My uneducated guess was so that software and hardware only need to parse the first octect in order to determine that it's a loopback address.
Considering how many local system services utilize IP addressing and ports to hand off data to each other, it makes sense to streamline local vs. remote traffic as quickly as possible.
I call bullshit on not trying to avoid paying higher taxes. He specifically setup his company ownership structure so that most of his personal income arrives via capital gains, which have the lowest tax rate. There's no reason why he couldn't have chosen to receive his income as salary and pay the same 35-40% tax rate (plus employment taxes on the company's side) that someone making $250,000 would have paid.
Or, the more likely scenario, what if Comcast launches a web-based video on demand service, and that gets the 4Mbit priority whereas Netflix is always relegated to stuttering speeds?
This is the real danger and it's already starting to happen. The large ISPs which have an effective oligarchy on the US market can reduce the internet to essentially a set of "preferred" sites by prioritizing the traffic, not based on load balancing needs, but based purely on who the traffic is intended for. They want to hold their users hostage, and force content providers to pay them for access to the users.
Think of the local mafia enforcer saying, "You've got a nice website here, it'd be a shame if no one was able to use it...."
10.3 server was not permitted on a Mini. Nothing stopped you other than EULA and the fact it was only sold bundled with an XServe or MacPro. It was not available as a standalone product.
I'm not sure they will. After all, right now you can buy a Mini with OSX server, and even sans optical drive if you wish. If they wanted to force more expensive hardware for their upper-end features, they would prevent OSX Server from running on a Mini. Originally the EULA prevented you from using OSX Server on anything other than an XServe or MacPro, but now they not only allow it, they endorse it.
They want Macs to be the machines people are using to create content and apps for the mobile gadgets. I don't see why they would undermine that. However, I would not be surprised if they built-in an AppStore for OSX.
Since they are using the names, and except for the Cheetah print and Snow Leopard, not actually showing pictures of the animals, they still have options. They used both Panther and Jaguar.
Other names still available, especially if they include medium-sized cats (which they already did depending on how you classify puma): bobcat, mountain lion, lynx, cougar, caracal, ocelot, and a whole slew of region-specific minor species
No, they wanted RDP, not web sessions. And like I said, no security lockdown whatsoever, no system updates, no antivirus, all ports at default configuration.
Same at my office. The provider insisted that we install no firewall or antivirus on their Win2K3 box, and they wanted remote desktop enabled and a public IP. We said hell no. This is sitting behind our firewalls and if you need access, we'll setup some port forwarding pinholes THEN.
Both underwriters and car dealerships purchase in structured deals with contractual boundaries that set wholesale pricing structures.
Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
For example, most concerts and sports games are not truly sold out. Scalpers purchase blocks of tickets, and resell them at much much higher rates. Because of their profit margins, they have no incentive to sell all their tickets, causing an artificial scarcity. People who were willing to buy at the set price get blocked out, and the venue ends up with empty seats.
Car dealers and stock underwriters on the other hand, have every incentive to sell every item they purchase. Unlike scalpers, they are providing a benefit to their service by organizing distribution and sales channels. In these situations, the original product source (IPO, factory) doesn't want to sell direct, they prefer to sell wholesale and let someone else take on that responsibility. Scalpers on the other hand are simply injecting themselves as an additional layer post-retail and do not add any value with their service.
What the summary describes is clearly a scalper, someone who's taking advantage of a situation and causing even more scarcity issues and driving up prices, just to garner profit with little risk or added value.
Because of your eyebrow ridge and cheekbones, your peripheral vision in the horizontal directions is much larger angular range than in vertical directions.
why is it suddenly so hard to find a laptop with a good screen?
Because the fabricators have switched focus to the much more lucrative HDTV, mobile phone, and tablet markets. Once those markets are oversaturated with cheap low-margin devices, you'll see retooling back to desktop and laptop displays.
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And that's exactly the moral of the story, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
The only option would be to build a bullet-proof metal suit with a built-in nuclear power supply.
So to you, the option is to die while waiting for science-fiction to pan out? I'm glad you're that comfortable with your mortality, but it sounds to me this kid will settle for what's possible with today's cutting-edge technology.
It's also possible that this is the work of a lone individual: the idea that it would take a state actor to create a worm is even more laughable than SCO's contention that Linus Torvalds couldn't have possibly written a kernel by himself.
The reason why the lone gunman source is ruled out, is because this worm relies on several very clever techniques and previously unknown security holes in systems that have very different areas of expertise. In other words, Linus could have written the core of the kernel by himself, but not also a package manager, drivers for a consumer video card, AND factory control software for a nuclear reactor.
The expertise realms required for developing this worm are varied and non-overlapping. Combine this with zero-day exploits, and it very clearly implies an organized group effort. Furthermore, it appears to selectively targeted to very expensive and rare equipment. This means the authoring group had access to expensive test hardware or environments, and had very specific knowledge of their target. This implies state-level funding, reconnaissance, or research. The amount of time, money, and collaboration that went into this rules out anything done simply for vanity. Very few non-state entities have the motives to facilitate this. You're right that we can't rule out NGOs, but the pool of those with both motive and resources is pretty slim. Most of these are probably backed by governments hostile to Iran; think CIA cover companies and the like. This leads you right back to a nation-state being the most likely culprit.
Now, it is easy for just about any government to come up with a couple million in cash to fund this kind of operation. No one is arguing only a government could produce A worm, people are arguing that the specific characteristics and complexities of THIS particular worm couldn't possibly have been created by a single individual.
DoubleClick's cookies identify my computer, not me so I don't see the problem. Some developers just want to see how many computers browsers are installed and in active use on.
Lucky bastard, here in California we get 120km/hr. And anything faster is going to be 9 billion dollars, and over a decade, just to build the first 25 mile stretch along existing right-of-ways.
At this point, thousands of people are probably pointing all sorts of interesting script-tweaking plugins at facebook to see what happens.
With 500 million users and all kinds of APIs, scripting controls, and data options, there are most likely thousands of people pointing interesting script-tweaking plugins at any given moment, regardless of the/. effect.
Not very difficult, unless of course you put the command and control structure within the same information channel as the content, sans escaping or syntax. Then you have the nasty problem of any particular string of characters being content, instructions, or both.
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My uneducated guess was so that software and hardware only need to parse the first octect in order to determine that it's a loopback address.
Considering how many local system services utilize IP addressing and ports to hand off data to each other, it makes sense to streamline local vs. remote traffic as quickly as possible.
I call bullshit on not trying to avoid paying higher taxes. He specifically setup his company ownership structure so that most of his personal income arrives via capital gains, which have the lowest tax rate. There's no reason why he couldn't have chosen to receive his income as salary and pay the same 35-40% tax rate (plus employment taxes on the company's side) that someone making $250,000 would have paid.
Exactly. My photos of Stonehenge are mine. I shot them, and my admission ticket had nothing on it restricting the terms of my photographing it.
These are my fucking property. I created them, I own the copyright, not this organization, and I'll sell them if I please.
Now, if they want to try to trademark Stonehenge, go right ahead, but I don't see it holding up.
Ahhh young padawan, you have much to learn.
What if you want to watch Hulu? Stuttering.
Or, the more likely scenario, what if Comcast launches a web-based video on demand service, and that gets the 4Mbit priority whereas Netflix is always relegated to stuttering speeds?
This is the real danger and it's already starting to happen. The large ISPs which have an effective oligarchy on the US market can reduce the internet to essentially a set of "preferred" sites by prioritizing the traffic, not based on load balancing needs, but based purely on who the traffic is intended for. They want to hold their users hostage, and force content providers to pay them for access to the users.
Think of the local mafia enforcer saying, "You've got a nice website here, it'd be a shame if no one was able to use it...."
And how much would it cost you to purchase a PC with Windows 2008 and unlimited CALs?
A web-based store is not the same thing as the AppStore with one click purchasing and install.
10.3 server was not permitted on a Mini. Nothing stopped you other than EULA and the fact it was only sold bundled with an XServe or MacPro. It was not available as a standalone product.
I'm not sure they will. After all, right now you can buy a Mini with OSX server, and even sans optical drive if you wish. If they wanted to force more expensive hardware for their upper-end features, they would prevent OSX Server from running on a Mini. Originally the EULA prevented you from using OSX Server on anything other than an XServe or MacPro, but now they not only allow it, they endorse it.
They want Macs to be the machines people are using to create content and apps for the mobile gadgets. I don't see why they would undermine that. However, I would not be surprised if they built-in an AppStore for OSX.
Since they are using the names, and except for the Cheetah print and Snow Leopard, not actually showing pictures of the animals, they still have options. They used both Panther and Jaguar.
10.0 Cheetah
10.1 Puma
10.2 Jaguar
10.3 Panther
10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard
10.6 Snow Leopard
10.7 Lion?
Other names still available, especially if they include medium-sized cats (which they already did depending on how you classify puma):
bobcat, mountain lion, lynx, cougar, caracal, ocelot, and a whole slew of region-specific minor species
No, they wanted RDP, not web sessions. And like I said, no security lockdown whatsoever, no system updates, no antivirus, all ports at default configuration.
Same at my office. The provider insisted that we install no firewall or antivirus on their Win2K3 box, and they wanted remote desktop enabled and a public IP. We said hell no. This is sitting behind our firewalls and if you need access, we'll setup some port forwarding pinholes THEN.
Both underwriters and car dealerships purchase in structured deals with contractual boundaries that set wholesale pricing structures.
Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
For example, most concerts and sports games are not truly sold out. Scalpers purchase blocks of tickets, and resell them at much much higher rates. Because of their profit margins, they have no incentive to sell all their tickets, causing an artificial scarcity. People who were willing to buy at the set price get blocked out, and the venue ends up with empty seats.
Car dealers and stock underwriters on the other hand, have every incentive to sell every item they purchase. Unlike scalpers, they are providing a benefit to their service by organizing distribution and sales channels. In these situations, the original product source (IPO, factory) doesn't want to sell direct, they prefer to sell wholesale and let someone else take on that responsibility. Scalpers on the other hand are simply injecting themselves as an additional layer post-retail and do not add any value with their service.
What the summary describes is clearly a scalper, someone who's taking advantage of a situation and causing even more scarcity issues and driving up prices, just to garner profit with little risk or added value.
Because of your eyebrow ridge and cheekbones, your peripheral vision in the horizontal directions is much larger angular range than in vertical directions.
Because the fabricators have switched focus to the much more lucrative HDTV, mobile phone, and tablet markets. Once those markets are oversaturated with cheap low-margin devices, you'll see retooling back to desktop and laptop displays.
And that's exactly the moral of the story, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Considering first post on that story was from a 6-digit UID, you'd still have 6 digits in your UID.
So to you, the option is to die while waiting for science-fiction to pan out? I'm glad you're that comfortable with your mortality, but it sounds to me this kid will settle for what's possible with today's cutting-edge technology.
Guess what? so was May 9, 1980, May 9, 1981, May 9, 1982.....not an interesting connection in the least
It could just as easily be the birthday of one of the authors.
The reason why the lone gunman source is ruled out, is because this worm relies on several very clever techniques and previously unknown security holes in systems that have very different areas of expertise. In other words, Linus could have written the core of the kernel by himself, but not also a package manager, drivers for a consumer video card, AND factory control software for a nuclear reactor.
The expertise realms required for developing this worm are varied and non-overlapping. Combine this with zero-day exploits, and it very clearly implies an organized group effort. Furthermore, it appears to selectively targeted to very expensive and rare equipment. This means the authoring group had access to expensive test hardware or environments, and had very specific knowledge of their target. This implies state-level funding, reconnaissance, or research. The amount of time, money, and collaboration that went into this rules out anything done simply for vanity. Very few non-state entities have the motives to facilitate this. You're right that we can't rule out NGOs, but the pool of those with both motive and resources is pretty slim. Most of these are probably backed by governments hostile to Iran; think CIA cover companies and the like. This leads you right back to a nation-state being the most likely culprit.
Now, it is easy for just about any government to come up with a couple million in cash to fund this kind of operation. No one is arguing only a government could produce A worm, people are arguing that the specific characteristics and complexities of THIS particular worm couldn't possibly have been created by a single individual.
DoubleClick's cookies identify my computer, not me so I don't see the problem. Some developers just want to see how many computers browsers are installed and in active use on.
Lucky bastard, here in California we get 120km/hr. And anything faster is going to be 9 billion dollars, and over a decade, just to build the first 25 mile stretch along existing right-of-ways.
Better yet, issue DMCA takedown requests for the board of directors.
With 500 million users and all kinds of APIs, scripting controls, and data options, there are most likely thousands of people pointing interesting script-tweaking plugins at any given moment, regardless of the /. effect.
Not very difficult, unless of course you put the command and control structure within the same information channel as the content, sans escaping or syntax. Then you have the nasty problem of any particular string of characters being content, instructions, or both.
Where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, on slashdot almost exactly 5 months ago.