NOTE: the following is my generalized overview of some thoughts I came up with months ago in regards to LSID resolvers, and how to architect a fault tolerant solution (LINK). I missed the meeting in Denmark last week (I was on a family vacation for once) where they were discussing this, and wrote the following for another attendee to submit on my behalf. I’m posting it here for further exposure and discussion of the merits and shortcomings of these ideas.
“In thinking about the architecture for future LSID resolvers we need to remember that a single point of failure will fail. This has been proven true too many times, and it’s clearly not the way to proceed if we want to build a system the community can rely on. To succeed we should follow successful implementations of distributed software services such as the domain name server (DNS), and the network time protocol (NTP). These succeed because the protocols are standardized and the software to connect to, and utilize, these services are simple to deploy. If we had a package-able server that would connect to these services and be easy to deploy, an institution could ultimately count on its own server (with other servers providing automatic fail over) to serve as a resolver that would be updated against lead node servers regularly.
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Equating Obama to Hitler is very dangerous!
Act now to stop...Obama's Nazi Health Plan? WTF!
I came across this image online, and I had to look into it to see if it was real or not. After I did that I knew I had to bring more people’s attention to it. Look, this is just too much, agree or disagree with our president, but equating him with Hitler destroys any chance of a reasonable conversation of the issue. The URL on the pamphlet is a real website for the LaRouche PAC, so I hit their site, and read many of their beliefs and press releases. Among other things, heir site promotes bringing swastikas and using SS symbols at anti-Health Care rallies, and states “…the proposed legislation which is an exact copy of the legislation for which the Hitler regime was condemned” I don’t think I should be giving this insanity too much attention, but just read a bit more of what this person is calling for (emphasis mine):