I'd just like to point out that it was more along the lines of 5AM EST that Slammer was really hammering the world. Not 12AM EST.
If it had been 12AM EST, would anyone in the U.S. had even noticed it? Probably not, since it was mostly taken care of by the time I woke up at 11AM EST.
Now, at this point, I still know zilch about IPv6 (haven't had time to dig into any of the i'm sure wonderful articles mentioned in this thread yet) but... I'm sure I could after some doc reading and hacking get IPv6 operating on my LAN, but why would I bother?
I don't think my router (Linux 2.2) has IPv6 support, either...
Sure, I've got 100mbit across three of the four desktop computers and the laptops.. but.. why?
I don't think it's that IPv6 gives anyone necessarily any new ability to create some awesome application that they couldn't already do with IPv4. The problem with this whole thing is, to create really radical new applications, we need the BANDWIDTH behind Internet2. And by just creating an IPv6 app, you don't get magic access to that bandwidth.
Get a promotion. Make $60k/year (up from $30k). You and your significant other decide to move out of apartment housing, and buy a house.
Significant other mysteriously moves out, and then slaps a significant quantity of useless lawsuits onto you - which although nothing lost nothing gained, you've now lost $10k to lawyers. Then, the location that you work at closes, and there are no positions available at the same level, and the closest thing is a twenty minute farther drive, where you now are back to making $30k or so. But, now you're also paying child support for the child that you and your significant other had. So, your income decreases, your expenses increase, you no longer have TWO incomes, and you have a house to deal with. OH, and of the two vehicles (both of which were OWNED, paid CASH) that you have available to you, one is stolen and the other one's engine shoots a rod out the bottom.
Let's see where that leaves you.
I'd say that vengeful women are the greatest threat to one's long-term financial well being.
I bet if you put one of those nice, nifty Google Search Appliances on said monorail's track, that would probably derail the monorail pretty quickly. I bet that would make it come to a halt.
Right. You can be denied credit from a place offering credit due to too many inquiries - however the inquiries are seperate from the main report. As I said in an earlier statement, the utility companies, cell phone companies, etc could really care less about your inquiries, and rarely look at them. It's not likely that a car dealership will care about the inquiries either - especially since if your credit isn't that hot, a car dealer will run your credit with 30 different places all at once to see if someone will give you the financing!
However, mortgagors and credit card companies DO care about inquiries.
I'm not sure that there is anything Google can't find.. Have you ever tried to Google for something and NOT found it?
People with mod points, please keep this at level 5. The URL is a pointer to a site that describes both state and federal laws regarding this situation.
In my situation, it was an issue where I COULD afford the credit that I had used, and then I was put into a position AFTER I had used it, where I could no longer afford it.
Hmm. I suppose that's true. I try not to equate government and universities in my mind, because they really don't seem to have any relation to each other - we occasionally have people with brains that show up in universities - does that ever happen in government?
The government had virtually zero internet presence by the time I got here - about 1986.
They built the initial pieces of it, and then gave it to the Universities. MIT and UC Berkeley, and a handful of other colleges are responsible for the open framework of the Internet. Ever see an implementation of TCP/IP that WASN'T "Based on Berkeley sockets"? I don't think I have either, except for Berkeley's.
Don't try to tell me that the people behind BSD and Richard Stallman and his cronies didn't make the largest contributions to the Internet.
Granted, I discovered IRC when I was 13, but I thought I was doing a GOOD thing for the network 13 years ago, by helping it get more than a 100 users at a time, by writing a DOS based client, and trying to help fix bugs in the then-new channel architecture.
I'd also had a couple of years of BBS'ing in at that point, and was probably a lot less annoying than the 13 year olds online of today!
What does this have to do with "YOUR" Rights Online? It's THEIR network. I think this would have to do with DALnet's rights online.
I'm sure that DCC bots generate quite a bit of useless junk traffic on their network.. that sort of thing didn't exist when I was big time into IRC development.. in fact, DCC was a brand new capability, and didn't include file transfers at that point.
I was against even having the clients having the ability to script responses to certain things. Unfortunatly, people went through with it.
Next, they should make an idle time-out (anyone idle more than an hour gets/kill'ed with a 10 minute ban against relogging in), and banish any clients that automatically respond to anything.
Well, the article that I read (earlier mentioned from SFGate) kind of seemed to imply that the craft had started to tilt towards one direction unexpectedly, so the computers straightened it out as they should under air turbulence procedures.
Here's where my speculation comes in:
Maybe it was losing pieces of itself at this point in time (perhaps the heat shielding was coming off in larger than to be expected quantities, or something else had fallen off it, or who knows, maybe the wing snapped off?) causing it to bank unexpectedly, the computer thinking it turbulence corrected, and it didn't really matter one bit, because the thing was falling apart at that point in time, and went into the presumed end-over-end roll that caused it to burn into nothing.
In other words, there is a 0.99 or 99% chance that a shuttle mission will not end in disaster, and a 1% chance it will. Those are not good odds; if your car was that dangerous, you would never drive it.
You haven't seen the truck that I drive on a daily basis. I'd be willing to bet that it's got maybe 75% chance of each trip not ending in a major breakdown. lol
At least Challenger's crew likely would have survived had the crew module been better designed for escape. I don't remember where, or when, but I've seen video of the Apollo incident, and of course the Challenger incident for seemingly ever.. and it seems to me that there is no design for reasonable escape built into any of the vehicles we have used for space travel.
Anyone care to speculate on the odds of a mission patch surviving intact (these were attached to their clothes), without other pieces of clothing around it, after tumbling through the upper atmosphere at speeds gerater than 12,000 miles per hour?
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I'd just like to point out that it was more along the lines of 5AM EST that Slammer was really hammering the world. Not 12AM EST.
If it had been 12AM EST, would anyone in the U.S. had even noticed it? Probably not, since it was mostly taken care of by the time I woke up at 11AM EST.
Now, at this point, I still know zilch about IPv6 (haven't had time to dig into any of the i'm sure wonderful articles mentioned in this thread yet) but ... I'm sure I could after some doc reading and hacking get IPv6 operating on my LAN, but why would I bother?
..
I don't think my router (Linux 2.2) has IPv6 support, either.
Sure, I've got 100mbit across three of the four desktop computers and the laptops.. but.. why?
I don't think it's that IPv6 gives anyone necessarily any new ability to create some awesome application that they couldn't already do with IPv4. The problem with this whole thing is, to create really radical new applications, we need the BANDWIDTH behind Internet2. And by just creating an IPv6 app, you don't get magic access to that bandwidth.
So, seriously, anyone have any wonderful ideas?
The worm that those two people are accused of 'creating' is the one that DALnet has mentioned is part of it's cause of DDoS attacks, not Slammer.
er... what is a "furry concentration camp"?
Well, let's put you into this situation.
Get a promotion. Make $60k/year (up from $30k). You and your significant other decide to move out of apartment housing, and buy a house.
Significant other mysteriously moves out, and then slaps a significant quantity of useless lawsuits onto you - which although nothing lost nothing gained, you've now lost $10k to lawyers. Then, the location that you work at closes, and there are no positions available at the same level, and the closest thing is a twenty minute farther drive, where you now are back to making $30k or so. But, now you're also paying child support for the child that you and your significant other had. So, your income decreases, your expenses increase, you no longer have TWO incomes, and you have a house to deal with. OH, and of the two vehicles (both of which were OWNED, paid CASH) that you have available to you, one is stolen and the other one's engine shoots a rod out the bottom.
Let's see where that leaves you.
I'd say that vengeful women are the greatest threat to one's long-term financial well being.
I bet if you put one of those nice, nifty Google Search Appliances on said monorail's track, that would probably derail the monorail pretty quickly. I bet that would make it come to a halt.
Right. You can be denied credit from a place offering credit due to too many inquiries - however the inquiries are seperate from the main report. As I said in an earlier statement, the utility companies, cell phone companies, etc could really care less about your inquiries, and rarely look at them. It's not likely that a car dealership will care about the inquiries either - especially since if your credit isn't that hot, a car dealer will run your credit with 30 different places all at once to see if someone will give you the financing!
However, mortgagors and credit card companies DO care about inquiries.
I'm not sure that there is anything Google can't find.. Have you ever tried to Google for something and NOT found it?
People with mod points, please keep this at level 5. The URL is a pointer to a site that describes both state and federal laws regarding this situation.
In my situation, it was an issue where I COULD afford the credit that I had used, and then I was put into a position AFTER I had used it, where I could no longer afford it.
Sometimes life gets shitty.
Sometimes things you don't like happen.
Hmm. I suppose that's true. I try not to equate government and universities in my mind, because they really don't seem to have any relation to each other - we occasionally have people with brains that show up in universities - does that ever happen in government?
1. I wouldn't mind that one bit, at least then we'd have one less state to completely screw up elections in.
2. Since Bush is in power, sounds like the perfect space vehicle Weapon. Drop a radioactive plume on iRaq.
what is this "scramjet"? not familiar, would appreciate some linkages. sounds interesting.
The government had virtually zero internet presence by the time I got here - about 1986.
They built the initial pieces of it, and then gave it to the Universities. MIT and UC Berkeley, and a handful of other colleges are responsible for the open framework of the Internet. Ever see an implementation of TCP/IP that WASN'T "Based on Berkeley sockets"? I don't think I have either, except for Berkeley's.
Don't try to tell me that the people behind BSD and Richard Stallman and his cronies didn't make the largest contributions to the Internet.
Granted, I discovered IRC when I was 13, but I thought I was doing a GOOD thing for the network 13 years ago, by helping it get more than a 100 users at a time, by writing a DOS based client, and trying to help fix bugs in the then-new channel architecture.
I'd also had a couple of years of BBS'ing in at that point, and was probably a lot less annoying than the 13 year olds online of today!
The thought of channels having an "owner" is just not right.
If there's no one in a channel, there's no channel. Why keep it around?
Do the 13 year old goofuses belong there either?
Services are NOT useful, they are a horrid, buggy, pile of shit.
Services were created when there was only ONE IRC network. We BANNED them from the network because they are shit.
IRC needs a user limit. 1k people. Idle timers, and automatic banishment of clients that auto-respond to anything.
I tried to implement this, and got banished from Undernet forever. lol.
What does this have to do with "YOUR" Rights Online? It's THEIR network. I think this would have to do with DALnet's rights online.
/kill'ed with a 10 minute ban against relogging in), and banish any clients that automatically respond to anything.
I'm sure that DCC bots generate quite a bit of useless junk traffic on their network.. that sort of thing didn't exist when I was big time into IRC development.. in fact, DCC was a brand new capability, and didn't include file transfers at that point.
I was against even having the clients having the ability to script responses to certain things. Unfortunatly, people went through with it.
Next, they should make an idle time-out (anyone idle more than an hour gets
Well, the article that I read (earlier mentioned from SFGate) kind of seemed to imply that the craft had started to tilt towards one direction unexpectedly, so the computers straightened it out as they should under air turbulence procedures.
Here's where my speculation comes in:
Maybe it was losing pieces of itself at this point in time (perhaps the heat shielding was coming off in larger than to be expected quantities, or something else had fallen off it, or who knows, maybe the wing snapped off?) causing it to bank unexpectedly, the computer thinking it turbulence corrected, and it didn't really matter one bit, because the thing was falling apart at that point in time, and went into the presumed end-over-end roll that caused it to burn into nothing.
You haven't seen the truck that I drive on a daily basis. I'd be willing to bet that it's got maybe 75% chance of each trip not ending in a major breakdown. lol
At least Challenger's crew likely would have survived had the crew module been better designed for escape. I don't remember where, or when, but I've seen video of the Apollo incident, and of course the Challenger incident for seemingly ever.. and it seems to me that there is no design for reasonable escape built into any of the vehicles we have used for space travel.
Just to make a correction in your statement: Columbia was not equipped for docking with the ISS, and wasn't supposed to be equipped for it.
Anyone care to speculate on the odds of a mission patch surviving intact (these were attached to their clothes), without other pieces of clothing around it, after tumbling through the upper atmosphere at speeds gerater than 12,000 miles per hour?
Do we have any conspiracy theorists around?