I can't say anything about last Saturday, but starting Christmas eve late we started getting hit hard with the new storm botnet worm...I now have a huge firewall blacklist of what appeared to be infected machines, and haven't noticed if things went back to normal yet or not due to the fact that they're gonna have to give me a damn good reason to unblock them... Either way, a lot has been going on lately.
for people running MS servers to keep their systems patched. I mean...this is an old ass exploit. Are people really that afraid of their Windoze servers loosing stability that they don't even apply security updates?
I think you're confusing security with privacy. A file does not offer any privacy on its own, the creating program is responsible for that. Any file freely available on the internet, encrypted or not, is less secure than one that is not offered up by a network service. That said, when talking about programming and binary file formats, generally as other posters have said the term 'security' is used to describe buffer overflows and whatnot. Obviously in this sense anyone who wanted to could stick bad code in just about anything (WMV has been plagued with this) that fits and do all sorts of nasty stuff, thereby slipping by the normal security systems of a personal computer. Obviously you need an input filter and good error handling when reading files and loading them into memory. Ergo the old import filters need to be more secure.
All that said I'm not gonna argue with you - all files can be inherently "insecure" if the file is made available to a program that does something insecure with it, which is where I see this semantic dance going... The file without a program does nothing, however.
Sigh this is why I don't post stuff, it never comes out right.
Anyway the 4S is the thing in Alaska - few other commenters asked about that.
Fast-L is what they're calling the Lithium cooled rig - go figure. Not much info on it but from the looks of things it was developed by "Scientists funded by Japan's Atomic Energy Research Institute". I assume Toshiba acquired the rights somehow, that or some monkey took the info from the Fast-L and tried to get people to confuse it with the 4S, I dunno. So yeah I hope that puts some order to my chaos....Questions?
I'm no nuclear scientist, but the 4S is not the Fast-L. The 4S is what they're putting in up in Alaska (see above post I made, link to ppt file). The Fast-L is slightly different (see BBC news article I linked to). I was probably confusing as hell in my post, my brain is good at that. Toshiba for sure is making the 4S, as far as the Fast-L is concerned they must have just acquired the rights to it. I'm still confused that both the 4S and the Fast-L have the same picture for the PR...
This was announced back in 2001, apparently. I still can't find any mention of fuel, anywhere, but at least in the BBC article they do state that the waste would have to be disposed of somehow. It was "conceived of as a power source for colonies on the Moon" and apparently they were trying to get it set up as a smaller, more distributed power generation system to overcome growing power demand and shrinking space to build power plants. With the waste disposal issues and everything else, even if Toshiba did somehow get the contract to build the suckers I'd suspect that there would be heavy regulation and in the end only governments and the well off are going to be building these things, it'd be a nightmare for some regular neighborhood to run one of these things! Anyhoo I dug up this link I guess in theory Alaska is getting one of these suckers up by 2010 if everything goes well. Some slightly better design info in the PDF too...Note that it calls for sodium as the coolant and features exactly the same picture as the newer one..I dunno something about all this new hype is fishy to me...
I used to totally love the old shareware Duke Nukem side scrollers back when I was a kid. I played the first Duke Nukem 3D when it came out and enjoyed the voice clips and crazy levels.
I haven't really played any of the newer ones - it really just seemed more of the same. I actually miss the old side scrollers, the game had personality back then.
These days it seems like it's just another FPS - having said that I may still check it out for old time's sake...heh
My current Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0.0.11-1 reports gecko version 1.8.1.11 - According to the Wikipedia article cited above, only Gecko 1.9 and above passes. I guess it's time to do some research and find out where/how I'm gonna get me a newer gecko engine...
Personally, I'd love it. Drives me insane when I take my Firefox browser to some website, especially some company website that contains information I need, and it's malformed and impossible to use. Gogo ies4linux - if it were not for that half my ISP's site wouldn't even load for about six months until they finally fixed it. Complain all you want about having to make your website *standards compliant* but not everybody uses IE, and not everybody uses Windows....
Right, my interpretation of the statement equated to something akin to "the light representing the time the jet first hit the galaxy reached our earth 1 million years ago". I was just surprised that the language in the article was so imprecise. I suppose they expected that anyone reading the article would be smart enough to understand, it still struck me as something that shouldn't have made it past the proof read though...
Maybe someone can help me out here, according to the article: Both galaxies are situated about 1.4 billion light-years away from Earth.
And then in another paragraph: The offending galaxy probably began assaulting its companion about 1 million years ago
and goes on to say that it's recent, etc etc.
Is this simply a huge oversight on the author's part with respect to the speed of light, or am I missing something here?
My understanding is that it must have happened about ohh 1.5 billion years ago, right?
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I can't say anything about last Saturday, but starting Christmas eve late we started getting hit hard with the new storm botnet worm...I now have a huge firewall blacklist of what appeared to be infected machines, and haven't noticed if things went back to normal yet or not due to the fact that they're gonna have to give me a damn good reason to unblock them... Either way, a lot has been going on lately.
for people running MS servers to keep their systems patched. I mean...this is an old ass exploit. Are people really that afraid of their Windoze servers loosing stability that they don't even apply security updates?
I think you're confusing security with privacy. A file does not offer any privacy on its own, the creating program is responsible for that. Any file freely available on the internet, encrypted or not, is less secure than one that is not offered up by a network service. That said, when talking about programming and binary file formats, generally as other posters have said the term 'security' is used to describe buffer overflows and whatnot. Obviously in this sense anyone who wanted to could stick bad code in just about anything (WMV has been plagued with this) that fits and do all sorts of nasty stuff, thereby slipping by the normal security systems of a personal computer. Obviously you need an input filter and good error handling when reading files and loading them into memory. Ergo the old import filters need to be more secure.
All that said I'm not gonna argue with you - all files can be inherently "insecure" if the file is made available to a program that does something insecure with it, which is where I see this semantic dance going... The file without a program does nothing, however.
Sigh this is why I don't post stuff, it never comes out right. Anyway the 4S is the thing in Alaska - few other commenters asked about that. Fast-L is what they're calling the Lithium cooled rig - go figure. Not much info on it but from the looks of things it was developed by "Scientists funded by Japan's Atomic Energy Research Institute". I assume Toshiba acquired the rights somehow, that or some monkey took the info from the Fast-L and tried to get people to confuse it with the 4S, I dunno. So yeah I hope that puts some order to my chaos....Questions?
I'm no nuclear scientist, but the 4S is not the Fast-L. The 4S is what they're putting in up in Alaska (see above post I made, link to ppt file). The Fast-L is slightly different (see BBC news article I linked to). I was probably confusing as hell in my post, my brain is good at that. Toshiba for sure is making the 4S, as far as the Fast-L is concerned they must have just acquired the rights to it. I'm still confused that both the 4S and the Fast-L have the same picture for the PR...
It's a ppt, not a pdf...hardly important anyway...I just like to correct my damn self...
This was announced back in 2001, apparently. I still can't find any mention of fuel, anywhere, but at least in the BBC article they do state that the waste would have to be disposed of somehow. It was "conceived of as a power source for colonies on the Moon" and apparently they were trying to get it set up as a smaller, more distributed power generation system to overcome growing power demand and shrinking space to build power plants. With the waste disposal issues and everything else, even if Toshiba did somehow get the contract to build the suckers I'd suspect that there would be heavy regulation and in the end only governments and the well off are going to be building these things, it'd be a nightmare for some regular neighborhood to run one of these things! Anyhoo I dug up this link I guess in theory Alaska is getting one of these suckers up by 2010 if everything goes well. Some slightly better design info in the PDF too...Note that it calls for sodium as the coolant and features exactly the same picture as the newer one..I dunno something about all this new hype is fishy to me...
I used to totally love the old shareware Duke Nukem side scrollers back when I was a kid. I played the first Duke Nukem 3D when it came out and enjoyed the voice clips and crazy levels.
I haven't really played any of the newer ones - it really just seemed more of the same. I actually miss the old side scrollers, the game had personality back then.
These days it seems like it's just another FPS - having said that I may still check it out for old time's sake...heh
My current Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0.0.11-1 reports gecko version 1.8.1.11 - According to the Wikipedia article cited above, only Gecko 1.9 and above passes. I guess it's time to do some research and find out where/how I'm gonna get me a newer gecko engine...
Personally, I'd love it. Drives me insane when I take my Firefox browser to some website, especially some company website that contains information I need, and it's malformed and impossible to use. Gogo ies4linux - if it were not for that half my ISP's site wouldn't even load for about six months until they finally fixed it. Complain all you want about having to make your website *standards compliant* but not everybody uses IE, and not everybody uses Windows....
Right, my interpretation of the statement equated to something akin to "the light representing the time the jet first hit the galaxy reached our earth 1 million years ago". I was just surprised that the language in the article was so imprecise. I suppose they expected that anyone reading the article would be smart enough to understand, it still struck me as something that shouldn't have made it past the proof read though...
I thought the line between biological and artificial was already blurred in Los Angles O.o
Never mind, insert foot in mouth, someone else already covered this a dozen or two comments ago...
Maybe someone can help me out here, according to the article:
Both galaxies are situated about 1.4 billion light-years away from Earth.
And then in another paragraph:
The offending galaxy probably began assaulting its companion about 1 million years ago
and goes on to say that it's recent, etc etc.
Is this simply a huge oversight on the author's part with respect to the speed of light, or am I missing something here?
My understanding is that it must have happened about ohh 1.5 billion years ago, right?