you are talking about :
"What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
this makes more sence then:
PC World: What are Google's biggest challenges?
Schmidt: Managing the growth. Our servers are overloaded. There is a DRAM shortage. We're building more computers. We are adding more-sophisticated products to the advertising side of Google. Our problems at the moment are growth problems.
If you have computers where 4 GB is not very much memory, but use the amount we use on out HD for memory i would have a dram shortage too.
And i bet they store only the most frequest used part of the index in memory.
Did you notice when you access the google cache this very slow compared to a search? Even if that cache was accessed frequently (because it references a/.ed site)
Article:
Establish a computer network linking every reservation system in the United States to private and government databases.
Should have very little impact for us in Europe. From a system security standpoint i do not understand this. Just suppose this system works and the next al quasimode terrorist goes to hijack a plane again to fly it in [fill in any american center] would he circomvent this system by fling from canada, europe, mexico... any other airport. But of course he will be flagged by US immigrations. A stupid terrorist will cross the "affiliated with el quosimodo" form with yes.
Or does this system just proves that American's see "North america" == the world.
I am confused. Is this a troll? is this you being trigger happy?
OR are you going to the learning phases of ANY technical stuff:
-I Don't know know anything about it.
-I learning about it, just give the time.
-I know a lot about it, just some details i have
to fill in. (A lot of experts at/. are at this level)
-I know a lot about it, if you give me enough time i will get all the latest details.
-I Never have time enough to learn all.
-I will never know all the details about it.
I'll let you judge OK, A post ending with "find it out yourself", don't bother to reply is not a troll.
By the way, I am a zero about java, I just ran the first sample program's of sun's tutorial.
To protect a city and its occupants a wall was built around the city, with a few gates provided
to allow regulated access. If a city was conquered, the walls were simply rebuilt higher and wider. This is much the same approach people are taking with Firewalls; and ultimately it is ignoring the true problem,
In this anology there are more solutions. Some city's make countries. (ISP buy each other). cities contain houses.(and each house has his own front door). etc etc. The segmentation is comparable to WAN country.
If someone find a generic key to a house he can be fenced off at the firewall (be it at ISP/LAN/MACHINE level).
Does this help: yes, more and more filters are implemented by ISP's, windows XP contains its own filerwall, Firewalls ge to know more and more about the traffic they let trhough.
Even real countries (china) are firewalled completely).
And if a firewall goes down, a bigger wall is made (including .
Perhaps you're thinking of the ban on cell phones? No i was thinking about the rule "No antenna".
But if you put a cell (GMS 900/1800)phone next to an FM radio you KNOW it disturbs the radio signal when it rings! no urbam myth there. It is about safety. And since receivers are far away they use the peek wattage.
local systems would get saturated every time a plane flies over them. Are you talking about GSM (900Mhz/1800Mhz)phones? this one is COMPLETELY new to me.
About the use of portable computers on airplanes. I know in the beginning of the portables the screens of the portables causes radio interference.
From the article (RTFA!):
Okay everybody, this is getting rediculous. Patches FROM MAINTAINERS are getting dropped on the floor on a regular basis. This is burning out
maintainers and is increasing the number of different kernel trees (not yet a major fork, but a lot of cracks and fragmentation are showing under the stress).
The maintainers should be kept happy. As linus states:
he fact is, we've had "patch penguins" pretty much forever, and they are called subsystem maintainers. They maintain their own subsystem, ie people like David Miller (networking), Kai Germaschewski (ISDN), Greg KH (USB), Ben Collins (firewire), Al Viro (VFS), Andrew Morton (ext3), Ingo Molnar (scheduler), Jeff Garzik (network drivers) etc etc.
Rik van Riel already suggested a mailing bot that says what version it is agianst (and how many times it is dropped....). But just mailing linux only helps you to be added to the spamfiler.
I gues in some time this will all stop if linus find a toy project he wants to focus on and some kernel distributer steps in with a team to take over. (Linus will say I dont care. real men....)
The only reason methanol(the stuff that makes you go blind) is (will be?) allowed on a airplaine is because the tax free shops sell a lot of alcohol(the stuff that makes you go silly). And lets just asume a bottle of >40% whiskey has the same chemical properties as 100% bottle of methanol.
This will all end when a big plane crash and high % alcohol drink go in the same heading on a newspage.
It is not allowed now to use any electronic device during start or landing. Why? Just in case probably. It is never allowed to use any device that uses an antenna? why? maybe because they can not tell if it is receiving (mostly harmless) or sending (interfering with cockpit/flight controls).
As security will become more important less and less bagage will be allwod in the passenger area. hydogen or methanol will be less of an issue.
Image a refill of either fuel onboard an airplane. or worse, a refill in an airplane where smoking is allowed. Or worse (in a few years), a refill of a taiwan produced laptop that has been dropped a few times.
also see: http://slashdot.org/science/02/01/02/1534252.sht ml
And if you think that this is not possible, think again, I have read the results of a SAN security risk assesment performed by a large security firm, and they were able to plug in a laptop into the SAN and gain access to the SAN by making the SAN controller believe that the laptop had the WWUI (world-wide unique identifier) of a critical server that was down for maintenance.
If you gain physical access: plug in a laptopor put a boot floppy into it, it will seldom be safe. You can get adminstrator access on most NT4 servers just by using a specailly crafted boot flop.
I know the story about a security consultant telling that there was no plan for a failure of power. To prove it he unplugged the (AS/400?) box. He was right, it took them a long time to get the system in good order again. Last thing i heard a lawsuit was started. (So far for a single point of failure.)
The point: A SAN can fail. a local raid5 can fail.
e.g.
SAN: plug a laptop in (your example)
RAID: Steal the backup tape.
replace te redundant disk(s), an put them in an other system, tadaa, copy of all data!
Security does not become better or worse just because there is a SAN station.
Re:mirror of images - Google cache
on
A Real Tabletop PC
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· Score: 2, Informative
ac: you should have replied to the first poster, who relied on the google cache, not understanding that the pictures are taken from the original site. but that is why you replies as ac.
By the way, finding this in google images is not very simple.
It's not at *all* a way to 'scam' the consumer into watching more commercials.. just a way to 'shorten' a show so it fits your schedule.
Or shorten the show AND the commercials to fit in just one more commercial. As the article states. and a really doubt if you will notice a shortened commercial at all.
Now i look different to radio stations that play music 3% faster to make it sound "more hip". (i.e.
radio538.nl ).
I am looking forward to the first consumer aparatus that automatically skips all commercials. It should not be that hard to recognize commercials.
In freenet you have to do an exact "search" to find a key. really, the search function is not really a search function at all. it is the "get me the data assiated with this key" function. If you did your research you would have found this out.
don't forget gnutella is also evolving. Look for recent p2p subjects on/. to find this out.
On the other hand,/. has probably been one of the biggest DoS mechanisms on the 'net, in a manner of speaking. Can you think of anything more bandwidth-destructive than being slashdotted?:)
Declaring you cannot be hacked. (and offer money for it)
And all houses were closed since most accidents happen in-house. (My thought when i read the intro from/.). And after:the death penality for suicide(can i make jokes about that, i think so!).
Oh no the article referred to was much more suble however. "One of the new restrictions will be that minors not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian may only stay at the cafes until 8 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays they can stay unaccompanied until 10 p.m., city spokeswoman Kathy Moore said.
Who ever modded this up is clueless.
-This is a point that is brought up every time a wireless topic is started. -> a troll if you ask me. (lookup the definition of a troll).
-The poster says is does not know anything about aussie law.
-I think no lawsuit here, you are just disconnected. Unless a highprofile hack was done from this network.
-Damn, i just reacted to something i declared a troll.! 8-)
There is a followup to this article.:
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/9910.phtml -sherman networks is unknow.
-A judge will not take this.(according to a involved loyer)
-bumra/stemra knows of nothing
"According to a monday released press announcement the buyer - Sharman Networks - it is a aboute certain parts of KaZaA. The following company parts are "in ieder geval" involved: The website, name(/trademark), logo's , and a licence on the peer to peer network of fastrack. If the client software is involved is unknown
Futher details are not made public. What amount the from Australia coming Sharman Networdks paid for KaZaA is not clear. According to Nikkki Hemming, CEO of sharman the continuenece of Kazaa is insured. "we think it is fantastic to resume the service of Kazaa and development the tradmark Kazaa"
[sorry for the bad translation, my dutch is better]
rest of article is stuff we already know.
-download suspended.
-talks bumra stemra (riaa)
I see a few problems that would be hard to overcome... First, say (as stated in the article) someone left a message in mid-air informing people of a car accident on the expressway. Suppose the average speed on that that road is 75 km/h. In addition, the polling frequency, the protocol, and lags in the devices themselves delay the delivery of the message...
This all suggests that messages must be tagged with a radius as well as a location. On the highway at high speeds, one might need a 1-2 km radius to ensure that the message is delivered before one encounters the accident. On the other hand, one only needs a 1m radius to leave graffiti over the crapper at your local McDonalds.
Now what happens if the highway passes through a city (like Boston's 93) with lots of McDonalds... Will I walk into the men's room and get:
"Accident on 93 North - use left lane...."
"Here I sit all broken-hearted...."
If the restaurant falls within the message radius, I will. Now let's go for the low hanging fruit - the obvious fix-all. Let's tag the messages with a location, a radius, and a speed! It's GPS - calculating speed is easy, right? If I'm walking into McDonalds at 4km/h, I won't get the message intended for cars at 75km/h.
Now not only do people know where I am, but how fast I am going. Cross-reference with a map, and they know what road I'm on. Should I expect to see speeding tickets enclosed in my mobile phone bill? Will Mapquest email me: "You know Dan, there's a much better route to work..." Will my local health club text my mobile:
"We noticed you go to McDonalds quite frequently and you're not walking too fast these days..." Privacy? What privacy?
Slashdot Mirror
before Geoshitties killed it..
/. DOS was made. They shut the page down to prevent a succesful attack.
Geocities did not kill it. They cowarldy Retreated when a
REAL MEN (tm) would have died defending the site. (as many did before)
you are talking about :
"What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
kapla"
this makes more sence then:
/.ed site)
PC World: What are Google's biggest challenges?
Schmidt: Managing the growth. Our servers are overloaded. There is a DRAM shortage. We're building more computers. We are adding more-sophisticated products to the advertising side of Google. Our problems at the moment are growth problems.
If you have computers where 4 GB is not very much memory, but use the amount we use on out HD for memory i would have a dram shortage too.
And i bet they store only the most frequest used part of the index in memory.
Did you notice when you access the google cache this very slow compared to a search? Even if that cache was accessed frequently (because it references a
you forgot:
/.
d) bought bussiness class tickets to sit closer to the pilot. 8-)
Just nitpicking, this is
By the way, for c it is easier to give up the hotel you are staying the first night.
Article:
Establish a computer network linking every reservation system in the United States to private and government databases.
Should have very little impact for us in Europe. From a system security standpoint i do not understand this. Just suppose this system works and the next al quasimode terrorist goes to hijack a plane again to fly it in [fill in any american center] would he circomvent this system by fling from canada, europe, mexico... any other airport. But of course he will be flagged by US immigrations. A stupid terrorist will cross the "affiliated with el quosimodo" form with yes.
Or does this system just proves that American's see "North america" == the world.
I've been writing Java code for five years
/. are at this level)
I am confused. Is this a troll? is this you being trigger happy?
OR are you going to the learning phases of ANY technical stuff:
-I Don't know know anything about it.
-I learning about it, just give the time.
-I know a lot about it, just some details i have
to fill in. (A lot of experts at
-I know a lot about it, if you give me enough time i will get all the latest details.
-I Never have time enough to learn all.
-I will never know all the details about it.
I'll let you judge
OK, A post ending with "find it out yourself", don't bother to reply is not a troll.
By the way, I am a zero about java, I just ran the first sample program's of sun's tutorial.
Will it be solid enough to run 24/7 with 1% downtime?
Do you really think 99% uptime (which is not very high) relies on a good programmer who optimizes a program?
I like his anology of firewall more:
To protect a city and its occupants a wall was built around the city, with a few gates provided
to allow regulated access. If a city was conquered, the walls were simply rebuilt higher and wider. This is much the same approach people are taking with Firewalls; and ultimately it is ignoring the true problem,
In this anology there are more solutions. Some city's make countries. (ISP buy each other). cities contain houses.(and each house has his own front door). etc etc. The segmentation is comparable to WAN country.
If someone find a generic key to a house he can be fenced off at the firewall (be it at ISP/LAN/MACHINE level).
Does this help: yes, more and more filters are implemented by ISP's, windows XP contains its own filerwall, Firewalls ge to know more and more about the traffic they let trhough.
Even real countries (china) are firewalled completely).
And if a firewall goes down, a bigger wall is made (including .
hmm, I remember a logo (on the safety card) and it was told during starup. I wanted to proof it to you but i cannot find rules about it on google.
I think i remember wrong.
Perhaps you're thinking of the ban on cell phones?
No i was thinking about the rule "No antenna".
But if you put a cell (GMS 900/1800)phone next to an FM radio you KNOW it disturbs the radio signal when it rings! no urbam myth there. It is about safety. And since receivers are far away they use the peek wattage.
local systems would get saturated every time a plane flies over them.
Are you talking about GSM (900Mhz/1800Mhz)phones? this one is COMPLETELY new to me.
About the use of portable computers on airplanes. I know in the beginning of the portables the screens of the portables causes radio interference.
From the article (RTFA!):
Okay everybody, this is getting rediculous. Patches FROM MAINTAINERS are getting dropped on the floor on a regular basis. This is burning out
maintainers and is increasing the number of different kernel trees (not yet a major fork, but a lot of cracks and fragmentation are showing under the stress).
The maintainers should be kept happy. As linus states:
he fact is, we've had "patch penguins" pretty much forever, and they are called subsystem maintainers. They maintain their own subsystem, ie people like David Miller (networking), Kai Germaschewski (ISDN), Greg KH (USB), Ben Collins (firewire), Al Viro (VFS), Andrew Morton (ext3), Ingo Molnar (scheduler), Jeff Garzik (network drivers) etc etc.
Rik van Riel already suggested a mailing bot that says what version it is agianst (and how many times it is dropped....). But just mailing linux only helps you to be added to the spamfiler.
I gues in some time this will all stop if linus find a toy project he wants to focus on and some kernel distributer steps in with a team to take over. (Linus will say I dont care. real men....)
The only reason methanol(the stuff that makes you go blind) is (will be?) allowed on a airplaine is because the tax free shops sell a lot of alcohol(the stuff that makes you go silly). And lets just asume a bottle of >40% whiskey has the same chemical properties as 100% bottle of methanol.
t ml
This will all end when a big plane crash and high % alcohol drink go in the same heading on a newspage.
It is not allowed now to use any electronic device during start or landing. Why? Just in case probably. It is never allowed to use any device that uses an antenna? why? maybe because they can not tell if it is receiving (mostly harmless) or sending (interfering with cockpit/flight controls).
As security will become more important less and less bagage will be allwod in the passenger area. hydogen or methanol will be less of an issue.
Image a refill of either fuel onboard an airplane. or worse, a refill in an airplane where smoking is allowed. Or worse (in a few years), a refill of a taiwan produced laptop that has been dropped a few times.
also see:
http://slashdot.org/science/02/01/02/1534252.sh
And if you think that this is not possible, think again, I have read the results of a SAN security risk assesment performed by a large security firm, and they were able to plug in a laptop into the SAN and gain access to the SAN by making the SAN controller believe that the laptop had the WWUI (world-wide unique identifier) of a critical server that was down for maintenance.
If you gain physical access: plug in a laptopor put a boot floppy into it, it will seldom be safe. You can get adminstrator access on most NT4 servers just by using a specailly crafted boot flop.
I know the story about a security consultant telling that there was no plan for a failure of power. To prove it he unplugged the (AS/400?) box. He was right, it took them a long time to get the system in good order again. Last thing i heard a lawsuit was started. (So far for a single point of failure.)
The point: A SAN can fail. a local raid5 can fail.
e.g.
SAN: plug a laptop in (your example)
RAID: Steal the backup tape.
replace te redundant disk(s), an put them in an other system, tadaa, copy of all data!
Security does not become better or worse just because there is a SAN station.
ac: you should have replied to the first poster, who relied on the google cache, not understanding that the pictures are taken from the original site. but that is why you replies as ac.
By the way, finding this in google images is not very simple.
Not very smart. Google caches text, but retreives the images from the original site. If you tried google images you would have found something.
like this
It's not at *all* a way to 'scam' the consumer into watching more commercials.. just a way to 'shorten' a show so it fits your schedule.
Or shorten the show AND the commercials to fit in just one more commercial. As the article states. and a really doubt if you will notice a shortened commercial at all.
Now i look different to radio stations that play music 3% faster to make it sound "more hip". (i.e.
radio538.nl ).
I am looking forward to the first consumer aparatus that automatically skips all commercials. It should not be that hard to recognize commercials.
Comparing the search function is not a good idea.
/. to find this out.
In freenet you have to do an exact "search" to find a key. really, the search function is not really a search function at all. it is the "get me the data assiated with this key" function. If you did your research you would have found this out.
don't forget gnutella is also evolving. Look for recent p2p subjects on
Oracle jdevloper
http://www.oracle.com/start/jdevelopereap/intro
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D708%2
won't d
On the other hand, /. has probably been one of the biggest DoS mechanisms on the 'net, in a manner of speaking. Can you think of anything more bandwidth-destructive than being slashdotted? :)
Declaring you cannot be hacked. (and offer money for it)
And all houses were closed since most accidents happen in-house. (My thought when i read the intro from /.). And after :the death penality for suicide(can i make jokes about that, i think so!).
Oh no the article referred to was much more suble however. "One of the new restrictions will be that minors not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian may only stay at the cafes until 8 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays they can stay unaccompanied until 10 p.m., city spokeswoman Kathy Moore said.
Who ever modded this up is clueless.
-This is a point that is brought up every time a wireless topic is started. -> a troll if you ask me. (lookup the definition of a troll).
-The poster says is does not know anything about aussie law.
-I think no lawsuit here, you are just disconnected. Unless a highprofile hack was done from this network.
-Damn, i just reacted to something i declared a troll.! 8-)
just my 0.02
There is a followup to this article.:
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/9910.phtml
-sherman networks is unknow.
-A judge will not take this.(according to a involved loyer)
-bumra/stemra knows of nothing
Isn;t ther a saying about men with big cars have a small ....s
Makes you think when he says when he sells his modified car.
Next thing in your email:
-Learn all about P.... enlargement. [spam alert]
There is an article [dutch] on webwerel.nl:
"According to a monday released press announcement the buyer - Sharman Networks - it is a aboute certain parts of KaZaA. The following company parts are "in ieder geval" involved: The website, name(/trademark), logo's , and a licence on the peer to peer network of fastrack. If the client software is involved is unknown
Futher details are not made public. What amount the from Australia coming Sharman Networdks paid for KaZaA is not clear. According to Nikkki Hemming, CEO of sharman the continuenece of Kazaa is insured. "we think it is fantastic to resume the service of Kazaa and development the tradmark Kazaa"
[sorry for the bad translation, my dutch is better]
rest of article is stuff we already know.
-download suspended.
-talks bumra stemra (riaa)
I see a few problems that would be hard to overcome... First, say (as stated in the article) someone left a message in mid-air informing people of a car accident on the expressway. Suppose the average speed on that that road is 75 km/h. In addition, the polling frequency, the protocol, and lags in the devices themselves delay the delivery of the message...
This all suggests that messages must be tagged with a radius as well as a location. On the highway at high speeds, one might need a 1-2 km radius to ensure that the message is delivered before one encounters the accident. On the other hand, one only needs a 1m radius to leave graffiti over the crapper at your local McDonalds.
Now what happens if the highway passes through a city (like Boston's 93) with lots of McDonalds... Will I walk into the men's room and get:
"Accident on 93 North - use left lane...."
"Here I sit all broken-hearted...."
If the restaurant falls within the message radius, I will. Now let's go for the low hanging fruit - the obvious fix-all. Let's tag the messages with a location, a radius, and a speed! It's GPS - calculating speed is easy, right? If I'm walking into McDonalds at 4km/h, I won't get the message intended for cars at 75km/h.
Now not only do people know where I am, but how fast I am going. Cross-reference with a map, and they know what road I'm on. Should I expect to see speeding tickets enclosed in my mobile phone bill? Will Mapquest email me:
"You know Dan, there's a much better route to work..."
Will my local health club text my mobile:
"We noticed you go to McDonalds quite frequently and you're not walking too fast these days..."
Privacy? What privacy?