DDOS attacks require a ton of people to properly work.
a ton of bots will suffice.
Of course, if they use a botnet, to do so - which is probably the only plausable way - they're going to be breaking quite a few international laws - and get sued into oblivion.
can't they just hire a botnet for service? how is that breaking more laws than doing it themselves? which laws would they break specifically?
just make a popup warning people if some other device comes closer at high enough speed. stop the music and display big arrow pointing toward the danger.
No, that's just too dangerous walking around with no or insufficient hearing. You will be removed from the street for endangering yourself and others. Also: don't blink, it's just too dangerous!
in other news, the association of seeing danger everywhere (famous for pushing legislation against children running) has found that last year, about 45% of all deaths occurred while people had fun and therefore concluded all fun should be banned. "it's just too lethal", a spokesperson said, adding that 63% of all lethal accidents happened outdoors, while 36% occured within walls. Efforts by the organization now focus on determining what the fuck happened to the missing 1%, so finally action can be taken to remove the deadly housing from peoples lives.
after watching Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium (Part 2), I'm quite excited about the analogue memory capabilities of this component. As Greg Snyder elaborates (first talk), CMOS "neurons" interconnected by a memristive layer of "synapses" could implement a neural network much more efficiently than pure digital computation.
as I understand from watching "Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium" on youtube, low voltage/current (read) wont change the memory. Only applying large voltage changes the state of the memristor. No need to refresh.
The researchers are quick to point out that the project is not simply a computational success. “Models are important, but this isn’t just a modeling exercise,” Gurnis said. “The models are intimately coupled with observations, and validated as well.”
Wow. That is just difficult to imagine, especially for Germany. I'm trying really hard not to Godwin this discussion, but... Doesn't that all sound a bit fascist? The population is numbered, registered, monitored, and tracked?
yes, it's fucking sad, and at the same time the government is trying to attack fb, google et al for privacy invasion, somehow making the population feel cared about.
Well, cared-about we are!
Think electronic id-cards and passports (rfid with picture and fingerprints etc) that you are supposed to also use for banking and other online activities, like buying stuff and logging into forums.
Think all number-plates on highways being scanned (system developed initially to toll heavy vehicles) and info on all car movements being stored.
Think secret hidden internet blacklist, allegedly to "fight child porn" (oh the poor poor children!), but of course the real reasons are quite different.
Think open access points being illegal (and breaking into secured ones is, too).
Other than that: yes, we're pretty much under surveillance and close control here.
For now, this doesn't bring people to the barricades just yet (freenetproject, tor, wikileaks and other tech vents some anger), but as soon as "sending encrypted data" becomes suspicious or even outlawed (!!), streets and cars will burn.
of course it makes a differnce if downtime is caused by the president, to quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7vcepdeOA : (at 1:22) "at least it's our freakin' mayhem"
did the math. my desktop draws 28W. I use it 12 hours a day, so only 12 hours are wasted. In winter-time (half of the year) the heat is on anyways so I only count 180 days (summer-time).
Thats 28 W * 12 h * 180 = 60 kWh per year (cost: around €12 per year)
60 kWh is roughly equivalent to driving a car for 2 hours.
shouldn't it read "freetype dynamically linked by ms office"? I'm sure there's quite a list of opensource libs used by microsoft office already. still notable, since it says something about their own implementation and maybe the portability of their code.
The iPad is old news. Wired reported on the existence of the iPad way back in 1999. Why wasn't Microsoft working on their iPad-competior way back then? More importantly, why are they trying to play catch up now? Should they not be working on the next big thing?
Why is Daimler (german car company, remember?), only recently starting to develop electric vehicles? Well, because it's economically more sensible to use existing production setups as long as possible and then (with no risk), just _buy_ some startups or license some tech when it's time. Why did they just raise their projected revenue from 4 Billion to 6? Because they're letting others do the work und just use their enormous weight to crush or assimilate them later. Same with M$
Someone want to fund a commercial? Lets add it to every calendar world wide. Who's with me?
We don't need commercials, how lame is that! Like the calendar idea. How about using adzapper (or the like) on our proxies replacing all ads with a "happy sysadmin's day" message for the day?
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DDOS attacks require a ton of people to properly work.
a ton of bots will suffice.
Of course, if they use a botnet, to do so - which is probably the only plausable way - they're going to be breaking quite a few international laws - and get sued into oblivion.
can't they just hire a botnet for service? how is that breaking more laws than doing it themselves? which laws would they break specifically?
in germany there's a mobile service that sends you a 12-digit code you can just write on the envelope using a pen, like so:
5 0 0 7
6 9 3 9
5 6 1 1
very smart
(unfortunately more expensive than a normal stamp, wtf)
just make a popup warning people if some other device comes closer at high enough speed. stop the music and display big arrow pointing toward the danger.
No, that's just too dangerous walking around with no or insufficient hearing. You will be removed from the street for endangering yourself and others. Also: don't blink, it's just too dangerous!
in other news, the association of seeing danger everywhere (famous for pushing legislation against children running) has found that last year, about 45% of all deaths occurred while people had fun and therefore concluded all fun should be banned. "it's just too lethal", a spokesperson said, adding that 63% of all lethal accidents happened outdoors, while 36% occured within walls. Efforts by the organization now focus on determining what the fuck happened to the missing 1%, so finally action can be taken to remove the deadly housing from peoples lives.
after watching Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium (Part 2), I'm quite excited about the analogue memory capabilities of this component.
As Greg Snyder elaborates (first talk), CMOS "neurons" interconnected by a memristive layer of "synapses" could implement a neural network much more efficiently than pure digital computation.
this is exciting!
"Will that ever be the came"
s/came/case/;
s/s\/came\/case\//s\/came\/game\//
as I understand from watching "Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium" on youtube, low voltage/current (read) wont change the memory. Only applying large voltage changes the state of the memristor. No need to refresh.
The researchers are quick to point out that the project is not simply a computational success. “Models are important, but this isn’t just a modeling exercise,” Gurnis said. “The models are intimately coupled with observations, and validated as well.”
Anyone know how the measure this stuff?
Wow. That is just difficult to imagine, especially for Germany. I'm trying really hard not to Godwin this discussion, but... Doesn't that all sound a bit fascist? The population is numbered, registered, monitored, and tracked?
yes, it's fucking sad, and at the same time the government is trying to attack fb, google et al for privacy invasion, somehow making the population feel cared about.
Well, cared-about we are!
Think electronic id-cards and passports (rfid with picture and fingerprints etc) that you are supposed to also use for banking and other online activities, like buying stuff and logging into forums.
Think all number-plates on highways being scanned (system developed initially to toll heavy vehicles) and info on all car movements being stored.
Think secret hidden internet blacklist, allegedly to "fight child porn" (oh the poor poor children!), but of course the real reasons are quite different.
Think open access points being illegal (and breaking into secured ones is, too).
Other than that: yes, we're pretty much under surveillance and close control here.
For now, this doesn't bring people to the barricades just yet (freenetproject, tor, wikileaks and other tech vents some anger), but as soon as "sending encrypted data" becomes suspicious or even outlawed (!!), streets and cars will burn.
of course it makes a differnce if downtime is caused by the president, to quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7vcepdeOA
: (at 1:22) "at least it's our freakin' mayhem"
did the math. my desktop draws 28W. I use it 12 hours a day, so only 12 hours are wasted. In winter-time (half of the year) the heat is on anyways so I only count 180 days (summer-time).
Thats 28 W * 12 h * 180 = 60 kWh per year (cost: around €12 per year)
60 kWh is roughly equivalent to driving a car for 2 hours.
there, put that in perspective for you.
#> shut down
?
Who does that anyways?
I only ever do a
#> reboot
after
#/usr/src/linux> make && make install
maybe
#> hibernate
on my laptop from time to time.
have you tried turning it off and on again?
shouldn't it read "freetype dynamically linked by ms office"?
I'm sure there's quite a list of opensource libs used by microsoft office already.
still notable, since it says something about their own implementation and maybe the portability of their code.
please let the insurance file be the result of "dd if=/dev/urandom ..."
naaah, just tried a diff, binary files differ ;(
they asked the whitehouse for help reviewing the material prior to release. they declined, so they did their best to avoid exposing innocents.
The iPad is old news. Wired reported on the existence of the iPad way back in 1999. Why wasn't Microsoft working on their iPad-competior way back then? More importantly, why are they trying to play catch up now? Should they not be working on the next big thing?
Why is Daimler (german car company, remember?), only recently starting to develop electric vehicles?
Well, because it's economically more sensible to use existing production setups as long as possible and then (with no risk), just _buy_ some startups or license some tech when it's time.
Why did they just raise their projected revenue from 4 Billion to 6? Because they're letting others do the work und just use their enormous weight to crush or assimilate them later.
Same with M$
That way, the more iPads Apple sells, the more software you sell. It's win-win.
NO! There is no win-win: the other guy has to lose! They MUST lose! You're not a winner unless someone else is hurting.
this is soooo true, unfortunately I'm no mod.
"deliver a _range_ of tablet formats", wtf!
how about "deliver one good product"?
Microsoft, why don't you just write some QUALITY software for the iPad
duh, because, well, writing QUALITY software is not one of microsofts abilities.
Someone want to fund a commercial? Lets add it to every calendar world wide. Who's with me?
We don't need commercials, how lame is that!
Like the calendar idea.
How about using adzapper (or the like) on our proxies replacing all ads with a "happy sysadmin's day" message for the day?
thanks for making the tubes work, keep it up!
and who made the first machine? a giant turtle?
right, or park enough elektric cars next to it