17 UN resolutions, and booting the UN inspectors out of the country .
Caught red handed in lies and deceit over and over, fear and intimidation used against inspectors .
This is just the short list of why .
Saddam openly admitted to making and weaponizing Biolutin Toxin, the most poisonous substance on earth, and with maximum yield more deadly than a nuclear weapon in theory .
Thank god the theory has never been tested to this day .
Saddam openly and publicly wrote checks to every suicide bombers family in Israel, this alone makes it state sponsored terrorism .
Some ppl figured if he will back these nut jobs, maybe he will hand out some of these bio/chem weapons along with a few more paychecks for death .
The ppl that cannot see this, or refuse to see it just do not want to and live in some damn fantasy world where they think the media in the US tells them the story without some kind of spin .
I am not saying Cheney or Bush have not done very dumb and bad things, and I am not a fan of either, but Saddam should have been taken out after the Kuwait stunt .
A lot of VERY brilliant ppl lived long before modern civilization .
Da Vinci, Archimedes, and Tesla .
Tesla alone was close to a break thru on harnessing the power of lightning world wide .
There are many other brilliant men we do and do not know .
Our modern world tends to mock these ppl in regards to some of what they claimed to do, and this is just another example of how the modern age is sometimes wrong .
Apparently a hacker succeeded in completely tearing up the server that was hosting us. Because of this, our free hosting service is gone. Worse, I don't have a copy of the database to put the site back up elsewhere. The hosting company may have backups that they'll make available soon, but I'm still waiting to hear back about whether or not that includes the database.
If this is your indication of intellect, security, spine, srong-minded, or a few other fitting descriptors then your verbal barrage is little more than garbage .
It may be flamebait, but by god it is pretty damn accurate .
It's like ppl watch hollywood movies and think the US started vietnam, when it was the french " French Indo-China "
They begged us to come bail them out .
Korean War:
June 25, 1950
At approximately 4 a.m. (Korean Standard Time) on a rainy Sunday morning Democratic People's Republic of Korea Army (DPRK - North Korea) artillery and mortars open fire on Republic of Korea (ROK - South Korea) Army positions south of the 38th Parallel, the line then serving as the border between the two countries. The opening barrage is followed shortly by tank/infantry attacks at all points along the Parallel. At 11 a.m. North Korea announced a formal declaration of war and what is now known as "The Korean War" officially began.
Kosovo:
UN dumps bulk of effort on the US once again, problem is and has been in thei backyard for ummmm decades, some say centuries....
Yes, also we went to save muslims being massacred....
Desert Storm:
Saddam attacks Kuwait....
UN and middle east dumps bulk of effort on US once again . ( act suprised )
I think alot of ppl get their history from hollywood and need to pull their heads out of their posteriors .
Libeal liars and Conservative liars exist on both sides, but if you apply a proper litmus test you can sift thru the $hit to find a sliver of truth .
I do not know how many billions the US spent developing Arpanet, NSFnet, and everything involved from the original project up to the point where it went from a mostly US network to a worldwide one . I seem to remember the Internet not really being publicly accessible til sometime in the 90's via a web browser .
It existed here for over 20 years before that in its private form .
I think China, Russia, and MANY other countries want to do it "their" way, and thus they should .
If history is any indication, they will .
Fear, distrust, and nationalism is not dead on any side of any ocean I assure you .
Each country can handle all aspects of internet operation as they see fit .
It is like the phone system . The rest of the world is ITU, the US is still ANSI .
Even among the ITU nations there are numerous sub protocols of SS7 , and variants .
I supported a protocol analysis boxen at cisco systems during the boom, and prior for the company the designed said boxen .
Their was dozens of variant protcols because everyone thinks they can do it better .
Thus the company cisco bought lightspeed international built a universal protocol converter to make sense of the giant mess, it took years and over 100 ppl .
So when you think about flying this out there Adhoc in the same manner, talk to some of the ppl that worked at the VoIP lab in herndon VA before the DOT bust made them liquidate the facility .
The US bashing is most likely the largest driving factor behind this .
I don't see us letting go of something we paid for and built from the ground up .
Point well made. Let me go one further by saying the newcomer in a market has to compete with the current majority used OS and current training base .
Most ppl have learned windows, and most do not want to learn a new GUI/OS all over again unless they can see obvious benefit of doing so .
Most software they own/use does not run on Linux, though WINE is doing a damn good job, So...
1) Human nature a lot of ppl will just stick with what they know .
2) Market Nature, ppl don't want to migrate their entire software selection to OSS as they only see at best a 95% replacement for all programs they currently run .
3) The GPL is not well understood, and the proprietary software business model has been around for decades and widley used to make ppl "filthy" rich . The ppl with lots of money like money, and want more of it . The GPL "appears" to question that method, and thus by association appears to be a direction that may affect their bottom line . And sadly in the US and some other countries Cash is King . Now just some of what OSS has done...
1) Apache ( bye bye IIS you dung heap ) 2) Open Office ( It runs more stable on windows than their office suite ) 3) Mozilla/Firefox - IE killed itself due to ActiveX wide open back door . 4) Thunderbird - a simple but safe mail client that just about anyone can use in a short amount of time. 5)... Stability... Speed... Strength ( Linux full install equals/exceeds a M$ server distro ) 6) Community ( developers, users, and corporate sponsorship ) 7) The GIMP - alot of ppl at some point are going to need to mod a image, this does it well . 8) Live CD distros for trial/demo ( though the speed hit makes linux look slower than it is ) 9) Bit Torrent - supposedly at one point , 1/3 rd of all internet traffic was bit torrent 10) The Locustworld MESH AP - http://www.locustworld.com/ - WiFi MESH relay
There is a LOT more, these are the ones that my half asleep head poured out on short notice . Saying Linux is stuck on stupid, is stupidity in itself .
The M$ replacement/cloning has to dodge a 50+ billion backed silver bullet worth of dream team lawyers and SCO financed ankle biters, and with the cash roll M$ has it is gonna throw out a few roadblocks along the way just like SCO .
The adoption of OSS is happening on a larger scale outside the US as one poster put it, simply to avoid the cost, and to avoid the DRM, and closed controlled and buggy nature of M$ .
Also keep in mind, M$ had its growth tree from DOS => Today over a period of 21+ years and had "considerable" financial backing . Not until the last few years has some corporations started to sink "real" money into Linux and OSS .
The first distro of redhat was 1994 and it was "nothing" like the redhat of today .
You might say Linux did not have a "desktop product" til the later 90's and even then 100% driver support was not there .
Alot of the driver issues "still" need some fine tuning to get the OEM's onboard .
So comparing 20+ years to less than 10, and less money backing it, Linux is doing fine .
Is it going to take 100 years to reach maturity ??? Hell no, new developers join everyday .
Playing king of the hill with the 800 lb gorilla ( aka M$) is going to take time to undo its decades of x86 market dominance . They will not go quietly, look at Ballmer(monkey boy) .
I think the writer is just upset M$ isn't dead yet, or he wants it to quit nibbling at his M$ stock price, either way he gets paid for writing articles that stir the pot and get him read/noticed .
This does sum it up best . A lot of ppl post here, and not very many of them have anything comparable to Mr. Torvalds work on their resume' .
When ppl have a project with half the impact that Linux is yet to have under their belts, then let them step forward and tell the man how to do his job .
Meanwhile, we all got a bit of work to do to catch up I think .
Anything that u want to call a theory, something being considered in line to become a Law, ex.: Law of Thermodynamics has to hold up against all experiments .
If it cannot do this, it remains a theory, and this is why it is something that is NOT always true .
With that in mind, something that is not always right, is not always right to use .
I think the simple point is, to innovate you sometimes have to think outside the box .
Web standards for compatibility so browsers work right is needed, but standards and specifications are not exactly the same thing, and sometimes the web may need to break new ground that redefines old standards .
Specs are a box in a way, and all ppl come at a task from all the different angles from their unique perspective . We all do not see "it" the same way .
The code is shared open source, and the subroutines that are most widely adapted due to their cross platform adaptability or mutual interoperation are the ones that rise to the top .
This is practice making product, and how alot of open source mutated to become the libraries/SDK's/scripts that are now used by the majority .
If you want ppl to come at programming issues from new, and unexpected angles, and to boldy go where no one has gone before .
I worked for AOL , there TOTAL game plan was derived from the marketing dept .
They were total plugged into content, content, content .
Like some damn mantra for Zen mental awareness, friggin content zombies .
It was crap.....it shall remain crap .
Give the ppl what they want, and don't get in their face with advertsing .
Google has realized ppl are SICK of in your face advertising, and they believe that ppl would like a all in one office solution via the web .
AOL wants to pander to forced advertsing pukes, and use FUD to sell a rebranded Anti-virus and spyware suite .
Google seeks the beauty of simplcity, and the spirit of "Build it, and they will come"
The web version of open office essentially, and the end of an era of M$ .
This is also just the opening shot, the big gun is yet to fire, and when it does fire, it will be the shot heard around the world . More than M$ will crumble .
If they can get the network flying and working well, and can deploy 802.11n type wireless nationwide they could theoretically offer WiFi phone service .
The can of worms and screaming this would cause would rocks the bells, the long distance ppl, and prolly go to the supreme court before it was all said and done .
If they did WiFi phone service nationwide, they would dwarf the M$ we know today .
I doubt they are feelign this froggy, but the possibility does exist .
1) Web based office suite - Web based total office solution .
2) IpSCSI RAID storage and remote backup or a variant thereof .
3) GoogleNET - Dark fiber is currently being bought by them nationwide - the extent of this is not known.
4) GoogleWIFI - currently a pilot project in bay area, may roll out nationwide
5) Google IpTV - Multicast/Broadcast video streams that work thru their google video player .
If 3 of 5 of these fly it is a doomsday scenario for more than just M$ .
They could become the fastest growing ISP in the US, and could displace cable and satellite TV .
I don't know if they want to go this big out of the gate, but the google video player debut of the matrix sequel played smooth as glass here at my house via the net .
A long shadow could be cast, and the great would tremble, and a new sun rises over google, heheh .
A spare is a good idea, but as much debris as there will be , u might want to bring two, and bring some tire plug kits from autozone, pep boys, o'reilly's , etc etc .
Water will be needed, food, make sure and bring sunblock, mosquito repellent, mosquito netting, and a First Aid Kit .
If your working near trees with debris hanging in them, and the wind is going good, bring a hard hat, safety rated one .
Multiple light sources, laterns, flashlights, lots of batteries and fuel for them .
Any good common over the counter medicine, Alleve, Aspirin, triple anti-biotic ointmet, an infection from the debris there could be BAD...
A C.B. radio to call for back up if the situation is REALLY bad, some cell towers are damaged .
Shortwave/AM/FM/emergency band radio with a horde of batteries .
Small solar panel to charge batteries in case they go dead in the middle of nowhere , or a hand crank generator for 12vdc .
A 110V inverter might come in handy, and like another poster said, good maps .
Food & Water, figure what you think you will need, then quadruple it, you may run into some hungry ppl . Make it bland so they won't want it unless they really need it .
Try to avoid cooked food, saves time, some equip to haul and clean up, ie. make the very most of your time and make food fast and effective .
Whatever u chose to sleep on bring something to lift it off the ground, and put empty cans full of oil or gas on each leg, FireAnts are swarming bad down there . like a cot .
In Texas a damn is near breaking so....
A canoe, if u can strap a canoe to the top of ur vehicle, take one down there .
Some kind of water wings, that inflate but are puncture resistant .
High wind rated tent/shelter, totally sealed variety is best, mosquito and fireant issues .
***** I really do not think ppl fully understand how truly awesome it is to hear how cheaply this can be built, and that it already works . *****
I think sending ppl up there is a bad idea, because it cost more to feed/house them .
Send robots that can repair each other, and send 10, if one breaks down it uses the other for spare parts . If the 10 bot project works , send 100, and so on.....
Make them Solar powered, and make them remote control .
To launch H3 canisters off lunar surface use solar powered mass driver as was theorized by NASA a long time ago .
H3 canister sitting at a La Grange point with a space station, shuttle ( or its replacement ) picks up canister for return to earth or place canister in heat shielded re-entry capsule and drop it in the pacific, add inertial gyros for guidance, parachute for drag .
We need better robot rovers than the ones we sent to mars, and this would be a good test bed as the delay for RF between the earth and the moon is alot shorter than from here to mars .
Build and test the bots here on earth, get all major nations involved, offer the power to the world with no strings attached as a total end to oil .
Once things are cranked up on moon, and lots of robots are harvesting H3, have some take some time to dig an underground cavern that can be used as a moonbase shielded from at least smaller meteor bombardment .
Use the moon as ur building point in an underground hangar, and then launch into space with a H3 powered mass driver from the moon, then the transport can use zero G drive system to travel to stable high orbit around mars thus avoiding a rocket type lift off from the moon .
A larger scale Bio-sphere type project will need to be done here on earth to see if it is feasible, though I must say the astronauts manage well in the tin can called ISS , a underground moonbase would offer a LOT more cu. ft.
The lunar soil needs to be heated, and this can be done like the solar heat furnace in the mojave that is used as a 350M watt power source .
It is possible, and it is worth doing and with the world energy needs going up, we really don't have alot of choice in the matter . We need more energy and we need it soon .
Only other hope would be bubble fusion, but it has not progressed as far as this .
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17 UN resolutions, and booting the UN inspectors out of the country .
Caught red handed in lies and deceit over and over, fear and
intimidation used against inspectors .
This is just the short list of why .
Saddam openly admitted to making and weaponizing Biolutin Toxin, the
most poisonous substance on earth, and with maximum yield more deadly
than a nuclear weapon in theory .
Thank god the theory has never been tested to this day .
Saddam openly and publicly wrote checks to every suicide bombers family
in Israel, this alone makes it state sponsored terrorism .
Some ppl figured if he will back these nut jobs, maybe he will hand out
some of these bio/chem weapons along with a few more paychecks for death .
The ppl that cannot see this, or refuse to see it just do not want to and
live in some damn fantasy world where they think the media in the US tells
them the story without some kind of spin .
I am not saying Cheney or Bush have not done very dumb and bad things,
and I am not a fan of either, but Saddam should have been taken out after
the Kuwait stunt .
***And yet, even the neighboring facist Islamic countries managed fewer abuses than the secular
state under Saddam. Sickening.
What goes unseen goes unknown, ie. you have no idea the total sum of abuses in a nation
with state controlled media .
Most ppl do not know what it is like to be a outspoken person in a third world theocracy,
but this person who was merely taking pictures found out :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Kazemi
A lot of VERY brilliant ppl lived long before modern civilization .
Da Vinci, Archimedes, and Tesla .
Tesla alone was close to a break thru on harnessing the power
of lightning world wide .
There are many other brilliant men we do and do not know .
Our modern world tends to mock these ppl in regards to some
of what they claimed to do, and this is just another example
of how the modern age is sometimes wrong .
Score another one for Archimedes .
Gosh you make it sound like the chinese government would do something .....
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as bad as run over unarmed protestors with tanks
Oh wait
I remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_pro
The US isn't perfect but neither is any other nation, period
Troll , lol , trolling for truth....hahahhaa
Good 10 samples of what you can expect out of Europe is :
1) The berlin wall
2) Sarajevo
3) Bosnia
4) Kosovo
5) Chechneya
6) Hitler
7) Moussilini
8) Franco
9) WW I
10) WW II
There is more, like Tito & Milosevic, but I don't think bringing it all up is gonna solve a damn thing.
Likewise, attacking the US over the Iraq issue, and using it as justification for partitioning
the Internet isn't in line either .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Excerpt from your site :
Apparently a hacker succeeded in completely tearing up the server that was hosting us. Because of this, our free hosting service is gone. Worse, I don't have a copy of the database to put the site back up elsewhere. The hosting company may have backups that they'll make available soon, but I'm still waiting to hear back about whether or not that includes the database.
If this is your indication of intellect, security, spine, srong-minded, or a few other fitting
descriptors then your verbal barrage is little more than garbage .
Adios...
It may be flamebait, but by god it is pretty damn accurate .
....
....
It's like ppl watch hollywood movies and think the US started vietnam,
when it was the french " French Indo-China "
They begged us to come bail them out .
Korean War:
June 25, 1950
At approximately 4 a.m. (Korean Standard Time) on a rainy Sunday morning Democratic People's Republic of Korea Army (DPRK - North Korea) artillery and mortars open fire on Republic of Korea (ROK - South Korea) Army positions south of the 38th Parallel, the line then serving as the border between the two countries. The opening barrage is followed shortly by tank/infantry attacks at all points along the Parallel. At 11 a.m. North Korea announced a formal declaration of war and what is now known as "The Korean War" officially began.
Kosovo:
UN dumps bulk of effort on the US once again, problem is and has been in thei backyard
for ummmm decades, some say centuries
Yes, also we went to save muslims being massacred
Desert Storm:
Saddam attacks Kuwait....
UN and middle east dumps bulk of effort on US once again . ( act suprised )
I think alot of ppl get their history from hollywood and need to pull their heads out
of their posteriors .
Libeal liars and Conservative liars exist on both sides, but if you apply a proper
litmus test you can sift thru the $hit to find a sliver of truth .
I do not know how many billions the US spent developing Arpanet, NSFnet, and everything
involved from the original project up to the point where it went from a mostly US network
to a worldwide one . I seem to remember the Internet not really being publicly accessible
til sometime in the 90's via a web browser .
It existed here for over 20 years before that in its private form .
I think China, Russia, and MANY other countries want to do it "their" way, and thus they should .
If history is any indication, they will .
Fear, distrust, and nationalism is not dead on any side of any ocean I assure you .
Each country can handle all aspects of internet operation as they see fit .
It is like the phone system . The rest of the world is ITU, the US is still ANSI .
Even among the ITU nations there are numerous sub protocols of SS7 , and variants .
I supported a protocol analysis boxen at cisco systems during the boom, and prior
for the company the designed said boxen .
Their was dozens of variant protcols because everyone thinks they can do it better .
Thus the company cisco bought lightspeed international built a universal protocol
converter to make sense of the giant mess, it took years and over 100 ppl .
So when you think about flying this out there Adhoc in the same manner,
talk to some of the ppl that worked at the VoIP lab in herndon VA before
the DOT bust made them liquidate the facility .
The US bashing is most likely the largest driving factor behind this .
I don't see us letting go of something we paid for and built from the ground up .
Good Luck !
Funny you should mention Vietnam, and using it as an example .
It was briefly called FRENCH INDO CHINA .
Why don't you tell me why you moron !
Because the FRENCH were the retards that started that crap, and then begged us
to come bail them out just like they have before .
So before you go spouting more rhetoric get your facts straight rookie .
Ex-MislTech
Hmmm this is odd, as far as I know all extreme high reliability tasks are run by Qnx .
Anyone out there work with Qnx in the nuclear power plant arena ???? like to hear your thoughts .
From what I have heard Qnx is MUCH more stable than anything else out there, and
has had numerous years of testing .
A free trial of it was available there for awhile, might still be .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Point well made. Let me go one further by saying the newcomer in a market has to compete with
...
...
... Stability ... Speed ... Strength ( Linux full install equals/exceeds a M$ server distro )
the current majority used OS and current training base .
Most ppl have learned windows, and most do not want to learn a new GUI/OS all over again
unless they can see obvious benefit of doing so .
Most software they own/use does not run on Linux, though WINE is doing a damn good job, So
1) Human nature a lot of ppl will just stick with what they know .
2) Market Nature, ppl don't want to migrate their entire software selection to OSS as they
only see at best a 95% replacement for all programs they currently run .
3) The GPL is not well understood, and the proprietary software business model has been around
for decades and widley used to make ppl "filthy" rich . The ppl with lots of money like money,
and want more of it . The GPL "appears" to question that method, and thus by association
appears to be a direction that may affect their bottom line . And sadly in the US and some
other countries Cash is King . Now just some of what OSS has done
1) Apache ( bye bye IIS you dung heap )
2) Open Office ( It runs more stable on windows than their office suite )
3) Mozilla/Firefox - IE killed itself due to ActiveX wide open back door .
4) Thunderbird - a simple but safe mail client that just about anyone can use in a short amount of time.
5)
6) Community ( developers, users, and corporate sponsorship )
7) The GIMP - alot of ppl at some point are going to need to mod a image, this does it well .
8) Live CD distros for trial/demo ( though the speed hit makes linux look slower than it is )
9) Bit Torrent - supposedly at one point , 1/3 rd of all internet traffic was bit torrent
10) The Locustworld MESH AP - http://www.locustworld.com/ - WiFi MESH relay
There is a LOT more, these are the ones that my half asleep head poured out on short notice .
Saying Linux is stuck on stupid, is stupidity in itself .
The M$ replacement/cloning has to dodge a 50+ billion backed silver bullet worth of dream team lawyers
and SCO financed ankle biters, and with the cash roll M$ has it is gonna throw out a few roadblocks
along the way just like SCO .
The adoption of OSS is happening on a larger scale outside the US as one poster put it, simply to
avoid the cost, and to avoid the DRM, and closed controlled and buggy nature of M$ .
Also keep in mind, M$ had its growth tree from DOS => Today over a period of 21+ years
and had "considerable" financial backing . Not until the last few years has some corporations started
to sink "real" money into Linux and OSS .
The first distro of redhat was 1994 and it was "nothing" like the redhat of today .
You might say Linux did not have a "desktop product" til the later 90's and even then 100% driver
support was not there .
Alot of the driver issues "still" need some fine tuning to get the OEM's onboard .
So comparing 20+ years to less than 10, and less money backing it, Linux is doing fine .
Is it going to take 100 years to reach maturity ??? Hell no, new developers join everyday .
Playing king of the hill with the 800 lb gorilla ( aka M$) is going to take time to
undo its decades of x86 market dominance . They will not go quietly, look at Ballmer(monkey boy) .
I think the writer is just upset M$ isn't dead yet, or he wants it to quit nibbling at his
M$ stock price, either way he gets paid for writing articles that stir the pot and get
him read/noticed .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Really...
This does sum it up best . A lot of ppl post here, and not very many of them
have anything comparable to Mr. Torvalds work on their resume' .
When ppl have a project with half the impact that Linux is yet to have under
their belts, then let them step forward and tell the man how to do his job .
Meanwhile, we all got a bit of work to do to catch up I think .
Its the fear of lack of control, power and control .
If it looks like it is not conformed, controlled, leashed, it must suck .
Look at Windows...Conformed, Controlled, Leashed, totally marketed as a Engineered Wonder .
pfffft.
I think a "Best practices" guideline might float, but Specs most of the time just end up
being re-written to conform to what works .
As u break new ground you break old ways, not always, but often .
Ex-MislTech
Anything that u want to call a theory, something being considered in
line to become a Law, ex.: Law of Thermodynamics has to hold up against
all experiments .
If it cannot do this, it remains a theory, and this is why it is something
that is NOT always true .
With that in mind, something that is not always right, is not always right to use .
Ex-MislTech
I think the simple point is, to innovate you sometimes have to think outside the box .
Web standards for compatibility so browsers work right is needed, but standards
and specifications are not exactly the same thing, and sometimes the web may need
to break new ground that redefines old standards .
Specs are a box in a way, and all ppl come at a task from all the different angles
from their unique perspective . We all do not see "it" the same way .
The code is shared open source, and the subroutines that are most widely adapted due to their
cross platform adaptability or mutual interoperation are the ones that rise to the top .
This is practice making product, and how alot of open source mutated to become
the libraries/SDK's/scripts that are now used by the majority .
If you want ppl to come at programming issues from new, and unexpected angles, and to
boldy go where no one has gone before .
Lose the box .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Bill gates says Beta testing is for customers ....
Ahhh tech advice from a billionaire successful inventor, oh wait , no .
Just another geek reading slashdot, that has alot of hot air to spew .
I know ppl internal to google, hold on to your disbelief and see why
they are worth billions and your not .
AOL ...........
.....it shall remain crap .
I worked for AOL , there TOTAL game plan was derived from the marketing dept .
They were total plugged into content, content, content .
Like some damn mantra for Zen mental awareness, friggin content zombies .
It was crap
Give the ppl what they want, and don't get in their face with advertsing .
Google has realized ppl are SICK of in your face advertising, and they believe
that ppl would like a all in one office solution via the web .
AOL wants to pander to forced advertsing pukes, and use FUD to sell a rebranded Anti-virus
and spyware suite .
Google seeks the beauty of simplcity, and the spirit of "Build it, and they will come"
The web version of open office essentially, and the end of an era of M$ .
This is also just the opening shot, the big gun is yet to fire, and when it does fire,
it will be the shot heard around the world . More than M$ will crumble .
Read my prior posts to get an idea of it .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Yeah no body uses Firefox ......
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......
http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356
Downloads: 4,596,255
And this is not counting the MAC folks, and the other alternate browsers .
If M$ starts pulling Browser wars pt 2, u will see a major upswing in Firefox .
I already disable IE on all machines I work on that are infected due to Active X
auto-installing crap on the machines .
Some websites require IE, and I tell the ppl to how to manually type in Iexplore to
get it to start .
The IE lovers hate it, the virus/spyware/malware haters love it .
M$'s browser BS is not gonna work this time .
Death to ActiveX
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
If they can get the network flying and working well, and can deploy 802.11n type wireless
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nationwide they could theoretically offer WiFi phone service .
The can of worms and screaming this would cause would rocks the bells, the long distance ppl,
and prolly go to the supreme court before it was all said and done .
If they did WiFi phone service nationwide, they would dwarf the M$ we know today .
I doubt they are feelign this froggy, but the possibility does exist .
http://news.com.com/Wi-Fi+phones+make+a+splash/21
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
1) Web based office suite - Web based total office solution .
2) IpSCSI RAID storage and remote backup or a variant thereof .
3) GoogleNET - Dark fiber is currently being bought by them nationwide - the extent of this is not known.
4) GoogleWIFI - currently a pilot project in bay area, may roll out nationwide
5) Google IpTV - Multicast/Broadcast video streams that work thru their google video player .
If 3 of 5 of these fly it is a doomsday scenario for more than just M$ .
They could become the fastest growing ISP in the US, and could displace cable and satellite TV .
I don't know if they want to go this big out of the gate, but the google video player debut
of the matrix sequel played smooth as glass here at my house via the net .
A long shadow could be cast, and the great would tremble, and a new sun rises over google, heheh .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
A spare is a good idea, but as much debris as there will be , u might want to bring two,
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and bring some tire plug kits from autozone, pep boys, o'reilly's , etc etc .
Water will be needed, food, make sure and bring sunblock, mosquito repellent, mosquito netting,
and a First Aid Kit .
If your working near trees with debris hanging in them, and the wind is going good,
bring a hard hat, safety rated one .
Multiple light sources, laterns, flashlights, lots of batteries and fuel for them .
Any good common over the counter medicine, Alleve, Aspirin, triple anti-biotic ointmet,
an infection from the debris there could be BAD
A C.B. radio to call for back up if the situation is REALLY bad, some cell towers are damaged .
Shortwave/AM/FM/emergency band radio with a horde of batteries .
Small solar panel to charge batteries in case they go dead in the middle of nowhere ,
or a hand crank generator for 12vdc .
A 110V inverter might come in handy, and like another poster said, good maps .
Food & Water, figure what you think you will need, then quadruple it, you may run into
some hungry ppl . Make it bland so they won't want it unless they really need it .
Try to avoid cooked food, saves time, some equip to haul and clean up, ie. make the very most of
your time and make food fast and effective .
Whatever u chose to sleep on bring something to lift it off the ground, and put empty cans
full of oil or gas on each leg, FireAnts are swarming bad down there . like a cot .
In Texas a damn is near breaking so
A canoe, if u can strap a canoe to the top of ur vehicle, take one down there .
Some kind of water wings, that inflate but are puncture resistant .
High wind rated tent/shelter, totally sealed variety is best, mosquito and fireant issues .
P.S. hurricane season isn't over also
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Where I live there is a 200 yr Flood Plain, and you cannot get a building permit to build
in it , and that is that .
In california they are required to build to earthquake standards .
The same should go for all hazardous zones .
Japan is often hit by Typhoons, big ones, and they long ago mandated buidling codes .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Correction $1.50 for a gallon of gas ...I am tired, and sick as well, LOL .
As to no known usefulness of going to the moon, I'd like to at least
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give partial credit to the discovery of the presence of helium-3 .
In oil equivalency at about $1.50 a barrel it was estimated worth about 12,000 Trillion dollars .
If it could be acquired at a reasonable cost it would be worth while .
Article from Space.com :
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000
Working helium-3 reactor in US :
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec/GeneralOpPics.htm
***** I really do not think ppl fully understand how truly awesome it is to hear how
cheaply this can be built, and that it already works . *****
I think sending ppl up there is a bad idea, because it cost more to feed/house them .
Send robots that can repair each other, and send 10, if one breaks down it uses the other
for spare parts . If the 10 bot project works , send 100, and so on
Make them Solar powered, and make them remote control .
To launch H3 canisters off lunar surface use solar powered mass driver as was
theorized by NASA a long time ago .
H3 canister sitting at a La Grange point with a space station, shuttle ( or its replacement )
picks up canister for return to earth or place canister in heat shielded re-entry capsule
and drop it in the pacific, add inertial gyros for guidance, parachute for drag .
We need better robot rovers than the ones we sent to mars, and this would be a good test bed
as the delay for RF between the earth and the moon is alot shorter than from here to mars .
Build and test the bots here on earth, get all major nations involved, offer the power to the
world with no strings attached as a total end to oil .
Once things are cranked up on moon, and lots of robots are harvesting H3, have some take some
time to dig an underground cavern that can be used as a moonbase shielded from at least smaller
meteor bombardment .
Use the moon as ur building point in an underground hangar, and then launch into space with
a H3 powered mass driver from the moon, then the transport can use zero G drive system to travel to
stable high orbit around mars thus avoiding a rocket type lift off from the moon .
A larger scale Bio-sphere type project will need to be done here on earth to see if it is feasible,
though I must say the astronauts manage well in the tin can called ISS , a underground moonbase
would offer a LOT more cu. ft.
The lunar soil needs to be heated, and this can be done like the solar heat furnace in the mojave
that is used as a 350M watt power source .
http://www.isracast.com/tech_news/130305_tech.htm
It is possible, and it is worth doing and with the world energy needs going up, we really don't
have alot of choice in the matter . We need more energy and we need it soon .
Only other hope would be bubble fusion, but it has not progressed as far as this .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech