Then you should also know why the missiles were there--which is that the US invaded Cuba in 1961
Well, from the point of view of the Cubans. From the Soviet side the reason was that the US had already installed missiles in Turkey.
The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962, when Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba. Secretly, the US also agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter IRBMs, armed with nuclear warheads, which were deployed in Turkey and Italy against the Soviet Union.
Since an authoritative DNS server only handles requests from recursive caching servers it can implement rate limiting, thus making reflection attacks useless.
But you're right - the failure to implement BCP38 is a bloody scandal.
It would be pretty fucking hard to put a nuclear power system in a bunker for one obvious reason - where do you get the cooling from?
If you're sitting on a big rock that's not geothermally active, you could use it as a heat sink for, perhaps, a very small reactor. It would probably require an array of heat pipes...
Problem being that the rock is not very thermally conductive. So after a short time your heat sink is full.
"Blast-proof and completely self-sufficient, the complex could accommodate up to 4,000 people in complete isolation from the outside world for up to three months. "
No. There isn't enough transparency to be sure we are killing the right person in such a case. We bomb to many innocent people as it is.
What do you mean "we"?
The US is so far the only country to have claimed an offensive "cyber-war" capability, and probably the only country to have launched an attack. (A real, actual, breaking things and possibly people attack, not espionage).
So if anyone is going to be bombing in retalliation it's not the US. (So far).
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Wait, just to check - exactly what kind of crabs are we talking about here. ... runs screaming into the distance, scratching madly.
Game over for the human race as we are eaten by the giant global warming crabs.
You're right. I'm wrong. Without BCP38 we're fucked.
Since there seems to be no momentum behind BCP38 that means we're fucked.
(I say this as the operator of a small PI space - i.e. one of the people who's most likely to be affected by errors in BCP38 implementation).
Then you should also know why the missiles were there--which is that the US invaded Cuba in 1961
Well, from the point of view of the Cubans. From the Soviet side the reason was that the US had already installed missiles in Turkey.
The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962, when Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba. Secretly, the US also agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter IRBMs, armed with nuclear warheads, which were deployed in Turkey and Italy against the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis
True. The US has the largest prison population per capita and even there it's only 1% of the adult population.
Absolutely freaking correct. The state of open source duplicity is simply embarrassing these days.
I don't think you know what word means.
In fact of the Linux users I know all of them, in unison, pretty much tell me they HATE Unity
And that is relevant how? This is about Gnome3, not Unity.
Why don't you bitch about Windows 8 while you're at it?
Why are they not sending out emails to the people running these things.
Check which domains these servers are authoritative for and send them a damn email.
Wait. If a DNS server is authoritative it must be open. (It should also be rate-limited).
The problem is non-authoritative servers. They should only be serving some defined set of clients.
And ISPs should implement BCP38. (Best "current" practice. Hah.)
Since an authoritative DNS server only handles requests from recursive caching servers it can implement rate limiting, thus making reflection attacks useless.
But you're right - the failure to implement BCP38 is a bloody scandal.
It would be pretty fucking hard to put a nuclear power system in a bunker for one obvious reason - where do you get the cooling from?
If you're sitting on a big rock that's not geothermally active, you could use it as a heat sink for, perhaps, a very small reactor. It would probably require an array of heat pipes...
Problem being that the rock is not very thermally conductive. So after a short time your heat sink is full.
You realize Cyberbunker is situated in a bunker designed to survive a nuclear war. It was designed to function independently for 10 years.
It doesn't seem to have been designed to resist a slashdot attack.
Can't get to their site to see if they claim "10 years", but it's crap.
Look at some of the major bunkers, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Government_War_Headquarters
"Blast-proof and completely self-sufficient, the complex could accommodate up to 4,000 people in complete isolation from the outside world for up to three months. "
Three months. Not ten years.
As others have pointed out, the facility probably has self-sufficiency measured in years.
Nah, bollocks.
If it was to be used as a centre of government then maybe months, otherwise weeks or days.
Years is pure fantasy.
The Russian Wikipedia page states it has water and fuel for 10 years. I give them 10 days before cabin fever sets in.
Bet they've got enough porn to last more than 10 days.
Lotion? Not so sure.
If this was an important NATO command facility, it would have had a nuclear power generator, not diesel generators.
Well, no.
I have no idea where this fantasy comes from, but it is a fantasy.
It would be pretty fucking hard to put a nuclear power system in a bunker for one obvious reason - where do you get the cooling from?
Nuke plants are not built next to rivers, lakes and seas for esthetic reasons.
Look at a real big bastard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_nuclear_bunker "six 1,750 KW diesel generators".
No one is trying to deny that a bunker is impregnable.
No one is trying to [claim] that a bunker is impregnable.
No one is trying to deny that a bunker is [pregnable].
break out a bunker-buster bomb designed to penetrate before exploding (rather than the mid-air explosion of a nuclear bomb)
Save us from the ignorant fucks.
Nukes used against hardened targets (silos, bunkers) aren't air burst.
How many 20 megaton bombs have been used,
Not sure. Thousands of nuclear bombs have been exploded. (about 2055 of 'em! http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/) How many of them were in the 20 megaton range? Not many.
and how many bunkers would withstand one?
those that were designed to do that.
When they bring in Apaches
What the fuck does a helicopter have to do with it?
and A-10's with the large cal "daisy cutters",
And an A10 can't carry a "daisy cutter", they were originaly dropped from C130's
most homes don't count as "cover" merely an "obstruction".
A nuclear bunker isn't a "home". Someting designed for near misses from multi-kiloton nuclear bombs doesn't even notice a "daisy cutter".
With most modulation schemes aren't symbols are bigger than bits, not smaller?
E.G. sending 1200bps at 300baud by making each symbol be 4 bits.
Q: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend [Paris ]?
A: No one knows.
Well, I have about a thousand of 'em buried 500m from where I'm writing this. Is that enough for you?
CIA drone pilots? Are they civilians? Yes. Are they combatants? Yes.
Interesting.
No. There isn't enough transparency to be sure we are killing the right person in such a case. We bomb to many innocent people as it is.
What do you mean "we"?
The US is so far the only country to have claimed an offensive "cyber-war" capability, and probably the only country to have launched an attack. (A real, actual, breaking things and possibly people attack, not espionage).
So if anyone is going to be bombing in retalliation it's not the US. (So far).
Since when were the CIA "the American armed forces"?
There already are two agencies doing drone missions.
What this means (if it's true) is that the US will be fielding fewer unlawful combattants.
Double (or, rather triple) glazing good.
Double glazing salesmen - spawn of the devil.