If you missed the auroras you can alway check out some beautiful pictures of them here. The auroras were so bright in some places that they could be seen from brightly lit cities, cool...
Actually this is the second time its its 11-year lifetime, ESA/NASA's Ulysses spacecraft is about to fly over the Sun's north pole.
For those who doesn't realize it, this is really cool for a space engineer. Just the fact that Ulysses energy source are radioisotopes which makes it alive and kicking for such a long time (since October 6, 1990). If it had used solar panels it would have been dead for several years by now. This makes the probe able to watch the solar wind and the heliosphere at latitudes unexplored by any other spacecraft over a whole solar cycle (11 years). Its truly an excellent piece of space engineering artwork.
During this summer, NASA approved sufficient funds to keep the spacecraft operating until December 2003 and agreed to review any further funding in mid-2003. Last year, ESA approved its share of the funds until September 2004. If NASA later approves funds to keep the spacecraft operating until this date, Ulysses will end its travels on a high note, having completed two full solar orbits and observed a solar cycle from minimum to maximum to minimum again from its unique position outside the ecliptic plane. There have been some talking about havin it operating as long as 2006 but that is yet to be discussed. But having a space probe operational in that ruff environment for 16 years is truly remarkable.
And how am I supposed to register when that darn LinuxCounter already is slashdotted? Couldn't we use snail mail?
And now the serious part of the comment, how do they do this counting stuff anyway? It's rather clear to me (and to them too???) that just a small part of the Linux users ever would find that page and sign up. I've run Linux for several years now and have never heard about that site until today.
And do they think about the fact that not all of those who finds it will register? My guess is that many people hesitate to sign up because they just think they will be spammed. Or maybe they just don't bother to get a crapmail-account-to-be-used-for-signing-up-stuff to sign up with. I bet thay haven't thought about that. This counting stuff should be named "Counter for those Linux users who bother signing up when they finally finds this page"
Hey does that mean I can commit a burglary at RIIA, just to get back some of that money that went to them when I bought records. But of course, only for those records I found cheaper in another store.
Is it ok?
It's the same thing? Really?
great, let me just go get my crowbar...
I hope they doesn't think about making parts of this GOVNET wireless, the day they do that they're hacked for sure. And anyway, I dont think it will work with such a large network without any loopholes in it (with or without the wireless feature).
Think about it for a while, how many works for the government in the US today? And if just one of those are lazy/stupid/corrupt or anything else, they will have a LARGE enough loophole to be hacked to hell. And how should they check if no one lazy/stupid/corrupt worker by mistake/laziness/stupidity/intention just happens to connect his pc to the other world? And how should they do with more practical things, like there may be some chance that some of the workers would like to get emails for instance from people not on GOVNET, or maybe they must use the ordinary net in work. Should they use two physically separated pc's in their work?
Alright, I say OK to the fact that it works in the network used by the U.S. military. But thats a big difference, they have more discipline, are fewer and are more easily controlled (compared to the Department of Agriculture for instance;-). And finally I think the reason that the Feds can't piggy-back on the U.S. Military network is just because they will screw it up.
I think this link can be helpful for you, it provides a huge list of web test tools. They are organized in categories for which sort of test one would like to perform. They also have a FAQ which answers several questions about how sites can be tested, and it also points out what things you should think about, like; what are the expected loads, who is the target audience, what kind of performance is expected on the client side, and so on.
You can always check out the Aurora gallerys on this page, the photographers decsribe a bit about how they did and what equipment they used to get those beautiful pictures. Mostly people use ASA 400 with a 10 to 20 sec exposure time, but of course that depends on which lens you use. And the best way to learn is to try several exposure times and or films and remember to make notes for each photo you take (just to know what you did right and what went wrong). Often you can get pretty good pictures even if the aurora is faint, but thats a matter of exposure time and luck. But look at the photo details at the page, those guys know how to do it right:)
I havent seen any predictions about where on the scale this blob is, but it is possibly a R2 (or lower) - which means moderate effects. That is, only limited radio blackouts on the sunlit side.
Ok, here's a serious comment. This could reveal much of the mystery about our own origin. How life began in the first place in our solar system.
And maybe life is forming right now far away in that cloud, think about that for a while. We could be watching the formation of life (at a great distance of course) in that cloud. It's like a giant Miller-Urey experiment where a mixture of methane, ammonia, water vapour, and hydrogen was circulated through a liquid water solution and continuously sparked by a corona discharge elsewhere in the apparatus. The discharge may be thought to represent lightning flashes on the early Earth. After several days of exposure to sparking, the solution changed colour. Subsequent analysis indicated that several amino and hydroxy acids, intimately involved in contemporary life, had been produced by this
simple procedure.
There are several key steps in the origins of life:
Formation of complex organic molecules
Self-replicating systems
Protein synthesis; DNA is the genetic material, but it requires proteins to replicate
Compartmentalization: the first cell
And origins of complex organic molecules are believed to be:
Nucleosynthesis in stars to form complex molecules
molecular clouds
A very significant fraction of the Earth' s carbon came from extensive cometary bombardment on the primitive Earth
Here's some facts about how to do if you want to look at this meteor shower. For those who really wants to read alot about this, here's an extensive guide to meteor showers and their observation. They are best wieved in the late evening. The peak for the meteor shower is calculated to be today (2001-10-09) but remember that the date of maximum is approximate, viewing is possible +/- 2 days of it. The radiant at maximum will be at 262 degrees, ie. RA 17h 28.2m, Dec +54, which is about 2 degrees north of the star beta Draconis, called Restaban, on the shortest side of the head of Draco. (Need a glossary or a star chart?) Anyway these are slow meteors, at about 20 km/sec, so they will be very distinctive - and much easier to catch on photographs!
If you don't wanna go out to look for the showers, you can always tune in to NASA's forward scatter meteor radar system at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. On a typical day, when there's no intense meteor shower, radar listeners will hear about one ping per minute or so. Rates could become substantially higher during a meteor shower.
Some recently updated graph of Giacobinids 2001 from observations shows unfortunately that they seem to be rather weak this year, just about 5-6 per hour:(. But thats not so surprising because the strength of the Draconid meteor shower has varied considerably over the years, reaching 'storm' level in 1933 and 1946 when thousands were seen and the sky looked like it was really falling! In Belgium in 1933, observers counted about 78 meteors per minute. Because of its variable nature - it's like playing on lottery when going out to observe this shower. Although chances of seeing any activity from this shower in a given year are minimal, one of these years you could be pleasantly surprised!
But there will be more meteor showers this month, for example the Orionids (October 21-22) which are predicted to be stronger than the Draconids (atleast compared with the observational data for the Draconids recently reported:). The Orionids are debris from Halley's Comet. Also the Leonids are coming now in November (18th) again, and this time it seems to be a big meteor shower. Actually, predictions by the world's top meteor experts expects it to be the most dramatic meteor shower in 35 years.
Why call it XP? I don't know if it's just me, but the name XP sounds alarming to me. I just hope they did that chip better than Microsoft did Win XP...
Whooow, 4-5 ms ping reply eh?
In our LAN here at Umu (in Umea of course) we have about 1-2 ms for ping:
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.1/1.4/1.7 ms
And ping statistics if you ping sunet (10 packets) is:
round-trip min/avg/max = 11.6/12.5/13.7 ms
and thats 850 km away (1360 miles);-)
This kind of networks surely points at the need for faster hd's. It's your hd that limits the speed in cases like this. I tested using two computers (with 128 and 256 MB RAM) with 15 m cable between, both had a IBM 7200 rpm IDE-drive and a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI-card. I reached a maximum of about 70 Mbps, sending a 15 MB file. But of course it will be lower of you send alot of small files. And notice that this test were made for a line without other packets running around in it. On a 100Mbps net you will get a much lower speed because of all the collissions that occur when several people sends stuff at the same time.
-------- All 100Mbps and no play makes the hd a dull boy
I think that the new interfaces will be voice recognition and voice generation. Like in StarTrek, Commander, I need warp speed now. Its alot faster to talk to the computer than write, also to listen to a computer could be better in some situations. For example if you should read a loooong report or so, just hit the text-to-voice-generation (tm) button, tune in a soft voice and lean back in the couch. But there are several problems, how should the computer get the voice right, depending on situation. for example irony/sarcasm. Or how should it interpret spoken sentences, there are a varity of meanings of the same sentence. Perhaps if it is composed with direct manipulation so gestures can be interpreted to. It could work with a scanning of the face to get facial expressions that can signal emotion, add emphasis to the speech and support the interaction in a dialogue situation.
But inventing that kind of "wheel" is really hard, at least with the technology we have today. But were on the way of getting there, in the mean time check out this link about Talking Heads, and no it's not about that music group.
The problem here is that the major part of the pc users actually doesn't know anything about the OS.
Better yet, it has a check box of "use this program to open up the file as default". Very easy.
I don't know how many questions I've got from friends asking "What program should I choose for this file? Why can't it just open in the right program in the first time?"
The success of M$ is actually the fact that they made an OS available for a user without any "advanced" knowledge. I still remember when the first windows came, it was really exciting. And by the way think about this; why is it that other OS of Linux/UNIX-type has exploded in number of users in the last few years? The answer is plainly that much of it is thanks to graphical interfaces to the OS. Here in my town they run Linux at a lot of schools, and the students wouldn't be able to use it if they just had a black screen with a prompt. Many people I talked to think's its great that they can handle an "advanced OS" like Linux, but it's just because they have some icons and some menues. You know, stuff that calm's the user down.
Maybe we users who know better should stick with our kinds of "Alternative OS", and let M$ run its race. Maybe we finally could outpace them? Could it be that Linux/UNIX soon would be as easy as windows to handle?
If it goes that way in the future, it would be a hit:)
But of course, I think that M$ monopoly is some sort of situation that we gotta do something about. But some things are their invention, like the file extension which made it more simple for "ordinary" users to handle. But it's a large company, and large companies tend to be more greedy the larger they get. So maybe splitting it up in several pieces will be just good...
I guess that anyone that's heard of Moore's law doesn't be surprised by this. In 1971 Moore published his Law that describes the performance increase for semiconductors and was estimated as an 18 month doubling. You can see a fine graph about this here.
And a fast calculation (based on a 2GHz intel P4:):
6 years = 72 months
72/18=4
and 2^4=16GHz
And 2.1 GHz will give 19.4GHz, which I think they will release before new year or so...
It is possible that the 18 months would be slightly different, like 20 months, but clearly this trend has continued with little change. But remember that computer performance is strongly influenced by the semiconductor trend but need not be exactly identical.
What aerodynamic technology?
on
Biking @ 80 MPH
·
· Score: 1
"Hopefully some of the aerodynamic technology can be applied to commercially available vehicles (cars, maybe?)."
Nah I don't think so. The aerodynamic technology developed for vehicles like cars and motorcycles is done with supercomputers cracking some big ass 3D fluid dynamic equations. I don't think that Mr powered_speed (Sam Wittingham) and his fellows can afford that:)
That "aerodynamic technology" developed for bicycles are stoneage knowledge for those who designs advanced cars.
Actually NASA have to do this but my guess is that they dont wanna do this. The only reason they do this commercial thing is because they don't want Russia to get all the money from this market. Like that rich (American) space tourist that Russia sent out, NASA didn't want to send him out to a space station. But they sure would like the 20 million dollars he payed...
For those who doesn't know it they (SETI@home) recently reached the Zettaflop (10e+21 floating-point operations) mark which is a world record. The last 24 hours "they" (read the users) performed 6.104916e+18 flops which is about 70.66 Teraflops/sec. This can be compared to the Terascale Computing System that theoretically could reach a maximum of 6 teraflops per second *laugh*. SETI's total cpu-time lies around 750 000 years, _pretty cool_ eh?
Thank god for Mouse Gestures in Mozilla too, when will the advanced features be available?
For example: To open a new mozilla window, login at slashdot as yourself and submit a really cool story.
To do this try the following easy steps:
Hold down left mouse button, move right-left-right, then hold down right button and move right-left-up-down-left-up-left-right. Release left button and move left-down-right-up, double-click left button, hold it down, release and double-click right button, move up-down-up-down, doucleclick both buttons (alternatively double-click middle button if you have 3 of them). Now finally move the mouse in a circle, anti-clockwise, four complete circles should be drawn. When done with the circles hold down both buttons and move up-down-right-down-up-left-right-left, double click both buttons. DONE!!!
I can't see why he bother's with this, he just can't win. He just can loose. It's like McDonalds, I bet there was alot of guys named McDonalds even before that company was started. Maybe he should think about changing his name to Slash Dot instead
Slashdot Mirror
If you missed the auroras you can alway check out some beautiful pictures of them here. The auroras were so bright in some places that they could be seen from brightly lit cities, cool...
Actually this is the second time its its 11-year lifetime, ESA/NASA's Ulysses spacecraft is about to fly over the Sun's north pole.
For those who doesn't realize it, this is really cool for a space engineer. Just the fact that Ulysses energy source are radioisotopes which makes it alive and kicking for such a long time (since October 6, 1990). If it had used solar panels it would have been dead for several years by now. This makes the probe able to watch the solar wind and the heliosphere at latitudes unexplored by any other spacecraft over a whole solar cycle (11 years). Its truly an excellent piece of space engineering artwork.
During this summer, NASA approved sufficient funds to keep the spacecraft operating until December 2003 and agreed to review any further funding in mid-2003. Last year, ESA approved its share of the funds until September 2004. If NASA later approves funds to keep the spacecraft operating until this date, Ulysses will end its travels on a high note, having completed two full solar orbits and observed a solar cycle from minimum to maximum to minimum again from its unique position outside the ecliptic plane. There have been some talking about havin it operating as long as 2006 but that is yet to be discussed. But having a space probe operational in that ruff environment for 16 years is truly remarkable.
The launch was on October 6, 1990, 7:47:15 a.m. EDT. And it was the heaviest payload up to that date. Launch weight was 370 kg.
The mission is designed to sample the solar wind and the heliosphere at latitudes unexplored by any other spacecraft.
And how am I supposed to register when that darn LinuxCounter already is slashdotted? Couldn't we use snail mail?
And now the serious part of the comment, how do they do this counting stuff anyway? It's rather clear to me (and to them too???) that just a small part of the Linux users ever would find that page and sign up. I've run Linux for several years now and have never heard about that site until today.
And do they think about the fact that not all of those who finds it will register? My guess is that many people hesitate to sign up because they just think they will be spammed. Or maybe they just don't bother to get a crapmail-account-to-be-used-for-signing-up-stuff to sign up with. I bet thay haven't thought about that. This counting stuff should be named "Counter for those Linux users who bother signing up when they finally finds this page"
That people shouldn't go bying Xp or any other M$ product at all. This article says it all "Go install a free operating system".
;-)
And I wonder why M$ doesn't make their cd's copy protected in the first place? That would surely stop this sort of problems
Hey does that mean I can commit a burglary at RIIA, just to get back some of that money that went to them when I bought records. But of course, only for those records I found cheaper in another store.
Is it ok?
It's the same thing? Really?
great, let me just go get my crowbar...
Hey I just heard that they've kidnapped Kermit, those friggin bastards!!!
What the hell are we supposed to do now?
I hope they doesn't think about making parts of this GOVNET wireless, the day they do that they're hacked for sure. And anyway, I dont think it will work with such a large network without any loopholes in it (with or without the wireless feature).
;-). And finally I think the reason that the Feds can't piggy-back on the U.S. Military network is just because they will screw it up.
Think about it for a while, how many works for the government in the US today? And if just one of those are lazy/stupid/corrupt or anything else, they will have a LARGE enough loophole to be hacked to hell. And how should they check if no one lazy/stupid/corrupt worker by mistake/laziness/stupidity/intention just happens to connect his pc to the other world? And how should they do with more practical things, like there may be some chance that some of the workers would like to get emails for instance from people not on GOVNET, or maybe they must use the ordinary net in work. Should they use two physically separated pc's in their work?
Alright, I say OK to the fact that it works in the network used by the U.S. military. But thats a big difference, they have more discipline, are fewer and are more easily controlled (compared to the Department of Agriculture for instance
I think this link can be helpful for you, it provides a huge list of web test tools. They are organized in categories for which sort of test one would like to perform. They also have a FAQ which answers several questions about how sites can be tested, and it also points out what things you should think about, like; what are the expected loads, who is the target audience, what kind of performance is expected on the client side, and so on.
You can always check out the Aurora gallerys on this page, the photographers decsribe a bit about how they did and what equipment they used to get those beautiful pictures. Mostly people use ASA 400 with a 10 to 20 sec exposure time, but of course that depends on which lens you use. And the best way to learn is to try several exposure times and or films and remember to make notes for each photo you take (just to know what you did right and what went wrong). Often you can get pretty good pictures even if the aurora is faint, but thats a matter of exposure time and luck. But look at the photo details at the page, those guys know how to do it right :)
I havent seen any predictions about where on the scale this blob is, but it is possibly a R2 (or lower) - which means moderate effects. That is, only limited radio blackouts on the sunlit side.
There are several key steps in the origins of life:
And origins of complex organic molecules are believed to be:
Here's some facts about how to do if you want to look at this meteor shower. For those who really wants to read alot about this, here's an extensive guide to meteor showers and their observation. They are best wieved in the late evening. The peak for the meteor shower is calculated to be today (2001-10-09) but remember that the date of maximum is approximate, viewing is possible +/- 2 days of it. The radiant at maximum will be at 262 degrees, ie. RA 17h 28.2m, Dec +54, which is about 2 degrees north of the star beta Draconis, called Restaban, on the shortest side of the head of Draco. (Need a glossary or a star chart?) Anyway these are slow meteors, at about 20 km/sec, so they will be very distinctive - and much easier to catch on photographs!
:(. But thats not so surprising because the strength of the Draconid meteor shower has varied considerably over the years, reaching 'storm' level in 1933 and 1946 when thousands were seen and the sky looked like it was really falling! In Belgium in 1933, observers counted about 78 meteors per minute. Because of its variable nature - it's like playing on lottery when going out to observe this shower. Although chances of seeing any activity from this shower in a given year are minimal, one of these years you could be pleasantly surprised!
:). The Orionids are debris from Halley's Comet. Also the Leonids are coming now in November (18th) again, and this time it seems to be a big meteor shower. Actually, predictions by the world's top meteor experts expects it to be the most dramatic meteor shower in 35 years.
If you don't wanna go out to look for the showers, you can always tune in to NASA's forward scatter meteor radar system at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. On a typical day, when there's no intense meteor shower, radar listeners will hear about one ping per minute or so. Rates could become substantially higher during a meteor shower.
Some recently updated graph of Giacobinids 2001 from observations shows unfortunately that they seem to be rather weak this year, just about 5-6 per hour
But there will be more meteor showers this month, for example the Orionids (October 21-22) which are predicted to be stronger than the Draconids (atleast compared with the observational data for the Draconids recently reported
Why call it XP? I don't know if it's just me, but the name XP sounds alarming to me. I just hope they did that chip better than Microsoft did Win XP...
------
A happy AMD user
And so, my fellow Americans:
"Ask not What Technology Can Do For You -- Ask What You Can Do For Technology"
President John F. Kennedy
Washington, D.C.
January 20, 1961
----------
Whaddya all mean he didn't say it that way...?
Whooow, 4-5 ms ping reply eh?
;-)
In our LAN here at Umu (in Umea of course) we have about 1-2 ms for ping:
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.1/1.4/1.7 ms
And ping statistics if you ping sunet (10 packets) is:
round-trip min/avg/max = 11.6/12.5/13.7 ms
and thats 850 km away (1360 miles)
So this means that everyone with a taste for the Afghan kitchen is a primal suspect?
So your eating Afghanic food eh?
This kind of networks surely points at the need for faster hd's. It's your hd that limits the speed in cases like this. I tested using two computers (with 128 and 256 MB RAM) with 15 m cable between, both had a IBM 7200 rpm IDE-drive and a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI-card. I reached a maximum of about 70 Mbps, sending a 15 MB file. But of course it will be lower of you send alot of small files. And notice that this test were made for a line without other packets running around in it. On a 100Mbps net you will get a much lower speed because of all the collissions that occur when several people sends stuff at the same time.
--------
All 100Mbps and no play makes the hd a dull boy
I think that the new interfaces will be voice recognition and voice generation. Like in StarTrek, Commander, I need warp speed now. Its alot faster to talk to the computer than write, also to listen to a computer could be better in some situations. For example if you should read a loooong report or so, just hit the text-to-voice-generation (tm) button, tune in a soft voice and lean back in the couch. But there are several problems, how should the computer get the voice right, depending on situation. for example irony/sarcasm. Or how should it interpret spoken sentences, there are a varity of meanings of the same sentence. Perhaps if it is composed with direct manipulation so gestures can be interpreted to. It could work with a scanning of the face to get facial expressions that can signal emotion, add emphasis to the speech and support the interaction in a dialogue situation.
But inventing that kind of "wheel" is really hard, at least with the technology we have today. But were on the way of getting there, in the mean time check out this link about Talking Heads, and no it's not about that music group.
The problem here is that the major part of the pc users actually doesn't know anything about the OS.
:)
Better yet, it has a check box of "use this program to open up the file as default". Very easy.
I don't know how many questions I've got from friends asking "What program should I choose for this file? Why can't it just open in the right program in the first time?"
The success of M$ is actually the fact that they made an OS available for a user without any "advanced" knowledge. I still remember when the first windows came, it was really exciting. And by the way think about this; why is it that other OS of Linux/UNIX-type has exploded in number of users in the last few years? The answer is plainly that much of it is thanks to graphical interfaces to the OS. Here in my town they run Linux at a lot of schools, and the students wouldn't be able to use it if they just had a black screen with a prompt. Many people I talked to think's its great that they can handle an "advanced OS" like Linux, but it's just because they have some icons and some menues. You know, stuff that calm's the user down.
Maybe we users who know better should stick with our kinds of "Alternative OS", and let M$ run its race. Maybe we finally could outpace them? Could it be that Linux/UNIX soon would be as easy as windows to handle? If it goes that way in the future, it would be a hit
But of course, I think that M$ monopoly is some sort of situation that we gotta do something about. But some things are their invention, like the file extension which made it more simple for "ordinary" users to handle. But it's a large company, and large companies tend to be more greedy the larger they get. So maybe splitting it up in several pieces will be just good...
I guess that anyone that's heard of Moore's law doesn't be surprised by this. In 1971 Moore published his Law that describes the performance increase for semiconductors and was estimated as an 18 month doubling. You can see a fine graph about this here.
:):
And a fast calculation (based on a 2GHz intel P4
6 years = 72 months
72/18=4
and 2^4=16GHz
And 2.1 GHz will give 19.4GHz, which I think they will release before new year or so...
It is possible that the 18 months would be slightly different, like 20 months, but clearly this trend has continued with little change. But remember that computer performance is strongly influenced by the semiconductor trend but need not be exactly identical.
"Hopefully some of the aerodynamic technology can be applied to commercially available vehicles (cars, maybe?)."
:)
Nah I don't think so. The aerodynamic technology developed for vehicles like cars and motorcycles is done with supercomputers cracking some big ass 3D fluid dynamic equations. I don't think that Mr powered_speed (Sam Wittingham) and his fellows can afford that
That "aerodynamic technology" developed for bicycles are stoneage knowledge for those who designs advanced cars.
Actually NASA have to do this but my guess is that they dont wanna do this. The only reason they do this commercial thing is because they don't want Russia to get all the money from this market. Like that rich (American) space tourist that Russia sent out, NASA didn't want to send him out to a space station. But they sure would like the 20 million dollars he payed...
For those who doesn't know it they (SETI@home) recently reached the Zettaflop (10e+21 floating-point operations) mark which is a world record. The last 24 hours "they" (read the users) performed 6.104916e+18 flops which is about 70.66 Teraflops/sec. This can be compared to the Terascale Computing System that theoretically could reach a maximum of 6 teraflops per second *laugh*. SETI's total cpu-time lies around 750 000 years, _pretty cool_ eh?
Thank god for Mouse Gestures in Mozilla too, when will the advanced features be available?
For example: To open a new mozilla window, login at slashdot as yourself and submit a really cool story.
To do this try the following easy steps:
Hold down left mouse button, move right-left-right, then hold down right button and move right-left-up-down-left-up-left-right. Release left button and move left-down-right-up, double-click left button, hold it down, release and double-click right button, move up-down-up-down, doucleclick both buttons (alternatively double-click middle button if you have 3 of them). Now finally move the mouse in a circle, anti-clockwise, four complete circles should be drawn. When done with the circles hold down both buttons and move up-down-right-down-up-left-right-left, double click both buttons. DONE!!!
I can't see why he bother's with this, he just can't win. He just can loose. It's like McDonalds, I bet there was alot of guys named McDonalds even before that company was started. Maybe he should think about changing his name to Slash Dot instead