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Some countries and activists argue that ICANN is too close to the United States and want the United Nations to take a greater role in regulating the internet.
I sure have heard the term "United Nations to take a greater role" line before.
The gathering grew from December's UN World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, where the world's leaders failed to reach consensus on governing the Internet and punted the issue to a task force that is supposed to report to Annan in 2005.
When was the last time world leaders manage to reach a consensus?
It ended Saturday with a closed-door meeting of diplomats.
Transparency of internation politics.
Computer industry officials at the meeting were skeptical of a UN role, but they agreed that some kind of international body could be useful in coordinating language issues, security and getting the Internet into developing countries.
"ICANN has to be more international and it has to be more transparent," said Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, vice chairman of the UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.
UN Transparency = Closed Door Meetings
ICANN also chooses who controls the country codes -- like ".us" or ".uk" -- that define each country's piece of real estate in cyberspace.
The rightful code for Britain should be GB. But the British snatched UK, which should have gone to Ukraine.
It has yet to decide the future of Iraq's ".iq".
Bush's War Against IQ;)
Twomey denies any US government influence in ICANN's work.
"I have never once seen the United States' foreign policy have any impact on this process," he said.
There's one fundamental difference between an ordinary jet engine and a scram jet engine: The Ramjet has no moving parts.
The all jet engines,operate according to Newton's Third Law of Motion:
For every action, there's an equal opposite reaction
The standard jet engine, invented by Sir Frank Whittle, sucks in air at the front. Then this air is mixed with fuel, and made to combust. The combustion causes the air to exit the engine at a velocity greater than when it came in, thus creating thrust. The escaping air causes the turbine to spin, and this intern activates the compressor, sucking more air in.
The Ramjet has no turbine and compressor unit. Ramjets fly
supersonically and have an inlet which injests subsonic air after it goes through a shock wave in front of the inlet. The intake is slowed down aerodynamically, and then mixed with fuel and made to combust. But after about Mach 5, ramjets don't work so well.
The scramjet is almost but not quite entirely like a ramjet. The only difference being in a scramjet the combustion takes place as the air is travelling through the chamber at supersonic velocities.
More about the scram jet. Or another more concise explanation.
George Boole was one of the teachers of Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer. Some people don't agree that Ada was the first computer programmer. Some people also don't think that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was the world's first computer.
A theorem which states that the analytic and topological "indices" are equal for any elliptic differential operator on an n-dimensional compact differentiable C^infinitiy boundaryless manifold.
And this is the least technical definition I have come across so far.
Trawling thru the USENET I found:
The Atiyah-Singer expression is:
where X is a G-manifold for G cyclic, generated by g, ch()(g) is an equivariant
Chern character for trivial G-spaces, U is a combination of characteristic
classes which "accounts for" the normal bundle N^g of X^g (the fixed set of X)
in X, Td is the Todd class, and the determinant is evident.
It's pretty easy to get a bad credit score. One phone company falsely accusing you of not paying the bill on time is enough. And it takes so much time and effort to correct that error on your credit file.
Imagine a similar scenario with your terror file. You neighbour gets pissed off with you and goes and complains about you. She says you have been hanging out with a bearded people. You have made a business trip to Saudi Arabia.
And that's all it takes. Now you are are terrorist on the FBI terror list. You will never get clearance. You will never get a government job other than cleaning public toilets.
If this measure goes through, you will never get clearance to get a job at a private company either.
1) Lack of formal support
Yes but there's plenty of free and friendly support on forums, newsgroups and IRC channels. Not to mention 1000s and 1000s of user created documentation.
2) Speed of change (not 'velocity')
At least Linux patches improve the product. You have the choice of not applying them, where as, not applying windows patchs means opening yourself to zillions of worms.
3) Lack of roadmap
Yes, so one is not constrained. This creates co-operative competition. I.e. I use your code to make a better product. If I don't agree with your roadmap, I start a new fork. This makes open source software development far more successful than the closed source monolithic alternative.
4) Functional gaps
They are changes. Not gaps. You have the choice with OpenSource. Not with, say, Windows. (Not trying to bash Windows;) ).
5) Licensing caveats
Read a typical Microsoft EULAs. See how many rights have you got. (Not trying to bash MS;);) )
6) ISV endorsements.
Independent Software Vendors: Who listens to them anyway?
Sir, your government has shown over and over again that it is nothing but nasty playground bully, and shown great contempt and disregard towards the wishes of other sovereign nations.
But fear not, sir. Empires rise. Empires fall. The taller they stand, the harder they fall.
Now we can have wars where machines kill each other leaving people alone!
The fact that we can spend these research $$$ on finding a cure for AIDS or cancer, alternative energy, cheaper forms of electronic communications etc.. is irrelevant. These machines of war will surely save more lives.
To answer your question:
One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach.
In July 1998 in Rome, 120 Member States of the United Nations adopted a treaty to establish -
for the first time in the history of the world - a permanent international criminal court. [source UN].
And this is what the US had to say about it:
"This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on July 17, 1998, that the United States does not intend to become a party to the treaty. Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000. The United States requests that its intention not to become a party, as expressed in this letter, be reflected in the depositary's status lists relating to this treaty."[source UN]
Thus the US has no intention of ever handing over any of its citizens to even an internationa court. However, the US department of justice (ha ha) has the audacity to try to extradite an Australian national under extra vires conditions.
The US thinks it is the world policeman. But it is not willing to police itself. I am glad Australia finally stood up to the global bully. I hope Australians vote Howard out at the next elections and follow the example set by the brave people of Spain.
From Analysing of the NY Times article:
a letter in which Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, the chief executive of Intel at the time, that any support given to the Go Corporation,would be considered an aggressive move against Microsoft. If this is not anti-competitive, then what is?
Microsoft violated a signed secrecy agreement with Go and showed that Microsoft possessed technical documents from Go that it should not have had access to. Industrial Espionage.
Microsoft violated nondisclosure agreements with Go, and then used that information to build PenWindows, a competitor to Go's PenPoint operating system. GO has loyalty rights for PenWindows. GO should sue PenWindows licensee's individually. This is what Microsoft is trying to do to Linux users through SCO. GO has more legal grounds to stand on that SCO.
Shortly after the letter was written, Intel reduced its planned investment in Go from $10 million to $2 million Intel was held to ransom, and they paid it.
The advice read in part that the focus should be shifted from "killing the competitor" to "providing a better solution to the customer's problems." So they did believe in Killing Competition. A tiger never changes its stripes.
I think some of these allegations could ammount to criminal offences. I do hope Mr. Gates does a time in a cell with No Windows
I didn't mean to say that a Linux programmer coded the virus. I thought it was done by someone who had a grudge against SCO, to make the who SCO vs Linux case to the main stream media.
But I do see your points. I hereby solemnly withdraw the section of my comment regarding MyDoom.
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I sure have heard the term "United Nations to take a greater role" line before.
The gathering grew from December's UN World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, where the world's leaders failed to reach consensus on governing the Internet and punted the issue to a task force that is supposed to report to Annan in 2005.
When was the last time world leaders manage to reach a consensus?
It ended Saturday with a closed-door meeting of diplomats.
Transparency of internation politics.
Computer industry officials at the meeting were skeptical of a UN role, but they agreed that some kind of international body could be useful in coordinating language issues, security and getting the Internet into developing countries.
Heard that before
Most believed an international body had no right to regulate the content of Web sites, a concern for countries like China and North Korea
And not the US? Oh wait, they have DMCA
"ICANN has to be more international and it has to be more transparent," said Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, vice chairman of the UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.
UN Transparency = Closed Door Meetings
ICANN also chooses who controls the country codes -- like ".us" or ".uk" -- that define each country's piece of real estate in cyberspace.
The rightful code for Britain should be GB. But the British snatched UK, which should have gone to Ukraine.
It has yet to decide the future of Iraq's ".iq".
Bush's War Against IQ ;)
Twomey denies any US government influence in ICANN's work.
"I have never once seen the United States' foreign policy have any impact on this process," he said.
deja vu?
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(Shows you once again the lag time between usenet and slashdot ;)
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HOWARD M. DEAN
RETIRED
DEAN FOODS CO.
George W. Bush
$2,000
716 SOUTH OAK St HINSDALE, IL 60521
William H. Gates
CEO
Microsoft Corp.
George W. Bush
$2,000
1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
GWB saved Gates' shiny white hind, and all he gives in return is 2000 dollars. Ingrateful sod!
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There's one fundamental difference between an ordinary jet engine and a scram jet engine: The Ramjet has no moving parts.
The all jet engines,operate according to Newton's Third Law of Motion:
For every action, there's an equal opposite reaction
The standard jet engine, invented by Sir Frank Whittle, sucks in air at the front. Then this air is mixed with fuel, and made to combust. The combustion causes the air to exit the engine at a velocity greater than when it came in, thus creating thrust. The escaping air causes the turbine to spin, and this intern activates the compressor, sucking more air in.
The Ramjet has no turbine and compressor unit. Ramjets fly supersonically and have an inlet which injests subsonic air after it goes through a shock wave in front of the inlet. The intake is slowed down aerodynamically, and then mixed with fuel and made to combust. But after about Mach 5, ramjets don't work so well.
The scramjet is almost but not quite entirely like a ramjet. The only difference being in a scramjet the combustion takes place as the air is travelling through the chamber at supersonic velocities.
More about the scram jet. Or another more concise explanation.
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Simputer.com is now back up. No need for the google cache.
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And had he been nominated, he would've probably toppled ONE tyranny.
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1. Write the book "Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dummies"
2. ???
3. Profit
And this is the least technical definition I have come across so far.
Trawling thru the USENET I found:
The Atiyah-Singer expression is:
where X is a G-manifold for G cyclic, generated by g, ch()(g) is an equivariant Chern character for trivial G-spaces, U is a combination of characteristic classes which "accounts for" the normal bundle N^g of X^g (the fixed set of X) in X, Td is the Todd class, and the determinant is evident.
Apparently the INVARIANCE THEORY, THE HEAT EQUATION, AND THE ATIYAH-SINGER INDEX THEOREM is a good source too.
And This book:
"The Atiyah-Singer index theorem and Elementary number theory" F. Hirzebruch and D. Zagier (Publish or Perish)
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Imagine a similar scenario with your terror file. You neighbour gets pissed off with you and goes and complains about you. She says you have been hanging out with a bearded people. You have made a business trip to Saudi Arabia.
And that's all it takes. Now you are are terrorist on the FBI terror list. You will never get clearance. You will never get a government job other than cleaning public toilets.
If this measure goes through, you will never get clearance to get a job at a private company either.
One mistake, by someone else, and you are out.
Thank god I am not in the land of the free!
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1) Lack of formal support
Yes but there's plenty of free and friendly support on forums, newsgroups and IRC channels. Not to mention 1000s and 1000s of user created documentation.
2) Speed of change (not 'velocity')
At least Linux patches improve the product. You have the choice of not applying them, where as, not applying windows patchs means opening yourself to zillions of worms.
3) Lack of roadmap
Yes, so one is not constrained. This creates co-operative competition. I.e. I use your code to make a better product. If I don't agree with your roadmap, I start a new fork. This makes open source software development far more successful than the closed source monolithic alternative.
4) Functional gaps ;) ).
They are changes. Not gaps. You have the choice with OpenSource. Not with, say, Windows. (Not trying to bash Windows
5) Licensing caveats ;) ;) )
Read a typical Microsoft EULAs. See how many rights have you got. (Not trying to bash MS
6) ISV endorsements. Independent Software Vendors: Who listens to them anyway?
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But that's ony an example of imposing US values on another country. I am not discussing the merits or demerits of democracy vs dictatorship.
A lot of Iraqi's prefer a stable Iraq under Saddham to and unstable democracy where Islamic fundamentalism is running riot.
Wait. My argument is wrong. US is imposing democracy in another country. Democracy, being a concept alien to the present administration.
Good point Sir. But hasn't the US imposed its values on other countries?
Iraq will soon be a democracy because you didn't like dictatorships. Chile became a dictatorship because you didn't like a left-wing president.
It's not only that, Sir. You have even violated the Intellectual Property Act. You tried to extradite an Australian under the similar regulations. And let's not forget the Byrd Ammendment
Sir, your government has shown over and over again that it is nothing but nasty playground bully, and shown great contempt and disregard towards the wishes of other sovereign nations.
But fear not, sir. Empires rise. Empires fall. The taller they stand, the harder they fall.
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Now we can have wars where machines kill each other leaving people alone!
The fact that we can spend these research $$$ on finding a cure for AIDS or cancer, alternative energy, cheaper forms of electronic communications etc.. is irrelevant. These machines of war will surely save more lives.
This is so cool I need to go to the bathroom.
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To answer your question: One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach.
In July 1998 in Rome, 120 Member States of the United Nations adopted a treaty to establish - for the first time in the history of the world - a permanent international criminal court. [source UN].
And this is what the US had to say about it: "This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on July 17, 1998, that the United States does not intend to become a party to the treaty. Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000. The United States requests that its intention not to become a party, as expressed in this letter, be reflected in the depositary's status lists relating to this treaty."[source UN]
Thus the US has no intention of ever handing over any of its citizens to even an internationa court. However, the US department of justice (ha ha) has the audacity to try to extradite an Australian national under extra vires conditions.
The US thinks it is the world policeman. But it is not willing to police itself. I am glad Australia finally stood up to the global bully. I hope Australians vote Howard out at the next elections and follow the example set by the brave people of Spain.
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If this is not anti-competitive, then what is?
Microsoft violated a signed secrecy agreement with Go and showed that Microsoft possessed technical documents from Go that it should not have had access to.
Industrial Espionage.
Microsoft violated nondisclosure agreements with Go, and then used that information to build PenWindows, a competitor to Go's PenPoint operating system.
GO has loyalty rights for PenWindows. GO should sue PenWindows licensee's individually. This is what Microsoft is trying to do to Linux users through SCO. GO has more legal grounds to stand on that SCO.
Shortly after the letter was written, Intel reduced its planned investment in Go from $10 million to $2 million
Intel was held to ransom, and they paid it.
The advice read in part that the focus should be shifted from "killing the competitor" to "providing a better solution to the customer's problems."
So they did believe in Killing Competition. A tiger never changes its stripes.
I think some of these allegations could ammount to criminal offences. I do hope Mr. Gates does a time in a cell with No Windows
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Thank you, kind friend.
BTW, The site is /.ed badly. Can't fidn the google cache either.
I agree. That's why I think it is such a good simulation of the Diebold system.
I didn't mean to say that a Linux programmer coded the virus. I thought it was done by someone who had a grudge against SCO, to make the who SCO vs Linux case to the main stream media.
But I do see your points. I hereby solemnly withdraw the section of my comment regarding MyDoom.