The "Bundeswehr" (german military arm) is currently in the process of building a "cyberwar unit", which does not only protect it's own infrastructure from attacks, but also conducts reconnaissance and manipulation operations on foreign computers, respectively in foreign networks. According to information from "der Spiegel" (a german weekly newspaper), the unit consists of a couple of dozen computer science degree holders barracked in Rheinbach close to Bonn. Currently the "hackers in uniform" are still training, bound to be operational not before next year.
Organisatorily the top secret unit is part of "strategic reconnaissance" and is lead by brigade general Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. No comment on the report was to be had from the Bundeswehr as yet. According to the constitution, the "german defense army" is not allowed to conduct tasks within the country, although there have been plans to remove this prohibition for some time.
While experts are debating worldwide wether such a term as "cyberwar" is correct or not, because in such a war there are no dead or wounded, there seems to be agreement that defending such threats is the duty of the armed forces of a country. Even if the cyberattack on estonia cannot be said to have been a war in retrospect, every nation that runs any substantial electronic IT-infrastructure takes potential threats by cyperattacks seriously. (pem/telepolis)
As long as the P2P apps and file transfers can run at full speed when nothing time sensitive is using the network, this is the RIGHT way to do things.
I absolutely agree, it will make the customer's overall experience better.
The only problem I see with this is that it enables the ISP to oversell bandwidth even harder and only "hurt" high-bandwidth users, but not _everyone else_ using VoIP/ssh/...
No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
That is exactly the kind of argument you will be dragged into the minute you choose one thing over another. You just can't make generalizations over which type of traffic is more "important".
No (you won't be dragged into that kind of argument), your parent is right, the reason you're prioritizing VoIP over FTP is because the Type Of Service inherently requires lower latency to work well. FTP, on the other hand, doesn't care about how long the packet takes to arrive and your FTP "quality" (bandwidth) will not suffer from being lower prio, because that takes no additional bandwidth (as compared to a situation where the VoIP is not prioritized) from the FTP, and it will not suffer from the increased latency. You don't have to decide which type of traffic is more important content-wise. You just have to decide which type of traffic needs lower latency based on the type of application it is.
Even better example is using a ssh-session alongside a bt-download (that is not throttled below your pipe-size). Hitting a key in the ssh-terminal will only take one byte off of the bt-download and giving it priority in the packet-queue on the routers will make typing a much better experience with NO COST for the bt-download compared to not prioritizing. Your download might finish 1/100 of a second later, though. Don't confuse latency/bandwidth (ping/dl-speed)
We're not DROPping packets here, just PRIOritizing in case of a saturated pipe somewhere, so your FTP-upload is not discriminated against in the sense that it's being prohibited or otherwise harmed by the VoIP being prioritized (as long as you don't make such a large volume of VoIP-calls as to saturate the pipe with them alone, which is unlikely even from the provider's network point of view)
are we still on slashdot? I'm missing discussion about privacy issues.
I've been using squirrelmail webmail interface on my own server for my own mail and I feel so good about it. Because I still have the exclusive power over my data. After all, this dataset contains correspondance dating back to 1993. Some of this correspondence I might not like to be seen by, say, someone who is considering hiring me for some job or say, some girl considering engaging in a relationship with me, or the girl I'm currently in a relationship with or some government that gets to decide wether or not I may immigrate into the country it governs.
Why would I want all my mail (and the mail of all people I correspond with) stored, cross-referenced, indexed, evaluated,... by some corporation that even says out loud it will do these things, plus maybe sell it to some 3rd party.
The interface might be a little "Web 1.0ish" and a search might take a couple of seconds, but I will rather remain the owner and controller of my mail, thank you... go map someone else's personality.
Oh, these poor little lemmings... when will they wake up?
My car might have 255HP, and while that helps me pass trucks and merge onto highways better, it doesn't mean that I drive around the clock with the pedal pushed to the floor.
My car has 160HP and I once drove it for 1200km with the pedal to the metal (after merging onto the highway and except when stopping for gas). Yes, I live in germany, so the traffic rules allow me to do so. It was at night, so the traffic allowed me to do so also.
It's an older french car and the manufacturer didn't put in any logic to shut down my engine after I had been bursting horsepower for longer than it takes to pass some truck or two.
The car-maker / autobahn-police offers a 160HP flatrate, I buy, they deliver.
If they don't feel like delivering that, they have to tell me _before_ I buy. Wether or not they expect such use or not and calculate it realistically is _their_ business. If they didn't, they deserve to go out of business because they screwed up.
Obviously this comparison is not so accurate (there's no per-kilometer-extra-cost for the car-manufacturer (unless they would pay my gas-bills)), but it's still valid, because the case is so damn simple (Supplier: offer, Customer: order, Supplier: deliver, Customer: pay)
This whining of ISPs ("oh no, the evil market forced us to sell flatrates, now more customers demand delivery than our statistics-guy expected (under pressure), so we can't comply, hell, we'll just have to disconnect these associal dishonest criminals") is getting on my balls. Why didn't _they_ come up with being honest in the first place and sell some volume tariff or calculate the price-tag more realistically?
Own fault, ergo: die slowly by evil market force.
(Unless of course you consider p2p to be higher force, such as a tornado, but then they should have insurance to cover such)
By capturing signals from more than one of these satellites, your receiver can calculate your position based on the last known position of the sats.
read the wikipedia-article you referenced. Surely, 2 satellites are not enough. 2 will only give you some delta pseudorange. For full coordiantes you need >= 4 sats.
A brain will clearly need a body to function properly. Either a simulation of a human body in some human-like environment or some mechanical thingo with sensors and actors will likely have to be put in place. Otherwise this thing might go insane.
Btw: I'm offering to have my brain scanned for the experiment!
Ah, what the hell, my karma is BAD already, here we go:
Pah! Real men put the Cat5 in their mouth and interpret the tingling.
Pah, real women have "Power over Ethernet", and they don't use their mouth. And it doesn't just tingle either, there's millions of nerve-endings on the...
Ah, while we're at it: Why do women get smart while having sex? Cause then, they're connected to the mainframe.
It might be later, but it will have new unseen features, like animation, for example, so you can finally put your 60 pages-per-minute laserprinter to some good work printing the animated printer test page.
Perhaps this measure is meant to save some ressources on IPS's DNS servers if they have to query a lot of foreign DNS with low (and possibly overestimated) TTLs
I doubt it. These queries are low bandwidth, even when occurring in large numbers.
I much rather believe this is a conspiracy to make dial-up-connected servers seem unreliable. Large corporations don't like important sites changing their IP dynamically all the time. Makes them hard to track/prosecute.
I think "funciones" might be espanol, portuges, italiano or something. so maybe it's not mispelled?
Althought I object to localizing variable-names and such myself, you should acknowledge some people might feel more comfortable naming stuff in their native tongue. It tends to sound a little queer combined with the english keywords of the language itself:
while (weitermachen) { tu_es(); }
I am currently getting into a rather large navision-based database project. There, you have localized names for the database objects. In the code, you can use (in this project) either the english or german names. What a mess! I think this started when microsoft bought navision:)
Go is a great suggestion, and yes, please never use "mod me down" again.:) I dispute your "any decent player" claim with computers though. Depends on how you define "decent".
A decent go player is one that will usually beat any computer go player.
somewhat evasive definition, I know. But I fall back to this kind of definition in another case:
intelligence: something a human usually has, but a computer doesn't
conclusion: playing chess doesn't require intelligence (any more), go still does
I'm relatively new posting to slashdot (I've been a reader for a long time). As for why I attached the self righteous spew: I really thought my post would be offtopic, because the article asked for "new" games specifically.
I now see that wouldn't keep moderators from modding me down if the post really was grossly off-topic.
What I find astounding is that adding the spew seems to have really gotten me mod points! duh! After all, the post might be a little informative ("computer stands no chance" might be new to some people), but certainly +3 seems a little overrated.
After thinking about it, I now have to agree with you. Wont ever use "mod me down" again. Now let's see if this post gets modded offtopic;)
mod me down to hell if you will, but might I suggest you try an old and established game: the game of go http://igs.joyjoy.net/ simple rules, yet computers have no chance against any decent human. addictive.
I'm not so sure, at least not for long. Individuals can be identified on video (by face, walking habits,...).
A system could track all the individuals (also dogs and rats, of course, maybe airborne stones, hotdogs, snoflakes) throughout some area. No big deal really, have additional tele-cams to capture the faces more closely one at a time, a tracker on the overview cams, central db to log all movements and allow sophisticated queries by skilled personell.
how close does current state come to such a system?
how long will it be before we're there?
what about the idea to setup a "public domain public domain control system", so that if we have to live with the evil of having a sophisticatedly queriable public physical domain, we should at least make it free to query by all, not just police/big corporations/other mafia?
so might it even be wiser to broadcast our activities/location to anyone who wants it than to multicast exclusively to a bunch of theoretically unpredictable/misguided/radical entities?
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The "Bundeswehr" (german military arm) is currently in the process of building a "cyberwar unit", which does not only protect it's own infrastructure from attacks, but also conducts reconnaissance and manipulation operations on foreign computers, respectively in foreign networks. According to information from "der Spiegel" (a german weekly newspaper), the unit consists of a couple of dozen computer science degree holders barracked in Rheinbach close to Bonn. Currently the "hackers in uniform" are still training, bound to be operational not before next year.
Organisatorily the top secret unit is part of "strategic reconnaissance" and is lead by brigade general Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. No comment on the report was to be had from the Bundeswehr as yet. According to the constitution, the "german defense army" is not allowed to conduct tasks within the country, although there have been plans to remove this prohibition for some time.
While experts are debating worldwide wether such a term as "cyberwar" is correct or not, because in such a war there are no dead or wounded, there seems to be agreement that defending such threats is the duty of the armed forces of a country. Even if the cyberattack on estonia cannot be said to have been a war in retrospect, every nation that runs any substantial electronic IT-infrastructure takes potential threats by cyperattacks seriously. (pem/telepolis)
I accidentally the card's microchip, is this bad? :(
not if you didn't the chip on purpose, then you only have to money, not to jail.
As long as the P2P apps and file transfers can run at full speed when nothing time sensitive is using the network, this is the RIGHT way to do things.
I absolutely agree, it will make the customer's overall experience better.
The only problem I see with this is that it enables the ISP to oversell bandwidth even harder and only "hurt" high-bandwidth users, but not _everyone else_ using VoIP/ssh/...
No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
That is exactly the kind of argument you will be dragged into the minute you choose one thing over another. You just can't make generalizations over which type of traffic is more "important".
No (you won't be dragged into that kind of argument), your parent is right, the reason you're prioritizing VoIP over FTP is because the Type Of Service inherently requires lower latency to work well. FTP, on the other hand, doesn't care about how long the packet takes to arrive and your FTP "quality" (bandwidth) will not suffer from being lower prio, because that takes no additional bandwidth (as compared to a situation where the VoIP is not prioritized) from the FTP, and it will not suffer from the increased latency.
You don't have to decide which type of traffic is more important content-wise. You just have to decide which type of traffic needs lower latency based on the type of application it is.
Even better example is using a ssh-session alongside a bt-download (that is not throttled below your pipe-size). Hitting a key in the ssh-terminal will only take one byte off of the bt-download and giving it priority in the packet-queue on the routers will make typing a much better experience with NO COST for the bt-download compared to not prioritizing. Your download might finish 1/100 of a second later, though. Don't confuse latency/bandwidth (ping/dl-speed)
We're not DROPping packets here, just PRIOritizing in case of a saturated pipe somewhere, so your FTP-upload is not discriminated against in the sense that it's being prohibited or otherwise harmed by the VoIP being prioritized (as long as you don't make such a large volume of VoIP-calls as to saturate the pipe with them alone, which is unlikely even from the provider's network point of view)
hehe, and I hadn't even noticed without your 2nd post ;)
"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither"
thomas jefferson
are we still on slashdot? I'm missing discussion about privacy issues.
I've been using squirrelmail webmail interface on my own server for my own mail and I feel so good about it. Because I still have the exclusive power over my data. After all, this dataset contains correspondance dating back to 1993. Some of this correspondence I might not like to be seen by, say, someone who is considering hiring me for some job or say, some girl considering engaging in a relationship with me, or the girl I'm currently in a relationship with or some government that gets to decide wether or not I may immigrate into the country it governs.
Why would I want all my mail (and the mail of all people I correspond with) stored, cross-referenced, indexed, evaluated,... by some corporation that even says out loud it will do these things, plus maybe sell it to some 3rd party.
The interface might be a little "Web 1.0ish" and a search might take a couple of seconds, but I will rather remain the owner and controller of my mail, thank you... go map someone else's personality.
Oh, these poor little lemmings... when will they wake up?
My car has 160HP and I once drove it for 1200km with the pedal to the metal (after merging onto the highway and except when stopping for gas). Yes, I live in germany, so the traffic rules allow me to do so. It was at night, so the traffic allowed me to do so also.
It's an older french car and the manufacturer didn't put in any logic to shut down my engine after I had been bursting horsepower for longer than it takes to pass some truck or two.
The car-maker / autobahn-police offers a 160HP flatrate, I buy, they deliver.
If they don't feel like delivering that, they have to tell me _before_ I buy. Wether or not they expect such use or not and calculate it realistically is _their_ business. If they didn't, they deserve to go out of business because they screwed up.
Obviously this comparison is not so accurate (there's no per-kilometer-extra-cost for the car-manufacturer (unless they would pay my gas-bills)), but it's still valid, because the case is so damn simple (Supplier: offer, Customer: order, Supplier: deliver, Customer: pay)
This whining of ISPs ("oh no, the evil market forced us to sell flatrates, now more customers demand delivery than our statistics-guy expected (under pressure), so we can't comply, hell, we'll just have to disconnect these associal dishonest criminals") is getting on my balls. Why didn't _they_ come up with being honest in the first place and sell some volume tariff or calculate the price-tag more realistically?
Own fault, ergo: die slowly by evil market force.
(Unless of course you consider p2p to be higher force, such as a tornado, but then they should have insurance to cover such)
read the wikipedia-article you referenced. Surely, 2 satellites are not enough. 2 will only give you some delta pseudorange. For full coordiantes you need >= 4 sats.
just bitching
A brain will clearly need a body to function properly. Either a simulation of a human body in some human-like environment or some mechanical thingo with sensors and actors will likely have to be put in place. Otherwise this thing might go insane.
Btw: I'm offering to have my brain scanned for the experiment!
Pah, real women have "Power over Ethernet", and they don't use their mouth.
And it doesn't just tingle either, there's millions of nerve-endings on the...
Ah, while we're at it: Why do women get smart while having sex? Cause then, they're connected to the mainframe.
-- imagine a beowolf cluster of THAT
It might be later, but it will have new unseen features, like animation, for example, so you can finally put your 60 pages-per-minute laserprinter to some good work printing the animated printer test page.
I doubt it. These queries are low bandwidth, even when occurring in large numbers.
I much rather believe this is a conspiracy to make dial-up-connected servers seem unreliable. Large corporations don't like important sites changing their IP dynamically all the time. Makes them hard to track/prosecute.
After all, IP adresses are a scarce resource...
do something?
I frequently find things such as
try {
doSomething();
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.logln(e);
}
or even
try {
doSomething();
} catch (Exception e) { ; }
in my own code.
You're forced to do something only if you consider doing nothing to be doing someting.
90 NOP
90 NOP
shit maaan, it took me forever to write the comment. there was no answer when I started.
Althought I object to localizing variable-names and such myself, you should acknowledge some people might feel more comfortable naming stuff in their native tongue. It tends to sound a little queer combined with the english keywords of the language itself:I am currently getting into a rather large navision-based database project. There, you have localized names for the database objects. In the code, you can use (in this project) either the english or german names. What a mess! I think this started when microsoft bought navision
somewhat evasive definition, I know. But I fall back to this kind of definition in another case:
intelligence: something a human usually has, but a computer doesn't
conclusion: playing chess doesn't require intelligence (any more), go still does
Hmmm. you've got a point here.
;)
I'm relatively new posting to slashdot (I've been a reader for a long time). As for why I attached the self righteous spew: I really thought my post would be offtopic, because the article asked for "new" games specifically.
I now see that wouldn't keep moderators from modding me down if the post really was grossly off-topic.
What I find astounding is that adding the spew seems to have really gotten me mod points! duh! After all, the post might be a little informative ("computer stands no chance" might be new to some people), but certainly +3 seems a little overrated.
After thinking about it, I now have to agree with you. Wont ever use "mod me down" again. Now let's see if this post gets modded offtopic
mod me down to hell if you will, but might I suggest you try an old and established game: the game of go
http://igs.joyjoy.net/
simple rules, yet computers have no chance against any decent human. addictive.
do you have a trick for factorization, too?
I'm not so sure, at least not for long.
Individuals can be identified on video (by face, walking habits,...).
A system could track all the individuals (also dogs and rats, of course, maybe airborne stones, hotdogs, snoflakes) throughout some area. No big deal really, have additional tele-cams to capture the faces more closely one at a time, a tracker on the overview cams, central db to log all movements and allow sophisticated queries by skilled personell.
how close does current state come to such a system?
how long will it be before we're there?
what about the idea to setup a "public domain public domain control system", so that if we have to live with the evil of having a sophisticatedly queriable public physical domain, we should at least make it free to query by all, not just police/big corporations/other mafia?
so might it even be wiser to broadcast our activities/location to anyone who wants it than to multicast exclusively to a bunch of theoretically unpredictable/misguided/radical entities?