... the server did not actually send those TCP requests, but was hosting an IRC server. The flooding software allows the user to turn his computer in a voluntary "botnet member". The software then connects to a specific IRC server (can be changed easily in case the server goes out of commission), connects to a specific channel and then a bot in this channel responds to commands by the software and passes the IP address of the target.
This allows the masterminds behind the attacks to coordinate the computers effectively and paralyze sites with an instant flood of requests, instead of having each user configuring the software with a new target I.P. and having the load on the target increase gradually, making it easier to react.
A game of personal user information marketing, advertisement networks, trackware and high financial stakes. Did I mention hookers and blow for high-level execs?
Somehow I doubt that all the computing machines in the word combined have the necessary processing power to computationally simulate *everything* that happens on the planet, even when if we try to limit the variables. So I'll just go ahead and assume the science team will compromise on a flawed model which produces equally flawed results.
Man cheap compact cameras record video using an MP4 container and encoding the video stream in MPEG 2. The reason for this is probably becase MP4 is a widespread enough container but the camera itself lacks the silicon to encode H264. MP4 is also a quite widespread way to contain AAC audio, since the metadata system is better.
And, just taking a random sample of.avi files in my computer, there is a multitude of video codecs muxed inside. From uncompressed YUV to DivX, Xvid, different versions of the MPEG standards... Not to mention different audio codecs, from mp3 to AAC-LC, AAC-HC, WAV and even WMA.
So, no, I'm not being pedantic.
MP4 is a container, not a codec.An MP4 file may have MPEG 1, MPEG 2, H264 or AVC muxed into it. Or no video stream at all and just have AAC audio or a boatload of other audio formats, audio, images etc.
...are still some some decades, if not centuries, away. Sadly. It doesn't look like current technology can provide us with the holy grail of space exploration. This experimental fuel doesn't look like the breakthrough we need.
Uh, is this not why we have things like Ogg Vorbis?
Even the Xiph.Org Foundation cannot guarantee that Vorbis is not covered by patents. Inquiries into this matter received only silence as a reply. I suspect this uncertainty
is what prevents big corporations from using Vorbis.
OOXML is a documented standard, ISO/IEC 29500. Backwards compatibility ranges from very good to excellent. On the other hand, documents and sheets created with OO.org and forks are regularly known to break when opened from different forks or versions of OO.org.
Where Office suites are considered mission critical, some tens of thousands every three years or so seem like a small cost compared to hundreds of thousands of loses in a single day.
The corporate market has already chosen the Office suite that suits its needs, and no anti-Microsoft sentiments from FOSS enthusiasts can change that fact.
I don't know about you, but if my job was depending on a good Office suite (I'm assuming about work use, since you mention complex presentations) , I would use Microsoft Office 2010. For everything else, there's Office Live, Google Docs and Abiword (for simple text documents).
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I don't believe EULAs and TOS can circumvent actual laws.
Sumatra PDF is hugely superior and doesn't nag you with "Online Offers".
It also has a much cleaner, native looking interface without the toolbar chaos characteristic of Foxit.
... the server did not actually send those TCP requests, but was hosting an IRC server. The flooding software allows the user to turn his computer in a voluntary "botnet member". The software then connects to a specific IRC server (can be changed easily in case the server goes out of commission), connects to a specific channel and then a bot in this channel responds to commands by the software and passes the IP address of the target.
This allows the masterminds behind the attacks to coordinate the computers effectively and paralyze sites with an instant flood of requests, instead of having each user configuring the software with a new target I.P. and having the load on the target increase gradually, making it easier to react.
A game of personal user information marketing, advertisement networks, trackware and high financial stakes. Did I mention hookers and blow for high-level execs?
Somehow I doubt that all the computing machines in the word combined have the necessary processing power to computationally simulate *everything* that happens on the planet, even when if we try to limit the variables. So I'll just go ahead and assume the science team will compromise on a flawed model which produces equally flawed results.
TFA says that it was the user database of the AMO (addons.mozilla.com) website, nothing to so with the Sync server.
Man cheap compact cameras record video using an MP4 container and encoding the video stream in MPEG 2. The reason for this is probably becase MP4 is a widespread enough container but the camera itself lacks the silicon to encode H264. MP4 is also a quite widespread way to contain AAC audio, since the metadata system is better. And, just taking a random sample of .avi files in my computer, there is a multitude of video codecs muxed inside. From uncompressed YUV to DivX, Xvid, different versions of the MPEG standards... Not to mention different audio codecs, from mp3 to AAC-LC, AAC-HC, WAV and even WMA.
So, no, I'm not being pedantic.
MP4 is a container, not a codec.An MP4 file may have MPEG 1, MPEG 2, H264 or AVC muxed into it. Or no video stream at all and just have AAC audio or a boatload of other audio formats, audio, images etc.
Rare earths are not that abundant as you think, and in many cases cannot be recycled.
...are still some some decades, if not centuries, away. Sadly. It doesn't look like current technology can provide us with the holy grail of space exploration. This experimental fuel doesn't look like the breakthrough we need.
This claim made by Xiph is not baked by any kind of legal review.
Uh, is this not why we have things like Ogg Vorbis?
Even the Xiph.Org Foundation cannot guarantee that Vorbis is not covered by patents. Inquiries into this matter received only silence as a reply. I suspect this uncertainty is what prevents big corporations from using Vorbis.
It does.
OOXML is a documented standard, ISO/IEC 29500. Backwards compatibility ranges from very good to excellent. On the other hand, documents and sheets created with OO.org and forks are regularly known to break when opened from different forks or versions of OO.org. Where Office suites are considered mission critical, some tens of thousands every three years or so seem like a small cost compared to hundreds of thousands of loses in a single day. The corporate market has already chosen the Office suite that suits its needs, and no anti-Microsoft sentiments from FOSS enthusiasts can change that fact.
I don't know about you, but if my job was depending on a good Office suite (I'm assuming about work use, since you mention complex presentations) , I would use Microsoft Office 2010. For everything else, there's Office Live, Google Docs and Abiword (for simple text documents).