So signals take 6.25e-7 seconds to travel across the link.
The speed of light is 299792458 m/s (according to my calculator), which gives a theoretical hard maximum distance of 187.37m between the two endpoints of the HT link..
In practice, we won't even need 1/20th of that, and the speed of light should not be a problem.
Disclamier: I'm tired, and still an engineering geek in training. Please correct my math or my logic if I'm wrong.
Because simplistic checksums of spam would not be effective, the main DCC checksums are fuzzy and ignore aspects of messages. The fuzzy checksums are changed as spam evolves. Since the DCC started being used in late 2000, the fuzzy checksums have been modified several times.
While in theory a good plan, this is an uphill battle. Set up some checksums/algorithms, spammers adapt, update said algorithms, spammers adapt.. rinse and repeat.
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Spammers have thought of this already, and they send nearly-identical messages.. Ever notice the random strings of letters and/or numbers at the bottom/in the subjects of spams?
I just happened to swing by the mozilla page today before the story broke, and happily downloaded and installed the release candidate.. It was on my system for about 5 minutes, and now I'm back to 0.8
The new default theme looks UGLY... so I figure ok, I can change it. Every theme I tried from the themes site didn't work (wouldn't install).. so I figure they just haven't been updated, so I went to the bugzilla entry about themes and found some 0.9-upgraded themes.. downloaded just fine, but I was unable to switch to the new theme even after a browser restart... the hideous new theme just wouldn't go away! (but I kinda like the new theme selector)
As an extra irrotation, someone decided it's a good idea to change the hotkey that opens the downloads window.. that was the last straw for me.
I second that.. McMaster's engineering and science labs sport a wide variety of software, including OpenOffice.
What blew me away the first time I logged onto the engineering lab's computers was that right alongside MS VC++, in the Development Tools folder, there was a FreePascal installation ready to be used!
Ontario's universities are definitely embracing open source, which is good, as it means my ever-increasing tuition is going somewhere other then into bill's pocket.
What happens when the broadband ISPs start limiting everyone to X Gigs of d/l per month?
This has been happening in Canada for a long time now. Almost every provider claims a 10 GB/month cap, with some ridiculous charge (like $8/gig) after that. It's important to note that most people here are on 5mbit (cable) or 3mbit/1.5mbit (DSL) lines, and practically everybody shares their internet with someone, so 10GB is really not a lot.
What are the results? I don't know of any ISP that actually enforce this limit. If you go over it (like, WAY over, 5x the limit or so) my ISP sends you a friendly warning e-mail that you've been downloading too much, and to cut it out. I think this is due to the fact that if any ISP was to start enforcing transfer caps, all their customers will jump ship to a provider that doesn't cap.
My Western Digital Special Edition drive (model 800JB) is only ATA100, and I've benchmarked it at sustaining over 33 MB/sec.. more then enough for 16x recording speed, even with other things "constantly" using it (of which I'm skeptical by the way.. if I was going to burn something that fast, I'd give it my whole system for all of 6 minutes).
So just what has convinced you that you need that full time resident scanner running? Do you visit unsafe websites all day or something?
I have lots of friends, that send me all kinds of links over IM.. the sites that host the videos/flash animations/etc are generally hosting much more then that. Not only am I running a resident AV scanner (I run Norton, but AVG is good too, stay away from McCrappy), I've switched to FireFox (IE kept "growing" new search toolbars, it was getting to be a hassle) and I'm running a resident Spyware blocker too (Spybot S&D v1.3rc4), in case anything decides it wants to mess with my registry without my permission.
If I stuck to only "safe" sites, then I would agree that a scanner is not as necessary.. but even "safe" sites have had malicious things popup on me sometimes.. probably from their JavaScript-run advertisements.
Most viruses/worms will indeed not touch your data and are usually easily cleanable, but I have seen some really nasty "combinations" when a virus infected a worm's executable that had previously been infected by a different virus (this is on a system that hadn't had AV for the 2 years the woman owned it).
It had gotten so bad that you couldn't even close the popups anymore (virus infected BHOs prevented IE windows from ever closing once opened), and running a scan revealed over 2,000 executables on her system to be infected with two PE-infecting viruses the name of which I forget. She had been using a pirated key'd copy of XP, so not even SP1 was installed. She was infected by Sasser, Netsky and god only knows what else. To top it off, she had installed *3* different versions of the CoolWWWSearch spyware-bar... all competing against one another.
Out of pity, I only ended up charging her $100 (CDN) for a 5 hour clean-up and upgrade job (including changing her XP key to something non-pirated, applying a truckload of patches, and installing resident scanners).
So we diversify the risk and learn to "play nice".
Is that before or after we wage war on the former dominant species of where-ever we end up? What if that dominant species is a plant, and we (even accidentaly) destroy it's habitat to make room for ours?
We've only recently begun to understand the consequences of actions that we've made long ago, and it's too late. "Screwing up" can have much worse effects then us dying, we may take entire ecosystems with us.
The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.
Fat chance, huh? Ever since we lurched into a two-party system, which was pretty much immediately after the Constitutional Convention called it a day, voters stopped voting for somebody's wisdom. Instead, they wound up voting for a political party. The Constitution never really prescribed how electors are supposed to be appointed, so the parties took it upon themselves to select electors with unusual degrees of loyalty.
If this is a feature, it's a very poorly implemented one that's being abused for the loophole that it is.
Contrary to popular belief you do no need full time AV suites running on all your PCs to keep virus free, it takes some common sense, keeping your system up to date, etc.
That's like saying you don't need to wear a condom to keep yourself STD-free, all it takes is "some common sense" about whom you sleep with, keeping yourself innoculated, etc.
I've run a full-time AV suite for years, and 99.9% of the time it sits there eating my resources.. but it's that last 0.1%, when the big red dialog comes up out of nowhere informing you that you would have just gotten pwned without a resident scanner, that keeps it on my system. The only computer that doesn't need a resident virus scanner is one that isn't online.
It's that type of not caring about the fate of our species sentiment that causes all that destruction. The most important thing in our precarious stage is to get some self-sustaining colonies as far away from earth as possible.
To a certain extent, I agree with you. But I think the real problem isn't that we don't care about the fate of our species, it's that our species doesn't care about the fate of any other species.
Until we learn to play nice with others, and not piss in the pool we swim in, I don't think we should be going anywhere.
You start to disagree with me, then you say exactly what I said, but with a slightly different choice of words. Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
When I hear "real loonies", It conjures up an image of drugged out vegatables confined to white padded rooms in straightjackets. A "real loony" is someone that's born with most (if not all of) his/her screws loose.
Fundamentalists are a much scarier breed. They live amongst us, and we don't know who they are. They have only 1 or 2 loose screws, which might not manifest itself ever, or they may wake up and decide to shit on your lawn, to take away your rights, or to kill you for something THEY believe in.
Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
I think I'm doing a fair ammount of both arguing and agreeing here:)
What? I'm a Scotsman. We, with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish, elected Tony Blair. He signed Kyoto. The citizens of the US elected Bush, who wouldn't. So they're your leaders, presuming you're in the US.
Actually, I'm Canadian, and I'm quite scared because my gouvernment is a) so passive and b) so economically dependent on the USA that we may end up with no choice other then to support them in the stupid things they do.
As to whom the citizens of the US "elected", we may never really know. The USA electoral process is way, overly complicated. The president is often NOT the guy that most people vote for.
It only takes a handful of real loonies with access to total destruction weapons before we're all totally destroyed.
As a species, our technical intelligence far exceeds our common sense and mental stability. Evolutionary dead-end.
What exactly do you mean by "technical intelligence" of our species? Do you mean the combined achievements of the human race? We've created the atom bomb, but 99.999% of people have no idea how it works and likely never will..
As far as common sense goes, the scenario is the excact opposite. The individual person has lots of common sense, but humans as a race have (almost) none. Which ties into your next and probably most important point about mental stability. This is something that's shaky on both the individual and entire-human-race levels. Humans can never be mentally stable, our emotions forbid it. Look at the guy that demolished half his town with a bulldozer the other day. He was a regular joe, just like everyone else, something came (in this poor guy's case it was a big developer that had pushed through a rezoning bill) just pushed him over the edge. The question is can we really blame him.. I mean, someone comes in and destroys everything you've worked your whole life for. What would you do? Jumping into an armored bulldozer and going on a rampage would start to sound like a pretty reasonable thing to do. (Disclaimer: I don't agree with what that man did. But lets be honest, everyone has thought of doing similar at one point or another, this guy just had the balls to go through with it).
I don't think it will be the "real loonies" that destroy humanity, but rather a few fundamentalists with nothing to loose (see: terrorist organizations).
We need to get off this Earth as fast as we can so our eggs are not all in one basket
Why? So we can then proceed to destroy other worlds in the same way as we have ours?
But when the most powerful nation on earth is so comfortable in its habits that Kyoto goes by it's wayside, what chance in hell is there of your leaders taking this scenario seriously?
I like that "your" leaders comment, nice way to shift responsibility. They're our leaders. We've set up the political systems that they've manipulated to get where they are today.
zero infections with no anti-virus suite running on the machine at all.
And how exactly do you know there have been zero infections.. without a virus scanner? Or is the machine not connected to the 'net?
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OS X does not use what I would call "apple" style buttons.
An "Apple" button is a white box, with a rounded thin black border, and some dark-grey-but-not-quite-black colored shape in it.
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IE has 2 sets of buttons.. Large (default) and Small (that I've always used).
The current Qute buttons look a lot like IE's Small buttons.
IMHO, The theme in the screenshot you give is _terrible_. I hate those "apple" style buttons.. this is a web browser I'm running under Windows here, not an iPod.
... because they aren't part of my calling plan -- thus, each message costs me money...
Are you telling me your SMS is receiver pays!? Up here in Canada, it's sender pays, and that's how it should be. What's stopping someone from unleashing a real SMS attack (not like this goof in the article) and sending hundreds of thousands of messages to receipients who then have to pay for?
No, it will fail because for years people have struggled with software installations, OS configurations, hardware configurations, etc.
DOS will fail because for years people have struggled with software installations (yay to 50 floppies), OS configurations (TSR drivers you don't have enough conventional memory for), hardware configurations (IRQs, Jumpers, Base addresses, BIOS ROM Area switches).
Compare the above to a modern autoconfiguring distro such as Knoppix.. we've come a long way, and there are people (such as the grandparent) that are trying to address the remaining issues.
PS: Since when is X unable to autoconfigure a monitor? I've never had this problem.. I conclude that you're trolling.
c) Have a shutdown script that will always run on shutdown. From what I understand, Windows has more then one shutdown (there's at least 2: the "slow" shutdown you get from Start -> Shutdown, and the "fast" shutdown you get from pushing the soft power button on your case).
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Hmmm..interesting idea popped into my head while reading your post.
.dll that combines mozilla's engine with IE's interfaces..
I wonder how hard it would be to write a drop-in wrapper
Bah, hit the M key instead of the G key. That is indeed not very far.
HT can run at 800 Mhz as well though, possibly giving a further reaching but slower connection.
The Hypertransport serial bus runs at 1.6Ghz.
So signals take 6.25e-7 seconds to travel across the link.
The speed of light is 299792458 m/s (according to my calculator), which gives a theoretical hard maximum distance of 187.37m between the two endpoints of the HT link..
In practice, we won't even need 1/20th of that, and the speed of light should not be a problem.
Disclamier: I'm tired, and still an engineering geek in training. Please correct my math or my logic if I'm wrong.
Because simplistic checksums of spam would not be effective, the main DCC checksums are fuzzy and ignore aspects of messages. The fuzzy checksums are changed as spam evolves. Since the DCC started being used in late 2000, the fuzzy checksums have been modified several times.
While in theory a good plan, this is an uphill battle. Set up some checksums/algorithms, spammers adapt, update said algorithms, spammers adapt.. rinse and repeat.
Spammers have thought of this already, and they send nearly-identical messages.. Ever notice the random strings of letters and/or numbers at the bottom/in the subjects of spams?
To put your 90 GB/mo into perspective, my local DSL provider gives 8 GB/mo.
.. with no bitcaps)
(Needless to say, I'm on cable
I just happened to swing by the mozilla page today before the story broke, and happily downloaded and installed the release candidate.. It was on my system for about 5 minutes, and now I'm back to 0.8
.. so I figure they just haven't been updated, so I went to the bugzilla entry about themes and found some 0.9-upgraded themes.. downloaded just fine, but I was unable to switch to the new theme even after a browser restart ... the hideous new theme just wouldn't go away! (but I kinda like the new theme selector)
The new default theme looks UGLY... so I figure ok, I can change it. Every theme I tried from the themes site didn't work (wouldn't install)
As an extra irrotation, someone decided it's a good idea to change the hotkey that opens the downloads window.. that was the last straw for me.
I second that.. McMaster's engineering and science labs sport a wide variety of software, including OpenOffice.
What blew me away the first time I logged onto the engineering lab's computers was that right alongside MS VC++, in the Development Tools folder, there was a FreePascal installation ready to be used!
Ontario's universities are definitely embracing open source, which is good, as it means my ever-increasing tuition is going somewhere other then into bill's pocket.
What happens when the broadband ISPs start limiting everyone to X Gigs of d/l per month?
This has been happening in Canada for a long time now. Almost every provider claims a 10 GB/month cap, with some ridiculous charge (like $8/gig) after that. It's important to note that most people here are on 5mbit (cable) or 3mbit/1.5mbit (DSL) lines, and practically everybody shares their internet with someone, so 10GB is really not a lot.
What are the results? I don't know of any ISP that actually enforce this limit. If you go over it (like, WAY over, 5x the limit or so) my ISP sends you a friendly warning e-mail that you've been downloading too much, and to cut it out. I think this is due to the fact that if any ISP was to start enforcing transfer caps, all their customers will jump ship to a provider that doesn't cap.
My Western Digital Special Edition drive (model 800JB) is only ATA100, and I've benchmarked it at sustaining over 33 MB/sec .. more then enough for 16x recording speed, even with other things "constantly" using it (of which I'm skeptical by the way.. if I was going to burn something that fast, I'd give it my whole system for all of 6 minutes).
So just what has convinced you that you need that full time resident scanner running? Do you visit unsafe websites all day or something?
I have lots of friends, that send me all kinds of links over IM.. the sites that host the videos/flash animations/etc are generally hosting much more then that. Not only am I running a resident AV scanner (I run Norton, but AVG is good too, stay away from McCrappy), I've switched to FireFox (IE kept "growing" new search toolbars, it was getting to be a hassle) and I'm running a resident Spyware blocker too (Spybot S&D v1.3rc4), in case anything decides it wants to mess with my registry without my permission.
If I stuck to only "safe" sites, then I would agree that a scanner is not as necessary.. but even "safe" sites have had malicious things popup on me sometimes.. probably from their JavaScript-run advertisements.
Most viruses/worms will indeed not touch your data and are usually easily cleanable, but I have seen some really nasty "combinations" when a virus infected a worm's executable that had previously been infected by a different virus (this is on a system that hadn't had AV for the 2 years the woman owned it).
It had gotten so bad that you couldn't even close the popups anymore (virus infected BHOs prevented IE windows from ever closing once opened), and running a scan revealed over 2,000 executables on her system to be infected with two PE-infecting viruses the name of which I forget. She had been using a pirated key'd copy of XP, so not even SP1 was installed. She was infected by Sasser, Netsky and god only knows what else. To top it off, she had installed *3* different versions of the CoolWWWSearch spyware-bar... all competing against one another.
Out of pity, I only ended up charging her $100 (CDN) for a 5 hour clean-up and upgrade job (including changing her XP key to something non-pirated, applying a truckload of patches, and installing resident scanners).
So we diversify the risk and learn to "play nice".
Is that before or after we wage war on the former dominant species of where-ever we end up? What if that dominant species is a plant, and we (even accidentaly) destroy it's habitat to make room for ours?
We've only recently begun to understand the consequences of actions that we've made long ago, and it's too late. "Screwing up" can have much worse effects then us dying, we may take entire ecosystems with us.
If this is a feature, it's a very poorly implemented one that's being abused for the loophole that it is.
Xilinx (one of the programmable hardware giants), has a free non-commercial environment for use
Did you happen to look at how much the hardware costs? The cheapest development board I can find on that site (just the board, no FPGA) runs >$500!
Compare with a full OOpic dev kit at $100.
Contrary to popular belief you do no need full time AV suites running on all your PCs to keep virus free, it takes some common sense, keeping your system up to date, etc.
.. but it's that last 0.1%, when the big red dialog comes up out of nowhere informing you that you would have just gotten pwned without a resident scanner, that keeps it on my system. The only computer that doesn't need a resident virus scanner is one that isn't online.
That's like saying you don't need to wear a condom to keep yourself STD-free, all it takes is "some common sense" about whom you sleep with, keeping yourself innoculated, etc.
I've run a full-time AV suite for years, and 99.9% of the time it sits there eating my resources
It's that type of not caring about the fate of our species sentiment that causes all that destruction. The most important thing in our precarious stage is to get some self-sustaining colonies as far away from earth as possible.
To a certain extent, I agree with you. But I think the real problem isn't that we don't care about the fate of our species, it's that our species doesn't care about the fate of any other species.
Until we learn to play nice with others, and not piss in the pool we swim in, I don't think we should be going anywhere.
You start to disagree with me, then you say exactly what I said, but with a slightly different choice of words. Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
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When I hear "real loonies", It conjures up an image of drugged out vegatables confined to white padded rooms in straightjackets. A "real loony" is someone that's born with most (if not all of) his/her screws loose.
Fundamentalists are a much scarier breed. They live amongst us, and we don't know who they are. They have only 1 or 2 loose screws, which might not manifest itself ever, or they may wake up and decide to shit on your lawn, to take away your rights, or to kill you for something THEY believe in.
Why are you arguing with me when we agree so much?
I think I'm doing a fair ammount of both arguing and agreeing here
What? I'm a Scotsman. We, with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish, elected Tony Blair. He signed Kyoto. The citizens of the US elected Bush, who wouldn't. So they're your leaders, presuming you're in the US.
Actually, I'm Canadian, and I'm quite scared because my gouvernment is a) so passive and b) so economically dependent on the USA that we may end up with no choice other then to support them in the stupid things they do.
As to whom the citizens of the US "elected", we may never really know. The USA electoral process is way, overly complicated. The president is often NOT the guy that most people vote for.
It only takes a handful of real loonies with access to total destruction weapons before we're all totally destroyed.
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As a species, our technical intelligence far exceeds our common sense and mental stability. Evolutionary dead-end.
What exactly do you mean by "technical intelligence" of our species? Do you mean the combined achievements of the human race? We've created the atom bomb, but 99.999% of people have no idea how it works and likely never will
As far as common sense goes, the scenario is the excact opposite. The individual person has lots of common sense, but humans as a race have (almost) none. Which ties into your next and probably most important point about mental stability. This is something that's shaky on both the individual and entire-human-race levels. Humans can never be mentally stable, our emotions forbid it. Look at the guy that demolished half his town with a bulldozer the other day. He was a regular joe, just like everyone else, something came (in this poor guy's case it was a big developer that had pushed through a rezoning bill) just pushed him over the edge. The question is can we really blame him.. I mean, someone comes in and destroys everything you've worked your whole life for. What would you do? Jumping into an armored bulldozer and going on a rampage would start to sound like a pretty reasonable thing to do. (Disclaimer: I don't agree with what that man did. But lets be honest, everyone has thought of doing similar at one point or another, this guy just had the balls to go through with it).
I don't think it will be the "real loonies" that destroy humanity, but rather a few fundamentalists with nothing to loose (see: terrorist organizations).
We need to get off this Earth as fast as we can so our eggs are not all in one basket
Why? So we can then proceed to destroy other worlds in the same way as we have ours?
But when the most powerful nation on earth is so comfortable in its habits that Kyoto goes by it's wayside, what chance in hell is there of your leaders taking this scenario seriously?
I like that "your" leaders comment, nice way to shift responsibility. They're our leaders. We've set up the political systems that they've manipulated to get where they are today.
zero infections with no anti-virus suite running on the machine at all.
And how exactly do you know there have been zero infections.. without a virus scanner? Or is the machine not connected to the 'net?
OS X does not use what I would call "apple" style buttons.
An "Apple" button is a white box, with a rounded thin black border, and some dark-grey-but-not-quite-black colored shape in it.
IE has 2 sets of buttons.. Large (default) and Small (that I've always used).
The current Qute buttons look a lot like IE's Small buttons.
IMHO, The theme in the screenshot you give is _terrible_. I hate those "apple" style buttons.. this is a web browser I'm running under Windows here, not an iPod.
... because they aren't part of my calling plan -- thus, each message costs me money ...
Are you telling me your SMS is receiver pays!? Up here in Canada, it's sender pays, and that's how it should be. What's stopping someone from unleashing a real SMS attack (not like this goof in the article) and sending hundreds of thousands of messages to receipients who then have to pay for?
No, it will fail because for years people have struggled with software installations, OS configurations, hardware configurations, etc.
DOS will fail because for years people have struggled with software installations (yay to 50 floppies), OS configurations (TSR drivers you don't have enough conventional memory for), hardware configurations (IRQs, Jumpers, Base addresses, BIOS ROM Area switches).
Compare the above to a modern autoconfiguring distro such as Knoppix.. we've come a long way, and there are people (such as the grandparent) that are trying to address the remaining issues.
PS: Since when is X unable to autoconfigure a monitor? I've never had this problem.. I conclude that you're trolling.
You missed an issue.
c) Have a shutdown script that will always run on shutdown. From what I understand, Windows has more then one shutdown (there's at least 2: the "slow" shutdown you get from Start -> Shutdown, and the "fast" shutdown you get from pushing the soft power button on your case).
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