true - it protects the internet at large from you. By limiting the number of connection attempts per second.
So, once you're infected, your server fails to spread at a rate of 10,000 connection attempts per second, instead it spreads slowly, maybe 100 attempts per second? Would this actually do anything besides give your sysadmins a few extra seconds to patch your system?
Wouldn't it be better to block the connection attempts instead, like with an outbound firewall? Maybe stop the app that was trying to connect unless authorised by the user (eg a P2P app)?
The technology notices changes in host machine behavior, which indicates a virus infection. It then chokes off the attack by limiting the frequency of outbound communications from the host machine to "throttle" communications with other hosts on the network
yeah? So HP is saying they can't get it to run on Windows because they can't alter the networking code? WTF? Have they never heard of firewalls, that happily block network connections, even on Windows.
Perhaps they've altered the HP network stack so that if you make a connection, it is held until the flurry of connection attempts are reduced. Somwthing that is not likely if you're infected with a worm; so maybe it delays the connect attempt for a short amount of time - big deal if you're infected as the connection will succeed eventually. Could this be the real reason why it's been shelved - it doesn't work to actually do much of anything?
I really don't understand why this is such a 'Windows is rubbish' and not a 'HP programmers don't understand how to code properly' story.
oh, except usual slashdot bias. Silly me, I forgot that for a moment.
I'm not so sure anymore, it all looks like a bit of a bodge based on their experiences with V1.
I mean, things like this:
In effect, under the revised language design, destructors are once again paired with constructors as an automated acquisition/release mechanism tied to a local object's lifetime. This is a significant and quite astonishing accomplishment and the language designers should be roundly applauded for this.
If it was so goddamn simple, why didn't they do it in the first fskuing place. Even I thought the compiler could manage this for us, without all that Java-braindead Finalise rubbish, and the IDispose b*ll*cks.
The spaced keywords and gcnew keyword both sound like nonsense. If the old way of using new and letting the compiler decide whether it was a gc new or a native new worked, why change it now? Which is really interesting as they decided to remove the special keywords in favour of more intuitive ones (which is why the spaced keywords are with us).
I think this isn't as good as it sounds, and I like C++ and MS development. I wish they'd done it properly (ie by not stealing Java) in the first place.
But nothing prevented anyone else from writing another test suite.
Sure, but unless you can get that test suite recognised as testing C++ standards compliance, its totally useless.
I could write one, the FOSS community could write one, but then what? Unless the standards committee ratified it, anyone who used it to test their compiler might as well use their own tests.
you want xearth (or wearth). It makes a desktop wallpaper image that is updated every x seconds. And you can have the light/dark barrier displayed, and it moves, and the earth even wobbles up and down depending on the season.
Unfortunately you can't see the lights coming on and off... unless you download the source and get coding:)
I once figured out, with Runequest's fumbles system (1% chance you've cocked it up), that if you had an army, 10 thousand strong, lined up on a hill. By the time they had charged down the hill to engage the enemy, 40 of them would have accidentally killed themselves:)
Not as good as the Call of Cthulhu adventure into the desert, where we realised that we needed a couple of camels to carry all the water the party would need. and another couple of camels to carry the water needed for the camels, and another couple of camels to carry the water for the camels carrying the water for the camels carrying the water for the party.. and..
oh yes, it is an incredibly expensive share - current sales are about $268 million, and it's currently selling shares that value the company at $23 billion. That makes a P/E of 85, which is a teeny bit over-optimistic.
Like, most shares trade at about 15-20 times earnings.
Which means, as you own a little bit of the company, it'll take you 85 years before the company has sold as much ads as you paid, which manke syou think of those terribly overpriced tech boom stocks. Remember when Yahoo had a P/E of 133, with almost no profits? What is it today?...
Unfortunately, there's no data about Google's financials published yet, so you can only speculate on what the price will end up as - but if you base the share price on earnings, you'll get the idea that it can only go down. (which is another reason why this dutch-IPO hasn't gone down well, the professional investors think its overpriced too).
Except, that if you read the support document that was linked in the article, and not the crappy stupid-journo story, you'll see that the problems are:
some apps want to connect tot he internet, and the firewall pops up a dialog saying they can't. The rest of the document is how to unblock them so they can.
Just like every other firewall out there. None of the apps are 'broken', the system isn't 'glitched', just that some people (users?) are confused when things stop and ask instead of just working as they used to.
They just print a lot more money that they would be allowed to print if the system were regulated by just laws. Who or where does all this money goes to? I have no idea.
techniclaly, printing additional money just increases the amount in circulation, increaes inflation and reduces the 'buying power' of the money already out there.
Eg. The US has exactly 100 dollars in circulation, and a load of bread costs 1 cent. If the government prints another 100 dollars, you now have twice as much money, but.. bread now costs 2 cents, oh, and people will start demanding their pay rise to twice what it was. In the real world, the extra money that is printed is a tiny amount, so inflation doesn't double, and pay rises are small; also you have complications like interest rates, but that's the basic principle.
having co-workers thing you're gay isn't necessarily a bad thing;-) makes the ladies feel all safe and comfortable around you./i....and your really gay co-worker get all close and attentive all of a sudden.
and the 'doesnt block outbound traffic' flaw everyone's going on about is similarly a good thing, as the PCworld article said:
Microsoft's user testing showed that asking users to approve every application trying to communicate with the Internet tends to backfire.
"If you flood the user with messages like that, they say 'yes' all the time," he says.
Just like making passwords minimum 25 character length won't improve security as people will just write them down. This is good enough for the majority.
I see job adverts that require you to have 4 years of.NET experience... or 'must have x of the following skills , , , GUI, '... what is this GUI skill they talk of? I've never quite figured it out.
In all, skill requirements in job adverts mean more about what they think will entice you to apply, than what they actually require.
well, my main customer has 500 desktops, even if half a gig of ram is £50, that makes.. quite a bit of money. Not to mention the cost to get a engineer to install it. (half an hour per PC, £15 per hour maybe).
If I went to my customer and said, I've developed that extra functionality you wanted, and I used this cool java language, they wouldn't be too happy if they had to spend all that money to run it. Don't forget that development cost is budgeted for, PC upgrades due to ram-hungry apps, that you only find out about after development is finished, are an additional cost that simply may not be possible.
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I think he is too - a day off with no pay, fabulous! If only my company had a policy like that, instead of "keep working, you peasants".
its quite poetic that the site is "d'oh.gov.uk"
true - it protects the internet at large from you. By limiting the number of connection attempts per second.
So, once you're infected, your server fails to spread at a rate of 10,000 connection attempts per second, instead it spreads slowly, maybe 100 attempts per second? Would this actually do anything besides give your sysadmins a few extra seconds to patch your system?
Wouldn't it be better to block the connection attempts instead, like with an outbound firewall? Maybe stop the app that was trying to connect unless authorised by the user (eg a P2P app)?
The technology notices changes in host machine behavior, which indicates a virus infection. It then chokes off the attack by limiting the frequency of outbound communications from the host machine to "throttle" communications with other hosts on the network
yeah? So HP is saying they can't get it to run on Windows because they can't alter the networking code? WTF? Have they never heard of firewalls, that happily block network connections, even on Windows.
Perhaps they've altered the HP network stack so that if you make a connection, it is held until the flurry of connection attempts are reduced. Somwthing that is not likely if you're infected with a worm; so maybe it delays the connect attempt for a short amount of time - big deal if you're infected as the connection will succeed eventually. Could this be the real reason why it's been shelved - it doesn't work to actually do much of anything?
I really don't understand why this is such a 'Windows is rubbish' and not a 'HP programmers don't understand how to code properly' story.
oh, except usual slashdot bias. Silly me, I forgot that for a moment.
erm, isn't the US a non-signatory too as they don;t want any of their soldiers from being prosecuted for (allegedly) commiting war crimes.
Not that any of them would do any such thing, but the US doesn't want spurious cases being brought.
didn't they? then who says the test is worth anything? (you can tell I don't keep up with these things)
:)
I have a test, that once you're run your compiler against it, will allow you to say it is 'standards compliant'.
That's optional actually, the real test is that you pay me some money. Then you can say you're standards compliant.
I'm not so sure anymore, it all looks like a bit of a bodge based on their experiences with V1.
I mean, things like this:
In effect, under the revised language design, destructors are once again paired with constructors as an automated acquisition/release mechanism tied to a local object's lifetime. This is a significant and quite astonishing accomplishment and the language designers should be roundly applauded for this.
If it was so goddamn simple, why didn't they do it in the first fskuing place. Even I thought the compiler could manage this for us, without all that Java-braindead Finalise rubbish, and the IDispose b*ll*cks.
The spaced keywords and gcnew keyword both sound like nonsense. If the old way of using new and letting the compiler decide whether it was a gc new or a native new worked, why change it now? Which is really interesting as they decided to remove the special keywords in favour of more intuitive ones (which is why the spaced keywords are with us).
I think this isn't as good as it sounds, and I like C++ and MS development. I wish they'd done it properly (ie by not stealing Java) in the first place.
But nothing prevented anyone else from writing another test suite.
Sure, but unless you can get that test suite recognised as testing C++ standards compliance, its totally useless.
I could write one, the FOSS community could write one, but then what? Unless the standards committee ratified it, anyone who used it to test their compiler might as well use their own tests.
you want xearth (or wearth). It makes a desktop wallpaper image that is updated every x seconds. And you can have the light/dark barrier displayed, and it moves, and the earth even wobbles up and down depending on the season.
:)
Unfortunately you can't see the lights coming on and off... unless you download the source and get coding
MWWG: oh yes, fantastic game. Magic perfume was my favourite. always needed reapplying IIRC.
:) .... and Renegade Nuns kick ass :)
Batwing Bimbo's rock...
A Good generic system is Fudge
And it used to be free and open, but I see the copyrights have been 'acquired', so I'm not sure what the status of the project is anymore.
Anyway, they say its still free, so try it.
At 3:30 BST (that's 1 hr 35 mins from time of this posting), the BBC will broadcast a documentary about D&D
Realplayer still needed, but downloadable from the Beeb.
I once figured out, with Runequest's fumbles system (1% chance you've cocked it up), that if you had an army, 10 thousand strong, lined up on a hill. By the time they had charged down the hill to engage the enemy, 40 of them would have accidentally killed themselves :)
..
Not as good as the Call of Cthulhu adventure into the desert, where we realised that we needed a couple of camels to carry all the water the party would need. and another couple of camels to carry the water needed for the camels, and another couple of camels to carry the water for the camels carrying the water for the camels carrying the water for the party.. and
Nope, one of the earliest non-fantasy RPGs was BootHill.. and then there was that post-apocalyptic one, that I've forgotten the name of.
:)
Both these are mentioned in the AD&D GMs handbook.
Also, Traveller has been around for donkey's years, well before CoC.
CoC is good, and well different, but only play it if you don't mind losing all the time, instead of winning the day
oh yes, it is an incredibly expensive share - current sales are about $268 million, and it's currently selling shares that value the company at $23 billion. That makes a P/E of 85, which is a teeny bit over-optimistic.
Like, most shares trade at about 15-20 times earnings.
Which means, as you own a little bit of the company, it'll take you 85 years before the company has sold as much ads as you paid, which manke syou think of those terribly overpriced tech boom stocks. Remember when Yahoo had a P/E of 133, with almost no profits? What is it today?...
Unfortunately, there's no data about Google's financials published yet, so you can only speculate on what the price will end up as - but if you base the share price on earnings, you'll get the idea that it can only go down. (which is another reason why this dutch-IPO hasn't gone down well, the professional investors think its overpriced too).
How is the Windows icon derogaroty or belittling?
/.
If you look very closely, its either a very nice stained glass window, or each pane is cracked.
I leave the decision of which it is to the reader, who shoudl bear in mind that this is
Except, that if you read the support document that was linked in the article, and not the crappy stupid-journo story, you'll see that the problems are:
some apps want to connect tot he internet, and the firewall pops up a dialog saying they can't. The rest of the document is how to unblock them so they can.
Just like every other firewall out there. None of the apps are 'broken', the system isn't 'glitched', just that some people (users?) are confused when things stop and ask instead of just working as they used to.
Really there is nothing to see here.
They just print a lot more money that they would be allowed to print if the system were regulated by just laws. Who or where does all this money goes to? I have no idea.
techniclaly, printing additional money just increases the amount in circulation, increaes inflation and reduces the 'buying power' of the money already out there.
Eg.
The US has exactly 100 dollars in circulation, and a load of bread costs 1 cent. If the government prints another 100 dollars, you now have twice as much money, but.. bread now costs 2 cents, oh, and people will start demanding their pay rise to twice what it was.
In the real world, the extra money that is printed is a tiny amount, so inflation doesn't double, and pay rises are small; also you have complications like interest rates, but that's the basic principle.
What's with the icon for Databases? A wheelbarrow (a very nicely rendered wheelbarrow though).
/. icons?!
Surely a filing cabinet would have been a more intuitive choice.
And a stapler as the IT icon? what's going on with
You've never heard of some real security exploits then..
1. phone the sales guys, lead them on, ask to see the development team (to prove the company isn't just a crappy reseller), wander round building.
2. Later on, dial in, enter the password for the developer who had it taped to his monitor, and download the code for the product.
3. err. Profit?
having co-workers thing you're gay isn't necessarily a bad thing ;-) makes the ladies feel all safe and comfortable around you./i. ...and your really gay co-worker get all close and attentive all of a sudden.
and the 'doesnt block outbound traffic' flaw everyone's going on about is similarly a good thing, as the PCworld article said:
Microsoft's user testing showed that asking users to approve every application trying to communicate with the Internet tends to backfire.
"If you flood the user with messages like that, they say 'yes' all the time," he says.
Just like making passwords minimum 25 character length won't improve security as people will just write them down. This is good enough for the majority.
I see job adverts that require you to have 4 years of .NET experience... or 'must have x of the following skills , , , GUI, ' ... what is this GUI skill they talk of? I've never quite figured it out.
In all, skill requirements in job adverts mean more about what they think will entice you to apply, than what they actually require.
...adding RAM is generally very cheap.
well, my main customer has 500 desktops, even if half a gig of ram is £50, that makes.. quite a bit of money. Not to mention the cost to get a engineer to install it. (half an hour per PC, £15 per hour maybe).
If I went to my customer and said, I've developed that extra functionality you wanted, and I used this cool java language, they wouldn't be too happy if they had to spend all that money to run it.
Don't forget that development cost is budgeted for, PC upgrades due to ram-hungry apps, that you only find out about after development is finished, are an additional cost that simply may not be possible.
Cheney/Bush: "Ban this subversive technology or we'll have to impose tarrifs on many British goods."
you mean, like steel imports. Good job the WTO told them where to stick their tariffs,but not before the rest of the world stopped buying US steel.