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  1. Re:Oh no! Not again! on Flare Sends A Gigaton Of Solar Detritus Toward Earth · · Score: 1

    Atleast, now "they" know where "he" is ?

  2. Re:Nice Nice on Purdue Builds Quantum-Computing Semiconductor · · Score: 1

    Maybe! Maybe!

    silicon is not the final frontier!

    My bet is still on those biological protien-based computers. I am chemically biased towards them :)

  3. magnetic resonance on Purdue Builds Quantum-Computing Semiconductor · · Score: 1

    seems to me its the Magnetic Resonance ( as used in MRI) !! In classical physics its the spins, in quantum its the states.

    Experts confirm, correct, negate?!?!?

  4. Bill Bin Laden!! on MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech II (It's True!) · · Score: 1

    Enough said ;)

  5. Re:Grammar on MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech II (It's True!) · · Score: 1

    not only ...but also!!

    but also of a very ....

  6. Re:Why are Sikhs being targeted? on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    hey man, i have a paper cutter in my room like most students do? and i have no idea what to do with it?!!!
    I cant keep it!?!
    I cant throw it out?!?!?
    i cant take it to the trash dumpster???!!??
    damn, i am suddenly feeling hijacked by this freaking paper-cutter that I have??

    hope to Gawd, it isn't the same make which was used in WTC!!

    having said this, i fear now that some people will start thinking I am a suspect!
    :)

  7. Re:Pakistan on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    Pakistan :

    7 dead.

    300 missing. in WTC!!

    Not one of them got his/her training in the schools you mention!! So take it easy, will you?
    You maybe hurting people's emotions.

    Despite the grim picture you see on the media, the truth is that in the last elections, the religious parties(combined together, yes all of them) just won ONE SEAT in the whole country. So much for extremism. Yes, the said parties are mobile and active ( and thus make it to the media ) but silent majority which represents Pakistan is busy getting educated and joining mainstream civilised world.

    Pakistan is as tired of the extemist-label as you can imagine. Recall that one of the Prime-Ministers of Pakistan was a woman, Benazir Bhutto. She was educated at Harvard!!

    At this juncture, a whole lot depends on Pakistan and how it handles the delicate situation. Atleast the leaders are showing less blood-lust then the rest of the i-want-war world

  8. Osama brings out the Fanatics in us? on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    I have read this thread, most of it, and cant help miss the point that many of the apparently civlised people among us are as fundanmentalist as Osama is?

    He did the attack or not, i cant decide, but surely he has brought out the latent fanaticism in the entire world.

    sorry folks , just because you use LINUX or know C++, or jave, doesnot mean that you are any different from the people who made the black-Tuesday.

  9. Re:Why are Sikhs being targeted? on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    Exactly the reason, they have beards.

    You see the point here. Osama is not the only fanatic here. However, he has managed to bring out them all.

  10. Sympathy for Russian on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its bit amusing.

    First they had to fight Osama because he was a "friend" of the USA, in the Afghan war!!

    Now they are asked to fight him yet again. This time because he is the "enemy" of the USA.

    I suppose Russian wont know wether to cry or laugh.

  11. CNN's 1991 video-footage of (happy ) Palestinians on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    There is a certain email flying on iternet claiming that the video-footage of Palestinians shown on CNN last Tuesday was actually shot in 1991 during the Gulf War!!!!

    This is very serious, if true.

    Can anybody deny or confirm it ?

  12. Inter Domain Traffic on IETF Debates On: MPLS Is Bad · · Score: 1

    For end-to-end Quality of Traffic, MPLS struggles against the administrative barriers: nailing SLAs among approx 70,000 ISPS. Also the cost would be prohibitive!

  13. MPLS Security on IETF Debates On: MPLS Is Bad · · Score: 1

    I cant locate the actual finding/argument by the AT&T researchers but i think the issue would be that once the labels are in the LSP the upper layers have no way of provisioning security(sniffing, redirection issues).In this regard (CR)LDP perhaps provides better security than (TE)RSVP. By controlling the data at entry and exit, security is improved but still it is not ideal.

  14. Re:MPLS sucks on IETF Debates On: MPLS Is Bad · · Score: 2, Informative

    QOS is not only about "Resource Optimization" but also about "Traffic Parameters". MPLS does explicit routing: CR-LDP and TE-RSVP- both have supporters and otherwise- by deployinge either of them it performs well on both accounts. I think that from TE point of view more than a technological advantage it offers an excellent business case.. think in terms of Fixed and Operational costs.
    Anyways prioritization is the name of the game. Also known as might is right. From the Jungle to the OS the rule is valid so whats wrong with MPLS screwing this or that: should my video streams (Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger) compete with your icons? :)
    You will agree that MPLS performs "atleast" what other relevant technologies have achieved in past: IBM'S Aris, or Toshiba's Packet Switching etc. It does appear to be a the logical next step in the evolution of packet forwarding. It is a standard independant of manufacturers. Even it is biased, you cant argue with the sense of buyers. Market forces ultimately decide the technology S-Curve.
    It has problems Scalability , Security, etc but alteast the things are moving in the right direction.
    For purely administrative reasons it falls short of offering an end-to-end QOS . So the relevance of argument, by some, that it maynot become the "internet" technology is perhaps valid.

  15. Russians and Science on Russian SLBM Launches Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    They just know how to apply all that what is Physics and Maths better than anyone else.

  16. invitation from University of Stuttgart on LinuxTag Opens (Hackers are Homeless) · · Score: 1

    Just a hello from University of Stuttgart. Hey guys/gals we are having beer parties on regular basis(early week, pre-mid week, mid-week, post-mid-week, weekend, samstag, sonntag !) we are thinking of coverting the 7-tag week into metric system! Just an excuse to have more beer , more parties! So when you are done away with LINUXTAG join us for LINUX-ABEND! ;)

  17. Re:fiber to the curb! on New Fiber Development · · Score: 1

    ofcourse that is true. But for most users the web-traffice "is" about a lot of "little-files"!

  18. fiber to the curb! on New Fiber Development · · Score: 1

    dont expect too much from the "fiber-to-the-curb"., i.e. if you are expecting the internet access speed to bump up! It would still be why.we.wait! read this interesting study at the university of stuttgart . ..."- domain name lookup, connection establishment, requesting and finally transferring an item. Nearly half the delay in an average HTTP/TCP connection is due to these three components..."
    J. Charzinski: Why We are Waiting -- The Performance of WWW Connections. Infotech Advanced Topics Seminar, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 7. Fep. 2001. [Slides]
    find them here .

  19. Re:Looks like my systems course really has a use. on Resources On Practical Job Scheduling? · · Score: 1


    hmmm.. interesting....! Which model are we talkin about here?


    I read your chronology!

  20. Re:The facts on Overlaps Between Biological And Artificial Neural Networks? · · Score: 1


    I think one area which has caught the attention of researchers is the Network Management. I am at the Uni Of Stuttgart, Germany. Its traditional strenght has been telecomm systems. And i assure you there is a lot happenin here in regard to application of NN.


    I read your chronology!

  21. Re:The facts on Overlaps Between Biological And Artificial Neural Networks? · · Score: 1


    This is not correct!
    Neural Nets are alive. Have you considered the fault-correlations models, of computer networks ,being developed on NNs. Check out: www.ca.com "Computer Associates" are way into this stuff.


    I read your chronology!

  22. AI and Biology: Protien Processors on Overlaps Between Biological And Artificial Neural Networks? · · Score: 1


    Four years ago i read an article( i am not sure but i think it was in "Scientific World") about the "Protien Processors". I forget the name of the protien but its property to react to laser-light brought it into the research labs. Contrary to binary state regime( 0 or 1) of semi-conductors this protien had the capability of maintaining multiple states: a vast potential for storing images/patterns and related image/pattern recognition etc etc. among other applications.
    Russians got their first. They made a optical processor, based on this substance, some 25-30 yrs ago. They actually used it in Radars.


    I read your chronology!