I've done no cost studies for this, but does anyone else know if the NIC would be a good, cheap solution for clustering? $200 per node for a PII 266, all you'd have to do is burn the right cd's for them.
also, to the people who recieved one: are the chips upgradeable?
And speaking of guns, we have a whole Amendment concerning the Right to Bear Arms. Why not have an Amendment for the Right to Code, and to Retain that Code? Sure, in theory Amendments 1 & 2 (Free Speech and Bear Arms) should be enough, but if the Politician's and Judge's minds can traverse the differences between those forms and the new forms that computers present, perhaps a new Amendment would be necessary?
In the same way that the right to Free Speech isn't designed to the big players (ain't no one gonna stand in their way anyways!), perhaps we need another law to protect the little people whose views on software might not be the same as everyone else's, but still deserve to have and express their views (outside of causing harm/loss to others, of course).
Also, is there any other country where there is a good precedent for the ability to write and keep code, despite someone else's objections? A napster/DeCSS trial that went all the way and came out good for the hacker?
The persecution of hackers isn't purely States-side - isn't Jon of DeCSS also on trial in Norway?
Every Agency/Department/Branch (in the U.S.A.) has some other A/D/B watching over it - the whole checks and balances thing. Yet even though the FBI was supposedly controlled via a separate party (the FBI Director reports to the someone-or-other who is appointed by the President, i think), during the Hoover Era, J. Edgar had utter control over his boss and his boss's boss b/c of the info and dirt the FBI had gathered on everybody.
How can this be prevented? What steps have been taken since the Hoover Era to prevent such abuses? How have these affected the NSA and its ability to do its work? What proof do we have that such a system works?
But what really matters is where the physical lines lay. If the only physical route from the UK to Brasil is through the US, then you're in trouble.
And while the solution to this problem might be to get everyplace equally connected to every other place, that's a rather expensive solution. Maybe a wireless, fast network, with a range of a few thousand miles would be a solution. (ha!) Everyone's comupter should come with a 100Gb/s wireless world-spanning card.
Seriously - would such a shutdown affect US companies' holdings in other contries? Could the US also force WorldCom (et. al.) to down their backbones and/or services in other countries? The situation might get even more out of control...
there's also an article on Security Focus about this - http://www.securityfocus.com/news/61 - and yesterday there were some interesting posts about this, including one with a partially flawed exploit script. go to Forums-> mailing lists-> bugtraq to see the posts in question.
I'll put it another way: If an online news source interviewed you, and added a link to http://www.microsoft.com/ in a quote from you where you said "Microsoft sucks", would that be the same thing? Would you be complaining that they altered your words in some way? The quote is identical to what you said, they simply added some reference material to it. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Are we talking a voice interview, or an html-based interview? If html-based, then it would be possible for me to include links as part of my interview. In a voice interview it would not. So if it is an html-based interview, and the online news source added more links to my interview, then they would be harming the integrity of my interview.
Writing consists of many parts, one of which is the flow. Thought can be placed in where references go and where they don't, and it is a writers (or poster's) job to know where to include such references and where not to. Though a separate entity adding such links after the fact may not eliminate any of your words, it can alter the meaning, the structure, and the flow of your writing.
In one word: Integrity. I'm surprised that a search hasn't found that word mentioned in any posting yet- the concept of news brings with it the concept of integrity, which Deja's adverts clearly eliminate. Solutions such as placing ads for said items around the post instead of inside still maintain the post's integrity while offering the same service (to both customer and company), and given such a clean alternative to modifying someone else's words, i find it sick that Deja would instead choose to alter the integrity of my posts.
In one more word: Precedence. Hotmail.com is a free service too; what if they decide to markup all mail routed through them with adverts of a similar nature? Or what if Bill decides he wants all negative microsoft sentences to be surrounded in a <font color=(same as bgcolor)> tag so that hotmail users can't read anything negative about MS? it's not deleting the content, only modifying it a bit, same as Deja.
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interesting to note that while Magneto, Jean, Xavier, and others can control what their powers affect, Cyclops can't. And neither can Rogue. Was she brain damaged too? i didn't know about Cyclops' past, and just assumed his power worked the same as Rogue's, that is, uncontrollably.
Propose that congress pass laws that everyone under 16 must use the internet anonymously, so that the Bad People of the world dont know who to stalk/molest. Then if anyone talks of banning anonymity, call them "pro child abuse".
1) get russian nuclear submarines 2) hack US's ELF submarine communication system to support IP 3) travel underwater wherever you please, use torpedoes/nukes on potential threats.
minimum weather to worry about, enough power to last a few years at a time, travel over 3/4 of the earth, wireless connection.
anyone here know anything about the possibilities of IP over ELF?
We need (and have needed for a while) a protocol for searching the web. Someone who's read the appropriate RFC, please write one.
My Suggestions for said protocol:
A search server that everyone runs in conjunction to a web server that creates a standardized DB of the content of that site. This can then be config'd to include any dynamically created content.
Create a network structure similar to DNS, wherein upper-level servers will query lower-level ones at various intervals, receiving new DB's. Put it on port 75 (since i was born in '75:-). These upper level domains are then your search sites.
Name it Search Hyper Text Protocol, or SHyT Protocol.
It's not putting Altavista or yahoo or others out of business b/c you still need those top level servers to query everyone. It's solving the dynamic problem b/c each search site can create it's own DB however it wants, which also still gives Excite and Infoseek and the like a market in which to sell their search engines.
Until this protocol is ready, create static pages from your dynamic content so that the conventional search engines will have something to catalogue.
Slashdot Mirror
also, to the people who recieved one: are the chips upgradeable?
-f
In the same way that the right to Free Speech isn't designed to the big players (ain't no one gonna stand in their way anyways!), perhaps we need another law to protect the little people whose views on software might not be the same as everyone else's, but still deserve to have and express their views (outside of causing harm/loss to others, of course).
Also, is there any other country where there is a good precedent for the ability to write and keep code, despite someone else's objections? A napster/DeCSS trial that went all the way and came out good for the hacker?
The persecution of hackers isn't purely States-side - isn't Jon of DeCSS also on trial in Norway?
-f
Just to clarify things a little-
Every Agency/Department/Branch (in the U.S.A.) has some other A/D/B watching over it - the whole checks and balances thing. Yet even though the FBI was supposedly controlled via a separate party (the FBI Director reports to the someone-or-other who is appointed by the President, i think), during the Hoover Era, J. Edgar had utter control over his boss and his boss's boss b/c of the info and dirt the FBI had gathered on everybody.
How can this be prevented? What steps have been taken since the Hoover Era to prevent such abuses? How have these affected the NSA and its ability to do its work? What proof do we have that such a system works?
-f
But what really matters is where the physical lines lay. If the only physical route from the UK to Brasil is through the US, then you're in trouble.
And while the solution to this problem might be to get everyplace equally connected to every other place, that's a rather expensive solution. Maybe a wireless, fast network, with a range of a few thousand miles would be a solution. (ha!) Everyone's comupter should come with a 100Gb/s wireless world-spanning card.
Seriously - would such a shutdown affect US companies' holdings in other contries? Could the US also force WorldCom (et. al.) to down their backbones and/or services in other countries? The situation might get even more out of control...
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Are we talking a voice interview, or an html-based interview? If html-based, then it would be possible for me to include links as part of my interview. In a voice interview it would not. So if it is an html-based interview, and the online news source added more links to my interview, then they would be harming the integrity of my interview.
Writing consists of many parts, one of which is the flow. Thought can be placed in where references go and where they don't, and it is a writers (or poster's) job to know where to include such references and where not to. Though a separate entity adding such links after the fact may not eliminate any of your words, it can alter the meaning, the structure, and the flow of your writing.
-f
I'm surprised that a search hasn't found that word mentioned in any posting yet- the concept of news brings with it the concept of integrity, which Deja's adverts clearly eliminate.
Solutions such as placing ads for said items around the post instead of inside still maintain the post's integrity while offering the same service (to both customer and company), and given such a clean alternative to modifying someone else's words, i find it sick that Deja would instead choose to alter the integrity of my posts.
In one more word: Precedence.
Hotmail.com is a free service too; what if they decide to markup all mail routed through them with adverts of a similar nature? Or what if Bill decides he wants all negative microsoft sentences to be surrounded in a <font color=(same as bgcolor)> tag so that hotmail users can't read anything negative about MS? it's not deleting the content, only modifying it a bit, same as Deja.
-f
trye .cgi?day1/201992048&ticker=mc|bk bof|bkb.
http://sf-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headlin
instead.
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a search on yahoo for "microsoft underwear" will find ya more links
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Propose that congress pass laws that everyone under 16 must use the internet anonymously, so that the Bad People of the world dont know who to stalk/molest. Then if anyone talks of banning anonymity, call them "pro child abuse".
2) hack US's ELF submarine communication system to support IP
3) travel underwater wherever you please, use torpedoes/nukes on potential threats.
minimum weather to worry about, enough power to last a few years at a time, travel over 3/4 of the earth, wireless connection.
anyone here know anything about the possibilities of IP over ELF?
-f
http://www.peruano.org/
www.cybernet.com
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http://www.peruano.org
[frisco@hormiga frisco]$ telnet www.uu.net 80
Trying 208.243.117.123...
Connected to www.uu.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 01:00:28 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
[frisco@hormiga frisco]$
point being, www.uu.net is running apache.
My Suggestions for said protocol:
It's not putting Altavista or yahoo or others out of business b/c you still need those top level servers to query everyone. It's solving the dynamic problem b/c each search site can create it's own DB however it wants, which also still gives Excite and Infoseek and the like a market in which to sell their search engines.
Until this protocol is ready, create static pages from your dynamic content so that the conventional search engines will have something to catalogue.
-f
http://www.peruano.org/