While penicilin invention may well deserve being in top 85 inventions, according to this Alexander Fleming should not take all credit for it. After all, he only got a third of the Nobel prize for that invention. Here's a quote:
This latest bit of netsam aside, Alexander Fleming's life has already been the subject of considerable mythologizing. His discovery of penicillin was not the instant boon to medicine that we now assume it was. In fact, Fleming himself did not realize the significance of his findings -- thinking he had developed a mere antiseptic that was too slow-acting and too difficult to produce in large quantities, Fleming failed to test his penicillin thoroughly, wrote a tepidly-received paper about it, and moved on to other work. There ended his real involvement with the "greatest medical advance of the 20th (or any other) century." In 1935, two specialists -- Howard Florey, head of Oxford's William Dunn School of Pathology, and Ernst Chain, a Cambridge biochemistry PhD -- took up where Fleming's paper left off and spent several years at the arduous laboratory work of refining and testing pencillin to produce the world's first effective antibiotic. Fleming visited the two men at the Dunn School after they published their first paper on penicillin in 1940 (by which time Chain thought Fleming was dead) and didn't reappear on the scene until after penicillin had proved itself invaluable during World War II. The press lauded the newly-emerged Fleming as the lone genius responsible for the miracle of penicillin, and he was awarded numerous honors, including a knighthood and the 1945 Nobel Prize for medicine. (The Nobel Prize committee, at least, was on the ball and named Florey and Chain as co-recipients of the honor.)
Which of course, brings up the question of who counts the unpublished vulnerabilities, that may or may not get fixed in the next "cumulative security patch".
> when police know something illegal happened in the vicinity of the camera.
Oh, I can see how that will work on the terrorists: "Hmmm, if I go in that building and detonate the explosive charges taped to my body, they will be able to identify me from the camera shot. Darn, I better go home now, before someone notices me".
> You put your _phone switch_ on a _live Internet-connected network_?
Well, if the _phone switch_ is a VOIP phone switch, where do you suggest they put it on? Anyways, there is a bunch of companies out there developing VOIP switches, that are called Media Gateways, SoftSwitches, H.323 GateKeepers, SIP proxies etc, depending on the protocols used and their respective network positioning and function. And yes, everyone and their brother is planning to put a firewall (or a firewall cluster if serving many phones) in front of any Internet connected VOIP box, which brings up a range of problems and issues.
More info: search for: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol, IETF working group), MIDCOM (IETF Firewall control working group), IPTEL (IETF IP Telephony working group), SIGTRAN (IETF IP Signaling transport working group), softswitch, H.323 and a lot of other things.
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Write me a TCP/IP stack in perl, make it run as fast and as reliable as the C based one, and I'll convert to perl.
zm
but I just refreshed this article, and got an ad for MS Visual Studio .NET! For a second I thought I would die laughing....
zm
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Putty does support both X and regular local/remote forwarding.
OK, whoever modded the parent up as "informative" better check the facts a little. Putty has supported ssh2 for a while now.
So it's not just a coincidence that this Java-coding neighbour is laid off and the wife being so happy recently...
Which of course, brings up the question of who counts the unpublished vulnerabilities, that may or may not get fixed in the next "cumulative security patch".
> when police know something illegal happened in the vicinity of the camera.
Oh, I can see how that will work on the terrorists: "Hmmm, if I go in that building and detonate the explosive charges taped to my body, they will be able to identify me from the camera shot. Darn, I better go home now, before someone notices me".
I guess they'd call it "BeoDrake"...
Somehow I had the impression that all these terrorists actually lived *in* the US. Not that I expect the government to recognize that...
> You put your _phone switch_ on a _live Internet-connected network_?
Well, if the _phone switch_ is a VOIP phone switch, where do you suggest they put it on? Anyways, there is a bunch of companies out there developing VOIP switches, that are called Media Gateways, SoftSwitches, H.323 GateKeepers, SIP proxies etc, depending on the protocols used and their respective network positioning and function. And yes, everyone and their brother is planning to put a firewall (or a firewall cluster if serving many phones) in front of any Internet connected VOIP box, which brings up a range of problems and issues.
More info: search for: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol, IETF working group), MIDCOM (IETF Firewall control working group), IPTEL (IETF IP Telephony working group), SIGTRAN (IETF IP Signaling transport working group), softswitch, H.323 and a lot of other things.
zm
It can be worse: add lawyer's genes Barney's. Then imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
A beobike cluster?
it's more like this one http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents .html