I have a feeling we are coming up to the next great Space Race sometime later this decade/ next Space Race. It seems to me that every country should have the right to be able to end people into space. With Japan starting to launch its own rockets, and India not too far behind, I wonder if Asia will have its own Space Race. It seems to me that the US will probably just sit there with the Shuttle and ISS until someone (maybe China) decides to go further out into interplanetary space, and then we might see some serious action on behalf of the US to ramp up its space initiative.
It should be widely known by any webmaster that you can simply place a robots.txt in your index folder and Google, archive.org, or any major archiving service will simply leave your whole site alone. No questions asked. It seems that going after google for something that would only take 5 minutes on your behalf is a little overboard.
but if that is not possible, why not fly to the middle of the sahara with a laptop, solar panel and gear, and just do your buisness there. No worry about hackers, or physical attacks.:)
This is one of the very sad issues with today's corprate atmosphere. People have been laid off, fired, etc. just because they got bad press. The corprate string-pullers of the company echelon don't like the fact that an employee of theirs got some sort of bad attention from the newspapers, and so they lay them off as a "liability", even if they are in reality a model hard working, smart employee. This kind of "liability" crap is just sick.
Theif: [hmm, there's one dumb looking hunk of metal. It doesn't stand a chance]
Robot: [sensors detect approaching male, 180cm tall, 89.152 kilograms, wearing a 00FFFF colored jacket and FFFFFF colored pants, approaching at 3 m/s. going to alert 2]
[thief approaches store front]
Thief: [man, this dump hunk of junk isn't going to do anything. I think i'll just walk in quietly into the store, quietly, non-distubingly..
Robot:[male walking into store. hands in pocket, wearing backpack, tenis shoes. Wearing bandana, raising alert to 3.]
Thief:[looks like nobody's around, store owner in back room. I'll just sneak this piece of jewelry into my backpack...]
Robot:[ Alert Alert Alert!!! male, longitude:-12.1594261 latitude: 32.251211, altitude: 120 m, act of stealing jewlery into backpack. Offence number 1250. Raising alert to 10, calling police, Interpol, USA FBI. Dialling... police on their way. Meanwhile, warn robber to stay put]
Robot: Stay where you are, you thief, you scoundral, you pile of dog poo! You will stay put or you will be shot.
Thief:[shot? Yea whatever, pile of trash...] you think you can shoot me. What are you, R2D2?
Robot: I am the son of R2D2. Do not move, I have called the police, and you will be shot if you leave.
Thief: ooooooohh, the BIG BAD police? What you gonna do to me, you hunkajunk?
Robot: I am telling you, I am friends with RoboCop. I am armed and loaded.
[Thief walks out of store]
Robot: I warned you! [prepare to activate cryogenic cannon. Cannon armed. Aim. Fire!]
the "Great Firewall of China" I think we have to see more bypass technology written in chinese and targetted for the Chinese audience. Mind you there area still a lot of Chinese people who do get through (proxies, satellite internet, etc.), it would probably increase with a targeted effort at the Chinese. T
Also, if they can't *view* certain websites, what's keeping them from using a proxy (possibly an open proxy list) within their web browser to circumvent China's methods of blocking?
This is definitally a good strategy, and works well. The proxy technology isn't the problem, it is the education of the Chinese internet surfers that is the problem. Here are a couple of issues:
1) I would venture a guess that 95% of all proxy websites that either list proxy IPs or offer Proxy services are in English. Since most Chinese out there don't even speak English, or let alone feel comfortable reading an English website, these proxy sites will be bypassed for sites that are in Chinese only.
2) How many average-joe Chinese internet users even know what a proxy is? Like most internet users here in the US, they simply use the Internet to view news, chat, email, and play games. The majority usually isn't all that technically inclined.
3) How many Chinese proxy sites are there that are hosted outside of China? Since English is the dominent language, and Chinese is spoken only in well, China, are there going to be many proxies that are hosted outside china that are going to be in Chinese?
it seems that there has to be a greater education system to educate the Chinese populous about proxies, but how are you going to get into the Great Firewall of China to educate them?
If it can do what they say it can do, they should be able to tweak the program to run Windows ordinary programs with ease. Yes, Wine does an excellent job, but imagine if they tried making it for ALL Windows programs!
Seriously, I think archive.org deservese sutch a storage system. I have very often wanted to go back to view an archive of a website a while ago, but the cache on Google was from yesterday. It also gives multiple archives of the website based on day which can be quite handy, especially for news related sites. I think they quite well deserve it.
If, If only I could get a hold of one of those, I could Rival GOOGLE! Yes! I can become the next internet craze with my super, duper search engine crawling the web! I have the space, now I just need a connection in the middle of Alaska fast enough to rival google...
And yet that several thousand people is still a significant amount of processing power, if you count all the consoles that would be added to the projects by them. Even if it is only a small percentage of a hundred million, that is still a lot of people! It doesn't have to be the majority to make a dent.
But just think about the stats. The PS2 came out with a 300MHz processor, right around the same time that computers of the same or greater speed were coming out.
But think about the PS3. Its processor does 256GFlops, something no current consumer processor can even dream of doing. In a year when it is relased, I am betting it will still be ahead of the dual-processors. A ahead of the curve console would make more of a splash than a behind the curve console.
The idea that people are going to let their machine run their crunching away, for free, for no benefit, is pretty stupid.
This isn't necessarily true. If you look at the hundreds of thousands of people running Folding@Home, GIMPS (mersenne prime search), SETI@home, etc.,they are all dedicating their CPU usuage to the greater cause of their particular project. 99.9% of them will never get a direct personal return for their contirubtion, except for the rare few who, like for GIMPS, find a new Mersenne prime. But this is rare.
Also the targeted crowd is a major variable. The average 15 year old kid who gets his XBOX360 for Christmas is most probably not going to run Folding@home 24/7, but rather play the latest games on the console. But there are many adults out there who might buy the console just to run on a distributed computing. There are many junkies who have spent thousands of dollars on CPU's to have them crunch numbers for a project. These are the people who will pay for a console for science purposes. Why? Because they already have the desire to contribute, and buying a less-than-$500 console that is many times faster then a CPU of the same price would make more sense.
And what about the XBOX,Playstation 2, Gamecube Linux communities? There are probably thousands of people who have modded their game consoles to run linux. If they take the time and energy to mod their game consoles for Linux, who says there won't be people to mod them for Distributed Computing?
It seems that the poll question of do you want to have the government make the internet more secure is a little vague. "Secure" in what term?
Security has many meanings in today's post 9-11 world. Do they mean big brother style filtering for hackers? Software wise in patching the security holes? Security for what?
Shucks. And I thought I was batman with my batman costume. Oh well, I guess those of us who can burn the hundreds of thousands to get this kind of suit are really batman.
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I have a feeling we are coming up to the next great Space Race sometime later this decade/ next Space Race. It seems to me that every country should have the right to be able to end people into space. With Japan starting to launch its own rockets, and India not too far behind, I wonder if Asia will have its own Space Race. It seems to me that the US will probably just sit there with the Shuttle and ISS until someone (maybe China) decides to go further out into interplanetary space, and then we might see some serious action on behalf of the US to ramp up its space initiative.
Boss: So, Mr. Jones, What did you do on your lunch break?
Mr.Jones: Well, a couple of my coworkers and I played this really cool game of high-tech tag!! I was AWSOME!!
Boss: I See. {ahem}. Do you know you're an adult, Mr. Jones?
Mr.Jones: Yes, I know it sounds dumb, but it was really REALLY FUN!
It should be widely known by any webmaster that you can simply place a robots.txt in your index folder and Google, archive.org, or any major archiving service will simply leave your whole site alone. No questions asked. It seems that going after google for something that would only take 5 minutes on your behalf is a little overboard.
but if that is not possible, why not fly to the middle of the sahara with a laptop, solar panel and gear, and just do your buisness there. No worry about hackers, or physical attacks. :)
This is one of the very sad issues with today's corprate atmosphere. People have been laid off, fired, etc. just because they got bad press. The corprate string-pullers of the company echelon don't like the fact that an employee of theirs got some sort of bad attention from the newspapers, and so they lay them off as a "liability", even if they are in reality a model hard working, smart employee. This kind of "liability" crap is just sick.
Theif: [hmm, there's one dumb looking hunk of metal. It doesn't stand a chance]
Robot: [sensors detect approaching male, 180cm tall, 89.152 kilograms, wearing a 00FFFF colored jacket and FFFFFF colored pants, approaching at 3 m/s. going to alert 2]
[thief approaches store front]
Thief: [man, this dump hunk of junk isn't going to do anything. I think i'll just walk in quietly into the store, quietly, non-distubingly..
Robot:[male walking into store. hands in pocket, wearing backpack, tenis shoes. Wearing bandana, raising alert to 3.]
Thief:[looks like nobody's around, store owner in back room. I'll just sneak this piece of jewelry into my backpack...]
Robot:[ Alert Alert Alert!!! male, longitude:-12.1594261 latitude: 32.251211, altitude: 120 m, act of stealing jewlery into backpack. Offence number 1250. Raising alert to 10, calling police, Interpol, USA FBI. Dialling... police on their way. Meanwhile, warn robber to stay put]
Robot: Stay where you are, you thief, you scoundral, you pile of dog poo! You will stay put or you will be shot.
Thief:[shot? Yea whatever, pile of trash...] you think you can shoot me. What are you, R2D2?
Robot: I am the son of R2D2. Do not move, I have called the police, and you will be shot if you leave.
Thief: ooooooohh, the BIG BAD police? What you gonna do to me, you hunkajunk?
Robot: I am telling you, I am friends with RoboCop. I am armed and loaded.
[Thief walks out of store]
Robot: I warned you! [prepare to activate cryogenic cannon. Cannon armed. Aim. Fire!]
[Robot freezes theif in tracks.]
Robot: Crime never pays, and never listens.
the "Great Firewall of China" I think we have to see more bypass technology written in chinese and targetted for the Chinese audience. Mind you there area still a lot of Chinese people who do get through (proxies, satellite internet, etc.), it would probably increase with a targeted effort at the Chinese. T
This is definitally a good strategy, and works well. The proxy technology isn't the problem, it is the education of the Chinese internet surfers that is the problem. Here are a couple of issues:
1) I would venture a guess that 95% of all proxy websites that either list proxy IPs or offer Proxy services are in English. Since most Chinese out there don't even speak English, or let alone feel comfortable reading an English website, these proxy sites will be bypassed for sites that are in Chinese only.
2) How many average-joe Chinese internet users even know what a proxy is? Like most internet users here in the US, they simply use the Internet to view news, chat, email, and play games. The majority usually isn't all that technically inclined.
3) How many Chinese proxy sites are there that are hosted outside of China? Since English is the dominent language, and Chinese is spoken only in well, China, are there going to be many proxies that are hosted outside china that are going to be in Chinese?
it seems that there has to be a greater education system to educate the Chinese populous about proxies, but how are you going to get into the Great Firewall of China to educate them?
Is it just me, or is this some sort of geeky, nerdy analogy that nobody here is going to get? I wonder if it is just me.....
Hmm....
maybe.
I for one do not welcome our Intel Overloards!
If it can do what they say it can do, they should be able to tweak the program to run Windows ordinary programs with ease. Yes, Wine does an excellent job, but imagine if they tried making it for ALL Windows programs!
I run all of my data over cat5 cables, and I can rely on them ALWAYS to keep the rats away.
is a cat named Bugsy. Them cats can be nasty to rats, but especially cats named Bugsy.
Seriously, I think archive.org deservese sutch a storage system. I have very often wanted to go back to view an archive of a website a while ago, but the cache on Google was from yesterday. It also gives multiple archives of the website based on day which can be quite handy, especially for news related sites. I think they quite well deserve it.
If, If only I could get a hold of one of those, I could Rival GOOGLE! Yes! I can become the next internet craze with my super, duper search engine crawling the web! I have the space, now I just need a connection in the middle of Alaska fast enough to rival google...
And yet that several thousand people is still a significant amount of processing power, if you count all the consoles that would be added to the projects by them. Even if it is only a small percentage of a hundred million, that is still a lot of people! It doesn't have to be the majority to make a dent.
But think about the PS3. Its processor does 256GFlops, something no current consumer processor can even dream of doing. In a year when it is relased, I am betting it will still be ahead of the dual-processors. A ahead of the curve console would make more of a splash than a behind the curve console.
This isn't necessarily true. If you look at the hundreds of thousands of people running Folding@Home, GIMPS (mersenne prime search), SETI@home, etc. ,they are all dedicating their CPU usuage to the greater cause of their particular project. 99.9% of them will never get a direct personal return for their contirubtion, except for the rare few who, like for GIMPS, find a new Mersenne prime. But this is rare.
Also the targeted crowd is a major variable. The average 15 year old kid who gets his XBOX360 for Christmas is most probably not going to run Folding@home 24/7, but rather play the latest games on the console. But there are many adults out there who might buy the console just to run on a distributed computing. There are many junkies who have spent thousands of dollars on CPU's to have them crunch numbers for a project. These are the people who will pay for a console for science purposes. Why? Because they already have the desire to contribute, and buying a less-than-$500 console that is many times faster then a CPU of the same price would make more sense.
And what about the XBOX,Playstation 2, Gamecube Linux communities? There are probably thousands of people who have modded their game consoles to run linux. If they take the time and energy to mod their game consoles for Linux, who says there won't be people to mod them for Distributed Computing?
Security has many meanings in today's post 9-11 world. Do they mean big brother style filtering for hackers? Software wise in patching the security holes? Security for what?
Sales Clerk:May I help you?
Customer:Yes, I was wanting to ask about that new Corsair RAM.
Sales Clerk:Which one?
Customer:Oh you know, the one with the really long, hard-to-understand name...
Sales Clerk:pardon?
Customer:Ummm, the one with random letters and numbers in it...
Sales Clerk:Sir, if you wish to speak to me, please do so coherently.
Customer: (!#*$! If I could only remember that @!#!@# name!)
southern hemispher auroras are called Aurora Australis. Nothern Hemisphere auroras are Aurora Borealis.
Shucks. And I thought I was batman with my batman costume. Oh well, I guess those of us who can burn the hundreds of thousands to get this kind of suit are really batman.
yes, I know it is a joke, but who doesn't like wing walking?
YEEEEEHhaww!!
(Bounces off walls)