It would be great to have a second space station. Maybe Japan and India too? Hell, it's competition which is a main factor in pushing development forward - even marketing guys know this.
Finally it's dead! Woooo Hoooo! The damn thing always scared me to dead...the look of it...everytime it came up you new "oh my god..I did something wrong again..man..please go away.._please_...PLEASE!" *runs out of the office - crying*. Oh man..I'm so glad it's gone;)
When you read the logs you'll find out that they use radio lan onboard the ISS. As we all know how 'secure' this stuff is, I wonder if someone with a sensitive antenna could sniff some packets? *giggles*
I can see the headlines before me now:
"Nasa reported yesterday that the computer systems at ISS are down for good. They say that the computer screens display wierd messages like:
o "You got/.tted suckerz!"
o "All your station are belong to us!"
Nasa is still investigating on the matter. Meanwhile the astronauts on the station try to get their radio lan back online...
Of course I have. I never thought that this might me something "serious", but it was funny to watch (including the reactions of the listeners in the background):-)
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This is not the first horror story I hear from Communitech. There are very different opinions about this company reaching from "ok" to "they are a bunch of spamers".
Additionaly I'd check budgetweb.com. They have a comprehensive directory of web space providers (not only dedicated servers) and I think there are user comments too.
Plus, we're not doing ANY form of listening on more technologically advanced communications methods that the most interesting civilizations would likely be using.
Well, let's assume that our current understanding of the universe is not completely wrong. Which other forms of communication could there be, other than transmitting electromagnetic waves?
I wonder if the above are really P2P? They all rely on one or more servers to operate and can't do without them. That's why napster is attackable, there is one central point - the napster server which tells you the ip of a file server.
I did not look up the definition, but for me _true_ P2P would be a network of computers without need of a dedicated central server to accomplish the task they are up to.
Well, I can agree with you that it's quite unplausible that any civilisation would have responded to us within that time. 25 light years are not much.
But that's not really the frustrating thing behind it. We assume that any civilisation broadcasts some sort of signal - not because they seek contact, but because they use signals for communication. We haven't broadcasted many messages directed directly to aliens yet. We don't need to, because with all the tv, radio,... transmitters outthere we are already announcing our presence to everyone who is willing to listen. So why did we not receive any signals from other civilisations? That's what I'm bothering with. Is noone using radio waves to communicate outthere?
I've no scientific background in this area, but if there as many other intelligent life forms outthere as people keep telling us, then we probably would have received many signals by now.
So either intelligence is really rare in the universe, or noone beside us uses radio waves to communicate, or there is some yet unknown physical effect on radio waves which lets them degenerate faster than we thought...
What really would rock is thought input. I want the damn thing connected to my head and I just want to _think_ my code and it should appear on the screen.
Of course, this would meant that one would need a very good concentration and additionally it would change the way we think. We would learn to concentrate on one thing without getting distracted from it too easily. Would this be a bad thing?
I can imagine a switch which lets me cut the thought connection to my computer quickly. So you would be able to _think about_ how you would do things and then when you know how to do it, just switch it on and "transfer" it.
But it would really be very tricky. Just try to _think through_ some lines of code. You'll notice that it's really difficult, you'll get into the "then I want this and that" thought quickly, instead of "thinking out" the lines of code.
Hmm, but what else would be the fastest possible input device for a computer?
This sounds just too familiar. Back in the days when everyone used DOS and Windows 3.11, I was the one happily (?) using just the DOS command line. Then one day Windows 95 came and everybody switched to it, the command line was not important anymore and you _had_ to do things using all this GUI stuff. I hated it.
Well, now I'm using W2K and whenever I get that bad feeling again (or really want to get things done), I just switch over to my linux box and enjoy this powerful command line interface.
I really hope linux won't go the way of the DOS;-), or I'll probably have to search another replacement satisfaction;)
I think it's very waypointing (is this an english word?) that they do redirect my Netscape 4.76 when entering the page but not Lynx:)
Lynx is always up to date. World domination for Lynx!;-)
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Well, I'm definitely no genetic engineer. I did read some books about the topic, but I'm still just a software engineer, so I can't say that I'm an expert on the topic.
But I pretend to know that it's quite easy to change ones dna just by eating the right pills. So let's get back to that rice example. Let's say we'll change a few genes of the rice dna to make it stronger. We do know that it will make it stronger, but we do not know what other side effects this will have. It might work one of the mentioned pills for an insect which eats the manipulated rice and might cause the insect to mutate. This does not have to be bad, maybe the insect will just change its behaviour and some birds who rely on these insects as a food source will not be able to find them anymore because they changed their behaviour. Well those birds will have to change too, or they will die out.
That's nothing really drastical, one would say that happens in evolution "every day", and I'll have to agree on that one.
But aren't similar types of genetic engineering used to develop dangerous bioviruses? Is the chance that the manipulated rice will cause some other life forms to change and in the end produce some hazard virus really that low?
I'd really love to get cleared up on this from anyone who did more work in this area than I did...
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Sure, that's absolutely correct. "No risk no fun" and no fast advances in technology.
But we should _at least_ try to find out how large the risks are. When building the atom bomb people knew that this will be a powerful weapon, able to rub out a whole continent. But at that time they new how the atom worked and they were pretty sure that the bomb would not lead to serious side effects which they did not know about before.
That's not the case with genetics. We don't know much about how genes _work_. Changing a few might lead to serious chain effects and we don not even know the probability for this to happen.
It's like knowing one line of code which initializes a variable to a specific value and changing it's type from long to short. You'll never know which side effects this will have to your _programm_.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm strongly science oriented and I'd be the last one who wants to halt science advancement. But that ones scares me a bit, so I guess it's really worth discussing it...
cheers
mike
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...sure and if they get a few genes the wrong way around the rice will just stand up and eat everyone trying to harvest it...or - on a more serious note - we'll get some chain reaction with insects or other plant's dna because of the modified rice which creates Ebola v2...
Please guys..._don't_ mess around with things before you _really_ understand them.
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It would be great to have a second space station. Maybe Japan and India too? Hell, it's competition which is a main factor in pushing development forward - even marketing guys know this.
Finally it's dead! Woooo Hoooo! The damn thing always scared me to dead...the look of it...everytime it came up you new "oh my god..I did something wrong again..man..please go away.._please_...PLEASE!" *runs out of the office - crying*. Oh man..I'm so glad it's gone ;)
When you read the logs you'll find out that they use radio lan onboard the ISS. As we all know how 'secure' this stuff is, I wonder if someone with a sensitive antenna could sniff some packets? *giggles*
/.tted suckerz!"
...
:))
I can see the headlines before me now:
"Nasa reported yesterday that the computer systems at ISS are down for good. They say that the computer screens display wierd messages like:
o "You got
o "All your station are belong to us!"
Nasa is still investigating on the matter. Meanwhile the astronauts on the station try to get their radio lan back online
Of course I have. I never thought that this might me something "serious", but it was funny to watch (including the reactions of the listeners in the background) :-)
You can watch NASA TV over the internet here. (The nice videos you saw on the news sites are taken from NASA TV - it's pretty interesting).
Did you notice how they lost video signal at the end of this video?
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http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/odyssey/010407onsp
Bigger, Better, Cheaper eh?
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Here is the dedicated server contract from Communitech.
It seems that 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 are covering the software maintainance. Altough they are not very specific on it.
This is not the first horror story I hear from Communitech. There are very different opinions about this company reaching from "ok" to "they are a bunch of spamers".
Please check alt.www.webmaster for opinions on communitech and for suggestions on dedicated service providers.
Additionaly I'd check budgetweb.com. They have a comprehensive directory of web space providers (not only dedicated servers) and I think there are user comments too.
mike
Plus, we're not doing ANY form of listening on more technologically advanced communications methods that the most interesting civilizations would likely be using.
Well, let's assume that our current understanding of the universe is not completely wrong. Which other forms of communication could there be, other than transmitting electromagnetic waves?
Can we think of other methods of communication?
I wonder if the above are really P2P? They all rely on one or more servers to operate and can't do without them. That's why napster is attackable, there is one central point - the napster server which tells you the ip of a file server.
I did not look up the definition, but for me _true_ P2P would be a network of computers without need of a dedicated central server to accomplish the task they are up to.
Well, I can agree with you that it's quite unplausible that any civilisation would have responded to us within that time. 25 light years are not much.
... transmitters outthere we are already announcing our presence to everyone who is willing to listen. So why did we not receive any signals from other civilisations? That's what I'm bothering with. Is noone using radio waves to communicate outthere?
But that's not really the frustrating thing behind it. We assume that any civilisation broadcasts some sort of signal - not because they seek contact, but because they use signals for communication. We haven't broadcasted many messages directed directly to aliens yet. We don't need to, because with all the tv, radio,
I've no scientific background in this area, but if there as many other intelligent life forms outthere as people keep telling us, then we probably would have received many signals by now.
So either intelligence is really rare in the universe, or noone beside us uses radio waves to communicate, or there is some yet unknown physical effect on radio waves which lets them degenerate faster than we thought...
They got a homepage too with a nice organizational chart to give you an overview.
Don't dare to mod me up!
> and .net tendered to interested companies, the > ICANN said in a statement.
;)
Well...I wonder..._which_ company _could_ be interested in a ".net" domain name.
Oh...I get it now
What really would rock is thought input. I want the damn thing connected to my head and I just want to _think_ my code and it should appear on the screen.
Of course, this would meant that one would need a very good concentration and additionally it would change the way we think. We would learn to concentrate on one thing without getting distracted from it too easily. Would this be a bad thing?
I can imagine a switch which lets me cut the thought connection to my computer quickly. So you would be able to _think about_ how you would do things and then when you know how to do it, just switch it on and "transfer" it.
But it would really be very tricky. Just try to _think through_ some lines of code. You'll notice that it's really difficult, you'll get into the "then I want this and that" thought quickly, instead of "thinking out" the lines of code.
Hmm, but what else would be the fastest possible input device for a computer?
Just imagine Linus Torvalds presenting this Tablet together with Bill Gates on a press conference...
... err ... it just would be _so_ wrong (and funny!) :)
It
All your powerline are belong to getting porn!
...sorry .. couldn't resist :)
Yes. I can see it directly in front of me:
"Damn kid..if he won't stop surfing now I'll never get to read that book."
*searches some candles*
;-)
This sounds just too familiar. Back in the days when everyone used DOS and Windows 3.11, I was the one happily (?) using just the DOS command line. Then one day Windows 95 came and everybody switched to it, the command line was not important anymore and you _had_ to do things using all this GUI stuff. I hated it.
;-), or I'll probably have to search another replacement satisfaction ;)
Well, now I'm using W2K and whenever I get that bad feeling again (or really want to get things done), I just switch over to my linux box and enjoy this powerful command line interface.
I really hope linux won't go the way of the DOS
No no no! Let's make a race out of it. Iridium VS Mir - who burns faster ;)
I think it's very waypointing (is this an english word?) that they do redirect my Netscape 4.76 when entering the page but not Lynx :)
Lynx is always up to date. World domination for Lynx! ;-)
Gillian Anderson - who else? ;-)
Well, I'm definitely no genetic engineer. I did read some books about the topic, but I'm still just a software engineer, so I can't say that I'm an expert on the topic.
But I pretend to know that it's quite easy to change ones dna just by eating the right pills. So let's get back to that rice example. Let's say we'll change a few genes of the rice dna to make it stronger. We do know that it will make it stronger, but we do not know what other side effects this will have. It might work one of the mentioned pills for an insect which eats the manipulated rice and might cause the insect to mutate. This does not have to be bad, maybe the insect will just change its behaviour and some birds who rely on these insects as a food source will not be able to find them anymore because they changed their behaviour. Well those birds will have to change too, or they will die out.
That's nothing really drastical, one would say that happens in evolution "every day", and I'll have to agree on that one.
But aren't similar types of genetic engineering used to develop dangerous bioviruses? Is the chance that the manipulated rice will cause some other life forms to change and in the end produce some hazard virus really that low?
I'd really love to get cleared up on this from anyone who did more work in this area than I did...
Sure, that's absolutely correct. "No risk no fun" and no fast advances in technology.
But we should _at least_ try to find out how large the risks are. When building the atom bomb people knew that this will be a powerful weapon, able to rub out a whole continent. But at that time they new how the atom worked and they were pretty sure that the bomb would not lead to serious side effects which they did not know about before.
That's not the case with genetics. We don't know much about how genes _work_. Changing a few might lead to serious chain effects and we don not even know the probability for this to happen.
It's like knowing one line of code which initializes a variable to a specific value and changing it's type from long to short. You'll never know which side effects this will have to your _programm_.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm strongly science oriented and I'd be the last one who wants to halt science advancement. But that ones scares me a bit, so I guess it's really worth discussing it...
cheers
mike
...sure and if they get a few genes the wrong way around the rice will just stand up and eat everyone trying to harvest it...or - on a more serious note - we'll get some chain reaction with insects or other plant's dna because of the modified rice which creates Ebola v2...
Please guys..._don't_ mess around with things before you _really_ understand them.