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Just use the .net frameworks and nothing else is necessary! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

ISP's should enhance their services, buy installing a free antivirus on the customer computer, if it's not already protected by a one, to make their network cleaner. I have a good feeling, if ISP's give some attention to such services will make the Internet better. But leaving the careless, clueless end users alone, will increase the number of bots. http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/

Some ISP's block SMTP traffic from dsl users, but not for corporate users, which is necessary for their business needs. which allows bots to send spams also, the solution is allowing only specific mail servers from the corporate networks, like SPF. From my experience, firewall admins should take the blame also. coz, depending on (Allow Internal-to-Internet Any) approach will make them criminals by leaving the doors open for the Spammers! Always, review the FW rules & logs. Another problem, is contractors when they install the FW for the customer, to make their visit short and without problems, they allow every inbound/outbound ports to keep the customers services and chat software working! make them happy ;) End users are not always the blamed ones, I remember one case, that a sales guy installed a FW for a customer, and what he just did is, he turned-on the FW, and the power/status led's start blinking ... without connecting any cables !!! then he told the poor IT guy that your network is protected now !!! WTF http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/

I've seen merb and looks good. I haven't dug too much into ruby threads but it seems like the threading lib has some fundamental problems: http://headius.blogspot.com/2008/02/rubys-threadraise-threadkill-timeoutrb.html

Multi-process model is unforgiving compared to multi-threads. In many heavy duty web application environments memory is your most precious resource (even more precious than i/o) and a process model is not going to handle this very well. Consider a case where your s3 service is slower than normal one day and your processes are waiting 2x longer than normal. Well while these processes wait they are holding up a good amount of memory that can't be used anywhere else .. it's just wasted. This is where scalability and capacity planning issues can hit you in a bad way.

Top 10 Internet Explorer 8 new features

Funny thing, you don't always have to shop things to get odd results:

My vids on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/zotzbro

If you check the comments on the "UFO vs Paper plane test" you will see people talking of a real one.

Perhaps on some of the paper plane instruction vids too. If you watch those, as the camera pans in one of them, after the construction and before the flight test, you can see what the "UFO" really is.

all the best,

drew
http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/

Legally, we are coming to a conflict between what companies like Phorm say consumers have agreed to give and what consumers say they have agreed to give. Tracking companies like Phorm will say consumers agreed to their terms of service that allow tracking. But consumers can publish their own privacy terms of use that legally forbid tracking. [This idea is not legal advice to anyone, just something to think about.]

Are you, perchance, part of the peak oil doom cult?

It is very likely that economy is sliding into depression. No record sales in such environment, sorry. Wall Street has been convulsing in a crisis for 6 month now, and things are getting worse by the day. We just had one of the largest investment banks collapse on Friday. Events of such significance have not happened since the Great Depression, and don't for a second assume this will not pull the broader economy down.

if we get some chinese comments, perhaps people here can translate them

Someone already did:

For those living in the West who didn't realize that there's little sympathy for Tibet independence among ethnic Chinese in the PRC, this blog post on Global Voices will be a shocker. John Kennedy has translated chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us... where have we heard this before? Reuters has a roundup on the Washington Post that begins: "a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West." (...)

"Davesgonechina" at the Tenement Palm blog has been translating the chatter coming from Chinese netizens on Fanfou and Jiwai - Chinese versions of Twitter. Click here, here, and here, specifically. Dave has done more than translate: he points out that this Tibet situation is a real challenge to all people who believe that the Internet can help foster free speech and bring about better global understanding. Here is his challenge to all of us...

The above info, plus a great deal of other material well worth spending the time to read, was aggregated by boingboing's Xeni Jardin, who since this situation has erupted in Tibet has kept a close eye on the whole thing and provided some very good info like the above mentioned post.

if we get some chinese comments, perhaps people here can translate them

Someone already did:

For those living in the West who didn't realize that there's little sympathy for Tibet independence among ethnic Chinese in the PRC, this blog post on Global Voices will be a shocker. John Kennedy has translated chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us... where have we heard this before? Reuters has a roundup on the Washington Post that begins: "a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West." (...)

"Davesgonechina" at the Tenement Palm blog has been translating the chatter coming from Chinese netizens on Fanfou and Jiwai - Chinese versions of Twitter. Click here, here, and here, specifically. Dave has done more than translate: he points out that this Tibet situation is a real challenge to all people who believe that the Internet can help foster free speech and bring about better global understanding. Here is his challenge to all of us...

The above info, plus a great deal of other material well worth spending the time to read, was aggregated by boingboing's Xeni Jardin, who since this situation has erupted in Tibet has kept a close eye on the whole thing and provided some very good info like the above mentioned post.

if we get some chinese comments, perhaps people here can translate them

Someone already did:

For those living in the West who didn't realize that there's little sympathy for Tibet independence among ethnic Chinese in the PRC, this blog post on Global Voices will be a shocker. John Kennedy has translated chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us... where have we heard this before? Reuters has a roundup on the Washington Post that begins: "a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West." (...)

"Davesgonechina" at the Tenement Palm blog has been translating the chatter coming from Chinese netizens on Fanfou and Jiwai - Chinese versions of Twitter. Click here, here, and here, specifically. Dave has done more than translate: he points out that this Tibet situation is a real challenge to all people who believe that the Internet can help foster free speech and bring about better global understanding. Here is his challenge to all of us...

The above info, plus a great deal of other material well worth spending the time to read, was aggregated by boingboing's Xeni Jardin, who since this situation has erupted in Tibet has kept a close eye on the whole thing and provided some very good info like the above mentioned post.

if we get some chinese comments, perhaps people here can translate them

Someone already did:

For those living in the West who didn't realize that there's little sympathy for Tibet independence among ethnic Chinese in the PRC, this blog post on Global Voices will be a shocker. John Kennedy has translated chatter from Chinese blogs and chatrooms that generally runs along the lines of: those ungrateful minorities, we give them modern conveniences and look how they thank us... where have we heard this before? Reuters has a roundup on the Washington Post that begins: "a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West." (...)

"Davesgonechina" at the Tenement Palm blog has been translating the chatter coming from Chinese netizens on Fanfou and Jiwai - Chinese versions of Twitter. Click here, here, and here, specifically. Dave has done more than translate: he points out that this Tibet situation is a real challenge to all people who believe that the Internet can help foster free speech and bring about better global understanding. Here is his challenge to all of us...

The above info, plus a great deal of other material well worth spending the time to read, was aggregated by boingboing's Xeni Jardin, who since this situation has erupted in Tibet has kept a close eye on the whole thing and provided some very good info like the above mentioned post.

Hi TQPHAN, I know you love rape. Maybe you are join the military. You can rape 9 year old girls in Iraq!! Wouldn't that be awesome TQPHAN. Rape is so cool isn't it TQPHAN. It is so cool and funny!!! Hahahaha. Rape is awesome, right TQPHAN? MMmmmm, rape. And murder too. Not all little girls allowed live. TQPHAN is awesome rape funny!!

Under the cited Popular Mechanics article, commentors talk about robots and war crimes. My view: Robotic and cybernetic systems will naturally be designed to keep and report extensive video and other records of their activities. Records can help prevent the commission of crime, and can aid investigation of allegations of crime.

Hi, You can visit http://malwaredomains.com/ and get the DNS/HOSTFILE blacklists and use them to prevent local machines from accessing these domains. Check my post here about this technique: http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/03/dns-redirection-techniques.html
Good Luck
extremeSecurity.blogspot.com

Firefox 3 has NoScript as a built-in feature ... ;)
http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com/

That sounds real good, and I'd like to agree with you, but it just isn't so. In 2006, some pirates off Somalia fired on the US Navy. As a former Navy man, I'm proud to say that the sailors returned fire in the finest tradition of their Service, sinking one of the pirate vessels and capturing the rest. To bring an old slogan up-to-date, "Billions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!"

While Europeans are coming to view IP address as protected personally identifiable information, they are also inventing more and more legal justifications for collection and use of IP addresses.

Here is an old CRAY-1 Hardware reference manual if anyone is interested in what the real machines were like: http://metashell.blogspot.com/2008/03/cray-1-hardware-reference-manual.html

Here is an old CRAY-1 Hardware reference manual if anyone is interested in what the real machines were like: http://metashell.blogspot.com/2008/03/cray-1-hardware-reference-manual.html

The record companies are also defendants, along with their investigators, collection agents, and front organization -- the RIAA.

Perhaps I missed it in TFA, but I saw no weighting for market share...

To pick an arbitrary statistic, in June 2007 Google reported Apache with a 66% market share and IIS with a 23% share (source). Given that the TFA lists "Attack against the administrator/user" as the most common attack method by a wide margin, and it seems to me that both Apache and IIS would be equally vulnerable to dumb administrators, wouldn't it make sense that the server with the larger market share would see more attacks?

The point is, religions, even really stupid ones,

Check out this antenna: http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/

It has gotten some interesting write ups and looks similar in many ways to the new hoverman.

Instead, you describe, using the toolset, the problem in a way which is decomposable, and the tools spread the work over the 1000+ cores.

One day soon, the computer industry will realize that, 150 years after Charles Babbage invented his idea of a general purpose sequential computer, it is time to move on and change to a new computing model. The industry will be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Threads were not originally intended to be the basis of a parallel software model but only a mechanism for running multiple sequential (not parallel) programs concurrently. The multithreading approach to parallel computing embraced by Intel, AMD and Microsoft is a disaster in the making because the future of computing is not multithreaded. See Nightmare on Core Street for more.

Hey Michael,

how did your RPM challenge efforts go?

We got our album done.

http://lau-cb.peterlutek.com.nyud.net/repo/RPM08/RPM08_plutekmaster_v1.4.ogg
Content is available under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States.

The band has decided to change names from the Linux Audio Users Chillout Band to Packet In.

A new domain has been registered and will be operational soon.

We will be using torrents amoung other ways to get our stuff distributed at reasonable costs as well.

all the best,

drew
http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/

Cybernetic systems like these goggles will raise interesting legal issues. The goggles can record audio. But in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, it is often illegal to record voice conversations without the prior consent of all parties.

Address at Mr. Beckerman's website. With more case info, scroll down for the address of her lawyer. Would suggest that mail be marked as regarding the case.

That's Begging the Question. It's illegal because it's illegal.

Isn't the debate about changing the law? Arguing against making something legal solely because it's illegal seems to me to lack much force.

The EPR (European Pressurised Water Reactor) developed by AREVA is a new nuclear reactor designed to achieve greater output (1600 MW) and longer plant life (60 years) than conventional nuclear reactors. The first one is currently under construction in Finland at Olkiluoto. For this new design, an integrated forging was applied for the nozzle shell, including an integral flange (Fig. 1). A 500 t ingot is necessary to manufacture this part, which was the first large part manufactured on a new 14 kt press installed at JSW in 2003. The part was completed 11 months after pouring. The technologies of each manufacturing step and the properties of the part are described.

According to this, Russia can produce two reactor pressure vessel forgings per year, with plans to double by 2011.

But all this delay in "evolutionary" boiling water reactors could be good news for pebble bed reactors. This Blog has a handy summary of the advantages and disadvantages of pebble beds. Last November, Westinghouse bought a pebble bed company called IST Nuclear. Some nice diagrams.

The ZunePhone is what you want to wait for! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Hey,

I've noticed through some search terms found on Google Trends that there are bunches of apparently fake "blogs" on blogspot. Here's an example:

http://forniagill.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-time-is-it.html

Clicking on the "what time is it scandal" "video" redirects toward a site Firefox flags for malware downloading (even though I'm on Linux -- thank you 'Fox :).

There seem to be hundreds of these random malware blogs out there. Is this an old phenomenon? Thx.

Does prior art still count if it's in another country?

They are tough to recharge, but when it does work it's pure "light up the night sky" fun! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

the BBC hasn't been a reputable news source to any honest observer for years now. Here's another sample of journalistic malfeasance by BBC news: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=12

Of course, the general attitudes and biases of the News org tends to generally filter out to the rest of the organization as well.

Feel free to peruse some of the articles here; http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ or here; http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26019_Outrage-_BBC_Employs_Hamas_Terrorist&only or here; http://michellemalkin.com/category/bbc/

Your vote is not useless.

If you and I disagree about something, and we talk and you make your points, then you may not change my mind but you will have been heard.

Voting works that way, too and lets everyone else know that someone thinks the way you do.

Slashdot Nerdiness at its best! The country is on the brink of unstoppable financial catastrophe that may make Great Depression seem mild, major banks have come || this close to failing in the last few days, the best economist on the planet has been openly panicking on his blog, but Slashdot decided to talk about the financial theory of science fiction! Maybe, just maybe, since the original story is about Krugman (who is considered by many to be the most celebrated economist of the present) you should go and check out his blog, read his posts for the last 20 days, and realize that we probably should be talking about something else now...

Some background that may help you to asses the credibility of the story, http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/2006/11/asher-moses-debacle.html

For a full analysis see my blog post for more details.

Has anyone had valid domains intercepted by this new service? Since about a week or two ago I have been redirected to Time Warner's landing page pretty much randomly - even when there is NO TYPO in the URL. I have screenshots of this - I swear, no typos!

I think that the server connection might be timing out and then handle it like a mistyped domain. I've since turned the redirection feature off but there still seems to be something wrong with the domain handling. For instance, I might try to load http://www.youtube.com/ but it won't load. Before turning it off, I would be redirected to RR's new landing page. Now I just get a server not found message. The really weird thing is that if I remove the http://www/ from the address (type in youtube.com), it'll work. It'll also work by typing in the IP address instead of the URL. This happened while RR was out here and while on the phone with them. After a day on the phone with their support service (5 separate phone calls to be exact!), and 3 different tech people coming out to look at the problem, we still haven't fixed this. Most of the people at TW I talked to don't even know they are redirecting domains!

One of the guys said I looks like a DNS problem, but they won't look into that until more people from my area call in with the same problem. Any suggestion on how to fix this? Or whether it's related to their domain interception system.

I should mention I have a wireless router (non TW), and a brand new cable modem (replaced today) - TW agrees it's not the equipment.

How difficult is to distinguish a 100% scam??
1. The source code of the program says about everything: The developer mails account details to him. What debugging?
How many messages do you have to receive before you understand that you should stop 'debugging' ???
2. Who really cares if they made an error after all?? They are still dangerous.
3. The company used an unlicensed version of a known mail library

A developer has uncovered the source code of the software. Take a look and then post messages:
http://developeronline.blogspot.com/2008/03/gmail-password-thefts-story.html/
That's all.

Sounds like my personal cyber-stalker, Matthew Oppenheim.

The problem is when you have a single CPU-intensive task, and you want to split that over multiple processors. That, in general, is a difficult problem. Various solutions, such as functional programming, threads with spawns and waits, etc. have been proposed, but none are as easy as just using a simple procedural language.

Yes, the reason is that we are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Multithreading was not originally intended to be the basis of a parallel programming model but as a mechanism to run sequential (not parallel) programs concurrently. What is needed is an inherently parallel model where parallelism is implicit and sequential order is explicit. Read Parallel Programming, Math and the Curse of the Algorithm and Nightmare on Core Street for more.

The problem is when you have a single CPU-intensive task, and you want to split that over multiple processors. That, in general, is a difficult problem. Various solutions, such as functional programming, threads with spawns and waits, etc. have been proposed, but none are as easy as just using a simple procedural language.

Yes, the reason is that we are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Multithreading was not originally intended to be the basis of a parallel programming model but as a mechanism to run sequential (not parallel) programs concurrently. What is needed is an inherently parallel model where parallelism is implicit and sequential order is explicit. Read Parallel Programming, Math and the Curse of the Algorithm and Nightmare on Core Street for more.

Firefox 3 supports windowless plugins on Linux, and has since last summer. See bug 137189

More info is on this blog post