Tell me how to crash a machine by overwhelming it with too many packets. I have a 486/20 Linux box on my ethernet and I can saturate it with complete garbage and only raise its load average. I have even tried injecting raw noise with a pulser and other nonsense and it had no problems. I was unable to find an exploit on one of my boxes. Perhaps you can?
People don't seem to understand why I hate Microsoft so much. They always insist its the hardware or user problem. Bad motherboards, network cards, or a clueless administrator. Well, if that's the MS way of putting the blame on perfectly good resources, they need to wake up. Seems like when you deal with NT, you make a deal with the devil and have hell to pay when things go south...
Reboot? Crash? What's the difference? Its all downtime to me. So much for increased stability. That's what you get for selling yourself to closed source.
More exciting car options to increase traffic speed:
6. Lower center of gravity or lift kit (pick one.) 7. Electronic defensive and offensive counter measures (radar guns are more useful than detectors!) 8. Full bottle of N2O (gas masks not included.) 9. Air horns. 10.Dual 3" exhaust.
I'm a senior tech at a manufacturing plant. When its kept simple, we have no problems. My opinion may not be worth much, and not an expert opinion, but based on 15 years of my experience of a technician. (Clueless?) Critical functions, such as the boilers are controlled by simple relay logic. No crashes, no dates, and NO YEAR 2000 FUD. It amazes me how much crap how this is sensationalized. If you have something to share as an AC, please do, but I didn't get much from your critical post.
If you kill the power during any test, you will have problems. Kill the power during the summer and you will have people complaining about the heat. Power goes out at night, your problem will be the dark. On December 31, 1999, you may have lots of clocks stuck flashing 12:00 in the bitter cold. So?
All the nukes down before midnight just to be safe. OK, as a joke, everyone turn on all appliances and heaters at the stroke of new years and during the blackout, watch people panic as promised by the sensationalist media. ATM machines run dry, people run in the streets with guns, all because of some man made number calendar year, once limited memory in financial calculations, and a popular operating system that crashes. Add them all together and we have something very interesting.
Don't worry about the Y2K media blitz, but worry about all those viruses running freely and mutating in a playground of consumer petri dishes. They will infest every popular consumer computer given time. Just sit back and wait. Coming soon to a computer near you. Have you been asked to reinstall a certain evil operating system lately? Damn glad I have user accounts on my computer for different installs!
My guess is that reactors are still using the old, reliable technology they were built with and subject to normal maintenance when it came to replacing parts. The computer upgrades were most likely confined to the offices and out of harm's way. I work in manufacturing and get to see New Technology get a reputation for hiccuping and having bugs. The more important production lines get a wait and see attitude before adopting curiously marketed operating systems. When there is potential for creating scrap at over $40/second, no high tech is sometimes better if you want to get the job done.
I have yet to see an article how these nuclear plants are controled. Are the steam pipes controled by computers, or by more simple and reliable means such as PLC's, relay logic, or better yet, pressure sensors and valves, with computer monitoring, etc... It seems to me that critical functions are usually controlled by very simple and reliable mechanisms. Things like payroll, etc., may be handed off to those old lines of COBOL and friends. So, where are these Y2K bugs exactly? Do we have Visual Basic controlling the core rod stock? What do we have here? Is this subject to public disclosure?
Reboot camp. How fitting. I've been to reboot camp and I can tell you it will make you a hardened killer. I've seen NT on manufacturing line powering 400 horsepower motors and talk about property damage when the OS or Visual Basic goes out of control and starts hammering parts and it starts to fly. Its a technician's worst nightmare. And the only thing you can do is to reboot. You can't fix closed source, just hit the reset button and fix the real world damage that it caused. I'm not mad. Just pissed off!
I ordered a from bookpool half an hour before you posted and got a confirmation its in the mail. Woohoo! It must be too late now as either bookpool has been slashdotted or doesn't have the stock like amazon!
True. Just like a poorly coded closed source computer program, viruses can run amok. If done properly and peer reviewed, you can build the gene instruction set to allow operation only under certain conditions and remove extraneous ones. The result would be a single purpose virus that does not know how to do much besides its task.
You can make virus simple or complicated and mysterious. I would assume drug companies would want to get something out the door quick and make it a mystery how to reverse engineer in addition to patenting the hell out of it.
I would think that the value of these life forms would be useful tools. Control the reproduction of viruses (only reproduce under presence of certain chemicals or ultraviolet light) and add useful functions to them, such as repairing genetic disorders. They can be programmed to do useful work and be made to perish under certain stimuli.
My mom did research at Hybritech in La Jolla with "magic bullets," or modified antibodies with poisons attatched that would target cancer cells and attatch to them for the killing. Worked quite well when things went right and put an end to things like melenoma. It required a lot of engineering it each case.
I just hope all this research is not patented to death. Seems like all the drug companies have over half their payroll of lawyers, not researchers in science. That is bad, but it makes profits. Its a cutthroat field.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, FUD, is a method of marketing and method of writing pre-digested press releases for journalists to spread around as news. Used by companies who wish to gain an economic edge over competitors usually when technology is not favorable. Its designed to bring critical thinking into the consumer's minds, but FUD is terrible with bringing a complete argument into discussion. Its simply a marketing tool.
And there goes the incentive to conduct in this thing called "e-commerce." And then the states will charge a tax. And then the fed tax will increase to include a tax "for the children" and to "prevent terrorism" and to help fund the NSA...
I used to answer those calls that the caller ID listed as "unavailable." It seems like any long distance service change or getting ISDN would get me on every credit card company marketing list. I sleep days. I get very cranky when I answer the phone to some telemarketer wanting to sell me a credit card. I give them insults about their job, their ability to father children, etc... They have even retaliated against me for venting by conviently cancelling my long distance for "fraud." It pisses me off to no end to have some stranger interrupt my sleep, then to interrupt my utilities. Its gotten to the point where I will try to hunt the person down! I've gone mad!
The sooner on the blacklist, the better. What right does NSI and every joe business have to spam me? Did I pay NSI $70 for their service of providing my information so they can own it and spam me some abuse with it? If vigilante justice through the RBL is not allowed, then its time for baseball bats. One way or another, I'm going to get relief!
This got me thinking of ways to make a more powerful jet through chemical means. Use vinegar and baking soda for the propellant; however, this would not be cool around people, since vinegar is kind of unpleasant. This also made me think about spud guns, aka potato launchers. Perhaps one could put a disc in a barrel to act like a piston and power it with hair spray just like a spud gun.
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Tell me how to crash a machine by overwhelming it with too many packets. I have a 486/20 Linux box on my ethernet and I can saturate it with complete garbage and only raise its load average. I have even tried injecting raw noise with a pulser and other nonsense and it had no problems. I was unable to find an exploit on one of my boxes. Perhaps you can?
If I could post something good about Microsoft I would.
Let me say they are on my mind, but Linux is on my computer. That is good enough for me, was it good for you?
People don't seem to understand why I hate Microsoft so much. They always insist its the hardware or user problem. Bad motherboards, network cards, or a clueless administrator. Well, if that's the MS way of putting the blame on perfectly good resources, they need to wake up. Seems like when you deal with NT, you make a deal with the devil and have hell to pay when things go south...
Reboot? Crash? What's the difference? Its all downtime to me. So much for increased stability. That's what you get for selling yourself to closed source.
More exciting car options to increase traffic speed:
6. Lower center of gravity or lift kit (pick one.)
7. Electronic defensive and offensive counter measures (radar guns are more useful than detectors!)
8. Full bottle of N2O (gas masks not included.)
9. Air horns.
10.Dual 3" exhaust.
I'm a senior tech at a manufacturing plant. When its kept simple, we have no problems. My opinion may not be worth much, and not an expert opinion, but based on 15 years of my experience of a technician. (Clueless?) Critical functions, such as the boilers are controlled by simple relay logic. No crashes, no dates, and NO YEAR 2000 FUD. It amazes me how much crap how this is sensationalized. If you have something to share as an AC, please do, but I didn't get much from your critical post.
A stuck door, perhaps? Mechanical failures are the number one failure of things that break. Think about that.
If you kill the power during any test, you will have problems. Kill the power during the summer and you will have people complaining about the heat. Power goes out at night, your problem will be the dark. On December 31, 1999, you may have lots of clocks stuck flashing 12:00 in the bitter cold. So?
All the nukes down before midnight just to be safe. OK, as a joke, everyone turn on all appliances and heaters at the stroke of new years and during the blackout, watch people panic as promised by the sensationalist media. ATM machines run dry, people run in the streets with guns, all because of some man made number calendar year, once limited memory in financial calculations, and a popular operating system that crashes. Add them all together and we have something very interesting.
Don't worry about the Y2K media blitz, but worry about all those viruses running freely and mutating in a playground of consumer petri dishes. They will infest every popular consumer computer given time. Just sit back and wait. Coming soon to a computer near you. Have you been asked to reinstall a certain evil operating system lately? Damn glad I have user accounts on my computer for different installs!
My guess is that reactors are still using the old, reliable technology they were built with and subject to normal maintenance when it came to replacing parts. The computer upgrades were most likely confined to the offices and out of harm's way. I work in manufacturing and get to see New Technology get a reputation for hiccuping and having bugs. The more important production lines get a wait and see attitude before adopting curiously marketed operating systems. When there is potential for creating scrap at over $40/second, no high tech is sometimes better if you want to get the job done.
I have yet to see an article how these nuclear plants are controled. Are the steam pipes controled by computers, or by more simple and reliable means such as PLC's, relay logic, or better yet, pressure sensors and valves, with computer monitoring, etc... It seems to me that critical functions are usually controlled by very simple and reliable mechanisms. Things like payroll, etc., may be handed off to those old lines of COBOL and friends. So, where are these Y2K bugs exactly? Do we have Visual Basic controlling the core rod stock? What do we have here? Is this subject to public disclosure?
Reboot camp. How fitting. I've been to reboot camp and I can tell you it will make you a hardened killer. I've seen NT on manufacturing line powering 400 horsepower motors and talk about property damage when the OS or Visual Basic goes out of control and starts hammering parts and it starts to fly. Its a technician's worst nightmare. And the only thing you can do is to reboot. You can't fix closed source, just hit the reset button and fix the real world damage that it caused. I'm not mad. Just pissed off!
I ordered a from bookpool half an hour before you posted and got a confirmation its in the mail. Woohoo! It must be too late now as either bookpool has been slashdotted or doesn't have the stock like amazon!
I won! Where's my prize? I broke its Java! I couldn't even see the rules, now what were they? Microsoft can't seem to write HTML worth a damn.
True. Just like a poorly coded closed source computer program, viruses can run amok. If done properly and peer reviewed, you can build the gene instruction set to allow operation only under certain conditions and remove extraneous ones. The result would be a single purpose virus that does not know how to do much besides its task.
You can make virus simple or complicated and mysterious. I would assume drug companies would want to get something out the door quick and make it a mystery how to reverse engineer in addition to patenting the hell out of it.
OrderHere is that link at bookpool.com and the price including fedex 2 day is only $30. Thanks for the link!
I would think that the value of these life forms would be useful tools. Control the reproduction of viruses (only reproduce under presence of certain chemicals or ultraviolet light) and add useful functions to them, such as repairing genetic disorders. They can be programmed to do useful work and be made to perish under certain stimuli.
My mom did research at Hybritech in La Jolla with "magic bullets," or modified antibodies with poisons attatched that would target cancer cells and attatch to them for the killing. Worked quite well when things went right and put an end to things like melenoma. It required a lot of engineering it each case.
I just hope all this research is not patented to death. Seems like all the drug companies have over half their payroll of lawyers, not researchers in science. That is bad, but it makes profits. Its a cutthroat field.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, FUD, is a method of marketing and method of writing pre-digested press releases for journalists to spread around as news. Used by companies who wish to gain an economic edge over competitors usually when technology is not favorable. Its designed to bring critical thinking into the consumer's minds, but FUD is terrible with bringing a complete argument into discussion. Its simply a marketing tool.
NT: Not There (never will be)
CE: Caveat Emptor (buyer beware)
It all boils down to:
Closed Source: Tyranny
Open Source: Democracy
EULA: Fascism
GNU: Bill of Rights
And there goes the incentive to conduct in this thing called "e-commerce." And then the states will charge a tax. And then the fed tax will increase to include a tax "for the children" and to "prevent terrorism" and to help fund the NSA...
Sales taxes are evil.
I used to answer those calls that the caller ID listed as "unavailable." It seems like any long distance service change or getting ISDN would get me on every credit card company marketing list. I sleep days. I get very cranky when I answer the phone to some telemarketer wanting to sell me a credit card. I give them insults about their job, their ability to father children, etc... They have even retaliated against me for venting by conviently cancelling my long distance for "fraud." It pisses me off to no end to have some stranger interrupt my sleep, then to interrupt my utilities. Its gotten to the point where I will try to hunt the person down! I've gone mad!
The sooner on the blacklist, the better. What right does NSI and every joe business have to spam me? Did I pay NSI $70 for their service of providing my information so they can own it and spam me some abuse with it? If vigilante justice through the RBL is not allowed, then its time for baseball bats. One way or another, I'm going to get relief!
The paranoia is getting outa hand...
This got me thinking of ways to make a more powerful jet through chemical means. Use vinegar and baking soda for the propellant; however, this would not be cool around people, since vinegar is kind of unpleasant. This also made me think about spud guns, aka potato launchers. Perhaps one could put a disc in a barrel to act like a piston and power it with hair spray just like a spud gun.