You can't get much more "mainstreem" than Google. The Zeigiest project has been logging web trends for a long time.
Here is their latest posted data (June 04). If you squint and look really closely, you can see a similar trend but it includes netscape and mozilla together.
I put my "office" with my gameing gear in the living room where my gf watches excessive amounts of Friends, Sex and the City, et al.
So now "together time" means she's watching TV without me gripeing and me playing without her gripeing. Yay.
-KS
Playing Battlefield 1942 online was like that with my Athlon 750. I could hit the kitchen, the bathroom and still have time left over to admire the load screens. With my new machine (p4 3.0G) I have about 30 seconds to run downstairs for a cold beverage. Guess I need a new game now.
-KS
I agree that its usefulness is somewhat hindered. I wouldn't want to try to read an entire 400 page novel on it. Although a useful enhancement might be that when you purchase a paperback or hardcover book, there could be a chip, memory stick, or a couple pages of barcode so that you could easily put that book into your reader. I often find myself with time to kill away from my books and it would be great to just pull out a reader and continue where I left off.
I think Sony has commuters in mind for this. Reading a large newspaper on a subway would be much easier with this thing although I'd like to see a larger screen version. I'd like to change the design from a PDA style handheld to more like a scroll. The screen would be slightly flexible (think tape measure) and the controls would be in the handle. That way I can change the screen size based on where I am and how much room I have.
I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 Community on my laptop about 2 weeks ago. The install was smooth but the touchpad was extremely over sensitive. I had to go back to 9.2. I'm running 10.0 on a desktop/server now and it works great. About the only valid argument against Mandrake would be the size of the install with all those automated goodies. I'll probobly grab the stable 10.0 ISOs once the demand dies down in a month or so.
Right now they are heavily overloaded. As a side note, you can skip by clicking "I'm a community member or plan on joining soon." But I hope you find it worth your while to support Mandrake. A lot of work went into this distro and I'd hate to see them go back into the red.
I'm trying to set up a VPN at home mostly so I can get at South Park eps on my Tivo and so my girlfriend can access her documents from school. How difficult would it be to implement either WASTE or PADLOCK on a Mandrake 9.2 system? I know Mandrake has some RH based architecture...
Please bear in mind in any advice that I'm a complete server n00b.
Usability in its purest form means that the user has to jump through the fewest number of hoops possible in order to achieve their goals. Your programs can have streamlined menus, clear text, obvious buttons and intuitive guides and shortcuts without compromising security. Only in the case of default system settings do you see a conflict.
I would argue that certain things shouldn't work out of the box. Items such as your internet connection, terminal services (remote desktop), drive formatting (outside of the initial installation), and basically any other stuff that could kill your machine in a hurry should require a single additional step each in order to activate them.
Instead of enabling security holes the size of Texas by default, these items should have prominent, easy to follow displays which show you how to enable/disable and configure them (and perhaps a sentence on why it is disabled by default). When you click on them for the first time you should get a "set this up" wizard. You should also have the option of skipping the "wizard" style settings tool and go right a well designed advanced tool for those who know exactly what to change.
By making the act of enabling devices/services intuitive you are contributing to ease of use without sacrificing security. You are also promoting a sense of caution. If I need to take an extra step to turn something on, there is probably a reason for it. It also gets me used to how the system works and when there is a problem in the future, I'll have had the initial experience to help me resolve it.
As many people have pointed out there is an utter lack of response by the top three anti-virus companies to this threat. I find this disturbing and also, unlikely. Why would the Department of Homeland Defense have better intelligence on a clearly US based threat (Phat is not an international phrase by any means) than the people who make their lively hood based on threat detection and elimination?
This has to me the markings of a hoax. The list of *features* as one poster put it is indeed staggering. That, coupled with the silence coming from Symantec, McAfee et al. makes it look fishy. A google search shows one recent post and a bunch of older hits (possibly the same as in the McAfee search ).
So that leaves me with 3 questions: 1 - Is it real 2 - How do we detect it 3 - How do we kill it.
Please do not confuse the will of the American people and the misguided attempts at security of our village idiot, ahem, I mean President. Come November we hope to correct that mistake.
Personally, I prefer the organization's lesser known name: the "Society of Composers And Musicians" or SCAM.
But on a more serious note, couldn't Apple argue that the main usage of the iPod is for their proprietary music format which you can only get by paying iTunes? While you could mount the device as a hdd and transfer over basically anything the French should have some concept of overwhelming non-infringing usage like the Sony Beta-Max case.
Besides, if Apple decided to fight, the French would probably back down and show them the way to Paris anyway.
I have comcast for my home network. The speed was clocked at 4.1 Mbps 2 days ago in the speed test from bandwidthplace.com. If one of the 6 machines I have on my personal network got infected, all of that beautiful bandwidth would be at the disposal of spammers.
I take the necessary (and some unnecessary) steps to keep it clean, but my neighbors may not be so vigilant. If someone on my node of the comcast network gets infected it pulls down the usable range for all of us.
Think of how many viruses, worms, trojans and spam messages can be sent in a day with that much available bandwidth. Now imagine they are all aimed at your parents' inbox with your email address as the reply-to.
When you are repeatedly reckless with a car, they take it away from you. The same should be true of community technologies like an Internet connection. I know the analogy is a stretch but there is a very real community impact to taking a lax stance on security for broadband-connected machines.
The skill sets required to write a clear, concise and technically accurate piece of prose for the general public to consume apparently takes too long for the techies or the journalists to add to their repertoire.
From the techies' perspective, we would need to learn how to write for a general population. Then step outside of our common language (see previous posts written in code) and explain everything in such a way as the end reader gets it.
For a journalist - they need to learn the reality of the tech, not just the broad generalizations we give them when the first 4 or 5 explanations sail over their heads.
The NYTimes's David Pogue has a great combination of those traits. IMHO all newspapers/agencies need a writer like him for stories like this one. Check out his stuff at davidpogue.com and the Thursday Circuits section of the NYTimes.
..."such as making ICANN into a government regulatory agency similar to the FCC."
Good idea in theory. The issue being that the Internet is an international community subject to the laws and regulations of literally hundreds of countries each with their own opinions. We're about a decade or two away from a harmonious international community which could sanction such a body. The current political environment here in the US doesn't help.
I've been reading a lot on the ICANN site [icann.org] re: the now 1 year old "redemption period" feature they added last February. VeriSign effectively took a good idea and twisted it into a moneymaking scheme by influencing ICANN. Funny how quickly they turn to bite the hand that feeds them.
The great part about OpenSource IMHO is that anyone who knows how to code can sit down and write a GUI for any piece of software for which they have the source code. So nothing is stopping 300 people from writing better GUIs.
In defense of the CUPS people - they responded well to the criticism in the rant. Programmers know GUI design is a weak point for most of us. Now lets fix it.
Last line of the rant: "PPS, 27 Feb: Got a very positive response from the CUPS folks. At least some of these things will be fixed."
I can safely say that regardless of price (including free)or method of delivery, I'm not buying anything from Brittney Spears, 50 cent, Creed, or whatever "superstar" they have this week. Its not my music. And that is the fundamental flaw in their piracy argument: They are assuming that if it wasn't for file sharing I'd be buying this crap. Personally I stopped buying CDs in any real quantity in the mid-nineties - well before napster. I'm not going to start again anytime soon. Its still not my music.
iTunes and Napster 2.0 aside, I can understand why it's so difficult for the record industry to develop a truly unique offering that we would be willing to pay for: We can't even think of one and we are the target audience. There are still compromises in those services which we would love to do without (like proprietary file formats) and the selection needs to be significantly larger.
Perhaps, instead of trying to build a new service using existing content, we should build a new service for musicians and writers where they can post new works not belonging to a publisher and get paid by a subscription fee. If the content was worthy, people would pay. Eventually, it could become the method of choice for emerging artists, thus cutting off the record industry's supply. Or we can just keep downloading illegally...
--KS--
A musician friend of mine once summed it up as "All the record industry is good for now is creating rock stars. And who needs more rock stars?"
I have my hardware pretty much straightened out. I am currently using 9-10 gigs of space for cartoon network rips I'd like to hang onto to watch again later.
What would you recommend for converting the MPeg 2 compressed video files into smaller mpeg4?
WinAmp 5 rocks so far. Defenitly worth the hunt to find yourself a copy. I grabbed mine off of a weekly software posting on IRCSpy.com about 3 weeks ago. The beta I use at work is as stable or more so than the copy of Winamp 3 it replaced.
--KS
I know your gut reaction (and that of those directly effected by the cuts) is that this is a travesty of justice and that AOL should burn in hell (and it should along with that ridiculous yellow d00d).
There is a sunny side to this. Think of all the talent that has been freed into the California landscape... All of those coders, with nothing but time on their hands (in between job searches)...
I think we can expect to see some interesting and potentially ground breaking start-ups to appear come June/July when they've all given up trying to join a big company. Isn't that how we got from 16mHz machines only good for word processing to the current state of internet, gaming rigs, media servers and TiVo's in the first place?
To those who are unfortunately out of the job, please keep your talents current. By all means, discuss the idea you had in the shower this morning for that great new piece of software/hardware with your best friend over a beer. Put a desk in your garage and start typing. Give the tech power so horribly mismanaged by corporate America (online) back where it belongs: with the geeks.
That struck me as odd also. There are statistical methods for generalizing to the larger population IF you have a representative sample.
I don't know if people who would volunteer to have their PCs monitored constitute a representative sample. Although they could get around this by defining the population in terms of demographics rather than PC prowess. I doubt any/.-ers deleted much of anything aside from those incriminating Milli Vanilli rips.
The second issue is, as its been pointed out, there is a question of legality of the behavior they are measuring which makes compliance socially desirable. That means they should take self-report data with a grain of salt. Again, there are ways to control for social desirability. I'd need to see the questionnaire in order to gauge that.
I also emailed the address they provided inquiring about their methods.
The bad reviews starting pouring in around 12:30 on/. but that didn't stop me from running out to satisfy my deep seeded desire to know what happens next. So, my opinion of the movie follows and I will do my best not to spoil anything for those who haven't seen it yet.
There will be an overwhelming need for film critics to bash this film and compare its less than ground breaking cinematics to the original Matrix and also with Reloaded. I would remind such critics that the ground was pretty much shattered with the first two films. That being said, Revolutions and Reloaded were both shot, edited and produced at the same time. What was introduced in Reloaded is a part of Revolutions because they're basically one 4 and a half hour film.
For all the individuals walking out of the theater scratching their heads and preparing to bomb the Wachowski brothers' mansions, take a few weeks to think about the movie first. The Matrix was vague and meaningful so that we could think, debate and speculate about what symbols meant. Reloaded was by contrast, slightly less deep and meaningful. By many accounts it was more or less a look at the action necessary to tie together the epic battles. In classic hero/villain fashion an ordinary guy is forced to be a hero by an ordinary villain (Smith in the Matrix was just another Agent). In classic hero/villain fashion, the hero gets unbelievably powerful, and so does the villain. Then there has to be a final explosive battle of the two superpowers.
Yes there are inconsistencies. Yes there are unanswered questions. But if the Matrix has taught you anything, it should remind you not to trust appearances. It took months of reflection for the original Matrix to rise to the epic proportions it eventually obtained. But there is an outcry coming from the hip on the heals of Reloaded and Revolutions. Give it time.
I give it a 4/5. There is lots of room to find your own answers to questions postulated in all three films. We all had high hopes for this trilogy and at first glance this doesn't satisfy those hopes. But in the end, I think time will show us otherwise.
I seem to remember a movie about that... with Tom Cruise I think (Minority Report for those of you with lives). In the end it was a bad idea.
Part of the trouble with anticipating crime is its accuracy, or lack thereof. Witch hunts, Bay of Pigs invasion, pre-emptive strikes based on 5 year old intelligence, suing a 60 year old Mac user for sharing rap downloads... History (even recent history) is cyclical. It repeats itself like a bad Britney Spears single if left unchecked.
I'm all for allowing people to capitalize on their great ideas, but lets try not to make the worlds greatest unifying body (the internet) turn into a strip mall.
Alas, I am prophesizing again. To those at the universities and labs, don't give up the infrastructure without a fight.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know where I can get a torrent or ftp download of the first 2 seasons all together? This one at a time crap has to stop.
Great show, I loved season 1, haven't seen season two (trying not to rape all of thier bandwidth at once).
-KS
You can't get much more "mainstreem" than Google. The Zeigiest project has been logging web trends for a long time.
Here is their latest posted data (June 04). If you squint and look really closely, you can see a similar trend but it includes netscape and mozilla together.
--KS--
I put my "office" with my gameing gear in the living room where my gf watches excessive amounts of Friends, Sex and the City, et al. So now "together time" means she's watching TV without me gripeing and me playing without her gripeing. Yay. -KS
Playing Battlefield 1942 online was like that with my Athlon 750. I could hit the kitchen, the bathroom and still have time left over to admire the load screens. With my new machine (p4 3.0G) I have about 30 seconds to run downstairs for a cold beverage. Guess I need a new game now. -KS
Aside from the fact that this looks like it'd be just as funny as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, etc... What are they running for web services - seriously?
The 2 trailers loaded extremely fast (on the main site) and the Flash loaded faster than I could click "Skip Intro." Over all, a very well made site.
Disney without Pixar is going to be like Apple without Steve Jobs... Oh, wait...
I agree that its usefulness is somewhat hindered. I wouldn't want to try to read an entire 400 page novel on it. Although a useful enhancement might be that when you purchase a paperback or hardcover book, there could be a chip, memory stick, or a couple pages of barcode so that you could easily put that book into your reader. I often find myself with time to kill away from my books and it would be great to just pull out a reader and continue where I left off.
I think Sony has commuters in mind for this. Reading a large newspaper on a subway would be much easier with this thing although I'd like to see a larger screen version.
I'd like to change the design from a PDA style handheld to more like a scroll. The screen would be slightly flexible (think tape measure) and the controls would be in the handle. That way I can change the screen size based on where I am and how much room I have.
I have the 10.0 Community release. It has all of the things you listed as missing. Where/when exactly did you get your ISOs?
I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 Community on my laptop about 2 weeks ago. The install was smooth but the touchpad was extremely over sensitive. I had to go back to 9.2. I'm running 10.0 on a desktop/server now and it works great. About the only valid argument against Mandrake would be the size of the install with all those automated goodies. I'll probobly grab the stable 10.0 ISOs once the demand dies down in a month or so.
Right now they are heavily overloaded. As a side note, you can skip by clicking "I'm a community member or plan on joining soon." But I hope you find it worth your while to support Mandrake. A lot of work went into this distro and I'd hate to see them go back into the red.
-KS
I'm trying to set up a VPN at home mostly so I can get at South Park eps on my Tivo and so my girlfriend can access her documents from school. How difficult would it be to implement either WASTE or PADLOCK on a Mandrake 9.2 system? I know Mandrake has some RH based architecture...
Please bear in mind in any advice that I'm a complete server n00b.
Usability in its purest form means that the user has to jump through the fewest number of hoops possible in order to achieve their goals. Your programs can have streamlined menus, clear text, obvious buttons and intuitive guides and shortcuts without compromising security. Only in the case of default system settings do you see a conflict.
I would argue that certain things shouldn't work out of the box. Items such as your internet connection, terminal services (remote desktop), drive formatting (outside of the initial installation), and basically any other stuff that could kill your machine in a hurry should require a single additional step each in order to activate them.
Instead of enabling security holes the size of Texas by default, these items should have prominent, easy to follow displays which show you how to enable/disable and configure them (and perhaps a sentence on why it is disabled by default). When you click on them for the first time you should get a "set this up" wizard. You should also have the option of skipping the "wizard" style settings tool and go right a well designed advanced tool for those who know exactly what to change.
By making the act of enabling devices/services intuitive you are contributing to ease of use without sacrificing security. You are also promoting a sense of caution. If I need to take an extra step to turn something on, there is probably a reason for it. It also gets me used to how the system works and when there is a problem in the future, I'll have had the initial experience to help me resolve it.
That's my 2 cents worth at least.
--KS
Doesn't look like the same payload as descibed in above posts. Still a nasty little bugger.
--KSHi Everyone
As many people have pointed out there is an utter lack of response by the top three anti-virus companies to this threat. I find this disturbing and also, unlikely. Why would the Department of Homeland Defense have better intelligence on a clearly US based threat (Phat is not an international phrase by any means) than the people who make their lively hood based on threat detection and elimination?
This has to me the markings of a hoax. The list of *features* as one poster put it is indeed staggering. That, coupled with the silence coming from Symantec, McAfee et al. makes it look fishy. A google search shows one recent post and a bunch of older hits (possibly the same as in the McAfee search ).
So that leaves me with 3 questions:
1 - Is it real
2 - How do we detect it
3 - How do we kill it.
--KS
Please do not confuse the will of the American people and the misguided attempts at security of our village idiot, ahem, I mean President. Come November we hope to correct that mistake.
Personally, I prefer the organization's lesser known name: the "Society of Composers And Musicians" or SCAM.
But on a more serious note, couldn't Apple argue that the main usage of the iPod is for their proprietary music format which you can only get by paying iTunes? While you could mount the device as a hdd and transfer over basically anything the French should have some concept of overwhelming non-infringing usage like the Sony Beta-Max case.
Besides, if Apple decided to fight, the French would probably back down and show them the way to Paris anyway.
I have comcast for my home network. The speed was clocked at 4.1 Mbps 2 days ago in the speed test from bandwidthplace.com. If one of the 6 machines I have on my personal network got infected, all of that beautiful bandwidth would be at the disposal of spammers.
I take the necessary (and some unnecessary) steps to keep it clean, but my neighbors may not be so vigilant. If someone on my node of the comcast network gets infected it pulls down the usable range for all of us.
Think of how many viruses, worms, trojans and spam messages can be sent in a day with that much available bandwidth. Now imagine they are all aimed at your parents' inbox with your email address as the reply-to.
When you are repeatedly reckless with a car, they take it away from you. The same should be true of community technologies like an Internet connection. I know the analogy is a stretch but there is a very real community impact to taking a lax stance on security for broadband-connected machines.
--KS
The skill sets required to write a clear, concise and technically accurate piece of prose for the general public to consume apparently takes too long for the techies or the journalists to add to their repertoire.
From the techies' perspective, we would need to learn how to write for a general population. Then step outside of our common language (see previous posts written in code) and explain everything in such a way as the end reader gets it.
For a journalist - they need to learn the reality of the tech, not just the broad generalizations we give them when the first 4 or 5 explanations sail over their heads.
The NYTimes's David Pogue has a great combination of those traits. IMHO all newspapers/agencies need a writer like him for stories like this one. Check out his stuff at davidpogue.com and the Thursday Circuits section of the NYTimes.
--KS
..."such as making ICANN into a government regulatory agency similar to the FCC."
Good idea in theory. The issue being that the Internet is an international community subject to the laws and regulations of literally hundreds of countries each with their own opinions. We're about a decade or two away from a harmonious international community which could sanction such a body. The current political environment here in the US doesn't help.
I've been reading a lot on the ICANN site [icann.org] re: the now 1 year old "redemption period" feature they added last February. VeriSign effectively took a good idea and twisted it into a moneymaking scheme by influencing ICANN. Funny how quickly they turn to bite the hand that feeds them.
-KS
The great part about OpenSource IMHO is that anyone who knows how to code can sit down and write a GUI for any piece of software for which they have the source code. So nothing is stopping 300 people from writing better GUIs.
In defense of the CUPS people - they responded well to the criticism in the rant. Programmers know GUI design is a weak point for most of us. Now lets fix it.
Last line of the rant:
"PPS, 27 Feb: Got a very positive response from the CUPS folks. At least some of these things will be fixed."
I can safely say that regardless of price (including free)or method of delivery, I'm not buying anything from Brittney Spears, 50 cent, Creed, or whatever "superstar" they have this week. Its not my music. And that is the fundamental flaw in their piracy argument: They are assuming that if it wasn't for file sharing I'd be buying this crap. Personally I stopped buying CDs in any real quantity in the mid-nineties - well before napster. I'm not going to start again anytime soon. Its still not my music.
iTunes and Napster 2.0 aside, I can understand why it's so difficult for the record industry to develop a truly unique offering that we would be willing to pay for: We can't even think of one and we are the target audience. There are still compromises in those services which we would love to do without (like proprietary file formats) and the selection needs to be significantly larger.
Perhaps, instead of trying to build a new service using existing content, we should build a new service for musicians and writers where they can post new works not belonging to a publisher and get paid by a subscription fee. If the content was worthy, people would pay. Eventually, it could become the method of choice for emerging artists, thus cutting off the record industry's supply. Or we can just keep downloading illegally...
--KS--A musician friend of mine once summed it up as "All the record industry is good for now is creating rock stars. And who needs more rock stars?"
I have my hardware pretty much straightened out. I am currently using 9-10 gigs of space for cartoon network rips I'd like to hang onto to watch again later.
What would you recommend for converting the MPeg 2 compressed video files into smaller mpeg4?
-KS--WinAmp 5 rocks so far. Defenitly worth the hunt to find yourself a copy. I grabbed mine off of a weekly software posting on IRCSpy.com about 3 weeks ago. The beta I use at work is as stable or more so than the copy of Winamp 3 it replaced. --KS
I know your gut reaction (and that of those directly effected by the cuts) is that this is a travesty of justice and that AOL should burn in hell (and it should along with that ridiculous yellow d00d).
There is a sunny side to this. Think of all the talent that has been freed into the California landscape... All of those coders, with nothing but time on their hands (in between job searches)...
I think we can expect to see some interesting and potentially ground breaking start-ups to appear come June/July when they've all given up trying to join a big company. Isn't that how we got from 16mHz machines only good for word processing to the current state of internet, gaming rigs, media servers and TiVo's in the first place?
To those who are unfortunately out of the job, please keep your talents current. By all means, discuss the idea you had in the shower this morning for that great new piece of software/hardware with your best friend over a beer. Put a desk in your garage and start typing. Give the tech power so horribly mismanaged by corporate America (online) back where it belongs: with the geeks.
--KS--
That struck me as odd also. There are statistical methods for generalizing to the larger population IF you have a representative sample.
/.-ers deleted much of anything aside from those incriminating Milli Vanilli rips.
I don't know if people who would volunteer to have their PCs monitored constitute a representative sample. Although they could get around this by defining the population in terms of demographics rather than PC prowess. I doubt any
The second issue is, as its been pointed out, there is a question of legality of the behavior they are measuring which makes compliance socially desirable. That means they should take self-report data with a grain of salt. Again, there are ways to control for social desirability. I'd need to see the questionnaire in order to gauge that.
I also emailed the address they provided inquiring about their methods.
--KS
The bad reviews starting pouring in around 12:30 on /. but that didn't stop me from running out to satisfy my deep seeded desire to know what happens next. So, my opinion of the movie follows and I will do my best not to spoil anything for those who haven't seen it yet.
There will be an overwhelming need for film critics to bash this film and compare its less than ground breaking cinematics to the original Matrix and also with Reloaded. I would remind such critics that the ground was pretty much shattered with the first two films. That being said, Revolutions and Reloaded were both shot, edited and produced at the same time. What was introduced in Reloaded is a part of Revolutions because they're basically one 4 and a half hour film.
For all the individuals walking out of the theater scratching their heads and preparing to bomb the Wachowski brothers' mansions, take a few weeks to think about the movie first. The Matrix was vague and meaningful so that we could think, debate and speculate about what symbols meant. Reloaded was by contrast, slightly less deep and meaningful. By many accounts it was more or less a look at the action necessary to tie together the epic battles. In classic hero/villain fashion an ordinary guy is forced to be a hero by an ordinary villain (Smith in the Matrix was just another Agent). In classic hero/villain fashion, the hero gets unbelievably powerful, and so does the villain. Then there has to be a final explosive battle of the two superpowers.
Yes there are inconsistencies. Yes there are unanswered questions. But if the Matrix has taught you anything, it should remind you not to trust appearances. It took months of reflection for the original Matrix to rise to the epic proportions it eventually obtained. But there is an outcry coming from the hip on the heals of Reloaded and Revolutions. Give it time.
I give it a 4/5. There is lots of room to find your own answers to questions postulated in all three films. We all had high hopes for this trilogy and at first glance this doesn't satisfy those hopes. But in the end, I think time will show us otherwise.
--KS--
I seem to remember a movie about that... with Tom Cruise I think (Minority Report for those of you with lives). In the end it was a bad idea.
Part of the trouble with anticipating crime is its accuracy, or lack thereof. Witch hunts, Bay of Pigs invasion, pre-emptive strikes based on 5 year old intelligence, suing a 60 year old Mac user for sharing rap downloads... History (even recent history) is cyclical. It repeats itself like a bad Britney Spears single if left unchecked.
I'm all for allowing people to capitalize on their great ideas, but lets try not to make the worlds greatest unifying body (the internet) turn into a strip mall.
Alas, I am prophesizing again. To those at the universities and labs, don't give up the infrastructure without a fight.
-KS