There are billions of people who do not believe the theory of evolution
Doubtful. Creationism is essentially a uniquely American phenomenon; the Catholic church, for example, has no problem with the fact of evolution. I have yet to meet a creationists in México. I have met many creationists in the United States.
I am saying fact instead of theory because creationists have a different lexicographic meaning for theory than scientists do.
Ironic that the trolls here post about how the BSDs are dying. Which they are not; all of the BSDs are being actively maintained and will continue to exist as long as the devlopers are dedicated to improving the BSD software.
Sun, on the other hand, has the problem of needing to continue being a viable company. Otherwise, their OS will go the way of BeOS (impossible to maintian and update).
In the last year, Sun has only posted a profit for one quarter. They lost $111 million last quarter alone and had to start another massive round of layoffs. Sun bet the bank on the dot-com boom continuing, and when that ballon popped, Sun found themsleves in a difficult position.
The fact that all of the free OSes continue to improve in quality and scability does not bode well for Sun either. Oracle has recently replaced their very large Sun servers with arrays of Dell machines running a commodity OS.
Sun has made a lot of contirbutions to free software, such as the RPC code, the NFS code, and Open Office. While not the most secure, these were valuable contributions which helped Linux and BSD become viable OSes in the early days of complete free software systems (early 1990s), and are making free *nix boxes more viable desktop machines today (with Open Office, though I use AbiWord myself).
I hope Sun survives this attack; they will need to let go of their arrogance and their "The only real Unix is Solaris; Linux and *BSD are toys" mindset to survive.
For the record, I have never downloaded a mp3 (or any other music file) off of the internet which the copyright holder did not make available for download.
OK, there is exactly one exception. I once downloaded an mp3 of the extended danse mix of "Say it Again" by The Danse Society; then again, this particular song has never been placed on CD and is long out of print.
Let me second that. BeOS was an excellent operating system; if they can suceed in duplicating BeOS with an open source license, this will make for a better desktop OS than Linux.
Linux makes a decent server OS and a passable desktop OS. The problem is that Linux's desktop design is anything but unified, and has a lot of 15-year-old cruft in it. While there are ways of band-aiding things, such as what RedHat has done with their 8.0 release, the Linux desktop experience is still not as unified and as fast as it would be on any other OS. For example, inconsistant cut-and-paste; each application has its own "file save" dialog, many of which do not have ability to create a new directory to put the saved file in; slower-than-ideal performance; poor Unicode support; and so on.
This is why MacOS X uses a BSD kernel but doesn't uses X windows as the desktop.
This is not to downplay the heroic efforts of the KDE and Gnome teams to try to make a usable desktop for Linux while still supporting all of the cruft; nor is this being done to downplay the heroic efforts of the Mozilla team to port their browser to Linux, creating yet another X toolkit in the process.
If OpenBeOS becomes a usable desktop OS I can get at cheapbytes for $2, I may very well replace my current Linux + KDE 3.0 with it for my desktop machine. My only problem with BeOS was that it was not open-source.
[Esperanto advocates] want it to replace, well, everything.
Actually, the thinking behind Esperanto makes a lot of sense to anyone who has had to learn English as a second language in order to engage in international communication. English literally has over 1000 years of cruft in it (swim/swam/swum instead of swim/swimmed, behead instead of unhead, through instead of thru, etc.)
Disclaimer: I'm a native English speaker learning to speak Spanish as a second language. I'm also studying linguistics.
I know that you starred in the only espeanto-language movie ever made, incubus. Did you star in this movie, in part, to help promote the Esperanto language? Have you felt, or do you still feel that things would have been better if Esperanto became the standard language for internation communication?
OK, having livedin California for most of my life, and having lived in Puebla for four months, I prefer the approach of having a lot of small street venders over having everything sold in big stores.
Having everything be in a few mega-shops makes the streets in America very impersonal and dehumanizing. The way there are those small street venders everywhere gives Puebla a human touch which California cities do not have.
The only time the street vendors have bothered me was when I was in tourist areas (such as Acapulco); they would come up to me and try to sell me things when I wanted to be left alone. This was never a problem when I was in Puebla.
In terms of them blocking traffic, I have never seen that myself. Then again, the nice thing about México is that you guys actually have an effective public transportation system; I found that I didn't have any need for a car when I lived in Puebla since I usually only had to wait a total of one or two minutes for a combi going where I wanted to be to show up.
The popularity of Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Gigante, Bodega (a supermarket chain owned by Wal-Wart), and other big chain stores in México demonstrates that small street stands are not as much a threat to big chain retailers as New York retailers say they are.
One of the most common security bugs is a buffer overflow. BUGTRAQ often sounds like a broken record which says "buffer overflow"; obviously coding practices which prevent buffer overflows is desirable.
For my application, I have made a special string library which is resistant to buffer overflows. Instead of a string being a simple pointer to a string of characters, terminated by a null, a string is a structure with the following information:
The current length of the string
The maximum possible length for the string
The encoding of the string
The length, in octets, of a single piece of data in the string
I then make sure that any manipulations to the string library always check to make sure we do not exceed the maximum length; I also have a three-byte cusion in every sllocated string to insure that one-byte buffer overflows do not happen.
Some other practices:
Only give static strings to anything which accepts format (%s, etc.) strings.
Do not use signal handlers; or use them with the utmost care.
Finally, after six years, we have another Dr. Who episode. From the BBC, to boot. This can be the sign of more things to come.
I can see why they chose Shada; Douglas Adams has a reputation which makes it that much easier to secure funding. Now, hopefully, this will not be a one-time shot like the 1996 Dr. Who episode was. Since they will build some sets, such as a Tardis set, this will make it more cost-effective to make more Dr. Who episodes if this program generates enough interest.
I am wondering how they will handle Ramona; there was one sentence which mentions Lalla Ward (the actress who played the second Ramona) but it is not clear whether they are referring to her role in the original production, or whether they are referring to her playing the role again in this production.
Fandom will have to come up with a story about how Ramona and K9 got out of N-space and got back together with the doctor again (with a possible regeneration if a different actress plays Ramona).
Glad to see somehting more substansial from BBC besides a vague promise from some BBC executive.
Groff's main weakness compared to the current troff is a complete lack of Unicode support. What happened is that the groff author went to a lot of effort to give Groff iso-8859-1 support. Unfortunatly, he lost interest in Groff (which I don't mind; I do not feel that writing free software should make you a slave to that software for life) and the FSF had a heck of a time finding a maintainer for Groff.
Now that Unicode is slowly catching on, there is a need to give Groff Unicode support. I do not think that Groff's current maintainer is interested in doing this; it is a lot of work and the need for it is not perceived as being that important. In fact, this is a free software project in the works: Give groff real Unicode support.
Perhaps it is possible to port the current Troff (with unicode support) to Unix.
I am the implementer of a DNS server called MaraDNS. This server was written in response to the demand for a fully funcitonal DNS server which has a open source compatible license (which tinydns doesn't). The webpage for MaraDNS is here. The 1.0.x branch has stabilized; I am currently working on the 1.2 branch of MaraDNS.
Another option, if one does not need recursive caching is posadis. There is also pdnsd, which only provides recursive DNS service.
The problem with Mozilla's translation method is that it is designed in such a way that a translation team has to update a translation for every single release of Mozilla. That means that if a given translation team doesn't update the translation, newer versions of Mozilla have to be used in English.
In particular, if I wish to have Spanish-language dialogues in Mozilla, I (as of a month ago) can not upgrade to Mozilla 1.0.1 because none of the volunteer Spanish translation teams [1] has updated their 1.0.0 translations to version 1.0.1; instead they chose to direct their translation efforts towards 1.1 and 1.2.
Compare this to AbiWord, which has a translation structure such that, if a given translation team decides that meeting girls at dance clubs is far more fun than spending Saturday night translating dialogues, the translations still work for new versions of the program. If any new dialogues appear, those dialogues will be in English until someone steps up to bat to translate them, but any unchanged dialogues remain translated.
IE has an edge here, since their translation teams are paid; guaranteeing that any formal release of IE will be translated in to all officially supported languages. The disadvantage to this is, if a given language is deemed by Bill Gates to not be worthy of translation, you have to use the application in English (or one of the other official languages).
This structure causes Mozilla 1.0.1 to have translations available in languages like Estonian (a beautiful language [2] which has about, as I recall, 2 million speakers) but not in Spanish (which has more native speakers than English--about 325 million).
OK, thinking out loud, it should not be too hard to set up a perl script which unzips a translation for a given version of Mozilla, compares the labels against the English version for a given later version of Mozilla, and then translates all of the labels it can; leaving the untranslated labels in English. This would be far more productive than posting to Slashdot; perhaps a Mozilla guru can tell me if a tool like this already exists.
- Sam
[1] There are three Spanish trnaslation teams: One for Latin American spanish, one for Argentinian Spanish, and one in Spain. The Argentian is the most active group right now.
[2] One of my linguist teachers is a native Estonian speaker; she once talked to us in Estonian to demonstrate a language learning technique.
Then why do you have a picture of the ISS on your home page?
Really, I can not belive the ignorance and downright stupidity of your posts. Equating socialism with terrorism??? Really, give me a break.
Saying that the US is better than any other country in the world based on vacations to a handful of countries which lasted two weeks or less???
Again, give me a break.
Next, you will be saying that people who do not speak English are dumber than English speakers; and that everyone in the world needs to be fluent in English.
You are acting like an ignorant redneck; I hope that this isn't what you really think and believe.
I am putting you on my foes list. Naturally, I don't know who you really are and what you act like in the real world so this is not a personal attack; it just means that I find you Slashdot postings annoying and would be better of ignoring you so I don't get upset when I am in a bad mood.
And, yes, I meta-moderated down one of the people who moderated this unfairly; I think Slashdot needs to make moderation non-anonymous. It's not like we don't know that the editors have unlimited moderation points and use them frequently.
As a Christian, I find creationists rather annoying. Which is why I have a list of creationists and a convenient way of killfiling these people.
Now, I believe very strongly in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians. What I am doing here is not an act of hatred; I am sure that if we knew each other in real life, we would get along really nicely. Putting you on this list does not mean that I don't disrespect you as a person. It just means that I feel that you post some inappropriate things which make Christians look foolish to anyone in the scientific community.
I don't waste my time debating creation/evolution. I simply killfile the creationists so I don't get needlessly upset.
One of the less common ones, so you may not find as many things compiling out of the box
My experience porting my application to various unices is that porting from Linux to Mac OS X is a no-briner; the toolchain to build programs on the both unices is the GNU toolchain, and is almost identical.
The only Unix I have had a hard time porting to is Solaris; then again, I have not tried porting my application to other prorpietary unices like HPUX, Ultrix/OSF-1/whatever they call it these days, AIX, etc.
The reason my DNS server does not have this is because this is best done at the networking level; in other words, setting up a firewall to not allow connections to the DNS server.
What my DNS server does is mandate an ACL (list of IPs allowed to make recursive queries; this can be set to "all hosts on the internet" if desired) if recursion (talking to other DNS servers) is enabled. Recursion takes a lot more work to do than authoritative requests; it is best to limit access to this.
Unlike Dan, I feel that a DNS server should be both recursive and authoritative because it allows one to customize the resolution of certain hostnames. The idea is similiar to/etc/hosts, but also works with applications which ignore/etc/hosts and directly perform DNS queries. For example, I was able to continue to connect to macslash.com when a squatter bought the domain and changed its official ip; I simply set up a zone for macslash.com, and made MaraDNS both recursive and authoritative.
SMTP servers have IP restrictions at the application layer because this gives people some idea why they can't send email to a given host. A firewall restriction gives a vague "connection timed out" message in the bounce email message; application-level filtering allows the bounce message to say something like "You're from a known Spam-friendly ISP; go away".
I did notice that DNS resolutions were taking a little longer than usual and that there were slightly more resolving issues than normal; I also noticed that 198.41.0.4 (a.root-servers.net) was not replying to DNS queries. The OSRC root name servers (which I normally use) were perfectly functional, however.
I only noticed it because I use my own DNS server to resolve requests; and pay close attention whenever I see any problems resolving host names (there is the possibility of it being a bug with my software).
The person who orchastrated this attack is not very familiar with DNS. Attacking the root name servers is not very effective; all the root servers do is refer people to the.com,.org, or other TLD (top-level-domain) name servers. Most DNS servers remember the list of the name servers for a given TLD for a period of two days, and do not need to contact the root servers to resolve those names. While some lesser-used country codes may have had slower resolution times, an attack on the root servers which only lasts an hour can not even be felt by the average end user.
In the case of MaraDNS, if a DOS (denial of service) is happening against the root servers, MaraDNS will be able to resolve names (albeit more slowly for lesser-used TLDs) until every single root server is sucessfully DOS'd.
I would recommend reading Pandora's Black box to better understand how the bombadier beetle works.
The name of the book is "Darwin's Black Box", and its contents have been refuted. They also have a refutation to creationist notions about Bombardier Beetles.
Notice, lurkers, that the topic of "irriducible complexity" and its ramifications to Dariwn's theory is not answered at all in that post, nor attempted. All we have is a vain nitpick of a small example as if "disputed" means "debunked".
This creationist notion of "Irreducable complexity" has been refuted. To quote:
Michael Behe's IR thesis is mistaken. One way that functions can be added to irreducibly complex systems (like genetic-determined biochemical pathways) is by duplicating the genes so you have a "spare" copy to mutate and evolve, so it can replace the older IR system if necessary.
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This was the first decent calandar application that Linux had, back in the mid-90s.
These days, of course, we have Korganizer.
- Sam
There are billions of people who do not believe the theory of evolution
Doubtful. Creationism is essentially a uniquely American phenomenon; the Catholic church, for example, has no problem with the fact of evolution. I have yet to meet a creationists in México. I have met many creationists in the United States.
I am saying fact instead of theory because creationists have a different lexicographic meaning for theory than scientists do.
- Sam
Sun, on the other hand, has the problem of needing to continue being a viable company. Otherwise, their OS will go the way of BeOS (impossible to maintian and update).
In the last year, Sun has only posted a profit for one quarter. They lost $111 million last quarter alone and had to start another massive round of layoffs. Sun bet the bank on the dot-com boom continuing, and when that ballon popped, Sun found themsleves in a difficult position.
The fact that all of the free OSes continue to improve in quality and scability does not bode well for Sun either. Oracle has recently replaced their very large Sun servers with arrays of Dell machines running a commodity OS.
Sun has made a lot of contirbutions to free software, such as the RPC code, the NFS code, and Open Office. While not the most secure, these were valuable contributions which helped Linux and BSD become viable OSes in the early days of complete free software systems (early 1990s), and are making free *nix boxes more viable desktop machines today (with Open Office, though I use AbiWord myself).
I hope Sun survives this attack; they will need to let go of their arrogance and their "The only real Unix is Solaris; Linux and *BSD are toys" mindset to survive.
- Sam
That link does not work in Mozilla. thos one does
- Sam
For the record, I have never downloaded a mp3 (or any other music file) off of the internet which the copyright holder did not make available for download.
OK, there is exactly one exception. I once downloaded an mp3 of the extended danse mix of "Say it Again" by The Danse Society; then again, this particular song has never been placed on CD and is long out of print.
- Sam
Let me second that. BeOS was an excellent operating system; if they can suceed in duplicating BeOS with an open source license, this will make for a better desktop OS than Linux.
Linux makes a decent server OS and a passable desktop OS. The problem is that Linux's desktop design is anything but unified, and has a lot of 15-year-old cruft in it. While there are ways of band-aiding things, such as what RedHat has done with their 8.0 release, the Linux desktop experience is still not as unified and as fast as it would be on any other OS. For example, inconsistant cut-and-paste; each application has its own "file save" dialog, many of which do not have ability to create a new directory to put the saved file in; slower-than-ideal performance; poor Unicode support; and so on.
This is why MacOS X uses a BSD kernel but doesn't uses X windows as the desktop.
This is not to downplay the heroic efforts of the KDE and Gnome teams to try to make a usable desktop for Linux while still supporting all of the cruft; nor is this being done to downplay the heroic efforts of the Mozilla team to port their browser to Linux, creating yet another X toolkit in the process.
If OpenBeOS becomes a usable desktop OS I can get at cheapbytes for $2, I may very well replace my current Linux + KDE 3.0 with it for my desktop machine. My only problem with BeOS was that it was not open-source.
- Sam
Actually, the thinking behind Esperanto makes a lot of sense to anyone who has had to learn English as a second language in order to engage in international communication. English literally has over 1000 years of cruft in it (swim/swam/swum instead of swim/swimmed, behead instead of unhead, through instead of thru, etc.)
Disclaimer: I'm a native English speaker learning to speak Spanish as a second language. I'm also studying linguistics.
- Sam
- Sam
- Sam
I lived in Puebla for four months myself.
It has become a nightmare for neighbors
OK, having livedin California for most of my life, and having lived in Puebla for four months, I prefer the approach of having a lot of small street venders over having everything sold in big stores.
Having everything be in a few mega-shops makes the streets in America very impersonal and dehumanizing. The way there are those small street venders everywhere gives Puebla a human touch which California cities do not have.
The only time the street vendors have bothered me was when I was in tourist areas (such as Acapulco); they would come up to me and try to sell me things when I wanted to be left alone. This was never a problem when I was in Puebla.
In terms of them blocking traffic, I have never seen that myself. Then again, the nice thing about México is that you guys actually have an effective public transportation system; I found that I didn't have any need for a car when I lived in Puebla since I usually only had to wait a total of one or two minutes for a combi going where I wanted to be to show up.
The popularity of Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Gigante, Bodega (a supermarket chain owned by Wal-Wart), and other big chain stores in México demonstrates that small street stands are not as much a threat to big chain retailers as New York retailers say they are.
- Sam
For my application, I have made a special string library which is resistant to buffer overflows. Instead of a string being a simple pointer to a string of characters, terminated by a null, a string is a structure with the following information:
- The current length of the string
- The maximum possible length for the string
- The encoding of the string
- The length, in octets, of a single piece of data in the string
I then make sure that any manipulations to the string library always check to make sure we do not exceed the maximum length; I also have a three-byte cusion in every sllocated string to insure that one-byte buffer overflows do not happen.Some other practices:
- Sam
Not clear in the article, but this is an audio-only webcast. Oh well; nice thought while it lasted. - Sam
Finally, after six years, we have another Dr. Who episode. From the BBC, to boot. This can be the sign of more things to come.
I can see why they chose Shada; Douglas Adams has a reputation which makes it that much easier to secure funding. Now, hopefully, this will not be a one-time shot like the 1996 Dr. Who episode was. Since they will build some sets, such as a Tardis set, this will make it more cost-effective to make more Dr. Who episodes if this program generates enough interest.
I am wondering how they will handle Ramona; there was one sentence which mentions Lalla Ward (the actress who played the second Ramona) but it is not clear whether they are referring to her role in the original production, or whether they are referring to her playing the role again in this production.
Fandom will have to come up with a story about how Ramona and K9 got out of N-space and got back together with the doctor again (with a possible regeneration if a different actress plays Ramona).
Glad to see somehting more substansial from BBC besides a vague promise from some BBC executive.
- Sam
Groff's main weakness compared to the current troff is a complete lack of Unicode support. What happened is that the groff author went to a lot of effort to give Groff iso-8859-1 support. Unfortunatly, he lost interest in Groff (which I don't mind; I do not feel that writing free software should make you a slave to that software for life) and the FSF had a heck of a time finding a maintainer for Groff.
Now that Unicode is slowly catching on, there is a need to give Groff Unicode support. I do not think that Groff's current maintainer is interested in doing this; it is a lot of work and the need for it is not perceived as being that important. In fact, this is a free software project in the works: Give groff real Unicode support.
Perhaps it is possible to port the current Troff (with unicode support) to Unix.
- Sam
Another option, if one does not need recursive caching is posadis. There is also pdnsd, which only provides recursive DNS service.
Security history of various DNS servers:
In particular, if I wish to have Spanish-language dialogues in Mozilla, I (as of a month ago) can not upgrade to Mozilla 1.0.1 because none of the volunteer Spanish translation teams [1] has updated their 1.0.0 translations to version 1.0.1; instead they chose to direct their translation efforts towards 1.1 and 1.2.
Compare this to AbiWord, which has a translation structure such that, if a given translation team decides that meeting girls at dance clubs is far more fun than spending Saturday night translating dialogues, the translations still work for new versions of the program. If any new dialogues appear, those dialogues will be in English until someone steps up to bat to translate them, but any unchanged dialogues remain translated.
IE has an edge here, since their translation teams are paid; guaranteeing that any formal release of IE will be translated in to all officially supported languages. The disadvantage to this is, if a given language is deemed by Bill Gates to not be worthy of translation, you have to use the application in English (or one of the other official languages).
This structure causes Mozilla 1.0.1 to have translations available in languages like Estonian (a beautiful language [2] which has about, as I recall, 2 million speakers) but not in Spanish (which has more native speakers than English--about 325 million).
OK, thinking out loud, it should not be too hard to set up a perl script which unzips a translation for a given version of Mozilla, compares the labels against the English version for a given later version of Mozilla, and then translates all of the labels it can; leaving the untranslated labels in English. This would be far more productive than posting to Slashdot; perhaps a Mozilla guru can tell me if a tool like this already exists.
- Sam
[1] There are three Spanish trnaslation teams: One for Latin American spanish, one for Argentinian Spanish, and one in Spain. The Argentian is the most active group right now.
[2] One of my linguist teachers is a native Estonian speaker; she once talked to us in Estonian to demonstrate a language learning technique.
I think you are wrong.
Then why do you have a picture of the ISS on your home page?
Really, I can not belive the ignorance and downright stupidity of your posts. Equating socialism with terrorism??? Really, give me a break.
Saying that the US is better than any other country in the world based on vacations to a handful of countries which lasted two weeks or less??? Again, give me a break.
Next, you will be saying that people who do not speak English are dumber than English speakers; and that everyone in the world needs to be fluent in English.
You are acting like an ignorant redneck; I hope that this isn't what you really think and believe.
I am putting you on my foes list. Naturally, I don't know who you really are and what you act like in the real world so this is not a personal attack; it just means that I find you Slashdot postings annoying and would be better of ignoring you so I don't get upset when I am in a bad mood.
And, yes, I meta-moderated down one of the people who moderated this unfairly; I think Slashdot needs to make moderation non-anonymous. It's not like we don't know that the editors have unlimited moderation points and use them frequently.
- Sam
Basically, we really did land on the moon.
- Sam
Now, I believe very strongly in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians. What I am doing here is not an act of hatred; I am sure that if we knew each other in real life, we would get along really nicely. Putting you on this list does not mean that I don't disrespect you as a person. It just means that I feel that you post some inappropriate things which make Christians look foolish to anyone in the scientific community.
I don't waste my time debating creation/evolution. I simply killfile the creationists so I don't get needlessly upset.
- Sam
My experience porting my application to various unices is that porting from Linux to Mac OS X is a no-briner; the toolchain to build programs on the both unices is the GNU toolchain, and is almost identical.
The only Unix I have had a hard time porting to is Solaris; then again, I have not tried porting my application to other prorpietary unices like HPUX, Ultrix/OSF-1/whatever they call it these days, AIX, etc.
- Sam
What my DNS server does is mandate an ACL (list of IPs allowed to make recursive queries; this can be set to "all hosts on the internet" if desired) if recursion (talking to other DNS servers) is enabled. Recursion takes a lot more work to do than authoritative requests; it is best to limit access to this.
Unlike Dan, I feel that a DNS server should be both recursive and authoritative because it allows one to customize the resolution of certain hostnames. The idea is similiar to /etc/hosts, but also works with applications which ignore /etc/hosts and directly perform DNS queries. For example, I was able to continue to connect to macslash.com when a squatter bought the domain and changed its official ip; I simply set up a zone for macslash.com, and made MaraDNS both recursive and authoritative.
SMTP servers have IP restrictions at the application layer because this gives people some idea why they can't send email to a given host. A firewall restriction gives a vague "connection timed out" message in the bounce email message; application-level filtering allows the bounce message to say something like "You're from a known Spam-friendly ISP; go away".
- Sam
I only noticed it because I use my own DNS server to resolve requests; and pay close attention whenever I see any problems resolving host names (there is the possibility of it being a bug with my software).
The person who orchastrated this attack is not very familiar with DNS. Attacking the root name servers is not very effective; all the root servers do is refer people to the .com, .org, or other TLD (top-level-domain) name servers. Most DNS servers remember the list of the name servers for a given TLD for a period of two days, and do not need to contact the root servers to resolve those names. While some lesser-used country codes may have had slower resolution times, an attack on the root servers which only lasts an hour can not even be felt by the average end user.
In the case of MaraDNS, if a DOS (denial of service) is happening against the root servers, MaraDNS will be able to resolve names (albeit more slowly for lesser-used TLDs) until every single root server is sucessfully DOS'd.
- Sam
The name of the book is "Darwin's Black Box", and its contents have been refuted. They also have a refutation to creationist notions about Bombardier Beetles.
Finally, I have a list of creationists who post on Slashdot.
- Sam
Welcome, Mr. "On Lawn", to my list of creationists on Slashdot.
This creationist notion of "Irreducable complexity" has been refuted. To quote:
There is also a longer article at talkorigins.org about "Irreducable Complexity".
I think it would be rather redundant to paste the entire talk.origins article here.
As a Christian, creationists really annoy me. No, you don't have to become a close minded idiot to accept Christ in your life.
- Sam
Sami. But some people call it lapp.
- Sam