I wonder how all this cloning business will affect our current views on the age old argument about whether Environment or Genetics has more effect on the personality/psyche of animals and humans. If we can have animals with exact-match DNA, then we have a control group an experimentation group that are identical and reduce our equation to one variable. Take one pig from DNA group A and one from DNA group B and have them reared by mother Pig A and mother Pig B, and have mother C raise two pigs from Group A, and D raise two from group B.. you get the idea. I bet findings regarding the interactions of animals with different DNA as opposed to the same DNA would be very interesting from a sociology point of view. One of my old teachers always used to say that we are 100% our genes and 100% our environment, and I think that would be supported by these studies, but it would be interesting to see some real results now that we can have a perfect test group. Just a thought.
The article says nothing as to the cause of failure for this launch. I don't think everyone should be jumping to conclusions about the SeaLaunch's effectiveness. But.. of course they are : "The international Sea Launch program suffered a major setback Sunday" I'm by no means a rocket expert, but just from a troubleshooting point of view, I would think that if the rocket got off the ground/SeaLaunch and flew for a little while before having problems, it would seem to point to the Rocket as a more likely point of failure than the Launch Pad. The SeaLaunch seems to be some pretty sweet tech, from the safety factor of launching things in the middle of the ocean to the ability of it to carry larger loads due the physical advantages of being at the equator. I hope it doesn't get abandoned/given a bad name because of bad press.
I work for a major Tier 1 ISP and I can tell you that this is not at all technically feasible to be implemented by ISPs at this time. We do not currently have the resources to monitor whether or not our customer's lines are up or not, let alone monitor their activity. The only way to do this sort of thing would be a sort of WAN packet sniffer, and the data that that sort of device would produce would be unreasonably huge. There would be no way for a large organization to handle that sort of monitoring. The basic topology of the internet would have to change, both physically and logically, for this goal to become a reality, and that sort of change must come slowly. So this is a concern, but it isn't going to happen any time soon.
From the Article : Pricing and Availability AMD is currently shipping its 1GHz AMD Athlon processors priced at $1,299 in 1,000 unit quantities. AMD is also announcing the availability of 950MHz and 900MHz AMD Athlon processors. The 950MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $999 in 1,000 unit quantities. The 900MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $899 in 1,000 unit quantities.
I don't know about everyone else, but that's a little pricey for a processor. You can build a decent full system for that kind of money. The benchmarks are pretty decent though.
The price to stay ahead of the Jones' isn't moving much, even with heated processor competition.
Scream 3 has NOTHING to do with Slashdot. NOTHING. This isn't IMDB.. you're not Siskel, and Ebert's dead. I'm not normally one to bitch about the lack of relevence of Slashdot stories, but this is just rediculous. Maybe we should just be able to moderate Katz' stories. Wait.. better idea.. I think there should be a vote on every article Katz wants to post.. he gives us the title, and we get to vote on whether it gets posted, and how many words he gets to post it with. That should keep him in check.
Cisco uses their own CPU for their higher end stuff (RSP7000, RSP2) but I beleive they use powerPC chips for the lower-end access routers. The key part of what I was saying depends on whether this thing is really a router or not.. whether is can do a full (or even partial) BGP table or if it just handles static routing.. Sure, a wimpy pentium can run NAT on a large link if it's just doing static routing, but that makes this more of a bridge than a router, and they should advertise it as such.
These would seem to work for pushing ISDN/Dial up connections, but I don't really see a market niche for that any more. Small/Medium sized offices are moving to ADSL/Cable/T1 for the most part, and though this box says it can handle ADSL, I seriously doubt it has the IO or processor capabilities to both push a 1.5m connection and provide all of the services they are advertising. Smaller Bay/Cisco routers have problems running a serious routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, anything worth running on a big WAN link) as well as NAT on 1.5m circuits.. I doubt that this thing could push ADSL, run NAT, routing, FTP, Mail and a Firewall. Especially when the processor is an "x86 compatible 233MHz processor" which just reeks of K6 (no FPU anyone..). Plus.. this machine represents a single point of failure for your whole network.. when you have seperate components and one of them goes down, it is relatively easy to isolate the problem and then fix or replace it, but with these all-in-one solutions, troubleshooting becomes a major pain and very time-consuming. Better to leave these services separate and buy products that are meant to handle them alone. It might be a little more expensive up front, but the down time you'll save in the future (not to mention the latency this box must incurr) will be more than worth it.
Anyone else get the feeling that Transmeta has based their entire business plan on dangling this low-power, VLSM carrot in front of our nose? Every week, we get some kind of new announcment that makes us go "oh.. so they are still doing SOMETHING". Not to complain, really.. I just want one of these web pads. By summer, transmeta's going to have us begging them to let us pre-register to be entered into a random lottery to see the design specs for one of these things.
This is amusing. So there's the Q&A article a little bit ago, where Katz got railed on even more mercilessly than normal, and then the 'shortest katz article ever' which was relatively self-deprecating and not contreversial and produced more of a banter of laundry lists than a discussion, and then this. Katz is obviously trying to bait us with this article and make us go 'awww.. katz cares about the fact that we're overworked and underpaid.. he must be on our side after all'
Come on!
Katz.. you're not going to win slashdot back.. hmm.. alright.. so he never really had us to begin with.. you're not going to make us like you any more with this kind of useless ass-kissing. Write thoughtful articles about interesting subjects and we will like you.
You'd think that if they have the funding to figure out a way to CLONE HUMANS , they could spend more than $20 on web design. Come on... this site is the product of either a bunch of religious wackos who wanted a website or a bunch of 13 year olds who wanted a slashdot story. I find it fairly evident just looking at this site that these people are not meant to be taken seriously. You'd think this one would have been blocked by Roblimo's stupidity filter.
...since the last time I was on IRC, creating a bot that will act like most of the "humans" on IRC shouldn't be too hard..
#hack newbie> Can someone helpme hack cnn.com? aibot187> l4m3r! User newbie has been kick-banned from #hack
#warez19534562 newbie> Does anyone have a site with WIN98? aibot187> l4m3r! User newbie has been kick-banned from #warez19534562
#teensnunsandvegetables newbie> Any cute girls out there have any personal pics? aibot187> l4m3r! User newbie has been kick-banned from #teensnunsandvegetables
I really don't see the huge significance of having linux pre-installed. It is a step for the community to see some recognition, but to get it preinstalled you have to buy a specific model and choose to have linux put on it. Whereas if you just buy any laptop you want, you can just as easily make a choice later to put linux, or perhaps a multi-boot setup on your system. Both are choices. One just gets more publicity. Plus, I personally would not want someone else to install linux on my machine for me. Installing it yourself is half the fun, and there's no way I would want a default installation. I don't think anyone else who would be informed enough to know which models to buy with linux installed on them would want a default installation either.
Linux has always been about customization, and the ability to do things for yourself. I do not see how this is such a leap ahead.
There should be a line drawn between selling equipment that can be modified to break the law, and equipment that can be used to break the law out of box vs. equipment that is sold solely for the purpose of breaking the law. Obviously these hobby shops were not selling this equipment for this purpose, they were supplying electronics. Of course, with enough modification, the products they sell can be used to break the law; any products that are sold can, with enough modification, break the law, but the responsibility for the digression in that case rests not with the person who sold the original product, but with the person who modified it and/or used it to break the law. If people could be arrested for selling this kind of equipment, then shouldn't all of the computer manufacturers of all the people arrested for "cyber crimes" (ew.. I feel dirty just saying that) be arrested as well? (Any govt officials reading the preceding sentence, please notice the EXTREME sarcasm). Not to mention gun makers...
These arrests set a bad precedent, and should be challenged.
I think I would like to use a browser that's more advanced than the version of netscape that I used in 1994. I bet that browser would run about as fast on modern hardware as opera does.
Opera For Linux 4.0a Can't: Communicate via SSL or TLS Submit forms other than through ecma script Display Frames Display Animated GIFS Display PNG or TIFF images Proxy Settings Preferences only 20% working Cookies Local Files No Plugin Support yet Transfer window HTTP Authorization Proper Font Handling Screen refresh SDI Asynchronous DNS
I think it would start going exactly the speed limit ALL the time... I mean, if your car has a way to know how fast it is _supposed_ to be going, then there has to be a way to make it tell the sattelite that is _is_ going that fast.
Maybe now that we have a techie inside of the FCC, we can get some more government support of wireless data services. That Cisco wireless technology that was posted a while ago (2gbps I think?) could seriously change things if there was enough government support for it. I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly want to be able to stream mp3s into my car on the highway.
I work for a tier 1 ISP, and just spoke with a colleague in the Network Operations Center. He said that the rollover had gone flawlessly in Hong Kong and Australia, where we have POPs. This may not be too indicative, however, as the Hong Kong POP has only been used for customer traffic in the last year, and the Australia POP is mostly used for large accounts, which have been Y2K ready for a while now. It does show that nothing unexpected is happening. Lets hope the trend continues!
We had a sudden influx of script kiddies. Page temporarily offline until the machine is fixed.
This machine resecured courtesy of drow
I guess they're a bit irked about this latest hack.
I am totally impressed that this server stayed up and uncracked for such a long time. That is, after it woke up from its slashdot-effect induced coma.
I think more companies should do this with their beta products. It would be a great thing for companies to start putting up beta versions of their servers, securing them the best they can and opening them up for attacks. This would let everyone know if the server they are about to install can withstand the force of everyone throwing what they've got at it. If more companies started creating these open targets, it would also create a situation where anyone who did not would instantly be up for scrutiny. What better method of peer review for a software project. That, and open hacking wars like this are just plain fun.
I'm sitting in one right now, and these things are awesome. The best thing about them is how you can adjust the tension of the backswing of the chair, so people who weigh more or less can sit back the same distance in their chair without straining their back. Plus, two of them makes for a nice napping spot if work gets a little boring.:)
We've got pretty basic desks, not cubicles, with large work areas (>2ft) in front of our monitors, so we can put books, paper, pens, keyboards, mice, etc out in front of us and not have to deal with shelves. Behind the work space, there is an adjustable shelf to put monitors on, which we have flush with the workspace so the monitors can be moved closer for some of my more myopic colleagues. The system works well.. no wrist pain so far, I think mostly due to the arm rests on the Aeron and the large area to rest my arms on.
Gee. I wonder if Transmeta could help our friend Jim out here.:)
Seriously, though.. I remember reading a wired article a few years ago about e-books, and I remember thinking "well.. if you can do the e-books thing, you might as well make them touch-sensitive". So more power to you, Jim, I'd love to see what can be done with this technology, and if I had any money, I'd become a VC and fund you..
This article is an obvious farse on what is going on. I think anyone who has any idea of what is going on here will immediately realize what hype-motivated trash journalism this really is. What kind of "hacking group" allows themselves to be interviewed by CNN, and mentioned by name? I think this is an article to laugh about, not to be concerned about..
especially this part : Using another method, an attacker can send malformed packets that give routers, firewalls or switches a kind of network indigestion.
Now.. I've had routers give ME indigestion, but never the other way around.. maybe someone has found some way to make them feel my pain!
Well, according to the linked NASA site, this launch didn't go off on the 16th, as the headline states.. and was postponed on the 17th as well: December 17, 1999 NASA Launch Managers postponed today's launch of the Terra spacecraft today from VAFB, CA, due to launch ground system problems. The launch has tentatively been rescheduled for no earlier than Saturday, December 18, 1999, at 1:33PM EST (10:33AM PST) with a launch window of 25 minutes.
There has been no update to the site since then, however, so we don't really know if it went off or not. Did this thing actually launch?
I guess Katz rented Gattica and read Frankenstein a couple of nights ago and decided to find something he could use them to ramble about.. hmm.. let's see.. the Human Genome Project.. yeah.
The thing I don't understand about this article is why had the scientific community decided to take ORGANIZED RELIGION's opinions into concern with respect to the genome project. We are simply exploring the body, no more, no less. We havent found the basis of life, and _I_ at least dont beleive that the basis of life can be found by science. If the religious leaders truely beleive in their own religions, I dont think they would be too concerned with scientists stepping on their robe-clad toes by mapping out proteins. This research is a tool, it is a guide book, it could lead us to great things. So why are we involving the same people who have banned evolution in Kansas? The Human Genom Project is research. It is not some doom-bringing pandora's box as katz would like to hype us into beleiving.
Well, alright, so it can do 10 mil a day on a PII with what? A t3? How much bandwidth do you need before the processor becomes the limiting factor with this engine? I certainly dont think my 26.4 connection at home can handle 10 mil pages a day. They should make some mention of that on the page. On a side note, I was very dissapointed when a search for "deez nuts" came up dry.. oh well.
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I wonder how all this cloning business will affect our current views on the age old argument about whether Environment or Genetics has more effect on the personality/psyche of animals and humans. If we can have animals with exact-match DNA, then we have a control group an experimentation group that are identical and reduce our equation to one variable. Take one pig from DNA group A and one from DNA group B and have them reared by mother Pig A and mother Pig B, and have mother C raise two pigs from Group A, and D raise two from group B.. you get the idea. I bet findings regarding the interactions of animals with different DNA as opposed to the same DNA would be very interesting from a sociology point of view. One of my old teachers always used to say that we are 100% our genes and 100% our environment, and I think that would be supported by these studies, but it would be interesting to see some real results now that we can have a perfect test group. Just a thought.
//Phizzy
The article says nothing as to the cause of failure for this launch. I don't think everyone should be jumping to conclusions about the SeaLaunch's effectiveness. But.. of course they are : "The international Sea Launch program suffered a major setback Sunday"
I'm by no means a rocket expert, but just from a troubleshooting point of view, I would think that if the rocket got off the ground/SeaLaunch and flew for a little while before having problems, it would seem to point to the Rocket as a more likely point of failure than the Launch Pad. The SeaLaunch seems to be some pretty sweet tech, from the safety factor of launching things in the middle of the ocean to the ability of it to carry larger loads due the physical advantages of being at the equator. I hope it doesn't get abandoned/given a bad name because of bad press.
//Phizzy
I work for a major Tier 1 ISP and I can tell you that this is not at all technically feasible to be implemented by ISPs at this time. We do not currently have the resources to monitor whether or not our customer's lines are up or not, let alone monitor their activity. The only way to do this sort of thing would be a sort of WAN packet sniffer, and the data that that sort of device would produce would be unreasonably huge. There would be no way for a large organization to handle that sort of monitoring. The basic topology of the internet would have to change, both physically and logically, for this goal to become a reality, and that sort of change must come slowly. So this is a concern, but it isn't going to happen any time soon.
//Phizzy
From the Article :
Pricing and Availability
AMD is currently shipping its 1GHz AMD Athlon processors priced at $1,299 in 1,000 unit quantities. AMD is also announcing the availability of 950MHz and 900MHz AMD Athlon processors. The 950MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $999 in 1,000 unit quantities. The 900MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $899 in 1,000 unit quantities.
I don't know about everyone else, but that's a little pricey for a processor. You can build a decent full system for that kind of money. The benchmarks are pretty decent though.
The price to stay ahead of the Jones' isn't moving much, even with heated processor competition.
//Phizzy
Dammit.. I even asked someone about that because I wasn't sure.. ah well.. you can't win em all.
/Phizzy
Step back.. think about what you're posting..
Scream 3 has NOTHING to do with Slashdot. NOTHING. This isn't IMDB.. you're not Siskel, and Ebert's dead. I'm not normally one to bitch about the lack of relevence of Slashdot stories, but this is just rediculous. Maybe we should just be able to moderate Katz' stories. Wait.. better idea.. I think there should be a vote on every article Katz wants to post.. he gives us the title, and we get to vote on whether it gets posted, and how many words he gets to post it with. That should keep him in check.
//Phizzy
Cisco uses their own CPU for their higher end stuff (RSP7000, RSP2) but I beleive they use powerPC chips for the lower-end access routers. The key part of what I was saying depends on whether this thing is really a router or not.. whether is can do a full (or even partial) BGP table or if it just handles static routing.. Sure, a wimpy pentium can run NAT on a large link if it's just doing static routing, but that makes this more of a bridge than a router, and they should advertise it as such.
//Phizzy
These would seem to work for pushing ISDN/Dial up connections, but I don't really see a market niche for that any more. Small/Medium sized offices are moving to ADSL/Cable/T1 for the most part, and though this box says it can handle ADSL, I seriously doubt it has the IO or processor capabilities to both push a 1.5m connection and provide all of the services they are advertising. Smaller Bay/Cisco routers have problems running a serious routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, anything worth running on a big WAN link) as well as NAT on 1.5m circuits.. I doubt that this thing could push ADSL, run NAT, routing, FTP, Mail and a Firewall. Especially when the processor is an "x86 compatible 233MHz processor" which just reeks of K6 (no FPU anyone..).
Plus.. this machine represents a single point of failure for your whole network.. when you have seperate components and one of them goes down, it is relatively easy to isolate the problem and then fix or replace it, but with these all-in-one solutions, troubleshooting becomes a major pain and very time-consuming. Better to leave these services separate and buy products that are meant to handle them alone. It might be a little more expensive up front, but the down time you'll save in the future (not to mention the latency this box must incurr) will be more than worth it.
//Phizzy
Anyone else get the feeling that Transmeta has based their entire business plan on dangling this low-power, VLSM carrot in front of our nose? Every week, we get some kind of new announcment that makes us go "oh.. so they are still doing SOMETHING". Not to complain, really.. I just want one of these web pads. By summer, transmeta's going to have us begging them to let us pre-register to be entered into a random lottery to see the design specs for one of these things.
and we love it.
//Phizzy
This is amusing. So there's the Q&A article a little bit ago, where Katz got railed on even more mercilessly than normal, and then the 'shortest katz article ever' which was relatively self-deprecating and not contreversial and produced more of a banter of laundry lists than a discussion, and then this. Katz is obviously trying to bait us with this article and make us go 'awww.. katz cares about the fact that we're overworked and underpaid.. he must be on our side after all'
.. hmm.. alright.. so he never really had us to begin with.. you're not going to make us like you any more with this kind of useless ass-kissing. Write thoughtful articles about interesting subjects and we will like you.
Come on!
Katz.. you're not going to win slashdot back
//Phizzy
You'd think that if they have the funding to figure out a way to CLONE HUMANS , they could spend more than $20 on web design. Come on... this site is the product of either a bunch of religious wackos who wanted a website or a bunch of 13 year olds who wanted a slashdot story. I find it fairly evident just looking at this site that these people are not meant to be taken seriously. You'd think this one would have been blocked by Roblimo's stupidity filter.
//Phizzy
...since the last time I was on IRC, creating a bot that will act like most of the "humans" on IRC shouldn't be too hard..
:)
#hack
newbie> Can someone helpme hack cnn.com?
aibot187> l4m3r!
User newbie has been kick-banned from #hack
#warez19534562
newbie> Does anyone have a site with WIN98?
aibot187> l4m3r!
User newbie has been kick-banned from #warez19534562
#teensnunsandvegetables
newbie> Any cute girls out there have any personal pics?
aibot187> l4m3r!
User newbie has been kick-banned from #teensnunsandvegetables
...ad nauseam..
//Phizzy
I really don't see the huge significance of having linux pre-installed. It is a step for the community to see some recognition, but to get it preinstalled you have to buy a specific model and choose to have linux put on it. Whereas if you just buy any laptop you want, you can just as easily make a choice later to put linux, or perhaps a multi-boot setup on your system. Both are choices. One just gets more publicity.
Plus, I personally would not want someone else to install linux on my machine for me. Installing it yourself is half the fun, and there's no way I would want a default installation. I don't think anyone else who would be informed enough to know which models to buy with linux installed on them would want a default installation either.
Linux has always been about customization, and the ability to do things for yourself. I do not see how this is such a leap ahead.
//Phizzy
There should be a line drawn between selling equipment that can be modified to break the law, and equipment that can be used to break the law out of box vs. equipment that is sold solely for the purpose of breaking the law. Obviously these hobby shops were not selling this equipment for this purpose, they were supplying electronics. Of course, with enough modification, the products they sell can be used to break the law; any products that are sold can, with enough modification, break the law, but the responsibility for the digression in that case rests not with the person who sold the original product, but with the person who modified it and/or used it to break the law. If people could be arrested for selling this kind of equipment, then shouldn't all of the computer manufacturers of all the people arrested for "cyber crimes" (ew.. I feel dirty just saying that) be arrested as well? (Any govt officials reading the preceding sentence, please notice the EXTREME sarcasm). Not to mention gun makers...
These arrests set a bad precedent, and should be challenged.
//Phizzy
I think I would like to use a browser that's more advanced than the version of netscape that I used in 1994. I bet that browser would run about as fast on modern hardware as opera does.
Opera For Linux 4.0a Can't:
Communicate via SSL or TLS
Submit forms other than through ecma script
Display Frames
Display Animated GIFS
Display PNG or TIFF images
Proxy Settings
Preferences only 20% working
Cookies
Local Files
No Plugin Support yet
Transfer window
HTTP Authorization
Proper Font Handling
Screen refresh
SDI
Asynchronous DNS
//Phizzy
I think it would start going exactly the speed limit ALL the time...
I mean, if your car has a way to know how fast it is _supposed_ to be going, then there has to be a way to make it tell the sattelite that is _is_ going that fast.
//Phizzy
Maybe now that we have a techie inside of the FCC, we can get some more government support of wireless data services. That Cisco wireless technology that was posted a while ago (2gbps I think?) could seriously change things if there was enough government support for it. I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly want to be able to stream mp3s into my car on the highway.
//Phizzy
I work for a tier 1 ISP, and just spoke with a colleague in the Network Operations Center. He said that the rollover had gone flawlessly in Hong Kong and Australia, where we have POPs. This may not be too indicative, however, as the Hong Kong POP has only been used for customer traffic in the last year, and the Australia POP is mostly used for large accounts, which have been Y2K ready for a while now. It does show that nothing unexpected is happening. Lets hope the trend continues!
//Phizzy
The box seems to be up, with this message:
We had a sudden influx of script kiddies. Page temporarily offline until the machine is fixed.
This machine resecured courtesy of drow
I guess they're a bit irked about this latest hack.
I am totally impressed that this server stayed up and uncracked for such a long time. That is, after it woke up from its slashdot-effect induced coma.
I think more companies should do this with their beta products. It would be a great thing for companies to start putting up beta versions of their servers, securing them the best they can and opening them up for attacks. This would let everyone know if the server they are about to install can withstand the force of everyone throwing what they've got at it. If more companies started creating these open targets, it would also create a situation where anyone who did not would instantly be up for scrutiny. What better method of peer review for a software project. That, and open hacking wars like this are just plain fun.
//Pre-Coffee Phizzy
I'm sitting in one right now, and these things are awesome. The best thing about them is how you can adjust the tension of the backswing of the chair, so people who weigh more or less can sit back the same distance in their chair without straining their back. Plus, two of them makes for a nice napping spot if work gets a little boring. :)
We've got pretty basic desks, not cubicles, with large work areas (>2ft) in front of our monitors, so we can put books, paper, pens, keyboards, mice, etc out in front of us and not have to deal with shelves. Behind the work space, there is an adjustable shelf to put monitors on, which we have flush with the workspace so the monitors can be moved closer for some of my more myopic colleagues. The system works well.. no wrist pain so far, I think mostly due to the arm rests on the Aeron and the large area to rest my arms on.
//Phizzy
Gee. I wonder if Transmeta could help our friend Jim out here. :)
Seriously, though.. I remember reading a wired article a few years ago about e-books, and I remember thinking "well.. if you can do the e-books thing, you might as well make them touch-sensitive". So more power to you, Jim, I'd love to see what can be done with this technology, and if I had any money, I'd become a VC and fund you..
//Phizzy
This article is an obvious farse on what is going on. I think anyone who has any idea of what is going on here will immediately realize what hype-motivated trash journalism this really is. What kind of "hacking group" allows themselves to be interviewed by CNN, and mentioned by name? I think this is an article to laugh about, not to be concerned about..
especially this part :
Using another method, an attacker can send malformed packets that give routers, firewalls or switches a kind of network indigestion.
Now.. I've had routers give ME indigestion, but never the other way around.. maybe someone has found some way to make them feel my pain!
//Phizzy
Well, according to the linked NASA site, this launch didn't go off on the 16th, as the headline states.. and was postponed on the 17th as well:
December 17, 1999
NASA Launch Managers postponed today's launch of the Terra spacecraft today from VAFB, CA, due to launch ground system problems. The launch has tentatively been rescheduled for no earlier than Saturday, December 18, 1999, at 1:33PM EST (10:33AM PST) with a launch window of 25 minutes.
There has been no update to the site since then, however, so we don't really know if it went off or not. Did this thing actually launch?
//Phizzy
I guess Katz rented Gattica and read Frankenstein a couple of nights ago and decided to find something he could use them to ramble about.. hmm.. let's see.. the Human Genome Project.. yeah.
The thing I don't understand about this article is why had the scientific community decided to take ORGANIZED RELIGION's opinions into concern with respect to the genome project. We are simply exploring the body, no more, no less. We havent found the basis of life, and _I_ at least dont beleive that the basis of life can be found by science. If the religious leaders truely beleive in their own religions, I dont think they would be too concerned with scientists stepping on their robe-clad toes by mapping out proteins. This research is a tool, it is a guide book, it could lead us to great things. So why are we involving the same people who have banned evolution in Kansas? The Human Genom Project is research. It is not some doom-bringing pandora's box as katz would like to hype us into beleiving.
//Phizzy
Well, alright, so it can do 10 mil a day on a PII with what? A t3? How much bandwidth do you need before the processor becomes the limiting factor with this engine? I certainly dont think my 26.4 connection at home can handle 10 mil pages a day. They should make some mention of that on the page.
On a side note, I was very dissapointed when a search for "deez nuts" came up dry.. oh well.
//Phizzy