The new ASTER data expands coverage to 99 percent, from 83 degrees north latitude and 83 degrees south. Each elevation measurement point in the new data is 98 feet apart.
If you read the linked article you'd see that it says nothing about orbital inclination.
With all this modern technology and stuff, things get complicated. Add a bit of English to it and it goes like this:
[...]
the Trojan manipulates the victim's PC and browser so that the victim never actually sees the attacker-controlled Web site that is hijacking the search, but instead sees the search results as though they were returned directly from Google.com [italics added].
This as-though content that victim does not see is just like the content that the victim sees, the only difference being that there is no difference between the two:
Adding to the stealth is the fact that search results themselves aren't altered by the attackers, who are merely going after the referral payments should victims click on any of the displayed ads.
What's more, in this click fraud even clicks aren't changed:
What's more, the attackers aren't diverting clicks[...]
Welcome to the world of your invisible, untouchable overlords!
Reading the article helps - there is only one server: my-web-way.com , which is supposedly controlled by the attackers. The whois entry reveals, that it is registered in Moskow, Russia...
In America, server gets infected, but in Soviet Russia, infections get served!
In America you serve the infection while in Soviet Russia the infection serves you.
Put together a netbook, and make absolutely, positively sure to put the track point on it. I'll buy two.
What are you talking about? I'm using Thinkpad T500 and it has a trackpoint, and they even throw in the
mix three additional differently shaped red caps for the thingie just in case you don't like the feel of
the mounted one.
I have 2GHz dual-core AMD, several years old. My OS may be doing hundreds of task all the time, but those tasks amount to 2-4% of CPU time. I could have all those tasks running on one core and use only 4-8% of that core's time, and literally have the other core waiting for me to press a button. How is adding 14 idle cores to this equation going to improve the responsiveness to my key press? Answer: it's not.
Exactly. So what you need is not more or faster cores, but something slower. Get yourself an Atom or something, save electricity and let us crunchers crunch our stuff on multi-core machines.
why is parent modded "funny?" He's making a legit point. To say, after it being available for 2 hours, that you evaluated the new version and uninstalled it and replaced it with Ubuntu is beyond silly. Hell, 2 hours from now I won't even be finished downloading it, much less evaluating it - and I have a decent pipe I'm pulling from.
You work faster than anyone I've ever met. I am humbled by your awesome ability.
Some of us have been cruising on beta for about month or so.
The best philosophic conversations that I've ever had were at a local coffee/tea shop with 4 pinball machines and $2.05 for a 10-cup pot of tea. We would meet regularly and discuss what was on our minds, and then play Addam's Family, Attack From Mars, or Midevil Madness for a few hours afterwards while having pots of good, fresh tea.
Companies and governments from elsewhere could check whether this practice is occurring, and blacklist Japanese companies that are shown to practice this human-rights violation.
Riiiight. Even if there was enough political will, and it is not clear at all that this will is all that it takes, how would they exactly do that?
If your solution to a problem is, "We need less truth" then you are probably trying to solve the wrong problem.
Damn, that's about the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a while. Too bad you posted AC.
Yes it is insightful alright: an anonymous coward posting about the need for more truth, and nothing less about the uncovering of identity of a certain group people in Japan.
Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons. This is truly American military research and damn yeah, this is something you should be proud of (not me, I am a surrendering froggy)
Wow, what an ideologue you are. The only cure for this heap of dung (rated as Informative!) is: to read the fucking article. RTFA! Even the summary text in the blue box (that conveniently does not mention all the projects, like the good-old new fast planes capable of delivering the so-called payload). Even there it is written [emphasize added]:
-High Productivity Computing Systems: supercomputers are fundamental to a variety of military operations, from weather forecasting to cryptography to the design of new weapons; DARPA is working to maintain our global lead in this technology.
Because the east coast servers can't connect to the west coast servers, we are protected against any conceivable damage to the east coast servers destroying all backups, even though it's all online.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
Well, maybe hacker could figure out from monitoring the west coast server connections which are the servers on
the east coast, and then attack them directly, even though the east coast servers themselves never ever connect
to anything?
Parent poster says : "I'm a not Flight-sim enthusiast, so am not familiar with their site, but I presumed there were probably large binaries",
to which I'd reply that the most valuable part of their site were source files and input data files. Now, as you say:
Surely all the people who've downloaded the downloadable content over the years can all band together and restore a large proportion of it?
I also thought: developers and user must have downloaded/synced great deal of source (binaries for sure:-).
So why not scramble it back together? As for the web site, perhaps pages are cached somewhere on the web, as some people already pointed out.
I've visited their site about a month or so ago, and they did really impressive work, they should try to restore it.
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It's probably the portion of the poles that the orbital inclination didn't allow to be mapped.
To which you replied:
Yes. From here:
The new ASTER data expands coverage to 99 percent, from 83 degrees north latitude and 83 degrees south. Each elevation measurement point in the new data is 98 feet apart.
If you read the linked article you'd see that it says nothing about orbital inclination.
It's probably the portion of the poles that the orbital inclination didn't allow to be mapped.
And why would the orbital inclination be a problem?
Wow. You have the most prescient username in all of Slashdot. Who could have known when UID5s were gettable that "divide by zero" would become memery?
Son, "divide by zero" was a joke/meme before the Internet existed, much less slashdot.
It was also a joke What about "Anonimous Coward" Anonimous Coward?
[...] the Trojan manipulates the victim's PC and browser so that the victim never actually sees the attacker-controlled Web site that is hijacking the search, but instead sees the search results as though they were returned directly from Google.com [italics added].
This as-though content that victim does not see is just like the content that the victim sees, the only difference being that there is no difference between the two:
Adding to the stealth is the fact that search results themselves aren't altered by the attackers, who are merely going after the referral payments should victims click on any of the displayed ads.
What's more, in this click fraud even clicks aren't changed:
What's more, the attackers aren't diverting clicks[...]
Welcome to the world of your invisible, untouchable overlords!
Reading the article helps - there is only one server: my-web-way.com , which is supposedly controlled by the attackers. The whois entry reveals, that it is registered in Moskow, Russia.. .
In America, server gets infected, but in Soviet Russia, infections get served!
In America you serve the infection while in Soviet Russia the infection serves you.
Get rid of the keyboard entirely. I'm fucking sick of it. Why don't we have shapeshifting touch screens yet? Yes, I'm impatient.
Apple had done it already: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Leyboard
uh, oh, you're talking about netbooks...
Put together a netbook, and make absolutely, positively sure to put the track point on it. I'll buy two.
What are you talking about? I'm using Thinkpad T500 and it has a trackpoint, and they even throw in the mix three additional differently shaped red caps for the thingie just in case you don't like the feel of the mounted one.
A single bad moderation doesn't make a bad community. Hell, they're modded 4 at the moment. Let the system do its job.
Which also means it is already too late for the system to do its job.
Respect.
>> c(0:999) = a(0:999) + b(0:999) Matlab.
or, even simpler:
+
(APL)
[...]the only parallel compressor I know of is WinRAR, which really does get 4x the speed on my quad-core.
pbzip2 (parallel bzip2) scales just as well.
I have 2GHz dual-core AMD, several years old. My OS may be doing hundreds of task all the time, but those tasks amount to 2-4% of CPU time. I could have all those tasks running on one core and use only 4-8% of that core's time, and literally have the other core waiting for me to press a button. How is adding 14 idle cores to this equation going to improve the responsiveness to my key press? Answer: it's not.
Exactly. So what you need is not more or faster cores, but something slower. Get yourself an Atom or something, save electricity and let us crunchers crunch our stuff on multi-core machines.
why is parent modded "funny?" He's making a legit point. To say, after it being available for 2 hours, that you evaluated the new version and uninstalled it and replaced it with Ubuntu is beyond silly. Hell, 2 hours from now I won't even be finished downloading it, much less evaluating it - and I have a decent pipe I'm pulling from.
You work faster than anyone I've ever met. I am humbled by your awesome ability.
Some of us have been cruising on beta for about month or so.
(Sending my karma to hell for implying that slashdotters are less than omniscient on computer subjects)
You karmawhore you.
The best philosophic conversations that I've ever had were at a local coffee/tea shop with 4 pinball machines and $2.05 for a 10-cup pot of tea. We would meet regularly and discuss what was on our minds, and then play Addam's Family, Attack From Mars, or Midevil Madness for a few hours afterwards while having pots of good, fresh tea.
FYI: Those were not philosophic conversations.
discrimination: secernment (the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished)
You are not discriminating among different meanings of word discrimination, but giving a privilege to one of its meanings.
Well said.
Companies and governments from elsewhere could check whether this practice is occurring, and blacklist Japanese companies that are shown to practice this human-rights violation.
Riiiight. Even if there was enough political will, and it is not clear at all that this will is all that it takes, how would they exactly do that?
If your solution to a problem is, "We need less truth" then you are probably trying to solve the wrong problem.
Damn, that's about the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a while. Too bad you posted AC.
Yes it is insightful alright: an anonymous coward posting about the need for more truth, and nothing less about the uncovering of identity of a certain group people in Japan.
Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons. This is truly American military research and damn yeah, this is something you should be proud of (not me, I am a surrendering froggy)
Wow, what an ideologue you are. The only cure for this heap of dung (rated as Informative!) is: to read the fucking article. RTFA! Even the summary text in the blue box (that conveniently does not mention all the projects, like the good-old new fast planes capable of delivering the so-called payload). Even there it is written [emphasize added]:
-High Productivity Computing Systems: supercomputers are fundamental to a variety of military operations, from weather forecasting to cryptography to the design of new weapons; DARPA is working to maintain our global lead in this technology.
Because the east coast servers can't connect to the west coast servers, we are protected against any conceivable damage to the east coast servers destroying all backups, even though it's all online.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
Well, maybe hacker could figure out from monitoring the west coast server connections which are the servers on the east coast, and then attack them directly, even though the east coast servers themselves never ever connect to anything?
Surely all the people who've downloaded the downloadable content over the years can all band together and restore a large proportion of it?
I also thought: developers and user must have downloaded/synced great deal of source (binaries for sure :-).
So why not scramble it back together? As for the web site, perhaps pages are cached somewhere on the web, as some people already pointed out.
I've visited their site about a month or so ago, and they did really impressive work, they should try to restore it.
...Linux reaches 3% of usage share among slashdot users... but seriously, what's the figure?
Do latest hulu improvements also include accessibility from outside of US?