User: MateuszM

Re:Already happens

On: How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap

This just in, arrest warrants issued for 92% of American females between the ages of 12 and 17.

Well, such a warrant would be a great DDoS on law enforcement as a whole, wouldn't it? So one could argue that the teenagers won the battle...

Re:mmhmmm

On: NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars

Yeah, but on the other hand they're known to be orbiting high on their own...

Re:How often does this happen?

On: London's Robotic Fire Brigade

And with all the welders I've ever met in all those places, maybe one has ever seen a tank go off.

Well, that's perhaps because when a tank goes off, usually there is not enough of the welder left to tell the story...

Re:rabit from the moon

On: Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever

It's pretty easy:

1. Let's assume that a standard rabbit continuously emits 310 K (that's about 37' C or 99' F for all you types thinking in those old-fashioned units). Further, let's assume that it emits this heat over the area of 0.1 square meter, continuously.
2. To obtain the same with Libraries of Congress (LoC for short) we first need to convert its information to heat. This can be easily done by burning books.
3. As we all know paper burns at 506 K (that's 451' F if you don't quite remember). A standard A4 page has about 0.062 square meters, a letter page about 0.06 square meters. We'll assume 0.061 for further calcuations.
4. As 1 LoC contains 32 Mbooks and 61 Mmanuscripts, counting on average 250 pages per book and 100 pages per manuscript we get 14.1 Gpages.
5. Now we do simple math and we obtain that we need to burn 71 pLoC (picoLoc) to emit the same heat as 1 rabbit. As we need to emit that heat continuously this gives burning 71 pLoc / s.

And you can see now why they gave you old-fashioned rabbit instead of uniformly accepted units - 71pLoC/s does not sound too sexy.

Re:So it doesn't run on water at all?

On: Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water

You surely meant: Does it run on Linux :)

Re:Some days...

On: Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill

Perhaps in your checked luggage?

Re:So give a layman explanation

On: Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released

It's not necessary, I think, to read the diffs. The CERT advisory describes the problem quite nicely - it's just another instance of "randomness? I'll always return 7 - it's as good as any other number" problem that allows one to spoof TCP connections with some stacks.

Re:Pay or Die!

On: Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47

They are going to send a lot of men with proper AK-47's - just to show you how it should be manufactured :)