Obvious as in "respect the [GP]L" of other people's code you use, that is. Anyways, it's almost 03:30, gotta catch the remaining three hours of potential slee..z.zZzzz
Can anybody explain to me why any part of the government would require a botnet for something as trivial as a DDoS? Most interesting international links seem to leave the U.S. in just a few dozen points. Add one or two cute little packet generators with a enough bandwidth to satisfy those links, randomize the source addresses and bang, you got yourself an unstoppable source of DDoS without all the hassles that come with a botnet.
Unfortunately all of that sounds so annoyingly boring. Botnets are way more buzzwordier and can leverage more synergies when coupled with extreme team-building seminars, so that's what it's gonna be.
Oh, P.S.: The "Telcos wouldn't do it" counter-argument ain't valid. This is about NATIONAL SECURITEH, so neither costs nor constitutional rights nor anything else holds up against it.
I stand corrected. Haven't followed the MXM market all that much in the past few years, so I should probably have expected that.
Anyways, some quick googling indicates several no-name and even a few brands (Alienware, fsc, HP) actually implementing MXM -- impressive, you were totally right on that count. What you forgot to mention, though, is that people don't even try selling new cards. Check this. Even nVidia Staff (a Moderator) can only point to ebay and a rather dubious source (I don't mind one-person-enterprises, but if those cards are as popular as you're making them out to be, this looks fucking unprofessional).
Have you ever shopped around for laptops with removable cards
Nope. I like my laptops to be portable, robust and tend to use them for dull "work" purposes, so that's IBM/Lenovo all the way. I'm quite happy with the current state of removable cards in desktops, tho. The greatest advantage is cards actually being available.
[...] before, let alone performed repair work for a company that manufactures cards with swappable graphics cards?
Nope. I'm a wasteful person. If a notebook of mine breaks (which, thanks to IBM/Lenovo's quality engineering and the absolute lack of MXM cards), I'll simply eBay it off or retire it into my closet. Not having to perform repair work only gets beaten by one thing: not having to perform repair work on MXM-equipped laptops. Trust me, I enjoy it each and every single day.
Get a superior mp3 player, then.:)
Also, you might want to try ubuntu's ipod-convenience package. Throw in any wlan adapter and syncing your iPoo Touch and similar devices is a breeze. Plus it rids you of iTunes.
Some things you may have not considered:
- Performance: I don't care how fast Java benchmarks, every Java app I've ever used feels slow and laggy. Even if the language itself would execute stuff faster than hand-optimized assembler (which it obviously doesn't), the GUI-toolkits feel slow.
- Functionality: Go ahead and find me a toolkit, any toolkit that's as extensive as the whole.NET package in it's most current version and runs on Windows, the dominant platform for most any (workstation-)thing today.
- The IDE. Have you ever used Visual Studio.NET >=2005? You should, it may change your opinion. Eclipse and co. are nice, but as far from being competition to VS.NET as IE6 is from being a great browser. (IE7 ain't great either, but they changed the direction and 8 may even get close to useable).
There's quite obviously no Quadro to Go card, as nobody but Alienware (in one model, iirc) ever cared to implement swappable mobile graphics modules with the intent of actually selling different adapters.
There, however, are several notebooks equipped with mobile quadro chips, most notably Lenovo's ThinkPad Tp Mobile Workstations. There's even some T series ThinkPads (without the p) equipped with QuadroFX chips.
Also, note that the discussed hack identifies a GeForce series card as it's equivalent Quadro version. If there weren't any mobile Quadros, there'd be no PCI-ID to mimick and the driver would consequently not use it as a Quadro.
You can't make a GPL program and charge $10M for the source code, but you totally can make a GPL program and charge your customer $10M for the binary, accompanied by it's source code.
Your customer would then be free to redistribute both binary and source -- verbatim or altered (with a notice stating changes) -- under the terms of the GPL.
If you include an NDA-style clause in your sale contract, you may even be able to force your customer to treat source and binary as a trade secret and not redistribute them. IANAL, but given mutual agreeman that ought to work.
In a similar discussion, not too long ago, somebody had the idea of adding a patent tax and (re-)valuing patents in an auction-style fashion every five years or so.
The five year period would give startups ample time to capitalize on the idea and gather enough cash to assign some value to their patent and pay the taxes for the next few years.
Licensing probably would have to be thought over as patent ownership would be fluctuating a lot, but given a well thought out system, a lot of the new patent tax could be offset that way.
Also, to get patent litigation down to a less fucked up level, throw a mandatory auction before any court proceedings.
Your patent troll's 500th patent of the year costs $6.54678121579228e+152 to file. Even Bill Gates is starting to think that's real money.
I like that general idea, but it just wouldn't work:
- Patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures could simply start tons of shell companies. If the cost of creating one of these was, say, $1k, they'd get themselves some 167 "independent subdivisions", getting the price down to $800 per patent.
- Some giant companies may actually come up with lots and lots of ideas. The likes of IBM, Bosch (iirc those guys file tons of patents), Microsoft or even Apple probably spend more than Int. Ventures' annual revenue on their R&D departments' janitors' coffee (if available). To add at least a touch of fairness, they'd need to be entitled to more patents, probably on a sliding scale based on the number of employees.
Over here in Europe it's pretty common having to pay your country's VAT (plus customs fees) for imported goods. The same would work for offshore retailers sending goods to the US.
If you can manage to purchase a german iPhone without signing a contract, you might want to wait for a few more (days|weeks); according to some rumors the price may soon drop to â99.
I got myself an iPhone on vacation in NYC a few weeks ago and am anything but impressed by it's keyboard or most of it's features in general. To me, it seems more like a playful demo/study of an experimental input system than the final version of a high-end product.
In all but multimedia I deem my Blackberry (8707, recently replaced with a curve) way superior. Writing is a lot more comfortable and quicker and while it's interface may not win any design awards it's an awful lot more powerful for most tasks.
Try giving a 'berry or a Nokia E61/90 a quick spin, an hour or two should be sufficient to get you to switch back to the good side of the force;)
Without knowing too much about the bacteria at hand: TFS says they rely on sunlight. Stacking water vertically decreases the amount of sunlight almost exponentially with height, so in this case vertical cultivation may be tricky to impossible.
This mesh won't work with generic phones, Linux phones, the iPhone
Please, I beg you, stop it. If you're talking about iPhones in general or plural, leave the marketing bullshit behind and use normal grammar. One iPhone isn't the iPhone, it's an iPhone out of many (millions sold to date). Your Apple-branded personal computer isn't the Mac, it's a Mac. Incompatible software doesn't not run on generic phones, Linux phones, Nokia phones, hamburger phones and the iPhone, it doesn't run on generic phones, Linux phones, Nokia phones, hamburger phones and iPhones.
Apple's marketing may be everywhere, but please stick to the actual language when using it. After all, Zurich and McDonald's spend a lot in marketing too, yet nobody is lovin' how change happenz.
IIRC hotmail had this policy of emptying accounts after 30 days of inactivity. They may have not deleted the account for another 60-120 days (for a total of 90-180 days of inactivity) to protect it from malicious re-registration by other users.
Hardly a nice gesture from them, but the service is free. Don't expect them to hold your data for years without you paying by looking at their ads.
Squirt has been a verb for quite some time now. You sure you didn't mean the social (n)?
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Since you seem to know your way around suing, I'd like to ask you a question I've been pondering for weeks now:
Can you legally sue yourself?
I was thinking about something along the lines of lending myself some money and failing to pay it back, but are open for other ideas.
All of the examples you mentioned will vary in how much data is sent at what point in the life of a connection. Remember, Pattern is Data:
RDP: Long-lasting connection, tends to transmit a comparably large amount every now and then (whenever you move your cursor).
FTP: Typically a data/control conn pair per server. Control isn't all that traffic-heavy while data will max out the connection for some amount of time. Only one of the two tends to be active at any given time.
Ajaxy websites: Loads of normal http requests, seldomly encrypted. Request pattern is always request - response.
Bittorrent: Tracker connection looks like a regular http request, happens in predictable intervals. Peer-to-peer traffic happens from/to ports >1ki and tends not to max out either endpoint's total bandwidth. Also, a lot of p2p-connections tend to be active at any given time, created shortly after a tracker connection.
I wouldn't quite trust myself to build a classification app, but a team of some developers, combined, if possible, with some data mining/pattern analysis experts shouldn't have too much trouble identifying most kinds of traffic on a typical ISP network.
You don't even need all that BMP/ZIP layers, encrypted BitTorrent is a way better solution to the same problem and currently being used.
Also, unlike your solution, ISPs cannot realistically crack encrypted torrent traffic and check it's contents for illegalities (some governments probably have the necessary kind of processing power on their hands and may be using it for military intelligence, but as of now that's quite far from some personal filesharing); metasynth-style unpacking would be within their reach.
There is no "everyone having lots of money" type of situation; the very value of money is defined by it's limited availability.
Real-world example: Everybody receives $10m out of thin air. Do you think anybody would be willing to work for $10/hr anymore? Minimum wage would probably be in the hundreds of dollars, prices of all goods would have to be adjusted within weeks, inflation would reach levels similar to ww2-era germany.
It's a sad thing to state, a capitalist, money-driven system cannot accomodate for everyone having lots of money. It's possible for everyone to have enough money to live a good life, but "lots" of money on a scale where living off interest is possible cannot happen.
It's called GNAAlast measure and is a rather unfunny troll package.
Avoid it by not clicking any links that point to anything hosted on on.nimp.org, notlong.org or similar. Be aware of redirection services like Yahoo's (rds.yahoo.com stands for re-direction service) or tinyurl.com. Also, if your browser allows endless alert() loops, you might want to switch to a sensible alternative that let's you halt all javascript from an alert() dialog box.
Sorry to say this, but your connection appears to suck. I tend to get 6 mbps maxed out for most http and ftp downloads (I'm talking software updates from official servers here), throughput of less than an mbps being the exception.
BitTorrent happily eats up most of the bandwidth thrown at it (in excess of 150 mbps on two 100 mbps lines, given a few good peers). That way, even multi-cd distributions just fly through the series of tubes:)
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Obvious as in "respect the [GP]L" of other people's code you use, that is. Anyways, it's almost 03:30, gotta catch the remaining three hours of potential slee..z.zZzzz
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Seems fair to me, I somehow managed to not think of the obvious there. Thanks for the info :]
Can anybody explain to me why any part of the government would require a botnet for something as trivial as a DDoS? Most interesting international links seem to leave the U.S. in just a few dozen points. Add one or two cute little packet generators with a enough bandwidth to satisfy those links, randomize the source addresses and bang, you got yourself an unstoppable source of DDoS without all the hassles that come with a botnet.
Unfortunately all of that sounds so annoyingly boring. Botnets are way more buzzwordier and can leverage more synergies when coupled with extreme team-building seminars, so that's what it's gonna be.
Oh, P.S.: The "Telcos wouldn't do it" counter-argument ain't valid. This is about NATIONAL SECURITEH, so neither costs nor constitutional rights nor anything else holds up against it.
Anyways, some quick googling indicates several no-name and even a few brands (Alienware, fsc, HP) actually implementing MXM -- impressive, you were totally right on that count. What you forgot to mention, though, is that people don't even try selling new cards. Check this. Even nVidia Staff (a Moderator) can only point to ebay and a rather dubious source (I don't mind one-person-enterprises, but if those cards are as popular as you're making them out to be, this looks fucking unprofessional).
Nope. I like my laptops to be portable, robust and tend to use them for dull "work" purposes, so that's IBM/Lenovo all the way. I'm quite happy with the current state of removable cards in desktops, tho. The greatest advantage is cards actually being available. Nope. I'm a wasteful person. If a notebook of mine breaks (which, thanks to IBM/Lenovo's quality engineering and the absolute lack of MXM cards), I'll simply eBay it off or retire it into my closet. Not having to perform repair work only gets beaten by one thing: not having to perform repair work on MXM-equipped laptops. Trust me, I enjoy it each and every single day.
Get a superior mp3 player, then. :)
Also, you might want to try ubuntu's ipod-convenience package. Throw in any wlan adapter and syncing your iPoo Touch and similar devices is a breeze. Plus it rids you of iTunes.
Some things you may have not considered: .NET package in it's most current version and runs on Windows, the dominant platform for most any (workstation-)thing today. .NET >=2005? You should, it may change your opinion. Eclipse and co. are nice, but as far from being competition to VS.NET as IE6 is from being a great browser. (IE7 ain't great either, but they changed the direction and 8 may even get close to useable).
- Performance: I don't care how fast Java benchmarks, every Java app I've ever used feels slow and laggy. Even if the language itself would execute stuff faster than hand-optimized assembler (which it obviously doesn't), the GUI-toolkits feel slow.
- Functionality: Go ahead and find me a toolkit, any toolkit that's as extensive as the whole
- The IDE. Have you ever used Visual Studio
There's quite obviously no Quadro to Go card, as nobody but Alienware (in one model, iirc) ever cared to implement swappable mobile graphics modules with the intent of actually selling different adapters.
There, however, are several notebooks equipped with mobile quadro chips, most notably Lenovo's ThinkPad Tp Mobile Workstations. There's even some T series ThinkPads (without the p) equipped with QuadroFX chips.
Also, note that the discussed hack identifies a GeForce series card as it's equivalent Quadro version. If there weren't any mobile Quadros, there'd be no PCI-ID to mimick and the driver would consequently not use it as a Quadro.
You can't make a GPL program and charge $10M for the source code, but you totally can make a GPL program and charge your customer $10M for the binary, accompanied by it's source code.
Your customer would then be free to redistribute both binary and source -- verbatim or altered (with a notice stating changes) -- under the terms of the GPL.
If you include an NDA-style clause in your sale contract, you may even be able to force your customer to treat source and binary as a trade secret and not redistribute them. IANAL, but given mutual agreeman that ought to work.
In a similar discussion, not too long ago, somebody had the idea of adding a patent tax and (re-)valuing patents in an auction-style fashion every five years or so.
The five year period would give startups ample time to capitalize on the idea and gather enough cash to assign some value to their patent and pay the taxes for the next few years.
Licensing probably would have to be thought over as patent ownership would be fluctuating a lot, but given a well thought out system, a lot of the new patent tax could be offset that way.
Also, to get patent litigation down to a less fucked up level, throw a mandatory auction before any court proceedings.
Everybody wins!
- Patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures could simply start tons of shell companies. If the cost of creating one of these was, say, $1k, they'd get themselves some 167 "independent subdivisions", getting the price down to $800 per patent.
- Some giant companies may actually come up with lots and lots of ideas. The likes of IBM, Bosch (iirc those guys file tons of patents), Microsoft or even Apple probably spend more than Int. Ventures' annual revenue on their R&D departments' janitors' coffee (if available). To add at least a touch of fairness, they'd need to be entitled to more patents, probably on a sliding scale based on the number of employees.
Over here in Europe it's pretty common having to pay your country's VAT (plus customs fees) for imported goods. The same would work for offshore retailers sending goods to the US.
If you can manage to purchase a german iPhone without signing a contract, you might want to wait for a few more (days|weeks); according to some rumors the price may soon drop to â99.
s/8830/8310 and I second all of that post.
I got myself an iPhone on vacation in NYC a few weeks ago and am anything but impressed by it's keyboard or most of it's features in general. To me, it seems more like a playful demo/study of an experimental input system than the final version of a high-end product. ;)
In all but multimedia I deem my Blackberry (8707, recently replaced with a curve) way superior. Writing is a lot more comfortable and quicker and while it's interface may not win any design awards it's an awful lot more powerful for most tasks.
Try giving a 'berry or a Nokia E61/90 a quick spin, an hour or two should be sufficient to get you to switch back to the good side of the force
Without knowing too much about the bacteria at hand: TFS says they rely on sunlight. Stacking water vertically decreases the amount of sunlight almost exponentially with height, so in this case vertical cultivation may be tricky to impossible.
Apple's marketing may be everywhere, but please stick to the actual language when using it. After all, Zurich and McDonald's spend a lot in marketing too, yet nobody is lovin' how change happenz.
IIRC hotmail had this policy of emptying accounts after 30 days of inactivity. They may have not deleted the account for another 60-120 days (for a total of 90-180 days of inactivity) to protect it from malicious re-registration by other users.
Hardly a nice gesture from them, but the service is free. Don't expect them to hold your data for years without you paying by looking at their ads.
Squirt has been a verb for quite some time now. You sure you didn't mean the social (n)?
Since you seem to know your way around suing, I'd like to ask you a question I've been pondering for weeks now:
Can you legally sue yourself?
I was thinking about something along the lines of lending myself some money and failing to pay it back, but are open for other ideas.
All of the examples you mentioned will vary in how much data is sent at what point in the life of a connection. Remember, Pattern is Data:
RDP: Long-lasting connection, tends to transmit a comparably large amount every now and then (whenever you move your cursor).
FTP: Typically a data/control conn pair per server. Control isn't all that traffic-heavy while data will max out the connection for some amount of time. Only one of the two tends to be active at any given time.
Ajaxy websites: Loads of normal http requests, seldomly encrypted. Request pattern is always request - response.
Bittorrent: Tracker connection looks like a regular http request, happens in predictable intervals. Peer-to-peer traffic happens from/to ports >1ki and tends not to max out either endpoint's total bandwidth. Also, a lot of p2p-connections tend to be active at any given time, created shortly after a tracker connection.
I wouldn't quite trust myself to build a classification app, but a team of some developers, combined, if possible, with some data mining/pattern analysis experts shouldn't have too much trouble identifying most kinds of traffic on a typical ISP network.
You don't even need all that BMP/ZIP layers, encrypted BitTorrent is a way better solution to the same problem and currently being used.
Also, unlike your solution, ISPs cannot realistically crack encrypted torrent traffic and check it's contents for illegalities (some governments probably have the necessary kind of processing power on their hands and may be using it for military intelligence, but as of now that's quite far from some personal filesharing); metasynth-style unpacking would be within their reach.
Real-world example: Everybody receives $10m out of thin air. Do you think anybody would be willing to work for $10/hr anymore? Minimum wage would probably be in the hundreds of dollars, prices of all goods would have to be adjusted within weeks, inflation would reach levels similar to ww2-era germany.
It's a sad thing to state, a capitalist, money-driven system cannot accomodate for everyone having lots of money. It's possible for everyone to have enough money to live a good life, but "lots" of money on a scale where living off interest is possible cannot happen.
It's called GNAA last measure and is a rather unfunny troll package.
Avoid it by not clicking any links that point to anything hosted on on.nimp.org, notlong.org or similar. Be aware of redirection services like Yahoo's (rds.yahoo.com stands for re-direction service) or tinyurl.com.
Also, if your browser allows endless alert() loops, you might want to switch to a sensible alternative that let's you halt all javascript from an alert() dialog box.
Sorry to say this, but your connection appears to suck. I tend to get 6 mbps maxed out for most http and ftp downloads (I'm talking software updates from official servers here), throughput of less than an mbps being the exception. :)
BitTorrent happily eats up most of the bandwidth thrown at it (in excess of 150 mbps on two 100 mbps lines, given a few good peers). That way, even multi-cd distributions just fly through the series of tubes