Obviosuly you haven't read anything about Intel's roadmap, and you have certainly glanced over certain details. First of all, Intel did not cancel the P4 4.0 GHz. They canceled their Prescott-based P4 4.0 GHz. Their Cedar Mill processor, a redesign of a pretty crappy Prescott core, will go way beyond it (believe me, it's already running beyond it in the R&D labs). And IBM is in a very interesting position. Yes, they're helping with the design and manufacturing (eventually) of the Cell, but they do have the huge task to tackle of overcoming x86. This is the main reason Intel is having issues with their Itanium; people need to rewrite their software, and they just don't want to. AMD is there with 64-bit, but what does that really buy you? More memory address space? How many people at home really want over 4 GB of RAM and want to try convincing their game vendors to recompile for 64-bit addressing (at this point)? So AMD and Intel are aiming their 64-bit x86 procs at the workstation/mid-range server market. Now here is where IBM is really in an interesting position; they are an investor in AMD. They help AMD with their bills to manufacture and design. Seems kinda strange they'd want to sit on Intel when they'd be sitting on another investment prospect at the same time.
Now the most interesting part is IBM is now out of the desktop market. They sold that to China. It's highly doubtful they'd OEM their processors to someone like Dell or HP to build workstations, but who knows. And if they use this in servers, they'd kill their POWER line. This is the same argument people make with Intel, saying that them going to x86-64 bit will kill Itanium.
Now all of this means nothing until someone actually steps up and announces they're writing an OS that will natively support the Cell architecture, and then the little fact of all the other vendors having to redesign and rebuild their software (not to mention compilers being designed and built, etc.) to build everything on Cell.
I really see this architecture being used in specialized purposes, such as console gaming boxes, which are already very specialized and custom in terms of software. Perhaps mobile computing; but not the PC, at least not in the near future. Too much needs to change to make that happen, and I'm confident that AMD and Intel (let's not forget Samsung) would be able to make something equivalent or competitive by the time the current PC market is ready to be rolled by the next big thing.
I wouldn't eat that just yet...Let's see here. We have a timeline: right here. Kennedy was the new liberal on the scene, which would be the start of your "pendulum swing." What's that under 1965? First American combat troops arrive? Granted we were there training South Vietnamese troops, but we weren't in a war yet.
Now in another timeline outlining the early 60's and another policy of Kennedy (here), take a look at 1961. The Bay of Pigs. Another military action, one that we all know went terribly wrong.
My point: conservatives are not the only ones who have policies that actually involve military action. A government will do what is necessary (as did Kennedy and Johnson, as well as Eisenhower) to achieve their agenda. Clinton attempted to do this in Somalia, Bush went to Kuwait, and W. Bush is in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you look at history, both sides of politics have gone to war and/or had military actions, some terribly gruesome (Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq), but one side has not been the instigator and the other the saint.
The US was stuck in the same if not worse conservative ignorant situation in the late 50's - early 60's. Then the pendulum swung back with a vengeance.
Are you referring to Vietnam? Hmm...people attribute the current war in Iraq as a product of the conservative ignorance, but here, Vietnam happened when you state the pendulum swung back away from such a horrible thing.
For the most part you're correct. In the old days, people used Xlib. There was no true concept of widgets, but if you wanted something bad enough, you made it work. In some sick sense there was/is a widget library, but it pales in comparison for ease of use alongside GTK+/Gnome and KDE these days.
I've not written anything meaningful using Xlib directly, but I work with people who have and who do; it is an exercise in extreme pain and love at the same time, and I'd strongly recommend using one of said toolkits for any/all GUI development.
No, this is not the case. It never made press; this person was in Oregon. He never made death threats, or tried to blow up a plant. He was much closer to the operations than this person. Nice try though.
And yes, this is the company...
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I work at a large semiconductor company (not to name names, but a really big, US, SC-based one) that had a recently fired employee wreak havoc on one of the factories' databases as a result of his termination. Basically he used his not-yet-cancelled remote access, and deleted a critical DB. Now this isn't hacking in the sense of rooting a remote exploit, but it's malicious intent nonetheless on computer systems. It was obvious what happened (the factory stopped running), and very quickly we were able to track down the last few commands logged, where they came from, etc., etc. How it was handled was actually an FBI case. We turned it over to the security department at our company, and they worked with the FBI; we were asked questions by the men in black, and this person was eventually arrested and put away in a dark, dank hole.
Not sure if this is the norm, but I'd figure when corporations and expensive IP is involved, government-sanctioned agencies will be in the forefront of people investigating, IMHO.
What about good job Intel? I see nowhere in this entire set of postings a nod to Intel? Sure, Intel has had the suck of suck lately in PR, but the brains behind this whole SGI monster are IA64 Itanium 2 processors. I certainly concede the SGI interconnects for the cluster are absolutely awesome, but as others have pointed out, if your cluster has killer software with crappy hardware, or killer hardware and crappy software, then your cluster sucks. 2+2=4 here.
"If you're a parent and your child is withdrawing, you might wonder if your kid is getting into pot or cocaine,"
I lived for playing soccer (for you American folk) and touch football (still American) with my buddies as I was growing up. I got excited during the week knowing I had a big game coming up that weekend. Obviously I must have been addicted to cocaine or crack. There's no other explanation why I would be interested or excited about something I liked or cared about...obviously I was snorting the yard lines on the field.
haven't look into Grantsdale processor yet, assuming it will be used in a laptop
Grantsdale is a derivitave of the Northwood process used to make the majority of P4's (I work at Intel, trust me on the product evolution here...). Grantsdale was certainly not intended to be soley laptop-grade chipsets, in fact, it is intended to be in high-end desktops, boasting the 7.1 Dolby sound, GigE network, and Serial ATA, to name a few features. In the marketplace, it's known as i915 and i925 (as far as I'm aware right now of what we're actually marketing). I hope this helps distinguish what's out there and what the intentions of it are.
That would be like me complaining that Clinton shouldn't have one his first term, because the MAJORITY didn't want him; they just couldn't decide between Bush-the-Elder and Perot. Of course, I know that Clinton won fairly, as the system dictates, so I didn't whine. I didn't like it, but I didn't whine.
Please explain to me how this type of a comment attracts a loaded comment about this person's OS, disposition on Microsoft, etc.? He stated an opinion, and everyone is entitled to it. Actually, in his post, he quoted opinions from other articles and thoughts from other people in 1996 and 2000...again, nothing to do with his disposition on big-bad M$.
I found no humor in this follow-up, and find it abominable that anyone would mod someone 'flamebait' when they state their opinion, which is not stated as an inflammatory remark, etc. Only if I could meta-moderate that assignment...
As much as I am a Linux/open-source advocate, and do not like how Microsoft does its business today, I have a few things to point out about Microsoft and Bill Gates.
1. How much of KDE and Gnome (now be honest) and any other "popular" window manager for X is trying to mimick the better parts of MS Windows (the only way to take the market is to emulate it, and make it work better)? 2. Gates and Microsoft, as much as people don't want to admit, drove the PC into the mainstream use for end-user consumers. Microsoft followed others such as DEC, Sun, etc., and had something that ran on hardware of the day for academic and commercial reasons, and then took a leap (albeit Apple was already there in small representation, and Xerox just didn't market their workstation as effectively as MS did), and voila! They made a new market of people who found the usefulness of a computer at home. 3. Being an avid gamer (in my copious amounts of spare time *grin*), I need to ask this question. Since Bill Gates didn't complete college, you're saying he doesn't know much about computer science, and therefore he really can't contribute to the field. Take John Carmack, as an example. He dropped out of college after 2 semesters. He is the person that video card manufacturers worship in the hopes he uses their architecture to pioneer the next-generation of gaming. Is he someone you'd also consider not contributing to the advance of the computer science world?
If anything, Gates drove a company that put computer science on the map. There were many before him, and MANY after him, but he really can be credited to be behind the machine that made PC's mainstream. Please put your personal bias aside when posting about things like this. I'm sure if Carmack were to donate money to a college to buy a building, people would think that would just be damn cool, not a hypocrisy to computer science.
Overall, having accurate information in the WHOIS database I think is essential for the ever-growing registration of web spaces on the Internet. However, just having "valid" data in the current database really won't cut it, as previous posts have stated with spammers conveniently using this as a virtual picking ground for targets.
What there needs to be, IMHO, is a re-vamp of how WHOIS works in storing data, and how the domain registrars handle that data. Things like admin email accounts and contact information (phone numbers, addresses, etc.) should be required to register, but should be in a database maintained by the registrar, and is not available to the rest of the population. If someone has a problem with you (spamming from your domain, etc.), it should be the registrar's issue, since they sold you the domain name. They should be the point of contact, and in turn send you mail with the question or complaint. This will protect people's privacy from the would-be spammer, and then give the government accurate information on who owns what. I don't agree with the whole BB thing either, but having accountability for what one has on his/her website needs to be enforced to a point, and having this data up to date will help enforce that.
Very good point. That statement was meant to be disjoint from the former statement...some a good programmers, and some of them work idiodic hours. They don't go hand in hand in my book; just an observation.
I have to say that this is kinda interesting and rather comforting to hear the Indian government's interest in the idealogies of open source, ala RMS. I work for a rather large corporation in the US that makes lots of processors, and the going jokes always involve something with our jobs migrating to India. In any case, it'd be nice to see that open source is embraced there. They have some excellent programmers (who work something like 16-20 hours a day) who, if applied to open source, could really contribute to the movement. Aligned with the fact that Bangalore recently surpassed Silicon Valley with the greatest number of technology jobs, let's just hope those jobs are working on the things that will benefit the OSDN.
Interesting utopian ideas. Amazing what really is out there, but when you think how far capitalism has taken us, and what something like this would do to capitalism (specifically the petroleum and fossil fuel business), you'd wonder if certain regimes would ever let it off the ground. But then again, if they all burn, there's always a new place to start.:-)
I want my R2 totally equipped with the side boosters and the ability to fire a light saber across the Sarlaac pit monster. Until then, I'll get my own damn beer.
I recently graduated from a small private University in Pennsylvania, and we used mostly free software (Linux and *BSD) to have our classes on. However, when it came to Oracle and COBOL, the most "supported" versions were on AIX and Solaris, and that cost money. I don't know what schools some people went to, but my school certainly didn't have the cash to dish out to "test" the software to make sure it fit into their environment. Even if taking a piece of software that's not licensed, but not "pirated" in the sense that Sun doesn't know that you have a copy of Solaris 8 running aronud, I think that schools should have the option of at least giving software a trial run. When we put in a Sun running Solaris 2.6, it hated all the Linux clients on the subnet due to NFS SVC 3.0 and the Linux kernel on V2. If we knew it would be such a pain in the ass, we would have stuck to AIX. I just think that schools should be given a break, especially since corporations love gouging other corporations for the cash. Just my thoughts.
How much is spent now (or will be spent in the future) on cleaning up the environment due to emissions from fossil-fuel plants? Over the next 100 years, how much do you estimate that clean-up bill will cost? I would suspect it would top whatever price tag this project has. Now, I hope to not be around in 100 years, so who cares....
Growing debris in space??
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How about the debris on earth caused by all the satellites falling out of orbit?
Although the whole idea of building an orbiting train is cool, the article fails to mention *why* they are building it. If the train track run 107 meters, and goes 2.5 cm/sec, without stopping, it will take 71 minutes to go from end to end. To do what? Carry 20 tons? What do they have up there that is 20 tons that they're moving? I don't remember how much of a cost NASA quoted before to carry something like a gallon of water into space on the shuttle, but if they're sending 20 tons of something up there, why?? The idea of the train is really cool, but beyond that, I really don't get it. Anyone have insight?
Personally I think this is great news. I live in Portland, Oregon, and keep watching my DSL provider (a local serve-to-certain-apartment-complex provider with mad bandwidth) take it up the butt by Verizon whenever they need line upgrades, since Verizon owns the actual copper. I'm all for competition, but Verizon is beating the life out of my DSL provider, and offers crap compared to these guys. Hopefully CA will do a good job with this, and it will catch on.
Based on this last comment in the article, what are we supposed to do?
...scientists predict the warming will bring with it a rise in the number of so-called "extreme weather events" such as ice storms, droughts and hurricanes. "That's what worries me the most," Dr. Beltrami says.
Ok, that is something to worry about. We all know they are events on the planet (and off the planet) that we can't control that impact our lives greatly: earthquakes, hurricanes, global climate change, etc. Is all this research being done so we know how bad life is going to become or do these scientists believe they may actually be able to do something to stop nature's course?
The RFC is clear, but is there a metric going with it measuring how much compliance to it is kept? Having 48 hours of backup power to the internet is great in theory, but are the 13 or so root servers that robust?
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Obviosuly you haven't read anything about Intel's roadmap, and you have certainly glanced over certain details. First of all, Intel did not cancel the P4 4.0 GHz. They canceled their Prescott-based P4 4.0 GHz. Their Cedar Mill processor, a redesign of a pretty crappy Prescott core, will go way beyond it (believe me, it's already running beyond it in the R&D labs). And IBM is in a very interesting position. Yes, they're helping with the design and manufacturing (eventually) of the Cell, but they do have the huge task to tackle of overcoming x86. This is the main reason Intel is having issues with their Itanium; people need to rewrite their software, and they just don't want to. AMD is there with 64-bit, but what does that really buy you? More memory address space? How many people at home really want over 4 GB of RAM and want to try convincing their game vendors to recompile for 64-bit addressing (at this point)? So AMD and Intel are aiming their 64-bit x86 procs at the workstation/mid-range server market. Now here is where IBM is really in an interesting position; they are an investor in AMD. They help AMD with their bills to manufacture and design. Seems kinda strange they'd want to sit on Intel when they'd be sitting on another investment prospect at the same time.
Now the most interesting part is IBM is now out of the desktop market. They sold that to China. It's highly doubtful they'd OEM their processors to someone like Dell or HP to build workstations, but who knows. And if they use this in servers, they'd kill their POWER line. This is the same argument people make with Intel, saying that them going to x86-64 bit will kill Itanium.
Now all of this means nothing until someone actually steps up and announces they're writing an OS that will natively support the Cell architecture, and then the little fact of all the other vendors having to redesign and rebuild their software (not to mention compilers being designed and built, etc.) to build everything on Cell.
I really see this architecture being used in specialized purposes, such as console gaming boxes, which are already very specialized and custom in terms of software. Perhaps mobile computing; but not the PC, at least not in the near future. Too much needs to change to make that happen, and I'm confident that AMD and Intel (let's not forget Samsung) would be able to make something equivalent or competitive by the time the current PC market is ready to be rolled by the next big thing.
I wouldn't eat that just yet...Let's see here. We have a timeline: right here. Kennedy was the new liberal on the scene, which would be the start of your "pendulum swing." What's that under 1965? First American combat troops arrive? Granted we were there training South Vietnamese troops, but we weren't in a war yet.
Now in another timeline outlining the early 60's and another policy of Kennedy (here), take a look at 1961. The Bay of Pigs. Another military action, one that we all know went terribly wrong.
My point: conservatives are not the only ones who have policies that actually involve military action. A government will do what is necessary (as did Kennedy and Johnson, as well as Eisenhower) to achieve their agenda. Clinton attempted to do this in Somalia, Bush went to Kuwait, and W. Bush is in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you look at history, both sides of politics have gone to war and/or had military actions, some terribly gruesome (Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq), but one side has not been the instigator and the other the saint.
The US was stuck in the same if not worse conservative ignorant situation in the late 50's - early 60's. Then the pendulum swung back with a vengeance.
Are you referring to Vietnam? Hmm...people attribute the current war in Iraq as a product of the conservative ignorance, but here, Vietnam happened when you state the pendulum swung back away from such a horrible thing.
You can't have your cake and eat it to.
For the most part you're correct. In the old days, people used Xlib. There was no true concept of widgets, but if you wanted something bad enough, you made it work. In some sick sense there was/is a widget library, but it pales in comparison for ease of use alongside GTK+/Gnome and KDE these days.
I've not written anything meaningful using Xlib directly, but I work with people who have and who do; it is an exercise in extreme pain and love at the same time, and I'd strongly recommend using one of said toolkits for any/all GUI development.
No, this is not the case. It never made press; this person was in Oregon. He never made death threats, or tried to blow up a plant. He was much closer to the operations than this person. Nice try though.
And yes, this is the company...
I work at a large semiconductor company (not to name names, but a really big, US, SC-based one) that had a recently fired employee wreak havoc on one of the factories' databases as a result of his termination. Basically he used his not-yet-cancelled remote access, and deleted a critical DB. Now this isn't hacking in the sense of rooting a remote exploit, but it's malicious intent nonetheless on computer systems. It was obvious what happened (the factory stopped running), and very quickly we were able to track down the last few commands logged, where they came from, etc., etc. How it was handled was actually an FBI case. We turned it over to the security department at our company, and they worked with the FBI; we were asked questions by the men in black, and this person was eventually arrested and put away in a dark, dank hole.
Not sure if this is the norm, but I'd figure when corporations and expensive IP is involved, government-sanctioned agencies will be in the forefront of people investigating, IMHO.
What about good job Intel? I see nowhere in this entire set of postings a nod to Intel? Sure, Intel has had the suck of suck lately in PR, but the brains behind this whole SGI monster are IA64 Itanium 2 processors. I certainly concede the SGI interconnects for the cluster are absolutely awesome, but as others have pointed out, if your cluster has killer software with crappy hardware, or killer hardware and crappy software, then your cluster sucks. 2+2=4 here.
"If you're a parent and your child is withdrawing, you might wonder if your kid is getting into pot or cocaine,"
I lived for playing soccer (for you American folk) and touch football (still American) with my buddies as I was growing up. I got excited during the week knowing I had a big game coming up that weekend. Obviously I must have been addicted to cocaine or crack. There's no other explanation why I would be interested or excited about something I liked or cared about...obviously I was snorting the yard lines on the field.
haven't look into Grantsdale processor yet, assuming it will be used in a laptop
Grantsdale is a derivitave of the Northwood process used to make the majority of P4's (I work at Intel, trust me on the product evolution here...). Grantsdale was certainly not intended to be soley laptop-grade chipsets, in fact, it is intended to be in high-end desktops, boasting the 7.1 Dolby sound, GigE network, and Serial ATA, to name a few features. In the marketplace, it's known as i915 and i925 (as far as I'm aware right now of what we're actually marketing). I hope this helps distinguish what's out there and what the intentions of it are.
That would be like me complaining that Clinton shouldn't have one his first term, because the MAJORITY didn't want him; they just couldn't decide between Bush-the-Elder and Perot. Of course, I know that Clinton won fairly, as the system dictates, so I didn't whine. I didn't like it, but I didn't whine.
Please explain to me how this type of a comment attracts a loaded comment about this person's OS, disposition on Microsoft, etc.? He stated an opinion, and everyone is entitled to it. Actually, in his post, he quoted opinions from other articles and thoughts from other people in 1996 and 2000...again, nothing to do with his disposition on big-bad M$.
I found no humor in this follow-up, and find it abominable that anyone would mod someone 'flamebait' when they state their opinion, which is not stated as an inflammatory remark, etc. Only if I could meta-moderate that assignment...
Sup Brian. See that you're keeping ahead of the curve on exploding stuff. :-)
-PJ
As much as I am a Linux/open-source advocate, and do not like how Microsoft does its business today, I have a few things to point out about Microsoft and Bill Gates.
1. How much of KDE and Gnome (now be honest) and any other "popular" window manager for X is trying to mimick the better parts of MS Windows (the only way to take the market is to emulate it, and make it work better)?
2. Gates and Microsoft, as much as people don't want to admit, drove the PC into the mainstream use for end-user consumers. Microsoft followed others such as DEC, Sun, etc., and had something that ran on hardware of the day for academic and commercial reasons, and then took a leap (albeit Apple was already there in small representation, and Xerox just didn't market their workstation as effectively as MS did), and voila! They made a new market of people who found the usefulness of a computer at home.
3. Being an avid gamer (in my copious amounts of spare time *grin*), I need to ask this question. Since Bill Gates didn't complete college, you're saying he doesn't know much about computer science, and therefore he really can't contribute to the field. Take John Carmack, as an example. He dropped out of college after 2 semesters. He is the person that video card manufacturers worship in the hopes he uses their architecture to pioneer the next-generation of gaming. Is he someone you'd also consider not contributing to the advance of the computer science world?
If anything, Gates drove a company that put computer science on the map. There were many before him, and MANY after him, but he really can be credited to be behind the machine that made PC's mainstream. Please put your personal bias aside when posting about things like this. I'm sure if Carmack were to donate money to a college to buy a building, people would think that would just be damn cool, not a hypocrisy to computer science.
Overall, having accurate information in the WHOIS database I think is essential for the ever-growing registration of web spaces on the Internet. However, just having "valid" data in the current database really won't cut it, as previous posts have stated with spammers conveniently using this as a virtual picking ground for targets.
What there needs to be, IMHO, is a re-vamp of how WHOIS works in storing data, and how the domain registrars handle that data. Things like admin email accounts and contact information (phone numbers, addresses, etc.) should be required to register, but should be in a database maintained by the registrar, and is not available to the rest of the population. If someone has a problem with you (spamming from your domain, etc.), it should be the registrar's issue, since they sold you the domain name. They should be the point of contact, and in turn send you mail with the question or complaint. This will protect people's privacy from the would-be spammer, and then give the government accurate information on who owns what. I don't agree with the whole BB thing either, but having accountability for what one has on his/her website needs to be enforced to a point, and having this data up to date will help enforce that.
Very good point. That statement was meant to be disjoint from the former statement...some a good programmers, and some of them work idiodic hours. They don't go hand in hand in my book; just an observation.
I have to say that this is kinda interesting and rather comforting to hear the Indian government's interest in the idealogies of open source, ala RMS. I work for a rather large corporation in the US that makes lots of processors, and the going jokes always involve something with our jobs migrating to India. In any case, it'd be nice to see that open source is embraced there. They have some excellent programmers (who work something like 16-20 hours a day) who, if applied to open source, could really contribute to the movement. Aligned with the fact that Bangalore recently surpassed Silicon Valley with the greatest number of technology jobs, let's just hope those jobs are working on the things that will benefit the OSDN.
Interesting utopian ideas. Amazing what really is out there, but when you think how far capitalism has taken us, and what something like this would do to capitalism (specifically the petroleum and fossil fuel business), you'd wonder if certain regimes would ever let it off the ground. But then again, if they all burn, there's always a new place to start. :-)
/pj
I want my R2 totally equipped with the side boosters and the ability to fire a light saber across the Sarlaac pit monster. Until then, I'll get my own damn beer.
I recently graduated from a small private University in Pennsylvania, and we used mostly free software (Linux and *BSD) to have our classes on. However, when it came to Oracle and COBOL, the most "supported" versions were on AIX and Solaris, and that cost money. I don't know what schools some people went to, but my school certainly didn't have the cash to dish out to "test" the software to make sure it fit into their environment. Even if taking a piece of software that's not licensed, but not "pirated" in the sense that Sun doesn't know that you have a copy of Solaris 8 running aronud, I think that schools should have the option of at least giving software a trial run. When we put in a Sun running Solaris 2.6, it hated all the Linux clients on the subnet due to NFS SVC 3.0 and the Linux kernel on V2. If we knew it would be such a pain in the ass, we would have stuck to AIX. I just think that schools should be given a break, especially since corporations love gouging other corporations for the cash. Just my thoughts.
...they can send you a bill even when you're trying to screw with your friends and drive their cars into town...
How much is spent now (or will be spent in the future) on cleaning up the environment due to emissions from fossil-fuel plants? Over the next 100 years, how much do you estimate that clean-up bill will cost? I would suspect it would top whatever price tag this project has. Now, I hope to not be around in 100 years, so who cares....
How about the debris on earth caused by all the satellites falling out of orbit?
Although the whole idea of building an orbiting train is cool, the article fails to mention *why* they are building it. If the train track run 107 meters, and goes 2.5 cm/sec, without stopping, it will take 71 minutes to go from end to end. To do what? Carry 20 tons? What do they have up there that is 20 tons that they're moving? I don't remember how much of a cost NASA quoted before to carry something like a gallon of water into space on the shuttle, but if they're sending 20 tons of something up there, why?? The idea of the train is really cool, but beyond that, I really don't get it. Anyone have insight?
Personally I think this is great news. I live in Portland, Oregon, and keep watching my DSL provider (a local serve-to-certain-apartment-complex provider with mad bandwidth) take it up the butt by Verizon whenever they need line upgrades, since Verizon owns the actual copper. I'm all for competition, but Verizon is beating the life out of my DSL provider, and offers crap compared to these guys. Hopefully CA will do a good job with this, and it will catch on.
Based on this last comment in the article, what are we supposed to do?
...scientists predict the warming will bring with it a rise in the number of so-called "extreme weather events" such as ice storms, droughts and hurricanes.
"That's what worries me the most," Dr. Beltrami says.
Ok, that is something to worry about. We all know they are events on the planet (and off the planet) that we can't control that impact our lives greatly: earthquakes, hurricanes, global climate change, etc. Is all this research being done so we know how bad life is going to become or do these scientists believe they may actually be able to do something to stop nature's course?
The RFC is clear, but is there a metric going with it measuring how much compliance to it is kept? Having 48 hours of backup power to the internet is great in theory, but are the 13 or so root servers that robust?