Hehe... every time I hear of a new language, I think of whether a C64 could run it. I bet Java on a C64 could be done indeed. It might even be considered a worthy endeavor because it would require a new level of optimization, and the techniques discovered could be ported back to modern platforms.
I prefer opening brackets on the same line as in your first example. Yep, it saves precious screen space. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a mural for a screen, with no loss of resolution?:-)
Back on topic--Java on the Pilots will be marvellous IMHO. Speed is definitely not a critical factor. What's important is that developers could do more stuff and do it a lot more easily... familiar tools... and with no cost for a workstation development environment!
Well, it appears that a handful of people in Germany don't fit into your classification, then. Perhaps they are the enlightened minority. After all, it's the kind of politics you describe that get so many nations into trouble with their own citizens, don't you think?
Thanks for the clarification... I was aware of the "embedded" Kaffe, but the news.com article made no such distinction.
Now this brings up another point. This is probably quite clear to most of you but I'd like you to answer anyway, so I can get a general consensus. If company X releases their source under the GPL, can they still sell commercial rights to that same source to company Y? Case #2: If others have submitted small patches throughout the source, via the GPL, can company A still sell that source? Let's make it a little more controversial--let's say those small patches make up only 1% of the source, but were very essential bug fixes that the original authors may have never caught. Say two of the patches made it so the program would not crash in an SMP environment. What then?
Now, folks, I hope you understand that this article (paragraph?) is putting Kaffe in completely the wrong light. Transvirtual is currently the primary distributor of open-source Java. Their JVM supports more platforms than any other!! News.com has outdone itself.
I think what Hemos is trying to point out is the confusion there would be if Microsoft is really involved. So let's discuss that point--would M$ actually support an open-source project?!
I'll second that with reservations: 1) too similar to MSNBC.:-) 2) As mentioned by others, the real benefit of Linux and other OS's is openness, and I think it can be argued that its stability is only a side-effect that came about because it was a top priority for the people who wrote it. Not coincidentally, the same priority is shared by the general readership (writership?) of slashdot.
BTW since Windows is targeted at the average user that does not know that computers really can be stable, it does not seem likely that Microsoft feels any need to enlighten their users. Not while they're rolling in dough, that is. It does not make sense in my mind that Windows will ever become truly stable until M$ is losing money.
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Oh, hi Mr. Gates! Glad to see you're getting out more. I have to warn you though--if you're not careful with the/. folk, a few weekend engineers will get together and write a Windows CE virus that could be transmitted via IR. Then they'd set up a pulsing infrared laser a block away from your mansion and reflect the beam off your bathroom mirror to give you quite a surprise next time you're ready to relax in your hot tub.
(I wouldn't put it past the MIT hackers!)
struct OnTopicComment { This Tivo thing looks for real. It appears the privacy rumors have no basis in reality. Also, it sounds like the difficult part was indeed the hard drive rather than the MPEG2. Think about it--all the while you're watching delayed TV, a normal HD would have to jump between two positions very rapidly. Most HD's can't take that kind of stress for very long! So $500 sounds like a very decent price. The only thing I would ask for is a way to expand it so I could copy shows elsewhere or add a Jaz drive. };
The most surprising part of the list IMO is the Hitachi showing. They made a supercomputer with only 1/10th the number of processors used in the computers near its 4th place and 12th place positions. And their supercomputers are the only ones in the top 500 with a single-digit number of processors (4). 11 of the 12 are in Japan, though! Shouldn't a lower number of processors reduce the price tag in a major way? Why aren't they in the US?
Exactly my thought. Using a Media 100, 15 minutes of high-quality digitized video eats up 2.5 GB. That's 10 GB/hour, and when you're editing video you're going to have lots of duplicate and useless clips lying around. We just bought a 144 GB hard drive array and we're still feeling cramped!!
However, with the new hard drives that are currently available (18 GB or so), digital VCR's are starting to look very promising. I would really love to be able to tell the VCR to simply record certain shows at preset times, after which I could leisurely watch whatever shows I like in whatever order. Zero hassle, except of course if you don't have a good antenna.:-(
It is not difficult to see why a good fork-bomb attack preys upon the kernel's multitasking code, thus escaping ulimits. Instead of spending time trying to ensure new processes start, a good attack program will simply attempt to spawn 2 new processes then exit as fast as it can. The program uses very little time as measured by the kernel, while actually forcing the kernel to work furiously on the process starts and stops.
I tried a simple attack like this on my own Linux box and everything came to a halt within a few seconds. There was no possibility of trying to stop the processes since the pid's changed every few milliseconds and it was hard enough to get the machine to do anything else at all. REBOOT!
More relevant to the original topic: As Linux and other OS's enter more into the mainstream, we run the risk of people using it with broken security. Windows, for all its flaws, has some braindead security because of the simple fact that for the most part you can't telnet into it. *nix boxes being run by ignorant users who use only the root password are actually far more vulnerable IMHO. The major Linux distributions need something to keep people from making mistakes like that.
I think we can at least draw one conclusion: that aliens would, at some point in their history, use RF signals. RF is a very direct result of the knowledge electricity and magnets. Aliens would learn of electricty because of lightning and other observable static electricity, and they would learn of magnets because magnets, exhibiting an observable property of attraction, are abundant and interesting.
In fact, former civilizations on Earth may have known something about RF.
Also, it seems reasonable that some alien civilizations would attempt to broadcast RF signals so they could find beings like themselves. The only flaws with SETI, assuming a sufficient number of intelligent aliens exist and that their physical state of existence is similar to our own, are that we may not be able to detect signals from a sufficient distance and that we can only scan a tiny piece of the sky at a time.
Hmm... sorceror sounds a little high-and-mighty to me, and that attitude would not be compatible with the "humble hackers" (maybe a suggestion?). And the media would never buy it.
I haven't seen anyone mention "code cowboy". Still doesn't describe hacking hardware though. This is tough.
uising the VCR to backup computer data.(hacking the VCR)
Hey, I've often wanted to try that. Do you know of a way to encrypt the data into a video signal? I suppose you could turn the data into a movie then re-import it using multimedia programs, but that seems really inefficient and wouldn't take advantage of the available space for digital data on a videotape.
On a related note, I think/. is actually restricting the proper definition of "hacking" a little too much. It can refer to using objects in a clever and original way. Setting aside the flaws the show had, could we call MacGuyver a hacker?
Once I used a child's microphone and connected it to a common boombox, which I then set to "record" on a nonexistent tape. Because of a quirk with this particular boombox, it was possible to turn its volume all the way up and use it as a preamp. The eight ohm speaker outputs were fed into a larger stereo. Thus we had a surprisingly decent quality PA system for absolutely no money. That is a hack.
Haha! Same here. I run Linux on my office desktop machine, I have to fix Macs all the time, and I help administer a Solaris server, yet I'm still the "Windows guru". Did I miss something here... ?
Let's hope you're right. Insightful comment, I might add.
I think there is a growing public awareness of the need to be able to conduct truly private electronic communications. I also think international criminals are not hindered by "export restrictions" when they need strong crypto anyway!
Hmm? I just looked at your user info, which lists 20 of your recent 39 postings. You might try clicking your user name at the top of the page once you've logged in; that should give you your user info.
In fact I look at my own user info page regularly to find out when people have replied to my comments. Good feature, Rob!
It would be nice if we could edit our own stuff, but Rob seems to have an interesting theory of how/. should work and part of it is that you can add to what's been said but never delete anything. I've seen things that Rob might have wanted to rescind, but didn't. I've also said some things that sounded really stupid later. In fact, my user name is wrong. I just found out it's misspelled. It should be "yamato", not "umoto". How do I change it without having to create a new account?
Wow, that's really slow. Rob has been working on fine tuning the moderation, and it's looking good, but maybe it's time to look at the timeliness of posted articles, eh?!
Oops... When I first posted it, it had two bugs that would not let it work using a modem, nor would it work if you opened more than one window. I think it's fixed now.
I've been wanting to create an easy encryption applet for a while, and now I finally found an excuse! Please visit my encryption applet page. My excuse was that I could experiment with using multiple applets on a page to create a modular applet. The idea worked out pretty well IMHO, although I would like some feedback if your browser doesn't usually crash on applets and it does on this one. (It's a little more memory intensive than most, I think.)
Then leave the keyword field blank, select the "dictionary-enhanced DES" scheme, and paste the following text into the "encrypted text" area. Run the decryption. Then expect a knock on your door within a few days.:)
ACLU communist Echelon Congress DOJ hacking communist espionage cracker ACLU assassin NAACP suspicious CIA DOJ Echelon NSA hacking NSA NSA hacker NSA hacking assassin cracker CIA hacker confidential ACLU Congress hacker cracker communist Congress assassin hacking assassin Echelon confidential hacking DOJ Echelon confidential Congress confidential DOJ assassin assassin confidential confidential Congress NAACP DOJ communist NAACP confidential suspicious assassin suspicious confidential NAACP DOJ security communist security Echelon hacker Congress Congress espionage NAACP suspicious ACLU confidential communist confidential assassin hacker CIA hacker Congress NAACP NSA hacker assassin ACLU assassin NAACP espionage communist espionage Echelon espionage NAACP CIA CIA NSA DOJ Congress CIA CIA cracker espionage communist CIA espionage CIA CIA security hacker Congress hacker NAACP security suspicious espionage espionage DOJ suspicious hacker cracker confidential confidential espionage DOJ hacker Echelon security confidential espionage cracker ACLU NSA espionage hacker hacking DOJ NSA communist Echelon cracker confidential confidential DOJ hacking confidential espionage DOJ espionage hacking DOJ Echelon communist espionage CIA assassin assassin NSA cracker Congress cracker suspicious CIA hacker NSA hacking communist espionage Congress Congress Echelon Congress assassin hacker confidential CIA security NSA communist hacker CIA Congress ACLU CIA CIA NAACP communist security Congress NSA hacking assassin
I didn't use 65,536 words because I don't have time for that. I couldn't even come up with 256! So there are only 16.:) Enjoy!
That is a good outline you wrote (which I bet will be used verbatim by someone in the class BTW). As a teacher, if I got a well-written paper that was based on that outline, I would be forced to give it an "A" then throw it in the trash along with the numerous newspaper articles that say almost precisely the same thing. I mean this in the most polite way possible, but is that education? If the purpose of education were to teach obedience, wouldn't it be more efficient to make people perfect their crayon skills?
I'm hoping mog will have the courage to talk to the teacher before starting work on the paper and ask permission to deviate slightly from the intent. He can say he has found a way to potentially interview the very people who were (and are) involved in developing the Internet. He'll be able to do some interesting research that really stimulates thought.
Of course, one problem is that it may be difficult to put this kind of material at a level that non-geeks can understand.
Whatever happens, though, mog, be sure you keep us updated on this. In light of the recent series of articles posted by John Katz regarding persecution of Internet-literate kids in high schools, I think your experience is very pertinent to the current/. discussion. And moderators, moderate up anything posted by mog so we can see it.
grappler and mog, you are resourceful fellows. THIS is how to REALLY get an education IMNSHO. The people on/., though they tend to have a well-defined bias, are very intelligent and insightful. For the most part we talk just to stimulate the mind. Opinions are strong but are often backed up with well-written, and mispelled, arguments.
With exceptions for certain people, I never implicitly trust anyone's judgment on any issue. That is a strength and a weakness. It means I like to do in-depth research on issues that matter to me, but I simply cannot listen to a lecture spewed forth by the common educator. And I especially can't read a history book without questioning the validity of most of the analyses made by the authors.
So Slashdot is a real research tool. The issues surrounding software licenses, which appears to be the topic of mog's paper, are increasingly difficult to grasp and resolve. The last thing you want to do is read something from an encyclopedia. Through research, you want to form an opinion that can be backed up solidly with facts.
That kind of research is what people need to learn to do. Educators are supposed to prepare students for the workforce, right? And do we really need people that are no better than robots?
If I were writing this paper, I would try to give the reader a vision of the process of creating the Internet. If I remember correctly, first they just wanted to be able to get military communications from point A to point C even if point B had been destroyed. Once that was working, they started tinkering with doing university-level research. Then they realized they could send personal messages. Each stage led in a natural way to the next stage. It was difficult to see where the project would be in ten years, but all issues somehow worked themselves out. The future of the Internet will be the same.
Now here's the best part--you don't have to agree with me in order to get something meaningful out of what I have to say! Other comments will be posted that say education should be wrapped up in a neat little package or that the Internet, and especially/., is too wild to be considered a research tool. For all we know they may be right!
I for one stick to the opinions that you should never accept forcefed info, that every view can be validly disputed, and that teachers should encourage students to *DOUBT* what they are taught.
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Well, that's a good solution in the technical sense but it's not good for slashdot. Slashdot needs a little money to keep going.
Slashdot Mirror
Hehe... every time I hear of a new language, I think of whether a C64 could run it. I bet Java on a C64 could be done indeed. It might even be considered a worthy endeavor because it would require a new level of optimization, and the techniques discovered could be ported back to modern platforms.
:-)
I prefer opening brackets on the same line as in your first example. Yep, it saves precious screen space. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a mural for a screen, with no loss of resolution?
Back on topic--Java on the Pilots will be marvellous IMHO. Speed is definitely not a critical factor. What's important is that developers could do more stuff and do it a lot more easily... familiar tools... and with no cost for a workstation development environment!
Well, it appears that a handful of people in Germany don't fit into your classification, then. Perhaps they are the enlightened minority. After all, it's the kind of politics you describe that get so many nations into trouble with their own citizens, don't you think?
Thanks for the clarification... I was aware of the "embedded" Kaffe, but the news.com article made no such distinction.
Now this brings up another point. This is probably quite clear to most of you but I'd like you to answer anyway, so I can get a general consensus. If company X releases their source under the GPL, can they still sell commercial rights to that same source to company Y? Case #2: If others have submitted small patches throughout the source, via the GPL, can company A still sell that source? Let's make it a little more controversial--let's say those small patches make up only 1% of the source, but were very essential bug fixes that the original authors may have never caught. Say two of the patches made it so the program would not crash in an SMP environment. What then?
Now, folks, I hope you understand that this article (paragraph?) is putting Kaffe in completely the wrong light. Transvirtual is currently the primary distributor of open-source Java. Their JVM supports more platforms than any other!! News.com has outdone itself.
I think what Hemos is trying to point out is the confusion there would be if Microsoft is really involved. So let's discuss that point--would M$ actually support an open-source project?!
I'll second that with reservations: 1) too similar to MSNBC. :-) 2) As mentioned by others, the real benefit of Linux and other OS's is openness, and I think it can be argued that its stability is only a side-effect that came about because it was a top priority for the people who wrote it. Not coincidentally, the same priority is shared by the general readership (writership?) of slashdot.
BTW since Windows is targeted at the average user that does not know that computers really can be stable, it does not seem likely that Microsoft feels any need to enlighten their users. Not while they're rolling in dough, that is. It does not make sense in my mind that Windows will ever become truly stable until M$ is losing money.
Oh, hi Mr. Gates! Glad to see you're getting out more. I have to warn you though--if you're not careful with the /. folk, a few weekend engineers will get together and write a Windows CE virus that could be transmitted via IR. Then they'd set up a pulsing infrared laser a block away from your mansion and reflect the beam off your bathroom mirror to give you quite a surprise next time you're ready to relax in your hot tub.
(I wouldn't put it past the MIT hackers!)
struct OnTopicComment {
This Tivo thing looks for real. It appears the privacy rumors have no basis in reality. Also, it sounds like the difficult part was indeed the hard drive rather than the MPEG2. Think about it--all the while you're watching delayed TV, a normal HD would have to jump between two positions very rapidly. Most HD's can't take that kind of stress for very long! So $500 sounds like a very decent price. The only thing I would ask for is a way to expand it so I could copy shows elsewhere or add a Jaz drive.
};
Hmm... bored indeed! ;-) Interesting stats, though.
The most surprising part of the list IMO is the Hitachi showing. They made a supercomputer with only 1/10th the number of processors used in the computers near its 4th place and 12th place positions. And their supercomputers are the only ones in the top 500 with a single-digit number of processors (4). 11 of the 12 are in Japan, though! Shouldn't a lower number of processors reduce the price tag in a major way? Why aren't they in the US?
Exactly my thought. Using a Media 100, 15 minutes of high-quality digitized video eats up 2.5 GB. That's 10 GB/hour, and when you're editing video you're going to have lots of duplicate and useless clips lying around. We just bought a 144 GB hard drive array and we're still feeling cramped!!
:-(
However, with the new hard drives that are currently available (18 GB or so), digital VCR's are starting to look very promising. I would really love to be able to tell the VCR to simply record certain shows at preset times, after which I could leisurely watch whatever shows I like in whatever order. Zero hassle, except of course if you don't have a good antenna.
It is not difficult to see why a good fork-bomb attack preys upon the kernel's multitasking code, thus escaping ulimits. Instead of spending time trying to ensure new processes start, a good attack program will simply attempt to spawn 2 new processes then exit as fast as it can. The program uses very little time as measured by the kernel, while actually forcing the kernel to work furiously on the process starts and stops.
I tried a simple attack like this on my own Linux box and everything came to a halt within a few seconds. There was no possibility of trying to stop the processes since the pid's changed every few milliseconds and it was hard enough to get the machine to do anything else at all. REBOOT!
More relevant to the original topic: As Linux and other OS's enter more into the mainstream, we run the risk of people using it with broken security. Windows, for all its flaws, has some braindead security because of the simple fact that for the most part you can't telnet into it. *nix boxes being run by ignorant users who use only the root password are actually far more vulnerable IMHO. The major Linux distributions need something to keep people from making mistakes like that.
I think we can at least draw one conclusion: that aliens would, at some point in their history, use RF signals. RF is a very direct result of the knowledge electricity and magnets. Aliens would learn of electricty because of lightning and other observable static electricity, and they would learn of magnets because magnets, exhibiting an observable property of attraction, are abundant and interesting.
In fact, former civilizations on Earth may have known something about RF.
Also, it seems reasonable that some alien civilizations would attempt to broadcast RF signals so they could find beings like themselves. The only flaws with SETI, assuming a sufficient number of intelligent aliens exist and that their physical state of existence is similar to our own, are that we may not be able to detect signals from a sufficient distance and that we can only scan a tiny piece of the sky at a time.
This sounds a lot like Calvinball! From the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip--the only rule is that you can't use the same rule twice! :)
"darth vader" = "dark father". (Swedish?)
Hmm... sorceror sounds a little high-and-mighty to me, and that attitude would not be compatible with the "humble hackers" (maybe a suggestion?). And the media would never buy it.
I haven't seen anyone mention "code cowboy". Still doesn't describe hacking hardware though. This is tough.
Hey, I've often wanted to try that. Do you know of a way to encrypt the data into a video signal? I suppose you could turn the data into a movie then re-import it using multimedia programs, but that seems really inefficient and wouldn't take advantage of the available space for digital data on a videotape.
On a related note, I think /. is actually restricting the proper definition of "hacking" a little too much. It can refer to using objects in a clever and original way. Setting aside the flaws the show had, could we call MacGuyver a hacker?
Once I used a child's microphone and connected it to a common boombox, which I then set to "record" on a nonexistent tape. Because of a quirk with this particular boombox, it was possible to turn its volume all the way up and use it as a preamp. The eight ohm speaker outputs were fed into a larger stereo. Thus we had a surprisingly decent quality PA system for absolutely no money. That is a hack.
Haha! Same here. I run Linux on my office desktop machine, I have to fix Macs all the time, and I help administer a Solaris server, yet I'm still the "Windows guru". Did I miss something here... ?
Let's hope you're right. Insightful comment, I might add.
I think there is a growing public awareness of the need to be able to conduct truly private electronic communications. I also think international criminals are not hindered by "export restrictions" when they need strong crypto anyway!
HiThere,
/. should work and part of it is that you can add to what's been said but never delete anything. I've seen things that Rob might have wanted to rescind, but didn't. I've also said some things that sounded really stupid later. In fact, my user name is wrong. I just found out it's misspelled. It should be "yamato", not "umoto". How do I change it without having to create a new account?
Hmm? I just looked at your user info, which lists 20 of your recent 39 postings. You might try clicking your user name at the top of the page once you've logged in; that should give you your user info.
In fact I look at my own user info page regularly to find out when people have replied to my comments. Good feature, Rob!
It would be nice if we could edit our own stuff, but Rob seems to have an interesting theory of how
... ByeNow.
Wow, that's really slow. Rob has been working on fine tuning the moderation, and it's looking good, but maybe it's time to look at the timeliness of posted articles, eh?!
Just killing two birds with one stone, as they say. >;-)
Oops... When I first posted it, it had two bugs that would not let it work using a modem, nor would it work if you opened more than one window. I think it's fixed now.
Then leave the keyword field blank, select the "dictionary-enhanced DES" scheme, and paste the following text into the "encrypted text" area. Run the decryption. Then expect a knock on your door within a few days. :)
ACLU communist Echelon Congress DOJ hacking communist espionage cracker
ACLU assassin NAACP suspicious CIA DOJ Echelon NSA hacking NSA NSA
hacker NSA hacking assassin cracker CIA hacker confidential ACLU
Congress hacker cracker communist Congress assassin hacking assassin
Echelon confidential hacking DOJ Echelon confidential Congress
confidential DOJ assassin assassin confidential confidential Congress
NAACP DOJ communist NAACP confidential suspicious assassin suspicious
confidential NAACP DOJ security communist security Echelon hacker
Congress Congress espionage NAACP suspicious ACLU confidential
communist confidential assassin hacker CIA hacker Congress NAACP NSA
hacker assassin ACLU assassin NAACP espionage communist espionage
Echelon espionage NAACP CIA CIA NSA DOJ Congress CIA CIA cracker
espionage communist CIA espionage CIA CIA security hacker Congress
hacker NAACP security suspicious espionage espionage DOJ suspicious
hacker cracker confidential confidential espionage DOJ hacker Echelon
security confidential espionage cracker ACLU NSA espionage hacker
hacking DOJ NSA communist Echelon cracker confidential confidential DOJ
hacking confidential espionage DOJ espionage hacking DOJ Echelon
communist espionage CIA assassin assassin NSA cracker Congress cracker
suspicious CIA hacker NSA hacking communist espionage Congress Congress
Echelon Congress assassin hacker confidential CIA security NSA
communist hacker CIA Congress ACLU CIA CIA NAACP communist security
Congress NSA hacking assassin
I didn't use 65,536 words because I don't have time for that. I couldn't even come up with 256! So there are only 16. :) Enjoy!
Yamato
Thank you for the clarification!
That is a good outline you wrote (which I bet will be used verbatim by someone in the class BTW). As a teacher, if I got a well-written paper that was based on that outline, I would be forced to give it an "A" then throw it in the trash along with the numerous newspaper articles that say almost precisely the same thing. I mean this in the most polite way possible, but is that education? If the purpose of education were to teach obedience, wouldn't it be more efficient to make people perfect their crayon skills?
/. discussion. And moderators, moderate up anything posted by mog so we can see it.
I'm hoping mog will have the courage to talk to the teacher before starting work on the paper and ask permission to deviate slightly from the intent. He can say he has found a way to potentially interview the very people who were (and are) involved in developing the Internet. He'll be able to do some interesting research that really stimulates thought.
Of course, one problem is that it may be difficult to put this kind of material at a level that non-geeks can understand.
Whatever happens, though, mog, be sure you keep us updated on this. In light of the recent series of articles posted by John Katz regarding persecution of Internet-literate kids in high schools, I think your experience is very pertinent to the current
grappler and mog, you are resourceful fellows. THIS is how to REALLY get an education IMNSHO. The people on /., though they tend to have a well-defined bias, are very intelligent and insightful. For the most part we talk just to stimulate the mind. Opinions are strong but are often backed up with well-written, and mispelled, arguments.
/., is too wild to be considered a research tool. For all we know they may be right!
With exceptions for certain people, I never implicitly trust anyone's judgment on any issue. That is a strength and a weakness. It means I like to do in-depth research on issues that matter to me, but I simply cannot listen to a lecture spewed forth by the common educator. And I especially can't read a history book without questioning the validity of most of the analyses made by the authors.
So Slashdot is a real research tool. The issues surrounding software licenses, which appears to be the topic of mog's paper, are increasingly difficult to grasp and resolve. The last thing you want to do is read something from an encyclopedia. Through research, you want to form an opinion that can be backed up solidly with facts.
That kind of research is what people need to learn to do. Educators are supposed to prepare students for the workforce, right? And do we really need people that are no better than robots?
If I were writing this paper, I would try to give the reader a vision of the process of creating the Internet. If I remember correctly, first they just wanted to be able to get military communications from point A to point C even if point B had been destroyed. Once that was working, they started tinkering with doing university-level research. Then they realized they could send personal messages. Each stage led in a natural way to the next stage. It was difficult to see where the project would be in ten years, but all issues somehow worked themselves out. The future of the Internet will be the same.
Now here's the best part--you don't have to agree with me in order to get something meaningful out of what I have to say! Other comments will be posted that say education should be wrapped up in a neat little package or that the Internet, and especially
I for one stick to the opinions that you should never accept forcefed info, that every view can be validly disputed, and that teachers should encourage students to *DOUBT* what they are taught.
Well, that's a good solution in the technical sense but it's not good for slashdot. Slashdot needs a little money to keep going.