Q:What is the single protocol used by all computers connected to Internet in the world? A: IPV4 Q:What is the single mail protocol used by all computers connected to the internet? A: SMTP Q:What is the single protocol used to search the Internet and exchange most information over the Internet? A: HTTP According to evolution, diversity is the consequence of adaptation.
Specialization, Mutation, Adaptation.
Adaptation is the consequence of a changing environment. A changing environment is the consequence of a finite amount of resources and competition. The Internet in it's current stage resources are plenty and competition is little. Internet is currently in the specialization stage. The Internet has not being forced(YET) to depart from it's standard protocols (mutate) to survive an attack.
Forcing diversity (by mandate rather of natural competition) not only makes the system less robust, it slows down evolution.
So you go to Bombay to get a kidney removed and they remove the healthy one. Can you sue them for malpractice a-la US? I'm afraid not. I read that some HMO's are sending xrays and cat-scans to india for diagnosis via internet.
Personally, Apple gave me the shaft.
Bought an imac G3 for 700 Dlls with OS9 3 yrs
ago. Soon enough Apple drops OS9. Their brand new OSX runs like molasses on my G3. OS9 is not prempted OS and the real downer, does not read long filenames(256).
Solution?
Yellow Dog linux.
Now my little G3 no only reads long filenames
but supports remotes X Sessions from my wireless laptop. It's pretty darn fast!
So thank you OSX($120.00Dlls) but Yellow Dog and Mandrake got me covered.
"Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!"
Bender.
I remember the early days of irc chatrooms.
Users were polite and kind. Seldomly was
the use of kick and bann commands enforced
Almost no control of users behaviour was needed
Few years later irc chatrooms are battlegrounds for bots to control channels
and heavy monitoring follow you anywhere you go Salshdot is an example of how you can't
let information flow free without some sort of
"control".
Open Source movement will follow the same path and soon enough major linux distributors will have to depart from the
free for all model and start impossing some
sort of control/ownership/liability on the
their respective distributions.
It's relatively easy right now to clone one
(modified) popular linux kernel module and plant it in a linux box and let it rip
How could possibly be done without Troy McClure!!?
on
The Simpsons Movie
·
· Score: -1, Troll
I wish Dan Hartmann was here.
Hi! I'm Troy McClure you may remember me
from such films as
"Cry of Yumma" and "dial M for Murder".
For those who understand physics it is obvious that all things in this universe share a common set of rules and relations. Nature proportionality is an emergent property of the laws of physics ruling the cosmos. The numbers (mathematics) are just one way to approach it. Ill suggest to those who think mathematics hold some intrinsic truth to learn more about chaos theory, patterns and the limitations of reductionism.
Breaking things appart (staring at numbers) only goes so far.
Very complex systems can emerge from the most
simple set of rules and emerging patterns
may or may not tell us a damn thing about
the rules that generated them.
The real trick is not the analyze a system but
to create a new one from scratch that produces
predictable and not so predictable emergent
properties.
So quit being so "amused" by numbers.
From the NYT reading regarding
the space station several leitmotifs
emerge:
Manned spaceflights are too danegrous
Manned spaceflights are too expensive
We tend to believe that we have technology
to make and orbital rendevezvous a trip
to the groceries but a simple angle shift
causes mayhem with our puny technology
The mars mission is succesful because our
communication and robotic technologie is ripe
for the endeavour at hand(including co$t).
The whole equation brakes with human cargo.
Our rocket and materials technology makes each
human space flight a dangerous proposition
A public company has 3 main elements:
The customer
The employees
The Shareholders
This last element is the evil one
Why?
The shareholder don't give a shit about customers (selling crap? that's okay)
The shareholder don't give a rat ass about employees (India, Taiwan, Brazil, who cares?)
The shareholder wants profit and ANY mean justifies the goals.
There's an excellent article in the NYT on Bill Gates vs. Google
Making Google public makes the it an easy prey for Gates
Hold the millions Google! The best things in life are priceless
and to ad insult to the inury a reply
from MS Expert Christopher Budd:
From the press:
Christopher Budd, a security program manager with Microsoft, said the worm does not appear to take advantage of any Microsoft product vulnerability."
Squeeze me?
Baking powder?
Where does the adress books(key ingredient
to the virus transport mechanism) come from?
Unix PINE?
Gnome EVOLUTION?
What is it exactly that Trekkies really want?
a.-Action packed plots?
b.-Stoneface babes with big boobs?
c.-Pompous capitans with an attitued?
e.-Plausible scenarios for astrophysics and
quantum mechanics paradigms?
Clearly the more compelling episodes of
TNG delved and the subtle relation between
time and space.
That's the formula!
The aproach given by the writers of
DS9 and Enterprise is very idiotic.
Enuf said!
Mike should not have try to negotiate with MS.
Try to negotiate with the master at it's own game!
Let it be a lesson to us all.
Whenever you get M$ hounds after you.
Don't try to pull a fast one.
Who remembers the sci-fi Colossus where a computer
was in charged of the security of the country?
An interesting aspect of the movie regarding the inter-operability of sytems is that in the movie Colussus stumbled with their enemies computer, Guardian and they immedieatly started exchanging information. Today you can book a week at the fanciest hotel in Central Park for two suppercomputers and they won't exchange a single byte without careful human intervention.
The horsepower is there. We just don't agree why kind of language all computers should talk. Simple as that.
cd/music
ls -laht | tail
3.7M Dec 1 1999 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls.mp3
5.0M Dec 1 1999 Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.mp3
boy that was lame!
While Verizon and other companies are fighting the RIAA we the consumers are all talk and no action. What is the mantra? It won't happen to me. Is mankind evil ( rather will see you perish before giving away without a equitable exchange ) or just lazy?
If I get this right, all I need is a cheapo
linux file server with all the media files in it
and then the linksys gadget will PLAY them?
If this gadget has the divx decoder embedded and is upgreadable im buying one pronto!
First we heard the allegory of Linux being the "free puppy".
Now MS is spending their hard earned money to stop people from getting the "free puppy".
The true is that MS dog won't learn new tricks. So the only option you get is to buy another MS dog.
Future cost to acquire Linux 64 bit = 0. Future cost to acquire Linux w/SMP support kernel = 0.
The new Battlestar Galactica looks like Babylon 5 tastes like Babylon 5 and they work all the cliche's of the new Sci-Fi four youngsters focus groups.
Leader=Pompous.
Pilot=Clean-cut and sexy.
Guns=Big and noisy.
Kids=Smart, honest, prodigys.
Woman=Just as good as men, even better.
Force Commander=Ethnic.
Love=Not really.
Sex=Really.
I just wonder nobody feels like part of some focus group of key-demo campaign when promoting the show.
You are not your eyes, or your fingers or the shape of your face.
You are the conciousness that arises from a collection of memories that belong to you and the freedom you possess to create new ones out of your own free will. Without these two things, free will, and the impenetrable nature of memories, human identity cannot exist.
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Q:What is the single protocol used by all computers
connected to Internet in the world?
A: IPV4
Q:What is the single mail protocol used by all
computers connected to the internet?
A: SMTP
Q:What is the single protocol used to search the
Internet and exchange most information over the
Internet?
A: HTTP
According to evolution, diversity is the
consequence of adaptation.
Specialization, Mutation, Adaptation.
Adaptation is the
consequence of a changing environment. A
changing environment is the consequence of a
finite amount of resources and competition.
The Internet in it's current stage resources are
plenty and competition is little.
Internet is currently in the specialization
stage. The Internet has not being forced(YET) to
depart from it's standard protocols (mutate) to
survive an attack.
Forcing diversity (by mandate rather of natural
competition) not only makes the system less
robust, it slows down evolution.
So you go to Bombay to get a kidney
removed and they remove the healthy one.
Can you sue them for malpractice a-la US?
I'm afraid not.
I read that some HMO's are sending xrays
and cat-scans to india for diagnosis via
internet.
Personally, Apple gave me the shaft.
Bought an imac G3 for 700 Dlls with OS9 3 yrs ago.
Soon enough Apple drops OS9. Their brand new OSX runs like
molasses on my G3. OS9 is not prempted OS
and the real downer, does not read long
filenames(256).
Solution?
Yellow Dog linux.
Now my little G3 no only reads long filenames
but supports remotes X Sessions from my wireless
laptop. It's pretty darn fast!
So thank you OSX($120.00Dlls) but Yellow Dog and
Mandrake got me covered.
No robot story is good without Bender in it.
"Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space
lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers!
Actually, forget the space lander, and the
blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!"
Bender.
I remember the early days of irc chatrooms.
Users were polite and kind. Seldomly was
the use of kick and bann commands enforced
Almost no control of users behaviour was needed
Few years later irc chatrooms are battlegrounds
for bots to control channels
and heavy monitoring follow you anywhere you go
Salshdot is an example of how you can't
let information flow free without some sort of
"control".
Open Source movement will follow the same path
and soon enough major linux distributors
will have to depart from the
free for all model and start impossing
some sort of control/ownership/liability on the
their respective distributions.
It's relatively easy right now to clone one
(modified) popular linux kernel module and plant it in a
linux box and let it rip
I wish Dan Hartmann was here.
Hi! I'm Troy McClure you may remember me
from such films as
"Cry of Yumma" and "dial M for Murder".
On the creator of the Sobig.F virus...
''The F.B.I. is out for the Sobig guy with both
claws, and they want to make an example
of him,'' David Perry.
Women don't write viruses?
Women don't read slashdot?
I feel so pigeonholed!!
For those who understand physics it is obvious
that all things in this universe
share a common set of rules and relations.
Nature proportionality is an emergent property of the laws of physics ruling the cosmos.
The numbers (mathematics) are just one way to
approach it.
Ill suggest to those who think mathematics
hold some intrinsic truth to learn more
about chaos theory, patterns and the limitations of reductionism.
Breaking things appart (staring at numbers) only goes so far.
Very complex systems can emerge from the most
simple set of rules and emerging patterns
may or may not tell us a damn thing about
the rules that generated them.
The real trick is not the analyze a system but
to create a new one from scratch that produces
predictable and not so predictable emergent
properties. So quit being so "amused" by numbers.
From the NYT reading regarding
the space station several leitmotifs
emerge:
Manned spaceflights are too danegrous
Manned spaceflights are too expensive
We tend to believe that we have technology
to make and orbital rendevezvous a trip
to the groceries but a simple angle shift
causes mayhem with our puny technology
The mars mission is succesful because our
communication and robotic technologie is ripe
for the endeavour at hand(including co$t).
The whole equation brakes with human cargo.
Our rocket and materials technology makes each
human space flight a dangerous proposition
A public company has 3 main elements:
The customer
The employees
The Shareholders
This last element is the evil one
Why?
The shareholder don't give a shit about customers (selling crap? that's okay)
The shareholder don't give a rat ass about employees (India, Taiwan, Brazil, who cares?)
The shareholder wants profit and ANY mean justifies the goals.
There's an excellent article in the NYT on Bill Gates vs. Google
Making Google public makes the it an easy prey for Gates
Hold the millions Google! The best things in life are priceless
Thank you for the pang of desillusion
i hope you are happy now
and to ad insult to the inury a reply
from MS Expert Christopher Budd:
From the press:
Christopher Budd, a security program manager
with Microsoft, said the worm does not appear to
take advantage of any Microsoft product
vulnerability."
Squeeze me?
Baking powder?
Where does the adress books(key ingredient
to the virus transport mechanism) come from?
Unix PINE?
Gnome EVOLUTION?
talk about a moron from moronia!
What is it exactly that Trekkies really want?
a.-Action packed plots?
b.-Stoneface babes with big boobs?
c.-Pompous capitans with an attitued?
e.-Plausible scenarios for astrophysics and
quantum mechanics paradigms?
Clearly the more compelling episodes of
TNG delved and the subtle relation between
time and space.
That's the formula!
The aproach given by the writers of
DS9 and Enterprise is very idiotic.
Enuf said!
Mike should not have try to negotiate with MS. Try to negotiate with the master at it's own game! Let it be a lesson to us all. Whenever you get M$ hounds after you. Don't try to pull a fast one.
Who remembers the sci-fi Colossus where a computer was in charged of the security of the country? An interesting aspect of the movie regarding the inter-operability of sytems is that in the movie Colussus stumbled with their enemies computer, Guardian and they immedieatly started exchanging information. Today you can book a week at the fanciest hotel in Central Park for two suppercomputers and they won't exchange a single byte without careful human intervention. The horsepower is there. We just don't agree why kind of language all computers should talk. Simple as that.
cd /music
ls -laht | tail
3.7M Dec 1 1999 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls.mp3
5.0M Dec 1 1999 Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.mp3
boy that was lame!
Inconceivable!
Legos won't move. They have to make Lego's that move so instead of assembling stationary objects kids start assembling machines.
While Verizon and other companies are fighting the RIAA we the consumers are all talk and no action.
What is the mantra? It won't happen to me.
Is mankind evil ( rather will see you perish before giving away without a equitable exchange ) or just lazy?
If I get this right, all I need is a cheapo linux file server with all the media files in it and then the linksys gadget will PLAY them? If this gadget has the divx decoder embedded and is upgreadable im buying one pronto!
First we heard the allegory of Linux being the "free puppy". Now MS is spending their hard earned money to stop people from getting the "free puppy". The true is that MS dog won't learn new tricks. So the only option you get is to buy another MS dog. Future cost to acquire Linux 64 bit = 0. Future cost to acquire Linux w/SMP support kernel = 0.
right?
I sat on one for a year before the .com bubble bursted. My butt never felt the same(sigh).
The new Battlestar Galactica looks like Babylon 5 tastes like Babylon 5 and they work all the cliche's of the new Sci-Fi four youngsters focus groups. Leader=Pompous. Pilot=Clean-cut and sexy. Guns=Big and noisy. Kids=Smart, honest, prodigys. Woman=Just as good as men, even better. Force Commander=Ethnic. Love=Not really. Sex=Really. I just wonder nobody feels like part of some focus group of key-demo campaign when promoting the show.
You are not your eyes, or your fingers or the shape of your face. You are the conciousness that arises from a collection of memories that belong to you and the freedom you possess to create new ones out of your own free will. Without these two things, free will, and the impenetrable nature of memories, human identity cannot exist.