Here's a frightening thought. Ever see what happens to metal when it's put in the microwave? What if you're carrying your keys in your pocket and you get zapped by this thing?
So what is to prevent Verisign from abusing the system that they would presumably control and then manipulating the process to their benefit? We've already seen or heard of problems with domains that seem to get taken only minutes after being checked against the web-based whois database at networksolutions.com. Who is going to be the watchdog to make sure that the registry itself doesn't get manipulated to serve the interests of Verisign?
Lots of books in the libraries, can't fry those
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After the various failsafe systems like nuclear power plants and such ultimately fail, and the world settles out, the business of reacquiring our lost technology will commence. The good thing here is that while the systems that built others will be fried, the people will not be. We still have multitudes of old programmers around who built the first vacuum tube systems and their transistor descendants and they would be called upon to lend their expertise in rebuilding the techno-empire.
It would start with the reconstruction of the first simple electronic appliances like telegraphs and telephones, then progress to IC's and such, and ultimately, one system will end up building the next one, and so forth until we get back to where we are today. We hopefully have documented to some extent how to reconstruct these simple systems (go to your local university's engineering library for multitudes of info), so I'm not worried too much about the rebuilding of legacy items. Recent technological advances may be more difficult to reconstruct due to the proprietary nature of many new hardwares and softwares, but we ought to be able to persevere.
The hardest part will be getting people to readjust to a "pioneer" style of life while things get rebuilt. Those that are severely technology dependant will suffer the most, those that actually do things that don't involve computers, electricity, etc, will adapt the best. We'd have a brief return to an agarian-based economy, but our own knowledge of agriculture is so far advanced from say even 50-100 years ago so we'd probably be alright. The big cities would have a major problem though since most are heavily technology dependant, and being trapped in NYC in this situation is not a place I'd like to be.
Overall, we'd suffer a little, possibly reintroduce a long-needed round of Darwinism to our species, and eventually we'd get back to prosperity. Europe did it following the fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages, and they didn't have one iota of the knowledge that we possess today. We'll be ok.
This does have one VERY special benefit
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Business-speak and legalese would vanish in the blink of an eye...
If you're not completely sure that you wish to pursue one path or the other, don't choose. Do both. Of course, I'm hyping my own school's program, but the Computer Science & Engineering curriculum at Ohio State is broad enough to give you both the science aspect of the CS world as well as the engineering background to be able to apply that science background towards the development of real world things.
I chose the CSE track with a specialization in Information Systems which means that I have the science, engineering, and business backgrounds on my resume, and although this is a LOT of work to accomplish, the applications of that path are very rewarding.
Most of all, do whatever you want to do. At some point, you'll probably change your mind on what you like doing, so also try to make sure that your studies are broad-based enough to give you options to pursue if/when that day comes.
There's really no way that they can be making money on this project, marginal at best. Compared to other players in the low-end desktop arena, this is comparably priced, but its value comes in that you'll have a single source for support for everything -- hardware and software both.
Assuming that it is loaded with Solaris 8 w/ Nutscrape and StarOffice for applications, they would be wise to get business people to try it out and if they buy it, hopefully get them to buy into Sun's Support services as well. That's where they stand to make some considerable cash for themselves.
The next step they need to do however, is to mass market this to get it in people's minds. Just offering it on the website and getting geeks like us talking about it is not enough to make it a success.
I know this may be a simple example, but I had a dual-booting Linux+Win95 system with a broken S3 Virge card that had issues in graphics mode but would run fine in text mode. Since Win95 requires graphics mode to use the majority of its functionality and Linux doesn't, you can guess what OS ran most of the time.
"Windows 2000 is coming, to set a new standard in reliability."
Well, if I use Microsoft's past OS performance standards to infer content from that statement, then I believe it means that Win2k will require that you have perfectly reliable hardware and software or even more BSOD's will result.
But then again, at least it's been advertised as being able to boot up faster than ever before...
You know, these CERN people are really on the wrong track. If they would just learn how to make a primordial soup out of bogons and serve them with oyster crackers, my job would get a lot easier...
it should be mandated that domains cannot be sold for more than they were purchased...
The problem here is that there aren't any measures preventing an entity from registering all of the obvious names of their competitors and then sit on them forever. For example, using this scheme, Sun could have bought the names microsoft.com, hp.com, compaq.com, etc, for a pittance and subsequently have kept those names from their competitors forever without recourse.
Mind you, in some cases, this may have been "a Good Thing®"....
While the practice of legal domain brokering may not be completely ethical, there is no reason why "speculatively creative" individuals should not be given the right to hold names that others did not have the foresight to take advantage of earlier. Those that initially register the names as a speculative measure are subject to the same laws of supply and demand as every other person is (or should be) held to.
Two major real life cases come to mind, both of which deal with the same desired resource: oil. First was Seward's Folly in the 1860's when the US bought Alaska from the Russians for the 'huge' price of around $7M. The Russians owned it first, didn't realize the value of the land (although at the time, who did?) and subsequently were proven to have gotten the short end of the deal after the discoveries of both oil and gold, among other natural resources that have been found there.
The second refers to the forced migration of Native Americans to reservations in Oklahoma. During the same period of time, the US forced many tribes to relocate to the Oklahoma territory. So the reservations were established and land rights were turned over to the Native Americans back in the 1800's as a (IMHO) shady form of compensation for losing their own ancestral lands. Again, the discovery of the massive oil fields on the reservations changed the outlook of that domain to one that every major oil company wanted a piece of.
What it comes down to is that I find domain brokering to be a simple case of "finders-keepers". After the initial claim is made, any subsequent sale of the domain should be fair game and subject to the laws of supply and demand.
No, doesn't seem to be a common thread wrt OS and webserver app. I checked most of these sites against the "What's that Site running?" on netcraft.com and found almost no correlations of OS and/or webservers between the sites.
The only common threads that I can see so far is that all of these sites being attacked are well known and highly visited sites. The other common thread is the length of time that each site is getting hit for, although that seems to have varied slightly from site to site. Gotta wonder if perhaps Yahoo was able to identify a few potential sources and pass the info on to the other affected sites. If so, kudos to them for helping stave off the attacks.
Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well with brie...
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Here's a frightening thought. Ever see what happens to metal when it's put in the microwave? What if you're carrying your keys in your pocket and you get zapped by this thing?
So what is to prevent Verisign from abusing the system that they would presumably control and then manipulating the process to their benefit? We've already seen or heard of problems with domains that seem to get taken only minutes after being checked against the web-based whois database at networksolutions.com. Who is going to be the watchdog to make sure that the registry itself doesn't get manipulated to serve the interests of Verisign?
It would start with the reconstruction of the first simple electronic appliances like telegraphs and telephones, then progress to IC's and such, and ultimately, one system will end up building the next one, and so forth until we get back to where we are today. We hopefully have documented to some extent how to reconstruct these simple systems (go to your local university's engineering library for multitudes of info), so I'm not worried too much about the rebuilding of legacy items. Recent technological advances may be more difficult to reconstruct due to the proprietary nature of many new hardwares and softwares, but we ought to be able to persevere.
The hardest part will be getting people to readjust to a "pioneer" style of life while things get rebuilt. Those that are severely technology dependant will suffer the most, those that actually do things that don't involve computers, electricity, etc, will adapt the best. We'd have a brief return to an agarian-based economy, but our own knowledge of agriculture is so far advanced from say even 50-100 years ago so we'd probably be alright. The big cities would have a major problem though since most are heavily technology dependant, and being trapped in NYC in this situation is not a place I'd like to be.
Overall, we'd suffer a little, possibly reintroduce a long-needed round of Darwinism to our species, and eventually we'd get back to prosperity. Europe did it following the fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages, and they didn't have one iota of the knowledge that we possess today. We'll be ok.
Business-speak and legalese would vanish in the blink of an eye...
Check out their offerings at http//www.cis.ohio-state.edu
I chose the CSE track with a specialization in Information Systems which means that I have the science, engineering, and business backgrounds on my resume, and although this is a LOT of work to accomplish, the applications of that path are very rewarding.
Most of all, do whatever you want to do. At some point, you'll probably change your mind on what you like doing, so also try to make sure that your studies are broad-based enough to give you options to pursue if/when that day comes.
Assuming that it is loaded with Solaris 8 w/ Nutscrape and StarOffice for applications, they would be wise to get business people to try it out and if they buy it, hopefully get them to buy into Sun's Support services as well. That's where they stand to make some considerable cash for themselves.
The next step they need to do however, is to mass market this to get it in people's minds. Just offering it on the website and getting geeks like us talking about it is not enough to make it a success.
If they'd just bite the bullet and put SCSI back in there where it belongs, it would make my life at work soooooo much easier...
I know this may be a simple example, but I had a dual-booting Linux+Win95 system with a broken S3 Virge card that had issues in graphics mode but would run fine in text mode. Since Win95 requires graphics mode to use the majority of its functionality and Linux doesn't, you can guess what OS ran most of the time.
Well, if I use Microsoft's past OS performance standards to infer content from that statement, then I believe it means that Win2k will require that you have perfectly reliable hardware and software or even more BSOD's will result.
But then again, at least it's been advertised as being able to boot up faster than ever before...
The problem here is that there aren't any measures preventing an entity from registering all of the obvious names of their competitors and then sit on them forever. For example, using this scheme, Sun could have bought the names microsoft.com, hp.com, compaq.com, etc, for a pittance and subsequently have kept those names from their competitors forever without recourse.
Mind you, in some cases, this may have been "a Good Thing®"....
Two major real life cases come to mind, both of which deal with the same desired resource: oil. First was Seward's Folly in the 1860's when the US bought Alaska from the Russians for the 'huge' price of around $7M. The Russians owned it first, didn't realize the value of the land (although at the time, who did?) and subsequently were proven to have gotten the short end of the deal after the discoveries of both oil and gold, among other natural resources that have been found there.
The second refers to the forced migration of Native Americans to reservations in Oklahoma. During the same period of time, the US forced many tribes to relocate to the Oklahoma territory. So the reservations were established and land rights were turned over to the Native Americans back in the 1800's as a (IMHO) shady form of compensation for losing their own ancestral lands. Again, the discovery of the massive oil fields on the reservations changed the outlook of that domain to one that every major oil company wanted a piece of.
What it comes down to is that I find domain brokering to be a simple case of "finders-keepers". After the initial claim is made, any subsequent sale of the domain should be fair game and subject to the laws of supply and demand.
The only common threads that I can see so far is that all of these sites being attacked are well known and highly visited sites. The other common thread is the length of time that each site is getting hit for, although that seems to have varied slightly from site to site. Gotta wonder if perhaps Yahoo was able to identify a few potential sources and pass the info on to the other affected sites. If so, kudos to them for helping stave off the attacks.
Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well with brie...