Actually, they *do*. That's how the 'cleanfeed' system works. As was discovered when they blocked wikipedia a few years ago - ISPs redirected all traffic for that IP on port 80 to a transparent proxy that then blocked the offending files specifically, playing hell with wikipedia's anti-vandalism measures.
As routing is all kernal level, there shouldn't be any copying. Packets go in to memory via DMA, and come out the same way. Number of packets is more important than number of bytes, CPU-wise. Which is all the more reason to get everything running jumbo frames properly and get rid of the 1500-byte legacy of 10base5.
That high-end networking gear usually outperforms any PC simply by having hardware designed for it. Switches have real CAM in their chips rather than having to awkwardly handle it in software, and routers likewise have hardware implimentations of routing decision-making. Software handles the routing protocol, but hardware decides where the packets actually go based on the resulting tables.
It's the low-end and mid-range, SOHO-like things, where linux can get in and offer the advantages of commodity hardware, a widely known skill set, extreme flexibility and feature availability. I'm sure a lot of slashdot readers already use a low-powered PC running linux as their router.
(Actually, being slashdotters, probably not that low powered. My router is a Xeon, doubling as a home media server, torrent box, webserver, freenet node and dev system)
I'm sure the three remaining users of IS-IS were disapointed.
I'm guessing OSPF was taken because Windows is just too heavyweight for a router, really. With linux you can easily enough strip it down to an absolutely minimal system - important not just to reduce memory footprint, but to make sure you don't lose performance when some OS service decides it is time to kick in and update something and minimise attack surface. Even the GUI-less varients of Windows Server are still pretty big and complex.
I wouldn't be surprised if there already is, somewhere. The NSA is certainly reading every journal in the field, looking out for the elusive breakthrough. If they saw one being made they would likely surpress it for a few years, so they could take advantage of that window of opportunity before someone else invented it or at the very least have time to quantum-proof the US military and diplomatic communications before the tech went public. Their counterparts in other countries would doubtless have the same plan.
If someone has invented a true quantum computer, we'd find out eventually. But possibly not right away.
I don't see any straw man. To qualify as a strawman argument, I would need to misrepresent an opponent's argument, then attack that misrepresentation. All I did was point out that while the Catholic church can do good, that doesn't mean it cannot also do harm.
The Buddah really came up with more of a philosophy and moral system. It just mutated very quickly into a religion with the usual compliment of traditional rules and rituals.
It's worse than that. The New Testament is written in Greek, but Jesus didn't speak in Greek. He would have spoken in Aramaic, and perhaps occasionally in Hebrew when talking about religion. So the only surviving record of what he said is already a translation. The latin bible is a translation of a translation. And as modern english bibles draw heavily from the latin bible...
It's not hard to find. During Operation Chanology a bunch of anons spammed links to torrents over half the internet, just because the church tried to hide it.
I've never seen one, but I wonder... if you slipped some copper wire against your palms and through your sleeves, what would happen? Their e-meters work on the idea that the presence of 'thetans' impedes electricity. At just a few ohms hand to hand, they might declare you the second coming of Hubbard on the spot.
And if that doesn't work, stick four 9V batteries in the middle and burn out their meter.
Linux has been run on 64k micros. Getting it down to 12k would be fiddley, yes. Extensive parts would need to be rewritten. But... it might just be doable.
Freenet already has the locations of all users hidden. It's possible for a listener to determine you are using freenet, but not what you inserted or what you are retrieving. Likewise, no takedown capability.
Pirates do use freenet, but not much. That's because all that privacy comes with a performance penalty: Freenet is *slow*. Same applies to Tor.
The takedowns mostly consist of links to forums that link to filelocker sites which have also been DMCAed, so they are of limited use in finding infringing files. Sure, a determined pirate can use them to follow a trail, but it's a lot of work.
Oh, pirates. Request for you. Those NFO files? Include hashes. File size, ed2k, aich, btih, sha1 and tth. That covers all the major hash-search-capable p2p networks. That way even if all the filelocker links are down, people can still try to use the hashes to aid in their quest.
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Actually, they *do*. That's how the 'cleanfeed' system works. As was discovered when they blocked wikipedia a few years ago - ISPs redirected all traffic for that IP on port 80 to a transparent proxy that then blocked the offending files specifically, playing hell with wikipedia's anti-vandalism measures.
Same thing with gcc. Apple still use it, but are making preperations to dump it from xcode in favor of Clang, for the same reasons.
As routing is all kernal level, there shouldn't be any copying. Packets go in to memory via DMA, and come out the same way. Number of packets is more important than number of bytes, CPU-wise. Which is all the more reason to get everything running jumbo frames properly and get rid of the 1500-byte legacy of 10base5.
Incidentally, if you use one of those 'Magic Planet' display globes... when 2038 hits, roll back the clock. They suffer from it.
That high-end networking gear usually outperforms any PC simply by having hardware designed for it. Switches have real CAM in their chips rather than having to awkwardly handle it in software, and routers likewise have hardware implimentations of routing decision-making. Software handles the routing protocol, but hardware decides where the packets actually go based on the resulting tables.
It's the low-end and mid-range, SOHO-like things, where linux can get in and offer the advantages of commodity hardware, a widely known skill set, extreme flexibility and feature availability. I'm sure a lot of slashdot readers already use a low-powered PC running linux as their router.
(Actually, being slashdotters, probably not that low powered. My router is a Xeon, doubling as a home media server, torrent box, webserver, freenet node and dev system)
I'm sure the three remaining users of IS-IS were disapointed.
I'm guessing OSPF was taken because Windows is just too heavyweight for a router, really. With linux you can easily enough strip it down to an absolutely minimal system - important not just to reduce memory footprint, but to make sure you don't lose performance when some OS service decides it is time to kick in and update something and minimise attack surface. Even the GUI-less varients of Windows Server are still pretty big and complex.
Never mind GTA - we might finally get to see what Crysis is like on full settings.
Eventually, there will be one that can.
I wouldn't be surprised if there already is, somewhere. The NSA is certainly reading every journal in the field, looking out for the elusive breakthrough. If they saw one being made they would likely surpress it for a few years, so they could take advantage of that window of opportunity before someone else invented it or at the very least have time to quantum-proof the US military and diplomatic communications before the tech went public. Their counterparts in other countries would doubtless have the same plan.
If someone has invented a true quantum computer, we'd find out eventually. But possibly not right away.
And about five minutes later, the internet lobbyist would follow.
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I don't know if it will be able to do that, but if it can then there might be power savings too.
I don't see any straw man. To qualify as a strawman argument, I would need to misrepresent an opponent's argument, then attack that misrepresentation. All I did was point out that while the Catholic church can do good, that doesn't mean it cannot also do harm.
On the surface only. Beneath the superficial appearance, it's a complete rewrite for modern computers.
Better idea: Call it 'Doki Doki Panic 3.'
The Buddah really came up with more of a philosophy and moral system. It just mutated very quickly into a religion with the usual compliment of traditional rules and rituals.
It's worse than that. The New Testament is written in Greek, but Jesus didn't speak in Greek. He would have spoken in Aramaic, and perhaps occasionally in Hebrew when talking about religion. So the only surviving record of what he said is already a translation. The latin bible is a translation of a translation. And as modern english bibles draw heavily from the latin bible...
There wouldn't be as many AIDS patients if the church hadn't condemned condoms as an unnatural perversion of God's law.
It's not hard to find. During Operation Chanology a bunch of anons spammed links to torrents over half the internet, just because the church tried to hide it.
I've never seen one, but I wonder... if you slipped some copper wire against your palms and through your sleeves, what would happen? Their e-meters work on the idea that the presence of 'thetans' impedes electricity. At just a few ohms hand to hand, they might declare you the second coming of Hubbard on the spot.
And if that doesn't work, stick four 9V batteries in the middle and burn out their meter.
You don't do something like that to be useful. You do it to see if you can.
Linux has been run on 64k micros. Getting it down to 12k would be fiddley, yes. Extensive parts would need to be rewritten. But... it might just be doable.
Freenet already has the locations of all users hidden. It's possible for a listener to determine you are using freenet, but not what you inserted or what you are retrieving. Likewise, no takedown capability.
Pirates do use freenet, but not much. That's because all that privacy comes with a performance penalty: Freenet is *slow*. Same applies to Tor.
Go. Do it.
The takedowns mostly consist of links to forums that link to filelocker sites which have also been DMCAed, so they are of limited use in finding infringing files. Sure, a determined pirate can use them to follow a trail, but it's a lot of work.
Oh, pirates. Request for you. Those NFO files? Include hashes. File size, ed2k, aich, btih, sha1 and tth. That covers all the major hash-search-capable p2p networks. That way even if all the filelocker links are down, people can still try to use the hashes to aid in their quest.