The problem with projects when the Govt is involved is this.

It is TAX PAYER money that is paying for it. So, people tend to take their time shall we say, when doing the project. In otherwords, when it is NOT your money at risk, rather tax payer money, there is no risk. If it were an investors money or YOUR money, you would monitor very closely the project and not let it drag on and on, no matter what the excuse is. Pretty simple concept to understand.

In 1995 Bill Gates wrote a panic email to his top execs titled, "Internet Tidal Wave"... why did he write this? Because, he knew that one day the browser could go full screen and become the operating system capable of playing games and complex software. This threatened Microsoft's bottom line on all levels.

Now, it seems his worse nightmares are coming true. Microsoft tried to stop it, but was only able to slow it down. By destroying Netscape by putting it out of business before netscape and java was able to get too big. But, as things turned out, you can not stop the inevitable. Google plays to release an Operating system soley based on a web browser. The web browser capable of running native code with the power of Open GL for graphics and the framework to develop sophisticated applications.

I have been waiting for this day... although I saw it coming years ago, when Google co-oped with Web GL and began NaCl (native client)...

I am not saying that another Earth is not possible.

In fact, I know there is one. The universe is infinitely huge, so the math says so.

What I am trying to say is that so far it is the ONLY planet we know of. We will not be traveling to any planets anytime soon. It takes light years to get to the nearest star. And the nearest star may not have planets.

Planet Earth may not be rare but it is very far to the next one. And no, Worm holes are not proven to exist. And if worm holes do exist there is no way to travel through one.

There is a chance we can travel near the speed of light and time will nearly stop, allow us to possibly get to distance places a possibility. Or even freezing our bodies in suspended animation. but, again, the technology is not there yet and may not be if ever.

To just assume there is another Earth and we can get there, is being incredibly niave and arrogant. Earth is our only home and may never be another one. To assume otherwise is complete egocentric nonsense.

What you are trying to say is this...

Every one of us, (Humans, plants and animals) are connected. If one group dies, the rest will die as well.

Now if only people, including Scientists of all fields, would realize that Heaven already exists and anyone that is alive is living in it. It is called planet EARTH.

No other place in the known universe has such a perfectly tuned atmosphere, able to support intelligent life. Let alone any type of life. Below is a list of traits the Earth has, which are rare, yet essential for life to spawn and be sustained.

1) A large moon to make stable the earths rotation (seasons), make oceans slosh which is said to have helped stir up the primordial soup to create chemical life.
2) A magnetosphere. Most planets/moons do not have one. Without one the atmosphere would blow away due to solar wind from the sun. Mars as an example.
3) In the goldie locks zone. Only Earth and Mars are known to exist in one, keeping water as a liquid. Not too close or far from the sun.
4) Orbiting a fairly stable Star called the SUN. Most stars are too large and burn out too fast.
5) Calm solar system, with very few cosmic impacts from comets/asteroids, allowing life to evolve and thrive in time for us to create anti-asteroid technology.
6) Earth is not too large or too small. If too small will cool down too fast and loss it's molten core and hence Magnetic Field. Example is Mars.
7) Jupiter did not ignite into a star. (Did not have enough mass) Yet, jupiter is large enough to vacuum up many objects that could have hit the Earth and killed us.
8) Large amounts of H20, carbons, Nitrogen, Iron, etc. Life needs a nice mix of elements to create an Atmosphere and life. Missing a key element and life would not be.
9) Solar system not too close to other stars/clusters to avoid Super Nova's and other hazardous stars which could kill us all.
10) Pure chance that anything else I missed that Earth has going for it to allow life to Evolve and invent technology to allow Internet and myself to type to YOU.

Now, you tell me if Earth is not a Heaven? Tell me that all of these things are not extremely good things to have happened to Earth and whether or not you think we are damn lucky yo even be alive. If not, you need to seriously consider looking into science more and learning about all the amazing things the Earth has going for it to allow you to exist at all.

We are all in Heaven as far as I am concerned. It was in front of our face the whole time, if one only puts down the ego and learns about these things.

I wonder what Carl Sagan would have thought about these.

The main stream news STILL does not want to admit that cyber 'terror' (like the attacks on twitter, facebook and in S. Korea) were conducted via WINDOWS zombie computers, as part of a segment of the greater BOTNET.

There is only ONE reason why they may not want to admit Microsoft Windows allows BOTNETS and that is MONEY.

If the mainstream media where to announce that all of Microsoft Windows computers have a major security flaw that can only be fix properly by rewritting the Kernel and File system permission design, would potentially seriously hurt the Economy. Think about all the people that would stop shopping Online... it is actually better 'economically' to just let cyber criminals phish away and get all our credit card numbers and steal some poor souls identity, than to cause mass hysteria.

The 'over all' economy is not corrupted. It is individual parts or it or major parts (like the loans and mortgages scandel ).

Wall Street is also a motivator or corruption. For instance, a publicly traded company having as CEO and members of the board owning stock shares will do anything to make those stock rise. People that literally have NOTHING to do with a company can invest money ( buy stock ) and make noise about when the stock value goes down? This is retarded.

Wall street traders, trying to make money with nothing more than trading money encourages more corruption than it seems to help. If a company goes public, it means it is already at a favorable size and profitable. The ONLY reason to IPO is purely for greed.

If a business needs capital, it should land a Loan from a bank or goto Venture Capitalists. NOT do the same or similar with Wall Street Stocks.

A perfect example is the LAME excuse that America's Health Insurance companies use to explain why they cheat and lie is because of 'Share Holder Pressure' to make the stock go up. This motivation is based on pure GREED to raise the stock, NOT motivation to increase value or good.

If you ask me, I think 'Day trading' should be stopped. But, it's too late for any of that now. The economy is tied to Wall Street and the world, globally.

MAYBE by some miracle the idea of a stock market and Day traders could be made good, but honestly I can not find anything to support it.

Microsoft will always rule the 'users' as long as 'Enterprises' (corporations and business oriented groups) are also ruled. If Microsoft has another interation of companies refusing to upgrade on Mass, it could seriously hurt MS's grip on the OEM's.

The problem, is that if Enterprises DO embrace Se7en and finally give in and upgrade BILLIONS of computer hardware, then MS has nothing to fear in respect to OEM and 'users' opting for Apple or some Linux Distro.

BUT, if Enterprise refuse to upgrade (this includes upgrading their hardware too as well as the software, will force MS to keep XP shipping and patches coming. Else if they try to force Fortune 1000 corps with potential viruses and exploits in Windows XP (due to not supporting XP anymore) could tip them to en Mass say, "Screw MS" (because let's face it, the Global Economy is not getting better, despite what you see on Wall Street).

It is entirely in the Enterprise's hands whether or not MS will go threw another Iteration failure ( and upgrade failure ) and more market loss to Apple and Linux.

The user's will install whatever HP and Dell decide to use, which will obviously be Windows 7, because they too want to sell new modern hardware.

So, in a sense, Windows 7 will most likely be adopted anyways, because there are profits to be made both for OEMs and Microsoft.

Not to mention, Windows 7 learned from the Linux on Netbooks (oh sh*t scare) because Vista simply could not be installed on them. Windows 7 can and also gets rid of all the annoyances like the pop up security notices and such.

The favor is highly in Microsoft's. With enough advertising and marketing, anyone can be sold. Maybe even in a failed Global Economy.

Google Frame may or may not make IE more or less secure. I would support that Google Frame makes IE no less insecure than it already is.

What MS is REALLY concerned about, is not the security. Ha, when has MS really been scared of botnets and malware?

No, the REAL reason is that Google Chrome and up coming Google OS plans to allow programmers to make 3D games, mult-media softeware (photoshop, audition, 3dsmax,,,etc) and ANY OTHER type of application that would normally be only available to applications programmed and run on as a native EXE binary.

What Google is trying to do, is make the platform (Mac, Linux Windows) irrelevant, by allowing the Browser to become so powerful and flexible, that is does not matter what OS you run. This effectively threatens Microsofts #1 cash cow, WINDOWS.

You can blame MS for deciding to attack Google with BING... now Google is responding in full force. Google does NOT want to die out and allow BING to take out Google and it's Search market share.

So, it is war. And Chrome OS is Googles weapon. (It started with Google Docs, than Gears, now Google Native Client)

Bind DNS is full of security problems, is bloated and the configuration is overly complicated.

Has anyone ever tried TinyDNS? It's creator isnt the most cooperative guy when it comes to Debian standards in terms of binary locations and therefore Debian refuses to add it to their repository.

But, one can compile and use it yourself. It has never been DNS cache poisoned, it has never been hacked at all. In fact there is a reward for anyone that can.

I think a lot of people fail to see the coincidences of this.

1) MS announces BING
2) Founder of Google personally leads a team to investigate and potentially retaliate. (MS just HAS to get into EVERYONE's business)
3) Google Chrome and OS is announces, officially.
4) WebGL is announced.
5) Google Native Client is being heavily developed and will be the core of WebGL use.

It is a war folks. a Tech war. MS is trying to take more search market shares with the Yahoo/Bing deal. Google is not going to tolerate this, as it is a DIRECT threat to Googles AD business. (Bing actually has a crap ton od marketing behind it and is gaining market share fast.)

Google is not playing Mr. Nice guy to MS anymore.

Welcome to Google OS... while many think this will just be a Linux kernel running Chrome and using the WEB for web apps... Google is also doing some key things.

1) Improving Kernel Linux ( remember the null pointer exploits found? Everyone was wondering, what is Google doing hiring top grade Black hat hackers to look for vulnerabilities in the kernel? To get it ready for world domination is WHY!!!

Google is also going to write 'from scratch or maybe' a new X server, as the current one has problems... it will make X.org work the way everyone wanted it to... with millions in money and research, google can afford a rewrite, than release it all as Open Source, like they have already done with CHROME and Native Client.

2) Chrome Browser/OS has been in the works for a while, and MS responds with BING, but Google only exclutes the situation with announcing an OS as well.

3) WebGL is MORE than just a replacement for flash.

WebGL + Google native Client allows 3d gaming, they also mention in Google 'Talk Videos' that you will be able to make full fledged Multi Media Products (hint hint... another PhotoShop, 3dsmax, Audition (formerly Cool Edit Audio Editing ) and games.

What does this all mean?

It means Google OS. It means that safari, opera and Chrome OS ( Firefox will follow ) have more market share than Microsoft.

The browser has shown ( and MS has known this since the famous MS internal email 'INTERNET TIDAL WAVE' written by Bill Gates in 1995 in response to the Netscape/Java platform emergence ) is a direct THREAT to MS as a platform.

The Open Source will soon have their own version of Direct X ( called OpenGL or WebGL ) BTW. openGL standard has come a LONG way in a SHORT mount of time to catch up with Direct X and supporting Shader Model 1,2,3 and beyond... this is become google and apple are supporting it for the new OS take over.

The Google OS with Browser will beable to BY PASS Microsoft... the Internet Tidal wave has HIT. THe only reason Netscape failed, was because it's revenue source was the Browser, MS was able to cut that 'artery' with a quickness. But, Google does not make money with anything by ADs, which MS can not touch. They can not STOP google in any way shape or form from going what Netscape tried to do 15+ years ago...

BING is pissing Google OFF and now its game over.

To learn more google for the following topics and read carefully...

1) google native client (watch the videos)
2) google os
3) WebGL (kronos group) an all open source affiliation group
4) Bing triggers google response

Google Native client will be platform independant. which means you can run it all in Apple, Windows and Linux... Google's claim is that it wants full reach for their Ads,as the Web has already become platform independant.

Google OS will be OPEN SOURCES, FREE and no worries of vendor lock in.... of course there are people that think Google has gotten too big and a data hog... but at least the OS will be Open Sources.

Gone will be the days of BOTNETS, which threaten ecommerce... Google is partnering with everyone NOT Microsoft... which equates to one thing... more Ads for Google...and a NEW OS paradigm for the worldd.

yes, javascript right now is a but slow.. but in recent times it has seen a 15 fold speed increase and work is already being done to make it scream with speed. Google does not wish to REPLACE html/javascript/css html5 and other internet standards, only compliment and expand them.

This is bigger than just a FLASH replacement ... this is HUGE.

The only way to even to begin to ''clean the internet up'' is to admit to the mass media, that Microsoft Windows is the problem.

Zombie computers, sending spam, and infecting other machines is the problem. You can not trace the BotNET as the BotNET is everywhere, therefore NO where.
I
f if you could have some ginnie pig Luser as bail ... you will just be lead to another BOT in the BotNet... a never ending MAZE of Proxy Botnets... not to mention the TOR project, which allows anyone to hide their IP Address.. Im sure the hackers use TOR a lot.

Also, recently, ABC did a segment on the Twitter, Facebook, Whitehouse.gov and other DDoS attacks, and how it could happen. the BotNET was mentioned, but do to having to be Politically Correct' no one mentioned the 'W' word. WINDOWS.

Peopple have been FIRED from their jobs for admitting that microsoft windows is the #1 bringer of SPAM, Phishing which is how all the hackers get credit cards to them make money with Spam.

Some have commented that you think deeply, you know how things really work, and you get depressed.

But, that sort of depression is temporary, as your brain is able to release Oxytocin and correct itself. Those that do not release enough Oxytocin feel more pain and are more sensitive to things, so get depressed, and stay depressed for longer. While those that produce the chemical for the brain to rebound and cope faster.

If you as a child grew up in a bad situation, like abuse and so forth, may become depressed. Depression is inner rage, while others extroverted will rag out on the world and on others, instead on themselves.

On the other hand, like another commenter has states, there is no real proof of which came first. It's a chicken and an egg problem.

The more information you have, the more powerful you are.

Plain and simple... Google wanting to quantify everything from Planet Earth (Google Earth), to the Internet (this includes indexing all sites including wikipedia which is a massive store house of human Knowledge ).

You can then govern this knowledge how you like... Google HAS worked with the US government in regards to Terrorists and definetely the horrible child porn... do you think Google did so without a 'Fee'? At least Administrative fees.

Google if allowed to archive everything, even Tangible Items, like paper books, just Adds to the sum total Knowlege power house.

There is also an effort to convert old cassette and other old recordings into text, which can then be search able.

Google of course has already indexed this information, which can be sold to Lawyers.

Google needs competition, no doubt.

Google may be 'good' (as we can tell) right now... but money corrupts absolutely at some point.

Things can 'get out of hand' as you can see.