The kaminsky attack is an attack on a client that is dumb enough to allow to make thousands of dns requests to subdomains of a domain. If the solution is changing to DNSSEC the clients will have to change to DNSSEC too, so we may as well prevent the attack by making the DNS clients smarter. For example a rule could be added that says that if there were more than 10 invalid responses for subdomains of the same domain then when a valid response arrives only to cache the IP for the subdomain requested and not for additional domain names included on the response.
the traditional carbon and oil energy sources that this would replace are known to be dangerous. As long as the state is correctly regulating this I think it's GOOD, not EVIL.
Are the mods on crack? How is this +4? I think it's pretty clear that "need" is based on how much energy we are using today.
And we may no be that flexible about the energy that we use. Transportation and heating are were most of the energy is used and they are not much elastic. Electricity use would have been to be reduced drastically to make an important difference and at that point civil unrest could start a dangerous downward spiral. In a few decades there won't be so much fossil fuels to fall back for easy energy to maintain a large population. The only way to prevent a catastrophic energy shortage is to have varied and redundant energy sources ahead of that happening.
We already mine and BURN over six billion tons of coal a year, That's one ton of coal for every man, woman and child on the planet.
Why does common sense and reason go out the window when people post on these stories? It's got to the stage where I feel like I'm arguing with young earth creationists.
Because you are too naive. There are lots of people that have some interest in the status quo and they can post in slashdot too. I'd even say slashdot could be infiltrated. It's a good spot to seed false ideas as it has a kind of "collective mind" that amplifies the ideas, due to the moderation system.
And the people that I'm talking about can be from rich investors in the oil sector to average joe that works for shell as a sysadmin and is afraid he's not getting his yearly 2% raise.
If my boss paired me with another programmer so he can learn from me then I'll expect him to pay me extra. No way I'm doing free teaching. I was hired for programming not mentoring. Stop trying to get free work from your employees.
Saying that rewriting ffmpeg is a "simple solution" doesn't mean it is. Google does work in a lot of projects and doesnt have the "not done in home" syndrome. They wouldn't do something as stupid as rewriting it just for using in chrome. And I'm pretty sure that google doesn't care if you use GPL code or not.
I don't see this as something that wrong, given statistics that a shocking high percentage of DNA tests show that the "dads" are not really related to their children. If you are going to be as invested in your child as you should, you have the right to be sure it's really yours. And don't reply me with the "it shouldn't be your wire it you don't trust her". That argument is crap, there is a difference between trust based on knowledge and blind trust.
Thinking that the design of a programming language is independent of how fast the code written on it runs is at least ignorant. There are some obvious differences between compiled/interpeted languages, and even with JIT compilers, there are some languages that simply are not well prepared to be optimized like others.
I find the most eye opening fact is that the sun is 93,000,000 miles behind the shuttle. It is an awesome display of the scale of the sun.
Actually we know all the distances so we can calculate how much bigger should the sun look than the shuttle in this picture.
Distance from Sun =1.496 x 10^11 m
distance form hubble=5.59*10^5
size of the sun=4.37*10^9
size of shuttle=5.6*10
Simple math says that the sun should look 291 times bigger, but this assumes that the sun was right on top when the picture was taken and that the shuttle was in horizontal position.
The next step will be to give this planes more autonomous capabilities developing AI systems to control them. Then build a network so they communicate between themselves. I would call it skynet.
"Couldn't the same argument be used against distro repositories, security vendors websites, and any other system that people assume is safe and working in their best interests?"
Yes, theoretically, it could. In practice, the argument only holds against Windows and MS Office update (maybe also Firefox), since the others have a very high diversity.
What the hell??... This has nothing to do with Office or Firefox update they are not peer-to-peer applications.
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The kaminsky attack is an attack on a client that is dumb enough to allow to make thousands of dns requests to subdomains of a domain. If the solution is changing to DNSSEC the clients will have to change to DNSSEC too, so we may as well prevent the attack by making the DNS clients smarter. For example a rule could be added that says that if there were more than 10 invalid responses for subdomains of the same domain then when a valid response arrives only to cache the IP for the subdomain requested and not for additional domain names included on the response.
the traditional carbon and oil energy sources that this would replace are known to be dangerous. As long as the state is correctly regulating this I think it's GOOD, not EVIL.
Are the mods on crack? How is this +4? I think it's pretty clear that "need" is based on how much energy we are using today. And we may no be that flexible about the energy that we use. Transportation and heating are were most of the energy is used and they are not much elastic. Electricity use would have been to be reduced drastically to make an important difference and at that point civil unrest could start a dangerous downward spiral. In a few decades there won't be so much fossil fuels to fall back for easy energy to maintain a large population. The only way to prevent a catastrophic energy shortage is to have varied and redundant energy sources ahead of that happening.
We already mine and BURN over six billion tons of coal a year, That's one ton of coal for every man, woman and child on the planet. Why does common sense and reason go out the window when people post on these stories? It's got to the stage where I feel like I'm arguing with young earth creationists.
Because you are too naive. There are lots of people that have some interest in the status quo and they can post in slashdot too. I'd even say slashdot could be infiltrated. It's a good spot to seed false ideas as it has a kind of "collective mind" that amplifies the ideas, due to the moderation system.
And the people that I'm talking about can be from rich investors in the oil sector to average joe that works for shell as a sysadmin and is afraid he's not getting his yearly 2% raise.
If my boss paired me with another programmer so he can learn from me then I'll expect him to pay me extra. No way I'm doing free teaching. I was hired for programming not mentoring. Stop trying to get free work from your employees.
Saying that rewriting ffmpeg is a "simple solution" doesn't mean it is. Google does work in a lot of projects and doesnt have the "not done in home" syndrome. They wouldn't do something as stupid as rewriting it just for using in chrome. And I'm pretty sure that google doesn't care if you use GPL code or not.
I don't see this as something that wrong, given statistics that a shocking high percentage of DNA tests show that the "dads" are not really related to their children. If you are going to be as invested in your child as you should, you have the right to be sure it's really yours. And don't reply me with the "it shouldn't be your wire it you don't trust her". That argument is crap, there is a difference between trust based on knowledge and blind trust.
Thinking that the design of a programming language is independent of how fast the code written on it runs is at least ignorant. There are some obvious differences between compiled/interpeted languages, and even with JIT compilers, there are some languages that simply are not well prepared to be optimized like others.
I find the most eye opening fact is that the sun is 93,000,000 miles behind the shuttle. It is an awesome display of the scale of the sun.
Actually we know all the distances so we can calculate how much bigger should the sun look than the shuttle in this picture.
Distance from Sun =1.496 x 10^11 m
distance form hubble=5.59*10^5
size of the sun=4.37*10^9
size of shuttle=5.6*10
Simple math says that the sun should look 291 times bigger, but this assumes that the sun was right on top when the picture was taken and that the shuttle was in horizontal position.
The next step will be to give this planes more autonomous capabilities developing AI systems to control them. Then build a network so they communicate between themselves. I would call it skynet.
Yes, theoretically, it could. In practice, the argument only holds against Windows and MS Office update (maybe also Firefox), since the others have a very high diversity.
What the hell??... This has nothing to do with Office or Firefox update they are not peer-to-peer applications.