Seriously, stay out of it. The Iranian government is already accusing the US of interfering in internal issues, and has lodged an official complaint through diplomatic channels. This is mostly propaganda, but honestly the best thing we can do for them is to stay out of it.
In fact, if you see your local politician wanting to do something, tell them to shut up. You're not friends to the people of Iran, and speaking up with your opinion is something they don't want to hear.
Canada also has 200,000 volunteers, and representatives from every major political party present at ballot counting. At least three people must agree on the content of the ballot for it to be counted.
Canada's system works well because it is -extremely- transparent, and works through volunteers.
Sounds pretty similar to the way I walk - I move my feet and the Earth rotates beneath me. I'm planning on starting to fly instead, it's just maintaining altitude after lift-off. But I won't let that small detail stop me from making travel plans - I'll work that out after jumping.
Oh that part is relatively simple: Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Oh, that's a shame, maybe next time we should hand this matter over to the USAF or at least the FBI. You know, someone capable of exterminating or prosecuting the 'rats'?
And this is what I was thinking. I'm very confused, but I'm also not an American. What does the Federal Trade Commission have to do with acting on illegal material such as the crazy stuff suggested by the article? Where are the criminal charges here?
Or is this a bit like the Environmental Protection Agency investigating a murder because... they feel like it....
I wanted to take you up on your challenge, but I was unable to do so. I know nearly zero about fortran, so forgive my ignorance.
epiphani@cawk:~/chal$ fort77 -o ft ft.f
MAIN co: epiphani@cawk:~/chal$./ft startio: illegal unit number apparent state: unit 100 (unnamed) lately writing sequential unformatted external IO Aborted
Update exactly what code? I do this all the time using dlopen, if i need to.
But your suggestion places a design constraint and does not define a functional requirement. I don't know anything about what I'm supposed to write. 20 lines of dlopen() wrappers?
Nowhere in my statement did I say that C is therefor the correct language in which to write everything. As projects grow in size and complexity, maintainability is more important than raw speed.
However, in context to the article, the example was "here is something that everyone does in C, but I did it in LISP and it was faster!" And that is my challenge: one, relatively small app written in any higher language will be faster when written in C. There are no restrictions to the challenge based on maintainability or number of lines of code.
Modded Troll? Come on guys, its a legitimate challenge - I'd really love to have someone take me up on it. If anyone out there thinks they can honestly write faster code in some higher level language than I can in C, I want to put it to the test. It'll be fun, and I'll happily admit defeat if it can be thus proven. (And I'll take up the competing programming language.)
He wrote a LISP-based memory-only webserver that could respond to requests roughly 10% faster than lighttpd with php. I promise you, if I wrote a C implementation that performed only the functionality he implemented, it would blow it out of the water. In fact, before anyone else comes out with the "X is faster than C!" claim, I'll leave the challenge out there:
I will prove that anything written in a higher-level language will not be as fast as my implementation of it in C. I leave this challenge out to anyone to take. (*)
Seriously, I'm sick of this crap. Bring it on.
(*) Caveat: It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task. I don't have a lot of time to waste on this.
Counting connections themselves is pretty near useless, as SMTP is designed to allow single connection to dump large amounts of separate email. Often cases you'll have SMTP connections from places like hotmail or gmail connect once and dump dozens/hundreds/thousands of emails. This happens even more for mailing lists.
It can be done, but not at the router level. This is why appliances such as Ironport exist.
That's because you want a router to do something it doesn't care about. That would require full layer 7 visibility on the router - then it wouldn't be nearly as good at doing what its supposed to: routing.
Most routers rarely look above layer 3. Occasionally they'll do some layer 4 stuff, but that is best left to firewalls or load balancers.
Also, routers aren't programmed to ignore DOS attacks. They're programmed to ignore very specific types of DOS attacks, sometimes.
Granted, but lets be realistic here from a business (not legal) perspective. Harm of this? Dilution of brand and/or trademark. Trademark must be actively defended in order to keep it. That's the only harm I can think of.
So what should they have done?
Back the game. Permission to use the brand for this purpose only provided a zero-revenue entity manages it. Then you get the name out there, without any negative impact. In fact, what about throwing the developers a few thousand dollars and buying it? Release it for the DS. That's more complicated, but its an option.
The method they're taking, you're screwing 5 years of volunteer work from fans, and generally being assholes. With a slightly different approach, you're encouraging the fans creativity and coming off as a generally cool company. And it doesn't cost much at all, with very few downsides.
And with the current state of mysql, I wouldn't look at buying Sun for that reason at all. The other assets make far more sense.
Plus, Sun and Oracle have both been major open source supporters, Oracle probably one of the single largest kernel contributor. That would be a good pairing.
If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA.
Excellent point. I'll do everything I can to avoid getting into a fight with the USA - open my facilities to UN inspectors, abide by no-fly-zones, generally do whatever I can. That should work, right?
I've spoken to some people that were at Fallujah. I guess everyone sees it differently, but they saw it as a massacre. Over 1300 "insurgents" dead, less than 100 Americans.
They told me stories of teams of people that would go into apartment buildings and shoot every single thing in it. These people were all "insurgents". Entire families of insurgents.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but screw it. What if someone made a game glorifying Rhwanda? Cambodia? I realize its not the same thing, but there are certain "battles" that shouldn't be immortalized as heroic actions.
Back in 1996 there actually was intelligent conversation on IRC.
Not if you're idling.
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"I thought in 1996 all we did was idle in IRC channels while we wrote code in other terminals."
Yet another person who does not know he can find porn on the net.
Yet another person who is apparently unfamiliar with DCC. Why do you think we idled on IRC to begin with? It sure as hell wasn't for the intelligent conversation.
"As a direct result of carrying that extra weight we could not make orbit," said John Brunschwyler, the Taurus program manager with manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp.
WTF? I know this is rocket science, but knowing the amount of force required to get a given weight into orbit seems like a pretty good first step.
I can understand all kinds of reasons for this to fail, but "woops, we put too much weight on the rocket?" Almost as bad as the feet/meters thing.
Oddly enough, that pretty much covers it. This article has nothing specifically to do with blackberrys, its about any kind of cell phone using a public GSM or CDMA network.
1. NFSv4 support was added. v4 is complex and has a lot of authentication stuff in it that wasn't in v3.
2. SunRPC is "part" of the NFS tree, but is effectively just a transport layer. It is completely abstracted, hence the numbers of symbols. It could be used for other stuff, so it pushes up that number too.
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Oh by all means.
That's my point though - they're asking us to mind our own business. Set up proxies to help communicating, but that is IT.
A public statement out of the US right now in support of the protesters will HARM the protest.
This is actually quite simple:
Nothing
Seriously, stay out of it. The Iranian government is already accusing the US of interfering in internal issues, and has lodged an official complaint through diplomatic channels. This is mostly propaganda, but honestly the best thing we can do for them is to stay out of it.
In fact, if you see your local politician wanting to do something, tell them to shut up. You're not friends to the people of Iran, and speaking up with your opinion is something they don't want to hear.
Canada also has 200,000 volunteers, and representatives from every major political party present at ballot counting. At least three people must agree on the content of the ballot for it to be counted.
Canada's system works well because it is -extremely- transparent, and works through volunteers.
Sounds pretty similar to the way I walk - I move my feet and the Earth rotates beneath me. I'm planning on starting to fly instead, it's just maintaining altitude after lift-off. But I won't let that small detail stop me from making travel plans - I'll work that out after jumping.
Oh that part is relatively simple: Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Oh, that's a shame, maybe next time we should hand this matter over to the USAF or at least the FBI. You know, someone capable of exterminating or prosecuting the 'rats'?
And this is what I was thinking. I'm very confused, but I'm also not an American. What does the Federal Trade Commission have to do with acting on illegal material such as the crazy stuff suggested by the article? Where are the criminal charges here?
Or is this a bit like the Environmental Protection Agency investigating a murder because... they feel like it....
I wanted to take you up on your challenge, but I was unable to do so. I know nearly zero about fortran, so forgive my ignorance.
epiphani@cawk:~/chal$ fort77 -o ft ft.f
MAIN co:
epiphani@cawk:~/chal$
startio: illegal unit number
apparent state: unit 100 (unnamed)
lately writing sequential unformatted external IO
Aborted
Update exactly what code? I do this all the time using dlopen, if i need to.
But your suggestion places a design constraint and does not define a functional requirement. I don't know anything about what I'm supposed to write. 20 lines of dlopen() wrappers?
Nowhere in my statement did I say that C is therefor the correct language in which to write everything. As projects grow in size and complexity, maintainability is more important than raw speed.
However, in context to the article, the example was "here is something that everyone does in C, but I did it in LISP and it was faster!" And that is my challenge: one, relatively small app written in any higher language will be faster when written in C. There are no restrictions to the challenge based on maintainability or number of lines of code.
Willing to take up the challenge? :)
Modded Troll? Come on guys, its a legitimate challenge - I'd really love to have someone take me up on it. If anyone out there thinks they can honestly write faster code in some higher level language than I can in C, I want to put it to the test. It'll be fun, and I'll happily admit defeat if it can be thus proven. (And I'll take up the competing programming language.)
No, definitely not in speed.
He wrote a LISP-based memory-only webserver that could respond to requests roughly 10% faster than lighttpd with php. I promise you, if I wrote a C implementation that performed only the functionality he implemented, it would blow it out of the water. In fact, before anyone else comes out with the "X is faster than C!" claim, I'll leave the challenge out there:
I will prove that anything written in a higher-level language will not be as fast as my implementation of it in C. I leave this challenge out to anyone to take. (*)
Seriously, I'm sick of this crap. Bring it on.
(*) Caveat: It must be a small challenge involving a relatively simple task. I don't have a lot of time to waste on this.
Also, not how SMTP works.
Counting connections themselves is pretty near useless, as SMTP is designed to allow single connection to dump large amounts of separate email. Often cases you'll have SMTP connections from places like hotmail or gmail connect once and dump dozens/hundreds/thousands of emails. This happens even more for mailing lists.
It can be done, but not at the router level. This is why appliances such as Ironport exist.
That's because you want a router to do something it doesn't care about. That would require full layer 7 visibility on the router - then it wouldn't be nearly as good at doing what its supposed to: routing.
Most routers rarely look above layer 3. Occasionally they'll do some layer 4 stuff, but that is best left to firewalls or load balancers.
Also, routers aren't programmed to ignore DOS attacks. They're programmed to ignore very specific types of DOS attacks, sometimes.
Granted, but lets be realistic here from a business (not legal) perspective. Harm of this? Dilution of brand and/or trademark. Trademark must be actively defended in order to keep it. That's the only harm I can think of.
So what should they have done?
Back the game. Permission to use the brand for this purpose only provided a zero-revenue entity manages it. Then you get the name out there, without any negative impact. In fact, what about throwing the developers a few thousand dollars and buying it? Release it for the DS. That's more complicated, but its an option.
The method they're taking, you're screwing 5 years of volunteer work from fans, and generally being assholes. With a slightly different approach, you're encouraging the fans creativity and coming off as a generally cool company. And it doesn't cost much at all, with very few downsides.
No it isn't. That's Postgres.
And with the current state of mysql, I wouldn't look at buying Sun for that reason at all. The other assets make far more sense.
Plus, Sun and Oracle have both been major open source supporters, Oracle probably one of the single largest kernel contributor. That would be a good pairing.
Agreed. And such a shame that Metallica died horribly in that plane crash right after the black album...
All girls do. But they change randomly, and you can never make any assumptions about the APIs...
There was a better joke in here somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. Damn nicotine withdrawal.
If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA.
Excellent point. I'll do everything I can to avoid getting into a fight with the USA - open my facilities to UN inspectors, abide by no-fly-zones, generally do whatever I can. That should work, right?
I've spoken to some people that were at Fallujah. I guess everyone sees it differently, but they saw it as a massacre. Over 1300 "insurgents" dead, less than 100 Americans.
They told me stories of teams of people that would go into apartment buildings and shoot every single thing in it. These people were all "insurgents". Entire families of insurgents.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but screw it. What if someone made a game glorifying Rhwanda? Cambodia? I realize its not the same thing, but there are certain "battles" that shouldn't be immortalized as heroic actions.
Back in 1996 there actually was intelligent conversation on IRC.
Not if you're idling.
"I thought in 1996 all we did was idle in IRC channels while we wrote code in other terminals."
Yet another person who does not know he can find porn on the net.
Yet another person who is apparently unfamiliar with DCC. Why do you think we idled on IRC to begin with? It sure as hell wasn't for the intelligent conversation.
This is the part of it that blows my mind:
"As a direct result of carrying that extra weight we could not make orbit," said John Brunschwyler, the Taurus program manager with manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp.
WTF? I know this is rocket science, but knowing the amount of force required to get a given weight into orbit seems like a pretty good first step.
I can understand all kinds of reasons for this to fail, but "woops, we put too much weight on the rocket?" Almost as bad as the feet/meters thing.
Wrong.
He carries both. And he is carrying a "real" blackberry.
Oddly enough, that pretty much covers it. This article has nothing specifically to do with blackberrys, its about any kind of cell phone using a public GSM or CDMA network.
MurderFS
Two things of note with NFS...
1. NFSv4 support was added. v4 is complex and has a lot of authentication stuff in it that wasn't in v3.
2. SunRPC is "part" of the NFS tree, but is effectively just a transport layer. It is completely abstracted, hence the numbers of symbols. It could be used for other stuff, so it pushes up that number too.