"What is the reason preventing IP carriers from implementing anti-spoofing filters ?"
A hollow voice says, "cost." It probably makes the routers run 1% slower, so the carriers would have to schedule their next upgrade six weeks sooner.:-P
It's sad how often the answer to, "why weren't those data secured" is, "it makes the network slower".
That's the first notice I had, and it was so uninformative and wrong-sounding I dug around at US-CERT etc. to try to find out what's actually going on.
Then I ran out of sensible places to search (having found nothing), and tried/.
Ya know, I wonder if it really *is* cheaper in the long run to just roll over anytime someone threatens to sue. It might cost a little more to let it go to trial and destroy their arguments in public, but if you did that two or three times in a row you might never be bothered again.
Hmmm, isn't that the same sort of theory IBM is pursuing vs. SCO?
Now design me a space ship that can accelerate away from its launch point in even just two directions *at the same time*. Then I will show you two plumb bobs hanging non-parallel due to the same acceleration.
Spaceship acceleration is linear so those bobs' directions are parallel. Gravitational acceleration is radial so those bobs' directions intersect.
So, has anyone actually measured the speed of propagation of the other three interactions? Of course information communicated by means of the electromagnetic interaction can't arrive faster than the photons carrying it. I think that the simplification, "nothing can travel faster than light," depends on assertions which are reasonable but not actually known.
7. If you can't understand it and you can't prove it and it attempts to make the important trivial and the trivial important, send it to a journal of political science.
"The question remains is what happens if Frame Dragging isn't observed - will the experiment be wrong (in other words there's no point to it), or will we get faster-than-light ships for Christmas?"
The question that interests me more is: doesn't *anyone* know how science works anymore? The only failed experiment is one with *no* results.
If frame dragging is not observed, then lots of scientists will be trying to work out why. Did the experiment measure what we thought it would? If yes, what do we have to do to contemporary physics (which is a pretty darned good fit to observed reality) to account for the result? If no, what did we miss?
(I'm now thinking of the hoary old joke about the cub reporter who came back from a society wedding to tell the editor that there was no story because the groom never showed up.)
We already did. If you truly don't know or care who is best suited to run things, you can just pull the lever with the cute donkey or elephant on it (whichever one your daddy taught you to pull) and be happy.
Anyway the majority of us in the U.S. are semiliterate. Otherwise how would we know which bottle says, "Coke," and which, "Pepsi?" Now, *that* would be a calamity, wouldn't it?
Just as important as what you had to add is the bucketful of junk you didn't have to *remove* or shove out of the way. I'd rather start with a system that can do nothing but let me log on and copy files, then build up to what I want, than to spend hours cleaning up some packaging team's mess.
Again it's a matter of values. I understand there's a market for dwellings with furniture already in them, although I will never understand *why*.
Another values difference. Games? I hav GCC, the best game on the planet! Why would I waste time shooting down aliens when shooting down processes is so much more fun?:-]
The love-affair-with-MS thing is probably just different values. I would've said that not getting all the rich-text options in Yahoo Mail is a feature. I would probably pay a little extra for such features. But there are those who disagree with me on this.
Indeed, there's no such thing as a typical user. When our Windows box blew a gasket, I set up personal accounts on my Linux box and showed the wife and kids how to get started. They're doing pretty much everything they did before and I get no more questions than before.
(This is not some fancy-schmantzy Gnome or KDE setup either; I didn't want them *too* comfortable on *my* machine so I gave 'em twm and one xterm as a launch pad. Didn't work; they're on it all the time. Gotta build another box, or exile them back to Windows.)
Deeper magic from *before* the dawn of time: on TOPS10/20, RSX, and a bunch of others, CTRL/C kills your current task dead. I still hesitate slightly every time I use it to copy, fighting with that inner voice that's saying, "no! you'll lose your work!"
To each his own. The last time I noticed a toolkit was the last time I ran an OpenLook app. Buttons, fields, canvases -- what's the difference -- I look right through 'em. There must be different ways of thinking about applications, or something. I couldn't describe the difference between a GTK app. and a Motif app. unless I had them both open in front of me, and contrasting either one with an Athena Widgets app. would be difficult because the differences are so trivial (to me).
When I'm on task I process information visually but I don't really *see*. I couldn't tell you what the app. looks like without going off-task. Thinking is what happens when I'm not distracted by my senses. I guess some people don't work that way.
For me it's all about [Tim Taylor voice] MORE POWER! I've had enough of app.s and OSes with training wheels, and having found something without them I feel no further needs. Again, I guess some people don't work that way.
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"What is the reason preventing IP carriers from implementing anti-spoofing filters ?"
:-P
A hollow voice says, "cost." It probably makes the routers run 1% slower, so the carriers would have to schedule their next upgrade six weeks sooner.
It's sad how often the answer to, "why weren't those data secured" is, "it makes the network slower".
What I find most worrisome is this:
"BGP, configured without an MD5 key (as is usually the case)...."
So, critical infrastructure, worthy of "a priority...that has never been seen before", is routinely run unsecured? *shivers*
That's the first notice I had, and it was so uninformative and wrong-sounding I dug around at US-CERT etc. to try to find out what's actually going on.
/.
Then I ran out of sensible places to search (having found nothing), and tried
Okay, anybody know whether this can be done to ISO TP4?
Ya know, I wonder if it really *is* cheaper in the long run to just roll over anytime someone threatens to sue. It might cost a little more to let it go to trial and destroy their arguments in public, but if you did that two or three times in a row you might never be bothered again.
Hmmm, isn't that the same sort of theory IBM is pursuing vs. SCO?
Must be a religious war, then, since they're not after each other's resources or territory or population.
They must have changed the explanation of Cerenkov radiation, then, since my high-school physics classes.
Now design me a space ship that can accelerate away from its launch point in even just two directions *at the same time*. Then I will show you two plumb bobs hanging non-parallel due to the same acceleration.
Spaceship acceleration is linear so those bobs' directions are parallel. Gravitational acceleration is radial so those bobs' directions intersect.
They're called Berserkers. You've been reading Fred Saberhagen again.
"We need to transfer our conciousness to machines.... Then 300 million years would be a *short* period of time."
Be careful what you wish for. Go read Asimov's "Eyes Do More than See" again. (Okay, he does away with the machines *too*, but it still applies.)
Um, doesn't your army have to slow down in order to occupy the planet?
So, has anyone actually measured the speed of propagation of the other three interactions? Of course information communicated by means of the electromagnetic interaction can't arrive faster than the photons carrying it. I think that the simplification, "nothing can travel faster than light," depends on assertions which are reasonable but not actually known.
(Quick, Robin! To the gravitic interferometer!)
7. If you can't understand it and you can't prove it and it attempts to make the important trivial and the trivial important, send it to a journal of political science.
"The question remains is what happens if Frame Dragging isn't observed - will the experiment be wrong (in other words there's no point to it), or will we get faster-than-light ships for Christmas?"
The question that interests me more is: doesn't *anyone* know how science works anymore? The only failed experiment is one with *no* results.
If frame dragging is not observed, then lots of scientists will be trying to work out why. Did the experiment measure what we thought it would? If yes, what do we have to do to contemporary physics (which is a pretty darned good fit to observed reality) to account for the result? If no, what did we miss?
(I'm now thinking of the hoary old joke about the cub reporter who came back from a society wedding to tell the editor that there was no story because the groom never showed up.)
Or no parties at all.
Well, if none of the choices are appropriate, why aren't *you* running for office?
I think Mr. Afzal's comment is spot on. We need more like him everywhere.
We already did. If you truly don't know or care who is best suited to run things, you can just pull the lever with the cute donkey or elephant on it (whichever one your daddy taught you to pull) and be happy.
Anyway the majority of us in the U.S. are semiliterate. Otherwise how would we know which bottle says, "Coke," and which, "Pepsi?" Now, *that* would be a calamity, wouldn't it?
Some of us can even spell correctly without help.
"I call bullshit on this one"
Go ahead but it's true. I don't even *have* Gnome or KDE. Slackware 1.2 didn't come with them and I've felt no need to add 'em.
"Indiana is just as bad."
Try coming in a little further south. We only have one toll road. It's always called "THE Indiana Toll Road"; I have no idea what its number is.
(The chuckholes, however, are evenly distributed across the state. )-:
Just as important as what you had to add is the bucketful of junk you didn't have to *remove* or shove out of the way. I'd rather start with a system that can do nothing but let me log on and copy files, then build up to what I want, than to spend hours cleaning up some packaging team's mess.
Again it's a matter of values. I understand there's a market for dwellings with furniture already in them, although I will never understand *why*.
Another values difference. Games? I hav GCC, the best game on the planet! Why would I waste time shooting down aliens when shooting down processes is so much more fun? :-]
The love-affair-with-MS thing is probably just different values. I would've said that not getting all the rich-text options in Yahoo Mail is a feature. I would probably pay a little extra for such features. But there are those who disagree with me on this.
Indeed, there's no such thing as a typical user. When our Windows box blew a gasket, I set up personal accounts on my Linux box and showed the wife and kids how to get started. They're doing pretty much everything they did before and I get no more questions than before.
(This is not some fancy-schmantzy Gnome or KDE setup either; I didn't want them *too* comfortable on *my* machine so I gave 'em twm and one xterm as a launch pad. Didn't work; they're on it all the time. Gotta build another box, or exile them back to Windows.)
Deeper magic from *before* the dawn of time: on TOPS10/20, RSX, and a bunch of others, CTRL/C kills your current task dead. I still hesitate slightly every time I use it to copy, fighting with that inner voice that's saying, "no! you'll lose your work!"
To each his own. The last time I noticed a toolkit was the last time I ran an OpenLook app. Buttons, fields, canvases -- what's the difference -- I look right through 'em. There must be different ways of thinking about applications, or something. I couldn't describe the difference between a GTK app. and a Motif app. unless I had them both open in front of me, and contrasting either one with an Athena Widgets app. would be difficult because the differences are so trivial (to me).
When I'm on task I process information visually but I don't really *see*. I couldn't tell you what the app. looks like without going off-task. Thinking is what happens when I'm not distracted by my senses. I guess some people don't work that way.
For me it's all about [Tim Taylor voice] MORE POWER! I've had enough of app.s and OSes with training wheels, and having found something without them I feel no further needs. Again, I guess some people don't work that way.