Sony systems were deeply hacked several times last year, through obvious methods (eg SQL injection) that show how seriously the company takes computer matters. Not surprised they endorse SOPA.
Come on - how this post can be modded down "troll"? This is a constructive opinion on the Linux business model.
Should be at least "interesting". In other words, where are my mod points:-(
Yet another GoDaddy interesting story:-)
I'd mod you up... if I had some mod points and if I wouldn't have already two (now three) posts in this thread...
Engineers kept using ext3 (or reiserfs...) for a while because ext4 was "too new".
Now that it's stable and used, is it safe to extend it with such a powerful "block" option, and risk a potential regression?
I'm glad such a program, well designed and programmed in good old C, is rewarded with trust and confidence from more and more engineers.
I have been using it for two years, serving several professional sites, and the transition from the initial Apache setup was surprisingly smooth.
What I like in particular, compared to Apache:
- fantastic performance gain, in terms of cpu and memory
- maintenance gain: the configuration appears (at least to me) to be more "developer like", and easier to configure/extend with many options
- load balancing is... really a piece of cake
The only drawback I (initially) found was the lack of a PHP embedded/module. But using php-fpm happened to be a good alternative, via a local port.
Muslim women can't wear the burqa in public. Jewish schoolboys can't wear the yarmulke in public schools while Christians are prohibited from wearing "large" crosses
All of this is pretty new: was set recently by president Sarkozy.
That should change from May 2012...
Papers like to make us dream about these "earth-like" planet - very distant from us.
Honestly, considering the distance, time to travel, time to communicate and get feedback... Wouldn't it be faster/more feasible/realistic to make our Moon an habitable moon?
I mean, without waiting for 10^x generations of us...
What I meant is that the Japanese language does not contain any of the roman characters [a-z].
The language is only made of two alphabets, hiragana and katakana, and kanji. Thus, again, the Rs and Ls and their other 24 friends are not part of the language.
When it comes to provide an approximative western/roman pronunciation/spelling, the "closest" roman characters were selected.
Regarding the "ra,ri,ru,re,ro" (and some other derivatives) the "r" was chosen against the "l" according to international conventions - sorry I cannot show the actual Japanese characters since they are filtered out by the/. scripts.
We all know that sooner or later wi-fi (or the new protocol at the time) will be available everywhere for free. The sooner the better.
I'm glad such a service is being made available in Japan.
Right now, you can either
- subscribe to a monthly 3G like service and use a small device that acts as a wi-fi server (~4000JPY a month)
- use, for instance, some wi-fi spots in some malls and coffee shops that work only for a given carrier (eg useable only with a SoftBank iPhone)
I'm just surprised that such a necessary free service takes that long to be implemented, not only in Japan but in most of countries I'm visiting. This is where we would have expected Google or MS (to improve their image) to be more pro-active.
Most of routers implementations allow a few attempts and then black list the MAC address of the attacker for a while (according to TFA the program would have to try at most 11,000 times).
Thus the attacker program should be low-level enough to fake its own MAC address all the time.
This article from 2004 is indeed very informative. For those who cannot read it entirely, here are the most Fukushima-related parts:
Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette
Japan sits on top of four tectonic plates, at the edge of the subduction zone, and is in one of the most tectonically active regions of the world.
The 52 reactors in Japan are located in an area the size of California, many within 150 km of each other and almost all built along the coast where seawater is available to cool them.
However, many of those reactors have been negligently sited on active faults, particularly in the subduction zone along the Pacific coast, where major earthquakes of magnitude 7-8 or more on the Richter scale occur frequently.
"I think the situation right now is very scary," says Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and professor at Kobe University. "It's like a kamikaze terrorist wrapped in bombs just waiting to explode."
Last summer, I visited Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. Because Hamaoka sits directly over the subduction zone near the junction of two plates, and is overdue for a major earthquake, it is considered to be the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan.
When the geologic evidence was presented confirming the extreme danger at Hamaoka, the attending media were obviously shocked.
On July 7 last year, the same day of my visit to Hamaoka, Ishibashi warned of the danger of an earthquake-induced nuclear disaster (...). He said: "The seismic designs of nuclear facilities are based on standards that are too old from the viewpoint of modern seismology and are insufficient. The authorities must admit the possibility that an earthquake-nuclear disaster could happen and weigh the risks objectively."
After visiting the center a few kilometers from Hamaoka, I realized that Japan has no real nuclear-disaster plan in the event that an earthquake damaged a reactor's water-cooling system and triggered a reactor meltdown.
Additionally, there is an extreme danger of an earthquake causing a loss of water coolant in the pools where spent fuel rods are kept.
When I asked ERC officials how they planned to evacuate millions of people from Shizuoka Prefecture and beyond after a Kobe-magnitude earthquake (Kobe is on the same subduction zone as Hamaoka) destroyed communication lines, roads, railroads, drinking-water supplies and sewage lines, they had no answer.
Yoichi Kikuchi, a Japanese nuclear engineer who also became a whistle-blower, has told me personally of many safety problems at Japan's nuclear power plants, such as cracks in pipes in the cooling system from vibrations in the reactor. He said the electric companies are "gambling in a dangerous game to increase profits and decrease government oversight."
It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur.
It is time to make the changeover from nuclear fuel to fossil fuels in order to save future generations and the economy of Japan.
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Sony systems were deeply hacked several times last year, through obvious methods (eg SQL injection) that show how seriously the company takes computer matters. Not surprised they endorse SOPA.
Come on - how this post can be modded down "troll"? This is a constructive opinion on the Linux business model. :-(
Should be at least "interesting". In other words, where are my mod points
Yet another GoDaddy interesting story :-)
I'd mod you up... if I had some mod points and if I wouldn't have already two (now three) posts in this thread...
$ curl -v www.skype.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Apache
Too new, maybe...
Engineers kept using ext3 (or reiserfs...) for a while because ext4 was "too new".
Now that it's stable and used, is it safe to extend it with such a powerful "block" option, and risk a potential regression?
I'm glad such a program, well designed and programmed in good old C, is rewarded with trust and confidence from more and more engineers.
: ... really a piece of cake
I have been using it for two years, serving several professional sites, and the transition from the initial Apache setup was surprisingly smooth.
What I like in particular, compared to Apache
- fantastic performance gain, in terms of cpu and memory
- maintenance gain: the configuration appears (at least to me) to be more "developer like", and easier to configure/extend with many options
- load balancing is
The only drawback I (initially) found was the lack of a PHP embedded/module. But using php-fpm happened to be a good alternative, via a local port.
Now I understand why that GM beats me at Chess all the time. He's genetically modified :-)
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Muslim women can't wear the burqa in public. Jewish schoolboys can't wear the yarmulke in public schools while Christians are prohibited from wearing "large" crosses
All of this is pretty new: was set recently by president Sarkozy.
That should change from May 2012...
The Japan earthquake * tsunami * Fukushima hit me the most. Not only in /. but also because I was in Tokyo living the events in real time.
Papers like to make us dream about these "earth-like" planet - very distant from us.
Honestly, considering the distance, time to travel, time to communicate and get feedback... Wouldn't it be faster/more feasible/realistic to make our Moon an habitable moon?
I mean, without waiting for 10^x generations of us...
On Linux you have to install the libpcap-dev (look into the synapsis packages tool).
On the Mac, you'll miss the <linux/types.h> include - not sure that's all, but if it is, you should be able to find a patch easily.
I really didn't want to be doing any programming during new year's holiday.
What I meant is that the Japanese language does not contain any of the roman characters [a-z].
/. scripts.
The language is only made of two alphabets, hiragana and katakana, and kanji. Thus, again, the Rs and Ls and their other 24 friends are not part of the language.
When it comes to provide an approximative western/roman pronunciation/spelling, the "closest" roman characters were selected.
Regarding the "ra,ri,ru,re,ro" (and some other derivatives) the "r" was chosen against the "l" according to international conventions - sorry I cannot show the actual Japanese characters since they are filtered out by the
For the fun: In Engrish please.
They have no Rs either.
Yes. And I don't mind having a reminder every other day.
This is not just about SOPA...
We all know that sooner or later wi-fi (or the new protocol at the time) will be available everywhere for free. The sooner the better.
I'm glad such a service is being made available in Japan.
Right now, you can either
- subscribe to a monthly 3G like service and use a small device that acts as a wi-fi server (~4000JPY a month)
- use, for instance, some wi-fi spots in some malls and coffee shops that work only for a given carrier (eg useable only with a SoftBank iPhone)
I'm just surprised that such a necessary free service takes that long to be implemented, not only in Japan but in most of countries I'm visiting. This is where we would have expected Google or MS (to improve their image) to be more pro-active.
Most of routers implementations allow a few attempts and then black list the MAC address of the attacker for a while (according to TFA the program would have to try at most 11,000 times).
Thus the attacker program should be low-level enough to fake its own MAC address all the time.
Modded 5 "interesting"... ok. Fortunately it's not up to "informative"...
Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette
Japan sits on top of four tectonic plates, at the edge of the subduction zone, and is in one of the most tectonically active regions of the world.
The 52 reactors in Japan are located in an area the size of California, many within 150 km of each other and almost all built along the coast where seawater is available to cool them.
However, many of those reactors have been negligently sited on active faults, particularly in the subduction zone along the Pacific coast, where major earthquakes of magnitude 7-8 or more on the Richter scale occur frequently.
"I think the situation right now is very scary," says Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and professor at Kobe University. "It's like a kamikaze terrorist wrapped in bombs just waiting to explode."
Last summer, I visited Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. Because Hamaoka sits directly over the subduction zone near the junction of two plates, and is overdue for a major earthquake, it is considered to be the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan.
When the geologic evidence was presented confirming the extreme danger at Hamaoka, the attending media were obviously shocked.
On July 7 last year, the same day of my visit to Hamaoka, Ishibashi warned of the danger of an earthquake-induced nuclear disaster (...). He said: "The seismic designs of nuclear facilities are based on standards that are too old from the viewpoint of modern seismology and are insufficient. The authorities must admit the possibility that an earthquake-nuclear disaster could happen and weigh the risks objectively."
After visiting the center a few kilometers from Hamaoka, I realized that Japan has no real nuclear-disaster plan in the event that an earthquake damaged a reactor's water-cooling system and triggered a reactor meltdown.
Additionally, there is an extreme danger of an earthquake causing a loss of water coolant in the pools where spent fuel rods are kept.
When I asked ERC officials how they planned to evacuate millions of people from Shizuoka Prefecture and beyond after a Kobe-magnitude earthquake (Kobe is on the same subduction zone as Hamaoka) destroyed communication lines, roads, railroads, drinking-water supplies and sewage lines, they had no answer.
Yoichi Kikuchi, a Japanese nuclear engineer who also became a whistle-blower, has told me personally of many safety problems at Japan's nuclear power plants, such as cracks in pipes in the cooling system from vibrations in the reactor. He said the electric companies are "gambling in a dangerous game to increase profits and decrease government oversight."
It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur.
It is time to make the changeover from nuclear fuel to fossil fuels in order to save future generations and the economy of Japan.
If you want BASIC for your phone, make one
On the iPhone, you can't. Apple prohibits the making of an interpreter of a scripted language. You app would not be approved.
What's wrong with the Singapore English lah?
Stop advertising Linode...
I'm also a happy Linode customer... too many customers will split our bandwidth share!
/. disks are getting full.
According to TFA, they are mostly talking about animals who may already have been impacted by the reactor.