really? and what components does your computer have outside of disk drives doesn't your television have? people turn on/off their TV tons of times a day, it's the same electronics component. Please! Shed the myth! Hard disks for the most part are now better designed than back in the days, systems boot very fast, there is no need to keep your computer on if you will not be using it for a long time.
The attack allows attack worse than XSS if an XSS vulnerability exists since this time, it doesn't require you to intereact with the client. It allows cache poisoning. It allows you to smuggle data past some firewall/filters that try to prevent HTTP attacks by parsing requests, for example, so servers will filter out GET requests like/foo/../../../whatever or/foo?cmd.exe You can use this to bypass it. This is NEWS because it is a NEW attack. This is not about using HTTP as a tunnel for other form of communication. This exploits the fact that the cache server/firewall and webserver might parse the same request different when it has two "Content Length:" in it... Read the paper.
You are right that the market for dual core processors for home users is really not there, but it could be. Think of the BeBox/BeOS, It was a system that was designed for dual core processors and all applications compiled for BeOS automatically benefited from it. What is missing in the x86 world for home users is such an OS. I believe that Intel/AMD are well aware of this, and this belief leads me to the conclusion that they are not really pumping out such systems for the average home users, it is more for businesses. Internet/Enterprise servers will definitely benefit more from it.
Any one who doesn't understand that non threaded programs will have the same performance under multi cpu system is not worthy to be called a programmer.
Your post tho is written as if all applications need to be multi-threaded for a dual core to be useful. Not exactly so. A system executing two different programs on each CPU instead of on one CPU will definitely bring performance increase.
Dual CPU systems tho are useless to the home users, it's for businesses and scientists with more computing need. Real enterprise applications are multithreated.
It's not just another browser, It is the OTHER browser. The majority of people can name only IE and Firefox. This is what makes Firebox "special", if it was just another browser in a market with say 5 other browsers that have the same marketshare as it does, then "another browser" will qualify. But since it's the second most popular browser now, it is the OTHER browser, Konqueror might be more qualified to be labeled "another" browser...
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who has a 1.8ghz lying around? My main PC workstations are 450mhz.
how does TV station make money? do you pick up the phone and order something or run out to buy something everytime you see an ad? So why must you "click-through" an online ad? Ad is suppose to be about image branding.
I found Linux in 94/95 because I wanted a free Unix system. I was in high school then and had access to a shared BSD system. The idea of running my own Unix system, having telnet, telenet, gopher, ftp, archie, irc servers and my own root account that wouldn't get me in trouble got me into Linux. If Apache wasn't there, we would have used another web server, if Linux wasn't there, there was BSD/386, BSDI, FreeBSD. Linux owes nothing to everything, and if we really want to get down to what it owes it to, it owes a lot to Linus's attitude towards sharing + the GNU suite.
Are you sure? Soon, someone will show research that a lot of prisoners commit crime after they are done being tracked by the GPS technology and a law will be passed that you wear one for the rest of your life if you commit a crime. They will argue that it's more humane than prison and enforces you to stay out of crime. Then the only thing left is to put it on everyone. After all, if we can track everyone and crime should drop by 500% across all boards, why shouldn't we?
since when did we get back to this LOC bullshit? I don't know who I should direct my insult to, slashdot admins, the poster or novell. Wow, 200,000 lines of code.
If they are going to join and support an existing OSS project, then why not start one? Of course, why open source a project from the get go when they can sell it?, that's the problem. Just like they don't have any incentive for pure OSS project unless there is cash in it for them, OSS hackers don't have incentive for business type of software unless there is cash in it.
It takes being interested in a project for one to pour himself into it. Most hackers/programmers have a thing for Operating System and programming tools, So it's not suprise that OS projects are doing betters. Or Programming tools, GCC, editors, Programming Languages, Databases... I love to program, but I could never find myself programming an ERP system, just for some company to make money of. How is it going to meet my personal need? There has to be something in it for me!
This is why accounting software, office software and lots of general use applications "suck" in the OSS word. The "motivation" is not there, even "ego" is not a good enough motivation. My fellow hackers will give me more props for some lousy 500 line python hack which does something weird and not so useful than a complete accounting software suite.
What would be interesting is to see a group of companies start an OSS project from the ground up, pour their own money, pay programmers. But then again, there is no motivation for that! Big companies are only interested in jumping on OSS projects that happen to have gained fame...
you sound supportive of the ISPs especially with your statement that "you have signed agreement..." What if they start filtering content cuz they want to? Most people have only one broadband choice if they have any. At my location, it's comcast. It's bad enough that I have to pay $60 a month for my internet, but for them to block my traffic? That goes against what the entire internet is for. If my traffic was malicious to the general internet or their network or they have a court order, they do have a point. Aside from that, they should leave my packets alone!
leeching? ugh, i pay for my cable modem. that bandwidth is already paid for. i use vonage, i can assure you that i use less VoIP bandwidth than I do downloading tarballs of programs, or mp3s or yet another bsd iso or keeping my gentoo system up to date. no one is leeching. vonage provides a service and is not charging for bandwidth. i guess instant messenger is also leeching. your getting moderated as interesting is wrong. i do moderate you clueless.
what's the big deal?! I have used programs that were very functional that never reached version 1. But I was happy, so what it's version 0.8, it met all my needs! Better than the version 5.5 that doesn't!
actually, man pages are great for learning. the problem is that people do not know how to read it. Most books don't even cover a decent amount of command. For example, a command might have 20 options and the book will cover 4. If you actually take the time to read the man page, play around and test the options, you will have a decent edge over others.
Nope! You must not be a programmer. "Linux Application Development" brings to mind "Unix System Program" but on the linux platform. Working with the tools, system calls, and APIs, that's what it's about. There is a reason why it's not called "Linux GUI Application Development."
I don't really see the need for these books anymore, the man pages, info pages, online manuals cover all of this. But it's just me...
It's not "misapproriated" funds... It's their money! if the govt was the one raising such money then you do have an argument on misappropriated funds...
My main workstations are PIII's 500mhz with 256-512mb of ram. I do everything on them, play music, video editting, graphics plus my software development. I remember clearly when I moved from 10mhz to 33mhz, I thought it was the end of the world. I will never forget that, I get more done with less Mhz than most people do with their Ghz.
Any advance in the field of AI will fetch a gigantic amount of money. No one in their right mind will sell out to DARPA if they have the solution. For example, think of search engines, just a little drop of AI and you will have the best search engine around. Think of language translation, just a little drop of AI and your langauge translation software will be the best. Likewise with a lot of software systems. Once the idea comes to anyone, please believe that they are heading to the patent office first not to collect $1million prize from DARPA.
if you are going to attempt to pretend to be me, do it right. notice that I signed my anonymous post with my slashdot id, i had to think of my password for a quick minute.:D
text recognition algorithms? how does your brain do it? you call it reasoning. i personal don't care, it's not the process that determines intelligence but the results. if this computer utilizes whatever text recoginition algorithm and can accurately answer questions as the average person, it's intelligent.
What is this "semi intelligent" that you talk about? Will someone with a down syndrome or somewhat mentally retarded be considered semi intelligent? How about animals? How smart do you expert someone that is mentally retarded or a dog to learn?
Sure, the knowledge base of Cyc might be somewhat useful, but in the equation to achieve true AI, if it plays a role, it's going to be less than 1% Having, looked at their knowledge base and how they describe their rules, they do not capture common sense! Amusing as it is, even common sense is not so common to AI researchers.
Take the two choices you presented and combine it, that is the only way we can achieve true AI, through sensor network, it must assimilate itself into it's environment and learn, just like WE ALL do, and it must be taught just like WE ALL are.
how can you define intelligence without learning from mistakes? it is the ability to learn from mistakes or adapt to changes that makes us intelligent. mimicry/repetition of events is not intelligence.
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really? and what components does your computer have outside of disk drives doesn't your television have? people turn on/off their TV tons of times a day, it's the same electronics component. Please!
Shed the myth! Hard disks for the most part are now better designed than back in the days, systems boot very fast, there is no need to keep your computer on if you will not be using it for a long time.
Shut up! RTFP!
/foo/../../../whatever or /foo?cmd.exe You can use this to bypass it. This is NEWS because it is a NEW attack. This is not about using HTTP as a tunnel for other form of communication.
The attack allows attack worse than XSS if an XSS vulnerability exists since this time, it doesn't require you to intereact with the client. It allows cache poisoning. It allows you to smuggle data past some firewall/filters that try to prevent HTTP attacks by parsing requests, for example, so servers will filter out GET requests like
This exploits the fact that the cache server/firewall and webserver might parse the same request different when it has two "Content Length:" in it... Read the paper.
You are right that the market for dual core processors for home users is really not there, but it could be. Think of the BeBox/BeOS, It was a system that was designed for dual core processors and all applications compiled for BeOS automatically benefited from it. What is missing in the x86 world for home users is such an OS. I believe that Intel/AMD are well aware of this, and this belief leads me to the conclusion that they are not really pumping out such systems for the average home users, it is more for businesses. Internet/Enterprise servers will definitely benefit more from it.
Any one who doesn't understand that non threaded programs will have the same performance under multi cpu system is not worthy to be called a programmer.
Your post tho is written as if all applications need to be multi-threaded for a dual core to be useful. Not exactly so. A system executing two different programs on each CPU instead of on one CPU will definitely bring performance increase.
Dual CPU systems tho are useless to the home users, it's for businesses and scientists with more computing need. Real enterprise applications are multithreated.
It's not just another browser, It is the OTHER browser. The majority of people can name only IE and Firefox. This is what makes Firebox "special", if it was just another browser in a market with say 5 other browsers that have the same marketshare as it does, then "another browser" will qualify. But since it's the second most popular browser now, it is the OTHER browser, Konqueror might be more qualified to be labeled "another" browser...
who has a 1.8ghz lying around? My main PC workstations are 450mhz.
how does TV station make money? do you pick up the phone and order something or run out to buy something everytime you see an ad? So why must you "click-through" an online ad? Ad is suppose to be about image branding.
rubbish.
I found Linux in 94/95 because I wanted a free Unix system. I was in high school then and had access to a shared BSD system. The idea of running my own Unix system, having telnet, telenet, gopher, ftp, archie, irc servers and my own root account that wouldn't get me in trouble got me into Linux. If Apache wasn't there, we would have used another web server, if Linux wasn't there, there was BSD/386, BSDI, FreeBSD. Linux owes nothing to everything, and if we really want to get down to what it owes it to, it owes a lot to Linus's attitude towards sharing + the GNU suite.
Are you sure? Soon, someone will show research that a lot of prisoners commit crime after they are done being tracked by the GPS technology and a law will be passed that you wear one for the rest of your life if you commit a crime. They will argue that it's more humane than prison and enforces you to stay out of crime. Then the only thing left is to put it on everyone. After all, if we can track everyone and crime should drop by 500% across all boards, why shouldn't we?
since when did we get back to this LOC bullshit? I don't know who I should direct my insult to, slashdot admins, the poster or novell. Wow, 200,000 lines of code.
If they are going to join and support an existing OSS project, then why not start one? Of course, why open source a project from the get go when they can sell it?, that's the problem. Just like they don't have any incentive for pure OSS project unless there is cash in it for them, OSS hackers don't have incentive for business type of software unless there is cash in it.
It takes being interested in a project for one to pour himself into it. Most hackers/programmers have a thing for Operating System and programming tools, So it's not suprise that OS projects are doing betters. Or Programming tools, GCC, editors, Programming Languages, Databases... I love to program, but I could never find myself programming an ERP system, just for some company to make money of. How is it going to meet my personal need? There has to be something in it for me!
This is why accounting software, office software and lots of general use applications "suck" in the OSS word. The "motivation" is not there, even "ego" is not a good enough motivation. My fellow hackers will give me more props for some lousy 500 line python hack which does something weird and not so useful than a complete accounting software suite.
What would be interesting is to see a group of companies start an OSS project from the ground up, pour their own money, pay programmers. But then again, there is no motivation for that! Big companies are only interested in jumping on OSS projects that happen to have gained fame...
you sound supportive of the ISPs especially with your statement that "you have signed agreement..." What if they start filtering content cuz they want to? Most people have only one broadband choice if they have any. At my location, it's comcast. It's bad enough that I have to pay $60 a month for my internet, but for them to block my traffic? That goes against what the entire internet is for. If my traffic was malicious to the general internet or their network or they have a court order, they do have a point. Aside from that, they should leave my packets alone!
leeching? ugh, i pay for my cable modem. that bandwidth is already paid for. i use vonage, i can assure you that i use less VoIP bandwidth than I do downloading tarballs of programs, or mp3s or yet another bsd iso or keeping my gentoo system up to date. no one is leeching. vonage provides a service and is not charging for bandwidth. i guess instant messenger is also leeching. your getting moderated as interesting is wrong. i do moderate you clueless.
what's the big deal?! I have used programs that were very functional that never reached version 1. But I was happy, so what it's version 0.8, it met all my needs! Better than the version 5.5 that doesn't!
actually, man pages are great for learning. the problem is that people do not know how to read it. Most books don't even cover a decent amount of command. For example, a command might have 20 options and the book will cover 4. If you actually take the time to read the man page, play around and test the options, you will have a decent edge over others.
Nope! You must not be a programmer. "Linux Application Development" brings to mind "Unix System Program" but on the linux platform. Working with the tools, system calls, and APIs, that's what it's about. There is a reason why it's not called "Linux GUI Application Development."
I don't really see the need for these books anymore, the man pages, info pages, online manuals cover all of this. But it's just me...
It's not "misapproriated" funds... It's their money! if the govt was the one raising such money then you do have an argument on misappropriated funds...
My main workstations are PIII's 500mhz with 256-512mb of ram. I do everything on them, play music, video editting, graphics plus my software development. I remember clearly when I moved from 10mhz to 33mhz, I thought it was the end of the world. I will never forget that, I get more done with less Mhz than most people do with their Ghz.
I live in Detroit, I thought of San Francisco and not Science Fiction...
Any advance in the field of AI will fetch a gigantic amount of money. No one in their right mind will sell out to DARPA if they have the solution. For example, think of search engines, just a little drop of AI and you will have the best search engine around. Think of language translation, just a little drop of AI and your langauge translation software will be the best. Likewise with a lot of software systems. Once the idea comes to anyone, please believe that they are heading to the patent office first not to collect $1million prize from DARPA.
if you are going to attempt to pretend to be me, do it right. notice that I signed my anonymous post with my slashdot id, i had to think of my password for a quick minute. :D
text recognition algorithms? how does your brain do it? you call it reasoning. i personal don't care, it's not the process that determines intelligence but the results. if this computer utilizes whatever text recoginition algorithm and can accurately answer questions as the average person, it's intelligent.
What is this "semi intelligent" that you talk about? Will someone with a down syndrome or somewhat mentally retarded be considered semi intelligent? How about animals? How smart do you expert someone that is mentally retarded or a dog to learn?
Sure, the knowledge base of Cyc might be somewhat useful, but in the equation to achieve true AI, if it plays a role, it's going to be less than 1% Having, looked at their knowledge base and how they describe their rules, they do not capture common sense! Amusing as it is, even common sense is not so common to AI researchers.
Take the two choices you presented and combine it, that is the only way we can achieve true AI, through sensor network, it must assimilate itself into it's environment and learn, just like WE ALL do, and it must be taught just like WE ALL are.
Without these, true AI WILL NEVER be achieved.
how can you define intelligence without learning from mistakes? it is the ability to learn from mistakes or adapt to changes that makes us intelligent. mimicry/repetition of events is not intelligence.