This report sounds similar to the "Resiliance of the Internet to Random Breakdowns" report that was on Slashdot a while ago, from the Online Journal Publishing Service (Physical Review Letters, or something). While, yes, in theory, the Internet could still operate with 99% of its nodes nonfunctional, most of the content of the Internet would be lost in the 99% that went down.
It seems like it would be similar here. I will state right off that I have not had the time to read the article yet, since I'm writing this message from on the job, but it sounds to me like it's just looking at raw numbers, and not the implications of those numbers. The sites that were attacked were high-profile sites, such as Amazon.com, yahoo.com, ebay.com, microsoft.com, and such - sites that the orchestrators were trying to make a point by attacking. If you look at the number of machines used, etc... you get an idea of the attacker's technical savvy, but not necessarely their motives.
Anaylizing raw data is good, but when it comes to humans, it is very hard to reduce human behavior down to a series of numbers in a table. Of course, my conclusion may change on reading the paper in more detail later this afternoon.
Seven out of ten statisticians say that all statistics are meaningless.
It seems that quite often, the developer of one OS moves on to create another in a short amount of time. This is one of the "small" OSes that I might actually venture to put onto a system of mine.
Why a port to Sega Dreamcast? Doesn't it have its own OS already, in ROM or something?
Isn't this what Network Address Translation software and dynamic IP addressing are for?
My DSL's IP address changes every 2 weeks. I can manually force it to reset my IP if I release that IP in WINIPCFG on the host PC, though, but I run some servers on my system, so it's better if it stays "static" for longer.
How about simply not let PCs with vital secrets connect outside at all? Seems easier then going through elaborate schemes to protect them. If the network cable isn't plugged in, you're not going to be able to connect to the machine. Period.
It figures that AOL would do something like this. They have the whole "control the Internet" mentality (I quote CEO Steve Case: "I look out at the Internet and think...'what a great opportunity'" on this matter), but there really isn't anything they can do to fight it. The GPL is the most (un?)restrictive of the licenses, but it requires that all parts of the system using it be open-sourced, while some other licenses don't. I don't think anyone has the power or resources to go after them, though.
For parents to know the footsteps of their children, their spending habits at lunch, what classes they went to, the grades on their homework, if they turned it in, all live, is insane. Some schools are experimenting with webcams in the classroom. Aren't there federal wiretap laws in existance for a reason? We can track every movement about children without their knowing what is being monitored is not a good thing. What if there were webcams put into the teacher lounges and offices? The principal's office? See just how fast they'd all get removed. If it's going to be anywhere, it is going to be EVERYWHERE in my opinion.
On the bright side, this might have the potential of reducing classroom agression. In high school, there was a second-time freshman who made a lot of my time in that class hell, because I was smarter then he was. I think he got a referral for attacking someone else one time, but when he would randomly walk up and club me in the back of the head with blunt objects, that would have been seen and stopped also.
Censorship and monitoring go hand in hand. In this situation, the potential loss of freedom at an age when that amount should begin to increase, far outweighs the benefits of increased security for the students.
I, for one, would not send a child of mine to any school where they were being recorded, presumably for anyone else's family to check up on, no matter what the government tried to get me to do.
What will the penalty for surfing pr0n from one of these? Of course, given their public location, it wouldn't be a good place anyways.
Maybe I can justify playing at last...
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Now I can say, "Look, honey, really, it'll improve my athletic ability. Look at this baseball player." And I can get a different reply then the usuaul "You are always on that damn thing!"
"Honey, I accidently ordered the Spice channel on the TV in the bedroom...Want to come watch with me?" -- "One minute, I've got to kill this MoB."
Re:How will this effect gaming?
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Maybe an ISP with a higher priority rating could "sell" slots for the higher routing priority for a few thousand a year. If you're high enough up that a higher packet priority would be a status symbol, you're high enough up to pay for it.
If the censorware providers can just suddenly remove a segment of the Internet from apparent existance to its users, who really controls the Internet? Is it the content providers (partly), the bandwidth providers (partly), or the people who "keep our children safe from the evils of freedom of information and viewpoints their parents might not desire" as one site I don't remember put it.
They tried to get away with something very bad. Yes, I know that there -is- pornographic Flash movies. There's pr0n in every format in existance today - GIF, JPEG, movies, flash, even ASCII art. (No, I am not an expert on the subject.) However, just because the potential for ill use exists doesn't mean that every use of it is malignant, and they were partly shown this when the site was "reopened."
We need to make sure that those who provide the networks and provide the content control the Internet, or at least control more of it then the people who use software to control other people's networks out of fear.
If the game is less boring the Everquest, then they may have a hit on their hands.
EverQuest isn't boring! Even during the endless hours of downtime waiting for a group, the endless hours of waiting for something to kill after getting in the group, and the endless hours of dividing up the loot of what you just killed, and the endless hours of arguing about how unfairly the loot was divided, it's not boring! Really! Right?
How will this effect gaming?
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What priority will games such as Counter-Strike be given? They probably amount to a large portion of Internet traffic (given that there are more users playing CS online at any given time then Q3 Arena and Unreal Tournament combined), but aren't exactly terribly important. Would they be assigned lower priority then streaming media? Voice-over-IP connections? Regular user's web surfing?
There needs to be an outside, possibly even government authority controling what priority different types of traffic. I want my Counter-Strike higher then my friend's pr0n surfing, but not necessarely higher then Linus' voice-over-IP telephone call to another Linux developer.
with the move towards having EFI as the intermediate between the BIOS and the OS, the GPT is a step to get rid of the one more legacy element in the PC.
My PC has as few legacy elements as it can. There are no ISA slots in my PC, the Serial and Parallel ports are disabled in the BIOS, and I use a USB hub and converter for everything you can think of. The MBR has been a major stumbling block on the road to more advanced OS development, for the reasons that it uses the software interrupts, and also that you only can have four partitons at a time. Some devices exist to circumvent this (such as a novel device, called Trios I believe, that allows you to attach three hard drives to a single IDE channel as master, and select which of them is active from a 5.25" drive bay).
The only problem I can see with a GUID Partition Table is what the GUID is based on. If each OS has a GUID, such as Windows, *nix, *BSD, BeOS, and such, then it would be a good idea - but if it can be any way linked to the user or to the specific computer, I'd be against it, for privacy reasons.
Since it's only for the IA-64, which shows few signs of being released any time soon, it doesn't effect most of us for a long time.
Nice...but can I run SETI@Home on it ?
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If they could hack it to have more ram (40-pin, anyone?), even if it meant ram sockets sticking out that back, I'd run SET@Home on the Furby...have it just sit there, then when done, save contents to ROM or upload to a data file on host computer, then fetch another and go back to work...Finally, putting the little thing to some good use!
Maybe hack another to run distributed.net...or...dare I say it...a beowulf cluster of Furbies! God help us all.
JKoebel
I would be interested in participating in a distributed DNS project. I have absolutely no experience doing anything with IP, DNS, routing, or anything, aside from my 4-PC home LAN, 3 Windows boxes and a Linux box (which won't talk to my Windows ones...)
I would, however, be willing to basically follow every link on every page I come to, then compress and send you the cookies (generally anyuser@domain.name), so you could either add those, or whatever.
This has potential - we should try and gather support for it.
JKoebel
[root@linux/root]# man ls
I am a beta tester of AOL , and I must say that each "innovation" released by AOL is less beneficial and more controling.
Take AOL Plus: For broadband connections like mine, it is a FORCED download that gives you another window you can't get rid of in the corner of your screen.
AOL6's lack of allowing users to choose their start page is just another desperate attempt to keep the users they have where they want them. Most of the 16+ million users they have are newbies (God willing they won't remain so forever), the others people who don't care enough. AOL realizes that the "experienced" clients are moving elsewhere - and they aren't happy.
AOL/TW merging will create a company even worse then Microsoft. To quote Steve Case: "We look out on the Internet and say, 'What a great opportunity.'" (quote as good as my memory serves, but its that general idea.)
Microsoft is bad, but AOL is evil. Let us all pray to our various distributions of Linux to have AOL destroyed.
root@localhost #: man ls
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This report sounds similar to the "Resiliance of the Internet to Random Breakdowns" report that was on Slashdot a while ago, from the Online Journal Publishing Service (Physical Review Letters, or something). While, yes, in theory, the Internet could still operate with 99% of its nodes nonfunctional, most of the content of the Internet would be lost in the 99% that went down.
It seems like it would be similar here. I will state right off that I have not had the time to read the article yet, since I'm writing this message from on the job, but it sounds to me like it's just looking at raw numbers, and not the implications of those numbers. The sites that were attacked were high-profile sites, such as Amazon.com, yahoo.com, ebay.com, microsoft.com, and such - sites that the orchestrators were trying to make a point by attacking. If you look at the number of machines used, etc... you get an idea of the attacker's technical savvy, but not necessarely their motives.
Anaylizing raw data is good, but when it comes to humans, it is very hard to reduce human behavior down to a series of numbers in a table. Of course, my conclusion may change on reading the paper in more detail later this afternoon.
Seven out of ten statisticians say that all statistics are meaningless.
Why a port to Sega Dreamcast? Doesn't it have its own OS already, in ROM or something?
Isn't this what Network Address Translation software and dynamic IP addressing are for?
My DSL's IP address changes every 2 weeks. I can manually force it to reset my IP if I release that IP in WINIPCFG on the host PC, though, but I run some servers on my system, so it's better if it stays "static" for longer.
How about simply not let PCs with vital secrets connect outside at all? Seems easier then going through elaborate schemes to protect them. If the network cable isn't plugged in, you're not going to be able to connect to the machine. Period.
It figures that AOL would do something like this. They have the whole "control the Internet" mentality (I quote CEO Steve Case: "I look out at the Internet and think...'what a great opportunity'" on this matter), but there really isn't anything they can do to fight it. The GPL is the most (un?)restrictive of the licenses, but it requires that all parts of the system using it be open-sourced, while some other licenses don't. I don't think anyone has the power or resources to go after them, though.
For parents to know the footsteps of their children, their spending habits at lunch, what classes they went to, the grades on their homework, if they turned it in, all live, is insane. Some schools are experimenting with webcams in the classroom. Aren't there federal wiretap laws in existance for a reason? We can track every movement about children without their knowing what is being monitored is not a good thing. What if there were webcams put into the teacher lounges and offices? The principal's office? See just how fast they'd all get removed. If it's going to be anywhere, it is going to be EVERYWHERE in my opinion.
On the bright side, this might have the potential of reducing classroom agression. In high school, there was a second-time freshman who made a lot of my time in that class hell, because I was smarter then he was. I think he got a referral for attacking someone else one time, but when he would randomly walk up and club me in the back of the head with blunt objects, that would have been seen and stopped also.
Censorship and monitoring go hand in hand. In this situation, the potential loss of freedom at an age when that amount should begin to increase, far outweighs the benefits of increased security for the students.
I, for one, would not send a child of mine to any school where they were being recorded, presumably for anyone else's family to check up on, no matter what the government tried to get me to do.
Beat you to the denial of service attack?
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Slashdot on the go!
What will the penalty for surfing pr0n from one of these? Of course, given their public location, it wouldn't be a good place anyways.
Now I can say, "Look, honey, really, it'll improve my athletic ability. Look at this baseball player." And I can get a different reply then the usuaul "You are always on that damn thing!"
"Honey, I accidently ordered the Spice channel on the TV in the bedroom...Want to come watch with me?" -- "One minute, I've got to kill this MoB."
Maybe an ISP with a higher priority rating could "sell" slots for the higher routing priority for a few thousand a year. If you're high enough up that a higher packet priority would be a status symbol, you're high enough up to pay for it.
If the censorware providers can just suddenly remove a segment of the Internet from apparent existance to its users, who really controls the Internet? Is it the content providers (partly), the bandwidth providers (partly), or the people who "keep our children safe from the evils of freedom of information and viewpoints their parents might not desire" as one site I don't remember put it.
They tried to get away with something very bad. Yes, I know that there -is- pornographic Flash movies. There's pr0n in every format in existance today - GIF, JPEG, movies, flash, even ASCII art. (No, I am not an expert on the subject.) However, just because the potential for ill use exists doesn't mean that every use of it is malignant, and they were partly shown this when the site was "reopened."
We need to make sure that those who provide the networks and provide the content control the Internet, or at least control more of it then the people who use software to control other people's networks out of fear.
J.W. Koebel
Did someone throw a pie at it to make it crash?
Yes, that was bad, I admit it...
If the game is less boring the Everquest, then they may have a hit on their hands.
EverQuest isn't boring! Even during the endless hours of downtime waiting for a group, the endless hours of waiting for something to kill after getting in the group, and the endless hours of dividing up the loot of what you just killed, and the endless hours of arguing about how unfairly the loot was divided, it's not boring! Really! Right?
What priority will games such as Counter-Strike be given? They probably amount to a large portion of Internet traffic (given that there are more users playing CS online at any given time then Q3 Arena and Unreal Tournament combined), but aren't exactly terribly important. Would they be assigned lower priority then streaming media? Voice-over-IP connections? Regular user's web surfing?
There needs to be an outside, possibly even government authority controling what priority different types of traffic. I want my Counter-Strike higher then my friend's pr0n surfing, but not necessarely higher then Linus' voice-over-IP telephone call to another Linux developer.
If they could hack it to have more ram (40-pin, anyone?), even if it meant ram sockets sticking out that back, I'd run SET@Home on the Furby...have it just sit there, then when done, save contents to ROM or upload to a data file on host computer, then fetch another and go back to work...Finally, putting the little thing to some good use! Maybe hack another to run distributed.net...or...dare I say it...a beowulf cluster of Furbies! God help us all. JKoebel
I would be interested in participating in a distributed DNS project. I have absolutely no experience doing anything with IP, DNS, routing, or anything, aside from my 4-PC home LAN, 3 Windows boxes and a Linux box (which won't talk to my Windows ones...) I would, however, be willing to basically follow every link on every page I come to, then compress and send you the cookies (generally anyuser@domain.name), so you could either add those, or whatever. This has potential - we should try and gather support for it. JKoebel [root@linux /root]# man ls
I am a beta tester of AOL , and I must say that each "innovation" released by AOL is less beneficial and more controling. Take AOL Plus: For broadband connections like mine, it is a FORCED download that gives you another window you can't get rid of in the corner of your screen. AOL6's lack of allowing users to choose their start page is just another desperate attempt to keep the users they have where they want them. Most of the 16+ million users they have are newbies (God willing they won't remain so forever), the others people who don't care enough. AOL realizes that the "experienced" clients are moving elsewhere - and they aren't happy. AOL/TW merging will create a company even worse then Microsoft. To quote Steve Case: "We look out on the Internet and say, 'What a great opportunity.'" (quote as good as my memory serves, but its that general idea.) Microsoft is bad, but AOL is evil. Let us all pray to our various distributions of Linux to have AOL destroyed. root@localhost #: man ls