Well, I think that in few years NMC will be the best option to register DNS names in a safe way, which is not controlled by any government. If nobody can shutdown a DNS, then digital distribution will be much easier.
I'm guessing that their site is so old, they had to resort to tables?
stupid joke. Why would you expect everybody being professional in html AND in his field of research? If he recovers wax cylinders he can have a website without latest www whistles. Besides I think that it browses and feels very good, and flash applets play music well, which is most important here.
And it doesn't mention the most important part: that they have improved a lot in the field of information processing & information theory, just to filter out the information from very noisy measurements. They developed a information Hamiltonian and information field theory, interesting stuff http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.3474v3
it's not like passing/etc/hosts around, because DNS servers can read blockchain and serve DNS information in usual format. As a bonus - all DNS changes propagate instantly - within minutes in the p2p network, and take effect as soon as are confirmed by next block.
Namecoins should be able to help here: a decentralized DNS with its own currency for registering DNSes (which already proved to be useful as bitcoins). Nobody will be able to block some DNS if you bought it with namecoins, because this DNS is yours, right in your wallet.dat. And everyone who installed a namecoin based DNS client can use it. All DNS names are stored with transaction data within namecoin block chain. This blockchain is copied on thousands of client's PC connected in p2p network. This blockchain is encrypted with 60 PetaFLOPs/sec processing power, which makes them really safe! (namecoin difficulty is now 463897, compare that with PFLOPS used for bitcoin for example on bitcoinwatch).
No government will be able to stop namecoins, just like it's impossible to stop bitcoins. Well it's even better for namecoins. Bitcoins could theoretically be restricted by passing laws prohibiting banks to cooperate with mtgox. Namecoins on the other side do not need exchange with USD for DNS functionality to be working. Such exchange of course will be good, but you can buy namecoins using bitcoins on bitparking exhange, or mine them on slush's pool (the biggest namecoin/bitcoin pool). Domains are really cheap, you should be able to afford one for you just after few days or weeks of mining (depending on your power), or - since you can buy bitcoins now on mtgox without any problems, and because namecoins are really cheap, you can buy your own domain for less than 0.50USD. That is today's prices.
Anyway, I think that namecoins is the wave of the future to save us from any kind of censorship.
"...With 'micro-transits' being a preferred way to find exoplanets, somebody looking could stumble across this..."
sorry, but we want to hide from aliens as long as we don't have technology strong enough to win an eventual war with them. Evolution as a universal rule prefers stronger species. Of course we want to discover them first, that's why we are looking. But they are hiding, just like we should. Also you can go and read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)
Remember that story about predicted earthquake? Scientists were predicting earthquakes a lot of times, and it didn't happen. One time they were really serious about "this time" prediction. Authorities choose to ignore it. Lots of people died. Where it was? I forgot. How much "really serious" they were? Hard to say. Of course a lot more after it really happened.
So who & why would want to cover anotherwho's ass on future Airbus crashes? Well that news-story is just dumb. We all know what will happen: - Airbus crashes, we hear "we warned you". - Airbus don't crashes, everybody forgets.
Why are we so strange behaving species? How about being more rational?
- let's allow online universities - so we have fewer lazy students at the universities - students who actually come to study are served much better, and really have interaction with teachers, who suddenly have more time
Of course you are right that education is received best when you have active interaction with smart people. Which should happen at real university. Unfortunately it does not. There are 300 people on single year of civil engineering studies, and this university (PG, Poland) is the best one in whole country when it comes to civil engineering. And let me tell you: teachers are sick of that many students. Teachers don't pay attention to students. They *can't* pay attention. There are too many of students. The university is swamped.
Khan academy or MITx would be a great relief for the universities to get rid of students who would waste professors' time. And instead it will let the teachers to focus on brilliant students who made a choice of not studying online, but wanted to come & discuss. It's a win-win.
You can't force a student to do the real studying if he doesn't want to. If that student is at the university, he is wasting everyone's time, only to get away with a degree. If that student will make a degree online, then the real science will go forward faster & easier. That is unfair? Oh this is being solved naturally, add more "experience levels". It is already happening. There was a/. story that what currently is a PhD, was a bachelor's degree about 60 years ago, in terms of required scientific work that you had to do to obtain that degree. A new degree "habilitation" is being added on top of PhD to compensate this. Everybody knows that bachelor is now pretty common nowadays, everybody knows it is less worth than 60 years ago.
The education diversity is much *higher* than in caveman ages. There is much more knowledge our there which can me known or unknown to each of us. I'm surprised that it took half a century to add more education degrees. Look where our civilization was 50 years ago.
Online universities are a natural step in the right direction: dumb down bachelor's degree, add another degree on top. And let everyone choose which level of education they want too have. Too much work to get habilitation? Everyone has a choice. Remember that we have made a lot of discoveries in last century.
Funding? Well, that's another story. Science goes forward even if there are funding problems, albeit slower. The most important thing is a fruitful interaction between professors and brilliant students. And online universities will let this happen.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the theory that Moon was created due to a big collision of Earth with some other celestial body. This theory however is supported by reasoning that in general Moon and Earth have roughly similar composition. Then why tranquillityite is mostly on the Moon, and not Earth. Maybe the general geographical location of this material on Earth (Australia, you say?) would help in reconstructing the collision event, or maybe would lead to conclusion that the collision theory was wrong. Whatever the outcome, we are going to learn something.
"windows taling are the BASICS" -> I meant window tiling.
and LOL, I misspelled the name of my favorite wm in the title. it is SAWFISH. heh
also I configured UPS with tuxonice hibernate to preserve calculations that are running right now. That also helps uptime and making opened stuff dusty:)
I am using sawfish and ROX for over 15 years. I wouldn't change it for anything else. Even though my wife & sister & friends went through various generations KDE, gnome, unity and I learned how to use them (just for the sake of helping them). Still sawfish is the MOST powerful & fastest wm ever. And rox the lightest fm.
Imagine, that in sawfish you can even UNDO window actions (movement, resize, anything else). Assign different window properties per window type. You cannot even imagine how configurable are the keyboard shortcuts. No really. You. Can't. Imagine. Want have a totally mouseless workflow in multitude of opened windows? no problem. Want tablet? No problem. Window tabbing & windows taling are the BASICS. Not some advance features. I haven't seen tabbing in any of those popular wms, like kwin or metacity.
There is no way I would even seriously consider any other wm than sawfish.
why rox? There's nothing lighter that gives me icons, a desktop and panels. My 8 cores and 32 GB of ram are better spent elsewhere than on clumsy desktop environment. I am running dozen of simultaneous calculations almost all memory is used, and sawfish is still as responsive as if there was nothing clogging the cores. I never stop to be amazed at that. Especially when I look at other people's PCs when they open just a few apps, and their desktop becomes so unresponsive that I would get mad.
This comfort also made me a little lazy to "clean up" my desktops. I have 24 viewports, they are all full of windows - betweeen 100 and 200 windows open (I guess about 150 right now). And they get dusty. After few months I discover some forgotten window on some viewport and it brings nice memories about what I was doing back then.
Can you have that experience with your environment?
oh, and I forgot to mention - that's also the reason why quantum physics is so difficult to model using our today's computers. Monte carlo and other rough estimations are widely used. Only simplest problems (think harmonic oscilator) have analytical (and crazy complex) solutions.
For those who are unaware why qubits are so powerful: the computing power provided by qubits scales exponentially if compared to bits used in ordinary computing. For example if you had 20 qubits, that would be like doing simultaneous calculations on processor with internal register size of 1048576 bits. Roughly. That's orders of magnitude more than modern CPUs, which have about dozen of 64 bit registers.
Debian release cycle is two years, and I'm going to stick with that. Firefox team has gone nuts.
I have no time to update every-day. I have work to do, you know - my work is not developing firefox. So I prefer to sit on debian stable. In fact I wonder now, how is it possible that I have iceweasel 5.0 here, if on debian stable I see iceweasel 3.5. And 7.0 is in debian experimental.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I think that in few years NMC will be the best option to register DNS names in a safe way, which is not controlled by any government. If nobody can shutdown a DNS, then digital distribution will be much easier.
I'm guessing that their site is so old, they had to resort to tables?
stupid joke. Why would you expect everybody being professional in html AND in his field of research? If he recovers wax cylinders he can have a website without latest www whistles. Besides I think that it browses and feels very good, and flash applets play music well, which is most important here.
And it doesn't mention the most important part: that they have improved a lot in the field of information processing & information theory, just to filter out the information from very noisy measurements. They developed a information Hamiltonian and information field theory, interesting stuff http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.3474v3
dupe's here:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1811216/new-all-sky-map-shows-the-magnetic-fields-of-the-milky-way
Let me be the first to say "BARDZO DOBRZA! ACTA JEST GUWNO!" ("Very well done! ACTA is shit!")
I think you wanted to say: "Bardzo dobrze! ACTA to gówno!"
AC is right. It should be "Bardzo dobrze! ACTA to [jest] gówno!"
- verb "jest"(PL)=="is" (EN) is not necessary.
- ó and u are different letters.
probably it's time to get interested in namecoins...
Is this the first acknowledged cyberwar?
yes.
As Lem put it short: Every new invention puts civilization forward and has a good and an evil usage. I'm surprised it took this long for media to notice what is really happening on cyber-front. Remember a recent /. story about cyber-insurances? http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/24/1254250/cyber-insurance-industry-expected-to-boom
it's not like passing /etc/hosts around, because DNS servers can read blockchain and serve DNS information in usual format. As a bonus - all DNS changes propagate instantly - within minutes in the p2p network, and take effect as soon as are confirmed by next block.
Forgot two more links:
http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
https://mining.bitcoin.cz/
Namecoins should be able to help here: a decentralized DNS with its own currency for registering DNSes (which already proved to be useful as bitcoins). Nobody will be able to block some DNS if you bought it with namecoins, because this DNS is yours, right in your wallet.dat. And everyone who installed a namecoin based DNS client can use it. All DNS names are stored with transaction data within namecoin block chain. This blockchain is copied on thousands of client's PC connected in p2p network. This blockchain is encrypted with 60 PetaFLOPs/sec processing power, which makes them really safe! (namecoin difficulty is now 463897, compare that with PFLOPS used for bitcoin for example on bitcoinwatch).
No government will be able to stop namecoins, just like it's impossible to stop bitcoins. Well it's even better for namecoins. Bitcoins could theoretically be restricted by passing laws prohibiting banks to cooperate with mtgox. Namecoins on the other side do not need exchange with USD for DNS functionality to be working. Such exchange of course will be good, but you can buy namecoins using bitcoins on bitparking exhange, or mine them on slush's pool (the biggest namecoin/bitcoin pool). Domains are really cheap, you should be able to afford one for you just after few days or weeks of mining (depending on your power), or - since you can buy bitcoins now on mtgox without any problems, and because namecoins are really cheap, you can buy your own domain for less than 0.50USD. That is today's prices.
Anyway, I think that namecoins is the wave of the future to save us from any kind of censorship.
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html
http://mtgox.com/ - get bitcoins BTC here
http://exchange.bitparking.com/ - buy namecoins NMC here
http://bitcoinwatch.com/
sure that's blatant ad. But I think namecoins are really going to help here.
"...With 'micro-transits' being a preferred way to find exoplanets, somebody looking could stumble across this..."
sorry, but we want to hide from aliens as long as we don't have technology strong enough to win an eventual war with them. Evolution as a universal rule prefers stronger species. Of course we want to discover them first, that's why we are looking. But they are hiding, just like we should. Also you can go and read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)
well... time to start using namecoins http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html
Remember that story about predicted earthquake? Scientists were predicting earthquakes a lot of times, and it didn't happen. One time they were really serious about "this time" prediction. Authorities choose to ignore it. Lots of people died. Where it was? I forgot. How much "really serious" they were? Hard to say. Of course a lot more after it really happened.
So who & why would want to cover anotherwho's ass on future Airbus crashes? Well that news-story is just dumb. We all know what will happen:
- Airbus crashes, we hear "we warned you".
- Airbus don't crashes, everybody forgets.
Why are we so strange behaving species? How about being more rational?
short version for tl;dr:
- let's allow online universities
- so we have fewer lazy students at the universities
- students who actually come to study are served much better, and really have interaction with teachers, who suddenly have more time
Of course you are right that education is received best when you have active interaction with smart people. Which should happen at real university. Unfortunately it does not. There are 300 people on single year of civil engineering studies, and this university (PG, Poland) is the best one in whole country when it comes to civil engineering. And let me tell you: teachers are sick of that many students. Teachers don't pay attention to students. They *can't* pay attention. There are too many of students. The university is swamped.
Khan academy or MITx would be a great relief for the universities to get rid of students who would waste professors' time. And instead it will let the teachers to focus on brilliant students who made a choice of not studying online, but wanted to come & discuss. It's a win-win.
You can't force a student to do the real studying if he doesn't want to. If that student is at the university, he is wasting everyone's time, only to get away with a degree. If that student will make a degree online, then the real science will go forward faster & easier. That is unfair? Oh this is being solved naturally, add more "experience levels". It is already happening. There was a /. story that what currently is a PhD, was a bachelor's degree about 60 years ago, in terms of required scientific work that you had to do to obtain that degree. A new degree "habilitation" is being added on top of PhD to compensate this. Everybody knows that bachelor is now pretty common nowadays, everybody knows it is less worth than 60 years ago.
The education diversity is much *higher* than in caveman ages. There is much more knowledge our there which can me known or unknown to each of us. I'm surprised that it took half a century to add more education degrees. Look where our civilization was 50 years ago.
Online universities are a natural step in the right direction: dumb down bachelor's degree, add another degree on top. And let everyone choose which level of education they want too have. Too much work to get habilitation? Everyone has a choice. Remember that we have made a lot of discoveries in last century.
Funding? Well, that's another story. Science goes forward even if there are funding problems, albeit slower. The most important thing is a fruitful interaction between professors and brilliant students. And online universities will let this happen.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the theory that Moon was created due to a big collision of Earth with some other celestial body. This theory however is supported by reasoning that in general Moon and Earth have roughly similar composition. Then why tranquillityite is mostly on the Moon, and not Earth. Maybe the general geographical location of this material on Earth (Australia, you say?) would help in reconstructing the collision event, or maybe would lead to conclusion that the collision theory was wrong. Whatever the outcome, we are going to learn something.
"windows taling are the BASICS"
-> I meant window tiling.
and LOL, I misspelled the name of my favorite wm in the title. it is SAWFISH. heh
also I configured UPS with tuxonice hibernate to preserve calculations that are running right now. That also helps uptime and making opened stuff dusty :)
I am using sawfish and ROX for over 15 years. I wouldn't change it for anything else. Even though my wife & sister & friends went through various generations KDE, gnome, unity and I learned how to use them (just for the sake of helping them). Still sawfish is the MOST powerful & fastest wm ever. And rox the lightest fm.
Imagine, that in sawfish you can even UNDO window actions (movement, resize, anything else). Assign different window properties per window type. You cannot even imagine how configurable are the keyboard shortcuts. No really. You. Can't. Imagine. Want have a totally mouseless workflow in multitude of opened windows? no problem. Want tablet? No problem. Window tabbing & windows taling are the BASICS. Not some advance features. I haven't seen tabbing in any of those popular wms, like kwin or metacity.
There is no way I would even seriously consider any other wm than sawfish.
why rox? There's nothing lighter that gives me icons, a desktop and panels. My 8 cores and 32 GB of ram are better spent elsewhere than on clumsy desktop environment. I am running dozen of simultaneous calculations almost all memory is used, and sawfish is still as responsive as if there was nothing clogging the cores. I never stop to be amazed at that. Especially when I look at other people's PCs when they open just a few apps, and their desktop becomes so unresponsive that I would get mad.
This comfort also made me a little lazy to "clean up" my desktops. I have 24 viewports, they are all full of windows - betweeen 100 and 200 windows open (I guess about 150 right now). And they get dusty. After few months I discover some forgotten window on some viewport and it brings nice memories about what I was doing back then.
Can you have that experience with your environment?
I recommend Haym Benaroya's book "Turning dust to gold" for start. And my homepage too :)
oh, and I forgot to mention - that's also the reason why quantum physics is so difficult to model using our today's computers. Monte carlo and other rough estimations are widely used. Only simplest problems (think harmonic oscilator) have analytical (and crazy complex) solutions.
For those who are unaware why qubits are so powerful: the computing power provided by qubits scales exponentially if compared to bits used in ordinary computing. For example if you had 20 qubits, that would be like doing simultaneous calculations on processor with internal register size of 1048576 bits. Roughly. That's orders of magnitude more than modern CPUs, which have about dozen of 64 bit registers.
well... that's sad.
Debian release cycle is two years, and I'm going to stick with that. Firefox team has gone nuts.
I have no time to update every-day. I have work to do, you know - my work is not developing firefox. So I prefer to sit on debian stable. In fact I wonder now, how is it possible that I have iceweasel 5.0 here, if on debian stable I see iceweasel 3.5. And 7.0 is in debian experimental.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81 letter disappeared. Without polish accents the name is: Stanislaw Lem.
and the spacecraft described in "Fiasco" by Stanisaw Lem
You forgot GPU. CPU mines 50 BTC for 6 months. 1 GPU for a week. 10 GPUs do 50 BTC in one day.