Actually, if you are looking for hard core science, you could check out the The KITP lecture archives. They are hard science lectures covering some really cutting edge stuff. Now while about 85% is well over my head, there are lots of "overview" lectures (and slides) in there that I found really interesting. A great little treasure trove of science.
I find it odd that this is called Starving Artist. The reason that they starve to begin with this that they receive a small fraction of the revenue from sales of their work. It reminds me of the poly sci folks agonizing about foreign aid to countries with corrupt regimes. The dictator scoops a huge portion of the funds meant for the starving masses which is a huge waste - but the only way to get any money to those masses is through the current regime. So, do you give foreign aid, knowing that it is supporting a repressive regime and keeping them in power - but still feeding some folks - or do you halt aid and wait for the system to collapse under its own weight and hopefully something better emerges? Personally, I think the parallels are actually pretty frightening between the RIAA and say, Sadam Hussein, Mobutu or Idi Amin.
Imagine if you could run Linux on a cheap $75-100 machine like that. Poor programmers in India would all be able to afford machines rather than the rich lot right now. That would be quite the revolution. The interesting story is cheap programmable processing power rather than just TIVO++
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Actually, if you are looking for hard core science, you could check out the The KITP lecture archives. They are hard science lectures covering some really cutting edge stuff. Now while about 85% is well over my head, there are lots of "overview" lectures (and slides) in there that I found really interesting. A great little treasure trove of science.
I find it odd that this is called Starving Artist. The reason that they starve to begin with this that they receive a small fraction of the revenue from sales of their work. It reminds me of the poly sci folks agonizing about foreign aid to countries with corrupt regimes. The dictator scoops a huge portion of the funds meant for the starving masses which is a huge waste - but the only way to get any money to those masses is through the current regime. So, do you give foreign aid, knowing that it is supporting a repressive regime and keeping them in power - but still feeding some folks - or do you halt aid and wait for the system to collapse under its own weight and hopefully something better emerges? Personally, I think the parallels are actually pretty frightening between the RIAA and say, Sadam Hussein, Mobutu or Idi Amin.
Imagine if you could run Linux on a cheap $75-100 machine like that. Poor programmers in India would all be able to afford machines rather than the rich lot right now. That would be quite the revolution. The interesting story is cheap programmable processing power rather than just TIVO++
Isn't there an attack that essentially floods a server with ACK's? Just wondering what effect that would have if ACK had priority over other traffic.
Or maybe it was flooded with SYN's? Damn. I can't remember.