If they tell the ISPs that they can "suspend" their service until they fix it but keep billing them and can't be sued over it, they'll pass that thing tomorrow in congress. In fact, they won't even wait for congress to make it a law, they'll just do it voluntarily. I mean free money + less expenses + seriously lower bandwidth usage over the long term + sticking it to assholes who catch viruses = YAY! That's equation is actually listed in every ISP's accounting materials. Seriously, go look it up on wikipedia, it's true lol.
Dude, DDOSing with proxies would slow down your interval JUST A LITTLE BIT. I don't think that would work lol. I think the theory is there are so many thousands of IPs that singling one out would be pointless and possibly not even legal and getting info on all of them would be impossible.
You can't forget the Phantasy Star series for the Sega Genesis. The third in the series especially was ridiculously long and complex for games in general at that time let alone for RPGs. I just played it recently and have been sort of into a retro gaming "thing" and almost every other game that I played when I was like 10 and replayed now, I found totally sucks by my current standards. Phantasy Star 3 and 4 were still amazing though. Definitely the most ahead of its time RPG ever made.
The Ministry of Sound sounds like it could be an 80's rap group. Anyway, I would put money on them trying to identify and sue all the IPs DDOSing them.
Why not also tack on anti-fat-fingered traders legislation and anti-"oops, missed a decimal point" trading too while they're at it lol. Remember, that was the original hypothesis about the cause. Who says the fatty fingered and careless or borderline legally blind aren't lurking out there, waiting to strike?
I've barely started hearing about the whole zeus infection a few months ago and the FBI is already taking them out left and right. Why, after over 2 years, can't they find the assholes writing that fake antivirus crap that I have to remove from my customers' computers every day? I mean sure, I'm making a ton of money off the repair bills, but it's annoying and absolutely absurd that it's gone on this long! Does anyone know what's going on with that one?
So all sun on one side and all dark on the other? I don't care what's in the atmosphere, it's unliveably hot on one side and unliveably cold on the other. There's got to be hundreds of degrees of difference. Life absolutely could not survive there except possibly in the ring that's between the dark and light areas.
After seeing The Last Airbender, or as I like to call it, "Real Avatar," I'm definitely convinced that movies converted to 3D in post absolutely suck. They look like crap! They're at least less blurry but still horrible unrealistic.
Secondly, I hear that George Lucas is going to change it so Han shoot at the you, the viewer, first hehehehe.
You know what'd be really funny? If they used the same ultra-stealth techniques as the TDSS rootkit and others and then made the virus sleep and at a random date between now and like 2 years from now, it would fry system files or do a half BIOS flash or generally destroy the computer. Then machines would slowly break nonstop, taking down the industrial sites for a long period of time instead of just destroying a bunch outright. Maybe it's already doing that, who knows?
The way I remember it is Hawking radiation is when a set of virtual particles get split up, leaving antimatter on the edge of an event horizon. Then that antimatter reacts with matter and gives off all kinds of radiation including light so black holes sort of "glow." So given the estimated energy levels of antimatter and matter reactions, wouldn't one of those antimatter particles contacted some matter and blown them all the hell up?
Anchor Bank does it but I think they're primarily only in like 2 states. But their internet banking is amazing. It's even semi-AI when it comes to determining abnormal/suspicious login behaviour. And they let you download multiple formats of history for any date range.
Let me just address the JPL for a second...
Hey JPL, I had to go pee in a cup and get a background check to do an inventory project for IBM for 2 weeks and it was through another contractor, not IBM directly. I think if you're working on a tube with a gigantic bomb strapped to it, you should probably not be an axe murderer or have a history of mental illness. Just about any job that's remotely important in the US has a background get, get the hell over it.
they do in Wisconsin and it's about $50. What planet are YOU from? They call it a "registration fee" that you pay about a week before school starts but after that refer to it internally as tuition.
The price is absurd and honestly that's all schools care about. And why would they want a platform that the vast majority of students don't use at home and aren't familiar with? And good luck finding school IT staff that were trained in Apple technologies. Oh and trainig teachers on new technology is just oh so fun. I'd love to see a history teacher try and troubleshoot a network error on one of them or determine why a student can't send the document they just typed. I've seen listings for that on job sites here stay up for months and months. And kids can't even take care of textbooks let alone giving them some $500 piece of technology and telling them not to break it the entire year. So either the school would go far into the red on the whole project or the parents would get stuck with the bill and, let's me honest, strike that decision down before it's even considered. What? Tuition at my public school went from $50 to $550 this year? Hold on, I've got to make a picket sign real quick. This whole idea is idiotic and I bet Apple actually wrote that article.
This is really nothing new. Everyone can say AMD is worse than intel all day until you actually look at the prices. I've put together computer quotes for people and I can't even put in a wolfdate core2 for remoately close to a 3.0GHz AM3 Regor which is around $62! And for an i3 board and processor together, it's over double an AMD board and processor even with a Phenom in it instead. I mean if you want something so fast that AMD doesn't even make it, only Intel does, go for it otherwise there's a darn good reason why AMD has been "losing" and isn't out of business yet. Their chips are better speed for the price in most cases!
But...if it has the power to go like 60 miles up through the ionosphere (I assume but don't actually remember how far up that is) and hit a satellite, it'll probably melt your freaking face off with radiation. Or more realistically at least give you like 100x the dose of radiation compared to a normal cell phone. Sounds kinda scary.
Okay, fine, hard drive IO time then. Linux certainly frees some of that up compared to windows! All that indexing and auto-defragging and system restore point creation and other nonsense that goes on the background of Vista and 7 are huge game loading time killers.
Also, you could make the arguement that massive AI script upscaling that maxes out a processor (Like Starcraft 2 with 8 players, 4 being comps) would run more smoothly with less OS CPU time being used in the background in random spikes like Windows.
Maybe they hired some old Adobe employees or something. I mean features > security or even features > caution is what they hang up as a poster on the wall at most places. If you make a super simple site that JUST delivers 140 character strings between users, your marketing people's heads would explode. That's just inconceivable that you'd change and upgrade your service nonstop for no reason and add features nobody wants and that don't work.
If they seriously release some really nice games for Linux that use it, people will be all over this at least as a dual boot system. Gamers love it when they do something that takes their current hardware and makes it way faster without spending any money. Judging by how fast Ubuntu ran on a Pentium 3 I had, I'd say Linux frees up a little ram for gaming. I always thought they'd take off as a gaming platform if they really pushed it because it's free and fast which is always a plus for gaming.
Wow, I don't think "pretty much all" windows machines were ever infected with the same thing. Good thing Linux is sooooo much more secure. I mean other than the fact that no it isn't, people just don't target them. I think people got way too comfy and caused this dire situation.
gee, thanks for the helpful and completely non-sarcastic reply. If you were a little bit smarter, you'd realize that at some point a program effectively asks itself what the result of the decryption was and it relies on memory to do that. Was the key entered valid, yes or no, is a single bit held somewhere in memory and it probably loads between more obvious variables in a detectable pattern. Aren't there hex editors or something like that out there to scan memory and find it and then flip it? This type of attack is exactly why all MMORPGs have the server generate all random numbers for decisions at the server and not the user's PC because memory editing to affect outcomes is very possible.
I know everyone's ususally like "booo police, yaaay speeding" but seriously, do we really need a coordinated system that basically encourages and allows people to ride my ass in the fast lane when I'm already going 10 over then pass me at like 100 MPH? No! Why? Are they a professional Nascar driver? NO AGAIN! Unless your piece of crap Prius is out of control, leave earlier if you're in such a damn hurry instead of driving like a maniac with a stopping distance of like a mile. That's pretty damn unsafe.
What they need is a system for tweeting about assholes in crappy, unsafe cars driving in crappy, unsafe way to the police so they can cut up their drivers licenses.
Probably because it's a software lock and the CPU is unlocked without it lol. Btw I'm sort of new to programming but can't someone just flip the boolean bit in memory with some sort of memory editor (I hear they exist) for the software that represents the variable responsible for validating the keys? I mean don't most programs just do their fancy encryption keys and then flip a boolean switch or at least use a temp one inside an if statement? So flip that and the thing thinks it's validated. No need for a key generator.
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If they tell the ISPs that they can "suspend" their service until they fix it but keep billing them and can't be sued over it, they'll pass that thing tomorrow in congress. In fact, they won't even wait for congress to make it a law, they'll just do it voluntarily. I mean free money + less expenses + seriously lower bandwidth usage over the long term + sticking it to assholes who catch viruses = YAY! That's equation is actually listed in every ISP's accounting materials. Seriously, go look it up on wikipedia, it's true lol.
Dude, DDOSing with proxies would slow down your interval JUST A LITTLE BIT. I don't think that would work lol. I think the theory is there are so many thousands of IPs that singling one out would be pointless and possibly not even legal and getting info on all of them would be impossible.
You can't forget the Phantasy Star series for the Sega Genesis. The third in the series especially was ridiculously long and complex for games in general at that time let alone for RPGs. I just played it recently and have been sort of into a retro gaming "thing" and almost every other game that I played when I was like 10 and replayed now, I found totally sucks by my current standards. Phantasy Star 3 and 4 were still amazing though. Definitely the most ahead of its time RPG ever made.
The Ministry of Sound sounds like it could be an 80's rap group. Anyway, I would put money on them trying to identify and sue all the IPs DDOSing them.
Why not also tack on anti-fat-fingered traders legislation and anti-"oops, missed a decimal point" trading too while they're at it lol. Remember, that was the original hypothesis about the cause. Who says the fatty fingered and careless or borderline legally blind aren't lurking out there, waiting to strike?
I've barely started hearing about the whole zeus infection a few months ago and the FBI is already taking them out left and right. Why, after over 2 years, can't they find the assholes writing that fake antivirus crap that I have to remove from my customers' computers every day? I mean sure, I'm making a ton of money off the repair bills, but it's annoying and absolutely absurd that it's gone on this long! Does anyone know what's going on with that one?
So all sun on one side and all dark on the other? I don't care what's in the atmosphere, it's unliveably hot on one side and unliveably cold on the other. There's got to be hundreds of degrees of difference. Life absolutely could not survive there except possibly in the ring that's between the dark and light areas.
After seeing The Last Airbender, or as I like to call it, "Real Avatar," I'm definitely convinced that movies converted to 3D in post absolutely suck. They look like crap! They're at least less blurry but still horrible unrealistic.
Secondly, I hear that George Lucas is going to change it so Han shoot at the you, the viewer, first hehehehe.
You know what'd be really funny? If they used the same ultra-stealth techniques as the TDSS rootkit and others and then made the virus sleep and at a random date between now and like 2 years from now, it would fry system files or do a half BIOS flash or generally destroy the computer. Then machines would slowly break nonstop, taking down the industrial sites for a long period of time instead of just destroying a bunch outright. Maybe it's already doing that, who knows?
The way I remember it is Hawking radiation is when a set of virtual particles get split up, leaving antimatter on the edge of an event horizon. Then that antimatter reacts with matter and gives off all kinds of radiation including light so black holes sort of "glow." So given the estimated energy levels of antimatter and matter reactions, wouldn't one of those antimatter particles contacted some matter and blown them all the hell up?
Hey, if I can't use a CFL in my easy bake oven, how am I supposed to make delicious baked goods?
Anchor Bank does it but I think they're primarily only in like 2 states. But their internet banking is amazing. It's even semi-AI when it comes to determining abnormal/suspicious login behaviour. And they let you download multiple formats of history for any date range.
Let me just address the JPL for a second...
Hey JPL, I had to go pee in a cup and get a background check to do an inventory project for IBM for 2 weeks and it was through another contractor, not IBM directly. I think if you're working on a tube with a gigantic bomb strapped to it, you should probably not be an axe murderer or have a history of mental illness. Just about any job that's remotely important in the US has a background get, get the hell over it.
they do in Wisconsin and it's about $50. What planet are YOU from? They call it a "registration fee" that you pay about a week before school starts but after that refer to it internally as tuition.
The price is absurd and honestly that's all schools care about. And why would they want a platform that the vast majority of students don't use at home and aren't familiar with? And good luck finding school IT staff that were trained in Apple technologies. Oh and trainig teachers on new technology is just oh so fun. I'd love to see a history teacher try and troubleshoot a network error on one of them or determine why a student can't send the document they just typed. I've seen listings for that on job sites here stay up for months and months. And kids can't even take care of textbooks let alone giving them some $500 piece of technology and telling them not to break it the entire year. So either the school would go far into the red on the whole project or the parents would get stuck with the bill and, let's me honest, strike that decision down before it's even considered. What? Tuition at my public school went from $50 to $550 this year? Hold on, I've got to make a picket sign real quick. This whole idea is idiotic and I bet Apple actually wrote that article.
This is really nothing new. Everyone can say AMD is worse than intel all day until you actually look at the prices. I've put together computer quotes for people and I can't even put in a wolfdate core2 for remoately close to a 3.0GHz AM3 Regor which is around $62! And for an i3 board and processor together, it's over double an AMD board and processor even with a Phenom in it instead. I mean if you want something so fast that AMD doesn't even make it, only Intel does, go for it otherwise there's a darn good reason why AMD has been "losing" and isn't out of business yet. Their chips are better speed for the price in most cases!
But...if it has the power to go like 60 miles up through the ionosphere (I assume but don't actually remember how far up that is) and hit a satellite, it'll probably melt your freaking face off with radiation. Or more realistically at least give you like 100x the dose of radiation compared to a normal cell phone. Sounds kinda scary.
Okay, fine, hard drive IO time then. Linux certainly frees some of that up compared to windows! All that indexing and auto-defragging and system restore point creation and other nonsense that goes on the background of Vista and 7 are huge game loading time killers.
Also, you could make the arguement that massive AI script upscaling that maxes out a processor (Like Starcraft 2 with 8 players, 4 being comps) would run more smoothly with less OS CPU time being used in the background in random spikes like Windows.
Maybe they hired some old Adobe employees or something. I mean features > security or even features > caution is what they hang up as a poster on the wall at most places. If you make a super simple site that JUST delivers 140 character strings between users, your marketing people's heads would explode. That's just inconceivable that you'd change and upgrade your service nonstop for no reason and add features nobody wants and that don't work.
If they seriously release some really nice games for Linux that use it, people will be all over this at least as a dual boot system. Gamers love it when they do something that takes their current hardware and makes it way faster without spending any money. Judging by how fast Ubuntu ran on a Pentium 3 I had, I'd say Linux frees up a little ram for gaming. I always thought they'd take off as a gaming platform if they really pushed it because it's free and fast which is always a plus for gaming.
Wow, I don't think "pretty much all" windows machines were ever infected with the same thing. Good thing Linux is sooooo much more secure. I mean other than the fact that no it isn't, people just don't target them. I think people got way too comfy and caused this dire situation.
gee, thanks for the helpful and completely non-sarcastic reply. If you were a little bit smarter, you'd realize that at some point a program effectively asks itself what the result of the decryption was and it relies on memory to do that. Was the key entered valid, yes or no, is a single bit held somewhere in memory and it probably loads between more obvious variables in a detectable pattern. Aren't there hex editors or something like that out there to scan memory and find it and then flip it? This type of attack is exactly why all MMORPGs have the server generate all random numbers for decisions at the server and not the user's PC because memory editing to affect outcomes is very possible.
I know everyone's ususally like "booo police, yaaay speeding" but seriously, do we really need a coordinated system that basically encourages and allows people to ride my ass in the fast lane when I'm already going 10 over then pass me at like 100 MPH? No! Why? Are they a professional Nascar driver? NO AGAIN! Unless your piece of crap Prius is out of control, leave earlier if you're in such a damn hurry instead of driving like a maniac with a stopping distance of like a mile. That's pretty damn unsafe.
What they need is a system for tweeting about assholes in crappy, unsafe cars driving in crappy, unsafe way to the police so they can cut up their drivers licenses.
Probably because it's a software lock and the CPU is unlocked without it lol. Btw I'm sort of new to programming but can't someone just flip the boolean bit in memory with some sort of memory editor (I hear they exist) for the software that represents the variable responsible for validating the keys? I mean don't most programs just do their fancy encryption keys and then flip a boolean switch or at least use a temp one inside an if statement? So flip that and the thing thinks it's validated. No need for a key generator.
Oh yeah, because so many hackers are also chip manufacturers. That's such a known stereotype.