We don't know enough about human genetic structure to make informed decisions, though.
Natural selection doesn't need any 'help', and in the long run, genetic diversity is this specie's only chance of survival. If we concentrate on encouraging only those traits that are 'best' given current situations, we give up long term adaptibility.
We'll end up with a reletivly genetically homogenous species quite possibly lacking in the potential for further positive evolution. Human beings have succeeded thusfar because as a species they are highly adaptable.
We should encourage the survival of as many different genetic makeups as possible and try to halt any trends toward homogenization. Thus, rather than conducting genetic screening, we should ban interracial breeding.
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Yes, the 3.0 kernel alphas are pretty rough. Maybe you should stick with 2.4 for now?
Is Mozilla now the only thing standing between IE and total world domination!?
Well, maybe not quite, but it's looking more and more that way. I would rather not use a Microsoft product, but I'm not rabbidly opposed to it. What I am opposed to is a browser monopoly.
If Microsoft is allowed to hold on to a near monopoly on web browsers, they will hold too much influence on the future course of the web - influence that no single company should have. The Mozilla project is more important than ever, not to screw over Microsoft, but to keep competition on the web, forcing company's to turn to standards bodies and not simply do as they please.
I have to admit, I'm more than a little worried about Nintendo.
It will be difficult for them to recover from the mistake of not using CD's in the N64. I just hope they've learned their lessons, and there aren't any more technical 'surprises' in the Game Cube. They've lost a lot of ground to Sony, and now Sony has launched the PS2 months before Nintendo's next-generation system will be ready.
If Nintendo goes down for good, the days of the console price wars are over, and I for one will miss that. Also, I suspect that having two heavyweights keeps game prices down. As much as I love Sony's consoles, I hope the Game Cube to kicks ass and really raise the bar on home entertainment.
Agreed. I don't want to see AMD get too big and become another Intel, though.
That would break my heart.
I'm curious, though. Most corporations (including AMD) have nothing especially lovable about them, so what will keep AMD from getting a similar stranglehold on the PC market like Intel had? Is there anything that we as consumers can do to prevent this? It would be a shame to repeat the whole cycle again with another company. I'd like to see long term competition in the PC industry, not just companies taking turns being the top dog.
Hopefully not. I'm quite excited about the real competition that's finally happening in the PC microprocessor market. This bodes well for the PC operating system market. Soon any ordinary Joe be able to walk into a Comp-USA and buy Linux on an Athlon or Windows on a Penitium...or any combination thereof. With increased consumer choices, prices will hit an all time low. Maybe it's time for me to replace that 386 system...
I agree that current methods are futile, but I don't think any naming convention is going to bring the organization needed.
There are already groups that are trying to organize the web. They're called web directories. I think over the next few years, they'll get larger, more sophisticated, and in my instances much more specialized. Also, once XML comes into wide usage, search engines will become much more useful, providing some standard set of data definitions can be agreed on and adhered to.
Personally, I don't put much stock in using TLD's or DNS entries to organize the web. The system is fundamentally flawed, and those flaws will only become more apparent as the web scales.
Why not do away with TLD's altogether? There's no technical reason to keep them, and the various bodies that have been in charge of administering domain names have demonstrated their inability to effectively do so.
Think about it, do we really need www.boeing.com and www.boeing.aero? If they point to the same site, it's a waste of dns space, and if they point to different sites it's just confusing. Plus, eliminating TLD's would kill the whole.com craze forever!
If it were as simple as that, anti-spammed e-mail addresses could already be harvested using a perl script.
The phone number example works because all the phone number in the test data were formatted either identically or very similarly. Obfuscated e-mail addresses, though, are designed to be unpredictable. Regular expressions work wonderfully for finding text that matches a pattern, but there has to be a pattern. If you look at all the different means of de-spamming an address displayed on Slashdot, it fairly apparent that no real pattern is being displayed.
Look at these examples, and try to come up with a pattern that they all match and an algorithm that will turn them all into valid e-mail addresses.
atomic_pixie@com.hotmail
atomic_pixie at hotmail dot com
atomic_pixie NO hotmail SPAM com
com@atomic_pixie.hotmail - a@b.c becomes b@c.a
It's pretty apparent that no computer algorithm is going to have much luck with this, and I wasn't even being especially creative. Actually, i wasn't being creative at all, since I just ripped that off from other people's addresses.:)
I agree that this represents another step towards the acceptance of Linux as an enterprise operating system, but I feel that you were a little too superficial in your analysis of open source database solutions versus commercial solutions.
I don't have much experience with PostgreSQL, but MySQL, while an excellent database solution, simply is not fully comparable to Oracle. I don't doubt that many companies use an expensive proprietary solution where an open source one would suffice, but there are applications that are simply require a commercial system such as Oracle. One of the difficulties is that MySQL simply doesn't scale as well. For smaller solutions, it may be ideal, but for a massive database that must accommodate hundreds of simultaneous users, MySQL's locking limitations become both apparent and debilitating.
Personally, I look forward to the time when open source software solutions will make commercial database applications obsolete, but onfortunately, that time hasn't come yet.
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We elites do not like being threatened.
Seriously, though, what will the discontented masses do to all the supermen with tanks and guns? Not much.
We don't know enough about human genetic structure to make informed decisions, though.
Natural selection doesn't need any 'help', and in the long run, genetic diversity is this specie's only chance of survival. If we concentrate on encouraging only those traits that are 'best' given current situations, we give up long term adaptibility.
We'll end up with a reletivly genetically homogenous species quite possibly lacking in the potential for further positive evolution. Human beings have succeeded thusfar because as a species they are highly adaptable.
We should encourage the survival of as many different genetic makeups as possible and try to halt any trends toward homogenization. Thus, rather than conducting genetic screening, we should ban interracial breeding.
Yes, the 3.0 kernel alphas are pretty rough. Maybe you should stick with 2.4 for now?
Is Mozilla now the only thing standing between IE and total world domination!?
Well, maybe not quite, but it's looking more and more that way. I would rather not use a Microsoft product, but I'm not rabbidly opposed to it. What I am opposed to is a browser monopoly.
If Microsoft is allowed to hold on to a near monopoly on web browsers, they will hold too much influence on the future course of the web - influence that no single company should have. The Mozilla project is more important than ever, not to screw over Microsoft, but to keep competition on the web, forcing company's to turn to standards bodies and not simply do as they please.
I have to admit, I'm more than a little worried about Nintendo.
:)
It will be difficult for them to recover from the mistake of not using CD's in the N64. I just hope they've learned their lessons, and there aren't any more technical 'surprises' in the Game Cube. They've lost a lot of ground to Sony, and now Sony has launched the PS2 months before Nintendo's next-generation system will be ready.
If Nintendo goes down for good, the days of the console price wars are over, and I for one will miss that. Also, I suspect that having two heavyweights keeps game prices down. As much as I love Sony's consoles, I hope the Game Cube to kicks ass and really raise the bar on home entertainment.
Microsoft, though, can go to hell
If inadquate performance is a problem, Intel can still sell 'em to Packard Bell.
Seriously, how has PB managed to survive?
Agreed. I don't want to see AMD get too big and become another Intel, though.
That would break my heart.
I'm curious, though. Most corporations (including AMD) have nothing especially lovable about them, so what will keep AMD from getting a similar stranglehold on the PC market like Intel had? Is there anything that we as consumers can do to prevent this? It would be a shame to repeat the whole cycle again with another company. I'd like to see long term competition in the PC industry, not just companies taking turns being the top dog.
Will they have a processor screw up now? ;)
Hopefully not. I'm quite excited about the real competition that's finally happening in the PC microprocessor market. This bodes well for the PC operating system market. Soon any ordinary Joe be able to walk into a Comp-USA and buy Linux on an Athlon or Windows on a Penitium...or any combination thereof. With increased consumer choices, prices will hit an all time low. Maybe it's time for me to replace that 386 system...
I agree that current methods are futile, but I don't think any naming convention is going to bring the organization needed.
There are already groups that are trying to organize the web. They're called web directories. I think over the next few years, they'll get larger, more sophisticated, and in my instances much more specialized. Also, once XML comes into wide usage, search engines will become much more useful, providing some standard set of data definitions can be agreed on and adhered to.
Personally, I don't put much stock in using TLD's or DNS entries to organize the web. The system is fundamentally flawed, and those flaws will only become more apparent as the web scales.
slashdot200/slashdot200 works.
T .html
Or just use this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27NE
At the bottom is a little blurb on what a cooperative is. Hope it helps!
f ormationIndex.cfm
http://www.landolakesinc.com/OurCompany/CompanyIn
Slashdot had it's .org before Rob sold out :)
Why not do away with TLD's altogether? There's no technical reason to keep them, and the various bodies that have been in charge of administering domain names have demonstrated their inability to effectively do so.
.com craze forever!
Think about it, do we really need www.boeing.com and www.boeing.aero? If they point to the same site, it's a waste of dns space, and if they point to different sites it's just confusing. Plus, eliminating TLD's would kill the whole
I'm sure you're right, but the original poster was concerned about anti-spammed e-mail addresses.
Isn't the Web really a giant database without 'WebQL'???
No.
A proper database would have better indexing and control of data integrity. The web is mostly crap. If the web is a database, its DBA should be shot.
The phone number example works because all the phone number in the test data were formatted either identically or very similarly. Obfuscated e-mail addresses, though, are designed to be unpredictable. Regular expressions work wonderfully for finding text that matches a pattern, but there has to be a pattern. If you look at all the different means of de-spamming an address displayed on Slashdot, it fairly apparent that no real pattern is being displayed.
Look at these examples, and try to come up with a pattern that they all match and an algorithm that will turn them all into valid e-mail addresses.
- atomic_pixie@com.hotmail
- atomic_pixie at hotmail dot com
- atomic_pixie NO hotmail SPAM com
- com@atomic_pixie.hotmail - a@b.c becomes b@c.a
It's pretty apparent that no computer algorithm is going to have much luck with this, and I wasn't even being especially creative. Actually, i wasn't being creative at all, since I just ripped that off from other people's addresses.I agree that this represents another step towards the acceptance of Linux as an enterprise operating system, but I feel that you were a little too superficial in your analysis of open source database solutions versus commercial solutions.
I don't have much experience with PostgreSQL, but MySQL, while an excellent database solution, simply is not fully comparable to Oracle. I don't doubt that many companies use an expensive proprietary solution where an open source one would suffice, but there are applications that are simply require a commercial system such as Oracle. One of the difficulties is that MySQL simply doesn't scale as well. For smaller solutions, it may be ideal, but for a massive database that must accommodate hundreds of simultaneous users, MySQL's locking limitations become both apparent and debilitating.
Personally, I look forward to the time when open source software solutions will make commercial database applications obsolete, but onfortunately, that time hasn't come yet.
Correction. You may GNU/FreeASK for forgiveness.
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