To me, tracking them down (let me guess, you can do a traceroute?) isn't exactly hacking by any means. Finding the person and telling law enforcement is not hacking, it is arguably the antithesis of hacking (not to say you got the right person, but that's aside the point)..
No they tracked them down by using an automated intrusion tool to break into one of the DDoS attack machines and then followed the stepping stone servers back to the control machine.
I was doing due diligence on a computer security firm once who had be subject to a DDoS blackmail attack, you know, give us $5,000 or will we will keep your web site down. Well they back traced the control to some cyber cafe in eastern Europe and worked with the State Department to actually get the local police to go in and arrest the people involved.
If someone is actively hacking you then hacking them back isn't a crime (or it shouldn't be) its just self defense. And if you have to hire some firm to do it I don't see how it is any different than hiring armed security guards or private detectives.
If the law says you can't defend yourself from someone trying to ruin your business then the law is an ass.
Between this, the latest reports of restoring sigh with implantable photo voltaic chips and engineered nano particle drug delivery, medical science fiction is running out of subjects that are still fiction. Kurzweil's Singularity is looking more and more likely every day.
In the words of Glenn Reynolds...... FASTER, PLEASE!!
You didn't read what I wrote. I wasn't talking about someone other than the phone's owner making prank 911 txts, I was talking about the phone's owner making the prank txt and *claiming* it wasn't them to get out of trouble, because there would be no recording of their voice.
Will they be able to make the phone only talk/text to the 911 operator till they release the "line"?
Or perhaps turn on the audio, i.e. you text "I can't talk there is a burglar in my house", and they can turn on the phone/video and listen?
I suppose they could also make it take your picture to cut down on prank calls, otherwise how do they stop people saying "someone texted it in when I put the phone down" (yes they can cover the camera, but you know they will think of the feature)
Or turn on the video so you can show the 911 operator what is happening... which would be a cool feature for voice 911 calls as well.
I think this is one of those things for which there is a simple solution, find name of parent, all Ender's fans call parent and explain what a complete and colossal idiot they are. Problem solved. News report of parent explaining how their phone didn't stop ringing for several months convinces all future such parents to just keep their opinions to themselves.
"Pornography" is supposed to be judged by the standards of the "community", I think its time or the community to judge the standards of those who wish to judge the community.
The Iranian program also long predates the Bush speech, Clinton had already imposed sanctions against them in 2000 due to their activities.
The rest of your post is delusion, your points that you think would lead them to negotiate would convince them precisely that they were taking the right actions by going forward.
I'm guessing you don't play much poker, or negotiate in business contracts. You seem to assume that there is some reason they would not just want to have those weapons in the first place.
Wouldn't you be upset if you stood in line at the store to buy the same bottle of pop as the person in front of you and the cashier said it would cost you more because you look like you have more money?
You have obviously never bought an airline ticket at the last minute have you?
I think saying it would be practically indentured service is putting it too mildly. When they speak of how when Apple made a change shortly before product launch and the factory supervisors went around waking up the workers in the on site housing in the middle of the night giving them some tea and sending them to the factory floor to begin retooling in the wee hours of the am, that isn't the sort of treatment an indentured servant is subject to, that is the way you treat slave labor.
Ok you wouldn't give slaves tea first, but other than that there is little difference that I can see.
What we really need is a special copyright for Mickey and the rest of the Disney characters so that The Walt Disney Company can stop lobbying to extend all copyrights.
I've said the same thing many times, but sadly it would never happen.
But suddenly you make me think of something that might work Reset all copyright terms back to something simple like 50 years from publication. BUT, you can extend the copyright for as long as you want for a payment each year of
$1 Million + $100,000 * years over 50 since publication , (in inflation adjusted dollars)
so $1M at year 50, $1.5M at 55, $2M at 60, and so on
If you have Winnie he Pooh, you can pay for as long is it makes sense to do so, if something has little value it will go into the public domain at 50 years.
The money collected for the copyright extensions can be first directed to scanning everything the Library of Congress or any other library has to be put online so that it really does go to the public domain.
While they discuss individual SSDs, modern flash storage arrays ( http://www.violin-memory.com/products/6000-flash-memory-array/ ) can hide all the write latency and its effects on read latency. When you start talking about 16TB SSDs the same techniques can be used.
As far as bandwidth and IOPs, they use a 4K/8K write size for MLC/TLC, but MLC already exists with 8K pages, as well as having the ability to write more than one plane at once, which doubles the write bandwidth. Double the page size again and you double the BW.
Now bigger page sizes only help on the reads if you can use more than a single user read worth of data in the page, which might be possible depending on what the system knows about access patterns. But without making assumptions about the ability to store data together that's likely to be read together, garbage collection, which can wide up reading more bytes than the user does, can use most of the data in a page.
So there are factors of 2X, 4X maybe 8X in performance that the paper misses out on.
As far as density, it is not necessary to go to smaller features to get more bits per chip by using 3D techniques such as Toshiba's P-BiCS (Pipe-shaped Bit Cost Scalable) MLC NAND which allow vertical stacking which increases density without using smaller features with their worse performance and lifetime.
The group at UCSD that authored this has done some nice work so I don't mean to be too negative, but they are trying to predict too far from a limited and faulty set of assumptions which unfortunately negates much of the validity of this paper.
jon
p.s. in the interests of full disclosure, I make the arrays in the first link:)
So I followed the links down to the actual EU document, at which point the problem becomes clear. All the other issues aside, if it takes you 117 pages to explain a "basic right" then it seems to me that....
It would be quite interesting to see all the removed words, that is, to see what the lists the other schools gave you that were trimmed down. I find this interesting lest from the perspective of is the list an useful tool for managing the students, and more as a window into what sort of language passes for common usage in kids email and/or what language administrators think needs to be prevented. So again if you could post up the list of all the words you had to trim out from the lists that other schools sent in I think that would me something very interesting to see.
Well I am glad to hear they work for some people, but it is only online that I every encounter such people as yourself.
The issue isn't the dimmers, they fail in the non-dimmed sockets as well.
One of the issues I think is that all most all my lighting is overhead so the bulbs get too hot probably. However most of those are floods so they presumably should have been built for such locations. But I have had the bulbs fail in completely open fixtures. I've tried different styles from different makers. Whatever it is they don't work. Again maybe its the nature of the power supplied to my home, whatever it is, I don't care, trying to make me use something which doesn't work. And to make me use it for the wrong reasons is just wrong, pure and simple.
As for mercury from coal plants, well the emit lots of radiation to, but that doesn't seem to bother people, but the point source radiation from a site in Japan seems to have well as truly freaked people out. The same it true of CFLs, the amount of mercury the nearest coal plant subjects me to is quite insignificant, while if I break a CFL in my house the exposure will be quite a lot higher, and that is the difference and the issue.
If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.
Seriously, I know what it says, but truly if you give a whit about the limitations on what the government can do that has to have been one of the worst decisions of the court, up there with Kelo v. New London. The application of Kelo is just offensive each time it is used, Wickard is pernicious in the almost limitless power it grants to congress which they are happy to use at every turn.
I see, that makes much more sense. Don't think those numbers worked out for me.
I want LED floodlights so as to never have to replace them again.
Yeah, unfortunately LED lights don't have an infinite lifespan, they degrade over time getting dimmer with age, so you will have to replace those as well
5 years ago I rebuilt my house and decided like you to try and switch to CFL's I put them in all the sockets I could. Which turned out to be not as many as you would think, pesky thing those dimmer switches that had been installed to let me not run my lights full bore all the time. Oh yes eventually I was able to get the much more expensive dimmable CFLs. My wife can't stand the color of any of them, drives her absolutely up the wall. And of course I didn't know about the mercury in them at the time.
Unlike you however, I have seen these things fail at the most incredible rate. I have incandescent bulbs and regular long FL tubes that have not been replaced since the house was rebuilt. I have CFLs that I have replaced 2 or 3 or 4 times....... at which point I gave up entirely on them, I spent more money on replacing CFL, especially the freaking expensive dimmable ones then I probably would have spent on life bulbs for the rest of my natural life. I know of no person who I have ever spoken to who has had a different experience. Whenever I see someone posting how they switched over to CFLs and never had a single on fail in years, I assume you are some paid shill with an agenda, or the 1 person in a 100 who statistics has blessed with CFLs that actually work.
Let me make this clear, if you have CFLs and they have not failed..... YOU ARE ALONE IN THE WORLD!!!! Just because they may have worked for you, does not mean they work..... they don't
If the vote on this bill fails today, I will be calculating just how many bulbs I will need for the rest of my expected life duration and going out and buying enough cases of light bulbs to get me that far. Forget about the lower price or how the heat generation will help prevent global cooling...... the fact that the environmental lobby isn't out trying to pass laws against the evil mercury filled CFLs tells me all I need to know about what abject stupidity has taken hold of people.
Can you seriously believe that forcing the entire country to use bulbs filled with mercury which the WILL NOT be disposes of properly can possibly be a good idea? No it can't, unless you have so thoroughly drunk the global warming koolaid that there is no hope for having rational discourse with you.
In one of those odd connections of fate, I remember reading The Cuckoo's Egg, and having an email conversation with Cliff Stoll about the generating function that Robert Morris discussed with him at the NSA..... and Cliff's response of "hot diggity!" when I managed to work it out. And then a few years later I wound up as a fellow grad student of RTM, which resulted in meeting RHM and hearing some fascinating stories, that the times article refers to as "still classified" about his work in the first gulf war. Indeed the usual/. bad jokes in this thread are even more troll than usual.
The main problem with patents is the damage they cause??? Why do you argue for changing the process at all if what you really want is to eliminate them all together?
Also your example misses the point, the reason why issued patents are considered valid and you have to generally go to court to fight them is *because* you can't just grant them to yourself and because the procedure is difficult and therefore issued patents are assumed to not be obviously invalid.
You must have no idea how hard it can be to actually get a patent. Just because some patents shouldn't have been issued does not mean getting them is easy. Forget the 1-click patent for a minute, if you can only think of one example out of the tens of thousands of patents that issue each year, maybe just maybe the problem isn't patents, or rather if you were to try and make sure there never was a 1-click patent then there would never any useful patents issued. And really what are the odds anyone would have noticed the 1-click patent before it issued?
The lengthy process after is better than an even more lengthy process before, because the even more lengthy process before is much more harmful to the individual inventor or small business than to the large business, while at the same time being far easier for the large business to initiate.
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To me, tracking them down (let me guess, you can do a traceroute?) isn't exactly hacking by any means. Finding the person and telling law enforcement is not hacking, it is arguably the antithesis of hacking (not to say you got the right person, but that's aside the point)..
No they tracked them down by using an automated intrusion tool to break into one of the DDoS attack machines and then followed the stepping stone servers back to the control machine.
I was doing due diligence on a computer security firm once who had be subject to a DDoS blackmail attack, you know, give us $5,000 or will we will keep your web site down. Well they back traced the control to some cyber cafe in eastern Europe and worked with the State Department to actually get the local police to go in and arrest the people involved.
If someone is actively hacking you then hacking them back isn't a crime (or it shouldn't be) its just self defense. And if you have to hire some firm to do it I don't see how it is any different than hiring armed security guards or private detectives.
If the law says you can't defend yourself from someone trying to ruin your business then the law is an ass.
Between this, the latest reports of restoring sigh with implantable photo voltaic chips and engineered nano particle drug delivery, medical science fiction is running out of subjects that are still fiction. Kurzweil's Singularity is looking more and more likely every day.
In the words of Glenn Reynolds ...... FASTER, PLEASE!!
You didn't read what I wrote. I wasn't talking about someone other than the phone's owner making prank 911 txts, I was talking about the phone's owner making the prank txt and *claiming* it wasn't them to get out of trouble, because there would be no recording of their voice.
You need to contact 911 and you are worried about $0.25 txt charges?
Perhaps you aren't clear on the concept of a "true emergency".
Will they be able to make the phone only talk/text to the 911 operator till they release the "line"?
Or perhaps turn on the audio, i.e. you text "I can't talk there is a burglar in my house", and they can turn on the phone/video and listen?
I suppose they could also make it take your picture to cut down on prank calls, otherwise how do they stop people saying "someone texted it in when I put the phone down" (yes they can cover the camera, but you know they will think of the feature)
Or turn on the video so you can show the 911 operator what is happening... which would be a cool feature for voice 911 calls as well.
I for one welcome our new smart phone overlords.
I think this is one of those things for which there is a simple solution, find name of parent, all Ender's fans call parent and explain what a complete and colossal idiot they are. Problem solved. News report of parent explaining how their phone didn't stop ringing for several months convinces all future such parents to just keep their opinions to themselves.
"Pornography" is supposed to be judged by the standards of the "community", I think its time or the community to judge the standards of those who wish to judge the community.
Sorry, but you have your cause and effect backward, NK got into the Axis of Evil because of their nuke program not the other way around
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_North_Korea_nuclear_program
The Iranian program also long predates the Bush speech, Clinton had already imposed sanctions against them in 2000 due to their activities.
The rest of your post is delusion, your points that you think would lead them to negotiate would convince them precisely that they were taking the right actions by going forward.
I'm guessing you don't play much poker, or negotiate in business contracts. You seem to assume that there is some reason they would not just want to have those weapons in the first place.
Wouldn't you be upset if you stood in line at the store to buy the same bottle of pop as the person in front of you and the cashier said it would cost you more because you look like you have more money?
You have obviously never bought an airline ticket at the last minute have you?
I think saying it would be practically indentured service is putting it too mildly. When they speak of how when Apple made a change shortly before product launch and the factory supervisors went around waking up the workers in the on site housing in the middle of the night giving them some tea and sending them to the factory floor to begin retooling in the wee hours of the am, that isn't the sort of treatment an indentured servant is subject to, that is the way you treat slave labor.
Ok you wouldn't give slaves tea first, but other than that there is little difference that I can see.
What we really need is a special copyright for Mickey and the rest of the Disney characters
so that The Walt Disney Company can stop lobbying to extend all copyrights.
I've said the same thing many times, but sadly it would never happen.
But suddenly you make me think of something that might work Reset all copyright terms back to something simple like 50 years from publication. BUT, you can extend the copyright for as long as you want for a payment each year of
$1 Million + $100,000 * years over 50 since publication , (in inflation adjusted dollars)
so $1M at year 50, $1.5M at 55, $2M at 60, and so on
If you have Winnie he Pooh, you can pay for as long is it makes sense to do so, if something has little value it will go into the public domain at 50 years.
The money collected for the copyright extensions can be first directed to scanning everything the Library of Congress or any other library has to be put online so that it really does go to the public domain.
I was a wee sprout myself back then, gramps, but I do remember a little bit. I remember slashdot radio.
Ah, back when it still used vacuum tubes........ those were the days eh?
While they discuss individual SSDs, modern flash storage arrays ( http://www.violin-memory.com/products/6000-flash-memory-array/ ) can hide all the write latency and its effects on read latency. When you start talking about 16TB SSDs the same techniques can be used.
As far as bandwidth and IOPs, they use a 4K/8K write size for MLC/TLC, but MLC already exists with 8K pages, as well as having the ability to write more than one plane at once, which doubles the write bandwidth. Double the page size again and you double the BW.
Now bigger page sizes only help on the reads if you can use more than a single user read worth of data in the page, which might be possible depending on what the system knows about access patterns. But without making assumptions about the ability to store data together that's likely to be read together, garbage collection, which can wide up reading more bytes than the user does, can use most of the data in a page.
So there are factors of 2X, 4X maybe 8X in performance that the paper misses out on.
As far as density, it is not necessary to go to smaller features to get more bits per chip by using 3D techniques such as Toshiba's P-BiCS (Pipe-shaped Bit Cost Scalable) MLC NAND which allow vertical stacking which increases density without using smaller features with their worse performance and lifetime.
The group at UCSD that authored this has done some nice work so I don't mean to be too negative, but they are trying to predict too far from a limited and faulty set of assumptions which unfortunately negates much of the validity of this paper.
jon
p.s. in the interests of full disclosure, I make the arrays in the first link :)
So I followed the links down to the actual EU document, at which point the problem becomes clear. All the other issues aside, if it takes you 117 pages to explain a "basic right" then it seems to me that....
You're Not Doing It Right
It would be quite interesting to see all the removed words, that is, to see what the lists the other schools gave you that were trimmed down. I find this interesting lest from the perspective of is the list an useful tool for managing the students, and more as a window into what sort of language passes for common usage in kids email and/or what language administrators think needs to be prevented. So again if you could post up the list of all the words you had to trim out from the lists that other schools sent in I think that would me something very interesting to see.
thanks
Well I am glad to hear they work for some people, but it is only online that I every encounter such people as yourself.
The issue isn't the dimmers, they fail in the non-dimmed sockets as well.
One of the issues I think is that all most all my lighting is overhead so the bulbs get too hot probably. However most of those are floods so they presumably should have been built for such locations. But I have had the bulbs fail in completely open fixtures. I've tried different styles from different makers. Whatever it is they don't work. Again maybe its the nature of the power supplied to my home, whatever it is, I don't care, trying to make me use something which doesn't work. And to make me use it for the wrong reasons is just wrong, pure and simple.
As for mercury from coal plants, well the emit lots of radiation to, but that doesn't seem to bother people, but the point source radiation from a site in Japan seems to have well as truly freaked people out. The same it true of CFLs, the amount of mercury the nearest coal plant subjects me to is quite insignificant, while if I break a CFL in my house the exposure will be quite a lot higher, and that is the difference and the issue.
I will let Mr Dickens opine on that decision..
If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.
Seriously, I know what it says, but truly if you give a whit about the limitations on what the government can do that has to have been one of the worst decisions of the court, up there with Kelo v. New London. The application of Kelo is just offensive each time it is used, Wickard is pernicious in the almost limitless power it grants to congress which they are happy to use at every turn.
I see, that makes much more sense. Don't think those numbers worked out for me.
I want LED floodlights so as to never have to replace them again.
Yeah, unfortunately LED lights don't have an infinite lifespan, they degrade over time getting dimmer with age, so you will have to replace those as well
5 years ago I rebuilt my house and decided like you to try and switch to CFL's I put them in all the sockets I could. Which turned out to be not as many as you would think, pesky thing those dimmer switches that had been installed to let me not run my lights full bore all the time. Oh yes eventually I was able to get the much more expensive dimmable CFLs. My wife can't stand the color of any of them, drives her absolutely up the wall. And of course I didn't know about the mercury in them at the time.
Unlike you however, I have seen these things fail at the most incredible rate. I have incandescent bulbs and regular long FL tubes that have not been replaced since the house was rebuilt. I have CFLs that I have replaced 2 or 3 or 4 times....... at which point I gave up entirely on them, I spent more money on replacing CFL, especially the freaking expensive dimmable ones then I probably would have spent on life bulbs for the rest of my natural life. I know of no person who I have ever spoken to who has had a different experience. Whenever I see someone posting how they switched over to CFLs and never had a single on fail in years, I assume you are some paid shill with an agenda, or the 1 person in a 100 who statistics has blessed with CFLs that actually work.
Let me make this clear, if you have CFLs and they have not failed..... YOU ARE ALONE IN THE WORLD!!!! Just because they may have worked for you, does not mean they work..... they don't
If the vote on this bill fails today, I will be calculating just how many bulbs I will need for the rest of my expected life duration and going out and buying enough cases of light bulbs to get me that far. Forget about the lower price or how the heat generation will help prevent global cooling...... the fact that the environmental lobby isn't out trying to pass laws against the evil mercury filled CFLs tells me all I need to know about what abject stupidity has taken hold of people.
Can you seriously believe that forcing the entire country to use bulbs filled with mercury which the WILL NOT be disposes of properly can possibly be a good idea? No it can't, unless you have so thoroughly drunk the global warming koolaid that there is no hope for having rational discourse with you.
so apparently /. is the only place in the world where in a "whose is longer" contest, the objective is to lose?
In one of those odd connections of fate, I remember reading The Cuckoo's Egg, and having an email conversation with Cliff Stoll about the generating function that Robert Morris discussed with him at the NSA..... and Cliff's response of "hot diggity!" when I managed to work it out. And then a few years later I wound up as a fellow grad student of RTM, which resulted in meeting RHM and hearing some fascinating stories, that the times article refers to as "still classified" about his work in the first gulf war. Indeed the usual /. bad jokes in this thread are even more troll than usual.
jon
p.s. hi cliff
>Also reminds me of Robby, the only academic one-name I've ever heard of.
Well there is always Arvind [ http://csg.csail.mit.edu/Users/arvind/ ]
now you have heard of two
For the insects its not an STD, its a DTD..... Dining Transmitted Disease.... or I suppose it could be an STD.... Snacking Transmitted Disease?
The main problem with patents is the damage they cause??? Why do you argue for changing the process at all if what you really want is to eliminate them all together?
Also your example misses the point, the reason why issued patents are considered valid and you have to generally go to court to fight them is *because* you can't just grant them to yourself and because the procedure is difficult and therefore issued patents are assumed to not be obviously invalid.
You must have no idea how hard it can be to actually get a patent. Just because some patents shouldn't have been issued does not mean getting them is easy. Forget the 1-click patent for a minute, if you can only think of one example out of the tens of thousands of patents that issue each year, maybe just maybe the problem isn't patents, or rather if you were to try and make sure there never was a 1-click patent then there would never any useful patents issued. And really what are the odds anyone would have noticed the 1-click patent before it issued?
The lengthy process after is better than an even more lengthy process before, because the even more lengthy process before is much more harmful to the individual inventor or small business than to the large business, while at the same time being far easier for the large business to initiate.