Submitter's email address? "tulsa23@hushmail.com".
The "guy who wrote the NVN mod" runs Sixbyte hosting, which is located in..... Tulsa, OK.
Is this a case of Astroturfing ?
To use a slogan from a certain network: I report, you decide!
Anderson: Yes, your Honor, I did drive on the wrong side of the road and didn't stop at the red light.
You see, driving on the right side of the road and stopping at the signal would have delayed me a little, and didn't adequately suit my needs.
So, can I go free now?
What.. erm... jail? Huh? Wait! WAIT!! My needs come before the needs of the rest of the society!!!! Waaahhh... ouch... please take it easy with the handcuffs, Mr. Policeman, my wife uses them all the time and they hurt...
No, the full text is not available (as far as I can tell).
From
this page:
Each month we will post a new chapter on this Web site. If you are patient, in 18 months you will have read the book in its entirety.
He got rich, and now people think he has some sort of unique insight.
That's America for you. If you're rich, (most) people think you must be really smart. Sometimes this may be true, but often it is not. But the sheeple don't care; they want to look up to, emulate, and lap up the pearls of wisdom put forth by the rich folks.
Google Codejam is a programming contest, and not a contest to develop a neat application for Google. The problems in the CodeJam are more like puzzles. You are confusing this with the other contest that Google had (the URL for which escapes me) where they gave 10K for the best use of Google.
It is not like the terrorists are limited to a small set of names! They'll just pick another name at random (just like they picked John Lewis and Edward Kennedy) and keep going.
Keep this in mind: Terrorists can change their names at will, and us normal people can't.
I can just imagine the scene at Bin Laden's camp:
Oh shit! All the good names are taken. What do we do, boss?
Well, I guess we better give up the fight. Those Americans are too clever!
Just like the Maginot Line did not work for the French, this also will not work.
The worst part about the Lewis story is how he managed to get around it: by using a middle initial! He switched from "John Lewis" to "John R Lewis", and presto! No more problems!
If the system is so friggin' easy to fool, just why is it being used??
I can only shake my head and wonder. It is not that I'm upset about a few people being harassed; what bothers me is that this is such a lame measure, which is easily fooled, and yet there are people who think it is useful. It is the presence of such people in decision-making roles is what really bothers me. If these people can't even see the problems with this system, are we expected to put faith in their abilities to spot real problems and design real solutions???
The only "stunt" here is your brain, which is too "stunt"ed to read the f'n articles.
Since your heads too far inside a very dark place, I'll summarise it for you:
This happened between March 1 and April 6. And Ted Kennedy brought it up at the hearing just to make a point. He didn't run around screaming when it happened; otherwise you would have heard about this in March and April.
If his intention was to create publicity, don't you think he would have done it a long time back? Don't you think he would have brought video cameras with him to the airline counter, a-la Geraldo??
Jeeez! Use your f'n head for something other than carrying a hat, willya?
as people could then reuse tokens from incoming email in outgoing email.
What's to prevent me from sending the same token to 1 million people? Aha, you say: there'll be a central database of tokens to make sure that they are not being rused en masse. And that, then, becomes your bottleneck, making this useless.
Why not just tell the client to sleep for (int(rand(10)) seconds?
In any case: keep in mind that HTTP is stateless (since you mentioned DoS, I'll bring up HTTP, a common DoS target). Each web page you load initiates 10s of connections. Imagine having to wait a couple of seconds for each connection to go through. Suddenly, the 1.2sec it takes to load a page like/. now will take 30sec; probably worse than dialup. Now this doesn't seem to hot anymore, does it?
If this (RPOW/HashCash) is a form of electronic currency, then I can see a potential; using it to thwart DoS or SPAM is pointless, since we all know that technological solutions to these problems don't exist.
The comparison concludes with the wishy-washy statement:
After all is said and done it became difficult (nearly impossible?) to justify the Xeon processor in a UP configuration over the Opteron 150,
Huh? Here are some numbers:
POV-Ray 3.50c: Opteron is 40% faster
Crafty v19.15: Opteron is 70% faster
TSCP: 10% faster
PostgresSQL test-insert and test-select: Opteron takes 60% of the time it takes Xeon
MySQL test-insert: Opteron takes 80% of the time it takes Xeon.
In almost every benchmark, where proper optimizations are used (and why shouldn't they be? Who in his/her right mind would not use proper optimizations??), the Opteron destroys the Xeon.
But can you overclock it? Is the 2.2GHz speed of the Athlon (and most of the other AMD offerings seem to plateau out around this figure) a limit for AMDs?
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With a newer distro, the contestants would get newer versions of the tools (like Eclipse, Emacs, etc.).
I'm not criticizing; I'm just wondering.
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So.. who's going to apply this "sunshine" policy to Cuba and DPRK ?
Back to the drawing board again, eh, Jonathan?
The "guy who wrote the NVN mod" runs Sixbyte hosting, which is located in..... Tulsa, OK.
Is this a case of Astroturfing ?
To use a slogan from a certain network: I report, you decide!
Anderson: Yes, your Honor, I did drive on the wrong side of the road and didn't stop at the red light.
You see, driving on the right side of the road and stopping at the signal would have delayed me a little, and didn't adequately suit my needs.
So, can I go free now?
What.. erm... jail? Huh? Wait! WAIT!! My needs come before the needs of the rest of the society!!!! Waaahhh... ouch... please take it easy with the handcuffs, Mr. Policeman, my wife uses them all the time and they hurt...
Look up the list of "unsung heroes" and count how many Indians and Chinese are there on that list.
No, the full text is not available (as far as I can tell). From this page:
Each month we will post a new chapter on this Web site. If you are patient, in 18 months you will have read the book in its entirety.
How do you feel about it now?
Software piracy would be the least of my worries in this case...
Why don't they do this test with an OS like *BSD (or Linux), with its highly-tuned networking stack?
That's America for you. If you're rich, (most) people think you must be really smart. Sometimes this may be true, but often it is not. But the sheeple don't care; they want to look up to, emulate, and lap up the pearls of wisdom put forth by the rich folks.
Google Codejam is a programming contest, and not a contest to develop a neat application for Google. The problems in the CodeJam are more like puzzles. You are confusing this with the other contest that Google had (the URL for which escapes me) where they gave 10K for the best use of Google.
Harrumph... I get 14.5 Gbits to my house in a month! (if I stay dialled in continuosly, that is.. ;-) )
Look up "Steve Jackson games" on the 'net sometime..
It is not like the terrorists are limited to a small set of names! They'll just pick another name at random (just like they picked John Lewis and Edward Kennedy) and keep going.
Keep this in mind: Terrorists can change their names at will, and us normal people can't.
I can just imagine the scene at Bin Laden's camp:
Oh shit! All the good names are taken. What do we do, boss?
Well, I guess we better give up the fight. Those Americans are too clever!
Just like the Maginot Line did not work for the French, this also will not work.
If the system is so friggin' easy to fool, just why is it being used??
I can only shake my head and wonder. It is not that I'm upset about a few people being harassed; what bothers me is that this is such a lame measure, which is easily fooled, and yet there are people who think it is useful. It is the presence of such people in decision-making roles is what really bothers me. If these people can't even see the problems with this system, are we expected to put faith in their abilities to spot real problems and design real solutions???
What's with this fascination with this company? Are we so bored?
Since your heads too far inside a very dark place, I'll summarise it for you:
This happened between March 1 and April 6. And Ted Kennedy brought it up at the hearing just to make a point. He didn't run around screaming when it happened; otherwise you would have heard about this in March and April.
If his intention was to create publicity, don't you think he would have done it a long time back? Don't you think he would have brought video cameras with him to the airline counter, a-la Geraldo??
Jeeez! Use your f'n head for something other than carrying a hat, willya?
What's to prevent me from sending the same token to 1 million people? Aha, you say: there'll be a central database of tokens to make sure that they are not being rused en masse. And that, then, becomes your bottleneck, making this useless.
Why not just tell the client to sleep for (int(rand(10)) seconds? In any case: keep in mind that HTTP is stateless (since you mentioned DoS, I'll bring up HTTP, a common DoS target). Each web page you load initiates 10s of connections. Imagine having to wait a couple of seconds for each connection to go through. Suddenly, the 1.2sec it takes to load a page like /. now will take 30sec; probably worse than dialup. Now this doesn't seem to hot anymore, does it?
If this (RPOW/HashCash) is a form of electronic currency, then I can see a potential; using it to thwart DoS or SPAM is pointless, since we all know that technological solutions to these problems don't exist.
After all is said and done it became difficult (nearly impossible?) to justify the Xeon processor in a UP configuration over the Opteron 150,
Huh? Here are some numbers:
- POV-Ray 3.50c: Opteron is 40% faster
- Crafty v19.15: Opteron is 70% faster
- TSCP: 10% faster
- PostgresSQL test-insert and test-select: Opteron takes 60% of the time it takes Xeon
- MySQL test-insert: Opteron takes 80% of the time it takes Xeon.
In almost every benchmark, where proper optimizations are used (and why shouldn't they be? Who in his/her right mind would not use proper optimizations??), the Opteron destroys the Xeon.If you have the previous version, you can just download the patch; it is 3691743 bytes (about 3.5MB).
I skimmed the article, but couldn't find the answer to the question that, I'm sure, is on most /.ers minds: what are those IPS???
Wasn't Java supposed to do this? Maybe XForms will allow us to have a truly cross-platform Java implementation.... ;-)
Allow everyone to download and tinker with the sources... ?
But can you overclock it? Is the 2.2GHz speed of the Athlon (and most of the other AMD offerings seem to plateau out around this figure) a limit for AMDs?