advocate General Pedro Cruz VillalÃn said in an opinion Thursday. [...] The opinion isn't binding on the European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, but in the majority of cases, advocate general opinions are followed.
I just think it is cool there is such cooperation between Russia, China, and Australia
I've learned these days that they're acting not so much out of 'coolness', but due to international agreements. Unfortunately I don't remember the agreements name (other than it being a typical bureaucratic monster term) and my Google Fu is rather weak today, it seems.
[...] plus inhouse VB stuff that keeps some stuff on old MS Windows systems here
All of our VB(6) stuff runs without problems on Win7 without me having done anything special to make it run there.
I'd go so far to say it's even better now, because Win7 (and Vista before) have the VB runtime included, so installation has basically become a copy & paste of the EXE.
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And here's the link to an archived site of what Vint Cerf actually said/wrote
For Russians there is: look up i.e. Yandex.ru's properties and products.
... and the country one grew up in. Dr. Who for example was never aired in free TV in Germany, afiak. But ofc every German geek should know Raumpatrouille Orion.
You and I might find that it lacks quality, but the HP books achieved something very worthwhile: millions of kids started reading books again. Some of which have never read a book themselves before.
...which I consider to be a good thing, having witnessed what improvements have been added to the once clean and useful Firefox UI.
Why not go one step further, do "the right thing" and use ADO Prepared Statements?
Exactly. Germany's one of the countries with the highest population density. There's simply no room for wind turbines or big solar panel fields or big farms for bio-fuel crop. And yet we manage to cramp them in somewhere.
Don't complain - invent! That once has made the U.S.A. one of the most successful countries of the world.
No, it's not. It's a decimal comma.
My Visual Studio 6 runs just fine on Win 7+8, thank you very much ...
"Ownership" is quite a broad term and not a good measurement for this discussion. For example, according to the WaffG (gun's law), when inheriting a gun you need to prove that you've got a need for a (working) gun. If you can't prove that, but still want to own the gun, a blocking device needs to be mounted to the gun and all rounds handed over.
Blank guns - if you want to carry them around - also need to be registered and therefore are part of those numbers.
"Owning guns" and "owning guns capable to kill" is quite an important difference. To me, at least.
Well, if you don't accept the UK, take Germany as an example. Although you might argue that Europe + Asia "is just an island" ...
For those that want the old GUI back: Classic Theme Restorer.
If you ask me, there's a very simple and understandable reason for this sensibility: Europe hosted its share of tyrannic oppressive regimes over the centuries, all of which used accumulated data to oppress their opponents. For once people seemed to have learned a thing from history.
Agreed. But for me the most visionary prediction in the trilogy is that corporations have basically taken over the reign of the world. Which nowadays is terribly spot on, unfortunately.
Works in German, too: Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen hinter Fliegen.
This is Germany, we're talking about, so that's not NIMBY, but the St. Florian Prinzip: "Heiliger Sankt Florian / Verschon' mein Haus / Zünd' and're an! (Saint Florian / spare my house / burn others' (house) down).
My guess would be: 1) as you stated: not many cryptographers tackled the riddle and 2) a simple substitution is easy to spot, if you know the language. Not sure how many people these days "speak" runes and know their pronounciation (which seems part of the substitution).
Did you by chance mean "Hear, hear"?
Actually, the second guy from the bottom on the right is a CCP employee. So much for "can't get jobs" ...
Also, enjoy Mark Twain's The Awful German Language. A brilliant take on my native language.
Indeed. Which is - I admit - a shame. But we're also capable of learning from our errors, it seems:
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I wish the same could be said about Obama's administration and its stance towards the NSA spying.
That wasn't it (although that still applies). It had something to do with the nations/institutions doing arctic research helping out each other.
I've learned these days that they're acting not so much out of 'coolness', but due to international agreements. Unfortunately I don't remember the agreements name (other than it being a typical bureaucratic monster term) and my Google Fu is rather weak today, it seems.
You're asking too much here - I mean, we're not even able to protect our own Bundeskanzlerin, let alone a mere mortal foreign citizen ...
All of our VB(6) stuff runs without problems on Win7 without me having done anything special to make it run there.
I'd go so far to say it's even better now, because Win7 (and Vista before) have the VB runtime included, so installation has basically become a copy & paste of the EXE.