Most modern UNIX systems let you put some hard limits on all the collective ways that users can consume resources, including # processes, disks space, real/virtual memory, cpu time, etc.
All at once, through multiple sessions, using setuid applications and TCP services as proxies? If I'm going to try and take down a system, I'm certainly not going to follow rules like "you must only use one attack at a time" or any other "must be this tall to storm the castle" type restrictions.
A resource exhaustion attack is basically a very richly equipped denial of service attack. Denial of Service is inherently hard to guard against without blocking legitimate requests, and when the attacker can run arbitrary code on the local system it's almost impossible.
A forkbomb is just a relatively simplistic way to mount a resource exhaustion attack. I would be extremely wary of anyone who claims that their UNIX class operating system is immune to resource exhaustion from a local user. There's just too many resources that can be commandeered, and to lock them all down would leave you with a system that's so restricted as to be nearly useless as a general computing platform.
It must be a slow day on/. if they're reporting this as news.
If I use DVD Jon's software, where do I have to agree to Apple's EULA?
I didn't say anything about whether you'd agreed to Apple's EULA. I simply explained why I didn't use that software. You're the captain of your own soul, I certainly have no intention of trying to tell you how to behave.
I haven't used the program, because using other software to access iTunes is against Apple's EULA. Same reason I don't use JHymn, and put up with the slight loss in quality from following the Apple-approved (or at least winked at) "mix, burn, rip" method of removing the DRM.
But...
Having iTunes encrypt the song after downloading is crazy. If that's what Apple's doing, that's like a bank teller handing you the cash drawer, asking you to remove the money you withdrew, and never counting the bills after you hand it back. I'm not inclined to "rip off the bank", so as to speak, but Apple really needs to do the encoding on the server instead of in the client.
Of course client-side security is the Achilles Heel of DRM anyway, but still...
I wonder why that might be? "Gee, we're going to take an operating system that few people really like, which has as its only real advantage the fact that there's lots of applications available for it... and restrict the number of applications it can run concurrently... do you think people might be interested in that?"
And the infuriating nuisance of buying marking supplies specifically labelled for use with the media and vice versa, and finding out three years later that everybody who used them is experiencing data loss.
Surely you don't mark on the laser side of the disk, because unless I'm completely mistaken "while Blu-Ray's cover layer is only 0.1 mm. thick, which, roughly, means a better access to the recording area" can't possibly refer to the label side, since the laser doesn't read through the label.
If it only replaced the MS HTML control when launched via the "Internet Explorer" and "Outlook Express" front ends, that could also be a major security improvement.
This seems to be a temporary file created by Firefox to hold a downloaded file that it hasn't yet decided what to do with. I see these all the time, with a variety of extensions, even on websites that I've created myself.
Now an experimentalist and a theorist, both from the University of Washington, John G. Cramer (206-543-9194, cramer@phys.washington.edu)
For those who aren't SF fans, I believe this is the same John Cramer who wrote the novel _Einstein's bridge_, about interdimensional gateways created by accident in the Superconducting Supercollider. No, not our abandoned project, but the one in a parallel universe where the SSC wasn't cancelled... and is poking holes into our universe in the middle of the empty Texas prarie.
Let's keep an eye out for doppelgangers of nuclear physicists mysteriously showing up in New York...
few people develop sub-communities within these social network sites just because "they're members of the same network"
Well, yes, that's my point.
The purpose of social networking sites is to try and artificially promote the crystallization of communities. It's the people who form the networks, not the "social networking" software. If the software supports what you're interested in doing *with* that network, it's much more likely to be useful than if it's just designed to try and promote the networking itself.
It's not any more or less forced than [...], BBS', web boards
Well, really, it *is* a web board, or a blog, or a BBS. That's the application that the N-degrees software is there to support.
My goal is not to dissuade people from using and developing social networking software, but to encourage the use and development of sites and services that are more designed to support people's activities themselves as well as just being "N degrees" trackers. Because we need things like Audioscrobbler more than we need yet another BBS... and unfortunately those "N degrees" sites tend to be pretty poor BBSes, which is what made Orkut in particular seem barren and forced to me.
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$325 with or without a processor? Uh... without... hmmm. bit pricey then, especially with the current prices of the 'M' chips.
The other difference is the mini has an old but competant video chipset (Radeon 9200)... the AOpen has "Intel 855GME". Since they didn't even mention it in the review and used an AGP video card, I assume it's not up to much.
Of course it's a lot more expandible. It's really not in the same ballpark as the mini. It's more like a step up from the Cube.
I can imagine having several specialized groups existing in Yahoo's infrastructure and you could use the same account to access any of them [...]
Like Yahoo Groups, perhaps?
I've been involved in some Yahoo Groups boards, and they don't seem any worse than any other online bulletin board system. There's a lot of people who really like them... who get kinda obsessive about them, to be frank, and start pushing them at people who are quite happy using Usenet or ordinary mailing lists.
The new Google Groups 2 seems to have unleashed a new flood of these people, who don't quite realise that the "Googe Groups" groups are really quite a different beast from the ones they gateway from Usenet...
You have to communicate with other people to make it happen.
Well, yes, now what does that have to do with things like Orkut or Friendster? I am a part of many communities online, and I'm sure you are too... including communities that you may not consciously think about as communities.
Sites like Orkut and Friendster didn't create this phenomenon. I suppose for some people they facilitate communication, maybe that's why they seem important to you. For others, for people who are already part of online communities (some of which date back to long before the Internet was known as the Internet) they seem clumsy, forced, like the Monkees opening for the Beatles...
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Most modern UNIX systems let you put some hard limits on all the collective ways that users can consume resources, including # processes, disks space, real/virtual memory, cpu time, etc.
All at once, through multiple sessions, using setuid applications and TCP services as proxies? If I'm going to try and take down a system, I'm certainly not going to follow rules like "you must only use one attack at a time" or any other "must be this tall to storm the castle" type restrictions.
A resource exhaustion attack is basically a very richly equipped denial of service attack. Denial of Service is inherently hard to guard against without blocking legitimate requests, and when the attacker can run arbitrary code on the local system it's almost impossible.
A forkbomb is just a relatively simplistic way to mount a resource exhaustion attack. I would be extremely wary of anyone who claims that their UNIX class operating system is immune to resource exhaustion from a local user. There's just too many resources that can be commandeered, and to lock them all down would leave you with a system that's so restricted as to be nearly useless as a general computing platform.
/. if they're reporting this as news.
It must be a slow day on
If I use DVD Jon's software, where do I have to agree to Apple's EULA?
I didn't say anything about whether you'd agreed to Apple's EULA. I simply explained why I didn't use that software. You're the captain of your own soul, I certainly have no intention of trying to tell you how to behave.
I haven't used the program, because using other software to access iTunes is against Apple's EULA. Same reason I don't use JHymn, and put up with the slight loss in quality from following the Apple-approved (or at least winked at) "mix, burn, rip" method of removing the DRM.
But...
Having iTunes encrypt the song after downloading is crazy. If that's what Apple's doing, that's like a bank teller handing you the cash drawer, asking you to remove the money you withdrew, and never counting the bills after you hand it back. I'm not inclined to "rip off the bank", so as to speak, but Apple really needs to do the encoding on the server instead of in the client.
Of course client-side security is the Achilles Heel of DRM anyway, but still...
nor has it generated much interest from end users
I wonder why that might be? "Gee, we're going to take an operating system that few people really like, which has as its only real advantage the fact that there's lots of applications available for it... and restrict the number of applications it can run concurrently... do you think people might be interested in that?"
you'll need to buy twelve versions of "Lord of the Rings"...
You know, there's already 4 versions of MIB, 3 of MIB II, so I think you're underestimating...
Will I need to buy the "White Album" again?
You mean BluRay/HVD-RW/HD-DVD-RW/DVD+-RW/CDRW drives. Complete with lameness filter filters.
And the infuriating nuisance of buying marking supplies specifically labelled for use with the media and vice versa, and finding out three years later that everybody who used them is experiencing data loss.
Surely you don't mark on the laser side of the disk, because unless I'm completely mistaken "while Blu-Ray's cover layer is only 0.1 mm. thick, which, roughly, means a better access to the recording area" can't possibly refer to the label side, since the laser doesn't read through the label.
If it only replaced the MS HTML control when launched via the "Internet Explorer" and "Outlook Express" front ends, that could also be a major security improvement.
Ever tried centering a block object on the page _without_ using tables?
So use tables already. Sheesh.
This seems to be a temporary file created by Firefox to hold a downloaded file that it hasn't yet decided what to do with. I see these all the time, with a variety of extensions, even on websites that I've created myself.
These tiny blackholes will fall into the core of the earth, and slowly grow one quark at a time, but at an accelerating rate.
I'm sorry, Doctor Evil, but David Brin already wrote that novel.
Now an experimentalist and a theorist, both from the University of Washington, John G. Cramer (206-543-9194, cramer@phys.washington.edu)
For those who aren't SF fans, I believe this is the same John Cramer who wrote the novel _Einstein's bridge_, about interdimensional gateways created by accident in the Superconducting Supercollider. No, not our abandoned project, but the one in a parallel universe where the SSC wasn't cancelled... and is poking holes into our universe in the middle of the empty Texas prarie.
Let's keep an eye out for doppelgangers of nuclear physicists mysteriously showing up in New York...
but its alot bigger days than it was before xvid/svcd/tv made anyone and thier kid brother a ripper.
Heh.
Maybe back when it was Bozo NYC and other crackers stripping protection from Apple-][ floppies. Sheesh.
Please there is no security in the scene anymore.
When has there been?
You've been so astroturfed!
few people develop sub-communities within these social network sites just because "they're members of the same network"
Well, yes, that's my point.
The purpose of social networking sites is to try and artificially promote the crystallization of communities. It's the people who form the networks, not the "social networking" software. If the software supports what you're interested in doing *with* that network, it's much more likely to be useful than if it's just designed to try and promote the networking itself.
It's not any more or less forced than [...], BBS', web boards
Well, really, it *is* a web board, or a blog, or a BBS. That's the application that the N-degrees software is there to support.
My goal is not to dissuade people from using and developing social networking software, but to encourage the use and development of sites and services that are more designed to support people's activities themselves as well as just being "N degrees" trackers. Because we need things like Audioscrobbler more than we need yet another BBS... and unfortunately those "N degrees" sites tend to be pretty poor BBSes, which is what made Orkut in particular seem barren and forced to me.
$325 with or without a processor? Uh... without... hmmm. bit pricey then, especially with the current prices of the 'M' chips.
The other difference is the mini has an old but competant video chipset (Radeon 9200)... the AOpen has "Intel 855GME". Since they didn't even mention it in the review and used an AGP video card, I assume it's not up to much.
Of course it's a lot more expandible. It's really not in the same ballpark as the mini. It's more like a step up from the Cube.
I can imagine having several specialized groups existing in Yahoo's infrastructure and you could use the same account to access any of them [...]
Like Yahoo Groups, perhaps?
I've been involved in some Yahoo Groups boards, and they don't seem any worse than any other online bulletin board system. There's a lot of people who really like them... who get kinda obsessive about them, to be frank, and start pushing them at people who are quite happy using Usenet or ordinary mailing lists.
The new Google Groups 2 seems to have unleashed a new flood of these people, who don't quite realise that the "Googe Groups" groups are really quite a different beast from the ones they gateway from Usenet...
Heh.
For some reason I keep getting invites to join the "Virus Writing Community" on Orkut. Uh, yeh, right...
You have to communicate with other people to make it happen.
Well, yes, now what does that have to do with things like Orkut or Friendster? I am a part of many communities online, and I'm sure you are too... including communities that you may not consciously think about as communities.
Sites like Orkut and Friendster didn't create this phenomenon. I suppose for some people they facilitate communication, maybe that's why they seem important to you. For others, for people who are already part of online communities (some of which date back to long before the Internet was known as the Internet) they seem clumsy, forced, like the Monkees opening for the Beatles...
You probably don't even realize how stupid and obsessive you sound.
Sauce for the goose, my friend.
http://www.fastfoot.com/
Monolithic Domes?
Similar concept, but much more labor-intensive. It's the "set up in 40 minutes" factor that's really interesting here.