You mention that:
So, why is it that Islamic nations are the only ones who are still struggling with the concept of "secular, national government, with relgion subordinate to the rule of law?" Both Islamic and Christian nations have an analogous belief system. So why, then was one able to evolve into a successful group of nations, and the other to this day, generally live in relative squalor, and are the world's hotspots for violence, genocide, and human rights violations?
My point is, Christianity and Islam are both "belief systems." Christians have just managed to get past running their countries with religion. I'd say that's a pretty huge gap in cultural advancement. I agree that they are similar belief systems. Though, I believe you're too hasty in your conclusions. First, there are many Christian countries which have sever violence problems, major parts of south America suffer from extreme violence: have a look a criminality rates in Colombia, Brazil.... Rwanda's genocide had nothing to do with Muslims. In the case of Bosnia, some of the atrocities were committed in the name of defense of Orthodox domination against Muslims (funny to mention that some atrocities against Catholic Croats were also committed in defense of Orthodox church). Major parts of sub-Saharan Africa suffers from violence, human rights violations etc and generally Islam is not even present in great part of it, and for the rest Muslims are in minority. So, yes you're right that currently the "Middle eastern" countries are in for front of the media for violence. Many Muslim countries like Indonesia or North Africa don't have those violence problems and for Middle east much remains to discuss whether or not we have had the same level of violence without US invasion of Iraq and disastrous management of the post-invasion situation in Iraq.
Second, historically, Europe has managed to evolve successfully from religious wars of 16th-17th centuries into a secular continent: this wasn't wide spread as you seem to think. For example, the saint Russia way of being lasted way into the 20th century... On the other hand, Muslim countries were the center of sciences and progress during the 9th-13th centuries. Before falling back after the enlightenment in Europe.
All that to say, that I agree with you that Western Europe/North America are more socially advanced than Middle East. But, I don't believe that the violence and ignorance are inherent to Muslim countries.
I'm a Montrealais, and how many times I heard this reasoning: "No we can't. If we do this for you then everybody else would ask for the same treatment..." the last time I heard that it was a municipal worker who refused to pick up the branches on my lawn because they weren't tied together. When I proposed to throw the branches in the truck myself, she went crazy as this was against union rules bla bla..... The unions and imbeciles who support them make that the municipal workers are paid 20% higher in Montreal than any other city in Canada!!!!
Among others, another possibility Service Availability Forum (http://www.saforum.org/).
You can download an open source implementation at http://developer.osdl.org/dev/openais/ and play with it (runs on top of Linux).
I believe also of great importance is that where you market your idea. These people seem targeting the right market: advanced networking applications like UTM and deep inspection. Though, I wonder how they can shovel in the IP packets fast enough to different cores?
ok, I believe I see your point now, mainly it would be a simple diffie-hellman between two parties without any authentication. I wonder if this approach wouldn't have an additional advantage: it would make impossible to detect a finger print/water mark in the binary. i read that there are now tentatives to slip in the digital finger prints in different binaries in order for the film companies to be able to detect the material inside the streams, or perhaps i completely misunderstood the concept...
I wonder if all this science can help when your leaders don't want to see any evidence that they don't like? look at the recent war, it's a good example of this!
but you can't use a public/private key algo to encrypt the entire data stream, it's too costly. you can do some approach like ssl: use your peer public key to encrypt the symmetric secret and then use the symmetric key for encrypting the stream. But this approach in the context of p2p means that you need to publish your public key to "everybody" out there. the isp then can simply pick up your key (the same way than your peer) and trace you back, shut you down or sue you, or else.
for me a much more realistic approach is to tunnel everything through port 80, even though the isp monitors the streams, how they would sort out the legitimate and copy righted material traffic?
for encryption to be useful, you need some secret key or shared secret. put that in place at the extent of internet is quite complex. if you assume to publish your secrets for your peers can easily find them, that would be easy for isp to find then your secret and then decrypt the entire data flow.
I don't understand much about biology, though like many I'm worried to see more and more natural disasters and mysteries like this one: vanishing bees. Does it come from nature or not, I don't know. But, definitely something is wrong, bees are not supposed to die by thousands! disapearing at alarming rates! And not because we can't find any explanation for it that we're ok! Perhaps, the cause is cellphones, perhaps not, but definitely this approach of saying, "well, it should be natural because we can't explain it" seems comlpetely irrational to me!
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Second, historically, Europe has managed to evolve successfully from religious wars of 16th-17th centuries into a secular continent: this wasn't wide spread as you seem to think. For example, the saint Russia way of being lasted way into the 20th century... On the other hand, Muslim countries were the center of sciences and progress during the 9th-13th centuries. Before falling back after the enlightenment in Europe.
All that to say, that I agree with you that Western Europe/North America are more socially advanced than Middle East. But, I don't believe that the violence and ignorance are inherent to Muslim countries.
I'm a Montrealais, and how many times I heard this reasoning: "No we can't. If we do this for you then everybody else would ask for the same treatment..." the last time I heard that it was a municipal worker who refused to pick up the branches on my lawn because they weren't tied together. When I proposed to throw the branches in the truck myself, she went crazy as this was against union rules bla bla..... The unions and imbeciles who support them make that the municipal workers are paid 20% higher in Montreal than any other city in Canada!!!!
Among others, another possibility Service Availability Forum (http://www.saforum.org/). You can download an open source implementation at http://developer.osdl.org/dev/openais/ and play with it (runs on top of Linux).
I believe also of great importance is that where you market your idea. These people seem targeting the right market: advanced networking applications like UTM and deep inspection. Though, I wonder how they can shovel in the IP packets fast enough to different cores?
ok, I believe I see your point now, mainly it would be a simple diffie-hellman between two parties without any authentication.
I wonder if this approach wouldn't have an additional advantage: it would make impossible to detect a finger print/water mark in the binary. i read that there are now tentatives to slip in the digital finger prints in different binaries in order for the film companies to be able to detect the material inside the streams, or perhaps i completely misunderstood the concept...
I wonder if all this science can help when your leaders don't want to see any evidence that they don't like? look at the recent war, it's a good example of this!
but you can't use a public/private key algo to encrypt the entire data stream, it's too costly. you can do some approach like ssl: use your peer public key to encrypt the symmetric secret and then use the symmetric key for encrypting the stream. But this approach in the context of p2p means that you need to publish your public key to "everybody" out there. the isp then can simply pick up your key (the same way than your peer) and trace you back, shut you down or sue you, or else. for me a much more realistic approach is to tunnel everything through port 80, even though the isp monitors the streams, how they would sort out the legitimate and copy righted material traffic?
for encryption to be useful, you need some secret key or shared secret. put that in place at the extent of internet is quite complex. if you assume to publish your secrets for your peers can easily find them, that would be easy for isp to find then your secret and then decrypt the entire data flow.
From the article: " 98% of those people were running Windows. "
I don't understand much about biology, though like many I'm worried to see more and more natural disasters and mysteries like this one: vanishing bees. Does it come from nature or not, I don't know. But, definitely something is wrong, bees are not supposed to die by thousands! disapearing at alarming rates! And not because we can't find any explanation for it that we're ok! Perhaps, the cause is cellphones, perhaps not, but definitely this approach of saying, "well, it should be natural because we can't explain it" seems comlpetely irrational to me!
since always! They silenced Galileao, but finally they have to acknowledge that the earth circles around sun!