...1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz... Seems like the Stanford university didn't find Rubic's Cube important enough to let him borrow this.
...planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought... I have heard this so many times that I'm losing track on how common we previously thought they were.
I doubt things will be that different the day that chess is solved. The only reason that grand masters and computers have been so equal in strength the past years is almost certainly that both humans and computers are playing pretty close to perfect already as it is. The day computers play perfect chess the grand masters will, of course, not be able to win but I'm pretty sure they'll be able to get a fair share of draws.
A similar thing is going on in Sweden. The government is forcing all major ISP:s to filter out sites that are known to provide child pornography. Recently, the popular bit-torrent tracker http://www.piratebay.org/ was threatened to be added to this filter because rumour had it "there where child porn available from the site". This is of course just an excuse used by the Swedish government, which is controlled by the American government, which is controlled by the record and movie industry. I understand that it's in the record companies interests but it bugs me that governments don't want to confess that they're being used these ways.
Why on earth are they making a hydrogen-fueled car of this particular model? Who would buy it? The petrol version of this car has a 445hp engine and accelerates 0-60mph in ~5.5 seconds, this one comes with about half the performance and would likely cost even more. I doubt there are many environmentalists who buy these kind of cars. And even if they need to work with a big engine to start with, they could at least have chosen a smaller car than the 7-series.
I'm talking about small one-man companies where the programmer starts writing the software before the company is actually founded, not interested in reading licenses and maybe not even with a clear goal to start a company. I was in this position myself, I had heard all good about MySQL and that it's was a safe bet if you wanted something free to use. I found out about the licenses at an early stage though, and I never started the company (big surprise). I've also talked to several people with intentions of starting businesses, using MySQL. And everytime I ask if they've heard about the licences, they say "What, I thought it was completely free?".
I'm not saying it is wise to start a company without doing research about licenses, but this is how people work, they trust the rumours. And MySQL is taking advantage of this, getting good reputation and extra license fees.
Making money is fine, but they are taking advantage of the fact that people think it's more "free" than it really is. A typical example would be someone starting a new company, deciding to use MySQL "beacuse it's free, everybody knows that!". When they've finished implementing their software and feel ready to start sell they realize that they need to purchase a licence to distribute MySQL along with their own software, and face the choice of rewriting their software, throwing tons of work out the window, or simpy pay for the licence. The way I see it, this is by far the most important difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL.
So what are you guys saying, is he dead wrong? Does gravitation in fact move in the speed of light and is it thus theoretically impossible to construct an "instant" communication device using gravitation? I'm just curious and find this more interesting than the obvious errors in his post.
These books always try to cover too large fields. I guess reading the title is enough to realize that. I have bought a couple of programming books like this one, and they are always very interesting. But they never go in to the depth of any area, so it's quite impossible to acctually learn any real programming from them. So, it usually ends up with the fact that I'm finding the information I wanted where I should have looked in the first place, on the web.
There's an excellent book about hacking and hackers by Linus Walleij, called
Copyright Does Not Exist
.
In the preface, he explains why this book is published on the Internet
and not through a publisher. Basically, it's because he is a hacker and
thus, making money on the book would be double standards. Maybe that is
why so few books on the subject exist?
It's true that you need to run this as root for this to be able to do any serious damage. And the fact is that most Linux users know better than running unknown binaries as root. So it will probably not cause much damage, most likely, almost non at all I'd guess.
But what about the day in the future when everybody uses Linux, that is, "normal" people, who doesn't know much about computer security? Then, I think, most people will run it as root, and then a trojan like this would do damage. I really can't see my mum taking care of booth a root account and a user account nowhere in the future.
So, my point is that the reason Linux isn't much affected by trojans like this one, is because of the knowledge of the users. The day Linux becomes as big on the desktop side as windows, it will most likely be as exposed to this sort of trojans as windows is.
I live in Sweden. An earlier comment here said that countries like Denmark
and Sweden are more sexually "enlightened". Whether that is true or not,
I do not know.
However, a year ago or so, a swede mede a documentary film about the
pornographic movies that is shown in a swedish pay channel. In this documentary,
some clips from pornographic movies were shown. This lead to a huge debate,
and many people wanted to forbid pornography in tv. The documentary was
shown in the swedish parliament and everybody seemed very chocked;they
had offcourse never seen anything like that before!
So, what you could excpect was some law changes since "everybody" thought
this was disgusting. But what happend? Well, after the documentary was
shown in tv, the subscribers of this pay channel, where the pornographic
movies were showed, increased by 20% !! That clearly proved how it really
is. People do want porn, even if most of them don't admit it.
Now I'm from Sweden, but I'm pretty sure we aren't more of sex maniacs
then americans. The pornographic movies, for instance, were american like
99% af all pornography made...
So really, who are we trying to fool here? People want port!
What people want - and especially those on irc - is a network without censorship and restrictions. This will only make people chosing some other network.
If you get a virus into your computer, I guess you could blame yourself since you decided to use windows. However, lately so-called DoS attacks has been a popular way to "hack" webplaces by some ill-disposed people.
To set up such an attack, you first need to install trojans in pretty large amount of computers. Of course, to be able to install these trojans, these computers can't have very much security, which makes MS windows computers a great choice. The owners of these computers are usually not aware of this. So, the damage caused by viruses and trojans doesn't always affect only the companies who are using os's with lack of security (windows), it can hit anyone.
Microsoft sure makes a lot of money, but that's on behalf of others.
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...1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz... Seems like the Stanford university didn't find Rubic's Cube important enough to let him borrow this.
...planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought... I have heard this so many times that I'm losing track on how common we previously thought they were.I doubt things will be that different the day that chess is solved. The only reason that grand masters and computers have been so equal in strength the past years is almost certainly that both humans and computers are playing pretty close to perfect already as it is. The day computers play perfect chess the grand masters will, of course, not be able to win but I'm pretty sure they'll be able to get a fair share of draws.
A similar thing is going on in Sweden. The government is forcing all major ISP:s to filter out sites that are known to provide child pornography. Recently, the popular bit-torrent tracker http://www.piratebay.org/ was threatened to be added to this filter because rumour had it "there where child porn available from the site". This is of course just an excuse used by the Swedish government, which is controlled by the American government, which is controlled by the record and movie industry. I understand that it's in the record companies interests but it bugs me that governments don't want to confess that they're being used these ways.
Why on earth are they making a hydrogen-fueled car of this particular model? Who would buy it? The petrol version of this car has a 445hp engine and accelerates 0-60mph in ~5.5 seconds, this one comes with about half the performance and would likely cost even more. I doubt there are many environmentalists who buy these kind of cars. And even if they need to work with a big engine to start with, they could at least have chosen a smaller car than the 7-series.
I'm talking about small one-man companies where the programmer starts writing the software before the company is actually founded, not interested in reading licenses and maybe not even with a clear goal to start a company. I was in this position myself, I had heard all good about MySQL and that it's was a safe bet if you wanted something free to use. I found out about the licenses at an early stage though, and I never started the company (big surprise). I've also talked to several people with intentions of starting businesses, using MySQL. And everytime I ask if they've heard about the licences, they say "What, I thought it was completely free?".
I'm not saying it is wise to start a company without doing research about licenses, but this is how people work, they trust the rumours. And MySQL is taking advantage of this, getting good reputation and extra license fees.
Making money is fine, but they are taking advantage of the fact that people think it's more "free" than it really is. A typical example would be someone starting a new company, deciding to use MySQL "beacuse it's free, everybody knows that!". When they've finished implementing their software and feel ready to start sell they realize that they need to purchase a licence to distribute MySQL along with their own software, and face the choice of rewriting their software, throwing tons of work out the window, or simpy pay for the licence. The way I see it, this is by far the most important difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL.
So what are you guys saying, is he dead wrong? Does gravitation in fact move in the speed of light and is it thus theoretically impossible to construct an "instant" communication device using gravitation? I'm just curious and find this more interesting than the obvious errors in his post.
These books always try to cover too large fields. I guess reading the title is enough to realize that. I have bought a couple of programming books like this one, and they are always very interesting. But they never go in to the depth of any area, so it's quite impossible to acctually learn any real programming from them. So, it usually ends up with the fact that I'm finding the information I wanted where I should have looked in the first place, on the web.
There's an excellent book about hacking and hackers by Linus Walleij, called Copyright Does Not Exist .
In the preface, he explains why this book is published on the Internet and not through a publisher. Basically, it's because he is a hacker and thus, making money on the book would be double standards. Maybe that is why so few books on the subject exist?
It's true that you need to run this as root for this to be able to do any serious damage. And the fact is that most Linux users know better than running unknown binaries as root. So it will probably not cause much damage, most likely, almost non at all I'd guess.
But what about the day in the future when everybody uses Linux, that is, "normal" people, who doesn't know much about computer security? Then, I think, most people will run it as root, and then a trojan like this would do damage. I really can't see my mum taking care of booth a root account and a user account nowhere in the future.
So, my point is that the reason Linux isn't much affected by trojans like this one, is because of the knowledge of the users. The day Linux becomes as big on the desktop side as windows, it will most likely be as exposed to this sort of trojans as windows is.
What about Metallica??
Really? Too bad I haven't found it yet...
I live in Sweden. An earlier comment here said that countries like Denmark
and Sweden are more sexually "enlightened". Whether that is true or not,
I do not know.
However, a year ago or so, a swede mede a documentary film about the
pornographic movies that is shown in a swedish pay channel. In this documentary,
some clips from pornographic movies were shown. This lead to a huge debate,
and many people wanted to forbid pornography in tv. The documentary was
shown in the swedish parliament and everybody seemed very chocked;they
had offcourse never seen anything like that before!
So, what you could excpect was some law changes since "everybody" thought
this was disgusting. But what happend? Well, after the documentary was
shown in tv, the subscribers of this pay channel, where the pornographic
movies were showed, increased by 20% !! That clearly proved how it really
is. People do want porn, even if most of them don't admit it.
Now I'm from Sweden, but I'm pretty sure we aren't more of sex maniacs
then americans. The pornographic movies, for instance, were american like
99% af all pornography made...
So really, who are we trying to fool here? People want port!
What people want - and especially those on irc - is a network without censorship and restrictions. This will only make people chosing some other network.
Living a paranoid life like that can't be worth any money in the world.
Guess they need to show what they can everynow and then, just to be sure to get their money...
If you get a virus into your computer, I guess you could blame yourself since you decided to use windows. However, lately so-called DoS attacks has been a popular way to "hack" webplaces by some ill-disposed people. To set up such an attack, you first need to install trojans in pretty large amount of computers. Of course, to be able to install these trojans, these computers can't have very much security, which makes MS windows computers a great choice. The owners of these computers are usually not aware of this. So, the damage caused by viruses and trojans doesn't always affect only the companies who are using os's with lack of security (windows), it can hit anyone. Microsoft sure makes a lot of money, but that's on behalf of others.
Could this be the end for the opennap servers as well?