The way we are going now, with OS monoculture and lack of physical separation of vital/non-vital systems, this isn't that far-fetched.
Basically, once a sufficient number of vital systems are internet-connected, running the same software & OS, you've got yourself a big, fat potential vulnerability.
This cannot be fought with anything but a painstaking effort to secure the infrastructure that is vulnerable, and keep the secure infrastructre secure. This does not only apply to the US. If such an attack was launched on Europe or South-East Asia, it would also have a devastating effect. We all need to protect ourselves.
These machines are environmentally friendly, inexpensive and makes the telecommunications infrastructure more resilient.
The plane doesn't even use stored power - it uses solar power to fly and power the telecom equipment. I am amazed, but also slightly skeptical that there will be enough power available to both fly for 6 months and power the payload, and store the surplus energy overnight. That especially applies to the extreme north and south where daylight is scarce and at an extremely low angle during the winter.
If this turns out to work, it's a major breakthrough. It will provide both urban areas with scalable telecom soluitions, and provide the less densely populated areas with modern telecom facilities. This applies especially to the developing parts of the world where the current infrastructure is abysmal.
All I worry about is if someone sees this as a threat, and manages to shut down the project in some ingenious way.
60000 feet is well above where the conventional weather ends. These planes are also rather slow, so I would guesstimate that the impact would be unmeasurable.
The second part is an interesting question. The ozone layer is within reach of these crafts. Maybe we can figure out some chemical that would react with CFCs to form something solid but harmless that would fall out of the sky?
With all due respect, I don't think you quite get it. Making a ramdisk file system presupposes that you have the module available or compiled in.
If you mount a file system over a network, the person that hacked the NFS client can attack the NFS server. NFS has been vulnerable before.
If you have this solution, you will need absolutely no network connection to your inner networks. The more I think of it, the more it seems a rather elegant way of implementing a DMZ.
Re:No... a 64bit chip doesn't have to be 'slower'
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There is a more general lesson to be learned from this post. When you wish to optimize code you've determined is slow, the first place to look is at the initialization code. What can you do to reduce the amont of data that you process? How can you predetermine order, paralellism and flow, so that you spend as little time as possible waiting for something? Can you make the locking of shared data more fine-grained?
This goes for software engineering, and obviously also for total architectual design (see the Itanium).
What if this experiment means that Microsoft is considering abandoning the IIS core? If Apache 2.0 is free and extensible, it makes no sense for them to make a competing product if they can create Apache modules that they can sell. That way, they will cut development costs, and look good. Really good.
Oh. They will also stop getting these embarassingly simple IIS exploits that result in worms. It's a winning proposition if they can get.NET to run on top of Apache.
After all, Microsoft appears to be starting to get the message. Did you see their new Linux page yet? It's not perfect nor correct, but it's better than what used to be. Now they are talking about facts, realizing they are not winning the idealogical debate.
This device would make it physically impossible to write. When you mount read-only, there is still at some level a possibility that someone might bypass the read-only lock.
I actually think this device has limited, but good applications. Anyone serving up static content would be a bit safer with this technology. Of course, logging traffic and such would be a bitch, but the server would only need a reboot if someone broke in.
You need to see the movie Magnolia if you are into connections between people and incidents, and the possibility of causality (grand master plan, if you will).
couple hundred cranks to fully elevate the flaps Wouldn't it be a good idea to get some kind of power drill interface there? I didn't realize that pilots dwarf Arnie in the early 80s/late 70s.
Do you think that the ever increasing processing power will eventually enable us to fully simulate the human brain? What ramifications would this have for the A.I discipline?
Not a single SR-71 blackbird has been shot down. It flies too high up, and too quickly. Hitting a blackbird is like hitting a bullet with another bullet.
With the extreme performance of the F22, wouldn't it be easier to dodge missiles? And harder for the opposition to lock and fire their missiles, because of the stealth?
On the flip side, do you think Gore would have done a better job? The way I see it, Bush stole the election, and is experiencing what a bitch Karma is.
I mean who honestly needs more than $10 million a year in salary? I would even argue that asking for $10 million a year is a sign that the person is question is not a good leader. What sort of message to your employees is that? Say what you will, but leading by example is what it should come down to. If there was a leadership revolution, maybe you could get to the core of your problems - cynicism. Cynicism is what enabled the greed to get so out of hand. When your CEO earns 10 million USD a year, and your company is falling apart, I don't think that's a good incentive to lower down and fight. It's more of an incentive to get up, get what you can, and get out. Uncomfortable, but I suspect there's some truth in it.
I for one don't care for fly-by-wire. Perhaps I'm old fashioned. I'm not sure. Automation sometimes enable us to do things we could not otherwise do. You could not fly the F22 without the computers - it's much too unstable. However, if the F22 was more stable, it would not have the required flight characteristics in order to win the dogfight as often as it could.
On the flipside, it's always good to be able to do as much as possible manually. When machines fail, we're fucked if we don't have any backup. I wouldn't be surprised if the terrorists at some point would attempt to teach us that.
The need to understand the basics first may be why they still teach students how to fly in small, primitive single-engine planes.
One last thing. Automation also levels the playing field a bit between the truly talented and the skilled. You like Unix because it gives you control. Most people dislike Unix because it gives them too much control - too few things are automated and beginner-friendly, and they don't know how to use their freedom. Hrmph. I sometimes wish the world was black and white, but it's much more challenging when it's all greys.
Ada is excellent for this sort of stuff. It's been designed for implementing anal designs. That is exactly what is required in military systems.
I also thought Ada is a good language for teaching in Uni. You don't like it, but it will teach you a lot of important concepts, from its strong typing amongst other things.
That being said, it's not the right tool for most software development being done currently.
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Which is better? Horses or cantelope melons?
HTML and Perl are two completely different things. HTML is a way of representing (textual) data, while Perl is a way of processing and/or creating data.
Is the big lie being told? Anybody remember this story?
There was never any follow-up on that story, as far as I could tell. In these cases, that would indicate that the plan was carried out. Consequently, I am quite worried about the integrity of the news we get. You will find a sometimes large discrepancy if you compare british to american media. Isn't the basis of democracy that we as citizens know what is going on, so that we may judge the performance of our government for ourselves?
Send this list to webmaster@microsoft.com with reference to the url, and see if they update the information. They appear to be more interested in giving accurate information now, realizing what the Net has made independent research much easier. Maybe they will edit their list given your specific points?
Four years old, though. Much has happened since then. 2000 and XP have emerged, along with kernel 2.4 and new Gnome and KDE versions. Is our advantage stronger now?
With murder, there are multiple victims. I know you're cynical and unlovable, but there are other people that are nice and have people that care about them. So, in that respect, the direct victim suffers the least (unless there is prolonged torture before the victim dies).
As a matter of fact, they probably ruined more lives than the jets in WTC did. How many people lost their savings and pensions on Enron, Worldcom and Arthur Andersen? While it is extremely sad to lose someone you love, the effect of losing all your money is much more tangible. Yep. I'm arguing that from an impact-on-society point of view, fraud is worse than murder. Am I losing it?
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The way we are going now, with OS monoculture and lack of physical separation of vital/non-vital systems, this isn't that far-fetched.
Basically, once a sufficient number of vital systems are internet-connected, running the same software & OS, you've got yourself a big, fat potential vulnerability.
This cannot be fought with anything but a painstaking effort to secure the infrastructure that is vulnerable, and keep the secure infrastructre secure. This does not only apply to the US. If such an attack was launched on Europe or South-East Asia, it would also have a devastating effect. We all need to protect ourselves.
These machines are environmentally friendly, inexpensive and makes the telecommunications infrastructure more resilient.
The plane doesn't even use stored power - it uses solar power to fly and power the telecom equipment. I am amazed, but also slightly skeptical that there will be enough power available to both fly for 6 months and power the payload, and store the surplus energy overnight. That especially applies to the extreme north and south where daylight is scarce and at an extremely low angle during the winter.
If this turns out to work, it's a major breakthrough. It will provide both urban areas with scalable telecom soluitions, and provide the less densely populated areas with modern telecom facilities. This applies especially to the developing parts of the world where the current infrastructure is abysmal.
All I worry about is if someone sees this as a threat, and manages to shut down the project in some ingenious way.
start. yeah right. go see a van damme movie. or a james bond movie, for that sake.
60000 feet is well above where the conventional weather ends. These planes are also rather slow, so I would guesstimate that the impact would be unmeasurable.
The second part is an interesting question. The ozone layer is within reach of these crafts. Maybe we can figure out some chemical that would react with CFCs to form something solid but harmless that would fall out of the sky?
With all due respect, I don't think you quite get it. Making a ramdisk file system presupposes that you have the module available or compiled in.
If you mount a file system over a network, the person that hacked the NFS client can attack the NFS server. NFS has been vulnerable before.
If you have this solution, you will need absolutely no network connection to your inner networks. The more I think of it, the more it seems a rather elegant way of implementing a DMZ.
There is a more general lesson to be learned from this post. When you wish to optimize code you've determined is slow, the first place to look is at the initialization code. What can you do to reduce the amont of data that you process? How can you predetermine order, paralellism and flow, so that you spend as little time as possible waiting for something? Can you make the locking of shared data more fine-grained?
This goes for software engineering, and obviously also for total architectual design (see the Itanium).
What if this experiment means that Microsoft is considering abandoning the IIS core? If Apache 2.0 is free and extensible, it makes no sense for them to make a competing product if they can create Apache modules that they can sell. That way, they will cut development costs, and look good. Really good.
.NET to run on top of Apache.
Oh. They will also stop getting these embarassingly simple IIS exploits that result in worms. It's a winning proposition if they can get
After all, Microsoft appears to be starting to get the message. Did you see their new Linux page yet? It's not perfect nor correct, but it's better than what used to be. Now they are talking about facts, realizing they are not winning the idealogical debate.
I believe this is good news.
This device would make it physically impossible to write. When you mount read-only, there is still at some level a possibility that someone might bypass the read-only lock.
I actually think this device has limited, but good applications. Anyone serving up static content would be a bit safer with this technology. Of course, logging traffic and such would be a bitch, but the server would only need a reboot if someone broke in.
You need to see the movie Magnolia if you are into connections between people and incidents, and the possibility of causality (grand master plan, if you will).
How about some sulphuric acid? I bet the poison clouds would be more impressive than those in Deus Ex.
couple hundred cranks to fully elevate the flaps Wouldn't it be a good idea to get some kind of power drill interface there? I didn't realize that pilots dwarf Arnie in the early 80s/late 70s.
Do you think that the ever increasing processing power will eventually enable us to fully simulate the human brain? What ramifications would this have for the A.I discipline?
Not a single SR-71 blackbird has been shot down. It flies too high up, and too quickly. Hitting a blackbird is like hitting a bullet with another bullet.
With the extreme performance of the F22, wouldn't it be easier to dodge missiles? And harder for the opposition to lock and fire their missiles, because of the stealth?
On the flip side, do you think Gore would have done a better job? The way I see it, Bush stole the election, and is experiencing what a bitch Karma is.
I mean who honestly needs more than $10 million a year in salary? I would even argue that asking for $10 million a year is a sign that the person is question is not a good leader. What sort of message to your employees is that? Say what you will, but leading by example is what it should come down to. If there was a leadership revolution, maybe you could get to the core of your problems - cynicism. Cynicism is what enabled the greed to get so out of hand. When your CEO earns 10 million USD a year, and your company is falling apart, I don't think that's a good incentive to lower down and fight. It's more of an incentive to get up, get what you can, and get out. Uncomfortable, but I suspect there's some truth in it.
old fashioned. I'm not sure. Automation sometimes enable us to do things we could not otherwise do. You could not fly the F22 without the computers - it's much too unstable. However, if the F22 was more stable, it would not have the required flight characteristics in order to win the dogfight as often as it could.
On the flipside, it's always good to be able to do as much as possible manually. When machines fail, we're fucked if we don't have any backup. I wouldn't be surprised if the terrorists at some point would attempt to teach us that.
The need to understand the basics first may be why they still teach students how to fly in small, primitive single-engine planes.
One last thing. Automation also levels the playing field a bit between the truly talented and the skilled. You like Unix because it gives you control. Most people dislike Unix because it gives them too much control - too few things are automated and beginner-friendly, and they don't know how to use their freedom. Hrmph. I sometimes wish the world was black and white, but it's much more challenging when it's all greys.
Ada is excellent for this sort of stuff. It's been designed for implementing anal designs. That is exactly what is required in military systems.
I also thought Ada is a good language for teaching in Uni. You don't like it, but it will teach you a lot of important concepts, from its strong typing amongst other things.
That being said, it's not the right tool for most software development being done currently.
Which is better? Horses or cantelope melons?
HTML and Perl are two completely different things. HTML is a way of representing (textual) data, while Perl is a way of processing and/or creating data.
If you don't want it, don't use it. You can do both functional and object oriented programming in Ruby.
It's been done. They are called Python and Ruby.
Frankly, Ruby has a lot of promise. I've been toying with it, and it feels like a pretty good compromize between java and perl.
There was never any follow-up on that story, as far as I could tell. In these cases, that would indicate that the plan was carried out. Consequently, I am quite worried about the integrity of the news we get. You will find a sometimes large discrepancy if you compare british to american media. Isn't the basis of democracy that we as citizens know what is going on, so that we may judge the performance of our government for ourselves?
Send this list to webmaster@microsoft.com with reference to the url, and see if they update the information. They appear to be more interested in giving accurate information now, realizing what the Net has made independent research much easier. Maybe they will edit their list given your specific points?
Four years old, though. Much has happened since then. 2000 and XP have emerged, along with kernel 2.4 and new Gnome and KDE versions. Is our advantage stronger now?
With murder, there are multiple victims. I know you're cynical and unlovable, but there are other people that are nice and have people that care about them. So, in that respect, the direct victim suffers the least (unless there is prolonged torture before the victim dies).
As a matter of fact, they probably ruined more lives than the jets in WTC did. How many people lost their savings and pensions on Enron, Worldcom and Arthur Andersen? While it is extremely sad to lose someone you love, the effect of losing all your money is much more tangible. Yep. I'm arguing that from an impact-on-society point of view, fraud is worse than murder. Am I losing it?