It would be nice if, in parallel to the Internet, another network was developed to hold only symantically organized knowledge.
Don't see why you need another whole network to do this. See wikipedia. It may not have the uber xml web service driven aspect oriented paradigm shifting 300 grand per annum buzzword love, but it works fine for me. Besides, we can just graft that shite on later if it turns out to be useful.
The whole premise behind SETI is that there are intelligent beings 'out there' in the universe that are broadcasting their signals into space. Even if there were beings doing just that, they would be hundreds if not thousands if not millions or billions of light years away from us making any sort of coherent response to a signal meaningless.
Communication does not have to be two way to get anything meaningful from it. Simply eavesdropping on the signals produced by an alien civilization could produce enormous benefits to mankind including but not limited to advances in the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
If there were beings out there who had the capacity for interstellar travel (and that's the only kind that would matter because anything less than that would make communication impossible) they would have already found this noisy planet and if not made contact at least monitored us from a safe distance.
This is so flawed I don't even know where to start. First, interstellar travel is not a prerequisite for interstellar communication. All you need to communicate between stars is a sufficiently powerful EM wave, well within the capabilities of our current technology. Why would you have to be able to travel the stars to send an EM signal? "impossible" pfffffft whatever
Second, just because beings have mastered interstellar travel doesn't mean they have found us. I guess you think "building very fast spaceship" == "finding earth". I don't think this is the case.
So either way SETI is unlikely to find anything meaningful. I'm with the Christians on this one. The search for extra-terrestrial life is only a substitute for the search for meaning within one's self and with one's God.
Seti is great testbed for distributed computing technology, worst case. Best case it is relatively low cost R&D that could pay massive technological dividends if anything is ever found. Leave god to the preachers, this is science.
I agree the site redesign alone won't make it more successful, but you have to view things in context. Plain and simple, mozilla needs more than a site redesign and advertising to suceed. It needs better PR in general.
IANAPublicist, but I know that mozilla has a serious problem with its brand. There is absolutely nothing cool, new or sexy about it as far as 95% of the population is concerned, if they have even heard of it. Look at Coke and Pepsi. Pepsi's brand and marketing strategy revolves around Pepsi being the younger, cooler, sexier soda, as compared to the old and stodgy Coke.
It may be lame, but it gives Pepsi's brand an identity. Same with Mountain Dew. If mozilla could position itself like this, I think you would see a lot more people using it. Who wants to be old and busted when they could be new hotness?
As it stands right now, mozilla is like RC cola. Unknown and uncared about by most average people. (Sad, because I love using it and sincerely believe it's the best browser available)
It is the off the map of mainstream media. I read a lot of dead tree newspapers and magazines and have never seen a writeup or review of moz.
Any decent PR firm out there would (for a fee, of course) use their contacts to convince a mainstream journalist that mozilla is worth writing about. Any decent publicist would also be doing anything they could to sex up the brand and make it more appealing than stodgy old MSIE.
Sponsor a skateboarding tournament. Get an article in the NY Times. Change the red generi-godzilla logo to something with an attitude. Make an edgy commercial that gets people talking. Do something.
It worked for NASA. WEP is worse than useless, it slows you down with (arguaby) no benefit (read the whitepaper or download airsnort). Use application/transport layer security when you really need it, like at login time.
Read the article, linux is threatening commercial Unix. Particularly Solaris.
The article just shows that the (previously theoretical) threat is real. The more linux evolves for datacenter usage (high availability, better process/thread model, hotswap CPU...), the more it will replace commercial unix on serious ($1MM+) installations. IBM knows this, Sun is realizing this.
Microsoft is scared shitless of this, as they have been planning on replacing unix on the big iron for some time.
My bad, I'm an engineer. So was communism Mao and Castro's least common denominator? Engineers routinely butcher the english language to convey a point. Most people get the gist. The other ones we call dense and laugh at when they're not around. Sometimes we screw them on projects and make them do all the shit work, too.
There's a very fine line between manned spaceflight and dropping nukes on your ideological counterparts. Not that it is imminent or anything but I'm sure China would be a little more comfortable with a mutually assured destruction scenario (as opposed to simply being a target on the US nuclear hit list).
Don't think for a second that club fed isn't keeping very close tabs on china's spaceflight program.
(1)Enjoy your youth. Hang with girls. Work your ass off when you get to high school and maybe go to a top shelf university, figure out what you want to spend the rest of your life doing. Get your degree. Maybe get a Masters and PhD. Work hard in your field. Gain the respect of your peers. Retire early because you kicked ass and travel the rest of your life, or continue working till you die because you found something you love doing.
(2)
Drop out of school when you are old enough, get a GED, show everyone how smart you are by working full time. Realize that you have become a blue collar coder whose job just got shipped off to India. Show everyone how dumb you are by foregoing option (1). Lose the respect of your peers. Go to a community college because the Ivy League doesn't accept people who make horrendously bad decisions. Never gain the respect of some very smart people that you will never meet because you never went to a good college like you could have. Develop a chemical dependency and appear on Jerry Springer.
There are reasons minors (even smart ones like you) aren't allowed to enter into contracts. Poor judgement and lack of wisdom are two good very good ones. You would probably not retire at 25-35 if you could start working full time now, you will probably not retire at 31-41 if you start working full time at 18. Don't be such a dumbass. Graduate HS early and fastrack through college if you are that hyped to work.
TXS
After completing an XML based project and slogging through a number of w3c specs, I can tell you there is a need for annotated specifications with code examples. A good example is XML: The Annotated Specification by Bob DuCharme.
Have you ever tried to read the XML Schema spec without guidance? It's not for the faint of heart.
submit...preview...whatever
> in the current public mood, perfect for urban
> combat and reconnaisance and surveying disaster
> sites. Oh, and it's also good for aerial
> photography.
So it's also good for surveying targets, dropping chemical/biological/nerve agents, and photographing the results. Maybe/bin/laden guys will even hack it to email al jazeera with exclusive footage.
> in the current public mood, perfect for urban
> combat and reconnaisance and surveying disaster
> sites. Oh, and it's also good for aerial
> photography.
So it's also good for surveying targets, dropping chemical/biological/nerve agents, and photographing the results. Maybe/bin/laden guys will even hack it to email al jazeera with exclusive footage.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing I've come to realize after reading the article is that any yutz with a text editor, a compiler, and a knowledge of the gnutella protocol could soak the net with a massive DDOS attack by firing off large numbers of search queries with a high TTL.
Am I missing something or is gnutella a big risk to internet stability/security?
Never underestimate the power of a clueless random with a blank address bar. Before you know it sex.com is "porn on the internet" just like banks.com.au is "australian banks on the internet" just like windows is "computers"...
I believe in the right of American citizens to bear arms, however I don't think the argument that they keep authority in the hands of citizens has been valid since the early 20th century.
Do you truly believe that a group of citizens armed with legal firearms could act to check the authority of the US government given modern military tech? I think tanks, warships, aircraft, and nukes have effectively eliminated the population of the US from being the ultimate check against a government based on checks and balances.
Slashdot Mirror
s/RIAA/ARIA/g
-RIAA
Don't see why you need another whole network to do this. See wikipedia. It may not have the uber xml web service driven aspect oriented paradigm shifting 300 grand per annum buzzword love, but it works fine for me. Besides, we can just graft that shite on later if it turns out to be useful.
HAHAHAHA!!!! Tell that to former American steel, auto, textile, and rubber workers. You must not be from the Rust Belt.
The whole premise behind SETI is that there are intelligent beings 'out there' in the universe that are broadcasting their signals into space. Even if there were beings doing just that, they would be hundreds if not thousands if not millions or billions of light years away from us making any sort of coherent response to a signal meaningless.
Communication does not have to be two way to get anything meaningful from it. Simply eavesdropping on the signals produced by an alien civilization could produce enormous benefits to mankind including but not limited to advances in the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
If there were beings out there who had the capacity for interstellar travel (and that's the only kind that would matter because anything less than that would make communication impossible) they would have already found this noisy planet and if not made contact at least monitored us from a safe distance.
This is so flawed I don't even know where to start. First, interstellar travel is not a prerequisite for interstellar communication. All you need to communicate between stars is a sufficiently powerful EM wave, well within the capabilities of our current technology. Why would you have to be able to travel the stars to send an EM signal? "impossible" pfffffft whatever
Second, just because beings have mastered interstellar travel doesn't mean they have found us. I guess you think "building very fast spaceship" == "finding earth". I don't think this is the case.
So either way SETI is unlikely to find anything meaningful. I'm with the Christians on this one. The search for extra-terrestrial life is only a substitute for the search for meaning within one's self and with one's God.
Seti is great testbed for distributed computing technology, worst case. Best case it is relatively low cost R&D that could pay massive technological dividends if anything is ever found. Leave god to the preachers, this is science.
IANAPublicist, but I know that mozilla has a serious problem with its brand. There is absolutely nothing cool, new or sexy about it as far as 95% of the population is concerned, if they have even heard of it. Look at Coke and Pepsi. Pepsi's brand and marketing strategy revolves around Pepsi being the younger, cooler, sexier soda, as compared to the old and stodgy Coke.
It may be lame, but it gives Pepsi's brand an identity. Same with Mountain Dew. If mozilla could position itself like this, I think you would see a lot more people using it. Who wants to be old and busted when they could be new hotness?
As it stands right now, mozilla is like RC cola. Unknown and uncared about by most average people. (Sad, because I love using it and sincerely believe it's the best browser available)
It is the off the map of mainstream media. I read a lot of dead tree newspapers and magazines and have never seen a writeup or review of moz.
Any decent PR firm out there would (for a fee, of course) use their contacts to convince a mainstream journalist that mozilla is worth writing about. Any decent publicist would also be doing anything they could to sex up the brand and make it more appealing than stodgy old MSIE.
Sponsor a skateboarding tournament. Get an article in the NY Times. Change the red generi-godzilla logo to something with an attitude. Make an edgy commercial that gets people talking. Do something.
TXS
It worked for NASA. WEP is worse than useless, it slows you down with (arguaby) no benefit (read the whitepaper or download airsnort). Use application/transport layer security when you really need it, like at login time.
The article just shows that the (previously theoretical) threat is real. The more linux evolves for datacenter usage (high availability, better process/thread model, hotswap CPU...), the more it will replace commercial unix on serious ($1MM+) installations. IBM knows this, Sun is realizing this.
Microsoft is scared shitless of this, as they have been planning on replacing unix on the big iron for some time.
--TSX
TSX
There's a very fine line between manned spaceflight and dropping nukes on your ideological counterparts. Not that it is imminent or anything but I'm sure China would be a little more comfortable with a mutually assured destruction scenario (as opposed to simply being a target on the US nuclear hit list).
Don't think for a second that club fed isn't keeping very close tabs on china's spaceflight program.
TSX
(1)Enjoy your youth. Hang with girls. Work your ass off when you get to high school and maybe go to a top shelf university, figure out what you want to spend the rest of your life doing. Get your degree. Maybe get a Masters and PhD. Work hard in your field. Gain the respect of your peers. Retire early because you kicked ass and travel the rest of your life, or continue working till you die because you found something you love doing.
(2) Drop out of school when you are old enough, get a GED, show everyone how smart you are by working full time. Realize that you have become a blue collar coder whose job just got shipped off to India. Show everyone how dumb you are by foregoing option (1). Lose the respect of your peers. Go to a community college because the Ivy League doesn't accept people who make horrendously bad decisions. Never gain the respect of some very smart people that you will never meet because you never went to a good college like you could have. Develop a chemical dependency and appear on Jerry Springer.
There are reasons minors (even smart ones like you) aren't allowed to enter into contracts. Poor judgement and lack of wisdom are two good very good ones. You would probably not retire at 25-35 if you could start working full time now, you will probably not retire at 31-41 if you start working full time at 18. Don't be such a dumbass. Graduate HS early and fastrack through college if you are that hyped to work. TXS
Have you ever tried to read the XML Schema spec without guidance? It's not for the faint of heart.
> combat and reconnaisance and surveying disaster
> sites. Oh, and it's also good for aerial
> photography.
So it's also good for surveying targets, dropping chemical/biological/nerve agents, and photographing the results. Maybe /bin/laden guys will even hack it to email al jazeera with exclusive footage.
> in the current public mood, perfect for urban > combat and reconnaisance and surveying disaster > sites. Oh, and it's also good for aerial > photography. So it's also good for surveying targets, dropping chemical/biological/nerve agents, and photographing the results. Maybe /bin/laden guys will even hack it to email al jazeera with exclusive footage.
Am I missing something or is gnutella a big risk to internet stability/security?
Maybe if it was a decent upgrade or anything about the ubergeek HP 48 series it would matter.
Try techdirt for some real news.
They also used to rake in $400,000/mo in banners
Never underestimate the power of a clueless random with a blank address bar. Before you know it sex.com is "porn on the internet" just like banks.com.au is "australian banks on the internet" just like windows is "computers"...
I believe in the right of American citizens to bear arms, however I don't think the argument that they keep authority in the hands of citizens has been valid since the early 20th century.
Do you truly believe that a group of citizens armed with legal firearms could act to check the authority of the US government given modern military tech? I think tanks, warships, aircraft, and nukes have effectively eliminated the population of the US from being the ultimate check against a government based on checks and balances.