By now, most of the sites under attack have been blocked to the outside traffic. That by itself means the attacks have been successful, information from Estonian government stays in the country.
How would you you fight a DDoS attack and make sure all non-bot users have access?
A year ago, we had a donation program at the local IT College. Companies donated their old computers, we checked the hardware, installed a clean OS and they went to children with disabilities.
Usually we didn't even check, what's left on the hard drives, but occasionally we would stumble upon some pretty sensitive information, like some business-critical e-mails, personal contacts, office gossip. Anyway, we did our best to forget everything we saw and no kind of copies were made before reformatting the drives.
If this thing gets real widely used, then you could probably construct bullet-time styled video clips:
1. find a landmark (like Eiffel Tower) 2. Draw a circle around it on the map and get as many photos near to the shape as possible, preserve them in the same circular order 3. Now check them, probably many (or some) of them include Eiffel Tower. Discard all others 4. Add them as individual frames to the clip.
Since people around large objects probably tend to take a shot or two of these objects, this idea might work. I know you won't get anywhere near decent quality like that, but the effect should still be there. You might want to resize and position the frames so the Eiffel tower will stand in the middle. Instead of a circle, you could try an ellipse. That way the end result can be even more interesting.
The open-ended freedom of gameplay in the GTA series is the thing I liked already in the GTA 1. The graphics was mediocre at best, but it rocked. Although it had many flaws, it was still revolutionary in many ways. GTA 2 didn't introduce anything beneficial to the series, but GTA 3 rocked. Since that every sequel has been getting better and better. I don't have much time to play computer games anymore but I love San Andreas and every once in a while I forget myself in front of the computer, for many hours in a row.
For comparison, here are the estonian words: mänti - "mänd" - pine tree ema - "ema" - mother, both animals and human ela - "elama" - live päike - "päike" - Sun päive - "päev" - day
I see a closer similarity here than compared with finnish language.
This sentence was in both of the movies, but in The Meaning Of Life it was directly about organ donoring, and in The Search For The Holy Grail it was just about dying and bringing away dead bodies.
Maybe the parent poster just didnt know his Monty Python.
BTW - Why do you think they show "It's a wonderful world" every christmas? An otherwise mediocre film has become a classic and only because of copyright! In fact, the movie sucked so much even the moviemakers saw no money potential in it and abandoned it on the shelves. The TV stations could show it for free, and after they did exactly that, many times in a row, the movie finally got famous.
If the price of a cd were 1$, even Britney would have a chance.
This would end one of my favourite form of TV - channelsurfing. Anytime you accidentally land on a commercial, you can't return, doesn't matter if you just accidentally pushed the button and it was the most important moment of the plot.
Keep youre eyes above this, on the commercial, will you? So you'll help US fight the terrorists. If you divert your eyes from that commercial, that means the terrorists will have won!
Funny, I just red some complaints under the previous post about too much april fools... Maybe you guys should wait until after a few serious posts to crack up again?
In our university they have named the boxen after the Lord of the Rings. All the printers are named after dragons (Smaug), fileservers after dwarves, and so on. The computers for student use are named after the room number and computer number (AK213c25 - AK as Computer Center in Estonian, 213c as the room number). It's quite simple this way - the machines that don't have to carry an easily pronouncable or memorable name, haven't got any.
Either way, communism is a viable economic model, and maximizes the happiness of the population, which should be the goal of any governmental/ecomonic system.
You don't know what you are talking about.
I live in a postsocialist country. I saw communism. It was grey, bitter and evil in every way.
...who thinks Microsoft is going to come out with different XBox flavors aimed at people besides gamers?
Never. It's common information that MS is selling the box cheap to get more cash on the games. If you're buying the box but are not going to buy the games, why should MS give a rat's ass about you? Actually it's kind of ironic - microsoft is selling the xbox so cheap that the cruelest thing a microsoft-hater could do to microsoft is to go out and buy the box and use it just for cd's, dvd's and stuff like that. That would mean no profits to microsoft.
Actually MOO2 would be a bit better for its automation possibilities - but nevertheless MOO1 is a great classic. It doesn't really lack very much graphics, the VGA interface is ok. The technology tree could be longer...
I believe even one airliner makes enough changes to have an effect on climate. Ok, regular flights can be accounted. Charter? No, they are as irregular as they can get.
"...If, for a hypothetical example, Steven Spielberg chooses not to include Volkswagon cars in his movies because of VW's ties to the Nazis..."
Are you saying VW is tied somehow to the Nazis? Oh you americans, stop looking for things that are not there. WW2 is over. I am tired of the fact that every freakin' show in Discovery channel is about Nazis. I am tired about the media's picturing of jews as the biggest victims who should be paid millions just because they are jews. Could we get on and not mention that anymore? I have nothing against jews and I also do not tolerate nazis, but I am tired about hearing the same things I already know over and over and over again.
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Joel's articles are a joy to read. No matter what time I receive the email about a new article by Joel, it will be read on the spot.
By now, most of the sites under attack have been blocked to the outside traffic. That by itself means the attacks have been successful, information from Estonian government stays in the country.
How would you you fight a DDoS attack and make sure all non-bot users have access?
A year ago, we had a donation program at the local IT College. Companies donated their old computers, we checked the hardware, installed a clean OS and they went to children with disabilities.
Usually we didn't even check, what's left on the hard drives, but occasionally we would stumble upon some pretty sensitive information, like some business-critical e-mails, personal contacts, office gossip. Anyway, we did our best to forget everything we saw and no kind of copies were made before reformatting the drives.
If this thing gets real widely used, then you could probably construct bullet-time styled video clips:
1. find a landmark (like Eiffel Tower)
2. Draw a circle around it on the map and get as many photos near to the shape as possible, preserve them in the same circular order
3. Now check them, probably many (or some) of them include Eiffel Tower. Discard all others
4. Add them as individual frames to the clip.
Since people around large objects probably tend to take a shot or two of these objects, this idea might work.
I know you won't get anywhere near decent quality like that, but the effect should still be there. You might want to resize and position the frames so the Eiffel tower will stand in the middle.
Instead of a circle, you could try an ellipse. That way the end result can be even more interesting.
The open-ended freedom of gameplay in the GTA series is the thing I liked already in the GTA 1. The graphics was mediocre at best, but it rocked. Although it had many flaws, it was still revolutionary in many ways. GTA 2 didn't introduce anything beneficial to the series, but GTA 3 rocked. Since that every sequel has been getting better and better. I don't have much time to play computer games anymore but I love San Andreas and every once in a while I forget myself in front of the computer, for many hours in a row.
I hope even more from the next title.
How can these discs have 50y guaranteed archival life when they haven't been around for 50 years to prove that?
Is this vapourware or can we really expect them to deliver?
What a marvellous idea! Here are a few pointers, how to make English language as efficient as possible: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984-Append ix.htm
I deem you a doubleplusgood duckspeaker.
For comparison, here are the estonian words:
mänti - "mänd" - pine tree
ema - "ema" - mother, both animals and human
ela - "elama" - live
päike - "päike" - Sun
päive - "päev" - day
I see a closer similarity here than compared with finnish language.
I overclocked my casio wrist watch. Now I have all the time I need.
Next in the news: Motorola announces its new product line for layered processor technology: "cabbagius"
This sentence was in both of the movies, but in The Meaning Of Life it was directly about organ donoring, and in The Search For The Holy Grail it was just about dying and bringing away dead bodies.
Maybe the parent poster just didnt know his Monty Python.
BTW - Why do you think they show "It's a wonderful world" every christmas? An otherwise mediocre film has become a classic and only because of copyright! In fact, the movie sucked so much even the moviemakers saw no money potential in it and abandoned it on the shelves. The TV stations could show it for free, and after they did exactly that, many times in a row, the movie finally got famous.
If the price of a cd were 1$, even Britney would have a chance.
Keep youre eyes above this, on the commercial, will you? So you'll help US fight the terrorists. If you divert your eyes from that commercial, that means the terrorists will have won!
Funny, I just red some complaints under the previous post about too much april fools... Maybe you guys should wait until after a few serious posts to crack up again?
In our university they have named the boxen after the Lord of the Rings. All the printers are named after dragons (Smaug), fileservers after dwarves, and so on. The computers for student use are named after the room number and computer number (AK213c25 - AK as Computer Center in Estonian, 213c as the room number). It's quite simple this way - the machines that don't have to carry an easily pronouncable or memorable name, haven't got any.
Isn't it so 60-s? Wonder who will be the first this time...
Bill must be crying his eyes out right now.
You don't know what you are talking about.
I live in a postsocialist country. I saw communism. It was grey, bitter and evil in every way.
Never. It's common information that MS is selling the box cheap to get more cash on the games. If you're buying the box but are not going to buy the games, why should MS give a rat's ass about you? Actually it's kind of ironic - microsoft is selling the xbox so cheap that the cruelest thing a microsoft-hater could do to microsoft is to go out and buy the box and use it just for cd's, dvd's and stuff like that. That would mean no profits to microsoft.
At last there is some real opposition to SSSCA, us simple geeks can't fight this war alone...
Actually MOO2 would be a bit better for its automation possibilities - but nevertheless MOO1 is a great classic. It doesn't really lack very much graphics, the VGA interface is ok. The technology tree could be longer...
It seems like moderators aren't really getting the joke...
I believe even one airliner makes enough changes to have an effect on climate. Ok, regular flights can be accounted. Charter? No, they are as irregular as they can get.
"...If, for a hypothetical example, Steven Spielberg chooses not to include Volkswagon cars in his movies because of VW's ties to the Nazis..."
Are you saying VW is tied somehow to the Nazis? Oh you americans, stop looking for things that are not there. WW2 is over. I am tired of the fact that every freakin' show in Discovery channel is about Nazis. I am tired about the media's picturing of jews as the biggest victims who should be paid millions just because they are jews. Could we get on and not mention that anymore? I have nothing against jews and I also do not tolerate nazis, but I am tired about hearing the same things I already know over and over and over again.