It still boggles my mind that anyone thought zone files are a good idea. The file format is so damn brittle, that a single byte can spell disaster. On top of that, the hierarchical naming structure presents an inherent systemic risk for all sub-domains as exhibited by this.se fiasco. Nevermind the injection attacks, Pakistan taking out Youtube, and the rest, you have organizations like Verisign which profit immensely off of keeping the system broken. And don't even bother mentioning DNSSEC, as it still doesn't resolve this fundamental issue. The next systemic fuckup will simply be a signed fuckup.
Yes, it's a shame you were still in diapers when this solution was developed. They could have benefited from your vast wisdom. Or maybe not, if you think the problem with YouTube in Pakistan was due to DNS rather than BGP.
So you think 128 bit processors aren't coming? Where have you been in the past, oh, 40 years?
No, I don't, not any time soon anyhow. Windows 8 will probably be out sometime in 2011 and that's way too early. Perhaps Windows 9 but even then it's hard to see the need.
You know, there isn't some kind of inevitability to the development of hardware. If the past were any guide to hardware development we'd all be using computers with a single core running at 10 ghz.
It has to solve a real problem and solving that problem needs to benefit someone enough to spend the billions of dollars necessary to develop the hardware.
However if you have any evidence whatsoever (besides "look at the past"), then I'd love to see it.
Whoever wrote the article has no idea what they are talking about. It'd be pointless to make a 128-bit operating system without the hardware to support it. Perhaps as others suggested it's a filesystem or some sort of SIMD support.
Sigh. There are rights and rights. There is nothing that says the rights that are entailed by being human and those that are entailed by being a citizen are identical.
For example, the declaration of independence says:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
This document however says nothing about a right to privacy.
Where as the Constitution which enumerates our rights only applies to citizens and does talk about something that could interpreted as a right to privacy.
Congratulations. That makes two of us. I've read the philosophies and a fair amount of the writings of the founders. I still don't see how my opinion is "out of skew with the philosophy on which this country was founded."
How do you figure? It's ambiguous at the least. And, btw, who made you an expert on "the philosophy" on which this country was founded? There was no one philosophy and the fact that you think there was one makes your opinion suspect.
So basically people were lazy. Instead of explicitly enumerating the rights and responsibilities of corporations they said, "Uh, let's just treat them like people." Lame. Not surprising but still lame. We should just right an explicit list of corporate rights and responsibilities instead of relying on piecemeal case law.
I am not sure why corporations have any rights since they are not citizens and cannot be. Despite the wishes of some people (Democrats for illegal immigrants and Republicans for corporations) I don't think rights apply to non-citizens. I'm not sure why corporations were accorded any rights in the first place. They should have legal responsibilities as legal entities but they should never be treated as individuals and certainly not citizens.
Shouldn't this apply to all government research? I'm not sure whether it should be open sourced (it may make sense to license it to companies) but at the least it should be publicly available.
Heh. And that stopped just about zero people from pirating I'm sure. People pirated with 300 baud; 1200 baud; 2400 baud; 9600 baud; 14.4k; 28.8k; and 56K. It's not the bitrate. It's the business model.
Sure. That's fine for a desktop or a laptop that you hardly ever travel with. However, if you need to reboot a server boot time matters and if you travel a lot (even just on a corporate or college campus) boot time matters.
Talk *is* cheap. And I honestly don't think that the US government has the stomach for space exploration any more. The people certainly don't... space is a hostile environment. If you feel that any loss of life is completely unacceptable, you'll never get out there, because the environment itself will kill you if you give it a chance.
What makes you think the American people feel that any loss of life is completely unacceptable? Most of the polls that I saw following the Columbia disaster showed an increase in support for the space program. I don't think the American people have a problem with the fact that space flight is an inherently dangerous activity. They do have a problem when incompetence leads to fatalities (who cares what the engineers say about the temperature and o-rings? let's launch!) but there's never been a majority of Americans that would scrap the whole program over them.
I agree that most Americans don't care about the loss of life. What we do care about is "wasting" money. It sounds horrible but that's America. And, so, I think many, many people in America think human space exploration is a waste of money at this time. Of course, I'm sure the general contractors in these congressional districts feel differently and that's why you are hearing so much noise about it in Congress right now. As usual what happens in Congress has nothing to do with what the people that elected them want.
I'm more worried about accountability. Any information posted or otherwise maintained on a private server is not subject to FOIA. It's protected by the 4th Amendment which is a much higher bar. This is the same as when Cheney used a private mail address for government business.
Really? I already assume there are exoplanets out there that have life even intelligent life. Obviously this is just an assumption without evidence but why should it be surprising? Perhaps you are right though. Perhaps if we do find planets with intelligent life it'll knock down our collective self-centeredness a notch. I suppose that's worth it, but I'd really rather see the money/effort spent on gravity wave detectors as those will provide the most profound insights into the origin of everything.
It's not really the facts of any given science that is interesting (since those evolve) but the way of thinking about the world that is important. Teaching kids about scientific inquiry will help them understand the nature of theories, evidence, etc. If we were feeling really adventurous we'd give them some basic philosophical education including epistemology. Most of the FUD surrounding various controversies that involve science is epistemic (e.g. deriding evolution as "merely" a theory, etc).
Yeah, I was just referring to the coolant which should have been obvious from my link but you are right I didn't address the original posters real question.
it's the economy, stupid. There are no shortage of brave men and women who would be willing to go into space and there is certainly a willing enough audience to watch them take their chances (i.e. the American public). But there is the little problem of money. Given that it's in short supply these days NASA has to prioritize and given that space exploration is only one part of NASA's mission it seems reasonable that they would prioritize other projects above space exploration.
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You're right. My bad.
It still boggles my mind that anyone thought zone files are a good idea. The file format is so damn brittle, that a single byte can spell disaster. On top of that, the hierarchical naming structure presents an inherent systemic risk for all sub-domains as exhibited by this .se fiasco. Nevermind the injection attacks, Pakistan taking out Youtube, and the rest, you have organizations like Verisign which profit immensely off of keeping the system broken. And don't even bother mentioning DNSSEC, as it still doesn't resolve this fundamental issue. The next systemic fuckup will simply be a signed fuckup.
Yes, it's a shame you were still in diapers when this solution was developed. They could have benefited from your vast wisdom. Or maybe not, if you think the problem with YouTube in Pakistan was due to DNS rather than BGP.
without the hardware to support it
So you think 128 bit processors aren't coming? Where have you been in the past, oh, 40 years?
No, I don't, not any time soon anyhow. Windows 8 will probably be out sometime in 2011 and that's way too early. Perhaps Windows 9 but even then it's hard to see the need.
You know, there isn't some kind of inevitability to the development of hardware. If the past were any guide to hardware development we'd all be using computers with a single core running at 10 ghz.
It has to solve a real problem and solving that problem needs to benefit someone enough to spend the billions of dollars necessary to develop the hardware.
However if you have any evidence whatsoever (besides "look at the past"), then I'd love to see it.
Whoever wrote the article has no idea what they are talking about. It'd be pointless to make a 128-bit operating system without the hardware to support it. Perhaps as others suggested it's a filesystem or some sort of SIMD support.
Sigh. There are rights and rights. There is nothing that says the rights that are entailed by being human and those that are entailed by being a citizen are identical.
For example, the declaration of independence says:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
This document however says nothing about a right to privacy.
Where as the Constitution which enumerates our rights only applies to citizens and does talk about something that could interpreted as a right to privacy.
Congratulations. That makes two of us. I've read the philosophies and a fair amount of the writings of the founders. I still don't see how my opinion is "out of skew with the philosophy on which this country was founded."
How do you figure? It's ambiguous at the least. And, btw, who made you an expert on "the philosophy" on which this country was founded? There was no one philosophy and the fact that you think there was one makes your opinion suspect.
So basically people were lazy. Instead of explicitly enumerating the rights and responsibilities of corporations they said, "Uh, let's just treat them like people." Lame. Not surprising but still lame. We should just right an explicit list of corporate rights and responsibilities instead of relying on piecemeal case law.
I am not sure why corporations have any rights since they are not citizens and cannot be. Despite the wishes of some people (Democrats for illegal immigrants and Republicans for corporations) I don't think rights apply to non-citizens. I'm not sure why corporations were accorded any rights in the first place. They should have legal responsibilities as legal entities but they should never be treated as individuals and certainly not citizens.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Shouldn't this apply to all government research? I'm not sure whether it should be open sourced (it may make sense to license it to companies) but at the least it should be publicly available.
Why would you think that?
they'd whining about monopolies and tying. Just more marketing blather. Nothing to see here...
I can only assume the submitter means domain names in other languages. Internet addresses are either decimal (v4) or hexadecimal (v6) numbers.
Heh. And that stopped just about zero people from pirating I'm sure. People pirated with 300 baud; 1200 baud; 2400 baud; 9600 baud; 14.4k; 28.8k; and 56K. It's not the bitrate. It's the business model.
AFACT to go fuck themselves and prove harm first instead of engaging in a smear campaign?
Sure. That's fine for a desktop or a laptop that you hardly ever travel with. However, if you need to reboot a server boot time matters and if you travel a lot (even just on a corporate or college campus) boot time matters.
That explains all of those UFO sightings... "It was just hovering there in mid-air!"
Talk *is* cheap. And I honestly don't think that the US government has the stomach for space exploration any more. The people certainly don't... space is a hostile environment. If you feel that any loss of life is completely unacceptable, you'll never get out there, because the environment itself will kill you if you give it a chance.
What makes you think the American people feel that any loss of life is completely unacceptable? Most of the polls that I saw following the Columbia disaster showed an increase in support for the space program. I don't think the American people have a problem with the fact that space flight is an inherently dangerous activity. They do have a problem when incompetence leads to fatalities (who cares what the engineers say about the temperature and o-rings? let's launch!) but there's never been a majority of Americans that would scrap the whole program over them.
I agree that most Americans don't care about the loss of life. What we do care about is "wasting" money. It sounds horrible but that's America. And, so, I think many, many people in America think human space exploration is a waste of money at this time. Of course, I'm sure the general contractors in these congressional districts feel differently and that's why you are hearing so much noise about it in Congress right now. As usual what happens in Congress has nothing to do with what the people that elected them want.
I'm more worried about accountability. Any information posted or otherwise maintained on a private server is not subject to FOIA. It's protected by the 4th Amendment which is a much higher bar. This is the same as when Cheney used a private mail address for government business.
Really? I already assume there are exoplanets out there that have life even intelligent life. Obviously this is just an assumption without evidence but why should it be surprising? Perhaps you are right though. Perhaps if we do find planets with intelligent life it'll knock down our collective self-centeredness a notch. I suppose that's worth it, but I'd really rather see the money/effort spent on gravity wave detectors as those will provide the most profound insights into the origin of everything.
It's not really the facts of any given science that is interesting (since those evolve) but the way of thinking about the world that is important. Teaching kids about scientific inquiry will help them understand the nature of theories, evidence, etc. If we were feeling really adventurous we'd give them some basic philosophical education including epistemology. Most of the FUD surrounding various controversies that involve science is epistemic (e.g. deriding evolution as "merely" a theory, etc).
Yeah, I was just referring to the coolant which should have been obvious from my link but you are right I didn't address the original posters real question.
Not all power plants use steam. Some use liquid metal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal_cooled_reactor
it's the economy, stupid. There are no shortage of brave men and women who would be willing to go into space and there is certainly a willing enough audience to watch them take their chances (i.e. the American public). But there is the little problem of money. Given that it's in short supply these days NASA has to prioritize and given that space exploration is only one part of NASA's mission it seems reasonable that they would prioritize other projects above space exploration.