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Military Technology 2011-07-16 The Network Storm is here There you have it!  This is a reproduction mock-up of the attack software from the Electrical Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army: Distributed DOS Ctrl-D Select Attack Target IP Address of Attack Target FalungGong Network List: Falung DaFa Locations in North America: Alabama xx Region Falung Falung DaFa Network Minghui Network FalungGong Testimony Site (I) FalungGong Testimony Site (II) Attack     Cancel Watch the original video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Wu1HlZbBk

An expert is...

A good teacher or an expert is someone who, after listening to you for five seconds, knows : what you know , what you don't know , what you want to know , and what you need to know in order to achieve what you want to know . Otherwise both of you will be spending unproductive hours going around each other repeatedly.  I am sure you have see this only too often, where two parties confuse each other on different frequencies. Hence, if you are offering advice, do take a step back and spend five seconds to figure out what the other person knows, does not know, and wants to know, so as to offer what he needs to know.

Today and yesteryear

The gigantic difference between today and say, twenty, years ago, has got to be Google Search. Before there was airplane travel, there were restrictions to what we can do to impact people far away.  It was worse before there was long distance telephone.  But with the near death of distance from cheap calls and fast jets, there was a boom in work that got done. With computers came software.  The difference in speeds between today's toy computer and the first super computer is often forgotten, but it is a mind boggling three orders of magnitude , in favor of the toy computer.  The same improvements to automobiles would mean doing 50,000mph instead of 50mph today.  Imagine every granny having such a car. Software on speedy computers is a super enabler.  But the super enabler is idling in waste 99% of the time while we think of things to make it do.  The limitations now, instead of being caused by vast distances, are caused by the smallness of the human brain.  There's onl

The decline of Microsoft

I use the quality of Windows Messenger as a barometer of Microsoft. In 2000, it was MSN Messenger.  It came after Yahoo Messenger, but surpassed it immediately.  The features were really convenient.  Those pleasant audio notifications when your friends come online or send you a message became the standard noises in the office.   Remote Assistance worked, and I used it to help troubleshoot the PCs of many friends located far away.  There was even a real telco connection and you could dial to real phones .   File transfer worked if the firewall wasn't too strict.   PC to PC voice was excellent. In 2003, MSN Messenger was the largest network, eclipsing AIM and Yahoo Messenger, with 30 million customers I think. The ability to make any animated GIF into an animated emoticon was priceless.  Pressing F2 you could use it like a walkie-talkie .  File transfer worked all the time.  So did handwriting , which was absolutely critical when what you want to say could not be totally exp