So god was humming!? haha. I'm more convinced by the yoga ommmm. Face it, god's role becomes less and less relevant or necessary as we discover more about how our world works.
Remember, start off by believing the earth is not flat and the sun (and everything else) does NOT go around the earth.
Go hang out in chat rooms (like Yahoo chat, that's a big one), and post your e-mail there. Bots will get your e-mail. Also, I'm sure posting on yahoo message boards has increased my spam count!
Also, for spam you do get, reply to it! And make sure you have html and graphics enabled in your e-mail so "web beacons" can broadcast when you view the e-mail--both of these will flag your e-mail as an active address, which I'm sure puts you on many many lists circulating in dark back alleys where spammers do their bidding!
Also, make your address something that's a really easy combination of letters, so the computers that randomly auto-generate e-mails are more likely to getcha. Oh and try to use hotmail...a hotmail address is the biggest spam sponge in the universe! (Not sure about some of the parallel universes though).
The basic computing element will of course keep getting smaller and faster, until it reaches certain physical limits which cannot be exceeded. At this point, a new paradigm will be invented to provide the way beyond the limits.
How small can something be? It can be down to the molecular level. How fast can something go? Up to the speed of light. So eventually the fastest "transistor" will be composed of individual molecules, with changing states caused and communicated by light (photons).
Electricity was stated in the article as "the way" that information will be input and extracted from tiny transistor, but I think this paradigm will change! Once you get to a certain speed and smallness, electricity loses its ability to transmit information. This happens due to sluggish time response properties of the medium (capacitance and inductance and other jazz) and wave interference and delay of the electrical wave of electrons flowing.
Once a wavelength (directly related to frequency) becomes a certain fraction of the distance it has to travel, the electrical path becomes a "transmission line" instead of a "lumped element." Basically you are trying to send waves of electricity (1's and 0's) down the line too fast for the physical capabilities of the medium. So that's one more thing that complicates the process of making computers smaller and faster--getting the information out and transmitting it to other components.
That's why I was mentioning a new paradigm...because I was thinking of reading Isaac Asimov's stories that mentioned his ultimate computer, Multivac, which filled up miles and miles of space underground. He extrapolated the ideas that made the cutting edge computers of his time into what he thought the future's computer would be like--namely, huge. But of course he couldn't predict the advent of the transistor and later the microprocessor which changed everything and made everything shrink instead of getting bigger....by the way--some parts in computers, like the connectors and traces, are already becoming speed bottlenecks for some of the reasons mentioned...
This is another example of how spammers have infringed on everyone. The threat of spam is causing more and more people to change their habits. Sure you can come up with a new way to do newsgroups, but you and I shouldn't have to adjust to the assholes that are swamping the internet with untold billions of mass e-mailings.
As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't even be a need for a spam filter, much less the extreme caution we have to exercise in our online activities to avoid spammers' getting our e-mails.
Spam is a social problem, but it requires a technical fix, because the internet is worldwide while the sovereingty of our own laws stay within our own borders. There should be a way to keep people from faking headers, and bulk e-mailing to thousands of addresses at a time.
If I went and dumped one billion pieces of junk mail into the mail box at the post office, intervention by the post office keeps it from automatically sending that junk mail from going to every person out there--they would just trash it and probably come arrest or fine me. That is intelligent intervention on the front side, instead of filtering on the back side.
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So god was humming!? haha. I'm more convinced by the yoga ommmm. Face it, god's role becomes less and less relevant or necessary as we discover more about how our world works.
Remember, start off by believing the earth is not flat and the sun (and everything else) does NOT go around the earth.
Go hang out in chat rooms (like Yahoo chat, that's a big one), and post your e-mail there. Bots will get your e-mail. Also, I'm sure posting on yahoo message boards has increased my spam count!
Also, for spam you do get, reply to it! And make sure you have html and graphics enabled in your e-mail so "web beacons" can broadcast when you view the e-mail--both of these will flag your e-mail as an active address, which I'm sure puts you on many many lists circulating in dark back alleys where spammers do their bidding!
Also, make your address something that's a really easy combination of letters, so the computers that randomly auto-generate e-mails are more likely to getcha. Oh and try to use hotmail...a hotmail address is the biggest spam sponge in the universe! (Not sure about some of the parallel universes though).
The basic computing element will of course keep getting smaller and faster, until it reaches certain physical limits which cannot be exceeded. At this point, a new paradigm will be invented to provide the way beyond the limits.
How small can something be? It can be down to the molecular level. How fast can something go? Up to the speed of light. So eventually the fastest "transistor" will be composed of individual molecules, with changing states caused and communicated by light (photons).
Electricity was stated in the article as "the way" that information will be input and extracted from tiny transistor, but I think this paradigm will change! Once you get to a certain speed and smallness, electricity loses its ability to transmit information. This happens due to sluggish time response properties of the medium (capacitance and inductance and other jazz) and wave interference and delay of the electrical wave of electrons flowing.
Once a wavelength (directly related to frequency) becomes a certain fraction of the distance it has to travel, the electrical path becomes a "transmission line" instead of a "lumped element." Basically you are trying to send waves of electricity (1's and 0's) down the line too fast for the physical capabilities of the medium. So that's one more thing that complicates the process of making computers smaller and faster--getting the information out and transmitting it to other components.
That's why I was mentioning a new paradigm...because I was thinking of reading Isaac Asimov's stories that mentioned his ultimate computer, Multivac, which filled up miles and miles of space underground. He extrapolated the ideas that made the cutting edge computers of his time into what he thought the future's computer would be like--namely, huge. But of course he couldn't predict the advent of the transistor and later the microprocessor which changed everything and made everything shrink instead of getting bigger....by the way--some parts in computers, like the connectors and traces, are already becoming speed bottlenecks for some of the reasons mentioned...
This is another example of how spammers have infringed on everyone. The threat of spam is causing more and more people to change their habits. Sure you can come up with a new way to do newsgroups, but you and I shouldn't have to adjust to the assholes that are swamping the internet with untold billions of mass e-mailings. As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't even be a need for a spam filter, much less the extreme caution we have to exercise in our online activities to avoid spammers' getting our e-mails. Spam is a social problem, but it requires a technical fix, because the internet is worldwide while the sovereingty of our own laws stay within our own borders. There should be a way to keep people from faking headers, and bulk e-mailing to thousands of addresses at a time. If I went and dumped one billion pieces of junk mail into the mail box at the post office, intervention by the post office keeps it from automatically sending that junk mail from going to every person out there--they would just trash it and probably come arrest or fine me. That is intelligent intervention on the front side, instead of filtering on the back side.