I agree totally however there is a slight problem with all of this. That problem is the rapid changing technology. With standard house wiring the basic underlying technology really hasn't changed a whole lot in 50 years. We still run AC 120/240 Volt copper wires throughout our houses and businesses. Insulation for the copper wires have improved however the technology itself hasn't changed. The problem with wiring a new house with CAT5 cable is that in 5 years or less it will probably not meet the current specs for high speed access, so the question is even if there were some sort of building code what would it be, it would probably change at least every year. One year it would be CAT5 and the next Fibre Optic. The techonology is moving to quickly to standardize it, maybe in 15 years it will reach a plateau but I really doubt it.
Oh, I get it. Some terrorist is going to hack one of these things and then threaten to bring one of them down in a heavily populated area unless his demands are met... bad idea. Even worse, some harmless script kiddie could accidentally plunge one of them into the atmosphere alerting our early warning systems and causing a global political crisis. Very bad idea.
Lets put it this way our Founding Fathers were not only wise men but I would go so far as to say inspired, what other country has as large as population as ours with as stable an economy, and as much world influence as us. The American experiment as I like to call it is one of the greatest achievements of mankind and of our society as a whole. What other country has fostered such growth and innovation as ours?
This election is just another testament of the wisdom of our founding fathers and the greatness of our country. This is not a constitutional crisis, it is merely a test of our system and proof of its soundness and reason. I say long live America, and let the rest of the world stand back and marvel...
Your right, why pay $30 dollars for something that should really be free. Here in Utah, we have a good system going with the Deseret Industries Thrift Stores. You can drop off any of your old PC equipment for absolutely nothing and the parts are either resold on the shelves for excellent prices or refurbished or recycled. IBM's little program won't go anywhere I would guess. People hate to pay their hard earned money to these large corporations for a service that already exists.
While we're on the subject of destroying things does anyone have any good links to "battlebots" or any information on how you might get involved with this. I've got some good ideas for some mean machines myself, I'm just trying to find out how to register or something...
Well at least Gore "invented" the internet... what did Bush invent?
Seriously, though I think Gore did has some influence in helping making the internet what it is today but I think perhaps he takes a little too much credit for it just like him and Clinton taking credit for our booming economy. The great economy is a result of many more factors than one little president and his immediate staff. I think we can thank Alan Greenspan more than anybody and the internet itself for making this happen. Politicians don't always have as much influence as they would like to think. However, in the case os some such as Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan I think we would all agree that they were able to truly make changes in our world, the only think Clinton ever achieved is notariety.
I'm not exactly happy with either candidate at this point in the election but as Ross Perot said on CNN Larry King Live, "It's now come down to who is the better of the two horses". Since I"m sick of Clinton and all his lying etc... I think I'll give the Republicans a chance this time...
They will ultimately fail since all of these media companies just don't seem to get with the times. Whether they like it or not the cat is out of the bag, free distribution of all forms of media is on the rise and will continue to accelerate. I think they will probably cave in to pressure from litigating media giants but maybe two or three years from now the tide will turn... at least I hope so.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
If all it requires is a hack then I don't see the reason why people wouldn't do it. I mean how easy it is to apply some hack to a program on your PC, not too hard. In fact, most computer savvy 12 year olds can easily install any crack or serial you give them. What your talking about are the older generation who don't even know what a "hack" is. But I wouldn't concern myself too much with this generation since they probably aren't the ones recording shows with their VCRs anyway. Lets face it the people the industry is concerned about are the younger generation who are willing to try a few things, unfortunately this same generation is also more than willing to try a simple hack if give that option. Therefore, a new encryption ruling would simply be in vain.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Actually that gives me a idea... why not set up a terminal in your bathroom (waterproof of course) so you can browse the web or send email to your friends/family while your doing the more mundane things of life like using the toilet or relaxing in your tub...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
The only reason why keyboards work so well is that it is a trained skill that is aquired through practice and is kind of like swimming or driving your car, it just comes naturally after a while. This doesn't mean that it is necessarily the most efficient method of transfering our thoughts to a computer however. Right now it is definetly the most widely accepted for of communication with eletronic devices, but I think we are being a little narrow minded here. Take for instance the mouse, if you had explained the idea to someone back in the early days of computers they would have rejected the idea because it is too clunky, sort of like us imagining using a 3D interface.
I think we need to be really openminded and give every concept a try. You never know what might just be around the corner. I mean, as I type this message I find myself dictating the message in my head as I type it. The bottleneck here is how fast my fingers can move not how fast I can think.
I can think up new sentences at least 5 times faster than I can type and my typing is at least 45wpm or better. What we need here is a way to translate our thoughts into characters on a screen. I reject the voice recognition schemes since like others have mentioned it would quickly make anyone hoarse.
Somehow their needs to be an efficient way of moving are thoughts directly into the ones and zeros of the computer. One idea of mine is to eliminate the mouse by using some sort of retinal scanner which can track what we are looking at on the screen then when we want to click on something we simply blink. This idea may have some merit, especially for web browsing.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Wrong. Free only means that the press can get their hands on it and run it through its paces. It is almost expected that if you are an up and coming software developer you will submit your wares to the reviewers like ZDNET and the likes. If you don't its corporate suicide. If your product stinks and they give it a bad review then you probably don't belong in the business anyway. I don't see anything wrong with giving out free software to the press and software evaluators, it is unbiased evaluation and advertising.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
And we thought the rush for the dotcoms was bad... Now that everyone is more aware of the potential worth of domain names the mad rush to grab up names is going to be overwhelming. I'm interested to see exactly how the fair/legal way to allow registration of then new TLDs is going to proceed.
We already have a bunch of big brokers calling every week asking when they can start to "pre-register" names from the new TLDs. This is absolutely insane if you ask me. I sure hope ICANN and the accredited registrars can work out a good plan otherwise all heck is going to break loose.
One way to possibly handle this is only allow registrants of a particular name the ability to register the same name in the new TLDs and then for unregistered names in the.com,.net and.org allow a free for all.
That way we would stop, Joe Blow from registering yahoo.shop but if he comes up with a new domain like joeblowiscool.com he can register whatever he likes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
It amazes me how companies bring these frivolous lawsuits to the courts over absurd issues. If Yesmail was really legitimate they would contact MAPS and would work out whatever issues or problems they might have. Whenever, companies are forced to bring things to a lawsuit you can usuall y expect that there is some foulplay. Obviously, Yesmail is the culprit here, not MAPS. If there business was legit, MAPS would recognize that and they would come to some sort of amiable agreement. Companies such as Yesmail are a blight and should be shut down in my opinion.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
There is nothing at all wrong with an Open Relay in fact if we had less spammers there would probably be many more available for legitimate use. The problem is with the Spammers, I say go after them not the ISP's and others trying to provide relays for us to use.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Hooray for MAPS, maybe if MAPS can win a few more high profile cases and get more media attention it might start making spammers have second thoughts about their clandestine efforts.
I don't think they are abusing their power. I applaud their efforts. Way to go MAPS.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
There is one basic flaw with bio-metric security systems. Even though they seem like a good idea in principle the transmission of the bio-metric information across any network or piece of hardware can always be intercepted by a third party and then simply be re-transmitted to spoof the real user. Ultimately, any bio-metrics gets transmitted into a stream of ones and zeros which can be recorded and then used by a malicous third party. More work is needed in this area to come up with better authentication schemes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I've gone ahead and tested your claims and your right. For high resolution screens it is pointless to use font antialiasing. I also noticed a slight performance increase in my Windows machine. Personally, I hate to read text from a computer screen so if I have any serious reading I usually print it out on the company laser printer here. However, any less strain we can place on our eyes would be certainly much appreciated.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
This is ridiculous. Slashdot is wasting our time and their time interviewing some lame kid who happened to find a security hole in AOL, who cares? Who even cares about AOL, 90% of Slashdot readers don't even use AOL! I can't stand them. Also, this kid has obviously too much time on his hands and his parents are negligent as far as I'm concerned. Heck, when I was a kid my Dad had me out weeding the garden, etc... do you think I had the time to waste on frivoluous exploits. Parents get a clue... the best way to control your kids is keep them BUSY. Get them involved in different clubs, sports, and extracurricular activities. Trust me it is much more healthy for a kid to be involved in these sorts of social activities than to be cooped up in front of a computer all day. Granted some of us like to sit in front of a computer all day, but parents should be smart enough to force their kids to get involved in other things at least until the kid is of age and can make decisions for themselves. What is our society coming to anymore...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
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I agree totally however there is a slight problem with all of this. That problem is the rapid changing technology. With standard house wiring the basic underlying technology really hasn't changed a whole lot in 50 years. We still run AC 120/240 Volt copper wires throughout our houses and businesses. Insulation for the copper wires have improved however the technology itself hasn't changed. The problem with wiring a new house with CAT5 cable is that in 5 years or less it will probably not meet the current specs for high speed access, so the question is even if there were some sort of building code what would it be, it would probably change at least every year. One year it would be CAT5 and the next Fibre Optic. The techonology is moving to quickly to standardize it, maybe in 15 years it will reach a plateau but I really doubt it.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Oh, I get it. Some terrorist is going to hack one of these things and then threaten to bring one of them down in a heavily populated area unless his demands are met... bad idea. Even worse, some harmless script kiddie could accidentally plunge one of them into the atmosphere alerting our early warning systems and causing a global political crisis. Very bad idea.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Lets put it this way our Founding Fathers were not only wise men but I would go so far as to say inspired, what other country has as large as population as ours with as stable an economy, and as much world influence as us. The American experiment as I like to call it is one of the greatest achievements of mankind and of our society as a whole. What other country has fostered such growth and innovation as ours?
This election is just another testament of the wisdom of our founding fathers and the greatness of our country. This is not a constitutional crisis, it is merely a test of our system and proof of its soundness and reason. I say long live America, and let the rest of the world stand back and marvel...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Your right, why pay $30 dollars for something that should really be free. Here in Utah, we have a good system going with the Deseret Industries Thrift Stores. You can drop off any of your old PC equipment for absolutely nothing and the parts are either resold on the shelves for excellent prices or refurbished or recycled. IBM's little program won't go anywhere I would guess. People hate to pay their hard earned money to these large corporations for a service that already exists.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
While we're on the subject of destroying things does anyone have any good links to "battlebots" or any information on how you might get involved with this. I've got some good ideas for some mean machines myself, I'm just trying to find out how to register or something...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Well at least Gore "invented" the internet... what did Bush invent?
Seriously, though I think Gore did has some influence in helping making the internet what it is today but I think perhaps he takes a little too much credit for it just like him and Clinton taking credit for our booming economy. The great economy is a result of many more factors than one little president and his immediate staff. I think we can thank Alan Greenspan more than anybody and the internet itself for making this happen. Politicians don't always have as much influence as they would like to think. However, in the case os some such as Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan I think we would all agree that they were able to truly make changes in our world, the only think Clinton ever achieved is notariety.
I'm not exactly happy with either candidate at this point in the election but as Ross Perot said on CNN Larry King Live, "It's now come down to who is the better of the two horses". Since I"m sick of Clinton and all his lying etc... I think I'll give the Republicans a chance this time...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
Domain Names for $13
Sure try npsis.com
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Bring it on baby, I'm ready for it...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
They will ultimately fail since all of these media companies just don't seem to get with the times. Whether they like it or not the cat is out of the bag, free distribution of all forms of media is on the rise and will continue to accelerate. I think they will probably cave in to pressure from litigating media giants but maybe two or three years from now the tide will turn... at least I hope so.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Actually the correct URL is: Here.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
If all it requires is a hack then I don't see the reason why people wouldn't do it. I mean how easy it is to apply some hack to a program on your PC, not too hard. In fact, most computer savvy 12 year olds can easily install any crack or serial you give them. What your talking about are the older generation who don't even know what a "hack" is. But I wouldn't concern myself too much with this generation since they probably aren't the ones recording shows with their VCRs anyway. Lets face it the people the industry is concerned about are the younger generation who are willing to try a few things, unfortunately this same generation is also more than willing to try a simple hack if give that option. Therefore, a new encryption ruling would simply be in vain.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Does anyone have any historical information as to what the largest asteroid or meteor which has come close to the earth in the last 25 years or so?
Also, what has been the closest call within that time period...
It just amazes me that we have these large asteroids wizzing by the earth all the time but none of them are ever close enough for a collision.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Actually that gives me a idea... why not set up a terminal in your bathroom (waterproof of course) so you can browse the web or send email to your friends/family while your doing the more mundane things of life like using the toilet or relaxing in your tub...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
The only reason why keyboards work so well is that it is a trained skill that is aquired through practice and is kind of like swimming or driving your car, it just comes naturally after a while. This doesn't mean that it is necessarily the most efficient method of transfering our thoughts to a computer however. Right now it is definetly the most widely accepted for of communication with eletronic devices, but I think we are being a little narrow minded here. Take for instance the mouse, if you had explained the idea to someone back in the early days of computers they would have rejected the idea because it is too clunky, sort of like us imagining using a 3D interface.
I think we need to be really openminded and give every concept a try. You never know what might just be around the corner. I mean, as I type this message I find myself dictating the message in my head as I type it. The bottleneck here is how fast my fingers can move not how fast I can think. I can think up new sentences at least 5 times faster than I can type and my typing is at least 45wpm or better. What we need here is a way to translate our thoughts into characters on a screen. I reject the voice recognition schemes since like others have mentioned it would quickly make anyone hoarse.
Somehow their needs to be an efficient way of moving are thoughts directly into the ones and zeros of the computer. One idea of mine is to eliminate the mouse by using some sort of retinal scanner which can track what we are looking at on the screen then when we want to click on something we simply blink. This idea may have some merit, especially for web browsing.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
I've got a 13 year hacker friend who can crack any protection you throw at me... face it they're fighting a lost battle.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Will other registrars such as OpenSRS have the same chance as registering domains as Network Solutions?
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Wrong. Free only means that the press can get their hands on it and run it through its paces. It is almost expected that if you are an up and coming software developer you will submit your wares to the reviewers like ZDNET and the likes. If you don't its corporate suicide. If your product stinks and they give it a bad review then you probably don't belong in the business anyway. I don't see anything wrong with giving out free software to the press and software evaluators, it is unbiased evaluation and advertising.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
And we thought the rush for the dotcoms was bad... Now that everyone is more aware of the potential worth of domain names the mad rush to grab up names is going to be overwhelming. I'm interested to see exactly how the fair/legal way to allow registration of then new TLDs is going to proceed.
.com, .net and .org allow a free for all.
We already have a bunch of big brokers calling every week asking when they can start to "pre-register" names from the new TLDs. This is absolutely insane if you ask me. I sure hope ICANN and the accredited registrars can work out a good plan otherwise all heck is going to break loose.
One way to possibly handle this is only allow registrants of a particular name the ability to register the same name in the new TLDs and then for unregistered names in the
That way we would stop, Joe Blow from registering yahoo.shop but if he comes up with a new domain like joeblowiscool.com he can register whatever he likes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
It amazes me how companies bring these frivolous lawsuits to the courts over absurd issues. If Yesmail was really legitimate they would contact MAPS and would work out whatever issues or problems they might have. Whenever, companies are forced to bring things to a lawsuit you can usuall y expect that there is some foulplay. Obviously, Yesmail is the culprit here, not MAPS. If there business was legit, MAPS would recognize that and they would come to some sort of amiable agreement. Companies such as Yesmail are a blight and should be shut down in my opinion.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
There is nothing at all wrong with an Open Relay in fact if we had less spammers there would probably be many more available for legitimate use. The problem is with the Spammers, I say go after them not the ISP's and others trying to provide relays for us to use.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Hooray for MAPS, maybe if MAPS can win a few more high profile cases and get more media attention it might start making spammers have second thoughts about their clandestine efforts.
I don't think they are abusing their power. I applaud their efforts. Way to go MAPS.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
There is one basic flaw with bio-metric security systems. Even though they seem like a good idea in principle the transmission of the bio-metric information across any network or piece of hardware can always be intercepted by a third party and then simply be re-transmitted to spoof the real user. Ultimately, any bio-metrics gets transmitted into a stream of ones and zeros which can be recorded and then used by a malicous third party. More work is needed in this area to come up with better authentication schemes.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I've gone ahead and tested your claims and your right. For high resolution screens it is pointless to use font antialiasing. I also noticed a slight performance increase in my Windows machine. Personally, I hate to read text from a computer screen so if I have any serious reading I usually print it out on the company laser printer here. However, any less strain we can place on our eyes would be certainly much appreciated.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
This is ridiculous. Slashdot is wasting our time and their time interviewing some lame kid who happened to find a security hole in AOL, who cares? Who even cares about AOL, 90% of Slashdot readers don't even use AOL! I can't stand them. Also, this kid has obviously too much time on his hands and his parents are negligent as far as I'm concerned. Heck, when I was a kid my Dad had me out weeding the garden, etc... do you think I had the time to waste on frivoluous exploits. Parents get a clue... the best way to control your kids is keep them BUSY. Get them involved in different clubs, sports, and extracurricular activities. Trust me it is much more healthy for a kid to be involved in these sorts of social activities than to be cooped up in front of a computer all day. Granted some of us like to sit in front of a computer all day, but parents should be smart enough to force their kids to get involved in other things at least until the kid is of age and can make decisions for themselves. What is our society coming to anymore...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
This is great stuff. Now all FreeBSD needs is a little more security like its brother OpenBSD and we have the perfect operating system
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com