The rate @ which techtonic plates are like inches per yr.... and i can imagine that they have calculated for.... and this is not like a cable you are running from your telephone...next you will be saying that because the continents are moving slowly that in a million yrs that cable will be useless.... i mean they are still using calbes that they ran during the early 1900's.... so think that the cable is safe.... and 70ms is a great speed for that distance... i mean... there are alot of optical repeaters along that routre...because as far as i know the max distance for fiber is 1400 KM.... so you are going to so a bit of speed over that time as well as switching latency....
I would like to make two points in all of this
#1 First off most of the DoSing done on the internet is done by little teenagers that find some hacker site and downlaod programs which they have no idea how it works but they think it is cool and want to be like the guys off of "Hackers"... because as a few of the reponses said... any older people have the common sense not to do this because Jail time can be involved.... a perfect example it MafiaBoy.. he was no more than a Kid from Quebec who used his computer every so often but he thought it would be cool to take down a few websites... he got all of his info on how to do this from the web... not understanding ANY of what he was doing.... or he would not have been caught... and for all those who will say he did not DoS them that is true... it is just an example.....
My second point has to deal with Network security.... i am currently taking a Cisco Routing course... of which network security is a big part.... you soon learn that no network can be made fool proof...especially for DoSing...because of some packet kiddie is determined enough.... they could take down a router and a firewall.... it may take them some time... but they can.. it is unfournate.. but it is true.... in addition to this... not alot of companies can afford a router of their own.... and rely primarily on their ISP which sometimes is fine... but even they can only do so much.... and the fact that the penalties for doing this are not strict enough encourages kids to do it because if they are underage then they have a get out of jail free card.... there has to be a few changes in both laws and the attitude of network administrators thinking that it will never happen to them.... becaause these packet kiddies are getting these comprised systems from somewhere
Homer Simpson- All this computer hacking is making me thirsty i had better order a Tab
A router does not actually use a MAC address it uses IP address..... and perhaps sticking a router infront of your Firewall might help because a router can act as a natural firewall.....
Windows 2000 is a nice OS but it has way too much overhead...and yes running solaris can be expense...but i dont see why Linux would not run just as well as Solaris on a sparc machine...and by far the Ultra Sparc Series Outperforms any of the compition....
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The rate @ which techtonic plates are like inches per yr.... and i can imagine that they have calculated for.... and this is not like a cable you are running from your telephone ...next you will be saying that because the continents are moving slowly that in a million yrs that cable will be useless.... i mean they are still using calbes that they ran during the early 1900's.... so think that the cable is safe.... and 70ms is a great speed for that distance ... i mean ... there are alot of optical repeaters along that routre...because as far as i know the max distance for fiber is 1400 KM.... so you are going to so a bit of speed over that time as well as switching latency ....
I would like to make two points in all of this #1 First off most of the DoSing done on the internet is done by little teenagers that find some hacker site and downlaod programs which they have no idea how it works but they think it is cool and want to be like the guys off of "Hackers"... because as a few of the reponses said... any older people have the common sense not to do this because Jail time can be involved.... a perfect example it MafiaBoy .. he was no more than a Kid from Quebec who used his computer every so often but he thought it would be cool to take down a few websites... he got all of his info on how to do this from the web... not understanding ANY of what he was doing.... or he would not have been caught... and for all those who will say he did not DoS them that is true... it is just an example.....
My second point has to deal with Network security .... i am currently taking a Cisco Routing course... of which network security is a big part.... you soon learn that no network can be made fool proof...especially for DoSing...because of some packet kiddie is determined enough.... they could take down a router and a firewall.... it may take them some time... but they can .. it is unfournate.. but it is true.... in addition to this ... not alot of companies can afford a router of their own .... and rely primarily on their ISP which sometimes is fine... but even they can only do so much .... and the fact that the penalties for doing this are not strict enough encourages kids to do it because if they are underage then they have a get out of jail free card.... there has to be a few changes in both laws and the attitude of network administrators thinking that it will never happen to them.... becaause these packet kiddies are getting these comprised systems from somewhere
Homer Simpson- All this computer hacking is making me thirsty i had better order a Tab
A router does not actually use a MAC address it uses IP address ..... and perhaps sticking a router infront of your Firewall might help because a router can act as a natural firewall.....
Windows 2000 is a nice OS but it has way too much overhead...and yes running solaris can be expense ...but i dont see why Linux would not run just as well as Solaris on a sparc machine ...and by far the Ultra Sparc Series Outperforms any of the compition....