Is the size of the the Storm network large enough to hold a really big player hostage? Could they eg DDoS Microsoft's update portal? Or Google's homepage? either for ransom or without?
Could they cripple other internet backbone infrastructure stuff, and thereby hold the nation's entire computer infrastructure hostage? As TFA mentions, a DDoS attack is more expensive for the customer of the botnetters, as is easier to detect and stop at the ISP level, so I wonder if those attacks are really feasible, or if it'd just mean that everyone that's infected loses internet access until they get cleaned up. Which might not be such a bad thing.
But, in short, is the Storm Botnet an actual national security threat? Could a foreign power commission it to do the US computing infrastructure grievous harm; but could it be stopped if the DHS etc took protective action at the ISP level?
However, you should also realize that MY problems and issues are not YOUR problems and issues. If I find something a barrier to communication, but you do not, it does not necessarily mean that it is not. It means that you're willing to accept a problem that I am not willing to accept. If I should have to accept it anyways, because of security or other resource considerations, so be it. But if the major reason that you're willing to work with the status quo is because you don't have the interest in learning something new, that's not acceptable.
A few years ago, IM in the corp world was regarded as dangerous, and redundant to email. However, when examined closely, it does serve some advantages, and now at least in my workplace it is an invaluable communication tool that we all use daily. Since the need was presented and examined, IT also developed solutions to the problems of the tech as it stood, like security enhancements and logging. But in the end, we get to keep a tool that we need and use, and IT is happy because they have satisfied their requirements.
In short: vi is not for everyone. Some folks like MS Word. If you respond to a request for a Word install with "Why? vi should be good enough for you, it's good enough for me" you're still failing to see the whole picture.
That might all be true--frankly I haven't much used Solaris. But you miss the point. You argue that everything is fine and suitable to Sun's position in the market--perhaps. But what works for Solaris in it's current incarnation may not be enough to get it to overtake Linux. For example, Linux is growing in popularity on the desktop, and does have a graphical presentation suitable to desktop use. If Solaris wants to break out of it's current status quo and eat into Linux marketshare, it probably needs to pick up some of the same versatility.
And in 2009, the TV that's working perfectly fine for that option no longer will.
Really, NBC are fools. If they chose to make this "take our marbles and go home" attitude after they had gotten control of BitTorrent, it'd be one thing. But they haven't, and pulling their shows from iTunes isn't going to help that as it's not the source of the content on BitTorrent now. If anything, they are only more likely to spur the use of BitTorrent, not slow it, as people seek alternatives to the shows they're losing over iTunes.
NBC has a lot to lose, and very little to gain, by pulling out of iTunes. It doesn't appear that they're doing anything to mitigate their losses. Ergo, greedy fools.
Soon after moving to Gilsum, N.H. (population 811), [Kim] Rossey learned that he was an idiot.
Please. This guys makes his living on the web, and yet decides to move to small town USA. And only after buying the house and moving, does he think to check if broadband is available. And then makes it sound like his high T1 bill is the telco's fault, not his own.
If broadband was that important to him, he should have made it part of his purchase requirements and done some research. I've recently moved to small town USA myself, and it was the first question I asked whenever a property was presented for my review. He's a moron for taking it for granted.
Also, more small communities than you'd think do have broadband. One town over, they're getting fiber to the curb laid down--in a town of 500. It can happen. In my small town of 12K we have several options for broadband.
Moral of the story: if your livelihood depends on the availability of a resource, you should make sure it's available before you commit to a lifestyle.
A dean at Iowa State said he 'thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power'.
He actually thought otherwise? He actually thought that we'd spend a small fortune and 4 years of our lives, solely because U serves as brain food and not for some serving reason?
How about this, Mr Dean: having the opportunity to shape young minds is an opportunity to cherish. In an of itself. Therefore you won't mind if we don't pay you.
Have we ever sent people to college without the expectation that the cost would be recouped by higher earning potential for the rest of the person's career?
now and then...i send the requester and email asking them to state in explicit detail what they want
Now and then? That's standard practice everywhere I've worked in the last 6 years. You should make it a regular habit, as should everyone else. What's weirder are the times you get a phone call response to an emailed question precisely to take it "off the record." That kinda opened my eyes the first time it was done to me.
Zero cost has very little to do with OSS. It certainly has less that MS seems to think. Wake me when they open the code to SharePoint, so I can make it work on the platform and OS of my choice. And add extensions that I care to.
Sharepoint sounds like an interesting product. I refuse to have a dependancy on Windows Server to make it run, however. And that requirement is precisely what makes it non-free.
You ought to have Google store that data for you. Seriously.
Google has collaborated on other scientific projects before, and one in particular has many of the same needs as the LHC, the LSST. Of course, it doesn't hurt that one of the primary backers of the LSST is an ex-Google exec.
I'm confident that Google is capable of dealing with large data stores, even those on a multi-PB scale, with reliability and redundancy.
But I can say, with absolute certainty, that when trade media outlets like InfoWorld disappear you will all be sorry.
Why, exactly? I'm curious what value you think InfoWorld offers me.
I do read it, as well as other trade journals; but only because I sub to the email alerts and when I have nothing else to do. Very rarely, if ever, would I mod any of the articles there +5 Insightful or Informative.
Steve Jackson, of Steve Jackson Games, (best known for Car Wars and GURPS), has been running something that pretty closely resembles a blog since at least November 1994. That has this guy beat by 2 years at least.
I always thought that GTA missed a trick. Wouldn't you rather listen to songs of your own selection while driving around and causing mayhem? Would you rather do that enough to pay $1/song? Downloaded from a web-service to the console, and saved on the console.
Then you wouldn't need to hear the same 10 tracks over and over again. That drove me a little nuts.
Of course, it would be preferable to be able to upload music that you already own, and do it for free, but let's not get crazy here.
Reliance on Data From Urban Prenatal Clinics Skewed Early Projections
By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A01
KIGALI, Rwanda -- Researchers said nearly two decades ago that this tiny country was part of an AIDS Belt stretching across the midsection of Africa, a place so infected with a new, incurable disease that, in the hardest-hit places, one in three working-age adults were already doomed to die of it.
But AIDS deaths on the predicted scale never arrived here, government health officials say. A new national study illustrates why: The rate of HIV infection among Rwandans ages 15 to 49 is 3 percent, according to the study, enough to qualify as a major health problem but not nearly the national catastrophe once predicted.
Personally, I'm hoping that a person will be elected in 2008 that will actually carry out a major house cleaning and reform policy.
Hahahhahhahah. *sniff* Yeah, so am I. So are a lot of people, probably most of the country. No chance that's what we'll get, though. And here's the answer as to why: are you going to revolt if you don't get it? Me neither. I'll probably just shrug.
The powers that be that run the country count on that reaction, and they'll keep their hand in the cookie jar until that'll change.
As a philosophical statement, Deckard as a replicant is interesting. However, it poses tremendous plot problems, some of which you mention. How you feel about the argument, I think, depends on which aspect of the movie you appreciate more.
Personally, I always had trouble working this notion into the constraints of the plot, and like many, that's how I approach storytelling. So it never held water with me. But eg the French have different priorities.
Well, not having RTFA, I'd assume that they can probably work 24/7. Do the current pickers do that?
And even if they cost more, it might be good insurance against losing your entire crop due to an ill-timed INS raid. I really wonder if the robots can do as good of a job, but if they do something close it could be an interesting part of the debate.
What? That's double untrue -- OpenSSH is BSD-licensed, and even if it were GPLed, there is nothing preventing us from using it -- only if we were to modify it, would we run into any license provisions!
And that's not true, either. Only if you were to distribute modifications would you run into trouble. You can make modifications all you want and use them internally without doing a damn thing.
If you're talking about Unix servers in a financial org that aren't OSS, I'll infer that you're talking about Sun guys--and they've probably been prejudiced against OSS stuff from Sun marketing.
even by Slashdot pundits, when we learned of the huge Dell and Microsoft contracts that were being awarded by the DHS.
Those who wanted the DHS to be a braintrust of security were sorely disappointed, and indeed we can see that it is nothing more than another bureaucracy more interested in distributing taxpayer funds to corporate friends than really doing anything for the health and welfare of the nation.
An easter egg in Myth II Soulblighter opened a new level where you fought deer. Oh, and they exploded. The goal was actually to get enough of them together that the chain reaction would take out enough of the opposing force.
One of Microsoft's greatest strengths, competitively, has been strong support for third party developers. They would do well to remember that that is a strategic advantage, and should not be squandered lightly.
It's pretty silly to have a free, "watered down" IDE/compiler for their product, and a paid-for Pro version in the first place. They only benefit by making world class development free for everyone. The money that they make on IDE licenses must be pretty marginal to the amount of Windows licenses they sell through strong third-party dev support.
It's even worse to have a pissing match with someone that made one of their products better, and was recognized by Microsoft for doing so.
When I supported life science researchers, not only was MS Word the standard, but we had a site license for EndNote. Does LaTeX have a similar plugin or ability? Even further, does it have the ability to design custom workflow plugins?
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Is the size of the the Storm network large enough to hold a really big player hostage? Could they eg DDoS Microsoft's update portal? Or Google's homepage? either for ransom or without?
Could they cripple other internet backbone infrastructure stuff, and thereby hold the nation's entire computer infrastructure hostage?
As TFA mentions, a DDoS attack is more expensive for the customer of the botnetters, as is easier to detect and stop at the ISP level, so I wonder if those attacks are really feasible, or if it'd just mean that everyone that's infected loses internet access until they get cleaned up. Which might not be such a bad thing.
But, in short, is the Storm Botnet an actual national security threat? Could a foreign power commission it to do the US computing infrastructure grievous harm; but could it be stopped if the DHS etc took protective action at the ISP level?
However, you should also realize that MY problems and issues are not YOUR problems and issues. If I find something a barrier to communication, but you do not, it does not necessarily mean that it is not. It means that you're willing to accept a problem that I am not willing to accept. If I should have to accept it anyways, because of security or other resource considerations, so be it. But if the major reason that you're willing to work with the status quo is because you don't have the interest in learning something new, that's not acceptable.
A few years ago, IM in the corp world was regarded as dangerous, and redundant to email. However, when examined closely, it does serve some advantages, and now at least in my workplace it is an invaluable communication tool that we all use daily. Since the need was presented and examined, IT also developed solutions to the problems of the tech as it stood, like security enhancements and logging. But in the end, we get to keep a tool that we need and use, and IT is happy because they have satisfied their requirements.
In short: vi is not for everyone. Some folks like MS Word. If you respond to a request for a Word install with "Why? vi should be good enough for you, it's good enough for me" you're still failing to see the whole picture.
I have three guesses as to where you work, because I work there too. Email me. And if I'm right, I think we have it easier than most.
That might all be true--frankly I haven't much used Solaris. But you miss the point. You argue that everything is fine and suitable to Sun's position in the market--perhaps. But what works for Solaris in it's current incarnation may not be enough to get it to overtake Linux. For example, Linux is growing in popularity on the desktop, and does have a graphical presentation suitable to desktop use. If Solaris wants to break out of it's current status quo and eat into Linux marketshare, it probably needs to pick up some of the same versatility.
1) Use an Antenna. It's called broadcast TV.
And in 2009, the TV that's working perfectly fine for that option no longer will.
Really, NBC are fools. If they chose to make this "take our marbles and go home" attitude after they had gotten control of BitTorrent, it'd be one thing. But they haven't, and pulling their shows from iTunes isn't going to help that as it's not the source of the content on BitTorrent now. If anything, they are only more likely to spur the use of BitTorrent, not slow it, as people seek alternatives to the shows they're losing over iTunes.
NBC has a lot to lose, and very little to gain, by pulling out of iTunes. It doesn't appear that they're doing anything to mitigate their losses. Ergo, greedy fools.
Soon after moving to Gilsum, N.H. (population 811), [Kim] Rossey learned that he was an idiot.
Please. This guys makes his living on the web, and yet decides to move to small town USA. And only after buying the house and moving, does he think to check if broadband is available. And then makes it sound like his high T1 bill is the telco's fault, not his own.
If broadband was that important to him, he should have made it part of his purchase requirements and done some research. I've recently moved to small town USA myself, and it was the first question I asked whenever a property was presented for my review. He's a moron for taking it for granted.
Also, more small communities than you'd think do have broadband. One town over, they're getting fiber to the curb laid down--in a town of 500. It can happen. In my small town of 12K we have several options for broadband.
Moral of the story: if your livelihood depends on the availability of a resource, you should make sure it's available before you commit to a lifestyle.
A dean at Iowa State said he 'thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power'.
He actually thought otherwise? He actually thought that we'd spend a small fortune and 4 years of our lives, solely because U serves as brain food and not for some serving reason?
How about this, Mr Dean: having the opportunity to shape young minds is an opportunity to cherish. In an of itself. Therefore you won't mind if we don't pay you.
Have we ever sent people to college without the expectation that the cost would be recouped by higher earning potential for the rest of the person's career?
now and then...i send the requester and email asking them to state in explicit detail what they want
Now and then? That's standard practice everywhere I've worked in the last 6 years. You should make it a regular habit, as should everyone else. What's weirder are the times you get a phone call response to an emailed question precisely to take it "off the record." That kinda opened my eyes the first time it was done to me.
zero cost
Zero cost has very little to do with OSS. It certainly has less that MS seems to think. Wake me when they open the code to SharePoint, so I can make it work on the platform and OS of my choice. And add extensions that I care to.
Sharepoint sounds like an interesting product. I refuse to have a dependancy on Windows Server to make it run, however. And that requirement is precisely what makes it non-free.
You ought to have Google store that data for you. Seriously.
Google has collaborated on other scientific projects before, and one in particular has many of the same needs as the LHC, the LSST. Of course, it doesn't hurt that one of the primary backers of the LSST is an ex-Google exec.
I'm confident that Google is capable of dealing with large data stores, even those on a multi-PB scale, with reliability and redundancy.
But I can say, with absolute certainty, that when trade media outlets like InfoWorld disappear you will all be sorry.
Why, exactly? I'm curious what value you think InfoWorld offers me.
I do read it, as well as other trade journals; but only because I sub to the email alerts and when I have nothing else to do. Very rarely, if ever, would I mod any of the articles there +5 Insightful or Informative.
Steve Jackson, of Steve Jackson Games, (best known for Car Wars and GURPS), has been running something that pretty closely resembles a blog since at least November 1994. That has this guy beat by 2 years at least.
I always thought that GTA missed a trick. Wouldn't you rather listen to songs of your own selection while driving around and causing mayhem? Would you rather do that enough to pay $1/song? Downloaded from a web-service to the console, and saved on the console.
Then you wouldn't need to hear the same 10 tracks over and over again. That drove me a little nuts.
Of course, it would be preferable to be able to upload music that you already own, and do it for free, but let's not get crazy here.
It is currently busy depopulating much of sub-Saharan Africa
You might be interested in this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
How AIDS in Africa Was Overstated
Reliance on Data From Urban Prenatal Clinics Skewed Early Projections
By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A01
KIGALI, Rwanda -- Researchers said nearly two decades ago that this tiny country was part of an AIDS Belt stretching across the midsection of Africa, a place so infected with a new, incurable disease that, in the hardest-hit places, one in three working-age adults were already doomed to die of it.
But AIDS deaths on the predicted scale never arrived here, government health officials say. A new national study illustrates why: The rate of HIV infection among Rwandans ages 15 to 49 is 3 percent, according to the study, enough to qualify as a major health problem but not nearly the national catastrophe once predicted.
Personally, I'm hoping that a person will be elected in 2008 that will actually carry out a major house cleaning and reform policy.
Hahahhahhahah. *sniff* Yeah, so am I. So are a lot of people, probably most of the country. No chance that's what we'll get, though. And here's the answer as to why: are you going to revolt if you don't get it? Me neither. I'll probably just shrug.
The powers that be that run the country count on that reaction, and they'll keep their hand in the cookie jar until that'll change.
I apologize for posting something that others considered informative, and will refrain from doing so in the future.
Fat chance.
;)
As a philosophical statement, Deckard as a replicant is interesting. However, it poses tremendous plot problems, some of which you mention. How you feel about the argument, I think, depends on which aspect of the movie you appreciate more.
Personally, I always had trouble working this notion into the constraints of the plot, and like many, that's how I approach storytelling. So it never held water with me. But eg the French have different priorities.
Jobs probably had it packed to the limit with RAM. How much better would your system run with 16GB of RAM?
Well, not having RTFA, I'd assume that they can probably work 24/7. Do the current pickers do that?
And even if they cost more, it might be good insurance against losing your entire crop due to an ill-timed INS raid. I really wonder if the robots can do as good of a job, but if they do something close it could be an interesting part of the debate.
What? That's double untrue -- OpenSSH is BSD-licensed, and even if it were GPLed, there is nothing preventing us from using it -- only if we were to modify it, would we run into any license provisions!
And that's not true, either. Only if you were to distribute modifications would you run into trouble. You can make modifications all you want and use them internally without doing a damn thing.
If you're talking about Unix servers in a financial org that aren't OSS, I'll infer that you're talking about Sun guys--and they've probably been prejudiced against OSS stuff from Sun marketing.
Part of their mandate and jurisdiction is Information Security; they are charged with protecting the computing infrastructure of the country.
even by Slashdot pundits, when we learned of the huge Dell and Microsoft contracts that were being awarded by the DHS.
Those who wanted the DHS to be a braintrust of security were sorely disappointed, and indeed we can see that it is nothing more than another bureaucracy more interested in distributing taxpayer funds to corporate friends than really doing anything for the health and welfare of the nation.
This is how Rome fell.
An easter egg in Myth II Soulblighter opened a new level where you fought deer. Oh, and they exploded. The goal was actually to get enough of them together that the chain reaction would take out enough of the opposing force.
One of Microsoft's greatest strengths, competitively, has been strong support for third party developers. They would do well to remember that that is a strategic advantage, and should not be squandered lightly.
It's pretty silly to have a free, "watered down" IDE/compiler for their product, and a paid-for Pro version in the first place. They only benefit by making world class development free for everyone. The money that they make on IDE licenses must be pretty marginal to the amount of Windows licenses they sell through strong third-party dev support.
It's even worse to have a pissing match with someone that made one of their products better, and was recognized by Microsoft for doing so.
I hope student developers everywhere take note.
When I supported life science researchers, not only was MS Word the standard, but we had a site license for EndNote. Does LaTeX have a similar plugin or ability? Even further, does it have the ability to design custom workflow plugins?