The interesting thing to think about in all of this is that the goal of science is to find the "real" and underlying "truth". Obviously we are still a little way out from this "holy grail" however I would venture to say we have made considerable progress. Somehow, somewhere out there the truth does exist however, and we simply have to find it and realize it. Some would argue that there is no real truth since the universe is inherently chaotic and is constantly reinventing itself. If this were the case then the everyday ordinary things we take for granted (such as the earth revolving around the sun) could just all of a sudden change. Of course our evidence points otherwise, so we can probably safely assume that the "truth" does actually "exist". Now we just need to find it. You are correct in the saying science is a bunch of theories, because in fact until we hit upon the full truth we only have guesses, hypothesis and "partial truths" that may explain one phenomena or another. That is what makes science, particularily physics, so interesting it is a constant quest for "truth" which will never really end until we reach the omega point.
If this were such a good idea then what ever became of the "TV" watches, radio watches, calculator watches etc... Heck I even had one of those cool calculator watches I won in a spelling bee in grade school. The problem here is functional size, no one has finger small enough to actually realistically operate one of these things, additionaly a PDA screen the size of a nickel would quickly destroy the 20/20 vision of most PDA users who already spend half their days straining their necks and eyes looking at glaring CRT tubes.
This one is a dead horse, and I'm not being pessimistic.
I don't know why no one has thought of this yet, or if they have why no one has implemented it yet.
What we need is a smart car that can determine if the driver's alcohol blood level is above the legal limit and affectively shut itself off preventing the drunken driver from taking to the road, it could even be smart enough to call a predetermined number (a close relative etc...) or even call a local cab.
If somehow the driver was able to bypass the systems shutdown security it would then call 911 and alert the police of the possible DUI on the road endangering other local motorists...
Cars with emotions... come on people, lets take care of the basic problems first.
The name really doesn't matter, what is important is the power and clout of the organization and how it is structured and operates. Lets not quibble over semantics, instead focus on the problem at hand... ICANN.
Ok, forget about.biz,.info,.whatever. The heart of the problem is with the institution called "ICANN". Who ever made ICANN the governing body of domains and the internet structure as we know it? Seems to me they sort of self appointed themselves and now have a system in place to keep their little hierarchy afloat...
I think a total reorganization is called for, something akin to the United Nations but for ruling and policing the World Wide Web. Its not called the World Wide Web for nothing. There are no political or geographic boundaries.
I propose that we create an organization called the World Wide Web Consortium. Each country who has a cctld would elect or appoint two representatives from their country. Also to make things more fair the countries with the largest Internet presence would form a sub-group within this framework much like the security council within the U.N.
As a whole this body would then make decisions about country domains and new TLD's like the.biz.info etc...
There would be no one company controlling a monopoly such as Network Solutions (ie. Verisign) or Affilias or NeuBiz. These companies might be contracted however the in the long term best interests, the organization and administration of TLD's should be directly handled the WWWC.
Would you care to provide a better solution to the dilema?
The current method allows for the little guys to have a chance at something that normally for financial reasons they wouldn't even dream of. This is what the American Dream is all about.
Our whole network is being severely bombarded, amazing...
Take a look at the traffic on one of our T1 lines
click here
The downward spike is when our network admin shut everything out for a while as he attempted to reconfigure our router and firewall to stop the attacks...
Actually this bring backs some fond memories when the Slashdot community tried to bring our server down back in '99. The server took the load fine (running good old FreeBSD of course), however our single T1 line pretty much maxed out. Makes me wonder, what kind of ftp server some of these companies and individuals run. I have yet to have a properly configured Unix server, web or otherwise crash from a heavy load. Can't say the same for NT and Win2k of course, they collapse under anything over about 30% load unfortunately.
So is this kind of like Big Blue, I mean if I were to play some of the best poker players with this little programs assistance would I win a majority of matches?
I could see how something like this could really spoil things for Las Vegas...
Its kind of funny how every year there is a big hype in the movies about something or other, one year is was dinosaurs, then tornadoes, then meteors wiping out the earth, and then come the cheaper productions usually a year or so later which are based on one of these particular themes.
Sometimes it can make you wonder about the creativity in Hollywood, I mean take a look at Tomb Raider, even it had something to do with Atlantis...
Oh, well. A movie with Sean Connery and Harrison Ford can't be all that bad, their screen presence alone usually makes up for most of the flaws in the the theme or plot.
My CRT Sony 17 inch monitor is just great for my many applications. At some point all of those "megapixels" just don't matter, the human eye can only resolve detail to about a tenth of a millimeter after that it is pointless to have higher resolutions. Instead of working on the the pixel number companies like sony need to figure out how to make the geometry better with these monitors. I've got 3 sony monitors here and each one has flaws when it comes to making a straight line actually "straight" on the screen. Anybody else with the same troubles?
How many companies are there out there that really have 3TB databases? Not too many I would guess. What I would be more interested in is how robust Linux would be in running multiple small databases (between 10 to 50 Mb). Kind of like "mass virtual hosting" except as a database server. I think this sort of benchmark would be much more valuable and give companies like ours just one more reason to throw away the burden of Microsoft products...
A control panel such as this is hard to make generic for the simple fact that everyone's server configuration is different, some host NT, other Linux and we primarily use FreeBSD, so how do you write a control panel that interacts with all of these different hosting platforms? That is why your not finding a suitable solution. Besides most hosting companies like ourselves tend to develop our own solution to the problem and then why would we give away our proprietary control panel after spending countless of dollars and man hours working on it. You are asking the impossible really. If your new to the webhosting business then be prepared to spend a lot of hours developing and honing your business. There is no "quick fix" just lots of hard work and long nights programming little niceties for your customers benefit.
Some things you can find on the web and integrate or make your own, but most of these solutions at least require some cosmetic alterations and minimal configurations.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
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Map to No where? I don't think so...
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Sure the Genome is complex and at first glance it seems like an undauntable task to make any sense out of it, remember its a biological creation, not a mechanical, man made "computer". Its bound to be complex. However, what it needs to be "decoded" is some super computing power to crunch the numbers, do the math, and then, yes, we will have all of the answers. Now that we have the genome in all of its glory we just need to decode it or make sense of it. However it probably is not going to be a simple one on one correlation as some might have thought, multipe genes and protein combinations probably account for any given physical or mental characteristic of an organism. I leave my faith in the mind numbing, number crunching brute force of our modern computers that are rapidly becoming as complex as some of the biological "machines" that they are decoding.
You are a product of our current generation of violence filled entertainment that I spoke of in my last comment. I prove my point... What ever happened to decency, civility and general respect for are fellow men and women?
As an afterthought, this sort of "thought provoking" entertainment would be much more beneficial to our younger generations than the violence/sex filled smut that gets delivered to them from our current entertainment industry. We would see the decline in Columbine style massacres and violence in our schools.
I think these sorts of competitions are exciting and very educational for the students, I strongl support them. When I was a high school student in B.C. Canada we participated in the Physics Olympics held at University of British Columbia. We had prepared for months, building aparatus and solving problems in electronics. We really had no hope in winning, or so we thought, yet we walked away with the provincial championship that year. My involvement with the club and its teacher/sponsor have profoundly influenced my life and the educational choices I made. If we want to encourage interest in science we should make it fun.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but PCs will never be first class citizens on the NET until everyone either has Cable, DSL or Fiber Optic running to their house and their PC is reliably connected to the NET. That is why up 'till now PC's have always remained second class citizens, its not the PC's fault. Processing power is not a problem here, it CONNECTIVITY. Imagine if your PC and everyone elses were connected to the NET reliably and 24/7, also each PC had it own unique IP address or someway of identifying it (pray for IP V6). Think of the power, the possibilities, that is where we want to be but until we get the reliable bandwidth and permanent "on-all-the-time" connections, this is nothing more than a pipe dream.
Slashdot Mirror
The interesting thing to think about in all of this is that the goal of science is to find the "real" and underlying "truth". Obviously we are still a little way out from this "holy grail" however I would venture to say we have made considerable progress. Somehow, somewhere out there the truth does exist however, and we simply have to find it and realize it. Some would argue that there is no real truth since the universe is inherently chaotic and is constantly reinventing itself. If this were the case then the everyday ordinary things we take for granted (such as the earth revolving around the sun) could just all of a sudden change. Of course our evidence points otherwise, so we can probably safely assume that the "truth" does actually "exist". Now we just need to find it. You are correct in the saying science is a bunch of theories, because in fact until we hit upon the full truth we only have guesses, hypothesis and "partial truths" that may explain one phenomena or another. That is what makes science, particularily physics, so interesting it is a constant quest for "truth" which will never really end until we reach the omega point.
If this were such a good idea then what ever became of the "TV" watches, radio watches, calculator watches etc... Heck I even had one of those cool calculator watches I won in a spelling bee in grade school. The problem here is functional size, no one has finger small enough to actually realistically operate one of these things, additionaly a PDA screen the size of a nickel would quickly destroy the 20/20 vision of most PDA users who already spend half their days straining their necks and eyes looking at glaring CRT tubes.
This one is a dead horse, and I'm not being pessimistic.
Does anyone have any links to view a live feed of this?
How about the loved ones (related cars) of the cars disabled in this horrendous incident... won't they need "Automotive Grief Counseling"?
I don't know why no one has thought of this yet, or if they have why no one has implemented it yet.
What we need is a smart car that can determine if the driver's alcohol blood level is above the legal limit and affectively shut itself off preventing the drunken driver from taking to the road, it could even be smart enough to call a predetermined number (a close relative etc...) or even call a local cab.
If somehow the driver was able to bypass the systems shutdown security it would then call 911 and alert the police of the possible DUI on the road endangering other local motorists...
Cars with emotions... come on people, lets take care of the basic problems first.
True... name it something different.
How about: UNWWW or UNI etc...
The name really doesn't matter, what is important is the power and clout of the organization and how it is structured and operates. Lets not quibble over semantics, instead focus on the problem at hand... ICANN.
Ok, forget about .biz, .info, .whatever. The heart of the problem is with the institution called "ICANN". Who ever made ICANN the governing body of domains and the internet structure as we know it? Seems to me they sort of self appointed themselves and now have a system in place to keep their little hierarchy afloat...
.biz .info etc...
I think a total reorganization is called for, something akin to the United Nations but for ruling and policing the World Wide Web. Its not called the World Wide Web for nothing. There are no political or geographic boundaries.
I propose that we create an organization called the World Wide Web Consortium. Each country who has a cctld would elect or appoint two representatives from their country. Also to make things more fair the countries with the largest Internet presence would form a sub-group within this framework much like the security council within the U.N.
As a whole this body would then make decisions about country domains and new TLD's like the
There would be no one company controlling a monopoly such as Network Solutions (ie. Verisign) or Affilias or NeuBiz. These companies might be contracted however the in the long term best interests, the organization and administration of TLD's should be directly handled the WWWC.
Just some food for thought...
Would you care to provide a better solution to the dilema?
The current method allows for the little guys to have a chance at something that normally for financial reasons they wouldn't even dream of. This is what the American Dream is all about.
Take a look at this:
Slashdot.info
Yeah, check out http://www.slashdot.info
Cool huh.
Our whole network is being severely bombarded, amazing...
Take a look at the traffic on one of our T1 lines click here
The downward spike is when our network admin shut everything out for a while as he attempted to reconfigure our router and firewall to stop the attacks...
Actually this bring backs some fond memories when the Slashdot community tried to bring our server down back in '99. The server took the load fine (running good old FreeBSD of course), however our single T1 line pretty much maxed out. Makes me wonder, what kind of ftp server some of these companies and individuals run. I have yet to have a properly configured Unix server, web or otherwise crash from a heavy load. Can't say the same for NT and Win2k of course, they collapse under anything over about 30% load unfortunately.
Another site, destroyed by the /. frenzy... Please people.
I just pre-registered for slashdot.info, with the round robin registration system, who knows... I might even get it.
So is this kind of like Big Blue, I mean if I were to play some of the best poker players with this little programs assistance would I win a majority of matches?
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I could see how something like this could really spoil things for Las Vegas...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Does anyone even really know what this ".NET" thing is all about? If so please explain...
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Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
What is with all the "atlantis" hype lately??
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Its kind of funny how every year there is a big hype in the movies about something or other, one year is was dinosaurs, then tornadoes, then meteors wiping out the earth, and then come the cheaper productions usually a year or so later which are based on one of these particular themes.
Sometimes it can make you wonder about the creativity in Hollywood, I mean take a look at Tomb Raider, even it had something to do with Atlantis...
Oh, well. A movie with Sean Connery and Harrison Ford can't be all that bad, their screen presence alone usually makes up for most of the flaws in the the theme or plot.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
My CRT Sony 17 inch monitor is just great for my many applications. At some point all of those "megapixels" just don't matter, the human eye can only resolve detail to about a tenth of a millimeter after that it is pointless to have higher resolutions. Instead of working on the the pixel number companies like sony need to figure out how to make the geometry better with these monitors. I've got 3 sony monitors here and each one has flaws when it comes to making a straight line actually "straight" on the screen. Anybody else with the same troubles?
.biz and .info for $13
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
How many companies are there out there that really have 3TB databases? Not too many I would guess. What I would be more interested in is how robust Linux would be in running multiple small databases (between 10 to 50 Mb). Kind of like "mass virtual hosting" except as a database server. I think this sort of benchmark would be much more valuable and give companies like ours just one more reason to throw away the burden of Microsoft products...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
A control panel such as this is hard to make generic for the simple fact that everyone's server configuration is different, some host NT, other Linux and we primarily use FreeBSD, so how do you write a control panel that interacts with all of these different hosting platforms? That is why your not finding a suitable solution. Besides most hosting companies like ourselves tend to develop our own solution to the problem and then why would we give away our proprietary control panel after spending countless of dollars and man hours working on it. You are asking the impossible really. If your new to the webhosting business then be prepared to spend a lot of hours developing and honing your business. There is no "quick fix" just lots of hard work and long nights programming little niceties for your customers benefit.
Some things you can find on the web and integrate or make your own, but most of these solutions at least require some cosmetic alterations and minimal configurations.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Sure the Genome is complex and at first glance it seems like an undauntable task to make any sense out of it, remember its a biological creation, not a mechanical, man made "computer". Its bound to be complex. However, what it needs to be "decoded" is some super computing power to crunch the numbers, do the math, and then, yes, we will have all of the answers. Now that we have the genome in all of its glory we just need to decode it or make sense of it. However it probably is not going to be a simple one on one correlation as some might have thought, multipe genes and protein combinations probably account for any given physical or mental characteristic of an organism. I leave my faith in the mind numbing, number crunching brute force of our modern computers that are rapidly becoming as complex as some of the biological "machines" that they are decoding.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
You are a product of our current generation of violence filled entertainment that I spoke of in my last comment. I prove my point... What ever happened to decency, civility and general respect for are fellow men and women?
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
As an afterthought, this sort of "thought provoking" entertainment would be much more beneficial to our younger generations than the violence/sex filled smut that gets delivered to them from our current entertainment industry. We would see the decline in Columbine style massacres and violence in our schools.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
I think these sorts of competitions are exciting and very educational for the students, I strongl support them. When I was a high school student in B.C. Canada we participated in the Physics Olympics held at University of British Columbia. We had prepared for months, building aparatus and solving problems in electronics. We really had no hope in winning, or so we thought, yet we walked away with the provincial championship that year. My involvement with the club and its teacher/sponsor have profoundly influenced my life and the educational choices I made. If we want to encourage interest in science we should make it fun.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but PCs will never be first class citizens on the NET until everyone either has Cable, DSL or Fiber Optic running to their house and their PC is reliably connected to the NET. That is why up 'till now PC's have always remained second class citizens, its not the PC's fault. Processing power is not a problem here, it CONNECTIVITY. Imagine if your PC and everyone elses were connected to the NET reliably and 24/7, also each PC had it own unique IP address or someway of identifying it (pray for IP V6). Think of the power, the possibilities, that is where we want to be but until we get the reliable bandwidth and permanent "on-all-the-time" connections, this is nothing more than a pipe dream.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13