True, but I really doubt that many sites think, "Hmm, I'm probably going to be/.ed pretty soon, I better add some protection into my httpd.conf". Without a warning, it's not the site's responsibilty to protect itself from some "unknown penguin-worshipping nerd news site" that a great many people, believe it or not, have never heard of. Furthermore, non-news links originating from slashdot, such as links in comments, or signatures would be filtered out along with/.ed urls from news posts. And as you already said, this won't stop the DOS, because merely typing the url into the location/address bar will give no referer.
Indeed, slashdotting a site is a direct DOS attack, and slashdot should start taking some responsibility for causing so many sites to go offline due to the spontaneous bandwidth increase of the slashdot effect. IMO, every site linked by slashdot should be given the right to deny such a link, and if the site accepts the link, should be offered time to get a mirror up or increase bandwidth. Without such a warning, linking to a small-medium business or personal homepage is the equivalent of tossing a rabbit into a cage of hungry lions and not feeling responsible for the rabbit's instant death.
I'd surmise that the reason for the 40% women in the CS class is largely do to the admissions selection ability that a school like CMU has. Due to the high number of extremely qualified applicants that schools such as CMU, Stanford, MIT, etc. receive, they do not need to conform to the supply and demand curves of the CS student market, but instead can select the CS class based on department and admissions goals. For example, gender and racial demographics exceeding that of the populace.
Good point, but you should also realize that a lot of the students getting EE degress will actually go into CS or CE jobs when they graduate. Therefore I think that the popularity of EE-based jobs is even less than the popularity of the major.
Very true. I would also like to point out that no, the media would not have a field day if it turned out mind-altering drugs caused rats to kill each other. We know drugs are bad: it's not news, it's like doing a study on rats ingesting cyanide and reporting that it killed them.
Of course technologies can be valuable to those who would use them correctly/justly, the problem is that the benefits those people enjoy could very well be dwarfed by the consequences of the illegal use, which is exactly what happened to Napster.
I doubt employee discrimination based on DNA/aura analysis will last very long, if it all, before an Affirmative Action-esque law is passed to protect the imperfect.
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True, but I really doubt that many sites think, "Hmm, I'm probably going to be /.ed pretty soon, I better add some protection into my httpd.conf". Without a warning, it's not the site's responsibilty to protect itself from some "unknown penguin-worshipping nerd news site" that a great many people, believe it or not, have never heard of. Furthermore, non-news links originating from slashdot, such as links in comments, or signatures would be filtered out along with /.ed urls from news posts. And as you already said, this won't stop the DOS, because merely typing the url into the location/address bar will give no referer.
Indeed, slashdotting a site is a direct DOS attack, and slashdot should start taking some responsibility for causing so many sites to go offline due to the spontaneous bandwidth increase of the slashdot effect. IMO, every site linked by slashdot should be given the right to deny such a link, and if the site accepts the link, should be offered time to get a mirror up or increase bandwidth. Without such a warning, linking to a small-medium business or personal homepage is the equivalent of tossing a rabbit into a cage of hungry lions and not feeling responsible for the rabbit's instant death.
I'd surmise that the reason for the 40% women in the CS class is largely do to the admissions selection ability that a school like CMU has. Due to the high number of extremely qualified applicants that schools such as CMU, Stanford, MIT, etc. receive, they do not need to conform to the supply and demand curves of the CS student market, but instead can select the CS class based on department and admissions goals. For example, gender and racial demographics exceeding that of the populace.
Good point, but you should also realize that a lot of the students getting EE degress will actually go into CS or CE jobs when they graduate. Therefore I think that the popularity of EE-based jobs is even less than the popularity of the major.
Very true. I would also like to point out that no, the media would not have a field day if it turned out mind-altering drugs caused rats to kill each other. We know drugs are bad: it's not news, it's like doing a study on rats ingesting cyanide and reporting that it killed them.
Of course technologies can be valuable to those who would use them correctly/justly, the problem is that the benefits those people enjoy could very well be dwarfed by the consequences of the illegal use, which is exactly what happened to Napster.
I doubt employee discrimination based on DNA/aura analysis will last very long, if it all, before an Affirmative Action-esque law is passed to protect the imperfect.
Pretty soon restaraunts will be coming out with "**Didn't wash his hands**" detectors for bathrooms.
but I'd really like some more info., like an in-depth analysis of how the optical system works; especially how it interfaces with the optic nerve.